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We call it CoPr, pronounced "copper". Why copper? Well, because that is how the acronym sounds, obviously. But also because it isn't gold. You want the gold version? There are plenty of organisations who will sell you the gold version. This is the copper version. It is nearly as pretty and has all the same properties (near enough), but for a lot less cost.
Best Practice has become something of a sacred cow in business. It is taken as a given that organisations want to achieve best practice in everything they do and an organisation that doesn't is somehow less worthy than those that do. This should not be the case. Pursuing Best Practice is a strategic decision, which should be taken when there is an agreed ROI (tangible or intangible) for the resource investment required to get there.
"Decision" implies there are options: to do it or not. So what is the alternative to Best Practice? Searching the Web will yield some talk of "minimum standards" or similar concepts. These are of two kinds: meeting legislative and other obligations/requirements, and not failing. But there is usually a negative connotation around these, and there isn't the systematic approach that there is to the concepts of Best Practice.
We believe the world is ready for
Core Practice: the strategic decision to minimise cost in a discipline of the enterprise by implementing practices sufficient to (a) meet obligations and (b) to make processes work to a standard sufficient that risk (to the organisation and to people in its care) is reduced to some acceptable level.
Never mind TQM and Continuous Incremental Improvement: sometimes it's OK to "do it'll-do", to stop at good enough.
Small businesses seldom have time, money or people to achieve more than a minimum standard in anything they do, except in a few select critical areas core to the success of the business. Yet they are often made to feel guilty about all the other domains where they allow expediency to rule, as if they were in some way failing to be good managers.
Start-ups have to get to market before the money runs out. Very few start-ups are so well funded that their systems can be anything more than the bare minimum needed to get off the ground. Once the business has got past the initial cashflow trough and revenue starts to stabilise, only then do they have the leisure of improving process. They run the risk of destabilising the business again unless they are careful to work on processes only in domains that will deliver a sufficient benefit to the business.
Cash-strapped organisations. Many organisations know what they would like to be doing but don't have the resources to do it. Ill-conceived attempts to pursue best practice at this time could destroy the business rather than helping it.
Core Practice does not mean shoddy practice, or avoidance of any design or planning. Core Practice is not the absence of formalised practice. It is a defined set of essential or minimum practices.
By consciously considering the options of Core Practice and Best Practice for a given discipline and choosing to adopt Core Practice for that discipline, an enterprise gains:
Reduced costs (and hence increased competitive advantage) by not overspending on a non-critical area
Resources freed to concentrate on Best Practice in critical or strategic areas
Faster implementation of systems
Removed distraction of guilt or perceived risk through not having implemented Best Practice: shareholders (or taxpayers), partners and management can rest assured that it is a considered and acceptable option rather than just an omission or exposure
In addition, of course, they also gain the benefits of adopting any formal set of practices, Best or Core, including:
Reduced process development and implementation costs: an off-the-shelf approach
Greater efficiencies through elimination of unnecessary or duplicate work
Improved quality through reduced errors due to proven and formalised processes
Reduced risk through adoption of proven processes
Easier agreements with providers because of standardised terminology and processes
Easier induction of new staff because of standardised terminology and processes
Compliance with any standards arising from that set of practices
We have created the Institute of Core Practice (IoCP) as an international body to gather, agree, manage, promote, certify and publish this defined set of Core Practices, starting with key business disciplines such as Governance, Computing (IT), Service, Operations, Finance, and People (HR), and starting with a focus on small business (as the group we see having the most crying need for defined Core Practice).
Such a set of practices needs to fulfil the following criteria:
Provide a minimum functional operational capability
Reduce risks to people to an acceptable level
Reduce risks to the organisation to an acceptable level
Create a foundation for best practice and standards compliance for those who adopt them later (i.e. create no incompatibilities, or at worst create only reversible and understood incompatibilities)
It can be seen that the practices required to meet these criteria will vary between organisations and between countries. However, the effort involved in analysis, design and implementation of tailored practices to the specific requirements of an organisation is the biggest objection to the adoption of Best Practices. For Core Practice to be an acceptable alternative, it needs to be useful out-of-the-box.
This dilemma is resolved (pragmatically) by accepting that any published set of Core Practices can only be a lowest common denominator set of practices, universal to organisations and countries alike. It will reduce most risks in most organisations, and meet most regulatory requirements in most countries.
The delta between what the published set delivers and what is required in any given instance is met by:
Colloquial networks of users in the local community (forums, meetings, seminars) help each other
Local chapters of the owning Institute create localised modifications, supplements and/or guidance
Users accept the exposure and take the risk (the strategy of choice for most small businesses anyway)
Consultants will inevitably emerge to offer tailoring services for those who can afford them
The risks of these less-formalised approaches are mitigated somewhat by the fact that Core Practices are simpler than Best Practices by definition, so tailoring requires less analysis and less rigour. Informal approaches and self-help will be adequate to achieve a useful outcome. We believe many organisations will take the third option and operate on the minimal set without tailoring, at core for a time and/or in non-critical areas.
Core Practice should be the default: the most sensible option for most organisations in most situations. Best Practice is an option to be adopted where it gains a competitive advantage or efficiency sufficient to justify the investment in achieving it.
Examples of where Best Practice is usually more appropriate:
Highly competitive industries that differentiate on quality. The classic example is of course the motor vehicle manufacturers, the origin of a lot of the theory of Best Practice.
Complex processes that need improvement. Existing processes are as extensive as Best Practice ones, but sub-optimal in design. They may never have been designed but rather grew organically. Re-engineering them will bring efficiencies that pay for the effort.
Service providers who deal in life and health: medicine makers, medical centres, rescue services, social welfare. Even in this instance, it is the core services that must be delivered to Best Practice. Many of these organisations are chronically under-resourced and so Core Practice should always be a considered option for ancillary and supporting processes.
Providers to clients or partners who require compliance to a Best Practice standard.
Dangerous or unpopular industries: aerospace, aircraft, nuclear power, chemical engineering, fuel storage, genetic engineering, explosives. Even in situations where human life is not endangered the public relations risk of an error is too high.
"Best practice" is an unfortunate term because of the pejorative implication that anything else is not-best. "Best" is an emotive and judgemental word that implies several things: (a)nothing else is better (b)anything else is worse (so by subtle inference there is something wrong with you if you choose to do anything else) (c)someone has evaluated it to determine it is best (so by inference it can be measured).
Until now there has not been a generally accepted alternative concept to Best Practice. In most disciplines, the standards, guidance or methodologies define only the Best Practice. The only option is "absence of Best Practice". Occasionally there is both Best and Minimum Practice, but usually with the implication that the Minimum standard is not a desirable state of affairs: users are expected to "pull their socks up" at some later stage and achieve Best Practice.
We want it to be acceptable for someone to say "we take a Core Practice approach to X", and do so without shame or embarrassment. We want that to be a respectable business decision to make and a viable option to select.
In most situations we expect that an enterprise will first implement Core Practice across the board as a foundation of effective processes, and then later opt to enhance processes up to Best Practice standards in strategically selected disciplines where a business case can be made.
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My context is that I have two replica for a Java Spring Boot microservice and each of them have singleton, I would like to invoke the same call from each singleton in a specific request like the path below :
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It's possible to configure the ingress controller to filter a specific path and do the broadcast ?
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An interview with Pearl James Hill, an ammunition worker and ship welder during World War II.
Hill worked during World War II at an ammunition factory manufacturing hand grenades and later become a ship welder until the end of the war.
"Pearl James Hill, Interview by Rebecca Michaud, 16 March 2011," Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/33d642ae717f106c0375aa24f7d61295.
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A cartoon by Paul S. Snyder about a mechanic's practical joke, circa 1942-43: "Ooops! A lady mechanic – I thought it was Sergeant McGinty!"
A 1943 advertisement in Saint Paul, Minnesota, for job openings for female streetcar drivers.
Excerpt from a pamphlet called Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II.
A newsreel of the US preparing more paratroops for battle in World War II, 1944.
Letters from Beth Puckett to Lewis Puckett, 1945.
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Field spots are the white spots you find on the peel of a watermelon. It is found on the places where the watermelon rested on the ground, and is ripe and sweet inside. These spots could be anything from creamy-yellow to orange.
It shows the amount of bees touched the flower. The more you see the pollination, the better it is.
3. Boy Or A Girl?
Watermelons also have genders. The "boy" watermelon is more elongated and the "girl" watermelons are round and stout. And of course, the girls are sweeter.
Change your notion of size and pleasure. Biggest watermelons are the biggest mistake you'll make while picking one. Go for the smaller ones.
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Top 5 Legal Lies From 'HTGAWM' S1 E6 ('Freakin' Whack-a-Mole')
By Brett Snider, Esq. on October 31, 2014 11:46 AM
"How To Get Away With Murder" keeps ramping up the intensity, but is it losing touch with that other thing... you know... the law? We'll run down the top five flat-out legal lies in Episode 6, "Freakin' Whack-a-Mole," but first: a tweetable recap for anyone who missed the latest installment.
#HTGAWM in 140 Characters: Wes extorts Annalise to help drug girl. Death penalty habeas appeal. Asher gets trophy by selling out judge dad and sleeps w/ frosty Bonnie.
And while Viola Davis really can't be wrong in her dramatic scenelets, here are some of the legal loose ends:
1. He Was Convicted With Only Circumstantial Evidence.
Ah circumstantial evidence, the go-to for just about any TV criminal defense attorney worth his or her salt. Compared to direct evidence, circumstantial evidence refers to evidence which more indirectly tends to prove an issue of fact, drawing from the circumstances or events surrounding the crime. Circumstantial evidence is still evidence, and juries do not have to weigh it any less than other evidence.
2. After a Habeas Petition, It's a Race Against the Clock.
Since this episode was centered around a petition for habeas corpus, it was a bit dishonest for Annalise to tell the Keating Five that they only had two weeks to win the case. Not only does a death row inmate get a chance to pursue a habeas appeal in both state and federal courts, but once the petition is submitted, the court typically allows more than a month for each party to prepare their arguments.
3. The Client Is Present for Appeal.
Defendants have a right to be present for their trial, but rarely are they present for their appeals. Courts may allow it, but clients are not entitled to it, so Annalise must have pulled some strings.
4. An Appeal Is Like a Trial.
Criminal appeals, even ones for habeas relief, are not like trials. Witnesses are typically not examined, objections don't go flying, and the courtroom doesn't turn into an episode of "Matlock." It's generally just attorneys presenting legal arguments based on past caselaw, on paper and then in oral arguments. Boring, but true.
5. A 'Win' in an Appeal Means Your Client Is Set Free.
The court's ruling at the end of this "HTGAWM" episode was short and confusing. Yes, it was great to see an innocent man go to an Annalise-sponsored freedom dinner, but the court really just would have remanded the case for a retrial -- which would still be a "win" for the defense.
Check back here next week as we take on more of the legal fibbery in "HTGAWM" Episode 7, "He Deserved to Die."
How To Get Away With Murder: "Freakin' Whack-a-Mole" (A.V. Club)
Top 5 Legal Lies From 'HTGAWM' S1 E5 ('We're Not Friends') (FindLaw's Celebrity Justice)
Top 5 Legal Lies From 'HTGAWM' S1 E4 ('Let's Get Scooping') (FindLaw's Celebrity Justice)
Death Row Habeas Petition Doomed by Laziness, Counsel (FindLaw's U.S. Eleventh Circuit Blog)


