SB 2 came to the tournament seeded 9th and being the highest ranked 2nd team. However, with a team had hadn't played together much before, including a couple of new faces (Will from UEA, Karla from UCL, Christian from Mexico and Tom from Penguins), we knew this would be hard to defend.
In the first game against St. Mary's, SB2 started off on the back foot, the team not yet fully gelled. St Mary's 2 had some strong overhead play which we struggled to defend against. St Mary's 2 went on to become the highest ranked second team of the tournament beating UCL, Brunel and Essex 1.
Despite better play by SB2, Hearts outclassed us in the end (going on to take 3rd in the tournament), despite Will and Christian beautifully homeboy-ing the disc down the line almost into the endzone.
Ranked top in our pool, Imperial 1 was a formidable force going into the match, not least because of their new Rolo. However, SB2 performed well with marked improvements on the other games.
The first win of the weekend for SB2 against a beginner dominated team. The game was well-spirited with SB2 honing our skills and Will making lots of excellent grabs and toe drags in the endzone to bring us to the hard cap.
Flying high from our easy win over Essex 2, SB 2 came into this game firing on all cylinders. We traded points with Imperial 2 throughout the game. A dodgy foul call on an excellent end zone D by Will during the last possession of the game granted Imperial another chance to score, breaking the draw.
Despite the annoying defeat to Imperial 2 we went into day 2 with high spirits, gaining Yibs but sadly losing Tom to Penguins' captaining duty.
We came out strong against KCL 2, our women shutting down their strong women handlers, particularly May with many great Ds.
We completed the Imperial set playing against Imperial 3 (#gottacatchthemall), the score showing that we were much closer in skill level to Imperial 2.
This felt like a much closer game than the score suggests, with both teams putting in huge efforts and showing lots of athleticism. Will was particularly keen to show off against his old team, doing so with a fab bookend of d and score.
We really wanted to retain our 13th seed from the weekend, but we knew it wouldn't be easy going in. LSE just pipped us to the post with some great iso-play and handler movement, trading points throughout the game before taking a 2-point lead at the end. This was definitely the most spirited game of the weekend, including a hilarious round of stories to finish off the weekend.
We voted May for MIP, Jo for MSP and Will for MVP!! SB 2 came 2nd in the region for spirit achieving the best score in the region for Fouls and Body Contact alongside Essex 2.


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Q: Cannot convert return expression of type 'List' to return type 'some View' This is the code causing the error in the title, it appears on the line with var body: some View
import SwiftUI
 import Contacts
 import MapKit

 extension Restaurant {
    func openInMaps() {
        let placemark = MKPlacemark(coordinate: location.coordinate, addressDictionary: [CNPostalAddressStreetKey as String: address!])

        let mapItem = MKMapItem(placemark: placemark)
        mapItem.name = self.name
        mapItem.phoneNumber = phone

        let launchOptions = [MKLaunchOptionsDirectionsModeKey: MKLaunchOptionsDirectionsModeDriving]

        mapItem.openInMaps(launchOptions: launchOptions)

    }

    func openInGoogleMaps() {
        if let url = URL(string: "comgooglemapsurl://maps.google.com/?q=\(restaurant.name.URLEncoded)@\(restaurant.location.coordinate.latitude),\(restaurant.location.coordinate.longitude)") {
            UIApplication.shared.open(url, options: [:])
        }
    }
 }

 struct RestaurantView: View {

    @State private var isSshowingMapActionSheet = false
    @State private var isShowingSafariView = false
    let restaurant: Restaurant!
    var currenstatus: String  {
        return restaurant.isOpen ? "Öppet" :  "Stängt"
    }
    lazy var mapActionSheetButtons: [ActionSheet.Button] = [
        .default(Text("Öppna i Kartor"), action: {
            self.restaurant.openInMaps()
        }),
        .default(Text("Öppna i Google Maps"), action: {
            self.restaurant.openInGoogleMaps()
        }),
        .cancel(Text("Avbryt"))
    ]
    lazy var mapActionSheet = ActionSheet(title: Text(""), buttons: mapActionSheetButtons)

    init(_ restaurant: Restaurant) {
        self.restaurant = restaurant
    }

    var body: some View {
        List {
            ListRow("ClockGlyph", action: {

            }, label: {
                OpenHoursView(restaurant)
            })

            ListRow("PhoneGlyph", action: {
                UIApplication.shared.op
            }, label: {
                Text(self.restaurant!.phone)
            })

            if (restaurant.homepage != nil) {
                return ListRow("SafariGlyph", action: {
                    isShowingSafariView.toggle()
                }, label:  {
                    Text(restaurant.homepage)
                })
            } // End of if

            ListRow("PhoneGlyph", action: {
                UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(self.restaurant.phoneURL)
            }, label: {
                Text(self.restaurant.phone)
            })

            if restaurant!.facebookURL != nil {
                ListRow("FacebookGlyph", action: {
                }, label: {
                    Text(self.restaurant.facebookURL!)
                })
            }

            ListRow("PinGlyph", action: {
                self.isSshowingMapActionSheet.toggle()
            }, label: {
                VStack {
                    Text(restaurant!.address!.replacingOccurrences(of: "\n", with: ", "))
                    Text("Visa vägbeskrivning")
                        .font(.subheadline)
                        .foregroundColor(.gray)
                }

            })

                .actionSheet(isPresented: $isSshowingMapActionSheet, content: {
                    mapActionSheet
                })
                .sheet(item: $isShowingSafariView, content: {
                    SafariView(url: restaurant.homepageURL)

                })
        } // End of List
    } // End of body
 } // End of RestaurantView

 struct RestaurantView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {
        RestaurantView(Restaurant.allRestaurants.first!)
    }
 }

And this is my ListRow class:
struct ListRow<Label> : View where Label : View {
    let image: Image
    var action:(() -> ())
    let label: () -> Label

    init(_ image: Image, action: @escaping () -> Void, @ViewBuilder label: @escaping () -> Label) {
        self.image = image
        self.action = action
        self.label = label
    }
    var body: some View {
        Button(action: self.action) {
            HStack(spacing: 10) {
                image.resizable().frame(width: 20, height: 20)
                self.label().font(.subheadline)
            }
        }
    }
}

Thanks in advance!

A: Just by code reading. Your ListRow expected Image as first argument init(_ image: Image, .., but you create them all with string, like
ListRow("ClockGlyph", action:

, so try to use
ListRow(Image("ClockGlyph"), action:

Update: remove return in if as below
if restaurant.homepage != nil {
    ListRow(Image("SafariGlyph"), action: {
        isShowingSafariView.toggle()
    }, label:  {
        Text(restaurant.homepage)
    })
} // End of if

