My article, published in the April 2008 edition of the Rocky Point Times, focused on ownership and title risks. I provided a Buyer's Checklist that buyers and real estate professionals could use to help reduce the risk, where real estate purchases are concerned. The Checklist will be updated every month with new information, as I receive additional input from real estate professionals in Puerto Peñasco. The Checklist, as well as all of my articles, can also be found on our website at www.realtyexecs-mexico.com. We want all buyers to be educated, ask the right questions, and know they are getting the right answers.
This month I am focusing on the financial risks related to your real estate purchase because, after all, it all boils down to protecting your money. In addition to being able to get proper title on your property, you also need to find the right way to safeguard your money. In addition to doing your homework to find the right property to buy, you also need to understand how, and if, your money is protected. Each purchase can have unique risks and the methods used to reduce financial risk should be chosen based on the amount of risk and / or money involved. Three key methods for financial risk management include; choosing reputable companies to work with, escrow accounts and the use of construction bonds.
Let's start with your deposit or earnest money. Most sellers request about 5% of the property price as a deposit when you make an offer. This money tells the seller that you are a serious buyer and will most likely follow through with your commitment to purchase. Where your deposit money is held is the first risk. For short-term sales, like the resale of a house or condo, using a real estate company that follows AMPI's (Asociacion Mexicana de Profesionales Inmobiliarios) ethical standards will help protect your deposit. Your risk is lower on a short term sale, but you need to ask if your deposit will be held in a separate earnest account. Ensure that your money is not delivered to the seller until you have rights of title of the property in your name. If you use a Notario, a reputable real estate company with licensed agents, and an escrow company, this risk can be managed.
For sales with a longer closing time, like buying a condo in a project that is under construction, your earnst money and initial deposit risk is higher and should be protected in an escrow account with the "Letter of Instruction" written to protect you (Escrow companies must distribute the money based on the letter of instruction provided by the developer, so this can vary with each escrow agreement). If you are unsure whether the letter of instruction is written to protect you, please consult with a lawyer or a trained real estate professional. If the project can be funded without your deposit money escrow accounts are a good risk reduction strategy.
- How is the project financed is a key question, will the developer disclose what percentage of the financing comes from the developer, investors, financial institutions, and buyers? From this you can see what portion of the risk the end buyer (you) has.
- If a financial institution loan is involved, ask what conditions are attached - all banks have their own conditions and terms. (eg: the bank will contribute $1 for every $3 the developer invests; or maybe they will provide the loan when sales have hit a certain percentage.) Even developers safeguard their investments and may not invest more money if sales are slow.
- If the project fails to be adequately funded are the investors left with anything real?
- Is the project far enough along to have created equity that the investors get a share of if the project fails to be completed? Generally, the further along the project is, the lower the risk of you losing your investment.
- Are there other investors ahead of you as beneficiaries (like banks)?
- So, how do you protect yourself if the developer does not meet their stated commitments?
- What if the project is delivered a year past its due date, can you get your money back or are there interest penalties?
- When a project is moving along, selling units, and bringing in cash, it's easy for a developer to back their commitments. But what happens when the sales slow down? Can the developer still meet all of their commitments? Another good question to ask is whether or not they planned ahead for slow sales periods or if they assume sales will stay brisk?
- If the project fails completely, you need to know what the developer has to lose as you should not have more to lose than the developer or financial institutions backing the project.
Traditionally, buyers can reduce their risk and increase their protection by choosing a development that has a strong reputation for delivering on its promises. Check that the developer has built a similar size project and that the contract is written to give you recourse if commitments are not met. The only true secure approach in this case is securing a construction bond. With a construction bond the developer warranties your investment against other properties based on performance commitments. Bonds are seldom used because they are very expensive and the developer carries the entire risk making the project not profitable. But there is a way to reduce the cost of these bonds by buying smaller dollar value bonds and renewing them matching the project progress. You will need to see that the bond is written to compensate you (a project may have a bond in place that is not payable the City of Puerto Peñasco) if contract commitments are not met. It is possible for projects to get bonded which will help manage your risk. Times have changed and the developer who looks out for the buyers' interest, and helps to reduce their risk, should be rewarded with your business.
I happen to have firsthand knowledge of bonds as I have one for the house I am building in Laguna Shores. My contractor has a performance bond, which cost just over $5,000.00 USD, and took several months to get. My bond is for one-quarter of the construction value and is renewed at each phase, which is approved by me, the owner of the development. The bond is taken out for a specified amount and if commitments and obligations are not met, I receive the difference between the work that has been completed and the bond amount. In other words, I receive compensation for the amount of work that has not been completed. When obtaining a bond, make sure that every obligation and commitment is spelled out clearly and precisely so there are no questions in the end.
If you are financing or acquiring a loan to complete the purchase of your property, take a close look at the conditions of the loan to make sure you can live with the consequence the lender builds into the contract to protect themselves. If you are getting a loan from the seller, again, make sure the contract is written to equally protect you.
Remember to match the level of financial protection with the level of risk you are exposed to. Of course I would like to see everyone go through a licensed real estate professional, but if you choose to go it alone please use the Buyer's Checklist – it will save you a lot of headaches and get you off on the right foot. If you are currently working with a real estate agent and do not like the answers you are getting, it may be time to seek the advice of a licensed real estate professional.
Wayne Corcoran MBA PMP, is the General Manager/Broker of Realty Executives in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico and the Chief Operating Officer for the master franchise Realty Executives Mexico. He brings over 30 years of risk based business management to the firm and can be reached at (011-52-638) 383-5856 or at their new office located in Plaza del Mision on Blvd. Fremont just past the turn off to Las Conchas.


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Nacque da Giambono di Giacomo, probabilmente nel paese di Costozza, vicino a Vicenza.

Nel registro del Collegio dei notai di Vicenza - dove gli statuti consentivano l'iscrizione anche al di sotto dei vent'anni - degli anni 1316 e 1320 appare la sua matricola, e questo fa presumere che fosse nato intorno al 1300. La sua famiglia, probabilmente originaria o comunque residente a Costozza, si era trasferita a Vicenza nel 1311, quando il padre e il nonno di Conforto assistevano al Consiglio Maggiore del Comune. Manca l'indicazione della professione di Giambono, ma tre dei suoi quattro figli furono notai: tra essi Enrico detto Pulice, conosciuto come poeta e corrispondente del Petrarca.

Conforto rimase iscritto al Collegio notarile per settant'anni, ne fu sindaco nel 1340, "consiliarius" nel 1345, gastaldo nel 1355, membro del consorzio dei conductores et exactores dacci camporum cioè esattori del dazio negli anni '50. Possedeva beni a Thiene e case e molini vicino a Costozza, che furono bruciati dai Padovani nel 1386, durante la guerra tra Scaligeri e Carraresi; probabilmente la sua residenza cittadina era in borgo Padova, dal 1365 in una casa con corte e giardino di proprietà delle monache benedettine di San Pietro. Egli stesso ricorda di essere stato tra gli ottanta "perterriti" cittadini costretti a giurare fedeltà ai figli del moribondo Cansignorio della Scala nel 1375.

Per quanto è dato di sapere, Conforto iniziò la sua attività di cronista solo dopo i settant'anni, quando scrisse una cronaca dei fatti vicentini compresi tra gli anni 1371 e 1387, i Frammenti di storia vicentina, pubblicata poi da vari autori. In essa fornisce anche notizie della propria famiglia: i figli Lodovico e Taddeo, la nuora Margherita, i numerosi nipoti, uno dei quali - Francesco - morì nel 1389. Questa data fa ritenere che egli sia morto, probabilmente poco dopo, ad un'età molto avanzata.

L'opera
Il testo autografo dei Frammenti è conservato nella Biblioteca Bertoliana di Vicenza; senza prefazione e senza le prime pagine d'inizio, comprende anche alcune notizie di carattere familiare insieme con quelle di carattere più generale; rappresenta quindi un'opera di interesse più privato che pubblico. Lo stile in latino semplice e vicino al volgare ricorda le opere duecentesche di modesti cronisti vicentini, come Gerardo Maurisio e Nicolò Smereglo.

L'opera racconta i fatti avvenuti nel territorio vicentino negli anni 1371-87 in modo cronologico e con notevole precisione ma senza adeguate valutazioni politiche, pur mettendo in rilievo le forti passioni generate dalle rivalità dei signori. Fu ostile ai Carraresi e fedele agli Scaligeri finché il comportamento di Antonio della Scala, durante la guerra del 1386, gli fece vedere la conquista di Vicenza da parte di Giangaleazzo Visconti come una grazia di Dio.

