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Federal holiday in the United States
This article is about the U.S. holiday. For the similarly-named holiday in other countries, see Labour Day. For other uses, see Labor Day (disambiguation).
Labor Day Parade in New York's Union Square, 1882
Observed by
Parades, barbecues
First Monday in September
2021 date
September 6 (2021-09-06)
Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday in September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States.[1][2][3] The three-day weekend it falls on is called Labor Day Weekend.
Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements grew, trade unionists proposed that a day be set aside to celebrate labor. "Labor Day" was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, which organized the first parade in New York City. In 1887, Oregon was the first state of America to make it an official public holiday. By the time it became an official federal holiday in 1894, thirty states in America officially celebrated Labor Day.[4]
Canada's Labour Day is also celebrated on the first Monday of September. More than 80 countries celebrate International Workers' Day on May 1, the ancient European holiday of May Day. May Day was chosen by the Second International of socialist and communist parties to commemorate the Haymarket affair, which occurred in Chicago on May 4, 1886.[5][6]
1.1 Origin
1.2 Legal recognition
2 Labor Day vs. May Day
3 Unofficial end of summer
4 Labor Day sales
Origin[edit]
Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements grew, diverse groups of trade unionists chose a variety of days on which to celebrate labor. In the United States, a September holiday called Labor Day was first proposed in the early 1880s.
Alternative accounts of the event's origin exist. Descendants of two men with similar last names claim their great-grandfather was the true father of the holiday.[7]
According to one early history of Labor Day, the event originated in connection with a General Assembly of the Knights of Labor convened in New York City in September 1882.[8] In connection with this clandestine Knights assembly, a public parade of various labor organizations was held on September 5 under the auspices of the Central Labor Union (CLU) of New York.[8] Secretary of the CLU Matthew Maguire is credited for first proposing that a national Labor Day holiday subsequently be held on the first Monday of each September in the aftermath of this successful public demonstration.[9][7]
P. J. McGuire, Vice President of the American Federation of Labor, is frequently credited as the father of Labor Day in the United States.
An alternative thesis maintains that the idea of Labor Day was the brainchild of Peter J. McGuire, a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, who, after a visit to Toronto where he saw parades celebrating labor that May,[10][11] had put forward the initial proposal in the spring of 1882.[4] According to McGuire, on May 8, 1882, he made a proposition to the fledgling Central Labor Union in New York City that a day be set aside for a "general holiday for the laboring classes".[12] According to McGuire he further recommended that the event should begin with a street parade as a public demonstration of organized labor's solidarity and strength, with the march followed by a picnic, to which participating local unions could sell tickets as a fundraiser.[12] According to McGuire he suggested the first Monday in September as an ideal date for such a public celebration, owing to optimum weather and the date's place on the calendar, sitting midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving public holidays.[12]
Labor Day picnics and other public gatherings frequently featured speeches by prominent labor leaders.[13]
In 1909, the American Federation of Labor convention designated the Sunday preceding Labor Day as "Labor Sunday", to be dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.[9] This secondary date failed to gain significant traction in popular culture, although some churches continue to acknowledge it.[14]
Legal recognition[edit]
The popularity of the event spread across the country. In 1887, Oregon became the first state of the United States to make Labor Day an official public holiday. By 1894, thirty U.S. states were already officially celebrating Labor Day. In that year, Congress passed a bill recognizing the first Monday of September as Labor Day and making it an official federal holiday. President Grover Cleveland signed the bill into law on June 28.[15][4] The federal law, however, only made it a holiday for federal workers. As late as the 1930s, unions were encouraging workers to strike to make sure they got the day off.[16] All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the United States territories have subsequently made Labor Day a statutory holiday.[17]
Labor Day vs. May Day[edit]
Labor Day parade on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC around 1894
The date of May 1 (an ancient European folk holiday known as May Day) emerged in 1886 as an alternative holiday for the celebration of labor, later becoming known as International Workers' Day. The date had its origins at the 1885 convention of the American Federation of Labor, which passed a resolution calling for adoption of the eight-hour day effective May 1, 1886.[18] While negotiation was envisioned for achievement of the shortened work day, use of the strike to enforce this demand was recognized, with May 1 advocated as a date for coordinated strike action.[18] The proximity of the date to the bloody Haymarket affair of May 4, 1886, further accentuated May First's radical reputation.[14]
There was disagreement among labor unions at this time about when a holiday celebrating workers should be, with some advocating for continued emphasis of the September march-and-picnic date while others sought the designation of the more politically charged date of May 1. Conservative Democratic President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would tend to become a commemoration of the Haymarket affair and would strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe.[19] In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative,[20] formally adopting the date as a United States federal holiday through a law that he signed in 1894.[9]
Since the mid-1950s, the United States has celebrated Loyalty Day and Law Day on May 1. Unlike Labor Day, neither are legal public holidays (in that government agencies and most businesses do not shut down to celebrate them) and therefore have remained relatively obscure. Loyalty Day is formally celebrated in a few cities, while some bar associations hold Law Day events to celebrate the rule of law.[21][22]
Unofficial end of summer[edit]
Labor Day is called the "unofficial end of summer"[23] because it marks the end of the cultural summer season. Many take their two-week vacations during the two weeks ending Labor Day weekend.[24] Many fall activities, such as school and sports, begin about this time.
In the United States, many school districts resume classes around the Labor Day holiday weekend (see First day of school). Some begin the week before, making Labor Day weekend the first three-day weekend of the school calendar, while others return the Tuesday following Labor Day. Many districts across the Midwest are opting to begin school after Labor Day.[25]
In the U.S. state of Virginia, the amusement park industry has successfully lobbied for legislation requiring most school districts in the state to have their first day of school after Labor Day, in order to give families another weekend to visit amusement parks in the state. The relevant statute has been nicknamed the "Kings Dominion law" after one such park.[26] This law was repealed in 2019.[27]
In the U.S. state of Minnesota, the State Fair ends on Labor Day. Under state law, public schools normally do not begin until after the holiday. One reason given for this timing was to allow time for schoolchildren to show 4-H projects at the Fair.[28]
In U.S. sports, Labor Day weekend marks the beginning of many fall sports. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) teams usually play their first games that weekend,[29] and the National Football League (NFL) traditionally play their kickoff game the Thursday following Labor Day.[30] The Southern 500 NASCAR auto race has been held on Labor Day weekend at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina from 1950 to 2003 and since 2015.[31] At Indianapolis Raceway Park, the National Hot Rod Association hold their finals of the NHRA U.S. Nationals drag race that weekend.[32] Labor Day is the middle point between weeks one and two of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships held in Flushing Meadows, New York.[33]
In fashion, Labor Day is (or was) considered the last day when it is acceptable to wear white[34] or seersucker.[35][36]
There are numerous events and activities organized in major cities. For example, New York offers the Labor Day Carnival, and fireworks over Coney Island.[37] In Washington, one popular event is the Labor Day Concert at the U.S. Capitol featuring the National Symphony Orchestra with free attendance.[38]
Labor Day sales[edit]
To take advantage of large numbers of potential customers with time to shop, Labor Day has become an important weekend for discounts and allowances by many retailers in the United States, especially for back-to-school sales. Some retailers claim it is one of the largest sale dates of the year, second only to the Christmas season's Black Friday.[39]
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Q: Evaluate the iterated integral of this function Let $f:[0, 1]×[0, 1] → R$ be defined by
$f(x,y)= \frac{1}{n}$  if $x=\frac{m}{n}$, $y$ is in rational
and $0$ otherwise
$1.$ Evaluate the iterated integral
$2.$ Is $f$ riemann integrable on $[0, 1] \times [0, 1]$
Can someone help me with this? I am trying to practice integrals in $R^n$ but it's really confusing me.

