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Q: Getting Power BI Measures and Columns via REST API I intend to get list Power BI Measures and Columns from a Power BI dashboard published in Power BI workspace. Is it possible to get this via Power BI REST API or PowerShell?
What I have tried so far:

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*Downloaded the PBIX and saved the same as a template file

*I then programmatically got the measures and columns from the template file(saved as zip)

Is there a simple approach for this? I am aware of DAX studio but I am looking for a solution or an approach that can directly connect to workspace and get the details.

A: The Power BI API returns admin info on the state of a dataset, but not the data structure.
If the dataset is compatible and the XMLA endpoint for the workspace is open, you can connect to that and use it like you would an Analysis Services database, including getting the measures and columns. You can use any tool or custom code that implements the MSOLAP or AMODB libraries. DAX Studio is just one of these options. The url of a workspace will be powerbi://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/[tenant name]/[workspace name]


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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

#include <ggi/internal/ggi-dl.h>
#include <ggi/mesa/ggimesa_int.h>
#include <ggi/mesa/debug.h>
#include "genkgi.h"

int GGIMesa_genkgi_getapi(ggi_visual *vis, int num, char *apiname, char *arguments)
{
	struct genkgi_priv_mesa *priv = GENKGI_PRIV_MESA(vis);

	GGIMESADPRINT_CORE("Entered mesa_genkgi_getapi, num=%d\n", num);

	strcpy(arguments, "");

	switch(num)
	{
		case 0:
		if (priv->have_accel)
		{
			strcpy(apiname, priv->accel);
			return 0;
		}
		break;
	}
	return -1;
}

int GGIMesa_genkgi_flush(ggi_visual *vis, int x, int y, int w, int h, int tryflag)
{
	struct genkgi_priv_mesa *priv = GENKGI_PRIV_MESA(vis);
	int junkval;

	priv->oldpriv->kgicommand_ptr += getpagesize();
	(kgiu32)(priv->oldpriv->kgicommand_ptr) &= 0xfffff000;
	junkval = *((int *)(priv->oldpriv->kgicommand_ptr));

	/* Check if we are now in the last page, and reset the
	 * FIFO if so.  We can't use the last page to send
	 * more commands, since there's no page after it that
	 * we can touch to fault in the last page's commands.
	 *
	 * FIXME: This will be replaced with a flush-and-reset handler
	 * on the end-of-buffer pagefault at some point....
	 *
	 */
	if ((priv->oldpriv->kgicommand_ptr - priv->oldpriv->mapped_kgicommand)
	    >= (priv->oldpriv->kgicommand_buffersize - getpagesize()))
	{
		munmap(priv->oldpriv->mapped_kgicommand, priv->oldpriv->kgicommand_buffersize);
		if ((priv->oldpriv->mapped_kgicommand =
		     mmap(NULL,
			  priv->oldpriv->kgicommand_buffersize,
			  PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
			  MAP_SHARED,
			  priv->oldpriv->fd_kgicommand,
			  0)) == MAP_FAILED)
		{
			ggiPanic("Failed to remap kgicommand!");
		}
		priv->oldpriv->kgicommand_ptr = priv->oldpriv->mapped_kgicommand;
	}
	return 0;
}

