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Discussion in 'Real Estate/Properties' started by joseph sunday, Nov 2, 2021.
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Up to ten people feared death on Monday when a 21-story building collapsed on Gerard Road in Ikoyi district, Lagos state.
At the time of this report, many people were still trapped in the rubble, including the managing director of Fourscore Heights Limited, Mr Femi Osibona, the owner of the building, as well as some of its customers and engineers.
The building was found to collapse around 2:00 p.m. when workers were on site.
One of the workers who survived the incident, Gabriel Bassey, told one of the correspondents that around 50 people were still trapped in the rubble.
He said the 360-degree project was built by Fourscore Homes Limited. he was there to unplug his phone and it wasn't until five seconds after he left the place, that he saw the building collapse, and ran to safety. As at the time of the interview he confirmed that there were a lot of people trapped in the rubble that needed to be saved.
He also added the When the incident happened six bodies were taken out and there were still about 30 Togolese and Nigerian masons and four engineers and other workers. His boss, Mr. Femi, is still trapped in the building. He was on the 18th floor with some of his customers who were about to buy an apartment complex when the incident happened. "
A local resident, Morris Ashiobi, said the building had shown no sign of collapse before it collapsed.
He said, When the incident happened, I was the first person to go to the top floor of the building and see bodies. I started calling people to come and save others. We recovered six bodies, only saved one, while the others are still under the rubble.
It took an hour for the ambulance to arrive, and we'd pulled out the bodies and rescued one person before they got there. If I'm not mistaken, there were about 40 people there because we were working at the time. Some people came from Abuja today (Monday) to work. I still have a lot of friends trapped in the building.
"When the police arrived, they chased us away and did not allow us to rescue anyone; if they had allowed us, we would have saved more people. "
Eyewitness Blessing Feyijimi, lamenting the lack of equipment for first responders, said more people would have been saved had they been better equipped.
He said, "When the incident happened around 1:36 pm, we started rescuing people, but the security people locked the gate and did not let people in. We protested and forced entry. We recovered four bodies and rescued four injured on the top floor, but some people are still trapped in the rubble.
Lagos State Police Commissioner Hakeem Odumosu confirmed the deaths of five people and added that three more were saved.
However, the National Emergency Management Agency's Southwest Coordinator Ibrahim Farinloye said four bodies were recovered from the building, adding that four had been rescued.
Our correspondents reported that some of the victims' relatives present at the scene wept and refused to speak to journalists.
Local responders included the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, the National Emergency Management Agency, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, ambulance services, the Lagos State Fire Department, the Federal Road Safety Corps, police, military, and paramedics.
The Lagos State government called for calm among residents in responding to the incident.
State Information and Strategy Commissioner Gbenga Omotosho said in a statement that aid organizations are on hand to rescue people from beneath the rubble.
He added that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had ordered an investigation into the incident and added that a report of the investigation would be released.
The State Ministry for Spatial Planning and Urban Development announced in a statement published on Monday that investigations had been started to clarify the cause of the collapse.
The statement added that the Directors-General of the Lagos State Building Control Agency and the Lagos State Planning Authority were on hand to make a summary assessment of the extent of damage to surrounding buildings if any.
Obafemi State Deputy Governor Hamzat said it was important to cordon off the crime scene to ease the efforts of professional rescuers and limit the number of victims.
"It is likely that some people have deliberately tried to cover it up. We just had the structure in place; it indicates a substructure fault. We have to dig deep.
The President of the Nigerian Building Institute, Professor Yohana Izam, expressed his grief over the incident and the "monumental loss of material resources and death of people".
"There should be a thorough investigation to test the implementation of land-use planning and development laws in Lagos and to ensure those responsible are severely punished," he said.
The company that designed the structure and oversaw construction, Prowess Engineering Limited, said it pulled out of the project in 2020 because it no longer shares the same vision with the owners, Fourscore Heights Limited.
Prowess Engineering Limited's managing director Muritala Olawale said in a letter to Osibona dated February 20, 2020, that his company could not guarantee the integrity of the building from just above the fourth floor.
Olawale, who led two other construction projects for Osibona, said his company is pulling out of the third because of "the way the project is being carried out".
"We can guarantee the integrity of the first two buildings as well as the work we supervise up to the fourth floor of the third building, provided that the specifications regarding the required concrete strengths are met.
We have no influence on this, as we do not yet have the results of the concrete cube tests for each construction phase.
Please also note that we are not responsible for any other design flaws that may have occurred in the project over time, "the letter says in part.
#1 joseph sunday, Nov 2, 2021
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The owners if this Ikoyi building that collapsed and killed many people was found dead today.
FEMI FOURSCORE OSIBONA... RIP.
Good night my very dear friend and Brother FEMI FOURSCORE OSIBONA... RIP.
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Roots of Risk
I've had the experience twice in my life. Once was on a Hunter 45 sailing south from Sydney towards the Bass Straits and once was in an Vesper 15 kayak paddling out of the Chilkoot Inlet in Haines Alaska. The seas were rough but manageable and the thrill of pushing the prow through the rolling spray was intoxicating. And then, as if knowing that I was beginning to feel a sense of dominion over the wind and waves, on the horizon came the foreboding apparition of swells, vast and terrible running in a cross current to the chop I was navigating. The impulse to turn back danced with the impulse to rise to the taunting, inviting seas and, in both instances, I had the good sense to let the latter win. Otherwise, I couldn't write this post. Crossing the line into that which is so evidently more powerful than one's own capacity is where you learn to dance with the cosmic forces far greater than you. It's where all faculties are most acute making all senses palatable and incarnate into the deepest sinew. You're alive!
My experience was harmonic with the 8th century BCE reality embodied in Homer's Rhapsody M. Here the sea cliffs (Latin: risicum) are fitted with a olive tree root (Greek: rizikon) to which Odysseus clings to save his life when his ships are crushed. It was the Romans who chose the "cliff" part of this Greek allegory which began framing our ontology of "risk" meaning the possibility of adversity, loss, injury, or harm. The idea of risk intersecting with finance was born of Mediterranean, French and English traders who used the term to refer to unavoidable losses at sea. The insurers of modernity are inextricably linked to the Lloyds of London insurers who integrated the Arabic az-zahr for dice into the French game using dice hasart and merged this into the commercial loss at sea (hazard) insurance of today.
This week I encountered financial "risk" on several occasions. The term is thrown about most often to justify Ignorance Enhanced Usury - one of the most ubiquitously condemned practices throughout ALL human traditions - which is alive and very well today. The reason why venture capitalists are 'entitled' to higher returns is because start-up ventures are 'risky'. The reason why the largest 'ethical' fraud on the planet - microfinance - has to be fraudulently laundered as social responsible investing (now, politically correctly called "impact investing") is because this 'risk-distributed' financial source provides capital in 'risky' markets. The way to understand the 'opportunity' provided by a novel business is to get one's head around all of the 'risks'.
Investing in a country other than a member of the G-20 does not involve more 'risk'. It involves personal interaction. That's right, when you become a trusted counter-party in any jurisdiction you: a) make more discernment-filled decisions; and, b) have others who align their interests with your own thereby stabilizing an environment in which mutual benefit is possible. Rooted in mutual understanding and informed respect, one actually reduces the likelihood for loss and harm. Investing in a start-up venture does not involve more 'risk'. Demanding that a new venture yield cash sufficient to pay back effective interest rates at over 25% is lunacy and it is the capital providers - not the ventures themselves - that actually fail in their investments. Ironically, statistics on business start-ups are horrifically misleading. Many of them make it. Tragically, the ones that get usury financing - the venture capital lot that are publicized and therefore counted - fail at an observable scale because the capital was asymmetric to the business productivity. Rooted in aligned, productive focus, strategic capital actually nourishes the growth of business for greater productivity in the future. Fear and ignorance in markets do not necessitate more 'risk'. Providing prudential confidence derived from empirical experience in the form of insurance can root a venture confidently in an environment perceived to be filled with uncertainty.
Listening to an executive from one of the world's over $1 trillion asset banks this week, I was particularly fascinated with his use of the term 'risk'. Without exception, one could have substituted the word 'ignorance' for every use of 'risk' with exactitude. An intrepid group - to which this man belonged - within the bank is trying to encourage greater transparency and innovation. Regrettably, the roots of this bank are in privacy and secrecy - insuring that deposits and transactions happen within occult discretion. When one attempts to insert transparency and innovation into a structure whose foundation was the precise opposite, the inertial dissonance is self-evident. Going into 'riskier' markets? I think not. They were just going into markets where they have institutional ignorance. Not sure how to quantify the 'risk' and 'returns' in new assets? I think not. They were incapable of considering metrics that were transparency-optimized rather obfuscatory in nature. I recalled a conversation with my dear friend and, without exception, the most enlightened member of a banking executive team (also over $1 trillion in assets and also European based). We were sitting in the rain talking about the history of his bank - one that grew from agrarian roots - and I challenged him with the following question.
"Why is it that we don't have Chief Synergy Officers to insure borrower success in all banks where we have Chief Risk Officers to hedge against borrower failures?"
The answer is self-evident. Somewhere between the 8th century BCE and Lloyds of London we elected one of the two metaphors given the world by Homer. And in times of fiscal cliffs, global financial risk, and perils on every side, we are blind to the alternative - the rizikon or root. If we saw the story for its other narrative - the one where the crushing stones done dash the boats into pieces and send hundreds of men to their deaths - we'd see the story that calls for heightened, total environmental awareness. An awareness that lets you see the root of an olive tree to which you can cling and rise to new, epic heights. Abandon that which you've called risk that is fear, ignorance, and in its worst, immoral usury and abuse. See the root that feeds the succulent olives, cling to it, and truly live!
Posted by David Martin at 8:31 AM
Diet Pepsi and Twinkies
In December 2007 as the U.S. and global economies were careening off the cliff, Fed Economist Dave Stockton reportedly stated that the economic outlook for the U.S. economy was "benign…[and projections were] unimpaired and on nothing stronger than many late nights of diet Pepsi and vending-machine Twinkies." What a prophetically ironic metaphor seeing as Diet Pepsi has succumbed to PepsiCo's collapsing market relevance in the face of their arch-rival Coke and Twinkies, the preservative laden fluffy pastry, is bankrupt. Add to that the Center for Science in the Public Interest's report in March 2012 that 4-methylimidazole (that caramel coloring that makes cola's their distinctive donkey urine on a Grand Canyon hiking trail color) is a carcinogen with the average soda can containing over 500% of the State of California's public safety benchmark and it's not really surprising that we neither diagnosed the condition leading to the much ballyhooed Global Financial Crisis (GFC) nor have we taken any meaningful corrective actions to fix it.
While most of the Eastern seaboard was dealing with the almost storm that almost happened to almost dump a bunch of snow on us here in Charlottesville (yes, I wanted a bit more than the dusting we received) the Federal Reserve set a new record with U.S. Treasury and mortgage holdings at a whopping $2.946 trillion (with a "t")! And with Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart's dire prediction that "large scale asset purchases" are likely to be necessitated due to the sluggish economy in 2013, this all-time intervention record is likely merely the qualifying line for records that will be smashed throughout the year. In the Olympics of financial intervention, we've got our Usain Bolt without the Jamaican charm. Let the games…begin?...continue?...whatever!
Two wrongs don't make a right. That goes for Twinkies being sloshed down with carcinogenic Diet Pepsi; a GFC manifest in mortgage debt abuses being resolved with mortgage debt abuse; and the architects of a disaster being entrusted with its remedy. And while I'd love to delve into the precise economic policy issues illuminated in Fed's January 16th record setting 'asset purchase' report, I thought it might be informative to land this commentary a bit closer home. The intervention of the past few years (suppressed interest rates and Fed purchase of mortgages) actually have grave implications for all of us. The penny of pain deferral in the moment comes at a pound of agony later. And, ironically, this pain will respect no asset class being felt more in its magnitude by those with the horded most.
Many of us hear about the foreign ownership of U.S. debt representing about 1/3 of the total public debt - with popular demonization of certain large Asian holders. The Federal Reserve and U.S. public institutions including Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) hold just over 40% while the individual consumer / investor (represented by pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds) hold about 12%. On the present trajectory, we could see the Federal Reserve owning about 1/3 of the mortgage market by 2014 (if it continues its current purchasing policy) and about 2/3 of the longer maturity debt issued by the Treasury. Unlike investors who invest earned dollars and seek investment returns for actuarial income required in their projection of the monetary future needs they'll face, the Fed's 'asset purchasing' behavior is based on its ability to buy using its own whimsical capacity to buy. Far from a 'fair market' buyer, the presence of a fiat buyer actually alters price dynamics.
