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#include "common.h"
#include "../dtls_transport/transport.h"
#include <rawrtc/config.h>
#include <rawrtc/dtls_transport.h>
#include <rawrtcc/code.h>
#include <rawrtcc/utils.h>
#include <rawrtcdc/external.h>
#include <re.h>

// Note: Although shared with the redirect transport, this name is accurate enough for both.
#define DEBUG_MODULE "sctp-transport"
//#define RAWRTC_DEBUG_MODULE_LEVEL 7 // Note: Uncomment this to debug this module only
#include <rawrtcc/debug.h>

/*
 * External DTLS role getter.
 * Warning: `rolep` and `arg` will not be validated.
 */
enum rawrtc_code rawrtc_sctp_common_dtls_role_getter(
    enum rawrtc_external_dtls_role* const rolep,  // de-referenced, not checked
    void* const arg  // not checked
) {
    struct rawrtc_dtls_transport* const dtls_transport = arg;
    return rawrtc_dtls_transport_get_external_role(rolep, dtls_transport);
}

/*
 * Get the external DTLS transport state.
 * Warning: `statep` and `arg` will not be validated.
 */
enum rawrtc_code rawrtc_sctp_common_dtls_transport_state_getter(
    enum rawrtc_external_dtls_transport_state* const statep,  // de-referenced, not checked
    void* const arg  // not checked
) {
    struct rawrtc_dtls_transport* const dtls_transport = arg;
    return rawrtc_dtls_transport_get_external_state(statep, dtls_transport);
}

/*
 * Outbound data handler of the SCTP transport.
 * `buffer` will be a fake `mbuf` structure.
 *
 * Warning: `buffer` and `arg` will not be validated.
 */
enum rawrtc_code rawrtc_sctp_common_sctp_transport_outbound_handler(
    struct mbuf* const buffer,  // not checked
    uint8_t const tos,
    uint8_t const set_df,
    void* const arg  // not checked
) {
    struct rawrtc_dtls_transport* const dtls_transport = arg;
    enum rawrtc_code error;

    // TODO: Handle
    (void) tos;
    (void) set_df;

    // Note: We only need to copy the buffer if we add it to the outgoing queue
    if (dtls_transport->state == RAWRTC_DTLS_TRANSPORT_STATE_CONNECTED) {
        // Send
        error = rawrtc_dtls_transport_send(dtls_transport, buffer);
    } else {
        int err;
        struct mbuf* copied_buffer;

        // Get length
        size_t const length = mbuf_get_left(buffer);

        // Allocate
        copied_buffer = mbuf_alloc(length);
        if (!copied_buffer) {
            DEBUG_WARNING("Could not create buffer for outgoing packet, no memory\n");
            return RAWRTC_CODE_NO_MEMORY;
        }

        // Copy and set position
        err = mbuf_write_mem(copied_buffer, mbuf_buf(buffer), length);
        if (err) {
            DEBUG_WARNING("Could not write to buffer, reason: %m\n", err);
            mem_deref(copied_buffer);
            return rawrtc_error_to_code(err);
        }
        mbuf_set_pos(copied_buffer, 0);

        // Send (well, actually buffer...)
        error = rawrtc_dtls_transport_send(dtls_transport, copied_buffer);
        mem_deref(copied_buffer);
    }

    // Handle error & done
    if (error) {
        DEBUG_WARNING("Could not send packet, reason: %s\n", rawrtc_code_to_str(error));
    }
    return error;
}

/*
 * Detach the SCTP transport from the DTLS transport and therefore
 * don't feed any DTLS application data to the SCTP transport.
 * Warning: `arg` will not be validated.
 */
void rawrtc_sctp_common_sctp_transport_detach_handler(void* const arg  // not checked
) {
    struct rawrtc_dtls_transport* const dtls_transport = arg;

    // Detach from DTLS transport
    enum rawrtc_code error = rawrtc_dtls_transport_clear_data_transport(dtls_transport);
    if (error) {
        DEBUG_WARNING(
            "Unable to detach from DTLS transport, reason: %s\n", rawrtc_code_to_str(error));
    }
}

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Browsers that implement ECMA-262, edition 5 and later are supported.
IE8 (ECMAS-262, edition 3) is supported if you include es5-shim.js and es5-sham.js.
grunt build --features="core simple_thenables filter map reduce"
In order to provide smooth interoperability experience, Promises/A+ requires supporting "thenables" which are promise-like objects but not trusted bluebird promises.
Even though the handler returns a jQuery promise, it should work as if it returned a real bluebird promise, that is, the next .then() will wait until the ajax request is complete.
Trying to retrieve the .then property from object to see if it's a function might throw.
What you want in a browser is pretty much that the return $.get line works. Can you imagine jQuery defining a getter on .then property that throws?
Handling such cases requires a lot of code in bluebird. You can use the simple_thenables feature which matches what other libraries such as Q are doing.


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Hieronder volgt een lijst van landen van de wereld in 1795.

Uitleg
 Onder het kopje Onafhankelijke landen zijn de landen in de wereld opgelijst die in 1795 onafhankelijk waren.
 Alle de facto onafhankelijke staten die niet, of slechts in zeer beperkte mate, door andere landen werden erkend, zijn weergegeven onder het kopje Niet algemeen erkende landen.
 De afhankelijke gebieden, dat wil zeggen gebieden die niet worden gezien als een integraal onderdeel van de staat waar ze afhankelijk van zijn, zoals vazalstaten, protectoraten en kolonies, zijn weergegeven onder het kopje Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden.
 De in grote mate onafhankelijke rijksvrije gebieden (hertogdommen, graafschappen, heerlijkheden, rijkssteden, prinsbisdommen, etc.) die lagen binnen de grenzen van het Heilige Roomse Rijk zijn apart opgelijst onder het kopje Staten binnen het Heilige Roomse Rijk.
 De kantons, halfkantons en Zugewandte Orte van het Zwitserse Eedgenootschap zijn vermeld onder het kopje Kantons en Zugewandte Orte van het Zwitserse Eedgenootschap.
 De belangrijkste dynastieën binnen de Marathaconfederatie staan vermeld onder het kopje Dynastieën binnen de Marathaconfederatie en de in grote mate onafhankelijke onderdelen van het Mogolrijk zijn weergegeven onder het kopje Staten binnen het Mogolrijk.
 De zelfstandige koninkrijken van het Koninkrijk Bali zijn weergegeven onder het kopje Balinese koninkrijken.
 Bezette gebieden zijn niet op deze pagina weergegeven.

