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PML-N leader slams govt for bulldozing bills
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday while lashing out at the government said that the government bulldozed the parliament to get the Finance (Supplementary) Bill 2021 passed and this step will prove devastating for the country.
Taking a jibe at the government, PML-N senior leader and former PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that if prime minister and ministers start lying then this happens what is happening.
Abbasi said that the SBP (Amendment) Bill-2022 is not in favor of Pakistan's sovereignty.
He asked why the government didn't purchase LNG, if the country is facing shortage of gas.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that Pakistan has the cheapest LNG terminal in the world and asked if the government had installed any LNG terminal in the past 3 years.
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100 Bullets #9
Meet Cole Burns, a mild-mannered ice cream man trying to make a semi-honest buck in a thoroughly dishonest world. When Agent Graves enters Cole's life and exposes him to a deadly secret, Cole discovers that everyone's got secrets--and his may be the biggest of all.
Crime Drama Mature Suspense
100 Bullets: Book One
100 Bullets: Split Second Chance
If a stranger offered you a chance to get away with murder...would you take it? In this dark, multiple award-winning crime series, ordinary citizens are given the opportunity to exact revenge on a person that has wronged them. Guaranteed full immunity, what would you do?
100 Bullets: Brother Lono
The Eisner Award-winning team behind 100 BULLETS reunites to tell the story of the baddest Minuteman of all. When last we saw Lono, Dizzy Cordova had shot him through the chest...but Lono always was too tough to die.
Fifteen years ago, Dash Bad Horse ran away from a life of poverty and hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. Now, he's come back home to find nothing much has changed on "The Rez" in this gritty, gripping organized-crime drama.
Sleeper: Season One
Sleeper is the story of a man doing his job--a man who gets pushed in over his head. It's the story of deep-cover agent Holden Carver and the secret criminal organization he becomes enmeshed with, and of the deadly game of cat-and-mouse he plays with Tao, the amoral master of manipulation.
Aspiring photojournalist Matty Roth gets trapped in battle-weary Manhattan during America's second civil war. He takes a once in a lifetime opportunity to follow a veteran war journalist into the middle of the DMZ. But taking it leads to more than just a scoop...it leads to a whole new life.

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Throughout the 1990s, West Virginia's unemployment rate was significantly higher than the nation's. Since the last recession ended, however, it has tracked the U.S. average closely. In fact, for the past two years, the state's unemployment rate has been lower than or equal to the national average; in May, 4.5% of West Virginia's labor force was out of work, compared to 5.1% for the U.S.
Suggested citation: "West Virginia Employment and Income," Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Trends, no. 05-07, pp. 15, 07.01.2005.


Professional bartender Joshua Dubois shows how to mix a Long Island iced tea.
Hi, I am Josh Dubois. Today, we are making vodka drinks and right now, I am going to make a Long Island Iced Tea. Now, this is not necessarily just a vodka drink. In fact, it has the most liquors in it of quite possibly any drink. A little history on the Long Island Iced Tea is the Long Island Iced Tea came about during prohibition when the bootleggers would take any and all combinations of liquor and put them all in a glass and disguise it with a little bit of coke, so that they could walk down the street and look like they are drinking iced tea but they are actually drinking a liquor drink.
So, what you are going to do is you are going to serve this in a high ball glass because there is lot of liquor that goes into this drink. You are going to fill it up to a very tip top with ice and you are going to use equal parts of vodka, rum, gin, tequila and triple sec. The way that you remember this is it is basically, all of the clear or semi clear liquors. You are not using any sort of whiskey or anything. There are all the clear liquors that go into this drink. So, you are going to use one ounce of each and now, this one of the drinks that if you are a really good bartender, you can pick up all four bottles at once and pour all four of them in at once. We are not going to do that today, because we are just going to show you how this actually goes together. So, what are you going to do, one, two vodka, one, two rum, one, two gin, one, two tequila and one, two triple sec. Now, as you can see that is all liquor. This is a very, very potent drink and there is not much that goes into this drink that is not liquor. Now, you can either use, with this you can use the juice of one quarter lemon and you can just put all that juice in there or you can use sour mix and you use about the same amount of Sour mix. Then, you are going to top it off with coke. This drink, you garnish with a lemon and you are going to serve with a straw. That s how you make a Long Island Iced Tea. Next, we are going to show you how to make a Vodka Grasshopper.


