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The future of traditional lanterns
Sometimes traditions don't just fade away. Against the odds, people have again taken to hanging paper lanterns in their homes during lighting festivals.
Fresh designs will ensure Myanmar's traditional lanterns captivate audiences of all ages for generations to come. (Thiri Lu/The Myanmar Times)
Last week, Myanmar International Television hosted a Lantern Festival celebration, featuring a lantern design contest that brought to light unsung long-serving lantern makers in Yangon, Mandalay and Mawlamyine, Mon State.
Being a full-time traditional lantern maker earns a paltry income and respect but U Htein Win's career spans 57 years and he is one of the oldest traditional lantern makers in Myanmar. A native of Mawlamyine, he is now 67. He and his 22-year-old daughter took part in the contest with a paper lantern shaped like a pumpkin.
At the age of 10, he saw a man in his street making lanterns for children for fun, attracting his attention. He learnt the skills from watching him and tried to make lanterns at home, with the man's help. In class, he hid his hands in a bag and practiced folding pieces of paper to hone his skills.
In the same year, his father died. He was able to make a living as a lantern maker and he supported his study through selling lanterns.
"I taught the skill to my daughter. She has a passionate interest in lantern making and is creative in design," U Htein Win said.
"Her designs are not confined by tradition. But I was disappointed to see some craftsmen copying her designs, which puts us off making new ones," he said.
A decade ago, they used to paint floral patterns on the paper lanterns, later switching to chic designs shaped like hearts, bamboo hats and pumpkins to compete with Chinese-made lanterns, taking orders from Yangon, Mandalay, Hpa-an and Taunggyi.
Myanmar traditional handmade lanterns are made of bamboo and paper. But craftsmen, hand-producing a mere 10-15 a day, cannot make enough to meet demand.
"There is an increased demand for paper lanterns. That's why Chinese-made lanterns are on the market, but they are low-quality and cheaper. They can't compete with Myanmar traditional lanterns on quality," he said.
U Htein Win said the paper lantern business looked promising.
"Our products sell well, compared to Chinese-made lanterns, which are not much in demand. What we need is more craftsmen. They're much better at design than the Thais and the Vietnamese," he said.
Bawga Street in Kyeemyindaing township used to be known as Lantern Street, at a time when it boasted more than 20 lantern businesses. Now there are only four.
"Craftsmen in my street used to make rough-cut lanterns six months ahead of the lighting festivals. They would build storerooms for unfinished lanterns and added the finishing touches two months before the festivals," said Ma Ei Ei Phyu, daughter of U Phyu Lay, whose career as a lantern maker spans 40 years in Yangon.
Photo: MITV/ThankOkkaMaung
She said when Chinese lanterns were driving the traditional variety out of the market, though that trend might have started to reverse as supermarkets order more products.
"But they do the design and choose the colours, and I have to produce to their order. I have no choice to create our own," she said.
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The consensus reached was that the Betfred Championship season could and should be delayed by several weeks from the scheduled start of late February, in recognition of the current public health situation and the likely implications on the return of fans to elite sport.
For similar reasons, the Betfred League 1 clubs were supportive of a longer delay to the start of their season, which will now begin later in the spring.
That will also allow a staggered return to training following the pause advised by the RFL last week in response to the latest Lockdown, which will also take into account the needs of players to prepare thoroughly after such a long lay-off.