A: For each $x,y\in\mathbb R$ define $f_x$ and $f^y$ on $\mathbb [0,1]$ by $y\mapsto f(x,y)$ and $x\mapsto f(x,y)$, respectively. Since $\mathbb Q$ has zero Lebesgue measure, $f_x=0$ a.e. for all $x$ so $$0=\int_0^1 f_x(y)\ \mathsf dy=\int_0^1\int_0^1f(x,y)\ \mathsf dy\ \mathsf dx.$$
A similar argument may be used to show that the other iterated integral is zero.
However, $f$ is not Riemann integrable on $[0,1]^2$. Let $(x,y)\in[0,1]^2$ with $x=\frac pq$, $p\not\mid q$ and $y$ irrational. Let $\{y_n\}$ be a sequence of rational numbers with $\lim_{n\to\infty}y_n=y$, then $\lim_{n\to\infty}(x,y_n)=(x,y)$ but $$\lim_{n\to\infty}f(x,y_n)=\frac1q\ne0=f(x,y). $$ This implies that $f$ is discontinuous on a set of positive measure, from which the result follows.


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One of the main criteria for winning the award was the fact that it is a true example of form follows function. Its breakthrough design ensures the liner stays in the proper milking position and provides excellent massage, offering cows maximum comfort without compromising on milking performance. As a result teat health improves and mastitis cases are reduced.
One of the highlights at EuroTier, the world's leading trade fair for animal production is the DLV innovation of the year award ceremony. The prize is awarded in ten categories, ranging from feeding technology, animal welfare, software and milking technology.
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" Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. " – Paulo Freire, Educator
MARCH 30, 2014 / BY JESUS IÑIGUEZ Meet Mardonia Galeana
(in collaboration with S.I.R.E.N.)
As immigration reform looms in the national consciousness, much of the conversations are taking undocumented youth -DREAMers, as they are known- and tech-savvy immigrants as the focal point of why reform is necessary.
There are more than 11 million undocumented people currently living in the United States; approximately 1.8 million of which are undocumented youth who may qualify under the DREAM Act. All told, conversations about legalization are mostly centered around 2-3 million undocumented people residing in the United States.
The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are left out of the conversation. Parents, grandparents, non-tech "low-skilled" laborers, and many others who don't have a formal higher education. Though their efforts are diminished by what our society defines as a "skilled contributor" to American society, these people have dreams, aspirations, goals, and strengths. And they work VERY hard.
Meet Mardonia Galeana.
Originally, we were working on the production of a video to recount the story of someone who falls out of this DREAMer narrative - Yosimar Reyes, an undocumented queer poet living in San Jose. Yosimar had written a very powerful piece about his grandmother, and we wanted to continue to explore the theme of these other undocumented people who get lost in the immigration reform conversation.
When we went to San Jose to work with Yosimar, we had the opportunity to meet Mardonia herself. And as we readied our equipment, she asked us what we were working on. We explained the sort of work that we were attempting to do with her grandson, and she began to speak about her own experiences, taken-aback by the notion that anybody would want to know about her life. As she spoke, it became apparent that, although Yosimar's piece is a beautiful powerful one, Mardonia's voice carries so much more weight. And she deserves to speak on her own behalf.
Mardonia is a Mexican migrant from the state of Guerrero. In 1991, when she was 59 years old, she crossed into the United States with four of her grandchildren to reunite with her husband, who was already living and working in San Jose.
In our interview, she discussed how dire things were becoming in Mexico, how cartel members started to make an appearance in Guerrero, how her family members and neighbors started to become targeted for violence and extortion from bandits and drug dealers, and how her small town slowly began to feel unsafe. After a series of incidents that convinced her that she could no longer live safely in her town, she took her four grandchildren and made her way up north to the U.S./Mexico border. There, she made the trip through the border by herself, guiding her four young grandchildren (Yosimar was only three at the time). That a 59-year-old woman could cross such a dangerous international border with four young children is nothing short of amazing.
Upon arriving here, she quickly found that job opportunities for a woman her age, compounded by the fact that she's undocumented, were non-existent. She described several incidents in which she approached different factory locations for a job, only to be quickly turned away. One morning, she saw a man collecting recyclables around her neighborhood. She quickly realized that she could collect glass bottles and aluminum cans and exchange them for cash. This then became her daily ritual, one that she continues to follow. Every single day, she goes out and looks for recyclables around her neighborhood. It's how she's able to contribute to her household and community, how she's able to provide for her grandchildren and family back in Guerrero, and how she make ends meet.
She mused about immigration reform, hoping that if and when it finally passes, she could be a beneficiary. She dreams of returning to visit family that she hasn't seen since she left Mexico. As for the future, she hopes to stay here to continue to work and provide for her grandchildren. Her goal is to help them all through college.
Many of our immigrant elders, in all of their wisdom and sacrifice, want nothing but the best for their children, grandchildren, and future generations. They are an integral part of our communities. They are the pillars that sustain and hold families together. They are living memories of where we come from, our connections to our sending countries, and a constant reminder of where we need to be. Although Mardonia, at 82 years of age, dreams of Mexico, she fiercely believes that this is now her home. She's very proud of her grandchildren and everything that she's been able to provide for them.
Mardonia's story isn't unique within the immigrant community, but her story is unique when we talk about undocumented immigrants in the mainstream media. Her story is one that is rarely spoken or written about. There are thousands of Mardonias out there, living and working towards a similar goal, yet they remain hidden, off the table when we speak about immigration reform.
We absolutely need to consider and maintain people like Mardonia in the United States and provide them a path towards citizenship. They've done their part, they've raised beautiful families, they are strong people who taught valor and strength to their children and grandchildren. Forgetting about them is forgetting our hearts.
Mardonia deserves immigration reform.
("Legalities of Being", video collaboration between Yosimar Reyes and DreamersAdrift.com)
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Thomas L. Friedman column: After the pandemic, a revolution in education and work awaits
Ravi Kumar, president of the vast Indian tech services company Infosys, at his home in Princeton, N.J., Oct. 20, 2020. Kumar argues that postsecondary education will transform into a hybrid ecosystem of company platforms, colleges and local schools, whose goal will be to create the opportunity for lifelong "radical reskilling."
The good Lord works in mysterious ways. He (She?) threw a pandemic at us at the exact same time as a tectonic shift in the way we will learn, work and employ. Fasten your seatbelt. When we emerge from this corona crisis, we're going to be greeted with one of the most profound eras of Schumpeterian creative destruction ever — which this pandemic is both accelerating and disguising.
No job, no K-12 school, no university, no factory, no office will be spared. And it will touch both white-collar and blue-collar workers, which is why this election matters so much. How we provide more Americans with portable health care, portable pensions and opportunities for lifelong learning to get the most out of this moment and cushion the worst is what politics needs to be about after Nov. 3 — or we're really headed for instability.
The reason the post-pandemic era will be so destructive and creative is that never have more people had access to so many cheap tools of innovation, never have more people had access to high-powered, inexpensive computing, never have more people had access to such cheap credit — virtually free money — to invent new products and services, all as so many big health, social, environmental and economic problems need solving.
Put all of that together and KABOOM!
You're going to see some amazing stuff emerge, some long-established institutions, like universities, disappear — and the nature of work, workplaces and the workforce be transformed.
I've been discussing this moment with Ravi Kumar, president of the Indian tech services company Infosys, whose headquarters is in Bangalore. Because Infosys helps companies prepare for a digital world, I've always found it a source of great insight on global employment/education trends. I started my book "The World Is Flat" there in 2004. Back then, Infosys' main business was doing work that American companies would outsource to India. Today, Kumar operates from New York City, where he's creating thousands of jobs in America. How could that be?
