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National House Dems: Obama to Reprogram Money for Zika Funds
House Dems: Obama to Reprogram Money for Zika Funds
By Rema Rahman
Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 5:34 pm | ז' אב תשע"ו
WASHINGTON (CQ-Roll Call/TNS) -
After sitting on unspent funds for Zika, House Democrats said Thursday the Obama administration plans to reprogram more funding from the National Institutes of Health to fight the Zika virus.
Rep. Rosa Delauro (D-Conn.) told reporters federal officials "will make an announcement about it," but didn't provide more specific details.
Delauro was joined by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in calling on Congress to return from recess to take action on Zika funding and host of other issues Democrats have been pressing before Congress recessed for the summer.
Delauro said the Department of Health and Human Services would take money for biomedical research from the National Institute of Health to deal with Zika.
"If they don't, vaccine development will be stopped dead in its tracks," Delauro said.
The call comes as Obama administration struggles to explain why it is pressing Congress for more money to fight the Zika virus while sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars it already controls.
The White House could tap into nearly $385 million in unspent previously reprogrammed funds.
White House and public health officials have come close to demanding the House and Senate interrupt a seven-week recess and return to Washington to give federal agencies up to $1.9 billion to counter the mosquito-borne virus.
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Also known as Ananas comosus, pineapple is a tropical plant that originated in Paraguay and Brazil. The term can also be used to refer to the fruit produced by the plant. A pineapple fruit can be eaten raw or canned. The fruit is very popular because it has high acid content. It is widely cultivated in Southeast Asia. The top producers of the fruit are Thailand, Philippines and Brazil. Some of the famous cultivars of the fruit are the Red Spanish, the Smooth Cayenne and the Natal Queen. To grow the tropical plant successfully, it is important to know the different pineapple sizes.
What are the sizes of the pineapple plant, leaves and fruit? The height of the plant is around 3.3 feet to 4.9 feet. The plant has at least 30 leaves, which have a length of one foot to 3.3 feet. The fruits are grown in two helices, thirteen in a direction and eight in the other. The average diameter of a pineapple fruit is four to five inches. The fruit is rich in minerals and vitamins that are needed by our immune system. Below are details about the nutritional value of the fruit.
The pineapple fruit is rich in vitamin C. Aside from vitamin C, the fruit also contains vitamin B6, thiamine, folate and iron. The other nutrients present in the fruit are magnesium, zinc, potassium, phosphorus and niacin.
The fruit contains compounds that act as antioxidants. These compounds are important to prevent the risk of various heart diseases as well as cancer. The fruit has dietary fiber that can improve digestion and treat constipation. Concentrated pineapple juice has micronutrients that remove toxins in the body and improve the functioning of the kidneys.
Another medical condition that can be treated by regular intake of the fruit is inflammation because it has enzymes known as bromelain. Including the fruit in your daily diet is important to prevent the etiology of various diseases like acute sinusitis, sore throat, gout and arthritis.
When cultivating pineapples in your place, it is important that you avoid overwatering the plants. The plants only need to be watered once a week. If the plants are grown indoors, it is best to water the soil and not the plant. Remember to plant pineapples in places with full sunlight. The fruits will be developed four months after the flowers have bloomed. Harvest the fruits before frost since the chances that the plant will survive during frost is small.
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Home renovations are becoming increasingly popular in Australia, with home owners looking to extend on their existing houses. It is common for young married couples to buy small first homes, getting their leg in the door (so to speak) as a home owner, with the plan to buy something bigger down the track. But with property prices so high in Sydney, Melbourne and even the other capital cities, young families are finding it very difficult to buy a large house, and move in to their dream family home.
Auction crowds are at an all time high, and sales of properties going well above the market reserve, toying with the heart strings of working Australians, who just can't afford the cost of these homes. It is because of this, that many of these people are now buying small properties,and looking to renovate. Home renovations are a booming industry, with lots of home owners deciding to clear out some of their backyard for an extension of a room or two, or perhaps a new pergola.
Extensions and renovations are a lot more affordable than upgrading your current house, with a large number of reputable tradesmen such as carpenters and other builders offering discount services to gain your business. New bathrooms are one of the most popular renovations at the moment, with people deciding to have their bathroom gutted, and new bath, shower and other accessories brought in. A spa bath is a great addition to a bathroom, especially in the cold winter months that Sydney and Melbourne experience.
Window coverings are an important part of home renovations also. Getting the right type and style to suit your home goes a long way. Plantation shutters are a deluxe window covering for both modern or contemporary homes, and can give the house a more classy feel than many styles of curtains or blinds.
So if you're wanting that dream home but feel you can't afford it, why not buy something more affordable, and get it renovated into the place you always wanted.
The design of your home can also be crucial, if you're starting from scratch. Having an open minded, creative architect is important when designing your dream house, but also one who has their own great ideas and expertise.
While renovating your home, an often overlooked aspect is the garden. Generally when you're making big changes to the structure of your house, there is always going to be an impact on the outdoors area. This is a good excuse to totally revamp your garden, using a landscape designer.
Pebbles, pots and pavings are very on-trend right now. As well as stylish outdoor furniture. If you're wanting to make your outdoor space look good, then you can't go wrong.
If your home is going to look amazing on the inside, it should look equally good on the outside. Garden designers will give your yard a new look, with their landscaping techniques sure to maximise space, light and other factors. Examples of landscaping include paving, decking, water features, patios, new lawns and even a feature wall. These will all help improve the value of your home and give you a serene and beautiful place outdoors to relax.
If you're looking to lay down grass in your backyard but want something low maintenance, why not consider artificial turf? With many styles to suit every taste, fake grass is long lasting and doesn't require constant watering and cutting.
As well as making your home look and feel great, you should also ensure the house is energy efficient. Power bills are the largest ongoing costs for the upkeep of a home, so ensuring things are eco-friendly will go a long way in looking after the environment and saving you money.
Implementing solar panels on your roof is one of the smartest ways to reduce energy bills. Using the suns energy to power your home will cut costs dramatically, but it doesn't have to end there.
Solar powered air conditioning and hot water systems will also assist greatly in reducing consumption. And with government rebates available, you can reduce the upfront cost, making solar energy more appealing than ever.
Hydronic heating is one of the most energy efficient ways to heat your home. They use water to transfer heat by circulating it through tubes located in the floor, or pipes along the walls. This warms the surfaces in the room, making hydronic heating a comfortable and economic option when doing a home renovation.
Solar control films are also a great way of increasing energy efficiency, which is why residential window tinting is becoming more popular. It offers privacy and reduces fading of furniture, due to the reduction of light entering the home. Plus you can greatly reduce your power usage as less cooling is necessary due to the tinted windows.
With any renovations, you should also consider the state of your fence. This is the first thing a person sees and needs to compliment the house. As well as its aesthetic appeal, fences are also important boundaries, providing both security to the property, and safety for any pets or children that live in the dwelling. A fencing specialist can advise you the best type of fence to install, in terms of both the look of your house and the type of protection you're after. There are numerous options depending on personal choice, monetary budget and design specifications. Some of the many choices include picket fencing, merbau fences and timber panels.
For added security you may want to look at a home system or security guards to monitor your premises. This can be especially valuable if your home renovation leaves your house more vulnerable due to empty windows and doors.
If you're like many lucky Australians, you will have a swimming pool in your backyard. It is an Australian tradition to have a barbie on a hot Saturday afternoon in Summer, invite the friends over, and take a relaxing dip. But don't turn off your visitors by having a gross pool, with pond scum growing or bacteria building up in the sides. Regular pool maintenance is necessary to look after your cool watery cavern, so make sure you have a working pool pump, and regularly put in chemicals to ensure the water stays healthy. A reputable pool maintenance company tell you the best things to do, but also provide high quality products to help you maintain your pool and also do onsite visits for any repairs and installations you might need. If you need a swimming pool removed, Reverse Pools is the place to go. They have filled in hundreds of swimming pools over the years throughout Melbourne, and can also landscape the area so you have a beautiful garden or entertaining area. in it's place.
To protect against leaks and ensure water from your pool or other areas doesn't damage your house, it should be safely waterproofed. The Australian Institute of Waterproofing has a range of contractors from all over Australia, fully qualified and experienced to take on your job.
When doing any kind of home maintenance, accidents can happen. To protect yourself and your family from any serious accidents, you should take out trauma insurance cover which will pay out a lump sum if you have a major injury.