Betfred Championship clubs have been cleared to return from this weekend (Saturday January 16), but initially only for "Stage 1 plus" – which permits socially distanced (non-contact) training outdoors – with the intention of moving to "Stage 2", with contact training permitted, from February 1.
Betfred League 1 clubs will be cleared to begin a similar staged process in February – with all clubs at each level required to satisfy the RFL that that they are able to meet strict conditions regarding testing and biosecurity.
Discussions over a delayed return date for Academy and Scholarship programmes have also been held with the relevant Betfred Super League and Championship clubs this week, and all clubs, players and coaches will now be updated before an announcement in the next week.
England Women's scheduled return to training this weekend has been postponed by a week, and further discussions will be held with Betfred Women's Super League clubs this week about their pre-season training schedule.
Further details of the schedule for the 2021 Betfred Championship and League 1, including the early rounds of the Challenge Cup, will be published over the weekend, following further feedback from the clubs and consultation with the RFL Board – with fixture lists to follow.
Ralph Rimmer, the RFL Chief Executive, said:
"We have been grateful to our clubs throughout the last 10 months for their responsible and constructive approach to such a challenging period for all, and Wednesday's meeting was another example of that.
"There remains a desire and determination, from the RFL as well as clubs, to get back on the field as soon as is safely possible. However there is also a recognition of the need to be responsible at this time.
"A staged return to pre-season training, after the short pause advised last week, followed by a staggered start to the Betfred Championship and League 1 seasons, represents the best way for us to combine this responsibility with other priorities of player welfare and the financial sustainability of our clubs.
"This approach extends to the Academy and Scholarship programmes, which are so important to the future health of the game as well as the mental health of the youngsters involved – and we will confirm shortly a similar approach for the Betfred Women's Super League."
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While interest rates went over 4% on a 30-year fixed loan at the end of last year, they have dropped back down to below 4%. The 30-year fixed interest rate is about 3.97% right now. A year ago this week, it was 3.79%. The 30-year fixed interest rate for FHA loans is 3.9%, and the 30-year fixed rate for jumbo loans (where the loan amount is over $417,000) is 4.02% right now. It's still a good time to buy. In fact, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, with the drop in mortgage rates this week, mortgage applications increased about 21%. Nearly 56% percent of the applications are for refinancing, however. Only 44% are for new purchases.
If you are a homeowner who pays a mortgage insurance premium, you're in luck. Congress has passed a law which may allow you to write off mortgage insurance payments for 2015 and 2016. To qualify, you must have either a conventional loan that is eligible for sale to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, an FHA loan, a VA loan, or a Rural Housing loan backed by the Agriculture Department. Moreover, your adjusted gross income must be $100,000 or less (or $50,000 or less if married and filing separately). If your income is greater than that, you can still write off the mortgage insurance premiums, but they will be phased out until you hit $109,000 (or $54,900), after which point you will no longer qualify. A large number of homeowners are expected to qualify for this incentive, easing the tax burden nationwide.


