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New high tech stock exchange in Germany
Why we should keep the discussion alive
2013-12-19 18:48 by German Startups Group
Many founders and investors were surprised when the FDP and with it the German Economics Minister Dr. Philipp Rösler on 22 September finally rejected from German Government. Although he was the subject of controversial discussion on the one hand, many industry experts hopefully looked at his impetus for the start-up scene in Germany on the other. However, regardless of this event, the start-up scene in Germany should maintain the launched debate about the so-called new "New market".Investing in startups "made in Germany" could become attractive for domestic and foreign investors, the startup scene could be revived, and many qualified new jobs in Germany could be created.
New Market - Old Idea?
New Market - A term moved like a quake through the network within recent weeks and still puts many investors into fear. The memories of excessive speculation and a bubble that has burst vehemently are omnipresent.
German Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor himself, was it then who has revived the theme of a technology exchange, an idea believed to be dead. Hardly one politician in recent years had made such publicity for start-ups in Germany. He 's even travelled to Silicon Valley to strengthen the connection to Berlin 's "Silicon Allee", to seek expert opinions and to proclaim the next "founding era" for Germany on the side of Peter Thiel.
But the critics didn´t take long. It wouldn´t need a new market segment, since there are already established stock exchanges, exit opportunities and models such as crowdfunding. A new market segment can also always carry the risk of high expectations and low standards of transparency with it. The fundamentals for the next bubble would be created.
The development of crowd investment in Germany is actually very positive. More and more people are interested in start-ups from Germany and want to participate on the success stories "Made in Germany". Crowdfunding currently offers this possibility and thus supposedly closes the gap between venture capital and a possible stock market that is suitable for start-ups.
Investing in start-ups - A new technology stock exchange for scalable disruptive business models as an opportunity for start-ups and investors
But a technology stock exchange would bring far-reaching benefits. Whether on business angels, seed investment, Early Stage investments through venture capital, crowdfunding or crowd-IPO investment through platforms such as Bergfürst; the possibilities for fund raising are big in Germany. But a technology stock exchange such as Nasdaq in the United States does not exist in Germany.
Target group should be institutional investors and interested, informed private investors from Germany and abroad. The simplified exit channel for startups would likely motivate venture capital investors like the German Startups Group to higher and more frequent investments. As most critics will have you know: Germany has no shortage in money; there is just a lack of participation.A German Nasdaq would likely provide the industry with new capital and also strengthen the awareness and international development opportunities for German startups.
The German Startups Group is in favour of new technology stock exchange
The industry has developed, has grown out of its infancy and become more mature. Therefore, the CEO of German Startups Group, Christoph Gerlinger, is impressed by the new ideas for the creation of a specialized market segment:
"An efficient exit channel via IPO is the basics of what the Silicon Allee called German start-up scene separates from its great role model Silicon Valley."
We should take on the idea of a new technology stock exchange and continue the discussion begun in recent weeks. The importance of private investors for the startup scene in Germany and the start-up scene for the German economic power will grow sharply in the coming years. Meanwhile, the idea of a new market takes up speed again, and a specific start of a new technology market before Easter 2014 becomes a possibility.
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Sahar Soleymani grew up in Mount Laurel, the child of a restaurant owner who enjoyed cooking with different flavors.
The 27-year-old BCIT Medford graduate opened her first restaurant – Que Ricas, specializing in Venezuelan cuisine – in Westmont in December and will open her second restaurant – Dar's Steaks, a cheesesteak place – in Westmont in September.
Even in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic where the restaurant industry has faced tremendous struggles and challenges, Soleymani feels the time is right to open her second restaurant.
"I guess that's a little shocking for people when I tell them I'm opening up another business, but with Que Ricas, we were doing a lot of takeout before the shutdown happened," said the Haddon Township resident. "We had a rough couple of weeks when the governor initially shut everything down but since then, I've been posting on social media our daily specials and really doing as much marketing as I can and we've been making our numbers, so we've been doing good at the other restaurant.
"I wasn't planning on opening up a second spot right now, it just didn't seem like the time, but I drove past a 'For Rent' sign over at the new location and immediately it popped in my head what I was going to call it, the menu I was going to have, and all the stars aligned and I called a Realtor, and it was a great deal for us and it just made sense after talking to my family and people in my circle. I realized it was the right move for me to do right now."
The location of her second restaurant is 142 Haddon Ave. in Westmont, which formerly housed Silver Spoon catering and Peter James BYOB. Those businesses have relocated to 901 White Horse Pike, in the spot formerly occupied by Jalapeno's Grill, which moved last year to a much larger space with full bar across the Pike.
She expects to open the cheesesteak business by mid-September. Que Ricas is located at 46 A Haddon Avenue, right down the road.
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Dar's Steaks is named after her father, who ran restaurants and delis for years before retiring.
"He's the one who taught me how to make cheesesteaks, so I'm naming it after him," she said.
"I get my passion for cooking from my father. He was in the restaurant business for over 40 years and as a teen I used to work with him in his restaurants. He had deli and cheesesteak spots and my father's from Iran and my mom's from Venezuela so I grew up eating a bunch of different kinds of foods and flavors. I'm a pretty creative person… that reflects in my food. Having my dad in the restaurant business, it kind of inspired me to do the same thing. He's retired. He's here helping me get the second business off the ground, but come winter time, he's going to head back down South."
The menu at Dar's Steaks will include rib-eye cheesesteaks, vegan cheesesteaks, chicken cheesesteaks, and more. She said they'll have classic cheesesteaks but with different variations.
"The one I'm really excited about is the hot Cheeto cheesesteak," Soleymani said. "I'm going to call it the 'Hot Chester'. It's going to have hot Cheetos, banana peppers and homemade (Cheez) Whiz. Really good."
She attended BCIT Medford, got her cosmetology license and was doing hair for a while and going to school for engineering, but decided on a career switch.
"I just love to cook and that's really my passion and I decided to make a career switch, just be focused on my food and now I'm opening my second restaurant," she said. "It's crazy."
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Casa Cool: A Couple's Secret Sanctuary in Mexico's Colonial City of Mérida
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Breaking Story – Casa Cool: A Couple's Secret Sanctuary in Mexico's Colonial City of Mérida
If you could live anywhere, where would it be? For one well-traveled British couple (he's a frequent-flying businessman; she's in the hospitality industry), it's the tropics of Mexico. They moved to the colonial city of Mérida in 2007, beguiled by the "wonderful weather and Yucatan lifestyle," he says. Now that they've transformed a derelict 100-year-old building in the heart of the historic district into an eclectic and airy home, there's nowhere else they'd rather be.
"Mérida is an interesting city of arts and culture, comfortable in its own skin," says the homeowner. The same could be said of their historically sensitive remodel, which was overseen by local architecture firm Taller Estilo Arquitectura. They retained the original footprint, room proportions, and many of the original architectural details but added a new modern addition to the rear. They also chose to keep the concrete exterior's faded patina. From the busy street, the single-story structure blends in with the other time-worn buildings; inside, it's a quiet sanctuary, artfully updated for modern life.
"The overall restful atmosphere of the house and the secluded garden make it feel as if the house is not in the middle of a thriving city," he says of his home's dual nature.
Below, he gives us a tour of their self-named Casa Cool.
Photography by Apertura Arquitectónica, courtesy of Taller Estilo Arquitectura, unless otherwise noted.
Above: The couple chose to keep the faded facade of Casa Cool, though they had to have a new door built: "We had the original doors copied exactly in local cedar wood and painted a pale shade to keep the overall appearance light and airy." From the street, the building blends in with the rest of the historic buildings.
Above: The front door opens into the vestibule. From here, guests can, in one straight view, glimpse the living room, dining room, kitchen, and patio.
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IHA Adds New Leadership Team
Eddie Rich and Roger Gill
IHA's board of directors has elected new president, Roger Gill, to join newly appointed chief executive officer Eddie Rich.
Rich, who took over the role from Richard Taylor on September 09, presented to IHA's new board the organisation's strategy for the next two years. This will see IHA focus on research and policy, sustainability and sharing knowledge on the role of hydropower in the clean energy transition.
Eddie Rich said: "With the demand for energy expected to double from 2015 to 2060, the world must look towards a sustainable, renewable mix of energy sources. IHA's role is to advance sustainable hydropower by building and sharing knowledge on its role in renewable energy systems, responsible freshwater management and climate change solutions."
During the meeting at in London, the board unanimously elected Roger Gill, an international consultant with over 40 years in the renewable energy sector, as president. He takes over from Ken Adams.
"IHA has steadily grown to become a platform of knowledge, with members operating in over 100 countries around the world. Our challenge is now to reach beyond the sector to help all stakeholders understand how hydropower can support the renewable energy systems of the twenty-first century," Roger Gill said.
A long standing board member and vice president of IHA, Gill is a company director for Pacific Hydro, a renewable energy development company owned by State Power Investment Corporation of China (SPIC).
Six IHA vice presidents were also elected by the board: Tammy Chu, managing director, Entura, Hydro Tasmania; Colin Clark, chief technical officer, Brookfield Renewable; Gil Maranhão Neto, chief strategy, Communications and CSR officer, ENGIE Brasil; Óli Sveinsson, executive vice president Research and Development, Landsvirkjun; Christine Cantin, senior advisor, Relations Outside Québec, Hydro-Québec; and Uwe Wehnhardt, president and CEO, Voith Hydro.
Posted on September 23, 2019 with tags IHA, leadership, team.
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The HSE cannot even give a date for the rollout of the already delayed HPV test as they work to address waits of up to 27 weeks for Cervical Check results — and the head of the HSE's Women and Infants Health Programme also said it is "inevitable" that some women who are now waiting up to six months for results will have abnormal smears.
Health Minister Simon Harris had promised to introduce HPV testing, which provides more accurate screening, by last September, but this has now been shelved.
In the Dáil, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar came under fire for the Government's decision to provide free repeat tests in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal last year, which Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said has created the "shocking backlog which is now damaging the programme and undermining its overall objectives".
Accusing Mr Harris of overseeing a "chaotic system" Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty called for the health minister to be sacked, insisting he was "out of his depth".
But Mr Varadkar blamed the "enormous pressure" the Government faced last year, including from the media, as a reason for offering the free tests which has led to the backlog.
Sometimes we acted perhaps from the heart rather than the head but this decision was made in good faith.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet is due to receive a second report from Dr Gabriel Scally as early as next week which is expected to confirm that contracted labs did more outsourcing than previously revealed without the permission of the HSE.
Appearing before the Oireachtas health committee yesterday, HSE interim director Anne O'Connor said the primary focus now is to clear the lengthening backlog of smear tests.
Secretary general of the Department of Health Jim Breslin said: "I think the world changed last year. We went into 2018 with a certain view of the screening programme and a policy objective to introduce HPV and funding agreement on how we would do it and so on, the world changed during the course of April and May of 2018.
"The challenges the programme was facing was changing by the week.
"I think the minister's announcement and the minister's view on what would be possible was overtaken by events," Mr Breslin said in relation to the pledge to introduce HPV testing.
Fianna Fáil's Stephen Donnelly asked about the potential clinical risk to women where abnormalities are detected after a six-month wait for results.
Responding, clinical director of the HSE's Women and Infants Health Programme, Dr Peter McKenna said: "We would all share the concern that a waiting time in excess of a couple of months is far from ideal.
"Of course, there will be women in that group in the 80,000 that will have abnormal smears.
"Most of those women who have abnormal smears will be a long way from developing cervical cancer but there will inevitably be some women who are nearer the stage of transition from pre-invasive to invasive.
The Irish Cancer Society said urgent efforts are needed to alleviate these delays and to end the poor experiences for the women who are waiting.
"The delays will not only impact the women who availed of the free smear in 2018, but the women who are now being invited for a smear as part of their scheduled screening cycle," said head of services, Donal Buggy.


