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Daniel Bresette
Vice President, Policy
Daniel Bresette is the Alliance's Vice President of Policy.
Before joining the Alliance in 2015, Daniel was the Maryland Energy Administration's Senior Energy Policy Manager and oversaw a diverse portfolio of state energy efficiency financing initiatives. He has provided expert testimony to Congress, the Maryland General Assembly, and other regulatory agencies on energy efficiency topics, presented at national conferences, and served on a range of national committees and work groups. Previously, he worked in the strategy practice at Booz Allen Hamilton. He began his career with U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt. Daniel is currently a member of the board of directors of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy.
Daniel attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he earned a bachelor's degree in government and international relations. Later, he graduated from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business with a master's degree in business administration.
I've been affiliated with a number of organizations in Washington. I can't think of one that is more about the bottom-line of getting stuff done in a bipartisan way than the Alliance to Save Energy.
Sen. Mark Warner
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L'Ocean Warrior est un navire appartenant à Sea Shepherd.

Le patrouilleur est utilisé par l'ONG pour s'opposer aux baleiniers japonais dans l'océan Austral. L'organisation de défense des océans a pu acheter ce navire grâce à un don de 8 millions d'euros de la part de la loterie néerlandaise. La construction dura 18 mois sur les chantiers de Damen, société néerlandaise de construction navale, l'Ocean Warrior a été mis à l'eau en juillet 2016 dans le port turc d'Antalya.C'est le navire le plus rapide de Sea Shepherd allant a 55 km/h, de taille légèrement plus grande par rapport au bob Barker c'est donc le deuxième plus grand navire de la flotte de Neptune derrière le SAM Simon

Notes et références

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Bateau lancé en 2016
Navire construit en Turquie
Nom de bateau
Patrouilleur
Conservation des cétacés

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Efim Petrovich Geller (March 2, 1925 - November 17, 1998) was a Soviet chess player.
He is reckoned to have been among the best ten players in the world for around twenty years. He was awarded the International Master title in 1951, and the International Grandmaster title the following year.
He played in 23 USSR chess championships, a record equalled by Mark Taimanov, achieving good results in many and winning in 1979 and 1955 when, despite losing five games, he finished with 12/19 and then defeated Vassily Smyslov in a playoff match. Among his best results in other tournaments were equal first with Mikhail Botvinnik at Wijk aan Zee 1969 (ahead of Paul Keres), first at Moscow 1975 (ahead of Boris Spassky, Viktor Korchnoi and Tigran Petrosian) and equal first with Vassily Smyslov at Wijk aan Zee 1977.
He reached the later stages of the World Championship several times, most notably finishing just half a point short of playing in the final match when he scored 17/27 at the 1962 Candidates Tournament in Curacao (the event was won by Tigran Petrosian who went on to win the title).
According to Jeff Sonas� Chessmetrics rating system, Geller was ranked #3 in the world from 1962-3, and was in the world�s top 10 for much of the 50s and 60s, and broke back into the top 10 in 1973, 1975–7 and 1979–80. Geller also had an overall plus score against world champions, +39 -31 =123, comprising Mikhail Botvinnik +4 -1 =5, Vasily Smyslov +11 -7 =31, Mikhail Tal +6 -6 =22, Tigran Petrosian +6 -2 =33, Boris Spassky +6 -9 =22, Bobby Fischer +5 -3 =2, Anatoly Karpov +1 -2 =5, Gary Kasparov +0 -1 =3.
Geller is best remembered today for the tactical ability and original attacking style which characterised the earlier part of his career. In later years he became a more rounded player. He was noted as an openings expert, and acted as second (assistant) to Boris Spassky in the World Championship match of 1972 against Bobby Fischer, later seconding Anatoly Karpov. His books included an autobiography, translated by Bernard Cafferty as Grandmaster Geller at the Chessboard (1969).
This article is based on the article Efim Geller from the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia and stands under the GNU-Licence for free documentation. In the Wikipedia a list of the authors is available.


Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narratives were accepted as reasonably accurate accounts on past events. Subsequently, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they were increasingly recognized as literary creations that could rarely be taken as reliable narrative histories; this shift was particularly deleterious for the study of the fornaldarsogur, which not only fell from grace sooner, but were not generally thought very good literature either. Here, Hall seeks to anchor these assumptions more firmly in the surviving evidence by analyzing the changing styles, techniques, and intentions of the medieval redactions of Heidreks saga.
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Charity Marathon Sees Every NES Game Played Back to Back
20:00 at nintendolife.com
Over 750 games in total
Mario, Zelda, Pokémon: these are all good themes for charity marathons, and have raised countless thousands of dollars for a range of charities. Playing every game in a particular series back-to-back is a big accomplishment, but how would you feel about playing every game available for a single console? If that console's the NES and you're Pat the NES Punk, you'd probably want to do that.