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Bad week for United, Pepsi and Spicer. Good week for apologies.
April 15, 2017 April 16, 2017 / Angelo Fernando	/ 1 Comment
A week like no other, when an airline, a fizzy drink and the White House faced the wrath of citizens.
Here are the three apologies.
The Pepsi Apology
"Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly we missed the mark, and we apologize…we did not intend to make light of any serious issue. We are removing the content and halting any further rollout. We also apologize for putting Kendall Jenner in this position."
The United Airlines Apology
"The truly horrific event that occurred on this flight has elicited many responses from all of us: outrage, anger, disappointment. I share all of those sentiments, and one above all: my deepest apologies for what happened. Like you, I continue to be disturbed by what happened on this flight and I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be mistreated this way." Oscar Munoz, CEO Read the full statement here.
The Sean Spicer Apology
"In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust….I was trying to draw a distinction of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers. Any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable."
Shouldn't we ignore the tweets of the second social media president?
January 25, 2017 January 25, 2017 / Angelo Fernando	/ Leave a comment
You may have forgotten this. In April 2013, a hacker broke into the Twitter account of the Associated Press and sent out a tweet about "explosions at the White House."
Reuters noted then that the Twitter 'report' caused the S&P 500 index to fall, wiping out $136.5 billion of its value.
We didn't call it fake news then – just a bad prank. It demonstrated the power of 'news' that the world was beginning to consume in 140 characters or fewer.
Today, the 'hacks' and pranks seem to come from both outside (fake news perpetrators) and within establishments. They're still using short-form journalism, which is easily spread by headline-hungry readers.
Trump tweets (a busy search term, for sure) have become worthy of analysis at the highest levels, and not just in the media. As Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum notes, these tweets "…are not for you. They are not for the press. They are not for Congress. They are for his fans."
Meaning, I suppose, ignore them.
One group not ignoring them, and busily documenting them, must be journalism students. They must be relishing the fact that somewhere in this is 'Twitter torture' is a real-time study leading to a Masters dissertation. There have been similar dissertations on the rhetorical analysis of campaign tweets. But what began on 20th January is a treasure chest.
Photoshopping the White House
December 1, 2016 December 7, 2016 / Angelo Fernando	/ Leave a comment
No, this is not another fake news alert. It's a teaching moment, however.
The subject matter is appropriate. While teaching Photoshop and image manipulation, it's a perfect time to be teaching students how to become critical consumers of information often seen through imagery. And spot when someone has been tinkering with the truth.
The class begins with the 'conspiracy' around the 2003 Space Shuttle explosion, by looking closely at the Photoshopped images. We also look at doctored images of public figures.
When they get to the computers, their challenge is to add to, or 'enhance' fountains on the White House lawn.
Here's are a couple of examples.
Take a guess. How many fountains are really there on the North lawn?
White House goes Cheesy, hashtags and all
It's that time of year when communicators have too much time on their hands. Consider how: North Korea is pretending to prove it has a Hydrogen bomb (various sourcessay this was a damp squib); the sports minister of Sri Lanka is claiming he's received 'scandalous' pictures of cricketers in New Zealand (hotels are denying this), and Google's 'self-driving' cars are supposedly dangerous (drivers have sometimes had to stop them from crashing).
Perhaps it's that down time after the Christmas season, when there's a news hole that needs to be filled. With Cheese, for instance. The White House is hosting a humongous cheese party. The hashtag being #youfetabelieveit. It's called the Big Block of Cheese Day. It's been created after Andrew Jackson's 1837 event, for which he trucked in a 1,400 pound block of cheese and had citizens come and mingle with the occupants. A sort of Open House event.
I don't know how Mr. Jackson managed to handle this without a Tumbler account, but it sure goes to prove that sometimes all you need is a piece of cheese to get people to hang out with you. Unless you don't mind keeping away the lactose intollerant.
No phones allowed at White House Cabinet Meetings
February 20, 2014 February 19, 2014 / Angelo Fernando	/ Leave a comment
No live blogging, no checking your email, no tweeting during meetings.That's a White House rule at cabinet meetings.
What does that tell you about how grown-ups behave at meetings?
What might it suggest about decision-making and technology distraction?
I've read somewhere that many businesses are asking people not to bring their Blackberries and iPhones to the meeting. I'm interested to know if you have seen or heard of an official policy on this anywhere.
What's a Press Conference?
May 11, 2010 / Angelo Fernando	/ Leave a comment
I like to link to a post I wrote at ValleyPRblog last week that received some good comments. I was curious to know who in the media had attended Sheriff Joe Arpaio's press conference.
"I always thought a press conference was called when you had something of value to offer to the media. So when I received a text alert yesterday to say that Arpaio won't run for governor, I was tempted to wonder what other bits of non-news might get the media to come over with cameras and notepads." Read the rest and the commments here
It opened up a great discussion of what is a press conference. Is it an event? One reader suggested the act of announcing something to a targeted audience –via email — is no different. Another reader pointed us to a marvelous exchange between Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary and the press corps. Apart from exploring the definition of a press conference, it shows us how a great host can disagree with the audience and still get the feedback that serves everyone, and doesn't waste their time.
View the video here.
Quotes for the week ending 24 January, 2009
"Citizen participation will be a priority…"
Macon Philips, White House's director of new media, in a blog post a few seconds after Barack Obama took oath as the nation's 44th president on Tuesday.
"Communication. Transparency. Participation"
The first message on the WhiteHouse.gov web site that switched over on Tuesday at noon., spelling out the details why 'change has come to whitehouse.gov'
"an excellent example of witness media and pro media cooperation. It's not about the 'versus.'"
Steve Safran, quoted in an article about the evolution of 'eyewittness journalism'
"Inaugural speeches serve two purposes. They are designed to heal whatever rough roads people had to go down to get elected. The other purpose is to lay out the agenda and the key metaphors for what's to come-and hopefully to induce people to cooperate."
John Adams, Colgate Speaking Union @Colgate University, quoted in Ragan.com
"You must find ways to spread – in a new manner – voices and pictures of hope, through the internet, which wraps all of our planet in an increasingly close-knitted way."
Pope Benedict XVI, on the Vatican's launch of a channel on YouTube.
"Obama gets a thumbs-up for his Blackberry."
Headline of a series of articles that celebrated the fact that the 'tech president' gets his way in being able to step out of the communications bubble. Only a few people will have his email address, the White House says.
"Twitter IS a massive time drain. It IS yet another way to procrastinate … But it's also a brilliant channel for breaking news, asking questions, and attaining one step of separation from public figures you admire."
New York Times Tech columnist, David Pogue about how he's learning to use Twitter
How fast should you update history?
OK, so the headline was a bit provocative. Maybe we don't update history when we update a wiki. But in the case of the newly minted president of the US, changing his profile meant turning the page of history.
Not many people look at Wikipedia the way I sometimes do –at the Discussion pages –but on the night before the inauguration (Jan 19th) I learned some unusual things about how information gets written, edited, and in many cases fought over.
The Wikipedians managing Obama's profile faced one nagging question –apart from the expected edit wars over how to describe his African-American heritage: At what point should the word 'elect' be dropped? At the oath, or at noon?
We saw how in other quarters, particularly on the White House web site (and blog) and the State Department's blog, Dipnote, how timing was everything. On WhiteHouse.gov on Tuesday, a few seconds after noon, there was a message from Macon Philips the new media person behind the web site. He announced that 'change has come' to the official web site.
Back to Wikipedia, the question arose if a 'bot' ought to be assigned to do change Obama's information, saying the official time he would assume presidency was 11.56 am. One said his photo was creepy and needed to be changed. While the debate raged, it was agreed that "If stuff starts to get out of hand requests for page protection" would be made.
Meanwhile, Wikipedians wait, fingers poised over keyboards, for Hillary Clinton to be approved by the Senate. As of this morning there's the word 'designate' after her Secretary of State title' waiting to be scrubbed, among other things!
What you say could come back to bite into your book tour!
June 9, 2008 June 27, 2008 / Angelo Fernando	/ Leave a comment
This is a statement disparaging a former White House insider who wrote a book criticizing the White House. But there's a catch.
"Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he's raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book. Certainly let's look at the politics of it."
It sounds a LOT like the person being attacked is Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary. The problem is, the person saying it is McClellan! He is talking about another tell-all book by Richard Clark! On March 22nd, 2004.
"And now, all of a sudden, he's raising these grave concerns that he claims he had."
Public records are a brilliant thing. But in this age of access, and the ability to drill into search engines and databases that capture history, what you say from a public or private podium feeds your data cloud.