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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is a technically-marvelous film blending animated, ink-and-paint cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood live actors, in a convincing comedy/mystery noir thriller, set in Los Angeles in 1947. Earlier efforts to combine humans and ink-and-paint cartoon characters side-by-side in a film [Note: Disney's Song of the South and Mary Poppins, for example] are considered primitive next to this film.
The film is a delightful spoof of the hard-boiled Sam Spade films and reminiscent of the recent Chinatown (1974), (complete with a sultry, femme fatale humanoid Toon named Jessica Rabbit (Jessica Turner, uncredited, with singing voice by Amy Irving, executive producer Steven Spielberg's wife at the time), and a case involving alleged marital infidelity ("pattycake"), murder, a missing will, blackmail, and a conspiracy hatched by evil, Toon-hating Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) (of Cloverleaf Industries). Doom's plan is to bring freeways to LA, thereby ruining the existing Pacific & Electric Red Car public transport electric trolley system. [Note: There was, in fact, a real-life corporate conspiracy to 'doom' the trolley system and encourage automobile use, orchestrated by General Motors, Firestone, and Standard Oil of California.]
The film revolves around the murder of Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye), a gag-gift promoter and props supplier (Acme Novelty Co.) for all Toon productions and the owner of the ghetto-ized Toon-town where the Toons, regarded as a segregated minority group, live just outside Hollywood. Framed for the murder, zany Maroon Cartoon Studios actor Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer), a stuttering, disaster-prone 'Toon,' solicits help from reluctant, hard-boiled, boozing private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) to clear his name. Valiant is still grief-stricken over the death of brother Ted by a falling cartoon piano, but is financially - and emotionally - supported by girlfriend Dolores (Joanna Cassidy), as he solves the case. A poster foretold the film's plot:
It's the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble.
The film was a milestone in animation history, one of the top-grossing films of its year, and it received four Academy Awards, one of which was a Special Achievement Award for Animation Direction (Richard Williams). Director Robert Zemeckis must be credited for piecing together the production that involved hundreds of animators, and the special visual effects of George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, Amblin Entertainment, Walt Disney and other studios. As a result, it was the most expensive film of its decade, at $70 million.
It was filmed as a tribute to the entire pantheon of cartoon characters from Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM, and other studios in the 1940s. Famous cartoon voices were used (Mel Blanc for Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, and Porky Pig and Charles Fleischer for Roger, Greasy, Psycho, and Benny the Cab), and the live-action characters were coordinated with cartoon characters - the animations were drawn and inserted after the live photography was shot. Its revolutionary animation: (1) used light and shadows in new ways to produce remarkably realistic, 3-D effects; (2) extensively panned and moved the camera to reduce a static look; and (3) had the car'toon' characters interact flawlessly with real-world objects and flesh-and-blood people as much as possible.
The title of the film was derived from the plot: "Who framed (the cartoon character) Roger Rabbit" for a murder. It was also derived by screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman from the title of Gary Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? - an allegorical tale with comic-book and newspaper strip characters who spoke with word ballons instead of voices. In a less sanitized version, Wolf's novel portrayed Hollywood's Golden Age 1940s car-"Toon" characters as minority contract workers subjugated by the animation studios' system of apartheid. The down-and-out, underpaid fantasy-toon players must live in a segregated ghetto named "Toontown" as victims of human bigotry. The sub-human, exploited, underpaid and oppressed creatures were monitored there and kept under control.
Although Wolf's book had a lot of the same-named characters (with their basic character traits), there were significant differences between it and the film:
the book had comic strip actors, not cartoon actors, who were photographed - in action - to produce comic strips
Roger Rabbit, a popular toon comic strip star, was found mysteriously murdered in his Hollywood home
the book had a complicated, plot twisting, noirish atmosphere
Jessica Rabbit was a much cruder character who traded sexual favors for what she wanted
when the 'Toons spoke, they made word balloons that could be physically manipulated
Wolf's 1991 sequel book to the film (not to his previous book) was titled Who P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?: A Hare-Raising Mystery. In this book, Roger hired Eddie Valiant to investigate whether his sexy wife Jessica was having an affair with Clark Gable, one of Roger's rivals (another rival is Baby Herman) for the lead role of Rhett in the musical comedy version of Gone With the Wind. Gable also hired Eddie to find out who had been planting tabloid stories about him being gay.
In this landmark film, the Toons include appearances and cameos by Donald and Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and Sylvester, Woody Woodpecker, the Weasels - from Disney's The Wind in the Willows, Mickey Mouse, three hummingbirds from Disney's Song of the South, the Road Runner and the Coyote, the black Crows and Dumbo from Disney's Dumbo, Betty Boop, Droopy Dog, and many more. Unprecedented cooperation from Warner Brothers and Disney allowed for classic cartoon characters to be seen together for the first time, such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny parachuting together, having both Tinkerbell and Porky Pig end the movie, and, of course, the famous piano duel between Daffy and Donald Duck in a Cotton Club-style nightclub, the Ink & Paint Club.
Other animated and live-action mixed films would be released soon after with the same technically sophisticated human/cartoon interaction, including Joe Pytka's Space Jam (1996), Des McAnuff's The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000), Henry Selick's Monkeybone (2001), and Joe Dante's Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), but none of them could recapture the same sense of awe or feature the same level of acting and writing.
The Story - "Somethin's Cookin'"
The film begins with a manic, four-minute "Maroon Cartoon" entitled Somethin's Cookin' that is being filmed on the Maroon Cartoon Studios set and directed by Raoul J. Raoul.
An animated Baby Herman, an innocent looking baby, is left under the care of babysitter Roger Rabbit, a lop-eared cartoon rabbit. As the mother leaves her child to go to the beauty parlor, she ominously warns of dire consequences: "I'm leaving you with your favorite friend Roger. He's going to take very, very good care of you...because if he doesn't, he's going back to the science lab." Roger responds characteristically: "P-p-p-p-please!" and confusedly assures her and himself that he will take care of Baby Herman as if he were his own brother, or his own sister, or his brother's sister, or his second cousin, or his ninth cousin nine times removed, or as he vows: "Or like my seventeenth cousin who is a hundred and fifty-six times removed from any side."
Meanwhile, Baby Herman leaves his play pen and in the kitchen admires and giggles at the Cookies jar sitting high atop the refrigerator. Aghast with his eyeballs telescoping out from their sockets, Roger spies in horror how Baby Herman has slipped out of his crib in a hazardous attempt to get a cookie - he has used the kitchen drawers as a ladder, climbed onto the kitchen counter, and crawled across the gas stove - lighting the burners behind him. To heroically save him, Roger dashes into the kitchen, rolls around perilously trying to keep his balance on a wooden rolling pin that Baby Herman has knocked off the counter. More mishaps - a teapot falls on Roger's head, and he lands in the Hotternell stove - Baby Herman's foot accidently slips on the top of the gas stove and turns the heat up to "Volcano Heat." The baby continues on his way to the top of the refrigerator, cooing "Cookie" and crawling across a sink-full of dishes - he focuses on the swinging pendulum of the clock and happens to turn the water faucet to full-power, unleashing a torrent of water from the sink.
After being roasted at high heat in the oven, Roger races three circles around the kitchen, leaving trails of black smoke. Baby Herman balances uneasily atop a box of Acme Deadly Mouse Poison while stretching for the Cookie jar, sending a slippery bar of soap into Roger's path. Baby Herman swings from the stack of boxes on the pendulum, while Roger has his whole body electrocuted by two wall sockets. His convulsions create a crack in the wall that unhinges a shelf above, hurling pots and pans to tumble down on Roger's head - rendering him unconscious.
A bottle of Extra Hot Acme Chili Sauce lands in the spout of one of the teapots and directs the hot sauce directly into Roger's mouth. It heats him up to the boiling point, exploding him across the room in the air, hurtling him mouth-first into the end of an ironing board. Baby Herman catapults from the pendulum to the shelf next to the refrigerator - it breaks, causing him to land on a toilet plunger. A jar of pickles falls from the shelf onto the edge of a drainer tray of sharp knives, sending them flying across the room, where the ironing board has opened up to reveal Roger Rabbit - he is pinned against the wall by the fusilade of knives. The plunger hurls Baby Herman to the top of the refrigerator, then lands in an activated toaster, which falls and shoots the plunger onto Roger's face.