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Home»NEWS»Bank Strike: Will bankers go on long strike! Immediately handle necessary work amidst doubt and apprehension
Bank Strike: Will bankers go on long strike! Immediately handle necessary work amidst doubt and apprehension
The meeting said that the General Council meeting has called on all our unions and members throughout the country to continue the struggle against privatization of the bank and be ready for a long-term strike.
Banks will be closed for many days this month
Strike Against Bank privatization: Government bank customers are being advised to take up all necessary work on time. There is a possibility that bank unions can go on strike once again against bank privatization. The Council of All India Bank Employees Union (AIBEA) has recently held a meeting with organizations across the country, appealing to intensify the movement against privatization of banks.
Secondly, there are plenty of bank holidays in April. Therefore, it is better to settle the work related to the bank at the right time. In such a situation, if the bank workers go on strike again, this month the workings can be badly affected.
These bank unions have claimed to have participated in the meeting held in protest against the decision to privatize the public sector banks, and the members of the bank unions and organizations from all over the country. After the meeting, organizations have warned of a large-scale strike against the proposal of the central government regarding privatization of banks.
Be ready for a long strike!
262 General Council members from different cities of the country attended the meeting of bank unions. According to media reports, it was unanimously decided to intensify the agitation against the proposal of bank privatization. The meeting said that the General Council meeting has called on all our unions and members across the country to continue the struggle against the privatization of the bank and be ready for a long-term strike.
Did a 2-day strike last month
The bank union held a two-day nationwide strike on March 15 and 16 to protest against the proposal for privatization. About 10 lakh bank employees were claimed to be involved in this strike. Explain that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced in the Union Budget 2021-22 that the public sector banks will be privatized. Although the name of the banks has not been made public.
How many days will the bank be closed in April
1 April – Yearly closing account (Operational leave in Aizawl and Shillong)
???? 2 April – Good Friday
(Though open in Guwahati, Jaipur, Jammu, Agartala, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Shimla and Srinagar)
???? April 4 – Sunday's weekly detention
???? 10 April – captivity of the second Saturday of the month
???? 11 April – Sunday's weekly detention
???? April 14 – Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti / Biju Festival / Tamil Nadu Annual Day / Cheiraoba / Bohag Bihu
(Although Aizawl, Bhopal, Chandigarh, New Delhi. Raipur, Shillong and Shimla will be open.)
???? 18 April – Weekly detention (Sunday)
???? 21 April – Ram Navami / Gadiya Puja
(Though banks will be open in Kochi, Kolkata, New Delhi, Panaji, Aizawl, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Guwahati, Imphal, Jammu, Raipur, Shillong, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram)
???? 24 April – captivity of the fourth Saturday of the month
???? 25 April – Sunday weekly detention
???? 5 April – Babu Jagjivan Ram's birthday (Hyderabad)
???? 6 April – Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021 (Chennai)
???? 13 April – Gudi Padwa / Sajibu Nongampaamba / First Day of Navratri / Telugu New Year / Ugadi Festival / Baisakhi
(Belapur, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jammu, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji and Srinagar)
???? 15 April – Himachal Day / Bohag Bihu / Bengali New Year / Sirhul
(Agartala, Guwahati, Kolkata, Ranchi and Shimla)
???? 16 April – Bohag Bihu (Guwahati)
… Then what should customers do?
According to media reports, Delhi Pradesh Bank Officers Association says that banks may remain closed continuously in the coming time. In such a situation, it will be right to get the work connected with the bank branches in time. Customers have many options for the rest of the transaction related activities. It is a time of digital payment and customers have options like net banking, ATM, UPI payment and mobile banking app.
Almost all banks have their own mobile app. If you have not yet installed it in your smartphone, you can install it from Google Play Store or Apple Store. From digital payment, investment in schemes like FD or PPF, loan installation, credit card bill, electricity bill, mobile recharge, many tasks are possible through mobile apps. Bank strike is not going to make a difference on these services.
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Thought that we'd share a project that we're currently working on. It is called Latitude. Prepare to be blown away by the first aerial super park which combines climbing and trampolining into one integrated centre. Located at 13/15 Fosters Road, Greenacres. Opening on Saturday the 16th of January.
Just wanted to say thanks to you and your team of tradesmen, you were exactly why we came back to Weslec – professional, polite, helpful, respectful and importantly tidy.
Just wanted to say a big thanks to Weslec for the professional way you handled our job. Dane was fantastic, knew his stuff, and after completing the job left the place spotless.
We here at Glenelg Plumbing use Weslec Electrical. We have always found their service to be prompt, reliable, efficient and helpful.


Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series by the late Rebecca Bruns on the splendors of Ubud, the fabled mountain village in Bali. Though written over 20 years ago, the scene in Ubud is has changed very little.
The Balinese believe when they die they'll go to a place that looks just like Bali. And the town that looks the most like Bali, and feels the most Balinese, is Ubud, the island's cultural center. Ubud, whose name derives from the Balinese word "ubad," meaning "medicine," attracts an artsy crowd seeking a cure for the party animal hustle at the beach resorts of Kuta, Sanur and Nusa Dua. Located less than an hour's drive inland from the coast, Ubud is a mountain town where the nights are cooler, the restaurants close by 10:00 p.m., and the closest thing to a disco is the local temple packed with teenagers watching the festive Barong dance till dawn.
One of Indonesia's 13,000 plus islands, Bali has been a living legend since Western artists discovered back in the '20s and '30s and feared it would lose its soul to tourism. It still hasn't. Ubud preserves the storybook dreamscape that everyone associates with Bali: tender green rice fields and vaporous volcanoes, barefoot people who move with a trance like grace balancing towers of fruit on their heads, temple gates reaching to heaven, the air tinkling with gamelan music and wind chimes. There's no doubt that Ubud has become a major resort, with its dozens of economical guesthouses and shops crammed with bewitching treasures, yet its major charm is its cleaving to tradition.
Ubud preserves the traditional Balinese way of life which blends religious worship with the making of art. There's no word for "art" in Balinese, it's just something the people do as naturally as breathing, with neither fame nor fortune as their motive. They express not themselves but their religious faith and joy.
In Balinese Hinduism, the mountains are the stronghold of the gods all temples are built to face the higher elevations while the sea contains darker forces. In seaside Kuta you can cruise from Mushroom Rock to Tropical Climax to beer-guzzling Peanuts, hearing Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, while in hilly Ubud your senses tingle with gamelan music and the fresh scent of frangipani and incense wafting from endless offerings in doorways and small temples.
Legong, Barong, Kechak and Ramayana light up Ubud and nearby villages. Hawkers roam the streets, selling tickets for just $1.50 to $2.50 apiece, including transportation to the dance site. This is not to mention the art galleries, museums, workshops, temple celebrations and occasional cremations that make the brain reel with exoticism and pageantry seldom seen in the West outside of Mardi Gras.
I arrived in Ubud with the hope of discovering what makes Balinese culture so rich. To my surprise, the Shangri La I'd expected first appeared as a boisterous little berg on a brokendown road selling Diet Coke alongside of handwoven backpacks. The emerald terraces, waddling ducks and suspension bridge over a plunging ravine unfolded only as I was leaving town for the Amandari, Ubud's premiere hotel.
I was lucky enough to spend my first night at the Amandari, an organic pleasure palace perched above a river gorge. Art and tradition rule here, too. Designed by Australian architect Peter Muller, who worked equal wonders with the Amanpuri on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, the hotel simulates a Balinese village with 27 walled garden suites virtual houses with sunken outdoor tubs. Tip toeing over stepping stones through a pond full of lily pads, I opened my villa's front door.
Rounded and thatched, with teak beams and rattan furniture, it had floor to ceiling screens and window walls which rolled back to let in the light and lushness of the outside. From the terrace I heard the sigh of the Ayung River far below. Magenta bougainvillea and sprays of orchids splashed the greenery with color like laughter that melted into the twilight. At daybreak, workers with flowers behind their ears were up polishing the woodwork. The glassy hillside pool trembled under the fingers of a morning breeze, giving me a taste of that hushed, spiritual beauty that sets Ubud apart.
Art touches every upscale hotel in Ubud, and many budget spots, too. The chic Kupu Kupu Barong ("Big Butterfly"), not far from the Amandari, hotel's heart stopping views from its split level rooms that teeter like cushy attic condos over the river gorge. Closer to town, the riverside Hotel Tjampuhan has a crumbling, ornate Balinese acquaintness with twisting paths to hillside rooms swallowed in banana trees and vines. At Ulun Ubud Cottages, a mossy stone stairway winds down past tiers of bungalows to a pool slung over the Campuhan River.
I wore the heels off my sandals hunting for a cheaper guesthouse along the backroads of Ubud. Dozens of simple inns and homestays for $10 a night and under crowd the countryside, especially along Monkey Forest Road, a dusty thoroughfare past open fields and vagabond haunts recalling the hippie heyday. I checked out the Puri Muwa guesthouse with caged titiran birds hanging on every veranda ("wonderful alarm clocks," said the manager), the Frog Pond Inn with its bargain cubbyholes (nobody home and all the doors wide open), and the Monkey Forest Hideaway with romantic old fashioned beds and kerosene lamps instead of electricity (already booked for the week).
That brought me to the edge of the forest, a cave like, rooty underworld housing the old Pura Dalem, temple of the dead. Even Ubud's only jungle felt like a vintage illustration. I bought a temple sash and two bags of peanuts from a vendor, and stepped into the overgrown gloom. Almost instantly, several gray, fuzzy monkeys barreled up like gargoyles and snatched at the bag in my hand, racing away with stolen peanuts.
One of them bit an overgenerous British tourist, and a Canadian girl murmured, "Oh dear, I hear they have syphilis" while the poor Brit cradled his hand. The potbellied grandfather monkeys, their brows knit cantankerously, lumbered up with a demanding air that made me hide my peanuts and head for the temple. A sign on its rusted gates announced in pictures that tourists could enter for temple ceremonies only in Balinese, not Western, dress. No ceremony today. The colored sash would do.
Inside, monkeys swarmed everywhere. They lolled on the fanged statue of the witch Rangda, who was devouring a child; they sunbathed on the dragons and weather stained gates; they blended into the ornamentation, the baroque intricacy and animistic too muchness that typifies Bali, as though everything is seething with life and spirits. Yet the monkeys kept to themselves, obeying some unspoken rule of tranquility that made the temple a true sanctuary, both for them and the big hairless apes with cameras.
Heading back toward town, I stumbled on guesthouse called the Artini II guesthouse (Artini I is across the street), a lovely walled compound as peaceful as a convent, glittering with gilded doors and blooming gardens. The rooms, lined in bamboo matting, came with baths,fans, bamboo beds and porches where breakfast (usually a toasted banana sandwich and tea) was served every morning. For $11 a night, I'd found my home in Ubud.
Rebecca Bruns, was a freelancer living in San Francisco, who specialized in the tropics and exotic culture. To find out more about her visit http://www.rebeccabruns.net. Stay tuned for Part II of this series.


