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First 4 Figures is proud to present Modern Sonic, kicking off a new line of Modern Sonic the Hedgehog Collectibles! In our most action packed pose yet, we made Sonic in full sprint mode, but still having that ability to grin as he zooms past! He is flying across the beautiful ocean scenery of Emerald Coast on his way to the encounter with the giant Orca! He is crouched over and comes to an impressive 15 inches tall. If he was standing straight, he would be 18 inches tall including the base. This means that he displays great next to our 12 inch Classic Sonic collectible!
Comes in deluxe full color packaging, hand numbered base, and includes an authenticity card.
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It's 2018 and the rules have changed. For brands, Social Listening is no longer a nice to have, it's the imperative.
Creating a new kind of participatory democracy, social media has taken on a new, powerful role in reshaping how brands are evaluated and perceived. Netizens, driven by a higher level of passion and intense emotion, are wielding the power of their voice and mobilizing with like-minded people online, calling attention to brands as they navigate societal and cultural shifts. Consumer expectations are changing, and movements like #BoycottNRA and #MeToo are just two recent examples of the power of social media to amplify sentiment en masse.
Rising consumer expectations – amplified by shared opinions on global networks – present both opportunities and challenges for companies. On one hand, it's the perfect moment to showcase brand character and build meaningful connection with consumers. At the same time, companies must now deal with the reality that shoppers can now easily identify whether brands are aligning with their stated values– and call them out publicly when they aren't.
Given today's quickly evolving culture and always connected consumer, it's imperative that companies listen to the social dialogue and cultural movements surrounding their brand, and consistently align their actions with the values that they stands for.
Power dynamics are changing – fast.
In recent months we've seen consumer feedback cause brands like First National Bank, DELTA and Dicks Sporting Goods to swiftly implement business changes in an attempt to avoid being dragged into the spotlight for failing to adapt to cultural shifts. In the same regard, we've observed as social media backlash for misaligned brand values and actions have led celebrities to drop, and publicly denounce, brands they once promoted, and businesses to distance themselves from journalists and media outlets. Power dynamics have changed and it's never been easier for people to publicly shine a light on entities that are not behaving ethically or authentically.
Social Media Monitoring is not enough.
Companies first started leveraging social media data by employing Social Media Monitoring strategies. Tracking engagement, growth and reach of their owned social media content, brands used social media data to gauge consumer receptivity. While Social Media Monitoring is an important way for brands to self-reflect, it presents a limited view into the breadth of consumer insights that can be gleaned from vast digital discussions happening daily.
Social Listening is vital to understanding customers today.
There are billions of unstructured social and digital conversations happening online every day. Social Listening is the process of gathering and organizing social and digital data and processing them into structured insights that help companies more fully understand their customers' expectations, needs, and motivations. By listening-in and analyzing consumer-led conversations, brands can quickly gather in-real time insights on narratives that are unfolding online. Given the nuances of each digital platform, the ways consumers use them, and the breadth of digital data, Social Listening research needs to be custom tailored and analyzed with a focused approach.
It's obvious that Social Listening is a necessity in today's consumer landscape, but how does the research actually look in practice? Below are just a couple of examples of how Social Listening can be applied to solve business challenges and identify opportunities.
In 2017, after a client of ours was publicly touted by a politician, mentions of the brand spiked online and the company was eager to understand how people were responding to the attention. Leveraging Social Listening methods, we isolated mentions of the brand and the politician as well as mentions of the topics the politician was discussing to make sense of the public's immediate reaction. Looking at the subsequent lift in brand attention, the sentiment of conversations and the major narratives unfolding online, we armed our client's CEO with a summary of the event leading into a meeting with the board of directors.
Our sportswear client came to us with the belief that trends initiate in New York City, and wanted to stay on the pulse of emergent trends before they become more widely adopted. Using Social Listening, Cultural Insights and Rapid Qual, we scraped social channels for nascent trend 'signals' being shared by New Yorkers and decoded them as they were being expressed through the cultural codes that are fundamental in NYC culture.
Social Listening provides brands with the ripe opportunity to gather unsolicited responses from an always-on source of consumer data. With 3.03 billion active social media users, the breadth of social and digital data can be unwieldy to manage and analyze. At the same time, it can be challenging to make sense of complex bits of data and digital contextual cues.
Partnering with an insights and strategy firm that has the analytical rigor to mine data and the Qualitative expertise to translate it can help you explore the wider social and cultural context and make sense of the world's largest focus group: social media.


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Biografia
Tereza Černochová è figlia del cantante rock Karel Černoch. Nell'ottobre del 2000, durante delle riprese televisive per il canale TV Nova, ha incontrato per la prima volta Tereza Kerndlová e Helena Zeťová, con le quali ha formato il girl group Black Milk. Il gruppo, attivo dal 2002 fino al suo scioglimento nel 2005, ha prodotto due album: Modrej dým (2002) e Sedmkrát (2003). Dall'abbandono del gruppo la cantante ha pubblicato due album: Small Monstrosities (2007) e Škrábnutí (2015).

Nel 2010 si è laureata presso la Facoltà di Agrobiologia, alimentazione e risorse naturali dell'Università di Scienze Naturali di Praga nel campo della biotecnologia riproduttiva, ottenendo il titolo di ingegnere.

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Home » ISSUE 11-20-21 EX NOVO EXPANSION GOING AS PLANNED
Posted in2021.11.20 | NOVEMBER 20 ISSUE, Article
by kdneeley1618 November 24th, 2021 November 24th, 2021
By Stephani Dingreville
In the 4 years since Ex Novo broke ground in Corrales, the village has changed dramatically. Joel Gregory, the proprietor, and his plans for the brewery, have not. Gregory has steadily moved toward his goals for the site, in spite of the normal setbacks all service industries face, and the extraordinary ones the pandemic presented. Back in 2018, the plan for Ex Novo had two phases. The first was to build the distribution center and the small taproom. This accomplished, and met with incredible success, phase two began.
Originally, phase two included a beer garden and a restaurant, but Gregory has changed his mind about the latter, saying, "honestly, the food truck thing has gone better than I thought it would."
"I had heard horror stories, but [the food trucks] have been consistent. I'm not taking the restaurant thing off the table, but it's not in any current plans."
"The pandemic was really rough on the Oregon restaurants" he concludes, referring to the other two older Ex Novo locations in Portland and Beaverton, Oregon.
In Corrales, Ex Novo was innovative and flexible during the pandemic restrictions, offering curbside pick up when a steady stream of cans and filled growlers flowed from its taproom, and then opening up a large patio for safe imbibing when restrictions were lifted.
This march of progress led to the completion of phase two, and the ineffable beer garden that has shifted the hub of evening activity in Corrales northward.
With space for 140 people to sit, numerous heaters and shady spaces to cope with the elements, and its own bar, the beer garden, called The Corral by the business, has quickly become the place to be for villagers and tourists alike.
"We hoped [The Corral] would bring more people down here, because it's a really amazing setting to enjoy a drink and conversation. And with the increased seating, people are more likely to get a spot, so they'll make the drive."
While finding a place to sit, even with a large group or family, isn't a problem at the Corral, finding a place to park might be.
Even though the brewery doesn't have plans to expand the parking lot, Gregory does encourage villagers to bike and walk, and those who live too far away to carpool. "We're working on that," he says in a reassuring way.
There is another thing Joel Gregory is always working on, and that is philanthropy. Since Ex Novo began in Oregon, in 2014, the company has donated over $100k to charities.
Here in New Mexico, the charity Gregory works closest with is Somos Unidos, whose goal, according to their website, is to create "positive outcomes for every New Mexican."
Ex Novo has developed a beer in collaboration with Somos Unidos, called 'Stay Golden', and donates $1 of every pint sold to the charity. As of the end of September, over $6k had been donated.
Gregory wants to do more, and dreams of one day being able to donate all net profits to charity.
This philanthropic mindset is just one of the ways Ex Novo is contributing to the village. It is also one of its largest employers, with 25 people working in the taproom or distribution center, nine of whom are villagers.
Concerns that the distribution center would take more water than it was originally leasing through the San Juan-Chama allocations have been quelled. Gregory says "we have all the water that we need," and the running count of cans produced in Corrales is now over 2.7 million.
Getting back to the beer garden, Gregory says Ex Novo is still working out the exact details of when it will be open, but he is pretty sure it won't be during weekday lunch hours. "It doesn't make sense to have both sides open on the weekdays, but for the evenings… the space has the potential to stay open all winter."
For the moment, The Corral is not available as extra taproom seating and is off limits when the bar is closed.
The space can be booked for events. In fact, another reason Gregory wanted to open it is to have the ability to keep the taproom available to the public while The Corral is being rented, and vice-versa.
One such event is planned for Dec. 4 and is open to the public. Ex Novo will be hosting a fundraiser that will include a pay-what-you can Christmas tree lot.

