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Eye Witness Account – Magic on the Burma Railroad
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'One day, the Japanese camp commandant said he had generals coming to visit and that he wanted me to do some magic. He asked what I would need for a trick. I requested an egg. He wrote out a chitty and told me to take it to the cook house. The cook asked me how many I wanted, so I asked for 50. I went straight back to the hut and we had a 49-egg omelette, saving just one for the trick…
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"Warm Reception" by Jim Dietz of the Guadalcanal Cactus Air Force.
7-18 February – Chiang Kai-shek agreed to use his forces in the Burma campaign, but as usual, this was in exchange for a promise of even more US financial aid. Mahatma Gandhi started his 21-day hunger strike in India in his non-violent opposition to British policies in his country.
Chindits 1943
The 47th and 55th Indian Brigades were beaten back at Donbaik in the Arakan peninsula. The Chindits opposed the enemy for the first time on the 18th in Burma and advanced. They managed to cut the Japanese railroad line between Mandalay and Myitkyina.
12 February – the Allies initiated the Elkton Plan; a campaign designed by MacArthur to eject the Japanese from New Guinea, New Britain and the Solomons. This would isolate the enemy headquarters at Rabaul. (The original plan included capturing Rabaul, but was scrapped…
Christmas in January 1943
August 28, 2015 August 28, 2015 / First Night Design	/ 1 Comment
Cabanatuan Prison Camp
Commander Melvin H.McCoy of the U.S.Navy had survived the Bataan death march on the Philippines and was now in the notorious Davao Prison camp on Mindanao. Like most prisoners of the Japanese they were on starvation rations and men were dying on a daily basis.
On 29th January 1943 they got a lucky break. For whatever reason the Japanese had for once decided to hand over the Red Cross parcels that had been sent from the States. This was a very irregular event. Many prisoners of the Japanese never saw any of them.
Red Cross parcel
The importance of such support from home could never be underestimated:
"It's Christmas, Commander McCoy!" he shouted. "It's Christmas!"
I was well aware that Christmas had already passed, practically without notice, so I asked him to explain his excitement.
"Stuff from home," he babbled. "Boxes from the States. Red Cross boxes."
An Unusual Tale
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The Time a Fighter Pilot Ejected Into a Thunderstorm and Rode the Lightning
Marine Corps Lt. Col. William H. Rankin had flown combat flight operations in both World War II and the Korean War, but it wasn't enemy fire that came closest to killing him during his military flying career. It was a summer thunderstorm over the east coast of the United States.
Lt.Col. William Rankin
On July 26, 1959 Rankin and his wingman, 1st Lt. Herbert Nolan, were flying a pair of F-8 Crusaders from South Weymouth, Mass back to their home base at Beaufort, S.C. when they encountered a line of severe thunderstorms over North Carolina. Shortly after the fighters climbed up to 47,000 feet to go over the growing cumulonimbus clouds, Rankin heard a loud grinding noise followed by a loss of power from…
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Remains of Missing WWII Veterans Return
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PEARL HARBOR (KHON2) — 39 U.S. marines who were missing in action during World War II were honored in a ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor- Hickam on July 26th.
These veterans were reunited with their families after 72 years as unidentified remains. After the Battle of Tarawa during World War II the marines were considered to be missing in action.
Crews of scientists, historians, and surveyors from the non-profit History Flight have combed through Tarawa for the past decade. This is considered to be the largest recovery of missing in action veterans ever recorded.
Four of the veterans received the Medal of Honor; including 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr. Bonnyman, an engineer officer, along with 5 of his men, were responsible for approximately 200 enemy KIA, including the commanding…
Japanese Views
June 23, 2015 June 23, 2015 / First Night Design	/ 2 Comments
'Shrine Entrance in Snowstorm' by Tosuke S.
Despite some common belief and wartime propaganda, not all the Japanese people wanted war with either America or England. Here are some quotes located to help clarify that misconception.
The following quotes have been taken from Saburo Ienaga's "Pacific War" (Taiheiyo senso) translated by Frank Baldwin.
In the midst of the excitement and successful sinking of the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, Onozuka Kiheiji, former president of the Tokyo Imperial University, whispered to a colleague, "This means that Japan is sunk too." ___ Ienaga Miyako
Onozuka Kiheiji
This was true for even those members of the political elite who belonged to the cautious school of thought, made their point of view at the Senior Statesmen's Conference by, Wakatsuki Reijiro: "Do we have adequate resources for a long war or not? I am concerned about this problem." Yonai Mitsumasa added, "In attempting…
Fepows
March 26, 2015 March 26, 2015 / First Night Design	/ 1 Comment
F Force enroute to the Burma Railroad, by Otto Kreeft
Fepows – Far Eastern POWs
Countless films and books concerned with the Second World War have, through the decades, concentrated on Europe and the Holocaust and the Far East prisoners of war have barely been mentioned. The official 5 volumes of British history for this war include only 10 pages devoted to the subject, compared to the Australian history with 170 pages.
sketch by Jack Chalker, Fepow;British Army, Konyu, Thailand
Japan's army conquered the Far East in 1941-42. Prisoners were taken from Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Thailand, Java, Sumatra, Ambon, New Britain, Celebes, Guam and the Philippines. According to the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, Japan took more than 50,000 British and Australian troops in Singapore alone; 42,000 Dutch (N.E.I.); 10,000 British in Java and 25,000 Americans in the Philippines and then transported to the mainland camps.
The Japanese government made…
Japanese Eye Witness Account
March 12, 2015 March 12, 2015 / First Night Design	/ 4 Comments
Captain Mitsuo Fuschida
Capt. Mitsuo Fuschida, Imperial Japanese Navy, pilot
Fuchida was the first pilot to fly over Pearl Harbor when the attack of 7 December occurred – here he describes his view of the Battle of Midway from the deck of the IJN Akagi;
"The first enemy [U.S.] carrier planes to attack were 15 torpedo bombers. When first spotted by our screening ships and combat air patrol, they were still not visible from the carriers, but they soon appeared as tiny dark specks in the blue sky, a little above the horizon, on Akagi's starboard bow. The distant wings flashed in the sun. Occasionally one of the specks burst into a spark of flame and trailed black smoke as it fell into the water. Our fighters were on the job and the enemy again seemed to be without fighter protection.
IJN Akagi
"Presently a report came in from a Zero…
Eye Witness Account (1)
February 9, 2015 February 9, 2015 / First Night Design	/ 3 Comments
The following has been condensed from an article by author Jim Reardon.
In the raid of 4 June, 20 bombers blasted storage tanks, a warehouse, hospital, a hangar and a beached freighter, while 11 Zeros strafed at will. Chief Petty Officer Makoto Endo led a 3-plane Zero group whose pilots were Flight Petty Officers Tsuguo Shikada and Tadayoshi Koga, 19 years old. Koga's Zero, serial number 4593, was light gray, with the Imperial Rising Sun insignia on its wings and fuselage. It had left the Mitsubishi Nagoya aircraft factory on 19 February, only 3½ months earlier, so it was the latest design.
Tadayoshi Koga
Earlier that day, soldiers at an US Army outpost had seen 3 Zeros shoot down a lumbering Catalina amphibian. Most of the 7-member crew climbed into a rubber raft and began paddling to shore. The soldiers watched in horror as the Zeros strafed the crew until…
January 29, 2015 January 29, 2015 / First Night Design	/ 1 Comment
The Dozier Family in Japan, circa 1920's
The Japanese altered their pre-war message codes after the Coral Sea (6 May 1942), and a few weeks before the Aleutians and Midway ( June 1942). The changes were enough to send US Naval Intelligence in Honolulu scrambling.
The Secret Service brought in a well-known Southern Baptist missionary who had recently arrived in Hawaii after being booted out of Japan along with the other undesirable westerners. Reverend Edwin Burke Dozier, who became part of the Olivet Baptist Church in Honolulu, was the son of S.B.C. missionaries from Georgia. He had been born and raised in Japan – the Nagasaki-Fukuoka area of Kyushu's west coast.
Rev. Dozier's masterful ear for the Japanese language discerned that the enemy was using Japanese baby-talk in the key parts of their altered code. These were not words found in any dictionary and a person would have had to…
The wars over the War
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stillness of heart
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Nine key books and articles taken together can explain what led to the first sparks of civil violence and how those sparks ignited what evolved into the bloodiest and most important war in U.S. history. A review essay by Fernando Ortiz Jr.
Works reviewed in this essay:
Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004.
Berlin, Ira. "Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation and Its Meaning." Union & Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997.
Dew, Charles B. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2001.
Fleche, Andre. The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
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Q: Excel does not work the sum in the status bar for a file generated in C# In Excel does not work the sum in the status bar for a file generated in C#. In the code I set the cell format as a number. Any idea what might be going on?
My code:
oWorksheet.Cells[vLinhaCelula, 7].NumberFormat = "0";
oWorksheet.Cells[vLinhaCelula, 7].Value = vValorNF.Replace(".", "");
oWorksheet.Cells[vLinhaCelula, 7].HorizontalAlignment = XlHAlign.xlHAlignRight;