Imagine the following scenario. You and I go to the grocery story to buy a $1 loaf of bread (o.k., seriously, we know that it's not even a muffin at today's prices but work with me!). When you pay for your bread, you use a dollar from your wallet. When I pay for my loaf, I use a dollar from a Monopoly game. Both 'dollars' are accepted by the grocer who, in turn, deposits both in the retirement account for her employees. By having non-par 'dollars', the immediate effect on the asset (the bread) is that I have effectively devalued it. But worse than that, when, in the future, the employees withdraw their retirement account, they'll have far less than expected. In fact they'll have not just half but the half less the unearnable return that they did not receive on the non-par dollar. And this is the good news. The bad news is that the Monopoly money actor - not investing for retirement or future returns, will liquidate their non-investment as a function of their extenuating need - not as a function of the asset appreciation. This yield decoupled sale could artificially flood supply onto the market and drive down the price. In the case of the Fed, there is the added complexity in that they have competing financial instrument interests. Depending on the timing of their sale of Treasuries or mortgages, their sale of one (given the fact that they are holding long-dated Treasuries and long-dated mortgages - both 30 year), the price drag of their sales will decrease the book value and liquidity of pensions, insurance payment capacity, and other cash flow considerations of the average citizen.
In the Panic of 1893, President Grover Cleveland turned to J.P Morgan to loan gold to the U.S. Treasury to keep it from collapsing in exchange for 30 year bonds with a 4% interest rate. Twenty years later this private capital means of financing the public debt was institutionalized with the formation of the Federal Reserve. During this tumultuous time, private investors wielded considerable advantage as they not only owned the operation of the government but they also controlled the means of production and commerce (the actual productivity of the U.S. economy). Setting aside the morality of this dynamic - I know, that's a bit hard to swallow, but bear with me - the good-old-days model concocted by J.P. Morgan and his allies was far more robust than the unimaginative approach taken by the Fed today. Morgan could actually insure his repayment by aligning his self-interest to the industrial production of the country. By purchasing competing, non-productive assets at equivalent durations, the Fed is doubling down on the exact same factors that triggered the GFC in the first place. Remember that the GFC - mislabeled a 'mortgage crisis' - was the consequence of pairing consumer debt (accessed through cheap money second mortgages) actuarial risk with real estate asset risk. While the symptom showed up looking like mortgage influenza, the actual virus was unsustainable debt fueled consumption. By suppressing interest rates through contrived purchases and by effectively undermining real asset value, we're actually building a bigger risk than the GFC of 2007-2008.
There's a 'real value' super-storm brewing. While the leading bands of the storm will be filled with the windy bluster of debt ceiling posturing, the real eye of the storm is brewing around the paired devaluation effect of Fed balance sheet intervention. If unaltered, the resulting illiquidity for pensioners, the insured, and investors alike will directly harm the economy for the actuarial debt maturity horizon - the next 30 or so years. Once again, it's time for each of you, and those about whom you care, to become more conscious about the harm being done by passivity in your investment management and start aligning the capital you steward to things that actually unleash the productivity of yourself and others. The last time the private banking sector managed this process, we got a Great Depression and a World War. If a few self-serving actors can co-opt the system for their nefarious purposes, it's reasonable to assume that a few actors with good intent can achieve equal effect with a more laudable outcome.
Posted by David Martin at 1:38 PM
Illumination Becoming Dark
Archimedean Theorem VII
I am indebted to the intersubjective signal encoding of language and the metaphoric abuse of the global patent system for the title of this post and for the portal it affords this week's commentary. In Asahi's U.S. Patent 6,001,058 issued in December 1999, Hiroshi Sano and his colleagues claimed to invent an interchangeable power supply for a surgical endoscope. In their patent, they describe the dimming of a light when the battery dies with the following embellishment:
there are cases where the battery runs down, and hence the illumination becomes dark
In a week where Aaron Swartz ended his tormented life at the age of 26 partially as a consequence of his exasperation at a system that locks information behind contrived economic monopolies after being funded by public research; and, in the same week that public officials seriously discussed defrauding the world with a platinum coin, I'm sympathetic to the prophetic irony in this Japanese patent. Contemporaneously, I was delving into the works of several philosophers in a quest to disentangle my inexorable conviction that our present manic systemic failure is entirely a function of the optics with which we observe ourselves and the world in which we live. And, courtesy of the platinum coin option (the legality of which hinges on the fact that our laws only govern coinage limits on gold, silver, and copper) I was struck by the irony that our moral and financial default could be 'solved' courtesy of the periodic table.
Whether we give Empedocles or the Babylonian Enûma Eliš credit for the notion of essential elements (fire, air, water, and earth) or expand our view to include the Buddhist and Hindu insight of the animating fifth aether or akasha, our present thinking is inextricably linked to the work of Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev. Mendeleev began classifying elements based on their atomic mass in 1869 and presented his findings to German scientists who appreciated the quantifiable discipline of his approach. But it's English physicist Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley's X-ray spectroscopic analysis in 1913 that actually illuminated the path to our precise understanding of elemental differentiation by understanding the diffraction of energy through crystals. Regrettably for Moseley, his inquiry was abruptly ended on August 10, 1915 when Atomic Number 29, propelled by a rapid interaction between Atomic Number 8 and Atomic Numbers 16, 6, 19, and 7, ripped through his body in the Battle of Gallipoli. Another bright 20-something communicator and scientist, like Aaron, exterminated for the noble cause of…? It's not the guns that kill people, right?
Now by now you're probably wondering what this meandering missive has to do with the economy or the usual InvertedAlchemy fare. Bear with me my intrepid friend.
Somewhere around 1668 we began segregating light with greater fervor than the 15th century early Renaissance glass and paint masters who allowed life to reflect in their expressions through a deeper understanding of light. Newtonian optics, inspired by nearly three centuries of inquiry, sought to understand stellar light by enhancing the powers of observation. While Himalayan masters aspired to cosmic reunion through ascension, European occultists sought to reel the light in. Ironically, both introduced a common Archimedean obstruction - dimension. Essential Light, both literal and metaphoric, does not transform when we obstruct it through geometric forms. By placing a prism in a coherent flow of energy, we don't understand light more fully. In fact, through diffraction, we actually create the illusion of uncommonality and by segregating perceptible boundaries, we actually more clearly apprehend less. Christiaan Huygens 1678 postulate that spectral waves travel "forward", and Francesco Grimaldi's (the progenitor of the term "diffraction" in the 1660's) notion of directionality discerned through interference entirely ignore the persistence and dynamics of the energy of that light (or other energy) that is not subject to our introduction of obstructions.
Here's where I hope a few of you have the 'ah-ha' moment. Those places where we're drawn into the complexity of our 'problem space' are likely also those places where we've introduced obstacles of segregation which, when removed, also render the problem ephemeral. Swapping out prisms, while more precisely clarifying the pathetic segregating dissociation of ourselves to our ecosystem, is actually not the solution. Further contributing to our confusion is our incapacity to observe phenomenon in motion. I am sympathetic to Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck's lifetime effort to rationalize action quantum into static representation ultimately representing his insights with a precisely infinitesimal number 6.62606957(29) x 10-34 J•s. When taking the periodic table elemental atomic stasis and turning it into the animated motion picture called reality, you need the Planck constant shutter speed to see life happen. Talk about I-MAX, Dolby-Surround Sound! It would be virtually reality! Or you could just walk out of the theater of illusions and experience…wait for it… REALITY!
So here comes Archimedean Theorem VII (for those counting):
The greater the segregation of diffracted categories in an observation of intractable problems, the more dimensional obstruction is being placed in the path of unconstrained energetic emission.
Charles II was King of England, Oliver Cromwell was posthumously executed, the Qing Dynasty was dealing with small pox with vaccination technologies, the Hudson Bay Company was making 'lasting treaties' with the North American tribes, and we formalized the breaking of light for its understanding nearly 350 years ago. As I consider the present situation, I could infer that, to quote my Japanese inventor, the "illumination becomes dark." We are, in fact, in Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
Plato wanted a philosopher to come into the cave to enlighten the prisoners who were chained to the wall and forced to watch the illusion of reality played out in shadows on the blank wall. But herein lies the irony. The shadows in Plato's cave are now actually cast by the prisoners and, if one casts light into the cave, we'll have to come face-to-face with the reality that we've been blocking the light and projecting our own illusions. Our separations, our conflicts, or struggles are of our own animation. When we want the drama to end, we merely need to stop the show. That would involve accountability. That would involve each of us acknowledging the role we've played in deceiving ourselves and others into thinking that crisis and resolution is the mandatory cyclical monotony of life. It isn't. Let there be Light!
Posted by David Martin at 10:59 AM
Color of Poverty
King of Beers, Lords of Litter, what's up with Blue?
I ride my bike on the back roads of Virginia as many days as the weather and my crazy schedule permits. On these rides I frequently contemplate life's puzzles and today was no exception. As the icy cold air pierced my pulmonary epithelial lining…o.k. I'll keep it real.
I had barely turned down Old Lynchburg Road to climb the first 100 ft of the 1,000 ft. of undulating grades I'd traverse today when the bright blue litter of a Bud Light can caught my eye. A few feet further, another Bud Light can. Over the past several years, I've been intrigued by the proliferation of roadside litter and I've been puzzling over why it seems that Bud Light cans, with their bold blue blaze, seem to outnumber all other forms of litter by a considerable margin. So today, after my ride, I enlisted my environmentally aware son to do a little roadside recycling cleanup and litter research. The results (now in our recycle bin) were staggering. Bud Light is far and away the favored litter for drivers who drink while driving on our local roads. Check out the cool graph below!
But what was more cool than confirming my hypothesis was where my brain had gone as I rode past miles of Anheuser-Busch artifacts of moral bankruptcy and sociopathy. I was intrigued by the fact that the blue of the Bud Light can - a remarkably unnatural blue when strewn among leaves and grass - bears an uncanny proximity to the blue of another symbol of moral bankruptcy and collective sociopathy. The blue polypropylene tarpaulin. If you've traveled around the world as I have, you undoubtedly have observed the ubiquitous blue that provides shelter to hundreds of millions of people around the world. The blue tarp, a legacy of the 1954 innovation by Italy's Giulio Natta and Germany's Karl Rehn, has become the iconic shelter for those who society has thrown to the side of the proverbial road. From Mumbai to Cuzco, from Cape Town to Ulaanbaatar, you can learn a lot about a nation by the approach into the international airport. When you look out the window and see the blue tarps, you know that global economic injustice is alive and well. (I think that's it ironic that the Federal Reserve used the acronym TARP to name its response to the persistent financial crisis given the euphemism of tarps being transient shelter in times of disaster).
Why blue? Well, according to David Hudson, Vice President of Government Affairs at Strategic Materials Inc, "…blue is perceived by consumers as being a premium in the marketplace." This, among other reasons, is why Anheuser-Busch selected blue as their iconic (and easily identifiable in roadside litter) color. Blue in polypropylene serves as a nucleating agent and actually assists in the mechanical properties of tarps giving them more elongation and UV-resistive properties. For beer, blue is better. For keeping the elements off suffering humans, blue is better. But in both instances, blue is not the natural blue of water or sky. It's an industrial contrivance that says, "I'm not natural."
But that's the interesting bit that I pondered while I rode off the last of the holiday calories during my frigid ride. The tarps that provide fleeting shelter from the sun, the cold, the rain, and the snow can be seen as an aesthetic assault on the landscape. They can trigger a judgmental, "There but for the grace of God…" faux sympathetic impulse as we speed to our more suitable confines in hotels and homes. Or, like the litter on the side of the road courtesy of consumers of Anheuser-Busch's products, they can invoke a call to action. They can animate an impulse that acts to bring genuine shelter to those who storms of nature or storms of economic injustice have harmed.
Bud Light cans and Bombay tarp slums are more alike than one might think. Both remind us of the unnatural malignancy of indifference. A can thrown from a car window and a family huddled against the monsoon both exist in a broader consensus neglect of a conscious engagement with humanity and the environment in which we live. Both evidence a personal disregard for the consequence of consumption at all cost. Both are discarded in a moment with, at best, the fleeting thought that somebody else will clean up the mess. But both of them are… blue. Blue, the color associated with serenity, sadness, peace, aloofness, contemplation among western psychologists and social scientists, serves in Himalayan and Asian traditions as the color of sky and heaven for sutras and prayers.
Poverty exists in dimensions far outside of monetary status. It is not merely a lack of material possessions. Its yawning jaws stretch around lack of sensitivity, human awareness, environmental intelligence, self-care, and engagement. And as we reflect on the parable of today's ride, I trust that you allow the blue of neglect to become your chromatic signal to engage with humanity. Rush headlong into action - building houses for those without, inviting the homeless into your shelter, recycling refuse from the roads you transit - and in so doing, you'll be the richer!