Wow, You're a Cartoonist! is a title in the 1988 Play-Along Video series. Hosted by Muppet siblings Kai-Lee and P.J., the video aimed to teach kids how to draw their own cartoons.
It is perhaps most notable for featuring Caroll Spinney's puppet character Picklepuss in his only appearance in a Muppet production, along with Spinney character Pop.
Highlights include Picklepuss and Pop demonstrating how to draw faces, a Muppet named Artie explaining a drawing game called "What's That Line?", and Kermit drawing animals.
One of the kids seen in the drawing sequences is Tatyana Ali, who would later star on the TV sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Michael Frith's son Jonathan Frith appears in a segment as a cartoonist.
When Kermit is drawing in close-up shots, his hand is a "live hand" rather than the standard rod hand, thus allowing him to hold his pen. See Switching rod-hands and live-hands.


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Q: Why my django form cleaned data returns None everytime? I am using the self-referential Foreign Key in my models. In the views when I used the form.cleaned_data.get('parent') it returns None but when I used request.POST.get('parent') it returns the value. Why the cleaned_data is not working here?
models
class Category(models.Model):
    parent = models.ForeignKey('self', blank=True, null=True, on_delete=models.SET_NULL)
    slug = models.SlugField(unique=True, max_length=50)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True)
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

forms
class CreateCategoryForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Category
        fields = ['title', 'slug']

views
def create_category(request):
    form = CreateCategoryForm()
    categories = Category.objects.order_by('-created')
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = CreateCategoryForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            # parent = request.POST.get('parent') # works
            # parent = form.cleaned_data.get('parent') # returns None
            category = form.save(commit=False)
            category.parent = form.cleaned_data.get('parent')
            category.save()
            messages.success(request, 'Created Successfully.')
            return redirect('list_categories')
    return render(request, 'add_category.html', {'form':form, 'categories':categories})

template
       <form action="" method="post">
              {% csrf_token %}

              Category Name
              <input type="text" name="title" class="form-control"
              value="{{form.title.value|default_if_none:''}}"/>
                {% if form.title.errors %}
                 {{form.title.errors|striptags}}
                {% endif %}

            Category Parent
                <select name="parent" id="exampleSelect"
              class="form-control">
                 <option selected>Select</option>
                {% for category in categories %}
              <option value="{{category.pk}}">{{category.title}}</option>
                {% endfor %}
            </select>

A: So your first issue, is that you don't include the field in the modelform, so fix that:
class CreateCategoryForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Category
        fields = ['title', 'slug', 'parent']

Second is that you render the form field yourself in the template, thus not making use of Django's attribute handling. To fix that:

                Category Parent
                {{form.parent}}

Now the select will not have a the correct html class, but we can pass this to the form field. Complete solution:
class CreateCategoryForm(forms.ModelForm):
    # ModelForm will take care of setting required to False
    parent = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Category.objects.order_by('-created'), attrs={'class': 'form-control'})
    class Meta:
        model = Category
        fields = ['title', 'slug', 'parent']

# view
def create_category(request):
    form = CreateCategoryForm()
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = CreateCategoryForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            category = form.save(commit=False)
            category.parent = form.cleaned_data.get('parent')
            category.save()
            messages.success(request, 'Created Successfully.')
            return redirect('list_categories')
    return render(request, 'add_category.html', {'form':form})