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Washington state changing COVID-19 vaccine allocation to need-based approach
Gov. Inslee said some counties aren't using their full shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine, while other areas are in need.
Author: Kalie Greenberg
Published: 4:47 AM PDT April 30, 2021
Updated: 8:49 AM PDT April 30, 2021
SKYWAY, Wash. — The Washington Department of Health (DOH) is adjusting the way it allocates COVID-19 vaccines. The state said the change would ensure vaccines reach more people statewide and where they are needed most.
COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed pro-rata, meaning doses were allocated to counties based on the size of their population. But Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday some counties are not ordering the vaccine because they don't have enough people who want it.
"We can't send vaccines to counties and have them sit on a shelf," said Inslee.
The state said it is still seeing providers who are receiving fewer vaccines than requested. A spokesperson for DOH told KING 5, "This does give us more flexibility to quickly and equitably allocate vaccine to providers of all types while ensuring vaccine remains available to communities all across the state."
The DOH said it will assess the allocations weekly. Providers will continue to place a request, and the DOH will get input from local health jurisdictions on community vaccine priorities.
The state said this should help areas where it has been more difficult to find an appointment.
"A lot of people are searching for it. They want it," said Gilberto Toscano, who received his first dose of the vaccine at a pop-up clinic Thursday in Skyway.
How to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington
Everyone in Washington state aged 16 and over is eligible for the vaccine.
Find a list of vaccine providers on the state's Vaccinate WA page and information on how to make an appointment.
Pfizer is the only vaccine approved for people 16 and 17 years old, and the state is working to update its Vaccine Locator with information about which vaccine is offered at each location.
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Menendez, Cornyn Introduce First-Ever Resolution Recognizing Nowruz - The Persian New Year
Resolution would officially recognize the cultural and historical significance of the holiday
Washington - U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) have introduced a resolution honoring and celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Together with H.Res. 267 in the House of Representative, passage of the resolution would mark the first time Congress has formally recognized this cherished holiday for people of Iranian descent.
The resolution is co-sponsored by Senators Jim Webb (D-VA), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Robert Byrd (D-WV), Roland Burris (D-IL), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ted Kaufman (D-DE), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), John McCain (R-AZ), Russell Feingold (D-WI), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Carl Levin (D-MI). Nowruz is celebrated at the Vernal Equinox, which this year takes place on March 20 at 1:32pm (Eastern time).
"Recognizing the historical and cultural significance of the Persian Nowruz holiday is an important and long-overdue milestone," said Senator Menendez. "Nowruz is both an ancient Persian ritual and a moment of renewal that celebrates life. I am honored to represent a vibrant Iranian-American community in my home state of New Jersey, where they have contributed to our collective prosperity, cultural richness and diversity. With the coming of a new season, let us reflect on the precious humanity that we all share. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all people of Iranian descent a healthy and prosperous new year."
"The celebration of Nowruz is an important and meaningful occasion for millions of people of Iranian descent around the world each year," said Senator Cornyn. "Its origins and significance embody the belief that each individual's conduct should reflect compassion for our fellow human beings-regardless of ethnicity or religion. It is my privilege to wish Iranian-Americans and the people of Iran a new year filled with peace and hope."
"One of the many strengths of our country is the diversity of our population and our appreciation, respect, and inclusion of diverse cultures," said Senator Webb. "Iranian-Americans have made important contributions toward our nation's success, and I congratulate them on this culturally and historically significant day."
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Country Report: Judicial review of the detention order Last updated: 12/01/21
Applicants for international protection are informed orally by the staff of the Ministry of Interior about the reasons of their detention during the delivery of the decision.
As decisions are written in complex legal language, the majority of applicants do not understand the reasons for their detention. In practice, the interpreter present at the delivery of the decision reads decision to them, although an attorney reported in 2019 that clients were not informed about the reasons of detention.[1]
The LITP does not provide for automatic review of the lawfulness of detention.
Applicants may lodge a complaint to the Administrative Court against a detention decision within 8 days after its delivery. The authority that has issued the decision i.e. Ministry of Interior, the police administration or the police station, shall submit the case file to the Administrative Court no later than within 8 days of the day of receipt of the decision by which the Administrative Court requests the case file. The Administrative Court shall render a decision after a personal interview within 15 days from the day of receipt of the case file.
However, there are no legal consequences for not respecting the 15-day time limit prescribed by the relevant legislation. The complaint does not suspend the decision.
The average duration of the judicial review of detention procedure in 2019 was 43 days (21 days in cases of citizens of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq) before the Administrative Court of Zagreb.
The majority of complaints against detention before Administrative Courts were rejected in 2019:
Administrative Court decisions on "restriction of freedom of movement": 2019
Accepted-case referred back to the Ministry of Interior
Dismissed as inadmissible
Source: Administrative Court of Zagreb, 21 January 2020; Administrative Court of Rijeka, 18 January 2020Administrative Court of Osijek, 7 January 2020; Administrative Court of Split, 27 January 2020.
In 2019, the High Administrative Court received 12 onward appeals in cases of detention. 11 appeals were rejected and one was accepted.[2]
One attorney at law reported that, in some cases, hearings are not held in due time before the Administrative Court,[3] while another attorney reported that courts do not act urgently in most cases concerning a restriction of movement i.e. the measure has already expired, so hearings are held pro forma.[4] A similar issue was reported by a lawyer from an NGO according to which a decision brought by the Administrative Court was delivered to the legal representative at a moment where the client was no longer detained.[5] Another attorney reported that some detained clients were not invited at the hearings before the Administrative Court as only attorneys were allowed to attend the hearing.[6]
[1 Information provided by attorneys-at-law, 3 December 2019.
[2]Information provided by the High Administrative Court, 15 January 2020.
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Q: Java Yourkit Profiler showing 5K+ char[] objects not getting garbage Collected, how can I tell what class is the culprit? I have an RCP application and there is a slow memory leak and I recently started using YourKit Profiler which seems to be the best app out there for this. The question I have, is I see that over 20% of my objects char[] arrays and what I want to figure out is what class/method in my app is created all these instances as they do not seem to getting garbage collected. I am connected to a messaging server and consuming probably 500 text messages a second, but I am having a tough time using Yourkit to find the gradual memory leak. Thanks for any help.

