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Александар Фјодорович Керенски (; Симбирск, 4. мај 1881 — Њујорк, 11. јун 1970) је био руски револуционарни вођа, који је имао важну улогу у збацивању руске монархије. Био је други председник руске привремене владе у периоду од Фебруарске до Октобарске револуције. Био је председник владе од 21. јула — 8. новембра 1917. године.

Детињство, младост и активизам
Керенски је дипломирао 1904. године право на универзитету Санкт Петербургу. Своја политичка стремљења је показао рано бранећи противцарске револуционаре. Изабран је 1912. у Думу као члан трудовика, умерене радничке партије. Био је бриљантан говорник и вешт парламентарни вођа, па је постао члан Привременога комитета Думе као вођа социјалистичке опозиције режиму цара Николаја II Романова.

Фебруарска револуција 1917
Када је 1917. године избила Фебруарска револуција Керенски је био један од истакнутијих вођа и био је изабран за потпредседника петроградскога совјета. Био је први министар правде у новоформираној привременој влади коју је образовао кнез Георгиј Лавов. Када су совјети изгласали резолуцију којом су забранили да њихове вође учествују у влади Керенски се томе оштро противио. Иако та одлука совјета никада није формализована Керенски је дефакто добио изузеће, па је остао у влади.

Настала је криза прве владе 2.-4. маја око тајне ноте Павела Миљукова, којом се Русија поново враћала на почетне ратне циљеве. После те кризе Керенски је постао министар рата и имао је доминантан утицај у новоформираној коалиционој влади социјалиста и либерала. Под притиском савезника да Русија настави рат Керенски је покренуо офанзиву, која је позната као офанзива Керенскога. У почетку офанзива је била успешна, али онда је заустављена, па су Руси потиснути натраг снажном немачком контраофанзивом. Руска армија је тада претрпјела тешке губитке. Из многих инцидената, саботажа, дезертерства видело се да руска војска више нема вољу за борбом. Керенскога су много критиковали због његове либералне политике по којој су чланови револуционарних војничких комитета могли смењивати официре. Критикован је и због тога јер је укинуо смтрну казну и дозволио присуство револуционарних агитатора на фронту. Прва коалиција се распала 2. јула 1917. године по питању украјинске аутономије. Након широко распрострањених нереда у Петрограду и сузбијања бољшевика Керенски је постао председник владе. Немири су настали због офанзиве против Немачке, у којој су Руси поражени. Осим тога владала је немаштина. Око 20.000 наоружаних морнара је ушло у Петроград и захтевало да совјети преузму власт. Након Корниловљеве афере крајем августа и оставке неколико министара Керенски је постао главнокомандујући руске војске. Та афера је представљала кључни фактор за успон бољшевика. Лав Корнилов је сматрао да бољшевици треба да се елиминишу, а изгледа да је видео прилику да сам преузме власт. Тада је бољшевичка Црвена гарда спасила Петроград и Керенскога. После те афере порасла је популарност бољшевика, а подршка Керенском и привременој влади је битно опала.

Највећи изазов Керенскоме је била исцрпљеност Русије након три године рата. Привремена влада није довољно мотивисала војску за победу. Лењин и бољшевици су обећавали "мир, земљу и хлеб" под комунистичким системом. Армија се распадала због недостатка дисциплине и дезертерства. Керенски је наставио са ратом због руских обавеза према савезницима, бојећи се да би економија могла да постане још нестабилнија, када би се прекинуло снабдевање из Енглеске и Француске. Неки су се бојали да ће Немачка тражити велике територије за мир, што се и десила касније Брест-Литовским миром. Постојала је велика дилема да ли се повући из рата, а осим тога неконзистентна и непрактична политика Керенскога је даље дестабилизовала војску и земљу.

Керенски је усвојио политику, којом је био изолован од десних конзервативаца и демократске и монархистичке оријентације. Његова филозофија "Без непријатеља налево" дала је моћ бољшевицима и дала им је могућност да преузму војно крило петроградскога и московскога совјета. Када је ухапсио Корнилова није више имао јаких савезника против бољшевика, који су постали најјачи савезник Керенскога, а били су и одлучнији од деснога крила, који је израстао у Бели покрет.