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LaCentra, Serino receive River Stewardship Awards
By Neil Zolotsaugus@wickedlocal.com
Loretta LaCentra and Ricky Serino were honored with River Stewardship Awards at the Saugus River Watershed Council Annual Meeting and Dinner at Spinelli's this month.
LaCentra, a Revere resident, was honored for her "outstanding contributions toward protecting natural resources and public health in the Saugus River Watershed" – as well as helping in numerous community based-efforts to reduce pollution and promote a cleaner, more sustainable economy.
"I'm humbled to be recognized; it's an honor," LaCentra said. "We all know what a wonderful area the Saugus and Pines River and Rumney Marsh is and how vulnerable they are. I look forward to continuing our fight to protect this special area."
Serino, an aide to state Rep. RoseLee Vincent and a Revere city councilor-elect, was honored for his "exceptional work in protecting natural sources in the Watershed."
The Saugus River Watershed Council commended Serino for his innovative thinking for the future.
"I'm deeply humbled and thankful to the SWRC for recognizing us and the commitment to the cause of raising awareness about the public health implications of having an incinerator in our backyard," Serino said in reference to the Wheelabrator incineration plant on Route 107. "When Vincent took office hardly anyone had been talking about it, but we've started a dialogue about what and when Wheelabrator wants to do things."
Vincent presented both with certificates of recognition from the state legislature.
"Without people like Ricky and Loretta we couldn't do what we're doing," Vincent said. "People are taking notice because of their efforts."
Vincent called Serino not only an aide, but an amazing individual who has done amazing work to protect the environment.
"I'm proud of his work to protect Revere and Saugus, especially in regard to the incinerator's negative impact on our communities," Vincent said.
Installed as officers for the next year were President Debra Panetta, Vice-President Doug Heath, Treasurer Jackie Mercurio and Secretary Ramona Barr.
In her report, Executive Director Mary Lester highlighted SRWC watershed advocacy and scientific research and monitoring.
"The Watershed Council staff and board submitted written comments and attended numerous public hearings on several important projects," Lester said. "Our priorities include protecting buffer zones, preventing increased stormwater pollution and protecting fisheries. We also work with environmental permitting agencies to promote low-impact development techniques, such as maintaining natural features, using vegetation to slow stormwater runoff and reducing impervious surfaces at redevelopment projects.
The Watershed Council conducts water quality monitoring to assess the health and status of the Saugus River and its tributaries. Over the past several years the organization has observed a marked improvement in dissolved oxygen levels, which are important for supporting fish habitats, Lester said.
At the same time, Lester noted that bacteria continue to cause water quality problems, following even moderate rainstorms.
Lester also talked about implementing the Rumney Marsh Salt Marsh Area of Critical Environmental Concern restoration plan, with regard to removing the abandoned Interstate 95 embankment that runs parallel to Route 107 and moving sand and gravel to create a protective berm along the edge of the marsh.
Sean Riley of the Department of Conservation and Recreation gave the keynote address on local and migratory birds in their habitat within the Saugus River Watershed and surrounding marshes.


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Q: Calling method 'createQuery' is not valid without an active transaction I'm using DropWizard and Hibernate. I build my SessionFactory like this:
        Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
        configuration.setProperty(AvailableSettings.DRIVER, "org.h2.Driver");
        configuration.setProperty(AvailableSettings.USER, "");
        configuration.setProperty(AvailableSettings.PASS, "");
        configuration.setProperty(AvailableSettings.URL, "jdbc:h2:file:./var/test");
        configuration.setProperty(AvailableSettings.DIALECT, "org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect");
        configuration.setProperty(AvailableSettings.CURRENT_SESSION_CONTEXT_CLASS, "thread");
        return configuration.buildSessionFactory();

(See this question if you're wondering why.)
The first of these createQuery calls succeeds, and the second fails (with the error in the title):
        try (Session session = sessionFactory.openSession()) {
            Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
            session.createQuery(...).executeUpdate();
            sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery(...).executeUpdate();
            transaction.commit();
        }

Are the two sessions supposed to be different, or is that an artifact of how I've set things up? The reason I want the second version to work is that it's actually being called from a different class that only has a handle to the factory. Should I be passing around sessions?


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Nehme, Maya; Hoover, Kelli; Baker, Thomas; Keena, Melody; Zhang, Aijun. 2008. Behavioral responses to Asian longhorned beetle pheromones. In: Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. Proceedings, 18th U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species 2007; 2007 January 9-12; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-28. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 57.


That's why when it comes to live entertainment in New York, Goldstar Events is essential gear. Once you're at the site, sign up (it's free and just takes a minute). Once you're in, you've got access to dozens of great live entertainment events you can buy online at half-price.
So if you're contemplating your upcoming night out (and you're a Manhattanite, so of course you're going out), just go to Goldstar Events, find the kind of night you've got in mind and then go through and buy the tickets at half-price. You'll also get a weekly email tailored to your preferences so you can keep up with all the great entertainment that's all around you and at a price that makes it something you can do all the time.
Just launched, Goldstar Events already has dozens of events available including The Scene at Second Stage Theatre, great stand-up at Comix and Stand-Up NY, games at the Garden, the New York City Opera, Cuban Salsa Lessons, experimental works from P.S. 122, great jazz at Birdland, and even some Broadway. Goldstar Events is like a Swiss Army Knife of live entertainment. If you've got Goldstar Events, you'll always have the thing you need for a great night out.
Think of a free membership to Goldstar Events as essential equipment for life in the big city. Sure, suburbanites get 3 bedrooms, 2-and-a-half baths and a sunroom for the same price you pay for a studio the size of a beach towel, but are they minutes away from dozens and dozens of great things to do at half-price like you are as a Goldstar Events member?


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Q: How to scale OpenVPN when client-to-client is a must? I am trying to create an OpenVPN server cluster that can autoscale, I have found a lot of information online on how to create such a network.
As far as I understand, you basically use a round-robin DNS, and few OpenVPN servers, the clients simply connect to the DNS and are assigned one of the OpenVPN servers to connect to.
However, my setup requires that all clients will be visible to each other, so I am using the client-to-client configuration.
If each of the clients will be assigned a random OpenVPN server, they will not be able to communicate with each other, only clients that happened to be on the same exact server will be able to communicate.
How do I scale an OpenVPN cluster that needs client-to-client communication on all clients?

A: Have some name resolution, or name registration system so that clients on all VPN servers register their name and IP they get assigned, so they can resolve and connect to each other by IP.
Then just make sure you setup routing properly and don't use any NAT on the VPN servers. So if you have 192.168.100.0/24 on VPN, and 192.168.101.0/24, setup IP routing so those two subnets can reach each other.
This would mostly just be a standard site-to-site VPN routing setup which also requires proper routing setup. Just have multiple servers set up.


Many of our friends have had newborn photo shoots with their babies. I wanted so much for Evie to have a tiny baby photo shoot as well, but she was in the NICU, and then had an oxygen tube in her nose for the first 5 months of her life. Now she is getting bigger by the day, so I felt like we needed to get photos done!
I like this green stuff they call grass.
Mommy! You have sweet potato on your shirt!
More photos to come from Uncle Dave! Pay no attention to my finger at the bottom of the picture.
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She allowed me to keep the headband on her for the whole time!
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She kept her eyes closed for most of the outside shots!
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Cool! You might want to link to her actual Instagram account (https://instagram.com/evietheextraordinary) instead of just the Instagram homepage.
Changed it! Thanks, Joy! I couldn't figure out the URL.