Staatkundige veranderingen in 1795
 7 januari: einde van de onafhankelijkheid van Polen.
 19 januari: Franse bezetting van de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden.
 6 februari: uitroeping van de Republiek Graaff-Reinet.
 26 april: Russische annexatie van het Hertogdom Koerland en Semgallen en Pilten.
 29 april: Franse bezetting van Sint-Maarten.
 1 mei: Maui en Hawaï gaan op in het Koninkrijk Hawaï.
 16 mei: stichting van de Bataafse Republiek.
 18 juni: einde van de Britse bezetting van Saint-Lucie.
 18 juli: uitroeping van de Republiek Swellendam.
 15 augustus: Britse bezetting van Nederlands-Malakka.
 16 september: Britse bezetting van de Kaapkolonie.
 1 oktober: Franse annexatie van het Abdijvorstendom Thorn.
 20 oktober: Britse bezetting van Coromandel en Malabar.
 21 oktober: Franse inname van het Keurvorstendom Mainz.
 25 oktober: Franse annexatie van de Republiek Bouillon.
 29 oktober: Franse annexatie van de Rijksstad Worms.
 17 november: Travancore wordt een Brits protectoraat.
 November: einde van de Republiek Swellendam.
 Franse bezetting van Sint-Eustatius.
 Franse bezetting van Bretzenheim, Burtscheid, Wijlre, Schwarzenholz, Rheineck, Rekem, Kerpen en Lommersum en Kessenich.
 Bataafse annexatie van het Graafschap Buren, de Baronie IJsselstein en het Graafschap Culemborg.
 Britse bezetting van het Koninkrijk Ramnad.
 Britse annexatie van Nederlands-Bengalen en Suratte.
 Luang Prabang wordt een vazal van Vietnam.
 Franse bezetting van Finale.
 Einde van de onafhankelijkheid van Kelantan. Het koninkrijk komt onder het bestuur van Terengganu.
 Al-Hasa wordt door Diriyah geannexeerd.
 Einde van de onafhankelijkheid van de Republiek Senarica.
 Stichting van Tawana.
 Het Koninkrijk Cochin wordt een vorstenland van Brits-Indië.

Onafhankelijke landen

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

Andere landen

Staten binnen het Heilige Roomse Rijk
Hieronder volgt een lijst van rijksvrije gebieden (steden, vorstendommen, graafschappen, bisdommen, abdijen, etc.) van het Heilige Roomse Rijk. De rijksridderschappen zijn niet in onderstaande lijst opgenomen.

Landen binnen de grenzen van het Ottomaanse Rijk
In onderstaande lijst zijn staten opgenomen die lagen in het gebied dat officieel behoorde tot het Ottomaanse Rijk, maar waar het Ottomaanse Rijk geen zeggenschap had. Het Sjeikdom al-Hasa was (tot 1795) een vazal van Diriyah en is niet apart in onderstaande lijst opgenomen.

Landen binnen de grenzen van het Perzische Rijk
In onderstaande lijst zijn staten opgenomen die lagen in het gebied dat officieel behoorde tot Perzië, maar waarover Perzië weinig tot geen controle had.

Kantons en Zugewandte Orte van het Zwitserse Eedgenootschap
Het Vorstendom Neuchâtel was eveneens een Zugewandter Ort, maar tevens een deel van het Heilige Roomse Rijk en in personele unie met Pruisen verbonden, en is daarom niet in onderstaande lijst opgenomen.

Autonome gebieden binnen de Marathaconfederatie
De soevereine vorst van de Marathaconfederatie was de chhatrapati. Er waren twee chhatrapati's, beide van de Bhonsle-dynastie, gezeteld in Satara en Kolhapur. De feitelijke macht was echter in handen van de peshwa (premier) van de Bhat-familie. Daarnaast hadden grote delen van het rijk een semi-autonome status. De belangrijkste dynastieën die deze gebieden bestuurden waren de Gaekwad van Baroda, de Holkar van Indore, de Scindia van Gwalior en de Puar van Dewas, maar er waren vele andere semi-autonome gebieden.

Staten binnen het Mogolrijk
Onderstaande staten behoorden officieel tot het Mogolrijk, maar waren daarvan in feite onafhankelijk. Veel van deze staten, zoals Haiderabad en de staten in Rajasthan (waaronder Banswara, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Kishangarh, Pratapgarh en Udaipur) betaalden tribuut aan de Marathaconfederatie, maar ze waren er verder onafhankelijk van. De Misls van de Sikhs in de regio Punjab zijn niet in onderstaande lijst weergegeven, maar waren ook in grote mate onafhankelijk.

Balinese koninkrijken
Het Koninkrijk Bali bestond uit diverse zelfstandige koninkrijken, waarbij de koning van Klungkung fungeerde als een primus inter pares.

Niet algemeen erkende landen

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden
Hieronder staat een lijst van afhankelijke gebieden.

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Ashanti

Britse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Buchara

Chinese niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Deense niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Franse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Bataafse / Nederlandse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden
De Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden was tot 1795 een confederatie bestaande uit zeven provincies die vertegenwoordigd waren in de Staten-Generaal: de Heerlijkheid Friesland, het Hertogdom Gelre, het Graafschap Holland, de Heerlijkheid Overijssel, de Stad en Lande (Groningen), de Heerlijkheid Utrecht en het Graafschap Zeeland. Daarnaast omvatte het ook het Landschap Drenthe en de generaliteitslanden Staats-Brabant, Staats-Opper-Gelre, Staats-Overmaas en Staats-Vlaanderen. Het generaliteitsland Westerwolde was de facto een onderdeel van Stad en Lande. De overige gebieden die afhankelijk waren van de Republiek zijn hieronder weergegeven.
In onderstaande lijst staan verder de gebieden vermeld die onder bestuur stonden van de VOC. Kleine handelsposten, gelegen op het grondgebied van andere onafhankelijke staten, zijn niet weergegeven. Ook niet apart vermeld zijn de staten (vorstenlanden) in de Indische Archipel die onder protectie stonden van de VOC en soms een grote mate van autonomie hadden. Voorbeelden hiervan zijn: Bacan, Banjarmasin, Bantam, Bima, Cirebon, Gowa, Mataram, Siau, Tabukan en Tidore. De Maldiven stonden eveneens onder protectie van de VOC (vanuit Ceylon).

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Genua

Bezittingen van het Habsburgse Rijk

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Janjira

Japanse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Johor

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Kutai

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Mysore

Nepalese niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Ottomaanse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden
Egypte en Tunis waren onderdelen van het Ottomaanse Rijk, maar hadden een grote mate van autonomie.

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Ouaddaï

Perzische niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Poolse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Portugese niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Pruisische niet-onafhankelijke gebieden
Het Koninkrijk Pruisen was formeel een personele unie tussen het Keurvorstendom Brandenburg, dat onderdeel was van het Heilige Roomse Rijk, en het eigenlijke Koninkrijk Pruisen, dat geen onderdeel was van het Heilige Roomse Rijk. In de praktijk was Brandenburg echter een onderdeel van het Koninkrijk Pruisen met als staatshoofd de Koning in Pruisen.

Russische niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Rwandese niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Niet-onafhankelijke gebieden van Siak

Siamese niet-onafhankelijke gebieden
Het Koninkrijk Besut Darul Iman was een vazal van Terengganu en is niet apart weergegeven. Ook Kelantan was vanaf 1795 onderworpen aan Terengganu. Perlis was onderworpen aan Kedah en is ook niet apart weergegeven. De semi-autonome stadstaten van Lanna (Chiang Rai, Lampang, Lamphun, Mae Hong Son, Nan en Phrae) zijn ook niet apart vermeld.

Siciliaanse (Napolitaanse) niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Spaanse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Venetiaanse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden
De Republiek Venetië omvatte naast de Dogado (het eigenlijke Venetië) ook de Domini di Terraferma (het achterland ten noorden van de stad Venetië) en de Stato da Màr (de overzeese bezittingen). De Stato da Màr omvatte Venetiaans-Istrië, Venetiaans-Dalmatië, Venetiaans-Albanië en de Ionische Eilanden.

