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Israel Imposes Coronavirus Intercity Travel Ban Ahead of Passover Holiday
The measures will take effect on Tuesday at 7 P.M and last until Friday at 6 A.M., with curfew starting on Wednesday at 3 P.M.
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Police in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak, April 5, 2020.Credit: Tomer Appelbaum
The Israeli government approved on Tuesday a general closure across the country to contain the spread of the coronavirus, which will bar Israelis from leaving the community where they reside, other than in exceptional circumstances, such as the need for urgent medical care.
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Intercity travel is banned from Tuesday at 4 P.M. until Friday at 6 A.M.., and all public transportation services are suspended as of Tuesday at 8 P.M.
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In addition, a curfew will be imposed on Wednesday at 3 P.M. until Thursday at 7 A.M., limiting Israelis to 100-meter (about 330 feet) radius of their home. This coincides with the Passover seder, which authorities implored Jews to celebrate at home, rather than with their families.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the proposed measures on Monday. They were initially meant to be voted on by the cabinet overnight, but the vote was postponed until Tuesday afternoon over disagreements on the exact details.
Netanyahu added that the country is preparing to exit the current crisis scenario, saying that there is a realistic possibility restrictions will begin to be eased after Passover.
The latest restrictions are an additional effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Israel during a week when, under normal circumstances, Israelis would be taking to the roads for the Passover seder on Wednesday night and for holiday travel during the duration of the holiday.
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Few people are likely to be affected by a new cabinet decision of this nature, however, unless they had wanted to go to a supermarket beyond the confines of their own communities, because even now, people who aren't commuting to work are generally restricted to 100 meters from home other than to buy food or medicine or to seek medical attention.
The cabinet decided to consider imposing the nationwide pre-holiday travel ban even though both Netanyahu and his national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, favored only prohibiting travel in and out of towns with a high incidence of the coronavirus, which in practice largely means ultra-Orthodox communities. The more wide-ranging proposal was made after a number of mayors objected to singling out particular towns and after the two ultra-Orthodox ministers in the cabinet, Interior Minister Arye Dery and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, concurred in the objection.
At a cabinet meeting on Sunday night that was conducted by phone, Netanyahu reported that there has been an overall decline in the coronavirus infection rate but that in certain areas, infection rates were very high. For that reason, he had proposed tighter restrictions in those areas alone. National Security Adviser Ben-Shabbat agreed with him, saying that different locations required different tactics to contain the virus.
In another development Sunday, police began erecting roadblocks at the entrance to Jerusalem, an operation that is expected to be ongoing until Passover begins on Wednesday evening to prevent people from traveling for the holiday. Roadblocks were also erected at the Hemed interchange of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway and at the entrance to Beit Shemesh, causing traffic tie-ups.
Similar roadblocks were slated to be established at the entrance to other cities on Monday in an operation is to reach its peak on Tuesday and continue until the holiday begins, amid plans to significantly increase the police presence on the ground.
"The aim is for the roads to be completely empty," said Chief Superintendent Shelly Shaul, who heads the traffic police operations department. "Anyone who thinks they will manage to get avoid us should know that at some point, they will encounter the police and won't just get a fine, but will also be sent back home."
On Tuesday, police are set to deploy at exits and entrances to cities and neighborhoods and on intercity highways. Every police officer will be accompanied by a military police officer, which will double the enforcement presence on the roads. Police will also make use of municipal security cameras, as well as drones, to enforce the ban on leaving home.


Lubrication reduces friction and fights corrosion on power-transmission components. However, keeping oil in critical areas is problematic. Microporous polymeric lubricant (MPL) components address some lubrication challenges. These solid forms are comprised of two major elements: a sponge-like polymer with a continuous microporous network, and oil contained within its pores. When an MPL component contacts another motion system component, oil migrates by capillary action to the MPL's surface, where it transfers onto mating areas for lubrication. As an example, MPLs can lubricate ball and roller bearings. (Dr. Heckler has detailed this in two articles. One was published in 2002, titled "Lubed-for-life: using microporous polymeric lubricants" in Machinery Lubrication, Vol. 2, No. 5, by Noria Publishing, p. 48 to 52. Another article describing this is his March 2004 Bearings lubed-for-life in Plant Engineering.) In these applications, the bearings are filled with the microporous polymeric lubricant. Because they do not require relubrication, maintenance costs are reduced. Another benefit: Since the microporous polymeric lubricant also acts as a sponge, it reabsorbs oil and prevents dripping. This improves housekeeping and plant safety.
As mentioned, MPL systems can also be cast, injection molded, and extruded into solid profiles. Now we'll discuss these profiles and ways they lubricate machine parts for reduced friction, decreased maintenance costs, housekeeping elimination, and safety. We'll also discuss several applications and describe how microporous components improve their lubrication.
The redesigned Thomson 500-Series profile rail by Danaher Motion (Radford, Va.) includes a permanent MPL lubrication system. Microporous wipers are extruded, attached at each carriage end, and kept in contact with the rail by springs. As the carriage moves along, they transfer a thin oil film to the rail, which transfers to the carriage's rolling elements. Thus, the MPL wipers eliminate expensive lubricating systems and the environmental pollution associated with conventional oil lubrication processes. The self-lubricating pieces also help bearings achieve their theoretical L10 lives. After about 30,000 km of travel, it is recommended that the self-lubricating wipers be replaced. However, this replacement is easily made onsite.
Microporous polymeric lubricants also oil chains. Several applicator types exist. For example, one sprocket consists of a central hub with microporous polymeric lubricant cast around it to form sprocket teeth. This sprocket then acts as an idler, transferring oil from its microporous-polymeric-lubricant surface to the chain as they roll through mesh. In one actual application, a double #40-sized chain in a sheet-metal processing plant originally used a manual oil spraying lubrication system. This caused oil drip, requiring pans to collect excess oil. Because of the safety hazard this created, the pans had to be cleaned before the equipment could be serviced. Microporous sprockets eliminate these safety hazards and increase chain life. Larger sprockets can also be manufactured by casting MPL segments; the difference is that these segments are held together using bolts to fasten them to a hub.
There's another method to lubricate chains with MPLs: using blocks of it. MPL blocks are extruded or machined to a desired shape and pressed against the chain by applicators. As the chain rubs against these microporous blocks, oil is transferred to the chain. For example, one particular furniture-manufacturing conveyor system that carries 8,000 to 16,000 lb. pallets and required monthly lubrication with molybdenum disulphide grease. Problems arose when excess grease dripped, staining the furniture lumber and creating safety hazards and housekeeping problems. Simple 1 × 2 × 18-in. MPL grooved blocks have been in operation for over six years without replacement and have eliminated the problems caused by dripping grease.
Slides and bushings are usually lubricated by injecting grease into holes or grooves; this requires significant maintenance time. An alternative is employing plugs made from extruded MPL rods. These provide adequate lubrication to slides and bushings, while greatly reducing maintenance. Plugs cut from rods are installed in drilled and tapped holes; oil from the MPL then spreads over the surface, providing a film of lubrication.
To illustrate, the lubrication holes and grooves in a forging machine's slide can clog, resulting in inadequate lubrication of slide surfaces. Then disassembly and rebuilding of the machine is required every several months. The installation of microporous plugs in these slides increases the disassembly/rebuilding interval — even to a couple years.
Along the same lines, bronze bushings are sometimes employed on robotic automation machines and are lubricated using graphite plugs. However, graphite can be incompatible with coolant in these systems, and failure can occur prematurely — in other words, within the desired warranty period. Incorporating microporous plugs in place of graphite can help manufacturers meet warranty periods.
Inadequate lubrication of overhead crane wheel flanges leads to excessive wear and premature failure of the wheels. Since they are not readily accessible, the flanges are difficult to lubricate and are frequently missed during routine maintenance. Cast MPL blocks can lubricate the flanges by employing specially designed applicators. Applicators keep the microporous blocks in contact with the flange; oil from the MPL then flows onto the flange for adequate lubrication. With such a system, the service life of crane wheels increases three to four-fold and cuts costs.
Small, MPL parts can also be extruded and cut to length by spring loaded and pressed onto shafts. Oil from these MPL elements then coats the shaft, providing the required lubrication. These kinds of parts are still in the testing stage, but this example demonstrates that complicated parts can be manufactured from microporous polymeric lubricant pieces to solve specific lubrication issues.
Gears manufactured from microporous elements can be used to lubricate mating gears. An MPL gear transfers oil to the operating gears, thus providing lubrication. Where might this arrangement be useful? Gears in an overhead steelmill crane are not readily accessible and are therefore extremely difficult to lubricate. The gears fail and need replacement (in one particular case this was required every 35 to 40 days) due to inadequate lubrication. A gear made from MPL material and installed to contact an operating gear helps continue operation for years.
For more information, call PhyMet, Inc. (800) 874-9638 or visit www.micropolylubricants.com.
Solid microporous polymeric lubricant profiles can be extruded, as shown here. Then the bars can be machined for specific applications. Alternatively, microporous polymeric lubricants can also be cast and injection molded.
MPL wipers (see arrows) lubricate Thomson 500-Series profile rails. The extruded wipers attached to both ends of the carriage keep in contact with the rail through springs.
MPL inserts are used on Danaher Motion's self-lubricating ball screws. Extruded, round bars are machined into a lubrication element contained in the ball nut.
MPL sprockets can lubricate chains. One such sprocket is shown here; it consists of a central hub with microporous polymeric lubricant cast around it. The microporous sprocket acts as an idler sprocket and transfers oil from the MPL to the chain.
Larger lubricating sprockets can be manufactured out of microporous segments.
Another method used to lubricate chains is with microporous blocks. The blocks are extruded or machined to shape, and pressed against the chain by an applicator.
The flanges on a wheel are difficult to lubricate since they are not readily accessible, and missed during routine maintenance. Cast MPL blocks lubricate the flanges consistently.
The small part shown is extruded and cut to length. This part is then spring loaded and pressed onto the shaft.
Plain bearings and bushings can hold MPL inserts. Plugs cut from the rods are installed in drilled and tapped holes.


