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Healing a divided nation: is the church prepared?
What can be done to heal our fragmented society? How should people across the churches respond? Will we give up our own tribalism to build the Common Good? Philip North, Bishop of Burnley, Debra Green, Executive Director of Redeeming our Communities, and Jenny Sinclair, founder-director of Together for the Common Good, discussed these questions with TWR-UK.
Healing the nation may sound like a grand ambition, but how should the churches respond as British society descends into an American-style culture war?
Bishop Philip expressed concern at the rise of populism and increasing division within communities, and pointed to the important role of churches locally, emphasising that "empowering local communities is probably the most important thing we can do." Debra Green advocated cooperation between churches, community groups and local agencies. She noted that churches are welcomed into such local partnerships as it visibly strengthens communities and can bring people together from different walks of life. At a time when funding pressures on policing and youth services are most acute in already disadvantaged areas, grassroots collaboration and action is vital.
Jenny Sinclair argued that first, people across the churches should try to resist their own natural tendencies to be tribal. The greatest gift they can bring is to build relationships across different viewpoints and backgrounds. She added that Common Good training workshops are designed to build capacity for working together across differences as well as to refresh the churches' sense of mission. Building relationships in a divided society is the first step towards meaningful change and engagement within and across communities. Her 2017 article 'Rebuilding the Broken Body' had stated that
"the Church, with its social teachings, could be a blessing to our national community: the Common Good correctly understood is never partisan or sectarian. But if it cannot reform its relationship with the poor, the Church risks a sterile internal conversation, sidelining the very person of Jesus."
Around the same time, David Goodhart published The Road to Somewhere, which has since become an acclaimed analysis of the fault lines underlying the divisions manifested in the 2016 European Referendum. In the Sacred podcast he discusses what can be done to heal divides, including what the Church can do.
Goodhart's book explores the idea that the key social divide today is between the 'Anywheres', forming about 25% of the population and the 'Somewheres', just over 50% of the population. Anywheres can be grouped as "the highly educated mobile people, usually graduates, who have the general worldview in favour of openness, autonomy and self realisation", whilst Somewheres are seen as "the more 'small c' conservative, settled people whose worldview places more stress on security and familiarity, tends to draw value from group attachments and is more patriotic than the educated mobile groups." The gulf in world views and cultural perspectives between these groups is stark and has been shaping the political landscape in recent years.
The vote to leave the EU split the nation along these new lines, breaking the traditional economic and political environment. As a result, public discourse has become more polarised along the new values fault lines, cutting across the orthodox positions of left and right.
Asked about how churches should respond to heal these divisions, Goodhart commented that
"the Church ought to be in a stronger position than it is today, it ought to be in the right position to act as a bridge between these new divisions that have emerged. It is the task of anyone who's involved in society to think of ways of how one overcomes divisions, to find common ground between conflicting interest groups."
As Revd Al Barrett (pictured, right) said in Church of the Poor, a story about his work on the Hodge Hill Estate in the West Midlands: 'How richly blessed would we find ourselves to be, when we began to receive the gifts of our neighbours (and often from those neighbours who, seen through a financial lens, have little that can be counted)?"'
But Goodhart identifies a problem, at least with the Anglican Church. "The Church has not been there, really. Whenever I hear a bishop or even an archbishop I think they are speaking to such a narrow group of people – I don't even mean believers – I mean just in their worldview; and they are such a long way from their own believing group too."
"A switch has happened in the Anglican Church – from being the Conservative party at prayer it is now the ultra Liberal party at prayer – arguably this has not been to the their long term benefit. I'm not saying it should go back to what it was, but of the 120 senior Anglican bishops only one voted for Brexit". The Anglican Church is now unfortunately perceived as being not only partisan, but politically aligned with "liberal currents" and the "mobile, educated groups".
If senior church leaders publicly take a partisan position, genuine efforts to promote reconciliation will sound fake and will be fraught with risk – the danger is obvious. Socially conservative communities, or 'Somewheres' can easily be alienated by a liberal Church that doesn't look or sound or speak like them, in the same way as they are by political and economic elites. This is a significant barrier to the Common Good and applies not only to the Anglicans, it is an issue across the churches.
Indeed, a response from a parishioner to her local church initiative serves as a warning to others: "I stopped singing in my church choir as they were holding "peace and reconciliation" services… while continuing to try and undermine democracy!" Well-meaning reconciliation ventures will backfire if the Church or a church leader is perceived to be partisan on Brexit; they will be perceived as nothing more than a re-education exercise, however well-disguised.
There are more productive ways to build the peace.
Goodhart sees this as "a moment where the Church could yet still play a role as a kind of national therapist", but it needs to make some serious adjustments. "Although it often uses the rhetoric – almost too excessively – about 'bringing groups together,' this just sounds pious. You've got to acknowledge differences and conflicts – genuine conflicts – and you've got to be ready to speak up for your own side – there is a lot that is really rather good in the Christian faith."
Humility is a prerequisite. There may well be divisions even within a single congregation and this must be acknowledged and respected – courage to recognise conflict and foster debate will build strength. Contempt, or even pity, for those who take a different view, is profoundly unhelpful, as well as dangerous, as it leads to self censorship and limits freedom of speech. Rather, there needs to be a mature acknowledgement of difference – alongside a commitment to value what is held in common.
The unfortunate term 'safe space' has led many to believe that an echo chamber in which people are 'safe' from opposing views is a good thing. But in this context it is a falsehood and will weaken those involved as well as deepen alienation from those it excludes. Churches must never become silos of anyone's ambition. As John Henry Newman said: "The energy of the human intellect does from opposition grow." Church leaders would be well advised to rise above the Brexit divide and stand in solidarity with their local communities.
In How the Church lost its flock over Brexit, Giles Fraser quotes Goodhart, who expressed some frustration with church leaders after a recent meeting: "The trouble with this bit of the Church is that they have turned themselves into a subaltern ideological sub-set of the Anywhere liberal class – the educated, mobile, secular, cognitive class, with its bias toward the rational, the open, the autonomous, the individual – a quick witted, goal oriented, solution focused worldview."
Fraser believes that this strain within the Church has succumbed unwittingly to the international business narrative of 'openness' and globalism. He continues: "The socialist in me believes that large international banks such as HSBC deploy the soft and apparently inclusive language of globalisation as PR for the triumph of international capitalism."
In taking this position, the national and local role of the church has been eclipsed: "…The whole point of a family, a church and a nation is that they accept people uncritically – and not on the basis of how clever they are, how mobile, how rich or how solution focused. This is indeed the love that asks no question. You belong and are valued by it simply because you are a member of it."
Fraser affirms where this works well, that the Church "at its best, and when not trying to be bit-players in policy debates, does do this… the parish system roots the Church in the specifics of time and space. It refuses the abstract political and concentrates on real lives lived by real people."
We may never agree on Brexit, but churches ought to be places where people feel free to speak, to engage with each other, and learn from one another. What people want from the Church is meaning and belonging.
T4CG
Listen to the Sacred podcast with David Goodhart
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With thanks to TWR-UK,Theos and Unherd
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"I'll just keep going as long as they let me."
Dorothy Bale will turn 95 this May and she'll likely celebrate the day by enjoying an Arby's Reuben sandwich — with extra sauerkraut. But unlike many people her age, Bale is still working and she's been employed at her local Arby's for 25 years. And she told TODAY that she has no intention of leaving the job which brings her so much joy anytime soon.
The 94-year-old started working at the Arby's in Holladay, Utah, after retiring for a bit at the age of 69.
Bale drives the mile commute to work each day, parks in the corner of the chain's parking lot and struts into work ready to take on the lunchtime rush.
Bale used to work five days a week for the chain but she recently cut back to three shifts per week. Still, her boss says that Bale works just as hard as her younger coworkers and has attracted a fanbase of loyal Arby's customers.
Back in 2014, Arby's CEO recognized Bale as the company's oldest employee ever at a conference in Las Vegas. She's now broken her own record four times over.
Before working at Arby's, Bale worked in her husband's dental office for 23 years. The duo closed their business in 1988 and waded into retirement together; but when Bale's husband, Dennis, passed away suddenly Bale looked back toward employment for comfort and normalcy.
"I decided 'I've got to go find a job'," Bale said. "I have always been busy." So she walked into her local Arby's store and started her new job within the same week. She's now worked with 21 different managers, and she stays in touch with many of her former coworkers.
According to her current supervisor, it's not just her age and determination that charms customers.
The Holladay Arby's sits right across the street from Olympus High School and when lunchtime rolls around, plenty of hungry students flood the restaurant. "You wouldn't believe how many kids are out there right now," Bale told TODAY during a moment when she was able to step away from the chaos.
Working hard and keeping busy makes Bale happy. When she's not ringing up hungry customers or bussing tables, she stays active with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She keeps her home garden in tip-top shape and she refuses a golf cart when she plays a round at Nibley Park Golf Course.
"I've been blessed with good health all these years," Bale said during a moment of reflection. "I don't know what I'd do if I retired. I don't like to stay home."


