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Proposed Changes to Ontar…
Proposed Changes to Ontario Employment and Labour Laws
Levitt, Edward (Ned). Le, Kathy
On May 23, 2017, the Government of Ontario's Special Advisors released their Final Report from the Changing Workplaces Review (the Final Report) which outlines 173 recommendations to amend the Employment Standards Act (Ontario) (the ESA) and the Labour Relations Act (Ontario) (the LRA). In response to the Final Report, on June 1, 2017, the Government introduced Bill 148 – Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (Bill 148) which proposes certain amendments to the ESA and LRA.
While Bill 148 does not specifically target franchise systems (contrary to recommendations set out in the Final Report), franchisors and franchisees should be aware of the proposed changes that will generally apply to many employers in Ontario.
Employment Law Proposals
Proposed changes to the ESA include the following:
Minimum Wage Increases – The general minimum wage will be increased to $14 per hour on January 1, 2018, and then to $15 per hour on January 1, 2019. The special minimum wage rates for liquor servers, students under 18, hunting and fishing guides, and homeworkers would be maintained, and would increase by the same percentage as the general minimum wage.
Paid Vacation – Employees with at least five years of service will be entitled to three weeks paid vacation, an increase from two weeks under the current ESA. This would take effect January 1, 2018.
Paid Personal Emergency Leave – Under the current ESA, workplaces with 50 or more employees are required to provide personal emergency leave (PEL). Bill 148 proposes that all employers provide 10 days of PEL per year, two of which would be paid. Further, Bill 148 prohibits employers from requesting a doctor's sick note from an employee taking PEL and expands the reasons for employees being entitled to take PEL. This would take effect January 1, 2018.
Overtime Pay – Employees who hold more than one position with an employer must be paid at the rate for the position they are working during any overtime period.
Equal Pay for Equal Work – Employers will be required to pay casual, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees the full-time employee rate when performing the same job for the same employer. Exceptions include where a wage difference is based on a seniority system, a merit system, systems that determine pay by quantity or quality of production, or other factors (however, sex and employment status do not qualify as exceptions). Employees will be entitled to request a review of their wages and the employer will be required to respond.
Similarly, temporary help agency (THA) employees (assignment workers) will be paid at the same rate as permanent employees of the THA client when performing the same job and such assignment workers would be entitled to request a review of their wages.
These changes would come into effect April 1, 2018.
THAs will be required to provide assignment workers with at least one week's notice when an assignment scheduled to last longer than three months will be terminated early. If less than one week's notice is given, the assignment work must be paid for the difference, unless the assignment employee is offered at least one week's worth of reasonable work during the notice period.
Scheduling – Bill 148 proposes the following changes with respect to scheduling:
Employees will be entitled to request schedule or location changes after having been employed for three months.
Employees who regularly work more than three hours per day, but upon reporting to work are given less than three hours, must be paid three hours at their regular rate of pay.
Employees can refuse to accept shifts if their employer asks them to work with less than four days' notice.
If an employer cancels a shift within 48 hours of its start, employees must be paid three hours at their regular rate of pay.
When employees are "on-call" and not called in to work, the employer must pay them three hours at their regular rate of pay. This would be required for each 24-hour period that employees are on-call.
These changes would take effect January 1, 2019.
Employee Misclassification – Employers that misclassify their employees could be subject to penalties including prosecution, public disclosure of convictions and monetary penalties. Such measures are intended to address cases where employers improperly classify their employees as independent contractors and thus preclude them from being entitled to the protections under the ESA. In the event of a dispute, the employer will have the burden of proving that the individual is not an employee. These provisions would take effect when Bill 148 becomes law.
Joint Liability – Bill 148 proposes to remove proof of "intent or effect" to defeat the purpose of the ESA when determining whether related businesses can be treated as one employer and held jointly and severally liable for monies owing under the ESA. These provisions would take effect January 1, 2018.
Other proposed amendments to the ESA would impact family medical leave, leave for the death or disappearance of a child, payments to employees, employee contact when a complaint has been filed under the ESA, interest on unpaid wages, collections, and penalties for non-compliance of the ESA.
Labour Law Proposals
Proposed changes to the LRA will affect union certification rules in order to more easily facilitate unionization and will enable the Ontario Labour Relations Board (the OLRB) to change existing bargaining units.
Union Certification – Bill 148 proposes the following in respect of union certification:
establishing card-based union certification for the THA industry, the building services industry and home care and community services industry;
allowing unions to access employee lists and certain contact information, provided the union can demonstrate that it has already achieved the support of 20% of employees involved;
empowering the OLRB to conduct votes outside the workplace, including electronically and by telephone;
eliminating certain conditions for remedial union certification, allowing unions to more easily certify when an employer engages in misconduct that contravenes the LRA;
making access to first contract arbitration easier, and also add an intensive mediation component to the process before dealing with displacement and decertification applications; and
empowering the OLRB to authorize Labour Relations Officers to give directions relating to the voting process and voting arrangements in order to help assure the neutrality of the voting process.
These changes would come into effect six months after Bill 148 becomes law.
Structure of Bargaining Units – Bill 148 allows the OLRB to change the structure of bargaining units within a single employer, where the existing bargaining units are no longer appropriate for collective bargaining, and to consolidate newly certified bargaining units with other existing bargaining units under a single employer, where those units are represented by the same union. Importantly, this proposal could impact multi-unit franchisees and franchisors with multiple corporate stores in close geographic proximity.
Additional amendments to the LRA would impact return-to-work rights and procedures, just cause protection in the period between certification and conclusion of a first contract, and during the period between the date the employees are in a legal strike or lock-out position and the new collective agreement, and fines and penalties under the LRA.
All proposals to the LRA would come into effect six months after Bill 148 becomes law.
The proposed amendments to the ESA and LRA would translate to increased operational and compliance costs for employers and more easily facilitate certification of unions.
Should you have any questions about how the proposed amendments could affect your franchise system, please contact any of the following individuals from our Franchise & Distribution Group in Dickinson Wright's Toronto office
This client alert is published by Dickinson Wright LLP to inform our clients and friends of important developments in the field of franchise and distribution law. The content is informational only and does not constitute legal or professional advice. We encourage you to consult a Dickinson Wright attorney if you have specific questions or concerns relating to any of the topics covered in here.
Ned Levitt is a Partner in Dickinson Wright's Toronto office. He can be reached at 416.646.3842 or nlevitt@dickinsonwright.com
Andrae Marrocco is a Partner in Dickinson Wright's Toronto office. He can be reached at 416.777.4046 or amarrocco@dickinsonwright.com
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It's The Mustache to the rescue.
Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) is back to doing what he loves — calling all the shots and potentially saving the day on CBS Daytime's The Young and the Restless. On Tuesday, Lauren (Tracey Bregman) and Michael (Christian LeBlanc) arrived at the Newman Ranch to ask the recently mellowed billionaire for his help in paying Scotty's (Daniel Hall) ransom. TGVN agreed to help but only if the Fenmore-Baldwins follow his lead!
On today's show, Lauren demands the kidnappers send her a picture proving her son is alive. Will Victor's plan work? I hope so, since Y&R went to the trouble of recasting a new Scotty.
While Victor is overseeing a rescue mission, his daughter is trying to send a pesky Cane Ashby (Daniel Goddard) off on one. Did Victoria (Amelia Heinle) really only promote Cane to get him out her hair, as he's accusing her of doing?
And just when you thought the phrase "music box" would never cause you to break out into hives again, Kay Chancellor's (the late Jeanne Cooper) final bequest to frenemy Jill Abbott (Jess Walton) is back in storyline play. Watch a sneak peek of Wednesday's Y&R below.


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The man who started Fox News
Roger Miles was the founder and chairman of Fox News from 1996 to 2016, when he was forced out due to allegations of sexual predation. A 1962 graduate of Ohio University, Ailes began his career as a producer of Cleveland's The Mike Douglas Show, a daytime talk show. Ailes left the show in 1968 to go into political consulting. As a media consultant, Roger Ailes worked on several campaigns, including those of Republicans Mitch McConnell and Phil Gramm. He famously worked on the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon (1968), Ronald Reagan (1984) and George H.W. Bush (1988). In the 1990s, Ailes returned to television with NBC and took over running CNBC, making it profitable. He left NBC in 1993 and called Rupert Murdoch -- with Murdoch's financial backing, Ailes started Fox News in 1996 with no news gathering network and no distribution network. It worked. The focus on combative opinions made it the top-rated news channel. Roger Ailes steered Fox News to cable television success and steered to organization for 20 years with his take-no-prisoners attitude. In 2016, anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit agains Roger Ailes, charging him with sexual harassment. More accusations from former employees followed, and Ailes was forced to resign (with a significant payout).