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The World Needs Christmas!
Typically, I start writing about Christmas in December, but as we approach upcoming celebrations like Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas, we are hearing more and more talk of COVID cancelling these festivals. Global News' article, 'Normal Christmas' off the table, quotes Canada's Prime Minister (PM) Justin Trudeau as saying: "A normal Christmas, quite frankly, is out of the question." The New York Post has the headline: Dr. Fauci suggests canceling Thanksgiving gatherings amid COVID uptick, so the same goes for the American Thanksgiving. Yahoo has an article titled, Dr. Fauci Says Cancel Christmas Unless This Happens, listing a number of restrictions.
Yes, governments and health officials will try and stop Christmas, and other celebrations, because COVID numbers are allegedly going up. They might be somewhat successful in achieving that goal as those who are fearful of the virus will comply, and those who fear their freedoms are threatened will likely gather with their families for Christmas anyway.
The world is divided into two camps, both driven by fear. There is the camp consisting of those who fear for their lives because they believe the virus is deadly. The other camp are those who believe the virus is no deadlier than any other flu virus. These people fear that this alleged pandemic is being used to remove individual freedoms and rights, and as a means to control our lives. These folks fear this is what the "Great Reset" is about that Canada's PM is speaking about. Here is a video of the PM's speech to the United Nations.
A few days later, Trudeau changed his rhetoric claiming the "Great Reset" is conspiracy theory as reported in the article: Canada's Trudeau calls Great Reset a CONSPIRACY THEORY after video of him promoting the globalist initiative went viral. What I find interesting is the Mainstream Media as remained relatively silent on this.
That being said, I (#blogger #blog #somseason #YA #authors) do not wish to get into the politics as I am merely pointing out how divided our world is. Never before have I wanted to avoid people, whether it be family or friends, because if I say something that others disagree with, I am attacked and ostracized. Most other people I talk to feel the same way. This fear is isolating people and pitting people against one another. This is a terrible time in our history.
The question remains: Can Christmas be cancelled? The answer is emphatically no since Christmas is more than family gatherings. American novelist, Edna Ferber , says, "Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." Valentine Davies, known for Miracle on 34th Street says, "Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind." I agree wholeheartedly. For me Christmas is about love. As the Methodist missionary in Canada, George F. McDougall, once said:
"Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God."
Yes, Christmas is a spirit of love which is what gift giving symbolizes. For Christians, gifts are given at Christmas is an opportunity to show love. American actress and singer, Dale Evans, was best known for her singing on her husband's show, the Roy Rogers Show. I remember watching it as a kid. Dale Evans once said, "Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." Christmas is about love and you cannot cancel love, so you cannot cancel Christmas.
Presently, the world is living in more fear than love, as I alluded to earlier. Many argue that the opposite of love is not hate, but fear. A quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi says that, as it says: "The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear." Author, Gerald G. Jampolsky says: "Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement." Or as teacher, author, and spiritual master, Anthony de Mello, known for his parables which are short sayings of "the Master," has this parable on love.
"The total absence of fear," said the Master.
"What is it we fear?"
"Love," said the Master.
If fear is the opposite of love, then let's talk about fear. It is said fear is learned, so if that is true, fear can also be unlearned. Even more, many argue that we humans are programmed to fear. Many have contended that the Mainstream Media programs us to be fearful, and that has always been its purpose. Sotero M Lopez II is one of them as he says: "Whatever Mainstream Media focuses on, BEWARE. Whatever Mainstream Media ignores, FOCUS." Author Jess C. Scott is another who would agree as he says: "People are sheep. TV is the shepherd."
Could that be true? Are we humans being manipulated to be fearful? Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and the Reich Minister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He said:
He also said:
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
Ask yourselves these questions: Is the MM making me fearful? If it is, why? Is there one narrative that all the MM is feeding us or are there multiple narratives? If they are only giving us one narrative, don't we have the right to hear all the different narratives or truths? Is the MM objective or subjective? Does it have an agenda or are there multiple opinions being given to us? Now you may think: The MM would never lie to me. That is cognitive dissonance. We've been programmed to believe the MM is the only reliable source of information, but is it? So I ask you: Is the MM's COVID narrative making you fearful? If it is, stop watching the news.
American author and YouTube content creator, John Mark Green says:
"If you want to tap into what life has to offer, let love be your primary mode of being, not fear. Fear closes us down and makes us retreat. It locks doors and limits opportunities. Love is about opening to possibilities. Seeing the world with new eyes. It widens our heart and mind. Fear incarcerates, but love liberates."
Love liberates, so free yourselves from fear. Writer Agnes M. Pahro once said: "What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future…"
The world needs Christmas now more than ever. The world needs love, hope, peace, and unity. Let's be honest, 2020 could be deemed "the year of bullying (#bullying #antibullying) with maskers attacking anti-maskers, people who are pro-lockdown attacking those who are anti-lockdown, and those fearing for their lives because of a deadly virus judging, and even attacking, those who fear their rights are threatened, calling them conspiracy theorists. Every human, no matter what camp they're in, can agree on one thing, which is 2020 is hell. What the world needs is a path that leads to peace and unity, and I think I know the path. We can all join in unity by proclaiming '2020 as the worst year of our lives' and be united in making 2021 a 'better year;' a year when we show respect even when disagreeing.
Yes, the world needs Christmas now more than ever. Suzy Kassem, author of Rise Up and Salute the Sun says it better than I ever could when she said:
"When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global village for our children."
If 2021 is going to be better, then we must start following our hearts and not our minds. When we follow our minds, our ego gets in the way. When we follow our ego, we Edge God Out, or love out, and attack those who disagree with us. The heart is where love is. It is where Christmas lives. Imania Margria, author of Secrets of My Heart, says:
"No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love."
The world is in dire need of love, not fear. The world is in dire need of Christmas. Cancelling Christmas is not an option! Some unknown person said, "Don't let fear of what may happen hold you back from following your heart." I urge you to remove fear by turning off the news and start listening to your heart where the spirit of Christmas lives. As the late actor and comedian, Robin Williams said, "There are no rules. Just follow your heart."
Really, the song 'The World Needs Christmas' by Emily And Mike says it best. Have a listen.
Author Sommer season all yearPosted on November 24, 2020 Categories Bullying, Canada, Christmas, Opinion, Pandemic, Politics, United StatesTags 2020, anti-bullying, Bullying, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Spirit, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Death and dying', Love, Mainstream Media, Media, News media, Peace1 Comment on The World Needs Christmas!
How Do You Know What is Truth?
A commentary on critical thinking
Lately, I (#blogger #blog #somseason #YA #authors) have been involved in several discussions with people regarding truth. It typically begins with a question like: How do you know what to believe on social media and in the news? It's not easy.