I am now 63, a retired RN & I sing in 2 choruses.
I have had classical voice training the past 5 years-as a Second Soprano & now recent choral Directors want a much less vibrato sound. One moved me, briefly, to Alto section due to the weight of my voice.
I think the resonance in my voice has increased with training & vibrato sounds more pronounced especially on higher notes. I think breath control may be key, perhaps lightenning higher notes? I think my tone is too forced @ times. I enjoy singing Broadway,Torch & Blues songs.I have been lowering the keys I sing my songs.
I would request input from others on breath control as one ages and keeping tone of voice pleasant, as one ages.
I think that for this kind of technical work, it would be good for you to take a few lessons with a good voice teacher in your area, if you are able. It's not easy to make these kinds of vocal changes on your own.
Watch for it on the web site!
The vocal cords do change as we age. They can become more brittle - less flexible. Sometimes that is actually helpful to the sound because the cords vibrate with less mass and therefore stay in tune more easily.
But if your voice is becoming heavier and developing a more obvious vibrato, I suggest that you focus on keeping a slimmer vowel as you move to the top. Be careful that you don't cramp the vowel in your throat. Your jaw needs to stay loose and your tongue relaxed as you move up the scale.
As an example of an exercise: Use EE in an arpeggio - your mouth will open for the space needed as you rise, your tongue remains low, but you keep the EE in your mind and throat. This often results in less density in the vocal cords and a faster vibrato.
Bringing the keys of your songs down a bit is a good idea too. However, if your vowels are getting too "fat" on top, the same thing may happen lower down as well.


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LIVNO
A Small City With Big Cultural Heritage
The "old town mentality" in many cities of Bosnia & Herzegovina is still present. But, what do we mean with the "old town mentality" that the citizens of Bosnia & Herzegovina are still attached to. It is something present from the Ottoman times and it is a thing that lots of Bosnians are proud of. The "old town mentality" means to behave in the way that you respect the past of your city.
People in Livno are respected because of their contribution to the community in many different ways. The doctor cures people, but the ordinary street people from the old town can make you smile while blessing you with spontaneous crazy jokes, by the instruments they play and many others. If a neighbor gifts you with food, the dish that you give him back should always have a sweet or a fruit as a sign of gratitude. Those are some of the manners that are important to know if you are from some old town in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
The heritage of the old town of Livno is not just preserved through the people, but also through the museums and art. The museum "Stari Grad" (Eng. "Old Town") is a perfect example of how the old town mentality is preserved. It is an incredible private museum where you will find 700 different images of the old city of Livno and more than 7000 exhibits, all from the Livno area. The famous painter from Livno, Ago Pivčić, has his art gallery in the old town, in his old Bosnian house. He is mostly proud of the pictures that he dedicated to the nature and architecture of Livno.
Livno, town as a paradigm of the entire country.
Museum "Stari Grad" Livno - A museum with Soul where Everyone can be a Museum Curator
What does it mean that everyone can be a museum curator? As the founder of the museum, Izet Kelje Alić, used to say: "Use your own knowledge and imagination to understand the breadth of meaning of the exhibits. If still confused, ask me then".
The museum was founded in 1989. in the private garage and tinsmith workshop, owned by Izet Kelje Alić. The idea came up by some respectable Livno community members that knew Kelje. They said to him that he as a tinman should check the roofs and other house parts of the people where he comes to fix. After what Kelje started to ask people where he would come to sell him, or give him old precious materials. Most of them were given to Kelje because they knew what he was going to do. Kelje, at that time, was known as a meticulous craftsman and a person who loves the city of Livno. Therefore everyone had so much trust in him to give their old precious things. Kelje was always passionately showing the museum exhibits and often he used to say: "The museum is not just for me and it's not just mine, but it's for Livno and Bosnia & Herzegovina ". Izet Kelje Alić is the perfect example of how the "old town mentality" functions and how the passion and respect to the city and the community is important.
The "Old Town" Museum of Alić family keeps the ancient secrets of the Livno region.
Unfortunately Izet Kelje Alić passed away a few years ago, but his son Almir Alić continued where his father stopped. His son is continuing the tradition, while many tourists from all around the world are visiting the museum. This is not all because lots of politicians, writers, ambassadors, school groups, students and many others are coming to the museum "Stari Grad" Livno.
The unique thing about the museum "Stari Grad" is the fact that it is literally founded in the garage, yard and the garden of the owner's house. The exhibits date from the 5th century to the 20th century. The exhibits are very different, from the Roman and Ottoman sewage system, gramophones and records, Tito's armchair, Ottoman sofra (Eng. dinner table), old images of the city, paintings from famous Livno artists, the Quran written in Mandarine, unique and huge city key and many others. The museum "Stari Grad" Livno offers so many different things to see. If you add to that the unique garden space and craftwork space where all these exhibits are kept, then the emotions and satisfaction will overwhelm you. The exhibits date from the Roman times, times of the Bosnian Banate / Kingdom, Ottoman Empire, Austro – Hungarian Empire and in the end Kingdom and Communist Yugoslavia.
The Gorica Museum is located within the Gorica Monastery, which is a Franciscan monastery within which there is a church. This is the first and largest church built during the Turkish rule in our area.
Nowadays, the association "Čuvari Starina" Livno (Eng. "Guardians of antiquities") are trying to improve and promote the museum in many ways. Therefore, the museum "Stari Grad" is in cooperation with the main city museum, "Gorica" Livno, and with all cultural institutions of the city of Livno.
It sounds unbelievable that one person managed to collect around 14000 exhibits in 30 years. But, if we say that Izet Kelje Alić was a person from the old town that lived the "old town" mentality, this is completely understandable. Therefore, this museum has the special vibes that will leave you stunned. Each item is telling his own story while you have even the opportunity to play some old records to have a throwback to the 50s or the 60s. Izet Kelje Alić as a tinman was in love with tin metal art. Therefore, you will also see many of his tin metal art items like flowers, characters from medieval Bosnian tombstones and many others.
Passion and devotion combined with meticulousness made this museum great.
Only Paintings provide a Long Memory, the Words are already Tomorrow Changing its Order
A guardian of Livno's old town is one of his most famous painters ever. Ago Pivčić was born on 6th of August, 1942 in Livno. He finished pedagogical school in Sarajevo, majoring in art education. He passed the professional examination at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1974. He also worked at the "Teacher Training School", "Gymnasium and at the "National University of Livno". Ago Pivčić is a well known person in Livno, very respected and as he likes to say he is a painter that is into realism arts. Many art critics say that Ago Pivčić is very careful with his paintings, because he inhales the souls into them. The author's view and feeling of the people is most important. Therefore, his paintings are like a mirror into the famous past of Livno.
The Pivčić family is a native of the Livno old town, for generations. Listening to many stories from his parents, reading books about Livno and many others made Ago very proud of Livno. To sum up, those were the main reasons why Ago decided to dedicate his life to make the old town of Livno alive again.
Beautiful Plateu Kruzi, only 10 kms from Livno is a home to hundreds of feral horses which are one of the main motifs of beautiful Ago's paintings.
The famous painter from Livno was very precise while he was preparing himself for new paintings. First of all he was using lots of books to read about the architecture of the old town and another thing is that he was observing the architecture from all possible angles. During the different parts of the day he was also observing the shades of the objects. Throughout the precise observations the painter managed to make the old town alive again.
To sum up, Ago Pivčić made the best possible paintings of Livno's architecture and nature. As Ago says, he wanted to preserve the "old town" mentality and the old town architecture.
Dubrovnik of Bosnia
Livno as a city had its best days during the 16th and 17th century, Ottoman Empire. The city of Livno was something like Dubrovnik Republic, it had important defense walls and important Ottoman architecture. Livno had 5 towers, 2 main fortresses, 1 Ottoman court, 1 Ottoman armory, 1 hamam, 14 mosques and many others. With 14 mosques this small city had most domed mosques in Bosnia & Herzegovina after Sarajevo. The old town of Livno is surrounded with water, in such a tiny area there are three sources of water. The first two are actually called by one name, Duman (Eng. Smoke / Fog), the third one is just below the old tower called Vejz Kula. The third water source is called Skoza (Eng. Goat).
Duman is named because the huge water amount makes fog and the Skoza source because it's next to a steep cliff, where goats even nowadays climb to get salt and grass. The source of Duman is the birthplace of watermills, where people were producing many things such as flour, wool and many others. One side of the river Bistrica, where the water mills are situated, is called Begluk and the other side Prikorika.
Just by names you can know that Begluk was the part where Bosnian bays used to live and enjoy and the other side Prikorika (Eng. Across the river) was the working "water mill" class. This is not all, because in the area of Prikorika used to be a beys home and mansion. That was the home of the Firdus bay family, one of the most influential families in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
West Bosnia is a treasure trove of historical heritage