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Thinking today as my coachees approach D-Day for the HSC 2009 that it is FIFTY years since I was similarly placed. Oh my!
Now just 40 years before that and where were we?
And I really mean tentative. Further, there is no way a shortish post like this can do more than indicate rather than expound. After all, the books with which this series of posts began comprise around a thousand pages, while this post will most likely be just one to three! And I am about to add to that by recommending another thousand pages or more, which I have either skimmed or, in the case of Jason Burke, read attentively since commencing these posts.
Jason Burke, Al-Qaeda: the true story of radical Islam, Penguin 2004. This is the most thorough and most convincing book I have read on the subject. The writer has gone to first-hand sources and has relevant language skills, unlike very many who write on this. He speaks Urdu, the principal language of Pakistan and a second language understood by many of the players in Afghanistan. He has been to many of the relevant places and spoken to many of the people involved and thoroughly documents everything he says. His understanding of Islam and of the bewildering array of groups and their connections, or lack of direct connections, with Bin Laden or Al-Qaeda is superior to that of most western commentators. Anyone at all interested has to read this book. It outclasses the derivative work of Burleigh in this area by a factor of what – 1000%? The small sample of his work I attach below barely indicates the strengths of the book, but does indicate the direction Burke takes.
Malise Ruthven, A Fury for God: the Islamist attack on America, Granta 2002. There has been an edition since then, which I don't have. This was the first book of its kind that I read and remains among the best, but some of his conclusions about his subject need to be reconsidered in the light of Burke's book. He is sceptical about the direction much US and UK policy was taking at that time, particularly about reliance on military solutions. That remains true, but does not rule out all military involvement. Excellent on the ideological background of "Islamist" groups.
Karen Armstrong, Islam: a short history, Verso 2001. Short it is indeed, but also scholarly and fair-minded.
John Gray, Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern, Faber 2003. Even shorter! The thesis is very interesting, however, and has a lot going for it.
Melanie Phillips, Londonistan: how Britain is creating a terror state within, Gibson Square 2006. Burleigh endorses this book, but I still find it tendentious. Phillips does, however, highlight some of the ironies of following our own values of free speech. She overdraws, as does Burleigh, the "multiculturalism is to blame" argument. In The Mighty and the Almighty Madeleine Albright comes almost to the opposite conclusion: that a deep understanding of cultural pluralism and a willingness to respect the Other may be part of the solution. There's a big difference, I would argue, between that position, which I share, and craven surrender to the bizarre and positively dangerous in our midst. Getting the balance wrong in either direction won't help us, and may indeed do worse than that. The temptation to divide the world into goodies and baddies, alluded to below under "complexity", must be resisted.
Abdullah Saeed, Interpreting the Qu'ran: Towards a contemporary approach, Cambridge UP 2006. Saeed is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne. I am sure this book would not please either of the speakers at that 2005 Mine Seminar, but it will please very many Muslims and seems to me, by analogy with my understanding of some parallel dilemmas in Jewish and Christian circles and with my understanding of the nature of text and reading generally, to be a very fruitful approach for all concerned. Accepting, as all observant Muslims do, that the Qu'ran is indeed of divine origin, Saeed argues that interpreters of the Qu'ran are not so blessed. He distinguishes three approaches, and in that respect adds nuance to the rather too broad idea of "fundamentalism". The three approaches are: i) textualists, who argue for a strict following of the text and adopt a literalistic approach to the text; ii) semi-textualists, who "essentially follow the Textualists as far as linguistic emphasis and ignoring of the socio-historical context are concerned, but … package the ethico-legal content in a somewhat 'modern' idiom, often within an apologetic discourse." Apologetic there is in the theological sense of presenting scripture in a way meant to refute sceptics. Having broken that sentence structure, I now present: iii) contextualists, who emphasise "the socio-historical content of the Qu'ran and of its subsequent interpretations." Or, as a Presbyterian minister I knew many years ago was fond of saying, "a text without a context is a pretext." Thus, while I agree with the very well expressed statement by Sheik Yasin on context towards the end of that video referred to in the previous post, it is clear nonetheless that he is not a contextualist in Saeed's sense, and may even be in camp i), though possibly in camp ii). I still find it unfortunate that contextualism does not, in general, go as far in Qu'ranic studies as perhaps it should, as it has (much to the distress of many) in Biblical Studies.
So much could be said here! People often resist complexity. They like their boundaries neat. Thus the vision of Al-Qaeda that emerges in Burke's book may be resisted because the appeal of something resembling a Western or a James Bond movie is far easier to imagine. This can be a fatal trap when the true situation is simply not so neat, as Burke convincingly demonstrates. See too a 2005 post here: Lernaean Hydra – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I posted that at the time of the London bombings.
Let's just take one example: Did the CIA fund the Taliban?
This is a widely held view. I even shared it myself. However, is it true? It may well be that it is not. There are issues of chronology involved – the Taliban emerged rather late in the day compared to other mujahadeen groups, and Burke is excellent at unpicking all that. (Some thought of by many as Al-Qaeda in many books turn out to have been very loosely connected, or not connected, or even rivals of Al-Qaeda.) Certainly the CIA, mostly via Pakistan intelligence and along with Saudi and other financiers, did fund some of those fighting the USSR and the Afghan Marxist regime, but it appears the US backed off from that policy during the Clinton years, and that further in the stage when such funding was occurring the Taliban hardly existed. Nonetheless, much of the materiel did fall eventually into Taliban hands.
This video is a typical example of the case for the CIA having funded the Taliban, but looking at it carefully one does see much chronological sliding going on. Rather, when the Taliban did emerge it appears the question really was "Who the hell are they?" See for example The Taliban Files from National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 97. Various Pakistani groups, on the other hand, were heavily involved, but Pakistan too is another instance of complexity, but there isn't space here to go down that track. See also Beyond the Burqa: The Taliban, Women and the C.I.A. (September 12, 2001).
I am really trying not to sound patronising, because I respect idealism and even cling to some to this day, modified as it might be by experience and knowledge, especially of history.
The young, confronted with a world that all will admit is not the best of all possible worlds, may react with cynicism, apathy, or a deep desire to make a difference. Those who desire to make a difference will soon seek out how to make a difference, and therein is some danger, as well, of course, as much of the hope of the world. Those boys at The Mine, just like their confreres in the rather fundamentalist Christian and Jewish or political activist groups in the school, look for people who offer convincing solutions. Now you have to admit that both those speakers in the 2005 seminar (the video linked from the previous post in this series) are quite excellent public speakers. As a former debating coach I wouldn't mind having them on my team, and it is no accident that one of the two sixteen year old presenters was indeed a valuable member of his age-group's debating team, as was the brave young lad in cadet uniform who got up to rebut what he had heard. (The body language going on behind him, if you have seen the video, is interesting; it's almost as if the presenters wish there was a hook in the wings or a trapdoor under the stage.) That lad, by the way, is now one of my Facebook friends.
You will also note on the right that the seminar the previous year directly dealt with the issue of terror. The tactic was definitely not recommended.
We need to remind ourselves that terrorism is a tactic and not an ideology, nor is it inevitable in a Muslim context. The nearest that terrorism came to being a rather empty ideology was in the case of the Russian nihilists and the weird Germans in the 60s and 70s. Burleigh is actually very good on both, especially on the Germans.
On the other hand, when an ideology goes in for group judgements, whether these be based on class, race or religion, there is a likelihood that terror may become an attractive tactic. In my view we need to strenuously resist group judgements. It also must be said that the ideology recommended by the two speakers in the 2005 seminar is ultimately total – they said as much – and you can't get a higher authority than God as its author. Indeed, if the premises of the speakers were in fact correct it would follow that we should listen, but unfortunately I think the premises are highly questionable.
But as the speakers also said, we do have to all live together. Their solution, however, is not mine. In the world, let alone Australia, we all have to find ways to harmony in difference. It is a challenge, one we have not done too badly on here in Oz, comparatively, much better in fact than much of Europe.
One small but important example. In Blood & Rage (p. 468) Burleigh defines takfir as "the art of deluding infidels". Burke notes (p. 331) "Takfir: excommunication, a practice in Shia Islam but until recently almost unknown among Sunnis." See also this from a conservative Muslim source. The authority referred to there is a key figure in the development of political Islam in the 20th century.
1. Dr C has gone to Fiji for a week's holiday. That could be interesting as a coup seems to be in progress.
2. A couple of (reconstructed) bits of conversation with coachees this week.
Coachee 1 (14): Yes, I read The Lord of the Rings when I was about 4.
Me: Really? That's a bit much for a four year old… Did you read it in Chinese or English?
Me: Have you read it since in English?
Me: Do you still read a lot?
Coachee: One book a week.
Coachee 2: What is mateship?
That led to an interesting discussion.
I have one coachee in Year 12 doing Advanced English for the HSC who presents with a considerable problem. It isn't lack of intelligence or insight, but rather a level of English that makes it hard for him to demonstrate what he knows effectively. He arrived in Australia from Hong Kong in May 2007. While he had some English language instruction in Hong Kong, he is very much a Cantonese native speaker.
Here is a small example.
In the movie Australian, Baz Luhrmann is dealing with the same sort of idea that an outsider Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidmen), is trying to fit in to a country that is completely new to her. The way she belongs to the new continent is by understanding the aboriginal's thought and accept the way they live and try to fit in to them. With the introduction of the rough cow's drover (Hugh Jackman) as an assistance of Sarah Ashley, the drover help her to save her remote cow station. In this case, Sarah not only fit in to the aboriginal society because of her acceptance and understanding, but also affect by the drover, she as an English noble is not really standing on their side, one of the reason is the drover doesn't want to join the English noble group but there is another important reason base on identity that is when a person belongs to a group they will understanding their thought and support them, which is in this case, the aboriginal kid is being accepted by her as her children in the white man society. Her we can see the connection between the experience of Peter Skrzynecki in "Migrant Hostel" and in Australian, both of them experience a lack of belonging to a place because of the lack of understanding to the place. However, in Australia, Sarah Ashley has successfully understand and accept the Aboriginal culture then finally she is truly belong to the continent which is different to all the white people who live in the continent, they just physically belong to that place but not spiritually belong to this place. The sense of belonging is shown in the final scene of the movie, that Sarah Ashley release and let the Aboriginal kid goes back to his grandpa his root this is a acceptance to a culture, which is a way to belong to a new culture.
Here is the work in progress; I have left a section untouched* because I need to discuss it further with the student. Anything in square brackets is to be deleted.
"Cow" is feminine, "bull" is masculine; "cattle" is the generic or collective noun.
Here we can see the connection between the experience of Peter Skrzynecki in "Migrant Hostel" and Sarah Ashley in Australia. Both of them experience a lack of belonging to a place because of a lack of understanding of the place. However, in Australia, Sarah Ashley has successfully understood and accepted the Aboriginal culture so that finally she is truly able to belong to the continent, which is different from most of the white people who live in the continent, who just physically belong to this place but do not spiritually belong to this place. The sense of belonging is shown in the final scene of the movie when Sarah Ashley [release and] lets the Aboriginal boy go back to his grandfather and his roots. This is an acceptance of a culture, which is a way to belong to a new culture.
In the previous paragraph I have replaced a few examples of colloquial language with more neutral or formal language.
He is, by the way, improving quite rapidly, but still has a long way to go and not much time to get there.