Thanks for any help.

A: My guess is that vValorNF.Replace(".", ""); is returning a string, and therefore the cell becomes a string regardless of the number formatting. Try specifically creating a double or decimal
double num = Double.Parse(vValorNF.Replace(".", ""));

and then assigning
oWorksheet.Cells[vLinhaCelula, 7].Value = num;

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and a heart never ceases to beat for another?
and a smile never begins to depart?
and from those who once gave me food.
A life of one's own too real to be good.
and the infinite silence of your thoughts.
nor of such pain gathered in the body of a child.
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Умм-Руваба () — город на юге Судана, расположенный на территории штата Северный Кордофан.

География и климат
Город находится в юго-восточной части штата, на высоте 446 метров над уровнем моря.
Умм-Руваба расположен на расстоянии приблизительно 107 километров к востоку-юго-востоку (ESE) от Эль-Обейда, административного центра провинции и на расстоянии 320 километров к юго-юго-западу (SSW) от Хартума, столицы страны.
Климат тропический жаркий. Среднегодовое количество осадков — 300-450 мм.

Демография
По данным последней официальной переписи 1983 года, население составляло 34 669 человек.
Динамика численности населения города по годам:

Экономика
Город является центром сельскохозяйственного производства. В окрестностях города культивируют просо, кунжут и сорго.