Vietnamese niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Zweedse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Zwitserse niet-onafhankelijke gebieden

Zie ook
 Lijst van voormalige landen

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The National Pension System is a voluntary contribution based retirement savings scheme. The scheme first came into effect in 2004 and its present form, the New Pension Scheme was established in 2009. The National Pension Plan was put in place to force citizens of the country to plan for their future post-employment.
As most of you are well aware, there are a number of saving schemes in place. So, how do you decide which one is better suited to your needs?
Read on to learn about the various saving schemes and how NPS fares in comparison to them.
Before we delve into the main differences between NPS and the Public Provident Fund (PPF), we'll learn the key features of the PPF.
The PPF is a government-initiated small savings scheme. The key features of this scheme are that it gives added security to your investment in addition to its high interest rates. The minimum and maximum investment amounts to a PPF account/annum are INR 500 and INR 1 lakh respectively (Max term of 15 years). The investments earns you an annual interest of 8.70% that is compounded yearly.
You can make small investments, for a long period of time.
Difference between NPS and PPF?
As you ca see the major difference is in the taxability and rate of interest you get on your contributions. To get the highest possible return from your NPS India account it is advisable to carefully choose the best NPS Fund Manager.
Difference between NPS and Mutual Funds?
The differences between these two schemes come about in the way their respective funds are handled i.e National Pension Fund (NPS funds) and Mutual Trust Fund.
Flexibility NPS funds are rigid as annuity purchase is mandatory on withdrawal. Highly flexible. Investor has complete freedom to select best fund deployment options.
The employee provident fund scheme was one of the first retirement saving schemes to be implemented by the government. Established in 1952, this was put in place to promote savings for employees across the country. Every month the employee and the employer make a fixed contribution to the employee's PF account. Employees can earn interest on their PF balance.
Difference between EPF & NPS?
Tier 1 government employees have only 15% exposure to equity.
· Pension dependent on market conditions.
· Compounding rate of interest paid irrespective of returns from equity.
Rate of returns Vary based on market conditions, monthly contribution, percentage exposure to equity, etc. Average rate of return is between 12-14% The average EPF rate of returns is between 8.00% – 8.50% p.a.
· Withdrawals made after the age of 60 require 40% to be invested in annuity.
The NPS v/s APY debate began the moment Shri Arun Jaitley announced the scheme in 2015. In essence, both of these schemes are there to encourage post-retirement savings. But, they are targeted to particular age groups and their financial security. Let us delve into the differences.
While subscribing to an account you will incur a number of NPS charges and fees. To help you fully understand the charges we've broken them down into a mini list.
Agency that handles bookkeeping, administrative and customer related duties.
No savings scheme is perfect. When it comes to choosing the right investment options, you have to take into account the pros and cons of each and make an informed choice. Lucky for you, we've marked what we like and don't like about the National Pension Scheme.
The NPS PFRDA, or the regulatory authority managing all pension accounts always appoints able and experienced fund managers. This coupled with strict investment guidelines ensure you get good quality returns.


Online shopping is my fave. Browsing without the effort of actually leaving my sofa (and often seeing the full range available that may not be held in store). Not on the High Street is definitely a go to for personalised presents or just something a bit different for that friend who has everything. It hosts over 5000 independent businesses and supports creative British talent. There is something lovely about buying a gift that you know has been hand crafted not mass produced.
Sometimes though I want to touch things first, see what size they actually are, work out if the texture is what I had imagined or just try it on. For their 10th birthday NOTHS took over an area of Old Spitalfields Market in East London for an 'Open Door' weekend. They brought a selection of around 100 of their sellers to showcase their wares.
There were all kinds of dreamy interiors set up using a variety of products available online.
Plus a chance to meet some of the makers.
They had a variety of workshops running over the three days from pom pom making to calligraphy which had to be booked online in advance. Something a bit different were the 'Open Door' rooms you could walk through. We went through a wedding room set up as a church where actors clapped you up the aisle and under a floral arch, truly bizarre! Others included a catwalk, a disco and a ball pit!
It wasn't the shopping experience that I had imagined, more like a giant interactive advert for NOTHS, but it did give me a prod again to support small businesses and shop local.