It starts with the fact, explained Kumar, that the Industrial Revolution produced a world in which there were sharp distinctions between employers and employees, between educators and employers and between governments and employers and educators, "but now you're going to see a blurring of all these lines."
Because the pace of technological change, digitization and globalization just keeps accelerating, two things are happening at once: The world is being knit together more tightly than ever — sure, the globalization of goods and people has been slowed by the pandemic and politics, but the globalization of services has soared — and "the half-life of skills is steadily shrinking," said Kumar, meaning that whatever skill you possess today is being made obsolete faster and faster.
Your children can expect to change jobs and professions multiple times in their lifetimes, which means their career path will no longer follow a simple "learn-to-work" trajectory, as Heather E. McGowan, co-author of "The Adaptation Advantage," likes to say, but rather a path of "work-learn-work-learn-work-learn."
"Learning is the new pension," McGowan said. "It's how you create your future value every day."
The most critical role for K-12 educators, therefore, will be to equip young people with the curiosity and passion to be lifelong learners who feel ownership over their education.
Obviously, everyone still needs strong fundamentals in reading and writing and math, but in a world where you will change jobs and professions several times, the self-motivation to be a lifelong learner will be paramount.
Parallel to that, explained Kumar, accelerations in digitization and globalization are steadily making more work "modular," broken up into small packets that are farmed out by companies. Companies, he argues, will increasingly become platforms that synthesize and orchestrate these modular packets to make products and services.
In the process, Kumar added, "work will increasingly get disconnected from companies, and jobs and work will increasingly get disconnected from each other." Some work will be done by machines; some will require your physical proximity in an office or a factory; some will be done remotely; and some will be just a piece of a task that can also be farmed out to anyone, anywhere.
As more work becomes modular, digitized and disconnected from an office or factory, many more diverse groups of people — those living in rural areas, minorities, stay-at-home moms and dads and those with disabilities — will be able to compete for it from their homes.
The reason Kumar now operates from New York is that he sees a huge new market in helping U.S. companies to prepare for this world by identifying potential new employees with skills — whether or not they have college degrees — then pairing them with new pathways of online training and pairing companies with these new talent pools. Every big company is going through this now — or will. Even The New York Times!
Look at the list of online opinion writers for The Times: It's radically different from when I became a columnist in 1995, when you had to be a staff employee. Today we have full-time staff columnists; columnists who are not on the staff but contribute regularly from all over the world, and on many days, one-time contributors. The people who moderate the comments on our columns are workers who plug in from all over the world, and much of the art is provided by freelancers. My longtime copy editor is working from home.
Welcome to the Times orchestra.
This is already having a big impact on education. "We have started hiring many people with no degrees," explained Kumar. "If you know stuff and can demonstrate that you know stuff and have been upskilling yourself with online training to do the task that we need, you're hired. We think this structural shift — from degrees to skills — could bridge the digital divide as the cost of undergraduate education has increased by 150% over the last 20 years."
Infosys still hires lots of engineers. But today Kumar is not looking just for "problem solvers," he says, but "problem-finders," people with diverse interests — art, literature, science, anthropology — who can identify things that people want before people even know they want them.
Steve Jobs was the ultimate problem-finder.
Now so many more people can play at that, because you no longer need to know how to code to generate new software programs. Thanks to artificial intelligence, there is now "no-code software." You just instruct the software to design some code for the application that you've imagined or need and, presto, it will spit it out.
"We're seeing the democratization of software — the consumers can now be the creators," Kumar explained. It shows you how AI will take away jobs of the past, while it creates jobs of the future.
Finally, he argues, in the future, postsecondary education will be a hybrid ecosystem of company platforms, colleges and local schools, whose goal will be to create the opportunity for lifelong "radical reskilling."
"Radical reskilling means I can take a front-desk hotel clerk and turn him into a cybersecurity technician. I can take an airline counter agent and turn her into a data consultant."
Today, companies like Infosys, IBM or AT&T are all creating cutting-edge in-house universities — Infosys is building a 100-acre campus in Indianapolis designed to provide their employees and customers not "just-in-case learning" — material you might or might not need to master the job at hand — but "just-in-time learning," offering the precise skills needed for the latest task, explained Kumar.
In the future, lifelong learning will be done by what I call "complex adaptive coalitions." An Infosys, Microsoft or IBM will partner with different universities and even high schools, argues Kumar. The universities' students will be able to take just-in-time learning courses — or do internships — at the corporations' in-house universities, and company employees will be able to take just-in-case humanities courses at the outside universities. Both will be able to "learn, earn and work," all at the same time. It's already beginning.
There is great potential here — if it is done right. The students get exposed to what is most new by way of innovation technologies and techniques. And the company engineers and executives get exposed to what is most enduring — civics, ethics, theories of justice, principles of democracy, notions of the public good, environmentalism and how to lead a life of purpose.
Fuente/ Source: www.baltimoresun.com
Por/ By: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Foto/ Photo: (Mark Makela for The New York Times)
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Try slices of this delicious Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Loaf plain, toasted with butter and honey, jelly or for a more decadent treat, Nutella.
I've been looking for some delicious new ways to incorporate peanut butter into my baked goods. After doing some research on the internet, I found this recipe for bread that uses a whole cup of peanut butter. Finally, I thought, there should be some real peanut butter flavour in this. The recipe I found was on the blog She Wears Many Hats. What I found interesting about her recipe is that she mixes her ingredients in the blender. Though the idea intrigued me, I'm afraid my blender quit on me and I haven't gotten around to replacing it. So I decided that I would make this bread using my mixer.
The recipe was so simple and I didn't want to change that, so all I did in my version was to use some whole wheat flour, replaced the granulated sugar with brown sugar and added some chocolate chips to make the kiddies happy. This Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Loaf was delicious and so quick and easy to make.
There are so many ways to eat this bread: plain, toasted with butter and honey, jelly or even Nutella (my favourite way so far). It makes a great snack for kids with a glass of milk. In case you want to make this recipe in the blender, here is the link to the original recipe.
Grease and flour one 9x5x3- inch loaf pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In another bowl, beat the sugar and peanut butter until well combined.
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until incorporated.
Mixing on low speed, add half the flour mixture, then half the milk, mix until blended and then repeat by adding the rest of the flour and milk.
Mix until all the flour is incorporated, scrape the bowl and then continue mixing until batter is smooth.
Pour the batter into the greased loaf pan.
Bake until the loaf is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the loaves comes out clean, about 50 to 55 minutes.
Cool in the pan on a rack for 15 minutes and then turn the loaf out unto a wire rack to cool.
I'm not a big peanut fan, but this looks so savory I can't wait to try it!
You can never go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate.. I love the sweet/salty combination. This bread looks divine!
This is such a beautiful, delicious-looking loaf!
I have started getting into baking bread and I'm a big fan of peanut butter. This goes in the must try lot, that's for sure!!!
That's great, let me how you like it if you end up trying it.
I love PB and chocolate any way I can get it 🙂 This looks delicious!
I love the addition of the brown sugar to this. I think this would be so good with a bowl of chili!
Hi Julie, it never occurred to me to have this with chili, but that might work cause the bread is not very sweet.
I love having sweet breads and muffins with savory soups! Or… maybe I just can it them any where any time too!
This loaf looks great and easy to make!!!
This loaf looks amazing, love the recipe!
Fabulous looking bread!! I love PB & chocolate anything and this looks absolutely delicious!