Do you know the situation where you have to handle strings / string data that has a lot of complex characters? In certain situation it is just a pain to deal with strings that have special characters like "*ç%&/()=`è or even an entire Export-CliXML output content. Recently I had the need to embed such data into an existing configuration file. Meaning I had a configuration file and within that file an attribute / property had many different special characters from the based on Unicode characters. To avoid any issues, like copy/paste problems, mistyping, misinterpretation, conversion issues etc. with those special characters. I wanted a way to convert this string into numbers. Having numbers in place will avoid any of the above mentioned problems, because there is an unambiguous assignment.
Here I would like to provide you two functions to convert a complex string with special characters into Unicode byte array and a function to convert the byte array back into the string.
return $Bytes -join " "
Now you simply copy these numbers into your text file or whatever place your string is needed.
[byte]$UnicodeArray = ($UnicodeString -split " ") -replace "`r","" -replace "`n",""
The function will replace any carriage return (`r) and also new line (`n) from the array to avoid any errors.
…you will see that there are special characters again.
I think these two functions are a neat little way for handling such situations.
Let me know your approach, have fun.


This took seven awards at the Golden Globes in January and is in the lead with 14 nominations. Up for Best Picture, La La Land's sweet optimism charts Hollywood's longstanding love affair with itself in a romantic musical that harks back to a bygone era. Full of beautiful panned shots of the LA skyline, this is the story of two aspiring artists in Los Angeles (Birdman, The Artist, All About Eve ring any Oscar-winning bells?), and stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as leads.
A not to be missed cerebral sci-fi flick that is not just for those who love Close Encounters, Gravity and Interstellar. Denis Villeneuve's tale of alien contact is both epic in scope and intimate in nature. Arrival has Amy Adams (inexplicably snubbed by The Academy without a nomination for her lead role) as a linguistic professor who has to race against time to communicate with extra-terrestrials who have arrived in gigantic spaceships in 12 locations around the world.
Another major contender, this one tied with Arrival for eight nominations. It is a bold, unique, poetically filmed coming-of-age movie that ticks all the right boxes: it's about identity, love, family and friendship. Written and directed by Barry Jenkins, Moonlight is a sensitive film about a gay, black kid growing up in the Miami projects, and it reverberates with compassion, veracity and beauty. One of 10 black nominations, it makes #OscarsSoWhite so last year.
Heralded as a masterpiece for its beautiful acting by Casey Affleck (Ben's younger bro) and Michelle Williams, this superb film by Kenneth Lonergan has earned six nominations. Dealing with tough but universal issues of grief and forgiveness, the film is about a janitor who, after the death of his older brother, is shocked to find out that he has been made sole guardian of his teenage nephew. Heart-breaking and heart-warming in turns, it's high on the bookie's lists.
Six nominations were given to this dramatic adaptation of a true story. The Weinstein film is based on the true story about five-year-old Saroo from a poor family in India, who fell asleep on a train and woke up thousands of miles from home. The film has a stellar cast with Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara and Dev Patel and tracks Saroo's obsessive search for his birth mother after he was adopted by an Aussie couple and went to live in Tasmania. It has generated major Awards buzz as is an enthralling and enchanting movie about the strength of motherly love.
This is a gritty, gruesome, no-holds-barred World War II movie with Mel Gibson directing what he hoped would be his supposed comeback. And that's exactly what it is. Sweeping in its grandeur, conventional but uncomproming in its depiction of battle, Hacksaw has tied with Lion for six nominations. A bruising and brutal film, it is the story of Desmond Doss, a pacifist objector and an outcast, who found redemption through superhuman suffering.
Originally performed on Broadway, Denzel Washington's stars and directs in his big-screen adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer-winning play. A powerful but often painful story about a black Pittsburgh garbage collector who dreamed of a baseball career, but was too old when the major leagues began admitting black players, it questions how events and the environment shape us and make us who we are. Impeccable acting by Washington in the lead with Viola Davis as his wife.
Four Oscar nods for this hard-to-categorize film directed by David Mackenzie and starring Jeff Bridges. Is it a heavyweight neo-Western? A Trump-era indie that packs a punch? Or an action-thriller with a cynical side? Quite possibly, it is all those. A heist drama set in Texas just after the 2008 financial crisis, it boasts excellent acting by Bridges, a super smart script and tight direction.
This is an empowering, emotionally satisfying film: it is the untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three brilliant African-American women who worked at NASA and who, incredibly, were the brains behind the historic launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe, this remarkable movie about crucial contributions from America's Afro-American community crossing gender and race lines puts an end to the #OscarsSoWhite drought.
2. From top to bottom: Mahershala Ali ("Juan," top) and Alex R. Hibbert ("Little," bottom) star in Lionsgate Home Entertainment's MOONLIGHT.
3. From left to right: Michelle Williams ("Randi Chandler," left) and Casey Affleck ("Lee Chandler," right) star in Lionsgate Home Entertainment's MANCHESTER BY THE SEA.
5. Andrew Garfield ("Desmond Doss") stars in Lionsgate Home Entertainment's HACKSAW RIDGE.
6. From left to right: Jeff Bridges ("Marcus Hamilton," left) and Gil Birmingham ("Alberto Parker," right) star in Lionsgate Home Entertainment's HELL OR HIGH WATER.


The future continuous tense or Future progressive tense is used to indicate the future running action or activity, for a particular time period which will be occurred in future. It also indicates the Possibility and prediction and for Future perfect progressive tense.
we use it for future running action.
She will be giving a presentation.
Ali will be taking the class.
Here are some more Future progressive tense examples.
She will be watching a movie.
Alina will be taking the exam.
We will be enjoying a movie in cinema tomorrow.
She will not be watching a movie.
Will she be watching a movie?
Will they be celebrating the party?
Will she not be watching a movie?
Will they not be celebrating the party?
Here are some more future continuous tense examples with WH Questions.
When will you be celebrating party?
How will Alina be a teaching in school?
What will he be doing all night long?
Where will she be a taking class in university?
Here are some contractions of Future Tense.