Healthy Horizons Family Farm: First Harvest!
It has been a while since my last update so we have a lot to catch up on! But let's start with the best news first: harvest of anything other than leafy greens came almost two months before harvest last year. Wow! Combination of grow lights and wood chips which have kept the soil at many degrees warmer than naked soil has allowed many things to get started early. Namely, the broccoli was ready to go! Actually, it and a few other things should have been harvested earlier in the week but I just didn't have the time to make the trip to my parent's house even though it is just a few blocks away. Let's just say life at home is much more complicated without a day nurse. Nevertheless the broccoli was delicious. Who cares whether it's in a tight head or loose stems? I actually prefer the stems. So glad we have more broccoli to come!


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Interstate Restoration Acquires California's ASR Property Restoration
Interstate Restoration continued its steady growth in the North American market with the acquisition of ASR Property Restoration, the largest restoration company in California's Ventura County.
Interstate has completed the transaction to add all of ASR's assets and its three divisions (restoration, special services and construction). Terms of the Interstate-ASR transaction, including purchase price, were not disclosed.
"We are pleased to welcome the excellent managers and staff of ASR into the Interstate Restoration family, and we look forward to the additional strengths that this new combination will give us in Southern California," said Interstate CEO Stacy Mazur.
ASR has about 80 employees, and the staff will begin working immediately in conjunction with the Anaheim office that Interstate had already established.
"We are eager to combine forces with Interstate Restoration as we help businesses in Southern California recover from wildfires, floods, mudslides and other disasters," said Kirk Prouse, founder and CEO of ASR.
Prouse will continue to provide his expertise in the Southern California market, serving as regional director of Southern California. ASR was heavily involved in the recovery from the recent Woolsey and Hill wildfires, and those efforts are ongoing.
KEYWORDS: mergers and acquisitions restoration business
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The → opacity of a gas of given composition, temperature, and density averaged over the various wavelengths of the radiation being absorbed and scattered. The radiation is assumed to be in → thermal equilibrium with the gas, and hence have a → blackbody spectrum. Since → monochromatic opacity in stellar plasma has a complex frequency dependence, the Rosseland mean opacity facilitates the analysis. Denoted κR, it is defined by: 1/κR = (π/4σT3) ∫(1/kν) (∂B/∂T)νdν, summed from 0 to ∞, where σ is the → Stefan-Boltzmann constant, T temperature, B(T,ν) the → Planck function, and kν monochromatic opacity (See Rogers, F.J., Iglesias, C. A. Radiative atomic Rosseland mean opacity tables, 1992, ApJS 79, 507).
Named after Svein Rosseland (1894-1985), a Norwegian astrophysicist, who obtained the expression in 1924; → mean; → opacity.