In order to get to the cookies, Baby Herman kicks off slices of bread, while Roger is desperately trying to remove the suction plunger from his face. He frees himself mid-air - grins and looks into the camera - just before crashing face-first into an Acme Suck-O-Lux vacuum cleaner that is activated. His body is inflated by the vacuum cleaner and when he finally frees himself, he spins around like a deflating balloon. He smashes into the bottom of the refrigerator and struggles to free himself, jarring Baby Herman from the top of the refrigerator where he has finally attained his goal - a cookie. Baby Herman tumbles down along the front of the refrigerator and falls onto Roger Rabbit's stomach giving Roger strength to lift the refrigerator off his head. It falls on him again when he tries to pick up Baby Herman. The refrigerator door opens to reveal Roger's head poking up through a hole in the bottom - little blue birds tweet and circle around it.
The Story - The Film
On a live sound stage, the Tex Avery-style human director Raoul Raoul (Joel Silver) yells "Cut" to stop the action, complaining that Roger, the successful star of Maroon Cartoons, "keeps blowin' his lines." The director scolds a sheepish Roger who has a ring of cartoon birds flying around his head:
Director: Look what it [the script] says. It says, 'Rabbit gets clunked. Rabbit sees stars!' Not birds, STARS!...
Baby Herman: Aw, for cryin' out loud, Roger! How the hell many times do we have to do this damn scene?
The camera slowly pulls back to reveal the equipment and crew of the sound stage, as the lecherous Toon "child" star Baby Herman storms off the set. After a break is ordered for lunch, Roger pleads for another chance: "Please, Raoul. I can give you stars. Just drop the refrigerator on my head one more time." But Raoul will not listen after twenty-three takes. The indestructible cartoon character Roger grabs a frying pan and hits himself repeatedly on the head to produce stars - BONG, BONG, BONG - but only exclamation points, golden bells, a cuckoo clock, and more birds spring from his head.
In the shadows of the set after witnessing the flawed take with the zany rabbit is a brown-suited man [in the next scene identified as Eddie Valiant, played by Bob Hoskins] with a beat-up fedora (and looking like a composite of Peter Falk of TV's Columbo and cartoon character Elmer Fudd). He mutters disgustedly before taking a swig from a pint bottle of Wild Turkey whiskey: "Phew. 'Toons." He slips the bottle back into his shoulder holster where a .38 should be positioned.
In the large, art-deco office of studio boss R. K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern), [a subtitle identifies the scene in "Hollywood 1947"], the chief looks over the shoulder of his editor (working on a Movieola machine) and orders changes in the cutting of the latest Maroon cartoon starring Roger: "Wait until he gets to his feet, then hit him with the boulder." Eddie Valiant is ushered in by a red-haired receptionist to listen to Maroon's complaints about the cost of show business. The Toon can take any kind of punishment - except being heartbroken over his sweetheart:
Maroon: ...There's no business more expensive. I'm 25 grand over budget on the latest Baby Herman cartoon. You saw the Rabbit blowin' his lines. He can't keep his mind on his work. You know why?
Valiant: One too many refrigerators dropped on his head?
Maroon: Nah, he's a Toon. You can drop anything you want on his head. He'll shake it off. But break his heart, he goes to pieces just like you or me.
Maroon presents Valiant with the latest issue of The Toontown Gossip, and Valiant reads part of the front-page article outloud. The possible cause of the hare-brained Roger's distractedness and forgetfulness is that his sexy cartoon-animated wife named Jessica Rabbit (with the speaking voice of Kathleen Turner) may be unfaithful, but Roger think's she's an angel. Maroon offers to hire him to take compromising photographs of Jessica, hoping to get Roger to wise up, forget his problems and concentrate on his lines instead:
Valiant: (reading outloud) 'Seen Cooing Over Calamari with Notsonew Sugar Daddy was Jessica Rabbit, wife of Maroon Cartoon star, Roger.' What's this gotta do with me?
Maroon: You're the private detective. You figure it out.
Valiant: Look (handing back the paper), I don't have time for this.
Maroon: Look, Valiant. His wife's poison, but he thinks she's Betty Crocker. I want you to follow her. Get me a couple of nice juicy pictures I can wise the rabbit up with.
Valiant: (shuddering) Forget it. I don't work Toontown.
Maroon: What's wrong with Toontown? Every Joe loves Toontown.
Valiant: Then get Joe to do the job, cause I ain't goin'.
Maroon: (pulling Valiant back) Whoa, fella. You don't wanna go to Toontown, you don't have to go to Toontown. Nobody said you had to go to Toontown, anyway...The rabbit's wife sings at a joint called The Ink & Paint Club. Toon revue. Strictly humans only. OK?
For a moment, Valiant considers the offer of becoming a Peeping Tom for Toons. He walks to the studio window, and then proposes to take the job - for a hundred bucks - plus expenses. Maroon protests: "That's ridiculous!" Valiant replies: "So's the job." Down on the studio backlot, a typical view of a Hollywood cartoon studio, workmen from the Acme company drop a crate and out tumbles Gag Musical Chairs - an animated orchestra of Toon chairs playing musical instruments. Suddenly, Valiant jumps back as a gray figure with two large eyes appears in the window. Maroon explains that he got Dumbo on loan from Disney: "I got him on loan from Disney - him and half the cast of Fantasia. The best part is - they work for peanuts." The grey elephant with large floppy ears flies away from R.K. Maroon's office window after being thrown some peanuts, while they settle the deal. Maroon presents Valiant with a check for fifty bucks, holding back the balance as "a carrot to finish the job." Valiant responds: "You been hangin' around rabbits too long."
As Valiant departs from the studio, he studies his check and nearly runs into an indignant ostrich and a dancing hippo from Fantasia - a green jumping frog also meets him on the stairs. The broomsticks from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" sweep up the garbage in the soundstage doorway across the street. A saxophonist plays "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." The US Mail postman, a pelican, delivers mail on a bicycle. Many more cartoon characters - including a studio sound stage audition, literally a 'Cattle Call' of singing cows, Bugs Bunny (racing the Tortoise) and Bozo the Clown - appear momentarily, among others.
Across the street, down-and-out Valiant tries to board Los Angeles' Pacific Electric "Red Car" electric trolley bound for Sunset Blvd., but is denied entry by the conductor (James O'Connell) when all he can come up with is his paper check. He joins a group of young boys already hitching a free ride on the back of the Red Car. [Valiant's comment to one of the dirty-faced boys is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to a vast system of electric trolleys that once criss-crossed the LA Basin: "Who needs a car in LA? We got the best public transportation system in the world."] At the trolly terminal, a cheap cardboard sign reading "Now a Cloverleaf industry" (a dark green sign emblazoned with a four-leaf clover insignia, symbolic of the coming freeway system) is hauled up over the existing "Pacific Electric - The World's Finest Public Transportation System" sign to replace it.
Valiant leaves the trolley across the street from the trolley terminal, and finds his way into the entrance to "The Terminal Station Bar." The red neon sign malfunctions, blinking only the word "Terminal." Inside, it is decorated in the motif of a trolley car - popular in its heyday at the turn of the century when the new public transportation system was first built. When a trolley passes by underneath, the entire building shakes and the lights flicker. One of the trolley conductors, named Earl, is passed out drunk at one of the tables - Valiant is 'told' by a deaf-mute cabbie at the bar and a Soldier named Sarge (Lindsay Holiday) that Earl has been "LAID OFF" because a "new outfit bought the Red Car. Some big company called Cloverleaf."
The bar waitress Dolores (Joanna Cassidy), Valiant's girlfriend, tells him that he's behind on his payments and bills and that she will lose her job the next day if the money she lent him isn't "back in the till." Valiant calmly but proudly shows off the studio's paper check from R. K. Maroon for fifty bucks, and then asks to borrow Dolores' camera for a "snoop job." She hands it over - with some film still in it, left over from their trip to Catalina island together "a long time ago." When another trolley rumbles through, all the drinkers at the bar ritualistically lift their glasses to avoid spilling any of their drinks. A dirty laborer named Angelo (Richard Ridings) chides Valiant about his new contract for Maroon:
Angelo: So who's your client - Mr. Detective to the Stars? Chilly Willy or Screwy Squirrel?...So what happened, huh? Somebody kidnap Dinky Doodle?...Hey wait a minute, wait a minute, I know. You're workin' for Little Bo Peep. She's lost her sheep and you're gonna help her find them.
Valiant: (after kicking out Angelo's stool) Get this straight, greaseball. I DON'T WORK FOR TOONS! (Valiant jams a hard-boiled egg into Angelo's mouth, and then storms out of the bar.)
Angelo (to Dolores): So what's his problem?
Dolores: Toon killed his brother...dropped a piano on his head.
