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Although it is a family orientated event, Bonfire Night can pose a number of concerns, in particular the comfort and safety of children attending displays.
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1. Protect their ears – fireworks are considerably louder than the normal day-to-day sounds that children will hear. In fact, they are more than twice as loud in terms of decibel level as road traffic and can be louder than a gunshot! Ear defenders are a practical way to reduce the distressing and potentially harmful noise of fireworks at the same time as keeping little ears warm.
2. Wear gloves – It may seem the most obvious of all, but children can easily become irritated by clothing that doesn't fit or is uncomfortable. It is best to provide gloves with fingers rather than mittens so they can get full use of their hands, especially when playing with sparklers. This will reduce the risk of them removing gloves altogether.
3. Reflective clothing – bonfires and firework displays are usually held when it is dark, and if attending a large event where crowds flock it is best to ensure you equip your children with some form of reflective clothing so that you can keep an eye on them. Reflective tape is a cost effective way of adapting their usual winter clothes.
4. Footwear – the best choice of footwear for a fun-packed bonfire night is either wellies or boots. This will ensure that their feet stay nice and cosy as well as protecting them from any embers or other harmful firework debris that may be on the floor.
5. Sand and water – if you are hosting your own bonfire night make sure that you provide buckets of sand or water for when sparklers go out. It may look like they are no longer harmful but the metal is still scorching hot, and it will prevent children picking them back up off the floor.
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This experience was one of the most amazing and life centering that I have had. Tara is absolutely wonderful and works with people who share her philosophies of wellness.
I felt very well taken care of the entire time and Tara was always timely with all communications, both before and during the trip. I was so excited when I got her itinerary! She gave me lots of choices of activities while also making sure I saw the Rio staples such as the Christ and Sugar Loaf. Her local connections really allowed me to see the cities more from the perspective of a local rather than on a big group tour staying in a generic downtown hotel. Having private, local guides was one of the best aspects of the trip since it made it very personalized. Guides were WONDERFUL!
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The Cult of Extreme Gender Equality
This can be deflated with one short question:
Question: should 50% of all miners, sewage workers, and oil rig workers be women?
After all, if all gender inequality is a horrendous evil and must be addressed, then aren't feminists, logically, committed to making 50% of all miners, sewage workers, and oil rig workers be women?
If the advocate of gender equality says "no," then they have just admitted that some significant gender inequality is always going to exist, and that in certain professions it would be absurd to demand gender equality.
If the advocate of gender equality says "yes," then immediately one must ask:
"But what if women don't want to do these jobs, freely choose to avoid them, and most of them would actually hate to do such jobs?"
So, what, are you going to force women to do them? Are you going to subject women to a barrage of feminist propaganda telling them that women need to do 50% of these jobs? And what if – shock! horror! – women still shun these professions??
And could it be that there are basic biological facts? You know, that men – generally speaking and on average – tend to be physically stronger than women, and so are better suited to hard and difficult physical labour than women are?
You might like to read up here on the sexist, evil "hate facts" about the professions dominated by men because women don't want to do these types of hard physical labour.
For example, there seems to be a horrible level of gender inequality in these professions:
(1) garbage collectors;
(2) deep sea fishermen;
(3) electrical power line installers;
(4) auto repair mechanics;
(5) roofers;
(6) heating, air conditioning and refrigeration mechanics;
(7) aircraft maintenance and service technicians;
(8) firefighters;
(9) construction workers.
So I am guessing that universal Western institutional sexism and the evil white male patriarchy is to blame for this outrageous gender inequality?! Those white male bastards!
But, returning to reality from our feminist fantasy world, doesn't it follow that some level of gender inequality in our societies is not only natural, but also morally right and nothing to be concerned about?
Oh, and you might spare a thought for all those poor men throughout history who have laboured in mines, sewage works, and oil rigs for human civilisation, doing the work that women would not like to do.
You might also reflect on the reality that the socialist left fought for decades to get women and girls out of the mines and factories, and to stop capitalists from exploiting women for low wages in jobs which men, who on average are physically stronger than women, are probably much better suited to do.
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TheIllusionist September 13, 2016 at 6:01 AM
The most obvious problematic examples we have are in sport. Extreme feminists must logically support that sports be segregated. The extreme cultural left has already started something like this by supporting transgender 'former' males fighting women in UFC (yes, it's really quite sick).
The other very serious issue is women in the military. Look into this. It's crazy stuff. The US military are fastracking women through the training procedures. It's going to have tragic results. The US are now drafting women.
This stuff has come very far. Mainly to benefit female elites - especially in the military - who want to further their own careers. What happens to the injured grunt on the battlefield whose fellow female soldier is not strong enough to lift him and carry him to safety? They don't care. They only care about themselves.
LK September 13, 2016 at 6:52 AM
Geez, Illusionist, what's with all these hate facts?!
lol:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/WomenMilitary.shtml
"What happens to the injured grunt on the battlefield whose fellow female soldier is not strong enough to lift him and carry him to safety?"
More seriously, from what I've read women are naturally very few in construction work or fire fighting quite simply because most women are not physically strong enough, e.g., women tend to fail normal physical fitness tests for fire-fighters.
So feminism means: having fire-fighters who can't carry people from burning buildings?
You know they're f*cking drafting them now right? Bipartisan support on that bill.
Here's a controversial thought: maybe contemporary feminism is anti-women. All the pointers are there. Feminists do not like women as they currently are. They do not like, for example, women who are not as strong as men (i.e. all of them). The whole thing is about women becoming men. It's really weird. As a feminist might say: it's a patriarchal ideology that chastises women for not being more like men.
So maybe it's not unusual that the discourse raises logical problems that result in highly offensive conclusions. Example: if police are called on a domestic violence charge and a couple are straight-out fighting the man will catch the brunt of the charge (rightly so, as he's beating up a woman who is weaker than him). But in equality land they should get equal treatment. He could beat her severely but the police would have to assume that, since both were fighting each other, they were both liable. Any ideology that leads to that conclusion is quite manifestly anti-woman. Ditto for the idea that women should compete with men in sports, especially those that involve physical violence.
I think that contemporary feminism is actually trying to undermine many of the protections that society has built up to protect women from men. Certainly their sexual ideology, which enforces promiscuousness no matter how this negatively impacts women's self-esteem, leans in this direction.
Twisted, unhappy people attacking a group that they don't like so far as I can see.
Esther Villar, authoress of the equally brilliant and awful book "The Manipulated Man" believed just that. Feminism is an attack on the interests of normal women by masculine women (although normal men and their children take a lot of heat too). http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=2823
Like most other leftist ideologies, feminism takes no account of human nature or the inherent complementary of the sexes and instead sees them as hostile, competing enemies. This is not only a recipe for family breakdown and low birth-rates, it redirects normal women from roles they would prefer (marriage and family) to usually uninspiring wage labour jobs, which has regressive economic effects on wages and house prices.
In ascribing all sex inequities to a patriarchal conspiracy, feminism encourages men and women to hate each other and creates an ugly masculinist fringe which is genuinely misogynistic in response. Feminists require the patriarchy narrative as justification for their attacks on men, such as anti-male employment quotas and the lopsided divorce industry. By many standards, Western women are the most privileged group of people who have ever existed. This may not last however, as the entire political mainstream and most feminist crazies support highly misogynistic, reactionary, patriarchal and fecund Muslim immigration, which will eventually spell the end of feminism in the West one way or another.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420826/putting-women-combat-even-worse-idea-youd-think-mike-fredenburg
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-marines-women-20150912-story.html
Disaster waiting to happen. I feel sorry for the people who will suffer due to this crazy delusion.
If women aren't physically capable of performing those jobs then what is the point of applying for them? There are millions of men and women who are unemployed and desperate for any job. Those who find work will do so based on their aptitudes and skills. That means a woman with nimble hands will find work as a cashier, or in a textile factory. She won't be hired as a construction labourer. Likewise, a man who is physically strong will not be hired for work that requires manual dexterity.