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Hello everyone! Welcome to Chadd Talks, where I will be blogging about various SharePoint related topics as well as my love for food. I'm new to the whole blogging thing, so bare with me.
A little bit about myself. I graduated from the University of South Florida in 2013 with a degree in Management Information Systems. From there, I wasn't really sure where my career would take me. I knew what I liked but not exactly what I wanted. Since I was young, I always had a fascination with solving problems. I have to credit this hobby to my dad since he is an engineer. All of this somehow led me to… SharePoint. I started a home lab while in college and have been working with SharePoint for a little over 3 years… SharePoint has a mind of it's own and it takes an extreme amount of patience to be able to tackle it. I feel like anyone who has worked with SharePoint knows that it can never fully be tackled. This is what makes it so fun and challenging!
I use the Weber Vortex and place it in the center of my Weber. (The vortex is highly recommended, but if you don't have one just try and set up the biggest indirect heat that you can.) Fill a chimney all the way with charcoal and make sure it super duper hot and all ashed over. Dump hot charcoal directly into the vortex, open vents completely on the grill. Spray outer ring of grill grate with any nonstick oil. Preheat for 15 minutes.
The fire is super hot in the center of the grill and I arrange all the wings around it. I smoke them with 3/4 parts cherry and 1/4 parts hickory. I put the wood on the grate, not the fire, gives it a perfect blue smoke. I position the vent over any section, smoke 10-15 minutes, re-position vent 90 degrees, smoke 10-15 minutes, flip wings, re-position vent 90 degrees, smoke 15-20 minutes. Then they're done! Only takes 30-45 minutes.
I also make a homemade Chipotle Wing Sauce that everyone loves. It's my own recipe. But you can of course eat them without sauce or use any BBQ sauce/Wing sauce you want.
7oz can of Chipotle adabo (the pureed salsa one) Make sure to run this through a strainer, makes it way smoother and better, but you don't have to.
This will make it where if any of the three options are chosen with any other option it will make that field required.
Replace Options with the name control of the field. Use this rule on the field you want to be validated.
This is based off a solution I answered on Nintex's community site. This is just one way of doing it, I'm sure there are others.
On the hidden field, add custom CSS to hide it, you can't set the field visible = no in Field settings, the JS wont work if it's hidden that way. Must use CSS.
This is the custom function that adds "Read" to the hidden field allowing the form to be submitted after the link opens.
I've seen this question asked multiple times on Nintex's community site. From my experience working with On Prem Nintex, I knew that this could be done… but I was curious if it was possible in o365 Nintex. With the addtion of Task IDs being added from a recent update, it now is! It's also really easy. Here's how to do it.
In your target list, create a Hyperlink column and name it whatever you'd like.
Create a build string action and use the static URL to tasks on the task list.
In the case of the Archive Document workflow that I created, which just moves a document to a separate doc library and deletes the original.When I enabled the option to have the custom workflow action in the menu, it somehow created a duplicate… so I now had two options called "Archive Document" when I only needed one.
How could this happen to me!? Of course it happened to me… Okay, so why did this happen?
Duplicate item: The workflow was imported from another environment/site/list multiple times with the menu item enabled.
Orphaned item: The workflow was deleted without first disabling the menu item in Workflow Settings.
The weird part is that neither one of these actually applied to me. The duplication occurred as soon as I published the workflow for the first time. This was an original workflow on it's own list with no other workflows present.
From the research I've gathered over at Nintex it seems that there are two main ways to resolve this.
I then reran the original code to see if the custom action would show… nothing showed up! So I checked my list and sure enough it was gone. AHHHHHHHHHHHH Yeah!
There are a few to many different ways to accomplish this, and I assume as long as you know how to use a Web Service, you can somewhat figure out how to do the same thing as what I'm about to show you even if you don't own Nintex. I've always wanted to be able to do this and had some requirements given to me that required it. It took a lot of research and I combined a few different ways noted by other bloggers. I also had to research and find some specifics for myself. Hopefully this will help someone out.
Create a site workflow in Nintex.
Now that we all all of that in place, lets select Run Now at the top and see if we can pull some results.
Now we are going to transform it! The fun part, right!? Go back to the main window for the Call Web Service and at the bottom is a section for Web service output. For "Store result in" click the drop-down and select your newly created Multi-line Variable. In my case it's "testResult" – Make sure you also select "Force top level XML node" this will surround the results with root node XML.
So this next part was taken by a Nintex blogger that I reference a lot, http://www.vadimtabakman.com – His site is currently down, so I can't link directly to the post I referenced, but it's an amazing source for cool Nintex things you want to do.
I spent forever trying to figure out how to format the output to only show data from the last week. I browsed everything I could related to xslt – xsl:choose/xsl:if – I couldn't find anything! Then it hit me… the web service asks for a view ID – it's easy to only show a weeks worth of data in SharePoint! I'll filter the view! So I edit the view and change the filter for the "Created" field to be "is greater than or equal to" "[Today]-7" – AWWWWW YEAH! The view is only showing today – 7 days. But will the HTML table show only the data from the view? You bet it does! The query will only pull what it can see on the view. Damn… that was easy.
Now that your view is set up and you have your HTML/XSLT formatted. Let's add the output variable to a notification. Obviously replace "me" with whomever needs the report. But that's all you need, just add the variable. You can also make new/separate calls and put them in their own variables. Just add those to the email as well and it will create multiple tables.
Let me know if you have any questions or find a better way to do something!
This error can occur when you migrate data from one location (that has Video and Rich Media enabled) to another location (that does not have Video and Rich Media enabled). I would assume that this can occur when any site collection feature.
When you enable a site collection feature, you are adding extra content to that site collection (i.e. document libraries, content types, site columns, etc). So when you move a site from one location to another, you bring that extra content with it, because it thinks it needs it in order to function. SharePoint obviously doesn't like that. It would be nice if SharePoint would throw an error during the migration, letting you know you can import a site because a feature is missing. In our case, it didn't do this.
I was curious if any other site collection had this issue as well, so instead of trying to go to each HNSC and try to enable Video and Rich Media, I came up with this script to check for it.
If you look at the "Scope" column, if you only see "/ " – this means that the feature is not being used anywhere in that site collection. If you see a subsite, such as /fst/pd and /TAAR like you see here, this means that both of these sites use it.
After that, you should be able to freely enable/disable the site collection feature.


I know everyone works very hard for their money (in order to pay the bills), but what you don't realize is how much of your hard earned energy dollars are actually slipping right through the cracks of your home. Keeping your home at a comfort level (by conditioning it) can be very costly. I know everyone would like to reduce their energy bills in our freezing winter months and then again, in the summer cooling months. Well, a good place to start would be a professional infrared home-energy efficiency inspection. An infrared inspection will actually show you where you are wasting your hard earned energy dollars, and at the same time, will demonstrate how you can properly seal those areas that are pulling your energy dollars to the outside of your house.
There are many building envelope anomalies that can generate significant heat and air conditioning loss, which causes your energy dollars to be wasted in a not-so-tight home.
An infrared inspection detects a radiator conducting heat to the exterior.
1. Clients use my infrared services while I'm performing their Standard home inspection. This valuable option is not included in my standard home inspection fee.
3. If you own an older home that is costing you too much in energy dollars due to excessive air drafts, I can pinpoint those problem areas where cold air is infiltrating your living space. Then, it's best if you contact a building contractor to upgrade those specific areas that I will be clearly identifying throughout your home. In my inspections, all efficiency information and pictures will be transferred onto a professional thermal report for your convenience.
4. 4) An infrared energy inspection will easily locate any missing insulation behind your finished walls and ceilings. Then, you can contact an insulation contractor to upgrade the areas that I will be identifying throughout your home. These areas will also be clearly identified on a professional energy efficiency report. During this inspection, I can show you how you can insulate specific areas without removing walls or ceilings.
5. I am able to detect potential mold problems behind walls and ceilings. All moisture issues must be mitigated immediately. As I stated previously, infrared imaging does not detect the actual Molds behind your walls and ceilings, but it will detect the issues associated with Mold build-up.
6. Infrared Thermograph provides you with a unique opportunity to assess the energy efficiency of your HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) systems, including the tightness of the duct work that is located behind your walls and ceilings. In order to prevent deadly carbon monoxide poisoning, this inspection will also test for leaks throughout the vent pipes.
7. An infrared camera will locate those thermal panes that are at the beginning stages of leaking insulated gases. I am able to locate any broken seals in double/triple pane windows that do not visually show signs of condensation as of yet.
As you can see, having an infrared energy efficiency inspection makes it much easier to positively pinpoint problems throughout your home, instead of simply making an educated guess without the camera. An IR inspection also allows me to communicate my findings with greater understanding to homeowners instead of just "speaking another language." As one client had put it very clearly, "This inspection lets my eyes make sense of what my ears are hearing." Now that makes perfect sense, Right? any broken seals in double/triple pane windows that do not visually show signs of condensation as of yet.
Thermal imaging pictures combined with digital photographs can greatly enhance your understanding of just what the problem is and how to go about having it repaired with minimum damage to the home. My final energy efficiency report enhances your ability to deal directly with the contractors that may be performing the repair work for you. All you have to do is show your contractor the infrared energy efficiency report and they will fully understand your issues. After the contractor completes their upgrade, and before any final payment, clients often contact me to perform a final scan to verify that all work was performed correctly.


