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Q: Work with JSON in Python {"required_items":[
                   {
                    "filename":"abcd",
                    "no":"3"
                   },
                   {
                    "filename":"abc",
                    "no":"2"
                   }
                  ]}

I am not getting the code of the JSON format in Python  - I want to insert the filename and no through a loop.

list_of_other_ids={}
for i in xxxx:
  entry={}
  entry['filename'] = "XXXX"
  entry['no'] =XX
  list_of_other_ids.append(entry)

I am doing like this... and it fails.

A: # data.txt

{"required_items":[
                   {
                    "filename":"abcd",
                    "no":"3"
                   },
                   {
                    "filename":"abc",
                    "no":"2"
                   }
                  ]}

# parser.py

import json

data = json.load(open('data.txt'))

for file in data:
    print file['filename']

# This will output:
#  abcd
#  abc

If you want to append new items:
data.append({ 'filename': 'foo',
            'nr': 1 })

json.dump(data, open('data.txt', 'w'))

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WA's horrid cycle of injustice must end
By Gerry Georgatos | 6 December 2020, 12:00pm | comments |
Homelessness and Indigenous suicide continues to rise in Western Australia (Image by Salvio Bhering | Pexels)
We cannot sit idly by and allow Western Australia to leper the homeless and carry on as the mother of all jailers of First Nations peoples, writes Gerry Georgatos.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA is the nation's backwater. Draconian, it is the mother of injustice and inequality.
Western Australia and the Northern Territory leave the have-nots so far behind, that for many their lot appears irreparable. If there is a Mason-Dixon line in Australia, it runs along the borders of the Northern Territory and Western Australia — and it is a bloody firmament.
Western Australia has a recent history of secession calls. If this had occurred, it would have been akin to the 13 Confederate States of America that sought to preserve racism and exploitation.
Suicide hits the poor and disadvantaged
There have been more suicides so far in 2019 than this time last year.
The more west we trek across this continent, the more catastrophic the scale of tragedies. The more west we go across this continent: the higher the suicide rates, the higher the suicidality, the higher the homelessness, the more poverty, the more acute and crushing the poverty, the higher the incarceration rates and the less likelihood of the have-nots ever becoming haves.
And of course, these hits are scandalously disproportionately higher for First Nations peoples — but also for migrants born from non-English language and culturally diverse backgrounds.
During the austere stretch of lockdowns nationally, due to the war on COVID-19, Western Australia lagged far behind the rest of the nation in responding to its homeless.
While New South Wales and Victoria were accommodating their homeless into hotels (thousands of street-present homeless were accommodated in the interim), the rednecks of Western Australia spruiked their social justice credentials with a reprehensible effort to accommodate a miserly number of 20 homeless individuals, wait for this... in a "30-day trial".
While thousands of homeless people continued to be accommodated in hotels for months across the rest of the nation, believe it or not, the Western Australian Government came back with a clanger at the end of the 30 days and stated the trial had failed. The "program" was disbanded. There has been no word since.
The number of street-present homeless continues to mount, not only in Perth but across Western Australia. The number of deaths on the streets of the homeless in Perth now exceeds 40 for this year. This means that about 5% of all Perth's street-homeless died in 2020. Their average age at death was in the 40s. Depleted half-lives. Harrowed living.
Per capita gross state product (GSP), Western Australia is the wealthiest jurisdiction in the nation. Despite COVID-19, the lockdowns and the border shutdown, Western Australia still delivered a budget surplus. To understand Western Australia's wealth, we must also understand that Australia is one of the world's wealthiest nations – 13th largest economy and among the highest median wages – in the world. It was ranked number one in the world in 2018 for highest median adult wealth.
Australia's homeless — third highest rate and street homeless deaths increasing
Gerry Georgatos, who works at poverty's coalfaces, argues that on average each year, 5% of Australia's street homeless die on the streets.
According to the Global Wealth Report 2018 (Credit Suisse), the median wealth of adult Australians was $264,903. The median wealth of the world's adults was $5,820. The divide between Australia's haves and have-nots is stark. The divide between Western Australian haves and have-nots is one effectively of affluence alongside grinding poverty.
In Western Australia, there are 14,890 applications for a public housing rental, with 2,097 priority listed. The waiting list represents more than 40,000 people and the majority are children. In March 2017, the Labor Party swept in to govern in a landslide, promising much.
During this time, public housing declined by nearly 1,200 from 44,087 to 42,932 homes. Western Australia's adult median wealth was in excess of $300,000. Finland had an adult median wealth of $45,606 but managed in almost doing away with street-homelessness in Helsinki. In the last decade, Finland has reduced homelessness by 40%.
The richest state in Australia can afford to build 15,000 social housing rental homes for those waiting, of who I remind the majority are just children. I am yet to meet a person who lives or lived on the streets and not said that it is the hardest, darkest, scariest and worst of living.