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Ex: Incredibly enough, this person was able to solve it in a short span of time.
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Q: Show 1 of many selectors I have a little jquery show/hid script. The problem I have is it shows all of the slectors. I just want it to show the one that is inside the div that was clicked.
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$("#resource-list-area").on("click", ".edit-resource", function(event) {
    $(this).closest(".row").find(".edit-Box").toggle();
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A: $(".edit").click(function() {
    $(this).next().toggle();
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Q: How to get the Cucumber steps and attachments in Allure report? I am able to generate allure report in a java-cucumber-Junit based Project.  However, I am unable to get the cucumber steps in the execution section. Also, The attachments are not getting attached to the reports.
     I am able to generate the Allure report based on the steps given on Allure site. However, I am unable to see the steps(Given, when then) in the execution section of the report. Also, The attachments are also not generated in the report.
Runner class snippet
    @RunWith(Cucumber.class)
    @CucumberOptions(features = { "src/test/java/features" },
    plugin = { "pretty", "html:target/cucumber-html-reports",
            "json:target/cucumber-html-reports/cucumber.json","rerun:target/failed_scenarios.txt" }, monochrome = true, glue = { "definitions" }, tags = {"@SmokeTest"}
            )

POM snippet
     <properties>
            <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
            <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
            <!-- <downloadSources>true</downloadSources> <downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs> -->
            <aspectj.version>1.8.10</aspectj.version>
            <allureVersion>2.10.0</allureVersion>
            <cucumberversion>4.2.0</cucumberversion>

            <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        </properties>

        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>3.7.0</version>
                    <configuration>

        <testFailureIgnore>false</testFailureIgnore>

                        <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                        <source>1.8</source>
                        <target>1.8</target>
                        <compilerArgument>-Werror</compilerArgument>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.22.0</version>

                    <configuration>
                        <forkCount>3</forkCount>
                        <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
                        <argLine>-javaagent:"${settings.localRepository}/org/aspectj/aspectjweaver/${aspectj.version}/aspectjweaver-${aspectj.version}.jar" -Dcucumber.options="--plugin io.qameta.allure.cucumber4jvm.AllureCucumber4Jvm" -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
                        </argLine>
                        <properties>
                        <property>
                            <name>listener</name>

        <value>io.qameta.allure.junit4.AllureJunit4</value>
                        </property>
                    </properties>
                    </configuration>
                    <dependencies>
                        <dependency>
                            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
                            <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
                            <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
                        </dependency>
                    </dependencies>
                </plugin>

            </plugins>
        </build>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
            <groupId>io.qameta.allure</groupId>
            <artifactId>allure-junit4</artifactId>
                <version>${allureVersion}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.qameta.allure</groupId>
                <artifactId>allure-cucumber4-jvm</artifactId>
                <version>${allureVersion}</version>
            </dependency>
            <!-- <dependency> <groupId>io.qameta.allure</groupId>
        <artifactId>allure-plugin-api</artifactId>
                <version>${allureVersion}</version> </dependency> -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
                <version>${cucumberversion}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
                <version>${cucumberversion}</version>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
                <version>${cucumberversion}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>
                <version>${cucumberversion}</version>
            </dependency>

            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
                <version>2.4</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
                <artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
                <version>3.3.0</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
                <artifactId>json-schema-validator</artifactId>
                <version>3.3.0</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
                <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
                <version>3.3.0</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
                <artifactId>xml-path</artifactId>
                <version>3.3.0</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>junit</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
                <version>4.12</version>
            </dependency>

sample cucumber scenario
    @SmokeTest

        Scenario: multiply a and b
            Given I have variable a
            And I have variable b
            When I multiplication a and b
            Then I display the Result

step def
        @Given("^I have variable a$")
        public void i_have_variable_a() throws Exception {
            System.out.println("at step : I have variable a");

        }

        @Given("^I have variable b$")
        public void i_have_variable_b() throws Exception {
            System.out.println("at step : I have variable b");

        }

        @When("^I multiplication a and b$")
        public void i_multiplication_a_and_b() throws Exception {
            System.out.println("at step : multiplication");

        }

        @Then("^I display the Result$")
        public void i_display_the_Result() throws Exception {
            System.out.println("at step : result display");

        }

Attachment code -- (not used in above example code but used in actual code

       @Attachment(fileExtension = "json", type = "text/json", value = "RestJsonResponse")
            public String attachResponse(Response strResponse) {
                return strResponse.asString();
            }

Expected: Able to see the Given when then statements somewhere in the report. Also, to see attachments in the report as json files.
Actual: Report generates but no given when then statements and no attachments.