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 Города Судана

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TSU Professor, Alum Win Emmy Awards for Works in News and Entertainment
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – The Department of Communications at Tennessee State University was well represented at the 33rd Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards on Feb. 16.
A professor and a former student walked away with Emmys for their work in news and entertainment.
Prof. Airielle Vincent
Airielle Vincent, an assistant professor of mass communications, won her second Emmy as weekend newscast producer with FOX 17. She was recognized for a story on church shooting.
Spencer Glover, who graduated from TSU in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications, took home the Emmy for editing/program. He was awarded for his work on "The Passion for Music," a production for Yamaha Entertainment Group.
"We are so excited when our students and faculty are awarded for their hard work and excelling in their profession," said Dr. Tameka Winston, department chair and associate professor. "It is our desire to see them graduate, follow their dreams and be recognized on such a prestigious level."
The Emmy Awards, organized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, recognizes excellence in television for news and documentary, sports, daytime entertainment, daytime creative arts and entertainment, public and community service, and technology and engineering.
Spencer Glover
Cara Anthony, a 2010 TSU graduate, who works for "The Belleville News Democrat," was also nominated in 2018 for a Mid-America Emmy. Her Emmy nomination was the first in the News-Democrat's 160-year history.
Winning at the Emmys is not new to the TSU Department of Communications. In 2012, Assistant Professor Erik Werner won for promotional producing.
"The department is dedicated to producing award-winning industry professionals and employing top-notch leaders in the field," said Professor Karen D. Russell, mass communications coordinator and professor of multimedia journalism. "We are very proud of our outstanding alumni and professors."
For more information on the TSU Department of Communications, go to http://www.tnstate.edu/Communications/mass_communication.aspx
With more than 7,000 students, Tennessee State University is Nashville's only public university, and is a comprehensive, urban, co-educational, land-grant university offering 38 bachelor's degree programs, 24 master's degree programs and seven doctoral degrees. TSU has earned a top 20 ranking for Historically Black Colleges and Universities according to U.S. News and World Report, and rated as one of the top universities in the country by Washington Monthly for social mobility, research and community service. Founded in 1912, Tennessee State University celebrated 100 years in Nashville during 2012. Visit the University online at tnstate.edu.
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'Let My People Vote,' TSU Students Host Forum To Address Voter Suppression
February 26, 2019 Michael McLendon
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University students in the College of Public Service hosted a forum recently to have a candid discussion about voter suppression.
'Let My People Vote' Poster (Submitted Photo)
The forum on Feb. 27 at the university's Avon Williams Campus included a panel discussion, as well as a screening of "Let My People Vote," an award-winning short documentary about voter suppression.
Keturah Barnett, a student in the Master of Public Administration Program at the university and cofounder of the Know Your Rights Program, said voter suppression is an issue that affects people from all walks of life.
"Voter suppression doesn't just affect minorities. It affects young people, students, ex-offenders and others," she said. "When you think of voter suppression, a lot of people say that happened years ago in the 1960s during the civil rights movement, but it is still happening today. And with the midterm elections that took place last year in 2018 in November, we saw a lot of that in state's like Georgia and Florida."
Keturah Barnett (Submitted Photo)
Barnett, who has worked at the Nashville Juvenile Public Defenders Office since 2016, said she hoped the event would inspire students to engage in the political process by voting, as well as challenging current laws and holding elected officials accountable.
Dr. Michael Harris, dean of the College of Public Service and a nationally-syndicated columnist, was pleased to see members of the larger Nashville community, as well as TSU students and faculty, at the screening.
"It is imperative that the College of Public Service stand at the forefront of engaging on issues related to voter suppression and access. The history of and current efforts to suppress voters in African-American communities undermines the democratic processes black institutions, including TSU, have fought to improve and revolutionize for centuries," Harris said.
Dr. Anthony Campbell, assistant professor of Public Administration in the College of Public Service and the faculty member who worked with students to organize the event, stressed the importance of grappling with this issue.
Dr. Michael Harris (Submitted Photo)
"This filmmaker has developed a documentary that shows how the black vote has been suppressed in Florida for a long time and leading up to this last election, typically felons but more broadly people of color," he said.
"Let My People Vote," directed by Gilda Brasch, follows formerly homeless Desmond Meade, now the State Director for Florida Live Free Campaign, as he canvasses the streets of Tampa, Florida, on the last day of early voting before the 2016 presidential election. At the time of the filming, Meade, who earned a law degree from Florida International University's College of Law, could not vote or practice law in Florida because he has a felony.
Gilda Brasch (Submitted Photo)
Brasch's documentary has won many awards, including the 2018 Best Short Documentary at the BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta and the 2018 Audience Award For Best Short Film in the Florida Film Festival. It was also featured at the Meet The Press Film Festival with The American Film Institute. She said she created the documentary so viewers could see what voter suppression looks like in the current political climate.
"If people are interested in voting rights, followed the recent midterm elections and saw what happened to Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum, then when they watch 'Let My People Vote' they will actually get an opportunity to see real people at the polling places having their votes surpressed," she said.
Brasch said she was shocked by how quickly she found examples of people being turned around at the polls.
"We just got out of the rental van, and turned the camera on, and we got all those testimonies immediately in the space of probably 45 minutes to an hour. It's not like we had to go stand out there for hours. It's immediate in these districts," she said.
Martesha Johnson (Submitted Photo)
Immediately following the screening, students hosted a panel to discuss the issue. Panel members included: Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender Martesha Johnson, Davidson County Election Commisioner A.J. Starling, Project Return Associate Director Elizabeth Hayes and others.
Barnett said the goal of the event was to provide a forum for a conversation they believe is timely and necessary.
"Voting is a fundamental right for everybody. It is something that any American should be able to do without being hassled," she said. "Going to the polls should be just as easy as going to the grocery store."
Black History MonthCollege of Public Service & Urban AffairsDr. Michael CampbellDr. Michael HarrisKeturah BarnettMasters of Public AdministrationMichael McLendon
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New Link Allows TSU Family To Track Progress of Health Sciences Building Construction
Gallery February 25, 2019 Michael McLendon
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – TSU officials are excited about a new link that will give the university's alumni and constituents an opportunity to monitor the construction process of its new Health Sciences Building.
"Many of our alums don't get to the campus throughout the year because they live all over the country. I thought giving them an opportunity to see this facility evolve would be a benefit to them, so they can watch the evolution of the campus," said Dr. Curtis Johnson, Chief of Staff.
Johnson said HOAR Construction, the company responsible for building the facility, installed the camera, which will monitor the 18 to 24 month construction project.
"It updates itself every 15 minutes, but you can also do a six-day review. It can go back six days and play forward for you to see the progress," he said.
Dr. Ronald Barredo, interim dean of the College of Health Sciences, said viewing the development of the new facility is a positive sign of the college's growth.
"I am excited to witness the steady progress that is being made in constructing the new Health Sciences Building. This project will not only bring together a number of excellent programs under one roof – Nursing, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Cardiorespiratory Care, and Health Information Management – but will also be a hub for collaborative practice, community service, and clinical research," he said.
Hannah Brown, president of the Student Occupational Therapy Association, said although she will have graduated when the new building opens, she will return as alum to see the impact it will have on educating future health professionals at TSU.
"The new building is a great addition to the campus. The added space will help promote interprofessionalism among the programs housed in the building and will provide a larger space for clinical simulations and laboratory experiences that are essential in professional practice," said Brown, who is pursuing a Master in Occupational Therapy degree.
TSU National Alumni Association President Joni McReynolds said she thinks providing a link for alums to monitor the construction is a wonderful idea.