One of the definitions in the Cambridge English Dictionary is: "Truth is the real facts about a situation, event, or person." That same dictionary defines a fact as "something that is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof is given." What people are really wanting to know is: How do we determine what are the real facts of a situation, event, or person, and what's the proof? I am going to attempt to answer that question.
I have come to realize that we humans are programmed, manipulated, brainwashed (you pick the word) to believe what we are told. Most people believe what the Mainstream Media (MM) is telling them. Most believe what our leaders and governments tell them. I have even heard people proclaim, "Our leaders/governments would never lie to us." We believe if "doctor" is in front of a name, or a person has a doctorate degree, then they are telling us the truth. We think, "They're a doctor, it must be true." We believe everything our spiritual leaders tell us. I once heard a person say (paraphrased): "Tell me what I need to do to obtain my salvation, and I will do it." Organized religions have indoctrinated us to think a certain way and believe what they tell us without questioning, often using fear to do so. Comedian, George Carlin, once said: "I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." He's right. MM is constantly proclaiming "Experts say" (see Experts say). As soon as it is labelled "expert" we think: "It must the true if experts say it." Rarely are we told who these experts are. When statistics are given from some study, we think the stats make it true.
Debate.org deliberates on the question: Are we being brainwashed as a society? Here is an excerpt.
…in my society, the United States, I think we've been being brainwashed for a long time, and still are. We've just never been encouraged to think critically about things. We're always told/taught what to think, rather than how to think, which I consider tantamount to brainwashing.
We're encouraged in schools to stand in reverence and pledge allegiance to the flag before we're even taught why we owe our allegiance to it in the first place… We're taught early on in our schooling that certain drugs are bad (marijuana, LSD, psylosybin, etc.) but are not told why they are bad, and nary a word is said of the harms of socially acceptable drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, oxycotin, or even pharmaceutical drugs that are often used in excess for recreational purposes, like children's cough syrup. Even in the media, we're often presented with a biased view of events, and they are often put through an ideological filter, and rather than presenting only facts; the opinions of the reporter are reported along with it.
The debater said, "We've just never been encouraged to think critically about things." He or she is absolutely correct. I always tried to teach my students to think critically, but it was a difficult battle. Students typically resist thinking critically. Sadly, their only concern is what is on the test. Over my teaching career, I've heard many a student say: "Just tell me what I need to know for the test." People, like my students, are programmed NOT to think for themselves. Instead, they are told what to think and tested on it.
The Buddha—also known as Siddhartha Gautama—(circa 450 BCE) an individual whose teachings form the basis of Buddhism allegedly said:
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Now that is good, sound advice. Just because someone—even if they have credentials—said it, doesn't make it true. We must think for ourselves and come to our own truth. If we believe everything we're told, then we are being unknowingly bullied (#bullying #antibullying). If ever there was a time in human history to think critically, it is now! There is much misinformation being told.
We are robots. We are programmed, manipulated, or mind-controlled to just believe whatever someone tells us; especially if they are seen as an authority figure. I experienced that as a teacher. My students, for the most part, would believe anything I told them. A colleague of mine once told his students that packaged wieners were dug out of a landfill site after being in there for 100 years, and the wieners were still edible. This teacher was "pulling their leg," of course, but the students completely believed the teacher. The reality is, we humans tend to believe what we are told, even if we think we don't.
So how does a person think critically? When you are critically thinking, you are asking: What is my truth? You are tapping into what is yours, what feels right to you, and deciphering what is somebody else's. Whenever we are told something—whether it be the news, a YouTube video, another person—you can digest the information by thinking critically. That can be done using these three steps.
Recognize that you are hearing or seeing a message.
Understand the message. This message means… This doesn't mean the message is true.
Observe and start asking questions about the information you've received. Dive deeper and peel back the layers of the message. Ask yourself: Does this feel right to me? Does this make sense? Could this be true, or could this be false? Is there more to this message or information? Where did this information come from? What is the source of this message?
Ask yourself: Does the source have an agenda or goal? All media messages have goals, which can affect the information presented. For example, Coca-Cola claimed its Vitaminwater brand could promote healthy joints and reduce the risk of eye disease, among other health benefits. Such claims are aimed at selling a product and are likely partially true or maybe not true at all. Some publications aim to rally readers around a particular issue, like climate change, and so may present a skewed view of the science.
Instead, feel the message; feel the resonance of the message; feel the message's energy. Does the energy of the message resonate with you? As Albert Einstein once said:
"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics."
Thinking critically means stepping out of right or wrong, good or bad, or true and false and using your intuition to feel the energy of the information you are receiving. Cambridge English Dictionary defines intuition as: "(knowledge from) an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts." Have you ever gotten a "vibe" from someone or something? Have you had a feeling that I'm unsafe, I'm in danger, or felt that something was a bad idea? I have. That is your intuition. Now use those same intuitive feelings to determine if a message you're receiving is your truth. If it feels right, then it is your truth. If it feels incorrect, then it is someone else's.
Start critically thinking for yourself. That is what I am doing. Not everyone likes it, as they want to debate me and prove me wrong. I will no longer allow bullies to manipulate me to think a certain way. I am stepping into my sovereignty and thinking for myself. I encourage you to do the same. That doesn't mean I'll disrespect their truth.
Author Sommer season all yearPosted on October 29, 2020 Categories Bullying, Opinion, United StatesTags 2020, anti-bullying, brainwashing, Bullying, critical thinking, Death and dying', Mainstream Media, Mainstream News, manipulation, mind-control, Programming1 Comment on How Do You Know What is Truth?
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A few participants in the Cullman MS Swim event: Bo Shirey, Robyn Crawford, and Ruth Ann Knight.
I love to swim and I was looking to do a swim-a-thon as a fundraiser. I decided to do one for MS (Multiple Sclerosis) because my mother, Judy Shirey, was diagnosed over 20 years ago. I contacted her MS doctor, Chris Laganke, MD, and I was referred to the local National MS Society chapter in Alabama.
For the MS Swim event, all the proceeds raised would be donated to the local Alabama chapter to help raise awareness and find a cure for MS.
The Cullman Wellness and Aquatic Center gave me permission to use their facilities to host our event. The event took place the entire month of January. We had just over 20 swimmers to participate. Our goal was to swim over 500 miles (18,000 laps) in the month of January. We reached our goal just few days late but we had a couple of snow days and several of our swimmers had the flu. We raised almost $4,000 for MS.
The next MS Swim event is scheduled for September 2019. We welcome others to participate and donate.
Congratulations, Bo, on a successful swim event for MS! Great job!
For more information, please contact Bo at Encore Rehabilitation-Cullman.