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Principal Cast: Kim Braden (Anne Shirley), Elliott Sullivan (Matthew Cuthbert), Barbara Hamilton (Marilla Cuthbert), Avis Bunnage (Rachel Lynde), Jan Francis (Diana Barry), Helen Horton (Mrs. Barry), Robin Halstead (Gilbert Blythe), Kate Beswick (Miss Stacy).
Although comparatively recent, this BBC miniseries appears to have faded into obscurity. Despite detailed researching, I have not been able to locate a screening copy of it, and it does not appear to have ever aired in North America. The London Times called it "the new tea-time classic" but never offered a more detailed review. Rebroadcast on BBC between 5 August and 2 September 1973, it was followed by a sequel, Anne of Avonlea. Barbara Hamilton had also played Marilla in Anne of Green Gables: The Musical between 1965 and 1968 and then had the recurring role of Eulalie Bugle in Sullivan Entertainment's Road to Avonlea (1990-1996).
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Every few weeks I hit a day where I feel like I am so. not. creative. Typically these days involve me feeling pretty down and trying to find something, anything to inspire me. The reality is, some days are harder than others and always putting together something fresh, new, and creative can be pretty exhausting. Sometimes when I check out other blogs, I am blown away by their posts. The DIY's, the completely open-hearted stories, tutorials, fashion posts, link-ups, all of it.
Today, I sat at the computer, staring at my screen, hoping for an idea to pop into my mind. 30 minutes passes anddd nothing, until I realized this nothing was actually something. I could share how tough this week has been, and find things that typically inspire me in the hopes that they help other bloggers who sometimes face this problem.
Here's two lists of new blog post ideas, ALL of them are great!
Also, a great way to stay inspired is beginning a July Photo Challenge of what you are grateful for, and then sharing the photos and stories.
I hoard posts like these on a Pinterest board for when I have no clue what to write about. Thanks so much for sharing them!
Well hey, thanks for sharing my post! Here's hoping you find your inspiration again!!


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Gothamcty September 27, 2017 September 27, 2017 Comics, Current Events
Her name is Alisa Norris. Sometimes she goes by the name Alisa Kiss. Many times, she goes by the name "Supergirl". You see, Alisa is a famous cosplayer, known not only for appearing at conventions and other events as the beloved female Kryptonian Cousin of Superman, but also for serving as a model for famed comic illustrator George Perez when he was drawing Supergirl for DC Comics back in 2012. She maintains her own modeling/cosplay website and has made a pretty good living serving as a doppelganger for one of the most beloved "Girl Power" heroes in the world of geekdom. So imagine the surprise of many of Alisa's fans when it was discovered that "Supergirl" (a character, who, let's face it, is the embodiment of an illegal alien) was discovered to have been in attendance at the now infamous August 12th Charlottesville "Unite The Right Rally". Yes, "Supergirl" was not only was present during the rally where a young female counter protestor was purposely struck and killed by a self-professed neo-nazi, but she also marched in the rally as well. (link)
The story is at once both sad and strange. Strange in that Alisa, who has worked with a variety of colleagues and professionals in the almost universally tolerant world of cosplay and comics would be associated with a rally admittedly organized by white supremacists and neo-nazis. Sad, in that Alissa doesn't seem to comprehend the fact that her defense of her participation only serves to further her disconnect with the community she has been a part of for so long. During an interview with the blog, Bleeding Cool, Alisa confirmed that she was in attendance with her husband, Jonathon Norris (who self-identifies as a "White Nationalist) but that she was only "along for the ride", not realizing the enormity of her situation. In addressing the viral video of her marching along with her husband to the chant of "Jews Will Not Replace Us", Alisa said:
"I was already there and 12 hours from home..they were chanting 'You Will Not
Replace Us' and I was not chanting at all…that was not a march in that video and I didn't lie. I said I wasn't at the torch march the night before…that video was the walk back and not an official march." (link)
Of course, the video and Alisa's response begs the question, why not simply remove herself from the crowd of bigoted marchers if she didn't agree with the message being conveyed? Clearly, she had to understand that associating with anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant individuals, even if one of them was her husband, would have potentially career-ending consequences. One might be inclined to give Alisa the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and her views don't actually align with white nationalist thinking. That could be true, except for where the interview with Bleeding Cool takes a somewhat darker turn. When asked about the chanting and the use of white nationalist symbols, such as the shield her husband was carrying, Alisa went on a distinctly different kind of rant:
"Blood and Soil and you will not replace us are about white countries having their populations replaced with mass immigration. It's wrong what is happening to France, Germany, England, etc. They deserve to exist in their own countries and not be overrun and taken over." (link)
Yeah, nevermind. "Supergirl" is clearly a racist. Or at minimum a "White Nationalist" if in fact a real distinction can be drawn. There is little doubt, from that statement alone that even if Alisa had unwittingly found herself part of a movement that she did not intend to partake in on that particular day, her thinking certainly aligns with its ideology. Now, having to shut down her Website, Instagram and Facebook account due to unrelenting accusations of being a "Nazi, Alisa's future in an industry that she called home is in question. (link)
In a world where people are by and large accepted for their quirkiness, creativity, and individuality there is precious little tolerance for hate in any of its varieties. Perhaps if Alisa had taken a cue from the character she chooses to emulate, she would have realized that even in a world where anyone can be singled out for their differences, standing up for what's right is the most heroic thing a human being (or alien) can do.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/08/19/talk-supergirl-cosplayer-charlottesville/
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/08/18/supergirl-cosplayer-went-charlottesville-guess-whose-side/
http://www.insgrum.com/user/alisafarrington/175253307/746571034956902621_175253307
Charlottesville, neo-nazi, Supergirl, white nationalism
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Who cares what she belives or doesnt. Dont hide behind a keyboard and say people are racist just because you dont have the same beliefs. Dont infringe on her career just beause she may have a diffrent outlook on something then you do. I think if anyone should be called a racist it should be you the writer of this article. You should really not clame to be an american or a citizen in this country if you cant stand anothers opion or voice.
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Which one is it? It's OK to be a racist because "America?" She's not a racist? The writer is actually a racist? Pick a bullshit argument and stick with it. Turns out her having racist beliefs are what make her a racist. That's, you know, an objectively bad belief system to have.
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Niuserre – władca starożytnego Egiptu z V dynastii.