Октобарска револуција
За време Корниловљеве афере Керенски је петроградским радницима разделио оружје, а до октобра је већина наоружаних радника пришла бољшевицима. Лењин је одлучио да обори владу Керенскога пре планираних избора за руску уставотворну скупштину. Бољшевици су 7. новембра 1917. године извели државни удар. Влада Керенскога готово није имала никакве подршке у граду. Бољшевицима се супротставила само мања снага. Бољшевици су за мање од 20 сати преузели власт у догађају који је познат као Октобарска револуција. Керенски је испред бољшевика побегао у Псков, где је сакупио лојалну војску за покушај поновнога заузимања Петрограда. Његова војска је успела да заузме Царско Село, али били су онда поражени код Пулкова. Керенски је једва успео да побегне. Неколико недеља се сакривао пре коначнога бега у Француску. За време Рускога грађанскога рата није подржавао ниједну страну.

Живот у прогнанству
Живео је у Паризу до 1940. године и био је укључен у сталне свађе и спорове избеглих руских демократских вођа. Када је Немачка окупирала Француску побегао је у САД. Када је Хитлер напао СССР 1941. године, Керенски је Стаљину понудио помоћ, али није добио одговор. Касније је живео у Њујорку, а велики део времена је провео на универзитету у Станфорду, где је предавао о руској историји и политици. Много је писао и суделовао у емисијама о руској историји и политици. Умро је у Њујорку 1970. Руска православна загранична црква у Њујорку је одбила да га сахрани јер су га сматрали одговорним за пад Русије у руке бољшевика. Српска православна црква је исто одбила да га сахрани. Тело Керенскога је сахрањено у Лондону у делу гробља за оне без религије.

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Technology continues to touch all our lives in many most of us did not imagine only a few years ago. Now it is on its way to improve our experience with a variety of our personal transportation methods too.
No, we're not talking about more technology that will distract us while driving. Just the opposite, this tech is intended to make us safer on the road.
Wireless technology using dedicated short range communication, similar to WiFi, in our vehicles is coming that will connect our cars, trucks, buses and even trains to make it possible to communicate safety and mobility information in order to prevent injuries, ease traffic problems and even improve our environment.
It seems like a tall order, doesn't it?
Auto makers and the US Department of Transportation are working together now to make this a reality. They are connecting our car with the world around us. The goal of connected vehicle technology is to prevent accidents, injuries and death instead of focusing on just surviving crashes.
Alert drivers about dangerous roadway conditions such as curves, accidents or other road dangers before they are unavoidable.
"Talk" to infrastructure (vehicle to infrastructure – V2I) such as school crossings, traffic signals and toll booths.
Prevent accidents from occurring especially at intersections and while changing lanes.
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Inform drivers about road conditions, which will allow smarter choices to reduce traffic delays because we're stuck in traffic.
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Provide estimated times when public transportation will arrive using real time information, encouraging more to use those systems.
Reduce the amount of gas wasted while sitting in traffic, helping the environment, as well as improve fuel efficiency by using the real time data from traffic patterns.
Include crash avoidance sensors in a vehicle to vehicle (V2V) application for the prevention of accidents.
Provide "do not pass" alerts, collision warnings, safety messages, data telling drivers they're following too closely or when cars are braking ahead, and other information about vehicles ahead to improve safety.
Give drivers real time data about road conditions, transportation schedules and traffic information.
Allow traffic management to evaluate transportation systems performance and thereby manage the systems.
Studies have been underway since 2011, finding that 9 out of 10 drivers would like this technology in the car they are currently driving.
Since 2009 there have been 5.5 million crashes, resulting in 33,808 fatalities and 2.2 million injuries. Advances in technology that give us all these vital pieces of information to make our travel safer can have an positive impact on these growing statistics. The connected vehicle researchers estimate that tens of thousands of crashes can be prevented each year using this new technology.
We will continue to keep our eye on the progression of connected vehicles. Why, you may ask.
This type of information in our senior loved ones' vehicles could prevent driving accidents and perhaps allow them to maintain their freedom behind the wheel a little longer, even if their reactions aren't quite what they were in younger days.
I think this is very exciting. I saw a news story where the driver intentionally tried to run his car into a wall but the collision avoidance system prevented it. There are actually after-market collision avoidance systems already on the market that can be installed on practically any modern car. While these systems won't take over control of the car, they will provide warnings. And for around $1,200 installed they have the potential to help prolong the independence of some older adults, today. I've actually published an article about one system in particular.
Thanks for your comments Mike! We saw aftermarket safety equipment at CES this year. You are definitely right that warnings could save lives and we believe we will see more on the horizon. They will become standard features in the not too distant future!