Ciò che rende interessante l'opera e arricchisce la conoscenza dell'epoca è la sua rappresentazione del mondo, visto con l'ottica di un modesto cittadino. Tipicamente tardo medievale è la spiegazione dei fenomeni astronomici e meteorologici, intesi sia come la causa dell'abbondanza o mancanza di viveri, sia come relativi a vicende umane. Interessanti le descrizioni di feste, giostre e processioni, così come il racconto di una rappresentazione sacra realizzata dal clero vicentino per la festa di Pentecoste nel 1379, preziosa testimonianza del teatro sacro in Italia.

Nelle cronache di guerra Conforto più che i gloriosi fatti d'arme mette in rilievo le sofferenze della popolazione civile e descrive con ricchezza di dettagli gli episodi di pestilenza. Esprime tradizionali sentimenti religiosi, ma talora indulge nella narrazione di fatti meravigliosi, come quando parla dell'apparizione nella sua casa di una donna misteriosa, o racconta come lo spirito di un collega morto da poco fosse tornato dall'inferno per confessare, per bocca di un vivente, le frodi commesse quando era in vita.

Edizioni dell'opera di Conforto
 Conforti Pulicis, Fragmenta Historiae Vicentinae, in L. A. Muratori, Rer. Ital. Script., XIII, Mediolani 1728, coll. 1233-1272
 Frammenti della cronaca di Conforto da Costozza, anni 1372-1387, a cura di Domenico Bortolan, Vicenza 1886, con traduzione e albero genealogico
 Confort (Conforto) da Costoza, Frammenti di storia vicentina, in Rer. Ital. Script., 2 ed., XIII, 1, a cura di C. Steiner, Città di Castello, 1915

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Predicting the unpredicted: what longitudinal data can tell us about the 2019 Australian federal election
Author/editor: Biddle, N.
Issue no.: 6
On 11 April 2019, the then Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove called a Federal election for 18 May. According to the Newspoll published on 7 April, the two-party preferred vote reported Labor with an election-winning lead of 52% to 48% over the Coalition, with almost identical primary votes for the two major parties (39% each). Although there were some minor variations, all other polls, most pundits and the betting markets were all predicting an election win for Bill Shorten and Labor. That is not what transpired on election day. The eventual result was a return of the Scott Morrison Coalition government, with a twoparty preferred vote of 51.5% for the Coalition and 48.5% for Labor. Clearly, the polls were not able to accurately predict the election outcome. Despite supposedly being in an era of 'big data', prediction markets that make use of far larger sources of information also failed to predict the election outcome.
This paper summarises analysis of recently available longitudinal data to consider one potential aspect of the Australian election result variation between who respondents say they will vote for when asked in the lead-up to an election and who they end up voting for. Using linked ANUPoll data, we are able to track respondents at the individual level, with information on actual voting behaviour and voting intentions both at the time the election was called and a number of months before. In addition, we have information on some of the predictors of electoral volatility identified in the literature, as well as some predictors not used in previous analyses. In addition to highlighting a large degree of intraelection volatility that is partially explained by observable characteristics, the main conclusion from the analysis is that differences between polling results and the election outcomes were primary due to those who were undecided in the lead-up to the election, and those who said that they were going to vote for the non-major parties but swung to the Coalition.
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The Palo Alto High School Vikings track and field team (5-0) will take on the Gunn High School Titans (0-3) at home, for the final dual meet of the season later today. The Viking's boys Varsity team, undefeated this season, can extend the winning streak if they manage to run the 4×400 relay in a time similar to the season record.
The Vikings' fastest 4×400 time this season is nearly 15 seconds ahead of Gunn's fastest recorded time, according to Athletic.net, giving them an excellent chance of defeating their opponents and leading the Varsity boys team to victory.
"In general, Paly has done well against Gunn but …they have some incredible athletes and it should be a good meet," senior sprinter Sherwin Amsbaugh (a staff member of The Paly Voice) said.
Most meets come down to the last event, the 4×400 relay, which usually ends up being the difference-maker in the meet. Earlier this season, during Palo Alto High School's meet against Los Gatos, scores was extremely close until the very last event, but victories in the 4×400 pushed Paly over the edge, leading to a win for the Vikings.
"The current season has been going really well both personally and as a team…the team has fared incredibly well," Amsbaugh said.
Amsbaugh is one of the four seniors on the relay team this season, and is hoping to defeat the Titans in his final home meet of his high school career.
"I'm incredibly motivated. I'm going to do everything in my power to perform better than I ever have before," Amsbaugh said.


Mother Earth appreciates a little holiday upcycling. Your mother-in-law, on the other hand, may not.
Cheaper DIY alternative: Your own toilet paper rolls.
In case you can't be with the loved ones you dislike this holiday, get your point (and smell) across with help from a special gas delivery.
The taxidermic rodent is perfect for vegans and people with overly fancy home decor.
If you're in the mood to DIY, try the ' Tarxidermied Fish Helmet' on Instructables. Or shellac roadkill.
Also, you probably shouldn't click anything on that website, unless you're also interested in storing nuclear waste in your yard.
For a more subtle approach, try the Cellulose Face Roller.
The best choice for the perpetually single gal or guy on your holiday gift giving list.
Add a hand-written note that reads "Wash away the loneliness" for a personal touch.
Help the jerk in your life go incognito with this camouflage trucker hat.
Best suited for the person dim enough to actually wear it, preferably to formal occasions.
A pack of googly eyes goes a long way in creating cringe-worthy DIY gifts. Stick on hairballs, gently-worn underwear or anything else you have laying around the house.
For the neat freak in your life, a box filled with glitter will leave lasting memories of the holidays.
Encourage a small child to help with opening the gift for maximum glitter blanketing.
An empty box is too easy. Up your game with a prank pack.
The Crib Dribbler (pictured) is best suited for irritating parents.
Doodle a portrait, wrap with a rubber band.
'Tis the season for giving. 'Tis also the season for subtly masking feelings of resentment while indulging in eggnog and yule logs around a toasty fire. Nothing shatters holiday cheer quite like exchanging gifts with someone you'd prefer to stuff down a chimney.
Sure, you could go the obvious route and not get anything for the Scrooge in your life. But after knocking back a few cups of Grandma's special peppermint schnapps cocktail, you might regret that decision.
Fret not, revenge-seeking holiday gifter; we gathered 10 wacky, gross and possibly traumatizing presents perfect for the people you don't like.
What's the worst holiday gift you've ever received? Share your gift-wrapped horror stories in the comments.


PHOENIX — The need for public confidence in judges outweighs their First Amendment right to personally solicit donations for their campaigns, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded Wednesday.
In a ruling that directly affects Arizona, the majority of the court rejected arguments by a Florida attorney that she has the right to raise money in her bid for election as a judge. She argued that prohibitions in that state — just as there are in Arizona — interfere with her bid for office.