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Reid Coolsaet is the second fastest marathoner in Canadian history. In September 2015 he ran 2:10:28 to finish sixth in Berlin and come within 19 seconds of Jerome Drayton's 40-year-old national record. Coolsaet was the top finisher in that race from outside of Kenya or Ethiopia. He had previously gone under the Olympic qualification standard for Rio 2016 with his 2:11:24 to finish seventh at the Rotterdam Marathon in April 2015. Both of those impressive performances came after he had to miss part of the 2014 season when his abdominal muscle tore away from his pelvic bone, taking a piece with it. Coolsaet competed in his first ever marathon in 2009 when he won the national title. The next year, he dropped more than five minutes off his personal best time before running 2:10:55 at the 2011 Toronto Waterfront Marathon to secure his London 2012 qualification. In his Olympic debut he placed 27th of the 85 men who finished the marathon. He improved by four placements at Rio 2016, finishing 23rd, six minutes behind the winner. In 2011, 2013 and 2015, Coolsaet was the second-ranked marathoner in North America.
Family: Parents Robert and Susan Coolsaet… Younger brother Adam and younger sister Kaleigh… Wife Marie… Getting into the Sport: Started competing in cross-country and track in grade 6… Enjoyed running trails and found he had a talent for running early on at a McMaster sports camp when he was 7… Outside Interests: Graduated from the University of Guelph with an honours degree in Marketing Management… Supports Connecting Countries, which helps build latrines in Kenya where he's spent 4-10 weeks training each of the last six years and has witnessed the differences made in schools… Enjoys reading… Odds and Ends: Nickname: Mzungu… Collects coffee and beer mugs from his travels… Favourite motto: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…
2012 London Athletics Marathon - Men 27
2016 Rio Athletics Marathon - Men 23
Olympic Games: 2016 - 23rd (marathon); 2012 – 27th (marathon)
IAAF World Half Marathon Championships: 2016 – 38th
IAAF World Championships: 2009 – 25th (marathon); 2005 – 27th (5000m)
IAAF World Cross-Country Championships: 2006 – 98th (short race); 2005 – 52nd (short race); 2004 – 62nd (short race); 2002 – 98th (long race)
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I am so glad you sent me the "Itinerary" so that I know where you are; so to-day you are in Paris and last Sunday you were in Rome, a good day for it, I would think. We are just going along as usual, we hear quite good reports of Edna, planning to go up on Saturday. The garden is magnificent, never saw so many roses; all the old kinds in the back have such quantities and in front too, and the rose bed very fine Oriental Poppies in great quantities. Your route is rather a puzzle but I suppose you are coming down again from York to S. England.
Poor Duncan Chisholm died yesterday, we heard St. Andrew's Society looking after him1. Holton W. called last week as usual pursuing the Soft Ball clubs, had been to Kitchener. I hope your strength is holding out and that you are not being raced to death. I think you missed some bad weather by going to Italy but you missed Ascot. I am really keeping very well, the weather very comfortable. You will find quite a bunch of letters at the Bank, I fancy. Take good care of yourself2. Have just read in Sat. H. that Saint Dunstan is buried at Canterbury3. With much love.
1 Duncan Chisholm was Mary's handyman, see W8817. He may have been related to James Chisholm, see W2520.
2 Calvin did the "grand tour" beginning in May 1931 but it is not known when he came home. Extant letters are from May 8 to June 18 (W7115 to W7144 and W-MCP2-3b.040). Calvin's final letter to his mother before her death is dated September 2, 1934 from Gaspe. He wrote: "Have never enjoyed a holiday more, but shall be so glad to see you again, dear little thing" (W7154).
3 Saint Dunstan, Anglo-Saxon prelate, Archbishop of Canterbury from 959.


September 4, 2017 Benj B.
A couple of months ago, this article popped up in one of my social media feeds called "Your Facebook Life Doesn't Fool Me". Google it. It's very interesting, witty, and basically says that all the perfect posts that people put up on social media are a façade for the real, gritty, imperfect lives that everyone leads. I was intrigued, and for the most part was in agreement. But then I read this one line that stuck with me that addressed the reader and said "You're hanging out in Middle American hell with the rest of us." And I literally stopped and wrote that down, because I am not on board with that. Never will be.
Okay, so remember when you were a kid and you wanted to grow up and be a professional athlete or fireman or whatever? It was a dream. So why, at some point, do we stop chasing our dreams and just grind into Middle American hell?
I want you to stop what you are doing right now. I assume there are only adults reading this, so the professional athlete dreams now may have morphed and consist of wanting to be a lawyer, a father, owning your own business, and so on. I want you to ask yourself as you sit here right now what your current dreams and goals consist of, and if you are chasing them. I am 35, and my dreams are alive and well. This year, I am doing the marathon. Next year, I want to play PDL or minor league soccer (yes, at 36). I made it to the final stage of tryouts with the Columbus Crew of the MLS when I was 24, but never fulfilled that dream. By 2019, I want to be a scratch golfer. I want to help the Charlotte style scene become more prominent, and immerse myself in the style/fashion scene in as many ways as I can. I'd like to see more of the world, and possibly travel regularly for work. These are bona fide goals that I have in addition to my family and career. And I'm gonna go after them.
I get this mindset from my mom. She is a professional pianist, and has been her entire life. She teaches at Wingate University, plays concerts, plays at church, funerals, weddings, pretty much anything. I didn't realize until I was a young adult that not everyone grew up with a beautiful piano in their living room. I thought that was the norm. See, piano is my mom's passion, and for her entire life this is what she has done. She found a way to weave her passion into her career, and I admire that so much. I asked her recently if she ever got tired of playing, and that was the quickest "no" I have ever heard. And through this, I realized that one of the qualities I most respect in people is their choosing to go through life their way, not some template prescribed by society.
Society has a way of leading everyone into doing the same thing. That's what I see, at least. Get married. Have 2.5 kids, whatever that means. Buy a big house in suburbia with a white picket fence. Wear khaki pants. Now, if that is what you want, go bananas. But if that is not what you want, you don't have to be like everyone else. Your dream is your dream, not society's. I ask my wife periodically what she individually wants out of life. As my son gets older, I will encourage his unique interests. I, personally, could care less about what society (or anyone else for that matter) tells me I should do. I'm doing what I and we (my family) want to do.
I like to be unique. I don't do it for the attention. It's who I am. It's exhilarating. It's fresh. I wear my watch on the "wrong" hand. I carry a turquoise Gucci wallet every day. I change my hairstyle 2-3 times per year. I may add 1 or 2 tattoos each year. My jeans could be covered with holes. You will see me in a huge straw hat. I might let my beard grow for 2 months. And I may wear 10 bracelets one day, along with my black diamond skull ring. I'm starting to get more and more messages each week from people wanting to slowly step outside their comfort zone now that they are hearing a voice saying that it's okay. I say, not only is it okay, it is encouraged. When I walk through a crowd where everyone looks exactly the same, I just yawn and carry on. But when I see someone that looks or acts a little different, I want to know more. I admire eccentricity and the courage to be a little different.
I have this quote that I love that reads, "When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." It is applicable to some things and not applicable to others, but it has served as a good guide for me to always be myself. This week, think about what your own unique desires are in life, and how you can position yourself to achieve them in the future. Family is important. Group stuff is important. But paying attention to yourself and achieving some of your unique individual goals is too. It's not selfish. It's vital.
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GROUP G underdogs Liberia have begun preparations for the make-or-break African Cup of Nations qualifier against log leaders Zimbabwe set for next month.
The Liberian Football Association confirmed yesterday that the Lone Star will host the Warriors on November 18 at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Paynesville.
Zimbabwe are unbeaten in the qualifiers and are on the verge of securing a berth at next year's finals in Cameroon with a point from their last two matches.
The Warriors lead the pack with eight points ahead of pre-qualifiers favourites DRC who have five points.
Congo-Brazzaville are third in the group with four points while the Lone Star are bottom, again with four points.
They still have a mathematical chance of qualifying for Cameroon but they would need to punch above their weight to claim one of the two tickets available for the finals.
This has forced coach Thomas Kojo to call for an early camp with some of the local based players who make up his AFCON squad.
The association yesterday announced that they will continue with the training camp until the clash with Zimbabwe.
"Coach Thomas Kojo has assembled 25 local players for training and they have been joined by Malaysian based Kpah Sherman who is currently on vacation at the ATS.
"The Lone Star has been training for the last two days ahead on the crunch November 18, 218 qualifier against the Warriors of Zimbabwe.
"The training will continue next week at the ATS until the match day which Liberia needs to win to have any hope to making it to Cameroon 2019," said the association on their website.
The Lone Star of Liberia on secured their first win when they beat Congo 2-1 win at the Samuel K. Doe Sports Complex earlier this month.
The Lone Star needed to win following a three game winless run in the qualifiers. The coach however will have to do with most of the foreign based players who include Boison Wynney De Souza of RCD Mallorca II, Teah Dennis playing in Oman, England based Mohammed Sangare who plays for Newcastle United, Murphy Oscar Dorey of Slovan Liberec, Sylvanus Nimely of Spartak Moscow II and Sam Johnson who is playing his club football in Norway for Valerenga.
The other forign-based players missing are Anthony Laffor of South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns, William Jebor of Wydad Athletic Casablanca, Terrence Tisdell of San Joanense of Portugual, Seku Conneh of South Korea's Ansan Greener.