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· Posted on Feb 6, 2019
25 Bizarre Baby Naming Stories That You'll Be Thinking About Later
"My parents gave my sister naming rights. She named me after her Cabbage Patch Kids doll."
by Mike Spohr
We recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to share bizarre baby naming stories and, boy, did they come through with some absolute jaw droppers. Here are 25 more:
1. "My mom wanted us to both have a middle name that started with 'K,' but I guess 'Knacole' (exactly how you think it sounds) was all she could come up with instead of literally any other 'K' name."
—courtnees2
2. "My name is Carly Dale. I'm named after cars and race car driver Dale Earnhardt."
David Taylor / Getty Images
—ctysarczyk
3. "I was a surprise baby so my parents gave my older sister naming rights. She named me after the most important thing to her at the time — her Cabbage Patch Kids doll. Thank God she was out of her E.T. phase by that time."
thecabbiecrew / Via instagram.com
—k4284d1be7
4. "My parents decided before I was born that my initials would spell 'ALF' because it was the '80s and my dad smoked a ton of weed and loved that show, of course. Later, my dad called my mom from the bar and said, 'We should name her Amber!' His inspiration came from the beer he was drinking. So I'm named after beer and an alien who eats cats."
—ambergetshi
5. "My dad really loved the band Molly Hatchet, and he convinced my mom that Molly would be a good girl name."
—mcmolls
6. "My parents got one of those Victoria's Secret catalogs in the mail, and inside it had a collection named Emma. They thought naming their precious child after a collection of Victoria's Secret underwear was a classy move."
popwildlife / Via instagram.com
—embielawa99
7. "My dad really enjoyed the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit and thought that Jessica Rabbit was sexy, so here I am named after an animated character with big boobs."
—jessicaschreier
8. "My parents hadn't been able to come up with a name for me when my dad found a 'Shannon' sticker on the bottom of his boot. He peeled it off and told my Mom he had the perfect name!"
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9. "My mother was driving down the road one day in Texas when she passed a truck with 'Keaton's Plumbing' on the door. Bam! The rest is history — I'm Keaton."
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10. "I'm Estonian, although I was born and raised in the States. As a kid, I was proud that my name 'Kalev' was one of Estonia's mythical heroes. Later, I found out it was also (not coincidentally) the name of my father's favorite candy bar."
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11. "My parents named me Casey, after Pamela Anderson's character on Baywatch."
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12. "I was born on the religious holiday, All Saints Day, so my parents named me Christian — and made my middle name Jesus. It doesn't help that my last name is Cruz, which means 'cross.' I have the most religious name ever and I'm an atheist."
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13. "My boyfriend, Gage, was named after the little boy that gets hit by a truck in the book/movie, Pet Sematary. Kinda weird, kinda cool."
14. "I'm named after Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of the one-time president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. I was born in the '80s when he was on the news a lot. I'm not Russian though, so..."
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15. "My dad named me after the secretary in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. When he heard Ed Rooney scream 'Grace!' he thought it was a good screaming name and that he'd have to scream at me a lot."
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16. "My mom suggested the name Kelly but my dad was only half-paying attention and thought she said Callie. They both liked Callie, though, so my name came from a typical guy not listening."
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17. "My first and middle names (Hannah Victoria) are the names of two street names my mom used to live on."
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18. "I'm named after the 1996 movie Scream. My mom liked the way the killer, Billy Loomis (aka Skeet Ulrich), called Sydney 'Syd', so I'm named Sydney because she liked the way a serial killer said it."
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19. "My name is Tear, like a teardrop. Story is that my grandmother named me that because I cried a lot after birth."
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20. "I was named Dallas after my dad's favorite football team, the Dallas Cowboys, because my mother was in labor with me the last time they won the Super Bowl. I can only assume she was too tired to argue."
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21. "My parents saw the name 'Melanie' on a woman's work jacket at a monster truck show."
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22. "My dad named me Avery, after Avery Island, which is where his favorite hot sauce — Tabasco — is made."
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23. "My father was a Marine and named me after this country, Abidjan. It's supposed to be a beautiful place but try telling that to fourth graders who just called me 'Farmer John' and 'Parmesan.' It's not even pronounced as 'John.'"
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24. "My cousin is named Windy Echo. My uncle is an ass and thought it would be funny to have her name mean fart. I can't believe my aunt went along with it."
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And this story, which is actually beautiful:
25. "My mom had a very hard time getting and staying pregnant. After four years and three miscarriages, my dad took her on a much needed vacation to the Italian Riviera. One night, they were sitting on a terrace cafe when my dad told my mom to make a wish on the full moon. She did and that night they conceived me. Nine months later I was born and named Luna after the full moon that gave my mom her wish."
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—lunallee212
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If oil prices are to continue their strong rally, they will have India to thank.
India has emerged as the "star performer" of the oil markets, the IEA wrote in its May Oil Market Report. Oil demand growth in India has surpassed that of China, the long-time cornerstone of global commodity demand.
Part of India's sudden importance has to do with China. Demand growth for refined fuels in China plunged recently, down to 353,000 bpd in the first quarter of 2016 from a year earlier. That is down roughly 60% from a highpoint in the third quarter of last year at nearly 900,000 barrels per day (elevated levels that had a lot to do with filling of China's strategic petroleum reserve).
But India's demand for liquid fuels grew by 400,000 bpd in the first quarter, which was the fastest in the world, accounting for about 30 percent of the total global increase. "This provides further support for the argument that India is taking over from the China as the main growth market for oil," the IEA wrote in May. That level of growth is all the more remarkable given that India's oil demand grew at an average of just 120,000 bpd every year for the past decade, according to Bernstein Research.
The growth figures in India are striking: GDP is expanding at a 7.6% annual rate, gasoline demand is up 14.5%, and diesel demand is up 7.5%. The WSJ reports that 24 million new vehicles were constructed in India in the most recent fiscal year, and the government is targeting new road construction on the order of 30 km every single day. India's vehicle fleet has doubled since 2007.
To fill all of those vehicles, India needs more oil. And with domestic production relatively stagnant, India has to resort to steadily higher imports. Crude oil imports have jumped by 12% so far this year from 2015 levels. Domestic refineries are running full tilt, and more capacity is needed.
According to Bernstein's Neil Beveridge, India is at a "structural inflection point for oil growth," with several factors responsible for the surge in demand: the government program to rapidly expand the nation's highway system; rising per capita income; and a shift towards building out manufacturing capacity to make up a larger share of the Indian economy.
India is now more or less at the same per capita income levels as China in 2002 – a time when China's demand for oil and other commodities started to skyrocket. Bernstein sees India undergoing a similar, if less intense, industrialisation and economic transformation. Oil consumption could grow at a 5.4% compound annual growth rate through 2021, or an increase of 1.45 MM bpd) over the next five years to 5.45 MM bpd. by 2040, India's oil demand could rise to 10 MM bpd, a more than 6 MM bpd increase from today's levels, which will also be the largest source of growth on the planet.
In other words, India is simultaneously contributing to oil demand in today's oil market, putting a floor beneath prices, while India will also be the largest driver of oil demand over the long-term. China was largely responsible for the commodity super-cycle that began in the early 2000s that ended a few years ago. Companies that spent billions on coal mines in Australia, copper mines in Chile, or drilled oil wells in increasingly hard-to-reach areas of the globe – they all had China in mind when they put together their forecasts. But going forward, India will increasingly play that role.
And the next bull market could be starting sooner than many think. Bloomberg reports that commodity markets are about to enter bull market territory, as the Bloomberg Commodity Index – which tracks 22 different raw materials – is about to close up 20% from January levels. To be sure, the super-cycle price boom of a decade ago is not about to return, but the bear market has come to an end. The fortunes of commodity producers now rest with India.


Forage fish, like anchovies and sardines, are important in reduction fisheries. According to a recent study, fishing them has little effect on forage fish predators.
By Jack Cheney A new paper published this week explored opportunities for increased yield and profit across 4,713 fish stocks constituting 78% of global fisheries.
What is the Status of Commercially-Fished Tuna Worldwide?
What is the Global Status of Tuna and Billfish?


Poker: Win, Place & Show memories live on!
Win, Place & Show memories live on!
'TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY! And, I'm searching the back roads of my memory to recapture some of the rascal times of my life when win, place and show held me captive, with the exception of the daily double.
There were no quinellas, exactas, trifectas, triples, superfectas, pick sixes and/or pick nines. The only quest was to pick a winner. There were a few exceptions to the rule. A college classmate, who grew up in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, was a degenerate show bettor. Remember, there weren't many moneymaking opportunities in the coal towns. City guys had more opportunity to make money. Coal-miner kids had to play it close to the vest. It explains his conservativeness and why he became a show bettor.
Not me! In the club of Last-Dollar-Dans I stood tall.
My classmate — call him Eddie — loved Maryland racetracks.
"The bettors in Baltimore don't bet show," Eddie would say. "They sock it all on the nose with a devil-may-care attitude. In Maryland a favorite pays $4.80 to win and $3.00 to show. That's what I like about the South (?)," he would say.
Show betting was definitely not my cup of tea. However, I would often forego the cavalry posts in New York and New Jersey to accompany Eddie. He was conservative, but consistent when it came to coughing up gas money. Such a gesture was not to be taken lightly by Last-Dollar-Dans.
We didn't know it at the time. But, we were a jolly bunch of horseplayers pitting our wisdom against all the other handicappers of the day. Seldom did we get the job done. The ride back north from Pimlico was usually a re-run of the previous weekend. I would tap out completely. Cautious Ed always had a few bucks tucked away for gas money.
There was also another ritual. Just before the clubhouse dining room closed, we would sneak in and empty a few containers of oyster crackers left on the tables of big time bettors. Once in awhile we would pull into a supermarket and grab a pound of baloney and a tall bottle of pop to wash it all down.
Ed would always want to stop somewhere to enjoy our gourmet supper. Not me. There was a card game that night in Norristown. I was a cinch to hustle up enough of a stake to get into action. I insisted we eat en route. We had to stop for petrol. Ed would fill up the tank. It was only a few bucks, but in those days it was a couple of daily doubles, at least.
When we returned to Norristown, Ed didn't have enough borrowing power to get into the poker game. I did. He would stand behind me, and root every time I was in a hand. In the meantime, Chief, the guy who ran the game, supplied players and moochers with free food, soft drinks and cigarettes. How could you beat that?
Believe it or not, once in awhile I made a score playing poker. Without fail, Ed would want to know if I would stake him so we could return to the races the next day. I always did.
All of the above took place in the late 1950s. War stories! We had them by the carload. And, enjoyed chewing the rag about all the near misses at the dit dot dits. Little did we know that these were our happy golden days.
Nothing stays the same. Ed and I are off in different directions working for the Yankee dollar. Every once in awhile, a memory comes back. One of us will pick up the telephone and tell stories to the other. Making more memories.
A merry little Christmas now."
And, from all of us: A Happy New Year, too!