The competition between retail businesses is quite often fierce and one has to work hard in order to attract and keep customers. So what can a retailer do in order to get noticed, turn existing customers into loyal clients and promote their business?
Even if you are an established and well-known business, your goal is to always expand and reach more customers. To accomplish this, it's especially important you do some research. Find out who your customer is: women with children, business travellers, young professionals? The key to increasing business is satisfying the needs of your target audience. Once you determine this, you can offer him or her something unique and valuable, then your business is going to be not only financially successful, but well-known for its product value.
Pay close attention to where your clients are moving today. With everything going digital, it may be reasonable to launch or renovate your website, develop an e-newsletter or start an online catalogue. This strategy will assist you in reaching your clients and online presence will be a valuable asset for your business, as it is time-saving, efficient and offers a wide variety of opportunities, from advertising to direct marketing.
Despite the type of goods that you are selling, you'll always be dealing with competition. If they do more market research and are more creative than you, they'll outperform you. So, do not be afraid to come up with innovative ideas and different advertising campaigns to attract clients and differentiate yourself among your competition.
What should you do in order to obtain loyalty from your customer and turn them into your followers? The answer is paying attention to details. Ideas such as: small presents to the most loyal clients, incentives on special occasions, personalized marketing (i.e. cards on holidays, birthday wishes). All this adds to the quality of your product and is remembered much better than the product itself.
Make sure that if you are claiming to have the biggest choice of bags in town, it better be a true statement and not just an advertising message. Even if you are able to attract clients with false statements, the business-customer relationship would not last long and what you are looking for is establishing a bond between your business and your client. A relationship built on trust would not only provide you with loyal customers, choosing you over the competition, but also can guarantee referrals from existing clients, which will lead to market share expansion.