UNCAC Article 13 explicitly recognises the role that civil society can play in tackling corruption. That said, since the establishment of the UNCAC Review Mechanism, there has been debate amongst States Parties regarding the extent and methods by which civil society should be involved in UNCAC review and implementation efforts. The most notable manifestation of this debate is the exclusion of CSOs from the UNCAC Implementation Review Group responsible for overseeing the review mechanism. As this report demonstrates, over the first cycle of the UNCAC Review Mechanism, from 2010-15, the value of civil society participation has been demonstrated in practice, with CSOs involved in 85 per cent of the 114 in-country visits undertaken during this period,3 and many contributing their inputs via detailed UNCAC Civil Society Review Reports4 and other helpful technical commentary. This report reflects upon civil society's strong capacities to contribute to anti-corruption efforts, highlighting good practices, lessons learned and opportunities for improved government-civil society collaboration. These reflections have led to the recommendations below that were addressed to the 6th UNCAC Conference of States Parties in November 2015 and aim to assist UNCAC States Parties in identifying areas where they can take concrete action.


The commonly used stream operations are listed as follows.
Returns a stream consisting of the distinct elements by checking equals() method.
Returns a stream that match the specified predicate.
truncates a stream by number.
Applies the action for debugging.
Discards the first n elements and returns the remaining stream. If this stream contains fewer than requested, an empty stream is returned.
Sort a stream according to natural order or the specified Comparator. For an ordered stream, the sort is stable.
Returns true if all elements in the stream match the specified predicate, false otherwise. Returns true if the stream is empty.
Returns true if any element in the stream matches the specified predicate, false otherwise. Returns false if the stream is empty.
Returns any element from the stream. Returns an empty Optional object for an empty stream.
Returns the first element of the stream. For an ordered stream, it returns the first element; for an unordered stream, it returns any element.
Returns true if no elements in the stream match the specified predicate, false otherwise. Returns true if the stream is empty.
Applies an action for each element in the stream.
Applies a reduction operation to computes a single value from the stream.
We can debug a stream by using the peek(Consumer<? super T> action) method of the Stream<T> interface.
The IntStream, LongStream, and DoubleStream also contain a peek() method that takes a IntConsumer, a LongConsumer, and a DoubleConsumer as an argument.
We can use a lambda expression with the peek() method to log elements.
IntStream, LongStream, and DoubleStream contain the same methods.
The forEach() method does not guarantee the order in which the action for each element in the stream is applied.
The forEachOrdered() method performs the action in the order of elements defined by the stream.
forEachOrdered() method may slow down processing in a parallel stream.
The following code shows how to use the forEach() method to increase the income of all females by 10%.