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New $300 boosted unemployment payments could arrive by end of August, FEMA guidance says
Published Mon, Aug 17 20204:54 PM EDT
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Carlos Ponce joins others at a July 16 demonstration in Miami Springs, Florida, asking senators to support the continuation of unemployment benefits.
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On Saturday, Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana and New Mexico became the first states approved to pay out the new $300 federal unemployment boost created by President Donald Trump's memorandum on jobless benefits signed on August 8.
The order establishes a new "lost wages assistance" program that will draw from $44 billion in funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Through the program, the federal government will provide eligible recipients with an additional $300 payment on top of their state-administered unemployment aid. States may kick in another $100 if they have the funding to do so.
The $300 federal payments are intended to replace the former $600 boost provided by the CARES Act that expired July 31.
On Sunday, FEMA approved applications from Colorado, Missouri and Utah to administer the lost wages program.
Boosted benefits could roll out in August
Following the signing of the memorandum, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said jobless benefits could be available "immediately," The Washington Post reports; meanwhile, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on CNN that payments could take a couple of weeks.
New guidance from FEMA estimates payments will take at least three weeks from August 8 to start rolling out.
States and territories must formally apply for the aid and outline how they plan to administer payments. After they're approved, funding will be available "within one business day of receipt of the fully executed grant award," the guidance says. FEMA notes that after the memorandum was signed August 8, they approved the first round of states to receive aid by August 14.
How long it will take for residents to actually receive extra payments will depend on how quickly states can reprogram their unemployment insurance systems to administer the funds. States that immediately got to work to reconfigure their systems on August 8 could start administering extra payments by August 29, according to the Department of Labor.
And Arizona residents could see the boost as soon as this week.
Deputy Press Secretary Brett Bezio of the Arizona Department of Economic Security wrote in a statement to Forbes this week: "Arizona has received approval on its application to FEMA for Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) funding. The Department has implemented these changes to its system, and funds will be issued to claimants starting this week."
Many workers will receive an extra $300 per week
The new order says that, through a combination of federal and state dollars, unemployment recipients can receive up to an extra $400 per week in aid.
However, through the program, the federal government will provide $300 per week per person, while states would be responsible for the remaining $100.
States strapped for funding may consider their regular unemployment insurance payments as their $100 "match," rather than adding aid on top, effectively leaving benefits recipients with a $300 weekly boost overall.
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The lowest-paid workers won't be eligible for new aid
Once their state is set up, the FEMA guidance says people already receiving jobless benefits will see the supplemental aid come through with their regular state payments, retroactive to August 1.
The extra payment will go to people receiving benefits from regular state unemployment, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation and state-administered extended benefits.
However, individuals must be collecting a minimum benefit of at least $100 a week in order to qualify for the boost, a provision the Trump administration said is to curb fraud. The $100 minimum requirement could exclude an estimated 1 million of the lowest-paid workers.
Not all states will pay the extra aid
Not all states are planning to take part in the program. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem announced Friday that the state would not take up the Trump order to provide the $300 weekly boost to jobless residents.
"My administration is very grateful for the additional flexibility that this effort would have provided, but South Dakota is in the fortunate position of not needing to accept it," Noem said in a statement.
Nearly 19,000 people are collecting unemployment benefits in South Dakota, and its insured unemployment rate — the number of workers getting jobless benefits as a percentage of its labor force — is 3.7%, the second-lowest in the nation behind Idaho. (The U.S. average is around 11%.)
States must submit their grant applications and administrative plans by September 10 in order to be considered for funding.
Federal funding may not last long
States approved for the lost wages program are only guaranteed three weeks of funding, according to FEMA guidance, and additional disbursements will be made on a weekly basis "in order to ensure that funding remains available for the states who apply for the grant assistance."
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Daenerys Targaryen is a Conservative's Worst Nightmare
by Kyle Moran
Note: This article contains spoilers from Game of Thrones, up to and including Season 8, Episode 5, which aired on May 12th, 2019.
While Daenerys Targaryen's full descent into being the "Mad Queen" came to fruition in the last episode of Game of Thrones, this was not a sudden transformation. Daenerys' transformation has been alluded to from early on in the show, and her violent ambitions for Westeros should have unnerved conservatives from the beginning.
There has always been something revolutionary about Daenerys Targaryen: the "breaker of chains," asserting her destiny to "break the wheel" of various other families ruling, the constant proclamations and promises that rule under her would be different. This, of course, isn't a disqualification— her previous failed leadership, overly-ambitious goals, and repeatedly demonstrated brutality, however, do.
Daenerys' deteriorating mental state and fall into "Mad Queen" status has been looming large over the show from her earliest days, albeit in less morally reprehensible ways. Upon negotiating a deal with Kranznys mo Nakloz in Astapor to buy the Unsullied in season 3, she backed out of the agreement, and burned Nakloz alive. This set a precedent that was just the first of many to come: give Daenerys what she demands, burn those who stand in her way, and eliminate those she doesn't like— even if she had already reached a deal with them.
A similar theme was front and center in Meereen, where she repeatedly botched her rule over the city. While credit is absolutely due to her for liberating the slaves upon arrival, the way she did inevitably led to enormous instability within the city. Rather than simply banning slavery, she extended the ban to the city's fighting pits— which she later retracted, under pressure from the city's residents— and, more brutally, ordered the crucifixion of slave owners. She did all of this despite her advisor, Ser Barristan Selmy, pleading with her to show mercy, which would have resulted in both the liberation of the slaves and a more stable government in the city. Yet, her brutality led her to ignore her advisors, and led to her bloody conflict with the Sons of the Harpy.
Daenerys' claim that her destiny is to overthrow the system— "breaking the wheel," as she puts it— is strikingly familiar when compared with the left-wing revolutionaries of the 20th century. The system should not be reformed— it must be overthrown, violently. If only she could rule, things would be different. Even if they don't know it yet, the people will be better off. She knows what's best for them. She alone can fix it.
These movements always end the same, tragic way: the death of countless innocent civilians, who inevitably get caught between the revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries. Reading some of Daenerys' quotes on her goals of overturning the system, you can almost hear the fated words from East Germany on their repressive government's tactics: should the people not have faith in the government, would it not be easier to dissolve them and elect another?
It should come to nobody's surprise, then, that Senator Elizabeth Warren declared her whole-hearted support for Daenerys Targaryen in a lengthy article, published just a few weeks ago. Despite the growing concern about her mental state, Warren sides with Daenerys because of her revolutionary aspirations. She rightly credits the Queen with liberating slaves, but her central motivation for supporting Daenerys lies in breaking the current system, and of course, opposing the Iron Bank.
No great fan of Cersei Lannister myself, I do sympathize with the Dragon Queen's desire to improve the world for its inhabitants. However, Daenerys has proved herself to be either unwilling or unable to achieve this. In so doing, she has sunk much deeper into a level of brutality that not even the Lannisters would have engaged in. Remember, it was Jamie Lannister who betrayed the Mad King— Daenerys' father— when he was plotting to destroy King's Landing. In a way, it's fitting that Jamie died when the Mad King's daughter destroyed the city he risked everything to save.
With the Lannisters eliminated, Daenerys is effectively Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Her coronation must be stopped at all costs— foreshadowing of Arya's potential role in the series finale next week could be what saves us all. Should she be prevented from taking the throne, John Snow would be able to exert his claim to the Iron Throne as heir.
While John would make an infinitely better ruler than Daenerys, she has consistently been able to manipulate him far too easily because of his feelings for her. This is a serious character flaw, and one that could come back to bite him as King should another woman with conflicting interests catch his attention. Furthermore, his genuine surprise that Daenerys would burn the city after it had surrendered shows that he dangerously underestimated her brutality.
Sansa Stark, on the other hand, has consistently been right about a plethora of issues, ranging from Daenerys' instability to the dangers of heading South immediately after the Battle of Winterfell. She has come a long way from being the reserved "little dove" she was in earlier seasons. This transformation is perhaps best depicted both in her decision to set starving dogs on Ramsey Bolton, as well as her ability to see through Little Finger's plot to divide her from her sister Arya. She didn't acquire these skills easily. After losing her father, the path to where she stands today was long and miserable.
She didn't have fire-breathing dragons to capture entire armies to fight for her— she had to forge alliances herself. Sansa's ability to strategize, maintain composure in tense situations, as well as having many allies in the North make her objectively the best potential ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. Unlike the Lannisters, Sansa would attempt reforms of the system to result in improving the people's lives— albeit in a way that doesn't result in the equivalent of genocide.
It remains uncertain who will end up on the Iron Throne on Sunday. Nevertheless, one thing is certain: the prospect of Daenerys Targaryen's reign is something that every conservative should hope never happens.
Kyle Moran
Kyle Moran is a student at the University of Rhode Island, where he studies political science and history. Outside of class, he serves as Vice Chair for the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island and is both an avid skier and reader.
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Residents near raging fires west of Melbourne have been told it's not safe to leave their homes and to take shelter immediately.
A warning has been issued by the Country Fire Authority said people should stay within their homes as it is 'not safe for you to leave'.
Dramatic video footage shows massive flames and explosions emerging from a substation in Terang, while a grassfire burns out of control in Boorcan, 199km west of Melbourne.
Nearby resident Brett Gasper told the Herald Sun the scene of the fire caused a 'red sky and smell of smoke' which was 'daunting'.
A CFA spokesperson said people had been evacuated from nearby homes.
Lightning was reportedly seen in the area but the cause of the fires is not yet known.
Firefighters have been unable to stop the Terang fire which has travelled south-east across the Princes Highway.
Meanwhile a grassfire in Wallan in northern Melbourne was burning out of control on Saturday night and is raging along the Hume Freeway.
Earlier on Saturday, two grass fires were started near the Morack Golf Course, in the eastern suburbs, and Mill Park, in Melbourne's north, on Saturday afternoon as total fire bans covered much of the state.
Meanwhile, a third grass fire at Gembrook, southeast of Melbourne, damaged two cottages before being bought under control.
All up, 31 fires broke out across the state on Saturday amid strong winds reaching 70km/h and temperatures forecast to reach 30 but with expectations it could reach 39C in the west.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned residents they were in for an uncomfortably warm night ahead of a cool change expected on Sunday.
'We forecast a minimum for example of 21C for Melbourne but really it's not really going to fall below 25C for any great length of time,' senior forecaster Chris Godfred told reporters on Saturday afternoon.
North-to-northwesterly winds were expected to intensify into Sunday morning, with peak gusts possibly reaching up to 120km/h over alpine areas.
A strong cold front is then expected to pass through the south west of the state, near Portland, around 6am Sunday.
It will pass through Melbourne around 10am and finally through the south east of the state between 1pm and 2pm.
'We'll see fires move around in the night with levels of intensity and fire behaviour that'll be quite erratic,' Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley said.
When asked whether any of the fires were suspicious EM Commissioner Lapsley said that there was no cause yet but all would be investigated, particularly ones such as the fire in Mill Park.
'We haven't seen lightning [in that part of the state] so we would assume it would be the human hand,' he said.
With the belief that some of the fires may have been deliberately lit the Commissioner also warned people to look out for 'suspicious' people and to report them or anyone ignoring the fire ban to police.
Total fire bans have been issued for the state's Central and South West districts on Sunday with while other weather districts still have severe fire warnings.
The SES have also responded to around 50 calls for assistance, at the time of the press conference, with the majority about fallen trees.
The gusts are expected to pass through Melbourne by mid-morning and reach the state's far east by early afternoon before temperatures drop to around 20C or lower.