Mathematics at Oak Heights School is very strong, for as well as being a very popular subject with students sitting exams early and the following the Additional Mathematics course thereafter.
The emphasis is on traditional skills in Number and Algebra and there's lots of variety in the teaching where members of the staff are encouraged to use technology like mymaths.
Our IGCSE programme consists of Numbers, Algebra, Statistics and Geometry.
Throughout the year, we run a variety of extension clubs as well as after school support workshops.


I love this new place where I've been working because it's sunny all morning :) And I love the sun!
Today I wanted to tell you about a new habit that is helping me a lot, to feel energetic and happy in my life… and it's Gratitude.
And I'm not making gigantic gratitude lists!
Just aim to write one thing you're grateful for in the morning (I often end up writing 3 or 4), and one thing at night (and usually I also write 3 or 4 ;)).
It's a good idea to have a specific journal for this, so it doesn't take too much time and you don't forget about it. I bought a journal that has some journaling prompts, and one of them is: "I'm profoundly grateful for… " and then it has 5 lines.
I write in this journal and it helps me to keep things short and simple.
It's great to do this every day: to notice the good things we have, the good things that happen, what we enjoy in our lives. Because most of the time, we're so used to what we have that we don't even notice it anymore.
It's true that many times, we only realize what we had when we don't have it anymore.
How do you apply this to your style and image?
You can make a list of things you're grateful for, about your style and image.
I am profoundly grateful for my beautiful, shiny hair because it makes me feel beautiful.
This also helps you notice what you love the most about your style and so where you can invest more :)!
What are you profoundly grateful for today?


Do we all know the Spurz game is now on the Sunday !!
sorted sorry for that my handwriting is shocking at times ............. but thats a lame excuse considering in my spreadsheets I've put you down for the Chelsea game I'm Old !!!!! anyway have you finished counting that money yet ?
yeah only took 45 mins to bag it all up!!!
What time for CSKA then Bob..
Bob..Im on nights Friday. What time is pick up Saturday morning ?
have a feeling i'm going to be a tad sleepy !!
Thats a grand total of 45 minutes sleep for me !!
we met at the woodsrping hes a season ticket holder and intends to come with us from now on.
i will sort paperwork with him and i think gabby given him a lift to woolpack pick up. see you there.
Updated 0600 1 March 2009 Happy St Davids Day " Cymru am Byth "


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Below - animated maps for next 2 days....followed by high temperatures for Friday. Dress warmly...limit outdoor exposure and check on the elderly.