Lata panowania
 2445–2414 p.n.e. (Kwiatkowski)
 2455–2420 p.n.e. (Schneider)
 2416–2392 p.n.e. (Tiradritti, De Luca)

Rodzina
Syn Neferirkare I i jego żony Chentkaus II, brat swojego poprzednika Neferefre i prawdopodobnie Szepseskare. Jego żoną była Reputnebu, córką Chamerernebti.

Rządy
Według zniszczonego zapisu w Kanonie Turyńskim rządził przez 25 lat. Prawdopodobnie za jego panowania Egipt stracił kontrolę nad Nubią. W Abu Gurab wzniósł świątynię solarną, obecnie lepiej zachowaną świątynię tego typu z dwóch ocalałych, które zachowały się do naszych czasów (druga została zbudowana przez Userkafa).

Piramida
Został pochowany w piramidzie w Abusir. Piramida Niuserre usytuowana jest tam między piramidami Sahure i Neferirkare I.

Bibliografia

 Schneider Th. "Leksykon faraonów", Wyd. Naukowe PWN, Warszawa–Kraków 2001, s. 207-208,
 Tiradritti F., De Luca A. "Skarby egipskie", Muza SA, Warszawa, s. 24,

Faraonowie V dynastii


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Launch of the HeForShe Sign-Up Campaign and Commemoration of the 2015 International Women's Day
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UN Colleagues,
I am pleased to welcome you to the United Nations Office at Nairobi.
Thank you all for joining this special event to launch the HeForShe sign-up campaign at UNON, and also to commemorate the 2015 International Women's Day.
Although International Women's Day (IWD) is officially marked on March 8th, it is not too late to observe this important occasion. This is a time for us to recommit to ensuring that gender equality becomes a lived reality for all women, men, boys and girls.
This year is particularly significant as we are also commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted by 189 governments in 1995.
Since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration two decades ago, we have seen important advances. More girls around the world have attained more access to more education than ever before. Maternal mortality has been almost halved. More women are leading businesses, governments and global organizations.
But the gains have been too slow and too uneven. For example, women continue to suffer disproportionally from the economic crisis, from the impacts of climate change, from the displacement caused by conflict, persecution and so much else. Discrimination is widespread, as is violence against women.
2015 is a vital year for ending these wrongs, and for advancing the cause of gender equality. In July, the United Nations will host the third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa. In September, the elaboration of the post-2015 development framework will culminate with the Summit on Sustainable Development. And, in December, a universal climate change agreement should be adopted in Paris.
In all these processes, gender equality and women's empowerment have a central role to play, as they are essential to our sustainable future.
Today, we celebrate that Kenya has a progressive constitution that provides for the inclusion of women, youth, persons with disability and historically excluded groups. Yet, despite these gains, we must not overlook the inequalities that Kenyan women and girls continue to face. They are still more likely than men and boys, to experience discrimination, violence and poverty.
The theme of this year's Women's Day, "Empowering Women - Empowering Humanity", invites us all to join in the global movement to put an end to the discrimination against women and girls, in Kenya and around the world.
As the Beijing Declaration so succinctly stated: "Women's rights are human rights".
Campaigns such as the HeForShe, which UN Women initiated last year, are crucial because they recognize and harness the critical role that men play in the struggle for gender equality. This Campaign, which is a global solidarity movement, seeks to engage men and boys as advocates and agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women's rights.
As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, when he became the first person to sign-up for the HeForShe campaign during a special General Assembly event last September: "Over the years, men have supported the women's movement. But for the most part, it was just that: a women's movement – when in fact gender equality is the responsibility of all people. We need to say to men and boys: Do not raise your hands in violence – raise your voices to stop it."
Since then, hundreds of thousands of men and boys from around the world have joined the HeForShe campaign.
I am pleased to note that in Kenya, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta officially committed and assumed the role of lead HeForShe Champion in late November 2014.
Today, I am especially pleased to join the men in leadership within the UN family in Kenya, who have heeded the calls of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Kenyatta, and committed to signing up as HeForShe champions.
Thank you to Mr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Mr. Siddarth Charterjee, United Nations Population Fund Country Representative for Kenya, and Mr. Uchenna Emelonye, Senior Human Rights Advisor at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Kenya, for joining us and sharing your perspectives on why men must be part of the movement towards gender equality.
Thank you also to the other male colleagues from various UN Agencies who have joined us this morning.
To the young men of the Model United Nations representing various universities here today, I welcome you to UNON and commend you for your commitment to stand up and be counted as HeForShe Champions. I am especially keen to learn from you, about what the UN and others can do to forge more effective partnerships with you, to advance the equality of women and girls. I challenge you to take back the HeForShe message to your universities, reaching out to your peers, speaking out against discrimination and signing up more young men to this Campaign. The UN stands ready to support these efforts.
I wish you all fruitful deliberations.