Have you been assigned to write an expository essay yet don't know what it demands from you? If you wonder what is an expository essay, you are going to find a thorough answer to your question right away.
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The structure of an expository essay is the same as that of all other essay types. It is composed of three parts – the introduction, the body and the conclusion. The first part is to present your thesis statement and give the main idea of your work. The body is to be composed of three parts. All these paragraphs are to support the main thesis with different details. What concerns the last, but not less important part of the expository essay – the conclusion, it is to restate the thesis and tie together all the points mentioned in the work without suggesting any new idea.
Let's explain all the steps in writing an expository essay in a more detailed manner.
Once you determine the topic, it's time to make some research. Don't forget to take notes of most important data. Once you scheme an outline, you will have a precise image about the final look of your work.
Now it's time to pass on drafting the paper. Remember that the topic sentence of your introduction should be the most important one. State a clear thesis without taking a certain position of expressing your viewpoint.
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The last paragraph of your essay is the conclusion. An efficient conclusion reinforces the thesis statement of the paper, defines all the supporting ideas of the facts that support it.
Once you are over with drafting the expository essay, it's time to revise it. There are several points that can help you clear out whether your expository essay is worthy or not. If your paper is written adhered to all the below-mentioned points, then you have a wonderful result!
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The structures of sentences are varied, while the choice of words is precise.
You wrote the essay in the third person without showing any personal view.
All the transitions between paragraphs and separate sentences are clear and smooth.
The final part of the paper, the conclusion, transfers the meaning, as well as the value of your thesis statement while reminding about the key ideas.
Once you are sure of the authenticity of your expository essay, check it for any grammatical, stylistic and other mistakes. It will be great to give the ready work to someone whose knowledge and opinion you rely on to read it. A fresh perspective is always appreciated!


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Q: TypeError: input() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given I am writing a Python program to measure the time complexity of insertion sort. However, I got the above mentioned error on line number 6. This error also occurs during other{  int(inputs)  }. Any help would be great,thanks. My code is:
import random, matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def input():
    arr=[]
    ret_size=[]
    ret_count=[]
    n=int(input('enter the number of trials'))
    for i in range(n):
        x=int(input('size of array:'))
        for z in range(x):
            r=random.randint(1,2000)
            arr.append(r)
        count=0
        for ind in range(1,len(arr)):
            count+=1
            cur=arr[ind]
            count+=1
            pos=ind
            while pos>0 and arr[pos-1]>cur:
                count+=1
                pos=pos-1
                count+=1
            arr[pos]=cur
        count+=1
        print('sorted listL')
        print(arr)
        print('number of hops:')
        print(count)
        ret_size.append(x)
        ret_count.append(count)
    plt.plot(ret_size,ret_count)
    plt.xlabel('size of input')
    plt.ylabel('number of hops')
    plt.title('insertion sort')
    plt.show()

input()

A: Note these 2 lines of your code:
def input():

and
    n=int(input('enter the number of trials'))

In the first of them you redefined the built-in function input() (which accepts 0 or 1 parameter) with your own with the same name (which accepts only 0 parameters, i. e. none).
So in the second of them you called NOT the built-in function input() - as you wanted - but your own one, and as you callded it with 1 parameter ('enter the number of trials'), you got a relevant error.
Choose an other name for defining your input() function - and then use that name for calling it, too.