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Raspberry Almond Oat Squares. A raspberry filled, slightly crumbly, shortbread-based treat that comes together quickly and totally satisfies any sweet craving.
These raspberry almond oat squares are D-LISH. Worthy of capitalization. They're also so pretty to serve up. And delicious warm, cold, or right out of the freezer. Yup, even frozen solid.
Short story: I made these last week and decided they'd be great to freeze, and popped them into our deep freeze in the basement. I planned on bringing them out as needed over the holidays for last minute entertaining. All very good intentions. Only, the deep freeze just so happens to be on my way to the laundry and the pull of these raspberry loaded squares is just too much to resist (read: little to no will power of late).
At the rate I'm going, I'll most definitely need to whip up another batch for the holiday party train. I'm ok with the trade-off.
These squares are super simple. The base is buttery shortbread, with lovely bits of ground almonds and large flakes of rolled oats. For the filling, no need to have raspberry jam on hand. 1 cup of frozen raspberries, mashed up with a beaten egg and sugar makes THE BEST filling. So stock up on frozen berries — ok.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare an 8 x 8 inch baking dish—grease with butter and line with parchment paper.
In a small food processor, pulse almonds until small and coarse.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, almonds, and oats. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter or a fork until well combined. Hands also work well (just saying).
Spread 3/4 of the shortbread mixture evenly over the bottom of the lined baking dish, firmly pressing it into the bottom using fingertips or a flat spatula.
In a medium sized mixing bowl, beat egg and stir in raspberries, flour and sugar. Mix and mash until combined. Pour evenly over almond shortbread base.
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Founded in 1950 and headquartered in California, World Vision International is a Christian charity. Donations are given in the form of a monthly sponsorship for a child in need. Some donations are pooled with those of other donors to improve the communities in which the children live.
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World Vision International averages about $1 billion in revenue each year. The total income for the past several years as reported on the organization's IRS Form 990s is listed below:
2014: $1,029,741,839
2013: $975,575,476
The top executive of World Vision International, Mr. Richard E. Stearns, receives a modest salary when compared to top executives of similar organizations. Mr. Stearns receives $447,500 annually, which is 0.04 percent of the total revenue received by World Vision International.
On average, World Vision International spends about 10 percent of its annual budget on fundraising activities.
World Vision International states that for every dollar that is donated, the organization is able to achieve the equivalent of $1.30. This is accomplished by World Vision International taking a portion of every donation and investing it, with the average return being reported as the $1.30 for every $1.00. While most organizations invest excess funds, few report their average return on investment. Generally, an organization whose program delivery percentage is above 80 percent is considered to be effectively allocating its funds toward charitable programs. World Vision International reports a program percentage of 84.1 percent.
World Vision International has published financial statements, annual reports, and IRS Form 990s from 2011 to 2015 on its website. This information is easily accessible. However, there is some confusion about where funds actually go and requests have been made for further transparency.
In 2013, World Vision International was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award for its contributions in alleviating poverty and increasing access to clean drinking water by the Millennium Development Goals Trust Fund in Kenya. In 2014, the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network (SEEP) honored World Vision International as Member of the Year for its work building communities in poverty worldwide.
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Those who elect to donate funds to World Vision International can expect regular communication from the organization about its efforts and accomplishments. However, there is some level of controversy about what donors should reasonably expect. Many donors report that they expected to receive communication from their sponsored child, which is not necessarily the case. One thing that most donors should expect is to receive requests for additional funds from World Vision International.
World Vision International has received some negative press with serious allegations. For example, in March 2014, World Vision International announced that it was moving to a more progressive employment policy and would begin to hire openly-homosexual individuals, something that it had banned since its inception. However, this announcement received severe backlash from several high-profile religious leaders and the ban was reinstated after two days. In August 2016, World Vision International's Gaza director, Mohammed El Halaby, was accused of supporting Hamas, which is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization, with World Vision International donations meant to support those in need. These allegations are still under investigation.
World Vision International is one of the largest charitable organizations in the world with lower-than-average administrative expenses. World Vision International makes its financial information accessible and its program delivery percentage indicates that the organization is using funds effectively. However, there are some flaws in the organization's communication with its donors. Additionally, World Vision has received some negative press with serious allegations.
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have recently rescinded my association, because I found their giving options disingenuous. There is the monthly support, then family gift from which 25% is taken out for the community. I gave to both. Then I gave additional family gifts, only to find they were given to a community in its entirety, and cannot find out which community, and what it went for. Could not even verify a birthday party or christmas occured, though gave to both funds. Also, though money to go for meals and education, cannot verify that either. Several thousand dollars given... in my mind, no verifiable results, so I quit.
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"Without these significant changes, unions representing working people across the UK would have found it hard to continue doing what they do best – speaking up for those being treated badly at work and campaigning for a fairer society.
"Of course we'd rather the Bill had never existed, and there is much that is still wrong with it. Even with today's amendments it still places unnecessary burdens on working people and their unions.
"But ministers have sensibly listened to many of the arguments put to them. They have rowed back from many of the proposals that would have placed unbearable restrictions on unions' ability to function in public sector workplaces across the country.
"These measures would have stopped unions from collecting members' subs via their pay packets. They would also have prevented reps from taking time away from their jobs to represent colleagues, and made it much harder for unions to campaign against unfairness at work.
"Over the years union campaigns have made a real difference, whether it's been pushing for a minimum wage or for extra bank holidays.
"Restricting unions' ability to raise funds for this kind of campaigning would have hampered efforts to make the UK a safer, better and fairer place to work.
Last week the government decided that unions in the public sector could continue to use check-off to collect subs from their members. Ministers have also backed away from imposing a cap on union facility time across the UK's public services, having originally proposed to introduce this within six months of the Trade Union Bill becoming law.
Changes to unions' political funds will now only apply to new members and unions are to be given more time to make the necessary changes.