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U.S. tests redesigned missile defense interceptor
TOPICS:U.S. Department of DefenseU.S. Missile Defense Agency미국국방부유도탄방어국
A long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, on Jan. 28, 2016. (Photo: Leah Garton/US Missile Defense Agency)
Posted By: Martyn Williams January 31, 2016
The U.S. military says a test last week of a redesigned missile interceptor rocket went well.
The rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Jan. 28 and performed scripted maneuvers intended to demonstrate the performance of redesigned divert thrusters on the missile warhead, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said.
The test involved an Air Force C-17 air dropping a target representing an intermediate-range ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean to the west of Hawaii. A radar at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii tracked the target and relayed information back to a command and control system. A second radar on board a ship in the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Hawaii also acquired and tracked the target, the MDA said.
As the missile interceptor moved in for the kill, it started burning the alternate divert thrusters, deliberately running them until the fuel was exhausted. The test intentionally did not include an intercept. The MDA said data from the test will be used to improve the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System.
The test came shortly before new satellite photos were published that showed renewed activity at North Korea's Sohae launch site and speculation that the country is in the final stages of preparing for a rocket launch.
In the last few years, the country has made several attempts to put satellites into space. Each time, the tests have drawn concern because the rocket technology is very similar to that used in intercontinental ballistic missiles and North Korea is banned from conducting such tests by U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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An establishment that sells or serves food to consumers that reports and operates from a commissary and is readily moveable, such as a truck or cart. Examples include a mobile food truck that travels to different locations, moveable hot dog stand that sets up on a periodic basis, or other food carts or pushcarts that are wheeled and towed to a specific location. Please note that Retail Mobile Food Licenses have restrictions on where they can park, set up, and operate. Additional permits for parking and specific locations may be required.
Please Note: All fabrication of the mobile unit must be complete before submitting application.
2. Excise and Licenses will notify both the Department of Public Health and Environment and the Fire Department regarding your application.
Department of Public Health and Environment - 720-913-1311.
5. Once the mobile plan review application is approved, you will be provided an appointment for an inspection of your unit. Both Department of Public Health and Environment and the Fire Department will be present at this inspection.
You will need to bring both the record number and Affidavit of Commissary form to this inspection. Please make sure that the Affidavit of Commissary is filled out in the top and middle sections before you attend the appointment.
Fire Code Inspections draw from the International Fire Code, Denver Fire Code Amendments and applicable NFPA codes.
For Questions and information regarding Retail Food Mobile inspections that are conducted by the Denver Fire Department, please call 720-913-3474 and ask to speak to a Mobile Retail Food inspector.
6. Once you have completed the inspection and have been approved by all required departments, Excise and Licenses will issue you a license at the inspection site. You will need to give your approved Affidavit of Commissary to Excise and Licenses in order to obtain your license. At this point you will be issued a license.
All fabrication of mobile unit must be complete before submitting application.
Mobile Plan Review Packet. Please make sure all documents listed in Step 1 of the packet are ready to be submitted at time of application.
Finally, before receiving your license from Excise and Licenses you will need to give a completed Affidavit of Commissary form that has been signed by the Department of Public Health and Environment's Inspections Division.
Once fees are paid in full, an Inspection Notice will be issued.
Fire extinguishers bought from a retail store shall have the receipt showing the date of purchase. This extinguisher is good for one year only, or can be inspected on a yearly basis.
Fire extinguisher shall be a minimum of 2A: 10BC Classification that is mounted to the vehicle in the appropriate bracket.
All hood extinguishing systems shall be inspected every six months by a Denver Fire Department licensed inspection company.
Any cooking or re-heating operations that produces grease laden vapors (Including but not limited to Frying of any type) will be required to have a Class I hood installed with an approved Fire Suppression System and a Class K fire extinguisher will also be required to be mounted to the vehicle in an appropriate Class K bracket.
Any solid fuel cooking (including but not limited to wood or wood pellets) shall have a Class K rated fire extinguisher AND a minimum 2A: 10BC class Dry Chemical extinguisher that is mounted to the vehicle in an appropriate 2A: 10BC bracket.
Propane tanks shall be mounted securely to truck or cart by metal strap and must be protected from vehicle impact. Bungee cords and fabric tie down straps are not acceptable to secure Propane tanks (contact the Denver Fire Department for applicable requirements).
All propane lines must be installed in accordance with Denver Fire Department policy and NFPA requirements (contact the Denver Fire Department for applicable requirements).
1. To renew a Retail Food Mobile business license, you will need to pay the $125 renewal fee to Excise and Licenses. You will be given an invoice with a receipt. Once you have the invoice with receipt, you will go to Step 2.
2. Please contact 720-913-1311 to request a renewal inspection for your Retail Food Mobile license with the Department of Public Health and Environment Inspection Division. Public Health Inspections will sign off on the Affidavit of Commissary form after all approved physical inspections of the mobile unit has been conducted. The Fire Department will sign off on their inspection.
3. A renewed license will be issued at this time if both inspections have been passed.
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Please Note: If your license has expired, the operator will need to submit a new mobile unit plan review packet to the Department of Public Health and Environment Inspections division for approval. Additional late fees will be required to be paid before your license will be renewed.
In order to renew your Retail Food Mobile business license you will need to pass your Department of Public Health and Environment and Fire Inspections.
Please review the Process Overview section to learn how to obtain a current and approved Affidavit of Commissary.
Licenses must be renewed on or before the expiration date to avoid penalty fees. Also, licensees may not operate on an expired license, even within their 90 day grace period.


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Hollywood glamour suits M&S
By Rosie Baker	 1 Sep 2011 11:13 am
Ryan Reynolds and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are the new faces of Marks & Spencer's Autograph fashion range. At first I was taken aback, but on reflection the Hollywood A-listers suit the direction Marc Bolland wants to take the retailer's brands.
When Marc Bolland pledged to turn Marks & Spencer's fashion labels into bona fide fashion brands earlier this year, I don't think anyone expected the A-list glamour of Ryan Reynolds and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
But the campaign images don't make M&S look like a try-hard, or out of its depth – they are slick, convincing shots that wouldn't be out of place in the pages of Vogue.
In having the former Mr Scarlett Johansson and the Burberry and Victoria's Secret model and star of Transformers: Dark of the Moon fronting Autograph, M&S has pulled of a transformational coup.
Marketing director Steve Sharp isn't wrong when he says it's a "very different" campaign for M&S. For a start it's the first to really focus on one of its clothing brands on its own.
Yes the retailer's ads have been star studded for a long time with Twiggy, Jamie Redknapp and Lisa Snowdon et al., but Reynolds and Huntingdon-Whiteley are in another league and it's clearly the league that Bolland is aiming for.
Supermodel David Gandy, who is more often seen on the catwalk decked out in Dolce & Gabbana, is also the new face of the Autumn 2011 Collezione menswear collection.
The Autumn 2011 Limited Collection print campaign, starring up and coming models Sophie Byron, Suki Waterhouse and Louise De Chevigny has been shot by Rankin, one of the most acclaimed photographers in the business. He even shot the latest M&S's kid's campaign.
M&S wants its fashion ranges to become high-end fashion brands so it is acting like one.
In November, Bolland declared that M&S needed to make more of its brands. He has since simplified the brand structure, replacing a cluttered multi-layered brand architecture with clearly positioned M&S Men and M&S Women brands and turbo-boosted the Autograph range to make it a high end fashion brand, not just a range of M&S clothing.
By rubbing shoulders with the A-listers, M&S is demonstrating that it's a cut above – and so is its fashion.
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I should be back in paradise by about 1 this afternoon. Yesterday Lori and the kids went snorkeling and had fun. When I get back Ty and I are going to do some things as I guess Emma and Jag are kind of doing their own thing which is no surprise.
Hawaiian Airlines is nice but no United. The flight crew was super nice but the seats in First Class aren't even close to the Polaris service on United. Still though, it is First Class so I'm not complaining. In have about 90 minutes before I take the shuttle to the airport. It's 3:30 am in Hawaii due to the time difference so I'll be tired by tonight. I just tried to pay the quarterly taxes to the State of Colorado and it says it locked me out of my account for 2 business days as I forgot my password, super. Oh well, time to go, take care, have a great day and Aloha! God Bless.


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Q: efficient way to load contacts with name and phone and picture with only one query I have the following code to load all contacts with their phones and pictures on samsung s3 device.
public static void getAllContactWithNumberAndNameAndPhoto(Context context,
            ArrayList<ContactInfo> mContactList, boolean starred) {

        ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();

        Cursor cur = null;
        if (starred == true) {
            cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null,
                    "starred=?", new String[] { "1" }, null);
        } else {

            cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, null,
                    null, null);
        }
        if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
            while (cur.moveToNext()) {

                ContactInfo item = new ContactInfo();
                String id = cur.getString(cur
                        .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
                String name = cur
                        .getString(cur
                                .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
                // Uri photo = PhoneUtils.getPhotoUriFromID(context, id);
                String starredValue = cur.getString(cur
                        .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.STARRED));
                boolean isFav = false;
                if (starredValue.equals("1"))
                    isFav = true;

                if (Integer
                        .parseInt(cur.getString(cur
                                .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) > 0) {
                    Cursor pCur = cr.query(
                            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,
                            null,
                            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID
                                    + " = ?", new String[] { id }, null);
                    while (pCur.moveToNext()) {

                        String phoneNo = pCur
                                .getString(pCur
                                        .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
                        item.addPhone(removeCharactersFromPhoneNumber(phoneNo));
                    }
                    pCur.close();

                    // if (photo != null) {
                    //
                    // item.setPhoto(photo.toString());
                    // }

                    item.setName(name);
                    item.setFavorite(isFav);
                    item.setRecent(false);

                    mContactList.add(item);
                }
            }
            cur.close();
        }
    }

when I run this code on 1000 contacts it takes about 40 second to load
when I remove the part of loading multiple phones for the same 1000 contact, it takes about 1.5 second.
Can any one tell me if there is an efficient way to load contacts phone and not let the user to wait all this time.