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Mass executive evictions in Dili as government plans airport extension
ETLJB 27 May 2013 - The government of East Timor is planning to extend the runway of the Nicolau Lobato International Airport in Dili and many thousands of local residents affected by the plan are liable to be evicted. Some sources say up to 10,000 people will have their homes taken to make way for the extension of the runway in the project that will double its present length in order to accommodate large aircraft of international carriers.
Concerns about the project have already been raised by the local non-government organisation, Rede ba Rai (The Land Network).
There is no legal certainty to land titles in East Timor and evictions are effected by the police under Law No 1 of 2003 on Immovable Property (a law whose development was funded by the United States aid agency, USAID which funded foreign advisers to draft it). That executive evictions process is not subject to effective judicial review and the government refuses to implement the applicable Indonesian law regarding the resumption of land in the public interest or meet the international standare of just compensation which is the the market value of the resumed land.
Previous mass evictions as well as sporadic evictions have been undertaken by successive governments of East Timor since the restoration of independence including the resumption of community lands for public interests such as the Metinaro military headquarters, new road constructions, plantations, and a government supply project relating to oil and gas development on the south coast of the country.
No or token compensation has been paid. There has been no due process with government officials unilaterally determining the status of land (government or private) and then mobilisng the police and, in some cases, the military, to intimidate and forcibly remove residents from their homes. This has lead inevitabley to conflict and violence and is the same pattern of undemocratic behaviour of the former occupying state, Indonesia, when it took the people's land for development projects and the transmigration of Indonesians to the then 27th province of Indonesia known as Timor Timur.
Despite government assurances that the people will not suffer financial or social hardship in the face of unjust and undemocratic evictions, the affected communities and individuals have no enforceable legal rights, no resort to the courts and no bargaining power vis-a-vis the state and its strong arm tactics and will have to take what they get - which will be far less than the market value of their lands. Such interventions by the government will only fuel long-standing and widespread social and political tensions caused by land problems in East Timor.
Author: Warren L. Wright BA LLB, Solicitor and Barrister of the New South Wales Supreme Court, Solicitor and Barrister of the High Court of Australia, Land Law Specialist, former Property Rights Adviser to UNTAET, International Land Law Adviser to the Indonesian Land Administration Project and Senior Legal Officer at the New South Wales Land Titles Office.
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Community land in East Timor - A New Tragedy of the Commons?
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Community Land in East Timor: Compensation for Acquisition for Public Purposes
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Where Can I Watch
Posted December 14, 2021 • Last updated December 25, 2021
Where can I watch "Spider-Man: No Way Home" in Canada?
Find out where to watch the third film in the Tom Holland "Spider-Man" series in Canada.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home, the third in the "Home" series of Spider-Man films co-produced by Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures, starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Benedict Cumberbatch among others, was released only in theatres (for the time being) on Friday, December 17, 2021, with preview screenings starting on the evening of Thursday the 16th.
Sony Pictures Canada's promotional website for the movie makes clear that the new Spider-Man movie will be initally available "exclusively in movie theaters", including – in Canada – those belonging to the Cineplex, Landmark, Imagine, and Guzzo circuits.
This means that there will be no day-and-date streaming or on-demand release as there have been for some other Marvel Cinematic Universe films this year.
And while there's a possibility that premium digital rentals will be available in early 2022, unlike other MCU films it will not be available on Disney+ for the foreseeable future because of the complications surrounding the film rights to the Spider-Man character. Read on for further explanation.
By the way, if you're looking for a movie you believe is titled "Spiderman No Way Home" or "Spider Man Homecoming 3" or "the Spider-Man / Doctor Strange movie" or something else along those lines, this is very likely what you're looking for. And yes, as common as the single-word version is, the official spelling of the name of Peter Parker's alter ego is the hyphenated "Spider-Man".
When will "Spider-Man: No Way Home" be available for on demand purchase or rental in Canada?
Spider-Man: No Way Home is currently available for digital purchase pre-order on the Apple TV / iTunes Store, Cineplex Store, Microsoft Movies & TV, starting at around $24.99 (but varying by retailer), and can be "added to wishlist" on the Google Play Movies & TV store. (All prices in this article are in Canadian dollars before applicable sales taxes.)
But as for when the film will be available, we're not sure yet, as it's up to Sony, because they're calling the shots on how this movie will be distributed.
Even though Spider-Man is a Marvel Comics character, and even though Marvel Studios has been heavily involved in producing the live-action Spider-Man films since Homecoming, the underlying movie rights to Spider-Man and related characters have been held by Sony Pictures Entertainment (parent of Columbia Pictures) since 1998.
Sony is reported to hold those rights in perpetuity provided the studio releases a new movie featuring the Spider-Man characters at least once every five years and nine months, regardless of any other transactions like The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Marvel in 2009.
Although Sony later reached an agreement to co-produce this particular set of films with Marvel Studios, Sony (through Columbia) retains the distribution rights, so it has the final say on when, and how, No Way Home will be distributed.
So what's our best guess on when the new Spider-Man movie will be available to rent at home?
The closest recent comparison we can point to is Venom: Let There Be Carnage, another film distributed by Sony about a Marvel character (though in that case only "in association with" Marvel, and only tangentially related to the MCU). That movie arrived in North American cinemas on October 1, and didn't become available as a premium video-on-demand (PVOD) rental until late November, after eight weekends of box office exclusivity.
So Sony will very likely wait at least that same length of time – after eight weekends, or a little less than two months – to make that film available to rent. In other words, Spider-Man: No Way Home might become available for PVOD rental and/or purchase in North America on or around Friday, February 11.
Of course, the studio might wait even longer, if it thinks doing so will allow it to maximize ticket sales. Or if there's a significant uptick in coronavirus cases and theatres close again, the studio could decide to move PVOD availability up. For now, February 11 is simply the best estimate we can make based on the available information.
In Canada, PVOD rentals typically retail for about $24.99 initially, but the price usually comes down over time, if you're willing to wait a few extra weeks.
Again, the only information we can confirm at this point is that No Way Home is available for purchase pre-order on the Apple TV / iTunes Store, Cineplex Store, and Microsoft Movies & TV, with pre-order pricing starting at $24.99, but we don't yet know when the movie will be actually available to either rent or purchase.
We will strive to update this section as further details are confirmed.
When will "Spider-Man: No Way Home" be available for subscription streaming in Canada?
Note: In this section, we're referring to the ability to stream or otherwise watch a piece of content through a monthly subscription service like Netflix, not via a one-time purchase as discussed in the section above.
First, some background information: the major movie studios generally have consistent arrangements in Canada for the streaming and/or TV rights to their new movies. For example, most Warner Bros. and Universal films stream first on Bell Media's Crave service a few months after theatrical release, while most films from Disney and its subsidiaries like Marvel now go directly to Disney+ on a similar timeline.
However, in the case of No Way Home, because of the film's distribution rights being held by Sony as discussed above, the streaming rights will fall under Sony's streaming output arrangements, not Disney's.