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The Founder is to McDonald's what The Social Network was to Facebook
By Tasha Robinson / @TashaRobinson
Jan 19, 2017, 3:54 PM UTC |
One of the most telling details about The Founder, John Lee Hancock's lively, bleak drama about the origins of the McDonald's fast-food empire, is that the movie never actually makes McDonald's food look tempting. The Founder is a compelling story about American inspiration, ambition, and greed, but it's fairly agnostic about the actual product being sold. It could just as well be a movie about a hyper-successful shoe company, if that company had set off a behind-the-scenes war for control and fundamentally changed the way Americans walk. And that actually makes The Founder a much better experience than it would be if Hancock cared intimately about the quality of McDonald's burgers. The Founder is based on a true story — with all the caveats "based on" implies — but ultimately, it's about the commentary on American innovation and capitalism, not about product placement.
In that sense, The Founder is remarkably like David Fincher's The Social Network, which heavily fictionalized the story of Facebook's creation without particularly touching on why the social platform is such an addictive draw for some people, or how it changed the way large segments of the world interact with each other today. The Founder doesn't have The Social Network's blistering pacing or malicious, manic edge, but it does follow many of the same story beats, beginning with the way it posits its protagonist as a hungry, resentful outsider looking for a model to exploit. And just as with The Social Network, The Founder's Ray Kroc finds a way to expand the initial spark of someone else's idea into an empire, by expanding its reach and appeal, and ruthlessly leveraging the power that comes with success.
The Founder opens with Michael Keaton as Kroc delivering a strained sales pitch for a milkshake mixer directly to the camera with all the sweaty, unctuous desperation of Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross. "Increase supply and demand will follow," Kroc claims, in what could be the film's tagline. It's 1955, and Kroc is nearing the end of what's clearly a long run of get-rich-slow schemes that have taken all his hustle and confidence, and left him hawking outdated equipment from one run-down highway diner to the next. Then he gets a surprisingly large mixer order from a thriving San Bernardino, California mini-chain called McDonald's, and he sets out on a cross-country trip to check out their business model. The owners, brothers Dick (Parks And Recreation's Nick Offerman) and Mac McDonald (Zodiac's John Carroll Lynch) welcome him with open arms, eager to show off their organizational successes to anyone capable of appreciating them.
While The Founder is primarily a historical drama, it's often wryly hilarious as well, and the scene where a shocked Kroc takes in the McDonald brothers' innovations — including food that (gasp!) comes in a bag and (double gasp!) can be eaten without silverware — is a particular hoot. Films about history often emphasize how much societies change in terms of injustice and intolerance, but they rarely focus on tiny watershed moments like this, where one man is flabbergasted to realize that specialization and a custom-designed assembly line system can be used to prepare food even before it's ordered. But the moment that follows, where Hancock focuses on characters eagerly snarfing down greasy hamburger patties on outsized, bland-looking buns, is even more telling. He doesn't try to make the food look appealing. He just makes it look profitable, and Kroc immediately wants in on the profits.