A: First of all, you've messed allure JUnit plugin with cucumber one. So you need to remove Allure JUnit listener from the surefire configuration and remove it from dependencies.
Next problem is in the overriding allure cucumber plugin in the class configuration. You should configure cucumber plugin in pom or class only because class config overrides pom configuration. The simplest way to fix it - remove --plugin from pom and add it to class configuration to other configs like this:
@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
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Discussion in 'Off Topic: Sports, Funnies, Pop-Culture' started by Arun Siva, Nov 23, 2017.
How many of yall aspiring fastlaners are working/hustling creating today??? Just because its a holiday dont mean $hit!
I woke up this morning and called one of my local area mentors (he has made a fortune dong earth moving/excavating menial work by scaling his trucks and gaining contracts upon contracts in five neighboring counties..) he said he was working all day I said "really? On thanksgiving?" He exclaimed "its just another day" that got me thinking, damn this is why he has made it... I finished a udemy course and began to read more into import/export clauses; and ordered another sample from my supplier overseas. I think this mindset is a must and will help me propel forward in 2018. I anticipate working on Christmas New Year's Eve and New Year's Day!
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Fine tuning an eBay store while the turkey hangover wears off.
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Standing in line outside of Walmart for black friday.
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Beautiful post. I believe for Fastlaners and Fastlaner students like myself, there's no such thing as "holidays", all BS to me.
Xmas eve is coming, Xmas is coming, New Year eve and New Year is coming, I see everyone is in the holiday party mood, and I really want to join in the fun. Hot chicks everywhere, foam bubble parties, traveling to exotic countries (don't understand how people earning low wages can have the $$$ to fund all these)....but I have to hustle as usual, then when I've unscripted my life, I can enjoy those holidays.
The good thing about the holiday season is that at a lot of white-collar office jobs, things start to slow down and you've even more time to hustle and work on your Fastlane project. That is a bonus!
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When you have a job, you punch a timeclock and officially go "on the clock." From there forward, you make money. At least until you "punch out", hence, taking you "off the clock."
The beauty of Unscripted Entrepreneurship under Fastlane principles is that you go "on the clock" perpetually.
One day way back in 1997, sometime in October, I went "on the clock." Little did I know that I would never "punch out" ever again. I've been "on the clock" for 20 years. Every day, every hour, every minute. And because time is no longer an enemy of wealth (trade time for money) but an asset (make money through time) I've set myself free.
Get yourself "off the clock" and there will never be an income holiday for the rest of your life.
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One day way back in 1997, sometime in October, I went "on the clock." Little did I know that it would never "punch out" ever again. I've been "on the clock" for 20 years. And because time is no longer an enemy of wealth (trade time for money) but an asset (make money through time) I've set myself free.
Get yourself "off the clock" and there will never my an income holiday for the rest of your life.
My favorite post of yours in a long, long time.
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Our residential rentals and trust deeds paid off yesterday, Thanksgiving, just like every other day of the year while we cross country skied. Passive income is like that. Even the self-service Laundromat, a Semi Passive Income, had some business yesterday and this weekend it should be really busy. Today my maintenance crew is off for the day after Thanksgiving. (I'm sure they all have really bad hang-overs.) So, this morning, after I unlocked the Laundromat, I'm sitting here in my office doing a couple hours of bookkeeping and giving thanks for everything -- particularly that my tenants, debtors, customers and crew are average folks who don't have my work habits, drive, skills and business brains. If they did, I wouldn't have these businesses.
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He clearly loves what he does and am grateful to have him give me some good pieces of advice.
But... 4 hour work week!
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I spent the morning at a coffee shop with my headphones plugged in, listening to binaural beats for focus.
Like you, it's just another day; and I stick with my morning routine.
Out of flow state, I typed out 6,800 words of content for a book/training program I'm creating on the topic of motivation. As I'm walking out of the coffee shop, I saw this guy I met at a meetup group the night before, and he seemed interested in what I have to offer, so I gave him my insights about how to find motivation in his life; we exchanged contact info and he'll buy my book/write a review on amazon when it's out.
Around noon, I walked out and it was 71 degrees, so I spent 3 hours hiking through the mountains.
After the hike, I noticed that there was a vegan thanksgiving potluck going on, where about 10-15 people showed up; was there from 5 p.m. - 11p.m.
Two other business owners were there. One was a women who owns the house (owns a company with about 25-30 employees) and talked to her about her journey from expanding from solo-preneur in the early 90's to the company she has today. The other business owner and were talking about how he might use his skills of SEO and marketing to become an advisor for a plant-based startup meal delivery service as part of his third business venture.
In the past, I used to prescribe to the mindset of working on my computer 24/7/365 on holidays, but now I've decided to find ways to balance the social aspects of days like this with also getting things done and moving forward with my business and life.
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I actually disagree with the thought of "it's just another day" is required to "make it". If you never take some time to unwind, rest, or do something that you want what is the point of the hustle? I don't own a business so I can puff out my chest about my 12hr+ work days. I started a business to give myself time with family and friends.
I took the day off and spent it with family and friends. I watched some football, ate some turkey, played some games, and spent some time being thankful for all I have.
Black Friday? I was back to hustling.
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Went duck hunting with my lifelong hunting buddy and his son, decimated the population to the fullest legal limit. Thought about sell sheet layout and product purpose statements. Checked email, nothing but FLF alerts since yesterday.
Came home mid morning, checked email, wished everybody else was working on my product right now.
Did the turkey tango with my beloved and a couple of family members. Caught up on everybody's drama, glad we had a no drama policy in my house.
Impatiently hit the email again, looked at sell sheets, considered learning solidworks so I wouldn't have to wait for other people on holidays. Told myself, no Brian, you promised yourself you would outsource more and stop being the worker bee. Wore my brains out contemplating 3D image instead of prototype pics. Told myself no again, you need to get the prototype cause you already know you're going to change it. Discovered an inaccuracy in my provisional patent app. Hope that don't mess anything up, used the word "increasing" instead of "decreasing" in the description. Good job dork, I'll explain it to legal next week when we meet.
Checked email again, nothing changed. Looked at licensing negotiation stuff. Wished everybody was working on my product.
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MJ what a powerful message!