A: As a YourKit developer, I can recommend to record object allocations as it's described here http://www.yourkit.com/docs/11/help/allocations.jsp
After that you'll see the places where each particular object was created. Please note, that allocation recording adds (sometime significant) profiling overhead.

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Q: How much would 1 million make me per month in interest with the conditions mentioned in the description? Conditions:

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*1 million is the total initial amount I have.

*My bank deposits provides me an interest of 4.8% per year after all tax cuts.

*Whatever interest amount I receive, I want to be able to get 20% more in the next financial year. For example, if I receive 400 per month in the first year, I would want to receive 480 per month in the next year and 576 per month the year after that.

*This should keep on going and should never stop.

I basically want one part of the million to give me a monthly interest, and the other to keep building the principal such that my monthly interest amount keeps increasing by 20% every year. Please help me solve this.

A: If your bank deposits only yield $\ 4.8\%\ $ per year interest, then your goal of deriving an income stream therefrom which increases at a rate of $\ 20\%\ $ per year indefinitely is not achievable.  Suppose the income you derive from interest in the first year is $\ \epsilon\ $, and let $\ n\ $ be the smallest positive integer such that
$$
\left(\frac{150}{131}\right)^n> \frac{1,000,000}{\epsilon}\ .
$$
Then after $\ n\ $ years, your income stream is required to be $\ 1.2^n\epsilon\ $ per annum, but even if all the interest obtained from the bank were devoted to growing the principal, then after $\ n\ $ years the principal would only be $\ 1.048^n\cdot1,000,000\ $, which is less than the income of $\ 1.2^n\epsilon\ $ it is required to generate (because $\ 1.2^n\epsilon = \left(\frac{150}{125}\right)^n\epsilon >$$ \left(\frac{131}{125}\right)^n\cdot1,000,000\ $$=1.048^n\cdot1,000,000\ $).