"I would encourage all alumni to look at the link and see how progress is being made, and I will do my best to send it around to my executive board, and to all alums we have the ability to contact," she said.
TSU Nashville Alumni Chapter President Dwight Beard echoed McReynolds' comments.
"I think it's a great initiative. I am excited about it. It's going to bring in new students, and it's going to create new opportunities," he said.
Braxton Simpson, a sophomore agricultural sciences major who serves as the student trustee on the TSU Board of Trustees, said having the ability to monitor the progress of the construction will have a tremendous impact because of the large numbers of health science students at TSU.
"I think it's very important that students and faculty… have the opportunity to track the progress of something that is going to be so instrumental to the students at Tennessee State University," she said.
Construction progress of the new health sciences building at Tennessee State University can be viewed at the following link: https://app.truelook.com/?u=hj1548695954
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'Fast and Furious' Sequel Crashes and Burns
Andres Aguila
Confusion!
That is the only word that can be said after watching the movie "The Fast and The Furious." Pardon, "Fast and Furious."
"New Model. Original Parts" is the catchy slogan for the new movie, directed by Justin Lin ("The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift," 2006) and written by Chris Morgan ("Wanted," 2008). Of course the slogan is referencing to the new story and returning actors to complete the fourth installment of the Universal Studios street-racing series.
Now, this movie is an "interquel" that is supposed to take place between the second and third movie, even though it would make a little more sense if it took place between the first and second movies because placing it between the second and third movie really takes it off the storyline of the series.
It starts out very entertaining and thrilling when Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel, "The Fast and The Furious," 2001) and his crew are stealing fuel tanks on the highway in the Dominican Republic.
Toretto, being a wanted man, then decides that it is too risky to be doing anymore criminal activities and decides to leave his crew and hide out in Panama for a while.
In Panama, he receives a phone call informing him on the death of a loved one, which forces him to come back home to Los Angeles.
FBI agent Brian O'Connor, played by Paul Walker ("The Fast and The Furious," 2001), is then seen chasing a guy through Downtown L.A. The audience learns that he is in pursuit of a cold-blooded, drug smuggling ringleader, Arturo Braga, who is also involved in the death of Toretto's loved one. Soon enough, both O'Connor and Toretto cross paths while on their own investigations and decide that they have to work together in order to get what they each want.
Throughout the movie there are disagreements, shiny new cars and fine-looking women who fill in the blanks between the action scenes.
In the end, "Fast and Furious" seems more like a love story wrapped around a thin corn tortilla of action, than a "fast and furious" action-packed never-ending car race.
First off, "Fast and Furious." Couldn't anyone come up with a better title? How about this one: "The Fast and I Want my Brain Cells Back!"
The driving scenes, along side the acting and car model choices are quite nauseating.
The shaky camera angles during the racing and car chase scenes feel similar to those in "Cloverfield" (2008), which makes it difficult to enjoy the thrill of the action.
"Fast and Furious" will excite the average series and street-car lover, but it will disappoint in the end.
The series fan base (mostly guys dragging their girlfriends or wives along) will see this movie only on the basis of wanting to know what's going to happen next in terms of the storyline.
Keep in mind that when watching this movie, don't think about the first, second or third films, or else your head will be filled with unanswered questions, leaving you in a state "furious" confusion.
My rating: 2 out of 5 stars
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OPPOSING VIEWS REPLY TO ARTICLE
Opposing Views: Reply to article: Margaret Thatcher, science advice and climate change by Alice Bell, The Guardian
Tuesday, April 9th 2013, 11:03 AM EDT
Greenwashing Thatcher's history does an injustice both to her and to science and technology policy
We've been running a series of essays on scientific advice recently (e.g. yesterday's piece by Shelia Jasanoff). It's on a break today, but here's something on a related issue.
Margaret Thatcher is often celebrated for her leadership on the issue of climate change. Read, if you haven't already, her 1989 speech to the UN for example. Or the 1988 one to the Royal Society. Or to the 2nd World Climate Conference in 1990. You might be surprised.
The image of Thatcher the global environmental leader jars with some of the patterns of right wing politics we are more familiar with today. Indeed, it suits particular ends of environmentalism to wave this particularly green-tinged blue card around. But Thatcher has long been a flexible cultural image, and in recent years was occasionally used as an icon for climate sceptics too. See, for example, these June 2010 pieces by Lord Monckton writing for the Watts up With That blog and Christopher Booker in the Telegraph.
Bob Ward argued at the time that Monckton seems to have a slightly selective memory about quite how much scientific advice he'd been giving Thatcher. Ward is also keen to note that although Thatcher's 2003 book Statecraft does appear to show more sympathy with the climate sceptic cause, she also seemed to be drawing on the advice of US right-wing "think tanks" he was rather suspicious of.
Looking back at the 1989 speech in 2005, George Monbiot wrote that it's striking how well informed she was in those late 80s speeches, and we probably have her adviser Sir Crispin Tickell to credit for this. According to Tickell himself he regularly gave her advice on environmental issues from 1984 onwards, helped write that speech to the Royal Society in 1988 and accompanied her to that 1990 World Climate Conference. He worked in a similar capacity with both Major and Blair.
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AKP redraws Turkey despite opposition ire
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
A draft law on restructuring municipalities, which will tip the scales in favor of the governing party in local elections, has been adopted in Parliament by votes from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) despite harsh criticisms from the opposition.
The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) yesterday asked for an appointment with President Abdullah Gül to convey their misgivings over the bill and called on him to veto it.
According to the bill, which was approved early Monday after a 16-hour session in Parliament, 13 cities with populations exceeding 750,000 people will gain "metropolitan municipality" statuses. This will add to the current 16 metropolitan municipalities. The boundaries of metropolitan municipalities have been extended to the whole province.
Opposition parties criticized the AKP for reshaping the election constituencies to gain advantage in the upcoming local polls.
Mayors of Eskişehir, Antalya and Mersin, who were elected from the CHP in 2009 would be elected from the AKP, when 2011 election results are taken into consideration due to the extended boundaries of the metropolitan municipalities.
Federalism accusation
Manisa and Balıkesir, where mayors were elected from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in 2009 would be governed by the AKP, thanks to extended boundaries. The bill also came under fire from the MHP, who argued that extending the borders of metropolitan municipalities to the whole province would pave the way for federalism, indicating that mayors in those cities would resemble "state governors." Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin, however, played down the criticism and argued that the bill has nothing to do with such accusations.
"MPs from opposition parties accused us of damaging the unitary structure of Turkey and forming a basis for federal structure. They even blamed us for treason. The facts in this bill have nothing to do with the misgivings for federal structure," Şahin said in a thank-you speech. Under the bill, metropolitan municipalities and district municipalities in metropolitan cities have been obliged to spend 10 percent of their budgets for infrastructure works for the next 10 years.
Metropolitan municipalities and municipalities with populations of at least 100,000 have been obliged to establish "guest houses" for women and kids. The previous legislation used to state that women's shelters "could be" established in every municipality with a population of 50,000. Establishing the refuges for women has become mandatory, yet under the name of "guest houses."
Governors and mayors of metropolitan cities gained the right to obtain diplomatic passports.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, CHP deputy chair Gökhan Günaydın said the bill had not been discussed in public before it was submitted to Parliament. "We have asked for an appointment with the president. We would like to convey our views on the draft bill to the president. He should receive the opinions of NGOs, universities and all parts of society. He should ... should send the bill back to Parliament for a second debate."
EU seeks to reduce Turkey's role in Libya
Erdoğan vows more mayors from opposition will join AKP
Main opposition CHP calls on gov't to mediate between two rival parties in Libya
MHP voices support for government's Libya policy
Ruling AKP rejects opposition motion for inquiry into FETÖ's political establishment
MHP leader says Ankara should pursue pro-active diplomacy amid escalation in region
CHP launches disciplinary action into former deputy amid allegations against Ankara mayor
CHP leader accuses the gov't of 'betraying' Istanbul over canal project