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Kathryn M. Rattigan
Robinson & Cole LLP
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Motion to Dismiss Denied in Class Action for Alleged Violations of Illinois Biometric Data Privacy Law
In a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Clearview Al Inc. faces allegations that it uses facial recognition technology that violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The complaint alleged that Clearview scraped over three billion images from various social media platforms and other online sources to create a facial recognition database. However, BIPA requires businesses to provide notice to consumers and obtain consent before collecting biometric data. In response, Clearview argued that BIPA violates the First Amendment in that BIPA inhibits Clearview's ability to collect, use, and analyze publicly-available information because the company's analysis of public faceprints is protected speech.
This week, District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled against Clearview's argument. Judge Coleman found that, even though Clearview uses publicly-available photos from websites and social platforms in creating its database, it also yields unique biometric identifiers which are not publicly available. Clearview's actions are both speech and non-speech conduct, implicating the First Amendment, but Judge Coleman held that BIPA is narrowly tailored to only protect highly-sensitive biometric data of Illinois residents and to allow residents to share their information with consent.
Therefore, Judge Coleman denied Clearview's motion to dismiss under several state laws, but did dismiss claims of unjust enrichment under New York law, and alter ego claims against the company's co-founders.
The suit will continue and, as Judge Coleman suggested, Clearview could argue its position in a motion for summary Judgment after the parties have completed discovery.
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CMA CGM and ENGIE: a strategic and industrial partnership to decarbonize shipping
By Engie - 09 November 2021 - 20:00
Support synthetic methane and BioLNG production and distribution industries
Launch projects to produce synthetic methane on an industrial scale
Share expertise and R&D to facilitate the development of the energy sources of the future
The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, and ENGIE, global player in the field of renewables and energy solutions, have committed to working together to advance the energy transition by championing the industrial-scale production and distribution of synthetic methane and BioLNG.
Nurture the development of a decarbonized fuel offer for the shipping sector
CMA CGM and ENGIE have decided to establish a long-term strategic and industrial cooperation focused on the production of decarbonized fuels. The cooperation has the ambition to support the development of a synthetic methane production and distribution industry that can be used by the shipping sector.
An initial project to produce liquefied biomethane (BioLNG) for shipping has already been launched by both groups at the Port of Marseille, in partnership with Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence and TotalEnergies.
ENGIE is leading further synthetic methane production industrial projects in which CMA CGM will have the possibility to invest, including by means of multi-year purchase commitments. These projects will harness various technologies, such as pyro-gasification or methanation using green hydrogen and captured CO2.
A partnership enabling the pooling of expertise and R&D capabilities
The CMA CGM Group and ENGIE are investing in research and development with their industrial partners in order to find the energy sources of the future to enable the decarbonization of the shipping sector.
In order to ensure the durability of the industry, the partnership between CMA CGM and ENGIE will facilitate the sharing of both groups' knowledge and R&D work, most notably in key technologies such as carbon capture and green hydrogen production.
The partnership also covers the analysis of future regulations, as well as efforts to raise awareness of the benefits of BioLNG and synthetic methane for the decarbonization of the shipping industry.
A non-fossil fuel energy source and a substantive commitment to the energy transition in shipping Liquefied natural gas (LNG) can reduce today sulfur oxide emissions by 99%, fine particle emissions by 91% and nitrogen oxide emissions by 92%. The CMA CGM Group currently accounts for 20 "e-methane ready" vessels equipped with dual-fuel engines and running on LNG and will have 44 "e-methane" vessels by year-end 2024.
This groundbreaking decision helped to cut the CMA CGM Group's overall carbon emissions by 4% in 2020, following on from a 6% reduction in 2019. The Group has lowered its carbon emissions per container-kilometer by 49% since 2008.
The dual-fuel gas-power technology developed by CMA CGM and currently using LNG is already capable of using BioLNG and synthetic methane. In this context, CMA CGM and ENGIE are joining forces to champion the production and distribution industry. Biomethane can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 67% compared to VLSFO (Very Low Sulfur Fuel Oil) on a well-to-wake basis (entire value chain). Synthetic methane, meanwhile, will eliminate the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions.
Two French groups committed to supporting sustainable mobility through the Coalition for the energy of the future
In addition, the CMA CGM Group and ENGIE have been working together for several months as part of the Coalition for the energy of the future launched in late 2019 at the Assises de l'Économie de la Mer conference by Rodolphe Saadé and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron. They continue to collaborate within the Coalition to drive the development of energy sources and technologies of the future, to support new models of sustainable mobility and reduce the shipping and logistics industry's climate impact.
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Much of the Fascinating of the Taj Mahal lies in the history behind it. According to legend, Prince Khurram, who was later known as Shah Jahan, was the eldest son of emperor Jehangir and also a favorite of his father. One day as he was walking in the Meena Bazaar, a private market attached to the royal harem for the women of the palace, he came across Arjumand Banu, daughter of Empress Noor Jehan's brother Asaf Khan. This 14 year old girl was busy selling glass beads and silk in her stall and unlike the other girls she seemed completely unafraid of the heir to the Mughal throne.
Eager to enter into a conversation with her, Prince Khurra, who was completely besotted by her simple charm and beauty asked her what the price of particular glass bead in her stall was. To this Arjumand Banu answered that it was not just a glass bead that he held in his hand but a diamond worth 10,000 rupees. Going even further, she boldly added that since it was so expensive he might not be able to afford it. Hearing this challenge, the Prince immediately bought the diamond, but by then he had already lost his heart to the 14 year old girl.
After getting permission from his father, Khurram finally married Arumand in 1612 when he was 20 years old. Over time Ariumand Banu proved herself to be a worthy and honourable queen and came to be known as 'Mumtaz Mahal'. Her beauty was set off by the compassion and generosity of her nature that won her admirers amongst all people. Over 19 years of marriage she stood by her husband through the mot difficult of times and even accompanied him on his fighting tours. It is believed that for Shah Jahan the world began and ended with her.
Finally, it was while giving birth to their fourteenth child that Mumtaz Mahal died, leaving behind a distraught husband and a mourning empire. However, before giving up her last breath she asked her husband for one last wish - she wanted an unforgettable monument to be built in her memory, a monument like none other in the world. She made her husband promise this and the Taj Mahal was his fulfilling of the promise.
Built between 1632 and 1648 A.D. over a period of 17 years and with twenty thousand men working on it day and night, this monument in white marble is one of the seven wonders of the world and perhaps the most famous piece of architecture in India.
It is said that even while he was imprisoned in a tower some distance from the monument, Shah Jahan would look at the reflection of his beloved wife's tomb in a small mirror he had with him. While the beauty, grandeur and elegance of the structure are its main hallmarks, what makes the Taj Mahal alive even today is the love of an emperor for his deceased wife and his tribute to their lives together.


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Havens Hospices is the nominated charity by EBN for the Billericay group. I am very pleased to represent the charity at our meetings. I have worked for the Havens Hospices for 11 year's now heading up the Event Team who are responsible for delivering a full calendar of events and challenges for the community to take part in. I am passionate about the work I do and appreciate the importance of building positive relationships. In my spare time I like to play and watch sport, enjoy walking the dog and believe it or not house work.
When a family has been told that there's no cure for their loved one's illness, Havens Hospices can help. We're here to make the journey as comfortable as possible, controlling pain and medication, offering respite and caring for adults, babies, children and teenagers at the end of their lives. Our specialist care is free – for as long as is needed – within the home and at our two hospices.
We're a registered charity – not part of the NHS – and receive limited government funding. Our hospices can only exist because of the support and generosity of the community.