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Photos of the Week: December 12-18, 2016
Kat Duncan Dec. 19, 2016 Updated: Dec. 19, 2016 2:18 p.m.
1of16Firefighters work along RIchmond Parkway at the scene of a fire at the Deal Auto Wrecking yard on Friday, December 16, 2016 in Richmond, California.Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle
2of16Artist John Law has placed his three restored Doggie Diner Dog Heads outside the Cycleside Swearhouse where he and other resident artist are protesting potentially losing their home in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 14, 2016. The Cyclecide Swearhouse has been a hub for what's left of San Francisco's underground arts and maker scenes. After a dispute with their landlord, the artists, most of whom used it just as a workspace and event venue, reached a settlement extending their lease through May. But on the Monday after the Ghost Ship fire, inspectors showed up, and now it appears their landlord is using the tragedy as an excuse to push them out immediately.Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
3of16An unidentified attendee dials his cell phone Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 in Santa Rosa, CA at the Emerald Cup -- a 30,000 person cannabis county fair; the world's largest. This is the first big pot party since Prop 64 has passed, ad out angle is focusing on the newcomers to the massive, sprawling event.Photo: Eric Kayne, Special to The Chronicle
4of16San Francisco's Ballet's Nutcracker runs through it's final dress rehearsal on Saturday, December 10, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Amy Osborne, Special To The Chronicle
5of16Oakland High School students scream as hip hop artist Fetty Wap takes the stage during a concert thrown by alumni Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers, as he returns to his alma mater to release his new shoe, the Dame 3, by Adidas, and to unveil improvements to the schoolÕs gym, weight room and music program, in Oakland, CA, on Friday, December 16, 2016.Photo: Michael Short, Special To The Chronicle
6of16A man totes an umbrella past the large video monitor outside of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif. on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. The Bay Area is bracing for a significant rainstorm to drench the region this afternoon and into the evening.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
7of16Verondia Jenkins smiles as she receives donated groceries from the Contra Costa Food Bank Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016 in Rodeo, CA. "This right here is a blessing from God," Jenkins said, who has been raising her nine year-old granddaughter since she was an infant.Photo: Eric Kayne, Special to The Chronicle
8of16Sandra Quiroz (right), a senior who was recently evicted from a mobile home park when it was sold to a developer, gets a hug from her neighbor Irma Ward (left) at her senior apartment complex, in Benicia, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. Quiroz, who is on oxygen and dialysis, was in danger of becoming homeless until the Benicia Community Action Council stepped in and found her a new place to live in an affordable senior housing residence.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle
9of16Edison Xu stands in front of the Ghost Ship warehouse near a memorial for fire victims on 31st Avenue in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, December 12, 2016.Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle
10of16Artist Jon Sarriugarte works on his art piece called "Project Empire", during a tour of his warehouse space in Oakland, California, on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle
11of16AFT police officials inspect the Ghost Ship warehouse from inside as Oakland firefighters investigate outside on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 in Oakland, Calif. 36 people were killed when a fire broke out on Dec. 2 at the Ghost Ship warehouse on 31st Avenue and International Boulevard in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. As many as 100 people were inside attending a music performance. The blaze is now the deadliest structure fire in California since the 1906 earthquake and fire. Officials said the cause of ignition is still unknown and the building had no evidence of fire sprinklers.Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle 2016
12of16Ed Bernbaum comforts his wife, Diane, during the funeral for their son, Jonathan Bernbaum, a Ghost Ship warehouse fire victim, at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday, December 11, 2016.Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle
13of16Chris Lindsey runs under his broken umbrella through downtown San Francisco during one of the biggest storms of the season on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. Lindsey, of Oakland, said he's Christmas shopping.Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
14of16Ray Brisebois demonstrates his bubble makers for sale Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 in Santa Rosa, CA at the Emerald Cup -- a 30,000 person cannabis county fair; the world's largest. This is the first big pot party since Prop 64 has passed, ad out angle is focusing on the newcomers to the massive, sprawling event.Photo: Eric Kayne, Special to The Chronicle
15of16Sandra Weil coin dress, $624 , www.cooperativashop.com; Elisa Gonsalves gold chain necklace, $150, Mariana Boden silver hoops, $28, and Wonderland SF gold ring, $68, all Wonderland SF, 1266 Valencia St., S.F.; vintage boots, stylist�s own. model: Jennifer Roberts, Look Model Agency; styling: Rachel Znerold; makeup: Erika Taniguchi, www.beautybyerika.com; hair: Corinna Hernandez / Pony Salon; styling assistants: Tony Bravo and Julienne PobletePhoto: Stan Pechner, Special to The Chronicle
16of16Hyerim Ju (lit in green light) and Minhye Kim, who are visiting from South Korea, take a break from ice skating at the Union Square ice rink on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
This week Chronicle photographers take us to the first funeral of the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire tragedy, rainy weather and a marijuana festival. We also get a glimpse into the 2016 Chronicle photo shoot for our Style section and Christmas fun at Union Square.
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Wrong time, wrong place
Walter Frederick Osborne RHA, ROI
(Irish, 1859-1903)
In his lifetime Walter Osborne was a misfit. He came from the wrong class. He had the wrong friends and painted the wrong portraits. Not only did he portray titled British rulers or their representatives: the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Houghton, later Earl of Crewe; the Second Duke of Abercorn; the Archbishop of Dublin, William Plunket; Viscount Powerscourt and Sir Walter Armstrong, but he knew them socially and numbered some among his friends. His cultivated stance reflected authority at a time when Ireland was just beginning to seethe with the revolutionary fervor that led to a cultural revival. He was often described as 'an English painter'. Thomas Bodkin, in his brilliant early essay on Osborne in Four Irish Landscape Painters, makes the important point that "the study of Osborne's work discovers nothing distinctively Irish in its author. He does not seem to have any special sympathy or understanding for Irish character, or even for Irish landscape... His faith, upbringing, and environment certainly cut him off, to a considerable extent, from close contact with the majority of his fellow countrymen. He was what John Eglinton calls an Anglo-Irishman, what a Sinn Feiner would probably describe as 'a West Briton'."
Bodkin also makes the important point that Osborne was entirely indifferent to local character when there is a regional emphasis in his painting. Other artists, most notably Jack Yeats, made much of being Irish. He even put a stamp on his life as an artist by entitling ten years of early exhibitions Life in the West of Ireland. Such a notion would never have entered Osborne's head.
Bodkin suggests that Osborne was happier in places such as Walberswick, Hastings or Rye than he was in Galway, where he painted for a time in 1893. "One need only compare his western types with those of Mr Jack Yeats to realize Osborne's lack of anxiety to depict anything more than the mere appearance of his models. His peasants, even in the picturesque costume – tall hat, frieze coat and knee breeches – are not nearly as Irish nor as romantic as those painted by Mr Yeats in their present-day suits of shoddy tweed and their hideous artisan's cloth caps."
Art is neither caricature nor tribal history. If you are Yeats, you give life to location. If you are Osborne, you locate life without any guidebook to typecasting, attitude, place or style, for these have nothing whatever to do with the perception of truth and its depiction that guided both men, though in entirely different directions.
These defining and carefully considered views and artistic ambitions, including, essentially, a chosen indifference, set him aside from the cultural mainstream. This style only gathered momentum in the 1880s and 1890s and was easy to dismiss. But in due course, Ireland would come to be defined by the changes in that period and W.B. Yeats would emerge supreme. The politics of it all would lead to independence.
This might have meant artistic oblivion, but Osborne had an extraordinary talent and a faultless eye and this saved him. He painted the visual truth and he made magic of it in his art. But it was a long and difficult struggle that lasted into the quite recent years when Irish art became a leading expression of the Irish cultural spirit, with Osborne achieving a distinguished place as one of the country's truly great painters. He is rightly admired for his landscapes and his portraits, but perhaps is loved most of all for his genre scenes in which he often deploys good landscape painting with faithful and revealing portraiture to which he adds narrative, exemplified by works depicting children, such as Feeding Chickens.
Walter Frederick Osborne was born in 1859 in Rathmines, the son of a painter, William Osborne, also born in Dublin and an academician, who sent his son to the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools rather than to the other main teaching institute, the Metropolitan School of Art. They were quite distinct – the RHA Schools were more suited to Osborne's clear but reticent nature, to his background and class. He was a distinguished cricketer. Stephen Gwynn described him as "the most destructive kind of left-hand bowler". Not only was his father a painter; there was also a family connection with Sir Frederick Burton, the gifted Irish water colourist, who, like Osborne, was charming among close friends, but otherwise reticent.
Osborne made an impact straight away, exhibiting in the RHA annual show in his first year. He won numerous medals and prizes as a student as well as Royal Dublin Society Taylor Prizes. At the age of 23, Osborne went to study in Amsterdam under Charles Verlat, an established and successful painter of genre scenes and portraits.
Verlat's experience of depicting warm sun in landscapes, gained while painting in the Holy Land, left an lasting hallmark on Osborne. He learned other characteristics of the Antwerp School, where Verlat studied, but spent his best time as a student traveling out of Amsterdam and painting around Zaandam.
Osborne's genre scenes, with their narrative inspiration, define his greatness as a painter. There is a natural human element, often concerned with scenes of poverty in Dublin, such as the poignant In a Dublin park, light and shade, with its study of infancy and old age displayed on a bench in Phoenix Park. Other works, such as The Fishmarket, Patrick Street and Life in the Streets: Hard Times have a similar appeal.
But he was no sentimentalist. Osborne soberly depicted life as known by the vast majority in Ireland at the end of the 19th century. He brought to middle-class subjects the same coolness and objectivity as in his studies of the poor. The Luster Jug and Tea in the Garden, both in the National Gallery, are late works dating from 1901 and 1902 respectively. The first, an interior, shows his great gift in convincing and truthful execution of child portraiture. His three seated figures are naturally disposed, their setting a fine interior in which we see the rather bored discussion of a no-doubt treasured family possession. The other work, a beautifully realized garden scene in a well-to-do setting, has all the detached quality of observation, the true mark of Osborne's genius. In the long artistic haul to greatness, this detached way of observing his subjects has proved a strength.
In general, though with notable exceptions, Osborne looked east across the Irish Sea, towards England first of all, and then to France, Belgium, Holland and Spain. From Paris in 1895, on his way to Spain, he wrote to his cousin, Sarah Purser, dismissing much of the art in the Luxembourg and praising the artistic skills of Millais, Watts and Orchardson above their French contemporaries. He suggested that in landscape painting, Constable, Turner, and David Cox far surpassed what Paris had to offer.
Osborne, whose gentle character shines out of his canvases, painted beautifully in many different places, including the English rural heartlands of Norfolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. He boarded with farmers whose lives and houses were material for his work, such as Milking Time, Joe, the Swineherd and Potato Gathering.
He found the beautiful autumn setting for Feeding Chickens on one such visit near Evesham in Worcestershire. In this painting, which is offered by Bonhams New Bond Street in July, the young but self-assured girl, with her solemn, serious expression as she scatters corn for the chickens, is the daughter or a servant in the substantial house at the back of the scene (in fact she was a model, Bessie Osborne, though no relation). In the pencil sketch for the work, there is another figure, a gardener with his wheelbarrow, but in the painting this idea was abandoned, perhaps strengthening the focus of the work. Jeanne Sheehy, in her valuable monograph, gives a map of the English rural districts he stayed in on painting expeditions.
And, of course, he painted brilliant and seminal works in Brittany and other part of France, as well as in Flanders and in Spain. Place mattered enormously, but the search for it and the enthusiasms particular scenes evoked has a catholicity that is very much in character.
A parallel fluidity derives from his easy absorption of influences. In A Glade in the Phoenix Park, his handling of trees and their reflection in water, as well as the addition of a boy fishing in the foreground, is worthy of early Turner. He loved or was influenced by Millet, Whistler, George Clausen, Fred Brown, as well as the other, mainly English artists mentioned earlier. But he acknowledged no master. French Impressionism was also an influence, though by no means overwhelming. Osborne grew up and passed through the school of his Antwerp teacher and others, rapidly acquiring his own views on design, a great depth of feeling and his objective independence.
Bruce Arnold writes for The Irish Times. His most recent book is a biography of the Irish artist, Derek Hill.