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Plus side, we're making great progress on chapters so I think we'll be able to come out of July pretty much done with the story. I'm going to apologize in advance because this will be very 1st drafty, as getting 50k words for me required abandoning a lot of my efforts on detail. But, the other benefit for you readers will be that we'll be able to speed up the rate of published chapters after that. Or maybe I'll just start on book two. Decisions decisions.
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Mark wanted a wolf. Or maybe an eagle. Really, any pet would do, but he knew it was unlikely. He had a ton of other abilities anyway. Also, no matter how much he tried to follow Liz's instructions he wasn't able to unlock Animal Taming. Heck, he didn't even feel like he was close to Animal Taming. Plus, trying make new abilities after that whole stabilization thing was really hard. Sucking energy from mana stones didn't have the kick it used to. On the plus side, pushing around his mana internally seemed to be a lot easier, and that meant he could probably figure more cool stuff with Chi or his existing ability set.
With that in mind he started porting around everywhere and trying out all his abilities as he helped people out that morning. He also snuck around a lot to try and get a better feel for Stealth. It was kinda fun since whenever he popped beside someone they would jump up and make a funny yelping sound but eventually his dad sent him to scout out a corner away from people. Mark figured everyone was probably not thrilled as he was with the whole Stealth thing because that was literally what his dad asked him to do. Whatever, he could still work on stuff alone.
A couple minutes passed and things were going pretty well when his dad gave a sharp whistle. Everyone started to round up around the front door where he was waving them in. His mom, Haley, and Jocelyn came out the front door and the workers who were in the yard all circled round to see what was up. His dad stood in the semi-circle and nodded to everyone as they quieted down around him.
"Ok folks. We survived a day, and that's great, but I think we all realize we're just getting started here. At least, I certainly plan on being here many more days and I hope you do too. Also, we also are not alone and I for one am not going to abandon folks who might need our help. Bob and Etta mentioned their ferrier is a couple miles up north. Apparently she's also a blacksmith. I can't tell you how nice having someone who can work metal would be to have in an environment like this. On top of that we met pockets of folks who banded together, and I want to do what we can to help. I'm willing to protect me and mine, but that doesn't mean leaving everyone else to fend for themselves. We were always focused on building a strong community, and that hasn't changed even with this apocalypse. I'd like for you to stick around and help me grow it, and I understand if you don't want to stay, or have other ideas, but if you want to stick with us you're welcome to it."
His dad looked around. Everyone in the group stood and nodded. It hadn't been long, but we'd been through a lot together, and most people were perfectly willing to stick it out with the Apocalypse King. Seeing no dissenters, his Mom actually stepped forward.
"I'm glad. I think we'll be much safer together, and also we'll be better off the more we know about what is going on. You all know I've been doing everything I can to make sense of this and we got some pretty big notices yesterday about what was happening. If you haven't already developed an ability, the good news is that the stabilization effect seems to make that a lot easier. We've worked out a few methods to help you find something you can do. If you have an ability, it's a lot less stressful to activate it, so you should try to get a feel for what you can do. The only real disadvantage is that if you have an existing ability, it's really difficult to create the pathways to develop additional ones. You should probably focus on what you've already managed to unlock. I can help you figure some of this stuff out, just come chat with me later."
Mark congratulated himself on his awesome observation skills. "I knew it."
Mark realized that maybe he said that last bit a little too loud as everyone took a moment to stare at him. "Uh, well, it's just I wasn't able to figure out totally new stuff and it was way easy before."
"That's actually really observant of you Mark," his mom continued. "Regardless, there's still a lot to do. I have a decent supply of healing potions and the materials I need to make them are pretty plentiful. For reference, it's a mixture of modern pharmaceuticals with mana drawn in from yellow cores and a little extra magic to put it all together. Just so no one gets any ideas, limited experiments I've done with cores contacting human cells have been pretty scary. Do not eat those things. They have highly mutagenic properties." She gestured over to Liz and everyone made way as she and her giant wolf friend stepped forward. She started talking about some of the stuff she figured out and also about the tamed wolf so no one would freak out about it.
As everyone came up to speed and asked questions around the new information Mark started to grow bored again. Given, it didn't take much, but there were so many things to do. He was worried all over again about George. Between the craziness of last night and the sheriff being somewhat on edge he wanted to go and check on the high school as soon as possible. He glanced over to Haley and saw a similar look of concern. Not able to contain himself he raised his hand in the hopes of attracting some attention. The jumping up and down probably drew some to him too. His dad motioned to him.
"Yes Mark? What's up?"
"Dad, can we just split up and go? I want to make sure people are safe. We can talk about stuff later, right?"
His dad gave a deep sigh. "This is important info kiddo, but yeah. On a certain level you're right. Mary, you keep figuring out what you can while we run do a check on folks? Also, Bob and Etta, you still wanted to check on your blacksmith friend right? We'll probably be best off splitting up again. It's been really quiet lately and I think this is our best bet to find things before the monsters get out and about. I think that wave of wolves did a pretty good job of clearing everything out, but who knows what new madness is out there."
"I want to check the school. I can go really fast, even without a horse. My Falling Step thing is pretty awesome."
"That may be true, but I think we'll be better off taking the spare horses. After all, it wouldn't do for you to spend all your mana on moving around and then have nothing else in case of an emergency, right?"
Mark glanced down at his feet. He hadn't really thought that through, but knew his dad had a point.
"With that being said, our other heavy hitter is Liz. Are you up for going with Bob to pick up their blacksmith friend? Matt and Etta will be your backup."
Etta stepped up to continue. "Her name is Margaret, and she's about five miles north of us. It will be the longest trip we've done so far, but it's right along Garrison. No side streets and a straight shot the entire way. We'll need the carriage in case Margaret wants to come back with us. Not for her, for her anvil. I can't imagine her willing to give it up."
Bob stood next to Etta and added, "She's a tough gal, and if anyone was going to be ready for something like this it would be her. Well, other than Jason" Bob smiled at his dad.
Liz thought about it for a moment and nodded. "Yeah, I got this. I'm pretty comfortable with what I can do with the bow now. Let's make sure everything is set on the carriage." She walked off with Bob to get the carriage ready while his dad stepped forward again.
"We'll wrap up here in a bit Mark, go ahead and get the horses ready and I'll join you in a sec. I want to go over some last things here on what we should be doing to shore up our defenses."
Mark gave a thumbs up and headed over the the garage. The doors were open and Biscuit was chilling with the other horses.
"Oh, hey Biscuit, how is everyone after last night?"
"Biscuit good now! Last night was scary. Scary doggies! Scary doggies can't catch Biscuit though! Probably could catch and eat horsies. That would be sad for horsies."
"Uh, yeah. So, good thing everyone is fine right?" Mark stood there in awkward silence for a bit. He wasn't great at small talk to begin with and he really didn't have any ideas on what you should talk about with a unicorn. Shaking his head, he just proceeded to get the horses ready.
"Time for another trips guys." Patting the horses to calm them he proceeded to get them saddled up. The smell of blood was thick in the air causing them to be a bit skittish. Hopefully there wouldn't be many more mornings like this.
Saddled up and ready to go he led the horses out to the yard. His dad was conversing with Bob. As Mark approached Bob grabbed the gelding's reins and went to hitch up the carriage. His Dad mounted up and motioned for Mark to do the same. Liz was standing next to them waiting for the carriage to pull around and had her arm in a half hug. She looked nervous.
His Dad trotted over to Liz and leaned down to pat her shoulder.
"You'll be fine sweetie. You're are so strong, and you'll be fine against anything we've seen out there. In the off chance you do find something new and terrifying, don't be afraid to hole up somewhere and we'll come for you. This is a targeted mission and you're in charge of safety. I've told everyone it's your call to tough it out or abandon the mission. I trust you."
"Okay. This is straight up and down Garrison and we cut and run if we see anything that spooks us. I can do this. We'll be fine."
"We can hold off on this trip and wait to all go together if you need, but you know how important time is. That being said, we can do this with everyone along if you want."
"No, Jocelyn barely made it to Mom in time. If we had taken an hour or two detour I'm not sure she would have survived. We need to be able to send out more than one group at a time, and I have to admit, I'm pretty badass." Liz smirked.
Mark couldn't tell how much of the bravado Liz was exuding was a bluff and how much was honesty, but he had to grudgingly admit she had a point. Other than their Dad, she was probably the best suited to protect a group from incoming monsters. Mark liked to think he could do it, but he understood that sometimes his 'jump first ask why later' approach might not be suited to an rescue mission.
"Be safe out there Sis. Don't fall off the carriage."
"Yeah yeah. You be safe out there too. Try not fall out of any trees."
Mark and Liz both smiled at the jokes and enjoyed the light teasing. Sometimes reverting to old behaviors was just comforting. His dad tapped his horse on the sides to get moving and Mark followed behind at a trot. They were going to check on folks and drop of some potions his mom had made for everyone. Soon the house was behind them and Mark guided his horse side by side to his dad.
"Dad do you think everyone's ok? What if they're injured? Do you think they'll want to come back to our place for the long term? Is Liz going to be alright?"
"Mark, my dear child. We have gone less than a hundred feet from our house and you are already freaking out. If you do this the entire trip, well, no. You won't do this the entire trip. Relax. People will be fine. We have potions if they're not. We can fit a lot of people in our yard and with Eddie we can build shelters quick. And Liz is one of the most capable people I know, plus she can shoot magical guided arrows that can punch through multiple giant mutant wolves in a single shot, so yes, she will be fine."
"Ok, you're right. I'm just getting a little jittery."
"Try to focus on something else. There has to be something of interest that can help you calm down."
User Information Enabled
User Interaction Enabled
Distraction found! The startled look on his dad's face indicated he also had seen the message.
"Dad! I can open up all the menus! This is awesome!" Without hesitation Mark navigated the menus to look at his Stats.
Sub Stats
He tried using the interface to get more details on what the stats and sub-stats meant, but he kept on getting strange messages about help files not found. Still, this was amazing. After he looked at his different stat pools little bars persisted and he had readings on how much of each he had left. He wasn't sure how it interacted with skills and abilities but he was looking forward playing around with it. His mom must be having a field day. He could finally figure out how much mana or whatever it took to use his abilities. He got a knife out and was about to infuse it when his dad interrupted him.
"Mark, I know you're excited about this, but let's at least get to the school first before you go blowing anything up. We'll have time to figure this stuff out later, and plus, I can't seem to get any details on anything."
"Yeah, that's a bummer, but it's still awesome to know my Stats and Sub-Stats, and abilities levels, and Skill levels, and level levels!"
"That's cool son, and we'll compare notes in a bit, but lets just get to the elementary school first. Keep a lookout for things that might try to jump us."
Fortunately for Mark, that would only be a few minutes. He did a quick scan of the area. Nothing seemed to be moving around and it was oddly quiet. Mark wondered if the wolf wave had taken out the local fauna, but on the same token, he wondered where the wolves had ended up. I guess he'd probably better keep his eyes open just in case. His eyes, and User Sheet open. That should probably be fine.
Advancement Points
Not being able to click on Advancement Points or Class was probably the most frustrating thing Mark had experienced in his thirteen years of life. He started trying a bunch of different things to activate either area but he didn't even get an error message.
"Mark, I can see you looking at your sheet. You're focusing right in front of your face."
"Sorry, sorry," Mark sighed as he closed the window and returned to scanning the area for threats.
They made it to the elementary school without incident and his dad did a whistle thing. After some shifting at the front door, a haggard but smiling principal came out to greet them. A quick conversation revealed that they had largely been untouched by the events of the night. They could, however benefit from some food, if it was available, as they were burning through their supplies quickly.
While his dad caught the principal up on everything that was going on, Mark took some time to try and show the kids some tricks. Really he was using it as an excuse to play around with his character sheet. One really helpful part was learning about what abilities and skills did to his pools.
Turns out that the only thing that seemed to impact his magic pool were Abilities. He played a quick game of tag with the kids in the gym to show off a little as well as test things out. His Falling Step served both purposes admirably. He also noticed that it drained stamina and a little of his mental pool in addition to his mana. He wondered if he should start calling it his magic pool instead, but that sounded lame. Moving on with his tests, a quick game of hide and seek showed his Sneak skill was almost all physical based with some influence. The last thing he tested out was hit points. He started a game of dodgeball and goaded the kicks to throw as hard as they could at him. Mark stood solid and as a colorful assortment of balls collided with his face and other bits. He kept a close look on all his pools, but apparently they were unrelated to physical damage, as they all were steady.
