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Today we're jumping back to the 80's for the very first (and best!) junior X-Men team, the New Mutants! This 4-pack was released as an AFX Exclusive in 2010. Let's have a look, shall we?
The New Mutants are a little before my time. They were introduced in 1982's Marvel Graphic Novel #4, which continued into their own ongoing series. They were Marvel's very first X-Men spin-off title. Yes, at one time there were only two X-books. I became familiar with the characters much later through X-Force, the team they eventually evolved into. The New Mutants have always proved problematic in toy form. Some of them have powers that are difficult to represent in plastic and as for the costumes, I wouldn't call them boring, but they are a little plain. The costumes are based off of the original X-Men costumes and have been re-purposed as the default X-Men Training costumes, seen as recently as Wave 60's Strike Force X-Men. The thing about "junior" X-Men is that in theory, they should eventually graduate and join the main team. This rarely happens and since the characters are so linked to each other, Marvel always puts them back together. They're permanently relegated to B-team status. But hey, a lot of comic readers grew up with these guys so the New Mutants brand definitely has a loyal fan base. How did DST manage to tackle these guys? Let's look at each Minimate:
Sam Guthrie discovered his mutant power while attempting to escape a collapsing mine. Manipulated by Hellfire Club member Donald Pierce into serving as one of his operatives he was sent to battle Professor X and the New Mutants. Refusing to kill the young heroes, he joined them to defeat Pierce.
Since this is comics and Sam is from the South, he's the most stereotypical southern archetype imaginable. Coal miner, "gee shucks", 36 brothers and sisters, he probably listens to country and votes Republican too. Sam is sporting his second costume here. Want his first? Pop his head on a Hellfire Club Guard. As mentioned above, Sam was originally recruited by Donald Pierce. If you're gonna make the New Mutants, it's best to use the classic costume. I'll just go over the costume once since all four Minimates are wearing the same thing. The yellows don't match up exactly but they're pretty close. The older model gloves were used instead of the two-piece hand/cuff model. The standard X-belt as a separate piece is a nice touch and makes the Minimate pop. I can imagine customizers have a lot of uses for these guys. There isn't much muscle detail here which is smart, these guys are supposed to be kids. Sam was defined by his big goofy ears and flat top in those early appearances so it's weird that they're not represented here. I'm not exactly sure if this hairpiece was re-used elsewhere, if it's new then that's an even odder choice. He also has a very serious look here where he was always drawn as a goofy hillbilly.
In another odd parts choice, Sam comes with the Iron Man style boot jets instead of the waist attaching blast stand which is shown in the second picture. That blast stand came out around the same time so I'm not sure what's going on here. Sam had a lot of difficulty controlling his direction in those early appearances, so I guess just pretend he's blasting aimlessly? If you have an extra waist blast stand, switch them out.
As a basic New Mutant costume this is a good Minimate, but unfortunately it just doesn't look like Sam. A couple part swaps could have made this Minimate perfect. 6/10.
Roberto da Costa was a young, wealthy Brazillian when his mutant power attracted the attention of Donald Pierce. After a failed kidnapping attempt Charles Xavier sent his New Mutants to help da Costa defeat Pierce. Da Costa later joined the New Mutants, under the code-name Sunspot.
Wait, this is Sunspot? Sunspot was never a "fire/glowing" type character, he was always drawn as pitch black when powered up with Kirby Krackle surrounding him. Translucent plastic is such a weird choice and it really brings him down, this looks nothing like any version of Sunspot. For some reason, he also gets plain hands and feet as alternates to the gloves and boots. There's a rumor that this Minimate was originally conceived as a powered-up Beyonder that was never released and inserted here instead. I'm not sure if that's true, but it would at least make sense.
As much as I don't like the powered-up version, I equally love the powered-down head. This is where the set gets good. If you buy multiples, you can place the powered-down Sunspot on Cannonball's body and you've got yourself a powered-down Sunspot. Clever! I would much rather display this version. The hair is definitely re-used from Beyonder but the Geri-curl fits 'Berto to a T. Sunspot was always the "coolest" member of the team and Geri-curls were all the rage back then. He also really, really liked Magnum PI. The eighties!
The powered down head is the only thing saving this Minimate from a 1/10. There's nothing really wrong about the Minimate itself, it just doesn't represent Roberto at all and as everyone knows by now, accuracy is the first thing I look for. 4/10.
Wolfsbane
Rahne Sinclair was raised by Rev. Craig in a Scottish orphanage. Mistaking the manifestation of her power as demonic possession, Craig attempted to perform an exorcism. She was rescued and adopted by Doctor Moira MacTaggert and eventually became part of the New Mutants training team.
The problem with a written medium is that you can never be 100% sure how to properly pronounce made-up words. For the longest time, I thought Rahne was pronounced like the name "Renee" when it's actually "rain." If you just learned that here first, you're welcome! Wolfsbane also shares the transforming gimmick that Sunspot had. You can place her powered-down head on a spare Karma body and you get her powered-down.
I'm not sure why they used this hairpiece (twice) since Rahne never wore her hair like that. They got the front right, but she doesn't have a braid. In fact, there's a lot of generic male hairpieces that would have worked better. The normal face is ok. It's a little on the sassy side where Rahne was always drawn as wide-eyed and innocent. An expression like the one on Future Kitty Pryde would have been nice. The wolf version is a nice color, and in a rare move, she gets a nose! She gets claw hands but unfortunately no clawed feet. I don't believe that part was around yet, but she does get claws tampo'd on her toes. All of the line work has some nice fuzzy detailing to it. But where's her tail? I guess since she's mid transformation, we can overloook it, but it does feel off. Hopefully if we get a new Wolfsbane DST fixes these issues. And hopefully she's in her X-Factor costume. (Where are those guys, DST?)
Wolfsbane is a well-done Minimate but she does have some minor issues holding her down. 7/10
Vietnamese-born Xi'an "Shan" Coy Manh demonstrated and extreme ability to sacrifice in order to save the lives of her siblings. Having honed her abilities under Charles Xavier at various times, Coy Manh is currently a faculty member at the Xavier Institute.
Shan has never received an action figure of any kind, probably because mind control isn't exactly the easiest power to replicate in toy form. I mean really, how do you do that? Alternate possessed heads, maybe? If this set was released today, she would probably get some sort of translucent alternate hair piece to replicate the effect. Maybe something like this:
That said, I really like this Minimate despite her plainness. The face is perfect and the hairpiece is an exact match. Good parts re-use here, I believe this was originally from Back to the Future's Jennifer Parker.
There's really not much to say about Karma. The few things she does have going for her all all done well enough. I can't hold no power accessories against her since DST didn't really do stuff like that in 2010. Not the most exciting Minimate in the world but that's due to the source material. Just the fact that we got a Karma is pretty cool to me. 7/10.
Despite some odd parts choices and a really weird Sunspot, this is a fun set, even though it feels kind of rushed. DST also did something really cool in that they actually finished the team. This four-pack was supplemented by a couple TRU exclusive two-packs released later, a trend I really wish they would bring back. Completing teams is something action figure companies rarely do, or if they do, you have to overlook certain things like having them in the appropriate costumes. This should be common sense but you would be surprised how many toy companies don't do this. DST deserves recognition here, do you think Marvel Legends is going to give you three different Cannonball costumes to choose from? Despite some quirks, I give this set a thumbs up. The New Mutants are an important part of the mythos and the fact that we actually have them is pretty cool. Don't forget to buy two sets so that you can make the alternate looks!
Pictures and review by BigVis497