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The Scottish Referendum – Part 5 – January – April 2015 – Con/Dem Politicians & Westminster Based Civil Servant Teams Render Draft Scotland Bill Proposals Impotent
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19 March 2015: Stunning survey shows Yes would win a new referendum while our poll also points to the SNP winning the bulk of Scotland's 59 seats in May.
A majority of Scots now back independence just six months after the referendum No vote, according to a sensational new poll. The bombshell survey shows that a repeat vote on Scotland's future would see the public narrowly back a split by 51 per cent to 49 per cent. The poll of more than 1000 Scots also found a growing appetite for another referendum on independence in the near future. And in more bad news for unionists, the SNP has increased its already commanding lead over Labour at Westminster – they're now on course for an astonishing 53 of the 59 seats at May's general election. The results underline the growing feeling that the constitutional question is far from settled despite the two-year debate on independence that culminated in last year's historic vote. How would you vote if there was another referendum tomorrow asking Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes 45% No 43% Undecided 11% Rather Not Say 1%
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already U-turned on her pre-referendum vow that the ballot was a "once in a generation" event. She now insists there should be another referendum whenever a majority of Scots want it. And according to polling firm Survation that day could come a lot quicker than some people think. The poll found 80 per cent want another referendum at some point in the future – but a majority now want it before 2025. However, the most explosive finding is that support for independence is now ahead. How will you vote in the General Election in May? SNP 47% Labour 26% Tories 16% Lib/Dems 4% Others 7%
It showed that 45 per cent of Scots would vote Yes if there was another referendum held tomorrow – the exact same percentage as backed indy on September 18. But only 43 per cent say they would vote No. The remaining 12 per cent are undecided or did not want to reveal how they would vote. If the don't knows are excluded you would be left with a 51 per cent Yes to 49 per cent No referendum result. Should Scotland be an independent country? (Excluding Don't Knows). Yes 51% No 49%
In fact, it revealed the SNP have actually increased their massive lead in the polls over Labour. Forty-seven per cent of Scots now plan to vote SNP on May 7, up two points from our last poll in February. Support for Labour fell two points to 26 per cent. The Tories rose one point to 16 per cent and the Lib Dems dropped another point to a humiliating four per cent. If our results were repeated in the actual vote, the SNP would win 53 seats and Labour just FIVE. The Lib Dems would lose all but one of their 11 Scots MPs and the Tories would be entirely wiped out in Scotland.
SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson said: "This is another welcome poll – it shows that support to give Scotland a strong voice at Westminster by returning a team of SNP MPs to stand up for Scottish interests remains very high. "By contrast, Labour continue to pay the price for being on the same side of so many arguments as the Tories, including their joint commitment to imposing even more spending cuts. "We take nothing for granted and will work extremely hard to win people's trust on May 7 so that we can deliver jobs and growth in place of Westminster cuts, power for Scotland and the non-renewal of useless and expensive Trident nuclear weapons."
Our poll also looked ahead to the 2016 Holyrood elections and put the SNP on an incredible 50 per cent support for the constituency vote compared with Labour's 26 per cent. On the regional list vote the SNP are on 39 per cent compared with Labour's 23 per cent. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/exclusive-bombshell-daily-record-poll-5366657
8 April 2015: David Cameron rules out second independence referendum
David Cameron has dramatically ruled out a second independence referendum under the Tories – even if the SNP wins the 2016 Scottish election. The Conservative leader said he believed the independence question was "settled for a generation" and emphatically ruled out an early re-run of the vote. The Prime Minister made clear he was not envisaging another campaign to keep the Union together under his watch. He told The House magazine, a Westminster journal: "I believe it's settled. I quote Alex Salmond, 'settled for a generation, possibly for a lifetime', is what he said. And I'm sticking with that."
A second referendum would require another Section 30 order giving time-limited powers to Holyrood to stage the vote. But Cameron made it clear that he does not contemplate a Tory-led government agreeing to the move, even if the SNP win a majority at Holyrood in 2016. "I think there was a very big debate in Scotland , a very big moment, a very big turnout. But it was pretty decisive, a ten point margin is pretty decisive," he said. Asked what his position would be if the SNP win the Holyrood elections with a manifesto commitment to a second referendum, Cameron replied: "That issue is settled."
Angus Robertson, the SNP's General Election Campaign Director, said "As the First Minister has made clear, It is the people of Scotland – not David Cameron or any other politician – who will decide when any future referendum on independence might be." http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron-rules-out-second-5481128#rlabs=59
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The prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) has been awarded to a young poet Billy-Ray Belcourt for his debut collection of poetry This Wound is a World. Belcourt's poetry collection was chosen to be the winning book by a panel of three judges who had to read more than 500 books of poetry in order to choose the winner of the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize as well as the international honour winner.
The 2018 International Griffin Prize honour has been conferred on the American poet Susan Howe. She has been awarded for her collection Debths. Born in 1937, Susan has a number of reputed publications of poetry to her credit and she has been actively involved in the post-modern movement in the English poetry.
Both the winners of the Griffin Poetry Prize will take home the prize money $65,000 as well as fame and recognition from Canada as well as international limelight on their works for a while, at least.
Griffin Poetry Prize has been set up in the year 2000 by the Canadian social worker and philanthropist named Scott Griffin who is also a very successful businessman. This is the largest prize conferred on a first-time poetry collection!
Other than Billy-Ray Belcourt and Susan Howe, the finalists were also awarded a prize of $10,000.
Remarks: Such prizes are very essential for the survival of poetry as the poets do need 'sum' to run their lives and being able to concentrate on their poetry. We had many bankers who did poetry as good as T. S. Eliot and many school inspectors who could manage to become Arnolds. However, today's world isn't that easy and for the poets, thus, the prizes like the present one, Griffin Poetry Prize, are very important. Literature News wishes the best to all the winners and the finalists and wishes for their success in future as well!


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What is Promession?
Promession is an alternative to cremation which is designed to process human remains so that they can be easily mulched back into the Earth. The process was developed by Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, a Swedish biologist who wanted to find a respectful and ecological way to handle human remains. The concept has met with some opposition, because it represents a novel approach to handling the burial process.
Liquid nitrogen is used to freeze a body as part of the first step of promession.
The first step in promession freezes the body in a vat of liquid nitrogen, making it very brittle. Next, the body is gently broken apart with ultrasonic vibration, creating a damp powder which is dried and then packaged in a small biodegradable coffin. Since the bulk of human weight is water and this water is removed during the freeze drying process, the promains are relatively light. They will also remain odorless as long as they are kept dry.
Once survivors collect the promains, they can bury them and plant a memorial tree, plant, or garden over them. As the promains get wet, they will naturally decompose, composting the earth and providing nourishment to the garden. The intent of the process is to return to the earth, rather than being isolated in a coffin with preservatives.
Unlike cremation, promession does not release toxins into the environment through burning. After the body has been broken apart, medical devices, mercury fillings, and other potential contaminants are removed for recycling. Promains are also very nourishing for plants, and they are meant to evoke a time when humans were allowed to decay naturally after death, thus continuing the cycle of life. Human remains can also be disposed of in a green burial, unembalmed and in a biodegradable coffin or shroud, but promession allows family members to transport remains, if desired, or to distribute them in multiple places.
A facility which offers promession services is known as a promatorium. The legality of the process was still being argued in several nations as of 2007, but several promatoriums were scheduled to open in both Sweden and the United Kingdom by 2008. Each promatorium facility will have at least one promator for handling remains, and the facility may offer other green burial services as well.
Natural burial and more ecological ways of handling death are a topic of interest for many people who are concerned about the environment. Promession is only one such option, designed to illustrate that there is an alternative and healthy way to handle human remains.
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What of bacterial and viral contamination? Some of these will survive the freezing, ultrasound, dehydration process. Theoretically would it it be a dehydrated biohazard until it was broken down to soil?
I don't want to be freeze-dried because I want my bones to be found millions of years in the future.
Is there anywhere in the U.S. that does this? I can see this as a real money maker for the funeral industry. Instead of selling a plot, why not rent it for a couple of years. Then come back pick up the tree (bush) and transplant it in your back yard. If nobody comes back for the tree, the cemetery transplants it somewhere else. Either way, the land is freed up to use again.
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The remains are buried like a normal coffin in the cemetery, only on a shallow grave. Remains turn to soil in less than a year, and the plant is there to fasten the process. The inventor has said she wants a white rhododendron on her grave. In many countries like mine (Finland), there are strict rules like ashes must be buried in the cemetery; it is not possible to scatter them anywhere. RicHard-59
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@Merentia: I think the idea is the promains can be interred anywhere: a garden, a cemetery, in a body of water, etc. As with cremains, it would be up to the family to decide what to do with their loved one's promains. Because the promains are completely biodegradable, the place of internment can serve other purposes.
merentia
my question is regarding the burial of the promains. "Once survivors collect the promains, they can bury them and plant a memorial tree, plant, or garden over them." If i understood well, the promains are not buried in a cemetery and in that way, we save up valuable land. Or is it that the promains should be buried in a cemetery? If cemeteries are involved how can we save up land? it is mentioned that promains are buried at shallow depth, but where?
could you please enlighten me on this?