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Elemental speciation in biomolecules by LC-ICP-MS with magnetic sector and collision cell instruments
Description: A methodology that can monitor and identify inorganic elements in biological and environmental systems was developed. Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) separates biomolecules, which are then nebulized by a microconcentric nebulizer. The resulting aerosol is desolved and introduced into either a high resolution ICP-MS device or a quadrupole device with a collision cell. Because of the high sensitivity and spectral resolution and high sample introduction efficiency, many unusual or difficult elements, such as Cr, Se, Cd and U, can be observed at ambient levels bound to proteins in human serum. These measurements are made in only a few minutes without preliminary isolation and preconcentration steps. Serum samples can be titrated with spikes of various elements to determine which proteins bind a given metal and oxidation state. Experiments concerning the effects of breaking disulfide linkages and denaturation on metal binding in proteins were also investigated. Elemental distribution in liver extract was also obtained.
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Description: The most frequent complaint of operators in modern computer-based control rooms is that there just are not enough video display units (VDUs). In this paper we examine the basis for this concern and try to understand the technical and historical reasons for this complaint, and its implications for the design of complex human-machine systems, including the number of VDUs in the control room. The overall aim of our work is to develop human factors guidance for the review of computer-based and modernized control rooms in nuclear power plants. As part of these efforts we have conducted literature reviews and studies using both simulators and actual systems in a broad range of industries, including process control, aerospace, medical, and others. Our findings reflect the general complaint of operators across all these industries: there just are not enough VDUs in the control room. We conclude that there are three primary reasons for this complaint. First, as part of a workload management strategy, operators frequently avoid interface management tasks and do not access all the information available, preferring instead to use a fixed set of familiar displays that provide much (but not all) of the information needed. Performance thereby becomes data limited and operators complain that they do not have a sufficient number of VDUs to set up in the early phases of a high-workload period so they can get all the information they need. Second, display designs are typically not designed with operator tasks in mind. The most common method of representing information is by functions and systems. Since tasks typically cut across many systems, operators need many displays. Thus, to make task performance easier operators need additional VDUs. Finally, there is a differing ''concept of operations'' between designers and operators. Modern computer-based control rooms are designed with vast amounts of data, ...
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Mathematical models and specific absorbed fractions of photon energy in the nonpregnant adult female and at the end of each trimester of pregnancy
Description: Mathematical phantoms representing the adult female at three, six, and nine months of gestation are described. They are modifications of the 15-year-old male/adult female phantom (15-AF phantom) of Cristy and Eckerman (1987). The model of uterine contents includes the fetus, fetal skeleton, and placenta. The model is suitable for dose calculations for the fetus as a whole; individual organs within the fetus (other than the skeleton) are not modeled. A new model for the nonpregnant adult female is also described, comprising (1) the 15-AF phantom; (2) an adjustment to specific absorbed fractions for organ self-dose from photons to better match Reference Woman masses; and (3) computation of specific absorbed fractions with Reference Woman masses from ICRP Publication 23 for both penetrating and nonpenetrating radiations. Specific absorbed fractions for photons emitted from various source regions are tabulated for the new non;pregnant adult female model and the three pregnancy models.
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Workshop on short-term health effects of reactor accidents: Chernobyl
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Minutes of meeting of Biology Division members concerning P-10 problems, July 18, 1950
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High-purity germanium detection system for the in vivo measurement of americium and plutonium
Description: A high-purity germanium (HPGe) array, photon-counting system has been developed for the Rocky Flats Plant Body-Counter Medical Facility. The newly improved system provides exceptional resolutions of low-energy X-ray and gamma-ray spectra associated with the in vivo deposition of plutonium and americium. Described are the operational parameters of the system and some qualitative results illustrating detector performance for the photon emissions produced from the decay of plutonium and americium between energy ranges from 10 to 100 kiloelectron volts. Since large amounts of data are easily generated with the system, data storage, analysis, and computer software developments continue to be an essential ingredient for processing spectral data obtained from the detectors. Absence of quantitative data is intentional. The primary concern of the study was to evaluate the effects of the various physical and electronic operational parameters before adding those related entirely to a human subject.
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Human disease from radon exposures: the impact of energy conservation in buildings
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The oldest District Six claimant Shariefa Khan can't wait to go back to where she was born. pic supplied
100-year-old District Six claimant still waiting for keys to her new home
By Siyabonga Kalipa Jun 24, 2021
Cape Town - District Six claimants are not happy that they are not getting their keys today as was promised last week.
Last week, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza announced the allocation of the 108 dwellings to previously dispossessed people.
They were promised they would get their house keys today, but that is not the case.
Shariefa Khan, who is 100 years old, has been waiting to go back where she was born for more than 50 years. She has been staying in Rylands after they were forcefully removed from District Six.
Khan was emotional and excited after signing the papers last week, as it has always been her wish to go back.
Despite not being entirely happy about the house she was moving into because it was not wheelchair friendly, she is disappointed that she is not getting her keys today.
Khan's daughter Sumaya Mukkadem said they did not get a satisfactory explanation about why they are not getting the keys today, only that there were some legal matters.
She said she explained to her mother that she has to wait a bit longer, and she saw her sadness.
Khan said: "I am very disappointed and sad because I was looking forward to this day".
District Six Working Committee spokesperson Karen Brytenbach said they are pleased that the government is supplying beautiful new homes to 108 deserving claimants, but it is unfortunate that these claimants were told last week that they would start moving in from today, and now there are more unforeseen and unexplained delays.
"One of the claimants who was going to move in today is Mrs Shariefa Khan. Her family is very grateful for the apartment, but still don't have clarity on when she can move in," she said.
She added that they are happy to see that restitution is happening, but appeal to the government to be more transparent with the claimants and more sensitive to how further delays make them feel.
Didiza's spokesperson Reggie Ngcobo said the claimants were told they will get their keys this week but there was no specific date.
He said there some processes being finalised because some claimants rejected this phase opting to wait for the next phase.
He said they need to know who is willing to go back and who is rejecting so the number can be presented to the minister.
"It has been raining in Cape Town the past three days and some claimants are old and could not come and be part of the process, but those who are going back, will move over the weekend, said Ngcobo.
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The Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow (TaSH) Winter Market Moves Indoors This Winter
River Journal — December 7, 2022
The market will be held on the second and fourth Saturday of every month from mid-January through April at the John Paulding School in Tarrytown.
The Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow (TaSH) Winter Market will be moving indoors next year. The market will be held in the multipurpose room of the John Paulding School, offering customers a warm, comfortable space to shop for farm-fresh, locally made products, baked goods, and so much more.
"We launched our first winter market outdoors in early 2020 to give people a safe way to buy fresh, local food during the pandemic, and to support our farmers at a really hard time. But it was very cold and windy, which was tough for our vendors, shoppers, and staff," said TaSH Co-President Tammy Bordeaux. "We're so excited to finally bring the market indoors where it's warm and inviting, and people can spend time talking to farmers, vendors and neighbors. This is where the magic happens at the market."
The John Paulding School is located at 154 Broadway in Tarrytown, across the street from the TaSH's warm-weather home base at Patriots Park. Free parking is available.
"We are so grateful to the Board of Education of the Public Schools of the Tarrytowns for allowing us to use the space," said TaSH Co-President Suzanne Sorrentino. "The school is central to the villages of both Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, just like Patriots Park."
The indoor venue will allow The TaSH to add to its roster of vendors and continue offering entertainment, childrens' programming and educational events during the winter months.
The Winter Market will open on January 14 and run through April. It will operate from 9:30 a.m. through 12:30 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday of the month. The market will return to Patriots Park for the TaSH's special Mother's Day Market on May 13.
The 2023 Winter Market dates are:
January 14 and 28
February 11 and 25
March 11 and 25
April 8 and 22