This means that, unlike the vast majority of other Marvel Studios films (but like all other live-action Spider-Man films, at least at this point) Spider-Man: No Way Home will not be available on Disney+ for the foreseeable future.
Instead, in Canada, No Way Home will most likely be available to stream on Amazon Prime Video in several months – perhaps, but not necessarily, in June 2022.
This estimate is based on other recent Sony films that have arrived on Prime Video for "free with Prime" streaming about six months after their theatrical releases, under a multi-year pay-1 contract that has been in effect since mid-2020 (prior to this, Crave had similar rights, which were in effect for the last few Spider-Man movies like Far From Home).
For example, the Sony movie Peter Rabbit 2 was released in North American theatres on June 11, 2021, but then became available to stream on Prime Video in Canada on December 9, almost exactly six months later.
Once these films become available for subscriber streaming on Prime Video, they films typically remain available there for a bit less than two years, before moving on to other streaming and broadcast homes, like Netflix, for shorter periods.
Didn't I hear new "Spider-Man" movies were going to stream first on Netflix or Starz or something like that?
You may have come across an article about Sony Pictures' streaming rights in the United States – perhaps something like this, referring to how Starz currently holds first-window streaming rights to Sony films in the U.S. (including for films released in late 2021 like No Way Home), but noting that Netflix will be taking over these rights starting with 2022 releases, with second window rights going to Disney services like Disney+ or Hulu.
As far as we're aware from what Sony has announced, these deals only apply in the United States.
Unfortunately, many of these articles don't bother to look into the international picture, and assume what's happening in America will extend automatically to the rest of the world. In fact, these sorts of rights are typically sold separately by country or region.
And as discussed above, Amazon Prime Video currently holds the corresponding rights to new Sony movies in Canada under a multi-year agreement, although Netflix holds – and will likely continue to hold – second window Canadian rights to these films.
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December 25, 2021 – minor updates to reflect theatrical release status
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Taylor Swift-brand clothing to be sold in Chinese website
by Aaron Smith @AaronSmithCNN July 21, 2015: 9:17 AM ET
Taylor Swift's clothing line will be available at an online Chinese retailer.
Taylor Swift is invading China, and not just with her upcoming music tour.
Swift's clothing line will be available at online Chinese retailer JD.com (JD).
JD.com said the musician's line of clothes are designed "exclusively for J.D.com customers," including dresses, sweatshirts and tops.
In addition to selling Taylor Swift-branded tops and dresses, JD.com is also debuting a sales platform called U.S. Mall.
U.S. Mall is an online channel, where JD.com promises to sell "authentic American" products to Chinese consumers. This will include apparel brands like Nautica Kids, Jeep and Converse.
The site will also sell luggage from Samsonite and cranberry juice from Ocean Spray.
Related: Swift agrees to stream '1989' on Apple music
The retailer already sells a wide assortment of products that aren't necessarily from the U.S., ranging from clothing to appliances, to electronics and lingerie.
The Swift deal coincides with her "1989" tour, where she'll perform in Shanghai Nov. 10-12.
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Syria: The Middle East's Most Avoidable Conflict?
by Campaign ~ June 20th, 2014. Filed under: News, Uncategorized.
It's both difficult and problematic to track the beginning of conflict. The roots of war start at many different points- pre-existing tension, disputes over oil and resources, and at times some things as basic as a culture of violence can allow a conflict to manifest.
More often than not, as a conflict rolls into its first stages of development, the leaders of each party echo with the fears and concerns of their citizens.
This mentality is detrimental in reaching a solution because it allows the people in power to put pride and patriotism behind peacebuilding reform and conflict resolution. This notion of jingoism is getting in the way of change is especially relevant in regards to the current Syrian crisis. It's thought that this abhorrent crisis could have been avoided if the international players such as Russia, China and the USA had kept their humanity and dealt with Syria with a focus on non-military peacebuilding.
Instead, it was dealt with like a game of Risk, with the lives of Syrians being used as pawns as the media propagated fear mongering. As the Syrian elections are currently under way its important to understand how Syrian 'democracy' has been tampered with. At the beginning, Syrians were not aching for the ejection of al-Assad, but after years of neglect they lost patience.
Corruption took hold and morphed the needs of Syrians to demand more of a voice in their government eventually allowing the violent crisis that we are aware of today to develop.
Syria's future is in the hands of a war criminal, whose power has been bestowed upon him by his oligarch father, and this power has found continual progression with the help of foul, unsupervised, and inevitably undemocratic elections. Syria's descent into civil war despite mass support for democracy has many open ends.
It could be the wounds Syria has yet to heal from past attempted coups in the '40s which has resulted in mass government spying against their people. Following the structure of other democratic states Syria has certain key pillars missing, most importantly it's lack of a grounded middle class.
Reforms that Middle Eastern citizens had confidence would flourish have tragically failed. All policy reforms that would incite global exporting investments rooted in free trade, or basic female humanitarian rights have been squashed whilst the power still remains in the hands of a few extraordinarily rich men. These men ubiquitously have demonstrated that their priorities will always lie with the security of their Swiss bank accounts, not with the security of their people.
Syria is at a standstill. The opposition is only growing more radical, and the international community has wholly, and indeed rightfully, decided that military intervention would only create more chaos. For Syria to find it's place as a democratic country, peacebuilding is going to have to happen from the inside out.
Unlike reform in India, Syria lacks a sacred Gandhi-esque figure or a Malala Yousafzai who has volunteered themselves to be the poster child for non-violent resistance. Citizens of the Middle East have voiced that they are thankful for the Arab Spring, as it has given them organized hope with worldwide clamour and recognition.
Democracy could take decades, but as long as Syrians remain passionate, engaged, and above all- collectively dedicated, democracy will be a reality in Syria.
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Cuba's President Raul Castro, front left, and Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel, front right, attend a National Assembly session in Havana, Cuba, July 15, 2015.
Cuba's parliament opened one of its twice-annual regular sessions Wednesday with a new twist: It's been reporting the event through the day with updates on Twitter and Facebook.
President Raul Castro gave a closing address at the gathering, but his full speech was not immediately available. They were his first public remarks since the United States and Cuba announced they will re-establish diplomatic relations on Monday and reopen embassies in each other's respective capitals.
State-run website Cubadebate posted a photograph of workers at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington removing a plaque identifying it as such, ahead of its ceremonial inauguration as an embassy next week.
At parliament, officials reported that Cuba recorded economic growth of 4.7 percent in the first half of the year. That was up from a forecast of 4 percent offered last month; annual growth is expected to come in around 4 percent.
"This is very good, taking into account that last year we only grew one percent," Castro said, according to Cubadebate.
The National Assembly was also signing off on a final budget report for 2014.
Foreign journalists weren't allowed access to the gathering at a convention center in western Havana, and the meeting was not televised. However proceedings are usually broadcast on state TV later in the day.
But on its recently activated Twitter account and Facebook page, both of which apparently went live July 11, the National Assembly was publishing snippets from Wednesday's gathering. Cubadebate confirmed the two accounts' authenticity.
It's a highly unusual use of social media for a country that has largely fallen behind much of the world in terms of Internet connectivity, and is unlikely to be seen in real-time by many on the island.
Cubans are increasingly using the likes of Facebook and Twitter as authorities slowly expand connectivity options, but most islanders who are able to connect do so only sporadically and briefly, limited by cost, availability and scant bandwidth.