When there is high unemployment, employers can demand higher productivity. When unemployment is low, workers can be choosy and only seek the jobs they prefer. Feminism can't change the decisions of employers or workers. Those decisions are self-serving.
No surprise that nearly everyone prefers the cushiest jobs with the highest pay. So that is where quotas are pushed. If there was Meninism, it would be pushing for more men in comfortable jobs. It wouldn't be insisting that more men be hired as cashiers or as textile workers.
It's also the other way. Why isn't there a large recruitment campaign fronted by these women to reduce the oversupply of female primary school teachers. They are currently occupying jobs that should surely be reserved for men.
Well, why aren't 50% of beauty salon workers men while we are about it?
Naturally, we all know the need for common decency and privacy for women customers is a big reason why this would be absurd.
Kain September 13, 2016 at 7:23 AM
A woman's choice? Her wants? Brainwashed at birth! We MUST prime her tabula rasa at birth to want to do heavy physical work, garbage collection and computer programming!
and... soon enough in order to accomplish those tasks, we can't have those rotten ideas by PARENTS to get into their young minds. That needs to be done away with. Etc. :P
Oh, for god's sake:
http://nypost.com/2015/05/03/woman-to-become-ny-firefighter-despite-failing-crucial-fitness-test/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375381/Fire-service-strength-fitness-tests-relaxed-allow-women-firefighters.html
Ken B September 13, 2016 at 11:00 AM
Cool. I hate having to wear my glasses when I drive. I can't wait until they waive that stupid requirement!
LK, you have hit this one out of the park my friend. Bravo! Too bad you're (presumably) a cis/straight/white male, so don't expect any traction where it counts.
P.S. If you haven't already seen this, check it out
https://youtu.be/AT08e8qMhfw
https://youtu.be/vcuHKS2yhIU?t=4
Kristjan September 13, 2016 at 10:41 AM
This is a must see film for you LK
https://youtu.be/tiJVJ5QRRUE
LachMinsky September 14, 2016 at 6:00 AM
I was with Kain until he said 'computer programming'.
Computer programming does not entail physically demanding labor that would push up against the biological constraints of the female gender that we're positing. It is a profession that a 'physically weaker sex', if that's what we're arguing women are in this discourse we're engaging in, is 'naturally' suited for.
On the whole, women are too important for the survival of the human species to risk them to do physically demanding and/or dangerous work. Men are expendable to a certain degree and the feminists know it, that is why we tolerate their shit for the most part.
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Two words all parents dread.
Potty training is not a task any parent looks forward to. It can be very frustrating for both parent and child. And all those parents you meet who say it was easy for them and that they potty trained their child in three days are lying to you! C'mon, let's be realistic here…I don't care what kind of experts you listen to or how many books you read, potty training takes a LOT longer than three days and it's not easy on any level (and, yes, I have had a parent tell me that it only took them three days to train their child).
My oldest son Giovanni was definitely not easy to train. Perhaps it was because he was my first and I had no clue what I was doing. Maybe. Probably. But I learned a lot from my experience with him and it's really helped in potty training my youngest child, Raylan. Potty training Raylan has been a totally different experience than it was with Giovanni. Mostly in that he trained a lot faster than Giovanni did.
Below are my methods and tips for potty training. Hopefully these will help you and your child as you venture down this bumpy road.
1). DON'T START TOO EARLY – As parents we so desperately want to get our kids out of diapers and using the potty. But, if you try to start potty training before your child is ready, it will only lead to crying, melt downs, and your child just out right refusing to go on the potty. Don't rush things. Be sure your child is ready before you start training them (If they are telling you they went or need to go, they're ready. If you see them go in a corner and sit there for a bit, check out what they're doing…this is an indication they may be ready also.).
2)GET THEM USED TO THE POTTY SEAT/CHAIR FIRST – Introduce your child to the idea of sitting on the potty before you actually start training. Show them their potty chair/seat and have them sit on it while you are in there going potty. You can also have them sit on it and look at a book or sit there while you read them a book. The idea is to get them comfortable sitting on the potty.
3)MAKE A POTTY CHART – When you are ready to start training, make a potty chart and put it up on the wall where your child can reach it. Each time your child successfully goes on the potty, have them put a sticker on the chart. It's a great way to encourage them and build up their confidence in their ability to be successful at going on the potty.
4)START TRAINING WHEN YOU CAN BE HOME MULTIPLE DAYS IN A ROW WITHOUT LEAVING THE HOUSE – This is key! In order to be successful at potty training, you need consistency. The best way to start potty training is when you can be home for multiple days in a row without going anywhere. Just stay home and strictly focus on potty training. No running errands, no play dates, etc. Just potty training.
5)SET A TIMER– Using a timer for potty training was a huge help for me! Start with setting a timer to go off every 30 minutes (another reason #4 is important) and put your child on the potty each time it goes off. Try to make it fun for your child as well. Make it a game! We would always sing a little song when the timer went off and dance to the bathroom together as we sang, "It's potty time. Oh, it's potty time." Let's face it, putting your child on the potty every 30 minutes for multiple days is a tedious task. So you want to make it fun for both you and your child. Eventually, once your child gets the hang of going to the potty, you can increase the time to 40 minutes, then 50 minutes, then an hour, and so on. How quickly you do that depends on how well your child is doing. You might be able to increase the time after just a couple days or you might end up waiting a week. Go off of your child. DON'T PUSH THEM IF THEY AREN'T READY. If you push them too hard, they will regress and not want to train.
6)USE A REWARDS SYSTEM – Each time Raylan would go on the potty I would give him an M&M. It was a great way to keep him motivated to use the potty. If you don't want to give your child candy, you can find something else that might work for them. I've found the candy worked best for both my boys, but every child is different. Eventually, I stopped giving Raylan M&M's when he would pee on the potty and only gave them to him when he'd poop on the potty (It's a lot harder for children to poop on the potty than for them to pee on it. I'll address that soon.). Once he was successfully pooping on the potty, I weaned him off of the M&M's completely.
7)GO STRAIGHT TO UNDERWEAR – This is a big one. I know no one wants to clean dirty underwear when your child has an accident, but potty training will go faster if you skip the Pull Ups and go straight to underwear. I say that in regards to day time potty training. Training your child for sleeping is totally different. I use Pull Ups at nap time and bed time. But, during the day have them wear underwear. The feeling of being wet or messy is a good motivator for many children to use the potty instead of going in their underwear.
8)DON'T EXPECT THEM TO POOP ON THE POTTY AS QUICKLY AS THEY PEE ON THE POTTY – It is much easier for a child to learn to pee on the potty than poop on the potty. This is because pooping on the potty is more psychological for a child. They feel as if they are losing a part of themselves when they do that. I know it may sound strange, but their little brains work differently than ours do and it's important to remember that. Because they feel this way, it's harder for them to want to poop on the potty. Some kids poop around the same time each day. Strange, but true. Write down the times your child goes and if you notice a pattern, put them on the potty at that time. You can also try putting them on the potty about 15-20 minutes after they've eaten a meal.
9)BE PATIENT – I cannot stress this enough. As I said above, potty training is not easy. It can become very frustrating. But, it's important to be as patient as possible with your child. That will enable you to celebrate their successes and encourage them instead of accidentally causing your child to feel bad because they had an accident.
10)BE AWARE REGRESSION CAN OCCUR – If you have a major life event occur while you're potty training your child, it's very possible they will regress and you'll have to start all over from square one. Things like moving to a new house, a new baby in the family, divorce, etc. change the child's daily routine and causes the child to regress. This happened with Giovanni. He was doing very well potty training and then when Raylan was born he wouldn't go on the potty anymore so we had to start all over.
11)FIND SOME GOOD RESOURCES TO HELP – My cousin gave me a potty training book she used that I absolutely loved. You can find it at http://www.thepottytrainer.com/ The book is called Potty Training Made Easy, Fast, and Simple by Johanne Cesar. This book was a fantastic resource! I highly recommend it. You can also use your friends and relatives who are currently (or have finished) potty training their child. Find out what worked for them. Their tips might help you too.
What are your potty training tips?
4 Responses to "Potty training tips that actually work"
1 | And What a Mom!
We have just started this process, only because my son is adamant to learn. I was really hoping we could delay it for another year, or lifetime, perhaps… alas!
Here, here, and amen. I feel as though my perfectly pp potty trained son will never never ever poo on the pot, but that's not realistic, is it? It will happen. All good things come in time.