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I know that the way we live in America is often see as wasteful. While I have never seen pollution and waste as someone else's problem, I have fluctuated through periods of more effort to reverse my carbon footprint. When I first got into eating healthy, it was all about organic everything. I do not have a tree of money in the backyard, so that model of eating is not long term sustainable. I have also come to learn that it is expensive to be in the organic farming world, but you can still get quality food and humanely raised animals from smaller farmers, often for less money. The little two kids have been learning more about recycling and the effects of our litter and pollution on the lives of animals, like the cute polar bears. Jack has even been interested in the melting of ice caps at the North Pole, and the effect on our world.
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Kirk Douglas: How The 100-year-old Found True Love
New memoir charts the ardent, if sometimes stormy, relationship between the two strong personalities.
By Tom Tugend	July 26, 2017, 10:21 am 2 Edit
Kirk and Anne Douglas at their 60th wedding anniversary in 2014. Christopher Briscoe
JTA Los Angeles (JTA) — When movie star Kirk Douglas married Anne Buydens in Las Vegas, the justice of the peace asked Anne to raise her hand and repeat after him, "I take thee, Kirk, for my lawful husband."
Anne, who had recently arrived in the United States from Europe, raised her hand and proudly proclaimed, "I take thee, Kirk, as my awful husband."
At the time, the mispronunciation was not too far off the mark. In Hollywood, the handsome, muscular actor was already notorious for his inflated ego and the endless parade of women — from movie queens to casual pickups — whom he bedded at a record pace.
Four years later, in 1958, Kirk was away shooting a movie when he wrote to his wife, "If I live to be 100, there will still be so many things unsaid."
Douglas celebrated his 100th birthday on Dec. 9, 2016. And he sent a follow-up note, "As I have now reached that milestone, I can attest that it is still true."
Kirk Douglas at the Western Wall in 1977. In his later years he has re-embraced the Jewish practice of his youth. DOUGlas Collection
Both declarations are included in the couple's newly published book, "Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter and a Lifetime in Hollywood," which was written with Marcia Newberger. The book, which is Kirk's 12th and Anne's first, draws upon the couple's decades of correspondence to chronicle the ardent, if sometimes stormy, relationship between the two strong personalities — he the son of a hard-drinking Jewish immigrant ragman and junk collector, she the daughter of a prosperous German family.
The enduring bond between the Douglases is palpable to a reporter who recently visited the couple at their spacious but not ostentatious Beverly Hills home for an interview.
During the lively conversation, Anne, 98, reminisced that while living in Europe, "my dream had always been to come to the United States, the country that had everything."
Asked whether her vision of America had been fulfilled, Kirk, with his characteristic dry humor, quickly interjected with a smile: "Sure, she married a rich movie star."
Throughout his long film career — during which he has appeared in some 90 movies — and the couple's 63-year marriage, Kirk was away frequently for long periods on location shoots. But the husband and wife wrote to each other constantly, using paper stationery even as the era of email set in.
Anne kept every letter the couple exchanged, along with an impressive cache of photos. One stack she preserved in the couple's temperature-controlled wine cellar in the Beverly Hills home; another was secreted away in the couple's bedroom in their second home in Montecito, on California's coast.
The memoir is a complication of the couple's letters and photos. In its 221 pages, the reader learns about their love life, including Kirk's infidelities, and is treated as well to some graphic accounts of the affairs of other Hollywood stars.
But that's only part of the book. The pair befriended several U.S. presidents and their wives, from John and Jackie Kennedy and Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson to Ronald and Nancy Reagan and Barack and Michelle Obama.
The Douglases, of course, also played and worked with Los Angeles' rich and famous. They cast a frequently jaundiced eye on the predominantly Jewish — and often imperious – magnates who dominated Hollywood, in a time before studios transformed into bland corporations.
Anne addressed her love letters to Isidore or Izzy; Douglas wrote back to Stolz. Thereby — like almost every other entry in the book — hangs an intriguing backstory.
Kirk's father was named Hershel Danielovitch, but upon arriving in New York from Russia, he Americanized his name — sort of — to Harry Demsky. When his son entered St. Lawrence University in northern New York state on a wrestling scholarship, he enrolled as Isidore Demsky. Kirk was usually called Izzy by his friends, a salutation adopted later by his wife.
Anne's family had left Germany shortly after the Nazis came to power; she was living in Brussels when the German army invaded Belgium. With the help of a friend, Albert Buydens, she escaped by car to France, where the two joined in a marriage of convenience and she was able to gain Belgian citizenship.
A multi-linguist, Anne quickly found public relations work in the French movie industry; she also was a writer of movie subtitles. When Kirk, who had divorced his first wife, actress Dianne Dill, came to Paris in 1953 to star in "Act of Love," he met Anne, who was pretty, brainy and divorced.
Though he was already engaged to Italian-American actress Pier Angeli, Kirk made a play for Anne and immediately asked her out for dinner. He was stunned when she declined this and subsequent invitations. That's when Kirk started to label her "Stolz" — a German word usually translated as "proud," but also means "stubborn," according to Anne.
In 2003, after 49 years of marriage, Anne decided, on her own, to convert to Judaism under the tutorship of Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in West Los Angeles. During the interview, she described her mikvah experience.
"After removing all nail polish, I entered the swimming pool and put my head under the water," she recalled. "I came out looking like a wet dog – but I was Jewish."
She announced her new status at a large party marking the Douglas's 50th wedding anniversary.
"Kirk has been married to two shiksas," she said at the time. "It is time he got a nice Jewish girl."
One immediate impact was that Kirk — who had lit Friday evening candles at their home throughout the marriage — now transferred the honor to his wife.
Over his life, Kirk has developed his own definition of Judaism.
"I grew up praying in the morning and laying tefillin, but I gave up much of the formal aspect of religion," he said. "I believe in God and I'm happy to be a Jew. But I think too much religion has not helped civilization. Caring for other people is my religion."
The couple has put these words into action. The Kirk and Anne Douglas Foundation has contributed some $120 million to charitable projects, among them numerous playgrounds for poor communities in the United States and Israel.
Kirk learned about anti-Semitism early on, he said. His father couldn't get a job at the local mills because they didn't hire Jews, and young Issur was turned down for a newspaper delivery route for the same reason. And when he was elected class president at St. Lawrence College, a major donor threatened to withhold major donations unless the election result was nullified.
Even as a bona fide movie star, Kirk — along with the likes of Walter Matthau, Peter Lorre and Billy Wilder — could not escape prejudice in the 1950s and '60s.
As Kirk writes in the book, "Sometimes it was easy in Hollywood to forget that anti-Semitism, polite or overt, was still mainstream. Jews ran the major studios. With Anglicized names and beautiful blonde shiksas replacing their starter wives, they lived like the wealthy WASPS of their movies: entertaining lavishly at their grand estates; presiding over screenings in projection rooms hung with museum-quality art; voting Republican."
In the mid-1950s, Kirk formed his own independent production company, naming it Bryna, in honor of his mother, who also gave birth to six daughters. Among the company's first productions were "Paths of Glory" and "Spartacus," arguably Kirk's most famous film.
In the book, Kirk recalls the time he took his mother to one of his film premieres, with the words "Bryna Productions Present" high up on the marquee. When the mother saw her name in bright lights, she turned to her son and whispered in Yiddish, "Isn't America a wonderful country?"
The Good Life (July 2017)