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Prof Niwat received his Ph.D. from Universiteit Utrecht with major in Infectious Diseases and Immunology. His primary research areas include avian respiratory diseases such infectious bronchitis, Newcastle disease, haemophilus/avibacterium paragallinarum, avian influenza, and E.coli. He has published numerous peer reviewed research findings in local and international journals. More than 100 publications have been published.
He regards himself as veterinary practitioner in the field of Avian Medicine, disease investigation and diagnosis and Veterinary Epidemiology. Achievements include research in molecular interaction of pathogens and hosts. Member of Thai Vet. Council.
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He has successfully advised poultry producers in implementation of biosecurity & poultry health programs. Rik has presented in numerous international symposiums on poultry disease control – especially respiratory disease such IB, ND etc.
Graduated from State University of Utrecht with veterinary degree, in 2001 Rik was registered as a Specialist in Poultry Health by the Royal Dutch Veterinary Association.
Rik joined Intervet International in 1997 as the Technical Manager for Poultry Products and subsequently was promoted to Global Technical Director, Poultry Business Unit in MSD Animal Health. He is a board member of the Dutch branch of WPSA.
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Dr. Chuah was born in Malaysia. In 2009, she graduated as a veterinarian at the Putra University in Malaysia. Already during her studies, she was able to gain practical experience within the poultry sector. After completing her training, she was employed in the Technical Service Department, Huat Lai Resources Berhad in Malaysia and thereafter, as a Farm Manager at N&N Agriculture PTE LTD in Singapore. After an intensive training program in Cuxhaven from September until December 2012, Dr. Chuah now supports Technical Service Team in the Asian region and operates directly from her home country, Malaysia.
Denis holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from National Taiwan University and earned his Master of Science from The Royal Veterinary College, University of London. He has worked in poultry technical service since 1989. Earlier in his career, he worked for a major poultry company in China as head of laboratory. He then worked for Intervet with increasing technical responsibilities before he became a prominent consultant in Asia. He joined MSD in 2015. He has strong field experience in respiratory disease control and management.
Bob joined EW Nutrition GmbH in 2011 based in Singapore with the unique position to develop the South East Asia / Pacific business, Bob now runs 4 EW Nutrition companies in Australia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. EW Nutrition is a base producer for primary science based technical additives, including the IgYs and SPCs.
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Jason Statham Leaves 'The Man from Toronto' Weeks Before Production Begins
Jason Statham has created a bit of trouble for the upcoming Sony Pictures action comedy The Man from Toronto. Four weeks before production was slated to begin (or six weeks depending on who you talk to), The Transporter star has dropped out of the project that would have seen him starring alongside Kevin Hart.
Deadline has news on Jason Statham leaving The Man from Toronto. Apparently, the actor left due to creative differences with the studio. While Statham was hoping to make this an R-rated action comedy, Sony Pictures wanted a PG-13 project that would have given them a more box office friendly title heading into Thanksgiving weekend with a November 20, 2020 release date.
Statham must have felt pretty passionately about these creative differences, because Deadline says it looks like he didn't reach the point where his pay or play deal would have been activated, which would have given him a paycheck even if he didn't star in the movie. Furthermore, shortly after Statham left the project, the actor also parted ways with WME agency. Perhaps his agents didn't do enough to get him what he wanted on The Man from Toronto and he chose to leave everyone out in the wind.
Now the action comedy from director Patrick Hughes (The Hitman's Bodyguard, The Expendables 3) and writer Robbie Fox (So I Married an Axe Murder) is left to find a new co-star for The Last Man in Toronto, which just so happens to be the title role. The project follows the titular assassin, one of the best in the world, who is forced to team up with a screw-up named Teddy in New York when they are mistaken for each other in an Airbnb. They're forced to team up for some reason and stop some kind of nefarious plot, but obviously they don't get along very well and hilarity ensues.
This sounds like your standard two-hander, and not remarkably different from something like Central Intelligence, which Kevin Hart starred in with Dwayne Johnson. What other action stars could Kevin Hart team up with for maximum laughs? Many of the bigger action stars are busy right now on other projects, but apparently Sony is already out to an unnamed star to replace Jason Statham to keep the film on track. We'll let you know once the studio figures everything out.
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Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan is the Deputy of the Prophet
Location: Saraipalya – Bangalore – Karnataka
A car broke down in front of the door to the fenced land of the takya. Three men got out and started looking at the flag of the takya while I was looking at them. I later learned that one of them was a businessman, the second an engineer, and the third a professor of Sufism whose name was Ḥaidar ʿAlī. They came in and asked about the place, so I explained that it was a takya of Ṭarīqa ʿAliyya Qādiriyya Kasnazāniyya, whose Master is Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan al-Ḥusseinī (May Allah sanctify his secret), who is the Ghawth of the time.
I told the professor that I would like to ask him a question: "Was it your knowledge or ours that brought you to us?" He asked me to repeat the question. I asked again: "Was it your knowledge or ours, which we take from the All-Knowing, which brought you to us?" The professor did not understand the question. I asked him to sit next to me. His left hand was in a splint due to a fracture. I told him that I would like to give them the pledge, so he asked about it. I started talking about the necessity of having a pledge with a perfect Shaikh, and I started describing what a perfect Shaikh was like. My words touched him so he said that he wanted to take the pledge. I told them that their car will be ready to start after they took the pledge. He said: "Let's see if what you say is true," and they took the pledge.
The professor asked whether the car would start now. I replied in the affirmative, saying that Allah had achieved the good that He wanted for them. They wanted to open the bonnet of the car to examine it, but I told them not to do so as I promised that it would start. I asked them to get into the car, close the doors, and start the engine. The professor said: "Let's check it first," but I insisted: "No need to check. If the car will not start, then I am a liar." They did as I asked them to do, and the car did indeed start. Impressed by what happened, the professor disembarked, kissed my hand and foot, and donated five thousand rupees to the takya. He said in astonishment: "How did this happen?" I said: "This is Ṭarīqa Kasnazāniyya." He said that he would keep in touch as his house was nearby.
The professor came again next day with four or five people. He knelt at the door of the takya before entering. He introduced his companions as friends, before going on to say that he wanted to talk about what happened to him the day before. I thought the professor wanted to recount to his friends the incident of starting the car, but I was completely surprised by what he had to say:
O caliph! After I left yesterday, some doubts developed in my heart. I am a professor of Sufism, so how can this person teach me, give me the pledge… etc.? I felt envious. When I arrived home, I was tired, so I slept. I had a dream in which I saw this same place of the takya and you were sitting in this place and position. As I started getting closer to you, I was surprised that the face was not yours, but that of an older person. That person then called to me, so I sat next to him. He started to say to me the same things you told me. I thought and said to him: "Sir, I heard these words yesterday from someone who was sitting here. He was wearing similar clothes and green cloth, but his face was different." The person replied: "Yes, that is the caliph of Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan. I am ʿAlī bin Abī Ṭālib, the caliph of the Messenger of Allah. Because you put your hand in the hand of the deputy of Shaikh Muḥammad you have put your hand in ours."
The professor started to cry, some of his companions fell into a state of submissiveness, and one of them cried. The professor said that Imam ʿAlī bin Abī Ṭālib went on to say:
We are the family of the house of prophethood. No one on this earth or in the universe has the right to speak on our behalf other than our heir Shaikh Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kasnazān.
I was stunned to hear this. The professor then said that he would like the friends who came with him to take the pledge and gain the good that he had tasted.
On the same day, I phoned the Shaikh's servant to tell him about this karāma. He told me that ḥaḍrat Shaikh Muḥammad had said on the previous night that no one but Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan has the right to speak on behalf of the house of the Prophet (ṣallā Allah ʿalaihi wa sallam).
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Q: form "submit" event disabled on IE I encounter a problem with a file upload form when I use Internet Explorer (9).
My form is a little special because I simulate a secondary behavior on my both inputs :