Earlier in Valiant's life, things were darkened when, as a private eye dedicated to working for Toons, his brother was killed by a falling piano in Toontown. Eddie has had a long-standing grudge against Toons and against venturing into Toontown ever since.
In a dark, run-down alley, the seedy, Raymond Chandleresque Valiant knocks on the exterior side door of a building. A speakeasy-style peephole slides open and out peers the large red eye of a big Toon Gorilla acting as a hairy bouncer. Valiant offers the proper password to enter The Ink & Paint Club, an inside joke:
Valiant: Walt sent me. (The peep hole door slides shut and the door opens. The Toon Gorilla is dressed in a tux and gives Valiant the once-over.) Nice monkey suit.
Gorilla: Wise ass...
In the segregated, cabaret-style nightclub where Toons entertain humans [a take-off of the original Cotton Club in New York City where disenfranchised blacks entertained whites], white tablecloths adorn the tables and Toon penguin waiters (anachronistically from Disney's Mary Poppins (1964)!) carry trays and serve drinks to the exclusive human guests. A many-armed Toon octopus (with the goofy face of Dopey from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) tends the bar, mixing, stirring, pouring, and serving numerous drinks simultaneously and lighting a woman's cigarette with one of his free hands.
On stage to provide entertainment in the opening act are two Toon ducks: a tuxedoed Donald Duck and Daffy Duck. They are seated back to back at opposite keyboards of two pianos (playing Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2). They play with their elbows, make wisecrack jokes, and compete and feud at the keyboards. Donald's piano is a grand-style piano - Daffy's piano is a white, upright rinky-dink one. [This is the first on-screen appearance of Disney and Warner Bros.' cartoon characters together.] They poke fun at each other at dueling pianos, while the crowd howls with laughter:
Daffy Duck: I've worked with a lot of wisequackers, but you are des-picc-able.
Donald Duck: Doggone stubborn nitwit! That did it!
Daffy Duck: This is the last time I work with someone with a s-s-speech impediment!
Donald hurls Daffy inside the grand piano and slams the lid down on his beak. Daffy retaliates: "This means war!"
Valiant finds an empty seat at the table of one of the guests [soon identified as local gagman Marvin Acme, played by Stubby Kaye] who wears a loud, garish plaid suit-jacket adorned with a red carnation. After shaking his dried-up fountain pen, he sprays the ink from it all over Valiant's shirt, causing Eddie to ask: "You think that's funny?" The prankster giggles at the sight ("It's a panic!") and is unperturbed by Valiant's anger: "Now, calm down, son, will ya? Look, the stain's gone. It's disappearing ink. No hard feelings.." Valiant looks down at his spotless shirt - he already knows the silly geezer with the urge to play practical jokes: "Marvin Acme, the guy that owns Toontown - the Gag King." [Acme had bought Toontown with the fortune he had made selling gags and novelties to the cartoon studios.] Acme responds: "If it's Acme, it's a gasser." To disperse hard feelings, Acme shakes Eddie's hand - with an electric hand buzzer that shocks Eddie all the way up his arm. "It's still our biggest seller," he boasts.
Donald's tail feathers play across the keyboard of the upright piano while his hands play the grand piano. Daffy plays frenetically on the grand piano with gag props including a boxing glove, a hammer, and a pair of chickens. To conclude the piano playing of the two ducks after Donald fires a cannon shot at his opponent, two long Toon hooks appear and abruptly end their act.
Betty Boop (voice of Mae Questel, who was also the voice of Popeye's Olive Oyl, and Little Lulu), a black-and-white cigarette girl, offers her wares behind Valiant and then recognizes him:
Betty Boop: Long time, no see.
Valiant: What are you doin' here?
Betty Boop: Well, it's been kinda slow since cartoons went to color. But I still got it, Eddie. (singing and squeaking) 'Boop boop be-doop.'
Valiant: Yeah, you still got it.
As they both watch Acme expectantly primping himself with a spray bottle of misty perfume with anticipation for the next performance, she tells Valiant: "Mr. Acme never misses a night when Jessica performs." Eddie replies: "Got a thing for rabbits, eh?"
In one of the high points of the film, out from behind a spotlight on blue curtains emerges the throaty, smokey blues sound of Jessica Rabbit singing [voice of Amy Irving]: "Why Don't You Do Right?" First, her sexy leg and ample breasts appear from behind the curtain as she begins her song and steps out. Eddie is transfixed and entranced by the beautiful Toon. [Her bright pink, slinky, high-cut gown sparkles and shimmers brilliantly due to ILM's special effects.] Looking very little like a rabbit and more like a cartoon-animated movie star, a combination Playboy bunny, Lauren Bacall and 40's peek-a-boo blonde actress Veronica Lake, the buxom, red-haired chanteuse sweeps out onto the stage and soon slinks into the audience singing - the patrons hoot and whistle. [The scene was revisited a year later in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), with sexy Michelle Pfeiffer performing the same kind of number - "Makin' Whoopee" - in a red dress atop a piano.]
(Jessica singing)
You had plenty money in 1922
You let other women make a fool of you.
Why don't you do right?
Like some other men do...
Get out of here and
Get me some money too...
Valiant is dumbfounded and his jaw drops as he gasps: "She's married to Roger Rabbit?!" Betty Boop replies dreamily: "Yeah - What a lucky gurrll!" Betty reaches over and closes Eddie's mouth.
Jessica sashays over to Mr. Acme's table and cuddles up behind him, pinching and rolling his cheeks as he smiles with satisfaction. After removing his handkerchief and rubbing his head playfully with it, she also works her way over to Eddie's lap. There, she reaches her fingers inside his trenchcoat, removes his fedora, seductively tantalizes him, sits on his table with her statuesque chest bursting out in front of him, leans closer to him, and pulls his necktie toward her as she finishes her song:
Like some other men do.
In the finale, she quickly struts her stuff back to the stage, where the curtain closes behind her.
After the spell-binding performance, Acme leaves his table to eagerly enter Jessica's backstage dressing room ("Jessica dear, have no fear, your Marvin is here") with a bouquet of red roses. Valiant follows and keeps a discreet distance so that he can overhear their conversation through the door and crouch to spy at them through the keyhole. The gorilla bouncer catches Eddie trying to peek through the keyhole and taps him on the shoulder with his hairy hand. He grunts: "Whaddya you think you're doin', chump?" After Valiant quips: "Who are you calling a chump, chimp?" the bouncer grabs Valiant by the seat of his pants, lifts him off the ground, and hurls him out the club's back door into a collection of garbage cans in the alley. Under Jessica's dressing room window, Valiant pulls over a milk crate to stand on, and aims his camera through the window to take incriminating photos of their affair as they earnestly converse together. Marvin is knee-to-knee with Jessica, playing "pattycake":
Jessica: Oh not tonight, Marvin, I have a headache.
Acme: Oh Jessica, you promised.
Jessica: Oh, all right. But this time, take off that hand buzzer. (As they play 'pattycake,' Valiant's eyes widen.)
Later that night, Valiant delivers the pictures to R. K. Maroon's studio office. Cartoon star Roger, already there, rants and raves and becomes hysterical - wailing and crying after being shown the incriminating photographs that confirm Jessica is having an affair with a human lover:
Roger: Pattycake! Pattycake! I don't believe it. Pattycake! Pattycake! That girl.
Maroon: Take comfort son, you're not the first man whose wife played pattycake on him. (Sobbing, Roger blows his nose into Maroon's handkerchief - Maroon takes the drenched handkerchief from Roger and deposits it in a wastebasket.)
Roger: I just don't believe it. I won't believe it. I can't believe it. I shan't believe it.
Valiant: Believe it, kid. I took the pictures myself. She played pattycake.
Roger: Not my Jessica. Not pattycake. This is impossible. I don't believe it. It can't be! It just can't be. Jessica's my wife. It's absolutely impossible!
The photographs, flipped through like an animated flipbook that simulates motion, really have caught Jessica and Marvin (her "sugardaddy") seated knee to knee, red-handed in the act of playing pattycake - slapping their palms together.
The traumatized Roger sobs in disbelief: "Jessica's the light of my life, the apple of my eye, the cream in my coffee." Valiant jokes: "You better start drinking it black." To feel better, Roger accepts a stiff drink from Maroon and swallows it in one gulp - his face (and ears) contort, change color, and vibrate as it prepares to explode. He is propelled to the ceiling, where his head turns into a Toon steam whistle - it shrieks with a high-pitched deafening screech, shattering all the glass in the office and the crystal decanter in Valiant's hand. After falling back into Maroon's chair, Roger calmly says:
Thanks, I needed that.
Valiant is paid the balance of his contract, and he assures Roger that he is "a good-looking guy" and "dames will be breaking his door down." But Roger grabs Valiant by the lapels and insists:
Dames? What dames? Jessica's the only one for me. You'll see. We'll rise above this piddling pecadillo. We're gonna be happy again. You got that? Happy. H-A-P-P-I.
Roger leaves the office by crashing through the venetian blinds and window, leaving a rabbit-shaped imprint/hole in both. Eddie looks after him through Roger's silhouette-hole and sighs: "Well, at least he took it well."