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Airlines won't sabotage cabotage deals
By Mark Pownall
WA Business News editor Mark Pownall takes a look at the issues involved with proposals to deregulate our skies.
CABOTAGE is the term to describe the rules that restrict international carriers from offering a domestic service.
For instance, if a Singapore Airlines plane stopped off at Broome before flying on to Sydney, it could not pick up domestic passengers looking for a return flight to the east.
This market restriction operates in Australia as it does in many parts of the world, including the giant US market, though evidence would suggest it does nothing to improve competition in those markets.
In the US, several major airlines are experiencing financial difficulties – and not just because of terrorist attacks – while in Australia's skies we had the catastrophic failure of New Zealand-controlled Ansett before the arrival of Virgin, another airline with a big foreign ownership component.
Even Qantas, which stands to gain the most out of this protection, is 25 per cent UK-owned.
Ask almost anyone in the airline industry (or loosely connected to it) about cabotage and most are immediately defensive.
Some commentators are doomsayers who believe that altering such a system would jeopardise the stability of our air markets and threaten domestic travel in the longer term.
Most, though, simply think that deregulating our air market to allow international carriers to pick up and transport domestic passengers simply wouldn't work because there isn't the demand, the planes, destinations or the appropriate scheduling.
The latter answer makes you wonder why we need the rules at all – to protect incumbents from competitors that would never bother entering the market?
As for the former argument, it may well be the case that new entrants would seek to cherry pick certain profitable routes – but that is the nature of competition, and it's meant to benefit the consumer.
Such destabilisation has occurred in many industries, such as telecommunications, media and banking, all to the benefit of users.
On the domestic front, both Virgin Blue and Qantas are regarded as extremely profitable airlines.
I am uncertain just how this benefits the traveller– but I have never noticed the National Competition Council use the profitability of the incumbents as a valid reason for allowing protection from competitive forces.
The NCC argument is that it is there to ensure the conditions for competition exist, not that competition exists.
However, cabotage also has its defenders outside the airlines, among them the tourism industry, one of the sectors I imagined would like to see open skies.
Tourism Council WA director Ian Simmonds, who runs a company called Hospitality Industry Marketing Services, is a staunch believer in stability – pointing to the detrimental impact on tourism when Ansett collapsed two years ago.
"We [tourist industry] want sustainable air services," Mr Simmonds said.
"History has shown that three airlines or additional capacity would put more pressure on the existing airlines.
"You could conceivably end up with one collapsing."
Less strident is SkyWest CEO Scott Henderson, who believes that deregulation would be "a good thing fundamentally" but says the timing is wrong.
"Our air market is very unstable; there needs to be a period of consolidation," Mr Henderson, a former US airline executive, said.
One of the issues was the pressure that would be brought to bear on the big domestic carriers without them gaining much access to other markets, he said.
Singapore is a good example of a country that has genuine interest in an open skies policy in Australia yet, as an island, it has
little to offer in its own market.
"There is a push for multilateralism in world airline markets, but where has it worked?" Mr Henderson asked.
There are also other strategic reasons cited by various commentators opposed to deregulation, such as the national interest in having our own carrier. That may well have been the case in previous decades, but Qantas is now a world player and surely it can stand on its own two feet, so to speak.
Nurture and protection belongs to babies, not to mature adults.
So what would happen if cabotage was dropped?
Possibly nothing much. Singapore Airlines is one that might try a few new things, but its agenda is more about stopping off in Australia en route to New Zealand or the US rather than offering even a limited domestic service.
Singapore Airlines public relations manager South West Pacific Stephen Forshaw said ending cabotage might have benefits for regional centres in attracting international carriers.
"Some cities will not produce enough demand to make flights over international sectors economical all the time, but the opportunity to supplement those sectors with some domestic traffic is and should be an important tool to help attract investment," Mr Forshaw said.
"Singapore Airlines welcomes any steps toward deregulation of some of the ageing principles which cover air service agreements internationally.
"Airlines should be able to operate flights between points based on economic judgements, customer demand, competitive choice of products, services, frequencies and prices – not just because the government says they can."
Under the new Australia-Singapore Air Services Agreement, Singapore Airlines can now fly to any destination in Australia, landing slots permitting. That does signal an opportunity for Broome to become a new gateway for Australia, particularly on a regional basis.
But true deregulation would at least offer the opportunity for international airlines to take the long-term view needed to weigh up the market opportunities in flying domestically in Australia.
It might take years for them to plan something in their schedule. Then again, if profits (based on ticket prices) on a route such as the Nullarbor appear lucrative enough, they might just step in more quickly.
That is not my judgement to make.
What I am interested in is the price of air travel between WA and the rest of Australia, as well as opportunities for international airlines to put WA destinations on the agenda, possibly as stopovers, rather than simply seeing Sydney as the prime objective.
And I don't understand how regulation of our skies and protection of domestic carriers improves things for consumers.