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Mavs Draft Roundup
Posted on June 18, 2018 by The Mavs Zone
We're three days away from the 2018 NBA Draft and, unless you've been living under a rock, you know the NBA rumor mill is running at 100%.
Kawhi Leonard's feelings on the Spurs are now public which has temporarily provided NBA Twitter with something besides the mystery of Michael Porter Jr. to dwell on … and also given new life to the LeBron-to-LA narrative.
However, quietly in the background … the Dallas Mavericks have worked out Mo Bamba, Wendell Carter Jr., Jaren Jackson Jr. and attended two of Porter Jr.'s workouts. In case you've been living under a slightly bigger rock, the Mavericks are slotted to pick at No. 5.
Also, this video surfaced late Sunday/early Monday of Bamba again draining deep 3s … but this time in Dallas shorts?
Mo Bamba – he of the 8-foot wingspan – casually stepping into 3's
(Via cbrickley603 / IG) pic.twitter.com/o2A4pMlpKW
— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) June 18, 2018
The case for Ayton going No. 1 to Phoenix seems to be mostly closed at this point, but from No. 2 down is anyone's guess. The Kings have been linked to Porter Jr. and Marvin Bagley as well as Luka Doncic, who seems to have somehow slid even further down some of the more reputable NBA mock drafts (and potentially within reach to Dallas at No. 5?)
At this point, as the saying goes, it's all a crap-shoot. You can argue that Dallas' needs are most met by Jackson Jr. or Bamba as they fill the need the Mavs have for a defensive anchor with the potential of a 3-point threat or you can argue that Dallas needs more of an offensive infusion, a hole that players like Marvin Bagley III and Porter Jr. are more apt to fill.
There's been a lot of talk that Jackson Jr. would be the pick for the Hawks at No. 3, but per Sporting News' Sean Deveney, the Hawks have "ruled out" Jackson at the No. 3 spot which could leave Dallas with a tough decision two spots later.
Things of note from today's column:
— Not surprised @dallasmavs worked Jaren Jackson for No. 5. Source said @ATLHawks not interested at No. 3.
— Deandre Ayton worked out for @Suns 2 weeks ago. Had no other workouts, none planned. He's confident he's 1.https://t.co/X5vqZX3WCQ
— Sean Deveney (@SeanDeveney) June 18, 2018
Rumors of Memphis looking to package Chandler Parson's albatross deal along with the No. 4 pick has some fans dreaming of Dallas owning BOTH of the Nos. 4 and 5 picks … but the Grizzlies would likely not entertain a deal that didn't include Harrison Barnes in return, a condition Dallas is unlikely to acquiesce to (per Mike Fisher).
Could Dallas make the deal work without adding Barnes? Does Memphis hang up the phone right away? People in the know I've talked to say Dallas shouldn't have to part with one of its foundation pieces to grab the No. 4 pick, and opinions on the issue range widely. Is Barnes a great player? Sure. Is he great enough for the Mavs to keep instead of closing a deal for another top-5 lottery pick? That's debatable.
At this point in the offseason, what could be viewed as interest from a team towards a prospect could just as easily be a smokescreen put out to offset other team's interest and to discourage clubs in front of the franchise in the drafting order from passing up on said prospect. My feeling is that there's a lot of this surrounding Porter Jr.
Take this for example. Dallas is reportedly "comfortable" with the health risks surrounding Porter Jr. There are many layers to peel back here.
Are the Mavericks publicly expressing their trust and assurance in veteran trainer Casey Smith and his staff to be able to effectively maintain Porter Jr. should Dallas draft him? Sure. But is that the point?
Just because a team is comfortable with the risks of taking a player doesn't mean that player is their guy. I feel there's a lot of gamesmanship at work here, not just on the part of the Mavericks, but a lot of teams surrounding the orbit of Porter Jr. Suffice it to say, it will be fascinating to see what happens on Thursday night.
Posted in 2018 NBA Draft, Free Agency, Trade Rumors, Uncategorized | Tagged 2018 NBA Draft, draft, jaren jackson jr, kawhi leonard, lebron james, michael porter jr, Mo Bamba, nba | Leave a reply
Mavs recap: Whiteside to Dallas rumors?
As the NBA Finals draw ever closer and two more teams start planning summer vacations, speculation about trades, roster adjustments and draft prospects is also increasing.
Case in point, the Dallas Mavericks and Hassan Whiteside. Two years ago, Dallas wasn't shy about its pursuit of the then-27 year old Miami Heat center and what he could potentially bring to a franchise that's been starved for a defensive anchor in the middle since Tyson Chandler roamed the lane in the 2011 championship season.
Could Dallas be interested in making a trade for the now-disgruntled-and-handsomely-paid Whiteside who now is, like, really unhappy in Miami?
Dallasbasketball.com's Mike Fisher and Dalton Trigg have been all over this in the last few days and if you haven't checked out their pieces, do so here and here.
Before I get into this, I want to make sure we're clear on something: saying a team is open to a possibility doesn't mean there's an active pursuit. For example, I'm "open" to buying one of Mark Cuban's mansions if the price is right (read: $200 or so would do the trick). Doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Conditions would need to be met. A lot of pieces would need to fall into place.
Such is the case in Fisher/Trigg's piece with Whiteside as "sweeteners" are explicitly mentioned as things that would need to be included for Dallas to be interested in trading away someone like Wes Matthews for Miami's big man. Again, that's not something that's in motion at this time, just a possibility. And a possibility with conditions attached.
There are three main takeaways I gather from these two great, informational pieces. They are as follows:
Whiteside is certainly not Dallas' "plan A" when it comes to finding a center.
Dallas' draft selection will play a HUGE role in determining who will be the target of their other pursuits (trades, free agency, etc.)
Per Fisher, the Mavs are "aiming higher" than solutions like Randle and Whiteside in the middle (and supposedly "higher" than names like Jabari Parker)
See these quotes for yourself:
The Mavs will also look at other vet candidates for the job, and Whiteside ranks below many of them.
I'll repeat here for the record, an example: Julius Randle might end up being a Dallas target, but I'm told the Mavs are aiming "much higher" than that.
It's easy to read these tweets and headlines and immediately think, "Pfft. Dallas isn't doing this." That's not what these articles are saying. They are merely detailing the how's and why's of what would need to happen IF the Mavericks were to entertain such a venture.
We had another round of Demarcus Cousins-to-Dallas info rehashed to us by the Ringer last week, intel that Fisher and Trigg contend is being "badminton'd" back to the Dallas fan base as if it were breaking news.
They also have the intel on that in two pieces penned by Trigg here and here.
With the draft less than a month away, there's still plenty of speculation as to whether Dallas will opt to address its offensive needs (they ranked near the bottom of the league in points scored last year) with a risky prospect like Michael Porter, or if they'll take their center of the future in Bamba (of note, Dallas ranked 18th in defensive rating last year).
Stay tuned to thetrailing3.com for Episode 2 of The Trailing 3 Podcast later this week and check out Episode 1 if you haven't already! Thanks for reading!
Posted in 2018 NBA Draft, Free Agency, Trade Rumors, Uncategorized | Tagged 2018 NBA Draft, dallas mavericks, demarcus cousins, hassan whiteside, mark cuban, michael porter jr, Mo Bamba | Leave a reply
Mavs slip to the No. 5 spot in NBA Draft Lottery
The Dallas Mavericks' dreams of a potential top-3 draft pick in the upcoming June 21 NBA Draft were snuffed out on Tuesday night, but Dallas will still pick at the No. 5 spot after being jumped in the order by the Sacramento Kings (No. 2) and the Atlanta Hawks (No. 3).
In a cruel twist of irony, despite winning the end-of-season tiebreaker with the Hawks for the third-best odds heading into Tuesday's drawing, Atlanta still managed to get the better of the ping pong balls and moved ahead of the Mavericks who, just minutes earlier, saw the Kinds move up as well.
It's the second year in a row Sacramento has had good luck with the lottery.
Coming into Tuesday, the Mavericks had a 13.8% chance at the No. 1 spot and a 43.8% chance of landing in the top three positions. Their highest positional odds were at the No. 5 slot.
While seeing a potential top-3 selection fade away is frustrating, Mavs' fans still have plenty to be excited about at which names could be available when Dallas' name is called.
Deandre Ayton and Luka Doncic are the near-consensus top 2 picks in plenty of mock drafts. After that is where the choices vary.
Marvin Bagley figures to be the likely choice for Atlanta, a team with needs basically everywhere. The Hawks could also just as feasibly go with Jaren Jackson Jr. to fill their big man need if they think he'd be a good fit with John Collins.
Memphis figures to be a prime Bagley fit if the Hawks decide to pass. I don't think Mo Bamba or Jackson quite mesh with Memphis' plans if they decide to retain Marc Gasol for the remainder of his deal. If he's somehow dealt in between now and the draft then, obviously, that changes.
Then you have Dallas. The Mavericks are very likely looking at the option to pick Michael Porter Jr. or whomever is left between Jackson and Bamba. Opinions on Bamba might be the most widely-varied of any potential draft prospect out there.
Don't count 105.3 The Fan's Jeff "Skin" Wade among those.
he'll be a good player…Bamba will be an elite player
— Jeff Skin Wade (@SkinWade) May 10, 2018
I can see arguments for both Jackson and Bamba as fits for the Mavericks defensively and while Jackson may be seen as a "safer" fit due to his higher projected floor, Bamba's upside has the potential to be higher.
That being said, I want to re-iterate that these projections are just that, projections. For the Mavericks to be faced with a choice between a potential Dirk Nowitzki replacement in Porter or a franchise-changing center in Bamba is a good situation to be in.
On to the combine!
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Last night I went to the Leonard Cohen concert. I've always been aware of his music but I wouldn't say that I'm his biggest fan. But it was a free ticket and I'm nothing if not a fan of a freebie so I went. Yes recession concert going.
When I arrived I saw that his fans…..didn't look like me. There was a lot of black and ….more black. But it was all clothing. Yes a lot of his stuff is about depression and mental health but I didn't get that from the concert. Instead I saw a sprightly 78 year old poet / songwriter perform some of his greatest hits. The experience was more like being at a sermon. Worshiping at the alter of music than a concert.
It was a beautiful concert. All 3 hours of it. I went alone as most of my friends hadn't really heard of him. Or maybe they said that because they just didn't want to go?
It was amazing to hear Hallelujah sung live but I have a new love. Alexandra Leaving is a beautiful poem turned song. For that alone I'm glad that I went. Because finding love isn't easy. Finding songs that speak to you instantly rarer.
Unlike the poor couple that were sat next to me on an early in the relationship date. He was clearly a fan of the music. She was a fan of beer. No looker she made up for it in useless facts that she told him about people he didn't know. Something tells me that she got to 5 beers but wouldn't be getting to date 5.
But my highlight of the night was the drunken guy who managed to piss off a whole section of the audience. Yes he was not only drunk but he was a belligerent arse. Apparently Leonard Cohen fans don't stand for such nonsense and he and his elderly dad were ejected by a crew of indignant fans.
He was dragged down trying to chat up the manly looking security woman with a "What's your name luv? Eh? Gorgeous? What's you're name!". Eventually even she was worn down by his efforts and sat him elsewhere. He called for his dad to come and join him. Poor dad was clearly still recovering from the hip replacement and shame of his son but gingerly made his way down. As he did his son gave the finger to the whole section a number of times. I saw him later dancing with another steward to the waltz song. One of them didn't look like they were having fun. I would say it was the steward who was made to bump uglies with the drunken arse.
Good times. Thank you Leonard Cohen. A poet and a gentleman.
How surprising! Wouldn't have you down as a Leonard Cohen fan.