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Insurance/Risk
Jeran Van Alfen, CFP®
Monday Market Review January 11, 2021
Economic data for the week included stronger reports for ISM manufacturing and services, while the employment situation for December weakened more than expected.
Equity markets rose several percent globally, with the U.K. and emerging markets leading other regions, with hopes for larger U.S. stimulus upon the victory of both Georgia Democratic Senate candidates, and in spite of a riot at the U.S. Capitol. Bond prices fell back as interest rates ticked higher based on additional stimulus expectations. Commodities rose, with continued recovery gains in crude oil—which rose back above $50/barrel.
What could we expect in 2021?
Each year naturally brings more surprises than certainties, so outlooks and predictions of any kind quickly become futile. (We've already experienced a dramatic and unusual first week of January.) At least at this point in time, noted are a few key issues to monitor as 2021 gets going:
- Covid pandemic. This is the one carryover from 2020 everyone would like to forget. Unfortunately, it remains the single most important issue for both global medical and economic health going into 2021. While acknowledging the loss and hardship for many over the past year, the pandemic has also led to many examples of resiliency. It has resulted in a relatively smooth transition into work-from-home environments for some, but has also caused immeasurable problems for vulnerable cyclical industries forced to close or operate at reduced capacity. The development of several effective vaccines has taken an open-ended economic disaster and turned it into one with a clearer end game, assuming their distribution and effectiveness across populations go as planned. Mid-2021 is the current estimate for higher levels of implementation across the broader population (a goal of near-herd immunity) and some semblance of a 'back to normal.' But so far, logistics have been slow for vaccine rollout, so the economic normalization process seem more likely to be pushed back than bumped up, but the situation remains fluid. (Many are watching the rollout process in Israel, which has handled logistics very quickly and already inoculated nearly a quarter of their population, for clues.) The discovery of a new strain of Covid adds additional uncertainty to the mix, with hopes from health professionals that current vaccine technology won't be derailed by this or further virus mutations.
- Presidential actions. The election of Joe Biden has led to assumed better consistency of behavior in the executive branch, but has also moved policy several ticks toward the left. Relative to others in the Democratic party, though, Biden is considered a 'centrist' and finder of common ground. In the best case, this may result in legislation backed by both sides of the aisle. However, last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol is an important reminder of how divided the nation remains, which could challenge the effort of national reconciliation. Some tempering of rhetoric and actions could be seen in the areas of tariffs/trade and executive orders, where the President has broader unilateral authority.
-Senate. The two U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia on Jan. 5 were as closely-watched as any in recent years. While Republicans were expected to retain the seats, pollsters ended up with egg on their faces again, as both Democratic candidates won by narrow margins. This puts the Senate at 50-50, for only the fourth time in history. (Officially, the Democratic 50 includes two independent Senators, one of which is Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats.) This equal split puts the deciding vote into the hands of incoming Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, which is significant. While early descriptions of this result were as a 'blue wave,' many pundits have downgraded the impact to more like a 'blue ripple' in reality. This Democratic majority, albeit by narrower margins, could well result in further stimulus (early in 2021) and movement on infrastructure (which both parties actually agree on in principle, despite differing details—mostly in the green energy area). This could also include tightening up ACA/Obamacare, as well as procedural changes like altering the filibuster rule. Importantly, the majority gives Biden a smoother road for Senate-required approval of certain Presidential nominations. At the same time, the slim margin, and reduced Democratic majority in the House after the 2020 election, makes more extreme initiatives in health care (as in a full 'Medicare for All'), the environment, tax law, etc. a bit more difficult to push through.
-Economic growth. The recovery in the economy continues to be almost completely dependent on the course of the pandemic and its abatement, driving estimates in both directions in recent months, along with unpredictable virus case counts. The expected -3% to -5% decline in U.S. GDP growth in 2020 is predicted to reverse to a potential mid-single digit gain in 2021 (give or take a few percent). Despite the initial trepidation about the Georgia race, the expected additional stimulus to be rolled out by a Democratic administration and Congress would be sure to have a positive effect on business and consumer spending in 2021-22, leading to even stronger GDP growth than with the late 2020 stimulus alone. (This is despite concerns of the budget deficit and high debt load down the road.) The recovery growth rate could be roughly double long-term trend growth of 2.0-2.5%, but relies on the mid-year majority vaccination timeline. With the pandemic-led recession marking the end of the last (and historically-long) business cycle, a new cycle is beginning anew. This is expected to lead to recovered corporate earnings growth in coming years—the critical long-term driver of equity returns. While some bearish observers see financial markets as looking too optimistic on 2021, based on higher price multiples, more bullish watchers see the pandemic recovery potentially more akin to the years after World War II, which benefitted from a liftoff from stagnant production and pent-up consumer demand. In fact, some have gone as far as to label the coming decade a potential new 'Roaring Twenties.' (Interestingly, the original 'Roaring 1920's' came after the 1918 influenza pandemic.)
-Interest rates. As they've stated directly, the Federal Reserve is committed to keeping rates low through the pandemic and for a while beyond. Some feared rates might be taken into negative territory, as in Europe, but that appears increasingly less likely due to logistical reasons, and far more pushback against it in the U.S. Long rates are also held lower by Fed purchases of treasuries and mortgages, but if inflation expectations were to rise, pressure could be felt on the long end of the yield curve first. The overall accommodative stance is likely to continue until recovery has taken hold, and until inflation picks up (over 2.0-2.5%) for a period of time. In the past week, the 10-year treasury rose over 1.0% again as higher political odds for more stimulus (and a greater debt load) have raised the chances of higher economic growth and accompanying inflation. Overall, though, continued secular trends based on aging demographics and inconsistent productivity growth point to a consensus view that interest rates overall could stay relatively low for some time.
-Financial stability. This is an area not often discussed, due to so much focus on the short-term. What determines stability? For the most part, it's an absence of excesses—that often include over-speculation in certain asset classes, taking on too much leverage, and higher destabilizing inflation. The 2007 housing market is a recent historical example of such an inflating and bursting bubble, but there are many historical examples. Due to well-known economist Hyman Minsky's work in this area, the popping of such an unsustainable condition has been referred to as a 'Minsky Moment.' This is akin to the single snowflake that triggers a seemingly random avalanche, which is actually not random at all, but a condition that becomes increasingly likely over time as conditions build to more unstable levels. This may not be the case at the moment, being on the back end of a recession. But, over time, red flags such as exuberant sentiment without regard to any fundamentals, continued rising debt levels without regard for consequences, or the ignoring of any bad news that could derail a recovery, could all be signs of growing financial instability.
Investment Markets:
-U.S. stocks. Investors have looked at the equity market with amazement, as stock prices moved almost straight back up after a -33% crash. Historically, though, such a result is not so unusual, with stocks often discounting the worst news and looking ahead toward a brighter future (even if a year or more away in reality). Valuations are a bit rich, based on expectations for 2021 revenue and earnings, with multiples appearing to look further into 2022 and even 2023 for fundamentals that justify current pricing. 'Growth' stocks, especially in technology and communications feature strong fundamentals, which have resulted in higher valuations, especially with today's low interest rates. Are signs of the late 2020 rally in cyclical 'value' companies here to stay? Or, will a reemergence of challenges cause investors to again seek out the stability of 'growth'? Uncertainty remains, but the coming year may offer more clues.
-Anti-trust issues and growth stocks. It's been wondered whether current conditions are like the 2000 dot-com bubble, based on the extreme differential between 'growth' and 'value' sector performance. One difference, though, is that fundamentals (like profits) for today's tech and communications companies are far more robust than at that time (in 2000, profits were often more hope than reality). In fact, high scores for the 'quality' factor have been a reason for the strong positive sentiment for that group. The pandemic's challenges for smaller firms have caused even more consolidation of market share towards the biggest players. This begs the question: are these firms too dominant? There has been some increasing pressure for anti-trust legislation aimed at several mega-cap tech companies, but uncertainty about how that would look. There are some problematic legal issues. Does Congress really want to 'punish' the segment of the economy that has proven most resilient and efficient during the pandemic? Anti-trust typically requires a 'damaged' party, via price gouging or anti-competitive behavior. Do these services take unfair advantage of consumers (since they're often free)? Do they suppress competition (or merely offer a better product)? These aren't easily rectified.
-Foreign stocks. Covid has challenged populations and businesses on a global level. While U.S. markets were seen as a safe haven in 2020 due to demand for leading technology/communications firms residing in the U.S., foreign markets offer more cyclicality, so an embedded 'value' bet of sorts. They also offer more relatively attractive valuations, less positive sentiment, and have been on the losing end of the U.S. vs. World equity performance trade for several years (the typical historical length for such dominance prior to a reversal). Emerging markets, in particular, have suffered high costs during the pandemic, and offer strong potential for recovery growth, due to a more modest starting point and more favorable demographics.
-Bonds. An important relationship in fixed income is that total returns one should expect for coming years are mathematically tied to starting yields. This doesn't bode well for those hoping for results like the past few decades, where rates were in a steady decline (from a peak in the early 1980's) to today's low levels. Credit spreads are also tighter than they were in much of 2020, with corporate improvement priced in. At the same time, while one shouldn't necessarily expect great things from fixed income, the diversification element remains important should risk markets experience volatility. As a case in point, while interest rates were already considered low a year ago, and caution for bonds was everywhere, long-term U.S. treasuries earned 15%+ returns in 2020. Foreign bonds are an even more challenged environment, with a substantial percentage of debt offering negative yields, with price returns largely driven by currency markets.
-Real estate. Last year was best described as one split between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' in the real property realm. Winners included newer niches of real estate markets that benefit from technological immersion, such as data centers and cell phone towers, and distribution centers that catered to online shopping. Valuations have risen for these assets, although fundamentals remain strong as they take a greater place in REIT indexes. Losing groups include the obvious, such as shopping malls, other retail, and travel/lodging. These represent the industries most heavily affected by lockdowns, although valuations have fallen to depressed levels, and could offer attractive sensitivity to further recovery. Office properties look to remain mixed, with some faring better than expected in the near-term, while the long-term strategic trend toward less office space/working from home has accelerated. Real estate in general has been supported by record-low financing rates, which is of course Fed-dependent.
-It's easy for investors to forget that the real estate universe is the world's largest asset class, by overall size, and is extremely diverse. Owners of real estate assets are similarly quite diverse. On one end are residential homes and small commercial properties, which experienced contrasting results during the pandemic—strong house price increases bookended by retail locations having trouble making lease payments. So, the knee-jerk response is to cast commercial property overall in the bucket of 'doomed' asset. In some cases, this may be true, and has been for some time (notably in weaker strip malls in less desirable locations, and the like). However, as an institutional investment asset class, REITs generally focus their efforts on the largest, highest quality properties, in the most desirable locations (such as New York, London, etc.). While these are still sensitive to the business cycle, they're often far less so (by design), and are far more liquid, than stand-alone properties profiled in news stories or owned in private partnerships. While there is some overlap due to similar inputs, high-quality REITs and generic Main Street real estate can provide varying results.
-Commodities. Index composition varies, but energy futures contracts remain the most famous member of the asset class. Petroleum demand is more predictable in normal times, but fell off a cliff in 2020 as the pandemic put a damper on both industrial production and consumer mobility. Manufacturing has bounced back first, in China and other Asian nations, with lockdowns eased earlier. As the global economy recovers, prices for crude oil and industrial metals may also rise, as they often do when economies 'reflate.' Precious metals earned strong returns in 2020 due to their 'safe haven' tendencies, although that faded later in the year when investors sought riskier assets. A continued weaker U.S. dollar and any signs of higher inflation readings could serve to be two of the more important catalysts for commodities movement in 2021. Their most important role, however, is their lack of correlation to other asset classes in a portfolio—which can be hard to find elsewhere and often goes unappreciated.
-Currencies. The U.S. dollar weakened by -7% in 2020 relative to a basket of developed market currencies, but was little changed versus emerging market currencies. As always, currency movements represent a 'two-way street.' This was a slight erosion in confidence in the dollar's safe haven status, due to unprecedented amounts of fiscal and monetary stimulus, but also expectations in improved growth abroad—particularly the euro and U.K. pound as markets look past Brexit. Will this trend continue? Currency markets are fickle to say the least, but a cyclical rebound could continue to favor foreign currencies, which could translate to tailwinds for international stocks and bonds, which have lagged those of the U.S. in recent years.
These represent only a few items to watch. No doubt 2021 will bring its share of more (and hopefully positive) surprises.
U.S. stocks began 2021 on a down note Monday, with rising Covid cases nationwide and uncertainty over Georgia's dual-runoff Senate elections the following day beginning to concern investors, as polls showed far tighter races than expected. In a strange twist of fate, market results turned positive Wednesday despite the narrow Democratic victory (as discussed above), as well as when the chaos at the U.S. Capitol ended with a formal electoral certification of Joe Biden as President. As is often the case with domestic civil strife, markets were little affected directly. Later in the week, a disappointing jobs report added hope for another fiscal aid package led by Democrats.
By sector, cyclical energy and materials led with gains well over 5% each, followed by consumer discretionary stocks and financials. Defensive utilities and consumer staples lagged with minor declines. Small caps outperformed large caps by several percent, in keeping with the strength in cyclical assets. However, real estate also lost ground as interest rates ticked higher.
Foreign stocks outperformed U.S. stocks last week, led by the U.K. and emerging markets. Strong industrial results in Germany, as well as relief sentiment in the U.K. post-Brexit appeared to be primary catalysts for continued gains. As in the last few weeks, hopes for an improved post-Covid environment as vaccine distribution ramps up appears to be driving investor moods, as opposed to any differentiating factors regionally.
U.S. bonds fell back sharply last week, up to a percent or more in total return as interest rates ticked higher. However, treasuries outperformed investment-grade corporates. The bellwether 10-year treasury note yield crept back over the 1.0% level as the Georgia election results raised expectations for more government spending (as noted earlier). Floating rate bank loans ended the week as one of the few bond groups with positive returns in the U.S. Foreign bonds declined in both developed and emerging markets, as the U.S. again re-strengthened.
Commodities ticked higher along with other cyclical assets, bucking the headwind of the slightly stronger dollar. Energy led, coupled with gains in industrial metals, while precious metals fell back last week. The price of crude oil rose tipped over $50/barrel early in the week after Saudi Arabia unexpectedly announced a production cut of 1 mil. barrels/day for Feb. and March, offsetting slightly higher production for other nations. For the week, crude gained nearly 8% to over $52, followed by gains in natural gas.
Economic Notes
(+) The ISM manufacturing index for December increased 3.2 points to 60.7, which surpassed the 56.8 reading expected, and reaching its highest level in two years. Underlying components showed strength in every category, as production, new orders, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories all gained and remained solidly in expansion. Prices paid also rose over 12 points, showing significant expansion overall, with gains in over three dozen commodity prices for the month.
(+) The ISM non-manufacturing index also rose in December, albeit by a lesser 1.3 points to 57.2, beating expectations calling for 54.5. Under the hood, business activity and new orders each rose over a point into further expansion, and supplier deliveries and net export orders even more so. On the other hand, prices paid declined slightly but remained in expansion, and employment dipped by several points back into contraction.
(0) Construction spending rose by 0.9% in November, just a tick below the 1.0% growth expected, although several prior months were revised higher by several tenths of a percent. For the single month, private residential spending gained nearly 3% to lead the overall report, while public residential also gained a half-percent. Nonresidential spending in both the private and public spheres declined during the month.
(-) The trade balance in November widened further into deficit by -$5.1 bil. to -$68.1 bil., wider than the -$67.3 bil. level expected. Trade volumes have increased steadily for the past six months, with imports rising several times more than exports, actually returning close to prior levels. Exports saw a gain in petroleum, but was far more offset by a decline in other goods.
(-) The ADP private employment report showed a decline of -123k jobs in December, disappointing relative to expectations calling for a gain of 75k jobs. Services jobs fell by -105k, the majority of which were in leisure/hospitality, which is in keeping with further virus counts. Jobs in goods production (a far smaller group), declined by -18k, all of which were accounted for by manufacturing job losses.
(+) Initial jobless claims for the Jan. 2 ending week fell by -3k to 787k, lower than the 800k level expected. Continuing claims for the Dec. 26 week came in -126k lower, to 5.072 mil., and below the 5.200 mil. expected by consensus. However, continuing claims have tended to not capture the full impact of benefit extensions. The initial claim figure was driven by a sharp drop in IL, while several other states in the central U.S. experienced increases that largely offset the impact.
(-) The employment situation report showed deterioration in December as rising Covid cases and containment efforts/lockdowns put a damper on economic activity. In closing out the year, the underlying data showed a rise in workers laid off temporarily due to the virus wave, and pullback in activity, which skews the official results. Workers permanently losing jobs, though, continues to decrease (trends are shown in the charts below, which show steady improvement from the depths of the early pandemic). While a difficult stretch, expectations for 2021 are better, but depend on vaccine distribution and perhaps additional government stimulus.
Nonfarm payrolls fell by -140k for the month, which disappointed relative to already-tempered expectations of a gain of 50k. This was the first outright decline in payrolls since the beginning of the pandemic; however, the prior few reports were revised upward by a total of 135k. As expected, the largest job declines were concentrated in leisure/hospitality (-500k), which included restaurants, gaming, hospitality, and other recreation. Private education jobs also declined (-63k), as did government jobs (-45k). On the other hand, professional/business services (161k) and retail (121k) saw gains, as did construction, warehousing, and manufacturing, to lesser degrees.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7%, despite expectations calling for a tick upward by 0.1% or so. However, the classification of 'employed but not at work' category may have kept this lower than actual unemployment effect due to temporary virus-related factors, and has made this episode more difficult to officially measure than a typical recession. The U-6 underemployment rate fell by -0.3% to 11.7%, which a decreasing number of workers classified as part-time. While at improved rates versus the depths of the recession last year, unemployment and underemployment rates remain at roughly double pre-Covid levels.
Average hourly earnings rose by 0.8% to $29.81, beating expectations of a mere 0.2% increase, which brought the year-over-year rate of increase to 5.1%. Average weekly hours fell by -0.1 to 34.7 hours.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Director of Investments
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Sources: FocusPoint Solutions, American Association for Individual Investors (AAII), Associated Press, Barclays Capital, Bloomberg, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, FactSet, Financial Times, First Trust, Goldman Sachs, Invesco, JPMorgan Asset Management, Marketfield Asset Management, Morgan Stanley, MSCI, Morningstar, Northern Trust, PIMCO, Standard & Poor's, StockCharts.com, The Conference Board, Thomson Reuters, T. Rowe Price, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Federal Reserve, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post. Index performance is shown as total return, which includes dividends. Performance for the MSCI-EAFE and MSCI-EM indexes is quoted in U.S. Dollar investor terms.
The information above has been obtained from sources considered reliable, but no representation is made as to its completeness, accuracy or timeliness. All information and opinions expressed are subject to change without notice. Information provided in this report is not intended to be, and should not be construed as, investment, legal or tax advice; and does not constitute an offer, or a solicitation of any offer, to buy or sell any security, investment or other product. FocusPoint Solutions, Inc. is a registered investment advisor.
Notes key: (+) positive/encouraging development, (0) neutral/inconclusive/no net effect, (-) negative/discouraging development.
Monday Market Review December 28, 2020
Summary On the shortened holiday week, economic data included a decline in personal income and spending, mixed results in housing, and weaker consumer confidence. Global equity markets were down on ne
Summary Economic data for the week included declines in retail sales, industrial production, as well as in several regional manufacturing indexes. Jobless claims also ticked higher along with rising v
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A crash on New Year's Day in Seguin claimed the life of a 24-year-old motorcyclist.
Seguin police said Michael McFarland was traveling south on Texas 46 from West Court Street and attempted to make a left turn when an eastbound Chevrolet Silverado hit him on the right side.
According to witnesses, McFarland did not have a green protective arrow to turn left and did not stop to oncoming traffic.
The driver of the pickup was uninjured in the accident.