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Growing switch to polyester carpets puts recycling at risk.
Aquafil USA, part of Italian-based Aquafil S.p.A. (Trento, Italy) will open production of second carpet recycling plant in the U.S—in Woodland, CA soon to harvest Nylon 6 from nylon-based carpets to regenerate the nylon fraction into new ECONYL® yarns for new carpets.
The $12 million, 120,000-square-foot plant, when production reaches full peak, will add 50 new jobs and bolster the recycling infrastructure needed to help recycle the millions of tons of carpet that are discarded by Americans annually (https://wasteadvantagemag.com/carpet-recycling-op-ed-and-analysis/?fbclid=IwAR104LcfTEmVb0GRMdnYaEJOgu7jvBzda6OYqo0pxpvEeWgr8jv_997l0J8) that either end up in landfills or are used as a fuel source for industry, which generate green house gases.
Based in Cartersville, GA, Aquafil USA was started 20 years ago by Franco Rossi and now has two productions factories in Cartersville and two carpet recycling plants in Arizona and California. The area around Carterville is considered to be the carpet manufacturing capital of the world. In fact, more than 100 carpet manufacturers in Georgia purchase Aquafil's recycled Nylon 6.
The most valuable component of used carpet is Nylon 6, a high-value yarn. The recovered nylon is sent to Aquafil's ECONYL® regeneration plant in Slovenia to become new Nylon 6, called ECONYL®, which is 100 percent regenerated and infinitely regenerable and used for both carpet flooring and garments.
When the Woodland plant reaches full capacity—36 million pounds of carpet annually, it will be able to disassemble and separate a nylon-based carpet to its components within 30 minutes. The Phoenix plant opened last April and production at that location is increasing.
Aquafil's parent company has 16 plants in eight countries, including Italy, Slovenia, Germany, UK, Croatia, China and Thailand. The California plant, which employs wet and dry measures to deconstruct carpets, is also environmentally-friendly. The water can be re-used, and renewable energies are maximized.
In Arizona, carpet recycling does not receive any subsidies, but in California, carpet retailers have been charging 35 cents per-square yard of new carpets that they sell. The assessment started in 2011 at 5 cents per square yard after passage of AB 2398, with subsequent increases to reach the current 35 cents as of January 1, 2019 (https://carpetrecovery.org/california/).
Having states bring in EPR legislation is just one aspect of the many conditions required to recycle carpets in America, and many recycling groups and associations are working hard to have as many states as possible enact them.
Rossi is very concerned about another situation that is literally throwing a spanner into the works and could seriously derail overall efforts to recycle carpets in the U.S.—the move from nylon to polyester-based carpets over the past seven years.
This is already having an impact on firms collecting the carpet because their work is made more difficult via the separation process and they have fewer viable products to sell to Aquafil and other companies.
A key question that all should ask, particularly when there is a growing environmental awareness and recycling ethos, is why governments are permitting a product to be manufactured that cannot be recycled? It is not as if a large percentage of people and governments are unaware of the problem that polyester carpets pose now and in the future.
What can be done in terms of recycling polyester? So far Rossi stressed that the situation looks bleak."The only solution at the moment is to use the fiber as such in what are called agnostic applications, where the ingredients used doesn't matter because it's only used as insulation, pads, inexpensive fabrics, and some decking material," he said. "These products need a material that melts easily or is fluffy. But once the material is used for this application, there is no way to recover it again and so it's not the ideal in the future circular economy scheme.
Praising the efforts of Rossi and Aquafil USA is a given as the company is demonstrating that one can move forward with profit-based actions to help protect the environment. This company and a host of others and potential entrepreneurs are keen to create the infrastructure needed to recycle consumer and commercial products and the markets for the recovered materials.
Hopefully, other states will recognize some of the root issues with regards to carpets and recycling and pass carpet EPR legislation to build on what California has done to increase the number of green jobs in their state and regionally.