Taking the perfect selfie is harder than it looks. From lighting issues to skin blemishes to your own limited arm span, there are often numerous things at play that prevent you from putting your best face forward, so to speak. Before you share another so-so smartphone self-portrait on social media (or relegate it immediately to the trash), learn how to look better in selfies with a few easy (and mostly free) tricks of the trade.
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Natural light is always the most flattering, so whenever possible, snap your selfies outdoors. However, shooting outdoors has its challenges, too. Bright midday sun can cause squinty eyes, harsh shadows, and blown-out highlights, so position yourself with the sun behind your head. You'll be back-lit and your hair will look like it's glowing, which is always much prettier than squinting.
Alternatively, you can stand in the shade of a building or a tree. Watch out for unflattering spotty light that's filtered through tree branches -- the bright spots will always overexpose and look far too bright in the photo.
Stuck inside? Take advantage of natural light coming in from outside by taking your selfie while facing a window or standing in an open doorway.
If you're indoors and can't find any natural light -- say, you work in a cubicle or it's already dark outside -- try experimenting with different lamps and overhead lights, a tip that comes from Donna Kim, Lifestyle and Beauty expert and creator of DonnaDaily.com. Lightbulbs can produce a variety of color temperatures, some of which are more flattering for skin tones than others. Then, when you're ready to say "cheese," face the light source instead of blocking it with your body for a soft, even glow.
In a pinch, lamps can offer flattering lighting for selfies.
The flash is not your friend. Unless you like how selfies look when you're overexposed and the background is pitch black, remember to turn off the flash on your camera before aiming it at your face. Camera flashes work best to brighten objects at an intermediate distance, but when used close up, their intense light will almost always wash you out.
If you're frequently snapping selfies in dark places or outside at night, you might want to invest in a phone case that lights up. One popular choice is LuMee, which features dimmable LED lights on the left and right sides for soft, even illumination.
A light-up phone case like LuMee offers soft illumination for better selfies.
Your phone's built-in camera should allow you to adjust the exposure simply by tapping on the screen. If the box that measures the exposure is positioned on something dark like a navy shirt or a shadow, the image will auto-adjust and become brighter. If it's hovering on something bright, the image on your screen will get darker. For that just right exposure in your selfie, tap the screen so that the box is centered on your face.
There are also camera apps like Camera+ and Open Camera that enable you to make other manual adjustments like the focus point and white balance, giving you more control over how your selfie turns out.
It's amazing what a difference a simple tilt of the head can make. Take a couple of practice shots, moving your face left and right and then lifting and lowering your chin a bit until you find your most flattering angle. We all have a side of our face that looks better than the other -- even supermodels.
Instead of holding the camera slightly above your head, which Kim says can work when you're taking a group selfie but looks awkward for a solo shot, hold the phone directly in front of you with one hand. Don't look at the screen, though. Instead, look straight into the camera lens or, for a more moody selfie, off to the side.
Turn your head and look away for a more flattering selfie.
Your phone's front-facing camera probably has a lower resolution than the back camera, so selfies never look quite as sharp as traditional photos. Unfortunately, it's even worse: tapping your phone's on-screen shutter button, the easiest way to take a photo, creates some jiggle -- and that can introduce blur.
A popular alternative is to use your phone's side volume buttons. Not only do they almost feel like you're pushing the shutter release on a real camera, but they make it much easier to snap a one-handed selfie.
Here's a tip for iPhone users: If you're wearing your phone's earbuds, you might be happy to know that the volume buttons are usually also another camera shutter release.
When taking a selfie, it helps to put as much distance as possible between yourself and your phone as possible, as smartphone cameras tend to create lens distortion when held too close. Obviously, if you're trying to take a self-portrait that includes more than just your face, simply holding the phone at arm's length isn't going to cut it. That's when gadgets like selfie sticks comes in handy. (That is, if you feel comfortable using a selfie stick in public).
Use a self-timer app to take a selfie from farther away.
A few years ago, it was trendy to look like you were sucking on a lemon in your selfie, also known as "duck face." As the name suggests, it turns out that pursing your lips together and outward wasn't particularly flattering. Remember that an easy, authentic smile almost always looks better in selfies than duck face or fish gape or sea otter smile whatever the next popular facial expression turns out to be.
But if smiling into your front-facing camera feels forced, try this tip from a photographer: Give a little chuckle before hitting the shutter release button. You'll find it that it's hard to laugh without breaking out into a smile.
Despite your best efforts to shoot with proper lighting and only capture your good side, sometimes selfies need to be fine-tuned in post-production. Photo editing apps can brighten dark images, add more saturation, and change the hue of a photo. Donna Kim, for example, loves Snapseed (available for iPhones and Androids) to brighten the ambience on her selfies.
There are even photo editing apps that can remove blemishes, smooth skin, add volume to hair, or even add mascara and lipstick to a bare face. The Kardashians reportedly use Facetune to edit their selfies, a powerful and somewhat-complicated app available in iTunes and Google Play. Photo Editor by Aviary, another popular iOS and Android app, can fix redeye, vanish pimples, and whiten teeth.
Facetune is like Photoshop for your phone.
If you aren't interested in making nitty-gritty changes like adjusting curves or using a clone tool to create clear skin, you can quickly change the look of your selfie by adding a filter. Instagram offers it's own set of filters, but many expert selfie-takers prefer using VSCO. Another fun choice is A Color Story, which features more than 100 filters, plus light leaks, flares, and color fogs.


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Clean, green and captivating, the colourful port of Reykjavik is one of Europe's most enchanting cities.
The world's northernmost national capital offers stunning views, a thriving arts scene and a warm welcome that belies its subarctic climate. A beautiful skyline, dramatic coast and rich cultural heritage come together in a city that also makes an ideal gateway to Iceland's glaciers, geysers and lava fields.
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Swim in a geothermal pool
No trip to Iceland is complete without a swim in an outdoor geothermal pool. Reykjavik has over a dozen naturally heated baths to choose from, including Vesturbæjarlaug, Laugardalslaug and Arbaejarlaug. Swimming is an important social activity in Iceland, so this is a great way to mix with the locals while getting some exercise.
Go skiing at Bláfjöll
At the other end of the temperature scale, you can go skiing on a trip to Reykjavik. The volcanic resort of Bláfjöll (aka the Blue Mountains Country Park) has some of the best slopes in Iceland, with 16 lifts, as well as cross country skiing trails. It's just a 30-minute drive southeast of the city.
Climb Mount Esja
Around six miles (10km) north of the capital lies the imposing Mount Esja range, a favourite hiking destination with locals and visitors alike. You can take one of several trails up into the volcanic mountains, including well-trodden routes to Þverfellshorn and Kerhólakambur. All give you a good look at some fascinating geology, flora and fauna.
Visit Elliðaárdalur valley
The reforested Elliðaárdalur valley is a significant recreational spot within the city borders. As well as walking and cycling, you can swim, go horse-riding and take a ride on the ski lift. Anglers take note – the river Elliðaár is one of the top salmon fishing rivers in the country.
Ice skate on Tjörnin
The cold winter temperatures in Reykjavik mean the Pond very often freezes over, creating a shimmering natural ice rink in the centre of the city. Ice skating is a popular activity here, and less risky than you might think – the average water depth is under two feet at 57cm.
Marvel at Gullfoss and Haukadalur
The stunning Gullfoss waterfall, a 90-minute drive east of Reykjavik, is one of Iceland's greatest natural sights – and that's saying something in the land of fire and ice. The 105ft (32m) cascade consists of two drop sections, the largest of which is 69ft (21m) in height. Combine a trip to the falls with a visit to nearby Haukadalur to see two of Iceland's most spectacular geysers. Strokkur and Geysir are the largest and best-known in this area – the latter is so remarkable it's where we get the word geyser from.
Explore Iceland's south coast
Iceland has stunning coastal landscapes, shaped over millions of years by plate tectonics and the power of the sea. The south coast, with its imposing cliffs, sleepy villages and rolling lava fields, is one of the more scenic stretches. Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss waterfalls are within a two-hour drive of the capital, with the eerie Reynisdrangar sea stacks and Reynisfjara black sand beach also nearby.
Learn about Viking history
To learn about Norse history, visit Viking World in Njarðvík, a 40-minute drive west of Reykjavik along Route 41. The museum's permanent and temporary exhibitions shed light on the early, brutal days of Icelandic settlement. The attraction's centrepiece is the Íslendingur, a replica of the mighty Gokstad Viking ship recovered from a Norwegian burial mound in 1880. To make a full day of it, you can combine a trip to the museum with a wider exploration of the rocky Reykjanes Peninsula.
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 7:50 pm Post subject: Terminal + slrn + Japanese How?
I want to read Japanese newsgroups using slrn. I am using LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 and LANG=en_US. Japanese works fine in mutt and vim.
Messages are not decoded properly in slrn.
I understand that you need to edit .slrnrc for character set and mime types, but I don't know what to enter.
but that didn't seem to do it.