A few minutes of playing around made Mark realize a few things. He didn't really want to admit it, because everything was easier if it was true, but overall this didn't feel like a game. The screens were mostly just reporting things he already knew, rather than providing a new set of mechanics that he could exploit. As his physical pool depleted, he felt tired. His influence pool went down as he tried to get the kids to listen to him and also when they started to annoy him. His mental pool went down as he tried to focus his thoughts on multiple things at a time. These were all things he knew about himself from before, and quite frankly he was pretty good at figuring out when he was at the end of his rope for any of those things. Heck, he even figured out how to tell how low his mana was by feel before the bars.
Excusing himself from the kids he went outside to wait for his dad to finish. He contemplated everything for a moment and appreciated the quiet around him. 'User', his interface said. Not Character Sheet like in AAO. User was a pretty specific word. User implied that he was using the system, and not the other way around. He wondered if that was really true. Regardless, there was still the Magic stat, and he was pretty durn sure nothing like it was around before.
As his dad walked out and mounted up Mark mounted up.
"Everything good?"
"Yeah, a few minor injuries but nothing requiring a healing potion. I think most of the wolves around here got drawn to our house so things were pretty quite aside from the rain of random spawns. When we get some of the meat processed from today we'll drag it over. I'm worried about the other places though so let's pick up the pace."
"Sounds like a plan. Also, what level are you?"
His dad did the nodding head thing he always did when accessing the menus. Mark thought it was funny but he knew his dad didn't play AAO very much and it wouldn't be very nice to point that out. "Level 8 right now, whatever that means."
"Well, normally you'd get points or stuff to distribute as you level up. I couldn't select anything with my points, but the thing before mentioned an Advancement System. That would be cool."
"It would be nice, but in the meantime, let's not get lazy. If you want to raise your ability in things there's always good old fashioned working your butt off."
"Yeah, in our copious free time."
"We'll get there son. We'll get there. In the meantime, lets see how the church folks fared. You ready?"
Mark wasn't, but if he kept moving, maybe that fact wouldn't catch up to him.
"Sure. Let's ride!"
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Also, I'm curious, as the trickle of information has been coming it, does anyone have a theory on what the system is yet or how it got there? Would you like to have more information now about it? I'm trying to give hints but not give it all away at once, but if the rate of information is frustrating I can give a few more details here and there. Also let us know if you want more character sheet info. I don't like tossing it all in the chapter, but maybe I could just do a character sheet release if people want.
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Borletti Group
The private equity division has expertise in three core sectors: retail, luxury and branded consumer goods and real estate with a retail component.
Since 2005, Borletti Group has led acquisitions that total €3bn:
2005: la Rinascente (Italy), exited in 2011
2006: Printemps (France), exited in 2013
2014: The Market (San Marino)
2016: Grandi Stazioni Retail (Italy)
Borletti Group makes investments in buy-outs, acquiring stakes in mid-sized companies within its core industry sectors.
These investments typically include leveraged buyouts and other types of private equity transactions, including co-investments. Borletti Group differs from many other private equity groups because it adjusts its investment horizon to suit the investment needs of the acquired company. This means that there are no maturity constraints on exit time, an approach that has resulted in an excellent track record of returns for co-investors.
Borletti Group focuses on three core sectors:
– Retail
– Luxury and branded consumer goods
– Real estate with a retail component
Borletti Group has a deep understanding of the sectors in which it invests. The Group brings a strong know-how to its investments and works with leading management teams to realise the full potential of the portfolio companies. The Group takes an active role in all investments, leveraging its network in targeted industries and using specific knowledge of industries to create a bespoke approach to achieve better results. Its aim is to act as support and accelerator of the companies' CEOs and the management teams. Borletti Group participates in key strategic decisions but it does not take a direct management role, leaving companies' management teams in charge of the day-to-day operations.
The two investments from which Borletti Group has exited proves that this is a winning approach and has returned blended net money multiple of 5x for its investors
Leading Italian department store with over €300m sales, 5,500 employees and a prime real estate portfolio
Repositioning of the flagship and the group towards a different brand strategy (unsuccessful own brands were replaced by A-brands)
Strong operational improvement for continuing operations:
Same Store Sales 4-year CAGR of +3.5% in a global crisis context
Flagship store sales: +70%
+4 points increase in profitability
EBITDA CAGR of 71%
www.rinascente.it/rinascente/en
Leading French department store chain with €950m sales, over 5,000 employees and a prime real estate portfolio
Successful repositioning of store network including the flagship store leading to a significant increase in sales productivity per sqm
Strong operational improvement:
Same store Sales 5-year CAGR of +4% in a global crisis context
EBITDAR CAGR of +10%
departmentstoreparis.printemps.com/en
Development of a contemporary and innovative Outlet Village in San Marino to create the "Next Shopping Experience", involving leading fashion brands
www.themarket.sm
Operator of the 14 largest train stations in Italy with over €100m of revenues, 95,000sqm of commercial area and 750m of visitors
www.gsretail.it
The real estate division pursues investment opportunities in Europe focused on retail properties, office buildings and hotels.
Since 2008, Borletti Group has participated to acquisitions that total €4.5bn:
2008: Highstreet Portfolio, real estate of Karstadt department store (Germany)
2015: Meridiana Bologna, office building (Italy)
2017: Hotel in Torino operated by B&B Hotels (Italy)
Borletti Group is currently focusing on the hotel sector and more specifically on 3* and 4* hotels with bed & breakfast business models, a low food & beverage component and limited additional services located in Western Europe.
Real estate portfolio of the German department store Karstadt
Multitenant office building in Bologna
B&B hotel in Torino
The asset management division actively manages a global diversified portfolio across all asset classes and regions totalling over €200m.
To achieve its targets, the asset management team is focusing on asset allocation and manager selection, with an open architecture approach, relying on the expertise and the support of global banks and leading asset managers around the world.
In 2015 Borletti & Partners launched a proprietary Sicav SIF structured in 2 different compartments which gather all the liquids investments of the group and which can be combined to obtain a global balanced portfolio:
Savile Multimanager Defensive
Savile Multimanager Dynamic
Outside the funds, the asset management team is also investing the assets of the group in selected less liquid investment strategies like private debt and private equity funds.
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The current Activity Guide can be found on the City Website http://cityofplacerville.org/ or online at www.teamsideline.com/placerville. It is also available at Town Hall located at 549 Main Street.
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If you are interested in teaching a class through the City of Placerville Community Services Department you will need to submit a completed class proposal form. Forms can be located online at www.teamsideline.com/placerville or at the Community Services Department. If you have any questions about applications, becoming an instructor, new classes, etc. contact the Community Services Department at (530) 642-5232.
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"Calling them babies is creepy," said Arizona abortionist Dr. DeShawn Taylor, referring to what she surgically removes from women. She admitted on a video released four weeks ago that she routinely did abortions on healthy babies up to 24 weeks. She also admitted that late-term babies born alive after her abortion attempts are sometimes killed, but that depends on who is in the room at the time.
It comes out looking like a baby, Dr. Taylor, because it is a baby.
The investigative journalists recording Dr. Taylor said they wanted to buy baby parts for biomedical research and were interested in intact bodies not "mashed" by the usual abortion procedures. Dr. Taylor said she prefers to deliver the body intact because it requires a lot of strength to tear off pieces. Here's how she described it: "I remember when I was a [Family Planning] Fellow and I was training, I was like, Oh, I have to hit the gym for this," because ripping off legs and other parts required strong biceps in the arm holding the forceps.
She was laughing as she said this. I was horrified, as anyone with an ounce of humanity left in them would be. The video is politically explosive. Though it was released four weeks ago, you won't see it on NBC, CBS, ABC, or CNN. Formerly medical director for Planned Parenthood, Arizona, Dr. Taylor now owns her own abortion clinic in Phoenix, where she happily reports her "market share" is up.
"Well, the thing is," said Taylor, "I mean the key is, you need to pay attention to who's in the room, right?" Then she laughed again. I cringed. She obviously implied that she kills the living child if no one who might object is present to see her. That's murder — homicide — because once a baby is entirely outside its mother's body, it's legally a human being. Ask abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell. He's serving life in prison for doing what Taylor laughs about.
French points out that animal rights activists secretly recorded conversations about the mistreatment of ducks at a California farm and reported it to authorities who then investigated the farm. In another case it was a secretly recorded conversation about mistreatment of chickens, and again California responded with an investigation. At no point were the animal rights advocates admonished for secretly recording conversations, much less indicted for it. I guess we can assume that ducks and chickens are more important than babies in California.
Pressured by citizens in Texas who watched Daleiden's videos about similar Planned Parenthood practices in that state, Houston District Attorney Devon Anderson empaneled a grand jury to indict PP, which does 350,000 abortions a year nationwide. Since grand jury proceedings are secret, we cannot know what Anderson presented to jurists behind closed doors, but rather than indict PP for selling baby parts, they turned around and indicted Daleiden for exposing it. A year ago, I published a column documenting this. The charges were later dropped, but Houston's Planned Parenthood still has not been brought to justice as of this writing.
See a pattern here? Daleiden's investigative journalism exposed things so horrible, the left cannot bear to leave them out there unchallenged. They know their charges against Daleiden serve only to harass him, to cost him money and time, and to discourage him from doing any more investigating. Democrat Attorney General Kamala Harris raided Daieiden's home and confiscated his computer, his hard drives, and the rest of his unpublished videos. Then she was elected to the US Senate. New Attorney General Xavier Becerra, also a Democrat, brought the charges. According the Washington Free Beacon, both received over $45,000 from Planned Parenthood and NARAL — the National Abortion Rights Action League.
I still don't understand how we can kill the most innocent human beings who cannot speak for themselves, but we have a problem with the death penalty for convicted murders. Any what about assisted suicides where someone is terminally ill and wants to die but cannot get help?
PP wasn't indicted for anything because they broke no laws. Simple.
These people have no humanity left. A species that willingly kills off its next generation is heading for extinction. Kermit Gosnell is the absolute manifestation of pure evil. May he die of gonorrhea and rot in hell for eternity. Right next to Margaret Sanger.
Well, Glenn, assisted suicide can be tempting after seeing someone die a long, painful death. Palliative care is so sophisticated now though that pain is mitigated fairly effectively. Having been present at many deaths working at Tewksury Hospital for about thirty months as a young man, I can say that it was done off the record. I must assume Tewksbury wasn't unique.
I think that's the way to handle it. Legislating it would be a slippery slope, very slippery when coupled with rationed health care -- which is where we're heading, especially if Obamacare survives. You could say it's here already.
And CJ: Why beat around the bush? Just come out and say what you think.
I know that science is not the strong point of the alt-right, and apparently math is troublesome as well. Our species is headed for extinction because of abortion? Our species is growing and doubling at a faster and faster rate all the time. It quadrupled in the last century alone. There may be a lot of reasons our species goes extinct (ignoring science on global warming, allowing corporations to put out massive pollution, wars, etc)...but abortion?? Really? One could argue that abortions help our living population in much the same way that hunting certain animal populations keeps them at levels where they can sustain themselves. This is not my view, but it is a much more arguable position than abortion causing our species to go extinct. That is ludicrous.
"Houston's Planned Parenthood still has not been brought to justice"
This implies that they broke the law in some way. In this case justice WAS served, as the actual law breakers were the ones using fake ID's and spreading edited videos and other lies in a lame, futile attempt to harm PP.
I wonder what secret information Tom has that shows he knows more about this than the Texas grad jury did, and proves PP broke the law.
Even going with the premise that DeShawn Taylor is a bad person who broke laws by not following her job according to regulations, what does this have to do with the overall picture of the legality of abortion? Every profession has it's bad apples. Should we outlaw priests because of the bad apples in that profession?
Despite the horrid behavior described by Dr. Taylor, I can guarantee you that it is a step up from the dark ages of illegal abortions and the shady office/back alley procedures performed by hacks and non medically trained individuals.
"A species that willingly kills off its next generation is heading for extinction."
There are many species that kill their own babies that are in no danger of extinction. Chickens sometimes eat their eggs. Their are salamanders that eat larva when their population gets too dense. Hamsters sometimes eat their young. Even some polar bears have been observed eating their babies. Polar bears may very well go extinct, but only because of ignorant and greedy humans who have helped create conditions that forced the Polar bears into this canabilistic behavior.