Help Jimbo to deliver pizzas in the zombie apocalypse!
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nice, this would be at home on a gb, i got stuck on some of the objects, and i wasn't sure what did more damage to the zombies cause neither distance or vertical position on screen seemed to make much difference. either way, it was fun and actually more challenging than i thought it would be. great game!
Really fun game! Loving the artstyle! Good music, cool gameplay. I found a glitch though. When a zombie hit me multiple times, once, I stayed in an infinite knockback state and stuck in the wall.
The score board after stages are really well done. Having bonus stage is a good thing to add more variety. Collision handling needs some work, also sometimes I shot their head when I was hitting their legs (if we look at it from a 2D perspective).
Great work visually, everything's clear and easy to read and has personality. Also the friction between the urge to beat the clock vs. the small field of vision you have is clever.


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Valeria Mignaco began her singing studies in Argentina and obtained her classical and baroque singing Masters degree at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland. She participated in workshops and masterclasses with Gabriel Garrido, Gustav Leonhardt, Richard Egarr, Elly Ameling, Jill Feldman, Carolyn Watkinson and Margreet Honig.
Finalist of the International Baroque Singing Competition of the Chateau de Chimay 2004 and the International Young Artists Presentation in Anvers (with ensemble Via Artis), she also received an Honorable Mention at the Soloists Competition of the Flemish Early Music Festival in Brugge 2005. Her duo with Alfonso Marín had a Special Mention at the Alte Musik Treff, Berlin 2005.
She has perfomed as soloist amongst others with Bachkoor Holland and Concertgebouw Kamerorkest, Cappella Amsterdam, Monteverdikoor Utrecht, Orquesta de Cámara de Rosario and Pro Música Rosario under the direction of Gabriel Garrido, Paul van Nevel, Paul McCreesh, Daniel Reuss, Charles de Wolff, Jan Willem de Vriend, Daan Admiraal and Cristián Hernández Larguía .She also collaborates with well-known vocal ensembles like Cappella Amsterdam, Huelgas ensemble and Deutsche Kammerchor.
With ensemble Via Artis she participated in the Caixa Forum Early Music Festival (Barcelona 2005); with Alfonso Marín she performed in the Burgos Early Music Festival 2005, Festival A-de-vant-garde Munchen (2005) and Leicester Early Music Festival (2006), giving many concerts in Holland, Spain, Belgium, England, Portugal, Switzerland and Argentina.