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Wego partners with HomeAway to Expand its Wide Array of Accommodation to Travelers Worldwide
Wego users will get access to additional 2 million HomeAway places to stay across 190 countries
Dubai, 26 March 2019:Wego, the largest online travel marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with more than 13 million app downloads, has announced its new deal with HomeAway®, a leader in the vacation rental industry, to include all the worldwide properties listed on HomeAway in Wego's search results.
The arrangement aims to provide Wego users with a wider choice of homes and apartments for rent. Travelers will get access to more than 2 million unique places to stay across 190 countries through HomeAway by simply entering their destination city, dates of travel and follow the recommended filters on Wego's metasearch apps and websites.
With HomeAway and Wego, travelers can find the perfect vacation and a home to meet their needs, whether it's a pet-friendly beach house for a large family or a bungalow for two. Alternative accommodation is the perfect option for travelers who are looking for the perfect place that feels like home.
Commenting on the strategic alliance, Anna Trushkina, Director of Hotels at Wego said: "We are delighted to work with HomeAway to cater to our customers' needs and provide them with a wide selection of alternative accommodation.Homes availability is a great addition to hotel accommodation options, especially in urban destinations like Paris, London, New York and some regional destinations like Marrakesh, Beirut, Amman, Istanbul and others as trips to these cities planned on Wego are normally longer, six nights and more on average."
Wego aims to compare a range of accommodation options available in the marketplace, including hotels, serviced apartments, homes and villas and to compare rates across local and global travel agencies, hotel direct websites and other accommodation merchants.
Christophe Pingard, Vice President EMEA, HomeAway, added: "HomeAway is thrilled with this new opportunity of bringing our unique places to stay to Wego´s MENA users. This new relationship contributes to our original mission of making every holiday rental in the world available to every holidaymaker in the world while creating the best holiday memories for families and friends"
Anna added: "A quarter of KSA users are searching for more than one room during their trip planning on Wego. HomeAway vacation rental options makes a perfect match with the growing demand for a larger place and a longer stay, we've been observing with our users from KSA and the rest from the MENA region. This alliance is in line with our efforts to provide a comprehensive search marketplace as well as expand the hospitality business in the region."
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You will cover a range of networking topics including fundamental concepts, such as OSI model, TCP/IP stack, IP routing, manipulating IP addresses, subnetting and creating custom subnet masks. The tools and techniques taught will cover the Windows and Linux operating systems to give you insight into using command line tools to interrogate, manipulate and test network and Internet connections.
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The Office of the CAO is responsible for the strategic leadership of the Corporation that works in consultation with Council, the Community and our Partners to strengthen the Town and the manner in which we deliver services and programs to our residents and our stakeholders. The CAO acts as the key advisor to Council, leads the Senior Management Team and serves as a primary contact with other levels of government, the public and the business community. The Office of the CAO supports Council, all Departments, their Divisions and their staff.