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*For the input[type=file], after the user selects a file, I submit the form.

*For the input[type=submit], before he submits the form, I open the file browser and once he selects a file, I submit it.

The my script works with Chrome and FF but not IE. Indeed when I test the submit button the form is not sent whereas when I use the input[type=file], I don't have any problems.
Here is the HTML:
<form name="up" action="/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <div class="fileinputs">
        <input type="file" name="FILE" size="38" class="file" id="upload" onchange="submitForm()" />
        <input type="submit" value="BROWSE" name="ok" class="submit" id="submit_button_id" onclick="return check();" />
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</form>

JS :
function submitForm() {
    document.getElementById("submit_button_id").click();
}

function check()
{
    var path = false;

    document.getElementById('upload').click();

    var filesent = document.getElementById("upload");
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    if(!path){
        return false;
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Q: Determine $m$ such that $\psi_m:\overline{x}\in\mathbb Z_{16} \to \overline{m}\overline{x} \in \mathbb Z_{16}$ is a bijection etc Determine $m \in \mathbb Z$ such that $\psi_m:\overline{x}\in\mathbb Z_{16} \to \overline{m}\overline{x} \in \mathbb Z_{16}$ is a bijection. Let $T$ be the set of such $m$ elements, if $m \in T$ is it true that $5m \in T$? Is $T$ a closed structure in $(\mathbb Z, +)$ and/or $(\mathbb Z, \cdot)$?
In order for $\psi_m$ to be a bijection, then $\overline{m}$ has to be an invertible element in $\mathbb Z_{16}$, therefore $\gcd(\overline{m}, 16) = 1$. Moreover if $\gcd(\overline{m}, 16) = 1$, so $\overline{m}$ and $16$ are relatively prime numbers, then $\overline{5}\overline{m}$ and $16$ are relatively prime.
I would say that $T$ is the following set:
$T = \{0 + 16\mathbb Z\} \cup\{1 + 16\mathbb Z\} \cup\{3 + 16\mathbb Z\} \cup\{5 + 16\mathbb Z\} \cup\{7 + 16\mathbb Z\} \cup\{9 + 16\mathbb Z\} \cup\{11 + 16\mathbb Z\} \cup\{13 + 16\mathbb Z\}\cup\{15 + 16\mathbb Z\}$
Let $m_1, m_2 \in T$, in particular $m_1 = 3 \in \{3+16\mathbb Z\}$ and $m_2 = 1 \in \{1+16\mathbb Z\}$, then $m_1+m_2=3+1=4 \not\in T$, so $T$ isn't closed in $(\mathbb Z, +)$. Conversely $\forall m_1, m_2 \in T, m_1 \cdot m_2 = m \in T$, because, as claimed before, multiplying two relatively prime numbers to $16$, you get another relatively prime number to $16$ so $T$ is actually closed in $(\mathbb Z, \cdot)$.
Is my answer right? Have I got anything wrong? Is there something that could be improved?

A: Nicely argued:
But caution: $\{0 + 16\mathbb Z\} \notin T$, since $\gcd{0, 16} = 16 \neq 1$.
Also, note that $\bar{m}$ are odd integers between $1$ and $15$, so you can abbreviate your definition of $T$ as follows: $$\large T = \bigcup_{1 \leq k \leq 15, k \text{ is odd}} k + 16\mathbb Z,$$ or as Boris suggested: $$T = \{\{k + 16 \mathbb Z\}\mid 1 \leq k \leq 15, k\; \text{is odd}\}$$


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Q: Nginx conditionally allow all to react sub-route based on IP I'm setting up an NGINX server and need to configure it to allow only certain IPs access to the root of a react application, but allow all to a certain subfolder (react route). Basically I need to allow all traffic to /sub/ but only a handful of IPs to the home directory /.
I tried
    location /sub/* { allow all;}

location / {
    allow x.x.x.x;
    deny all;}

but was getting a 403 error when using any other IP address except the 'x.x.x.x'.
What's the correct way to achieve this?
Thanks.

A: Here is what you can try to do:
map $uri $disallow_by_route {
    ~^/subroute/    ""; # allow /subroute/... for all
    default         1;
}

map $remote_addr $disallow {
    x.x.x.x         ""; # some allowed IP
    y.y.y.y         ""; # another allowed IP
    default         $disallow_by_route;
}

server {
    ...
    location / {
        if ($disallow) { return 403; }
        ...
    }
}

However if your allowed pages used some assets (js, css, images etc.) from some other path than /subroute/... this config won't let them to load on restricted IPs. You can try to allow them checking the value of HTTP Referer header with a more complex map blocks chain:
map $http_referer $disallow_by_referer {
    # use a regex for your actual domain here
    ~^https?://example\.com/subroute/   "";
    default                             1;
}

map $uri $disallow_by_route {
    ~^/subroute/    "";
    # list all the other possible assets extensions (png, gif, svg, webp etc.) here
    ~\.(?:js|css)$  $disallow_by_referer;
    default         1;
}

map $remote_addr $disallow {
    x.x.x.x         ""; # some allowed IP
    y.y.y.y         ""; # another allowed IP
    default         $disallow_by_route;
}

server {
    ...
    location / {
        if ($disallow) { return 403; }
        ...
    }
}

Please note that this solution won't work if your server configuration (or react app itself) sets the referer policy to no-referer.