A: Try this:
private Cursor getContacts() {
    // Run query
    Uri uri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
    String[] projection = new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
        ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME, ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_URI, ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_THUMBNAIL_URI, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI }; // put the items u need here
    String selection = ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + " = '"
        + ("1") + "'";
    String[] selectionArgs = null;
    String sortOrder = ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME
        + " COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC";
    return getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, selection, selectionArgs,
        sortOrder);
  }

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The Fear Digest
Not Finding 'Friends,' Getting Fat, and Other Things That Freaked Out Americans This Week
We entered 2015 the way we left 2014: worried about everything.
by Harry Cheadle
January 4, 2015, 6:01pm
Welcome back to the Fear Digest, the weekly top ten countdown of the terrors transfixing America. Read last week's column here.
10. Not Being Able to Find Friends on Netflix
It felt like a much lower-key week, fear-wise, than usual. Maybe that can be chalked up to some residual good cheer from the holidays, maybe it was that everyone was just staying indoors as much as possible to gorge on chocolate, meat, and sex acts—or maybe we were all just consumed with watching Friends. The beloved, much-reran 90s show, about six attractive people who spend their days on a variety of couches reciting jokes, hit Netflix on January 1—except, uh oh, for a few hours no one could find it. The situation was so dire out there in twentysomething-land that some blogs ran posts explaining how to search the streaming channel for the sitcom equivalent of comfort food. Fortunately this all got cleared up and today you can gorge yourself on 200-plus episodes documenting the gang's adventures having sex with one another in unrealistically large Manhattan apartments.
Last week's rank: Unranked
9. Our Own Fat Asses
Another New Year, another spike in gym memberships across the country, meaning that everyone has yet again resolved to finally get into fucking shape. It's a promise a lot of us make periodically, to improve ourselves; to not just work out and eat healthier and drink less, but to be the sort of people who do those things. We want less procrastination, less aimless web surfing, less time wasted searching PornHub for extremely specific fetishes. We may end up bettering ourselves in some small way, but we will almost certainly not start pumping iron and running on treadmills—in fact, the economic fortunes of the gym industry depend on people buying memberships and then not following through. As usual, we can expect people's fear of obesity to subside into guilt at not doing something about it before returning to the usual apathy.
Implicit in all New Year's resolutions is the idea that if we started running and drinking kale juice instead of malt liquor we could keep some of the nastier sorts of death at bay. Except that's not exactly true; for example one recent study by researchers at John Hopkins found that "bad luck" was at the root of many cases of cancer. A lot of media reports about the study were wrong about what the researchers' numbers meant, but the fundamental point here, that sometimes terrible things just sorta happen, remains depressingly true.
7. Being Shot by a Random Person
Speaking of bad luck, there were a couple horrific gun-related accidents in the news this week. First, a two-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother at an Idaho Walmart after removing a 9mm handgun from her purse on Tuesday. Then, early in the morning on New Year's Day, a police chief in suburban Atlanta shot his wife while apparently moving the loaded gun that was in their bed. The moral of the story is, obviously, don't keep a gun in your bed—and, more broadly, maybe you don't need to take a deadly weapon with you everywhere you go?
Last week's rank: 4
6. The Islamic State
The most famous extremist group in the world is now attempting to seize some Lebanese border towns to secure their positions in Syria while the US continues to bombard them with airstrikes. In the militants' fantasy world (as revealed by a bunch of images floating around online), however, they were setting fire to Big Ben and the US Capitol, flying sophisticated fighter jets, and, most bizarrely, galloping away (in horse form) from a pack of wolves.
5. The NSA
If the Islamic State appeared a bit impotent this week, so did the NSA—a report in Der Spiegel based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden showed that the spy agency was having trouble in 2012 tracking users who used Tor and reading emails that were encrypted using PGP. You can still hide from the government, it turns out. It's just increasingly tricky.
4. The FBI
If privacy advocates were cheering when they heard that the Man couldn't crack every code known to humankind, no doubt they were groaning at the reports that when the secret court that is supposed to oversee FBI surveillance refuses to give the G-men a warrant, they just circumvent that decision and spy on their target anyway. That sorta sucks.
3. The Weather
More alarming than abstract fears about the national surveillance state were the very real fears about the snow and ice currently being dumped on most of the country. At least five people were killed as severe winds hit California this week, and terrible road conditions led to a massive multi-car pileup in New Hampshire that involved dozens of vehicles.
1a. The Cops
1b. People Who Hate the Cops
For the second straight week the antagonism between the police and the people who hate them tops this list. New York City remained the center of this suddenly intense conflict, with NYPD officers barely arresting anyone in protest of what they see as a lack of support from Mayor Bill de Blasio. It's at the point where Police Commissioner William Bratton has to tell his cops not to turn their backs on the mayor at a funeral today for Wenjian Liu, who was shot to death along with his partner a couple weeks ago—a request which the rank and file ignored. Since that shooting, nearly 20 New Yorkers have been arrested for threatening the police; in St. Louis, a man was detained for tweeting about killing officers; Durham, North Carolina, has seen two separate incidents where the cops were fired at.
That NYPD officers would apparently stop doing their jobs out of pique is pretty shameful, but the truth is that a lot of people would rather cops take it easy and not hassle people for minor bullshit like illegally selling cigarettes—and anyway, the argument goes, if they can cut back on arrests without endangering public safety, they should already be doing that. But it's hard to have a conversation about reforming police practices when there's so much distrust in the air. In New York, the cops don't trust the mayor, much of the public doesn't trust the cops, and the anti-cop protesters don't listen to the mayor. In that sort of climate, maybe fear is a rational response.
Last week's rank: 2 and 1
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(function () {
  "use strict";

  angular
    .module('mnServersService', [
      'mnPoolDefault',
      'ui.router',
      'mnSettingsClusterService',
      'mnGroupsService'
    ])
    .factory('mnServersService', mnServersFactory);

  function mnServersFactory($http, $q, mnPoolDefault, mnGroupsService) {
    var pendingEject = [];

    var mnServersService = {
      addToPendingEject: addToPendingEject,
      removeFromPendingEject: removeFromPendingEject,
      getPendingEject: getPendingEject,
      setPendingEject: setPendingEject,
      reAddNode: reAddNode,
      setupServices: setupServices,
      cancelFailOverNode: cancelFailOverNode,
      stopRebalance: stopRebalance,
      stopRecovery: stopRecovery,
      postFailover: postFailover,
      ejectNode: ejectNode,
      postRebalance: postRebalance,
      getNodeStatuses: getNodeStatuses,
      addNodesByStatus: addNodesByStatus,
      getNodes: getNodes,
      addServer: addServer
    };