STOP with this Death Panel stuff.
In response to this plaint from a loved one, I offered the following video.
I do not yet know what response I will get. I am not hopeful. At some point it must become clear that an ostrich likes to stick its head in the sand.
In general I am forced to come to the following two major conclusions about those who back ObamaCare despite all the dangers inherent within it.
First, there are those who ideologically like the idea of government running of all things. As you know, I am convinced that those at the top of this ideology see Statism's threats to individuals not as a bug but a feature.
And then there are those who have a problem or expect a problem or have been made to fear a problem for themselves or others under the current system and are expecting the new arrangements to bail them out. They fail to see the role of government is bringing about the current problems because those in government place all the blame on "the free market." Those who believe our current health care system is "free" of government regulation, and not see that the problems as consequences that are significantly tied to those regulations, cannot be that ignorant. They had to be "educated" to be that blind.
Dear Lord, lead us in the ways to thwart those who divide us.
Where merit and valor are sneered at, you get less of it.
That is the ending to the last comment at the Belmont Club thread about awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Hussein Obama.
Wretchard, ever proving to be one wise cat, chose that line to cut off further comments to his post that began with this sentence The Nobel Committee thinks that President Obama is advancing the cause of peace.
Today, this item by Just A Grunt helps explain further what the Left leaning world means by peace.
Last week Barack Obama decided to defund an organization called the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and it hasn't taken long to see the effects. Yesterday the Iranians announced the sentencing to death of 3 people who participated in the street protests in the wake of the recent elections.
In fact, about the only complaint I have with Just A Grunt's presentation is that he underplayed the role of he who must by now be the leading vote getter for the Heisman trophy.
Global Statists believe you and those you love are members of a herd overly large in numbers. For them, the only real peace comes after a rapid increase in graves.
Borrowing from Wretchard's observation and taking it one step further: Within the halls of our mutually elevated elites, expressing any real love, pity and sorrow for individuals is sentiment beneath contempt.
This is the consequence of there being no well organized opposition to what Thomas Sowell called The Vision of the Anointed. Inflated egos have carried too many souls into that inhuman condition of which C.S.Lewis warned in The Abolition of Man. Made ever more brazen by baseless accolades of those who rule the media, those at the helm of state are being encouraged to act as rulers. "You own the White House and both houses of the legislature, so ram your will through." From a perch that is above humanity, what rights does a mere human possess that megalomaniacs will recognize?
That's the Left hand of Statists. The Right hand doesn't want to ruffle any feathers, so they work incessantly to still your concerns. "Just shut up and take it."
Speak out whilst yee still may.
[Updated]As this is the Age of Obama, I am sure President Barack Hussein Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize is legal.
How do I know? Because in the few hours this has been bandied about I've not yet heard anyone raise ILLEGAL GIFTS as an issue.
No results found for "dilbert principle presidency".
For those unfamiliar with the Dilbert Principle, it states (roughly): Take the Peter Principle one step further: the Dilbert Principle is exemplified by someone being raised all at once to his level of incompetency without ever having experienced a level of competency first.
It's slowly dawning on others too. If Congress allows the gift (which I think they can and only they can allow -- how did Barack accept so quickly?) will that be Obama's Augustest moment? All hail Cæsar.
I posted the text of this thread and its link at the Belmont Club as post 109.
jim Nicholas @ 130: he was given the prize in an attempt to influence geopolitics.
To be fair, that IS inherent in the name of the prize.
That's why I raised the issue. Money given to the American top dog (are we to believe it was not given to affect his policy decisions?) is what makes an issue of it. The money should not have been offered directly — that is if anyone in world politics still gave a damn about appearances.
APPEARANCE of corruption was once enough to drive a leader from office. What a joke! When the media is in the government's control, expect two minutes hate to be directed at those who spot the conflict of interest.
I've been informed [Thank you Ed Bonderenka] that Obama will pass the gift off to charity. It was still given to him directly so he can choose the charity. Gee, I wonder what "charity" he'll pay off? Rev Wright? Planned Barrenhood? ACLU?
Then 134. Tcobb (12:36 pm): spotted Bama's most favorite: ACORN most likely–probably through the back door.
Left and Right are not what most people think they are.
I've tried to write on this many times. I usually get sidetracked. So before I get bogged down in my attempt to lay this out, here is what I am trying to prove.
Neither the terms Left nor Right represents a camp that speaks for the majority of Americans.
The two main parties, Democrats (Left) and Republicans (Right), are scripted opponents.
For the rest of this exercise, Left or Right will be referring to the the leaders of the respective party.
It is not true that one of the main parties is as bad as the other. One will take us where most Americans will disapprove faster than the other.
Both parties are determined to drag the rest of the country with them whether you like it or not.
Those in control positions know what Left and Right effectively means. All eyes are on the professional wrestlers in the ring while the promoters have been slowly moving the arena in the direction of the Soviet Union.
Lately the promoters are convinced they can't be stopped. So they have begun rushing the changes. As a consequence, many more of us are feeling the earth move beneath us. I hope that is reason enough for you to read more of what I have to say on this topic and pass along the ideas to those you speak with.
Jotting all this down without too many excursions is tiring, and I tire easily. With much help from my friends, I hope to continue this soon.
In the meantime, here is Ronald Reagan agreeing with the message I aim to convey to you.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
Conservatives and libertarians. Let the following prepare you for the response to expect of a serving Republican, particularly a Senator, when you request they act more conservatively.
Click to see your senator's response to your request.
Whereas I've seen Democrats respond like that to Republicans, I've only seen Republicans respond like that to their own constituency.
Should we Americans not find the key to the lock that moneyed influence has on our primaries and elections, we better get used to hearing: "Whether you like it or not!"
Stick with this thing until the last 20 seconds.
For the lighter side, try this.


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Q: ASP.NET nested control scrolling when focus is set I have a nested control within a master page. When I explicitly set the focus on the first textbox on this control, the page shifts up to this first textbox. Is there a way to prevent the page from jumping up but still set the focus so the user doesn't have to click into the textbox? I want them to be able to start typing right when the page displays.

A: I think this is a browser setting, as it works automatic:
http://jsfiddle.net/KjCuM/
You could put a fix in place to then scroll back to the top of the page perhaps, but I think it makes sense for the control to be viewable on the screen if there is focus on it. Otherwise the user will not be able to see what they are submitting.