Can Pneumothorax Treatment be less Painful?
Their work was published in the journal Technology. Spontaneous pneumothorax is a common respiratory disease, with an abnormal collection of air or gas in the pleural space that separates the lung from the chest wall which may interfere with normal breathing.
"It is very important to design the optimal treatment strategy according to the severity status of the pneumothorax. However, the actual status in the chest cavity may change during the management of the pneumothorax," said Li Yuechuan, professor and a chief physician in Tianjin Chest Hospital.
Knowing the actual condition of the pneumothorax is crucial in the new treatment method. In open and tension peumothorax, where conditions are more serious, the more powerful underwater chest drainage in preferred. On the other hand, in closed pneumothorax, where air leak from lungs are stopped, a simple manual needle aspiration is sufficient to treat the condition.
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BO Forecast: Ganesha foresees average business for R… Rajkumar.
Each Friday, a new movie hits the silver screen and the following week decides its fortune at the box-office. But Friday, December 6 2013, is not going to be just another Friday at the Box-office, especially for Shahid Kapoor, as R… Rajkumar starring him and Sonakshi Sinha will be releasing on this day. Despite his acting skills and extraordinary dance moves, Shahid has been unable to give a hit for a long time now. Hence, it will be interesting to see if R… Rajkumar becomes a turning point in his career. For Sonakshi, too, this is going to be an important film as she is yet to make a mark in Bollywood for her acting skills. This directorial venture of Prabhudeva also stars Sonu Sood and Ashish Vidyarthi, in the negative roles. Ace music director Pritam has composed music for this film, two of the songs are already quite hit with the masses.
All the speculations about the success of R…Rajkumar will finally on December 6, when it will release globally. Ganesha analyses the release time chart and predicts whether audiences would appreciate R… Rajkumar. Read on to know Ganesha's interesting observations.
R… Rajkumar Release time chart
for Bollywood's major territory
Astrological observations
Ganesha observes that R… Rajkumar will be releasing with Sagittarius Ascendant.
Lord of the Ascendant, Jupiter, will be retrograde in the 7th House.
Lord of the 10th House of Success is placed in the 12th House of Losses.
Mars is placed in the 10th House and is in exchange with Lord of the 12th House, Mars, which is also the Lord of the 5th House Lord too. Mercury, the Lord of the 10th House, is also Lord of the 7th House.
Rahu is placed in the 11th House of Gains with exalted Saturn.
Venus and Moon are placed in the 2nd House of Finances.
In Sarvashtakvarga, there are 33 auspicious Bindus in the 10th House and 29 Auspicious Bindus in the 11th House. There are 29 auspicious Bindus in the 12th House as well.
Astrological predictions
Ganesha feels that R… Rajkumar although may receive warm welcome at box office. However, it won't open full house everywhere.
The box-office earnings during the first weekend will be above average. Ganesha feels that there will be a decline in the business after the first weekend.
In foreign markets, this film will do well mainly due to female character. However in Indian Market it is unlikely to do very well.
Ganesha feels that this film is not going to continue its run for more than two weeks at box-office.
In some of the small pockets, film is likely to do well.
In short, R… Rajkumar is going to do better than average business at box office, says Ganesha.
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I'm trying this post again after blogger went kooky last thursday....ANYWAY, here are the two lovely little globes i found last week.
And here are some reasons why i was excited to see my collection grow.
I would love to find some used globes to paint with chalkboard paint! Thanks for stopping by my site!
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Global Satellite Services (LEO, MEO, and GEO) Market Report 2021-2026 - Focus on Internet Access, Asset Tracking, Surveillance, and IoT Applications
DUBLIN, Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Satellite Services Market by Type (LEO, MEO, and GEO), Communications (Voice and Data), Solutions, Applications, Segments (Consumer, Enterprise, Industrial, and Government), and Industry Verticals 2021 - 2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
This report assesses the satellite services market for communications and specific solutions by segment (consumer, enterprise, industrial, and government customers) as well as by industry vertical. It includes coverage of Internet access, asset tracking, surveillance, and IoT applications. It provides analysis by satellite type (LEO, MEO, and GEO) as well as by consumer and business services with segmentation by business type.