    return mnServersService;

    function addToPendingEject(node) {
      pendingEject.push(node);
    }
    function removeFromPendingEject(node) {
      node.pendingEject = false;
      _.remove(pendingEject, {'hostname': node.hostname});
    }
    function getPendingEject() {
      return pendingEject;
    }
    function setPendingEject(newPendingEject) {
      pendingEject = newPendingEject;
    }
    function reAddNode(data) {
      return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: '/controller/setRecoveryType',
        data: data
      });
    }
    function setupServices(data) {
      return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: '/node/controller/setupServices',
        data: data
      });
    }
    function cancelFailOverNode(data) {
      return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: '/controller/reFailOver',
        data: data
      });
    }
    function stopRebalance() {
      return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: '/controller/stopRebalance'
      });
    }
    function stopRecovery(url) {
      return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: url
      });
    }
    function postFailover(type, otpNode) {
      return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: '/controller/' + type,
        data: {otpNode: otpNode}
      });
    }
    function ejectNode(data) {
      return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: '/controller/ejectNode',
        data: data
      });
    }
    function postRebalance(allNodes) {
      return $http({
        method: 'POST',
        url: '/controller/rebalance',
        data: {
          knownNodes: _.pluck(allNodes, 'otpNode').join(','),
          ejectedNodes: _.pluck(mnServersService.getPendingEject(), 'otpNode').join(',')
        }
      }).then(null, function (resp) {
        if (resp.data) {
          if (resp.data.mismatch) {
            resp.data.mismatch = "Could not Rebalance because the cluster configuration was modified by someone else.\nYou may want to verify the latest cluster configuration and, if necessary, please retry a Rebalance.";
          }
          if (resp.data.deltaRecoveryNotPossible) {
            resp.data.deltaRecoveryNotPossible = "Could not Rebalance because requested delta recovery is not possible. You probably added more nodes to the cluster or changed server groups configuration.";
          }
          if (resp.data.noKVNodesLeft) {
            resp.data.noKVNodesLeft = "Could not Rebalance out last kv node(s).";
          }
        } else {
          resp.data = "Request failed. Check logs.";
        }
        return $q.reject(resp);
      });
    }
    function addStatusMessagePart(status, message) {
      if (status.length) {
        return status + ", " + message;
      } else {
        return status + message;
      }
    }
    function getStatusWeight(status) {
      var priority = {
        unhealthy: 0,
        inactiveFailed: 1,
        warmup: 2,
        healthy: 3,
      };
      return priority[status] === undefined ? 100 : priority[status];
    }
    function addNodesByStatus(nodes) {
      var nodesByStatuses = {};
      var statusClass = "inactive";

      _.forEach(nodes, function (node) {
        var status = "";

        if (node.clusterMembership === 'inactiveFailed') {
          status = addStatusMessagePart(status, "failed over");
        }
        if (node.status === 'unhealthy') {
          status = addStatusMessagePart(status, "not responding");
        }
        if (node.status === 'warmup') {
          status = addStatusMessagePart(status, "warmup");
        }
        if (status != "") {
          nodesByStatuses[status] = ++nodesByStatuses[status] || 1;
        }
        if (getStatusWeight(statusClass) > getStatusWeight(node.status)) {
          statusClass = node.status;
        }
        if (getStatusWeight(statusClass) > getStatusWeight(node.clusterMembership)) {
          statusClass = node.clusterMembership;
        }
      });