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Keeping Occupied - Living on the Ocean Estate in Stepney Green
An interesting personal account of squatting on an estate in Tower Hamlets, east London.
I'm writing this at the request of another L&S member who pointed out that lots of what I have been doing over the last few months is political and worth recording. I already knew it was political to a point, and I had started writing up action reports and articles on the place I've lived for the half a year several times, but it always fell apart after a few lines because it felt too personal to express properly. Now that all of the events are in the past, I'll try and record it in an intentionally personal manner – it is better to have any record at all than none.
In the space of a month I split up with my long term partner of over half a decade and finished a degree course that had taken me 4 years. With no one to share the rent and no reason to stay near the university, I had to move onto the sofa bed in my parents place in East London. I have worked in construction on and off since 16 years old, but my last agency will not take me back after leaving to go back to university without giving them due notice, and there was hardly any labouring work at this point – construction being hit the hardest very early in current recession. With no job, and no strong claim to housing from the council (able bodied, single, young, educated etc.) I expected to be at my parents for the foreseeable. After visiting my friends flat on the notorious Ocean Estate in Stepney Green I spotted a spare room and asked if I could move in. Over the next 2 months I repainted the walls, built desks and shelves, installed an electric shower, polished the floor tiles, replaced the smashed window panes with Perspex and built a double bed; but there was no denying it whatever I did, I still had a room in a squat.
My reservations about squatting being more effort than it was worth were overcome by my need to not feel completely inadequate and have a place of my own in my mid 20s. These reservations were not shared by my neighbours: they had been aware they had very little chance of alternative housing far longer than I had. I knew my flatmate from a community occupation we had both been at in 2006 and from L&S which he joined 3 months after it started. He left school at 16 and has only ever been able to find casual work like waitering: he has lived in squats since leaving home. He has made a housing claim recently on the basis of homelessness (squatting can count as homeless) but does not expect the council to approve it. Other neighbours on my floor included a 17 year old who had met us through LCAP after being thrown out of home, and he was later joined by a homeless couple who had been staying on friends sofas. Above us in our block were Polish migrant workers and a fifty year old woman who has been fighting for accommodation from the council for several years. We lived in a three story block built in 1949 in the Attlee's massive post-war council housing push, "homes for heroes" – the third and most genuine wave of state housing provision. The blocks are old but well built and much more homely than the later Brutalist 1960's towers. When I moved in there were still 4 paying tenants, 3 of them families with young children.
Our block was identical to 7 other blocks built side by side, and identical to blocks throughout the square mile that makes up the Ocean Estate, which also has the later tower blocks and even later terrace house revival style council buildings from the 1990's onwards when councils came to realise that they were right first time (1920's and 30's) and should build housing as close as possible to normal commercial stock. The Ocean looks as close to an American style ghetto as you get in England. In terms of crime there are far worse places, but in terms of concentrated poverty, overcrowding (inside flats and just in general), and decaying buildings it is similar to 1970's Brooklyn. It is overwhelmingly Bangladeshi, to the point where many street signs are in Bangladeshi and many residents speak only this language. Tower Hamlets has the highest number of a single ethnic group which is not White-British, but it is important to note that apparently even then no London borough has a non-white majority. In my area though, the communal space and social life is majority Bangladeshi, giving the impression of a majority. This plays a significant role in any political or social interaction, it isn't just me spouting. George Galloway was elected MP here on the basis of being seen as a Muslim friendly, even pro-Islam, candidate and being endorsed by the Mosques whilst his party (RESPECT) tanked everywhere else; you can hear people listening to his radio talk show in shops and taxis everywhere. He presents a TV show for a cable channel owned and run by Iran and adverts for the station are common in the area.
Life on our blocks has changed significantly for the tenants over the last ten years – it was in 2000 that Tony Blair used the Ocean as a stage to launch his anti-poverty initiatives, suggesting silently that no one should live like this anymore. But rather than development, they have used the £56 million 'New Deal' for dispersal. Around my block council tenants were asked if they would accept mass transfer, and tenants voted no. The council considered their views, and transferred them anyway – mostly to Barking and Dagenham. Where they cannot simply move someone to other council housing because they own the flat or rent from a private landlord who does, they offer them an inadequate amount of money for their property. The family downstairs say they will have to move to Manchester or Sheffield to find somewhere half the size with what the council have offered. By transferring them a few at a time, the council has left the blocks increasingly desolate and inhospitable for remaining tenants – and eventually they can remove the last few with Compulsory Purchase Orders. As for what they want to do with our blocks, it is a simple case of selling the land to a private developer who will knock them down and build private housing. By law 20% of this will have to be "social housing", but social housing can simply be housing for Key Workers (NHS, teachers etc. – comparatively safe jobs): it does not replace council housing, and certainly at 20% couldn't accommodate the current residents even if it was actual council housing.
The piecemeal removal of residents has had two other effects. The area is no longer as notorious - with less people has come an end to the siege mentality locals lived under when the Ocean was the cheapest place to buy heroin in Europe (circa 2001); and the empty flats have been squatted. The oldest squats I know of have been open for 5 years, and several have been evicted only to be reopened, sometimes many times over. As there were always paying tenants left in the buildings, evictions were not immediate as the council couldn't actually knock them down until they were totally empty. Since I have been living here though, the process has been accelerating rapidly. 24 hour private security with dogs watch every block purely to stop squatters moving in (they actually ignore violent crime and open heroin dealing – I have witnessed this), and whole blocks have been given notice of eviction.
A week after I moved I attended a squatters' general meeting. These were arranged by a text-out from a squatter who had unlimited texts, and this system was also used to call out squatters to emergencies like attacks or evictions. When I asked who the chair was and raised my hand to make points I was laughed at, but this actually was the system they used informally - even if they didn't recognise it. The meeting had about 30 people in it and we discussed what we were going to do in response to the arrest of a couple accused of breaking into an empty flat. A number of actions were suggested and we eventually decided we would open the flat in a big group with support from outside. The plan was fleshed out at a meeting the following week, roles were handed out and my flatmate became the Action Coordinator at his suggestion, a role we knew from LCAP work.
Action and statement
The action went off without a hitch. 50 of us in hats and scarves descended on the empty flat, dropping a banner from the balcony above to hide the opening team, and formed a human wall to stop the security from reaching them on the corridor. A police liaison volunteer in a hi-vis vest talked to the security and then the police, whilst another person filmed them: they were prevented from using force or their dogs by these. The law was on our side, so long as we kept the openers covered: the only crime was breaking and entering, which you need a witness statement for. If you do not see who it was, there is no crime. As soon as a door is in place with a Section 6 notice, the space is legally squatted and cannot be entered without legal recourse. After about an hour the police, security and Tower Hamlets Housing officers left, and the flat is still occupied by the couple to this day.
There was a lot of controversy over the action. Those on it felt it had been a success, but several people outside said it had been an own goal that alienated paying tenants and showed the squatters to be a united and threatening group who would use force and numbers to get their way. There was criticism that we wore hoods, which we did to disguise the identities of the opening team (everyone wears a hood, everyone looks alike), and there was even a suggestion that the action was sexist due to it being macho. I reject the last one out of hand: the action was called and directed by women, and "macho" direct action is sexist only if you assume gender roles and think that force is masculine. I didn't address this at the time. I did accept that the action might have worried the tenants though, and in light of that I wrote a statement that we posted on stairwells. The security took them down and we only delivered a few door to door: we hoped to have it translated into Bengali first, but our translator worked in the local community and did not want to be associated with the squatters at that time.
Junky on a hot tin roof
At one point we did actually have a communal flat for meeting space, but nobody seemed to know who had the keys – so our next general meeting was in a park. Problems with the action were considered and I was asked to help draft and print the statement. We discussed new and tougher problems, such as hard drugs in the area. The dealers had a corner that they never left and we never went near, but the junkies they sold to would use our stairwells and lifts as chasing and shooting galleries. Opinions on what to do were divided, but one suggestion was to organise against a local pharmacy which actually sold syringes at a high price (which are free from the council to stop the spread of HIV). Confronting the dealers themselves was seen as way out of our league, and there was some confusion between anti-social and recreational drug use. Some people felt we had no right to talk about acting against drug use if we saw no inherent evil in it, but this was a minority opinion and others were able to argue that the resulting anti-social behaviour was what we needed to prevent – we were not passing judgement on personal choices which did not harm others. One woman told us she had a junky living in the roof of her block that had tried to get in to her flat by the trap door when she was home alone! I was amongst the group who argued successfully for his eviction.
On a chosen day, as soon as the junkie was seen leaving, a text went out and 10 of us went to the block. We entered the roof and found a television, suitcase, clothes, shoes, and mattress, blankets, and of course used needles and burnt foil. We removed all of these to a pile outside the block for him to take on his return. We stacked weights on the main hatch and locked it again from the outside with a new lock, leaving the roof by the trap door in the woman's flat.
Techno Techno Techno
A recurring problem on the estate was loud music; the mix of squatters included lots of people from the freeparty subculture. Lots of them viewed squats as a place to have parties, no matter what their size or how near they were to other people. I know from experience of putting on unlicensed parties myself that the police will shut down any party in a residential area for noise pollution; the fact they did not do that here suggests they have little more than contempt for the residents, whether they are paying tenants or squatters. Residents, and maybe other squatters, ended up sabotaging the electricity supply to the worst offending buildings. This is fair play; apparently simply asking them to turn the music down or off met with "we have rights too!" and general abuse. When the squat next door to me had its own all night techno party I was met with "hey man, it's a squat" as some sort of explanation. I rounded up as many fellow sleep-enthusiasts as I could and knocked again and again, getting the same response. We returned in the day and argued with the culprit at length. Even though he made a show of not budging on his opinions, there have been no parties at his since. If this had been taken up on mass, with big delegations going to the worst offending party-squats to have a go at them, maybe it would have had an effect overall. It shouldn't be necessary in the first place though, and I include these events to illustrate some of the perils of "the squatting scene".
When Kids Attack
The immiediate problem that this sort of antisocial behaviour caused was not attention from the law, but quite the opposite. Large groups of Bangladeshi lads saw the squatters as on a level with them; the squatters, given the outlandish appearance of both themselves and their buildings, were outside of the mainstream/lawless, an acceptable target for harassment. This is only a supposition, but when the kids attacked, they attacked the most obviously squatted block covered in graffiti and dirt where the loud parties were held. My block, which started with as many tenants as squatters, and we which kept clean, never came in for serious attack. I mean serious attack too – squatters from the building in question were beaten badly by gangs of lads, their windows were smashed and one flat was even set on fire with someone in it (they escaped). As far as we can tell the kids were doing it purely because they could get away with it. The police weren't called and the security guards let them get on with it: during one window smashing session they were heard actually encouraging the kids, but asking them to watch out for security cars when throwing bricks. Whenever attacks occurred we got to the scene as quickly as possible and just talked to the kids, to let them know they were being watched and distract them. They were generally drunk on cheap vodka and Boost energy drink, the chosen tipple of men who are too Muslim for pubs but not for drunken violence. Although we still think there was no motive for these attacks other than general hooliganism and maybe dislike of outsiders, I personally think the obvious anti-community attitude of the party-squats made them more of a target than others. It isn't that the kids were acting as the militant wing of the Residents Association, but they could see that these squatters were opting out of the local community, and therefore opting into their world by way of drugs and parties. Talking to one lad during a de-escalation attempt, he blamed the trouble on 'druggies and squatters': from my appearance and attitude he must not have thought I was a squatter.
Councilling
About 2 months ago one of the blocks which was totally squatted was served a mass eviction notice. After postponing the hearing for a week, a second court date ruled the squatters had a week to leave or be evicted by High Court Bailiffs. These can actually arrest you if you refuse to leave on demand, and they cost thousands of pounds a day. Clearly, the Council saw this as money well spent. They had already launched a propaganda war in the area warning residents away from one particular block with a leaflet carrying a picture of a heroin needle – utter bollocks, if the council or police had evidence that it was a shooting gallery or crackhouse it could have been evicted there and then under special legislation. Instead, by depicting the slightly anti-social but unthreatening block as a site of serious crime, they could duck having to deal with the real heroin dealers who were parked openly on the edge of the estate trading 24/7. Evicting the squats could be made to look like tackling crime, which is the exact tone the local press often take ["Armed Police Raid Squat"] making no distinction between a squat and crackhouse.
In response 4 of us attended an open council meeting to argue our case. We explained that we actually evicted a heroin user and kept the blocks busy and safe. We asked that we set a date for an eviction far into the future when the blocks were ready to be knocked down after all tenants had left. This was dismissed out of hand by the councillors and they rejected any further contact with us.
A Plague On Both Our Houses
There was no mass eviction, the block in question voluntarily packed up and left. After this people began to leave slowly from the other blocks too. The sense of momentum and cohesion we had subsided and there were no more general meetings. There are only 2 tenants left in my block now, and every unused corridor has been sealed off with sheet metal. The guards watch us intently and a sense of doom lingers. In the same week, two friends called me asking if there was a chance of accommodation, and hoping that we could open more empties and get our community going again I said yes. Due to the non-stop surveillance, it was decided any opening would take the Bear Hunt approach: when you cannot go around it or under it, you have to go through it. A breaker (smaller, electric version of a pneumatic drill) was rented, and a hole was chipped out of the wall of one squat into the empty flat next door. Obviously this made quite some noise, but I'm at a loss as to how the guards and police who turned up just as the work was done knew that a hole had been made – I'm assuming guesswork. They gave everyone in the flat the option of opening the door and clearing their things out in 30 minutes, or the door being broken down and everyone inside being arrested for criminal damage. "And I can smell cannabis" added one PC for good measure. Unfortunately nobody in the flat knew that none of this was legal: police cannot enter without a warrant, which they did not have, and cannot charge anyone with criminal damage without a witness, which they did not have. Their major priority is getting the door open – once they enter the property, it is no longer legally occupied.
After the success of this police operation, similar tricks were pulled on the flats upstairs from me. Realising one squatter was out, cops broke in and evicted the place in her absence, then talked their way into the neighbours and arrested 2 people for abstracting (stealing) electricity, a charge they later dropped. A third person in the flat was not arrested, and was actually told that as long as he stayed there, the squat would remain – something they wouldn't have known if the police had not said. These opportunist operations seem to be spurred on by the Council or security guards, with the police not consistent in their response.
Adding to the week-long Festival of General Misfortune, our roof began to leak. When the tenants above us left, "Environmmental Protection Services" smashed up the flat, leaving a burst water-pipe running. Cracks and drips appeared first in our kitchen and them in a bedroom, and soon all available bowls and cups were scattered across the flat catching the deluge. We called Tower Hamlets Housing repairs hotline and the first person they sent clearly did not realise we were a squat, apologising and promising the leaking flat would be opened up and fixed in 24 hours. Someone higher up sussed. When we called back 48 hours later they told us they told us the building was condemned and they had no obligation to stop the roof falling on squatters. We have heard a rumour that some kind of squat-sympathetic plumbing ninjas entered the flat under cover of darkness and stopped the leak, but cannot comment on the truth of this. The leak started again a day later anyway.
Regrets, I have a few
The principal mistake in my time here was to try and politicise something in a way that would have required miracles to work. Turning a mass squat by a totally diverse group of people into direct action against privatisation and uneven 'regeneration' was beyond ambitious, and we only took to it half heartedly, our energy going in ebbs and flows with the general energy of the community. It was never actually made into a priority by me or my housemate, our political commitments at this time were not to our home. We made no approaches to the local Residents Association or to Defend Council Housing who have a very strong branch in the borough, an obvious first step. With that said then, it is almost by accident that I have had such a massive dose of local organising and a rough education of the challenges and solutions to community control. No I'm not currently in the local Tenants Association, but how many people can say they got together with their neighbours and evicted a junky? If a big group of lads started throwing things or attacking a house near me, the knowledge that 5 or more people just talking to them calmly and distracting them might be all it took to sort things out is a revelation to me, someone who has largely preferred to look the other way in my own city after being repeatedly attacked or mugged by gangs as a teenager. I walk that bit taller in lived experience that people can and will back each other up in these situations. The squatters are something of an 'intentional community' so it is miles from the challenge of building familiarity, trust and confidence amongst residents in an area where you don't already have so much in common; but despite this I refuse to accept the confidence I have gained to do community work is in any way false.
The situation in the car park just now sums up why I'm on the left, and why I'll likely stay on the left all my life. I don't have any great hatred of injustice, it passes me by mostly; it is unpleasant but it doesn't drive me to my conclusions and actions – I don't cry over pictures of starving kids in the papers or write to my MP about the landmines in Cambodia. I only favour equality because it makes it simpler to relate to other people. What I hate is the total senselessness of our actions in modern society.
We started out with just a council worker and a plumber, both nice guys who had no problem with us being squatters, asking us about the leak. We told them exactly where it was, but they wanted to look in other empty flats to check because they think they already fixed it last week which meant taking the steel sheets back off. So they called Orbis, the company that puts the steel sheets on properties to stop them being squatted – they seem to be a monopoly in London, every eviction and closure is carried out by them. They are professional anti-squatters. My question is not 'why is there a gap in the market for a company purely to close useable properties?' That's simple – the economy wants the housing market to stay artificially competitive; if squatting were easier it might become more widespread. In all honesty the council is probably liable if some kid wanders into an empty building and falls down a lift shaft too – it isn't all malicious reasoning. What I cannot comprehend is why a group of working class people who turned up in 2 Orbis vans, the same sort of people I clock into work with every day (I'm now more or less a builder again) would automatically hate the squatters and take perverse pleasure in trying to turn fixing a leak into working out which properties they could do an ad hoc eviction on. "There's no one in there Terry, fuck the key – we got our universal key here innit. Break in and chuck their fucking stuff over the balcony." Why? Cos they're prepared to live in a condemned building to avoid rent? What difference does it make to the Orbis worker? We were told by a Housing Officer from the council that the building will be stay up now for another 8 weeks. What is the point then, in breaking into peoples' homes, throwing their belongings into the rain and smashing up sinks and windows so that no one can live there for a further 8 weeks? In this life we take pride in what we do for a living, even if we do badly. Whether you spray rough sleepers with cold water to move them on, throw punters down flights of stairs in nightclubs, repossess cars or sell televisions on hire-purchase you know customers will default on, you're just doing your job. We never question it, not seriously. We are paid to do it, and therefore it is valid. Anything you get paid to do is worthwhile, the cash justifies it. We can never rationally talk about what we want to do with our lives, what a happy and productive life actually is, so long as money makes our motivations.
Even though we technically have two months if they leave us alone, the combined forces of the guards, Housing Officers and police can strike at any time now in any way. They could break in when we're all out, they could cook up a charge they later drop to raid us with, they could destroy the building some more. The security have always been scum, hitting their dogs, making death threats and yelling racial and sexual abuse; but now they seem calm, like they know they have the upper hand. No new flats are opening and they are closing squats at a record pace. The first block to be totally emptied is being demolished this week, and builders have sprayed measurements on the lawn around our building.
It is three months since the above piece was written. First things first, we're still in the flat: we went to court in mid September 2009 and lost legal possession of the property to council. We moved most of our things and waited for the warrant – the letter that would give us a final date to quit the building. It is now early November and we are still waiting. A call to the council's planning department under the guise of a concerned resident revealed that our block cannot be demolished until at least March 2010 now anyway. During the writing of the piece, we were heavily involved in an attempt to put the lessons learned into a distinct project – unimaginatively called the Tower Hamlets Housing Initiative. The idea was to combine the housing rights advocacy work we do in LCAP with the direct action element of squatting: we would seize empty council stock that was being sold off somewhere in the borough, renovate it, then recruit people we met at the Homeless Persons Unit who were willing to take the risk and join the fight and become residents. A three pronged legal, media and physical approach would be employed – challenging the council not only very publically, but directly, by taking the housing first and asking questions later. By the time the project fizzled out we actually had 2 potential residents and roughly 10 live-in activists, a fully researched building in our sights, the support of a local legal centre and no less than 3 people wanting to make a documentary about it all. But fizzle out it did; a wave of Possession Orders in early September threw most of us into looking after our own housing needs first, and many of the activists have now moved out of the borough.
About this time I started looking into making a Housing Allowance claim, finding myself unemployed again. In short, I was eventually told by an advisor in the HPU that squatting was probably my best option! Housing benefit varied each month, but for my age range it would be about £110 a week: in 3 weeks of looking we never found anything that price in the borough – because landlords that accepted Housing Allowance kept their rents high, knowing the money was guaranteed by the council and expecting the difference to be made up out of the tenants dole. If we did get a flat on HA, as soon as we found work, we would not be able to afford the rent – or spend almost all our wages on it. Despite the fact I have experienced this kind of madness several times working with other people, to go through it myself was still eye opening.
Occupation is a powerful tactic, not only against a private business but also against a private property. The government are being bankrupted by Housing Allowance, and are doing next to nothing to rebuild their own housing – it is simply inevitable that successive governments will cut spending on housing. At the same time there is an explosion of small-landlordism and second-home ownership amongst those who have 'made it' (or 'always had it'), and rising homelessness and mass unemployment amongst the young. Housing is as likely to lead to polarisation of social classes just as much as (un)employment. I've always been very aware - and probably overly sensitive – to the stereotypical image of squatters as plastic anarchists or dropouts; whether a self conscious mass movement of housing occupations comes about, or the viability of squatting just spreads organically amongst the struggling, what happens next is likely to sweep all preconceptions away.
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Category Devotional
by D. Marion Clark October 30, 2013
The fear of the Lord leads to life,
and whoever has it rests satisfied;
he will not be visited by harm.
The "fear of the Lord" is not a popular concept in modern Christianity. We associate such an idea with pagan religion in which worshippers cringe before an idol in terror or a slave trembling before a cruel master. And yet Scripture portrays the fear of the Lord as something to desire. As the proverb says, it "leads to life."
Some say "fear" should be understood as "respect." Fear does include respect, but there is more to it than that. When Isaiah "saw the Lord" (cf. Isaiah 6:1ff), he did not pay his respect to God; he cried out, "Woe is me!" When John saw "one like a son of man" (cf. Revelation 1:12ff), he did not politely bow his head. And yet, neither man experienced the sense of terror one feels in the presence of mere power or of evil.
C. S. Lewis' depiction of a holy fear is helpful in understanding the fear of the Lord. In Perelandra he describes the feeling of coming in the presence of an "eldil," what we would know as an arch-angel.
"My fear was now of another kind. I felt sure that the creature was what we call 'good,' but I wasn't sure whether I liked 'goodness' so much as I had supposed… Here at last was a bit of that world from beyond the world, which I had always supposed that I loved and desired, breaking through and appearing to my senses: and I didn't like it, I wanted it to go away. I wanted every possible distance, gulf, curtain, blanket, and barrier to be placed between it and me. But I did not fall quite into the gulf. Oddly enough my very sense of helplessness saved me and steadied me. For now I was quite obviously 'drawn in.' The struggle was over. The next decision did not lie with me."
Lewis picks up on why the fear of the Lord allows one to rest satisfied. For what really happens is not that we break through to good, but that "Good" breaks through to us, forcing us to be helpless, forcing us to let the "next decision" lie with God. There is a sense that we cannot trust God until we fear him; we cannot really love God for who he is until we understand what it is to fear him. We cannot really know fear until we behold the "one like a son of man" dying on a cross for our sin.
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After spending two days trying to figure out why my beloved PowerBook Duo 280c wouldn't boot, this morning I gave up when finally a distinctive smell of something burning and an unusually hot machine gave me the final clue, that something's gone wrong with the internal power circuitry of the PowerBook.
I hadn't used the Duo for three months or so. I don't use it often, but I always like to return to this small, lightweight laptop for some writing sessions every now and then.
I purchased this little buddy second-hand sometime in 2000. I think I paid 400 Euros for it at the time, but it was well looked-after, and I got the whole package: the PowerBook Duo, the Duo MiniDock, the DuoDock II, a 14-inch Apple colour display, an AppleDesign keyboard and an ADB mouse II, and a bunch of floppy disks full of software (among which, the original disks for installing WordPerfect 3).
In the years 2000-2005, I used the PowerBook Duo a lot, and in the way it was intended to be used. Since I had managed to get hold of a new NiMH High Capacity Type 3 rechargeable battery a few months before acquiring the Duo, the little PowerBook really became my go-to machine when I was out and about. The battery lasted a lot, and when I returned home I would insert the Duo in its desktop Dock and transferred the files I created or handled during the day back to my iMac G3. I have always been a fan of the Duo concept, and I think it could still be useful today.
Anyway, in early 2005 the DuoDock stopped working after a power surge in the building I was living at the time, and since I was about to relocate to another country, I sadly had to throw the DuoDock away instead of bringing it with me to attempt repairs at a later date. I had limited space on my van, and the DuoDock was literally dead weight. Thankfully, the PowerBook Duo retained its expandability by way of the MiniDock, except for the Ethernet port, which was a serious blow to the Duo's connectivity.
In the following years, as my vintage collection grew and I had to take care of other machines, the Duo got used less frequently, but it was always there when I needed it. Starting up became slightly more problematic after the main battery ceased to hold any significant charge. Every time I plugged the Duo, I had to remove the battery, perform a PMU reset, start the PowerBook on AC alone, then put the battery back in. To avoid performing this procedure every time I dug out the Duo, I just kept the machine plugged in even when not in use.
When I went to turn on the Duo the other day, I wanted to use it more comfortably in the living-room, so I had to unplug it from the mains in my studio and plug it in again in the living-room. So I wasn't really surprised it didn't boot at first, though I noticed something it didn't usually do under similar circumstances: as soon as I plugged the AC adapter, the sleep light in the Duo display assembly came on, and nothing else happened.
I tried the procedure outlined above (remove battery, reset the PMU, etc.) multiple times. No joy.
Perhaps the PRAM battery was completely drained and it was preventing the Duo from booting. I disconnected it, and tried booting the machine again. Nothing. Just the sleep light coming on.
After browsing the Web a bit, on a discussion thread in some forum I stumbled on to a post where someone suggested checking the display switch where the latch locks the PowerBook lid when you close the computer. If the switch remains pressed for some reason, the PowerBook may think it's in the 'sleep' position and won't turn on. So I checked, but everything was okay.
I opened the PowerBook for a visual examination of the motherboard, to check for the presence of dust, corrosion, leakage, etc., in the components. The motherboard looked very clean, and nothing stood out, not even near the power circuitry. I was utterly puzzled.
The last thing to check was the Duo AC adapter itself. Honestly, I wasn't inclined to blame it: when plugged in, it got warm as it had always done, and so did the Duo around the power circuitry area, as it had always done. I don't have another AC adapter for the Duo, but browsing the Web and eBay, I saw pictures of working Duos connected to the 45W PowerBook adapter used by the PowerBook 5300, 1400, and G3 series. I have two of them, and I know they work, so I tried them both, but nothing would change: after plugging in the Duo, the sleep light would turn on, and no boot would follow. Repeatedly pushing the back power button resulted in the sleep light coming on and off and on again, and nothing else.
Yesterday it was getting late, so I eventually left the PowerBook Duo plugged in to resume my reviving efforts today. However, when I went to take the Duo this morning, it happened what I've described at the beginning of this post.
If you're reading this, you're a vintage Mac enthusiast like me, so I know you'll understand when I say that I'm extremely saddened by all this. This little PowerBook is still in great shape and it just hurts to see it reduced to a pretty, useless shell. At the moment, I unfortunately cannot afford sending the motherboard to someone capable of repairing/recapping it. I really want to have a working PowerBook Duo in my collection. If you have a battered Duo 280c with a working motherboard and you're willing to donate it, please get in touch. If you have a PowerBook Duo 2300c, it's still in my wishlist if you want to donate it. I do my best to give vintage Macs a good home and put them to good use, but sometimes things like this happen, and it's truly frustrating.