The report also provides forecasts for all major solution and application areas as well as by major industry verticals and market segments including consumer, enterprise, industrial, and government segments from 2020 to 2025. It also provides forecasts for satellite components and equipment such as Satellite NOC/Hub, terminal, and communications platforms.
It also evaluates satellite support for 5G coverage, applications, and services. This includes both public and private 5G networks, industry verticals, and specific implementations such as supplementing coverage for smart cities. It also addresses technology support of 5G satellite services such as artificial intelligence and the use of blockchain. Forecasts include global and regional markets from 2021 to 2026.
The business drivers for satellite communications and applications are clear. Satellites provide coverage in areas where terrestrial wireless cannot. In fact, land-based wireless-only covers roughly 12% of the globe. Certain verticals, such as the maritime industry, require global coverage. This will be especially important as shipping begins to adopt autonomous transport as vessels will continue to require ship-to-shore communications as well as a new need for signaling with onboard ship sensors for navigation and ship controls.
The asset management industry also requires satellite systems for coverage in support of fleet tracking, supply chain management, and general asset tracking needs. The advent of advanced Internet of Things (IoT) solutions leveraging machine-to-machine communications and other supporting technologies enables anytime, anywhere, any type of asset tracking. Satellites provide seamless M2M communications for the IoT-based asset tracking market.
While GPS provides the bulk of this today, it is not the best solution for latency-sensitive applications and/or those that require high bandwidth. There is a market need for additional satellite types to provide bandwidth on demand, uninterrupted connectivity, and support for mission-critical operations that require ultra-reliable communications.
This is similar to the business case for 5G in private networks such as industrial applications that are time-sensitive. While 5G is poised to dramatically increase terrestrial radiodensity, coverage is not a strong suit, and thus the need for satellites to fill in the holes. Satellites will also be an option for 5G backhaul.
Satellite services also provide coverage for business solutions that are often problematic and/or in remote areas such as mining operations, deep-water, and agriculture in third-world countries. Satellite services are also important in certain industries that require continuous network coverage such as oil & gas, transportation systems involving hybrid networks for autonomous vehicles, and other mission-critical services. In addition to providing continuous coverage in areas not practical by terrestrial systems, satellites may also provide continuous service in the event that terrestrial systems have a service outage.
However, satellite services do have some downsides, which include cost and signal latency. The former is in a downward trajectory and the latter will be solved by low earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems. The upside of LEOs is that they have much lower latency due to their shorter distance to the earth's surface, but there is a need for many more than middle-earth orbit or geosynchronous satellites and there is also a need for frequent hand-off from one LEO satellite to another. Fortunately, LEO satellites are also much smaller than GEOs, often weighing as little as 10kg (as compared to 1,000kg or more for GEOs) and thus require less expensive launch vehicles.
One of the additional drivers for LEO vs. GEO is that there is a limited number of orbital slots available for GEO satellites. However, LEO's are not the perfect solution as there are concerns about plans from the likes of SpaceX, OneWeb, and even Amazon to collectively launch thousands of satellites into orbit rendering the earth's atmosphere a sea of machines. To partially deal with this issue SpaceX requested permission from the FCC to adjust the orbital spacing of its satellites to facilitate three orbital planes rather than one, which they claim will accelerate deployment by taking advantage of a wider service area.
Select Report Findings:
Coupled with drone solutions, LEO based satellites will change the face of modern communications as anywhere communications become a reality for virtually any application and industry vertical
The global satellite service market will spawn economic development value up to 50 times the combined cost of capital expenditures to deploy infrastructure and operational expense to maintain systems
Satellite markets are rapidly expanding beyond traditional market verticals such as government, maritime, and aerospace to include many enterprise B2B and consumer-facing business applications and services