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Beer is not beneficial, German court rules
By Reuters News Service May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018 12 185
Once the world's largest beer consumer and famed for its annual Oktoberfest beer festival, Germany's consumption has dropped 17 per cent since 1993
Beer cannot be marketed as beneficial, a German top court ruled on Thursday after a consumer rights group sued a brewery on the basis that its advertisement falsely suggested the beer had health benefits.
The standoff with the Haerle brewery in the southern German town of Leutkirch began when a Berlin consumer protection group protested at use of the German word "bekoemmlich", carries connotations of health as well as of tastiness.
The German Federal Court of Justice upheld a lower court finding that the word could not be used in advertisement for beverages containing more than 1.2 percent alcohol.
The German court said bekoemmlich, which does not have a direct English translation but would be something akin to "wholesome", described more than the taste of the beer.
"The term 'bekoemmlich' is understood by the relevant public to mean 'healthy', 'beneficial' and 'digestible'," the court said.
When used to describe food, it means that the product is easily absorbed and tolerated by the digestive system even alongside long-term consumption, the court said, adding that beer sometimes did cause health problems.
Once the world's largest beer consumer and famed for its annual Oktoberfest beer festival, Germany's consumption has dropped 17 percent since 1993, but brewers hope the soccer World Cup which starts next month could drive a return to growth.
The European Union's highest court ruled in 2012 that the same word could not be used to market wine.
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Hundreds of women* from a broad coalition of feminist, internationalist groups gathered for a demonstration in Berlin-Kreuzberg on "International Women's Day". Women* from different migrant communities, Black women*, Women* of Color, Kurdish women* groups, Refugee Women* and many more have united in solidarity to protest the specific conditions women* face in relation to racism, asylum, deportation, labor exploitation and sexual violence.
The rally included speeches by strong powerful women*: those who expressed their struggle, strengths and their fights against all forms of violation against women* in the world. Among them there were Women in Exile, International Women's Space, Syrian Women Loulou, Black Women's Block, Ni una menos, Da Migra and others.
The signs handled many crucial issues that women* are struggling with, such as asking for the right of safe and legal abortion for all women, freedom of movement and the right to stay, calling to save Afrin and Eastern Ghouta, equal pay for equal work, fighting capitalism and many other rightful demands.
It was really impressive to feel powerful and in solidarity with all the women* who were protesting, chanting, singing, dancing and drawing to deliver their voices to all the strong women* who are fighting every day to live an equal and descent life. Standing in the crowd of the march and receiving smiles and greeting from many women* gives a great feeling that no woman* is alone, and all of us have a great big family who we belong to and who we will keep fighting for.
The aim of this day is to bring more women* with more struggles together to show that the fight will continue and the voices of internationalist women* will rise and the resistance will get bigger until there is no single woman* suffering any more.
Mouna is a woman from Syria and a member of Loulou Syrian women group in Berlin.
I am here today because it is the Women International Day and I want to talk about the Syrian women situation. And I want to describe it for the people who are here so that they know more what´s happening in Syria, what´s happening with these women. So this is why I am standing here today.