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Trump Supporters Are Celebrating An American Manufacturer Going Bankrupt
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By Alexander C. Kaufman
Patrick Fallon / Reuters
The company behind these hats has filed for bankruptcy protection.
A U.S.-based mom-and-pop manufacturer known for paying its workers well has declared bankruptcy.
Oddly, some fans of President-elect Donald Trump ― whose professed economic populism and repeated pledges to revitalize U.S. manufacturing helped him score a surprise election victory ― seem delighted.
Twitter users, some bearing frog emojis that allude to a cartoon that came to symbolize white nationalism, began tweeting a link to a Wall Street Journal story about the bankruptcy Friday.
That's because Unionwear, which is based in Newark, New Jersey, made the red "Make Donald Drumpf Again" hats ― a parody inspired by a segment from comedian John Oliver's HBO show "Last Week Tonight."
Gooooood morning, Twitteratti. Coffee tastes amazing this morning for some reason.https://t.co/ryq2UcB6zM
— James Steed (@James_May_Not) November 18, 2016
There are consequences if you try to stump the Trump. This guy learned the hard way https://t.co/aLTmczgJPH
— Başkan (@OttomanZealot) November 18, 2016
Apparently you can't turn much of a profit on smug, self-satisfied snarky liberalismhttps://t.co/CpwTQ7MGok
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Starting to get tired of winning so much... NOT! hehe https://t.co/BRXBoGLZbp
— The Right Remarks (@TheRightRemarks) November 18, 2016
Please Donald, no more winning, Im so sick of it. We can't handle this much winning. https://t.co/N5ahFFkbwp
— Deplorable Nikolai🐸 (@Nikolai03) November 18, 2016
"That was a very small part of our business," Mitch Cahn, the company's president and founder, told The Huffington Post on Friday. "We had a great year in political merchandise, but it didn't make a big dent in our sales number."
Unionwear employs 151 workers, who are represented by Workers United, Local 155 ― a point of pride for the company, which touts the union on its website. Cahn said the company was forced to file for bankruptcy protection because the pension fund had reached "critical status," meaning it lacks enough assets to meet at least 65 percent of future obligations.
"Our union pension fund really has nothing to do with our business," he said, "but we were affected by it."
The company plans to reorganize and sell itself sometime in the next 60 days. Cahn said he has a buyer lined up who plans to honor the union but negotiate a new contract.
Unionwear has been in the political hat-making business since 2000. The company made every hat for the campaigns of President Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. During this election cycle, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush contracted Unionwear to make their campaign caps, too.
Trump's popular "Make America Great Again" baseball caps are stitched in at a factory in Los Angeles, but an investigation by The Associated Press found that the hats did not contain a fabric the manufacturer insisted was used to make them. Two employees told the AP that the hats' fabric, bills and stiffeners were imported.
Asked whether he sees any hypocrisy in Trump supporters gloating over Unionwear's bankruptcy, Cahn paused and said "No."
"I'm surprised anyone really cares," he said. "We're a small business in a very small, easy reorganization."
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Opposition Wildrose Party Riding High in Alberta
Danielle Smith holds an impressive approval rating, as questions on health care and accountability continue to plague the provincial government.
Calgary, AB – The Wildrose Party holds an overwhelming lead in Alberta, as many voters are abandoning the governing Progressive Conservatives, a new Insights West poll has found.
The online survey of a representative sample of Albertans also shows that health care and accountability are the most important issues for residents, who are particularly critical of the way the current government has handled both files.
Voting and Leaders
Across the province, 50% of decided voters would support the Wildrose Party if an election took place tomorrow. The ruling Progressive Conservatives are a distant second with 21%, followed by the New Democratic Party (NDP) with 16% and the Liberal Party with 11%. One-in-four Albertans (25%) are undecided.
Wildrose is particularly popular with decided voters over the age of 55 (55%) and those aged 35-to-54 (53%). The Progressive Conservatives are only holding on to 56% of those who supported the party two years ago, and are losing three-in-ten former voters (28%) to Wildrose.
Along with the high level of support for Wildrose, three-in-five Albertans (60%) approve of the way official opposition leader Danielle Smith is handling her duties. The rating is lower for Liberal leader Raj Sherman (42%), NDP leader Brian Mason (39%) and Premier and interim Progressive Conservative leader Dave Hancock (33%).
Smith also holds the best momentum score, with 22% of Albertans saying their opinion of her has improved over the past six months. The remaining leaders are in single digits on this indicator.
Issues and Government Performance
Health care (29%) is regarded as the most important issue facing Alberta, followed by accountability (22%), the economy and jobs (11%) and housing, poverty and homelessness (10%).
Three-in-five Albertans (61%) are satisfied with the way the government has handled crime and public safety, and half are content with its performance on the economy and jobs (50%) and the environment (49%). The level of satisfaction is lower for other files, including energy (44%), housing, poverty and homelessness (38%) and education (35%).
The top two issues for residents—health care and accountability—get the lowest ratings. Only one-in-four Albertans (25%) are satisfied with the way the government is handling health care, and even fewer (15%) say they are doing a good job on accountability.
"The striking figure on the performance question is that only 23% of Albertans who voted for the Progressive Conservatives in 2012 are satisfied with accountability," says Mario Canseco, Vice President, Public Affairs, at Insights West. "This shows that, despite Alison Redford's decision to step down, a lot of work needs to be done to regain the confidence of the voters who gave the current government its majority mandate."
Next PC Leader
Respondents were provided with a list of 13 politicians who may consider running for the Progressive Conservative leadership this year, and asked if they thought each one of them would be a good choice or a bad choice for the job.
Among all Albertans, former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice holds the highest marks (26% regard him as a good choice), followed by current finance minister Doug Horner (24%), current infrastructure minister Ric McIver (22%) and former energy minister Ken Hughes (17%).
When the views of those who voted for the Progressive Conservatives in 2012 are reviewed, Prentice is still first (33%), followed by Horner (32%), Hughes (27%) and McIver (26%).
"The notion of Prentice as the saviour of the PC brand holds some truth when it comes to name recognition and familiarity," continues Canseco. "Still, he is not too far away from three other possible contenders who have provincial cabinet experience."
Insights West is a progressive, Western-based, full-service marketing research company. It exists to serve the market with insights-driven research solutions and interpretive analysis through leading-edge tools, normative databases, and senior-level expertise across a broad range of public and private sector organizations. Insights West is based in Vancouver and Calgary and has ten full-time and five part-time employees.
Results are based on an online study conducted from April 23 to April 26, 2014, among 622 residents of Alberta who are aged 18+ and are Your Insights panel members. YourInsights.ca is Insights West's in-house access panel offering on-demand samples for both clients and research suppliers looking for Western Canadian populations. The data has been statistically weighted according to Canadian census figures for age and gender. While statistical margins of error are arguably not applicable to online panels/online studies of this nature, we have assumed that the same margins of error apply as if it were a true unweighted random probability sample with a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty. To view the detailed data tabulations, click here.
Mario Canseco
Vice President, Public Affairs, Insights West
mariocanseco@insightswest.com
Photograph: Marcel Schoenhardt
Filed under: Policy Research, Alberta


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Annotation Type Messages.AlternateMessage

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Target(value=METHOD)
 @Documented
public static @interface Messages.AlternateMessage

Provides alternate forms of a message, such as are needed when plural
 forms are used or a placeholder has known gender. The selection of which
 form to use is based on the value of the arguments marked
 PluralCount and/or Select.

Example:

   @DefaultMessage("You have {0} widgets.")
   @AlternateMessage({"one", "You have one widget.")
   String example(@PluralCount int count);

If multiple Messages.PluralCount or Messages.Select parameters are
 supplied, the forms for each, in the order they appear in the parameter
 list, are supplied separated by a vertical bar ("|").  Example:

   @DefaultMessage("You have {0} messages and {1} notifications.")
   @AlternateMessage({
       "=0|=0", "You have no messages or notifications."
       "=0|one", "You have a notification."
       "one|=0", "You have a message."
       "one|one", "You have one message and one notification."
       "other|one", "You have {0} messages and one notification."
       "one|other", "You have one message and {1} notifications."
   })
   String messages(@PluralCount int msgCount,
       @PluralCount int notifyCount);

 Note that the number of permutations can grow quickly, and that the default
 message is used when every Messages.PluralCount or Messages.Select would use
 the "other" value.

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java.lang.String[]
value

An array of pairs of strings containing the strings for different forms.

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public abstract java.lang.String[] value

An array of pairs of strings containing the strings for different forms.

 Each pair is the name of a form followed by the string in the source
 locale for that form.  Each form name is the name of a plural form if
 Messages.PluralCount is used, or the matching value if Messages.Select is
 used.  An example for a locale that has "none", "one", and "other" plural
 forms:

 @DefaultMessage("{0} widgets")
 @AlternateMessage({"none", "No widgets", "one", "One widget"})

 Note that the plural form "other" gets the translation specified in
 &#64;DefaultMessage, as does any &#64;Select value not
 listed.