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A Positive Racial Identity May Improve Black Teens' Mental Health
A Positive Racial Identity May Improve Black Teens' Mental Health
Many adolescents who belong to ethnic minority groups grapple with self-esteem issues and face social stigma. But a sense of ethnic pride might boost these young people's mental health, according to a study published in the journal Child Development.
For the study, researchers at Northwestern University, Loyola University Chicago and Walden University studied more than 250 urban African-American youths from low-income families. Scientists found that when black teens' ethnic pride increased between seventh and eighth grades, their mental health also improved. Findings also offer promise for African-American teens with low self-esteem: Possessing ethnic pride shielded them from certain mental health problems.
In addition, researchers found that racial identity was a stronger buffer against symptoms of depression for boys than for girls.
The findings implied that ethnic pride may be as important as self-esteem to the mental health of African-American adolescents. "Parents, schools and therapists should expose young people to materials and environments that help cultivate a sense of ethnic pride," said Jelani Mandara, PhD, an associate professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University and the study's lead author.
For more information about other health concerns facing African-American youth, click here.
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Kelly tractor
Kelly Tractor migrates to in-memory for more powerful analytics
In business since 1933, Kelly Tractor provides rentals, leasing, sales, and servicing of all types of construction and industrial equipment to a variety of markets, including land development, water and sewer, housing, agriculture, marinas, and more. The company employs more than 500 people at locations throughout southern Florida, with headquarters in Miami.
their challenges
Kelly needed to consolidate and analyze data across many locations.
Reporting required complicated coding and couldn't be used by most people in the organization.
Departments were silo-ed in their knowledge of overall company health and goals.
how we helped
TARGIT InMemory processes all new data incredibly fast, delivering up-to-date analyses of company health in near-real time.
Users can make changes and create their own reports and analyses without a high degree of technical knowledge.
Every department has instant insight to KPIs from internal and external data.
"We currently have very high TARGIT utilization rates. This lets us know right off the bat that we are competitive and high achieving."
john willis, manager, kelly tractor
Caterpillar dealers around the world face many of the same challenges in running an optimized business. The top of the list is commonly managing the rental fleet to maximize ROI and profitability. Kelly Tractor Co. was no exception.
With hundreds of employees and more than half a dozen locations, Kelly needed a way to consolidate and analyze data across locations and offer company decision makers in every department a unified picture of company health. They lacked a user-friendly reporting tool that was easily accessible to mid-and upper-level management. Reporting was done primarily by building queries in DBS and Cognos, which required complicated coding that was unfamiliar and out of reach to most people in the business.
"Report building was a trial and error process, and formatting the data into a user-friendly format required hours—if not days or weeks—of our people's time," says Katherine Kelly, Sales Operations Manager at Kelly Tractor Co. This meant users were spending more time organizing data and getting it into a workable format than they did analyzing information and making business decisions based off of the data.
In an attempt to gain more control of their valuable data, Kelly adopted Microsoft Dynamics AX in 2010. Kelly Tractor Manager John Willis was introduced to TARGIT's business intelligence and anlytics solution for heavy equipment around the same time by TARGIT partner XAPT. Won over by the platform's user-friendly reporting capabilities and easily digestible dashboards and analyses, Kelly Tractor had what Willis refers to as a "big bang rollout." Once AX was in place, the TARGIT rollout immediately followed, with custom cubes built to replace what existed in Cognos.
A migration to in-memory
Today, the company has 81 daily TARGIT users within Kelly Tractor management, with plans to pull even more users into the fold thanks to TARGIT's new in-memory ETL offering, TARGIT InMemory. Most CAT dealers rely on Atlas to handle their accounting. But now that Kelly Tractor has seen the power and consistency of TARGIT, the company's goal is to migrate all accounting into TARGIT for more frequent use.
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Like it says, this spoke is very strong. The Strong is developed for specific and heavy usage such as tandem, e-bikes or heavy load use. In case of large hub holes, the Strong is the recommended choice.
Weight: (64 pcs x 260 mm lg) 446 g
Quality: Stainless
Strength on middle section: 1250 N/mm2
Length: 180-310 mm
Diameter: 2.3 – 2.0 mm
Rod (without bend) or different bend
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Recommended for: Trekking/E-bike
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I created this background using the woodgrain stencil from the Daisy Boutique together with green acrylic paint (Dabber, also in the Boutique). I then applied mist and some gesso with a circle stencil. The darker drips are Glimmer Glam.
I love, love, love the tab stamp!
The washi tape and the orange brads are from the Embellishment add ons and the orange letter stickers are from the Switchback add on.
This layout is about how Tuva is talking and talking, babbling and babbling... It's sooo adorable and fun and we don't understand a word.