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Johann Georg Wolf(f)gang (* 1662 oder 1664 in Augsburg; † 21. Dezember 1744 in Berlin) war ein Kupferstecher in preußischen Diensten.

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Wolfgang war ein Sohn des gebürtigen Chemnitzers Georg Andreas Wolfgang, der in Augsburg Kupferstecher wurde. Er vermählte sich 1696 mit Maria Barbara Lomer. Aus der Ehe gingen die Söhne Johann Georg d. J. (* 8. Mai 1699 in Augsburg; † nach 1761), der wie sein Vater als Kupferstecher in Berlin arbeitete, und Georg Andreas hervor.

Gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Andreas Matthaeus erlernte er zunächst beim Vater die Schwarze Kunst. Zur weiteren Ausbildung begaben sich beide im Jahre 1684 nach Amsterdam. Bei der Rückkehr von einem Ausflug nach England wurden sie von algerischen Korsaren gefangen genommen und als Sklaven nach Algier verschleppt. Erst durch die Zahlung eines Lösegelds, das ihr Vater aufbrachte, konnten beide 1688 nach Augsburg zurückkehren. Bis zu seiner Heirat wirkte Johann Georg in des Vaters Werkstatt.

Mit dem ebenfalls aus Augsburg stammenden Elias Christoph Heiß wurde Wolfgang 1704 mit Patent vom 19. Februar gleichzeitig zum königlich preußischen Hofkupferstecher ernannt. Am königlichen Hof in Kleve erhielt er den Auftrag, an der neu errichteten Akademie der Künste und Wissenschaften in Berlin zu wirken, der er von 1706 bis zu seinem Tod als Ehrenmitglied angehörte, und die Königskrönung Friedrichs I. von Preußen in einer Reihe von Stichen abzubilden. Nach anfänglichen wirtschaftlichen Schwierigkeiten wurde ihm am 29. Juni 1705 eine jährliche Zuwendung in Höhe von 200 Thalern gewährt. Auch sonst erfuhr er maßgebliche Unterstützung seines Dienstherren. Wolfgang diente unter drei preußischen Königen, er blieb bis zu seinem Tod in Berlin.

Stil
Wolfgang versuchte sich zunächst an den Arbeiten von Gérard Edelinck zu orientieren. Überhaupt hat er lange versucht, die französischen Meister zu kopieren. Seine besondere Stärke lag auf der Ausarbeitung des Gesichts, hier verwendete er die höchste Sorgfalt. Den Kontrast seiner Vorbilder zu erreichen, ist ihm jedoch nicht gelungen und so weist sein Gesamtwerk auch eine qualitative Spanne auf. Besonders geglückt sind ihm jedoch Frauengesichter, bzw. Gesichter mit weichen Zügen. In jedem Fall hebt er sich von der Masse und dem Mittelmaß der deutschen Kupferstecher seiner Zeit ab, auch wenn man ihn nicht zu den ganz großen Meistern seines Fachs zählte.

Werk
Als das bedeutendste Werk aus der Augsburger Zeit wird die Gemeinschaftsarbeit mit Jacob Müller zur Illustration der Symbolographie des Jacobus Boschius genannt.

Zu seinen hervorgehobenen Werken gehört ebenfalls ein Christus am Kreuz nach einer Vorlage von Charles Le Brun und ein Reiterstandbild des Großen Kurfürsten nach einer Vorlage von Johann Jacobi.

Eins seiner ersten Werke aus der Berliner Zeit war ein Großer Kupferstich vom Standbild des Großen Kurfürsten nach Andreas Schlüter. 1712 erschien seine 20 Kupferplatten Der Königlich-Preüßischen Crönung Hochfeÿerliche Solemnitäten, mit Texten von Johann von Besser.

Für die Königin Sophie Charlotte illustrierte er ihren Schreibkalender ebenso ihren Nachruf mit Kupfern.

Im Dresdener königlichen Kupferstich-Cabinet befinden sich 26 von ihm gefertigte Stiche, die 1718/1719 nach Vorlagen von Johann Samuel Mock entstanden.

Durch seine Tätigkeit am preußischen Hof hatte er zur Genüge Gelegenheit Angehörige der königlichen Familie, bzw. des Hofstaats und des öffentlichen Lebens zu Porträtieren. Genannt werden u. a. Bildnisse Georg Friedrich Händel, August Hermann Francke oder Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow.

Zu seinen herausragenden Meisterwerken werden einige Porträts nach Vorlagen von Antoine Pesne gezählt:

Auch das Porträt der Elisabeth Charlotte Mylius (1684–1726), Gemahlin des preußischen Generalauditeurs Christian Otto Mylius, welches 1726 entstand, wird zu den besten Leistungen des Künstlers gerechnet.

Literatur
 Beschreibung der Königlichen Residenzstädte Berlin und Potsdam. Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin 1769, S. 605 (books.google.de)
 Carlo Denina: La Prusse littéraire sous Frederic II. Band 3, Rottmann, Berlin 1791, S. 507–508 ().
 Felix Joseph Lipowsky: Baierisches Künstler-Lexicon. Band 2, Fleischmann, München 1810, S. 179–180 (digitale-sammlungen.de).
 Georg Kaspar Nagler: Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Band 22, München 1852.

Weblinks

 einige Werke Wolfgangs auf Artnet
 Wolfgang, Johann Georg auf CERL Thesaurus

 zwei Werke Wolfgangs auf museum-digital
 einige Werke Wolfgangs im Digitalen Portraitindex
 Werke von Johann Georg Wolfgang im Portraitkatalog der Uni Trier

Einzelnachweise

Sklave
Kupferstecher (Deutschland)
Bildender Künstler (Augsburg)
Bildender Künstler (Berlin)
Deutscher
Geboren 1662
Gestorben 1744
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Many overheads or indirect expenses can easily assign to products. We can easily calculate inspection expenses per product, if we multiply per inspection rate with total no. of inspections. But some indirect expenses' cost can not calculate relating to its product in activity base costing system. If such unallocated overheads cost is head, then whole system and calculated cost per unit under this system will befall incomplete.
Four 4 supervisors go to a restaurant. One of them does not want to eat, he orders milk. The others order full meal. The total bill comes to Rs. 5000/-; are you going to divide this bill by numbers of supervisors. In a sense, activity based costing is like this. You have to put the resources in the right activity, right pocket.
When a company gets order, at that time company has to complete it on time and some time company has to take short term debt due to purchasing of product, if company estimates its cost less. But some sometime, Company does not get its payment on time. So, Company has to pay highest interest due to delay of repayment of debt. Now, this is also cost which can not allocate the product but allocate customer. All other cost which we understand very high like manpower, maintenance does not affect the total cost of product. I think this is the limitation of activity based costing and customer based costing approach will better in given case.