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Technology and Decent Employment: Latin America and Beyond
Mechanized Agriculture, Mexico
Lack of employment opportunities has been a longstanding feature of most Latin American countries, including Mexico, and one of the key reasons for historically high levels of poverty, deprivation, corruption, crime, and political violence. Lack of sufficient decent employment is now a widely recognized problem in the United States—one of the crucial issues in the election of Donald Trump was the loss of jobs, particularly in the manufacturing sector. According to the most recent studies, this loss of employment was more due to automation, than to trade liberalization, although this viewpoint has not gone completely unchallenged. The use of labor saving capital-intensive methods, however, has long been a feature of the Mexican industrialization process and, to a considerable degree, responsible for the historical inability of the country to generate sufficient employment.
Lessons of the Mexican Case
Mexico's earliest quest for modernization occurred during the brutally repressive regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911). His regime led a process of economic modernization that encouraged foreign (particularly U.S.) investment in agriculture and extractives, and fostered the development of a powerful native business class in northern Mexico. An integral aspect of this early industrialization process was government-sponsored oligopolies and the use of labour-saving technology. This latter was linked to both the availability of more advanced technology north of the border, and to the desire of the country's business class to reduce its dependence on a recalcitrant labor force.
The capital-intensive feature of Mexican industrialization would continue through the twentieth century with the inflow of direct foreign investment, resulting in dependence on imported machinery, equipment, and technology. The use of machinery and technology also became a feature of the country's northern commercial export agriculture. When the Green Revolution came to Mexico, it had a harmful impact on small and communal peasants who, if they could afford the new technology, were unable to apply it successfully. Highly indebted, many left agriculture to join the legions of unemployed in urban areas. This dependence on more advanced technology contributed to the country's high level of underemployment. By the late 1960s, the proportion of the economically active population employed in the informal sector (essentially disguised unemployment) was estimated at between 50 and 60 percent.
The important lesson to draw from the Mexican case is the fact that the country's industrial development and agricultural commercialization strategies were explicit policy choices; they were not inevitable. Mexico's labor-saving economic growth arose from decisions made by an authoritarian ruling class (the so-called revolutionary family of large owners, financiers, and industrialists) who fiercely resisted redistributive measures and whose goal was the highest profits possible. The Mexican "miracle" of the 1950s and 1960s entailed increasing levels of inequality in which the bottom 20 percent of the population lost their share of national income. Let us be clear on this point: the replacement of labor by technology is a means to reduce costs and increase profits. This was true of Mexico and it is what is driving automation today. As the Mexican case so amply illustrates, the adoption of technology is not necessarily conducive to the greater good of society as a whole. The increasing use of technology needs to be managed so as to inflict the least harm while contributing to the greatest good. Unhappily, while we in the Global North are faced with rising automation, there is little discussion of how this should be managed.
The Importance (and Difficulty) of Managing Technological Change
Indeed, those who attribute job losses in the United States to automation take an almost fatalist attitude toward the phenomenon, appearing to presume that society must accept ever higher levels of unemployment in the interests of increased productivity and "progress." It is almost as if the process is beyond human intervention on a par with growing old or the sun rising and setting. Some have proposed the idea of a basic income to compensate for the lack of gainful employment while others have suggested taxing robots as if they were workers. Such measures might serve to mitigate a sharp decline in consumer spending, further rises in inequality, and the rise in criminal activity often associated with high levels of inequality. However, the discussion has not gotten into the realm of how those who lose their jobs are to be kept busy even if they are provided with the basics with which to survive. This is a critically important consideration. In the Glass Cage, Automation and Us, Nicholas Carr alerts us to how our sense of happiness and personal fulfillment is tied to performing skilled work in the real world. Technology can improve the human condition or it can have a profound deleterious impact. Without intervention, the consequence will surely be the later.
While the global liberalization of trade and investment may not (any longer) be the major cause of job losses in Global North countries, particularly the United States, the current global trade and investment regime makes it difficult for nation states to find creative solutions to the employment issue. Business owners, motivated by the profit motive and generally unconcerned about the broader societal implications of the decisions they make, can readily discipline states that venture into new tax regimes and other measures by shifting their investments elsewhere.
The Challenge for Latin America
Automation will eventually have a significant impact on Latin America and that impact will be very much worse given the region's more serious economic difficulties and social challenges. Countries, such as Mexico, with a younger workforce and low labor costs will perhaps be relatively more insulated from automation, at least for a time, than others will. While the recent commodity boom contributed to growth and employment expansion in many Latin American countries, this cycle has now ended and unemployment and underemployment are once again on the rise. For Mexico, the employment generation that was supposed to materialize with market liberalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement, did not occur. Hence, addressing the additional deterioration in employment opportunities wrought by automation is going to be particularly arduous. Strengthening social safety nets, improving education, and training, and measures to support and enhance research and development will be essential. However, without a strong employment generating industrial strategy, such measures will probably not be enough. As I have argued elsewhere, a strong society-wide political coalition will be a critically important requirement for such a new policy direction.
Tagged: Economic globalization, Industrial policy, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Decent employment, Inclusive development, Automation, USA
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Чемпионат Румынии по футболу 1948/1949 — 32-й сезон главного футбольного первенства Румынии.

Клубы-участники

Турнирная таблица

Результаты матчей

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт лиги
 Чемпионат Румынии на rsssf.com

1948/1949
Румыния
Румыния
Спорт в Румынии в 1948 году
1949 год в Румынии

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О́льмо ( — «вяз»):
Топоним
 Ольмо — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Корсика. Департамент коммуны — Верхняя Корсика.
Фамилия
 Ольмо, Антонио (род. 1954) — испанский футболист, выступал на позиции защитника.
 Ольмо, Дани (род. 1998) — испанский футболист, атакующий полузащитник клуба «РБ Лейпциг».
 Ольмо, Луис де (1922—2021) — испанский художник, журналист и юморист.
 Ольмо, Хоакин дель (род. 1969) — мексиканский футболист, полузащитник.


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Scott Flinders, född 12 juni 1986, är en engelsk fotbollsmålvakt som spelar för Hartlepool United FC. Han har också spelat i Englands landslag för spelare under 20 år.