Western Australia can afford to spend $9 billion dollars to build 15,000 houses. Victoria, in order to inroad into unmet need, will spend $5.3 billion to build between 9,000 to 12,000 public houses. By the time these Victorian houses are complete at the end of the decade – unless there is a spike – 15% to 20% of their waiting lists will have been reduced. They too should spend as much as is needed to house everyone as soon as possible and not penny-pinch and deny people a roof over their heads.
Why does Western Australia cruelly lag so far behind the rest of the nation in terms of the right thing to do by people? Babies and children, the vulnerable young and older, should not be hostage to street-present homelessness.
I once described Western Australia as this nation's Alabama. Despite making that statement more than three decades ago, sadly it still holds steadfastly true.
On 28 September 1983, in the Pilbara's Roebourne, 16-year-old Yindjibarndi youth John Pat was bashed to death by an off-duty police officer. On that occasion, four police officers and an Aboriginal police aide bashed into Yindjibarndi youth. According to witnesses, when John Pat stepped in to pull out his friend Ashley James from the brawl, the copper belted him to his death. In 1986, an all-White jury acquitted all five police.
A couple of years later, just before the establishment of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) I said: "On 28 September 1983, Roebourne became to Western Australia what two decades earlier Birmingham was to Alabama."
The highest number of Australia's police and prison custodial (unnatural) deaths have been in Western Australia. Of police watch house deaths in Western Australia, 100% have been of First Nations people. Yep, that is racism on a plate.
Australia's George Floyd moment
In 2015, David Dungay Jnr died at Long Bay gaol. He was 26 years old, he was Indigenous, and he suffered from significant health issues.
I defend my argument of a Mason-Dixon line in describing Western Australia and the Northern Territory as akin to America's confederate slavery, where human beings were reduced to oppressors and the oppressed, to the lowest common denominator, to the cruellest of obscenities — to intergenerational criminalities.
Western Australia, a wealthy jurisdiction in one of the world's wealthiest nations – despite being billions of dollars in surplus year after year – suffers from the bastardry of those refusing to repay or compensate victims of the Stolen Wages. (Tens of thousands of First Nations workers who, even over a lifetime of working, had the majority of their wages effectively withheld by state governments.)
The story of the Stolen Wages is well known and established. From the 1920s to the 1970s, effectively indentured First Nations people were turned into slaves, in many cases on wages less than a quarter of what counterpart White privilege earned. They suffered the evil of a further hit — the majority of their wages withheld. One Western Australian government after another perpetrates intergenerational criminality, denying to compensate the claimants — those in their fading light or their children.
The original sin of racism is not yet over and burns brightly in the west, where the sun sets.
Sadly, it may take the class action that has been launched against the Western Australian Government for the Government to either come to right-mindedness or be dragged kicking and screaming to finally do the right thing and pay up lost earnings and compensation for decades of unpaid labour.
I think of the arduous journey for slivers of social justice and it breaks the heart. I think of Western Australia, of its lesser self, of its cruelties to others, of its brutal public spectacles in refusing redress and systemic repair, as akin to the ruthless intemperance of the U.S. cotton fields of Georgia and the Mississippi. Let us remember that up until the 1970s in Western Australia, First Nations' lives were effectively controlled and permissions for all sorts of matters needed.
The original sin of racism is not yet over and burns brightly in the west, where the sun sets. The more we know about Western Australia, the less we respect. The more we know about Western Australia, the more we can pursue the change.
Western Australia's social housing quotient is the lowest in the nation. Only 3% of all Western Australian households are social housing — public housing rental homes. We cannot sit idly by – idleness of the most inexcusable reprehensibility – and allow Western Australia to leper the homeless, to incarcerate people at the nation's highest rate and to carry on as the mother of all jailers of First Nations peoples.
Not just in this nation but anywhere in the world, it is unacceptable to leave behind so many sisters and brothers, the majority of whom are children, and deny them the light and the hope that should shine on all of us.
Western Australia's horrid cycle of intergenerational injustice, of intergenerational oppression, criminalities and carceral hits on the poorest among us, must end.
If a society is geared to serve the economy, it will fail people. Instead, the economy must be geared to serve society and leave no one behind.
Gerry Georgatos, the son of CALD migrants, is a suicide prevention and poverty researcher with an experiential focus. He has a Master in Human Rights Education and a Master in Social Justice Advocacy & Civil Rights Arbitration. He is the national coordinator of the National Suicide Prevention & Trauma Recovery Project (NSPTRP).
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Released January 1, 2020:
Today marks the dawning of not only a new year, but also a new decade. The last ten years have been largely defined by the response of the Irish and British political establishments to the collapse of the private banking sector in 2008.
Both states chose to reward the malpractice and criminality of the private banks with unlimited political and financial support. The cost of this support was transferred to the people at large in the form of vast public debts and the savage austerity programmes that were implemented on both sides of Britain's border in Ireland.