As with The Social Network, there are no heroes in The Founder. Dick and Mac are portrayed as innovative men who care deeply about the quality of their product, and show an almost unseemly joy in designing the perfect fast-food kitchen. But they're also sullen, reactionary sticks in the mud who can't see the genius of Kroc's expansion plans, and spend months mulling over — or just ignoring — relatively minor decisions while Kroc, bound by his contract with them, waits for an answer. Keaton, meanwhile, plays Kroc much as he played Broadway impresario Riggan Thomson in Birdman: as a manic striver held back by all the little minds around him, and certain he deserves better things largely because he wants them. Even when he's succeeding, he still comes across as unctuous and slimy, perpetually bathed in his own flop-sweat. He's a capitalist villain and hero in the same package, an entrepreneur whose biggest innovation is selling out. But he still represents the gleaming, fast-paced future, while the McDonald's brothers are the dour, cranky face of the past. (Offerman's typically straight-faced, crotchety performance is a film highlight, but watching Kroc try to deal with his nay-saying may give audiences their biggest moments of sympathy for the devil.) The best parts of The Founder are about the struggle between the two sides, with Kroc representing cultural change and the undiluted profit motive, and the McDonald brothers as tragic dinosaurs representing hard work, integrity, and community.
But The Founder's biggest strength is that it doesn't lose the story or the characters in the larger metaphor about the gap between creation and exploitation. The script, by Big Fan writer-director (and former Onion editor-in-chief) Robert D. Siegel, portrays Kroc as a fairly repellent man who butters up his opponents, then backstabs them. But it also finds a little sympathy for the desperate hunger that drives him, and for the way he sees expansion as its own worthy goal. The film doesn't just resemble The Social Network: its cynical humor and perky good cheer are also somewhat familiar from Steven Soderbergh's The Informant!, another film about a self-made, self-deluded, inherently selfish man who might be awful to know, but is still plenty of fun to watch.
The Founder could stand to do a lot more with some of the side details — women have little place in this story, and the side plot involving Kroc's neglected, pained first wife (Laura Dern) and his pursuit of a second woman (Linda Cardellini) is particularly undercooked and clumsy. The film could stand to spend more time on figuring out why people engage with McDonald's, why "fast and cheap" so quickly trumps quality, and why Kroc's counterintuitive "supply creates demand" statement appears to be ironically true. The metaphor doesn't undermine the story, but it isn't entirely developed, either: the movie is more concerned with Kroc's personality than with the landscape he entered, and how he changed it. And curiously, it's particularly uninterested in Kroc's real-world obsession with giving customers a uniform cross-country dining experience, and how much that became a fast-food selling point.
What's most missing in The Founder is an awareness of McDonald's customers as anything but a predictable yet amorphous blob of hunger, sweeping in to consume everything the burger-sellers have to offer, and leaving nothing but money and litter behind. There's a pretty hilarious gag about the brothers deliberately making McDonald's less appealing to teenagers, in order to dodge the juvenile-delinquent bobby-sox crowd and their repellent rock n roll. But the broadness of the approach also makes entire demographics look like consumer units in a city-sim game, boosting one player's stat while jinxing another.
But those faults aside, The Founder is remarkably entertaining, and it brings a caustic mirth and an even-handed fascination to a behind-the-scenes business story that may not initially sound interesting to viewers. When The Social Network was first greenlit, the internet lit up with snark about the idea of a Facebook movie. A McDonald's movie sounds just as unlikely as a left-field hit. But apparently Kroc is right about supply driving demand in this case, as well. The Founder may never be as popular as the McDonald's food it's highlighting. But it's a much more appealing sell.
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Gosh, it feels like it has been forever since I last wrote just to say hello and post an update. Probably because it has been forever! I find that I am more active on Instagram these days than the blog, but I have missed blogging and am planning to begin posting regularly again. With all my surgeries in 2018 + the book launching, I didn't have enough bandwidth to write on here as well. I didn't even post the kids birthday parties from 2018 (though I still plan to post them because they were sooo fun!).