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Indians hammer U.S. soldiers at the Battle of the Rosebud
Sioux and Cheyenne Indians score a tactical victory over General Crook's forces at the Battle of the Rosebud, foreshadowing the disaster of the Battle of Little Big Horn eight days later.
General George Crook was in command of one of three columns of soldiers converging on the Big Horn country of southern Montana that June. A large band of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians under the direction of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and several other chiefs had congregated in the area in defiance of U.S. demands that the Indians confine themselves to reservations. The army viewed the Indians' refusal as an opportunity to dispatch a massive three-pronged attack and win a decisive victory over the "hostile" Indians.
Crook's column, marching north from Fort Fetterman in Wyoming Territory, was to join with two others: General Gibbon's column coming east from Fort Ellis in Montana Territory, and General Terry's force coming west from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory. Terry's force included the soon-to-be-famous 7th Cavalry under the command of George Custer. The vast distances and lack of reliable communications made it difficult to coordinate, but the three armies planned to converge on the valley of the Big Horn River and stage an assault on an enemy whose location and size was only vaguely known.
The plan quickly ran into trouble. As Crook approached the Big Horn, his Indian scouts informed him they had found signs of a major Sioux force that must still be nearby. Crook was convinced that the Sioux were encamped in a large village somewhere along the Rosebud Creek just east of the Big Horn. Like most of his fellow officers, Crook believed that Indians were more likely to flee than stand and fight, and he was determined to find the village and attack before the Sioux could escape into the wilderness. Crook's Indian allies—262 Crow and Shoshone warriors—were less certain. They suspected the Sioux force was under the command of Crazy Horse, thee brilliant war chief. Crazy Horse, they warned, was too shrewd to give Crook an opportunity to attack a stationary village.
Crook soon learned that his allies were right. Around 8 a.m. on this day in 1876, Crook halted his force of about 1,300 men in the bowl of a small valley along the Rosebud Creek in order to allow the rear of the column to catch up. Crook's soldiers unsaddled and let their horses graze while they relaxed in the grass and enjoyed the cool morning air. The American soldiers were out in the open, divided, and unprepared. Suddenly, several Indian scouts rode into the camp at a full gallop. "Sioux! Sioux!" they shouted. "Many Sioux!" Within minutes, a mass of Sioux warriors began to converge on the army.
A force of at least 1,500 mounted Sioux warriors caught Crook's soldiers by surprise. Crazy Horse had kept an additional 2,500 warriors in reserve to finish the attack. Fortunately for Crook, one segment of his army was not caught unprepared. His 262 Crow and Shoshone allies had taken up advanced positions about 500 yards from the main body of soldiers. With astonishing courage, the Indian warriors boldly countercharged the much larger invading force. They managed to blunt the initial attack long enough for Crook to regroup his men and send soldiers forward to support his Indian allies. The fighting continued until noon, when the Sioux-perhaps hoping to draw Crook's army into an ambush—retreated from the field.
The combined force of 4,000 Sioux warriors had outnumbered Crook's divided and unprepared army by more than three to one. Had it not been for the wisdom and courage of Crook's Indian allies, Americans today might well remember the Battle of the Rosebud as they do the subsequent Battle of the Little Big Horn. As it was, Crook's team was badly bloodied—28 men were killed and 56 were seriously wounded.
Crook had no choice but to withdraw and regroup. Crazy Horse had lost only 13 men and his warriors were emboldened by their successful attack on the American soldiers. Eight days later, they would join with their tribesmen in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, which would wipe out George Custer and his 7th Cavalry.
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Q: Get match and unmatch items from two lists I have to compare two lists for the matching and non matching elements and print them out. I have tried the below code:
list1 = ["prefencia","santro ne prefence"]