As the average age of first-time buyers continues to rise, buying your own home may seem like a distant dream. We all know renting is a waste of money and none of us wants to live with our parents forever. But many of us feel like we have no choice as buying simply isn't something we can afford to consider. However, saving for that all important deposit doesn't need to be difficult. Here are some of the best ways to save for your first home.
There are plenty of apps out there now which can help you to save money. Some help by simply helping you to prepare a detailed budget. Some use the round up method, so if you spend $3.85 on something they will round up to $4 and send the extra to your savings. Others help you by assessing your incomings and outgoings and sending an amount of money you won't miss to your savings account at the time you need it least. Apps such as these mean saving is easier than ever.
Having debt is incredibly expensive. While it can be encouraging to see your savings account balance rise, if you have debt this could be creating a false economy. Paying fees and interest on your debt is eating away at your disposable income. Before starting to save, focus on paying any debt off. This will mean you have more cash available to save later and it will give you a much greater chance of being approved for a good mortgage when the time comes.
Make a list of all your monthly outgoings. Write down literally everything you spend even if it seems small or insignificant. Then, work through this list looking for ways to make cutbacks. Some easy ways to save include having date nights at home instead of going out, preparing your own fakeaways, cutting your food shopping bill and walking to places instead of paying for transport. Some things such as monthly subscriptions and paying for added extras on your phone contract could be cut completely.
Many of us are paying much more than we need to for our utilities and services simply because we can't be bothered to check. There are some great websites which can help you compare costs and find the right deals for you. You never know, your existing providers might offer you a lower price when you tell them you are considering cancelling your contract. Some of the best places to save here are on gas, electric and internet providers.
Looking at homes before you've started saving might seem like a waste of time but it can be a great way to motivate yourself to save. Check out a home on the Outer Banks for some great ideas of just what you might be saving for.


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Allow it to cool and grind it to paste.
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Add beetroot paste and mix well.
Add the remaining milk and boil for few minutes.
Add cardamom powder and fried cashews and mix well.
Boil for few minutes and remove from fire.


In his more recent work, Mr. Williams has been managing and working on projects that help clients answer key strategic questions around port, company, and ship and movement data. The Movements Plus product answers questions involving port congestion, ECA analysis, slow steaming trends, competitor analysis, market sizing and much more. In 2013, Mr. Williams commenced work to reevaluate means for calculating "Country of Economic Benefit," and rewrite the algorithm that supports this field. Mr. Williams has received several distinctions for his work on statistical analysis and completed multiple courses including a Tableau, mini-tab, and level 1 statistical analysis. He has more than eight years of experience in the maritime industry - from companies to ownership and management structures - alongside his extensive knowledge of the IMO Company Numbering Scheme.


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U.S. manufacturers expanded at a faster pace in November as new orders surged, a positive sign for domestic economic growth heading into 2019.
"It says Q1 should be pretty good, especially January and February," said Timothy Fiore, chair of the ISM manufacturing business survey committee.
Michael Pearce, a senior economist at Capital Economics, said that the gains largely reflect the U.S. economic demand and that the strength could fade due, in part, to a slowing global economy.
"We still think that growth in the sector will weaken over the coming months as the stronger dollar, weaker global growth and fading tailwind from fiscal stimulus weigh on demand," Pearce said.
Manufacturers may be helped by Sunday's agreement between the United States and China to prevent tariffs from escalating next year. The countries are locked in a bitter trade dispute as President Donald Trump has sought to reduce the trade imbalance with China and stop the theft of intellectual property.
U.S. officials agreed not to increase taxes on $200 billion of Chinese imports at the start of 2019, while China agreed to purchase an unspecified amount of American goods. The Trump administration also decided to keep talks ongoing for the next 90 days.
Several companies surveyed for the ISM index said that the tariffs had been increasing prices, including a furniture maker and petroleum and coal products company.


This patient was concerned about her under eye area and "always looking tired." Especially because she has naturally full and round cheeks. Hollowing in the under eye area can often look more sunken when someone has fuller cheeks.
1.0cc of JUVÉDERM Volbella XC was used with a cannula therefore you don't see any bruising or visible signs that treatment was done. The After photo was taken 5 minutes after treatment. Results are expected to last 1+ years.
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Here are the full Panasonic Lumic DMC G3 DxOMark results.
It is worth noting that Micro Four Thirds sensors are smaller than APS-C or Full Frame sensors. Their smaller size means less light is captured; it will be quite challenging for sensor manufacturers of this format to achieve a score equal or superior to that of APS-C sensors.
Low-Light ISO Score: 1/3 Stop Better, High ISO setting: more than 1 Stop better!
The Lowlight ISO Score, which indicates the maximum ISO you can use while keeping a decent Image quality (See Low-Light ISO Score definition) is 1/3 Stop better.
The dynamic range could be its most impressive improvement: close to 2 Stops between the 2 generations of sensors at ISO 6400.
When it comes to photonic noise and color sensitivity the G3 has similar behaviors to the GH1 and GH2. Nevertheless on dark noise management, especially at Low ISO the GH-series cameras have the upper hand: Dynamic Range measurements for the GH1 and GH2 are 1 Stop better at low ISO.
If the previous G2 was a bit behind the Olympus PEN EP2, the G3 changes the game score and ends up with a tie. The Panasonic G3 not only has exactly the same Overall Score when compared with the Olympus PEN EP2 but it also takes the lead on the Low-Light ISO score.
The Panasonic G3 has a slight advantage on SNR 18% and tonal range measurements but this advantage is not on the color sensitivity measurement which could indicate that its spectral response is less selective.
Last but not least, the Sony NEX sensor (which is an APS/C) remains higher ranked in every aspect.
Panasonic Lumix DMC G3 vs Canon S90 vs Canon G12: Compact or Hybrid?
If you are looking for a compact camera for traveling with a light bag, and you are considering a high-end bridge such as the Canon Powershot G12 or S90, you should take a look to this comparison.
The micro 4/3 camera provides a significantly better image quality on every aspect and in every lighting condition.