 If more than one way of selecting a translation exists, they will be
 combined, separated with |, in the order they are supplied as
 arguments in the method.  For example:

   @DefaultMessage("{0} gave away their {2} widgets")
   @AlternateMesssage({
     "MALE|other", "{0} gave away his {2} widgets",
     "FEMALE|other", "{0} gave away her {2} widgets",
     "MALE|one", "{0} gave away his widget",
     "FEMALE|one", "{0} gave away her widget",
     "other|one", "{0} gave away their widget",
   })
   String giveAway(String name, @Select Gender gender,
       @PluralCount int count);

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Огибалово — деревня в Вожегодском районе Вологодской области.

Входит в состав Тигинского сельского поселения (с 1 января 2006 года по 9 апреля 2009 года была центром Огибаловского сельского поселения), с точки зрения административно-территориального деления — центр Огибаловского сельсовета.

Расстояние до районного центра Вожеги по автодороге — 40 км, до центра муниципального образования Гридино по прямой — 14 км. Ближайшие населённые пункты — Олюшино, Куршиевская, Бухара.

По переписи 2002 года население — 97 человек (47 мужчин, 50 женщин). Преобладающая национальность — русские (98 %).

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  в реестре населённых пунктов Вологодской области

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Q: Add filter before OAuth2AuthenticationProcessingFilter I am using spring-security-oauth2 in IDP mode and spring-boot. I need to do some work before the oauth token is extracted from the request.  How do I add a filter before OAuth2AuthenticationProcessingFilter?
I have tried:
@Configuration
@EnableResourceServer
public class OAuth2ResourceServerConfigurerAdapter extends ResourceServerConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    public void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {

        http.authorizeRequests().anyRequest().authenticated().and()
                .addFilterBefore(new MyFilter(), OAuth2AuthenticationProcessingFilter.class);
    }

}

But I get the following exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot register after unregistered Filter class org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.authentication.OAuth2AuthenticationProcessingFilter

I guess this might be because @EnableResourceServer is executed after configure(HttpSecurity http).

A: I achieved desired functional by doing this
                .addFilterBefore(new MyTokenFilter(), AbstractPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter.class)

A: The following worked for me
   @Override
   public void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
       http
         .addFilterBefore(new MyFilter(), AbstractPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter.class)
         .authorizeRequests().anyRequest().fullyAuthenticated()
       ;
   }

Result
Security filter chain: [
  WebAsyncManagerIntegrationFilter
  SecurityContextPersistenceFilter
  HeaderWriterFilter
  LogoutFilter
  MyFilter
  OAuth2AuthenticationProcessingFilter
  RequestCacheAwareFilter
  SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter
  AnonymousAuthenticationFilter
  SessionManagementFilter
  ExceptionTranslationFilter
  FilterSecurityInterceptor
]

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Harvard Professor Marco Iansiti predicts that the future business competition will not be between companies or even supply chains but between networks.
In other words you can't make it by yourself no matter how big, fast or strong you are!
He goes on the identify two other key network roles in addition to keystones - dominators and niche players and suggests that the vital strategic question for any company in a network is what is the right role for them to play.
fascinating - I am such a fan of your blog that I thought I'd finally tell you. You make the complex interesting and understandable - and you are at the nexus of info for those of us who believe "the power of us" will go through several iterations.


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Black Magick Woman returns will an ode to the summer solstice. On Thursday, June 21st, we will experience the longest day of the year and a signal that summer has arrived. This halfway mark has traditionally been met with merriment and joy as the sun shines brighter and longer. To honor this special time, we are excited to bring you the Solstice Siesta.
Featuring a host of magickal Black women as spiritual practitioners and thought leaders, you will enjoy magickal tapas in the form of 15-minute workshops and talks, guided walking meditations every half hour, individual readings, light fare and our revamped Magick Market with ritual items and tools to help sustain your magickal practice.


…talks to garmin gps units now but needs to be run as sudo. GPS settings and cruise info have been relocated to outboard subroutines. Still need to write the sign of longitude and latitude and to write them out to the data file.
-# does this cruise already have a mission log?
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El Departament de Potosí és una sotsdivisió administrativa de Bolívia, al sud del territori.

Províncies
Es divideix en 16 províncies:

Història
El departament fou creat sobre la base de l'antiga Intendència de Potosí de la Reial Audiència de Charcas, mitjançant Decret Suprem de 23 de gener de 1826, dictat pel Mariscal d'Ayacucho Antonio José de Sucre.


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Tronix (TRX) is the official currency of TRON, which aims to be a decentralized entertainment content sharing platform eventually leveraging blockchain and peer-to-peer (p2p) network technology. Founded by a non-profit Singapore-based foundation, the Tron Foundation seeks to tackle the global entertainment industry – currently valued at $1 trillion. Tronix's open, decentralized platform and distributed storage technology will, in theory, allow creators of digital content to cut out middlemen and to allow content producers to be able to obtain funds directly from consumers.
However, due to lack of reliable communications, criticism over potential plagiarism and shady token distribution, would-be investors in Tronix should do their thorough research, as there are several blatant red flags to yet be addressed.
In the whitepaper, some of the translated material can look familiar for those who scour through ICO/Coin's whitepapers, as they are complete identical copies of existing projects (Filecoin, IPFS to name a few), and not only that, there are reports online by users who have performed their due diligence on the subject, that Tronix are also plagiarising code lines. This should be a red flag. Moreover, there is currently no working platform, or even an alpha product, and there is scarce information released. On Jan 23rd, 2018, the team has announced via a post on medium that the launch date for the Exodus platform is March 31st, 2018. In terms of innovation in the blockchain ecosystem, it is hard to gauge Tronix's contribution. There is currently very little to nothing to show for outside of big yet vague promises.
There is very little information regarding Tron's future platform(s). The team said they are currently working on Exodus (Launch date: March 31st, 2018 as of now) which on paper should work quite similar to IPFS (a peer-to-peer hypermedia platform) and its principal objective is to provide a simple distributed file sharing facility. In this phase, Tronix cannot leverage any blockchain technology yet. However, the only way to track the team's progress is to check their GitHub, which doesn't have a lot of commits or contributors, and as mentioned before, may consist of stolen lines. The TRX tokens are ERC-20 tokens, and no word on a swap to new coins after the implementation of Tronix's future platform has surfaced yet.
And again, as mentioned, a huge red flag is raised as Justin Sun is the CEO and founder of both Tronix and Peiwo. From what I could gather, there is no mention as to whether the token is regarded as a security or not, and it does not seem to have any inherent intrinsic value outside of serving as a medium to raise funds. The smart-contract infrastructure is no where to be ready, and through online research and the translated version of the Mandarin whitepaper, there doesn't seem to be any mentions of legal review or attention to compliance issues outside the regular confinements of ICO-like fund-raising in regards to certain countries like the USA.
Justin Sun, as mentioned, is the founder and CEO of Peiwo, so this obviously raises a huge red flag. Along with the scarce information about the team's progress and the criticism regarding plagiarism, this raises a lot of unanswered questions.
The team skill set is ranked low (2) since there is little reliable information regarding the team, and the only unit of measurement is their progress/code lines, and both are under heavy scrutiny at the moment.