If there's any doubt about the growing imperative of menu innovation, one can simply ask the research giants like Technomic that make their living on the constant churn of market trends driving consumerism.
Especially now that Millennials are at the wheel as the market's largest purchasing segment, consumers are continually looking for new and different in the world of food—even among brands they already know.
That means foodservice operators, like any other business, have to continually evaluate their product offering. But, before taking a hammer and chisel to the menu, it's worth asking three fundamental questions.
1. How "Innovative" Does My Menu Have to Be?
A million variables can impact the success or failure of a foodservice establishment, but let's all agree—success begins and ends with the food.
Your menu should be very innovative.
The restaurant market is saturated. So, not only are consumers driving demand for new and unusual dining experiences, they have more choices at their disposal to fulfill this demand. Factor in the veritable labor crisis and other foodservice business challenges, and it becomes crystal clear.
An innovative menu offering is absolutely critical in the effort to stand out and compete.
For the even more ambitious, it's the only way to dream of reaching that restaurant-rock-star status, where brands are built on innovative 'signature' menu ideas—from the QSR kings like McDonald's with its Big Mac,® to the casual-dining dynamos like Outback Steakhouse and its Bloomin' Onion,® to the legendary independents like Indianapolis' St. Elmo's Steak House and its world-famous shrimp cocktail.
2. When Does Menu Innovation Encroach on My Brand?
Last year, when Chipotle launched a series of new menu items, it was the first time since the chain began in 1993.
Without question, this happens to even the most established brands. But menu innovation isn't a self-fulfilling success and, unless a brand is in some kind of business tailspin, menu innovation shouldn't involve earth-moving modifications.
No, changes to the menu should intrigue the fanbase, not alienate it.
In other words, operators must strike the balance between evolving or freshening the menu and protecting the brand.
Results from Chipotle's menu innovation aren't in yet, but the chain is doing right by keeping its changes within the scope of Mexican cuisine and Chipotle's all-natural-ingredient mantra.
Starbucks, on the other hand, recognized where it got off course in this sense when it tested and abandoned an offering of beer and wine to attract an evening crowd.
Starbucks is coffee. And related experiences that surround it.
3. Where Should My Menu Innovation Begin?
It's always worth reaching out to the fanbase on the front end, asking customers what they would want, before investing in new menu development—a move that inspired McDonald's to finally serve breakfast all day.
This often means learning something invaluable about the brand on a higher level by understanding how it's perceived in the eyes of the market—which is really all that matters, because your brand lives in your customers' mind, not yours.
With or without this research, consider the levels of complexity.
Menu innovation can be as simple as introducing a new ingredient, ala the hot sriracha craze, or it can involve bringing a new kitchen procedure online. Or, it can even be as "innovative" as introducing a new daypart.
In any case, it's important to examine how each impacts ingredient purchasing/inventory, the necessary operational changes and, most often overlooked, the data that will project the sales-and-profit success of the new item.
To that point, explore equipment options to effectively minimize labor that can erode margins, while also minimizing food waste, especially in light of another trending market demand for more root-to-stem and nose-to-tail cooking.
Further, while all this is underway, identify your staple menu items and integrate this menu innovation in with them—not just for the obvious reason on the sales side, or even to protect the brand as explained above, but because of the loss of operational efficiency where your menu gets over-extended, disrupting established kitchen and staff processes.