What is your driving force – what pushes you to do what you do?
Curiosity. It's where my creativity meets my intuition, and allows me to learn and play at the same time.
How does your background, education, or experiences empower you as a MINDSHIFT NINJA?
In all my endeavors, I have always been interested in the human element. From my academic pursuits to my work experiences, whether I'm in a board meeting or working with inmates, I am interested in how we live, how we can live better, and how we can make more meaningful connections. I'm interested in learning when we can forgive ourselves, and where we can challenge ourselves.
What is your super MINDSHIFT NINJA power?
I'm hyper solution-focused. My first instinct is: how can we solve it. I'm not interested in what you didn't do or what went wrong. I'm interested in how we can move ahead. I'm interested in what is working, what is going right, what we will try next, and how we will support (each other) in the next step forward. Within teams or with individuals this can be incredibly empowering.
Trust. You can't work harder than your client. You can support them, but you can't do the job for them. It's irresponsible and disempowering. Part of our relationship is that I believe you can think better, and therefore do better – so I have to give you the time and space to do that. I believe that you can show up as your best self – so I have to trust that you will. Trust is vital. As the saying goes: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. The unspoken component to this saying is trust. You have to trust that he can and will learn to catch the fish. Trust is essential to the relationship.
What's an underestimated, yet powerful tool you use?
Baby steps. Or as I say "baby steps, but beautiful ones." We forget that things don't have to be huge to make an impact. Sometimes one small step will entice amazing positive change.
Silence also matters. I've learned that holding the space (in silence) is just as important if not more than asking the right questions. Silence is also an underestimated super tool.
Do you have a favourite type of client? Or is there someone you like to work with?
Creatives. Innovators. Dreamers. I love working with people who are open to learning, and change – this doesn't mean they know what to do, it just means they are willing to try. This can be anyone ready to show up, and ready to work!
What makes for a successful MINDSHIFT NINJA?
Personal accountability and self-awareness are essential. Being mindful of who you bring to the table and how you show up is critical to this journey. You need that mindfulness and honesty to gain the clarity and insights to advance.
What do you do beyond MINDSHIFT NINJA?
I like to say: I create, therefore I am. I am always looking for opportunities to learn, to create, and to experience new things. Something's always brewing; a new project, travel plans, an excuse to throw a party (laugh). I travel (a lot), I write, and take photographs – some of this I capture on my personal site iamayla.com.
Stop, drop, and breathe (laugh). Then I usually go for a walk. I walk in order to work through challenges, to search for ideas, to prepare for presentations, to get my blood moving, to clear my head, and to generate new perspectives.
What is your biggest MINDSHIFT lesson so far?
Showing up as your best self is possible even when you think it's not. It's within you, and the more you access it, the easier it is to retrieve.
Bonus question, we have to ask, what is it like working with your brother?
It makes it personal, not business (sorry Mr. Corleone). Yashar is both everything I am and everything I am not. We hold the same core principles – creating a solid foundation – yet we are different enough to balance each other out. We have built a relationship grounded in trust and accountability. We show up for each other and make each other show up. It's an integral recipe. It ensures we are free enough to take a chance (even if we mess up), supported enough to try again if we do, and yet challenged enough to always try to be our best.
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Lindsey: Man of Faith
Jerry Lindsey, a pastor and soon-to-be retired Nabisco sales rep, is running for Ward 4 city councilman. Current Councilman Frank Bluntson is vacating the seat to run for mayor. Photo by Trip Burns.
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Jerry Lindsey
Born: Fannin, Miss.
Running for: Ward 4 City Council
Education: Carter High School, 1970; studied math and computer science at Jackson State University, no degree
Political Experience: None
Family: Wife, Notrie, and two children, Zabriel, 38, and Keshia, 37
Jerry Lindsey never thought about running for public office until, he said, God stepped in and changed his mind.
Pastor of Pathway of Life Church on Terry Road, Lindsey is less than 30 days from retiring from his job as a sales rep for food manufacturer Nabisco. Lindsey told the Jackson Free Press that he was driving in his car last December when God told him he needed to run for public office.
"After 61 years, I never thought about it before, but it hit my spirit that this is what I need to do: run for public office," Lindsey said.
After exploring what public offices would soon be open, Lindsey decided to run for Jackson's Ward 4 city council seat. He said he wants to become a councilman not because he wants another job, but because he wants to help other people.
"I'm retiring. What do I need something else to do for?" Lindsey said. "I'm basically going to make as much money as I was working. Why would I need to work? I'm not (running for office) for pay."
The JFP sat down with Lindsey in his church office Feb. 21 to ask about his plans for the city council.
If elected, what will be your No. 1 priority on your first day in office?
We have some ideas of what needs to happen. (One) of the things that really needs to happen is we need to get the men associated with their children. That's the number-one thing, the ultimate goal.
As we work on that, (we'll work on) getting families back together. All the divorce and people who've never been married have got kids and all that; so many things are happening. Because these things are out of line, it causes everything else to be out of line.
I know you can't just make people do things, but we can work towards that objective.
How, specifically, could you work toward that as a city councilman?
We (would) talk to one another, the mayor and citizens, and get output from every aspect of life. There are always some possibilities that we may not have considered before. We need to ask the right questions. If we ask the right questions, we'll get the right answers.
The city is looking at hundreds of millions of dollars in water and sewer repairs. There's obviously problems with the streets. As a city councilman, what would be your top infrastructure priority?
We need to work with what we can do right now. It's just like if you've got so much money, work with what you can do. Then, as you do that and improve things; and people see improvement, they want to work with that more. So you'll be able to get more financing because you've caused people to come back.
One thing brings about the other. As we work toward getting the things we can do in line first, those other things will be begin to come in line. It's like pulling a chain. If you pull the chain, everything (attached) is going to fall (in line). If you try to push it, it's just going to ball up.
Jackson has, if not a crime problem, at least a crime perception problem. What are your thoughts on the crime issue and what could you do from City Hall to change the trend?
Of course, we love to arrest people and put them in jail, and build more jails. That's not the answer. That's the result of when things don't work.
For example, if you've got a clean house, you can notice the instant the rats come in and start doing things. If you've got a dirty house, rats can come in and do all kinds of stuff and you never really notice it, because everything is bad there anyway.
First thing we need to focus on is when people come into the city, what are they looking at? It gives us a bad impression when we come in, and we see nothing. We see woods, raggedy houses, all these things.
We need to implement some stuff, (such as) if a house is abandoned over a year, it needs to be torn down. Whatever way we can get those things torn down. Maybe somebody might even want to pay for the cost of tearing them down to get rid of them.
It does no good if you've got a house, and you're not going to use it. People board it up, and (other people) break in and use it, set it on fire and burn it up. It sits there and sits there, and all it's doing is badly influencing the city as a whole.
We need to have different things for amusement. I know we can't do something grand, but we need to do what we can do. We've forced all the movie theaters and different things outside the city limits. We need to bring some stuff back. We can't bring it back in garbage. We need to clean up and make it attractive.
Give me an example.
One of the things I've always looked at, for years, is the river area by (Interstate 20). There's an opportunity to do some things there. I know you don't want to put something off in the (Pearl) River, but you could put something close by, eliminate those trees there, (and) make an attractive view right there at the (bridge) area. That way, you've got something to look at.
There needs to be something attractive—hotels or whatever—there along the interstate. I noticed they put a new Holiday Inn Express right there in Pearl. It's packed out. They just opened it up, and it's packed out. Why? Because that's a better area for (customers). They feel safer, so they load that up.
We have hotels right off the interstate in Jackson that are just abandoned. We need to do something about those things.
The longer we wait, the more there's going to be to fix.
It sounds like what you're talking about doing is close to what they're calling the One Lake plan. Do you think the grand tourist-attraction plans like that could work in Jackson and that can actually help the crime problem?
The more people you have here that are working together, the less likely (it is) crime will happen. As you get more money, you're going to produce more money to do more things.
We're like the crossroads of the South. If we had something that would draw people from every direction, it would make (Jackson) more exciting. When the only words that we have going out are bad words, nothing good, people are always going to stretch it and make it sound like it's worse than it is. That just causes the one who hears to feel bad all the time, rather than to feel better.
If we do some things to encourage people, (we can) get them excited about Jackson, Mississippi. (We need) to let the good word out and overcome the bad images and reputations. People have drawn conclusions that are not right. Just like if somebody talks about you, you kind of begin to fit into what they're saying, whether it's true or not.
Comment and read the rest of the interview at www.jfp.ms. Email Jacob D. Fuller at jacob@jacksonfreepress.com.
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Anonymous Tip Leads to Arrest in 2015 Tampa Murder
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Tampa police say they have apprehended the man responsible for the first murder of 2015. According to the police, the arrest is the result of an anonymous tip.
Reginald Cortez Bowman IV of Tampa was apprehended just before two o'clock on Wednesday by officers of the Tampa Police Department. They say the twenty-one-year-old sandwich delivery person is responsible for the January 5, 2015 slaying of Lyfe Coleman.
Authorities say that Coleman was in his family's residence near Robles Park when he was fatally shot twice. Police considered Bowman a suspect from the start of the investigation, interviewing him after they say they discovered headwear at the scene with his DNA on it. At the time they say Bowman denied involvement with the case, saying that he had not had any contact with Coleman for two years.
Police say they returned to Bowman after an anonymous tipster told them to interview an unidentified teenager about the murder. According to them the teen said first that he was only marginally acquainted with Bowman. However, they say in a subsequent interview the teen said that Bowman discussed a robbery he was planning. A second tipster came forward, they say, alleging that Coleman was going to be robbed in the course of purchasing a firearm.
Detectives say that the tip was backed up with cell phone logs indicating that Coleman had communicated with another regarding the purchase of a firearm. They allege that the communications they found returned their focus to Bowman.
Bowman was arrested at his employer's place of business on Wednesday and booked into the Hillsborough County Jail later that evening. He remains in their custody on $251,000 bond and is facing charges of possessing less than twenty grams of cannabis, possessing drug paraphernalia, and second-degree felony murder with a firearm.
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"Yubacore" could very well be my favorite track off of Hella's upcoming album, Tripper, which is as apt a title as one could pin on their own album. It flirts with a somewhat standard percussive stride (standard for Hella, anyway) and then launches into some shuffling, howling strangeness. As a summary of the band's overall creative approach and the skill they utilize throughout Tripper, "Yubacore" offers reliable testimony. This is one to look forward to.
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Legendary experimentalist duo Hella premiere a new song today via Pitchfork called "Yubacore". Check it out HERE. The track is culled from Tripper, their forthcoming fifth album, due out August 30th, 2011 on Sargent House.
Hella has long been celebrated for bringing a rigorous and artful musical complexity to the punk aesthetic. Now, after a four year hiatus, the legendary Sacramento duo founded in 2001 by drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim has returned with their fifth album, Tripper. As the title suggests, it's a wild ride that finds Hella in classic frenetic anthemic form.
The sonic experimentalists have stripped the band lineup back down to the original 2-piece, returning to the streamlined aggression of their earlier work while expanding the barriers of their sound. Tripper is Hella's most "focused" album to date -- and, by focused, we mean in a kaleidoscopic way. While each of the multiple riffs and movements of every song have a clearly defined mood and feel, the way that Hill and Seim breeze between time signatures and parts is like watching the scenery unfold within a kaleidoscope. It's entrancing in its beauty and beguiling in its complexity.
Hella's previous album, There's No 666 In Outer Space (Ipecac Recordings) saw the band expanded to a 5-piece, with lead vocals, bass and two guitars. But, it's the well defined space in-between the duo's impenetrable foundation of drums and guitar that Hella revisits on Tripper with a vigor. Seim's guitar sounds like a one man orchestra of six-string flagellation while Hill's eminently esoteric playing style and innovative collection of repurposed drum equipment redefines the pair's ground-shaking impact.
Hella formed in 2001 when teenage friends Seim and Hill abandoned a previous full band project to start anew. Their name was derived from Bay Area slang meaning "really", "excessively" or more literally, "hell of." Quite fittingly, the duo proved to be "hella" talented and innovative. Early albums and EPs on Kill Rock Stars offshoot 5 Rue Christine and Suicide Squeeze, as well as incessant touring saw the band develop a massive following in underground DIY circles for their incendiary live shows. After later experiments with an expanded lineup, Hella took a break from recording and performing to focus on myriad other projects before reconvening in 2011.
Tripper will be available everywhere on CD, LP and Digital Download on August 30th, 2011 via Sargent House.