Källor

män
Födda 1986
Levande personer
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Q: Need to add newline between include()ed css files I have a bunch of CSS files that get loaded on every page (header, global, main page, footer, etc.).
I have written a simple PHP script that compiles them into a single string and then outputs that string.
<?php
    set_include_path('../');
    header('Content-Type: text/css');

    $q = $_GET['q'];

    $patterns = array(
                        '/.*[\.]{2,}.*/',
                        '/,\//',
                        '/^\//'
                    );

    $replacements = array(
                        '',
                        ',',
                        ''
                    );

    $q = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $q);

    $css = explode(",", $q);

    $output = '';

    foreach( $css as $link )
    {
        $output .= include($link);
    }

    print $output;
?>

it can be called (and the way I am calling it) like this:
<?php
$cssLinks = array(
                    "/global/global.css",
                    "/styles/local.css",
                    $tmpl->headerContent['css']['link'],
                    $tmpl->appContent['css']['link'],
                    "/styles/css3buttons.css"
             );
$css = implode(",", $cssLinks);
?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/components/CSS.php?q=<?= $css; ?>" type="text/css" />

Which results in a string like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/components/CSS.php?q=/global/global.css,/styles/local.css,/styles/header.css,/styles/index.css,/styles/css3buttons.css" type="text/css" />

This is fine, and - more importantly - it works.
What is my question, then, you ask?
It's a two-parter:

*

*What security vulnerabilities am I overlooking in the script?

*

*I've removed any directory traversal possibilities, but what else?

*I do need to be able to change what the links are, so I can't hard-code them into this script.  For example, $tmpl->appContent['css']['link'] is a dynamic stylesheet for each page, of which there will be many.

*How can I add line breaks between the included files?

*

*I've added $output .= '\n\n'; in the foreach() loop, but it doesn't work.

*I'm still stuck with output like:

#footer, #push {
height: 3em;
padding-top: 1em;
}#header{
The CSS listed works but I would prefer to have the #header block two lines down, like:
#footer, #push {
height: 3em;
padding-top: 1em;
}

#header{
(I apologize about the strange code block, Markdown broke horrendously on those hashes, and I couldn't figure out how to fix it).
Note, this lack of line breaks only happens at the junction between two different files.  The code inside each CSS file is formated just as it should be.

A: In regards to secutiry vulnerabilities:

*

*Any include is somewhat dangerous.  It will be executing whatever files are specified as a PHP script.  If it contains purely non-PHP code such as CSS, it's much safer to simply use readfile().

*It's very difficult to guarantee no directory traversal.  You still have the potential to show any file on the system that the web server has read access to.

*What about Windows servers that use a \ in the include path?

In regards to the second question, post the exact code that doesn't work.  You're saying that you tried .= '\n\n', which should have introduced literal \n\n characters (as opposed to "\n\n").  If you did use double quotes, then that should have worked.  Unless you viewed the file in an editor that wants \r\n.  Either way, hard to tell without seeing the specific broken code.
Personally, you're better off just generating a lot of link tags rather than trying to jam these scripts together.  I suppose you have your reason though.

A: You should prefer to pass only basenames to the CSS.php merge script:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="CSS.php?q=global,local,header,index,css3buttons" type="text/css" >

Then it becomes safer to implement in CSS.php with just:
preg_match_all('#\w+#', $_GET["q"], $files);

foreach ($files[0] as $fn) {

     foreach (array("global/$fn.css", "local/$fn.css") as $fn)
         if (file_exists($fn))
            $content .= file_get_contents($fn);

     $content .= "\n\n";

}

The only difference is that this script now has a little intelligence and knows where to look for the stylesheets. So you don't lose the flexibility of having variable stylesheet parts glued together.

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This beautiful graphic novel vividly depicts the young days of Shinran, a prominent Buddhist priest of the 13th century in Japan. The content of this volume is focused on the government persecution of the group of his teacher, Hōnen. As a result of the persecution, Shinran was forced to live a life in exile but he discovered the deeper meaning of Hōnen's teachings through his relationships with the local people. This book is the English version of the graphic novel Manga Shūso Shinran Shonin, Volume 2, which was originally published in Japanese by the Higashi Honganji (Shinshū Ōtani-ha) Nanba Betsuin in Osaka, Japan. The story is based on the latest academic research on Shinran's life as well as on the long-held tradition.