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class Admin::BillingPlansController < Admin::AdminSiteController

  hobo_model_controller

  auto_actions :all
  web_method :update_from_paypal
  web_method :sync_paypal
  index_action :from_stripe
  index_action :from_paypal

  def create_stripe_plans
    BillingPlan.where("stripe_id is not null").each { |bp|
      begin
        Stripe::Plan.retrieve(bp.stripe_id)
      rescue
        Stripe::Plan.create(
          :amount => (bp.amount_value * 100).to_i, #in cents
          :interval => bp.frequency.downcase,
          :name => bp.name,
          :currency => bp.amount_currency,
          :id => bp.stripe_id
        )
      end
    }
    flash[:info] = "Stripe plans created"
    redirect_to :back
  end

  def from_paypal
    @status = params[:status]
    @status ||= "ACTIVE"
    @this = PaypalAccess.get_plans(@status).plans
    render "index"
  end

  def from_stripe
    @status = params[:status]
    @status ||= "ACTIVE"
    @this = Stripe::Plan.all
    render "index"
  end

  def update_from_paypal
    fail "Status required" unless params[:status]
    PaypalAccess.set_state(params[:id], params[:status])
    redirect_to :back
  end

  def update
    @this = find_instance
    if @this.status_paypal != params[:billing_plan][:status_paypal]
      PaypalAccess.set_state(@this.id_paypal, params[:billing_plan][:status_paypal])
    end
    hobo_update redirect: :index
  end

  def update_paypal
    @this = find_instance
    fail "Status required" unless params[:billing_plan][:status_paypal]
    PaypalAccess.set_state(@this.id_paypal, params[:billing_plan][:status_paypal])
    hobo_update
  end

  def sync_paypal
    @this = find_instance
    plan = nil
    ["CREATED", "ACTIVE", "INACTIVE"]. each { |status|
      break unless plan.nil?
      PaypalAccess.get_plans(status).plans.each { |p|
        if (p.name == @this.name)
          plan = p
          @this.id_paypal = plan.id
          @this.status_paypal = plan.state
          break
        end
      }
    }
    if (plan.nil?)
      plan = PaypalAccess.create_plan(@this)
    end
    @this.id_paypal = plan.id
    @this.status_paypal = plan.state
    @this.save!
    redirect_to @this
  end

end

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Set during the 16th century war in Flanders, the tale of a rogue mercenary and his adventures.
Its visual flair and some good perfs by well-known contempo Spanish actors cannot redeem an over-episodic, over-busy script with little dramatic undertow.
The Arturo Perez-Reverte novels come to vivid life in this beautifully shot, if unevenly paced epic.
Viggo Mortensen is of course the perfect choice for the battle-hardened Captain who has to fight fellow musketeers and court intrigues. The action is much like the film itself: realistic, unspectacular, grounded, and blunt. Sadly, the pacing is off several times, some of the parts of the film feel very episodic. The flow suffers from that and makes the film feel much longer than it already is. Which is too bad, because there are moments of brilliance. Several scenes even look like old period paintings. Unfortunately, that's not enough to entertain.
This Spanish period piece is beautifully shot, well cast and well acted. The sword play is possibly the most realistic ever to be seen on film emphasising the brutality and pragmatism of its life or death nature and paying no homage to the sport of fencing that has developed since and usually influences such movies. The suffocating political, class and religious undertow of those times is thematic and frames the protagonist's efforts to exist with dignity in the most difficult of circumstances. Don't be put off by the subtitles if you don't speak Spanish - it's an excellent picture.