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Q: Declaring and Initializing Arrays in Excel VBA Can anyone explain to me why this works:
Dim myArr As Variant `or, myArr()`
myArr = Array("Brian", "Steve", "Dan", "Mark", "Tom")

And this doesn't:
Dim myArr As String
myArr = Array("Brian", "Steve", "Dan", "Mark", "Tom")

I get Run-time error '13': Type mismatch

A: That's because the function Array returns a Variant:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa262675(v=vs.60).aspx


Richmond Gardens is a place in North East Glasgow and is mainly residential.
All Waterworks is a plumbing and heating firm offering a range of services for homes and businesses.
Map showing Richmond Gardens in Glasgow.


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North Korea's Dog-days
Singapore's 'Straits Times' happens to be one of my favourite newspaper. I like its format, special features. It has a strong international news coverage section for the simple reason that nothing much newsworthy happens in Singapore itself. It mostly presents a rational and balanced view point about world affairs that I like.
On 24th December 2013, 'Straits Times' broke a story written by Ching Cheong, Senior Writer and under a headline that said: " Jang's execution bodes ill for China." Though the headline itself was nondescript, what the article contained was so explosive that it went viral on the net immediately. The article referred to a news item published in Chinese government official mouthpiece newspaper in Hong Kong, Wen Wei Po, of December 12. The news item in this paper had given the detailed account of the execution of Jang Song Thaek, uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and No. 2 man in North Korea.
Strait Times article says and I quote:
"According to the report, unlike previous executions of political prisoners which were carried out by firing squads with machine guns, Jang was stripped naked and thrown into a cage, along with his five closest aides. Then 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called "quan jue", or execution by dogs. The report said the entire process lasted for an hour, with Mr Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader in North Korea, supervising it along with 300 senior officials."
The article describes further the reasons for this punishment as :
"The official litany of Jang's treason implicated China three times. Jang was accused of underselling coal and other natural resources for which China was virtually the sole customer. He was also charged with "selling off the land of Rason economic and trade zone to a foreign country for a period of five decades under the pretext of paying debts". Finally, he was accused of selling precious metals, thus disrupting the country's financial stability. In fact, China purchased some of North Korea's gold reserves several months ago. He was also accused of aiding Chinese businessmen in securing low prices for North Korean goods and commodities."
Commenting further, Strait Times article says:
" Two days later, the Global Times, associated with the People's Daily, a Chinese Communist Party organ, followed up with a sternly worded editorial by Lieutenant-General Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of Nanjing Greater Military Region, saying that the recent incident showed North Korea had become increasingly provocative and was getting out of (Chinese) control. He urged a complete reassessment of security threats originating from that direction. It also said that the abrupt political change epitomised the backwardness of the North Korean political system. It warned the Chinese government not to coddle North Korea any longer, saying that the majority of Chinese were extremely disgusted with the Kim regime."
After reading this, I was reminded of some B grade horror movies produced in Bollywood. It is no wonder that western media jumped at this article as it was published in Straits Times, which has a good reputation. The story become fodder for some Western commentators, who ravished on it, though it sounded absolutely incredible. What is unsettling, apart from the story itself, is the fact that given North Korea's reign of secrecy, it is almost impossible to verify. The story could be true or could be a fabrication either by Chinese or North Koreans themselves.
However some indication comes from South Korean news media. The story was not picked up by mainstream South Korean news media at all. Normally South Korean media,citing defectors or other sources, report many other stories from the North. For the South Korean press, the dog story was too sensational even by North Korean standards. No South Korean official has confirmed the report, indicating that the story is likely to be a Chinese fabrication.
As the dust settled down, many western commentators started raising doubts about the gory details of the execution. The Telegraph says: "tempting - probably too tempting to be true. The thing about North Korea is that it's so mad, so gruesome that it's difficult not to believe whatever tall story you hear about it," he writes. "Kim Jong Un ate a baby? The army uses kittens for target practice? Kim Jong Il's reanimated corpse stalks the countryside scaring children? It all seems possible." Even then, it's important to look at the agendas of the people who are spreading this story: The Straits Times is a respectable and widely read publication, but it's often been accused of being the mouthpiece of Singapore's ruling party and is staunchly anti-communist - so political bias is possible. Finally, we can't dismiss the possibility that China itself has fabricated or at least encouraged the story to send a message to Pyongyang. Kim's uncle was the architect of closer economic ties between the China and North Korea and there is thought to be a lot of anger about his death."
The Washington Post says: "The fact that the Western media have so widely accepted a story they would reject if it came out of any other country tells us a lot about how North Korea is covered - and how it's misunderstood,"
Slate magazine says: "If the North Korean government commented publicly on stories like this - but it's called the hermit kingdom for a reason. So given the Internet's insatiable appetite for weird North Korea stories, it becomes a bit of a free-for-all. The North Korean government does so many bizarre things we can confirm that a few of these dubious rumors must surely be true, right?"
Perhaps we shall never know the truth. But the fact remains that whether this dog story is true or not, as long as North Korea keeps on trampling on the basic human rights of its citizens, its dog-days are unlikely to be over.
Labels: fed to dogs, Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po, Jang Song Thaek uncle of North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, North Korea, Straits Times


500 EXCF, The best bike ever, that lies to me.
I've owned 13 bikes now, 7 of them dualsports, 6 sportbikes/other and the 2017 500excf I bought is by far the most fun bike I've ever owned! It has just enough punch on the highway to get around cars and pass without worry in stock config. Low end power that feels like it will pull me backwards out of the seat. Light enough that it reminds me of when I used to muscle around my little TW200 and do donuts in my yard (was my first bike). I've had more fun on this bike in one month than I have on any bike I've owned.
It also lies to me. It tells me "You are a good rider, it's all you doing this!", when I know that it's really the bike being flat out awesome. It begs me to take it into the dirt and lean it over, do donuts, go over stuff. It's always telling me to go off the highway onto the shoulder and explore. Bad influence; this bike.
Why do ALL of these bikes LIE!?!??
My 500 EXC lies to me all the time, and tells me that I'm a MUCH better rider than when I was riding my DRZ. Maybe that was my DRZ admitting that it was a pig!!!
Wait, wait, don't you need to roll it into your garage and spend another $2000 on stuff and grease and prep and desmog and remap and adjust TPS? And then ride it 1-2 times and then get the suspension redone.
You can't possibly be having fun with it in stock condition!
WHAT WAS I THINKING?! I forgot that without replacing the stock suspension components, and _______ and________ and _________ $$$$ that the bike was basically just a useless pile of bolts. Barely ride-able! Basically they just give you a bucket full of parts covered in oil at the dealership and then you take it home and set it in your garage and look at it... SORRY!
I hadn't been on a real dirt bike for about 8 years before buying this one. It took me a couple rides to get my dirt bike mindset back but damn, they are a confidence inspiring bike!!
I haven't ridden a bike in 25 years and I get on the 500 and feel like I never got off. First couple rides I was slow but I'm getting faster which is a bad thing when your older. You definitely need to respect this beast.
I'm practicing doing 180's, donuts and sliding the rear end out on hardpacked sand here... it's so light compared to my old BMW F800GS that I really am not afraid to dump it at low speeds. The BMW was a tank... not fun at low speed at all.
Do they get out of your way when you blow the horn?
I love showing up to the MX track with blinkers!!!
I actually did hit the horn on this get off.
That's a BAD day right there!!!
That's quite presence of mind to press the horn button just before you crash. One must keep their wits about them.
I'm forever signalling my buddies right before I crash that I'm going down to the right or the left.
Oh wait. Maybe that does rally matter since I'm always bringing up the rear.
Naaaa. I like what I said originally, I'm signalling for their benefit.
Hopefully your ok. Looks like it might have hurt cadman!


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Thomas Dewey Campaign Buttons. Welcome to the Thomas Dewey campaign buttons section on campaignbuttons-etc.com. New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey was the Republican Party presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948. Pictured here are Thomas Dewey campaign buttons along with one that features his 1948 running mate and future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren. Dewey won his first political office when he was elected District Attorney for New York County in 1937. For his 1944 vice presidential running mate, Dewey selected Senator John Bricker of Ohio.
Dewey And Bricker. 7/8 of an inch campaign button from 1944 for Thomas Dewey and his vice presiden..
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The Derma E Volume Shine Restoring Conditioner combines potent natural antioxidants, vitamins and botanicals to strengthen, smooth and moisturize your hair. It harnesses nature's most effective ingredients to give you lustrous locks.
Water, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Vegetable Derived), Cetyl Alcohol (Plant Derived), Brassicyl Isoleucinate Esylate (Plant Derived), Brassica Alcohol (Plant Derived), Glycerin (Vegetable Derived), Arginine, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Arnica Montana Flower Extract, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Panthenol (Provitamin B5), Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Cymbopogon Schoenanthus (West Indian Lemongrass) Oil, Cymbopogon Martini (Palmarosa) Oil, Natural Fragrance Oils.
Smells like fruit loops & it works for my pin straight heavy thick long hair & my kids curly knotty hair without buildup! Lasts for days!


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Q: OData JSON camelCase I want to use the CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver for the OData JSON response. How can I achieve this. With the follwoing Code Fragment only the webapi calls are considered.
regards
WebApiConfig.cs
public static class WebApiConfig
{
    public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        // New code:
        ODataModelBuilder builder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder();
        builder.EntitySet<Configuration>("Configurations");
        config.MapODataServiceRoute(
            routeName: "ODataRoute",
            routePrefix: "odata",
            model: builder.GetEdmModel());

        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "API Default",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );

        config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver();
        config.Formatters.Remove(config.Formatters.XmlFormatter);
    }
}

Global.asax.cs
public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
    protected void Application_Start()
    {
        AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

        var config = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration;
        var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings { ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver() };
        config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings = settings;

        FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
        GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register);
        RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
    }
}

A: You can use the EnableLowerCamelCase extension method:
using System.Web.OData.Builder;
using System.Web.OData.Extensions;

var builder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder();
builder.EnableLowerCamelCase();

See also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn746676%28v=vs.118%29.aspx.