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ON THE RECORD ....
"Trump is a businessman. I am a businessman. He employs a lot of people. I employed 50,000 people. Why not?" -- Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson on why he might support Donald Trump for president. 3/16/16
"We do not take this position because we believe Mr. Trump is perilously wrong on the issues, although he is… No, Mr. Trump must be stopped because he presents a threat to American democracy. Mr. Trump resembles other strongmen throughout history who have achieved power by manipulating democratic processes." -- Washington Post editorial calling on the Republican party to aim for a contested convention in order to stop Donald Trump. 3/16/16
"The media has created the perception that the voters will decide the nomination… The political parties choose their nominees, not the general public, contrary to popular belief." -- RNC's Rules Committee member Curly Haugland, saying that the party will select the GOP nominee, not the voters. 3/17/16
"I have many friends that live in Salt Lake. I have a lot of friends, I have a lot of friends. By the way, Mitt Romney is not one of them. Did he choke? Did this guy choke? He's a choke artist, I can't believe. Are you sure he's a Mormon? Are we sure?" -- Donald Trump mocking Mitt Romney's faith. 3/18/16
"Just man up and cast a vote." -- Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) calling on his GOP colleagues to vote on President Obama's supreme court nominee. 3/18/16
"Republicans are coming around to the idea that their only savior of Donald Trump is Ted Cruz. It's like that horror movie where the guy runs up to the policeman thinking he's saved, and the policeman is one of the zombies. -- Bill Maher 3.18.16
"[If] it appears that I am the stronger candidate against Trump, I think you're doing to see some superdelegates saying, 'You know what, I like Hillary Clinton, but I want to win this thing. Bernie is our guy.'" -- Bernie Sanders trying to make the case that, instead of nominating the candidate who won the most delegates, the convention should nominate the one with the hightest poll numbers against Donald Trump. 3/20/16
"I can't imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame duck session, a (Supreme Court) nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association" -- Senator Mitch McConnell. 3/21/16
"Donald Trump knows he's a loser. His insecurities are on parade: petty bullying, attacks on women, cheap racism, flagrant narcissism." — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in one of a series of tweets designed to get under Trump's skin.
"[W]e, for some reason, expect total purity from a woman candidate. ... Where I think Hillary Clinton faces, you know, certainly more of a burden is that the controversies she's been in are immediately labeled, you know, 'travelgate or 'emailgate.' ... If you actually asked people what about any of these controversies bothers them, they don't know anything specific about any of them. The issue, to me, that's at the crux is that everything that we know that was classified was classified after the fact, after the emails were sent. And so, why is that a big deal? And the fact that she had this private email is something that, you know, I've read widely, a lot of people in the government — Colin Powell, let's face it, got much bigger speaking fees than Hillary did." -- Jill Abramson, former top editor of The New York Times. 3/21/16
"The President told me several times he's going to name a moderate [to fill the court vacancy], but I don't believe him. [Obama] could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man. He probably won't do that because this appointment is about the election. So I'm pretty sure he'll name someone the [liberal Democratic base] wants." -- Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) 3/13/16
"Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won't do." -- Mitt Romney 3/22/16
"I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas." -- President Obama during his visit to Cuba. 3/22/16
"I think being a great president is having great people around you, the smartest people, the most knowledgeable people, and dealing with the important issues in our country. It's not necessarily spending 15 hours a day, seven days a week, running around the country." -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) 3/23/16
Accept Trump — who is trailing Hillary Clinton by double digits in hypothetical general-election matchups, who could possibly put the House in play for Democrats, and who could fundamentally transform the Republican Party as we know it. Or reject Trump — whose delegate lead is likely to increase after this week's contests, whose alternative is Ted Cruz, and whose supporters will likely abandon the GOP in the fall if Trump is not the nominee." -- First Read
1. Democracy is a joke, says China – just look at Donald Trump
2. House Could Be In Play
3. Trump Presidency Ranks as Top 10 Global Risk
5. Budget that 'decimates large swaths of the federal government' not enough for Freedom Caucus
6. "Trump's Good Ol' Days," a cartoon by MarkFiore
9. Justin Gillis: Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries
11. Ted Cruz Has a Senate Problem
12. The Borowitz Report: Republicans Refuse to Create Even One Job
13. "Reasons Why I, Mitch McConnell, Can't Meet with Merrick Garland," by Colin Stokes
14. TRUTH-O-METER: How the candidates rank after being fact-checked
1. Eric Sasson: Who Is the Hillary Voter?
2. David Brooks: No, Not Trump, Not Ever
3. Timothy Egan: Crackpot Party Crackup
4. John Cassidy: What Bernie Sanders Has Achieved
5. Fareed Zakaria: Republicans are surrendering to Donald Trump
6. Paul Waldman: How the Merrick Garland nomination explains the rise of Donald Trump
7. Bernie's Establishment Hail Mary
8. Peter Wehner: The Man the Founders Feared
9. Frank Rich: There Was No Republican Establishment After All
10. Jay Newton-Small: Hillary Clinton Speaks, Male Pundits Hear 'Shouting'
11. Jay Parini: 'Why do they hate Hillary Clinton so much?'
12. Ali Gharib: Ted Cruz Is an Anti-Muslim Bigot, Too
13. Mark Sumner: When fascism comes to America, it'll be wearing a bad toupee
14. Doug Sosnik: Why It's Not Looking Good for Republicans
"The rise of a racist in the US political area worries the whole world," the party-controlled Global Times crowed this week ahead of of Trump's victory in the latest round of primaries. "He has even been called another Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler by some western media."
It added, darkly: "Mussolini and Hitler came to power through elections, a heavy lesson for western democracy."
Trump, or "Chuanpu" as they call him in China, has been a gift to Communist party spin doctors paid to convince the country's 1.4 billion citizens that rule of the people is a sure path to chaos and destruction.
"That playbook goes out the window if you have President Donald Trump. Whether it is trade wars, a significant trade contest, whether it is mercantilism more generally, whether is a much more combative militaristic approach – who knows what he will actually do? But I think that unpredictability unsettles everyone in the region."
For now, though, China's party-controlled media is still revelling in the rise of the man it calls "big mouth" Trump. 3/17/16 http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/17/democracy-is-a-joke-says-china-just-look-at-donald-trump
Republicans are sitting on their largest House majority since 1928 – 247 seats to 188 – meaning Democrats would need to pick up 30 seats, a daunting challenge given the GOP's immense redistricting advantage and the vaporization of swing districts. But all cycle, Democrats have daydreamed about Republicans nominating an extremely polarizing presidential candidate, and suddenly it's almost certain they will get their wish. 3/18/16 http://cookpolitical.com/story/9382
The Economist Intelligence Unit concludes that a Donald Trump presidency poses a top-10 risk event that could disrupt the world economy, lead to political chaos in the United States and heighten security risks for the United States. 3/16/16 https://gfs.eiu.com/Article.aspx?articleType=gr&articleId=2866
The Daily Show wtih Trevor Noah:
Republicans block President Obama: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/woe8f8/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-republicans-scotus-block-president-obama
How we got to a point where Donald Trump will likely be the Republican nominee for president? http://www.cc.com/video-clips/bp0vzq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-how-the-f--k-we-got-here--donald-trump
Stephen Colbert:
Super Tuesday Part Three Proved They Need To Retire The Franchise: https://youtu.be/Afb-nWeKakg
The Hungry For Power Games: Marco Says Ru-bye-o: https://youtu.be/1AWywH4OxcE
Jimmy Kimmel:
New John Kasich Ad: https://youtu.be/OD1uZ8_Vqvk
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
Border Wall: https://youtu.be/vU8dCYocuyI
Voter ID Laws: A Closer Look: https://youtu.be/yfJeuk9Qizw
Supreme Court Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA3PpLs-t54
Despite the fact that the blueprint agreed upon by the House Budget Committee Wednesday decimates federal healthcare spending and other federal programs, it's still not enough for the Republican extremists.
Paul Ryan's spending blueprint would eliminate the subsidies people enrolling through Obamacare get for their health insurance. It would slash Medicaid, add work requirements for benefits like food stamps, raise the eligibility age for Medicare to 67, cut student loan subsidies, end a program that helps states fund various programs for the poor (the Social Services Block Grant), and make federal workers pay more into their pension funds. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities calculates that the programs for the poor that make up only 28 percent of domestic spending would suffer 60 percent of the cuts in this budget. 3/18/16http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/18/1503051/-Budget-that-decimates-large-swaths-of-the-federal-government-not-enough-for-Freedom-Caucus
"I think he's the best alternative to beat Donald Trump. I'm going to help Ted in any way I can. He's certainly not my preference, but he's a reliable Republican, conservative, which I've had many differences with. I have doubts about Mr. Trump, I don't think he's a Republican, I don't think he's a conservative, I think his campaign's built on xenophobia, race-baiting and religious bigotry, I think he'd be a disaster for our party and as Senator Cruz would not be my first choice, I think he is a Republican conservative who I could support." -- Sen. Lindsey Graham speaking in support of Ted Cruz. 3/17/16
"If you nominate Trump and Cruz, I think you get the same outcome. Whether it's death by being shot or poisoning doesn't really matter. I don't think the outcome will be substantially different." -- Sen. Lindsey Graham earlier.http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lindsey-graham-offers-ted-cruz-disparaging-months/story
"Do Your Job": Editorials Implore Senate GOP To Rise Above "Obstruction" And Act On Merrick Garlandhttp://mediamatters.org/research/2016/03/17/do-your-job-editorials-implore-senate-gop-to-ri/209358
Fox Host: GOP Senate Should Tell Obama They Will Give Him SCOTUS Nominee If He Indicts Hillary Clintonhttp://mediamatters.org/video/2016/03/17/fox-host-gop-senate-should-tell-obama-they-will/209380
Anti-Muslim Hate Group Leader Frank Gaffney Is On Ted Cruz's National Security Advisory Teamhttp://mediamatters.org/research/2016/03/17/anti-muslim-hate-group-leader-frank-gaffney-is/209379
George Will Dismisses GOP Obstruction Of Merrick Garland As "A Partisan Reflex In Search Of A Justifying Principle" http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/20/george-will-dismisses-gop-obstruction-of-merric/209402
Laura Ingraham Parrots Trump: "Nobody Has A Right To Be Here Except The People Who Are Born Here"http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/03/22/laura-ingraham-parrots-trump-nobody-has-a-right/209448
The nations of the world agreed years ago to try to limit global warmingto a level they hoped would prove somewhat tolerable. But leading climate scientists warned on Tuesday that permitting a warming of that magnitude would actually be quite dangerous.
The likely consequences would include killer storms stronger than any in modern times, the disintegration of large parts of the polar ice sheets, and a rise of the sea sufficient to begin drowning the world's coastal cities before the end of this century, the scientists declared.
"We're in danger of handing young people a situation that's out of their control," said James E. Hansen, the retired NASA climate scientist who led the new research. The findings were released Tuesday morning by a European science journal, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/science/global-warming-sea-level-carbon-dioxide-emissions.html
"While announcing that he is dropping out, Marco Rubio told supporters, 'We should have seen this coming.' If it makes you feel any better, Marco, we did." –Seth Meyers
"After the announcement, Rubio dropped out of the race. He went back to Washington and locked his office door to make sure no Supreme Court nominees get in. So good luck to him." –Jimmy Kimmel
But he still has a great story. I mean nothing symbolizes America more than the son of poor immigrants growing up to run for president and being crushed by a billionaire." –Jimmy Fallon
Disappointing night for Bernie Sanders, which was a surprise; he was polling well among everyone's most annoying Facebook friends." –Jimmy Kimmel