Éirígí activists were heavily involved in the fight against the bank bailouts and austerity. We take this opportunity to recognise and applaud the significant contribution that current and former party members made in these critical battles to defend the interests of the Irish people.
We also take this opportunity to thank all of thos e who have supported the party over the last decade, by attending party events, through financial donations and by entrusting our election candidates with their votes.
The decision of the Dublin government to bail out the private banks in 2008 exposed the underlying ideology that has informed all important decision-making by all Dublin governments since the foundation of the state. When faced with choosing between protecting the interests of capital or protecting the interests of the Nation, they have always chosen the former, at great cost to the latter.
Decades of blind, unquestioning, fanatical commitment to the concepts of private property, private capital and private markets has Read the rest of this entry →
Posted in 21st century republicanism and socialism, Anti-household and anti-water tax, éirígí, British state repression (general), British strategy, Corruption, Culture, Democratic rights - general, Economy and workers' resistance, Elections, General revolutionary history, Historiography and historical texts, Housing, Imperialism (generally), Internationalism, Irish politics today, Natural resources, Partition, Political education and theory, six counties, Social conditions, twenty-six counties, Workers rights
Commemoration in 1997, marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Irish revolutionary fighter Máirín Keegan. Frank Keane is the main speaker.
Posted in Civil rights movement, Commemorations, Economy and workers' resistance, General revolutionary history, Historiography and historical texts, Imperialism (generally), Internationalism, Ireland and British revolution, Mairin Keegan, Partition, Political education and theory, Public events - Ireland, Repression and resistance in 1970s and 1980s, Repression in 26-county state, Republicanism 1960s, Revolutionary figures, six counties, twenty-six counties, Women, Women in republican history
Remembering March 1, 1976: When the British Labour imperialists took away special category status
Among the many crimes of the imperialist British Labour Party was the withdrawal of political status from Irish Republican POWs in 1976.
The Tories had actually granted IRA and other captured republican soldiers – and loyalist prisoners – 'special category status' in 1972. This recognised the simple fact that there was a political conflict in the six north-eastern counties of Ireland and that 'paramilitary' activists were political activists and not terrorists or criminals.
Special category status meant that the prisoners did not have to wear prison uniforms or do prison work. They were housed with other members of their own military organisations and were allowed more visits and food parcels than people convicted of 'regular' criminal offences.
Labour returned to power in 1974 and began considering how to beat the republican struggle. The strategy involved normalisation, criminalisation, and Ulsterisation. The British state would try to make "Ulster" (in reality not Ulster, which is 9 counties, but the occupied six counties) look like a 'normal' statelet which faced an explosion of criminal activity. The "Ulsterisation" element referred to removing the British Army from some of its frontline role and getting the local (ie Protestant/loyalist) police to take on the frontline roles.
The withdrawal of political status by the Labour imperialist government occurred on March 1, 1976.
Further reading: Republican POWs and the struggle in Maghaberry today
Posted in British state repression (general), Democratic rights - general, General revolutionary history, Prisoners - past, Repression and resistance in 1970s and 1980s, six counties
Éirígí launches election campaign for Brian Leeson, Saturday, 17 November, 7pm, Mill Theatre, Dundrum
The official launch for Brian's election campaign for the Local Elections which will take place in May 2019. The launch is on from 7.00pm to 8.30pm in The Mill Theatre in Dundrum on Sat, Nov 17th.
Clare Daly TD and MIck Wallace TD will be in attendance as special guests. Food, music and drinks in The Eagle after the launch for those that want them.
A political activist since 1989, this is Brian's first time running for public office. Probably no other candidate in the Dundrum Local Electoral Area has been involved in so many progressive political campaigns over such a long period of time.
From supporting the then-isolated nationalist community in the Six Counties in the early 1990s to fighting for housing justice today, Brian has Read the rest of this entry →
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Seamus Costello in very first issue of 'Starry Plough' on differences between IRSP and the Officials
The following appeared in the very first issue of the Irish Republican Socialist Party's paper, The Starry Plough. in April 1975. The IRSP was founded on December 10, 1974. A military organisation, the Irish National Liberation Army, was founded at the same time.
Q. What caused the present feud between the IRSP and the Officials?
As far as we can see, it is the fact that the IRSP is undermining the Officials organizationally, particularly in Belfast where the feud is most intense. During the past 3 or 4 months, since the party was launched on the 12th of December, the IRSP has taken some 200 members from the Officials in the Belfast area. This has led to a situation where, at the moment, the Officials in Belfast have only half the numerical strength of the IRSP. As a result of this, a request was made by the (Official) Sinn Fein Ard Comhairle to the Official IRA to prevent the organization of further IRSP branches in the Belfast area. Immediately after this request, starting on Dec. 12th, a number of our members were kidnapped in the Belfast area. From then until the murder of Hugh Ferguson, we have had dozens of people kidnapped, people beaten up, people wounded through shooting, houses petrol bombed, cars burned and so on. Undoubtedly the immediate cause of the feud is the fact that the Officials are losing members.