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Hello everyone, so i wanted to convert a string into ascii code, i had to split it into char and convert each char into ascii and then merge them at the end. I want to add some constant value to each of the ascii characters before merging them back together. Can someone help how am i supposed to do that? Any help would be very appreciated. Thank you

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People have been enjoying recreational activities in the area around the lake known as Lac du Bonnet for many decades. The land surrounding the bay was designated as Poplar Bay Provincial Park in 1961.
Poplar Bay Provincial Park is just under 14 hectares in size. It is situated at the southeastern end of Lac du Bonnet on either side of a narrow inlet. The park is approximately 30 kilometres east of the town of Lac du Bonnet and 110 kilometres northeast of the city of Winnipeg. Research suggests that Poplar Bay was formed as a result of a meteorite that hit the earth millions, if not billions, of years ago.
Cottage lots and camping areas are located along much of the park's shoreline. The campground, boat launch and day-use areas in the park are under lease to a private commercial operator. Facilities include a full service seasonal campground with a limited number of nightly campsites, a store, playgrounds, a beach and a boat launch. The boat launch provides access to Lac du Bonnet and the nearby Lee and Bird Rivers. Common catches by anglers include walleye, bass, northern pike and yellow perch.


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Q: Java and .NET application communication I don't think this is quite possible or if it is recommended to do... but is there a way to connect or comunicate or deploy Java and .NET application for method beside Web Services. I mean I understand there are Messaging server that allows Java application communicate to each other but I dont know if this can cross development environment, any suggestion about it or thoughts about this?
I'm limited to web and desktop environments.

A: Apache Thrift is a way to go. You will need to write a service definition like this:
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Thrift then will generate RPC interface with network layer already implemented, It support many others language such as Java, C#, PHP, Python. Thrift support binary protocol over TCP/IP, so it's very fast.
for more, go to its wiki page http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/

A: You can use something like Apache ActiveMQ which uses JMS on the Java side and the .NET Messaging API on the .NET side.