I'm fetching all the text from a webpage using selenium getText() method and all the text is getting stored in a string variable which is then stored to list2:
str = "Centro de prefencia de lilly ac"
list2 = []
list2 = str

for item in list1:
    if item in list2:
       print("match:", item)
    else:
       print("no_match:", item)

Result of above code-
match:prefencia

Seems like in keyword is working like contains. I would want to search for the exact match for the element present in list1 with the element present in list2.

A: At least here you have a problem:
list1 = ["prefencia","santro ne prefence"]
str = "Centro de prefencia de lilly ac"
list2 = []
list2 = str

Do you want list2 variable to be list. Now you set it as an empty list and on next row it to variable str.
How about something like this (quess what you want to do)
list1 = ["prefencia","santro ne prefence"]
mystr = "Centro de prefencia de lilly ac"
list2 = mystr.split(' ') // splits your string to list of words

for item in list1:
    if item in list2:
       print("match:", item)
    else:
       print("no_match:", item)

But if you split your string to list of words you'll never get exact match for multiple words such as "santro ne prefence".


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BBC responds to Tory MP who criticised Biggest Weekend for 'lining pockets of super-rich pop stars'
The MP said the event was 'a complete misuse of licence fee payers' money'
By Samantha Maine
Taylor Swift, Florence + The Machine and Rita Ora were among the performers
The BBC has come to the defense of its Biggest Weekend festival after Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen criticised the event.
Billed as the BBC's answer to Glastonbury, The Biggest Weekend appealed to listeners of Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, and 6 Music, with each station represented at different locations across the UK.
The festival took place last weekend in Belfast, Swansea, Perth and Coventry with sets from the likes of Taylor Swift, Florence + The Machine, Beck, James Bay and more.
MP Andrew Bridgen reportedly told the Daily Mail that "promoting and lining the pockets of super-rich pop stars seems a complete misuse of licence fee payers' money, but then the BBC do have £4billion of taxpayers' money to fritter away each year".
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Rita Ora posed with a private jet ahead of her performance and now a BBC spokesperson has responded to Bridgen's critiques, saying that the broadcaster did not pay for anyone's private jet and "never would".
They added that ticket sales "help offset the cost of putting on the Biggest Weekend", adding that it was "part of the BBC's commitment to bringing live music to the widest possible audience.
"The event produces 20 hours of live music for TV; days' worth of schedules on our music stations and 120 hours of full sets from artists on BBC iPlayer available for 30 days"
There are also reports that as with previous Radio 1 Big Weekends, no artists received a fee for their performance.
Meanwhile, Ora began her performance at the festival with a touching tribute to the late DJ Avicii.
The singer took to the stage in Swansea as the words 'Avicii 1989 – 2018' appeared behind her, before launching into 'Lonely Together', the pair's 2017 single.
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Understanding School Finance in Wisconsin: A Primer
The Basic Attributes and Goal of Wisconsin Education Finance
By Michael Ford, Volume 26, No. 7, May 2013
A fundamental tension between state and local control lies at the heart of Wisconsin's school finance system. For much of Wisconsin's history, schools boards were responsible for deciding how much to spend on education, and how much revenue to raise via the property tax levy to fund spending. However, the balance tipped in favor of the state in the 1993-'94 school year, when the state imposed revenue limits.
Revenue limits cap how much additional money school districts can raise for each pupil through a combination of state aid and property tax. Since their inception, revenue limits have increased annually at roughly the rate of inflation. The imposition of revenue limits defined one basic attribute of education finance in Wisconsin: Maintaining the status quo. Consider:
Increases in revenue limits use the previous year as a base, ensuring that the largest predictor of spending is how much a district spent in the previous year.
Revenue limits increase at roughly the rate of inflation, keeping overall school finance formula revenues, in inflation-adjusted dollars, relatively constant.
The distribution of total state and local spending by school district remained steady between 1999 and 2012. In 1999 the 100 districts receiving the most state and local revenue per student received 117% of the state average of state and local revenue. In 2012 that number was 119%. Similarly, the 100 districts receiving the least state and local revenue received 88% of the state average of state and local revenue. In 2012 that number was 87%.
A state aid program called special adjustment aids ensures districts cannot receive less than 85% of the state aid they received in the previous year.
The enrollment number used to generate payments to schools is a three-year average. It is designed to cushion districts against sudden increases and decreases in enrollment.
A second key attribute of Wisconsin's school finance is property tax relief. Because the total amount of state aid and local property taxes districts can raise is capped by revenue limits, increases in state aid generally serve to lower the property tax burden rather than increase total education spending. In other words, increases in state aid do not necessarily translate into increases in overall spending. In the 1996-'97 school year, the state of Wisconsin committed to funding two-thirds of the local and state cost of K-12 education.
This commitment, combined with strict limits on school board levying authority and the school levy tax credit, suggest that property tax relief was a major goal of Wisconsin's education finance system in the late 1990s. Although the state's two-thirds funding commitment was repealed in 2003-'04, the school levy credit and revenue limits remain, suggesting that property tax relief continues to be a major goal of Wisconsin's school finance system.
A third key attribute is direct democracy. Districts are empowered to exceed revenue limits only if a referendum is passed empowering them to do so. Since 2008, 83 of the state's 424 school districts passed a referendum to exceed revenue limits. In addition to going to referendum, school districts may also choose to levy under the maximum allowable amount. Seventy-seven percent of school districts did this in 2011.
A fourth key attribute is tax-base equalization. In laymen's terms this means that districts with low property values receive more of their funding through state aid than districts with high property values. In other words, poor districts receive more aid per pupil and rich districts receive less. As demonstrated in the final section of this report, this attribute is a consistent feature of Wisconsin school finance in recent history.
A fifth key attribute is a lack of predictability. Though the fundamental workings of the school aid formula are relatively consistent, the impact on specific districts is dependent on:
Politics: How much money will the Legislature put into school aids? How much will the Legislature increase per-pupil revenue limits? Will categorical aids continue to be funded? Should all categorical aids continue to be funded?
Enrollment: How many students live in the district? How many will attend traditional public schools? Are enrollments rising or declining? What about total statewide enrollment?
Property values: Is the school district getting richer or poorer? What about other school districts? Is the school district gaining or losing on the state average over time?
The final key attribute of Wisconsin's school finance is the increasing use of categorical aids that exist outside the school aid formula to fund specific programs and students. In 2000-'01, Wisconsin spent about 11 cents in categorical aids for every dollar spent on equalization aid; in 2011-'12, the state spent 18 cents in categorical aids per dollar spent on equalization aid. The growing use of categorical aids to fund specific programming such as the SAGE small class-size program suggests that the overall goal of Wisconsin education finance is gradually shifting away from tax-base equalization and toward the funding of specific programs. Notably, categorical aids have been favored across the political spectrum as a vehicle to fund favored reforms. Rarely are categorical aids defunded.
At its most basic level, the goal of education finance in Wisconsin is simple: Fund the free education guaranteed to Wisconsin pupils in the state constitution. But that basic goal begs many questions. Is the goal to fund individual districts, schools or pupils? What exactly is meant by public education? Can public education occur in a nonpublic school? How does the public know that a uniform level of education is funded? The scope of this report is to give readers a base level of knowledge of school finance that helps them better consider these questions.
Russ Kava and Rick Olin, "Local Government Expenditure and Revenue Limits," Madison, Wis., Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, 2013.
Wisconsin Information Network for Successful Schools, http://winss.dpi.wi.gov/, and author's calculations.
State Aid to School Districts, Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, January 2011.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Custom Referenda/Resolution Reports, http://www2.dpi.state.wi.us/sfsref/ref_Home.aspx.


Which one is better – Mahindra Centuro Disc Version or TVS Phoenix 125?
I am looking for TVS Phoenix 125 but Mahindra Centuro disk has good mileage and features. Pls tell me which one is the best?
TVS Phoenix is a better option over the Mahindra Centuro disc brake version. The Phoenix features a bigger engine in the form of a 124.53 cc air cooled unit, producing 10.8 BHP and 10.8 NM of torque. The bike comes with a 4-speed gearbox and completes a 0-60 sprint in 6 seconds. It comes with a digital instrument console whereas the disc brake variant of the Centuro comes with an analogue console only. The Phoenix comes with a better suspension, better handling and more comfortable city riding position than the Mahindra Centuro. With a price difference of INR 3,000 and better features, the TVS Phoenix is the best option for sure.


After 40 years of neglect, the mansion at 3400 Auchentoroly Terrace is being rehabilitated into a 16-unit apartment building, including three accessible units. The renovation will restore many of the elements that made it a neighborhood showcase.
To celebrate the beginning of construction, many of the people involved in helping this project gathered to celebrate a symbolic ribbon cutting on Monday, March 4, 2019, at 1 pm. City and state officials, community leaders and Baltimore building historians gathered to describe the process that went into what will ultimately be a showcase for this historic neighborhood.
A glorious mansion in 1900, the building is the gateway to Druid Hill Park and the Zoo. The block itself has an illustrious past. The Park School was housed in one of the mansions, and the block is anchored by Shaarei Tfiloh, one of Maryland's oldest synagogues.
Developer Dan Midvidy accepting a certificate of appreciation from Mayor Catherine Pugh.
Baltimore Heritage Executive Director Johns Hopkins.
The emcee for the event was Johns Hopkins, Executive Director of Baltimore Heritage, a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving historic buildings and revitalizing neighborhoods. Speakers included Mayor Catherine Pugh, Councilman Leon Pinkett, Comptroller Joan Pratt, Housing Commissioner Michael Braverman, and Barbara Anderson-Dandy, President of the New Auchentoroly Terrace Association.
New Auchentoroly Terrace Association President Ms. Barbara Anderson-Dandy.
Michael Braverman, Commissioner of Baltimore City's Department of Housing and Community Development was also a speaker at the event.
Attendees saw floor plans and renderings of the building and able to ask questions of the developer.