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All-electric, all-efficient, no combustion.
When you think of hybrid vehicles, what do you think about? Up to this point, a hybrid has usually been a car that utilizes both internal combustion and electric power in complementary ways. Now, French company NAWA Technologies is unveiling what they refer to as a hybrid electric motorbike at CES 2020. The twist? it's not the type of hybrid we're used to seeing.
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Instead of "hybrid" referring to an IC engine combined with an electric motor, the NAWA Racer uses the world's first hybrid battery system, a combination of ultracapacitors (more on these in a moment) and lithium-ion batteries. The company, which specializes in making ultracapacitors, claims that its units offer ten times more power and five times more energy than existing ultracapacitors. By using these technologies to store up to 80 percent of the power that would normally be lost in regenerative braking, NAWA states that its Racer has a 300km (186-mile) range on a single charge.
Gallery: NAWA Racer Concept Hybrid Bike
So, wait, what's the deal with ultracapacitors and why hasn't someone done something like this before?
The positive points of ultracapacitors sound ideal. They're lighter, they charge more quickly, they're potentially less toxic—all these things sound great. Unfortunately, at this point, they're able to store far less energy than existing lithium-ion batteries can.
Instead, where they excel is in their ability to release their power much more rapidly than batteries. One good example of where this can come in handy with an electric bike or other vehicle is in acceleration. In NAWA's case, its ultracapacitors help it quickly recharge using that regenerative braking energy, which it then feeds back to the electric motor. Another benefit of ultracapacitors is their comparative long wear through charge and discharge cycles, which they can run through potentially millions of times without significant degradation.
Back to the NAWA Racer in front of us.
Nawa claims its bike does zero to 62 (or zero to 100kmh) in less than three seconds with a top speed somewhere north of 160kmh (or 99mph). Design-wise, it successfully melds cafe-racer styling with modern sensibilities, and does the retro-future look quite well. It looks accessible, and intuitive to ride. Not sure how I feel about the flat bars, but I know a lot of people love them, so that hardly makes it a bad call.
The NAWA Racer is a concept bike, meant to showcase the potential of this type of hybrid battery system. You can see it in person if you'll be attending CES 2020. NAWA Technologies was once a part of the French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission, and was spun off from that organization in 2013—but the two will share a booth at CES.
"The NAWA Racer is our vision for the electric motorbike of tomorrow–a retro-inspired machine, but one that is thoroughly modern," said NAWA Technologies CEO Ulrik Grape. "It is lightweight, fast and fun, perfect for an emission-free city commute that will put a smile on your face."
"But it also lays down a blueprint for the future. NAWA Technologies' next-gen ultracapacitors have unleashed the potential of the hybrid battery system–and this design of powertrain is fully scalable. There is no reason why this cannot be applied to a larger motorbike, or car or other electric vehicle. And what is more, this technology could go into production in the very near future."
Sources: NAWA Technologies, Interesting Engineering, YouTube
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Brexit is an Opportunity For Britain to Return its Classical Liberal Roots
How the U.K. can escape E.U. regulations and protectionism.
Julian Morris | 6.27.2016 5:00 PM
(PETER POWELL/EPA/Newscom)
The United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union marks a historic shift in the nation's relationship not only with Europe but with the world.
The uncertainty of what happens next has spooked investors. That is perhaps understandable: In the short term, there will be costs, not least being the considerable time and effort that must now be spent redefining the rules governing trade between individuals and businesses in the U.K. and their counterparts in other nations.
In the longer term, however, Brexit presents a great opportunity for the U.K. to re-establish itself as a cosmopolitan, classical liberal democracy governed by the rule of law and open to trade. If it takes that path, then its prospects are far brighter than they would have been in an over-regulated, protectionist E.U..
Although recent polls indicated that the vote would be very close, investors had clearly expected the British public to vote to Remain. So when early results indicated that voters were choosing Leave, they reacted with incredulity, dumping Sterling, which fell to $1.32, its lowest level in 30 years, and selling off stocks around the world.
As the sun rose over London, it became clear that Leave had won. At around 8am, as Brits ate their breakfast, the nation's Prime Minister, David Cameron, who had campaigned to remain in the E.U., announced that he would leave office by October. Meanwhile, Scotland's First Minister, Nicole Sturgeon, demanded another vote on Scotland's independence.
In the three days since, social media has been awash with offended middle-class Remain voters describing Leave supporters as stupid and worse, a prankster group used bots to generate over 3 million mostly-fake signatures for a Petition for a new referendum on the U.K. Parliament's website (in an ironic twist, the petition was started by a Leave supporter), and a Labour MP has called on Parliament to reject the non-binding referendum vote.
European politicians are in disarray over the vote. On Friday, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission called for a speedy exit, reportedly saying that Brexit was "not an amicable divorce" but that "it was not exactly a tight love affair anyway". And the Czech foreign minister has called for Juncker to resign, blaming him for Brexit. Meanwhile, Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, and other E.U. leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have encouraged Britain's Parliament to reconsider.
For Britain formally to begin the process of leaving the E.U., it must—according to Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty—notify the E.U. of that decision. The terms and date of exit will then be determined by agreement—but by default will occur two years after notification. While Britain has not yet formally notified the E.U. of its intention to leave, David Cameron has established an "E.U. Unit" in his cabinet, whose function is to develop the exit strategy.
Assuming that Parliament does not over-ride the referendum result, many vexing decisions must now be taken, among them: What should be Britain's trade policy? How should immigration be reformed? And which British regulations required by the E.U. should be kept and which scrapped? To make matters worse (or at least more confusing), these questions are not necessarily independent of one another.
Taking trade first: At present, the U.K. is part of the E.U. customs union and practically all trade policy decisions are made on an E.U.-wide basis. At present, all trade between the U.K. and other E.U. member states is tariff free—there are no taxes on import or exports. That applies not only to goods (which means anything physical, from oil to toasters) but also to services (such as computer programming, architecture, and financial planning) and capital (investments of various kinds). This preferential treatment for trade within the E.U. created a tendency for transactions to remain within the customs union. However, the slow growth of most E.U. economies compared with other less heavily regulated economies has resulted in a decline in the share of British trade with the E.U.—from about 55 percent in 1999 to 45 percent in 2015.
The rapid growth of Asian economies over the past three decades was driven in part by unilateral trade liberalization. Britain could potentially benefit enormously by following that route. Unilaterally removing external restrictions on imports of goods, services and capital would be both the simplest and in many respects the best policy, since it can be undertaken without the need for any intergovernmental negotiation. It would ensure that consumers and producers in the U.K. had access to these inputs at the lowest possible cost. This would drive stronger domestic competition, resulting in higher rates of innovation and growth.