A: This sample may meet your requirement, just start from this file:
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Film Review Round Up: Kick Ass 2, The Heat, Now You See Me (2013)
Kick Ass 2 (2013)
I may be bucking the trend, but I didn't really like the first Kick Ass film. I should have loved it really – I have no problem with children swearing or the violence, but it just didn't hit me right. I feel shame. The comic book is great though, and it may just have been the Kryptonite effect of Nicolas Cage in a bad wig. He's not in the second one though (which brightened my attitude considerably), and goodness me the whole thing gave me such a chuckle.
In Kick Ass 2 they seamlessly merge the violent vigilante superhero action with coming of age school drama, romance, father-son moments and a weird Secret Seven vibe into a thoroughly enjoyable punch-o-rama. The cast is great (keep your eyes open for British actors) with the delightful 'Justice League' characters / failures who Kick Ass teams up with. For me the story is still about Hit-Girl. Chloe Grace Meretz is fantastic. She nails the school/bitchy girls storyline and delivers beautiful action scenes. Kick Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has grown up a bit (pecs to bounce cars off) but is still heroically geeky. They're pitted against a revitalised Red Mist (or 'The Mother-Fucker' as he becomes known) in bondage gear and a degree in sociopathy, with his superb team of racistly-named mercs and assassins. Mother Russia is simply wonderful…
Continuous gory violent action scenes, very funny dialogue and characters with satisfying character arcs made this great for me. I know Jim Carrey (who is unrecognisable, and very good) has since complained that he hadn't realised it would be so violent and that it's inappropriate in the light of yet another school massacre in the States, but you'd think he would have noticed when he sics his dog on a man's genitals and gets a sword through his body. It seems like trite backpedalling. School shootings are horrible but have become commonplace in the US – whining about violent films is pointless. This film has a strong sense of the consequences of the characters' actions (and they are pretty bleak consequences), whereas the issue of violence in schools appears bereft of any sensible discussion of causes and consequences.
The Heat (2013)
Finally, another decent buddy-cop film. It feels like it's been a while. It's a classic genre and should be easy to get right – Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock nail it as the cops from two different sides of the street thrown together despite hating each other. Alright, so Bullock's a feeb, but at least to me that's just another kind of cop, one with a (possibly undeserved?) reputation for incompetence but a lesser scale of corruption than notorious villains the CIA. That's entirely irrelevant I'm afraid, though there are of course some bad cops in here.
One version of the story is that it's about which cop is best and what is the best way to be a cop – clearly the answers are 'both of them' and 'there are many ways to be a good cop'. Hollywood can't handle nuance so in this case one is an uptight neat-freak career-minded FBI agent who her colleagues hate (as you would any strong woman- thanks movies) despite her success record and the other a slobby scruffy violent possible menace to society feared by her colleagues and boss (as you would any strong woman- thanks again). So these two terrible women have to work together for reasons that will become apparent when you watch the film. It genuinely seems like the film is set up to make you hate at least one, preferably the 'superior' neat one, because that's worse than someone being a slob. Weirdly then, you end up loving both and enjoying the film.
This is a comedy, and a funny one. McCarthy's performances are genuine and she stands out to me from so many other Hollywood actors in how she portrays fearless and strong women. Obviously she's too fat and unattractive to possibly head the bill but she is undoubtedly the star here. Bullock delivers her fine straight-man role and together they spark, grate and achieve the exact character arc demanded by the genre and the audience. Yay them! The comedy between the leads is deeply enjoyable, especially as they get to know each other instead of threatening and stealing from one another. It is quite violent, which has predictably upset some people (imagine policing involving any violence), but it's well handled, well choreographed and timed for comic effect.
The supporting cast is great too – Mullins' (McCarthy's character) humiliated boss sets the scene very nicely, Marlon Wayans may finally have done a film he shouldn't be slapped for, and Mullins' ghastly car-crash family are all very good too. A lot of the family humour seems to be because they're Irish, and I must confess myself fairly baffled by inter-American racial/national stereotypes but I think it's because Irish-Americans stick to the poor and stupid stereotype, and they drink more than the darker-haired Italian Americans. Perplexing, but funny.
I loved it and laughed pretty much constantly, though the impressive gag rate does slow a bit when they get into the final action scenes (still satisfying though).
I quite enjoyed this slick crime caper with conjurors a while ago, though thinking back I can't actually remember much about it. Oh yeah… it's essentially a hollow film. Films about real magicians, i.e. people who are tricking you, are problematic, especially when they make a point (over and over again) of telling you that they're lying to you and trying to misdirect your attention. If you are paying attention, what they tell you right at the start is that what you think you're seeing is a lie. The effect is that you immediately detach from the story and the characters, knowing that whatever they now perform is untrue and that they'll just whoosh out an explanation at the end. Unfortunate… particularly when the end is total bollocks (no, magic is real. Oh fuck off.
Okay, now I'm irritated by it again. The performances are pretty slick, although most of the lead magic people spend the most of their screen minutes striding smugly from one side of a stage to the other while giving each other knowing winks and having CGI instead of magic tricks. The best scenes come early in the film as they're being interviewed by the FBI and the magicians are being dicks about it. It swiftly descends into absurd chases and escalating magic show heists that it's a struggle to care about.
Morgan Freeman is on standard form as a James Randi-style debunker of magic who we're supplied with as a failing bit of misdirection. Nice to see him and Michael Caine together again though. Most of the cast are criminally under-used (save for the afore-mentioned smugness) despite being reliable enough actors. That said, they do come across as exactly the kind of glib egotists who make money by pretending they aren't using a mirror (and then showing it to you) that you'd expect them to be. Maybe they do a better job than I gave them credit for.
It looks nice, but it's disappointing that there's so much CGI – creating the physical illusions would have been vastly more impressive, but it is somehow fitting that even the tricks are fake. And if you don't want to punch everyone at the stupid ending there is something wrong with you.
Film Review Round Up: Man of Steel, Despicable Me 2, Snitch, World War Z (2013)
Film Review: Pacific Rim (2013)
Film Review: After Earth (captainpigheart.com)
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To diagnose asthma, your doctor will review your medical history, family history, and symptoms. He or she will be interested in any history of breathing problems you might have had, as well as a family history of asthma or other lung conditions, allergies, or a skin disease called eczema. It is important that you describe your symptoms in detail (coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness), including when and how often they occur.
Your doctor will also perform a physical examination and listen to your heart and lungs.
All of these tests help your doctor determine if asthma is indeed present and if there are other conditions affecting it.
Pulmonary function tests (or lung function tests) include numerous procedures to diagnose lung problems. The two most common lung function tests used to diagnose asthma are spirometry and methacholine challenge tests.
Spirometry — This is a simple breathing test that measures how much and how fast you can blow air out of your lungs. It is often used to determine the amount of airway obstruction you have. Spirometry can be done before and after you inhale a short-acting medication called a bronchodilator, such as albuterol. The bronchodilator causes your airways to expand, allowing for air to pass through freely. This test might also be done at future doctor visits to monitor your progress and help your doctor determine if and how to adjust your treatment plan.
Methacholine challenge test — This test is more commonly used in adults than children. It might be performed if your symptoms and screening spirometry do not clearly or convincingly establish a diagnosis of asthma. Methacholine is an agent that, when inhaled, causes the airways to spasm and narrow if asthma is present. During this test, you inhale increasing amounts of methacholine aerosol mist before and after spirometry. The methacholine test is considered positive — meaning asthma is present — if the lung function drops by at least 20 percent. A bronchodilator is always administered at the end of the test to reverse the effects of the methacholine.
Ask your doctor if there is anything you need to do to prepare for spirometry.
Before taking a methacholine challenge test, be sure to tell your doctor if you have recently had a viral infection, like a cold, or any shots or immunizations, since these might affect the test's results.
Medicines taken to treat asthma can affect the test results. Different medicines must be stopped at different intervals. Your doctor will tell you how long before testing you should discontinue any medicines you are taking.
An X-ray is an image of the body that is created by using low doses of radiation reflected on special film or a fluorescent screen. X-rays can be used to diagnose a wide range of conditions, from bronchitis to a broken bone. Your doctor might perform an X-ray exam on you in order to see the structures inside your chest, including the heart, lungs, and bones. By viewing your lungs, your doctor can see if asthma is causing your symptoms.
There are some medical conditions that might make asthma harder to treat and control. Two of these conditions are sinusitis and gastroesophageal reflux disease, commonly called GERD. If you are diagnosed with asthma, your doctor might also test you for these conditions so that they can be treated.
Sinusitis, also called sinus infection, is an inflammation or swelling of the sinuses due to infection. When the sinuses become blocked and filled with fluid, bacteria grow, causing infection and inflammation. Your doctor might order a special X-ray, called a CT scan, to evaluate your sinuses if he or she suspects an infection. Once acute sinusitis is diagnosed, you will be treated with antibiotics for at least 10 to 12 days.