Most recently, Ezra turner FOUR on New Year's Eve and he survived getting rid of his paci. The baby days are officially behind us. We also are currently touring MIDDLE SCHOOLS for Elias. What is happening?
We also preparing to have our living room remodeled. We have wanted to remodel our entire lower level since we moved into our house, and 2019 is the year that it is finally happening. The living room is half our lower level, so getting this done is going to feel so good (though I know it is going to really make me want to get everything else finished).
For the living room, we are having the popcorn texture removed and getting can lights put in the ceiling. The room, which is 15'x25′ doesn't have ANY lights in it, so this will be a big change.
We are also having all the molding taken down and shiplap installed in the entire room. The room is currently wallpapered, and I am so excited to cover it all! Moreover, our house is all cream, so the change to white will be pretty dramatic. I am so excited.
The goal is to have the whole thing done in eight days. It's aggressive, but doable. My mom and sister's family are coming to visit on January 31. It will be exciting to have everything fresh for their visit.
Many of you noticed that during the second half of last year, I stopped posting my monthly reading updates. I started a bookstagram account last year (do you follow @Booksnobbery), so I definitely still talked about books a lot, just not here on the blog. A LOT of you missed the posts though, so I promise to start them up again! I've already read 3 books this year, so 2019 is looking good in the reading department.
I'm delighted that my new book Stretched Too Thin is still on sale for $1.99, so be sure you grab it at that low price if you haven't read it yet.
Also, Matthew's new children's book, When I Pray for You, releases next month. We are so excited about the way this book is going to impact parents and kids alike. For the launch, we are working on a special little project with Amy Grant, and y'all, it is soooo sweet. You are going to LOVE it!
After more than a year of talking about it, I finally bit the bullet and hired a personal trainer at the YMCA. With having my abs sewn back together at the end of 2016, then my hysterectomy 18 months later, I knew that I needed to have a coach to help teach me what to do, how to do it, etc. I hate it every week, but am really proud of the way I am sticking with it. Read more about my commitment here.
Well, I think those are most of the highlights. If you are eager for me to write more on a topic in the coming months, will you leave a comment on this post. I want The Mom Creative to be a place you enjoy visiting, so tell me what you love, what you've missed, etc.! 2019 marks my 13th year of blogging. Thank you for sticking with me on this journey as my kids have grown, my career has changed, and the Internet has evolved. I don't take any of it for granted.
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I'm happy to see you sharing on your blog some more this month. Wow…time does fly especially when it comes to kids growing up. You asked what I've missed and without a doubt it is your monthly book review (among other things). That's what comes to mind first and foremost. I often put at least a couple of the books in my Amazon cart! Otherwise I just enjoy the blog so I'm happy if you're able to carve out time to be here. Congratulations on the puppy…biggest advice is to use a crate.
I miss reading blogs so much. It seemed life was slower when your blog friend held more than 10 seconds of your attention. Odd though because I for sure thought life was fast before. I'm 2019 I'm aiming to be more I intentional – one thing at a time. We'll see how this little experiment goes. I'm a mom of two boys (almost 4 and a new 7), work full-time in corporate America and hope to launch my side-photography gig this year. Then there is also the hubby, church, family and friends. Talk to you soon!