Srinagar, July 23, 2018 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, prisoners in Central Jail, Srinagar, have gone on an indefinite hunger strike to protest against undue shifting of some inmates to jails in Jammu, poor food quality, denial of medical facilities and delay in trials. Family members of many inmates told media in Srinagar that prison conditions had significantly worsened since the Governor's Rule was imposed in the occupied territory.
The families confirmed that inmates were refusing to take food. They say Central Jail Srinagar has been turned into a hell. "I had heard about Abu Gharib and Guntanamo, but after seeing the condition of prisoners at Central Jail, Srinagar, I don't think there can be any other worst jail in the world," said Abdur Rashid, whose son is languishing in the jail.
Rashid met his imprisoned son two weeks earlier and came to know that majority of the prisoners were given food which could not digest even a healthy person. "My son told me the jail authorities also treat prisoners like animals and not even basic medical care," he said, adding he came to know from parents of other inmates that almost all the prisoners have gone for an indefinite hunger strike.
Father of another prisoner, said he was told by his son the strike was genuine and against the issues that include unjustified shifting of prisoners to Jammu and jails outside the valley. "My son told me all the prisoners are provided with poor quality food and medical aid is totally denied, he said, declining to be identified fearing reprisal for himself and his imprisoned son. "He (son) also told me that most of the prisoners are denied proper trial, and aren't being produced in their respective courts." A source in the jail said three prisoners were shifted to Jammu recently without any solid reason or any fault of theirs.
"Their only fault was that they raised voice against the ill treatment meted out to the prisoners. They demanded trial on their due dates and hygienic food," the source said. At least 20 prisoners were gradually shifted from Central Jail Srinagar in a phased manner since March this year.


The State Property Management Administration Office announced Public Call for Expression of Interest for Implementation of the Project MUZIL on Muzil peninsula, City of Pula (Istria County) on Friday, November 6.
Muzil peninsula is a former military recruitment centar in Pula. It spreads on approximately 170 hectares of land located on the westernmost part of Pula bay which makes the central part of Pula Riviera. The development project envisages the construction of approx. 2,270 beds in tourism accommodation, public, social and business facilities, beach complex, 18-hole golf course, marina with 380 berths, culture and congress centre and other various mixed purpose facilities, including the possibility of residential part.
Interested investors are invited to submit the Expression of Interest in written form, no later than 30 days from date of the announcement of the Call for Expression of Interest.
Interested investors can request documentation regarding the real estate on the site of the Muzil peninsula electronically, via e-mail address: projekt.muzil@duudi.hr.
All necessary information as well as the official text of the Public Call (in Croatian) is available on the website of the The State Property Management Administration Office: https://imovina.gov.hr/vijesti/javni-poziv-investitorima-za-iskazivanje-interesa-za-realizaciju-razvojnog-projekta-muzil/1500.


Queen's Counsel appointments 23/09/2016 Solicitor advocate Iain McSporran is among thirteen new Queen's Counsel appointed by Her Majesty the Queen this week.
Solicitor advocate Iain McSporran is among thirteen new Queen's Counsel appointed by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The other new appointees are all advocates: Ashley Edwards; Lisa Henderson; Steven Love; Ross Macfarlane; Euan MacKenzie; Marcus McKay; Douglas Ross; Morag Ross; Kay Springham; Lauren Sutherland; Susanne Tanner; and Steven Walker.
The rank of Queen's Counsel is generally reserved for those who have distinguished themselves in practice in the Supreme Courts. Advocates and Solicitors with Rights of Audience in the Supreme Courts are eligible to apply to the Lord Justice General, Scotland's senior judge. Before making nominations to the First Minister, the Lord Justice General consults other judges, the Lord Advocate, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and the President of the Law Society of Scotland.
A report on the appointment process, by independent observer Heather Baillie, is available here.


Join Team The Children's Storefront at the 2012 ING New York City Marathon and help us raise more money than ever before.
The Children's Storefront is an independent, tuition-free school in Harlem committed to providing a comprehensive education to children with varied academic strengths from preschool through 8th grade. Our work is grounded in the conviction that every child deserves the opportunity for an excellent education.
We work in partnership with families and community members to prepare children academically, socially and emotionally for further education, empowering each child to reach his or her potential. We inspire the imagination, creativity and love of learning inherent in all children. We promote values of hard work, mutual respect and service to our society in a structured, joyful environment.
We are a caring community of educators, children, families and friends who are focused on each student's daily achievement as a step towards a better future.


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Lycoming College carries on the legacy of the WCCA
(l-r) Elliott Strickland, Andrew Paulhamus, Nancy Berkheimer, Jonathan Butterfield, Cynthia Staiman
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Continuing the legacy established by the Williamsport Community Concert Association (WCCA), Lycoming College hosted a celebration of the merger of the two organizations at the Williamsport Community Arts Center's Capitol Lounge on Thursday evening.
Chip Edmonds, Ed.D., executive vice president of Lycoming College, welcomed guests and emceed the program, which included remarks from Jonathan Butterfield to honor Cynthia Staiman's leadership of the WCCA. William Ciabattari, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the music department at Lycoming College, also spoke to the impact of the new WCCA endowment and the musical offerings and concerts it will make possible for the Williamsport community for generations to come. The event also included music from members of the Williamsport Community Jazz Orchestra.
In March of 2021, Lycoming College announced that it would merge the WCCA into the College's existing music program in order to sustain the concerts and other music performances provided through the WCCA. The relationship ensures that the legacy of the WCCA will endure, and that the music department at the College will be augmented and further enriched. The first public offering resulting from the partnership will be a performance of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport on Nov. 3.
In recognition of her dedication to the WCCA, Staiman was presented with a framed poster designed by Seth Goodman, associate professor of art at Lycoming College. The original work of art honored Staiman's leadership and noted the full catalog of talent brought to Williamsport under her leadership.
"I was taught that community service is imperative, and I am both humbled and honored to have served as the WCCA president for eight years," said Staiman. "Serving as president of the WCCA turned out to be one of the best parts of my entire life. I utterly adored every component of what I did. Thank you, Lycoming College, and thank you, my superb and cherished WCCA friends, for this accolade."
"Community musicians are the lifeblood of the arts scene in many communities, and here in Williamsport, WCCA served as a music source for decades," said Ciabattari. He told attendees that he felt a great responsibility in bringing two rich legacies together and successfully carrying them forward.
More information on the WCCA and Lycoming College, or to support the WCCA Endowed Program Fund, visit https://www.lycoming.edu/wcca/.
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All auto enrolment schemes must have a default fund; stakeholder pensions have required them since 2001.
The two labelled "strategies" are usually a combination of funds and other investable entities managed to a formulated methodology but most people think of them as funds. Of course, within each of these fund types the component parts are themselves extremely variable and can make enormous difference to investor outcomes. However in the company pensions market, in principle, all the above can meet the DWP's default fund best practice guidance (link). What's critical is that the employer ensures good governance of his scheme's specific fund.
Naturally advisors, marketeers and fund managers support the default fund they sell or administer. We also see the theme that if a default fund design doesn't need much after-sales course correction, it tends not to receive much adviser support.
We've seen this with Target Dated funds which have taken about seven years to become widely acceptable to advisers. The Targeted Income strategy, ( a "fund" designed for defined contribution schemes using defined benefit/liability aimed principles) still needs to be sold directly to pension schemes as the advisers don't tend to support it. Many would say this is because once set up, it's intended to work for the employees entire working lifetime and therefore doesn't need changes by an intermediary along the way.
As investment outcomes are unforeseeable in advance and are infinitely variable between employees and fund choices it remains difficult to decide upon the best default design for any pension scheme. If you can't determine the best, or at least rank them in some way, doesn't that mean some schemes will end up with bad defaults? And when we are talking here about the post retirement financial health of the nation's workforce and households, it becomes a critical debate. There is another important point as well, that in some years, because of auto enrolment, some defaults will be home to billions of pounds of people's pension assets.
What everyone does seem to agree though is that 90% to 95% of pension scheme members will likely stay in the default fund from their first pension contribution to the date their retirement pension commences. Therefore no one can deny that the default fund is important, but there is less agreement about what its important for.
it would provide the highest net return on contributions?
it would provide the least uncertain return over the time invested?
it would preserve capital while hoping to benefit from some equity premium?
it will enable the pension scheme to fulfil its duties to have an adequate fund?
Probably we would all like a fund to give us a combination of the first three points, but the last bullet is the one that will trump all others as its the only one you can pretty much evidence in the present, and which also carries a legal duty. But it doesn't sound very positive about maximising or even optimising an individual's pension, does it?
So should we accept that 90 to 95% of pension scheme members stay in the default fund without understanding their options, including the impact that the visible and possibly hidden cost deductions will have on their final pension, and without having much or any understanding of how to make choices about it? After all, it will be one of the most important financial aspects of their life.
Do we want people to understand their finances and take their long term financial security seriously or do we want to default them into an investment fund for their working life leaving them the impression that it will turn out okay because someone else has done the thinking for them?
Many financial commentators say we can't expect pension scheme members to become investment experts. ('so its not worth doing much' is left unsaid). This is a great way to avoid the issue.
safeguard their financial security for what could be a long retirement with little other income.
The knowledge skill for this is no more than that needed for people who know about sports or cooking or gardening or anything else. What is required is that we make the subject engaging.
This can be done. There are lots of reasons why most people are bored, scared or confused by their pension scheme and related issues, but it doesn't have to be that way. There are small pockets of best practice in all industries where the workforce are engaged with their pension scheme and can make good decisions about it – and value the cost the employer puts into it.
The answer to the question posed in the title is that the right default fund is one that will enable the pension scheme to fulfil its duties to have an adequate fund. So you can have any fund you like so long as it meets the governance criteria but the governance criteria are safeguards only. They do not seek to set out the requirements that the better employers and pension trustees may want from their pension scheme and neither should they. Employers and pension trustees must have the freedom to decide the pension policies that are right for them and their work force. The right thing to do is to speak to an appropriate expert to find out more in relation to your specific pension scheme and workforce.
CORPIAS provides company pensions expertise for employers and pension schemes. We do not sell a pension product. Please feel free to speak to CORPIAS as we can support the development of your thinking with default fund and fund range choices. We can also provide engaging pension scheme and investment training to the workforce or to HR personnel in a train the trainer concept.
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Каральби Мастафович Шомахов (23 декабря 1945, Заюково, Баксанский район, Кабардино-Балкарская АССР, РСФСР, СССР) — советский борец вольного стиля, призёр чемпионатов СССР. Заслуженный тренер РСФСР, заслуженный работник физической культуры и спорта Кабардино-Балкарской АССР, Мастер спорта международного класса по вольной борьбе.