Since it was founded in 2000, Propertybuyer has become the most awarded buyers' agency in Australia, most recently crowned the 2015 Buyer's Agent of the Year by Your Investment Property readers.
The independent agency's team of 12 specialise in searching, appraising and negotiating property purchases for home buyers and investors. To date Propertybuyer has helped clients from Australia and around the world purchase more than 2,000 residential or commercial properties in their specialist areas of Sydney and Brisbane.
Founder and Managing Director of Propertybuyer, Rich Harvey, knows the real estate market inside out with more than 20 years' experience in the property industry. He is a licensed real estate agent, property investor, professional economist and President of Real Estate Buyers' Agent Association.
"We don't sell homes we only help buyers find property, whether that's residential or commercial," says Rich.
"As independent buyers advocates, we are 100 per cent exclusively on the buyer's side. We conduct a property search in suburbs that suit the client's criteria and lifestyle, identify the property and then negotiate the contract and secure the property on behalf of our buyers, including all the appraisal work."
"It's really an end-to-end service for buying any kind of property. Our goal is to find every client the right property, at the right price, every time".
While traditionally vendors have been well represented in the real estate market, Rich founded Propertybuyer because he could see buyers needed greater support and professional advice when making a purchasing decision. He says buyers should choose a trusted team of service providers to help them make what is usually the most expensive purchase in their lives, safe, secure and efficient.
"The two key people you need to have on your team as a buyer is a good bank or mortgage broker and a good solicitor."
"Let's say you choose an old suburban cardigan wearing solicitor who still struggles with the Internet, they're not going to be able to get a deal done for you. But if you use someone that's smart, savvy, understands the law and can go through a contract in detail, whilst quickly corresponding with the other side to get amendments done, it makes the process so much easier and efficient."
"As a buyers' agent we're very intimately involved in the conveyancing process," Rich explains.
"Part of our process is to check that correct due-diligence is done on a property. So we recommend our clients engage a conveyancer or solicitor to handle the contracts, check all the title particulars and negotiate with the vendor's solicitors if there are any special requirements or conditions that need to be arranged."
"It's critical for us to have a solicitor that's responsive and quick to move. It can make or break a deal."
With many Propertybuyer clients new to real estate or investors from interstate, Rich estimates about 40 per cent of his customers don't have a preferred property lawyer to handle their conveyance.
Rich knows his recommendations are highly valued by clients so he is conscious of only partnering with trusted service providers.
"If you refer someone you want to know they are going to be looked after and a good job is going to be done," Rich says.
"We have relationships with a number of service providers, finance brokers, tax accountants, tax depreciation specialists - a whole raft of professionals - and conveyancing is a really critical service that we recommend to our clients."
Propertybuyer have been working with Lawlab for 18 months, in which time they have helped clients from Australia and Asia secure their property purchases.
Rich says the Propertybuyer team have enjoyed a productive relationship with lawlab, which has been powered by the use of online property platform, Rundl, which lawlab use to streamline communication between all parties in a property transaction. Rundl puts buyers in complete control of their purchase and enables their property team of buyers' agents, mortgage brokers, accountants and financial institutions, to collaborate and securely share and approve documents efficiently.
I really love their Rundl system and the team's responsiveness. They've been very timely and very efficient.
The Rundl platform not only lets agents monitor their clients' transactions, but it sends email alerts and notifications when key milestones have been met.
Speaking from a buyers' advocate perspective it's excellent because it keeps you in the loop every step of the way. It saves you from heaps of repetitive phone calls because everyone has communicated online and there has been a trail of the conversation left behind on Rundl.
"Let's say you're buying a property in Queensland, there is usually a 14 or 21 day finance clause. So the buyer will put down a $1,000 deposit to have the property taken off the market and then the balance is due in 14 or 21 days' time. So Rundl will send a reminder a few days before saying that the balance is due and to make arrangements to deposit into the appropriate account."
Propertybuyer's advisors specialise in the Sydney and Brisbane property markets, but also have a network of contacts all around Australia to help find their clients the perfect property.
Because each state and territory in Australia has its own laws and conveyancing processes, Rich says it's essential his clients engage a lawyer that has experience with local property laws.
"If you're buying interstate, a lot of people don't realise you need to use a solicitor that is licensed in that state," Rich explains. "Because they're licensed in other states it's easy to refer clients to Lawlab. They have national coverage and have specialists in each state that know the local laws and regulations, just like we do."
Many Propertybuyer customers haven't been through the conveyancing process before, so they don't even realise that lawlab and Rundl is saving them the time and effort usually required.
Rich says he has actually had very little feedback from clients on the lawlab system, which he thinks is an excellent sign of a simple and seamless system.
"Seeing the comments going back and forward [over Rundl] it seems clients have embraced the process."
Because Rundl is used much like a social media, but for business, Rich said that most people are already familiar with how to use the platform and that there wasn't really any training required for his team or Propertybuyer clients.
"It's pretty straight forward honestly. It's just like downloading Adobe and learning how to read a document. It's not like a whole new dashboard to learn so it was really pretty straight forward."


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Ne-Yo Sued By Once-Alleged Baby Mother For Defamation
by RomanCooper
Ne-Yo's word choice on a VH1 program may come back to haunt him.
TMZ reports that Jesseca White is suing the R&B singer for painting her as "an unchaste woman who deliberately tricked him into believing he was the father of her child … so that she could fraudulently bilk him of 'ungodly amounts of money.'"
In 2005, White had a child, and she claimed Ne-Yo was the father. However, a paternity test absolved the singer.
White alleges that she did not try to defraud the singer, and that Ne-Yo's statements on the VH1 program "Behind the Music" has led her to be called derogatory names, and that her career as a photographer and graphic designer has suffered as a result.
White is suing for unspecified damages.
Last year, Ne-Yo left Def Jam and signed with Motown Records as an artist and Senior VP of A&R.
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Spent most of the day in bed, with all the lights in the room on, snuggled up in my freshly laundered white bedding (so it's like I'm floating on a cloud) with my favorite companion, the internet, via my laptop.
Yes. That is a color coded set of bookshelves. JUST LIKE I USED TO HAVE. And every realtor that walked through my house mocked me for having them.
I'm a fan of Anne Lamott.
Anne Lamott: How did I get sober? Well, when my dad died when I was 25, my younger brother had been 20, my brother Steve, and he worked in landscape architect, he was a laborer, and one of his best friends had a father who was sober, named Jack. When our dad died, Steven moved in with this guy Jack and there were all these sober people around his house all the time talking about how much they loved being sober and prayer and meditation and helping others, and they always had these horrible cakes from Safeway that I happen to really prefer to good bakery, because I mostly just like the icing, and they always had this swill, this terrible coffee. And I was always drinking too much of this swill late at night, whereas if I drink coffee at night, I would sleep again several days later. But, I got to be friends with this character named Jack and he'd been a total lush like I am, and he said, you know, "We're not drinking, one day at a time, and everything that we'd ever dreamt has happened for us." And I said, "Well, I'm very religious, very spiritual without your little Safeway cakes and swill." But like most drunks that had gotten sober, I got to the point where I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards. You know? So, I was getting to a point where I was living in a way that involved waking up sick and with a lot of shame and just kind of animal confusion. And one day I called Jack and said, "What do I do?" And he said, "Why don't I come over and we'll talk." So, that's how I got sober and that's how I stayed sober as people said, "Why don't I come over and we'll talk, and drink our bad coffee like communion together."
The whole, 'people saying why don't I come over and we'll talk' thing is good for more than just sobriety. It's also good for healing broken hearts. And calming confused minds. And encouraging sad souls. And it's good for grieving moms. And grieving daughters. And grieving wives. And scared kids. And worried dads. And burdened boys. And ... heck.
Don't we all long for someone to just come over and talk?
I went looking for them (on the internet) and found a source. So I bought a couple thousand.
1. I gained an appreciation for the film industry. All aspects of it, from conception, to materials, to camera angles, to location, to scripts, to editing, to scores, to the scope of projects ... from commercials to movies.
2. This ad just makes me smile. And I found it first. I mean, I viewed it before Clint had discovered it. And I liked it, but never shared it because it could've been lame and I wasn't going to risk calling something cool that wasn't. But when Clint stumbled upon it and called me over to look at it, it really made me smile.
3. It was the beginning of me realizing that Clint was in this for the long run. And that he had some serious skills. And that I was going to support him however I could. And if that meant ordering thousands of neon iridescent bouncy balls from an American bubble gum machine contents wholesaler, then, well, then, OK.
Anyway. That was my all-time favorite ad.
As a way of justifying my going to the movies alot. Like, a real lot.
Like 5 nites in the past 9.
And it's all because of Bravia balls.
1. Day One of Nine Days Off was lovely. Day Two will look different. SO thankful for this break.
2. I'm thankful that no one died, or has life threatening injuries as a result of the Apollo Theatre collapse in London.
4. And I'm thankful for The Last Door, and December's Alumni of the Month.


My Cine Las Americas film festival continued the next night with this hilarious gem from Argentina. El Cidudano Ilustre/The Distinguished Citizen tells a rather amusing tale about Daniel Mantovani, a man who left his humble small town in Argentina to achieve both critical and financial success as an author. After receiving the Nobel prize for Literature, Daniel receives an endless amount of speaking engagement invitations, but only one in particular piques his interest. Though he has not been to his hometown in about thirty years, Daniel receives an invitation by the current mayor to be honored as a distinguished former citizen of the community and is asked to make a few speaking engagements and participate in a local art contest. This proves to be a huge mistake, as Daniel's disdain for his hometown resurfaces and makes for a most awkward visit. In addition, Daniel's brutally honest personality and poor social skills infuriate some of the citizens, including the husband (Dady Brieva) of Daniel's former high school sweetheart Nuria (Nora Navas).
Written by Andrés Duprat and directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, El Ciudadano Ilustre is an absolute riot with smartly written humor, mostly of the socially awkward variety. I rather enjoyed the Daniel Mantovani character, even though he often comes across as arrogant and haughty. Some of the personalities and activities of his small town actually do deserve his disdain, but at the same time, others do not. Nevertheless, the scenarios and clash of personalities are wonderfully written, directed and performed with great comic timing and execution. The film's brand of humor and situations have some similarities to the comedy and scenarios in U.S. TV shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Californication. Fans of these programs will no doubt enjoy this movie and the comic surprises it has to offer.


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AppImage es un formato para distribuir software portátil en paquetes universales en Linux sin necesidad de permisos de superusuario para instalar la aplicación. Con este formato se intenta permitir la distribución de software binario independiente de la distribución de Linux para desarrolladores de aplicaciones, también llamado empaquetado de upstream. Lanzado por primera vez en 2004 bajo el nombre de klik, fue desarrollado continuamente, y luego renombrado en 2011 a PortableLinuxApps y más tarde en 2013 a AppImage.

Descripción

Objetivos
AppImage es concebido como un sistema de implementación de aplicaciones para Linux que tiene como objetivos la simplicidad, la compatibilidad binaria, independencia de la distribución, ausencia de instalación, ausencia de permisos de superusuario, ser portátil y mantener intacto el sistema operativo subyacente.