Emerging satellite solutions are poised to cover a substantial percentage of the globe the was previously economically or even physically unreachable, creating market development opportunities for emerging economies
Various Internet of Things and People (IoTP) solutions will emerge as satellite services provide the ability for combined M2M and people-oriented services to provide IoTP solutions that leverage the interaction between people and things as well as interrelationship between the physical world and the cyber world on a global scale.
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December 29, 2007 07:20 | Confession / Travel
A cruel trick
(written December 19th, 2006. Forgot to publish until December 31st, 2007)
My thoughts as I ride a taxi out of Delhi towards the domestic airport on my way to Bangalore, turn to the chaos, the disorder, the disarray, disrepair, destitute and abject poverty evident everywhere I looked in this city.
The saying is that "time is money", but this is a cruel trick; a slight of hand to keep one from seeing that when one has no money, time means little. Yes, even the poorest strive every moment for any rupee they can get, but it is out of purest survival and not the for the maintenance of the many layers of abstractions many of us, in the so-called "civilized" west, live in, removed from that most frightening point--the point where survival runs out.
I came here with an enormous sense of anxiety, the source of which I was not entirely clear on. I knew it was not work related, and though I thought I could chalk it up to apprehension towards the unknown elements of my travel plans, I knew it couldn't be that. I work well in adversity, I can flow with the moment.
"Please sir, two rupees," she said as she weakly presented some daily newspaper to me and mimed putting food in her mouth. Her eyes were dull. Almost dead. She was under ten years of age and perched here on the side of an overcrowded roadway, peddling whatever she could for survival.
I, on the other side of the open window, was in a taxi that was going to cost me 350 rupees. I rather not even think for one second how many rupees I just credited the last 3 nights in a 5 star hotel to without going flush, with a weight in my chest.
The taxi began to move again, but I was paralyzed.
(I have no illusions of the many faces of this coin: a few moments later, at the next intersection, two children came and begged and after another tortuous refusal, they both cracked huge mischievous smiles, the younger boy smacking me on the knee as they ran away laughing... It was not malicious, and I am not callous or over sympathetic; I laughed then too.)
The anxiety I had been feeling came from weeks of preparation for this horrible moment. Weeks of dulling my emotions, killing my heart and steeling up for the moment when another sentient human being came to me and asked for help that I could so ... SO easily and fluidly provide... and have to refuse.
Why refuse? I don't know. But the shock is tremendous.
As I pondered this, a scooter zipped by with the following admonition advertised on it's spare wheel cover:
"If your neighbor is suffering injustice and you can sleep, then just wait your turn."
December 27, 2007 12:58 | Confession
2007 in quick review
Started the year in Tokyo, after having travelled from Delhi, Bangalore, Singapore and Bangkok.
Ended it in Tokyo, after travelling to London and Paris.
Spent a week in Hong Kong setting up a blogging platform for the HKU Journalism department (JMSC)
Got offered a job in Hong Kong as Interaction Designer. Failed to follow up.
Consulted The Japan Times, informally, on matters of business models for journalism.
Consulted Reuters, for GlobalVoices, on web technologies and interaction therewith.
Launched a full redesign/restructure of GlobalVoicesOnline.org.
Launched the Global Voices "Lingua" translation project.
Started, produced and hosted Pecha Kucha Montreal, 3 times by year's end.
Visited Tokyo, twice.
Visited Paris, France, twice.
Visited London, England, twice.
Visited New York City, once (and stayed in a former Greatful Dead's apartment on the border of ChinaTwon and Little Italy)
I travelled to far away places, mostly to see people who are important to me.
Joined Dopplr.com as Lead Web UI Designer
(or something like that... titles, pshaw!)
Moved to London, UK for 6 weeks to work on Dopplr.com
Biked, a lot.
Drove, a lot less.
Ate a lot of fruits and veggies.
Ate a lot less meats and dairy.
Met a lot of truly great people,
and made a lot of new friends.
Lost a few too, I always do,
and met a few wankers as well.
I loved, was loved, and lost. I am loved, and love, once more.
Let us not dare to hope, lest we lose again.
I had one thousand conversations that had deep impacts on me; I can only hope some of those had an impact on you too.
Thanks to all of you, one way or another.
Without you I am no one, no where.