Q. What are the main ideological differences between the IRSP and the Officials?
The principal ideological differences would be their attitude towards the National Question as against our attitude. Basically, the position of the leadership of the Officials is that there is no hope of achieving National Liberation until such time as the Protestant and Catholic working class in the North are united and therefore there is nothing which can be done in political terms or in any other terms about this particular issue. Our attitude, on the other hand, is that the British presence in Ireland is the basic cause of the divisions between the Protestant and Catholic working class in the North. It follows from that, in our view, that the primary emphasis should be on the mobilization of the mass of the Irish people in the struggle for National Liberation. We believe, also, that the left in Irish politics should play a leading role in this struggle. Up until recent years, many of us felt that the Official Movement was capable of and willing to do this. Indeed the rank and file of the Official Movement had expressed their views on this at the 1972 and 1973 Ard Fheiseanna, where they rejected the position of the national leadership on the national question and put forward a policy which would have led to a more militant approach on this question.
However, the leadership disagreed with this policy and deliberately frustrated its implementation. The result of this was that the Official Republicans, who, at that time, were the largest single body of organized left-wing opinion in Ireland, deliberately divorced the working class struggle from the national struggle and gradually degenerated, taking a reformist position on a number of very important issues.
Q. What issues in particular?
The principal issues that come to mind immediately are the Civil Rights struggle, the Assembly Elections, the question of taking seats and the question of the rent and rates strike. In all these issues, the leadership of the Officials hesitated to take a stand. They have, for instance, regarded the Civil Rights struggle since 1969, as the only struggle worth taking part in. They ignored the presence of 15,000 troops on the streets. They ignored the torture and terror perpetrated by the British Army on the Nationalist population and they acted as though there was no change in the situation since 1969. In other words, they failed to realize the change in the nature of the struggle in Ireland, particularly in Read the rest of this entry →
Posted in 21st century republicanism and socialism, Civil rights movement, Economy and workers' resistance, Elections, General revolutionary history, Historiography and historical texts, Imperialism (generally), Irish politics today, IRSP, Officials, Partition, Political education and theory, Provos - then and now, Repression and resistance in 1970s and 1980s, Republicanism 1960s, Republicanism post-1900, Revolutionary figures, Seamus Costello, six counties, twenty-six counties, Unionism, loyalism, sectarianism
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Eirigi on the roots of the public housing crisis in the six counties
The Six Counties, like the rest of Ireland, is in the midst of a severe public housing shortage with supply far outstripping demand.
The issue of public housing played a key role in the Civil Rights movement during the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Prior to the creation of the Housing Executive in 1971, public housing had been allocated by local councils, and within unionist-controlled councils, discrimination in housing allocation was widely practiced against members of the minority Catholic community.
Indeed, the right to, and fair allocation of, public housing were key demands of the Civil Rights movement.
Through the creation of the Housing Executive, housing decisions were taken out of the political arena and placed in the hands of a neutral specialised organisation.
By 1983/84, public housing – almost all of which was controlled by the Housing Executive – accounted for 37% of continued here. . .
Posted in 21st century republicanism and socialism, éirígí, Civil rights movement, Democratic rights - general, Housing, Irish politics today, Partition, six counties, Workers rights
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Ronan Burtenshaw on the struggle for a workers republic in Ireland today
Excellent talk and discussion period – Ronan Burtenshaw at the James Connolly Forum in the little city of Troy, in New York state in March 2017. Troy, of course, is somewhere Connolly himself lived and organised – thus the name of this working class political forum group.
Posted in 21st century republicanism and socialism, Anti-household and anti-water tax, British strategy, Economy and workers' resistance, Elections, EU, Imperialism (generally), Internationalism, Irish politics today, Partition, Political education and theory, Provos - then and now, six counties, Social conditions, twenty-six counties, Unionism, loyalism, sectarianism, Workers rights
The 1932 Belfast Outdoor Relief riots and lessons for today
Seán Mitchell, Struggle or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots, Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2017
Does intense class conflict with bosses, cops and government necessarily lead workers to draw radical conclusions asks Barney Cassidy? To put the question another way, does struggle mean that the working class becomes conscious of what is in its own best interests?
In 1922 striking miners defending their jobs in the South African town of Witwatersand fought gun battles in the streets killing about 70 troops. The political conclusion those white workers drew from their experiences was that they needed a Nationalist-Labour Pact with the Afrikaaner Nationalist Party. This was despite the involvement of the newly founded Communist Party of South Africa in the struggle. Even intense and bloody class conflict is no guarantee that the working class will necessarily act in its own best interests.