October 31, 2006 • For years, a sociology professor followed workers at a fast-food place in Harlem to see how their lives would unfold. She found that a strong economy and personal connections led some of them to much better jobs than what they started with.
October 31, 2006 • In Heist, author Peter Stone details megalobbyist Jack Abramoff's ties to public officials. He focuses on the time before a federal corruption probe exposed massive bribery and fraud. Stone discusses his book with Alex Chadwick.
October 31, 2006 • Writer James Traub discusses his new book, The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. Traub recounts the intertwined story of Annan, the United Nations and American foreign policy from 1992 to the present. Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. His other books include City on a Hill and The Devil's Playground.
October 31, 2006 • Ghost-writing books for politicians, princesses and other celebrities is not what it's cracked up to be. Halloween is the perfect time for a professional writer to give up the ghost.
October 31, 2006 • Charles Addams was the creator of the Addams Family — the warped and gruesome stars of magazine cartoons, a TV show and two movies. According to those who knew him, Addams was as strange as some of his characters.
October 30, 2006 • A new, two-volume anthology of U.S. speeches offers ample evidence that political speaking has framed and rallied every great event from the Revolution to the present. Editor Ted Widmer talks about the famous and not-so-famous orators in American Speeches.
October 30, 2006 • For his new book, Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination, entertainment expert Neal Gabler was given complete access to the Disney archives. His biography begins when Disney was just a glimmer of an idea, and ends at the entrance to the Walt Disney mausoleum.
October 29, 2006 • Community and food are the central topics of Bonny Wolf's new book, a collection of essays called Talking with My Mouth Full. Wolf shares her thoughts on the recent shift in U.S. attitudes toward food.
A Halloween Book Recommendation, If You Dare!
October 29, 2006 • Jesse Kornbluth, the man behind the Web site headbutler.com, recommends a book to scare the pants off of you — just in time for Halloween. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson is a novel from 1952 written from the point of view of a homicidal maniac.
October 28, 2006 • In Cold Blood wasn't the first book to turn true crime into literature. In 1828, James Curtis detailed a London murder by interviewing members of the accused killer's family and sleeping in his bed. Paul Collins writes about Corder for The Believer magazine.
October 28, 2006 • The noted travel writer has been to many of the Earth's more exotic places. But he returns to familiar territory with a new memoir. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid takes a warm look at Bryson's formative years in 1950s Des Moines, Iowa.
October 28, 2006 • Sports literature is no longer a landscape for just baseball writers. Sports Illustrated has published a new collection, Great Football Writing, adding a new chapter to the canon of great American sports writing.
October 27, 2006 • From ancient mythology to the recent battle over Pluto's planetary status, people's imaginations have been captured by our companions around the Sun. Author Dava Sobel discusses her personal fascination with the eight (or nine?) planets, and how she expressed that interest in a recent travel guide to the solar system.
October 27, 2006 • Fifty years ago this month, a San Francisco bookstore published Howl, a controversial poem that became an anthem for the Beat Generation. Alan Ginsberg became a legend.
October 27, 2006 • McSweeney's, the publishing enterprise behind several humor journals, has a new book out — a collection of its often absurd "lists" that readers send in to McSweeney's Web site. Editor John Warner talks with Madeleine Brand about the new collection.


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mpDeveloper commercial activity has become Twinkle Communication.
mpDeveloper will remain exclusively my personal webspace.
hi. my name is Mihail Puica and I am an webdev.
Check my github repositories for some of my public webdev work.
MotoRacing Canada Your complete canadian resource for a perfect trackday Canadian circuits, Trackdays, Promoters, News, Tech Tips and your own Racer corner.
automotive portal for a Swiss company, built on my own CMS, SmartWebServer.
online presentation page for your best online planning solution, e-planner.net.
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Agenda Soft the SmartWeb company is buiding the web for you.
Check my github repositories for some of my public robotics and computer vision work.
Update 005 - refactored for Processing 3 with the Game Control Plus library and for linux mapping of the joystick.
Controlling the Arduino and OWI arm project with either a keyboard or a Loghitech Attack 3 joystick.
description: OWI arm controlled by the joystick using Processing and ProControll.
description: OWI arm with the cameras fitted according to the position. At present, the arm can be controlled by means of the computer keyboard (Processing script).
description: OWI arm with fitted Arduino Mega controller, independent power source and a set of HBridge motors controllers.
description: first contact with the OWI arm using his build-in remote.
description: the final form of the project, after its presentation.
description: the first form of the project, some sample images and some electronic details.
description: some examples of filters (Prewitt, Sobel, Cany, Roberts).
description: the steps of calculating the lines within the project (Prewitt-MEC-Hough).
...some day, some content will be added here.
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  'module/setStatus'
], function(socket, adapter, initChat, initDataChannel, setStatus){

    var servers = {
        iceServers: [
            {url: "stun:stun.l.google.com:19302"},
            {url: "turn:agornostal%40cogniance.com@numb.viagenie.ca:3478", credential: 'webrtc'}
        ]
    };

    // Add an a=crypto line for SDP emitted by Firefox.
    // This is backwards compatibility for Firefox->Chrome calls because
    // Chrome will not accept a=crypto-less offers and Firefox only
    // does DTLS-SRTP.
    var ensureCryptoLine = function(sdp) {
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        var sdpLinesIn = sdp.split('\r\n');
        var sdpLinesOut = [];