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Home > SDNY Blog > Judge Kaplan Denies Recusal Request Over "Troll" Reference
In an order last week, Judge Kaplan denied a serial plaintiff attorney's request that the judge recuse himself for referring to the plaintiff's attorney as a "troll" in an opinion (see our previous coverage here). Judge Kaplan observed that the request was based on several inaccurate assertions:
Rather than condemn Mr. Liebowitz as a "copyright troll," the Court simply observed that another judge of this Court had so characterized him. And rather than accusing Mr. Liebowitz of filing strike suits to extort settlements, the Court observed that there might be justification for such claims, as indeed there might. In fact, as events have developed in this case, there perhaps is even more justification.
In his zeal to deny that he files suits to extort settlements, Mr. Liebowitz in this very case-in filing the very motion for recusal underlying this order- stated under penalty of perjury that "[p]laintiff did not make a settlement demand in this action." Plaintiff stated similarly in his memorandum that he "never made a settlement demand in this proceeding; he only ever sought judgment on the merits against Bauer Media."
These statements are false. As both the Court and defendant's counsel have pointed out, Mr. Liebowitz's associate made a $25,000 settlement demand at the initial conference in this case, a conference that Mr. Liebowitz did not attend. Even more glaring is an email defendant's counsel has produced, received by it from Mr. Liebowitz at the outset of the case, in which Mr. Liebowitz himself proposed settling for $25,000. Mr. Liebowitz has not disputed the authenticity or his authorship of the email or argued that the associate lacked the authority to make this demand. He seeks to pass off his untrne statements by saying that he "overlooked" these $25,000 settlement demands. He then implies that the notion that "early resolution is generally promoted by federal courts" is an excuse for making false statements under penalty of perjury. With respect, Mr. Liebowitz's assertion that he "overlooked" multiple settlement demands is unpersuasive.
Ultimately, Judge Kaplan dismissed the action after the plaintiff failed to post a $50,000 bond to cover potential costs and attorney's fees as required by the Court's previous order.
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Alcohol is believed to be a factor in a crash that killed two people from Thompson on Tuesday night.
A 17-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man were pedestrians when they were struck by a vehicle at around 11:50 p.m. RCMP say the teen was located deceased on the side of the road, while the older victim was found in a nearby ditch with serious injuries. He later died in hospital.
The two were walking on Thompson Drive with a group of friends when they were hit. The vehicle then hit a hydro pole and came to a stop.
A 22-year-old woman from Thompson was taken into custody at the scene.


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This cover marks my passage into the Pro ranks. I felt that I could do well even though some writers felt that I might not be physical enough to make it. I was able to overcome any physical play by going to my strenghts which were speed and agility. All of the centers who wanted to use roughhouse tactics were at a disadvantage because they couldn't run the court consistently. I remember one center for Detroit asking me to slow down his coach wouldn't get on his case for not keeping pace with me.


For the first time, an African architect has designed London's prestigious Serpentine Pavilion. This year, Francis Kéré will take center stage in what has become a global architectural and design event. The Burkinabe architect plans to use the pavilion as a platform to discuss the impact of climate change and humanity's communal responsibility to preserve the natural environment.
Each year since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery commissions a temporary structure from one of the world's best architects, which is erected in London's Kensington Gardens over the summer. Kéré joins a global architectural elite that includes the likes of trailblazing British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid and veteran French architect Jean Nouvel. Like his predecessors, Kéré wanted to bring to the London garden a sense of the cultural identity and historical perspective he represents.
The pavilion's interaction with its natural surroundings.
Kéré grew up in the town of Gando in Burkina Faso, where the ever-encroaching Sahara desert made him painfully aware of the human impact of climate change. This perspective that led to his creation of an innovative primary school that utilized traditional clay bricks with modern techniques to create a more robust structure for the children of Kéré's home village. It's also informed the inspiration behind this year's pavilion.
The treelike structure is meant to evoke a sense of community.
Kéré, who is based in Berlin, envisioned his design as a communal space centered around a tree, much as it would be in a village. For visitors to the Kensington Gardens, it's a reminder of humanity's psychosocial reliance on nature—and not just for its resources.
At the center of the canopy is a large opening, which will act like a funnel, collecting water when it rains. The waterfall it creates, which ebbs and flows with rainfall, speaks to the need to include sustainability in modern design.
Even the way light passes through and is blocked by the pavilion plays a role. During the day the structure provides shade, and at night, the openings in its walls allow light to escape, becoming a source of light to the park.
The gallery at night as a source of light to its environment.


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NSCS Welcomes Aboard a New Skipper
– October 6, 2016
BY LT. JASON L. POTVIN, SC, USN PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL
Capt. Doug Noble relieved Capt. Kristen Fabry as commanding officer, Navy Supply Corps School (NSCS), Newport, Rhode Island, during a change of command ceremony held on July 15 at the schoolhouse. NSCS had the honor of having Rear Adm. (ret.) Lenn Vincent on deck as the guest speaker. Rear Adm. (ret.) Vincent is an accomplished Supply Corps officer, businessman, and educator. His military career spanned 32 years and included a mix of afloat and shore assignments. Upon conclusion of his active service, he completed another 16 years of service as a consultant, and as a professor and industry chair at Defense Acquisition University. He holds a master's in business administration from George Washington University and Level III Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act certification in contracting and logistics.
Vincent started his remarks by highlighting Capt. Fabry's tour as commanding officer. "My purpose here today is simple; to recognize the significant contributions of Kristen and [her husband], thank them for their service, and introduce and welcome Doug and [his wife]. Kristen's service matters most because of her positive influence on the lives of the hundreds of men and women she has led, and those she has helped to succeed."
Vincent ended his speech by giving a warm welcome to Capt. Noble and his family. "Let me now offer a warm welcome to the Navy Supply Corps School – the Nobles. While it's clear that the Fabrys will be a tough act to follow, it's equally clear to me that everyone here at the Navy Supply Corps School and its many supporters in the community will soon join me as members of the Noble fan club."
Capt. Kristen Fabry receives the Legion of Merit from guest spe aker Rear Adm. (ret.) Lenn Vincent
Following Rear Adm. (ret.) Vincent's remarks, Capt. Fabry addressed NSCS staff, students, family, friends, and distinguished guests. She highlighted several members of NSCS for their leadership and performance, dedication, and everything NSCS has accomplished as a team over the last two years. "I have reflected quite a bit over the past couple of weeks about what I am most proud of and the list is really too great to cover in the next couple of minutes but I would at least like to give you a snapshot. In addition to leading, developing, and inspiring our over 2,000 students in 22 courses, for 12,000 hours in 24 locations across four countries annually, I am proud of the things we have accomplished in this new schoolhouse facility."
Capt. Fabry thanked families and friends for their support throughout her tour as NSCS commanding officer. "I could not do what I do each and every day without the love and support of each and every one of you and for that I am eternally grateful. In closing, thank you to everyone in the audience today as nothing that has been achieved in this command over the past two years could have been accomplished without you."
Capt. Fabry's next assignment will be at U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Norfolk, Virginia. Capt. Fabry and her family are very excited for the new opportunities that await them at Fleet Forces. "Leaving command is bitter-sweet. My family and I have thoroughly enjoyed the Newport community and it has been a tremendous honor to be a part of the Navy Supply Corps School's great mission to provide our students with the personal and professional foundations for success. We do look forward to the adventures and challenges that await us in Norfolk and for the opportunity to get back out to the Fleet!"
Capt. Doug Noble assumes command from Capt. Kristen Fabry
Her previous assignments include serving as the assistant stock control, sales officer, automated data processing and underway replenishment officer on USS and USNS San Diego (AFS/T-AFS 6) completing three Mediterranean deployments and supporting operations in Haiti; pre-commissioning supply officer of USS Decatur (DDG 73); principal assistant for Logistics, Principal Assistant for Services, and assistant supply officer on USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during an extended deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, and Southern Watch; and supply officer, USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Some of her notable shore and staff assignments are Navy Acquisition and Contracting Officer internship and customer service director at Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center, Puget Sound, Washington; Plans, Programs, and Policies officer on the N41 Staff Commander Naval Surface Force, U.S Pacific Fleet; and NAVSUP where she served as assistant commander for Personnel (N1), director of Supply Chain Management (N31), and chief of staff.
Following Capt. Fabry's remarks, Capt. Noble addressed NSCS staff, students, family, friends, and distinguished guests, "As your commanding officer, I look forward to continuing the fine tradition of this schoolhouse and preparing the next generation of supply officers, our reliefs, to meet the challenges ahead capably and skillfully."
Capt. Noble is a 1989 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. Capt. Noble was commissioned a Navy Supply Corps officer in May 1989. He earned a Master of Science in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California and a Master of Business Administration from Indiana University.
Capt. Noble is coming from NAVSUP, where he served as the assistant commander (ACOM) for Supply Operations and Logistics Policy (N3/N4). As the N3/N4 ACOM, he was responsible for daily operations across the NAVSUP Enterprise, engaging on issues ranging from supply chain management of complex repair parts to quality-of-life issues such as food service, household goods, and disbursing.
Capt. Noble's previous tours include a variety of operational, fleet support and supply chain management positions. At sea, he served as supply officer, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71); supply officer, USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN 631 BLUE); supply officer, USS Charlotte (SSN 766); and stock control officer, USS Independence (CV 62). Capt. Noble's ashore tours include assistant business officer, formerly known as NAVSUP Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Yokosuka, Japan; career counselor and assistant officer community manager, NAVSUP Office of Supply Corps Personnel, Millington, Tennessee; customer operations department head, Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia; distribution division action officer, Logistics Directorate, Joint Staff (J-4); Supply Programs and Policy Branch, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV N412), and Strategic Programs Division chief and executive officer, Defense Logistics Agency Headquarters.
Tags: AFS, change of command, CV 62, CVN 71, CVN 72, CVN 74, DDG 73, Fabry, Haiti, Navy Supply Corps School, Noble, NSCS, SSBN 631 BLUE, SSN 766, T-AFS 6, USNS San Diego, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Charlotte, USS Decatur, USS Independence, USS John C. Stennis, USS San Diego, USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Ulysses S. Grant