      nodes.nodesByStatuses = nodesByStatuses;
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Display Edge Stripes: A New Problem With The Apple Watch Series 3
Posted By: Austen Lenihan Oct 31, 2017, 2:53 pm
Reviews of the Apple Watch Series 3 recently hit the market, and despite indicating a generally favorable product, the biggest Apple Watch Series 3 issue lies in 'display edge stripes' on some models.
Before we get to this problem, let's firstly evaluate the features, specifications, and general application of the watch as outlined by Techradar. It is being released as two versions, one with 4G present and the other without, where the latter is an affordable model with top fitness capabilities. The watch has been praised for its battery life and screen quality, and is available for purchase on contract with nothing to pay upfront.
As a direct replacement for the Apple Watch 2, both models come with a new chipset inside, and comprise top features including run and cycle tracking, a water-resistant case for swimming, and a heart monitor on the underside. It runs on the WatchOS 4, a significant upgrade which is highly useful, and the watch is targeting the fitness-focused niche, despite its many capabilities.
The Apple Watch 3 was launched on September 22nd 2017, and despite being expensive, it will more than likely exist as the 'new' model for at least the next year. The watch has its own cellular connection which runs independently from your phone, but in reality you still need an iPhone to capitalize on the advanced features. Users can now take advantage of additional music streaming services, alongside the presence of Siri to assist you with everyday tasks and queries.
Apple have maintained their iconic design, and with an upgrade in the manufacturing process, the watch offers promise that extends beyond its faults. But as a prospective buyer it's important to understand product faults to evaluate whether the watch is right for you. One of the biggest Apple Watch Series 3 issue is a row of visible stripe markings along the side of the display. This is currently being attended to by third-party repair staff after the Apple Watch Series 3 issue became apparent, particularly with regards to how it is affecting the GPS models.
The Apple Watch Series 3 issue is most recognizable when the display is turned off, since then the stripes are visible. The problem doesn't exist with the new cellular version of the Apple Watch Series 3, which can be explained since this version uses a different display configuration. The issue doesn't appear to be affecting all users of the Apple Watch Series 3, and generally speaking this hasn't yet manifested into a widespread problem.
Since acknowledging the Apple Watch Series 3 issue, Apple have instructed users to run their finger along the display when it's turned on to allow smearing to appear. This allows the edge display stripes to be more easily noticed, and to further inspect the issue you can breathe on the display edge to create humidity or fog. From here you can inspect the device appropriately before returning your product to an Apple store.
|If you face this Apple Series 3 Watch issue and aren't best pleased, you're entitled to receive a repair or replacement under the company's one year warranty system. There is currently no procedure to replace out of warranty devices, so the chances are you'll be rewarded a replacement if you protest the issue.
Apple is mailing devices in for a complete replacement if you fall victim to the 'display edge stripes', so if your device has the markings present, remember to appeal for a replacement as soon as possible.
I hope you have found this article informative, especially if you have fallen victim to the Apple Watch Series 3 issue. Hopefully you are now better informed to deal with the problem, and if you feel as if we've left anything out, please comment below to kick-start the discussion.
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New tapings: Black Pumas and Sharon Van Etten
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Austin City Limits is happy to announce two more tapings for our standout Season 45. Austin progressive soul band Black Pumas come to the stage for the first time on August 28, while acclaimed singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten makes her ACL debut on September 30.
Eric Burton, a former L.A. street musician who used to busk for a living at the Santa Monica Pier, made his way to Austin in late 2015, setting up a busking spot at downtown's 6th and Congress. In 2017, guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada, the Grammy-winning founder of Austin's Latin-funk powerhouse Grupo Fantasma, had recorded some instrumentals in his Austin studio, and started looking around for a vocalist—he knew a lot of singers, but he wanted something different. A mutual friend mentioned Eric Burton to Quesada, saying that he was the best singer he had ever heard. The two musicians connected, with Burton singing to one of Quesada's tracks over the phone. The first day they got together in the studio, they recorded the dusty funk that would become the Black Pumas' first two singles, "Black Moon Rising" and "Fire." The results of that beginning can now be heard on their self-titled debut album. Burton's taste, range, and experience proved to be exactly what Quesada was seeking. "We just take to the same kind of music," says 28-year-old Burton. "I listen to East Coast hip-hop, old soul music, folk music. When Adrian sent me the songs, it was like I had already heard them before. We were on the same wavelength from the get-go." Described as "Wu-Tang Clan meets James Brown" by KCRW, Black Pumas won Best New Band at the 2019 Austin Music Awards. They locked down their reputation for thrilling live shows during a 2018 residency at the C-Boys venue in Austin that overnight became the hottest party in town. The group's buzzed-about 2019 South by Southwest appearance earned them numerous shout-outs from national press, with NPR hailing them "the breakout band of 2019" and Rolling Stone naming Black Pumas one of the festival's best acts, saying "Few artists seem to tap the collective unease of the national moment quite like Austin's Black Pumas…never missing a beat is the tireless, charismatic energy of singer Eric Burton." Austin-American Statesman raves "In an era of widespread despair, the band makes rock songs that feel like prayers."
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Sharon Van Etten's fifth album, Remind Me Tomorrow, called her "most atmospheric, emotionally piercing album to date" (Pitchfork), comes four years after the acclaimed Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present. "I wrote this record while going to school, pregnant, and working on other music" says Van Etten. Throughout Remind Me Tomorrow, the singer-songwriter veers towards the driving, dark glimmer moods that have illuminated the edges of her music throughout her decade-long career and pursues them full force. With curling low vocals and brave intimacy, Remind Me Tomorrow is an ambitious album that provokes our most sensitive impulses: reckless affections, spirited nurturing, and tender courage. Rolling Stone raves the release "…ups her ambitions even further, pushing toward a grand, smoldering vision of pop." Recorded in Los Angeles, the songs on Remind Me Tomorrow have been transported from Van Etten's original demos through producer John Congleton's arrangement. Congleton (St. Vincent, David Byrne, Unknown Mortal Orchestra) helped flip the signature Sharon Van Etten ratio, making the album more energetic-upbeat than minimal-meditative. "I tracked two songs as a trial run with John," she says. "I gave him Suicide, Portishead, and Nick Cave's Skeleton Tree as references and he got excited. The songs are as resonating as ever, the themes are still an honest and subtle approach to love and longing, but Congleton has plucked out new idiosyncrasies from Van Etten's sound. For Remind Me Tomorrow, Van Etten put down the guitar. The record shows this magnetism towards new instruments: piano keys that churn, deep drones, distinctive sharp drums. There are intense synths, a propulsive organ, a distorted harmonium. The New York Times named the record's first single "Comeback Kid" one of "The 25 Songs That Matter Right Now," calling it "the song you want to raise up your fists and loosen your hips to."
Van Etten is earning glowing reviews on her global tour, with high-profile slots at Glastonbury and Lollapalooza. NPR Music raves that her live show is "a grand and magnificent turning point for this talented performer and her band." We are thrilled to welcome Van Etten to our stage in her first-ever appearance.
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The European debate on populism brings the Left's fundamental identity into question.
Review of Eric Fassin, Populisme: le grand ressentiment (Textuel, 2017).
Despite the word's association with the worst elements of the Right, some on the Left have also embraced populism as the wave of the future — none more articulately or more consistently than the Belgian philosopher Chantal Mouffe. Since the early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, she and her late husband Ernesto Laclau have argued that the contemporary center-left has lost its way. Even as the neoliberal turn was just beginning to take hold — eroding social protections, creating a pauperized and precarious workforce, and enriching a narrow oligarchy — Mouffe castigated Third Way social liberals like Tony Blair and Bill Clinton for adopting a politics of "consensus" that failed to give people a voice for their discontent. As the social destruction of neoliberalism intensified over the years, Mouffe has argued that "de-politicized" center-left parties have failed to provide a forceful alternative.
As a result, Mouffe believes that we are currently in the midst of a crisis in which political institutions no longer appear adequate to voice popular demands — a crisis to which "populism" is the only solution. Mouffe's notion of populism is drawn from her understanding of democracy as a realm of conflict, in which adversarial groups struggle against one another for hegemonic control of the political terrain. Democratic politics is not about consensus, but about asserting an "us" against a "them." Mouffe claims that the Right has long understood this, so the Left has to get with the program if it is to have a future. But for Mouffe and the European movements that have claimed her as an inspiration — including Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain, and France Insoumise in France — left populism is more than a necessity for survival. If the Left can succeed in building movements that speak in terms of "the people," against the oligarchy or the 1 percent, she is confident that it can not only defeat the racist and xenophobic populisms of the far right, but create a new political order beyond neoliberalism.
Fassin's charge is not that today's left populists are secret Thatcherites, nor even necessarily that their actions will lay the groundwork for further neoliberal or right-wing gains. Rather, he believes that the political strategy Mouffe advocates is premised on a hopeless attempt to win a certain type of right-wing voter over to the Left. Many contemporary populist movements — including those on the Left — present themselves as attempts to transcend the division between left and right. They could hardly do otherwise, since populism seeks to recast the terms of political struggle as a "vertical" opposition between the powerful and "the people," a category that cannot plausibly be limited to the traditional bases of left or right parties, whether defined in ideological or sociological terms. Mouffe and her allies, then, are not only seeking to criticize the traditional institutions of the Left for being out of touch with the people. They aim to build an entirely new social base for the Left, one that is independent of existing parties, unions, and associations, and that includes all those impoverished and alienated from politics after decades of neoliberalism. Among these ranks of the disaffected, Mouffe and the politicians close to her claim to find many who have supported populist movements of the Right. Though a great many far-right voters are sincere racists, xenophobes, or neofascists, left populists generally believe that it's both possible and necessary to provide an alternate, anti-racist expression for the anger these people feel. Since unlike right populism, left populism understands the real sources of this anger — that is, neoliberalism and its consequences — it claims that its message will ultimately prove more powerful to those who otherwise would vote for the likes of Trump, Farage, and Le Pen.
Fassin contends that this element of left populist thinking is not only empirically false, but also politically quixotic. He argues that the common view of Donald Trump's supporters as Americans "left behind" by neoliberal globalization is a fiction. The typical Trump voter was not an unemployed factory worker, but rather a middle- or upper-middle-class white man.
For Fassin, this feeling of resentment is a defining feature of the contemporary world. To a large extent, it has resulted from the creation of relatively privileged classes in economic terms who nonetheless lack what Pierre Bourdieu called "cultural capital." Members of these classes — depicted brilliantly by the novelist Michel Houellebecq in his numerous white male protagonists — feel a profound insecurity, which produces a violent emotional response. They come to hate both highly educated liberals for parading their cultural elitism and progressive values in their faces, and the underprivileged classes that these "woke" elites appear to care about more than them.
It is no mere historical accident, then, that populism played a key role in the construction of neoliberalism under the right-wing governments of the 1980s. As a political rhetoric and praxis, populism is inherently cultural, Fassin explains, which has made it an ideal tool for right-wingers from Reagan and Thatcher to Trump. The Right's primary intention over the last four or so decades has been to mobilize the white middle classes for the benefit of the neoliberal elite, and cultural populism made it possible to present this effort as a defense of "the people" against decadent liberals and the black and brown underclasses.
Fassin therefore dismisses the left populist idea that there is a base of far-right supporters whose anger can be diverted from racist populist movements to egalitarian ones. There is no subconscious desire for economic justice underneath a vote for Donald Trump or the Front National, only resentment towards perceived cultural superiors and racial inferiors. For Fassin, populism simply is resentment. Leftists can dress their ideas in populist rhetoric all they want — they can, for example, personalize their critique of neoliberalism by denouncing members of "the oligarchy" and their cultural worldview. But Fassin insists that to the extent that the Left chooses to go this route, it sacrifices properly leftist ideas and methods for a rhetoric of cultural warfare that originated on the far right, but can never satisfy the resentments and insecurities the far right feeds on.
Though in some respects Fassin and Mouffe may have more in common than either might want to admit, their divergence on the degree of porosity between left and right is crucial. In this respect, Fassin's critique helps identify what's so novel about populism for the contemporary left — but also why it might not be the salvation its partisans believe it to be.
Advocates of left populism believe that in today's neoliberal "post-democracies," populist strategies and rhetoric provide the only path towards a successful left politics. Although Mouffe has done more than anyone to provide consistent arguments for this position, she has a tendency to flip her own reasoning on its head. Reading Mouffe's latest book, one senses that for her, if any movement succeeds in staking a position to the left of mainstream social liberalism, it must be a left-populist movement. This results in some peculiar claims. For example, early in For a Left Populism, Mouffe clearly states that the established social-democratic parties "have become too deeply integrated within the neoliberal hegemonic formation" to pose an authentic left alternative to neoliberalism. But throughout the rest of the book, she goes on to praise the populism of Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing leader of the party of Tony Blair. And despite the fact that Bernie Sanders chose to run in 2016 as a Democrat and later campaigned for the arch-centrist Hillary Clinton, we learn that he too is "clearly" a left populist.
But as for the continental movements that have aligned themselves with Mouffe's ideas, it's far from clear that they share a common strategy with Corbyn and Sanders (who are themselves hardly identical to one another). Fassin helps to clarify the important difference between these Anglophone figures — though Kevin Kühnert's youth insurgency within the German Social Democratic Party could be added to the list — and the explicitly populist left movements in countries like Spain and France. It's not merely that Sanders and Corbyn work with and within established parties; both leaders have sought to move these parties to the left by providing an updated left message that can mobilize unmistakably left-wing bases. Of course, these bases change over time: successful campaigns neither shrink from embracing new constituencies nor let themselves become overly attached to voting blocs it has lost. Thus, if Fassin has more admiration for what the Left is doing across the Channel and the Atlantic, it may be due to the fact that Corbyn and Sanders are simply more effective in identifying which voters are on their side, reaching out to them, and offering them what they want. Perhaps they're not so much populists as merely good politicians — better ones at least than the centrists in their parties.
Movements like Podemos and France Insoumise, on the other hand, set themselves a far more ambitious goal. Following Mouffe's notion of replacing the left-right divide with an opposition between the people and the elites, they make it a priority to win over to left-wing causes voters whose orientation may be fundamentally of the Right. Though such populist attempts to overcome traditional definitions of left and right may not be without their modest successes, Fassin suggests that the Left might not need to break so radically with its traditional institutions and sociological bases. That is to say, it might be possible to embrace some of Mouffe and Laclau's philosophical insights — the conflictual nature of democracy, the role of hegemonic formations in politics — without embracing populism and all its oversights.
Left-wing populists like Mouffe have a compelling account of how someone like Steve Bannon can pose as a champion of the common people. But Fassin's little book suggests that to find a way out of this state of affairs, the Left may not be in such dire need of new ideas that it has to go looking for new supporters among those who might believe him.
Jacob Hamburger is a Chicago-based writer and translator. He runs the blog Tocqueville 21, which focuses on global democracy in the twenty-first century.