        // Search for m line.
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            onOpen: chat.activate,
            onClose: chat.deactivate,
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            chat.onSendMsg = dataChannel.send.bind(dataChannel);
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                console.debug('send candidate', evt.candidate);
                socket.emit('candidate', {candidate: evt.candidate});
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        // once remote stream arrives, show it in the remote video element
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            socket.on('description', function(data){
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                    if( !isCaller ){
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                        offer.sdp = ensureCryptoLine(offer.sdp);
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« On Literature, Baba Segi, and Major Pettigrew
Willa Cather (1918) – My Antonia »
Muriel Spark (1959) – Memento Mori
Of the three epigraphs at the head of Muriel Spark's (1959) Memento Mori, the first two provide alternative views of old age: "this caricature, Decrepit age" and "venerable and reverend."[1] The third, listing the four last things, death, judgment, hell, and heaven, is echoed in the final sentence of the book telling us that Jean Taylor "lingered for a time … meditating sometimes … upon Death, the first of the Four Last Things." Interestingly, when I was six years old and memorizing the catechism, the order of the final two was reversed: heaven was named before hell. I'm sure there are theologians who dispute the correct order, but since heaven and hell are alternatives rather than sequential, I don't see that the order of naming amounts to anything.
Memento Mori is itself a meditation on the first two of the Four Last Things, an exploration of how an imagined collection of characters deal with them. The remembrance of Death is the call to action. When your time is running short, if you are going to do something, you had better do it now because there may not be a later. The remembrance of Judgment suggests the goal that should inform the action. One must put one's house in order. The final two represent the denouement: the carrot and the stick (or is it the stick and the carrot?).
Principal among the activities of the characters are avoidance, guilt, and the making of wills. Spark initially tells us, with gentle humor, of the "Grannies" in the "Maud Long Medical Ward (aged people, female)," their will-making and remaking, and the reactions of the ward staff. Granny Duncan, annoyed at being called Granny threatens to write to her M.P., but changes her mind when they promise to stop calling her Granny.
"But," she said, "you shall never go back in my will."
"In the name of God that's real awful of you," said the ward sister as she bustled about, "I thought you was going to leave us all a packet." (p.16)
And Granny Barnacle
would send out to Woolworth's for a will-from about once a week; this would occupy her for two or three days. She would ask the nurse how to spell words like "hundred" and "ermine." (p.16)
But it is not just the patients in the public ward who are busily writing people into and out of their wills. We learn that Lisa Brooke, who dies before we get to meet her, had changed her will a year earlier. "It was a mere sheet of paper, witnessed by the charwoman and her daughter", cutting out all of her relatives and bequeathing all of her fortune "to my husband if he survives me, and thereafter to my housekeeper, Mabel Pettigrew." (p.34) And tubby Dame Lettie has made twenty-two different wills over the past forty years. Maybe there is a Fifth Last Thing, which is the Kvetching of the Disinherited, the prospect of which is a strong motivator to people whose ability to affect the course of events has been reduced to will-making.
Spark has a novel take on guilt. The reader first encounters it when Mrs. Pettigrew—who tries to keep herself from mixing it up with those whom she regards as inferiors, but never succeeds—is "overwhelmed … with that sense of having done a foolish thing against one's interests, which in some people stands for guilt." My first thought was that this is a truly odd concept of guilt, but on further reading, other characters seem to share it. I think of guilt pretty much as it is defined by The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48: "A feeling of regret or remorse for having committed some improper act; a recognition of one's own responsibility for doing something wrong." What is missing among Spark's characters is the sense of having done something wrong. Regret and remorse we see, but I wouldn't call it guilt.
Charmian frets about her husband Godfrey. Her friend and former lover Guy Leet observes
"I perceive you have a slight sense of guilt concerning [Godfrey]."
"Guilt? Oh, no, Guy. As I was saying, I feel unusually innocent in this place."
"Sometimes… a sense of guilt takes a self-righteous turn. I see no cause for you to feel either in the right or in the wrong where Godfrey's concerned."
Still, the feeling gives rise to a desire and often an action to remedy the consequences of the original behavior, so the absence of a sense of having done wrong doesn't actually seem necessary to achieve the ends, vis-à-vis others, that guilt is supposed to accomplish.
Mrs. Pettigrew is a satisfying villain whose malicious reach often exceeds her grasp and Spark has a lot of fun with her. Precisely because Mrs. Pettigrew has a reputation for being bossy and manipulative, she is hired to look after Charmian in a sort of passive-aggressive conspiracy between Dame Lettie and her brother, Charmian's husband, Godfrey. When Mrs. Pettigrew arrives at the Colstons', Spark tells us, "Mrs. Anthony [the current cook and caregiver] knew instinctively that Mrs. Pettigrew was a kindly woman. Her instinct was wrong." (p.54)
After a minor contretemps between Charmian and Mrs. Petigrew over whether Charmian has taken her pills, the doctor calms Charmian, saying that it won't do any harm to miss a dose or to take an extra dose. Afterwards, Mrs. Pettigrew, "was filled with a furious envy at the thought that, if she herself were to take the vapours, there would not be any expensive doctor to come and give her a kind talk and injection no doubt, and calm her down so that she could sit and read a book after turning the household upside down."
Mrs. Pettigrew, having had keys made for the various locked drawers in the Colson household, comes into possession of evidence of Godfrey's infidelities to Charmian and sets in motion a plan to blackmail Godfrey to write Mrs. Pettigrew into his will. "Mabel Pettigrew thought: I can read him like a book. She had not read a book for over forty years, could never concentrate on reading, but this nevertheless was her thought." (p.159)
Jean Taylor, learning from Alec Warner of Mrs. Pettigrew's machinations, decides to intervene. Reasoning that Godfrey is open to blackmail because he fears the humiliation it will cause him if Charmian learns of his affairs—as Taylor puts it, Godfrey is "morally afraid of Charmian" (p.175)—Taylor instructs Alec to tell Godfrey about Charmian's affairs over the years 1902-1907. Alec objects that Jean will be betraying Charmian.
"Charmian will be shocked. She trusts you." …
"There is a time for loyalty and a time when loyalty comes to an end. Charmian should know that by now…. Tell [Godfrey] from me he has nothing to fear from Mrs. Pettigrew. Poor old man." (pp.176-7)
That is, adherence to the letter of the principle on principle is not enough; one must look at the bigger picture. Jean is the moral center of the book. Consigned to the Maud Long Medical Ward, suffering intense arthritic pain, she maintains a balanced and compassionate outlook throughout and manages as best she can to intervene as her conscience directs.
Eric Colston, Charmian and Godfrey's son, learns that Mrs. Pettigrew is blackmailing his father and rushes to join forces with her. Eric does not have a large role in the novel, but what he has is "cherce" (as Ralph Kramden would say). Eric is resentful of his mother's literary success and has managed to estrange himself from both his father and his mother. Nevertheless, Charmian has been sending him money all along.
"I do not like to say these things, and of course Eric was a disappointment, but I can't help feeling that Godfrey's attitude—"
"Eric," said Guy, "is a man of fifty-five."
"Fifty-seven," said Charmian….
"Fifty-seven," said Guy. "And he has had time to acquire a sense of responsibility." (p.189)
"Eric has no charity," she said.
"well, perhaps it is just that he is middle-aged. The really young are so much pleasanter," said Guy. (p.190)
By way of explanation of Eric's character, Spark tells us that when he was young his family attributed his (apparently obvious) faults to an upbringing that was generally agreed to be too lenient and at the same time generally agreed to be too strict. The real key to understanding Eric is that
Eric was amazed when his elders eventually stopped blaming themselves for his condition. He thought them hypocritical and callous to go back on their words. He longed for them to start discussing him again in the old vein; but by the time he was thirty-seven they had said quite bitter things to him. (p.201)
Eric can't do anything to his own satisfaction (although he has managed to publish a novel), and his combination with Mrs. Pettigrew fares no better when Taylor's anti-blackmail information reaches Godfrey, who tells both of them in no uncertain terms to get out of the house.
Mrs. Pettigrew's ambitions and dreams are dashed when it turns out that the husband named in Lisa Brooke's will, whom nobody had ever heard of, turns out to be alive albeit in a mental institution. So Mrs. Pettigrew gets nothing. Ironic justice. The husband dies shortly thereafter and Mrs. Pettigrew inherits after all. Ironic injustice. Mrs. Pettigrew has a stroke and goes to live in a hotel at South Kensington, "where she can still be seen in the evening jostling for a place by the door of the hotel lounge before the dinner gong sounds." Reading between the lines, one would say she worries lest she be seated at a table whose location proclaims a social status below that which she obsessively arrogates to herself. Villainy reduced to banality by irony.
As Jean Taylor is the moral center of Memento Mori, Death is its motivating core. It is a wonderful conceit. Death takes advantage of technology to convey his message. In an updated version, Death would send text messages. Death is always him, notwithstanding that his calls to Inspector Mortimer are always from "this woman, gentle-spoken and respectful" (p.156)
For more than half of the text, the only calls we know of are those made to Dame Lettie Colston, but then Godfrey gets a call (p.121). Seven pages later, Charmian gets a call to which she replies
"My memory is failing in certain respects. I am gone eighty-six. But somehow I do not forget my death, whenever that may be."
"Delighted to hear it," he said. Goodbye for now." (p.128)
Ten pages later, Alec gets a call. And by the time the investigation brings the people complaining about the calls together at Inspector Mortimer's, everyone over the age of seventy has received a call (although Mrs. Pettigrew on principle—what the principle would be, she would be unable to articulate—does not acknowledge that she has been called.). Inspector Mortimer opines that "the offender is Death himself." (p.144) Later, Jean Taylor, unaware of Mortimer's suggestion, says, "In my belief, the author of the anonymous calls is Death himself, as you might say." (p.179) By this time, the reader is willing to accept this as fact.
Guy Leet, asked if the calls worry him, replies, "Me? No. I don't mind a bit of fun…. Personally, I tell the young fellow to go to hell." So, different folks have different reactions, which is, of course Spark's point.
There are eighteen characters (aside from the minor Grannies) it is informative to list them, their ages, and their status at the end of the book.
Matt O'Brien ? Deceased
Alec Warner 79 Alive
Mabel Pettigrew 73 Alive
Mrs. Anthony 70 Alive
Lisa Brooke 73 Deceased
Jean Taylor 82 Deceased
Eric Colston 56 Alive
Charmian Colston 87 Deceased
Godfrey Colston 87 Deceased
Dame Lettie Colston 81 Deceased
Guy Leet 78 Deceased
Tempest Sidebottome ? Deceased
Janet Sidebottome 77 Deceased
Ronald Sidebottome 79 Deceased
Percy Mannering 80 Alive
Olive Mannering 24 Alive
Inspector Mortimer 73 Deceased
Emmeline Mortimer 74 Alive
[1] The book has "reverent" in place of "reverend." From everything I can find, it is the book that is incorrect.
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Born and raised in New Hebron, Mississippi (pop. 447), Lacy began playing the violin at age three. She went on to play dozens of performances and concertos and win many awards, competitions and scholarships.
Lacy obtained her Bachelor's of Music from the California Institute of the Arts. Recently, Lacy has performed at "The Greek Theatre" with persian pop star Andy Madadian and can also be found fiddling around in Las Vegas at such country venues as "Gilley's" of Treasure Island.