Биография
Вольной борьбой заниматься начал в 1959 году в Нальчике. После чего перебрался в Махачкалу и занимался в спортивной школе Динамо у Арменака Карапетяна. В 1968 и в 1969 году становится серебряным призёром чемпионата СССР. В 1970 и в 1973 году становился победителем чемпионата РСФСР. В 1971 году первенствовал на Спартакиаде народов РСФСР.

Личная жизнь
В 1964 году окончил школу интернат №1 в Махачкале. В 1969 году окончил Дагестанский государственный педагогический институт по специальности физическое воспитание. В 1981 году родился сын Тимур, служил в звании старшего лейтенант в МВД Кабардино-Балкарии, погиб 13 октября 2005 года в боях при нападении боевиков на Нальчик. С 2002 по 2010 год работает директором ГУ «СДЮСШОР по вольной борьбе» в Нальчике. Возглавляет Федерацию спортивной борьбы Кабардино-Балкарской Республики.

Достижения
 Чемпионат СССР по вольной борьбе 1968 — ;
 Чемпионат СССР по вольной борьбе 1969 — ;
 Чемпионат РСФСР по вольной борьбе 1970 — ;
 Спартакиада народов РСФСР 1971 — ;
 Чемпионат РСФСР по вольной борьбе 1973 — ;

Примечания

Ссылки
 Канаев, М. Спортивная слава Дагестана. 1956—2009.- Махачкала, 2010.- 187 с.

Борцы СССР
Чемпионы России по вольной борьбе
Тренеры Кабардино-Балкарии
Заслуженные работники физической культуры и спорта Кабардино-Балкарской АССР
Заслуженные тренеры РСФСР
Мастера спорта СССР международного класса
Директора школ

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SCOUTING: You've been described as a "former tinkerer." Would you explain what that means? DR. BERNARD A. HARRIS JR.: That was from a PC commercial that I did a few years ago. It was for Microsoft. I guess it's a reference to, as a kid, tinker- ing with toys. One of the things my mom remembers is the first time I took her clock apart to see what it was like on the inside. I think a number of kids have done that.
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Q: How to restart main() from the beginning on an error condition? #include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    printf("Hi!\nWelcome!\nThis is an expression based calculator\ndeveloped by Sankasuvra Bhattacharya\n");
    printf("that performs arithmetic operations on\ntwo numbers.\n");
    float num1;
    float num2;
    float ans = 0.0;
    char symbol;
    char ask;
    printf("Please type the expression you want to calculate: ");
    if(scanf("%f%1s%f",&num1,&symbol,&num2) != 3)
    {
        printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
        /* want to restart main() again here */
    }
    else {
    switch(symbol) {
        case '+' : ans = num1 + num2;
                    break;
        case '-' : ans = num1 - num2;
                    break;
        case '*' :
        case 'x' :
                    ans = num1 * num2;
                    break;
        case '/' :
                    if(num2 == 0) {
                        printf("Division by zero is not possible!\nPlease try again...\n\n");
                        return main();
                    }
                    else {
                    ans = num1 / num2;
                    break;
                    }
        default :
                    printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
                    return main();
    }
    printf("The answer is %g\n",ans);
    printf("\nTo use the calculator again, type 'Y'. ");
    printf("To exit, type any other character...\n");
    scanf("%s",&ask);
    if (ask == 'y' || ask == 'Y') {
        printf("\n");
        main();
    }
        else {
        printf("Thank you for using the program. Please give full marks.");
    }
    }
    return 0;
}

A: To answer your question.
I would not recommend calling main.
You could create another function that has all you code.
Inside main, you call that function.
You can call a function inside that function (called recursion)
However, a simple loop could do the job.
do{
    printf("Hi!\nWelcome!\nThis is an expression based calculator\ndeveloped by Sankasuvra Bhattacharya\n");
    printf("that performs arithmetic operations on\ntwo numbers.\n");
    float num1;
    float num2;
    float ans = 0.0;
    char symbol;
    char ask;
    printf("Please type the expression you want to calculate: ");
    if(scanf("%f%1s%f",&num1,&symbol,&num2) != 3)
    {
        printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
    }
    else {
    switch(symbol) {
        case '+' : ans = num1 + num2;
                   break;
        case '-' : ans = num1 - num2;
                   break;
        case '*' :
        case 'x' :
                   ans = num1 * num2;
                   break;
        case '/' :
                   if (num2 == 0) {
                        printf("Division by zero is not possible!\nPlease try again...\n\n");
                        return main();
                    }
                    else {
                        ans = num1 / num2;
                        break;
                    }
        default :
                    printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
                    return main();
    }
    printf("The answer is %g\n",ans);
    printf("\nTo use the calculator again, type 'Y'. ");
    printf("To exit, type any other character...\n");
    scanf("%s",&ask);
    printf("\n");
    }while(ask == 'y' || ask == 'Y') ;
    printf("Thank you for using the program. Please give full marks.");
}