Zamboanga is experiencing an economic and tourism boom. Recently, the spotlight was on the pink sands of Sta Cruz Islands that made waves after being included in National Geographic's list of top beaches. Tourists from all over the country and some from different parts of the globe came to Zamboanga to see the pink sand beach. Most of the comments from guests are positive but there is one setback, our tricycles in the city charge more than the prescribed fare rates. They are like vultures waiting at the airport and bus stations.
I call them "taxicles" or tricycles that charge outrageously high fare rates similar to taxis sans the air conditioning and comfortable seats. This has been a perineal problem of our city since I got here in 2004. Jeepneys are my number one choice of public transport because tricycles charge ten times more. A ten-minute ride from the airport to a local mall would cost you from 70-100 pesos. Yesterday, I got home from the province and was in a hurry to get to the office. A tricycle would have been my best option for the 10-kilometer ride. However, the tricycle waiting at the arrival area of the bus terminal would charge me 130.00 pesos which is basically half of my bus fare for 119 kilometers. Following the regulated fare matrix, I should only be charged 60.00-70.00 pesos. Some of my social media followers posted on my facebook page that they had been charged 200.00-300.00 pesos.
A couple of years ago, one of my facebook posts went viral and got shared 240 times. I was entertaining four friends from Manila who were on vacation here in Zamboanga. They were charged 100.00 pesos for a 1.5km ride. I was urged to report the incident to the Tricycle Adjudication Board and they immediately investigated the matter. I had to take two trips to the city hall to file my complaint and face the tricycle driver. This basically consumed some of my productive hours but I still proceeded with the complaint hoping that I can contribute to improving the situation for commuters. A fine and a few days suspension from operations were served to the driver and tricycle operator. It was a hard decision for me knowing that the driver will not have any means of livelihood for the next couple of weeks. But as the saying goes, Dura Lex Sed Lex (the law may be harsh but it is still the law). Wil I report tricycles again? I won't because it is very time consuming and I haven't seen any long-term effects in doing so.
A year had passed after my short rant on social media and I can still read viral posts about tricycle drivers. It's still the same old story. It had been a cycle of action and inaction from the government. Several hearings on the City Council took place to discuss the matter, an updated fare matrix is already in place, and a group of students are even making a cellphone app to calculate the fare. This worked for some time and most tricycle drivers followed the rates. But there are still some who take advantage of especially when the passengers are in a hurry. Band-aid solutions are plenty but nobody has ever cured this disease. The problem calls for a multi-faceted solution that would eradicate this cancer that plagues commuters.
The pipe-laying operations conducted by the water service provider is a welcome change. However, this became an opportunity for tricycle drivers to charge extra.
Playing the blame game would not help either, this problem existed more than a decade ago. And as the traffic in Zamboanga gets crazier, tricycles have more alibis charge extra. Gasoline prices do not increase during rains but tricycle fares do! Now that the city has started the one-way scheme in several major roads, tricycle drivers also see it as an opportunity to increase their charges. Road improvements and pipe-laying operations by the water district are very positive things that are happening for us. Unfortunately, tricycle drivers charge extra if your route will pass by these infrastructure projects because of the traffic. Living in the outskirts of the city is also a problem. Some tricycle drivers would charge double because they will also let you shoulder their cost of getting back to the populated areas to get more passengers.
Road repairs are also signs of progress but some tricycle drivers make it a reason to charge extra.
Some travelers prefer booking their flights in Dipolog than Zamboanga just because of this problem. Zamboanga City's base fare is double compared to the base fares in other cities of Region 9. Other tourists can only give negative feedback and just live with the rates. Certainly, this is not good for local tourism. The real victims of the taxicles would be the Zamboanguenos who take commute every day. A lot of their hard earned money goes to fares that are beyond the regulations. This long overdue problem has now become part of our lifestyle. Immediate actions should be done but careful planning and study on the matter should be undertaken. Pointing fingers will not solve any problem, we need solutions. Facebook rants are now passé and giving comments on this issue is very tiring. Hopefully, this will be my last post about the matter. When will this end? Will this problem ever end or should we concede and live with it?
Please feel free to comment. Civilized exchange of ideas would be highly appreciated.
Tricycle drivers are overpricing. The fare is equivalent when you ride a taxi or a way going to Molave from Dipolog City. I do hope that the City government of Zamboanga will find solution to the overpricing of tricycle fare. This can effects City's booming tourism. hehehe. 🙂 Just a thought!
Unfortunately, Zamboanga's politicians are more concerned about the votes they could lose from these "taxicle" drivers and operators. It also doesn't help that many of these politicians are operators themselves. I've lost hope that any real change is forthcoming for Zamboangueños and our visitors regarding this overcharging issue.
My friend and I went to zamboanga years ago and that concern about tricycle drivers asking high fare was what we noticed as well. So sorry as well that we've noticed people there arent too hospitable unlike other provinces or places. Perhaps we should not compare, that's the trick.
this is "oh so true!" , got also this kind of experience kuya. especially during rainy seasons when going home from school. I usually use "taxicles" but sometimes they overcharge you even though you're still a student.