At this point, it's starting to seem that former GM and BMW executive Bob Lutz has a personal vendetta against Tesla CEO Elon Musk. While we're accustomed to the outspoken auto industry veteran lambasting Tesla, Lutz in recent months has really dialed up the vitriol, so much so that he's even taken to publicly making plainly false statements about Tesla's business.
Earlier today, Lutz appeared on CNBC where he absolutely laid into Musk, Tesla, and even Tesla's passionate fanbase, effectively calling the latter cult followers.
However, drawing a distinction between the two CEOs, Lutz said that whereas Jobs actually delivered real products and results, Musk offers nothing except hot air and increasingly dire financial results.
Now that's all well and good; Lutz is entitled to his opinion after all. That said, Lutz also made a point to completely and purposefully misrepresent Tesla's business. In short, Lutz claimed that Tesla will never be profitable, intimating that the company loses money every time they sell a Model S or a Model X.
This is horribly misleading and is not the first time we've come across such nonsense. Reuters last year, for example, used some backwards math and embarrassingly flawed logic to argue that Tesla loses $4,000 on every single car it sells. The reality is that the margins Tesla enjoys on the Model S and Model X are some of the best across the entire auto industry.
There is a big difference between losing money for every car sold and spending more money than you make. Considering the profit margin on the Model S is over 25%, Tesla is actually in the latter category. Making the Model S is profitable. Rapidly expanding into a major car manufacturer while making the Model S is not.
*Edit: look at it this way. You want to open a McDonalds. It will cost you $500,000, which you borrow from a bank. The first year you bring in a million dollars in revenue, and make $100,000 profit from sales. However, you borrowed and spent $500,000 opening the store, which means you sort of lost $400,000 that first year.
Would Reuters say you lose $2.00 for every Big Mac sold? I guess so.
Lutz's hate for Tesla, apparently, is so great that he either misses this point or purposefully ignores it. Like any startup, Tesla is spending every spare cent it has on capital expenditures, investing in itself for future products. The fact that Lutz, presumably a smart businessman, glosses over this fact is peculiar to say the least.
All in all, though, this isn't too much of a surprise given Lutz's previous statements about Tesla. Late last year, Lutz explained why he believes Tesla is doomed.


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SOUTH BEND, IN - Barbara J. Inks, 84, of South Bend passed away Monday, June 29, 2020 at Memorial Hospital in South Bend. She was born March 4, 1936 in Mishawaka to the late Harry and Ruth (Hamman) Palmer. On June 24, 1955 in Mishawaka, Barbara married her former husband, Jack Inks, who preceded her in death on April 30, 1990.
Barbara is survived by her daughters, Terri Huffman of Osceola, IN, Sherri Hallett of Arlington, WA, and Cynthia Shrock of Granger, IN; sons, Donald (Beth) Inks of South Bend, IN and Michael (Penny) Inks of Wakarusa, IN; fourteen grandchildren: Keith (Courtney) Inks, Glenn (Tiffaney) Inks, Sarah (Ryan) Jones, Carrie (Justin) Spencer, Jennifer (Patrick) Harrington, Nicholas (Jenn) Huffman, Tiffany (Michael) Yates, Bethannie (David) Polaski, Courtney (Chris) Bowman, Jessica (Brandon) Sargent, Corben Shrock, Jackson Shrock, Samuel Shrock, and Lucy Shrock; thirteen great-grandchildren; and sister, Debbie (Scott) Rippley of South Bend, IN. In addition to her parents and former husband, she is preceded in death by her sister, Joy Branch; brothers, Harry Palmer II and Albert Palmer; and sons-in-law, Mark Huffman and Scott Hallett.
Barbara worked in the dietary department at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center for 22 years before retiring in 1998. She was a Campfire Leader and Den Mother, as well as a lifetime member of the PTA. Barbara was an avid reader and loved sewing, knitting, decorating cakes, baking, and scrapbooking.
The family will gather privately at a later date. Palmer Funeral Homes-Hickey Chapel and Southlawn Cremation Services are assisting the family with arrangements.
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CJ 4DPLEX, the world's leading cinema technology company and Cineplex, a leading entertainment and media company, today announced a new agreement that could see the addition of up to 20 ScreenX locations in select Canadian markets over the coming years. Following the successful launch of Canada's first ScreenX auditorium at Cineplex Cinemas Queensway and VIP in Toronto, Ontario, the expanded agreement reflects the growing demand for immersive movie-going experiences in Canada.
ScreenX is the world's first multi-projection theatre technology that enables a 270-degree, panoramic movie-watching experience. Using a proprietary system to expand the centre screen image to the side walls, ScreenX surrounds audiences with imagery beyond the frame of the traditional movie screen and provides them with a sense of being inside the movie.
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Needless to say, this property in the Serpentine area of Surrey's Cloverdale precinct is surreal, but that would be a severe understatement.
The relatively new Italian-inspired mansion, built in 2014, is located in a sprawling 76-acre property at 4552 192 Street. Dubbed 'Villa Di Fonti', it was recently re-listed by Angell Hasman & Associates with an asking price of $25 million.
A three-storey, 11,000-sq-ft residence designed with Tuscan-style architecture, using high-quality wood and stone materials, is situated close to the core of the property. It features six bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, eight fireplaces, spa, home theatre, wine cellar, and an expansive outdoor patio with a large kitchen and pizza oven.
Outdoor features include a large outdoor pool with an infinity edge, a koi pond, and two lakes — one lake stocked with trout fish and one lake with a beach sand edge. There is also a putting green, landscaped gardens, fountains, and a 10-acre private vineyard.
Past the property's gated entrance, a 300-metre-long driveway into the residence is bordered by over a hundred tall Tuscan Cypress trees. There is parking capacity for over 50 vehicles and even a helipad.
The listing touts the property's history of "substantial income" from the film and television production industry and its low property taxes due to its farm status.
The mansion is built on the agricultural land reserve (ALR), a feat that is far more difficult to achieve today given the new stringent oversight of the real estate industry. Last fall, in response to complaints, the provincial government introduced new legislation that would restrict the size of residential properties on ALR — overriding municipal government policies.
The size of new homes on ALR will be limited to less than 5,400 sq. ft., unless there is direct proof a larger home would support a farming business.
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Woo! It's Friday! Woo! Say it with me! Woo!
As you are all cultured, delightful and good looking, you'll probably want to see some dance in the coming week.
Ballet BC's premiere of Jorma Elo's 1st Flash and the world premieres of two new creations by Shawn Hounsell and Medhi Walerski. Tonight and tomorrow at the QET, tickets at ticketmaster.ca.
The Chutzpah! Festival's dance offerings are all well worth checking out, and on Tuesday & Wednesday Feb 22 & 23, 8pm, and Thursday Feb 24 , 7pm, it's Israel's Kibbutz Dance at the Norman Rothstein Theatre. Featuring a company of 15 dancers, Kibbutz will perform the work Ekodoom.
New Works presents Tara Cheyenne Performance Feb 20, 2 & 4pm at the Roundhouse. Always a crowd pleaser, Artistic Director, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg–known for her character-driven solos, will introduce excerpts of the company's upcoming work. 2pm show is pay-what-you-can, tickets for the 4pm show @www.newworks.ca.
The extremely lovely Joe Laughlin's company, Joe Ink, premieres Dusk at the Firehall Arts Centre Feb 23-26, 8pm. Choreographed by Laughlin, the piece explores the changes in perception twilight brings. Tickets at the Firehall box office.
Finally, if you would like some lunch-time Chinese dance before you, no doubt, attend Wen Wei Dance and Beijing Modern Dance Company, check out Lorita Leung Dance Company at the Dance Centre on Thursday Feb 24 at 12pm. Tickets at ticketstonight.ca.
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You know that amillionstyles.com is where you can always get the latest, freshest and best of ankara styles on a daily basis. We always aim to please.
Apart from @tracy_loveday's simple but tasty gown, we also came across other styles that we knew might be of interest to you.
In this post, there is something for everyone. There are the new and creative designs, there is mix and match of other fabrics with ankara, there are the mini, midi and the maxi length dresses too. Whatever line your taste runs along, you will certainly find satisfaction here.