A second, largely complementary, option is for the U.K. independently to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). The advantage of joining this multilateral agreement is that it limits the tariffs and other restrictions other members can impose on British exporters. However, accession to the WTO is not automatic and might take years, so should not be seen as an alternative to unilateralism: any delay in the removal of trade restrictions will harm the British economy.
A third option, which again is largely complementary to both unilateralism and membership of the WTO, is to join the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This association, which currently comprises Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein, and Switzerland (all non-E.U. states), impose no tariffs on goods traded between them. Apart from the immediate benefits of mutual free trade, joining EFTA would signal Britain's continued commitment to trade and comity with other European nations—and perhaps encourage other E.U. members considering withdrawal to embrace an arrangement based on trade rather than political patronage. Membership of EFTA would also bring the U.K. automatic membership of the 27 free trade agreements EFTA has negotiated for its members.
A fourth option would be for Britain to seek to negotiate trade agreements with various other nations, including Canada, Australia, and, of course, the United States. There is a danger that such negotiations could become very protracted, so again this option should be considered subordinate to unilateral liberalization and, in the first instance, to minimize the complexity of such negotiations, it might be best if Britain were to identify a basic set of principles that could be applied to all potential partners in free trade.
Turning to immigration: If Britain were to join EFTA, it might also have the option of joining the European Economic Area (EEA), which currently comprises three of the EFTA nations, Norway, Iceland, and Lichtenstein. Under EEA rules, the U.K. would maintain free movement of goods, services, capital, and people across all E.U. and EEA states. But that would effectively leave Britain with the same E.U. migration policy that has become so contentious with many in the Leave camp. Moreover, EEA members are also required to comply with E.U. regulations related to these activities—without having any say in the content of those regulations. Given that a key reason for the U.K. leaving the E.U. is the lack of transparency and accountability of the E.U.'s decision-making processes—and the arbitrary, capricious, and economically sclerotic regulations that have resulted—EEA membership is likely a non-starter.
There are many potential alternative immigration policies. The libertarian in me wants to advocate totally open migration but that would be even less politically acceptable in the current U.K. than joining the EEA.
So, some kind of restricted migration policy is, I think, inevitable. One way to do this would be to adopt an employment-based system of some kind. Sweden has arguably the best such system; it permits anyone with a qualifying job to migrate—removing much of the uncertainty, delay and cost of the kind of employment-based visa process now in place in the U.K. (and similar processes in the U.S.).
But there is a fundamental problem with all employment-based immigration systems, namely that they require immigrants to have a job prior to migration. This imposes high costs on both the firms seeking to employ migrants, which typically bear the cost of visa applications, and on immigrants, who must find jobs in foreign countries, go through selection processes, etc.
An alternative system, proposed by the late Nobel Prize–winning economist Gary Becker is to sell the right to migrate. This idea has the advantage that it does not require a person to have a job prior to migration, nor does it impose arbitrary restrictions based on current location, academic qualifications, or family relationships.
The main problem with this system is the difficulty knowing the "correct" price. Set the level too high and Britain would suffer from a lack of skilled labor, meaning that the cost of plumbing would rise unacceptably; set it too low and there might be a flood of migrants, leading to the same concerns that have been raised by the current opponents of open migration.
An additional problem with selling the right to migrate is that it does not accommodate those who might otherwise be permitted to immigrate on compassionate grounds, such as asylum seekers, refugees or family members. So, accommodation would have to be made for these people.
Last but by no means least, Britain will have to find a way to decide which of the thousands of regulations that derive from E.U. legislation to keep and with to discard. Britain has on several occasions sought to cut red tape, establishing various Parliamentary committees charged with deregulating the economy. Last year, Parliament passed a new Deregulation Act that again sought to reduce some of the red tape that has become so burdensome. But all of these changes were piecemeal and none could to stem the tide of E.U. legislation.
A recent example of E.U. regulation is the Tobacco Products Directive, which among other things imposed all manner of arbitrary and unnecessary restrictions on the types of vaping products that may be sold, including a maximum tank size of 2ml (many of the most popular tanks are currently 5ml), and a limit of 2 percent on the amount of nicotine in liquids (many contain more, and higher levels are seen as helpful for those in the first stages of switching from far more harmful combustible cigarettes).
Previous attempts at deregulation simply didn't have sufficient teeth. One solution would be automatically to sunset all E.U.-derived regulations at the date the E.U. exits the E.U.—which will be two years after it invokes (which will likely take place soon after a new Prime Minister is installed in October). During those two years, Parliament could investigate the need for those regulations and prioritize the reinstantiation of any deemed, on net, to be desirable. By making deregulation the default and imposing a limited timeframe, Parliament will be forced to prioritize more effectively than has previously been the case.
Britain's current relationship with the E.U. is untenable and must change. But that change should be an improvement on the status quo—and it must take into consideration the fact that the referendum was won only narrowly. As Daniel Hannan, a British Member of the European Parliament and one of the leading proponents of Leave, wrote on the day of the referendum,
"If, as I hope, we vote to leave, we won't be able simply to ignore the concerns of those who wanted to stay. A narrow leave vote is not a mandate for anything precipitate or radical. It is a mandate for a phased repatriation of power, with the agreement, wherever possible, of our European allies. Many of our existing arrangements will remain in place; and those which we want to disapply won't be scrapped overnight. Brexit, in other words, will be a process rather than an event. It will be the moment when Britain starts to pursue a different trajectory, away from political union with the E.U. and toward a looser arrangement based on trade and co-operation."
David Cameron has already initiated the process by which the U.K. government will negotiate with the E.U.. I have argued, in line with Hannan's observation, that a looser arrangement based on open trade with the E.U. and all other nations, an immigration policy that is more rational and humane, and the removal of many of the arbitrary and capricious regulations developed by bureaucrats in Brussels could lead to a much freer society. That would be a good thing for the people of Britain. It might also set an example for the rest of Europe.
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Julian Morris is vice president of research at the Reason Foundation.
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The British will just go about fucking themselves over with their own stupid regulations.
Zunalter
At least they get to vote to commit suicide, instead of it being foisted upon them by the EU.
I guess I fail to see how voting solely in Britain alone where they have a voice (somewhat- House of Lords anyone?) is that much different from voting in the EU where they have a voice via MEPs.
The British Parliament can write laws that have force, and the House of Commons selects the Prime Minister, who has actual power.
The so-called European Parliament cannot write laws that have actual force (it can reject proposed laws sent in by the European Commission, but not initiate them) and it does not select anyone with actual power (though it has some power to influence who winds up on the European Commission).