That's a lesson it's worth holding in mind when reflecting on politics in the north of Ireland.
Seán Mitchell, a member of Read the rest of this entry →
Posted in 1930s and 1940s, Economy and workers' resistance, General revolutionary history, Historiography and historical texts, Reviews - books, Revolutionary figures, six counties, Social conditions, Trade unions, Unionism, loyalism, sectarianism, Workers rights
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In review: UVF – behind the mask
I agree with most of this review. And the review is well worth reading and thinking about, which is why I've reblogged it. However, it also has a problem. Mike M notes that whenever catholic and protestant workers have united, the protestant establishment has played the Orange card, and this has always succeeded in getting the protestant workers to split and line up again behind their exploiters. Very true. Yet, at the end of the review, what does Mike suggest?
Well, he suggests protestant and catholic workers unting on economic issues! The reason is that the political tendency Mike identifies with has never understood the importance of the national question. At least, unlike the CWI followers in Ireland, they recognise that there is a national question; but they fail to integrate it into the reasons for the divisions in the working class in the north-east.
So Mike falls back into suggesting as a road forward something he has already identified as failing! Moreover, as Seamus Costello noted way back in the 1970s, you can't trick the protestant working class into a false unity by ignoring the national question; they're not stupid. You have to be honest with them on the national question. Instead of adopting a partitionist view which focuses on uniting wage-workers in the six counties across the sectarian divide, by ignoring the national question, it is necessary to counterpose the solving together of the national and class questions through uniting the mass of the Irish working class on an all-island basis. This points to an all-Ireland workers' republic in which the protestant workers would be free, instead of being the alienated tools of imperialism. – P.F.
Aaron Edwards, UVF: Behind the Mask, Dublin, Merrion Press, 2017, £14.99; reviewed by Mike Milotte.
UVF: Behind the Mask is a vast if somewhat episodic account of the killings, feuds and internal factionalism of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force written by a lecturer at Sandhurst, the British Army's officer training college. It would barely merit mention in this journal* were it not for its underlying, yet never fully argued thesis that Ulster loyalism is a genuine expression of Protestant working class discontent, while the violent conflict in Northern Ireland in which the UVF played such a significant part, was an "ethnic civil war".
The author, Aaron Edwards, comes from an area of Belfast where the UVF was particularly active. During the "peace process" he befriended several leading UVF figures, one of whom persuaded him to write this book. While he rejects UVF violence, the book itself is permeated with a sense of Edwards' high opinion of some of its worst perpetrators.
Socialists or pro-imperialists?
Edwards expresses sympathy for the views of former UVF men who have declared themselves to be socialists, but his key formulations are clearly at odds with the view of most left-wing activists and writers for whom working class loyalism is a form of Read the rest of this entry →
Posted in Democratic rights - general, Economy and workers' resistance, Historiography and historical texts, Irish politics today, Partition, Repression and resistance in 1970s and 1980s, Repression and resistance in the six counties today, Reviews - books, six counties, Unionism, loyalism, sectarianism, Workers rights
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March for women's right to choose, Dublin, Saturday, September 30
The 6th annual March For Choice is taking place this Saturday, 30th September, assembling at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square from 1.30pm, before marching to Leinster House at 2pm.
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Purpose: This study aims to explore, as an answer to the observed lack of knowledge about actual team learning behaviours, the characteristics of the actual observed basic team learning behaviours and facilitating team learning behaviours more in-depth of three project teams. Over time, team learning in an organisational context has been investigated more and more. In these studies, there is a dominant focus on team members' perception of team learning behaviours. Design/methodology/approach: A coding schema is created to observe actual team learning behaviours in interaction between team members in two steps: verbal contributions by individual team members are coded to identify the type of sharing behaviour and, when applicable, these individual verbal behaviours are build up to basic and facilitating team learning behaviours. Based on these observations, an analysis of team learning behaviours is conducted to identify the specific characteristics of these behaviours. Findings: An important conclusion of this study is the lack of clarity about the line of demarcation between individual contributions and learning behaviours and team learning behaviours. Additionally, it is clear that the conceptualisations of team learning behaviour in previous research neglect to a large extend the nuances and depth of team learning behaviours. Originality/value: Due to the innovative approach to study team learning behaviours, this study is of great value to the research field of teamwork for two reasons: the creation of a coding schema to analyse team learning behaviours and the findings that resulted from this approach.