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MY TURN: Before social networking, pen pals told of mysterious, faraway places
PUBLISHED: July 5, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 8:19 a.m.
I find it amazing that I can recall names of people from the distant past when sometimes I don't recall the name of someone just introduced to me at a party. This bad habit has dogged me throughout my adult life.
Most people my age (89), must remember the children's magazine "Wee Wisdom." Our much older cousins in Minneapolis sent a subscription to my sister and me when we were still in the lower grades. We read it cover to cover when it came, sent in poems for the poetry page and listed our names and addresses in the "Pen Pals Wanted" column.
I was surprised to hear from two girls from South Africa who desired to correspond with me. A couple of days ago their names popped up in my mind after not thinking about it for a long time – Annis van Gelder and Lili van der Linde.
We wrote back and forth right through grade school and to the end of high school. At the time, I barely realized that those strange names were representative of the Dutch population called the Boers. The Boers, also known as the Afrikaners, was a name given the Dutch farmers who settled in South Africa. Actually, the Dutch were the first white settlers to settle the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. The history of the conflict of the Boers (Afrikaners), with the British in the northern regions called the Transvaal never entered into the girls' writings any more than I wrote about our history, which is as it should be with children. There are enough discussions of that after we are grown.
In the early 1940s, I worked in St. Paul for an old man named Pierce who had fought in the Boer War (1899-1902), which still didn't make a connection for me until I read the novel "The Covenant" by James A. Michener.
Michener explains the confusing history Pierce never talked about and I never thought to ask about. It is a long and interesting fictional narration following the history of South Africa 15,000 years ago to the 1980 publication date as only Michener can do it.
In retrospect, my boss, Pierce, with his English-sounding name, would indicate to me that he must have fought on the side of the British in this struggle. Michener explains the confusing history using mostly fictional names and events.
The two girls wrote in English. They told me of life in the Transvaal and sent pictures of their family holiday trips to Kruger National Park, named after Paul Kruger, Afrikaner president of the Transvaal during the Boer War. The letters flew back and forth over the years. Knowing what I do now, I would have asked them a lot more questions, whether they also spoke Afrikaans, the other official language. I saved the many letters with their strange postage stamps but they are now lost to time, probably discarded by my parents when they cleaned out their attic when they moved to California.
I had other pen pals over time. One I remember was a Jimmy Hirsch who lived in Texas. This was what I thought to be my only boy pal at the time. We corresponded for some time before I received a letter of confession. Jimmy was really Dorothy. She said that she didn't think I would write if I knew she was a girl. But it didn't make any difference.
One day I received a flat package in the mail from Dorothy. It was a piece of plywood cut out in the shape of Texas and on it was painted a field of bluebonnets, the Texas state flower. This also was lost to time.
Years later while driving through Texas, I saw firsthand fields of these flowers.
I had other pals in Africa – a black boy from the Ivory Coast and another black boy who lived in Liberia, a country founded for slaves who had been freed, and a black girl in Jamaica who sent me pictures of herself. I have never been prejudiced about the color of people and this was a new experience for me living in a small Minnesota town with no black residents.
These were different times when life was simple but the people were not. I think the term "pen pal" has become obsolete today with a jumble of messages of all kinds flying through the atmosphere and cable by computer, Facebook, Blackberry, Twitter, cell phone and on and on, often deleted in minutes or days. Now friends are everywhere, more friends than one can keep up with or really be a friend to, often short-lived occurrences.
I can't say this is all bad. You don't miss what you don't have and you do what is being done at the moment.
History may repeat itself but it doesn't go backwards. Letters that cross the ocean or the nation at postal speed cannot replace instantaneous messages.
But fast will never create the thrill of receiving a mysterious letter from overseas from an even more mysterious writer.
Don Peyer is a 47-year Carson resident and the former president of the United Amateur Press Association.
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Haze hovers over Indian capital as peak pollution season arrives
NEW DELHI: India's capital was covered in a blanket of choking grey air and pollution on Saturday, with government data showing air quality slumping to "severe" or "very poor" levels in almost all parts of Delhi.
Authorities have already advised residents to keep outdoor activity to a minimum from the beginning of next month until at least the end of the Hindu festival of Diwali on Nov. 7, when firecrackers typically further taint air already hit by the burning of crop stubble in neighboring states.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), 25 out of 31 monitoring stations in various localities of Delhi for which data https://app.cpcbccr.com/AQI_India was available on Saturday showed that the air quality in those areas could "seriously impact" the health of sick people and affect even those without any respiratory illness.
The rest of the five monitoring stations showed "poor" air quality, which the CPCB says can cause breathing discomfort to most people on prolonged exposure.
"We have been stripped of our #RightToBreathe," DelhiPollution, an online forum to engage people on pollution in Delhi, said on Twitter.
Like last winter, many parents in Delhi plan to send their children out of the city.
Some doctors in the capital said they had already begun to witness a surge in patients with respiratory problems.
Prashant Saxena, head pulmonologist at the Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, said the number of patients coming to him with breathing problems, asthma, chest and related ailments has increased 15-20 percent in the past two weeks.
"I am expecting it to rise further, because the air quality is worsening and pollution is an ever increasing problem here," he said.
"I am getting a lot of people who are not getting relief easily. They require medication for longer."
Despite pressure from health experts, the government this year held off on a wholesale ban on fireworks and has faced criticism for failing to prevent farmers in states neighboring Delhi from burning stubble.
To curb pollution levels around Diwali, the country's top court this month only allowed the use of "green" firecrackers, but it was unclear how the rule would be enforced or whether there was such a thing as an environmentally safe firework.
Environmentalists have also questioned the credibility of the federal government's target to reduce stubble burning by 70 percent in neighboring Punjab and Haryana states this year.
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Micracis is a genus of typical bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. There are more than 60 described species in Micracis.

Species
These 63 species belong to the genus Micracis:

 Micracis aculeatus LeConte, 1868
 Micracis acutipennis Eichhoff, 1878b
 Micracis amplinis Wood, 1971
 Micracis asperulus LeConte, 1878b
 Micracis bicornus Blackman, 1920a
 Micracis biorbis Blackman, 1920a
 Micracis burgosi Wood, 1982a
 Micracis carinulata Wood, 1960b
 Micracis carinulatus Wood, 1960
 Micracis carinulus Wood, 1969b
 Micracis costaricensis Wood, 1969b
 Micracis cubensis Blackman, 1928a
 Micracis detenta Wood, 1969b
 Micracis detentus Wood, 1969b
 Micracis difficilis Schedl, 1965c
 Micracis dimorphus Schedl
 Micracis evanescens Wood, 1956a
 Micracis exilis Wood, 1971
 Micracis festiva Wood, 1969b
 Micracis festivus Wood, 1969b
 Micracis giganteus Schedl
 Micracis grandis Schedl, 1948h
 Micracis harnedi Blackman, 1920a
 Micracis harunganae Schedl
 Micracis hirtellus Leconte, 1876
 Micracis ignotus Schedl, 1965c
 Micracis incerta Wood, 1971
 Micracis incertus Wood, 1971
 Micracis inimicus Wood, 1969b
 Micracis knulli Blackman, 1943a
 Micracis langstoni Blackman
 Micracis lepida Wood, 1969b
 Micracis lepidus Wood, 1969b
 Micracis lignator Blackman, 1928
 Micracis lignicolus Wood, 1969b
 Micracis longula Nunberg, 1956a
 Micracis madagascariensis Schedl
 Micracis meridianus Blackman, 1920a
 Micracis mexicanus Schedl, 1948h
 Micracis minimus Wood, 2007
 Micracis nanula Leconte, 1876
 Micracis opacicollis LeConte, 1878b
 Micracis opacithorax Schedl, 1940a
 Micracis ovata Wood, 1956a
 Micracis ovatus Wood, 1956a
 Micracis pennatus Schedl, 1965c
 Micracis photophilus Wood, 1956a
 Micracis populi Blackman, 1920a
 Micracis punctatorugosus Schedl, 1948h
 Micracis pygmaeus Schedl, 1948h
 Micracis robustus Schedl, 1948h
 Micracis rudis Leconte, 1876
 Micracis senta Wood, 1971
 Micracis sentus Wood, 1971
 Micracis suturalis LeConte, 1868
 Micracis swainei Blackman, 1920
 Micracis torus Wood, 1971
 Micracis tribulata Wood, 1969b
 Micracis tribulatus Wood, 1969b
 Micracis tropicus Wood, 2007
 Micracis truncatus Wood, 1956a
 Micracis unicornis Wood, 1969b
 Micracis vitulus Wood, 1971