Yet you're strangely ok with the US government which consists of 532 people 90% of whom are incumbents and are therefore "unelected" and "unaccountable" due to the safety of their position.
These same people follow a President who is elected by as many "electors", supposedly selected from the people but that doesn't fucking matter.
Cognitive dissonance much?
Or are you a fucking hypocrite?
You do understand that every single one of those 90% of incumbents DO actually get re-elected?
That what you're complaining about is that The People aren't doing what you want therefore the people they elect are "unelected" and "unaccountable" because you didn't get your way?
That you're just as much of an elitist asshole as the Remainers screaming that the franchise be limited to themselves because only they and theirs are intellectual enough to understand the issues involved?
Whine some more. We enjoy it.
MelissaHarper
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DEATFBIRSECIA
Pretty good read from Greenwald on the insularity of the establishment as a proximate cause of Brexit and the rise of Trump.
Illocust
Seems like he's repeating the same point every paragraph in slightly different words. Still it's a very good point. I do wonder, though. Has there ever been a time were the elites aren't segregated from those they consider inferior? Why is this just becoming a problem now and not anytime else in the last two hundred years worth of democracy.
That's a good question. I think people being stupid and easily-led like they are, they needed an independent method of vetting and verification of the claims of the elite in order to call bullshit. Along with some personal pain. That method came into being only about 20 or so years ago, and has allowed just about everybody to see how badly they're being lied to by both the financial and governmental elite, but also by the media elites. Combine the internet with the royal shagging the voters of both USA and UK have been getting over the same period of time, and I guess the bill just came due.
Dark Lord of the cis
Too lazy to look it up, but Charles Murray's Coming Apart some interesting observations. There's also several interviews and lectures on YouTube.
Pan Zagloba
Smart elites
a) allow expansion into their ranks by lower orders (be it Equestrians becoming Senators in Rome, or industrialists marrying into aristocracy in 19th century England)
b) keep their ear to the ground and try to head off potential discontent
And it's not 'just becoming a problem now.' Grachii brothers in Rome, peasant revolts in medieval Europe, French Revolution, Chartist movement in England, rise of Marxist ideology, Boxer Rebellion, Bolshevism, Blackshirts.
Fuck, Thatcher and Reagan were equally "populist responses to failures of elites" almost 40 years ago.
Now, in the context of the article, problem is of course neo-liberalism and deregulation since the 80s. Because it's Greenwald.
As for "how should elites remain elites while paying attention to lower orders", we can always turn to Kipling.
"But first you must master their language, their dialect, proverbs and songs.
Don't trust any clerk to interpret when they come with the tale of their wrongs.
Let them know that you know what they're saying; let them feel that you know what to say.
Yes, even when you want to go hunting, hear 'em out if it takes you all day.
They'll drink every hour of the daylight and poach every hour of the dark.
It's the sport not the rabbits they're after (we've plenty of game in the park).
Don't hang them or cut off their fingers. That's wasteful as well as unkind,
For a hard-bitten, South-country poacher makes the best man- at-arms you can find.
"Appear with your wife and the children at their weddings and funerals and feasts.
Be polite but not friendly to Bishops; be good to all poor parish priests.
Say 'we,' 'us' and 'ours' when you're talking, instead of 'you fellows' and 'I.'
Don't ride over seeds; keep your temper; and never you tell 'em a lie!"
Bill Dalasio
Why is this just becoming a problem now and not anytime else in the last two hundred years worth of democracy.
It largely has to do with the explosion in communications technology and the nationalization of society. Not that long ago, elites had more in common, just by sheer physical proximity, with local people in lower echelons of society than they had with elites in other regions of the country. A Wall Street banker could relate to the guy selling him his cigars more than he could with a Texas oilman or a Boston Brahmin or a Silicon Valley entrepreneur or a Midwest manufacturer because they shared a lot background information that neither would share with the oilman or the Brahmin. And, in a lot of cases (think the oilmen and they guys on his crew or the entrepreneur and his engineers), they'd have shared economic interests. But, increasingly, you've seen the homogenization of elite life. Part of it is communications technology and part of it is the consequence of just how prosperous we've become.
Now tack on to that the centralization of authority within our society in the government.
In the past you didn't see what your representative was doing when he wasn't around you, and when he was he was all smiles and charm and 'great to see you'. And you probably only had a vague idea what was happening with the pols in neighboring districts.
Now you get a daily dose of what exactly they're doing when they're not back home massaging their constituencies. And you get to see that its not just your guy (who downplays the marxist rhetoric when stumping locally) but *all* the guys who are working together to, little by little, transform your world into not only something you may not like, but something that you're being deliberately excluded from having a say in.
GamerFromJump
Now you get a daily dose of what exactly they're doing when they're not back home massaging their constituencies.
Bingo. The last time an invention had this much impact was when the printing press and translating the bible into the vulgate broke the stranglehold of the priesthood.
The 'net is a great form of sousveillance against the pols.
Gaear Grimsrud
Good article. Should be required reading for all establishment shills. Yes, I'm talking about you Chapman.
So it's settled: The UK will become part of China and let people buy their way onto the island.
The good news is they already have similar dental plans
__Warren__
I hope they move in pro-freedom direction but that they do it in the most insulting-to-the-EU way possible.
Playa Manhattan.
Brexit:Opportunity For Britain to Return its Classical Liberal Roots::Victoria's Secret Fashion Show:Opportunity for me to get laid
You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)
So you're telling me there's a chance!
Return its Classical Liberal Roots
The colonialist monarchy that had an empire that spanned large portions of the entire planet at one time… those classical liberal roots?
Tak Kak
Classical liberalism was really more of an aberration on Britain than it's roots.
Jerry on the rocks
+1 Cobden.
Versus what?
lap83
Weeds have roots
tarran
Interestingly, if you watch the big propaganda movie that the Brexit movement was pushing to get votes, the message was entirely a classical liberal one:
Brexit the Movie
AlmightyJB
bacon-magic
Everyone knows that 91% of Britons are Monarchists(according to Cato). Take that you bully Reason fucktard asshats!
(laughs maniacally then shits pants)/ M. Hihn, esq. pdq. lgbtq. U.ofQ.
DarrenM
I'm not sure a Constitutional Monarchy wouldn't be a superior form of government to Democracy (as now practiced).
It has the advantage of giving the will to worship others a healthier outlet than people with actual power.
Austrian Anarchy
The traffic on my Facebook page is positively bizarre on this one. The flakes that were for staying with the EU seem to think that anybody who mentions #Brexit agrees with them and their brown-shirt goose-stepping pals.
Along with that, it is pretty damn hilarious the hysteria coming out of the Remain movement. Like how Scotland will vote to leave the UK. Well, they just had a vote on that in 2014, and lowered the voting age to 16 to make sure they stayed in the UK. What are they going to do this time, take the vote away from anybody over 45?
There is a whole pile of jive spread by Bloomberg about the GBP blip in exchange rate with USD. If you think that drop is bad, maybe check out what happened 1/1/1973 when the UK joined the EU. Free fall of the GBP for FOUR YEARS!
Every damn Pollyanna observation these people make is spun from dung.