It is a curious colour, this I will accept, for it sits between yellow and orange in the spectrum, and yet it possesses none of the characteristics of either of these shades. In fact, it's almost in exact opposition to its loud, vivid, strident neighbours, both renown for being energetic attention grabbers. Peach, by contrast, is a Crayola crayon colour (you remember, the odd one that always got left over). A neutral with personality. A softener with interest.
In the Art Deco period, a tint of peach was often used to colour mirrors in high class homes. And it was brought to my attention by one of my lovely Twitter pals (@MaccoolKyeyune thank you!), that the BBC TV mini series about the fictitious fashion house, House of Elliott, also set in the 1920s, had entirely peach painted walls… it got me wondering whether this colour's ability to flatter one's skin tones meant that it was often used in fashionable salons of the day. And then I looked up the imagery for Phantom Thread, the latest film by director Paul Thomas Andersen set in the 1950s world of haute couture dressmaking, and lo, there was the showroom/atelier of Reynolds Woodcock (the fashion designer brought to life by Daniel Day-Lewis), gloriously bathed in, what only a pedant would argue is not, a wash of lovely creamy peachiness, see below.
And therein lies it's possibilities for appeal today. This is a colour that bathes you in a gentle glow. It is inoffensive yet incredibly effective. However, it's innate lack of statement-making ability should not be something to scare you off. True, tis a mild-mannered hue. It's unlikely anyone ever walked into a room and gasped, "Wow! That's so stunningly peachy!" However I'd wager actual cash that they'd saunter in and feel instantly soothed. And to be clear, I'm not advocating an entire room bedecked in peach tones, two adjacent walls max; or better yet, a combination of a key wall and a carpet. And to keep that 'feature' wall contemporary, I'd suggest using tiles (I once did a whole bathroom wall in these Johnson Prismatics Peach Sorbet gloss tiles) or wallpaper (I rather love this Anna French 'Bird in the Bush' paper), not necessarily just flat colour. Paint could be used for associated woodwork, or built-in shelving perhaps.
Note: it is often recommended to pair peach with blue, as this is its opposite on a colour wheel. I have to say I heartily disagree with this. A peachy top with blue denim, ok-ish, but it'd look better with white jeans, and so it is at home. Keep it all soft, keep it muted, keep it creamy and dreamy, and let peach do its thing unopposed.
Powder pink to Blush pink. The difference is subtle, yet both would work here.
Rose, old or yellow gold accents. Not copper.
Terracotta. To bring out the earthy qualities of peach.
Wood, from ash to walnut.
Other naturals like rattan, sisal, cork and bamboo. Delicious.
Creamy white. Bright white will be too harsh.
Touches of black to add edge and definition.
'Bird in the Bush' wallpaper from the Anna French 'Wild Flora' collection.
'Peach Sorbet' gloss tile from the Prismatics range at Johnson tiles (PRG36). Suitable for interior walls only.