A: We ended up writing our own implementation of Java-.Net communication protocol based on Hessian (later added JSON as well), but Thrift is a valid option.

A: The virtual machines (JVM vs CLR) are not going to talk to each other except through some OS level open standard.  Shared Files (yuck), Sockets and Web Services come to mind. There is nothing that would allow you to call a .net subroutine from java or vice-versa.


What is it about the Gleneagles Hotel and the Scottish banks? Is there something in the water at the opulent 1920s Perthshire spa and golfing resort – or perhaps in the generous single malt Scotch whiskies that are often served there – that causes Scottish bankers to lose their minds and embark on crazily ambitious growth plans?
I ask because, back in June 2006, both HBOS and RBS held "off-site" top management meetings at the grandiose £305-a-night hotel with a view to honing and agreeing growth strategies for the next couple of years.
Seemingly blind to the impending crisis in financial markets, both banks threw caution to the wind and set their sights on the hugely ambitious "stretch" growth targets that would ultimately prove their undoing.
Just 11 months earlier, the five-star hotel and resort complex had hosted the G8 summit at which Prime Minister Tony Blair, President George W Bush, President Jacques Chirac and President Vladimir Putin had hubristically pledged to eradicate global poverty. I don't remember that working out too well either.
On Monday, 5 June 2006, Andy Hornby – then poised to succeed James Crosby as HBOS's chief executive – together with colleagues including Benny Higgins (head of retail), Harry Baines (general counsel), Phil Hodkinson (finance director), Peter Cummings (head of corporate lending), Colin Matthew (head of international), and Jo Dawson (head of risk) descended on the Perthshire institution for a two-day "awayday".
The decision of the company, formed from the merger of the Halifax building society and Bank of Scotland five years earlier, to describe a two-day event as "an awayday" was indicative of the liberties HBOS would take with the truth (liberties that were powerfully brought home in last week's joint Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority report into HBOS's failure).
By piling on risky lending the bank had nearly doubled its balance sheet from £312bn of assets in 2002 to £540.9bn at the end of 2005. But at Gleneagles, and despite the uncertain economic outlook and a flawed business model that was reliant on wholesale funding, the bank decided to raise its targets for both retail and mortgage lending and for corporate lending in the UK, while going hammer and tongs for faster growth in Ireland, Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.
According to minutes of the June 2006 Gleneagles "awayday", which were unearthed by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards in 2012, HBOS executives dismissed their bank's existing growth plans as "pedestrian". They conceded that, while 20 per cent annual growth in underlying profits might seem "stretched" it "should be ultimately sustainable". The self-delusion of Hornby was clear when he counted "the safest balance sheet in the sector" as one of HBOS's competitive strengths.
According to the minutes, the HBOS execs present at the meeting could detect no risk of "major impairments" from commercial property lending and agreed that, in Ireland, "slower growth was not realistic, given the current views of the strength of the Irish market".
Three years earlier, speaking on prime time television, the leading Irish economist David McWilliams had described Ireland's housing market as a bubble of epic proportions whch was only being kept inflated by "excessive and irresponsible lending from our financial institutions".
A few days after HBOS's Gleneagles "awayday", the top brass of RBS congregated at the same hotel for a no less fateful management meeting of their own – a gathering I described in chapter 22 of my book Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain.
After being accused of megalomania, RBS's chief executive Fred Goodwin had been forced to stop acquiring other banks, building societies and insurers, as investors feared he was overpaying for such deals, and therefore destroying the value of their shares.
Some felt his multi-million acquisitions of Irish mortgage lender First Active, UK insurance group Churchill and Ohio, USA-based lender Charter One were little more than "vanity purchases". So, much to his chagrin, Fred "The Shred" Goodwin had been forced to "go cold turkey" where deal-making was concerned.
Desperate for alternative sources of growth, Goodwin and his RBS colleagues decided the best solution was to ratchet up the "organic growth" of RBS's investment bank, then called Global Banking and Markets, including at RBS Greenwich Capital in Connecticut – and the decision was made at Gleneagles.
The bank's top brass agreed to set the investment bank free and set stretch targets for growth in three key areas – leveraged finance (lending billions of dollars, pounds and euros to private equity buyouts etc.), US mortgages (many of which were, by then, subprime or tainted by subprime) and structured credit (including the creation of mortgage bonds and opaque financial instruments called collateralized debt obligations, towers of debt that had bundled subprime US mortgages as their foundation).
Crowe, now a Church of England vicar, seems to have known that RBS was launching its renewed push into these markets at the worst possible time in credit cycle.
Savvier Wall Street banks including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, could sense that markets were on the turn and would soon start to pull back from such markets, and seek to 'de-risk' their balance sheets by essentially dumping as many of their mortgage-related financial instruments to unsuspecting third party investors as they could, a phenomenon portrayed in the 2011 Kevin SpaceyMargin Call.
Even after the credit crisis proper erupted, Goodwin went ahead with a deal and bought the subprime riddled investment banking arm of Dutch bank ABN Amro, which had been one of the leading "suckers" for more guileful Wall Street players.
So the fates of both the Edinburgh-headquartered banks were both effectively sealed at the same Scottish luxury hotel. And in the same month. Be afraid if you see a group of bankers hatching plans there today.
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Michael Lello
11:57 am August 15, 2018
Musician couple Abby Ahmad and Mark Marshall have created a sizable and diverse catalog of music together, on their own and with other collaborators. Ahmad, a singer, songwriter and guitarist, is recording a new set of songs with the help of Marshall; a new single, "Because," will be the first release from those sessions. In addition to her teaching vocals and yoga, she's an actress who's most recently appeared in the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival.
Marshall, meanwhile, tours as a guitarist in Amy Helm's band (he'd also played with her legendary father, The Band's late Levon Helm), writes music for film and TV, including the History channel series "American Pickers," pens a column for Premier Guitar magazine and teaches guitar.
On Saturday, Aug. 18, Ahmad and Marshall will showcase much of that material in a duo show at Karl Hall in Wilkes-Barre. The Brooklyn residents, originally from Northeastern Pa., said the homecoming gig will give them an opportunity to showcase various material from both of their histories for local fans, friends and family.
Ahmad, who had a song featured in the 2006 Kevin Costner film, "The Guardian," and Marshall, who recently opened a string of shows for Elvis Costello while on tour with Helm, recently sat down on a sunny morning at a cafe in their Park Slope, Brooklyn, neighborhood to discuss the upcoming show and their longtime musical relationship.
What do you have planned for the Wilkes-Barre show?
AA: We've done iterations of my solo stuff at hometown shows before and we've done our joint project, which is a blues band, Fife & Drom, so this is kind of not a retrospective but a more intimate evening showcasing the breadth of our compositional stuff, so Mark's solo work, my solo work and our collaborative work.
MM: I think that we were coming home and playing for our family and friends and I think we've been engaging in all of our projects a lot more recently and just kind of thought about breaking down that wall of everything having to be separated — our band Fife & Drom, Abby's music, my film score music. We just thought we should just combine it all together and kind of look at it as a look at all of our collective work over the past several years.
You said you've put together the setlist. How was that experience?
AA: I feel like we wanted to cover a lot of ground but also have it be dynamically climactic and showcase also different arrangements, having us both do solo work, duo work and then some of our bandmates are going to come and join us, so it will be diverse on that spectrum.
How did you meet and being collaborating?
AA: A mutual friend of ours, Bob Lewis, a hometown hero. I moved here from Pittsburgh in 2005, and Mark moved here from NEPA in 2005, two weeks apart. Bob recommended that Bob check out my music, and a couple months later he reached out to me because he was booking a venue called the Crossroads Cafe, and I came and did a gig there. We really just hit it off, and Mark offered his services as an accompanist, so I hired him for a gig, and then we created this really deep musical bond over the next couple of years playing a lot of gigs and Mark co-produced by second record with me, and through that we realized that there was something more than just a musical relationship. I think we both stifled that energy for a while because the musical energy and professional relationship was one of the strongest that we ever had and so we didn't want to screw that up.
What are some of your musical differences and similarities?
AA: My personal style was built around being a solo artist, because for so long I didn't play with a band. So by being on my own and playing solo I kind of had to create the bass and the drums through the percussiveness of the instrument. So I was always a little wary of playing with other accompanists because a lot of people didn't understand that, but Mark is a songwriter's session musician. He is a songwriter himself, so he really understands how to enhance a song and not so much make it about putting his personal stamp on it — and he does, but he does it through the prioritization of the song and the songwriter, which not only has been a benefit to me but has been extremely beneficial to Mark and his career and working with a lot of incredible artists in his own right.
MM: It is interesting. We have a place that we both cross, which is Bob Dylan and Tori Amos and Fiona Apple, and Abby has a background in musical theater, so she has musical influences there that I hadn't been exposed to that she's exposed me to, and I think I have quite an eclectic taste, so I come from a bit of a punk background and also like film composition like Ennio Morricone and stuff like that, so I think we both have shifted in different directions a little bit, and not so much that they conflict with each other but we have that point where we're in the middle. So because we have that middle joint I think we can both bring elements in from all these different styles.
Abby, how has it been diving back into theater work?
AA: It's been about 10 years since I've done any theater work. It's been really incredible getting back into it. It's a huge part of my life that I kind of put on the backburner, even though performing music still has that element of theatricality, especially in our project, because I don't always have the guitar so I'm able to be much more free with my body. But theater is just something I always had natural inclination for and I went to school for music and was going to drop out because it wasn't the right program for me, and the theater department welcomed me with open arms and I got more of an education on how to be both a musician and a dramatist out of that.
Are you also working on new music?
AA: We're on the precipice of releasing a new single. This new record, it's been a really interesting endeavor because we're doing it completely on our own, which has been so creatively gratifying. It's kind of interesting because I'm old-school in that I like to listen to full records and have the full narrative and sit down with the the lyrics, so I had clung to that for a long time and I resisted the singles craze that's happening now, but I realized that being an artist it's kind of a great opportunity, because each song gets to be its own entity. You can create visual accompaniment to it that creates a whole new world for each song. So I'm actually pretty excited to start releasing these songs in song format rather than a collective.
Will it also be released as a full album?
AA: Yeah, when we can.
Mark, what has it been like performing with Amy Helm?
MM: It's really fun. It's challenging, because she's really a strong performer. She goes on stage, it's just 100 percent, there's never anything that ever shakes her, so to always be on stage with someone who's supercharged that way, it makes you check yourself a lot. It makes you bring more out of yourself and give more. We've been doing a lot of dates, so being on the road like that does a lot of good things for your playing. Just the songs, the songs are really great, the band's really great, so it's just been a positive experience.
Abby Ahmad and Mark Marshall will perform Saturday, Aug. 18, at Karl Hall (57B N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702). Doors 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. All-ages, BYOB. For tickets and more info, visit the venue website.
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"We believe that the Mangaung conference can and must mark a further step in restoring the ANC to its traditions of revolutionary discipline, non-racialism and the condemnation of self-seeking factionalism," Nzimande told reporters after the South African Communist Party's central committee meeting on the East Rand on Sunday.
"We would like to see a leadership that is committed to driven radical transformation. We do not want a leadership of tenderpreneurs, and we are unapologetic about that."
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"The SACP has maintained a principled position of non-interference in the ANC's internal electoral processes," he said. "This is not to say we are disinterested observers."
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Q: Unit testing Doctrine objects with PHPUnit I'm starting to try and test my Doctrine objects with PHPUnit, and would like to reload the DB from my model objects afresh each time.
My first attempt looks something like this:
class Tests_User extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{