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Excerpts from Harry Truman's Chicago speech 10/25/48 still relevant today.
Drew Phipps
Excerpts from Truman's 10/25/48 speech in Chicago:
"The American way of life which most of us have been taking for granted is threatened today by powerful forces of which most people are not even aware. The real danger to our democracy does not come only from these extremes. It comes mainly from the powerful reactionary forces which are silently undermining our democratic institutions. I am going to tell you just what these forces are. Look back over history, and you will find that wherever ruthless men have destroyed liberty and human rights, certain economic and social forces had paved the way for them.
What are these forces that threaten our way of life? Who are the men behind them? They are the men who want to see inflation continue unchecked. They are the men who are striving to concentrate great economic power in their own hands. They are the men who are setting up and stirring up racial and religious prejudice against some of our fellow Americans.
Let's take that first group--the men who want to see inflation continue unchecked. Believe it or not, there are such men. They know that inflation--since price controls were killed just over 2 years ago--has sent corporation profits soaring to the fantastic level of nearly $20 billion a year. They are so blinded by the glitter of gold that they forget that inflation--if it is not stopped--will bring on another terrible. crash like the one of 1929.
Now, let's look at that group of men who are jeopardizing the future of democracy in the United States through their concentrated economic power. This is just as dangerous as inflation. Again and again in history, economic power concentrated in the hands of a few men has led to the loss of freedom. When a few men get control of the economy of a nation, they find a "front man" to run the country for them.
Before Hitler came to power, control over the German economy had passed into the hands of a small group of rich manufacturers, bankers, and landowners. These men decided that Germany had to have a tough, ruthless dictator who would play their game and crush the strong German labor unions. So they put money and influence behind Adolf Hitler. We know the rest of the story. We also know that in Italy, in the 1920's, powerful Italian businessmen backed Mussolini, and that in the 1930's, Japanese financiers helped Tojo's military clique take over Japan.
Today, in the United States, there is a growing--and dangerous--concentration of immense economic power in the hands of just a few men. That's a dangerous situation. Great corporations have been expanding their power steadily. They have been squeezing small business further and further out of the picture. That 80th Congress was beset by more lobbyists and more powerful lobbyists than any Congress in the history of these United States.
Now, I must speak of the third evil force which works secretly to destroy freedom, racial and religious prejudice. The tragic story of what happened in Germany is all too fresh. We know how Hitler used anti-Semitic propaganda as a way of stupefying the German people with false ideas while he reached out for power. This was not the first time such a thing has happened. The persecution of minorities goes hand in hand with the destruction of liberty.
This country has been mercifully spared extreme racial and religious strife. But in recent years there has been a new outcropping of demagogues among us. Dangerous men, who are trying to win followers for their war on democracy, are attacking Catholics, and Jews, and Negroes, and other minority races and religions. We must do everything we can to protect our democratic principles against those who foment racial and religious prejudice."
Aside from not naming Ford, GM, GE, DuPont, Fred Koch, Bush,.... a surprisingly candid look at world history. Much of this sounds still surprisingly pertinent after 68 years. Substitute "corporate tax breaks" for "unchecked inflation", and "Muslims" for "Catholics," and this speech would seem at home in the campaign of 2016... if any of the candidate had the stones to speak like Truman.
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Good speech, but just one week before an election everybody thought he was going to lose, so he was firing up the liberal voters. It still amazes me he beat three other candidates (Dewey, Wallace, Thurmond). Too bad Truman often didn't match his policies to his rhetoric (like Clinton and Obama).
Harry Dean
Drew Phipps Wrote: Excerpts from Truman's 10/25/48 speech in Chicago:
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The symbols we use also have names: dollar sign, treble clef, asterisk, etc. But sometimes the name for a symbol takes on a different sort of meaning, so that it is no longer a name, but a word in its own right. Here are eight words that started as symbols.
An article by Anne Curzan explains how the slash (/) has become a proper word among young people. Her students not only speak the word slash in places where the symbol would be found in writing, they write it out instead of using the symbol in status updates and text messages. (Does anyone care if my cousin comes visits slash stays with us Friday night?) Even more interesting, slash has taken on a different meaning than the and/or one implied by the symbol. It can be used to follow up on a comment, or add an afterthought (I really love that hot dog place on Liberty Street. Slash can we go there tomorrow?) To Curzan this development of a new kind of conjunction is "like a rare bird sighting in the world of linguistics: an innovation in the slang of young people embedding itself as a function word in the language."
The heart probably first made its way into written language with the classic "I ♥ Mom" tattoo, but it became really prominent during the 1970s' "I Love New York" tourism campaign. The logo for the campaign substituted a red heart for the word love, and soon imitators were putting it on mugs and T-shirts proclaiming love for all kinds of things. Then the symbol turned back into a word, not meaning love, but heart. This seems to have begun with the 2004 movie I ♥ Huckabees, which was read out loud as "I Heart Huckabees" (though it was also called "I Love Huckabees"). Now people heart to heart everything. They heart it so much.
The hash (#) symbol took on special importance in Twitter for its use in hashtags, keys that could be used to group or organize tweets. Hashtags soon became a way for people to make meta-comments or asides about what they were saying ("Watching wheel of fortune and eating oreos #livingthedream"). People started introducing hashtags in their speech by saying the word hashtag and then, to bring it full circle, started writing the word hashtag to introduce meta-comments ("Yay for the selfie screen on vine. Hashtag so excited!"), even when they could have used the much more economical (#).
DOT DOT DOT means so much more than you think!
Not all of our symbols-turned-words come from the modern era of social media. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the period (.) punctuation mark has been used as the adverb period, indicating "end of story; nothing more to say about it": "I have never and will never ride a jet ski, period."
Quote-unquote has also been around for a while. At first the words more closely followed the structure of the actual quote symbols, with the quoted (or ironically quoted) words appearing between quote and unquote, but it became a compound, similar to so-called, that no longer follows the rules of actual quotation marks.
Blankety blank does not really refer to the symbol for a blank (_______), but for what would be filled into that blank if it weren't for propriety's sake. ("This blankety blank car won't blankety blank start!") The reduplication makes it more fun to say, offering some of the psychological release afforded by the words it replaces.
The origin of the phrase "gotta catch some z's" is probably in comic books, where sleeping characters were depicted with a line of z's over their heads. This makes it a bit different from letter phrases that come from acronyms, like LOL or OMG, because the letter in this case doesn't stand for a word, but an image, the letter z as a symbol.


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Types of Cats
What Is the Difference Between Orange Cats & Tabby Cats?
By Leslie Darling
Marbled Orange and White Color in Cats
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Swirled, mackerel, spotted or ticked, enchanting tabby cats have a distinctive, recognizable coat pattern, regardless of breed. Though your cat might appear to be solid orange, it is still a tabby. Like cats themselves, cat genetics are not always simple and straightforward.
Tabby Patterns
Tabby cats are, simply put, cats with stripes of white and some other color. Orange tabbies, also called red or ginger, are white with any shade of orange, from the palest cream to the deepest red. Tabby markings come in four recognized patterns (classic, mackerel, spotted and ticked), but all have the typical tabby "M" on the forehead. A patched tabby is sometimes added to the list -- this is a tortoiseshell cat with patches of tabby stripes.
The Color Orange
The orange gene has two alleles -- dominant (O) and recessive (o). The dominant gene for orange color will actually mask black and brown genes and convert them to orange! If a cat also inherits a tabby gene, it will appear to be an orange tabby. If it doesn't carry the tabby gene, it will look like a solid orange cat, but look closely -- you will see faint stripes somewhere. Sometimes these faint stripes, called ghosting, will be more apparent in kittens. And you will also see the classic "M" on kitty's forehead.
The gene for orange color is carried on the X chromosome, making it sex-linked. This means that males only have to have one copy of it to be orange. Females must have two copies to be orange. So while female orange cats are not rare, females are just as likely to inherit genes for other colors, making them tortoiseshells or patched tabbies. About 75 percent of orange tabbies are males.
The Tabby Gene
The agouti gene is responsible for the tabby pattern. The agouti gene can also be dominant or recessive -- if it's domiinant, it reveals the tabby pattern, while the recessive allele prevents it. Solid color cats have two recessive genes (aa), hiding the tabby pattern. But the dominant orange color gene (O) suppresses the aa, so there is no such thing as a solid orange cat!
There are three alleles for the tabby gene that control the coat pattern -- mackerel, ticked or classic swirl pattern. The mackerel is thought to be the gene inherited from the wild ancestor of your domestic darling and provides good camouflage in high grasses, thus allowing him to sneak up on his prey.
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Leslie Darling has been a writer since 2003, writing regularly for "Mississippi Magazine" and "South Mississippi Living," specializing in food and wine, animals and pets, and all things Southern. She is a graduate of the University of New Orleans.