Edit: To answer the comment to this question what you want to do is:
while(scanf("%f%1s%f",&num1,&symbol,&num2) != 3)
{
    printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
}

And remove the else
EDIT2: Full code. Note that the expression cannot be more than 99 characters.
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{

float num1;
float num2;
float ans = 0.0;
char symbol;
char ask;
char string[100];
do{
    printf("Hi!\nWelcome!\nThis is an expression based calculator\ndeveloped by Sankasuvra Bhattacharya\n");
    printf("that performs arithmetic operations on\ntwo numbers.\n");

    printf("Please type the expression you want to calculate: ");

    while(1){
        fgets (string , 100 ,stdin);
        if(sscanf( string, "%f%1s%f",&num1,&symbol,&num2)!=3)
            printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
        else
            break;

    }

    switch(symbol) {
        case '+' : ans = num1 + num2;
                break;
        case '-' : ans = num1 - num2;
                break;
        case '*' :
        case 'x' :
                ans = num1 * num2;
                break;
        case '/' :
                if (num2 == 0) {
                        printf("Division by zero is not possible!\nPlease try again...\n\n");
                        return main();
                    }
                    else {
                        ans = num1 / num2;
                        break;
                    }
        default :
                    printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
                    return main();
    }
    printf("The answer is %g\n",ans);
    printf("\nTo use the calculator again, type 'Y'. ");
    printf("To exit, type any other character...\n");
    scanf("%s",&ask);
    printf("\n");

}while(ask == 'y' || ask == 'Y') ;

printf("Thank you for using the program. Please give full marks.");

return 0;

}

A: @Kristjan Kica answer is good. I think you are using spaces in your input like 1 + 2.
According to manual page of scanf
 All conversions are introduced by the % (percent sign) character.  The format string may also contain other characters.  White space
 (such as blanks, tabs, or newlines) in the format string match any amount of white space, including none, in the input.  Everything else
 matches only itself.  Scanning stops when an input character does not match such a format character.  Scanning also stops when an input
 conversion cannot be made.

Remove the spaces and try again.
Example:
1+2 should work by the changes mentioned in kristijan answer.
Edit:
Replace the line in @Kristjan Kica answer
while(ask == 'y' || ask == 'Y') ;

with
}while(ask == 'y' || ask == 'Y') ;

Edit 2:
Last closing } should be your main functions closing brace.

A: Finally solved it. All thanks to Kristjan Kica...
#include <stdio.h>

 int main(void)
{
float num1;
float num2;
float ans;
char symbol;
char ask;
char string[100];
fflush(stdin);
printf("Hi!\nWelcome!\nThis is an expression based calculator\ndeveloped by
Sankasuvra Bhattacharya\n");
printf("that performs arithmetic operations on\ntwo numbers.\n");
printf("Please type the expression you want to calculate: ");
fgets (string , 100 ,stdin);
if(sscanf( string, "%f%1s%f",&num1,&symbol,&num2)!=3)
{
        printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
        main();
}
else
{
switch(symbol) {
    case '+' : ans = num1 + num2;
            break;
    case '-' : ans = num1 - num2;
            break;
    case '*' :
    case 'x' :
            ans = num1 * num2;
            break;
    case '/' :
            if (num2 == 0) {
                    printf("Division by zero is not possible!\nPlease try again...\n\n");
                    return main();
                }
                else {
                    ans = num1 / num2;
                    break;
                }
    default :
                printf("\nInvalid input! Please try again...\n\n");
                return main();
}
printf("The answer is %g\n",ans);
printf("\nTo use the calculator again, type 'Y'. ");
printf("To exit, type any other character...\n");
scanf("%s",&ask);
printf("\n");
if (ask == 'y' || ask == 'Y')
{
    main();
}
else {
    return 0;
}
}
}


Dear PM of India, Err, let me start by informing you that I am an aam aadmi, in whose name your government has come into power, so I do not know how to write an official letter to the Prime Minister of this great nation, forgive me if you feel this letter of mine is "immature". Let me come to topic.
2009 was the first General election which I first exercised my right as a citizen to vote a party to government. Do not in your weirdest dreams, think that I voted for you, but now I feel very proud that I did not vote for you. Now please do not call Digvijaya to know whether I am an RSS terrorist. There are a million others who did not vote for your government. Now, I only wanted to give an Idea about my age, which is one fourth of your age and half the age of "youth icon" Rahul Baba. Hope you could calculate my age now, as there is a rumour around that you have got a doctorate in economics.
So I heard that you are on a foreign official tour, in United Nations building, I don't know where it is. I saw a speech of Isreal Prime Minister speaking a day before you opened your divine mouth. Let me tell you frankly, I was impressed that there exist a country in the world whose Prime Minister defends the nationalism of its majority population. I heard in middle of his speech, he asked something like, "have you no shame" , do not get hurt when I ask you this, was that question directed to you ?
Israel is not my motherland, but India is. I was wondering what my PM will speak at united nations, because no one, literally no one, in my family or my friends family understand when you speak. I was really wondering why people choose you again, or did you really rig the evms ? Err, I again forgot that you are not elected, in fact people defeated you in some past elections, and Sonia selected you. But there is absolutely nothing which technology cannot decode, and I read in some newspaper that, you have supported Palestine state? Also You said something like "selective approach to terrorism", for Gods sake, can you explain what did you mean by that?
I am not very much informed about the crisis in Palestine, but I know about Kashmir. My brothers were driven out, some were murdered, and their temples were desecrated by the separatist a few decades ago. You have not spoken a word about that? What gives you the authority to speak about an Issue regarding foreign countries, when you do not dare to speak about the issues concerning the majority population, Let me remind you what you said some years ago. You made a great secular speech "First right to Indian resources belong to Muslims". Can you explain what the hell did you mean by it?
Ever since the person who selected you for the TOP JOB is ill, I see you frequently talking to media with funny expressions. My little bro made a great mess in my home, for not allowing to see you speak, because he thought it is some Mickey Mouse show in cartoon network. Please do not send NSG commandos to my home now, forgive my little Brother. Then , I saw in the news that you said, "My ministers enjoy my confidence". Who in the world cares about who enjoy your confidence, even you made a somewhat similar statement an year ago Raja went to Tihar. Now Raja has become famous in Tihar and in the end it seems you also will have to share Raja's cell in Tihar ?
I know this was the day when you were incarnated in to this world, to save the corrupts. Also I heard you are celebrating your birthday in New York. Look at your wife, a similar looking lady died today in India. She was beaten midnight by your Delhi Police which is directly under the minister who enjoys your confidence? It was unfortunate as you said, and we do not need your certificate to call an incident unfortunate, but when you said, there was no option, I was really observing your better half who looks like Rajbala. If your wife understands your language, ask her about this someday!
Yet I hear people calling you, Honest. Then I was reminded of Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar" and the famous speech of Antony "Yet Brutus is an Honourable man".
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