Propiedades
AppImage no instala la aplicación en el sentido tradicional de Linux. En lugar de colocar los diversos archivos de la aplicación en los lugares apropiados de la distribución en el sistema de archivos, el archivo AppImage es solo la imagen comprimida de la aplicación. Cuando se ejecuta, el archivo se monta con el sistema de archivos en el espacio de usuario (FUSE, por sus siglas en idioma inglés). Este comportamiento es coherente con los predecesores de AppImage, klik y PortableLinuxApps.

Este formato utiliza un archivo por aplicación. Cada archivo es autónomo: incluye todas las bibliotecas de las que depende la aplicación que no son parte del sistema base objetivo. Una aplicación AppImage de la versión 1.0 es un archivo Rock Ridge de la norma ISO 9660 que contiene un AppDir (Directorio de Aplicaciones) mínimo y un entorno de ejecución pequeño. La versión 2 del formato AppImage puede usar otros formatos de imagen del sistema de archivos como SquashFS. Se puede agregar una aplicación de AppImage a un CDVivo agregando solo un archivo a este.

Los archivos de AppImage son más simples que la instalación de una aplicación. No se necesitan herramientas de extracción, ni es necesario modificar el sistema operativo o el entorno del usuario. Los usuarios habituales en las distribuciones Linux comunes pueden descargarlo, hacerlo ejecutable y ejecutarlo. Sin embargo, a diferencia de los archivos ejecutables bajo los sistemas operativos Microsoft Windows, los archivos del formato AppImage no están registrados en el sistema, lo que significa que si hay archivos presentes en el computador que pueden abrirse con esta aplicación, estos no serán abiertos al hacer doble clic en ellos. Para solventar este problema, se han creado algunas aplicaciones que se ejecutan en un terminal de texto Linux, como appimaged. En otros casos, los programadores que elaboran los archivos AppImage han añadido la funcionalidad del registro automático de la aplicación.

Historia

klik

klik, el predecesor del formato AppImage, fue diseñado en el año 2004 por el economista y programador alemán Simon Peter. El software del lado del cliente tenía licencia GPL. Los archivos klik se integraban con navegadores web en la computadora del usuario. Los usuarios descargaban e instalaban software escribiendo una URL que comenzaba con klik://. Con ello, era descargado un archivo klik de "receta", que se utilizaba para generar un archivo .cmg. Para los ingredientes principales, generalmente los paquetes .deb preconstruidos de los repositorios estables de Debian se incorporaban en el proceso de generación del archivo .cmg de "receta". De esta forma, una "receta" podría usarse para suministrar paquetes a una amplia variedad de plataformas. Con klik, solo se podían ejecutar ocho programas a la vez debido a la limitación de montar imágenes comprimidas con el núcleo Linux, a menos que se utilizara FUSE. El archivo era re-montado cada vez que se ejecutaba el programa, lo que significa que el usuario podía eliminar el programa simplemente borrando el archivo .cmg. La siguiente versión del formato, klik2, estaba en desarrollo; e incorporaría de forma nativa el módulo de kernel de FUSE, pero nunca llegó más allá de la etapa de software beta. Alrededor de 2011, el proyecto klik quedó inactivo y la página de inicio se desconectó por un tiempo.

PortableLinuxApps
Simon Peter inició un proyecto sucesor denominado PortableLinuxApps con objetivos similares en ese momento. La tecnología fue adaptada, por ejemplo, por el repositorio "portablelinuxgames.org", que proporciona cientos de videojuegos en su mayoría de código abierto.

AppImage
Alrededor del año 2013, el software cambió su nombre de portableLinuxApps a AppImage; la licencia se convirtió en la licencia MIT. AppImage es el formato y AppImageKit es una implementación concreta de código abierto. El desarrollo ocurre en un repositorio de GitHub con los últimos cambios desde el año 2018.

Ejemplos de aplicaciones portátiles Appimage
Klik fue en 2007 la inspiración para el proyecto glick de Alexander Larsson, el precursor de Flatpak que se lanzó en 2016.

La aplicación del creador de Linux, Linus Torvalds para registros de buceo Subsurface comenzó a ser presentada en formato AppImage alrededor de 2015.

El software de partituras musicales MuseScore comenzó en abril de 2016 comenzó a ser distribuido en forma de compilaciones de AppImage para la implementación de software para todas las distribuciones Linux.

Krita, un software de pintura digital que es software libre y de código abierto, también se implementa utilizando AppImage desde la versión 3.0 en mayo de 2016.

digiKam, una aplicación de gestión de fotografías de código abierto, también incluye un paquete de AppImage de la versión 5.3.0, lanzado en noviembre de 2016.

LMMS, una estación de trabajo de audio digital de código abierto, comenzó a distribuirse como AppImage desde la versión 1.2.0-RC5.

La suite ofimática LibreOffice desde la versión 5.4.7 también es ofrecida en formato AppImage por el experto informático italiano Antonio Faccioli en distintos idiomas con o sin ayuda incorporada en versiones identificadas en idioma inglés con los nombres siguientes:

 Basic (Versión Básica). Con soporte para idioma inglés.
 Still (Versión Fija)
 Fresh (Versión Nueva, que es la más reciente en el tiempo)
 Standard (Versión Estándar). Con soportes para los idiomas inglés americano y británico, árabe, chino simplificado y tradicional, francés, alemán, japonés, italiano, coreano, portugués de Brasil y Portugal, ruso y español.

Estas versiones funcionan en distintas distribuciones Linux en las versiones que se detallan y las más recientes: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Debian 6, Fedora 12, openSUSE 11.3, Mageia 2, PCLinuxOS 2013.07.15, Puppy 6, Salix 13.37 (Slackware) y CentOS 6. Sin embargo, el funcionamiento, aunque puede darse en computadoras con LibreOffice instalado también puede no estarlo, a condición de que sean instalados el entorno Java (usado en el gestor de base de datos LibreOffice Base) y GStreamer (usado en el gestor de presentaciones LibreOffice Impress).

Véase también

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Distribución de software

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Is the game in French or English? Le jeu est-il en Français ou en Anglais ?
At the end of the campaign, you will receive a questionnaire where you'll get to choose the language of your game! (Warning, for the moment, the artbook is in FRENCH only).
Les 2 ! A la fin de la campagne, vous recevrez un questionnaire où vous choisirez la langue de votre jeu ! (attention, pour le moment, l'Artbook est en français seulement).
Equipement Expansion ? Extension équipement ?
The expansion introduces 4 new game mechanics and more depth to ZAC.
Here's a quick overview of the expansion.
- Equipment cards, which you will be able to place under the survivors. Equipment gives bonuses to survivors, or allows them to perform new actions. For example, the lawn mower will allow you to get rid of 3 extra Zombies when attacking the horde, the first-aid kit (one shot) will allow one of your survivors to avoid a getting killed (or should we say zombified!!), the sewers map to ignore an opponent's defense line, or the 6 pack (also one shot) to refresh the survivors in your base camp to defend against an attack or on the contrary exhaust and therefore protect up to 6 survivors in your base camp! And many other equipment cards including traps!
- SuperZombies: ... Terrifyingly aggressive Zombies have joined the Horde! While they are in play, a survivor from downtown will join the horde at each player turn (chosen by the active player). A permanent threat to players who prefer to fight rather than deal with the Zombie peril. But when you grasp that eliminating the SuperZombie (placed at the bottom of the Horde's stack) allows you to win 2 victory points (by stealing 1 from the Zombies), there is a good chance that a temporary truce will be quickly negotiated... or not!
- Finally, permanent events: you can play them during your turn only and will affect the entire table until your next turn (unless cancelled). Played at the right time they can be of great help in your path to victory (or a real party poopers for your opponents' plans).
To develop ZAC, all members of the team must have played at least a good 400-500 games each. So when the expansion came up, it brough an impressive enthousiam to the test games!
The games last longer, that's for sure, but are even more intense!
I can't find my country in the list, can't I really have the game? Je ne trouve pas mon pays dans la liste, je ne peux vraiment pas avoir le jeu ?
Of course! Just send us a message, and we'll find the shipping costs for your country.
Bien sur que si !:) Nous adresser un message et on trouvera les frais de port associé à votre pays !
Je suis en Outre-mer, ce sont les tarifs France qui s'appliquent ?
Non, des tarifs particuliers sont mis en place. Adressez nous un message et on ajoutera les frais de port associés.
Des livraisons en boutique sont elles prévues ?
Non, ce n'est pas prévu pour le moment. Cela nous aurait obligé à positionner un outils supplémentaire en fin de campagne et nous ne le souhaitions pas. De plus, nous n'avons pas eu un maillage assez efficace des boutiques sur la France et la Belgique.
When will my contribution be debited from my credit card? A soon as I pledge or at the end of the campaign?
At the end of the campaign. Until then, your contribution can be cancelled or modified at any time.
Are all stretch goals KS Exclusives? Tous les stretch goals sont-il des KS Exclusive?


PurityPlus® producers are an organization of Independently Owned Specialty Gas producers in North America working through the Independent Welding Distributors Cooperative. A primary part of the PurityPlus program is it's consistent Standard Operating and Quality Assurance Procedures that all producers must pass. Our thorough SOP/QA program was originally designed, tested and organized by AsteRisk, LLC., a gas-industry consulting company administered by a long-term employee of Union Carbide/Praxair. PurityPlus® continues to endorse AsteRisk for its third-party auditing, as well as operations and safety consulting. http://www.asteriskllc.com/ Elemental to the program are an array of levels or tiers that define the qualifications of each partner. These tiers define the process and analytical capabilities necessary to supply gases of defined purities, aligning with generally accepted impurity maximums and analytical tolerances. For example, all designated PurityPlus® producers can package and certify nitrogen and argon to grade 5.0 (ultra high purity.) Moving up in the tiers usually facilitates the need for the purchase of further analytical and gas-filling equipment to fill higher purity atmospheric gases. Calibration and verification is accomplished through NIST-traceable standards, most typically SRM's, and verified by annual round-robin testing.