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Q: pub/sub nservicebus beginner I am trying to get a simple NServiceBus pub/sub working.  Here is what I am trying to do.
I am trying to read a message from msmq, and pub publishes the messages to sub, and the sub will insert the messages to sub's queue.  (right now, there are all on same computer).
I have a pub and a sub (there are Written as console apps).  I also have a Message class, and here it is.
    [Serializable]
public class Message : IEvent
{
    public string name { get; set; }

}

public interface IEvent : IMessage
{
    string name { get; set; }

}

And, this is my pub
            IBus bus = NServiceBus.Configure.With()
            .DefaultBuilder()
            .XmlSerializer()
            .MsmqTransport()
                .IsTransactional(true)
               .PurgeOnStartup(false)
            .UnicastBus()
            .ImpersonateSender(false)
            .MsmqSubscriptionStorage()
            .CreateBus().
            Start();

sub looks same execpt that it has  .LoadMessageHandlers().
I understand that you have to handle the message, where do you put the Handle() on sub side?  I want to read them and put them into sub's queue.
Thanks.

A: The Publisher will handle putting messages in the Subscriber's queue.  To handle those messages, you must implement the IHandleMessages<T> interface on a class in your subscriber.  NSB will execute the Handle method on that class when a message of that type shows up.  For example:
public class MyMessageHandler : IHandleMessages<Message>;
{
    // do stuff here
}

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KUALA LUMPUR – APR 9, 2018: Facade of AFC House office in Bukit Jalil, KL. AFC House is Asian Football Confederation headquarters. – Image: Shutterstock
As the football world gradually recovering from the impactful COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Football Confederations (AFC) mulls a plan to resume its flagship club competition, the AFC Champions League (ACL) as soon as possible, pending necessary procedures and regulations.
The 2020 edition was played for a few fixtures sans Chinese clubs, which country suffered heavily due to the pandemic, until its halt in March.
ASEAN representatives Chiangrai United and Johor Darul Ta'zim FC are among the teams competing this season.
Two online meetings conducted by the AFC on Wednesday outlined principles taken by the governing body to complete the remaining fixtures for ACL 2020 season, to the agreement by all competing Member Associations (MAs).
The MAs representing Australia, China PR, Japan, Korea Republic, Malaysia and Thailand in the East Zone, and Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan in the West Zone also committed to agreeing on a format and timetable for 99 remaining games as soon as possible.
In recognising travel and medical restrictions which differ across the continent, the AFC proposed a series of options to conclude the ACL prior to the start of the scheduled FIFA Club World Cup, which is set to be held in Qatar in December.
Furthermore, it was also agreed that while it was important to consider the commercial implications, the sporting integrity of the competition as well as the safety and wellbeing of all stakeholders are also of the highest priority.
Responses from the MAs have been constructive and followed by the AFC's plan to present the format and the dates of the club competitions for the final review. This proposal will be submitted to the AFC Competitions Committee for approval.
On another note, the AFC also holds a series of online meetings with the MAs involved in the 2020 AFC Cup to agree on similar arrangements as the former.
Following a call on Tuesday with the West Zone, there will be further discussions with South, Central, ASEAN and East MAs this week.
Besides club competitions, the AFC also communicates with participating MAs on the Preliminary Joint Asian Qualifiers Round 2, centralised AFC U-16 and U-19 championships and the AFC Futsal Championship.
Concerning the ASEAN region, several FAs have already laid their plans to resume football activities.
This week, the Vietnam league is set to restart, and July will see Thai and Laotian leagues getting back in action as well as the Philippines league for 2020.
Further south the Malaysian and Indonesian leagues are scheduled to play their fixtures throughout September, while the Singapore Premier League still uncertain to restart, as the country is heavily affected by the pandemic.
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Home/News/Owners of an electric car do not want to save the world, although they do it in the process
Owners of an electric car do not want to save the world, although they do it in the process
Veronica P. HicksAugust 4, 2022
The argument that the electric car is, above all, a tool to reduce pollution of the automobile fleet worldwide, is the one used by governments and authorities to promote its adoption. Study after study, ensure that this transformation is essential so that legislation must be adapted to convince shoppers to make a mindset shift. Nevertheless, a study conducted by Polestar confirms what we all imagine: the ecological argument is not the main reason to buy an electric car.
The study conducted by Polestar in the United States is based on a survey of 5,086 drivers of an electric car in which they were asked about the reasons for their purchase and more specifically about their particular environmental motivations. The result obtained by the Swedish firm evidences a reality that was on everyone's lips.
At the time of making the decision, the 55% of respondents I didn't have environmental reasons in mind. Analyzing more deeply these data, there is a hopeful reason in them. There are big differences in age steps when giving more or less weight to this argument, because it is much more evident and more important in the range between the 18 and 24 years.
Regarding the rest of the arguments, for the majority of those surveyed, the 48%the main reason for choosing an electric car was motivated by the economic savings on fuel. The oldest performance and comfort handling is the argument chosen by the 30% of the drivers.
Technology, connectivity and updates are revealed as an important reason for buying an electric car, even above performance: it is the "new luxury" of the automobile industry.
Polestar discovers with this study that nothing less than 40% cites in his answers the desire to enjoy a modern infotainment system, with high possibilities of connectivity and upgradeable. Sweeping for home, Polestar highlights that this is one of the reasons why the firm chose to implement the Android Automotive system for the dashboard of its electric cars, also wrapped in "exceptional care in the environment that the driver perceives when he is on board them".
Gregor Hembrough, director of Polestar for North America talks like this about the new idea of luxury that is currently prevailing in the purchase of cars. The premium character of the brands, which was based in many cases on the performance of the propulsion systems, is giving way to other premises. "The idea of luxury depending on what's 'under the hood' gives way in the electric age to prioritizing seamless connectivity, integration into existing digital ecosystems, and good digital system design."
The technology with which they have to coexist inside the car overcomes environmental reasons because it is more "visible" and provides satisfaction at the moment of being used. "People buy an electric car for personal reasons." In the backgroundthe goal of reducing pollution of the planet is achieved in the same way, because this technology, finally, is helping an increasing number of electric cars circulate on the roads. "Polestar's focus on car technology means they can have whatever they want in an eco-friendly package."
Polestar already sells more than Alfa Romeo and Jaguar, and it does so only with electric cars
Škoda shows the first preview of the electric car that it will manufacture in Spain
A solid sulfur electrolyte battery retains 92% of its capacity after 1,000 cycles.
The arrival of the first Bentley electric is delayed until 2026