Just a reminder - EVERY UK VAT REGISTERED COMPANY (that has to be registered) must be using the new "Making Tax Digital" API to submit VAT returns from April 2019. Do not forget!
We have s/w for this (Onion Accounts), tested, and approved, yay!
So we are trying to put the company (A&A) on the "pilot" so we can actually submit our own VAT return using the new system, before it is all mandatory. A final double check that all is working as it should.
We get to authorise it all, using OAUTH, and get an access token for the read:vat and write:vat access. But it does not work, we are told we are not authorised!
So, let's try and sign up.... Nope. We get "This service is only available to some limited companies, sole traders, partnerships and VAT groups." which is not that helpful.
We also get "You will be able to sign up for this service from April 2019."
Hang on?!?! This is "Sign up for the pilot". Why would I be able to sign up for a pilot in April 2019 when the pilot is surely over (as MTD VAT is mandatory from April 2019)? Surely they are not making people "sign up" for the mandatory process (they call it a "service" which I dislike).
A bit more digging and we find "You will not be able to take part in the pilot at the moment if you:" ... "currently trade with, or have traded with the EU".
Firstly, surely you want people on the pilot with the complex edge cases, not the "simple" cases. You want things to break (if they are going to break) in the pilot and not once the process goes live. So why exclude these edge cases?
Secondly, and this is where the mindset has got us brexit, what UK company does not trade with the EU? Hardly any, I bet. All of our customers and suppliers are in the EU! Yes, almost every single one is also in the UK, but the UK is part of the EU.
Is a Dutch company trading with a Dutch supplier, "trading with the EU"? If yes, then so is a UK company trading with a UK supplier. If no, then neither is a UK company trading with that Dutch supplier. Either the supplier (or customer) is in the EU, or they are not. They are not suddenly "not in the EU" if in the same country as the trading party. Next we'll say that trading with someone else in Bracknell is not trading with the UK, it is trading with Bracknell.
The ideas that there is the "UK", and there is this separate non-UK "EU", an idea perpetrated by HMRC in this case, is part of the problem, IMHO.
Update: Sounds like the "traded with EU" restriction goes away next week, so we may be able to make some progress!
Update: (4th Dec) We have "applied" for the trial.
Update: (5th Dec) We managed to file a VAT return, just in time.
Alice was born on Saturday. Apart from being a few days earlier than expected, everything went exactly as planned, which is a huge relief. After what happened last time, we all knew the worst that could happen, and everyone was scared shitless that something would go wrong. I am so relieved, and pleased, to say everything went perfectly, and mother and baby are doing fine, back home, and starting the long journey ahead of them with a sweet innocent bundle of joy called Alice.
The hospital were great, and did everything right. Wales is a strange place - the hospital had plenty of parking, and it is free - we're still getting over the shock.
Odette was a little more drawn out in her arrival. At one point we thought she would be first, and at one point we thought they were both coming on the same day! My poor wife has been amazing, running back and forth between Wales and Bracknell to be with the girls when they need her. She has not slept for two days, but today (Wednesday) we welcome Odette in to the world.
Her big brother, Lewis, has been great. He clearly adores her already, and says she is cute.
So now I have two grand-daughters all of a sudden. Well done.
I nearly called this "Cal Meh" but I feel that is probably more a reflection of my expectation than the event itself. In case you missed it, Cal Mah was a Stargate fan event in Leicester this weekend. It was quite small (I felt), but that is probably to be expected for a UK event. It had some talks, and some of the actors, and a few stands with vendors. I went on the Saturday and felt it did not really justify two days, for me. I suspect that had the organiser not decided to unilaterally cancel my expensive ticket, then I may have had more fun with the extra evening events. Shame.
I am not one for dressing up, sorry, but I did go as far as a lab coat and an "Area 51 ID card". I even made a card for the organiser, and left at the desk when I left. No idea if he likes it, he has blocked me on twitter!
I seem to have been banished to a ship in a distant galaxy!
What was interesting was the number of people that did dress up, and some of them in quite impressive costumes. It seems like quite a community of fans, very friendly.
So, yes, a fun small event. If I can find someone to go with, I may consider one the the bigger events such as Gatecon in Vancouver, one day. I was surprised to see someone dressed as a full Star Trek captain though!
I am quite amazed how many things in the business are postscript based, i.e. code or scripts generating postscript, or just hand crafted postscript files, which are then converted to PDF or printed.
I have been working all week on this, not just the plastic card printing, but now the invoices and statements and letters from the accounts system. Because of my new library for fonts I have also been updating systems that were already SVG based but coped badly with long names and strings.
But there is still a lot to do, so this is not going to happen over night.
The main change now for invoicing is the system generates SVG files. I originally planned on making simple multiple page SVG using inkscape style "layers" but actually inkscape is slow to load a multiple page SVG anyway even though it can pick out one page to convert to PDF. SVG does not (yet) have pages as a concept, but that may happen soon. Sadly I cannot seem to easily script loading once and then converting each page, so I ended up making multiple SVG files. But I have the option to make one SVG file, and I may make one that is interactive with page turn buttons, for use in a web page as well.
As has been a big topic on my blog, of late, fonts have been the challenge. I am getting the hang of it now. Latest annoyance if font family names - where some fonts have one family name and many weights and slants and so on, but others make each combination a different family name. I have ended up with code to "normalise" this (including, in one case, removing a trailing space from a family name which refused to work in the browser even in quotes!).
It also took me a while to realise that SVG font-style is *just* the slant (normal, italic, oblique), and also that SVG font-weight is 100-900 but free type uses a totally different scale. Oh, and it is normal, not "normal" when using in a style, but always "normal" when used as an XML attribute (obviously).
Anyway, finally we have a system which uses SVG masters as a letterhead and template for the content of invoices, statements and letters. This allows a lot of fine tuning (the accounts system is used by a lot of different companies). The old system using postscript allowed even more fine tuning but only if you could code postscript. This way you can edit a letterhead or layout in inkscape, which is a lot easier.
I have even set up a system to allow font control at various levels, even per account. This means we could set up an account for large print, for example. There are limits on what will fit with invoices and statements, but we can make text much larger in most cases, and text on letters even larger. We can also control font, such as using the Open Dyslexic font, if wanted. Whilst I doubt we would get many requests, especially as such documents are almost always emailed and so easily scaled on screen, we have the option now.
The other good thing is the new PDFs have much better copy/paste of content including good unicode support. I expect this would help screen readers extract text more easily.
Whilst mostly the plan was to make an equivalent system for invoices, statements, and letters, I have taken the chance to improve some things - such as a summary and totals on page 1 of invoices when they do not fit on one page.
Right now, some customers are on new format, so we can get some feedback, but we'll switch over completely soon. The "formal" invoice remains the PGP signed plain text that is emailed, but the PDF and print versions should be much nicer now.
Even so, much more to do - things like the call data records need changing and improving. This is a bit of a never ending task.
And finally, I have to say how excellent Google Fonts is. I have not loaded them all, but so far a reasonable selection can be seen on the card printing system, which I have managed to group by the base font family name. I'm happy to load any more free fonts if people have requests.
Thanks for the help from those that have been testing, especially Neil for his pedantry.
There is the normal space character (0x20), and there is the non breaking space character (0xA0).
However, I have run in to snags, and ended up having to add it as a special case in my code.
The first snag is simple - some fonts (and only a few) do not have the non-breaking space character encoded. So my new font system wants to know the size of every character to work out layout of text in SVG, and it "falls back" to Google NoTo fonts to find the character if missing.
This logic was originally for Emojis, but actually has the full Google NoTo set now, so does Egyptian hieroglyphics and so on. It works well (once you remove the Color[sic] Emoji font).
Thankfully most of the fonts I am using even have extended Latin, so things like Polish crossed "l" characters just work in the base font. Google's free fonts are pretty good!
The problem is that when the main selected font has no non breaking space I fall back, and I hit the Emoji font quite quickly which does, only it is about twice as wide as you expect!
So my text ends up with non breaking space encoded in the Emoji font, and being wide.
Well, this is not ideal, but why would I encounter non breaking spaces anyway? Well, because when I make the SVG output, extra spaces, and leading spaces, and trailing spaces, are all zapped. So any actual formatting with spaces (especially if using mono-spaced fonts) is totally lost. This is bad enough, but I have worked out the size with the spaces and so the result looks horridly stretch to fit the space it should take with all the spaces in place. This took me ages to find as one string I was testing with had a trailing space which I had not spotted. So now I convert all spaces to non breaking spaces for output to SVG.
This them hit the first snag that the non breaking spaces are not in the font, and so I ended up coding all spaces in Emoji (for some base fonts). Again, not spotted originally as the font I was using had non-breaking spaces encoded, but another font did not and just looks horrid spaced!
P.S. xml:space="preserve" is your friend - it preserves spaces as they are.