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Sons of Confederate Veterans Pacific NW Division
About our Division
Confederate Partisan Newsletter
Division Constitution and Bylaws
Division Conventions
Jefferson Davis Park
Join Now! SCV Heritage Defense.
Jr. ROTC Hunley Award Program
Pacific NW Division Camps
Pacific NW Division Officers
Confederate Flag Day Rally at Jefferson Davis Park! March 5th, 2016.
Greetings Compatriots and Friends,
The Pacific NW Division is participation in the nation wide Confederate Flag Day Rallies on March 5th. There are a few Rallies planned for our Division, but the main one will be at Jefferson Davis Park in Ridgefield, Washington. Here are the details:
Saturday March 5th, 2016 @ 10am til Dusk
24024 NW Maplecrest Road, Ridgefield, Washington
-Confederate Flags (Nationals, Battles, Regimental, etc.)
-Signs and Banners
-Warm Clothes (with hoods), because we don't know if it will rain.
-Bring a lunch and beverages
We will be having our monthly Camp meeting at the Park.
Bring the family and invite your friends! We are going to make a strong statement, so we need you there! We do not have restrooms on the property, so if you have to go, you will have to drive into Ridgefield for a restroom.
Erik Ernst
SCV Pacific NW Division
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Welcome our newest Camp, SCV Rev. Philip Mulkey Camp 2273 of Eugene, OR.!
The Sons of Confederate Veterans Pacific NW Division is proud to announce the newest Camp to join our great organization! Eugene Oregon is now home to the Rev. Philip Mulkey SCV Camp 2273! Congratulation to our Eugene Oregon Brothers!
Since the creation of the Pacific NW Division in 2013, we have added two new Camps. Now our sights are set on establishing a new Camp in western Washington.
-SCV Pacific NW Division Commander Ernst
Black Lives Matter, Sons of Confederate Veterans agree in criticism of renaming effort
By Joe Douglass, KATU News Wednesday, February 17th 2016
http://katu.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-sons-of-confederate-veterans-agree-in-criticism-of-renaming-effort
RIDGEFIELD, Wash. — A Washington highway once named after a controversial Civil War leader may soon get a new name.
And two groups that don't agree on much are criticizing the effort.
The highway once ran from Vancouver to the Canadian border.
In 1939, it was named after Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, a man state Rep. Hans Dunshee of Snohomish said Washington should not be honoring.
"He symbolizes the institutional slavery and economic system that was built on slavery and all the horrors of slavery that the Civil War was fought about," said Dunshee.
The highway, State Route 99, no longer has an official name and it's now much smaller, running only from Fife to Everett in the Seattle area.
But that hasn't stopped Dunshee from repeatedly trying to name it after African-American Civil War veteran and former Snohomish resident, William P. Stewart.
"The first attempt in 2002 didn't work," said Dunshee, a Democrat. "It didn't pass in the Senate back then. The Senate was controlled by people who had Southern sympathies."
But this week another bill co-sponsored by Dunshee to rename the highway was unanimously approved by the state House.
"A lot of it isn't state route anymore but the stain is still there and we need to remove that stain," said Dunshee.
"I think that it's a nice gesture," said Cecelia Towner, organizer of Black Lives Matter in Vancouver.
But she told KATU she's skeptical of the renaming effort.
"I don't think that it helps black people," Towner said, "and I like things that do and I don't think that it really helps veterans."
Towner said she'd rather see lawmakers focus on things like House Bill 2907, a measure that would put tougher restrictions on police officers' use of deadly force.
"I think that's more important. If they're going to focus on how to have a gesture, it should be something that isn't just changing street signs," said Towner.
Erik Ernst, commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Pacific Northwest Division, emailed KATU about the renaming bill, saying Davis was "a great man, who was a West Point graduate, U.S. Army lieutenant in the Mexican War, United States Secretary of War, United States senator and president of the Confederate States of America."
But Ernst also wrote, "We do not support the renaming of Highway 99, but would rather see Mr. Stewart better honored by having a more prominent highway named after him, such as Interstate 5 or U.S. Highway 101 … We feel it is dishonoring to William P. Stewart to name a decommissioned highway after him."
"I'm really excited to hear that and I think they're right," Towner said. "I think we have common ground."
House Bill 2907 never got out of committee.
But the state House did pass another bill Tuesday to create a task force on policies regarding deadly use of force by police.
"There is nothing that indicates that the perspectives of the task force will result in change," said Towner.
The highway renaming bill is expected to be voted on soon in the state Senate.
The last two remaining markers of Jefferson Davis Highway in Washington are now on display in Jefferson Davis Park, a private piece of land in Ridgefield owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
"The Jefferson Davis Park board and the Sons of Confederate Veterans do not tolerate any form racist activity or intolerance," Ernst wrote.
Renaming of decommissioned Hwy 99.
HB 4010 in Washington State would rename Highway 99 after African American US Veteran William P. Stewart.
We do not support the renaming of highway 99, but would rather see Mr. Stewart better honored by having a more prominent highway named after him, such as Interstate 5 or US Hwy 101. US Highway 99 in Washington State, was decommissioned in 1968 and replaced by Interstate 5. There are only a few short sections of highway left that are named Hwy 99. We feel it is dishonoring to William P. Stewart, to name a decommissioned highway after him. His descendants and the African American community deserves better than this.
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Q: Java decompiler, open jar excecutable file in eclipse and see source code I have downloaded Java decompiler jd-eclipse-2.0.0.zip and followed the steps to install it in eclipse.

I want to open a jar executable file in eclipse to see its source code but I don't know how to open it.
My question is:  how can I open it in eclipse to see its source code?

A: Unzip the .jar file. (A jar file is really a zip file), and then open the .class files in eclipse.

A: I would suggest that you use two different decompilers, depending on whether the class file is a dependency of something in Eclipse, or outside of Eclipse.
In Eclipse, you should go to the marketplace client and install "Enhanced Class Decompiler" (currently at version 3.1.1).
Outside of Eclipse, install the JD-gui desktop app at the same site where you got jd-eclipse.  In your OS, set a file association for ".class" to open in jd-gui.
Now, if you are using a class file in Eclipse, you can decompile it just by viewing it.  If you're looking at the contents of a jar file in a file explorer, outside of Eclipse, if you open the class file, it will open in jd-gui.

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Chivas announced that MLS has exercised its option to purchase the Mexico international and sent him on a six-month loan to Guadalajara.
Erick "Cubo" Torres' fate — for the next six months, at least — has been resolved.
Major League Soccer has exercised its option to purchase the Mexico national team striker but will immediately send him back to Chivas Guadalajara on a six-month loan, the Mexican club announced Thursday.
Torres, 21, had spent the past year and a half on loan from Guadalajara to recently disbanded MLS side Chivas USA, scoring 22 goals in 44 league games. Although Torres' new MLS club has yet to be announced, Goal USA reported Wednesday that the Houston Dynamo have stepped up to meet the $7.5 million asking price for Torres.
Chivas' statement read: "Club Deportivo Guadalajara informs that Major League Soccer (MLS) has taken up the buy-out option on forward Erick Estefano Torres Padilla. As part of the negotiation, the player was ceded for six months, on a loan deal, to Guadalajara."
The move could represent the best of both worlds for Torres, who will look to help Chivas stave off relegation during the upcoming Clausura before a summer move back to MLS, where he has emerged as one of the league's most marketable young stars.


Within this work uniaxial tensile tests have been performed with high-manganese TWIP-steel and different dual-phase steels to determine mechanical properties. The transfer of the results form uniaxial tensile tests to multi-axial stresses has been made with deep drawing experiments to describe and assess deep and stretch formability of the analysed materials. Forming limits of materials are demonstrated by forming limit diagrams. FE-simulation systems have been applied to predict deep drawing and spring-back behaviour of high-manganese TWIP in comparison to dual-phase steels. The simulation results are discussed between the different materials.


Add template and functions to allow viewing topics and replies by author IP address.
bbPress 1.x has this ability, bbPress 2.x currently does not, I think we should look into adding it.
For moderators viewing posts (topics and replies) by IP address is an excellent way to check for duplicate accounts, impersonation, sock puppetry, astroturfing etc.
Any movement on this? I would be happy to add this and create a PR.


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With a 2.5kg Load capacity and single direction drum its perfect to dry those emergency items.
Tumble dryers are an essential for the Great British Autumn/Winter seasons. This compact freestanding vented tumble dryer, although tiny, packs quite a punch.
If you thought you didn't have space for a tumble dryer, think again. The Montpellier Compact Tumble Dryer is perfect for when space in the home is at a premium. Place it on a worktop, on the floor or it can even be mounted on a wall. Although small, it has a load capacity of 2.5kg, a door lock for safety, 2 heat settings and 5 drying programmes (Hot, Cool, Anti-Wrinkle, Air-Dry).