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Which is why it's almost better to come across one like World Hum's "The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time," a list so daunting and time-consuming that you can feel comfortable checking out with nary a thought in sight of tackling in any reasonable amount of time (it's kind of like if Usain Bolt knocked on my door here in Brooklyn and challenged me to a friendly race around the block: it's not happening).
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package net.avalara.avatax.rest.client.models;

import net.avalara.avatax.rest.client.enums.*;
import net.avalara.avatax.rest.client.serializer.JsonSerializer;

import java.lang.Override;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;

/**
 * Expire a location without restriction then update with new remittance and dates.
 */
public class UpdateCompanyLocationRemittanceModel {

    private AddressCategoryId addressCategoryId;

    /**
     * Getter for addressCategoryId
     *
     * Indicates whether this location is a physical place of business or a temporary salesperson location.
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    public AddressCategoryId getAddressCategoryId() {
        return this.addressCategoryId;
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    /**
     * Setter for addressCategoryId
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    public void setAddressCategoryId(AddressCategoryId value) {
        this.addressCategoryId = value;
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    private Date effectiveDate;

    /**
     * Getter for effectiveDate
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     * The date when this location was opened for business.
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    public Date getEffectiveDate() {
        return this.effectiveDate;
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    /**
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    public void setEffectiveDate(Date value) {
        this.effectiveDate = value;
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    private Date endDate;

    /**
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    public Date getEndDate() {
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     * If this place of business has closed, the date when this location closed business. If null it'll be set to the date of 9998-12-31.
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    public void setEndDate(Date value) {
        this.endDate = value;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a JSON string representation of UpdateCompanyLocationRemittanceModel
     */
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return JsonSerializer.SerializeObject(this);
    }
}