Vancouver, British Columbia, June 7, 2018 - FinCanna Capital Corp. ("FinCanna") (CSE: CALI) (OTCQB: FNNZF) a royalty company for the U.S. licensed medical cannabis industry, announced today that Cultivation Technologies Inc., (CTI) its first investment in California, has achieved US$1 million in cumulative revenue since it commenced commercial operations in late January 2018.
FinCanna announced previously this week that CTI has expanded its network of dispensaries carrying Coachella™ Premium brand of cannabis concentrates and vape cartridges which features all the major concentrate types, including diamonds, sauce, shatter, batter, and sugar, with an ongoing list of strains, to ten locations including premium dispensaries across California.
CTI is working to maximize the commercial potential of its extraction facility, which can process an estimated 6,000 pounds of biomass per month, which translates to approximately 3.7 million grams of raw cannabis oil annually. FinCanna is entitled to receive 50% of the profits from this extraction facility.
CTI, through its subsidiaries, Coachella Manufacturing and Coachella Distributors, has helped pioneer cannabis "Extraction-as-a-Service" or "Contract Manufacturing" which it provides to brands, cultivators, manufacturers and distributors who require licensed Butane Hash Oil ("BHO") processing for their biomass or contract manufacturing services for various products.
With divisions that fulfill the various levels of procurement of cannabis products, including distribution to retail dispensaries, CTI has been at the forefront of this developing industry – including meeting the complex standards required to be fully-licensed within the state.
Coachella Manufacturing is one of the first companies to operate a legal solvent extraction facility for cannabis in California. In support of safe manufacturing practises, CTI, has been actively engaged in sponsoring state legislation AB2679, which sets the standards and institutional best practises for cannabis extraction using solvents.


Digital game downloads are becoming a bigger and bigger part of the overall video game industry according to a new report from Superdata Research, via CNBC. Throughout 2015 digital game sales amounted to $61 billion overall, which includes both mobile games and digital console sales. This represents an 8% jump for the market, though individual consoles saw even bigger shifts.
"Downloads to consoles like Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation saw the biggest jump. Digital console game sales were up 34 percent last year, though the category remained relatively small at $4 billion." This measn that while digital games are certainly becoming more popular among console gamers, they still represent a minority of purchases compared to retail sales.
Those brick-and-mortar store sales did drop though, slipping 13% to $5.1 billion in overall sales. "Sales figures points toward a shift in the industry as more consumers have adopted digitally distributed games and free-to-play," said SuperData CEO and founder Joost van Dreunen.
The huge amount of money that digital games are pulling in can largely be attributed to tablets and smartphones, which totaled $25.1 billion in sales. This is a 10% increase over last year, showing that mobile gaming is here to stay.
However, the biggest piece of the digital game pie goes to PC games, which hit $32 billion. This includes both game purchases themselves, as well as subscription fees and free-to-play microtransactions, such as those found in League of Legends. That game by itself accounted for $1.6 billion in revenue, dominating all other games in the genre.
The report listed out the top ten games by revenue across different categories, the dollar figures are in millions.


Our game tries to reproduce a famous 1672 jailbreak of about 30 pirates from the supposedly impregnable fortress of Cartagena. It is said that not long after this astounding escape, a game celebrating it became popular in the pirate coves of the Caribbean; and that a faster, more chance oriented version was played in Jamaica, while a slower, more skill-oriented one was played on Tortuga Island. Which is why in our game, too, we offer two ways of playing: a "Jamaica way" in which chance plays more of a role and a "Tortuga way" based mainly on skill. As explained in the rules, the difference between the two versions is only in the layout and handling of the cards. In all other respects the two versions are identical.
Each player controls a group of 6 pirates and tries to have all 6 of them escape through the tortuous underground passage that connects the fortress to the port, where a sloop is waiting. As soon as a player has brought his 6 pirates aboard, the sloop sails away and the game is over.
• 6 board-segments printed on both sides. On each is a portion of the underground passage with a different sequence of the following 6 signs: a skull, a dagger, a key, a bottle, a pistol, a three-cornered hat.
• A small board in the shape of a sloop.
• A deck of 103 cards; on the face of one is an arrow; on the face of all the others is one of the 6 signs (17 of each sign).
• 30 pirates (pawns) in 5 colors, 6 of each color.
• Rules with one illustration in color on a separate sheet.
• Join the 6 board-segments so as to form a continuous under ground passage of 36 spaces (signs); this can be done in thou sands of different ways.
• Each player receives a set of 6 pirates.
• All the pirates are assembled at one end of the underground passage and the sloop is docked at the other end.
• Remove from the deck the card with the arrow (it is used only in the Tortuga version).
• Shuffle the deck and deal 6 cards to each player.
• The Jamaica version in which cards are concealed (more luck): The players hold their cards in hand (hidden from the other players). The rest of the deck is placed face down on the table to form a stock, from which players will pick new cards during play.
• The Tortuga version in which all cards are face up (more skill): The players lay out their cards face up on the table, for all to see. From the rest of the deck, 12 cards are dealt face up in a row. The card with the arrow is placed under the row and shows the direction of the sequence - that is, the order in which new cards are picked up during play (instead of from stock). When the row is depleted, a new 12-card row is laid out. (See the illustration of a Tortuga game in progress).
move a pirate backwards and pick up one or two new cards.
Moves may be performed in any order and in any combination but at least one move must be made at each turn.
Play a card to the table (discard pile), select one of your pirates (either one already in the underground passage or one who has yet to enter it) and advance him to the next vacant space marked with the same sign as the sign on the card you just played (vacant meaning not occupied by another pirate).
Example: in the illustration, if it is Yellow's turn, he might, among numerous other options, play a skull-card to the table and advance his pirate at 9 all the way to 23 (skipping the skull-spaces at 12 and 17 which are occupied by other pirates).
If there is no vacant space with the sign you selected ahead of the pirate you intend to move, you can advance him all the way to the end of the passage and let him climb aboard the sloop.
Select one of your pirates and move him backwards to the first space occupied by one or two pirates, whether yours or belonging to an opponent. While moving backwards, vacant spaces and spaces occupied by three pirates are ignored and passed by. (Note that there can never be more than three pirates on a space.) If your pirate moving backwards lands on a space occupied by 1 pirate, pick up I card, if occupied by 2 pirates, 2 cards.
Example: in the illustration, Red could, among other things, move his pirate at 8 backwards to 6, occupied by 2 pirates, thus gaining the right to pick up two new cards from the face up row, etc.
But keep in mind that when moving backwards you are not allowed to skip a space occupied by one pirate in order to reach one occupied by two. In the Jamaica version cards are picked up from stock, in the Tortuga version from the row of face up cards. When the deck is depleted, form a new deck with the cards in the discard pile.
The illustration shows a game in progress in the Tortuga version. It is Blue's turn, and as invariably happens in this game, he has many options to choose from (remember that at each turn a player can make up to 3 moves). Below are three choices which he might consider at this point. They were chosen to give you an idea of the variety of possibilities the game offers at every turn.
1. Blue has 4 dagger-cards and may decide to play 3 of these and thus advance rapidly 3 of his pirates. With his 1st dagger-card he would move the blue pirate that had not yet entered the passage to 7; then, with his 2nd card, advance one of the two pirates he has at 6 to IS (skipping 7 which he occupied with his first move); and finally with his 3rd card, move the other blue pirate at 6 all the way to 24. But playing 3 cards with the same sign and advancing quickly 3 men in a row, while very tempting, is usually not a wise choice. In this particular case there is no immediate danger, since none of the opponents have dagger-cards, so that the choice may appear to be reasonably sound... But in fact it is not, because the 2nd and 3rd cards in the row on the table are dagger-cards, which his opponents might now pick up and use to advance even farther on the "road" Blue opened up for them (the 3 dagger-spaces he occupied and which can now be skipped).
2. Or else Blue might use a completely opposite tactic. Instead of using his cards to move his men forward, he could now pick up as many as 5 new cards by moving men backwards. 1st, he would retreat his pirate at 17 to 12 (picks up 1 card); 2nd, retreat his pirate at 18 to 17, where there are now 2 red ones (picks up 2 cards); and 3rd, retreat this same pirate again from 17 to 12, where there are now 2 pirates, including the blue one he retreated with his first move (picks up 2 more cards). Collecting so many cards means that he won't have to "refuel" again for some time. On the other hand, 3 of his men are being left far back (the two at 6 and the one who is still at the entrance); these are now in danger of remaining stranded.
3. While another option, no doubt sounder than the previous two, would be to balance his choice and adapt it to the actual situation on the board. 1st, he could play a bottle-card to the table and rush his pirate at 17 non-stop all the way to the sloop! (The "road" is open, because all the bottle-spaces ahead of 17 are occupied.) 2nd, he could retreat his pirate at 18 to 17 (where 2 red pirates are left after Blue's 1st move). This short step backward has two good results: he collects 2 new cards and at the same time vacates a bottle space, thus creating a gap in the free "road" of occupied bottle-spaces, to the annoyance of his opponents. And 3rd, he can play a dagger-card and move the blue pirate who has still to enter the passage to 7.