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Court nullifies all APC primaries in Rivers State
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has nullified all the primaries conducted by All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state
Recall that some aggrieved APC members loyal to the Governorship Candidate of SDP, Senator Magnus Abe, had approached the Court challenging the conduct of the Primary election with claims of exclusion from the delegates' primaries conducted in the State.
One George Orlu and four others who claimed to have purchased nomination forms had approached the court requesting that the primaries of APC in the state be nullified following their alleged exclusion in the process.
The court in its decision yesterday, October 24, ruled that the persons were unlawfully excluded from the primaries.
Justice E.A. Obile, in the judgment, agreed with the plaintiffs that they were wrongly excluded in the process to participate in the party primaries.
He, therefore, ruled that all those elected from the primary stand nullifed and should not be recognized as candidates.
I will resign if anyone can prove I promised he will be my successor
Woman allegedly stabs man to death in Edo after he 'spotted her with another person' (video)


Young Justice ROCKBAND STYLE!!!!!. . Wallpaper and background images in the Justicia Joven club.
He`s superviseing like a leader or producer. lol superboy looks so confused he looks like what???
haha, megan has a punk mohawk, and robin kinda looks like a chic, and superboy looks confuzzled.
It would be so awesome if there would be an episode with all of them singing like in the Young Justice fanfiction Musical Mission on fanfiction.net. if you haven´t read it yet go and check it out.
robin is played by a professional singer in this so.....they should have an episode of him singing PWEASE!!!
PLEASE DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have to listen to his voice every night! No lie; I listen to songs that his voicer (JM) sings! So crazy I know!!


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Scam Map
The Spyware in Your Hand
When smartphones tap your conversations
by Sid Kirchheimer, From the AARP Bulletin Print Edition, January 1, 2011 | Comments: 0
En español | Your smartphone may be sharing your secrets. Using "spyware" that sells on the Internet for as little as $15, other people can hijack your phone. This allows them to hear your calls; see your text messages, e-mails, photographs and files; and track your location through constant GPS updates.
Your phone can even be turned into a surreptitious microphone. "When the phone is off — in a pocket, purse or on a table — it can remotely be turned on so conversations around the phone can be heard," says Tim Wilcox, owner of International Investigators Inc., an Indianapolis security firm.
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The world now has about 370 million smartphones, according to ABI Research, an Oyster Bay, N.Y., firm that studies wireless communications. They include BlackBerrys, Androids, iPhones and others that easily accept apps and have ample processing power. Security experts say millions of them may already be infected with spyware; the risk for basic "dumb" cellphones is far less.
Mobile phone spyware is illegal in the United States but is sold by websites operating overseas. With at least 600 variations of the app out there, all it takes is a credit card to make an instant wiretapper. Often that person is a suspicious spouse, an overly protective parent or a jealous coworker. "But it's certainly possible for scammers to use it for identity theft," says Wilcox.
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The spy's challenge is to install the program in your phone. With some types of software, this is accomplished by getting you to click on an enticing link in a message the spy has sent to your phone. With other types, spies must get their hands on your phone for perhaps 10 minutes. Entering a code to the phone "downloads the spyware with no indication," says Richard Mislan, a professor of cyber forensics at Purdue University.
There are even websites that sell phones with spyware already installed.
If your phone becomes infected, a text message alerts the spy when you make or receive a call, with no unusual signs on your end.
So is your phone infected? Here are some warning signs:
Your bill may show texts to unknown phone numbers, often occurring at the same time as legitimate calls. It's at these numbers, surreptitiously dialed by the spyware, that someone is monitoring you.
The battery is warm when the phone isn't in use, or it dies quickly — this may mean power is being drained by the spyware.
Your phone flickers when not in use.
Confirming a spyware infection isn't easy. The phone needs to be sent to a lab where experts look for a few lines of identifying programming code. "With the typical smartphone having up to 300,000 lines, it's finding a needle in a haystack," adds Wilcox, whose company charges $2,200 for such jobs. The work can take eight days.
The best prevention: Use a handset pass code to lock your phone and prevent anyone else from using it. And never open links in e-mails sent to you by unknown parties.
Says Wilcox: "Your best defense is to buy a $20 phone with prepaid minutes for your sensitive conversations."
Sid Kirchheimer is the author of Scam-Proof Your Life, published by AARP Books/Sterling.


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Home / Schools / OAU Shut Down Over Alleged 1.8 Billion Tax Issues... See Photos Here...
OAU Shut Down Over Alleged 1.8 Billion Tax Issues... See Photos Here...
Fpn blog 11:40:00 Schools
The Revenue Task Force storms the university as early as 7am to seal the senate and administrative building as well as the school main gate.
The Revenue Task Force led Mr Oladipo Babatunde, arrived the campus on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at about 7:00 am, sealed the Senate Chamber and the administrative building before proceeding to seal the university main gate.
According to Channels TV, the closure of the institution and other establishments in the state followed the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum issued to all affected establishments by the state government.
The leader of the task force, Babatunde said the institution owed the state government about N1.8 billion and they had no choice than to seal after the management of OAU refuses to meet up with the deadline issued to them.
According to him, the money owed by the Institution is outstanding unremitted PAYE withholding taxes and developments levy which had become due and payable since the year 2015 and 2016.
OAU reacts
However, the Public Relations Officer of the University, Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju, while reacting to the closure of the institution told newsmen that the debt was inherited from the past administration of the institution.
He said, "I must add this that the present university administration since 2017 has been paying consistently but the backlog of debt inherited from the past administration is what is causing this little problem''.
The University spokesperson however assured the public that the issue will be sorted out with the state government soon.


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Q: How to handle event Double click using DataBinding? I have project that I want to display a shape in ShapeDesigner.xaml to Grid in MainWindow.xaml when I double-click ShapeToolUI.xaml button, how can I do this. Thank you so much.
This is .xaml code
ShapeDesigner.xaml
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</Canvas>

MainWindow.xaml
<Grid Background="#FFBCE6FF" >
    // I want to display Canvas in ShapeDesigner in here when double-clicked button in ShapeToolUI
</Grid>

ShapeToolUI.xaml
<Grid Background="White">
    <ScrollViewer HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" >
        <StackPanel Background="#FFBCE6FF">
            <Button  MouseDoubleClick="DisplayRhombus"
                Margin="10,40,10,0" Height="91" Width="100" BorderBrush="#FFBCE6FF" Foreground="#FFBCE6FF">
                <Button.Background>
                    <ImageBrush ImageSource="rhombus.png"/>
                </Button.Background>
            </Button>
</Grid>

Thank you so much <3

A: Where is your "DisplayRhombus" defined?
If not, that need to be defined first. And invoke "Circle" from inside that function.

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Ido Kedar
West Hills, CA | 17
Ido Kedar lives with non-verbal autism. Growing up, he could not communicate and was presumed to have very limited comprehension. At the age of seven, when his mother held her hand over his to address birthday invitations, she noticed that he was writing independently under her hand. This breakthrough led Ido down a unique educational path that enabled him to communicate. Today, Ido uses an iPad to express himself freely. Eager to help his peers escape their own "silent prisons," Ido began a written journal. Ido's book, "Ido in Autismland," represents his effort to help change the way parents, educators, and researchers think about severe autism. Ido has pushed himself beyond his comfort zone to share his story with UCLA Medical School students, at Autism Society events, and at numerous other forums. He collaborates with the Moses-Aaron Cooperative, which pairs speaking teens with non-verbal autistic youth so their written words can be shared aloud. Ido in Autismland has been assigned as required reading in California State University, Northridge education classes. Ido also blogs regularly to reach an ever-expanding audience of autistic individuals, parents, and professionals to inspire and educate.
Ido in Autismland
Advocates for teens who, like Ido himself, are non-verbal autistic. Ido works to help them "find a way out of their silence" by challenging conceptions about their potential and by supporting new educational tools.