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Sun-Times Runs Cover for Obama
Front page of the Chicago Sun-Times: "The speech of his life." Doesn't this beg the question, why he hasn't made this speech sooner? I'm sure any Republican would get the same fawning treatment if he was renouncing ties to a radical church, right? Does anybody recall a Pat Buchanan campaign staffer in 2006, who was invited to the same event where some white supremacist whackos had rented an expo booth? There were no speeches, just "off with his head." No one tried to understand anyone's rage. It did not matter that the Buchanan aide had no affiliation with the white supremacist. No newspaper attempted to place it in a good light. Contrast with Obama and his America-hating, race-baiting Pastor of twenty years.
The Sun-Times sub-headline goes on to add this gloss-over:
"his former Pastor's fiery sermons"
Pu-uh-leeeeeese, give me a break.
"former" ? Obama still belongs to the church and the pastor just retired. The new pastor is the same breed and Obama still belongs to the Church.
"pastor" ? not only was J. Wright Obama's pastor, he was/is his spiritual counselor and for some time a campaign advisor for faith matters.
"fiery sermons" ? I'll say. How about anti-American rants and hatred-towards-whites tirades?
This is spin at its finest. Obama is exposed as either an afro-centric whacko, or an obsequeious member of the mob, who doesn't have the sense or the fortitude to remove himself and his family from the spiritual leadership of a raving Louis Farrakhan knock-off with a cross on the wall. So, what does Obama do? He changes the subject. He calls for racial healing, blah, blah, blah. A little late, don't you think? About 20 years too late.
Moreover, Obama does nothing to explain how a patriotic American could sit in the pews and listen to the most vile anti-American vituperations, and the most unhinged conspiracy theories, without dissenting, UNTIL his political aspirations required a dissent. Would you lead your wife and children to sit under the tutelage of Jeremiah Wright's frothings against the Nation you love?
Of course the drive-by media is only too quick to pick up Obama's spin and run with it. So, if you or I don't swallow Obama's load of excrement -- which the media is comparing to Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech (talk about the lowering of standards) – then we are the ones prolonging the agony of racial strife. This would be funny if it didn't fool so many people. Obama is like the cartoon character being chased, who when his pursuer catches him says, "quick, he went that-a-way." And we're supposed to go running that-a-way?
You cannot participate in racial division, and for that matter national division for twenty years, then when you're caught red-handed at it, declare yourself the agent of racial and national reconciliation. Or maybe you can, if good-hearted people want badly enough to believe you. We'll soon see how gullible people are in the age of feelings uber-alles.
Posted by larry_naselli at 11:54 AM CDT
Updated: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:18 PM CDT
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Shell Game
Barrack Obama's Philadelphia speech attempts to shift the focus from Rev. Wright's America-hating tirades to Rev. Wright's over-the-top race baiting, because Obama can appeal to White Guilt on the racial issue, but not on hatred of the Nation that Obama is asking to make him its leader.
Don't fall for Obama's misdirection. Racial divisiveness is part of the problem with Rev. Wright, but the bigger question is, "why would a man who wants to be President of the United States maintain a decades-long close association with an foaming-at-the-mouth America-hater like Jeremiah Wright?"
In his speech, Obama effectively says, "the matter is closed, and anyone who continues talking about it is part of the problem, so everybody just shut up." Now that is audacious.
Posted by larry_naselli at 12:59 PM CDT
Updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:59 PM CDT
Sleeping in Church?
Barrack Obama never heard his Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, frothing and fulminating against the U.S.A., and it is true that lots of people sleep in church, but having heard the fiery Rev. Wright, and the congregation going wild in response, you would have to believe that Obama is a singularly heavy sleeper.
It reminds me of an old Dick VanDyke Show episode in which Rob Petrie is suspected of committing a crime, and his alibi to the police detective is that he was at a movie, asleep. The incredulous detective wants to know which movie, and Rob answers, "The Guns of Navarrone." More suspicious than ever, the detective demands rhetorically, "you slept through The Guns of Navarrone?"
I think voters could be excused for being similarly skeptical of Obama's plea of ignorance. The kindest interpretation we can grant Obama is that he is afflicted with an appalling lack of alertness. If you want to be President of the United States, not only do you need to answer the phone at 3:00 AM, you need to pay attention in Church.
With Friends Like This...
Senator Obama, why were the people you go to church with CHEERING when Rev. Wright was spewing his vile anti-American racial paranoia?
A Simple Question for the Senator
Senator Obama, would you classify your Pastor's invectives against America as the words of a Patriot?
His and Hers Shame
Barack Obama isn't doing a very good job of allaying the concerns about his attitude towards America, which were raised by his wife's confession that she has not been proud of the U.S.A. for the last quarter of a century.
Demonstrating that he conforms to every detail of Liberal orthodoxy, Obama indicated his thralldom to the opinions of Euro-elites, by vowing something to the effect that when he is President his policies will make it possible for an American traveling abroad to be proud to say, "I'm an American."
In other words, Obama thinks that, as of today, we cannot proudly declare ourselves Americans when in foreign lands. Maybe Mr. & Mrs. Obama and their friends are ashamed to let foreigners identify them with this greatest nation on God's green Earth, but I'm not, are you?
Posted by larry_naselli at 3:07 PM CST
Updated: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 3:08 PM CST
Gravitas Anyone?
Have you heard any Drive-by Media types, reporting on Barack Obama's substance-free campaign for President of the United States, utter the word, "GRAVITAS"? I didn't think so.
Concerns about a lack of "gravitas" are reserved for a successful two-term Governor of one of the largest States in the Union, a successful entrepreneur in professional sports and the energy industry, a Harvard MBA, an insider in two presidential campaigns, and a confidant of a former President, Vice President and CIA Director, NOT for a first-term Senator with no legislation bearing his name, no private-sector accomplishments on his resume, and no significant policy idea that was not minted decades ago by LBJ or FDR.
Posted by larry_naselli at 9:47 AM CST
WFB RIP
I heard on Laura Ingraham's broadcast this morning that William F. Buckley, Jr. passed away. I am indebted to that great man, as are legions of Conservatives, for helping to teach me how to think clearly about Public Policy, and for improving my mind with his brilliant and delicious mastery of the English language. William F. Buckley Jr. helped me gain a great treasure in my life, namely the love of thinking.
He also helped me gain another greater treasure. Buckley's unabashed testimony to his faith in Christ (along with Ronald Reagan's testimony) helped pry open my mind to considering the Gospel, which I did not then take seriously. Knowing that no less an intellect than WFB confessed Jesus Christ, I could no longer summarily dismiss Christianity and the Bible, and began seeking the truth.
Thank you Mr. Buckley, RIP.
Posted by larry_naselli at 11:01 AM CST
Updated: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:04 AM CST
Texas Obamacans?
A few minutes ago Rush read a story from a Texas newspaper, which reported a supposed movement of Republican voters planning to take a Democrat ballot in the upcoming Texas Primary, and vote for Obama, in order to drive a stake through Hillary's heart.
Just as Gore 2000/DNC telemarketers prospected for complaints of vote fraud/ballot-confusion in Florida in 2000, then parlayed a handful of solicited complaints into a national "crisis' of a "stolen election," so the Texas "Republicans voting for Obama" news story may be a launching point for Hillary's Convention appeal for uncommitted delegates, i.e. the vast right-wing conspiracy stole the nomination from me, by sending Republican voters into the Democrat Primary. A spiteful act of Republican Clinton-hatred – they couldn't remove Bill from office, so they are corrupting the electoral process to deny Hillary the nomination, etc. etc…
It doesn't matter whether wild-eyed delegates believe this line, or whether craven super-delegates choose to "believe" it as cover, in order to avoid having the Clintons fax the delegate's FBI files to the Washington Post.
I may be guilty of wishful thinking, but surely experience has taught us never to accept a news story about the Clintons at face value.
Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:02 PM CST
The U.S. Navy scored a direct hit in a "live" test of U.S. Missile Defenses, shooting down a damaged American satellite in space.
It's almost enough to make Michelle Obama proud of America -- or maybe not; but it makes me proud of America, and particularly of a great American President.
This Saturday marks 25 years since President Ronald Reagan gave heartburn to the Soviet Politburo and Liberal Democrats alike, by calling for America to build the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Despite the Clinton Administration choke hold on funding, the ABM program has plodded forward, getting a huge boost in 2002, when President Bush scrapped the ABM Treaty with the non-existent USSR. Congratulations are due to President Bush for seeing this project through in the face of persistent opposition from the usual suspects. Last year the U.S. quietly began deploying operational Missile Defenses -- quietly not because the deployment was a secret, but because you could have heard a pin drop over the sound of news coverage of this momentous event.