Unfriend a couple and Facederp algorithm should adjust the feed. Creepy? Maybe, but god damn, I enjoy seeing 28mm miniatures and WW2 tank footage rather than bleating of losers, and their compatriots in US and Canada.
What are they going to do this time, take the vote away from anybody over 45?
They didn't leave because they liked the English sugar daddy. They'll see the EU as an even better sugar daddy.
These are not difficult questions at all. Taking trade first
1. At present, all trade between the U.K. and other E.U. member states is tariff free – and should remain tariff free on the UK side, even if the EU erects tariffs, and while they're at it, remove tariffs from trade with other nations. So the UK need do nothing here and if it acts, should act to remove its obligation to do something and then do nothing.
2. Turning to Immigration – the UK should not join the EEA as that would leave it in the same place it was as part of the EU. The UK should issue work visas with no quotas (either numerical or skill-based) to candidates who can pass a criminal screening and . . . that's it. Don't push 'path to citizenship' or anything, just allow those who want to come to work, to work, for a limited time, and then send them home. Like my recommendation for US visa reform – 3-6 month renewable licenses. If you don't get into trouble then you're not a burden, if you get into trouble you get booted and you can't get a work visa.
If the EU wishes to be dicks and lock out UK citizens the UK should still allow EU citizens to enter the UK under the same rules as above as free trade benefits you even if your trading partner is erecting barriers on his end.
3. Current EU regulations – should simply be kept as-is for the immediate future, legal stability being more important than what the actual laws are (generally), and revisited on a case-by-case basis as interested parties bring up reasons to remove or amend those laws. The more onerous laws will be called for review early – because the people they affect will be incentivized to lobby for their removal/amendment. No need to call up a blue-ribbon panel of experts to run committees looking into revision priorities.
If, as I hope, we vote to leave, we won't be able simply to ignore the concerns of those who wanted to stay. A narrow leave vote is not a mandate for anything precipitate or radical. It is a mandate for a phased repatriation of power, with the agreement, wherever possible, of our European allies.
He's right about the first part, but then, in a democracy, you're *supposed* to not ignore the concerns of the losers – even when the losers end up a tiny minority.
But he's wrong as fuck about the last part. It is not a mandate for 'phased repatriation' and the 'agreement, wherever possible, of our European allies' is something to give fuck-all care about.
'I'm leaving, if you agree – great, if not, go fuck yourself.'
RE: Brexit is an Opportunity For Britain to Return its Classical Liberal Roots
England must embrace regulations and protectionism now more than ever.
It is through protectionism that made Detroit the city that it is today.
It is through red tape, regulations, rules, laws, etc that made Greece, Portugal and Spain the economic giants they are today.
It is only through government intervention and protectionism that protect the collective from the evils of capitalism.
Socialism protects the unwashed masses from the ravages of capitalism by keeping them poor, oppressed and dependent upon The State. Only through benighted protectionism, unnecessary rules, regulations and strangling red tape can a capitalist hell hole be transformed into a socialist paradise. We should all get on our knees and pray to Saint Karl Marx, may his name be blessed, for his ideas of redistribution of wealth, oppressive red tape, the elimination of the bourgeoise (SP) and having the ruling elitist turds micromanage our worthless lives.
No sane person in this country wants to become a millionaire, much less a billionaire by working harder and smarter, sacrifice, employing advanced business acumen, and out-witting their competition. Such policies only produce people who are happier, more financially independent and more satisfied in life than morally wealthy poor wretches who live on the public dole.
Who would you rather be?
Alan Vanneman
The author correctly notes that the "Leave" vote was strongly predicated on the notion that a "free" UK would be free to restrict immigration. However, he fails to note that the "Leave" vote also reflects a desire to embrace protection, rather than the unilateral proclamation of "free trade" that he recommends. In the abstract, the UK will be free to pursue libertarian economic policies. The only problem is, that's exactly what the "Leavers" don't want.
I don't see where the 'embrace protection' comes in at all.
The EU *is a protectionist organization*. It just extends that umbrella to the member states of the EU. If the UK wants to embrace protectionism they could have stayed.
Not to say they're seriously considering pro-freedom policies, but leaving the EU is not a 'pro-protectionism' action.
"…he fails to note that the "Leave" vote also reflects a desire to embrace protection,…"
Presumes facts not in evidence. Typical.
Troy Woodchipper
If, as I hope, we vote to leave, we won't be able simply to ignore the concerns of those who wanted to stay.
This is what I don't understand.
Trump has clenched the nomination because he has tapped into a well of resentment, fear, anger, anxiety, and a few other pejorative mindsets. Brexit happened because of fear, anger, resentment, anxiety,etc.
All that fear, anxiety, and anger isn't going to go away if the RNC manages to unbind the delegates from Trump to whoever. Like wise with the UK. If the elite manage to get another vote and get it to go their way, the fear and anger and stuff isn't going to go away. It is just going to bottle up until it explodes. I'm guessing that repressing these kinds of feelings (whether they are justified or not( and I know how many here think. a few raped Swedes is a small price to pay for libertarian orthodoxy, i.e. open borders) is what leads to civil wars and shit. Are the elite that fucking ingorant of history? Or do they just need Nick to tell the to shut the fuck up because obviously things have never been better and the serfs just need to get over themselves?
Well, he certainly has *something* clenched.
Rufus The Monocled
I mentioned this in a past thread, if they leave Brexit to rediscover its classical liberal roots, it's a win.
But they've been pretty good at this PC crap themselves so I see no winners at the moment.
Let the EU have Scotland.
England free of Scotland and the EU would be a much freer place.
Len Bias
The 2016 presidential election is also a chance for the US to return to its classical liberal roots. Too bad it won't.
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I strongly suspect that the amount of wide-eyed reporting on today's stock market improvement will be somewhat smaller in volume than the amount of wide-eyed reporting on yesterday's similarly-sized decrease.
No reason though, I'm sure.


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The warmest anomalies should be in the Southeast part of the province. near normal in northwestern Alberta. A trough to the west and ridge to the east setup for much of the fall should beef up precip amounts and may cause similar issues to last year during harvest.
September: Near normal temperatures overall and wetter. Periods of hot and dry mixed with snowy and cold spells should equalize anomalies and Sept should finish near normal.
October: Much warmer than normal and wet. Warm weather over long periods with ample rainfall; This combo may also result in some very late season thunderstorm outbreaks. Primary areas are along the rim of the ridge including the QE2 corridor and the Yellow head corridor.
November: Warmer than normal, near normal precip. There is some uncertainty with November due to a developing La Nina event. At this point very warm temperatures at least for the first half, however the transition to winter might be slow or delayed into December.


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Q: how to get parquet file name based on data in table I'm trying to figure out in which of the many parquet files is the data stored in table for a particular set of date condition.
For example:
select filenames from table where dateCol = '1-1-2010';

I remember this reading somewhere that it's possible but couldn't recollect anything as such; neither could I find it elsewhere. Anybody got any ideas?

A: Got it.
select distinct(INPUT__FILE__NAME) from table where conditions;


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