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Raboo Debuts Its New Smart Charger With Bluetooth - CES 2018
By Daniel Golightly January 09, 2018, 7:05am
Raboo Technologies plans to show off a patented new innovation in wired device charging at CES 2018, which promises to solve at least some of the problems that result from users leaving their device charging over longer periods of time. The device - which will be sold as the Raboo Smart Charger - utilizes both Bluetooth and wired, wall adapter charging through a built-in USB port to accomplish its goals. For those attending CES this year who may want to check out the new charger, the company says that the Smart Charger will be demonstrated in Las Vegas at Eureka Park Marketplace at Sands in Hall G.
Raboo is billing its Smart Charger as an environment-friendly solution to the problems created by batteries needing to be replaced - which often enough results in far less eco-friendly device replacements. That's because batteries which are charged at an incorrect rate or those that are charged overnight almost always suffer damage over the long term, which causes drops in battery performance and capacity. The marketing used here makes some sense since the materials used to create smartphone components tend to incorporate rare earth materials and producing batteries is not at all eco-friendly to begin with. Having said that, incorrect or harmful charging is one thing the Raboo Smart Charger should undoubtedly solve if it works as advertised. It accomplishes that by connecting to the device that is being charged via Bluetooth in order to grab pertinent information about the state of its battery. The company says the adapter uses that information in order to intelligently adjust power output, preventing trickle charging, overcharging, and overheating.
Although many OEM charging components sold by manufacturers do feature built-in chips that accomplish a very similar task, it goes without saying that those don't typically last as long as users might like. Finding a replacement adapter that works as well as what came with a device is often a daunting task and while consumers could buy one directly from a given device's manufacturer, that can get to be expensive. Meanwhile, Raboo hasn't provided details about when it plans to launch its new Smart Charger and at what price. Without at least knowing how much the adapter will cost, there's no way of knowing if it will be a necessarily groundbreaking charger but this is certainly a different approach than that taken by other accessories manufacturers. However, if it does hit the market at the right price, it could be a viable option for those who want to keep their smartphone or tablet around for as long as possible.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Twenty years after the U.S. Navy left the Stapleton home port behind, redevelopment of the prime piece of waterfront has finally begun — and it's just the beginning of $1 billion in private investment slated for the North Shore.
Bloomberg was on hand Thursday to turn a shovel at the groundbreaking for the $150 million development that will eventually contain 900 apartments and 30,000 square feet of retail space — all of it with "some of the best harbor views anywhere in the city," he said, featuring the Manhattan skyline and the towering Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
And the city will pump $32 million into the project, in the form of infrastructure upgrades, including development of a waterfront esplanade. Of the apartments, 20 percent will rent for below-market rates, Bloomberg said, and the enterprise will create 1,100 construction and 150 permanent jobs.
"Today's groundbreaking also marks a big step toward realizing our vision for the dynamic future of Staten Island's entire North Shore," Bloomberg said.
"Welcome to the Renaissance of the North Shore," City Councilwoman Debi Rose (D-North Shore) said.
At the home port, phase one, to be completed in 2015, will include 570 apartments and 25,000 square feet of retail — which David Barry, president of Hoboken-based developer Ironstate, said would be mainly food-and-drink options, so people can enjoy time along the waterfront. Many of them will be familiar names, but not national chains, he said.
They're also looking to attract the twentysomethings who routinely flee the borough to live somewhere hipper, more affordable, or more connected to mass transit.
The development has been long in coming — Borough President James Molinaro said requests for proposals first went out in 2003, 10 years after the Navy left. It took until 2008, he said, to find Ironstate and bring them to the Economic Development Corporation to get approved for the job said — and it was a further five years to the groundbreaking.
But Molinaro said it wouldn't have happened at all without a third term for Bloomberg.
There were many ideas for the area — including a park, which Molinaro shot down, saying the area should generate tax revenue. Ms. Rose said the best idea ultimately won out.
It's Ironstate's first development in Staten Island — but they've developed dozens of waterfront locations, including the W Hotel in Hoboken and Pier Village in Long Branch in New Jersey.
The project has been built to FEMA's new flood standards, Barry said, and the company's waterfront developments elsewhere weathered Sandy well. In addition to being at the proper elevations, the homeport development will feature generators to power elevators, charge phones and keep the management office running.
"We're very, very confident that we are well-prepared for any storm that's going to come," Barry said.


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Hundi is a type of informal remittance transfer channel. Mostly South Asian migrant workers use this channel, which is illegal in Nepal, to send money home. Passas (1999) coined the term Informal Value Transfer System (IVTS) and defined the IVTS as networks of people facilitating transfer of funds or value without leaving a trail of entire transactions that take place outside traditionally regulated financial channels. Hundi is primarily a type of IVTS or Informal Transfer System (IFT). Hundi is also at times interchangeable with "hawala", which means transfer in Arabic. Peters (2009) asserts that hawala is crucial to the legal economies of millions of people with no access to bank accounts.
According to Reserve Bank of India, hundi refers to financial instruments evolved on the Indian sub-continent, Middle East, South Asia used in trade and credit transactions. They were employed as "remittance instruments" (to transfer funds from one place to another), "credit instruments" (to borrow money [IOUs]), "trade transactions" (as bills of exchange).
Hundi basically rooted in the Hindu societies of Nepal and India is also referred to as an alternative remittance system, informal money transfer system depending on the region; for example: fei chi' en (China), padala (The Philippines), chit (Thailand), and underground exchange. Over the years, hundi, once recognised as the traditional way of remittance back in the British Raj in India, has now become controversial, usually an unofficial medium of remittance since it skips the banking channels and is not in tandem with the regulations of the central banks of many world governments. Nepal Rastra Bank does not recognise hundi as a remittance transfer channel.
However, hundi is still in practice in Korea-Nepal remittance corridor. Many economists have questioned its operationalisation in terms of validity, legality and reliability. Jost and Sandhu (2000) defined hawala as "money transfer without money movement. This definition importantly highlights one feature of hundi that money is not seen moving and the process is rather invisible. In fact, hundi funds result in less productive investments, encourage tax evasion and negatively affect governance and exchange reserves.
A version of this article appears in print on December 25, 2017 of The Himalayan Times.