    public function setUp()
    {

        Doctrine_Manager::connection('mysql://user:pass@localhost/testdb');

        Doctrine::createDatabases();
        Doctrine::createTablesFromModels('../../application/models');

    }

    public function testSavingWorks()
    {

        $user = new User();
        $user->save();

    }

    public function testSavingWorksAgain()
    {

        $user = new User();
        $user->save();

    }

    public function tearDown()
    {

        Doctrine::dropDatabases();

    }

}

The problem is that when setUp() is called again for the second test, createTablesFromModels() fails, so I get an error because none of the tables are present.
I'd really appreciate an example of how someone else has reinitialised a Doctrine connection for PHPUnit or other unit testing purposes.

A: So it turns out that createTablesFromModels includes the files in and then compares the lists of defined classes before and after, which is why it's not working twice.
A sequence like the following works when repeated:
Doctrine::loadModels($path);
Doctrine::createTablesFromArray(Doctrine::getLoadedModels());

A: Check out this Gist from Ocramius, which shows that you can test using data fixtures: https://gist.github.com/Ocramius/3994325


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Symptoms: I have lots of backache and stomach cramps. The sickness is still the one thing I struggle the most with in this pregnancy.
Sleep: I have been struggling to sleep as I can't get comfy, due to the backache.
Movement: Baby girl has been moving non stop. She has been kicking lots, and her kicks are getting lots stronger as time goes on.
Food Cravings: Still no food cravings, although I absolutely love fruit and vegetables.
Highlight of the week: Emily has really grown a attachment to her baby 'sissy'. She talks about her non stop and constantly kisses my bump. She has her own copy of the scan picture which was given to her at our gender scan, because she takes it everywhere with her we put it in a frame for her. She usually keeps it on her shelf in her bedroom, but we found her like this, fast asleep cuddling the picture of her baby sister. Honestly, it melted my heart.
Looking forward to: I'm looking forward to our 20 week scan, although it is still a little while away I can't wait to see our little girl again.
Baby Development: Week 18 - The baby is giving her reflexes a good workout, and you may feel a fluttery sensation as she moves around.


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#### Setup

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    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Then configure the VLC http server
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###### First click on Tools > Preferences

###### Then click on select all

![select all](./docs/usage/select_all.png)

###### Click on web interface

![web_interface](./docs/usage/web_interface.png)

###### Set a password for the web interface (username not necessary)

![set_password](./docs/usage/set_password.png)

##### Once VLC is setup you can begin installing the python package

#### Only tested on linux might also work on MacOS

Make sure you have python3.6+ installed

`sudo pip install git+https://github.com/pydo/vlc-gif-creator.git`

or use a virtualenv

You should now have `gifcreator` available in your $PATH

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### Configuration

This tool uses a config file for connecting to VLC's http server and for
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After calling `gifcreator` you will have a this config file `$HOME/.gif_creator.config.ini`
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### Example config file

```
[VLC CREDENTIALS]
user =
password = root123
[VLC SERVER]
status = http://localhost:8080/requests/status.xml
playlist = http://localhost:8080/requests/playlist.xml
[CROPPING]
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