Canadians first put the symbol and humanitarian ideals of the Red Cross to work in 1885, during the North West Rebellion in present-day Saskatchewan. Although there was no official Red Cross organization in Canada at the time, certain individuals were familiar with the Red Cross movement that had taken root in Europe during the 1860s and 1870s.
After being founded in 1896, there wasn't much for the Canadian Red Cross to do. Red Cross societies generally only worked in wartime, at this point, and Canada was at peace. Then, in 1899, the British Empire went to war in South Africa (known as the "Boer War," 1899-1902), and several contingents of Canadian soldiers were sent overseas to fight.
The First World War marked a major turning point for the Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS), establishing it as Canada's leading wartime humanitarian aid organization. From the moment the war broke out in August 1914, Canadians were keen and enthusiastic supporters of Red Cross work.
The Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS), like most national Red Cross societies, had grown so rapidly, and accomplished so much, during the First World War, that its leaders were reluctant to see it disappear again, after the end of the war. They felt it could accomplish great things in peacetime as well.
The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 returned the Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS) to its roots as a wartime humanitarian aid organization, and returned it to the size and strength of 1918... and then some.
At the end of WWII, the Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS) moved smoothly back into full-time public health work. Older initiatives like the outpost hospitals, First Aid and Home Nursing training, the Junior Red Cross, disaster relief, port services, and services to veterans in hospital carried on into the new post-war period.
The 1990s were a momentous decade for the Canadian Red Cross Society, which celebrated its 100th birthday in 1996 and at the same time unofficially re-branded itself as simply "Canadian Red Cross" (CRC). Many of the CRC's core programs and relief efforts continued unabated, but new avenues of service also opened up.
As the 21st century dawned, the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) continued its important work in the areas of disaster relief, First Aid and water safety training, community health, and reuniting family members (now known as Restoring Family Links). Building on its strengths as it moved into the future, the CRC was particularly active in disaster relief during this decade.
This decade brought with it a seemingly endless string of major disasters with widespread impact and devastation. In the face of these disasters, the Canadian Red Cross addressed new challenges at every turn, both at home and around the world.