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Amit Shah's political card did not work in Kashmir Valley but it surely was a success in Chenab valley. The Valley where BJP could never manage to win a single seat, except for 1996 in Ramban, the party won 4 of 6 seats in the Assembly election 2012. Chenab has an identity of its own; a mixture of Hindus and Muslims population, it practises a bit of both cultures from Kashmir and Jammu and thus the friction between two communities is much more than in any other part of the state.
The recent election result of Chenab has taken majority of the population by surprise after BJP emerged winner on four seats leaving only two for its rival Indian National Congress.
The two most surprising wins of BJP Chenab are Doda and Kishtwar.
Doda is a Muslim majority area and for obvious reasons a Muslim candidate was being elected since 1957. From last two elections, 2002 and 2008, it was Congress's Abdul Majid Wani who won. In 2008 he secured 23254 votes while NC's Khalid Najeeb got 16102 votes. BJP then secured third highest votes – 2756 votes.
In 2002, Majid Wani secured 35.29 per cent of the total votes polled, NC at second position bagged 33.73 per cent and BJP then securing forth highest – 10.97 per cent of the total votes.
But this time over the BJP's candidates, Shakti Raj Parihar, a non-local in Doda, won by a margin of 4040 votes. The sitting MLA of INC's Abdul Majid Wani has secured 20532 votes.
NC's Khalid bagged third highest votes – 16416 votes.
Shakti Raj Parihar is born in Doda but never lived there, he is settled in Inderwal. A practicing contractor Shakti lives and operates (his office) from a rented apartment in Doda. He has been working in Doda from last six years and has spent money in bulk to lure people to vote for him. It is because of him that BJP could cross the mark of 5,000 votes in the area in the parliamentary election.
But his bagging the Doda seat and Wani's securing the position of the first runner-up is a shocker to many locals.
Thinking over the lines of Panther's Party's patron, Bhim Singh, Hashmi also believes that the EVM's in the area have been manipulated to get desirable results.
"BJP's magic wand cannot work everywhere," he opines. The locals are shocked as well as grieved because the majority will now be ruled upon by a minority which they believe would lead to their disempowerment.
Similarly, in Kishtwar, an NC bastion since 1977, BJP's Sunil Sharma defeated Sajad Ahmed Kitchloo. Kitchloos have been winning in the area since 1977. In 2002 and 2008, it was Sajad and before him it was his father, Bashir Ahmed Kitchloo. Sharma's win is definitely an end to the Kitchloo family's hereditary rule, it seems.
Sharma bagged 28054 votes while as Sajad secured 25202 votes.
In 2008, Sajad bagged 19248 votes (37.48%) while as BJP's Kumar secured 16783 voted (32.68%). In 2002, Sajad got 16725 votes while has BJP did not contestant the election in Kishtwar.
In 1996, NC's Bashir Ahmed Kitchloo, Sajad's father bagged 17889 votes and BJP's Rajinder Singh secured 10900 votes, first runner up.
It looks Sharma has lived up to expectations of his BJP's supremo and the Indian Prime Minister.
In the Muslim majority Kishtwar, Kitchloos were repeatedly bagging the seat as they empowered the population and helped Kishtwar to attain a place where it is today, say a local Muslim voter from the area but the impression was ruined after the last year's riots in which many Muslims and Hindus lost their lives.
Locals say that Sajad did not pay any heed to the innocent Muslims who were lingering in jails after the riots. "He used all his approach and helped himself to get exonerated of all charges without bothering about the local Muslims," say Afaq Ahmed, a local.
Perhaps, gauging the mood of the situation and preparing for a larger win, BJP's Sharma, on the contrary, helped to seek bail for all the innocents, both Hindus and Muslims. In the parliamentary elections also "communal polarization" played a huge role.
Though, Sajad had an edge as if he wished he would have worked to consolidate the entire Muslim vote bank. Courtesy: PDP chose Firdous Ahmed Tak instead of strongest candidate Syed Asghar Ali.
But it worked the other way round; Sharma was successful in consolidating the Hindu votes besides, gaining the thousands of Muslim votes as well.
This year it was all about celebrations for the saffron party. Like many other Ghulam Nabi Azad's home constituency, Bhaderwah too does not have a different story.
BJP's Daleep Singh bagged 25953 votes and defeated Azad's cousin and INC's face in Bhaderwah, Mohammed Sharief Niaz who secured 24457 votes.
In 2008, it was Azad who bagged the Bhaderwah seat with 38238 votes and defeated BJP's Daya Krishan who secured 8802 votes only. Earlier in 2002, it was Naiz who won bagging 16962 votes and BJP then was at second runner-up bagging just 19 per cent of the total share of votes.
Similarly in 1996 NC's Maulana Atta ullah bagged the seat securing 13230 votes and BJP, the second runner could only secure 7152 votes.
Accompanying Niaz in his rallies the tantrum of Azad of making people dream of a 'model valley' did not work this time over.
"Azad may have sanctioned medical college in our favour but he did not work much on the connectivity of the area in any of his tenure, neither when he was in state nor the centre," says Iqbal Ahmed, a local. "A leader of Azad's stature could have developed the entire Chenab Valley into a much better place than it is today but he did not. In Bhaderwah, certain anger, though little, against Azad has made BJP to win.
Besides, the entire votes of Village Defence Committees would have helped Singh to his win. Election Commission of India unlike last elections had not put VDC's on duty for guarding the polling booths. They make at least a number of 24,000 votes and most of them perhaps would have supported BJP.
=Ramban's result was not as surprising as Doda, Kishtwar and Bhaderwah. It is the second time after 1996 that BJP has won in the area. In the Hindu majority place, Neelam Kumar Langeh bagged 25349 votes while as NC's Dr Chaman Lal secured 19985 votes.
In 2008, Congress's Ashok Kumar bagged 21779 votes and BJP's Bali Bhagat secured 11460 votes. In 1996, BJP's Bhagat had won bagging 10123 votes.
The surprising element in Langeh's win is he was a last minute choice for BJP. For last three years BJP was portraying Girdari Lal, a school teacher as their candidate. He left his government job to be in the party and contest elections but was denied the mandate in the last minute. The political commentators then thought that Lal's exist would help NC's Dr. Lal's win as they both belonged to the same village and have worked equally for the betterment of people.
But as the results show, people have rejected all the logics and have chosen BJP's new face.
In Banihal and Inderwal the results were a bit expected and Congress retained both the seats.
Congress's Vikar Rasool Wani bagged 17671 votes. The first runner up was a retired bureaucrat Bashir Ahmed Runyal representing PDP who got 13322 votes. And in Inderwal, Congress's G M Saroori retained his seat and bagged 29754 votes defeating BJP's Tariq Hussain Keen.