The montane bird fauna is not well represented in Khao Yai, not only because the park is relatively remote from the higher forested mountains of the north and west, but partly because it has only small, isolated areas of unexceptionally high mountain tops.
Khao Yai's bird fauna is chiefly composed of those lowland and hill slope(submontane) birds, which have fairly wide latitudinal ranges. Some other lowland species, such as Siamese Fireback, Pompadour Pigeon and Javan Frogmouth, which may once have been abundant in the evergreen forests which formerly covered the surrounding plain, are found only at extremely low density around the Khao Yai headquarters area.


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Q: Setting url in a constructor function If I create a constructor function within my class with the variable called $base_url = 'mydomain'. How could I access this via other functions as a general variable?
I have tried creating a test function with echo $base_url but it did not return a variable.

A: Make it a class variable and reference it with $this
class MyClass {

    public $base_url; // change access modifier as needed

    public function __construct($base) {
        $this->base_url = $base;
    }

    public function getBaseUrl() {
        return $this->base_url;
    }

    public function url($url) {
        return $this->base_url . $url;
    }

}

$myClass = new MyClass('http://example.com/');
echo $myClass->url('register');

Output: http://example.com/register

A: You'll have to define $base_url outside of the function, above the constructor and then update / reference that property via $this->base_url.


Arianna Huffington and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke, the Federal Communications Commissioners received awards, and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced that International CES attendance through Day 2 is higher than that of the 2010 show's audited attendance.
Those were just some of the highlights of the annual International CES Leaders in Technology Dinner (LIT), held at the Wynn Hotel earlier this month.
CEA president/CEO Gary Shapiro began the festivities by announcing that attendance at this week's show for the first two days was 132,191, higher than the 2010 show's first two days of 112,515 and the final 2010 International CES audited attendances of 126,000. By the end of the show, CEA estimated attendance of 140,000.
"That's a positive sign for our economy," he told an audience of industry and government luminaries.
But beyond mere headcounts, the 2011 International CES also exudes "a mood of optimism" and introduced a "tremendous amount of innovation," he said.
Shapiro used the latter point to segue into another pitch for his well-publicized book "The Comeback," which promotes innovation as a key engine of economic growth.
Next Shapiro presented the trade group's Digital Patriot Awards to four of the Federal Communication Commission's five members (Commissioner Michael Copps took ill) to acknowledge their National Broadband Plan for freeing up spectrum and meeting growing broadband demand.
CEA then served up a "fireside chat" between author/ journalist Arianna Huffington and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
Huffington took the stage to share her take on technology's three most significant trends: social media as the new entertainment; using technology to help others, like the texting-based charity drive to aid Haiti's earthquake victims; and the need to occasionally disconnect from ubiquitous connectivity.
In her one-on-one interview with Hastings, the Netflix founder revealed that the DVD-distribution company represented "a chance at redemption" after his previous startup, Pure Software, was acquired by its largest competitor, which he equated with failure.
Hastings said he prizes creativity over operational discipline and therefore has no vacation or expense policies at Netflix, only "innovation" policies. Employees are encouraged to only work when they want because "structure stifles creativity," and the company's novel work rules attract creative people and encourage inventiveness.
The former Peace Corps volunteer added that he continues to work because running Netflix is "pure fun," while the wealth it generates for him can be channeled into charter schools and education technology, the two pet projects he is most passionate about.
"My dream for society is that all kids get a great education," he said.
In the dinner's program there was a reminder that the 2012 International CES will be held a week later than this year — Jan. 10-13 — which is a Tuesday through Friday schedule vs. the more typical Thursday to Sunday format.