"According to a new report, Dr. Ben Carson was not planning to endorse any of the remaining candidates, but changed his mind after being offered a position in Trump's White House. He would run the Department of No Energy." –Seth Meyers
"Marco Rubio was interrupted by a heckler at a Florida campaign rally who accused Rubio of stealing his girlfriend. When in reality, Rubio tried to steal his girlfriend but finished fourth." –Seth Meyers
"Bernie Sanders admitted that he ran as a Democrat rather than an Independent to get more media coverage. And it worked, but if you really want to get some media coverage, try running as a fascist." –Seth Meyers
"A new poll found that the majority of millennials would vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Then millennials found out you can't vote by texting and said, 'Never mind!'" –Jimmy Fallon
"A Donald Trump rally was delayed for nearly two hours yesterday due to fog. At one point the fog was so thick, Trump supporters couldn't even see who they were punching." –Jimmy Fallon
"Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in Florida. And I'll say, that's tough for Bernie because a 74-year-old Jewish man can't win in Florida." –Jimmy Kimmel
"Over the weekend, Hillary was endorsed by a California leader of the KKK, Will Quigg, because he believes she will do the exact opposite of what she promises and that she's an 'undercover Hitler.' That makes me think three things. 1) She's not. 2) She's definitely not. And 3) 'Undercover Hitler' sounds like the worst spin-off of 'Undercover Boss.'" –James Corden
On Friday, a 112-year-old man was given the Guinness World Record for being the world's oldest living man. When asked how he plans to celebrate, he said, 'By defeating Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee.'" –Jimmy Fallon
Cruz's relationship with his colleagues is now a central paradox of his campaign: He's openly arguing for the party to rally behind him, but Republican senators are plainly wary of going anywhere near him. Those who feel burned by Cruz in the past say he'll come to them only if he decides it's in his self-interest."
But senators have their own calculation to make: Whether they can put all the bad blood behind them for someone many of them privately view as even more polarizing than Trump. 3/17/16 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/ted-cruz-hill-presidential-220894
While voters across the country questioned why Republicans would refuse to let even one American find employment, Washington insiders speculated that G.O.P. senators did not want to do anything to contribute to the improving jobs picture while Barack Obama is still President.
"Under President Obama, the economy has added over nine million jobs," one insider said. "The last thing the Republicans want to do is give him credit for one more."
According to Senate sources, the Republican leadership is hoping that the job applicant, a sixty-three-year-old male, will eventually become discouraged and give up looking for work.
Read more at http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/
Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, insisted on Wednesday that Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, would not get a confirmation vote—or even a meeting with him—before Election Day, but a handful of other Republican senators said they would at least talk with Judge Garland when he came calling on Capitol Hill. —The New York Times.
I'm just slammed with all this work stuff right now.
I have a doctor's appointment.
Being a judge sounds so boring. I just don't think I'm up to listening to you talk about it.
I have another doctor's appointment.
There's a rock in my shoe.
I have to go look at Wayne LaPierre's collection of gun legislation that didn't get passed.
I left the hat that I like to wear when I meet people at home.
The hat? It's red and says, "The Name's Mitch."
It's kind of a goofy icebreaker. Makes introductions less awkward, I think.
It also says, "McConnell is my last name," on the back, so you get a chuckle when I turn around as well.
Even though I can't meet because I don't have the hat, I hope my telling you about it makes you realize that I'm a fun guy.
Daytime isn't great for me—sunlight makes me burst into flames.
Do you have lots of blood? Maybe I could meet you if you have lots of blood.
O.K., it's sounding like we're both pretty busy. Perhaps sometime in late November?
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An examination of Clinton voters and their motivations might reveal that the narrative that most media outlets have been feeding us this election cycle is dubious at best. Because if the biggest vote-getter of either party is Hillary—by a large margin—then that suggests the electorate is not necessarily as angry as pundits claim. It further suggests that perhaps some people are tired of hearing about how angry they are, and are quietly asserting their opinions at the ballot box. If Democrats are so angry, Clinton would not be in the position she is today. Is it really so farfetched to claim that quite a few Democrats aren't voting for Sanders precisely because he seems angry? Which isn't to suggest that people aren't angry—certainly many Republican primary voters seem to be. Rather, it is to suggest that voters who aren't angry are still showing up at the polls, despite being ignored in news stories.
So perhaps Clinton voters don't show up at rallies so much. Perhaps they are a bit less passionate on Facebook, share fewer articles, give less money to their candidate (she does have a super PAC, after all). But what they are doing is perhaps the only thing that actually matters in an election. They are showing up to vote. In numbers that no other candidate can boast. https://newrepublic.com/article/131762/hillary-voter
Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president. He has no realistic policies, no advisers, no capacity to learn. His vast narcissism makes him a closed fortress. He doesn't know what he doesn't know and he's uninterested in finding out. He insults the office Abraham Lincoln once occupied by running for it with less preparation than most of us would undertake to buy a sofa.
Trump is perhaps the most dishonest person to run for high office in our lifetimes. All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady obliviousness to accuracy.
This week, the Politico reporters Daniel Lippman, Darren Samuelsohn and Isaac Arnsdorf fact-checked 4.6 hours of Trump speeches and press conferences. They found more than five dozen untrue statements, or one every five minutes.
"His remarks represent an extraordinary mix of inaccurate claims about domestic and foreign policy and personal and professional boasts that rarely measure up when checked against primary sources," they wrote.
He is a childish man running for a job that requires maturity. He is an insecure boasting little boy whose desires were somehow arrested at age 12. He surrounds himself with sycophants. "You can always tell when the king is here," Trump's butler told Jason Horowitz in a recent Times profile. He brags incessantly about his alleged prowess, like how far he can hit a golf ball. "Do I hit it long? Is Trump strong?" he asks. 3/18/16 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/opinion/no-not-trump-not-ever.html
The Republican Party, under Trump, is headed for a combustive breakup. Ronald Reagan envisioned a shining city on a hill. Trump represents nothing more than a thug with money. Can the man who shouts "I'd like to punch him in face!" and "Knock the crap out of them!" about protesters possibly quote Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower or Reagan in his acceptance speech? He could, but it would be no more plausible than a fish doing a tap dance.
In temperament and judgment, this is now Trump's party. And take him at his word: His supporters will riot, as he predicted this week, if he doesn't get his way. Sane Republicans, perhaps a third of the party, have no choice but to plot an honorable discharge. The exit polls in Ohio found that 42 percent of Republicans said they would consider a third-party candidate. They can also support Hillary Clinton, or sit this one out. But they cannot show up in Cleveland and have their principles paved over by Trump's bullies.
This month, members of the Republican national security community issued a strongly worded missive against Trump. They said his trade policies would be a "recipe for economic disaster," that his embrace of torture was "inexcusable," that his anti-Muslim campaign would badly damage American interests abroad, and on and on and on.
The choice for honorable Republicans — should I stay or should I go? — is obvious, though not easy. Leave this summer, or forever live with the consequences. 3/18/16 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/opinion/campaign-stops/crackpot-party-crackup.html
As he has been for most of the past year, Bernie Sanders is on the road. On Thursday, he was scheduled to hold a town-hall meeting at the Twin Arrows Casino, east of Flagstaff, Arizona. You read that right: the seventy-four-year-old Vermont senator was set to issue his trademark call for a "political revolution" and to demand more income and wealth redistribution at a capitalist mecca in one of the most conservative states in the Union.
That, in itself, says something about Sanders and the historical significance of his campaign. He has cast aside many of the rules and adages of American politics, one of which is that it's hard for liberals, never mind self-described socialists, to win support in the Sun Belt. And although Sanders now seemsunlikely to win the Democratic nomination for President, he has achieved much more than that.
It's too early to say what Sanders's legacy will be, or whether some of the ideas that he is pushing—such as breaking up the big banks, introducing a single-payer health-care system, and returning tax rates on the rich closer to the levels that F.D.R. introduced—will eventually be adopted. Given the Republicans Party's grip on Congress and the centrist mindset of Clinton's advisers, it is hard to see much movement in this direction any time soon.
But it is also evident that, in the past ten months, Sanders has defied the pundits, alarmed the comfortable, and inspired the young. He has turned what looked to be a political coronation into a lively and hard-fought contest, forcing his opponent to modify her positions and raise her game. He has demonstrated that Presidential campaigns don't have to be beholden to big donors. And he has shown that, surprisingly enough, there is still a place in American politics for an independent-minded speaker of uncomfortable truths. What's more, he isn't done yet. http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/what-bernie-sanders-has-achieved
The Republican surrender has begun. Having described Donald Trump as an unacceptable, unconservative, dangerous demagogue, the party establishment appears to be making its peace with the man who keeps winning primaries.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page argued vociferously against Trump for months, pointing out that he is a huckster and a catastrophe, warning that "if Donald Trump becomes the voice of conservatives, conservatism will implode along with him." Yet this week, it ended a lead editorial urging Republicans to"continue to see if Mr. Trump can begin to act like a President . . . and above all to decide who can prevent another progressive-left Presidency."
Marco Rubio has called Trump a "con artist" and compared him to "third-world strongmen." He has said Trump has "no ideas of any substance," "has spent a career sticking it to working people," is trying to "prey upon people's fears," and encourages violence at his rallies. But, "at this moment," he says he intends to support whomever emerges as the Republican nominee. So doJohn McCain and Paul Ryan, who has taken the rare step of intervening in the campaign three times to reprimand Trump for his ideas and rhetoric.
Even Lindsey Graham, who has called Trump "the most unprepared person I've ever met to be commander in chief," will not say he will not vote for him. Indeed, there is currently just one Republican senator who has committed to not voting for Trump. 3/17/16https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-surrendering-to-donald-trump/2016/03/17/369ac14a-ec77-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html
That's not to mention the fact that the people who have come to dominate the Republican caucuses in the House and Senate arrived in Washington not to make laws, but to tear the institutions of government down. So it's quite alright with them if nothing in Washington works — after all, that only validates their argument to voters that government can't do anything right, and what we should do is continue to undermine it and strip away its protections wherever we can.
The GOP is divided between those people — variously called the Tea Party or the base or the insurgents — and the rest of the party, who are terrified of them and feel the need to continually prove their anti-government bona fides and ideological purity. So the entire party embraces not just ideological radicalism, but a procedural radicalism as well.
Then you can combine that with the positively venomous loathing all Republicans seem to share for Barack Obama. It was only a norm that said you don't shout "You lie!" at the president during a speech to Congress, or that you don't demand to see his birth certificate, or that you don't accuse him of hating America just because you have political differences. Put it all together, and of course Republicans would refuse to allow him to name a new Supreme Court justice.