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New Bentley GT pics
the official website www.bentleygt.com has published some new pictures and sketches of the upcoming GT. please find them attached.
IMHO it's not that bad, i like the rear view. but i do not have any understanding for the "triangles" in the side windows, they should be fully lowerable
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OOPS, here are the pics...
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Re: OOPS, here are the pics...
Thanks for sharing the info.
Interesting design. Highly interesting power output.
Something known about a possible price tag?
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there's no price info on the site, but i've heard rumours that the price tag will be slightly above 996TT or AMG CL/SL55, around EUR 140,000
140000 EUR would be interesting
But I'm not sure Bentley will be THAT "cheap".
Re: 140000 EUR would be interesting
IMHO they have to be that "cheap"... the target audience for this car can't be the ultra-rich bentley boy who needs another car -- it's the tiptronic turbo driver, the CL 600 or the DB7 owner.
and technically it's a VW phaeton where they put a turbocharger onto their W12 and some more wood and (hopefully) aluminium into the cabin. so the financial controlling dept. should be happy as well
from evo magazine...
(from evo.co.uk, july 5th)
Five hundred and fifty bhp, 738lb ft, 190mph. These are the numbers which will define Bentley's GT Coupe - which may be called Continental - when it goes on sale in October 2003. Amazing as the figures are, the real killer number will be the price - around Pounds110,000. A lot of money in most people's book, certainly, but rather good value in the context of the competition. Aston Martin's 460bhp Vanquish is Pounds160,000 and Ferrari's 442bhp 456GT costs Pounds170,000. The Bentley will be more practical and faster than either of them.
A twin-turbo W12 will fire the new coupe to 60 in under five seconds, helped by a four-wheel-drive system borrowed from the VW Phaeton and the forthcoming second- generation Audi A8, both of which are based on the same platform. The system - which splits power 50:50 in normal conditions - has been tuned to give the Bentley a more neutral handling bias than in all-wheel-drive VWs to date.
Extensive development testing on demanding roads and repeated visits to the Nürburgring have paid dividends, according to Bentley chassis engineers. Quelling understeer has been the main goal - not an easy task considering the mighty engine and 2000kg kerb weight - and Bentley claims to be delighted with the results achieved so far. Final chassis settings are still being tweaked and, with production some way off, engineers are happy to keep working until the car is as close to perfect as they can possibly make it.
It's the huge torque that is likely to dominate the Bentley experience. With an almost unbelievable target of 1000Nm (738lb ft), the GT Coupe could probably get by with one long gear. In fact Bentley is developing a six-speed auto, complete with Tiptronic-style shift operated by steering wheel-mounted paddles, that can deal with the awesome pulling power.
Bentley design director Dirk van Braeckel has obviously taken inspiration from Bentleys of old, but the GT Coupe avoids tacky retro styling themes and carves out a bold new direction for the company. So far reaction to the car has been mixed - which could explain the decision to release official pictures so long before it goes on sale - but Bentley is confident that it can sell 5000 GTs a year.


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VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA REMEMBERS A CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER THROUGH PRESERVATION OF THE 'JENKINS BUS'
Esau and Janie B. Jenkins used their Volkswagen Type 2 bus to further their work during the Civil Rights movement
Historic Vehicle Association to display the 1966 bus on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. from September 20 to 27
Herndon, VA — To honor the memory of South Carolina civil rights pioneers Esau and Janie B. Jenkins, Volkswagen of America will help the Historic Vehicle Association preserve the Volkswagen Type 2 bus they used to further their work for African-American citizens in the region.
Esau and Janie B. Jenkins fought to improve the lives of their African-American neighbors on Johns Island, South Carolina, from the 1940s through the 1970s. Over the decades, the couple launched a plethora of businesses to employ and serve their community, organized citizenship schools and used their Volkswagen Type 2 bus to further their initiatives and advocacy. The tailgate of their bus sported their famous motto: "Love Is Progress; Hate Is Expensive."
"The Jenkinses exemplify what we mean when we aspire to 'Drive Bigger,'" said Scott Keogh, CEO and President, Volkswagen Group of America. "We're honored to help preserve a part of their legacy so that present and future generations of Americans can learn what it took to bring civil rights to all."
Esau Jenkins, a native of Johns Island, S.C., and his wife Janie B. Jenkins, started out owning a farm and selling produce. Troubled by the lack of opportunity and rights in his community, Esau bought a bus in 1945 to haul children to school in Charleston; he soon added routes to bring workers to jobs. At the start of the 1940s, only a few thousand African-American residents across South Carolina could vote, due to racial literacy exams. During his bus trips, Esau would teach his passengers to recite parts of the state constitution, the requirement for becoming registered voters.
In 1948, the Jenkinses helped found The Progressive Club, a co-op that provided community programs such as legal and financial assistance, child and adult education, and community workshops. The building housed a grocery store, gas station, community center, meeting, and classroom space. Leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, participated in workshops and community meetings there.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Jenkinses worked tirelessly to help offset the economic disadvantages of Jim Crow. During this time, they purchased a 1966 Volkswagen Type 2, and used it to help open several businesses, such as a credit union to provide loans for other small businesses. They also helped launch citizenship schools that tackled illiteracy.
Esau Jenkins died in 1972. Shortly thereafter, the 1966 Volkswagen Type 2 Bus the Jenkinses had last used was parked in a backyard, where it remained until it was retrieved by the Historical Vehicle Association this year. In 2014, the family donated the back hatch, along with the engine cover, to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. where it remains on permanent exhibit.
The 1966 Type 2 will be displayed on the National Mall in Washington D.C. September 20 to 27 as a part of the fifth annual Historic Vehicle Association (HVA) Cars at the Capital exhibition. After the exhibition, the Historic Vehicle Association and professional conservators, working with Volkswagen, plan to halt the deterioration of the bus and preserve it where possible to help keep a memento of the Jenkins' work alive.
"Ensuring our automotive heritage is never lost nor forgotten is paramount to the HVA mission. We are delighted to partner with Volkswagen and B. R. Howard to preserve this important microbus, and to fully document its rich history as part of our National Historic Vehicle Register," said Diane Parker, Vice President of the Historic Vehicle Association.
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