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'Thousands' of Extremists Muslims in Sweden
The number of Islamists militant extremists living in Sweden has soared from a couple of hundreds a few years ago to thousands today, the security police Säpo believes. "We have never seen anything like it before," said Säpo chief Anders Thornberg in an interview with Swedish news agency TT.
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The vast majority of the extremists support violent Islamist ideologies, according to Säpo, whose security experts in a report in 2010 estimated that there were around 200 such sympathizers in Sweden.
"We would say that it has gone from hundreds to thousands now," said Thornberg.
However, he stressed that the security service believes few of them have the ability to, or even intend to, carry out a terror attack in Sweden.
The security police are working on putting together new, more exact, figures, reports TT. Thornberg described the situation as serious.
"This is the 'new normal' … It is an historic challenge that extremist circles are growing," he said.
He attributed the rise primarily to the propaganda machine of Isis, also known as the Islamic State (IS) or Daesh, which has united different groups of Islamist extremists.
"We used to have different circles. We had radicalized people from North Africa, the Middle East and Somalia, but they were all separate," he said.
Thornberg said Säpo now receives around 6,000 intelligence tips a month concerning terrorism and extremism, compared to an average 2,000 a month in 2012.
Terror expert Magnus Ranstorp of the Swedish Defence University told The Local the new figures were expected. "Those of us working in the field of counter-terrorism are not surprised, it has been in the making for some time, it didn't just appear. When IS declared the caliphate, that was the genie out of the bottle," he said.
"It is a development we're seeing in general, of course it's worse in bigger countries. In the UK there are 23,000 extremists, in Belgium there are 18,000, in France 17,000. Not everyone is equally dangerous, but it only takes a small number of people."
Ranstorp said there were four reasons behind the increase in violent extremists:
"First, there's the mobilization within the context of the conflict in the Middle East, in particular Syria. Then there's social media. There has been a tsunami of carefully calibrated propaganda and recruitment – and with social media IS can reach out to anyone's living room," he told The Local.
A third reason is segregation in Sweden's so-called vulnerable areas, districts with often high poverty and crime rates and a higher prevalence of religious extremism.
"It's important because it has all the socio-economic problems, but also it has been easy for extremists to recruit undisturbed in those areas. And the fourth reason is maybe that the prevention measures have been pretty tame. It's become better in the last year, but I have long said that if you compare Denmark and Sweden, Denmark is at university level and Sweden at kindergarten level," said Ranstorp, calling for sharper prevention measures and emphasizing the need for police and other governmental and local authorities to work together to break segregation in vulnerable areas.
Interior Minister Anders Ygeman called the figures "worrying", but added: "This is above all a description of what has happened in the past few years and it is already known. We have seen an increasing in violent extremism and an increase in sympathizers too, especially together with the outbreak of the war in Syria."
Asked what he thought the increase in people supporting extremist ideologies said about Sweden's work to combat radicalism, he told TT: "I think it says little. This is a development we have seen in a number of countries in Europe. On the other hand, it shows that it was right to take those measures we have. A permanent centre against violent extremism, that we have increased the budget to work against violent extremism, that we have increased the security police's budget for three years."
Säpo has previously said that about 300 people from Sweden are known to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join organizations such as Isis since 2012.
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On April 7th, an Uzbek national who had shown sympathies for jihadist groups including Isis used a stolen truck to mow down pedestrians on a busy shopping street in Stockholm, killing five people and injuring 15.
And a Swedish national, Osama Krayem, has been charged with terrorist murders over the 2016 Brussels metro bombing.
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So hey, did any of you guys go to prerelease and open the helvault? I've seen two of you creepers on Saturday so how's about the rest of you guys?
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I first made Red/White Angelic Aggro with many quick red spells such as Thatcher Revolt and Lifelink creatures like Seraph of Dawn to keep myself alive.
In wave two i created blue/black friendless control with Demonic Rising triggering making a 5/5 demon token when my creatures have no friends, then i would use Peel from Reality to bounce the nontoken creature and something annoying on m opponent's side so the Demonic Rising will trigger again giving me a second 5/5 demon.


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A photo of me playing on top of the Black Tusk, a volcanic feature located in Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC, Canada, much to the astonishment of a few others making the trek up! Taken during a 4 day moutaineering trip with my girlfriend.
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