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Lycisca raptoria är en stekelart som beskrevs av Maximilian Spinola 1840. Lycisca raptoria ingår i släktet Lycisca och familjen puppglanssteklar.

Artens utbredningsområde är Franska Guyana. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Puppglanssteklar
raptoria

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Q: Setting a distance between two classes Hey guys started learning HTML5 & CSS3 yesterday and just got stuck on something.
If any of you can help me out here, checked some other posts on here and tweaked the different margin options but I can't find the right rule.
I'm trying to space out a class called .content and another .byline (which are followed by eachother.
I've tried:
Here's the CSS.
 .content {
  margin-bottom: 30px; }

Also:
.content.byline {
  margin: 30px 30px;}

.byline {
  margin-top: 30px;}

Here's the HTML:

 bla bla

 blabla

Here's both classes as of now:
.content {
 margin: 0 auto;
 padding: 40px;
 text-align: center;
 width: 70px; }

 .byline {
 font-size: 14px;
 padding-top: 10px;
 padding-bottom: 1Opx;
 font-family: Roboto;
 border-top: 2px solid #CCC;
 border-bottom: 2px solid #CCC; }`

Excuse my beginners explanation and thanks for helping me out here.

A: h3 elements have a margin on top and bottom by default. If you want your byline to gain more distance than this, by margin, you have to increase the margin-bottom of the h3 enough to make a difference.
Try adding margin-bottom: 70px; to your h3.
h3 {
    margin-bottom: 70px;
}

And by the way, your 10px in padding-bottom on the .byline is written with an "O".


Hi Honey, how is everything? Are you cold? We're praying for you to have a safe and really good time. work hard, enjoy all the kids, listen and learn as much as u can.Try not to hit your thumb with a hammer. Love you honey and r very proud of you!!
Erika i miss you like you wouldnt believe! i think its rather cruel of them to take away both my sisters at once >=( you better hurry back i have some really big news!
oh p.s. i love you!
grandma- im sooo hot, we were in this bunk thingy with no electricity on the top of a mountain and now were in this really sweet place on a mountain inbetween a bunch of others ones. its really pretty you'd love it.
Kristen- Sse's not moveing in my room you'd miss me too much. but were going shoppping sunday and im gonna try and find something you'd like.
chelsea- omg i was just talking about how much i missed you today!
glad to hear you are alright.Are you bringing ny little kids home with you? Did you build your house yet? Love you and am sssooooo proud of you. We are praying for your safe return.
hi glad u sound good and excited hope not too tired have the people and kids gotten close to u guys? hope u getting alot out of your experience there rat had babies! work hard talk little!! luv ya luv the pictures!!!
grandma- ye awe built houses already. were in a diferent village now for meds and stuff.
lori- thanks 🙂 && yea sierras finnee.
& ur rat did not have babies, it's actually a male.
sometimes i wonder if mom even knows what "proper grammar" means.
im bored….i pry should have gone with you.
mom- no ones sick we just can't stop itching.
Hi Honey, so good to hear from you and see some pictures. We're so proud of you. You guys have acompished a lot!!! God is using you & your group to touch many lives!! It'll be great to hear all your stories. Love ya and anxiouse to see you.
mom – yea i was planning on saveing some for my hair if i have any left. but i think ill do that wednesday cause i want to go to lukes tuesday i haven't talked to him at all 😦 and i keep haveing bad dreams that we broke up and stuff!! but i think i want my hair done at studio capelli cause the dye is frying my hair. could you make me an appt?
ericaaaa, i cant wait till you get back i miss you oddles && oddles. seems like you are doing good making those people happy GOOD JOB! cant wait to see you :] loveeee youu.
well they sprayed our beds after the first night but they still itch and we still get bit out side of our house. todays a free day and were going shopping then doing nothing… and hten we have to get up at 3 am tomorrow cause our flight leaves at 7:15 and we have to be there two hours early and its and hour and fifteen minutes away.
erika! imma be at church when mum picks shannon so i'll get to see you! im so excited! and if you're rat is a boy then why did you name it franchesca?
sweet! no wait francheska is a girl!!! kristens dumb.


NASA's Space Launch System is a new heavy-lift rocket that is meant to take humans to Mars.
Since 1972, when the last Moon landing happened, humans haven't gone further from the Earth than the distance from Toronto to Ottawa. But NASA is currently building a new generation of super-rockets that are capable of lifting huge payloads to space, which is essential for human exploration of the Moon, the Asteroid belt and Mars.
The new Space Launch System (SLS) is based on hardware derived from the Space Shuttle - it uses the same engines and similar side-mounted boosters - but will ultimately be capable of lifting a payload of 130 tonnes, which is more than five times the payload of the shuttle.
Steve Creech, a engineer in NASA's SLS program office, spoke to Quirks & Quarks producer Jim Lebans about the SLS. He says that even with the massive capacity of the SLS, it could take 7-9 launches for a single Mars mission. The cost of this ambitious, massive new rocket system could be a major issue for NASA's shrinking budget in the future.


#Office365Challenge As soon as we start talking approvals on content, most people grab the opportunity to create complex approval workflows. I always say that fancy emails and workflows don't make people do things, if it's not part of their responsibilities already. Why not start with very simple OTB SharePoint approvals + alerts and change the culture in small iterative steps leading up to more complex workflows.
Note: I would create a view only showing Pending items, then setup an alert for your Approval group. They will automatically get an email whenever a document status changes to Pending.