Mad they call me, Marietta, for crossing blind the boulevard; mad, for singeing my raven locks, Lou Reed's 'Jesus' on my lips, in the flame of a votive candle; mad, for lying down with dogs at the foot of the Opera steps. Am I mad? No, I am not mad: I miss you.
It's cold and wet in this city on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The mountains are covered in mist. Enlivened by the rain, graffiti crawls on the walls of bombed-out buildings. Turning up the collar of my coat, I smell damp wool: My heart races as I see you in Zürich, knitting the sweater I'm wearing. Hark! The chiming of church bells: Still we have marriages.
Saturday night I spent with a girl. Peachy white wine, sweet-and-sour aubergine with swordfish: In a corner nook, in the vaulted interior of a revamped osteria, I sat opposite Giulia, a girl with dark eyes and a tumble of black curls. My heart skipped a beat when she told me she's from Ticino. A student at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, she'd just won a competition, of which the prize is a practicum here: converting a former tuna processing plant into two bars, a restaurant, a 400-seat performance space and a hotel. She told me about the Mafia, the siphoning off of EU funds destined for the renovation of the city.


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Q: Spring WebFlow 2 and Apache Tiles 3 configuration. Second view doesn't work. I can't configure webflow with apache tiles.
The first view is displayed, but the second gives

HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource is not available.

springmvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
       xmlns:webflow-config="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.2.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.2.xsd
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-2.4.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.rog.webshop.controller"/>
    <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/"/>

    <mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService" enable-matrix-variables="true" validator="validator"/>

    <bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer">
        <property name="definitions">
            <list>
                <value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass"
                  value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesView">
        </property>
        <property name="order" value="-2"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="validator" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean">
        <property name="validationMessageSource" ref="messageSource"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
        <property name="basename" value="messages"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean">

        <property name="converters">
            <list>
                <bean id="roleToUserProfile" class="com.rog.webshop.util.RoleToUserProfileConverter"/>
                <bean id="categoryToProduct" class="com.rog.webshop.util.CategoryConverter"/>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver">
        <property name="maxUploadSize" value="10240000"/>
    </bean>

    <webflow-config:flow-executor id="flowExecutor"
                                  flow-registry="flowRegistry"/>
    <webflow-config:flow-builder-services id="flowBuilderServices"
                                          validator="validator"
                                          view-factory-creator="mvcViewFactoryCreator"/>
    <webflow-config:flow-registry id="flowRegistry"
                                  base-path="WEB-INF/flows"
                                  flow-builder-services="flowBuilderServices">
        <webflow-config:flow-location path="/checkout/checkout-flow.xml"
                                      id="checkout"/>
    </webflow-config:flow-registry>

    <bean id="mvcViewFactoryCreator" class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.builder.MvcViewFactoryCreator">
        <property name="viewResolvers" ref="tilesViewResolver" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="flowHandlerMapping" class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerMapping">
        <property name="flowRegistry" ref="flowRegistry"/>
        <property name="order" value="-1"/>
    </bean>
    <bean id="flowHandlerAdapter" class="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.servlet.FlowHandlerAdapter">
        <property name="flowExecutor" ref="flowExecutor"/>
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter">
        <property name="messageConverters">
            <list>
                <ref bean="jsonMessageConverter"/>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="jsonMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
    </bean>

</beans>

My flow
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<flow xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow/spring-webflow.xsd">

    <var name="order" class="com.rog.webshop.model.order.Order" />

    <action-state id="addCartToOrder">
        <evaluate expression="cartService.validate(requestParameters.cartId)"
                  result="order.cart" />
        <transition to="InvalidCartWarning"
                    on-exception="com.rog.webshop.exception.InvalidCartException" />
        <transition to="collectCustomerInfo" />
    </action-state>

    <view-state id="collectCustomerInfo" view="collectCustomerInfo" model="order">

        <transition on="customerInfoCollected" to="collectShippingDetail" />
    </view-state>

    <view-state id="collectShippingDetail"  view="collectShippingDetail" model="order">
        <transition on="shippingDetailCollected" to="orderConfirmation" />
        <transition on="backToCollectCustomerInfo" to="collectCustomerInfo" />
    </view-state>

    <view-state id="orderConfirmation" view="orderConfirmation">
        <transition on="orderConfirmed" to="processOrder" />
        <transition on="backToCollectShippingDetail" to="collectShippingDetail" />
    </view-state>

    <action-state id="processOrder" >
        <evaluate expression="orderService.saveOrder(order)" result="order.orderId"/>
        <transition to="thankCustomer" />
    </action-state>

    <view-state id="InvalidCartWarning" view="InvalidCartWarning">
        <transition to="endState"/>
    </view-state>

    <view-state id="thankCustomer" model="order" view="thankCustomer">
        <transition to="endState"/>
    </view-state>

    <end-state id="endState"/>

    <end-state id="cancelCheckout" view = "checkOutCancelled.jsp"/>

    <global-transitions>
        <transition on = "cancel" to="endState" />
    </global-transitions>

</flow>

Tiles definitions for two of the view I am using in the flow:
    <definition name="collectCustomerInfo" extends="shop.base">
    <put-attribute name="title" value="Shop homepage"></put-attribute>
    <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/flows/checkout/collectCustomerInfo.jsp"></put-attribute>
</definition>

<definition name="collectShippingDetail" extends="shop.base">
    <put-attribute name="title" value="Shop homepage"></put-attribute>
    <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/flows/checkout/collectShippingDetail.jsp"></put-attribute>
</definition>

This is how I evoke the transition from the first view to second in jsp ( from collectCustomerInfo to collectShippingDetail

                    <input type="submit" id="btnAdd" class="btn btn-primary"
                        value="Add" name="_eventId_customerInfoCollected" />
                    <button id="btnCancel" class="btn btn-default" name="_eventId_cancel">Cancel</button>

A: try using:
<bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.js.ajax.AjaxUrlBasedViewResolver">
    <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.webflow.mvc.view.FlowAjaxTiles3View"/>
</bean>

and see if you get a different result

A: may be this will help
<bean id="viewResolver"
      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
    <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView">
    </property>
    <property name="order" value="0" />
</bean>

<bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver"/>

<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
    <property name="definitions">
        <list>
            <value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>


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