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You used to bake. Anything and everything. Pies, laden with brandy-soaked fruit. Lovely, light sponges that disappeared with a soft nudge of the tongue. Loaves of bread, twisted and thick, dusty with flour or else shining with glaze. You rose early every Saturday, shuffled out of the bedroom while the birds did their rounds, calling from the branches outside our window while I yawned and inched into the small, warm space you left behind. A little later I would wake, stretching, to a hot fog of smells. Sweet, heavy smells that ran over the square of kitchen and filled our little flat. I would wake and walk in to you, standing by the counter, hot coffee in hand as you watched your baking cool.
That last time, it was at my request. Something you hadn't tried before. A round, steamed cake - one my mother made for me when I was ten and ill and sulky with the mumps. We were in bed, cozy, with our paperbacks. I had pulled at your bit of the blanket and asked, Could you, would you?
"How? What did it taste like?"
"Eggy. And not very sweet."
You'd raised an eyebrow, "Eggy?"
"Yes. And it's a very light yellow in colour. And it was spongy."
"Eggy and spongy. Alright ... " You smiled and leaned your back into me.
The next morning I had stumbled into the kitchen, having forgotten about last night, blinked as you carved out a tender, perfect slice and fed it into my mouth.
That was almost a year ago. I remember now, how sick you had gotten the day after. At first I had thought it had been from the cake. Felt sure it was nothing more than a stomach cold. Foolish. Remembering, I cannot help but laugh out loud. The sound comes out strange, strangled. One of our neighbours, a little old lady who always seems surprised to see me - too tall, too angmoh for these parts, stops to smile. I return it, wondering at the effort of it, the muscles rigid around my mouth as I push at the door of your favourite bakery. The first time you brought me there, you told me you had known the place since you were a child, and I pictured you, five years old, tiptoeing to pick out a soft, sugared roll. Every week, we would stop by on the way to the market and look at the cakes on display. One of them would catch your eye and you'd spend the rest of the afternoon poring over your richly coloured cookbooks, your fingers dancing over the instructions to sift, fold, powder. There is, you always said, a cake for every occasion. Now, instead of the mixing bowls, instead of the gleaming racks and battle-scarred bread boards, instead of all that, are tins of enriched milk stacked on the kitchen counter, huge canisters of protein powder which you so hate, and a blender. White, plastic, plain. Ugly, but necessary for the concoctions I make for you every morning and afternoon. A bell chimes as I enter and walk across the green, floral tiles, faded and lined from years of use. The one customer, an elderly Chinese man wearing a short-sleeved shirt and murky gray trousers, looks up in the middle of pacing the whole length of the glass display. He stares at me for a second, then walks back and starts the whole business again.
Behind an old-fashioned cash register, the proprietress, silver haired and aproned, turns and looks up. Her hands, which she places before her, are small and covered with a fine layer of white. I see that she recognizes me. How nice, she had said, when I was putting in my request for the words, "Happy Lunar Eclipse" to be written across in icing.
"Hi, I'm here for my cake." I hand my receipt over to her and she takes it, looking at me over her gold rimmed glasses.
"Hello, yes, we have it ready." She nods and goes into the back where someone else is working, starts up a conversation in Mandarin.
The man in the corner has armed himself with a tray and a pair of tongs taken from the stack at the shop's entrance. He stoops to look in at the rows of single-serving cakes, invariably decorated with colourful piping and sprinkles of chocolate rice. Then he straightens himself and turns to look at me, smiling.
"Picking something for my granddaughter." He says, in clear, unhesitating English. "Her Ma's bringing her over to visit."
I say nothing, only smile back in return.
"You have children?" He asked.
I learned a long time ago to know that the locals thought nothing of asking personal questions. Did so with a warmth and a genuine curiosity which made me answer right back, surprising myself the first time.
"No," I say, thinking about the names you said you liked. Lara, for a girl. Mark, if it's a boy.
"Oh. But you're married?" He asked, his head slightly inclined.
"Yes. Just, not yet … " I give another smile, as best as I can. He is about to say more when the lady returns with a plastic bag. I am so relieved I break out into a grin and am about to take the package from her when she sets it down on the counter and lifts the lid of the cardboard box.
"Here it is," she says, pushing it toward me, the red of the delicate piping bright against the frosting. "Okay?" She asks, smiles.
Yes, I say, murmur my thanks and goodbye.
"Candles are inside," she adds. "Byebye."
I take the bag from her, careful not to let it tip sideways and turn to go. Behind me, the man clears his throat, asks the lady for some help please, he couldn't quite decide.
I check my watch as I walk home. Just past six. Over an hour to go. The birds are already calling out, squabbling for space in the thick trees. I look up and watch as a few scanty clouds make their way quickly across the blue. Fallen leaves, caught by a sudden gust, rustle, gather red and brown, around my shoes. It takes me less than ten minutes to walk back and soon, I am unlocking the front door. I call out, like I do every time I come home. And as with every single time, you call back, muffled, through the walls.
"I'm home!" Around you, I am cheerful, light. Jaunty, even. Around you, I have to be. I fill a glass with water straight from the kitchen tap and gulp it down. Get myself together before I go in and see you. Because even though it has been months now, being away for just a moment, an hour, makes me forget.
That first session at the hospital, I watched the young nurse, shaky and unsure, jam the needle in your arm, one, two, three times before she finally got it right. You had your eyes closed but your face was expressionless. Remained the same way throughout. The machine cranked up, wound on slowly, achingly. Soon you started to shiver. Said you were cold. I gathered blankets, heaped them on top of you. And still they hadn't been enough. You shook for two hours. Shook through it straight so that you were spent at the end of it. You fell asleep on the car ride home and I carried you in, got you under the covers. I made sure you were asleep before I went to the second bathroom, bent myself over the toilet and retched. Then I sat on the cold tiles until I heard you cough, and call out for me. Your voice had sounded like a dream.
That same evening, your friends came over. Yan, whom you had grown up with, brought out a dark gateau, presented it with a flourish and sang, "Happy first chemo, darling!"
I watched you stop. But then your eyes lit up and you laughed and clapped along with the rest of them. I just stood and watched, blistering with anger. You took a few bites, cautious little bites, before the nausea set in. After an hour, everyone exchanged goodbyes and hugs. I offered to see them out. As soon as we were a little way from the apartment, I grabbed Yan by his collar and started rattling him. I think I shouted, "Happy first chemo? Are you mad?"
Someone held me back then but it took a few moments for it to sink in. When I stepped back, I saw that Yan's face was flushed, his jaw tight. He gripped my shoulder and said, "Will, It's alright. It's alright," all the while looking everywhere else but at me.
Back inside you were already asleep. I quieted myself. Watched you as you breathed, your face luminous from the moon's soft glow.
I busy myself now, putting everything away. The cake in the fridge, my wallet and keys on the dining table covered with information leaflets, and support books dog-eared and worn at their spines. Then I walk the fifteen steps. That's how many it takes for me to get to you. From the moment I cross the threshold and get to where you are. Lying in bed, buried beneath the blanket, pallid, doll-like. I enter the room, feeling the red creep up my face. You look like a stranger. As if someone had replaced you in the little time I had been away. Taken over, so that a girl, shrunken and pale, with a scarf wrapped around her bare head in place of your rich, dark hair, is lying in our bed, watching me as I enter the room. Every time I go away and come back again, I feel I am trespassing, intruding into someone else's home. This is not our home. Not my place. Not our things, the countless inconsequential things that two people can accumulate in five years. Five years worth of books, clothes, bits of the beach - sand and stones and shells - in bottles. And photos taken with a blind hand, our faces, full of light, pressed next to each others'. Where's Elise, I think while I stand in the doorway. But the minute I get close and you reach up to run your hand over my hair, reach up and pull me in with your small hands and look straight into me with your dark eyes, I see you again. You're right there. Hidden beneath a mask of pale. You're in there.
"Hey baby, how is it outside?"
"Was okay.. a bit of wind though. We're going to have to watch the eclipse through the window, okay? Can't risk you catching a cold ..." I lean in, kiss you.
"Whatever you say ..." You return to your book and I get into the rhythm of fussing over your blankets, the pillows piled behind your head, before you shoo my hands away, tell me to take a rest, I've had a long day.
I sigh and relent, grab one of the many books stacked by the bed and let myself sink in next to you. I open it up at a page but simply stare at it, at one sentence, letting it run in front of my eyes over and over again. Soon, I hear you breathing deeply and look around to see you dozing, an index finger stubbornly marking the page where you last read. I sit up as the sky fires up into a brilliant mix of orange and purple, while dusk slowly sets in. Slowly steal out of bed and into the kitchen for the cake and everything else that we need.
When I come back, you're already up.
"Is it time?" You ask.
"Soon," I say, looking at my watch. "Just ten minutes to go."
I set about putting the box in front of you, laid out on a old plaid sheet we used to picnic with. I lift up the lid and we both lean in for a peep.
There had just been enough space for the words. 'Eclipse' had been curved into a smile, just at the edge of the creamy frosting. You laugh, tell me to put the candles in and light them up. So I do. We wait a little while more, watch as a dark shadow starts to creep in on the full moon and an amber sets in on the silvery white, until, eventually, a dusty ochre has taken its place. Until all that's left in the twilight is a crimson sphere radiating a dull blush from within.
"Look." You whisper, then blow out the flames.
I nod and reach for the knife, carving a straight line down the middle of the cake. And then another. Then I pass it over. A tender, perfect slice, onto your plate.
"Oh, red velvet," you say. "We've never had this before."


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Q: Undefined error when trying to update variables on change I had some code that was working just fine. However, now I am trying to make it so that the pricecalc is recalculated every time the user selects a different option from the select field. Now I get an undefined error in console.

    function pricecalc() {
      var a = document.getElementById("field_0");
      var quantity = a.value.substring(0, 1);
      var b = document.getElementById("field_1");
      var type = b.value;

      if (quantity == '2') {
        var rate = '120';
      } else if (quantity == '3') {
        var rate = '110';
      } else {
        var rate = '100';
      }

      var price = rate * quantity;

      if (type == 'Credit card') {
        var price = price * 1.034;
      }

      var price_each = (price / quantity);
      var redirect = 'https://www.paypal.me/' + price;

      document.getElementById("cost").innerHTML = '£' + price;
      document.getElementById("costeach").innerHTML = '£' + price_each;
    }
This is the HTML

    <select name='field_0' id='field_0' class='text_select' onchange="pricecalc()">
      <option value="2 people">2 people</option>
      <option value="3 people">3 people</option>
      <option value="4 people">4 people</option>
      <option value="5 people">5 people</option>
      <option value="6 people">6 people</option>
    </select>

    <select name='field_1' id='field_1' class='text_select' onchange="pricecalc()">
      <option value="Bank transfer">Bank transfer</option>
      <option value="Debit card">Debit card</option>
      <option value="Credit card">Credit card</option>
    </select>

    Total Price
    Hello World!
    Price Each
    Hello World!

I'm fairly certain this is just an issue with the fact I have put it in a function because outside of a function it works fine. Could anyone please help me understand why my approach to putting it in a function that updates when the select selection is updated is failing?
Here is a link to try it: https://jsfiddle.net/spadez/gwoss8L1/2/

A: Its a jsfiddle config thing.
In the js menu change "Load Type" to:
No wrap - in "
It was set to onLoad so i guess the function wasn't created yet.