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School Trustee Demands Answers After Photo Surfaces of Risqué Class Trip
A Michigan school board could face legal action after a trustee demanded answers about a middle school field trip that resulted in sixth graders pole dancing.
Rochester Community Schools trustee Andrew Weaver joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss his fight for transparency on the 2022 incident in Detroit.
"It's just unbelievable," Weaver said Friday. "How did we get here? How does this even become a thing?"
In November, Hart Middle School took kids on a trip to the Detroit Symphony, stopping for lunch at Niki's Pizza, which was connected to a lounge with stripper poles inside. Some students were moved into the lounge area to eat as the main sitting area in the pizzeria could not accommodate the entire class. Soon after, photos taken by students emerged of kids dancing on the poles.
After Weaver spoke out on the incident, the Rochester Community Schools District superintendent then threatened the entire school board with legal action, he said.
Weaver told host Ainsley Earhardt the letter came in late December. He said he was told to "fall in line" and follow protocol.
In an earlier response provided to Fox News Digital, the district replied the letter "reinforced the need for a new board member to comply with board bylaws and the code of cooperation so that the district's focus can remain on the education of all RCS students. The letter did not include any threats."
But Weaver is still demanding answers.
"How do we have a school field trip end up with our students in an environment that is absolutely not appropriate for our students?"
"This could have been handled with clear communication, setting a policy, admitting we made a mistake and making sure that we don't make the same mistake again," he said.
Weaver said the main issue is the district's failure to address the situation.
"Multiple parents reaching out, saying that they have asked questions, have not got answers," he said. "We're going on seven weeks."
Weaver then encouraged the school to admit the mistake and allow parents the opportunity to voice their concerns at the next board or district meeting. He discouraged accusations of "political activism" against the teacher who led the class trip.
"It's none of that," he argued. "It's parents that are just upset that their students were in an environment that was unacceptable."
A middle school teacher in @rochcommschools allegedly took students to a strip club where they tried out pole dancing during a field trip. The story is being publicized now by a board trustee after the district has reportedly refused to address it. pic.twitter.com/QpjyWaeKGx
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 10, 2023
Weaver again emphasized the need for transparency and clear policies before moving forward.
"It is unacceptable for us to have a sanctioned field trip that ends up with our students in an environment that is clearly designed for adult entertainment," he said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the district for comment about the alleged pole dancing incident, and a spokesperson said, "Rochester Community Schools appreciates the strong teacher and caregiver partnerships as we work together to enhance classroom learning opportunities."
The district acknowledged the students were taken to Niki's for lunch but wouldn't comment further.
"Parents and caregivers are always encouraged throughout the school year to contact their school administrator with questions or concerns," the spokesperson added. "Proposed field trips are evaluated by a curriculum team and require a parental/guardian permission slip. RCS may ask parents, caregivers, or other responsible adults to serve as field trip chaperones when appropriate. Adult chaperons are required to complete background checks. The safety and security of our students, staff and school community is always our priority."
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Welcome to Bizarro World ! says:
The Rochester Community Schools District Superintendent needs to be fired -NOW!
That person clearly has no concept of right and wrong.
kweenie says:
You take the kids to Pizza Hut or someplace like that if they need to have a purchased lunch indoors. When I went on field trips, there were parents chaperoning, and there were usually sack lunches that were eaten in an outdoor setting like a park. I can't see why a class of sixth graders would be on a field trip with only the teacher to supervise. Where were the chaperones? In any case. this business was clearly not the venue for school children. This is what comes of all the recent media coverage of drag shows and "story hours" where children are in attendance. The kids across the nation have access to the media coverage and it becomes a "thing". Kids will naturally respond to "things" and push the boundaries, because that's their nature at this age. The principal of this school and the school board needs to investigate this incident then hold a parents meeting, be truthful, then listen to the objections/opinions of the concerned parents, whatever they may be. That is the only way forward. Parents and the local taxpayers are going to be upset, and they are going to want visible proof that the error in judgement is a one-of.
Sadly, the parents have no voice in what is taught and brought in to the schools these days. Seeing the news reports shows that the system is messed up. Having the FBI brought in to investigate the parents is even more ridiculous and restrictive.
Any state you have fraudulently elected demon Democrat pedophile protecting perverts and Lawless communist pukes you have mentally ill demonic teachers with their hands on your kids indoctrinating them and acting like this , what's the big surprise
Nowhere Man says:
Rochester Community Schools trustee Andrew Weaver received a letter from the Rochester Community Schools District superintendent that told him to "FALL IN LINE??"
The superintendent needs to be fired and needs to be the subject of a lawsuit over this travesty. Whoever the superintendent is, they are clearly trying to sweep this debacle under the rug by throwing their weight around and attempting to coerce Weaver and the school board into silence. That kind of corruption and thuggery must be addressed.
Strip Club Expert says:
There is no way that the room pictured is a strip club with those huge windows and light colored carpets. Some gyms offer pole dance training . Let's ask the pizza place what goes on in the room. The pizza store employees sent the kids in there because the main dining room would not hold the students.