Seeing Missile Defense becoming a reality (however slowly) adds to the stature of Ronald Reagan in the eyes of history. He was indeed a leader of singular vision.
Yes, we've come a long way since Liberals shrieked their self-contradictory complaints that SDI would never work, and that it would antagonize the Soviets. A long way since Teddy Kennedy lampooned SDI as "Star Wars."
As of this writing, no apology to Reagan has been issued from Hyannisport.
Updated: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:29 AM CST
Cutting Slack
We should cut a little slack to Michelle Obama for her recent not-proud-of-America remark. I'm thinking that a fair measure would be about the same amount of slack the Democrats cut George Allen for "Macaca."
In Defense of Michelle Obama's Patriotism...sort of
I wonder if Michelle Obama's revelation of non-pride in America is the type of "patriotic" dissent that Hillary Clinton was so memorably screeching in defense of back in 2006.
Honestly, I don't think the Obamas are any less patriotic than any other dyed-in-the-wool Leftist who thinks America is part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. After all trying to measure which Leftist is less patriotic than the next gets into a sort of microscopic Xeno's Paradox that is impossible to follow with the naked eye; but what I'm trying to say is that the Obamas loathe America just about the same as any other Democrat Presidential Candidate, its just that Michelle and/or her speech writers got so carried away with Obamamania that they cast off caution, a potentially mortal sin for Democrats, whose success in nation-wide elections always depends on deceiving the American People in general, as to the candidate's true beliefs and agenda.
Obama is no exception, but in this case the "it-was-my-spouse-not-me" discount, along with the Affirmative Action discount, and the Liberal Media whitewash should contain the damage to merely a wake-up call to some Conservative Republicans who are casually considering sitting out a McCain -vs- anyone election.
Obama Faults Iraq War
I heard Barak Obama say that the U.S. invasion of Iraq has "fanned the flames of anti-Americanism." I must admit that it's a genuine change for a candidate to share so transparently the contents his pillow talk.
Cancel that Dinner Party
Now that her husband is running for President, for the first time in her adult life Michelle Obama is proud of America. I've said on several occassions that Barak Obama is likeable man with a beautiful family, the kind of people I'd enjoy having dinner with. Well, cancel that dinner party. I can't hold down my food in the company of America-loathing, self-consumed Leftist ideologues like Michelle Obama.
Why has Mrs. Obama waited until now to reveal her decades-long lack of pride in America? Since she is campaigning for her husband, wouldn't it be an obvious question whether the candidate agrees with her view of America? Didn't the voters of Illinois deserve to know, before casting their ballots, that a candidate for U.S. Senate was married to a woman who was not proud of their Country? Are there any other countries that the would-be First Lady has admired prior to this week? Which ones?
At this point, would it be a moot point to question Michelle Obama's Patriotism?
Posted by larry_naselli at 12:58 PM CST
Protest Vote Reveals the Heart of the Problem
For the record, I'll vote for John McCain in November. I'll learn to love him. It won't be easy.
McCain has explained that he voted aginst the Bush tax cuts because Congress failed to cut spending, but that is precisely the problem with McCain and taxes: he does not understand pro-growth tax-cutting. If he did, he wouldn't counter-balance cutting marginal income-tax rates and accelerating capital depreciation against spending cuts.
The simple fact is that the GOP did not have the political muscle to force both tax and spending cuts in 2003, so they chose pro-growth tax cuts. These tax cuts were highly effective at promoting economic growth, which increased tax revenues and reduced the federal budget deficit in each growth year. If the Congress had gone along with McCain on the Bush tax cuts, we would have neither enjoyed the economic growth of 2003-2007, nor reduced the budget deficit.
I'm as disgusted as anyone at the Republican Party's abandonment of "limiting the size and scope of government" as a guiding principle, but I don't believe I'm suffering from "McCain Derangement Syndrome" just because I refuse to recant the contention that McCain's vote against President Bush's tax cuts was not a Conservative position.
If The Gipper had taken the same "principled" stand as McCain did, refusing to cut taxes because Congress refused to cut spending, the Reagan tax cuts and all the good that resulted would have never happened. That's something that any Reagan Revolution "foot soldier" ought to understand.
McCain's VP Choice
Mike Huckabee certainly is not the VP choice to assauge disaffected Conservatives, but the GOP's presumptive nominee will want to repay Huckabee for all the bouquets he sent McCain over the past month, while posing for the VP job. Perhaps President McCain could appoint Huckabee to chair a Bi-Partisan Blue Ribbon Panel to formulate a national ban on smoking.
Club for Growth president Pat Toomey has an interesting column up today over at the WSJ, where he recommends some good VP picks to help McCain mend fences with Conservatives. According to Toomey, here's the order:
1. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford
2. South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint
3. Indiania Rep. Mike Pence
4. Former TX Sen. Phil Gramm
5. Forbes, Inc., CEO Steve Forbes
Mark Sanford for me.
I can't see mike Pence -- good guy though he be -- tipping the election to the GOP. For one thing, the round-'em-up-and-deport-'em, Security & Prosperity Initiative-North American Union-NAFTA Superhighway conspiracy theory Right was accusing him of being the puppet of Vicente Fox et al. when Pence proposed a mechanism to identify and legalize Guest Workers. So, irrespective of the veracity of that charge, let's just say Pence wouldn't ease the minds of Conservatives suspicious of McCain's foxhole conversion to border enforcement.
Steve Forbes bet on the wrong horse (i.e. Guiliani), but would make a good choice for Secretary of the Treasury if McCain wishes to persuade Conservatives that he truly has seen the Supply-side light at last.
Jim Demint? Would McCain snub his Soulmate, Lindsay Graham, passing him over for South Carolina's other Senator, just to appease Conservatives? That would be turning over a new leaf, wouldn't it?
Phil Gramm? Wasn't there some stupid comedy movie in the last few years about a pair of old codgers? The late-night TV comics won't need Writers!
I have great admiration for Phil Gramm, a quintessential Reagan Democrat, who if I recall correctly, switched to the GOP and was re-elected in a Texas Congressional District that had never elected a Republican. He distinguished himself in the House and Senate as a supply-sider, a passionate advocate of limited government and a National Security Hawk.
All that aside, can you picture McCain and Gramm puttering around the campaign trail, patting themselves down before each speech and muttering, "now where the hades did I put my spectacles this time?" as an anguished aide surreptitiously points a finger to direct the candidate's attention to the top of his own head, where the misplaced eyeglasses reside. Meanwhile a virile Barak Obama, athletically leaps onto the stage and bops convincingly to the music before an adoring throng of 20-something supporters. Arghh, that contrast would even out-do the imagery of a tanned and towering Reagan bounding coatless down the the icy steps at Raikovic to overwhelm a short, swaddled and shivering Gorbachev with a carpal-crushing handshake and shoulder-dislocating slap on the back.
McCain would do far better to reward Gramm's early support with an Ambassadorship to some friendly foreign country, perhaps Texas.
Updated: Friday, February 8, 2008 10:51 AM CST
John McCain: Anti-Immigration Hawk
McCain's pre-Super Tuesday radio ad, touting the candidate's hawkish support of secure borders, approaches the audacity of Bill Clinton's 1996 anti-Partial Birth Abortion ads, which he ran on Christian radio stations in the days before the election. In courting the GOP Base McCain seems to have adopted the old Clinton motto: "how can we fool 'em today?"
Updated: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:22 PM CST
McCain and Pandering
It's conventional pundit-wisdom (pardon the oxymoron) that John McCain does not pander. McCain's supporters contrast the Senator who doesn't mind ticking off constituencies with Romney, who changed his mind about abortion, Guiliani who has recently found his inner gun-toting redneck, or Huckabee who surely must have done something Faustian to gain the endorsement of the Arkansas Chapter of the National Education Association. McCain has demonstrated his willingness to stick it to Republican Party interest groups, from Iowa Ethanol producers to Border Security voters, to enthusiasts of the Nuclear Option to end judicial filibusters, to Free Speech advocates, to Supply-side tax cutters, to Global Warming skeptics; but does this mean that McCain is no panderer?
The truth is that McCain does his pandering at the WHOLESALE level. He panders to the image-making Media, which rewards him with glowing adulation and the "Maverick" brand. This is an electoral strategy that trades-off some support from attentive voters, in order to win the votes of the uninformed, undecided – well, let's just say it: the ignorant swath of voters who will reach the last week of October and still not know the substantive differences between the major party candidates for President. These voters are most suceptible to suasion by the Media image of a candidate, and McCain-Feingold restrictions on pre-election TV issue ads assure minimal interference from the previously offended Party interest groups. So, I'll grant that McCain is willing to rub constituents the wrong way on issues, but he has rarely shown the same indifference to his Media groupies, because pandering to them has earned him an image glossing that money could never buy.