Where does this all lead? To Donald Trump.
When your party proves again and again that it treats governing like a joke, you wind up picking a joke of a candidate to be your nominee for president. You choose someone who doesn't know the first thing about how government works, and couldn't care less. You push your voters to the least serious person, the one who "tells it like it is" — in other words, the one with the most contempt not just for the norms of politics but for the norms of civilized human behavior. That's what Republicans have ended up with. And they pretend that they can't understand how such a thing could have happened. 3/18/16 http://theweek.com/articles/613350/how-merrick-garland-nomination-explains-rise-donald-trump
This is what it's come to for Bernie Sanders, that most definitely independent senator from Vermont: With Hillary Clinton enjoying her superest Tuesday yet and mounting what is by any realistic measure a virtually insurmountable lead, he's planning a last-ditch Hail Mary pass, aimed at winning the nomination by swaying the Democratic Party's superdelegates.
Yes, those same superdelegates that Sanders supporters previously denounced as an undemocratic and anti-Democratic tool of the establishment designed to suppress grassroots movements. This would be the group that is the actual, literal, living embodiment of the Democratic establishment that Sanders has so vocally taken on. And this would be the same party whose nomination Sanders sought, he admitted this week, simply as a way to get media attention. Did I call this a Hail Mary? This is a 99-yard field goal.
But as Sanders should well know, big bucks (even if it comes from massive, low-dollar online fundraising) don't trump big votes. And right now, the votes are on Clinton's side. It's a simple matter of math: She's built a sizable delegate lead and Democrats don't have winner-take-all primaries. "Because Democrats award pledged delegates proportionally, Sanders needs not only a string of victories but also popular vote margins large enough to pick up delegates in bushel baskets, contest by contest," Dan Balz wrote in The Washington Post Wednesday. So for Sanders, it's superdelegates or bust.
Do I need to say that it's going to be bust? 3/16/16 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/articles/2016-03-16/now-bernie-sanders-is-betting-on-the-establishment-and-the-superdelegates
"The reasons for the rise of Mr. Trump are undoubtedly complicated and will be studied for decades to come. That Mr. Trump's rise has occurred in the Republican Party is painful for those of us who are Republicans. That more and more Republicans are making their own accommodation with or offering outright support for Mr. Trump — governors like Chris Christie and Rick Scott, the former candidate Ben Carson and the former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich — makes things even worse. Because we can no longer deny what Mr. Trump is and what he represents. The prospect of turning the party apparatus over to such a person is sickening."
"The founders, knowing history and human nature, took great care to devise a system that would prevent demagogues and those with authoritarian tendencies from rising up in America. That system has been extraordinarily successful. We have never before faced the prospect of a political strongman becoming president. Until now." 3/19/16http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/campaign-stops/the-man-the-founders-feared.html
Once you get past the hyperventilation that Trump will destroy democracy, wreck the GOP, and make America unsafe, you'll see that the objections of Trump's Establishment critics have several common threads. Trump is a vulgarian (true). He has no fixed ideology or coherent policy portfolio (true). He repeatedly and brazenly makes things up (true). He wantonly changes his views (true). He is not recognizable as "a real Republican" (false).
It's the members of the Establishment who have a tenuous hold on the term "real Republican." Their center-right presidential candidates of choice (Jeb Bush, Chris Christie) were soundly rejected, and their further-right candidates (Rubio and Kasich) fared little better. The Republican-primary voters embracing Trump and Cruz have every right to say that they are the real Republicans, and after Cleveland, they could even claim to be the de facto new Establishment, if they believe in such a thing. The old center-right has not held in the GOP. Last fall, some 73 percent of Republicans told Pew that they support building a border wall, Trump's signature campaign issue. A Washington Post–ABC News poll, published March 9, showed that Hillary Clinton would whip Trump, 50 to 41 percent, but that 75 percent of Republicans would vote for Trump. While it is constantly and accurately said that "millions of Republicans will never vote for Trump," those millions are unambiguously in the party's minority. 3/21/16.http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/frank-rich-trump-didnt-hijack-gop.html
Hillary Clinton had a big night on Tuesday, winning Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and her home state of Illinois. She advanced her lead to more than 300 pledged delegates—barring a total disaster an insurmountable figure for rival Bernie Sanders. Like many politicians who get excited by, well, victory she raised her voice, and apparently the collective heads of some male pundits exploded.
"Hillary having a big night in the primaries. So she's shouting angrily in her victory speech. Supporters loving it. What's she mad at?" tweeted Fox's Brit Hume.
"Hillary shouting her speech. She has the floor; a more conversational tone might be better for connecting with folks at home," tweeted Fox's Howard Kurtz.
"@HillaryClinton in a nutshell: Calling for love and kindness — by SHOUTING!" tweeted Politico's Glenn Thrush.
Sorry to single out the men, but I scrolled through the coverage of the mostly female reporters covering Clinton and I didn't see this kind of commentary.
This is particularly troubling given who won on Tuesday night on the other side. Donald Trump celebrated his primary victories by tweeting that Fox's Megyn Kelly is "crazy." The general election looks to be one giant cage match on sexism. With refs like these, Clinton may go into it at a disadvantage. 3/17/16 http://motto.time.com/4263020/hillary-clinton-shouting/
It's perhaps too easy to blame sexism for the nastiness that colors the opposition to Clinton. Yet one sees misogyny bubbling out in the comments section of articles on the Web, where no sentiments -- however crude -- are off limits. They attack her voice, her hairstyle, her pantsuits, her laugh. On and on.
Even in the mainstream, one hears misogynistic comments, as when Tucker Carlson said of Clinton on MSNBC: "When she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs" or when Rand Paul said, "I'm starting to worry that when Hillary Clinton travels, there's going to need to be two planes -- one for her and her entourage, and one for her baggage."
Clinton gets slammed for "shouting" and not smiling enough, though these are criticisms we don't hear about the male candidates. The main thing to dislike about Hillary Clinton seems to be her gender, and one can only begin to imagine the kind of language Donald Trump will summon in the general election.
The abuse of Hillary Clinton must stop. She's not perfect. But she's smart, experienced and compassionate, and she will step into the Oval Office better prepared to take on an exacting job in difficult times than almost anyone in recent memory. 3/21/16http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/20/opinions/why-the-hate-for-hillary-clinton-opinion-parini/index.html
This is a frightening time for Muslims in America. One of the country's major parties is in thrall to anti-Muslim ideologues.
If this was not clear before—and it should have been—it is now. On March 17, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who is in second place in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, announced his foreign-policy team. As Matt Duss, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, put it on cable news, the advisers "run the gamut from Iran-contra conspirators to anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists." Duss was referring, on one side, to the sometimes loopy warmonger Michael Ledeen and the convicted liar Elliott Abrams, both of whom were implicated in the Reagan administration's dirty dealings of the 1980s, and, on the other, a to cadre of Islamophobes whose bigoted andMcCarthyite ideas would be laughable if they hadn't gained so much traction among GOP elites and voters.
Chief among the latter cohort stands Frank Gaffney, perhaps the most notorious anti-Muslim activist in America today. Gaffney is the author of a long list of incredible hypotheses not only about the ills of Islam—the faith of about a third of the world's population—but particularly about what Muslims are trying to do here in the United States. One of those Muslims, Gaffney suspects, is Barack Obama. That's why, his twisted logic goes, the Obama administration redesigned the US Missile Defense Agency logo so that it "appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama campaign logo." Sounds like an open and shut case.
Seemingly eager to prove that he is endorsing this bigotry, Cruz added a few more prominent Islamophobes' names to his list of advisers. Fred Fleitz, a disgraced former top aide to the famously mustachioed and infamously hawkish George W. Bush administration UN Ambassador John Bolton, and Clare Lopez, who among other things thinks Iran already has nuclear warheads, both work for Gaffney's Center for Security Policy. A Bloomberg View report on Cruz's advisers also included Gaffney's combative deputy Jim Hanson, bringing the number of CSP officials on the list up to four—more than any other institution represented therein. Next, there's Andrew McCarthy, a former prosecutor, and Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, a religious-right activist and Holy Warrior, both of whom traffic in Shariah conspiracy theoriesand otherwise agree with Gaffney on a whole lot. 3/18/16http://www.thenation.com/article/cruz-islamophobia-bigot-trump/
If Donald Trump becomes president, he really, truly intends to create a nation ringed by walls and patrolled by not-so-secret police empowered to throw millions—including many born in the U.S.—beyond the razor-wire-topped limits of the fatherland. He's said so. Repeatedly.
Within those walls will be a nation where First Amendment rights to protest, or to voice criticism of the leader, are sharply curtailed. A place where journalists are subject to restraint by the powerful, and never the other way around. A place where opposition is subject to a beating. Or worse. That's his promise.
A land where there is no place free from the death penalty, no matter what those who live there might want. He's put that in writing.
A country where one religion is raised high, while others are shunned, persecuted, or outright banned. It'll be a land where women will have all the rights that men allow them. A place where political enemies are to be dragooned before kangaroo courts, where the Internet is cut through by a Great Firewall of America, and where corporations can act with disdain for regulation. It'll be a smoky, dangerous land where environmental rules are overturned and safety is at the discretion of "job creators." Flint, Michigan, not just in its tea-colored water, but its usurpation of control by appointed "managers," will be the role model for the nation.
Those are just the things Trump has openly promised. Those are the things he is proud of. When Donald Trump says "make America great," this is what he's talking about. And it's not even a complete list.http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/20/1498772/-When-fascism-comes-to-America-it-ll-be-wearing-a-bad-toupee
Until now, Trump has defied the laws of political gravity; but the fact that no major political party has ever nominated such an unpopular candidate for president is inescapable. The strategy that Trump used to appeal to Republican primary voters who are conservative and disproportionately white will work against him with the moderate, diverse electorate this November. It is difficult to understate the level of negative attitudes toward Trump.
Regardless of how you do the math, the current environment paints a picture of a Republican Party at the verge of implosion during the most critical period in the presidential campaign. Assuming little changes, years from now people will look back at the decisive nine-day period in mid-October last fall when the stage was set for the 2016 elections. In this narrow window, Hillary Clinton soundly routed Bernie Sanders in the first and single most important Democratic debate of the season, Vice President Biden announced that he wouldn't run for president and Clinton publicly demonstrated her strength and fortitude during 11 hours of testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi—a hearing that resembled a Kangaroo Court.
Meanwhile, loudly and in full view, sitting high atop the polls facing little or no resistance, Donald Trump was gathering steam toward the Republican nomination and a backward-looking Republican Party was gasping its last breath. And the same Republican Party that once viewed Trump as a laughingstock is now intent on undermining his candidacy. 3/22/16http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/doug-sosnik-memo-2016-is-over-213753#ixzz43gJIUk00