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Coolio released from probation in airport gun case
By Mark Gray Wonderwall 12:04pm PDT, Aug 14, 2018
Coolio can officially move on from his 2016 arrest that resulted after a loaded gun was found in his backpack at an airport.
On Aug. 14, a judge formally released the "Gangsta's Paradise" rapper from probation.
"It's behind me," he told a TMZ cameraman. "I'm just ready to live out the rest of my life peacefully and productively."
On Sept. 17, 2016, Coolio was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after TSA found a firearm in his backpack. Initially, one of Coolio's pals tried to claim ownership of the bag, but it was quickly determined to whom the bag actually belonged.
After he was released from jail, Coolio addressed the situation on Twitter, writing, "Just wanted to say something about the little misunderstanding at the airport today. Every thing's fine, I'm fine. I don't know what's going to be the result of this in the future but for now, I'm fine and I appreciate everyone's concern."
He added, "We gotta go on, we gotta push on and forward hip hop."
Coolio was eventually charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. He ended up pleading guilty, which resulted in a sentence of three years probation and community service.
On Tuesday, the rapper and cookbook author was asked if he learned any lessons from the incident.
"Be careful, pay attention to what you're doing and don't be doing dumb [stuff]," he said. "If you ever put your backpack on and it feels to heavy, you might want to dump it out and see what's in it."
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I am still thinking and trying to understand how a woman attaining higher education and pursuing her dreams to the best of her ability translates to being arrogant and therefore not good for a man to get married to.
You people that plays too much in this part of the world.
So for some people like me who loves education we should just abandon our quest to be educated just to avoid being tagged arrogant and not submissive.
Most men whom I have had the opportunity to discuss with particularly on this topic have constantly tried to drive it home to my sense of reasoning that an educated woman must be arrogant.
I still want to let you know of something, HUMILITY is a virtue,if you lack it,you lack and if you have it,you have it irrespective of your level of education.
Humility is a virtue possessed and exhibited by some people while other people lack the same virtue of humility that others possess such people are therefore tagged to be arrogant.
a lot of people have opined that education makes people particularly women to be arrogant but i still want to believe that arrogance and humility are traits acquire throughout the period of character formation.
In essence an arrogant fellow is an arrogant fellow there is no two ways about it.
An arrogant woman is an arrogant woman whether educated or uneducated,take away the education and you will still see the traces of arrogance.
The only thing is that wealth or the level of education enhances and brings out the inborn arrogance or pride that has been embedded or subdued for a long time.
So it's not about a woman being educated it's about whether the woman lacks the virtue of humility,the education is just an enhancer of the existing arrogance.
A lot of women are educated and successful but still down to earth devoid of all forms of arrogant lifestyles.
The bottom line is do not loose the woman made for you for fear of her educational level instead work on yourself and work on your self esteem once you have a high level of self esteem you will be highly secured emotionally and all those talks of an educated woman being arrogant wouldn't scare you away even before you have the chance to talk with her.


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Q: how to check if next record exists in an msi file? With MsiViewFetch we are able to get the record from the sql query to msi.
But is there any constant or function to check whether next record exists or number of rows/records in a file table msi?

A: No. Windows Installer's implementation of SQL is fairly limited. All that's available is the option to call MsiViewFetch repeatedly until it returns ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS. Once you have retrieved all the records, it will do so. It is up to you to track the count along the way, and also properly handle all returned objects. (For example, each successfully returned record must be closed with MsiCloseHandle, and in unusual circumstances the view itself may need to be closed with MsiViewClose.)
As noted, this may be expressed differently in different languages that wrap it. For example, the Windows Installer Automation Interface's View.Fetch method returns Nothing if you have already retrieved all the records. Cleaning up resources will typically have been altered to use the conventions of the language in question as well.
In particular, Python's msilib is a wrapper of Windows Installer functionality that was implemented specifically to support creating Python's own installers. Because it wasn't intended for general purpose use, it lacks some of the creature comforts of other wrappers. You can see that the implementation of View.Fetch turns any non-success return code into an MSIError, and ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS is not ERROR_SUCCESS. So for your usage, you will have to catch MSIError and either hope it's for ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS, or check the exception's string for the 103 embedded within.

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Tacos are a good thing. So is beer. The two made scintillating music together in Waterbury with the marriage of Blackback Pub and the Mad Taco. But when the businesses divorced last year, the beer-destination city became a whole lot less taco-tastic.
That changed the day after Christmas with the opening of Prohibition Pig's sister brewpub. It's home to a small menu, focused primarily on Tex-Mex snacks. The 49-seat bar has an unfinished look, complete with warning signs suggesting that the warehouse has survived a nuclear holocaust. Still, owner Chad Rich's stylish signature touches are in evidence, including a vintage cigarette machine. Food is prepared without a hood, with an oven and a flattop doing most of the heavy lifting to finish food prepared in Prohibition Pig's kitchen.
Though I'm far from a beer specialist, I was impressed with the complexity of both I imbibed. Back to the Grind was a coffee-oatmeal stout with a rich, forward taste of espresso and a sweet finish. Downtown Piggy Brown was described on the menu as a roasty-toasty brown ale. That was a very accurate start to describing the concoction's nutty smoothness. Both were almost entirely devoid of bitterness, great starter beers for a lightweight like me.
I usually avoid ordering specials for reviews, but simply couldn't resist the nachos on offer that day. Hopefully, they'll be back so you, too, can enjoy the meltingly fatty, fried chips. They served as an apt vessel for chopped, smoked pork, melted queso fresco and tangy salsa verde. Though less complicated than most nachos, the big, greasy flavors were anything but austere.
The most expensive item on the menu was the Meat & Cheese board, a presentation of charcuterie, cheese and pickles served on slate. One corner was filled with an entire Vermont Creamery Bijou sliced into spreadable pieces. I couldn't resist the mild, ultra-creamy goat cheese layered on crostini with pickled cranberries. Pickled carrots and Brussels sprouts were fine, but I'll be reproducing the cranberries at home ASAP. Spicy mustard incorporating Heady Topper paired admirably with chef Michael Werneke's satisfyingly umami country pâté. The same mustard gave a shot of heat to a pair of buttery little pretzel knots.
But ultimately, I was there for tacos. I skipped the pair of ground-beef-filled Americano tacos in favor of stewed pork. Carnitas, to be exact. The aromatic flesh enjoyed a light layer of spice which I enjoyed in turn. I didn't mind the repeat of salsa verde, especially when paired with puckery lime slaw and a squiggle of crema.
I was surprised to realize that, thanks to the exceptionally friendly bartender and cook, as well as the simple, well-crafted fare, I was enjoying myself at least as much as I do at the original Pro Pig. Maybe even more. I guess I'll just have to find a way to make more taco time.