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Keir Starmer has won the Labour leadership contest. His Blairite backers are already baying for blood, calling for the Corbyn movement to be purged from the party. The left must rally around socialist policies and prepare to fight back.
The election of Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party does not come as a great surprise.
Starmer – the candidate of the right wing – won in the first round, with 56 percent of the vote. Angela Rayner, meanwhile, was elected as deputy leader in the third round. Rebecca Long-Bailey got nearly 30 percent of the votes of Labour members, while Richard Burgon won a respectable vote of over 20 percent of the total cast.
The Blairites, having been on the backfoot for years, are now baying for blood. They – and the establishment they represent – are now demanding an offensive against the Corbyn movement. The Labour left must therefore organise and prepare for battle.
Assasination attempts
Before looking at what the future holds, it is worth putting what has happened into context.
It took four-and-a-half stormy years for the establishment to finally defeat Jeremy Corbyn / Image: fair use
I have in my possession a copy of the Financial Times Weekend Magazine from 26-27 September 2015, issued a matter of days after Jeremy Corbyn was overwhelmingly elected Labour leader. Jeremy's face is on the front cover, with the heading: "Jeremy Corbyn: How Long Can He Last?"
Now we know the answer: four-and-a-half stormy years. It took almost half a decade to get rid of him. While he won the vote of almost 60 percent of the membership, he had the backing of less than 10 percent of Labour MPs, who were (and still are) overwhelmingly from the Blairite era.
"There can't be a coup now: we would have blood on our hands," said one Labour MP. "We have to give him time to fail and to make it clear to all his supporters that this cannot work," said another so-called 'moderate'.
"Corbyn's first appearance at prime minister's question time was therefore a surreal affair; behind him were scores of Labour MPs who would dearly love to get rid of him…" explained the FT article. "It's going to go wrong," said another senior Blairite former minister at the time. "We just don't know when."
Tom Harris, a Labour MP who had just lost his seat, hoped Corbyn would be deposed within weeks. An "assassin" needed to be found, he asserted. Graham Stringer MP thought the idea of a Labour government led by Corbyn "horrifying".
The plot to "assassinate" Corbyn was hatched within hours of him being elected leader. Behind this was the capitalist establishment, which had controlled the Labour Party for decades through its right-wing agents.
They threw everything against Corbyn to discredit him. They hounded him, turning the regular meetings of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) into an anti-Corbyn bear pit.
The Labour right-wingers then launched their open coup in 2016, organising a mass resignation from the shadow cabinet and a huge vote of no confidence from the PLP. For all his campaign rhetoric about unity, Keir Starmer joined this ignominious charade.
But the mass membership, built up under Corbyn, repulsed the attack and saw him elected with an even-bigger majority.
These right-wing Labour MPs desperately wanted Corbyn to fail. But in the 2017 general election, instead of failing, Labour won its biggest rise in the vote since 1945.
Lies and smears
The right wing were forced to bide their time, and Starmer reentered the shadow cabinet. While there were a few resignations of right-wing Labour MPs, the majority stayed to fight Corbyn.
While the right were ruthless, the Labour left consistently compromised and gave in to pressure to the Blairites / Image: Socialist Appeal
They tried everything – eventually hitting on the question of anti-semitism. They unleashed a torrent of lies and distortions to 'prove' that the Labour Party was anti-semitic. These smears were quickly taken up by the Tory media, who regurgitated the same nonsense day-in, day-out to discredit Corbyn.
Unfortunately, the so-called 'left' Jon Lansman – the self-appointed leader of Momentum – bought into this smear campaign; and the leadership retreated, issuing apology after apology, making concession after concession. But all to no avail.
On Brexit: the Blairites, together with Starmer, pushed the party towards a second referendum position. Again, unfortunately, even some left leaders, like John McDonnell, fell for this.
Four-and-a-half years of stabbing Corbyn in the back (and Jess Phillips threatening to stab him in the front) – with the slanders over anti-semitism and the confusion over Brexit – made Corbyn look weak.
The only way forward would have been to have gone for the mandatory reselection (open selection) of MPs to clear out the saboteurs. The rank-and-file of the party were in favour, incensed by the scandalous behaviour of the Blairtes.
But the move to bring in open selection was blocked by the trade union leaders. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, meanwhile, acquiesced, appealing in vain for 'unity'.
This sealed Corbyn's fate. The Blairites launched a barrage against the Labour leader in the wake of the 2019 election, completely exaggerating the scale of the defeat for maximum effect. Corbyn, in the end, was pushed to stand down.
The Labour left consistently compromised and gave in to pressure from the right, with tragic consequences. But the Blairites, backed by the ruling class, were always on the offensive. It is this meekness of the left leaders that has led us to where we are now.
Starmer had many advantages over the left candidate, Rebecca Long-Bailey. He had been preparing to stand for the position for a long time, and was quick off the mark.
This knight of the realm immediately positioned himself as the 'unity' candidate, promising to put an end to all the in-fighting of recent years. This had a certain impact, given the disorientation and demoralisation amongst Labour activists following the December general election defeat.
Starmer had the backing of the media and the Blairites in his leadership campaign. He won decisively, but will have to tread carefully / Image: Rex
The left campaign, meanwhile, was slow and confused, starting with RLB talking about the need for 'progressive patriotism'. This was hardly a programme to inspire confidence and audacity.
Starmer immediately received the backing of the capitalist media as the most credible champion to defeat Long-Bailey, who was regarded as the 'continuity Corbyn' candidate.
The Blairites initially supported Jess Phillips, who was vocal in trashing the Corbyn years. But this was clearly too much for the left-leaning grassroots. Hence the Labour establishment switched over and threw their weight behind Starmer.
The problem for them was that Starmer did not openly condemn Corbyn or his left-wing policies. On the contrary, if the shadow Brexit secretary was going to win the leadership race, he needed to appeal to the mass membership.
The more noncommittal Starmer was, the better, in their eyes. He even tried to reinforce his 'left' credentials in his cringe-worthy promotional videos, where he praised the miners' strike and the anti-poll tax campaign, amongst other things. The only mention of the Blair years was the Iraq war, which deeply rankled the Blairites.
There is a video on the Financial Times website made about Margaret Hodge's views of the leadership campaign, where she interviews a number of people, including Alastair Campbell. They mused over what a Starmer leadership would look like.
"He wasn't like Neil [Kinnock] or Tony [Blair]," said Margaret Hodge. Campbell agreed, not looking too convinced of Starmer, given his failure to openly wave the Blairite flag. "But he was only doing so to get elected," said Hodge, hoping he would change once elected.
The Blairites had no alternative but to back him and hope he would come good.
Rebecca Long-Bailey came a credible second place. There were quite a few on the left who refused to vote for her after she endorsed the 10-point manifesto of the Jewish Board of Deputies, which demonstrated how weak she was in face of intimidation.
RLB also endorsed Angela Rayner for deputy, instead of the left candidate Richard Burgon. All of this only added to the confusion on the left.
What lies ahead?
Some have promised to leave the Labour Party if Starmer wins. But this is very short-sighted – as if the right wing have won hands down.
Blair says that, for the 'moderates' to reclaim the Labour Party, they would need to purge 300,000 members! Easier said than done / Image: Matt Muller
Of course, Starmer's victory is a setback; no one can deny this. It will breathe new confidence into the right wing. The problem, for them, is the mass left-leaning membership that stands in their way.
Even Tony Blair has noted that, for the 'moderates' to reclaim the Labour Party, they would need to purge 300,000 members! This is easier said than done.
Starmer will in all likelihood play a balancing act for now. He will change the shadow cabinet to fill it with reliable right-wingers. Long-Bailey may be given a tokenistic position, in order to provide a left fig-leaf for his new establishment team.
According to the Sunday Times, Starmer and his allies plan to 'purge' the left from the shadow cabinet and the party's headquarters. But they will have to tread lightly. The new Labour leader will certainly not be able to abandon the current left-wing manifesto without provoking a massive backlash from the membership.
Already in his campaign, the Holborn and St Pancras MP had to endorse policies such as the renationalisation of rail, post, energy and water; the scrapping of tuition fees; opposition to austerity and wars, amongst other things, in order to get elected.
Starmer will be under immense pressure from the Blairites to deliver. But on the other side, he will also be under pressure from the rank and file. The outcome of this battle is not yet decided.
The struggle in the Labour Party is not all over by a long shot. At the end of the day, it is a struggle of living forces. Left-wingers must not give up now, but should stay and fight. Ken Loach's recent advice on this was absolutely correct.
Epoch of crisis
The entire world is undergoing an unprecedented upheaval. Capitalism is exposing its bankruptcy on a daily basis. There has never been a better time to argue for clear socialist policies / Image: Socialist Appeal
This is not the 1980s, when Kinnock took over. Nor is it the 1990s for that matter, when the party shifted dramatically to the right under Tony Blair. That was a period of relative boom in the world economy, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of China to the capitalist market.
Today, we are in the deepest crisis of capitalism in its history. Britain is facing an economic catastrophe. The Tories and the bosses will be demanding austerity and attacks on the working class. And the establishment will be calling on Starmer to lend Labour's support to such a programme. But the mass left-leaning membership will have something to say about this!
The entire world is undergoing an unprecedented upheaval. Capitalism is exposing its bankruptcy on a daily basis. There has never been a better time to argue for clear socialist policies.
Of course, the capitalists will be demanding that Starmer acts 'responsibly' as a 'statesman', etc. They may even attempt to pull him into some kind of national government. But all of this would provoke a massive backlash within the Labour Party.
The capitalist establishment are already pushing for Starmer to clear out the left, using the issue of anti-semitism as an excuse. They will want to purge the Labour Party of 'Corbynistas'. But that will open up a battle royale.
Don't mourn – organise!
The left needs to regroup on a solid basis. Momentum has shown itself to be inadequate as a vehicle for the left.
Long-Bailey, the left candidate, gained nearly a third of the vote, which is a sizable proportion. This strength is far greater than that under Blair, Brown or Miliband. It is a powerful force – if organised.
We have everything to play for. This is no time to desert the battlefield. Rather, it is precisely the time to join and fight! / Image: Socialist Appeal
Richard Burgon seems to have emerged as the real standard bearer of the left, with his excellent campaign pledges in favour of open selection and a new, socialist Clause IV.
Burgon now needs to build on this platform. This means organising within the constituency parties and amongst grassroots members; rallying the 90,000 or more Labour activists who voted for him, along with the left-wing trade unions that backed him; and preparing the resistance to the right wing.
We have everything to play for. This is no time to desert the battlefield. Rather, it is precisely the time to join and fight!
We must have confidence in our ideas and confidence in ourselves. The struggle to transform the Labour Party into a weapon to change society is not a straight line, and never has been.
There will inevitably be ups and downs. But the endemic crisis of capitalism will push waves of workers into political activity. The Labour Party, based on the mass trade unions, remains the party of the working class – the only rallying point for workers on the political plane.
Our task remains the same: to cleanse it of the Tory infiltrators, who masquerade as Labour MPs.
On the basis of events, the Labour Party will be transformed and retransformed in the coming period. This will open up the way for a real mass socialist Labour Party – one that has as its vision the socialist transformation of society.
The Marxist tendency – represented by Socialist Appeal – has a vital role to play the struggles ahead. We will mobilise grassroots members and fight the right with bold socialist policies, which are the only answer to the crisis of capitalism. We call on you to join us in this task.
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Q: Finding roots (?) of a polynomial Now, this question, though is straightforward in nature is making me weary and I am unable to find a way to obtain a nice solution set for it.
Let's say, given that I have a inequality,
$$
\Big(g-12 a (a Q^{2}-h u)\Big)^{3}<16 \Big(g^{3}+36 a Q^{2} g-18 a h u g) +54 a^{2}(u^{2}-h^{2} Q^{2})\Big)^2$$
I want to find the expression of $a$ in terms of $u,Q,g,h$ which satisfies the given condition.
My take on it was to expand all the terms and solve for the roots obtaining a univariate polynomial in $a$, but I observed that it became an expression like this:
$$110592 a^6 Q^6+331776 a^5 h Q^4 u+11664 a^4 h^4 Q^4-27648 a^4 h^2 Q^4+308448 a^4 h^2 Q^2 u^2+27648 a^4 Q^4+11664 a^4 u^4+7776 a^3 h^5 Q^2 u-15552 a^3 h^4 Q^4-63072 a^3 h^3 Q^2 u+102816 a^3 h^3 u^3+15552 a^3 h^2 Q^4+15552 a^3 h^2 Q^2 u^2+55296 a^3 h Q^2 u+7776 a^3 h u^3-15552 a^3 Q^2 u^2-432 a^2 h^8 Q^2+1296 a^2 h^6 Q^2+1728 a^2 h^6 u^2-5184 a^2 h^5 Q^2 u+5184 a^2 h^4 Q^4+1008 a^2 h^4 Q^2-31536 a^2 h^4 u^2+10368 a^2 h^3 Q^2 u-10368 a^2 h^2 Q^4-4176 a^2 h^2 Q^2+30240 a^2 h^2 u^2-5184 a^2 h Q^2 u+5184 a^2 Q^4+2304 a^2 Q^2-432 a^2 u^2-144 a h^9 u+288 a h^8 Q^2+576 a h^7 u-1152 a h^6 Q^2+1440 a h^5 u+1728 a h^4 Q^2-4032 a h^3 u-1152 a h^2 Q^2+2160 a h u+288 a Q^2+4 h^{12}-24 h^{10}+60 h^8-144 h^6+252 h^4-216 h^2+68
$$
Which is an equation of order $6$ and hence no proper symbolic results can be obtained even using software's like Mathematica.
I want to know the values that $a$ can take, any method that I am missing here to do so?
Thanks.