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August 1, 2019	0 By Erin Kilgore
New research suggests that contrails will become more problematic for the environment in the future.
Airplane contrails (condensation trails) might not be part of some secret government conspiracy to poison the population or control minds, but they certainly are a threat to the Earth's environment. In fact, scientists say that they contribute to global warming by trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere, and a new study suggests that this global warming effect will triple by 2050.
Increase in air travel and new technology are likely to make the aviation climate change problem worse.
The study, which was published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, predicts that the global warming effect caused by airplane contrails will triple by 2050, due to both an increase in air travel popularity as well as new technology that allows planes to reach higher cruising altitudes where contrails usually form.
Ulrike Burkhardt, an atmospheric physicist at the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Institute of Atmospheric Physics, and co-author of the study, says that because of the forecast for increased significant air traffic "the contrail effect will increase even more than the carbon dioxide impact."
"It will remain the largest aviation impact on the climate," Burkhardt added, noting that it will even outpace the contribution to global warming from the greenhouse gases in airplane exhaust.
Airplane contrails have previously been found to be the largest contributor to aviation's climate impact.
This isn't the first time that contrails have been linked to climate change. Back in 2005, contrails were the largest contributor to aviation's climate impact, when it accounted for 5% of human-caused climate change.
Although this is much less than the overall contribution to climate change from ground vehicles, aviation's impact is expected to soar with an increase in growing air traffic.
As for Burkhardt and his colleagues, they were able to make their resulting projections about contrails in their study by running several simulations. These simulations allowed them to analyze the impact of increased air traffic, overall climate change and how enhanced aircraft engine efficiency coupled with alternative fuels could curb the formation of contrails, NBC News MACH reports.
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Segundo Nepomuceno Gómez - argentyński piłkarz, napastnik.

Luna początkowo grał w klubie Estudiantes Santiago del Estero, skąd przeszedł do klubu Mitre Santiago del Estero - oba zespoły występowały w lokalnej lidze Liga Cultural de Fútbol. Jako gracz klubu Mitre wziął udział w turnieju Copa América 1927, gdzie Argentyna zdobyła mistrzostwo Ameryki Południowej. Luna zagrał w dwóch meczach - z Boliwią (zdobył 2 bramki) i Urugwajem (zdobył 1 bramkę). Jako strzelec 3 goli został jednym z pięciu królów strzelców turnieju. Oba mecze na zwycięskim turnieju Copa América były jedynymi występami Luny w barwach reprezentacji narodowej.

Nadal jako gracz klubu Mitre Luna był w kadrze reprezentacji podczas Igrzysk Olimpijskich w 1928 roku, gdzie Argentyna zdobyła srebrny medal. Nie zagrał jednak w żadnym meczu.

Bibliografia
 Andrzej Gowarzewski, Encyklopedia piłkarska FUJI (Tom 13): Copa America, Wydawnictwo GiA, Katowice 1995, , str. 45

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Reprezentanci Argentyny w piłce nożnej
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