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Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Developer: Wargaming.net
'World Of Tanks' Partners With Arnold Schwarzenegger For Holiday Ops Celebrations - Trailer
by Rainier on Dec. 1, 2021 @ 5:31 p.m. PST
In World Of Tanks player teams are fighting action-packed PvP battles, featuring more than 150 armored fighting vehicles from the pre-WW2 era up to the Korean War.
World Of Tanks is a team-based massively multiplayer online action game dedicated to armored warfare. Throw yourself into the epic tank battles of World War II with other steel cowboys all over the world. Your arsenal includes more than 150 armored vehicles from America, Germany, and the Soviet Union, carefully detailed with historical accuracy.
Ride the legendary Tiger tank, or choose the fast-and-furious Soviet T-34, practice your sharp-shooting skills with the American 155mm M40 Gun Motor Carriage or try experimental/prototype machines such as the Germany's monstrous Maus tank. A Player can have an endless number of tanks in "garage", and all machines can be upgraded in dozens of ways: better turrets, chassis, guns, engines, radios, various ammunition types, plus tank crew members can be leveled up as well.
World of Tanks has released a new trailer for the highly anticipated festive event, Holiday Ops 2022. And in the video there is a real action hero to be seen: Arnold Schwarzenegger. For many years, there have been tons of social media and forum posts from players to bring Arnie to World of Tanks. During the preparations, the team did not allow themselves to be looked at and are now making the community's dream come true.
The trailer tells the story of little Johnnie and his letter that has not been delivered for almost 30 years. Although the letter had been on its way for almost three decades, the message reached Arnold and of course he immediately knew what to do: Off to the Choppa and pay a visit to little Johnny. What happens then?
" Working with the Wargaming team on this special event was a great experience and I know the players are looking forward to it, " said Arnold. " I've had a relationship with tanks for a long time, as I own an M-47 Patton myself, which I drove in the Austrian army when I was 18. So I know how exciting it is to command one of those steel beasts. My friends on reddit have been asking me about World of Tanks for many years and I'm happy to finally present the fans with the partnership they want. The Holiday Ops are just around the corner, so let go of the gingerbread and join me in spreading the joy of the holiday this year! "
Holiday Ops is one of the most popular events among gamers and runs during the festive season and New Years. The commanders can decorate a special village in the game with a large selection of decorations and many objects. This increases the festive atmosphere and there are great in-game rewards for each new level that is reached.
More information about the Holiday Ops 2022 at World of Tanks will be available very soon!
World Of Tanks is available for PS4, Xbox One and PC.
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Philip Steer
CV & Contact
Settler Literature and Environmental Change in Colonial New Zealand and Australia (2020-22)
Marsden Fund Standard Grant (NZ$657,000), Marsden Fund Council and Royal Society Te Apārangi
Co-Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Teresa Shewry (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Associate Investigator: Dr Tina Makereti (Massey University)
Colonisation transformed the environments of Australia and New Zealand at unprecedented scale and speed, and these changes profoundly impacted the settler cultures that emerged there during the nineteenth century. Settler literature's environmental themes have generally been treated as a backdrop to questions of national identity and belonging, but that body of writing also has the potential to offer unique insights into the human dimensions of environmental change. The aim of this project is to reassess settler poems, novels, and travel narratives as a form of environmental knowledge that allowed colonial society to define the limits of its responsibility to the natural world. We will produce a new account of colonial culture in Australia and New Zealand, by locating its texts within the context of specific ecosystems and environmental debates, and tracing how their environmental claims intersected with Indigenous ecological knowledge and with developments in colonial science. By adopting this interdisciplinary and transnational approach, the project will throw light on the role of settler literature in producing the changed environments we now inhabit. It will also further our understanding of the social dimensions of complex environmental challenges in the present moment.
The Reid family outside their slab hut home, Whangamomona. James McAllister, ca. 1898-99.
Realism, Romance, and the Settler Colonies: Literary Form, Territoriality and Political Economy, 1829-1915 (2012-14)
Marsden Fund Fast-Start Grant (NZ$345,000), Marsden Fund Council and Royal Society Te Apārangi
This project revises our understanding of colonial New Zealand literature, contending that it should be seen as inherently trans-national rather than merely pre-national. Victorian-era writers in New Zealand, Australia and Britain produced a global literature united by the circulation of genres, and I will argue that realism and romance in particular provided them with critical tools for testing the concepts of political economy and territoriality that underpinned this evolving Greater Britain. My research instils New Zealand literature with a new global relevance, positioning the settler colony as key to understanding fundamental aspects of Victorian Britain's imperial literature and culture.
Philip Steer | Senior Lecturer in English, Massey University


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SuSE to announce Linux security certification
Novell plans to announce on Wednesday that SuSE Linux, the version of the open-source operating system it acquired earlier this month, has passed a new level of security certification.
Stephen Shankland
Jan. 21, 2004 9:18 a.m. PT
NEW YORK--Novell plans to announce on Wednesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that SuSE Linux, the version of the open-source operating system it acquired earlier this month, has passed a new level of security certification.
In August 2003, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) was certified to meet Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (EAL2) of an internationally adopted set of government security requirements called the Common Criteria. Novell Chief Executive Jack Messman is expected to announce that the operating system has passed the more stringent EAL3 tests, a source familiar with the plan said.
The certification will apply to the SLES software that runs on all IBM server lines--its zSeries mainframes, xSeries Intel-based servers, iSeries midrange servers, pSeries Unix servers and the eServer 325, which uses Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processors, the source said.
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Achieving Common Criteria certifications--a necessity for many government and military customers--moves Linux a step closer to the established status of competing operating systems such as Microsoft's Windows, Sun Microsystems' Solaris, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX and IBM's AIX, all of which have the higher EAL4 certification.
Red Hat, the company that sells the most widely used version of Linux, announced in February that it was working with Oracle to achieve EAL2 certification by the end of 2003, but the company hasn't announced that approval yet.
In December, an Oracle representative said the Red Hat certification was expected by mid-January.
Red Hat and SuSE are both IBM business partners, but in New York, Big Blue has been showing warm ties with SuSE. Jim Stallings, IBM's general manager of Linux operations, praised SuSE at an event for SuSE business partners Tuesday on the eve of the Linux show.
"We've seen phenomenal strength in their technology leadership. They were the first company that scaled to eight ways," he said, meaning that SuSE beat out rivals with a version of Linux that could effectively run on a powerful eight-processor server. SuSE "goes to market faster than any of their competitors," he added.
Though SuSE lagged Red Hat in market share, it supported all IBM's server lines much earlier than Red Hat, which reached that point in October. IBM is slated to make a $50 million investment in Novell now that the Provo, Utah-based company has completed its $210 million acquisition of SuSE.
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Q: Задать отступы для динамического элемента select Необходимо чтобы элемент select занимал всю ширину блока и имел отступы margin: 10px 15px 0 15px;.
Стиль с отступами не срабатывает справа, растягивается на всю ширину глобального родительского блока у которого нет отступов. Если добавить этот селект в div с необходимыми паддингами, то все отлично работает. Но так сделать нельзя, т.к. селект динамический и создается из функции js.
Как добавить динамическому селекту отступы margin и при этом оставить его независимым от других элементов ?
Разметка и стили
<select>
  <option value="0">text</option>
  <option value="571">text</option>
</select>

select {
width: 100%;
height: 35px;
margin: 10px 15px 0 15px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}

UPD
Ошиблась в стиле указанном в вопросе. Но в проекте ошибки нет. Стили указаны верно, но не работает.

A: Пробовали исправить margin-top: 10px 15px 0 15px; на margin: 10px 15px 0 15px;?

select {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    height: 35px;
    margin: 10px 15px 0 15px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}
<select><option value="0">text</option><option value="571">text</option><option value="591">text</option></select>

A: Решение состоит в том что б добавлять вместе с select div с класом. А отступ будет работать с padding;
Нужно отказаться от margin потому что:

http://htmlbook.ru/css/box-sizing

Свойство "box-sizing" на margin не действует.
Его смена учитывает: padding c border а margin пропускает.
jsFiddle

create();

function create() {
 var select = "<div class='place'><select><option value='0'>text</option><option value='571'>text</option><option value='591'>text</option></select>";
 $('body').append(select);
};
    select {
    width: 100%;
    height: 35px;
    }
 .place{
  padding: 10px 15px 0 15px;
 }
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select><option value="0">text</option><option value="571">text</option><option value="591">text</option></select>

CSS:
select {
width: 100%;
height: 35px;
}
.place{
    padding: 10px 15px 0 15px;
}


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Accommodation Each room or apartment is air conditioned and includes a sofa and flat-screen TV. The private bathroom includes a bath or shower and hairdryer.


The ACA family has lost a friend, competitor, historian, and Legend of Paddling. Russell "Chick" Dermond passed on Friday May 8th, 2015 from heart complications.
Chick was raised in an ACA family. At one point in time he, his father, his mother, and his wife, were all 50-year members of the ACA. His early years were spent as a flatwater racer and began in the wooden "peanut," which was the predecessor of modern kayaks and C boats. A many-time national champion, Chick competed in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and then attended again as Team Manager in 1972. After ending his career as an Olympic competitor, he turned to committee work. Chick served in a number of governing positions including the U.S. Olympic Committee, the ACA, Sugar Island, and Lake Sebago.
Many of you are aware of his dedication to the ACA and his exceptional knowledge of its history. The Board of Directors and Staff always loved hearing his quick, fun loving humor and were constantly amazed at his extensive knowledge of all paddlesports as well as the ACA's 136 year existence.
The ACA was an important part of Chick's life and he liked for people to know about the organization. Two years ago Chick was bothered by the fact that the ACA had a new national headquarters in Fredericksburg, Virginia without any real signage out front. Chick, without prompting, quietly handmade and delivered a beautiful 17' wood sign in the shape of a canoe which weighs hundreds of pounds. The sign, like his presence is graceful, warm, and long lasting which reminds everyone to take good care of the organization.
Although he will be missed, he will always be remembered.