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Nievergelt ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Bernhard Nievergelt (1935–2021), Schweizer Biologe und Zoologe
 Edwin Nievergelt (1917–2010), Schweizer Musikwissenschafter, Organist und Kantor
 Ernst Nievergelt (1912–1999), Schweizer Radrennfahrer
 Erwin Nievergelt (1929–2018), Schweizer Ökonom und Schachspieler
 Jürg Nievergelt (1938–2019), Schweizer Informatiker


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Q: Having trouble with an if/else statement I'm trying to write a function called isVowel that takes a character (i.e. a string of length 1) and returns "true" if it is a vowel, uppercase or lowercase. The function should return "false" if the character is not a vowel.
This seems like it should work, but no matter what letter I enter, it returns "true." I've tried a bunch of different things, but I've hit a wall.
function isVowel(x){
  if (x === "a" || "A" || "e" || "E" || "i" || "I"|| "o" || "O" || "u" || "U" || "y" || "Y"){
    //console.log(x); // returns c
    return true
  } else {
    return false
  }
};
console.log(isVowel("c"));

A: To simplify your code even further, you can create an array of valid values and simply check if the value they passed in is contained in the valid values list.

function isVowel(x) {
  var vowels = ["a", "e", "i", "o", "u", "y"];
  return vowels.indexOf(x.toLowerCase()) > -1;
};
console.log(isVowel("a"));

A: Below is the improved and corrected version of your function:
Instead of checking all conditions for capital and small we first conver to small and then check using x == a/e/i/o/u.

function isVowel(x)
{
  x = x.toLowerCase();
  if (x === "a" || x == "e" || x == "i" || x == "o" || x == "u"){
    return true
  } else {
    return false
  }
};
console.log(isVowel("a"));

A better approach suggested by @yBrodsky is:

function isVowel(x)
{
  var vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'];

  return vowels.indexOf(x.toLowerCase()) != -1;
};
console.log(isVowel("a"));

A: You can use /[a|e|i|o|u]/i.test(YOURTEXTHERE).
Below is a single liner to accomplish this:

var YOURTEXTHERE = 'b';

// check if it's vowel
if (/[a|e|i|o|u]/i.test(YOURTEXTHERE)) {
  console.log('vowel!');
}
else
  console.log('not vowel');

A: Your use of the || operator is incorrect.  Your code is currently evaluating x === "a", then "A" which is always a truthy value.  You either need to use a list of comparisons like this:
if (x === "a" || x === "A" || x === "o" || ...) {...}

Or something like this (much neater, and faster):
if (['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'].indexOf(x.toLowerCase())) {...}

A: You are only comparing x == "a", you need to have
x=="A"||x=="o" and so on.

A: A clean version might be:

function isVowel(x) {
  return (['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'y'].indexOf(x.toLowerCase()) > -1);
};

console.log(isVowel("c"));
console.log(isVowel("a"));
console.log(isVowel("A"));

A: As you're passing in a string with a length of 1 you could use String.includes for a simple comparison. No need for any arrays at all.

function isVowel(x){
  return 'aeiouy'.includes( x.toLowerCase() );
};

console.log( isVowel("c") ); // false
console.log( isVowel("e") ); // true

A: Perhaps a different approach and a cleaner solution may work better as follows.
function isVowel(character) {

  // Clean the character to eliminate errors with capital letters
  let cleanedChar = character.toLowerCase();

  // Check if the cleaned character which is now any lower case letter matches a vowel
  if (cleanedChar.match(/[aeiou]/g)) {
    // Return true if it does
    return true;
  }

  // return false if ever get to this point (it means the char was not a vowel)
  return false;
}

// Call isVowel function and pass it 'c'
console.log(isVowel('c'));