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Swollen Tonsil on One Side: What Causes One Swollen Tonsil?
Normally when we hear of a constantly painful sore throat with swelling and a loss of appetite, we immediately think of a problem with the tonsils.
But, did you know it is possible for only one tonsil to be affected? And, did you know not all fingers point to tonsillitis?
There are other underlying health conditions that result in a swollen tonsil on one side. We will take a closer look at the tonsils and how to distinguish and treat the three main causes of one swollen tonsil.
Our tonsils are small bumps on either side in the back of the throat consisting of lymph node tissue.
They are solely responsible for fighting infections travelling in the mouth and nose, mainly in the first year of life while the immune system develops and becomes strong.
The tonsils can become swollen when affected by an infection and present various symptoms, which is commonly seen in those between the ages of two and 15.
Having a tonsil swollen on one side can seem strange, but it does happen with several conditions of the throat. The three most common ailments are tonsillitis, strep throat, and peritonsillar abscess, better known as quinsy. While both tonsils can usually be affected by these conditions, it is possible to have one tonsil swollen.
Tonsillitis refers to the swelling and inflammation of the tonsils. Both young children and adults can experience this condition. Tonsillitis may be the result of a bacterial or a viral infection.
If a bacterial infection is the culprit, you can be contagious through direct contact for up to two weeks, while a viral infection usually remains contagious from seven to 10 days. Most cases have a link with the streptococcus bacteria, while some are the result of different viruses. These can include the influenza virus, the herpes simplex virus, the Epstein-Barr virus, the parainfluenza virus, the enterovirus, and the adenovirus.
Streptococcus is another cause of having only one tonsil swollen. This condition can be seen mostly in those ages five to 15 but can affect anyone at any age.
Strep throat can cause inflammation and swelling. It is highly contagious, as it can spread by coughing and sneezing. It is important to note you can be in contact with a contagious person before they present any symptoms of strep throat.
A peritonsillar abscess is also called quinsy, and while it is not a common ailment, it is a genuine issue. It can be a complication of tonsillitis as pus from the infection gathers between the tonsil and the wall of the throat, and develops into an abscess.
The abscess can also be the result of mononucleosis. If the saliva glands under the tongue (Weber glands) become inflamed, a peritonsillar abscess can also form. This recurring condition is more likely to affect teens and young adults.
The three most common causes mentioned above present similar symptoms as they all affect the throat and mouth regions, and are the result of an infection. We have broken down the signs and symptoms in accordance with the ailment.
The swollen tonsil on one side treatment plan depends not only on the originating cause but also the severity of the condition. Whether it is from tonsillitis, strep throat, or a peritonsillar abscess, you should rest your voice as much as your body during the healing process. Maintain hydration and nourish your body with soft, smooth food choices to prevent further throat pain.
You should follow the treatment tip according to the cause of your swollen tonsil on one side.
A physical examination and a swab test by a medical professional will detect a bacterial or a viral infection. If your tonsillitis is due to a bacterial infection, an antibiotic will be prescribed.
Viral infections are best to heal on their own. A few home remedies to help alleviate the symptoms include gargling with warm salt water, maintaining a moist throat with cool drinks, and using a vaporizer or cold-mist humidifier. It helps to consume soft foods such as ice cream, Jell-O, and soup.
It is important to avoid spreading this bacterial infection with a quick treatment of antibiotics such as penicillin or amoxicillin. When you are at home, gargle with warm salt water, use a cold-mist humidifier, and stay hydrated with cold or hot drinks depending on the soreness of your throat.
If the abscess has yet to rupture on its own, have the pus drained by a medical doctor. You can expect to be prescribed antibiotics to help clear the infection, and you may require surgery to remove the tonsils with recurring episodes.
Pain, sore throat, and difficulty swallowing can all be symptoms of having a problem with your tonsils. There are some health conditions that can directly affect only one tonsil, if not both. In most cases, a bacterial infection is the cause of aggravating symptoms and complications.
The three most common tonsil problems share several symptoms and usually require medical assistance in the form of antibiotics. There are home remedies to use in addition to the age-old treatment of rest to help deal with and alleviate painful symptoms.
Humphreys, J., "Swollen Tonsil On One Side," Med Health Daily; http://www.medhealthdaily.com/swollen-tonsil-on-one-side/, last accessed May 23, 2017.
"Swollen Tonsil On One Side," New Health Advisor; http://www.newhealthadvisor.com/Swollen-Tonsil-on-One-Side.html, last accessed May 23, 2017.


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Q: Probability of getting at least one ball of each color Given that we have an urn containing $N=\sum{N_i}$ balls, $N_1$ of color $1$, $N_2$ of color $2, \dots, N_k$ of color $k$, we draw $m$ balls from the urn such that $m \geq k$ and $m \leq \max(N - N_i)$ what is the probability that we get at least one ball of each color?
I just cant find a reasonable way to express this condition in order to get a closed form formula for it.


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Xarjah (, pronunciat en el dialecte local ax-Xārja) és la capital de l'emirat de Xarjah als Emirats Àrabs Units amb una població de més de 500.000 habitants (5/6 parts dels habitants de l'emirat) dels quals només el 20% són nacionals. Forma una ciutat continua amb Ajman al nord i Dubai al sud, i aquest conjunt només està separat tres o quatre km de la zona franca d'Hamriyah al nord d'Ajman i a 6 km al sud d'Umm al-Qaiwan.

Disposa de diversos museus, el més interessant el Museu Arqueològic de Xarjah on s'exposen les troballes principalment de la zona del golf d'Oman. El Museu d'Història Natural i Parc del Desert està dedicat a la flora i fauna del país i fou obert el 1997. El Museu de la Ciència, dedicat als avanços científics, fou obert el 1996 el mateix any que es va obrir el Museu Islàmic; el Museu del Patrimoni està format per diversos museus: Souq Al Arsah, Bait Al Naboodah, Al Midfaa House i Al Hisn Xarjah tots dedicats a objectes tradicionals de la gent del país. Al-Hisn Xarjah fou la residència habituals dels xeics de Xarjah i fou construït a començaments del . Hisn Kalba, residència que fou del xeic de Kalba també és un museu integrat en aquest grup però a la ciutat de Kalba.

A la ciutat hi ha hospitals, escoles, la Universitat de Xarjah (fundada el 1997), parcs públics, centres comercials, i edificis administratius; disposa també de diverses mesquites totes de nova construcció. L'Expo Centre de Xarjah celebra una fira anyal sobre llibres. La policia (creada el 1967 sota el nom de Seguretat General i Força de policia) fou transferida en part al govern federal el 1971 però el 1995 i 1996 la secció local va quedar regulada específicament i té la seu a la ciutat.

El port també és important i porta el nom de Port Khalid.

Al nord-est de la ciutat, a la vora de la frontera amb l'emirat d'Ajman, hi ha l'Aeroport Internacional de Xarjah.

La municipalitat fou fundada el 1927, i és una de les més velles dels Emirats i de la regió dels golf. A seva bandera és blanca amb el símbol vers al centre.

Referències

Emirat de Sharjah
Ciutats dels Emirats Àrabs Units


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Q: Run bash script from file in C I have this part of code:
   #include <stdio.h>
   #include <stdlib.h>

   int main(void)
   {
       FILE * fp;
       char * line = NULL;
       size_t len = 0;
       ssize_t read;

       fp = fopen("./file_commands", "r");
       if (fp == NULL)
           exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

       while ((read = getline(&line, &len, fp)) != -1) {
        //   printf("%s", line);
       system(line);
       }

       fclose(fp);
       if (line)
           free(line);
       exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
   }

In file_commands i want to put and be able to run a bash script like the following: \x31\xc0\x50\x68\x6e\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f\x2f\x62\x69\x89\xe3\x50\x89\xe2\x53\x89\xe1\xb0\x0b\xcd\x80
what is the best way to do this?

A: There's no reason to go line by line like that. There are actually several things you're doing wrong that are causing this code to fail, but the most important is that going line by line through the bash file does not conserve resources.
In fact it wastes resources. Every time you make a call to system your OS creates a new process for the execution of the command. You would actually save system resources if you just did this
int result = system("./file_commands");

instead of trying to execute every line of that file in a separate call to system.