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Al-Halqi outlines the Arab intellectuals' role in confronting cultural invasion
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Damascus (ST)-Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi has confirmed that the comprehensive and systematic war waged against Syria targets the Arab nation and serves the interests of the Zionist- American schemes in the region.
During the reception of the secretary General of the Arab Unification Party in Lebanon Wiaam Wahhab and Head of the Arab Bloc in Lebanon Skaker al-Barjawi on Thursday, al-Halqi expressed his confidence that Syria will get out triumphant of the crisis and will remain the impregnable fortress in front of all enemies.
Al-Halqi outlined the supportive stances of the national and Arab parties to the Syrian people in confronting the war that tries to shatter the Arab pride, dignity and the spirit of resistance, underlining the role played by the Arab intellectuals in challenging the cultural and media invasion in a bid to distort the Arab history and Islam.
The Premier highlighted the victories achieved by the brave Syrian Arab Army in facing the terrorist groups and gradually restoring security and stability to the country in line with the government's confrontation of the economic war.
For his part, Wahhab highlighted the Syrian government's calls to the displaced citizens in the neighboring countries to come back home, voicing his party's support to the Syrian people in the face of the global terrorism.
Wahhab expressed his complete confidence that the victory is imminent and that Syria will regain development and stability thanks to the steadfastness of the Syrian people and Army.
Al-Barjawi voiced his Bloc's support for Syria, reiterating that the axis of resisting the western schemes in the region will ultimately emerge triumphant.
O. Al-Mohammad
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require 'yaml'
require 'json'

require 'pp'

# This class is used by Sunstone to set and return the views available to a user
# as well as available tabs.
class SunstoneViews

    ############################################################################
    # Class Constants:
    #   - Configuration files
    #   - sunstone-views.yaml includes default group views
    ############################################################################
    VIEWS_CONFIGURATION_FILE = ETC_LOCATION + "/sunstone-views.yaml"
    VIEWS_CONFIGURATION_DIR  = ETC_LOCATION + "/sunstone-views/"

    def initialize(mode)

        raise "Sunstone configuration file does not contain default view mode, aborting" if mode.nil?

        @views_config = YAML.load_file(VIEWS_CONFIGURATION_FILE)

        base_path = SUNSTONE_ROOT_DIR+'/public/js/'

        @views = Hash.new

        raise "The #{mode} view directory does not exists, aborting" if Dir[VIEWS_CONFIGURATION_DIR + mode].empty?

        raise "The #{mode} view directory is empty, aborting" if Dir[VIEWS_CONFIGURATION_DIR + mode + '/*.yaml'].empty?

        Dir[VIEWS_CONFIGURATION_DIR + mode + '/*.yaml'].each do |p_path|
            reg = VIEWS_CONFIGURATION_DIR + mode + '/'
            m = p_path.match(/^#{reg}(.*).yaml$/)
            if m && m[1]
                @views[m[1]] = YAML.load_file(p_path)
            end
        end
    end

    def view(user_name, group_name, view_name=nil)
        available_views = available_views(user_name, group_name)

        if view_name && available_views.include?(view_name)
            return @views[view_name]
        else
            return @views[available_views.first]
        end
    end

    # Return the name of the views avialable to a user. Those defined in the
    # group template and configured in sunstone. If no view is defined in a
    # group defaults in sunstone-views.yaml will be used.
    #
    def available_views(user_name, group_name)
        onec = $cloud_auth.client(user_name)
        user = OpenNebula::User.new_with_id(OpenNebula::User::SELF, onec)

        available = Array.new

        rc = user.info
        if OpenNebula.is_error?(rc)
            return available
        end

        user.groups.each { |gid|
            group = OpenNebula::Group.new_with_id(gid, onec)

            rc = group.info
            if OpenNebula.is_error?(rc)
                return available.uniq
            end

            if group["TEMPLATE/SUNSTONE/VIEWS"]
                views_array = group["TEMPLATE/SUNSTONE/VIEWS"].split(",")
                available << views_array.each{|v| v.strip!}
            elsif @views_config['groups']
                available << @views_config['groups'][group.name]
            end

            gadmins       = group.admin_ids
            gadmins_views = group["TEMPLATE/SUNSTONE/GROUP_ADMIN_VIEWS"]

            if gadmins && gadmins.include?(user.id) && gadmins_views
                views_array = gadmins_views.split(",")
                available << views_array.each{|v| v.strip!}
            end
        }

        available.flatten!

        available.reject!{|v| !@views.has_key?(v)} #sanitize array views

        return available.uniq if !available.empty?

        # Fallback to default views if none is defined in templates

        available << @views_config['users'][user_name] if @views_config['users']
        if @views_config['groups']
            available << @views_config['groups'][group_name]
        end
        available << @views_config['default']

        group = OpenNebula::Group.new_with_id(user.gid, onec)

        rc = group.info
        if !OpenNebula.is_error?(rc)
            gadmins = group.admin_ids
            if gadmins && gadmins.include?(user.id)
                available << @views_config['default_groupadmin']
            end
        end

        available.flatten!

        available.reject!{|v| !@views.has_key?(v)} #sanitize array views

        return available.uniq
    end

    def get_all_views
        @views.keys
    end

    def get_all_labels(group_name)
        labels = []
        if @views_config['labels_groups']
            if @views_config['labels_groups'][group_name]
                @views_config['labels_groups'][group_name].each{|l| labels.push(l)}
            end
            if @views_config['labels_groups']['default']
                @views_config['labels_groups']['default'].each{|l| labels.push(l)}
            end
        end
        return labels
    end

    def logo
        @views_config['logo']
    end
end


Meditation and contemplation have led me on new paths of discovery. Reflections on self and my connect with the universe.
As I sit meditating today, I let my mind wander before I enter the deep stage of 'no thought zone' (yes, this actually happens). Keeping routine thoughts at bay is hardly a challenge anymore, it is this inquisitive, seeking mind that prods for answers from my sub-conscious. I am rarely disappointed. And so, my mind takes me on yet another journey..this time trying to evaluate what I have learnt in the past few years.
Acceptance is one attitude that has been so unburdening for me. 'Resistance versus acceptance'. Not for a minute am I talking of a meek surrender to circumstances or persons. It is a subtle shift to being an observer, of purging emotions that hold me back. This change has been of great help during my tumultuous past decade and has helped me deal with challenges more philosophically. I now have the ability to look at the larger picture.
What's happening to me in the now has basis in the past (Karma).
Appreciation of what I am endowed with, of how exciting life is. We take so much for granted, don't we? As children we grew up in wonderment ~ taking joy in little things such as bubbles, a dragon fly or shapes we 'saw' in clouds. In recent years, I have started reliving these smaller joys. The sound and sight of birds is one thing that immediately connects me to nature. Birds are a symbol of freedom to me, of adventure. I love the greens, the great outdoors, long walks on a beach and the hills. My recent ability to live my life more mindfully has facilitated this ability to live life in the moment, savour small joys of life. After all, they make for a grand life!
Gratitude ~ Aha! the magic mantra of these times. Admittedly, I was introduced to it after reading The Secret. However, I have moved on from this process of expressing gratitude as in the 'Ask, Believe, Receive', formula. It now means being genuinely thankful for just about everything~ my challenges that made me more resourceful and resilient. The thorny people who made me adapt and still ended up helping me in some way. For all my ailments which are considered crippling..I'd have never grown as a person without them. For all the goodies in my life~ from small things to my occasional indulgences. The ability to enjoy them. For the capacity to be of help. For all the fabulous people who surround me~ family, friends and Mentors who have helped shape my path. Actually, when one comes to think about it, there's so much to be grateful about, mind you, without any motive behind doing so.
God, Oh God, I ask You, aren't all these your gifts?
This incredibly complex and beautiful Universe that scientists are still trying to fathom.. I am such a tiny particle in the vastness of things. My mind stops its meandering as I settle deeper into my sub-conscious.
You are the Universe, God..the Universe is in You. You are its Creator.
A few moments later a new insight takes birth. God, You are seated in my Soul, which means the Universe is also in me...my consciousness has the capability to span the entire Universe.