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Meloni says budget consistent with commitments made
Written and presented in record time, govt united and concrete
(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 28 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday said the 2023 budget bill set to be presented to parliament was consistent with the commitments her government had made to the Italian people.
Writing on Facebook, she said "In little more than a month since its formation, the government has already shown all its unity and concreteness, giving serious and detailed answers to the needs of citizens and Italy.
"(It is) a budget written and presented in record time, consistent with the commitments made to the Italian people, with large resources earmarked for families, businesses and the most fragile and struggling categories". (ANSA).
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Check-ity check yourself before you wreck your reference. Job references and negligent misstatement.
I often ponder the value of job references that state the bare bones: – "Joe Bloggs worked for us between 2009 and 2018. He was employed as a magician. Our company policy is to say nothing more than this, though this is not to be construed as any negative inference against the candidate." How useful is that to a prospective new employer? That said, those words are all too familiar in the current-day sphere of employer references. Is the art of the reference dead? Will this practice eventually dwindle altogether given the arguably pointless nature of a generic reference?
I can understand why this practice has developed where employers say very little in references about ex-employees. The case law confirming that employees can claim damages from ex-employers arising from damaging references goes back to 1994. Spring v Guardian Assurance established the principle that employers have a duty to exercise reasonable skill and care when preparing a reference, and that any reference must be true, accurate and fair. The factual reference along the lines of that above is the easy answer to safeguard against any breach of this duty of care.
The law was further developed in Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney to the extent that the author of a reference must take reasonable care to ensure that the content is not misleading – either by leaving material out, or by the inclusion of facts which (in isolation) are accurate but which, when considered in the whole, provide a misleading impression.
How does this "easy out" for employers stack up against duties where the employee is regulated by a regulatory body? For example, where employees are moving between firms regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), there is now (since spring 2017) certain prescribed information which must be included in a regulatory reference. Mandatory points for inclusion include whether the employee in question has been found to have breached conduct rules, or has been deemed not to be a fit and proper person. The basis and outcome of any disciplinary process arising therefrom must be detailed in the reference.
Recently, the High Court has determined a case concerning regulatory references (albeit one which concerned facts arising before the new 2017 rules came into force). In Hincks v Sense Network Ltd, the employer conducted an investigation which led to the termination of H's authorisation to practise as an Institute of Financial Accountant (IFA). The investigation concerned H's breaching a pre-approval process (whereby his employer had to sign off on his work before he could conclude financial transactions). The then ex-employer included material about the investigation in their response to a reference request from a new employer of H. H was unhappy about this and brought a claim of negligent misstatement.
H's position was that, where negative opinions based on an investigation feature in a reference the writer must be satisfied that the investigation was reasonably conducted and procedurally fair. The Court did not accept this argument as it would place a very considerable burden on those writing references. Acknowledging that there may be cases where reasonable care would require further enquiry, for example, the reference author to check obvious errors in the material, or where new material cast doubt on the reliability of the facts, in the absence of such warning signs however there is no general duty to examine the procedural fairness of an investigation.
Be fair, truthful, accurate and do not mislead.
For more information and advice on references please contact the Blackadders Employment team.


James Elder is a Director in Clearview's Accounting and Finance Practice. He has over 20 years of leadership experience building organizations for sustainable growth as well as leading turnaround and restructuring initiatives. As a former CFO, James prides himself on creating clarity around the core cause of the business challenges impacting Clearview clients, and then delivering a plan and solution set that allows them to move forward quickly and effectively in the pursuit of their goals. James specializes in CFO services, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, organizational alignment, banking, strategic planning, high growth, private equity, sales operations and metrics, policy development, process improvement, financial analysis and financial modeling.
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My favorite picture of her is always this moment, where she breaks him down with no weapon just her mind and her courage. She's like screw you dude. I could smell you when I walked in the room. Too bad right? That diplomat. That person who could do it with their voice and their inner strength. That's the character that I like to remember better but you're mostly gonna see these pictures and you know I didn't put up the picture of her in the bikini and Jabba the Hutt because that's just overdone — overdone and sad to say — much as I like George Lucas — pretty cool in many things he's done, she does throw out reference in the book when she showed up as a 19-year-old all alone in England to film this movie with a bunch of dudes who are older than her. She's not wearing a bra under that thing and when she asked George Lucas why he said there are no bras in the 25th century and it wasn't till later in life she was like these guys just wanted to see me bouncing around without a bra. All the men on the crew just wanted to watch me without a bra. What do you mean there are no bras in the 25th century?! Who are you? You're not the guy who invented that! So you know that's kind of sad and kind of bums me out, but this is the Princess Leia that I like to remember. I think she's powerful.
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