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In the early morning hours of Friday, September 16, 2022, Phillip Leon Jackson passed away at Lake Norman Regional Hospital. A native of McDowell County, Phillip was born on April 8, 1957 to the late Ernest Conley and Annie Jackson Logan.
He is preceded in death by one son, Phillip Jerril Jackson; one grandson, Harold Collins, III and one brother, David Twitty.
Phillip retired from Baxter Healthcare following thirty-four years of service. He enjoyed detailing cars and was an Oakland Raiders fan. Phillip was a loving father, grandfather, brother and friend.
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Mosquito Species and the MASTF
An understanding of the mosquito species involved enables more effective treatment. For example, the Metro Atlanta Surveillance Task Force (MASTF) was set up in 2000 to tackle the threat of the West Nile virus. The Asian Tiger and Southern House mosquito species both carry the West Nile virus, and as such offer a specific threat to the elderly and the very young. The threat to adults with a healthy immune system is low because they are able to fight it off.
Each of these species tends to live close to their breeding site which can be as small as a can of water or even a bird bath. For that reason they are known as 'container breeders' as opposed to other species that require larger expanses such as marshland, riversides and lakes. Because of this, they present a specific problem to homeowners.
Mosquito Species and Disease
Most mosquito species carry one disease or another. The Asian Tiger Mosquito can also carry the chikungunya virus, as does the yellow fever mosquito. Each of these three species are common in Georgia. The Asian Tiger is unlike many other mosquitoes in that it is active throughout the day, not only just at dawn and dusk. Both of these species can live in urban areas in addition to suburban yards and gardens. The Asian Tiger will rarely stray much more than a quarter mile from its base, while the Southern House Mosquito will fly more than twice that for a meal of human or animal blood.
It has been said that only 1% of people bitten by a mosquito carrying West Nile Virus will develop severe illness, and that 80% will show no symptoms at all. However, you must keep in mind that in the Metro population of 5 million, 1% equates to a potential 50,000 people, assuming all are bitten at least once. 20% is one million! West Nile Virus can lead to a swelling of the brain known as encephalitis, a condition that can lead to death.
The chikungunya virus can cause fever and severe pain in the joints. There is no known cure for this, and there has also been no vaccine developed to protect people from contracting the disease. The same is true for West Nile virus, and in each case the only means of prevention is to avoid being bitten. Mosquito control systems are therefore essential to all residents – and keep in mind these are only two of over 170 mosquito species currently active in the USA.
Mosquitoes are everywhere
The ATL is the worst city in the USA for mosquitoes – or perhaps the best, because mosquitoes seem to love the place! This is due to the proximity of so many rivers, streams, creeks and lakes to the city and its surrounding communities. In order to protect yourself and your family from being bitten and the resultant potentially serious consequences, you should take steps to protect your home.
Mr. Mister offers a number of possible solutions to your problem, but first we have to survey your home and its surroundings to assess the potential extent of your problem. We can then offer you the solution we think best for you – both on a short term basis and over the longer term. Your yard might need an initial mosquito spray treatment to control mosquitoes currently active or breeding in still or stagnant water. It may then require an automatic mosquito misting system that regularly covers your foliage in a fine mist of insecticide that acts as a virtual mosquito barrier.
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