The dermal adnexa, or appendages, are accessory structures that include hair and feather follicles as well as secretory glands.
Hair and feathers serve as an adjunct barrier to the skin, providing a thermal barrier, physical barrier, and a photo-protective barrier. Hair and feathers are produced from follicles. Follicles are tubular structures formed by invaginations of epidermis into the dermis. Follicles serve to generate, attach, and support hair or feather shafts, and also contribute to epidermal re-epithelialization and repair following injury.
Hair follicles have three distinct zones; from deep to superficial they are: bulb, isthmus, and infundibulum. Hair growth begins at the deepest portion of the follicle, the bulb. A specialized structure, the dermal papilla, lies adjacent to the bulb and induces growth of the hair follicle and hair production. Hairs/feathers are essentially rolled cylinders of keratinocytes. On section, hair/feathers have three distinct zones; from outermost to innermost, they are: cuticle, cortex, and medulla.
Hair and feather growth occurs in a cyclical pattern of proliferation progressing through distinct stages of development which include anagen (growth phase), catagen, and telogen (resting phase). Terminally, the hair is exfoliated (shed). Growth is influenced by numerous factors that include anatomic location, hormones, daylight, ambient temperature, nutrition, and various growth factors.
Hair shafts are categorized into primary and secondary hairs. Primary hairs are larger and also referred to as "guard hairs", whereas secondary hairs are smaller, and comprise the "undercoat". Species such as horses only have primary hairs; dogs and cats have both primary and secondary hairs. This, in part, accounts for the different texture of their coats. Further, hair follicles are categorized as simple and compound. These categories are based on the number of hair shafts that exit a single infundibulum. Horses and cattle only have simple follicles (one hair shaft emerges from one infundibulum), whereas dogs and cats have both simple follicles interspersed with compound follicles (multiple hair shafts emerge from one infundibulum). In sheep, wool is produced as compound follicles.
The arrector pili muscle is a band-like bundle of smooth muscle that attaches to the hair follicle and dermis. The primary role of the arrector pili muscle is pilo-erection (hair erection). Pilo-erection serves to establish a layer of air between the surface of the hair/fur and the skin, serving as insulation. In addition, pilo-erection has a major role in animal behavior for domestic species such as the cat and dog.
Tactile hairs are modified hair follicles surrounded by a blood-filled sinus and highly innervated. Because of this arrangement, motion of the hair transmits through the blood-filled sinus to the nerve, transducing physical stimulus to sensation.