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Q: Bootstrap not working properly in MVC project I am currently using bootstrap 4.5.2 in my MVC project. I have a partial view that is supposed to show two columns (col-xs-6). However, it doesn't seem to work. Here is what I have:
BundleConfig.cs
 public static void RegisterBundles(BundleCollection bundles)
        {
            RegisterJqueryUnobtrusiveAjaxBundle(bundles); //Kentico's scripts

            bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jquery").Include(
                "~/Scripts/jquery-{version}.js",
                "~/Scripts/jquery.maskedinput.min.js",
                "~/Scripts/App/SelectableRows.js"
                ));

            bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jqueryval").Include(
                "~/Scripts/jquery.validate*"));

            // Use the development version of Modernizr to develop with and learn from. Then, when you're
            // ready for production, use the build tool at https://modernizr.com to pick only the tests you need.
            bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/modernizr").Include(
                "~/Scripts/modernizr-*"));

            bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/bootstrap").Include(
                "~/Scripts/bootstrap.js"));

            bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/css").Include(
                "~/Content/bootstrap.css",
                "~/Content/Site.css",
                "~/Content/themes/GWICTheme/GWIC.css"
                ));
}

AccountLogin.cshtml
@model AE.Web.Gwic.Models.AccountLoginModel
@using Kentico.PageBuilder.Web.Mvc
@using Kentico.Web.Mvc

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "AccountLoginLanding";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

@section styles
{
    @* Includes stylesheets necessary for page builder functionality *@
    @Html.Kentico().PageBuilderStyles()
}

@section scripts
{
    @* Includes scripts necessary for page builder functionality *@
    @Html.Kentico().PageBuilderScripts()
}

myNavigator

                    @Html.Kentico().EditableArea("gwic-landing-left-column")
                    @*@Html.Kentico().WidgetZone()*@

                            @Html.Kentico().WidgetZone()

                @Html.Kentico().EditableArea("gwic-landing-right-column")
                @Html.Kentico().WidgetZone()
                helpful tools and links area

    @Html.ActionLink("Logout", "Logout", "Account", null, new { @class = "btn btn-primary" })

_Layout.cshtml
@using AE.Web.Gwic.Views
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <title>@ViewBag.Title</title>

    @Styles.Render("~/bundles/sass")
    @Styles.Render("~/Content/css")
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/modernizr")
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery")

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.css" />
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/bootstrap")
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery-unobtrusive-ajax")

    @RenderSection("styles", required: false)

        @RenderBody()

© @DateTime.Now.Year - Great Western Insurance. All Rights Reserved.

            @Html.AppVersion()

    @RenderSection("scripts", required: false)

In AccountLogin.cshtml the col-xs-6 isn't working. it is showing two rows beneath each other. Currently, it looks like this: Bootstrap issue
Is something not configured correctly or am I missing something? How would I be able to get the columns next to each other?

A: It looks to me like this div:

Should be marked as a row:

Also, for Bootstrap 4.x, there is no col-xs-*. You should instead use col-6. so:

            @Html.Kentico().EditableArea("gwic-landing-left-column")
            @*@Html.Kentico().WidgetZone()*@

                    @Html.Kentico().WidgetZone()

        @Html.Kentico().EditableArea("gwic-landing-right-column")
        @Html.Kentico().WidgetZone()
        helpful tools and links area

That should make your columns work as expected.


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require_relative '../model_utils'

class Links

  attr_reader :self, :root, :type, :main_teacher, :course_unit,
              :lective_semester, :classes, :pages, :participants,
              :groups, :lectures, :news_items, :work_items, :resources

  def initialize(links, tpe)
    @self = links[ModelUtils::SELF]
    @root = links[ModelUtils::ROOT]
    @type = links[tpe]

    @main_teacher = links[ModelUtils::MAIN_TEACHER]
    @course_unit = links[ModelUtils::COURSE_UNIT]
    @lective_semester = links[ModelUtils::LECTIVE_SEMESTER]
    @classes = links[ModelUtils::CLASSES]
    @pages = links[ModelUtils::PAGES]
    @participants = links[ModelUtils::PARTICIPANTS]
    @groups = links[ModelUtils::GROUPS]
    @lectures = links[ModelUtils::LECTURES]
    @news_items = links[ModelUtils::NEWS_ITEMS]
    @work_items = links[ModelUtils::WORK_ITEMS]
    @resources = links[ModelUtils::RESOURCES]
  end

end