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#ifndef GIL_JPEG_DYNAMIC_IO_H
#define GIL_JPEG_DYNAMIC_IO_H

/// \file
/// \brief  Support for reading and writing JPEG files
///         Requires libjpeg
///
/// \author Hailin Jin and Lubomir Bourdev \n
///         Adobe Systems Incorporated
/// \date   2005-2007 \n Last updated June 10, 2006

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
#include <boost/mpl/bool.hpp>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include "../dynamic_image/dynamic_image_all.hpp"
#include "io_error.hpp"

#include "jpeg_io.hpp"
#include "jpeg_io_private.hpp"
#include "dynamic_io.hpp"

namespace boost { namespace gil {

namespace detail {

struct jpeg_write_is_supported {
    template<typename View> struct apply
        : public mpl::bool_<jpeg_write_support<View>::is_supported> {};
};

class jpeg_writer_dynamic : public jpeg_writer {
    int _quality;
public:
    jpeg_writer_dynamic(FILE* file,           int quality=100) : jpeg_writer(file)    , _quality(quality) {}
    jpeg_writer_dynamic(const char* filename, int quality=100) : jpeg_writer(filename), _quality(quality) {}

    template <typename Views>
    void write_view(const any_image_view<Views>& runtime_view) {
        dynamic_io_fnobj<jpeg_write_is_supported, jpeg_writer> op(this);
        apply_operation(runtime_view,op);
    }
};

class jpeg_type_format_checker {
    J_COLOR_SPACE _color_type;
public:
    jpeg_type_format_checker(J_COLOR_SPACE color_type_in) :
        _color_type(color_type_in) {}
    template <typename Image>
    bool apply() {
        return jpeg_read_support<typename Image::view_t>::color_type==_color_type;
    }
};

struct jpeg_read_is_supported {
    template<typename View> struct apply
        : public mpl::bool_<jpeg_read_support<View>::is_supported> {};
};

class jpeg_reader_dynamic : public jpeg_reader {
public:
    jpeg_reader_dynamic(FILE* file)           : jpeg_reader(file)    {}
    jpeg_reader_dynamic(const char* filename) : jpeg_reader(filename){}

    template <typename Images>
    void read_image(any_image<Images>& im) {
        if (!construct_matched(im,detail::jpeg_type_format_checker(_cinfo.out_color_space))) {
            io_error("jpeg_reader_dynamic::read_image(): no matching image type between those of the given any_image and that of the file");
        } else {
            im.recreate(get_dimensions());
            dynamic_io_fnobj<jpeg_read_is_supported, jpeg_reader> op(this);
            apply_operation(view(im),op);
        }
    }
};

} // namespace detail

/// \ingroup JPEG_IO
/// \brief reads a JPEG image into a run-time instantiated image
/// Opens the given JPEG file name, selects the first type in Images whose color space and channel are compatible to those of the image file
/// and creates a new image of that type with the dimensions specified by the image file.
/// Throws std::ios_base::failure if none of the types in Images are compatible with the type on disk.
template <typename Images>
inline void jpeg_read_image(const char* filename,any_image<Images>& im) {
    detail::jpeg_reader_dynamic m(filename);
    m.read_image(im);
}

/// \ingroup JPEG_IO
/// \brief reads a JPEG image into a run-time instantiated image
template <typename Images>
inline void jpeg_read_image(const std::string& filename,any_image<Images>& im) {
    jpeg_read_image(filename.c_str(),im);
}

/// \ingroup JPEG_IO
/// \brief Saves the currently instantiated view to a jpeg file specified by the given jpeg image file name.
/// Throws std::ios_base::failure if the currently instantiated view type is not supported for writing by the I/O extension
/// or if it fails to create the file.
template <typename Views>
inline void jpeg_write_view(const char* filename,const any_image_view<Views>& runtime_view) {
    detail::jpeg_writer_dynamic m(filename);
    m.write_view(runtime_view);
}

/// \ingroup JPEG_IO
/// \brief Saves the currently instantiated view to a jpeg file specified by the given jpeg image file name.
template <typename Views>
inline void jpeg_write_view(const std::string& filename,const any_image_view<Views>& runtime_view) {
    jpeg_write_view(filename.c_str(),runtime_view);
}

} }  // namespace boost::gil

#endif


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I am sure your holiday during Summer now seems like a distant memory and with the rain-soaked days and cold winter nights I wouldn't blame anyone who hops on a plane in search of some sun. No one wants to sit on a plane for several hours or have the torture of entertaining 2 kids on a long haul flight, so in my mind the perfect place to pop over to is Tenerife !! Tenerife has long been a favourite destination of mine. I have traveled there to rave in the nightclubs ( before kids ), with my mum on a girly break and more recently we traveled with Holiday Gems ( click here for details ) as a family of 4 seeking some PG fun. So as I have traveled there several times I thought I would share with you My Top 10 Favourite Places To Visit In Tenerife. Some are attractions, some restaurants & a couple of hotels to give you inspiration.
Siam Park – Rated as one of the best water parks in the world Siam Park is the perfect day out for all the family. We went peak season so I do advise buying fast passes if you go in the mid-summer. Lots to do for little ones with a huge water play area dedicated to the under 8's, some nice gentle water slides for the novices and then some super speed, high drop rides for the thrill seekers among you.
Las Rocas Beach Club – Not one for the kids !!! This place is aimed at adults only and is a haven of peace & quiet. Full of white cabanas, ice-cold cocktails & where the beautiful people come to play during the day. Pull out your best swimming cossie, bring a copy of Vogue and don't forget your credit card !!
Bahia Del Duque – Another one you may need to put on the old credit card but well worth staying at. The Bahia is a 5* luxury resort where the rich Spanish flock in the hight of summer. Extremely picturesque, staff on hand to look after your every whim and Moet champagne served with your breakfast each morning. If you are looking for some pure luxury this is the place to stay.
Oasis Shopping Centre – Everyone loves a spot of shopping while on holiday and the Oasis Shopping Centre offers you lots of well-known brands and several smaller boutiques all in one place. It's like a mini outdoor Trafford Centre. You can buy everything from Jimmy Choo's too cheesy Tenerife t-shirts here.
First Love – This is the only restaurant where I let the waitress ( also the owner ) order for me. I have eaten at fine dining restaurants in Dubai and First Love still beats them hands down. Owned by a young Italian couple the food, wine & atmosphere has some sort of magical effect on you ( I say magical, I mean you may go back to the hotel and conceive your 2nd child type of magic ) No visit to Tenerife is complete without a visit here.
Watching The Surfers – This can be a romantic hour watching the sun go down while the surfers catch a wave or a fun afternoon on the beach as a family with a picnic. The best Location to watch is the seafront of Los Cristiano ( just before McDonald's ) the biggest waves tend to be October – February so if you are off for some winter sun don't forget to check the surfer dudes out.
Puerto Colon – Well worth a visit here day or night, the marina offers beautiful restaurants & bars to sit and watch the world go by. The beach has a selection of water sports on offer & a floating obstacle course. Whether you are looking for a relax or an energetic afternoon, Puerto Colon has everything you need.
Cleopatra Palace Hotel – If you are looking for a family friendly hotel in a great local then the Cleopatra Palace Hotel is the place for you. With lots of fun activities during the day and family friendly nightly entertainment, this action-packed hotel delivers something for everyone.Look out for the old school foam pool party on a Wednesday.
Hard Rock Cafe – No holiday is complete without a trip to a Hard Rock Cafe. The Mac&Cheese is worth the 4-hour flight alone. The Hard Rock Cafe Tenerife is a great family location to eat at thanks to the amazing waiting on staff who can entertain even the most challenging of a child. The food is creative and when you really crave a fancy cocktail and an enormous burger this is the place to go.
I hope my post has inspired you to book a winter trip to Tenerife. If you have a favourite place to visit on the island, then comment below. Happy Travels.
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