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Christmas time at Randox is always something to look forward to. Each year the different sites are brightly decorated, the Christmas tree goes up and everyone is full of Christmas cheer.
And with Christmas 2016 around the corner we thought that we would share with you some festive traditions that take place here at Randox.
It starts with some fairy lights and tiny Santas, and suddenly you realise you're in a Winter Wonderland at Randox at Christmas time. Teresa is almost hidden at Ardmore reception by a miniature fir tree, decked with balls and stars! Wherever you are in the company, you will find festive cheer – this is a time of year when Randox goes to town, not only for its staff and their children but also charities and people in need.
It began in 1982, the same year the company was founded. Mrs FitzGerald invited all the staff to bring their children to work on the final Friday before Christmas, where they were greeted by Santa and given a present. As the company has grown so too has Santa's list and this year his very busy helper Steven Moore has searched high and low for the perfect gift for 108 girls and boys! Each year the room is always jam-packed and the air filled with joy and small squeaks of excitement, and 2016 is of course no different.
Over the years new traditions have been added and everyone looks forward to the now legendary Randox Christmas raffle where there are always some fabulous prizes to be won. This year our raffle takes place on Friday 23rd December, and prizes include a 55" TV, an iPad and an extra day's holiday which is always a popular prize! All money raised by the raffle is going towards the very worthy cause of Hope 365, an Antrim based charity that works to help street children in Ethiopia.
Then it's time for 'Secret Santa' organised within each department. From a hat names are drawn, and you have to buy a present for whoever you pick! This has been a great tradition carried on by Randox staff for many years. It's always fun to see what people get and trying to guess who was behind it!
As well as many individual team Christmas dinners over the month of December, the annual company-wide Christmas lunch is something many people look forward to. This year we'll have almost 100 people joining us at the luxurious Merchant Hotel in Belfast on Thursday 22nd December.
Not only do our teams get involved in the Christmas festivities but they also organise a number of events to raise money for charities. This year we took part in Christmas Jumper Day on the 16th December for 'Save the Children' and raised a staggering £640.52!
We are also organising a collection for 'Help the Homeless', donating hats, scarfs, gloves to help keep everyone warm during the winter months. Our Randox Teoranta team in Donegal also donated 54 Christmas shoeboxes for the annual Team Hope Ireland Appeal.
We hope that you have enjoyed reading about some our traditions here at Randox and we wish you an enjoyable and relaxing time with your family at this time of year. Season's Greetings!