A treatment which delivers the weight loss benefits of gastric band or bypass surgery in a pill taken before each meal could help tackle an epidemic of type two diabetes and obesity, scientists have said. Harvard Medical School researchers have developed a gut-coating medication which can prevent sugars and other nutrients in food being absorbed in the intestines. This could allow the benefits of bariatric weight-loss surgery to be delivered temporarily with lower risk and lower cost, the researchers said.


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Asus Releases List of Windows 11 Compatible Motherboards
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This is no longer a secret for anyone, Windows 11 requires the presence of a TPM 2.0 security chip to be installed. So on July 2, ASUS unveiled a list of its compatible motherboards.
With Windows 11, Microsoft will deliver an OS a little more demanding than Windows 10 in terms of hardware requirements. If the new version of the system is to be offered as a free upgrade, not everyone will be able to take advantage of it.
What configuration is required for Windows 11?
Une configuration bien particulière est en effet nécessaire pour être éligible à Windows 11, avec quelques points clés. Voici pour rappel la configuration minimale requise annoncée par Microsoft :
Dual core (or higher) 64-bit processor running at least 1 GHz
64 GB of storage
UEFI compatible Secure Boot
Graphics chip supporting DX12
TPM (Trusted Module Plateform) 2.0 in a dedicated form or through the firmware
In this case, TPM 2.0 is the main problem. This platform is often integrated in the form of a chip present on the motherboard, but can also be available directly in the firmware (at least in some cases). Introduced a few years ago, it is however only common on recent configurations, launched mainly after 2017. In other words, many machines are very likely to remain on the shelf.
ASUS Compatible Motherboards
To allow users of its motherboards to see more clearly, ASUS has shared a list of all its compatible models. The firm is not the only one to do so, this weekend, its competitor MSI did the same through a post published on Reddit.
As for ASUS, here is the complete list of Windows 11 compatible motherboards.
On the Intel side we find all the cards of the series: C621, C422, X299, Z590, Q570, H570, B560, H510, Z490, Q470, H470, B460, H410, W480, Z390, Z370, H370, B365, B360, H310, Q370 and C246.
On the AMD side, the WRX80, TRX40, X570, B550, A520, X470, B450, X370, B350 and A320 series are also eligible.
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Freedom, sin, canals, culture, history and beauty, and just a little bit of chaos. I absolutely loved it the first time I visited, back in June 2016, so right at the end of October we both hopped on an after-work plane bound for Amsterdam.
We were staying with a friend over there for the weekend, thankfully, because accomodation in Amsterdam can be outrageously expensive. This does makes sense – the city itself only has a population of about 850,000, but plays host to somewhere in the region of 5 million tourist visitors each year. So space is obviously at a bit of a premium, and the best tip I can give here is to book as far in advance as you can.
Why so many people visit starts to become obvious as soon as you reach the city, though: Amsterdam is a beautiful city, really one of the nicest I've ever been. We caught the train from Schiphol Airport into the main Amsterdam Centraal Station (very easy and convenient), and as soon as you walk out onto the streets the whole place just looks endlessly appealing. I began to picture living here very early on in the trip, a daydream which intensified over the course of the weekend.
We'd arrived quite late, and so after only about half the amount of sleep we really need to function properly, we got up and went out to see some of the sights. Our first stop: Anne Frank House.
Anne Frank House, for anyone who hasn't heard of it, is the hidden annex where Anne Frank, her sister and parents, and four others hid throughout much of Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during WW2. The Diary of Anne Frank is Anne's chronicle of her life during that time (later published by her father, Otto, who was the only surviving member of the group at the end of the war). I'd read the book a long while ago, and it was a fascinating, if rather sobering experience to get to see where it was set. In particular I was struck by the size – the total floor space shared by these eight people, for the entire two years and one month they remained there (they didn't go outside once during this time) was only about 46 square metres. Crazy. There's also a very informative museum under the annex, which I think does the job of passing on a little of what life was like in those times very well.
If you are interested in going to the Anne Frank Museum, it is a good idea to book your tickets well in advance as half the days entries are ticketed, then the afternoon is walk up. We walked back past in the afternoon and the line was astronomical, spanning multiple blocks and looping around a church. Not the ideal way to spend an afternoon in Amsterdam.
Just after exiting, we were offered a great example of why you need to be aware of your surroundings when in Amsterdam: a guy on a bike had a massive collision with a tourist girl trying to take a photo of the museum. The girl had taken a step backwards into a bike lane without looking, but the guy was riding along way too fast considering the huge crowd of people who were clearly not local standing next to the lane. We spent the rest of the trip living in a slight state of fear whenever we needed to cross a road, or at least until we'd calmed the nerves with a beer or two over lunch.
Suitably relaxed, we struck off towards our next activity: a canal cruise. There are obviously about a thousand different options for canal cruises in Amsterdam, but our friend had picked out a very cool one called Those Dam Boat Guys, who I would definitely recommend for anyone visiting. You can bring whatever food or drink you want on board, which we did, and rather than being a bit of a formal tour it was more like just a casual cruise around the city with some cool local guy, having a casual chat about what you're seeing. We loved it.
Once off the boat, and filled with just the right amount of Dutch courage to fully take advantage of this, we were informed of the free tastings at most of the many cheese shops around the city. Basically these places are filled with an amazing range of delicious cheeses, and there are heaps of bowls with cubes for people to try all the different varieties. It was great, and we tried a lot.
We had a little wander through the famous Red Light District after dinner. It's a pretty surreal place to be honest, what with all the essentially naked girls at the windows beckoning passersby in (a lot of people take them up on the offer too, we saw) and the increasingly rowdy tourist crowds. Very interesting, though the novelty also wears off pretty quick. Also, despite forming a large part of Amsterdam's reputation, it is in fact quite a relatively small area.
We didn't have much of the day on the Sunday before our flight, and spent most of it just wandering around, seeing the many pretty sights and eating food. One highlight was a place recommended to us by our Boat Guy guy – Winkel 43. Their specialty is home made apple pie, and on a cold October day such as we had, it was just fantastic. I see now they have a very high rating on any review site you might care to look at, and I'm not at all surprised. Stop by if you ever get the chance.
Stuffed with food by this point, it was sadly time to head to the airport and back home to London. Just one weekend definitely isn't enough time to see anything like enough of this wonderful city, and we would definitely be back again in the near future.
So pretty with the autumn leaves too.
I too quickly found the red light district boring and honestly, rather annoying. Everyone is stoned and moving too slowly and it's just too crowded. Although I'd rather people just stay in the part of Amsterdam so the rest remains relatively empty and peaceful!
Love your post, it brought back memories of Amsterdam. I have a flight to Amsterdam in April that I'm way too excited about.


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