A group of administrators and users who tried to install the August or September 2018 patches on Windows 7 devices reported that the update installation would fail with error 0x8000FFFF.
The issue affected the monthly rollup updates and the security-only updates and meant that important security updates could not be installed on affected machines until the issue was resolved.
Admins and users who check the support article will notice that the error is listed as a known issue but that was not the case when the update was first released.
This update may fail to install with error 0x8000FFFF.
Before installing this update, install KB3177467, the last Servicing Stack Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, to resolve this issue.
Microsoft published an article on the Windows IT Pro blog that provides details on the issue and why it was not recognized by Microsoft earlier.
The company released a Servicing Stack Update for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 in October 2016. You can look it up under KB3177467.
The update was marked critical even though it was not a security update for Windows 7. The reason that Microsoft gives for the rating is that servicing stack updates are essential for the updating process.
Servicing stack updates, or SSUs, are periodic updates released to specifically service or update the software stack for Windows platforms. These are fixes to the code that process and manage updates that need separate servicing periodically to improve the reliability of the update process, or address issue(s) that prevent patching some other part of the OS with the monthly latest cumulative update (LCU).
Servicing stack updates ensure that you have a robust and reliable servicing stack so that your devices receive and install Microsoft security fixes.
Some organizations, admins and home users did not install the update on devices running Windows 7 and not doing so did not appear to have a negative effect on the update process as updates that were released after the release of the servicing stack update installed just fine.
That changed with the release of the August 2018 update for Windows 7 SP1. The update could not be installed on devices that did not have the servicing stack update installed; these devices threw error error 0x8000FFFF instead.
Installation of KB3177467 resolved the issue immediately but users and admins did not know about that until Microsoft added the information to the known issues of these updates.
Why did not Microsoft catch the error?
Microsoft states that it tests its monthly patches against fully patched systems only. The issue slipped by because Microsoft tested the patches only on systems with the updated servicing stack.
What is Microsoft going to do about it to avoid future issues?
Microsoft plans to reissue the update KB3177467 on the October 2018 Update Tuesday and classify it as a security update. While not a security update, classifying the update as such ensures that the update won't go unnoticed by customers this time.
Any future servicing stack update will be classified as a security update as well.
Now You: Did you experience the issue?
That one guy, Simplix, does more testing to his update pack for Windows 7 alone to ensure it installs fine every month than Microsoft does combined for all their supported software.
So basically it's fallout from their attempts at forcing people to upgrade to W10, IIRC most Servicing Stack Updates come with support articles that mention making it easier to upgrade to newer OS's such as W10 and when people read that they're immediately suspicious due to previous attempts at slipping W10 onto peoples systems.
Web sites should just stop covering Microsoft completely. Just stick a fork in it. It's done.
On a system with automatic updates enabled wouldn't the SSUs be installed automatically?
When 1809 comes out, just download the MediaCreationTool1809 and install it directly. There is no need to install 1803 first.
I did not have this problem on Windows 10 1808 when I installed KB4458469 on 2018-09-20 because Microsoft apparently knew of the potential servicing stack problem and included installation of KB4456655 for those who needed it, if WU was used.
It is a shame Microsoft apparently did not implement this information for older Windows versions in their 2018-09-20 update.
They will do everything in their power to shove Win 10 to all users . I remember how hard it was for them to overcome the Vista debacle and from its ruins emerged the best Windows OS since Win 2000( some would say DOS:/ ). I was so disappointed when i heard that "Hardware cabal" joined the effort denying Win 7 users newer and faster hardware. Shame on them!
The KB4457145 September 2018 Security Only patch installed fine without the KB3177467 Servicing Stack when I tested it.
Emoji designers run microsoft. Wait, emojis run microsoft.
Is it related to my issues here?
No it's not, the issue you've got is the post reboot part of Windows update that's meant to replace a file that was in use has been unable to replace said file, in this case "auditpol.exe.mui".
Try running check disk to make sure there's no problems with the file system and if that doesn't find any problems then you'd need to look into why the "auditpol.exe.mui" file located in "C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft-windows-m..ditevtlog.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.24214_en-us_5c965eb9d13c77e9" isn't being replaced.
It could be that your AV is blocking the replacement, it could be a permissions thing, or it could be that the hardlink is missing or broken.
We have an old laptop still running windows 7 because it just can't run windows 10. I keep it updated but there nearly 100 "optional" updates I've never installed because I don't need them.
Thank you it fixed my issue.