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Brokerages expect American Tower Corp (NYSE:AMT) to announce sales of $1.84 billion for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks reports. Six analysts have provided estimates for American Tower's earnings, with estimates ranging from $1.82 billion to $1.86 billion. American Tower posted sales of $1.78 billion during the same quarter last year, which would indicate a positive year-over-year growth rate of 3.4%. The business is expected to announce its next earnings results before the market opens on Wednesday, July 31st.
On average, analysts expect that American Tower will report full year sales of $7.36 billion for the current fiscal year, with estimates ranging from $7.34 billion to $7.39 billion. For the next year, analysts forecast that the company will report sales of $7.80 billion, with estimates ranging from $7.53 billion to $8.06 billion. Zacks Investment Research's sales averages are a mean average based on a survey of sell-side research firms that that provide coverage for American Tower.
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American Tower (NYSE:AMT) last released its earnings results on Friday, May 3rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.84 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.80 by $0.04. The business had revenue of $1.81 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.80 billion. American Tower had a net margin of 17.95% and a return on equity of 22.61%. American Tower's revenue for the quarter was up 4.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.63 earnings per share.
AMT has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Wells Fargo & Co boosted their target price on shares of Sempra Energy from $137.00 to $140.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Monday, April 15th. Edward Jones lowered shares of American Tower from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Wednesday, March 13th. UBS Group restated a "buy" rating on shares of Fortis in a report on Friday, June 7th. SunTrust Banks restated a "hold" rating on shares of Tripadvisor in a report on Monday, May 6th. Finally, Morgan Stanley boosted their target price on shares of United Technologies from $155.00 to $164.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a report on Monday, May 20th. Eleven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have issued a buy rating to the stock. The stock has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $185.94.
In other news, Director David E. Sharbutt sold 2,035 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $192.15, for a total transaction of $391,025.25. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 1,897 shares of the company's stock, valued at $364,508.55. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO James D. Taiclet, Jr. sold 11,863 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Monday, April 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $195.88, for a total transaction of $2,323,724.44. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 292,222 shares of company stock worth $58,358,826 in the last quarter. Company insiders own 0.75% of the company's stock.
Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of AMT. Meridian Wealth Management LLC grew its position in American Tower by 56.3% in the 1st quarter. Meridian Wealth Management LLC now owns 4,133 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $814,000 after purchasing an additional 1,488 shares in the last quarter. Allstate Corp grew its position in American Tower by 1.4% in the 1st quarter. Allstate Corp now owns 37,744 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $7,438,000 after purchasing an additional 532 shares in the last quarter. State of Wisconsin Investment Board grew its position in American Tower by 1.0% in the 1st quarter. State of Wisconsin Investment Board now owns 679,810 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $133,963,000 after purchasing an additional 6,985 shares in the last quarter. Moors & Cabot Inc. bought a new stake in American Tower in the 1st quarter worth about $456,000. Finally, Cetera Investment Advisers grew its position in American Tower by 14.7% in the 4th quarter. Cetera Investment Advisers now owns 2,312 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $362,000 after purchasing an additional 296 shares in the last quarter. 94.28% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
AMT stock traded down $2.75 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $208.78. The stock had a trading volume of 44,256 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,796,260. The firm has a market cap of $92.82 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.24, a P/E/G ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 0.49. The company has a current ratio of 0.50, a quick ratio of 0.50 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.31. American Tower has a 1-year low of $138.51 and a 1-year high of $218.79. The company's fifty day moving average price is $208.98.
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 12th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, June 19th will be issued a dividend of $0.92 per share. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, June 18th. This represents a $3.68 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.76%. This is a positive change from American Tower's previous quarterly dividend of $0.90. American Tower's dividend payout ratio is currently 46.06%.
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American Tower, one of the largest global REITs, is a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate with a portfolio of approximately 171,000 communications sites.
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Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman Returns from Sea Trials
The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) transits the Elizabeth River from Norfolk Naval Shipyard to conduct Sea Trials following a 10-month planned incremental availability, July 21, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo/Kevin F. Johnson)
The Virginian-Pilot | By Courtney Mabeus
NORFOLK -- Capt. Ryan B. Scholl made the prediction last September.
"Ten months ago, we said that we would go on sea trials on July 21st," said Scholl, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
Sure enough, the Truman left Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth on Friday, July 21 -- one day ahead of schedule -- for five days of sea trials.
"We tested her from stem to stern," including high-speed turns and flight systems, Scholl said Tuesday morning after the carrier returned to Naval Station Norfolk.
The Truman came home in July 2016 from an eight-month deployment during which its Carrier Air Wing Seven flew more than 2,000 combat sorties, breaking a record set by the USS Theodore Roosevelt during a 2015 deployment, the Navy has said. The Truman also dropped more than 819 tons of bombs, the Navy said.
Work on the Truman included updates to internal and external communication networks, nearly 4,500 reactor repairs, renovations to 12 berthing spaces and 10 heads and the refurbishing of 90,000 square feet of its hangar bay and 7,000 feet of its flight deck, the Navy said in a news release.
Details on the cost of the repairs weren't immediately available Tuesday. Michael Jennings, project superintendent for the Truman, said it had "been a while since we've delivered a carrier on time."
"We're just happy to be a part of delivering the Harry S. Truman back to the fleet," Jennings said.
Scholl said the Truman will head back to sea in three to four weeks to begin working on flight deck certifications.
The Truman's departure from the yards clears the way for the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to begin a planned maintenance period in August, the Navy said. The Truman deployed ahead of schedule in late 2015 when repairs to the Ike forced it to remain in the yards for nearly two years instead of a planned 14 months.
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Lacework Warns of Unsecured Container Orchestration Dashboards
By: eWEEK Staff | June 22, 2018
Today's topics include a Lacework study finding 300 unsecured container orchestration dashboards, and HPE adding a hybrid cloud-as-a-service offering to its GreenLake cloud platform.
According to a report released June 19, Lacework conducted an analysis of cloud-hosted container orchestration deployments and discovered 21,169 publicly facing container orchestration platforms. Of these, 300 deployments were found to have open administrative dashboards without any required access credentials.
The report observed that the cluster orchestration system dashboards that are open to discovery on the internet could potentially disclose information that might be useful to attackers.
In its research, Lacework also found Kubernetes to be the most broadly deployed container orchestration system, representing 76 percent of the container orchestrators discovered in the cloud, while 19 percent of clusters were running Docker Swarm.
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Meanwhile, 95 percent of the discoverable container orchestration system dashboards were found to be hosted on Amazon Web Services.
At Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Discover show in Las Vegas June 19, HPE officials unveiled the latest addition of its GreenLake cloud computing platform, a hybrid cloud-as-a-service offering that gives organizations an automated cloud operating model for running workloads in both public clouds and private on-premises environments.
The new offering builds on previous GreenLake solutions unveiled last year, including an infrastructure as a service that delivers a pay-per-use model with metered usage and flexible capacity management capabilities.
Meanwhile, the company's Aruba business introduced the concept of the software-defined branch, which integrates the various aspects of the network in branch offices into a single solution for more simple operations, reduced costs and improved security.
Tying all these together also enables easier scalability of the branch network, according to Kishore Seshadri, vice president and general manager of cloud solutions at Aruba.
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