When the contest is McCain against any other Republican the image-makers will be McCain's best buddy; but once it's down to McCain against any Democrat, he'll be John McCain of the Keating Five Scandal, John McCain who can't get along with others, John McCain who flip-flopped on this, that and the other thing, John McCain who is too old to serve in the most stressful job in the world (and after the break, a special medical update on the increase in Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease among senior citizens, and now a word from our sponsors). So, in the end the joke will be on McCain, and on Republicans, if we choose him as our candidate.
McCain's Principles and the "Stimulus" Rebates
Do you suppose John McCain will make "a principled stand" against the Bush-Pelosi-FDR, deficit-increasing "stimulus" rebates, the way he did against Bush's 2003 pro-growth, supply-side tax cuts, "because there are no corresponding spending cuts"? Fat chance right? McCain's vaunted "principles" are typically in evidence only when they serve to attract adoring media attention. His staunch insistence on victory in Iraq is an exception, but as such, it's the exception that proves the rule.
Don't Bet Against The Clintons
I am delighted that Hillary lost in Iowa, not because I don't want her to be the Democrat candidate, but because I want her to win the Democrat nomination in about July. The GOP is down on cash, down on motivation, and probably facing an extended and bloody primary. Democrats need to bleed! Democrats need to spend up their millions. Hillary needs to be exposed for the corrupt, strident, socialist, phony that she is. The other Democrat candidates need to dredge up the Clinton scandals of the 90's (not to mention the 80's) and thus incur the wrath and retribution of the Clinton War Room.
But after all that, don't bet against the Clintons. Make no mistake, they will do anything – ANYTHING – to anyone, to regain power and they've spent fifteen years accumulating obligations (and FBI files), which they will cash in this year. Bill Richardson, who knows all this from the inside, will back out of the race and throw his support to Hillary, once he has done all he can toward building name recognition, and privately secured his spot as her running mate. Obama and Edwards will step into the crosshairs of the Clinton Attack Machine, and may it be a long and vicious battle royale, with Hillary emerging as the nominee of an embittered and divided Party, the one figure with the potential to unite the fractured Republican coalition. I consider that scenario all the more possible after Obama and Edwards bested Ms. Inevitable in Iowa, and a good thing too, because the Republicans are going to need a few hometown bounces.
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Mum transforms living room for just £20 using three items
One woman has completely overhauled her lounge with one bold move
Megan Nisbet
How it looked after the transformation (Image: LatestDeals.co.uk)
A dramatic feature wall can make all the difference when it comes to transforming a room, but many of us are reluctant to take the plunge.
One mum, however, decided to take a risk and paint her living room wall black to give the space a new lease of life.
The move transformed Clare Jordan's space and cost just £20 for paint, masking tape and a roller set.
The 44-year-old told money-saving community LatestDeals.co.uk: "I came up with the idea of the black wall as in lockdown I started to do DIY in the house and the living room was the last room I had to tackle.
"After following lots of home decor pages on Instagram, I decided to take the plunge.
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"I always liked plain but bold decor and colours and I've always had wallpaper in the past, so at 6am one day, I stripped the old wallpaper and went in with the black.
"I wasn't that nervous as I knew I wanted a dark bold look for sure, and if I wasn't happy with it, I was going to put a dark green over it for another look.
"I used a water spray gun and a scraper to remove the old wallpaper, and masking tape was a must for achieving straight and perfect lines.
"I also used a sponge roller, a good cutting in brush and lots of dust sheets.
"The paint cost £11 and was a well-known brand, Johnstone's Paint, in a matte base, as I didn't want a shiny or glossy look.
"There's no need to spend a stupid amount on expensive paint as to me it all looks the same.
The living room before (Image: LatestDeals.co.uk)
"Creating this look is really easy - if I can do it, anyone can!
She added: "You'll need a good masking tape and a good cutting in brush - and patience.
"The step-by-step way to achieve this matte wall effect is to firstly make sure that after stripping the old paper the wall has to be sanded down and filler used in any holes in the wall.
"The masking tape around the ends of the wall has to be perfect (this did take a few attempts) to achieve the perfect lines.
"I painted the black matte paint around the ends of the wall first, then used a large roller.
"The roller has to be used in an up and down motion, otherwise you will see different stroke marks.
"The whole wall took two coats to achieve this look and was then left to dry. Once it was dry, it was touched up in areas where it needed it.
"Then the scary part is taking off the masking tape to have that perfect line and to make sure that no paint is bleeding on the white walls.
"The total transformation cost £20 for the paint and masking tape and roller set."
Co-founder of LatestDeals.co.uk, Tom Church, commented: "There's a misconception that dark paint can make a room feel smaller, but Clare has proven that going for a bold paint adds character and depth to a space.
"Best of all, her transformation cost just £20. If you want to make like Clare, inspire yourself on Pinterest and then stock up on affordable supplies from ebay, B&M or Amazon."
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Weekly Arctic Sea ice age with graph of ice age by area: 1984 - 2019
This visualization shows the age of the Arctic sea ice between 1984 and 2019. Younger sea ice, or first-year ice, is shown in a dark shade of blue while the ice that is four years old or older is shown as white.
A graph displayed in the upper left corner quantifies the area covered sea ice 4 or more years old in millions of square kilometers.
One significant change in the Arctic region in recent years has been the rapid decline in perennial sea ice.
Perennial sea ice, also known as multi-year ice, is the portion of the sea ice that survives the summer melt season.
Perennial ice may have a life-span of nine years or more and represents the thickest component of the sea ice; perennial ice can grow up to four meters thick.
By contrast, first year ice that grows during a single winter is generally at most two meters thick.
This animation shows the seasonal variability of the ice, growing in the Arctic winter and melting in the summer.
In addition, this also shows the changes from year to year.
A graph in the upper left corner the quantifies the change over time by showing the area covered by sea ice that is 4 years old or older in millions of square kilometers.
This graph also includes a memory bar - the vertical green bar that indicates the maximum value seen thus far in the animation for the given week being displayed.
For example, when viewing the sea ice age for the first week in September, the memory bar will display the maximum value seen for the first week of September in all prior years from the beginning of the animation (1984).
In addition, a violet bar indicates the weeks's average area covered by sea ice greater than 4 years of age during the the 20-year time period from 1984 through 2003.
Note that data for the sea ice age is not available along the coastlines.
The region where data is not available is shown in a dark lavender color.
Visualizers: Cindy Starr (lead), Horace Mitchell
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2019 minimum extent of 1.60 million square miles (4.15 million square kilometers) on Sept. 18, tied for second lowest summertime extent in the satellite record, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The Arctic sea ice cap is an expanse of frozen seawater floating on top of the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas.
Every year, it expands and thickens during the fall and winter and grows smaller and thinner during the spring and summer.
But in the past decades, increasing temperatures have caused marked decreases in the Arctic sea ice extents in all seasons, with particularly rapid reductions in the minimum end-of-summer ice extent.
The shrinking of the Arctic sea ice cover can ultimately affect local ecosystems, global weather patterns, and the circulation of the oceans.
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Abgerundet wurde die CONNECT! mit einem Abendprogramm rund um das Thema Fußball. Bei der traditionellen Charity Aktion kamen Spenden für den Verein für krebskranke und chronisch kranke Kinder e.V. Darmstadt von über 2000 € zusammen.
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The 7th CONNECT! European Moldflow User Meeting this year is driven by Automotive light weight design, especially topics like foaming technologies and the use of bi- or uni-directional part inserts.
Within the last Moldflow Software releases Autodesk provided a couple of new features and technology regarding the simulation of physical and chemical foaming in injection molding processes.
Which further foaming enhancements can we, the users, expect in the upcoming releases?
Today we saw on CONNECT! 2016 user presentations combining Moldflow software with adjacent technologies as non isotropic FEA or injection force prediction or draping of organo sheets taking separate Autodesk software tools or third party software solutions into account. Beside the current availability of Autodesk Helius and Autodesk Nastran.
Does Autodesk plan to provide further Moldflow integrated solutions, like Helius or Nastran for organo sheet forming?
Today we saw that Autodesk is developing a new Residual Stress based 3D solver technology for the Moldflow software. For shell elements you have the combination of the Residual Stress model and CRIMS coefficients to enable high accuracy in predicting shrinkage and warpage results since more than a decade.
What about CRIMS for the new Residual Stress 3D solver technology?
The development of injection molding simulation software enhancements and the coupled characterization of polymer data should work hand in hand generally.
How do you see the balance, does current polymer data fits to simulation software capabilities?
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