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Visoravan Putorana (ruski: плато Путорана) je visoka bazaltna visoravan koja se nalazi u planinskom području sjeverozapadnog kraja Srednjosibirske visoravani, pa prema sjeveru, sve do poluotoka Tajmir (Полуостров Таймыр), Rusija; 100 km sjeverno od polarnog kruga. Najviša planina je Kamen planina koja ima visinu od 1700 metara, a najbliže naselje je Norilsk. Visoravan većinom čini sibirski trap (vulkanski bazalt) i u njemu se nalaze najveća ležišta nikla u Rusiji. U njegovom središtu je jezero Vivi koje je ujedno i zemljopisno središte Rusije.

God. 1988. onovan je rezervat prirode Putorana kako bi se zaštitila najveća krda sobova (Rangifer tarandus) na svijetu, ali i velikorogog muflona (Ovis canadensis). Park ima veličinu od 1.887.251 hektara, a uprava mu je smještena u Norilsku. Od 2010. godine Putorana je upisana na UNESCO-ov popis mjesta svjetske baštine u Aziji i Oceaniji kao "potpun subarktički i arktički ekosustav u izoliranom planinskom vijencu koji uključuje tajge, tundre i arktičke pustinje, te nedirnute slatkovodne sustave rijeka i jezera".

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice

Službena stranica Rezervata prirode Putorana (rus.)
Visoravan Putorana (Natural Heritage
Protection Fund)

Svjetska baština u Rusiji
Sibir
Visoravni u Rusiji


The Planning Commission will consider rezoning the former Hotel Lincoln in downtown east for mixed-use, an essential step in the redevelopment of the historic 68-year-old building.
Developer Solomon Carter, who paid $400,000 for the four-story building in 2017, wants to update the former hotel on Eddie Robinson Sr. Drive, renovating it into 12 one-bedroom apartments and 2,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.
Carter has been talking with restaurateurs from Baton Rouge and New Orleans to find a tenant for a 1,200-square-foot ground level space, saying he's open to someone bringing back the Hotel Lincoln Dining Room.
If approved by the commission at its April meeting, the rezoning issue will go before the Metro Council in May. Carter doesn't anticipate problems and says he expects to start construction in June, with a projected opening in early 2020.
While original figures estimated the redevelopment of the hotel—abandoned since the 1980s—would cost $1 million, Carter says current estimates are closer to $1.6 to $1.8 million.
C. Carl Westerman, with New Orleans-based CCWIV Architecture, is the architect for the project, while Carter's Amelia Fine Construction is the contractor.


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Officina Zoè è un gruppo di musica popolare originario del Salento, impegnato nell'interpretazione e nel riadattamento dei brani musicali della tradizione salentina e nella composizione di nuovi brani secondo i medesimi canoni.

Il gruppo
L'Officina Zoè nasce nella primavera del 1993, dall'unione di alcuni musicisti salentini su idea di Lamberto Probo (voce, tammorra, tamburelli e percussioni varie), Donatello Pisanello  (organetto diatonico, chitarra e mandola) e Cinzia Marzo (voce, flauti, tamburello castagnette), con un fondamentale aiuto esterno del regista anglosalentino Edoardo Winspeare.

Il repertorio di Zoè comprende canti di lavoro, canzoni d'amore in dialetto e in grico, canti di protesta e pizziche.

Il gruppo vanta numerose partecipazioni ad importanti festival nazionali ed internazionali di musica, quali il Womex a Berlino, il Festival di Villa Ada (Roma, 14 luglio 2007), il Premio Tenco (Sanremo, 2001), il Womad di Peter Gabriel a Palermo, il Festival I Suoni delle Dolomiti in Trentino con Baba Sissoko il 25 agosto 2007, la rassegna Voix de femmes a Bruxelles. Ed ancora al Festival Stimmen, in Germania e il Festival dei Popoli a Firenze, oltre che concerti negli Stati Uniti (Los Angeles, 1998), Corea del Sud (Seul, 2006) e Giappone (Tokyo, Nagoya e Kyoto, 8-10 giugno 2007) concerti da cui è stato tratto il cd Live in Japan. Hanno anche collaborato, come autori della colonna sonora, al documentario sui trent'anni dalla dittatura cilena, girato da Marta Vignola, intitolato "Le bende del giaguaro" (2003).

La collaborazione con Edoardo Winspeare ha riguardato tre film: Pizzicata (ambientato nel Salento durante la seconda guerra mondiale), nel quale c'è uno sporadico intervento di Pino Zimba; Sangue Vivo (per il quale l'Officina ha prestato le canzoni dell'album che stava producendo); Il miracolo (per il quale il gruppo ha curato la colonna sonora). Anche qui vi è una partecipazione di Zimba, il quale però già non faceva parte del gruppo. Il film Sangue vivo è il più famoso della triade.

Vanta numerose collaborazioni artistiche in campo teatrale (con Pamela Villoresi, regista de "L'ora di Otranto" di Michele Di Martino, Teatro Argot,  Domenico Carli),  cinematografico (con Edoardo Winspeare, Pippo Mezzapesa) e musicale (Ominostanco, manipolatore di suoni,  Famoudou Don Moye, esponente dell´afrojazz e  batterista degli Art Ensemble of Chicago e Baba Sissoko,  polistrumentista maliano di fama internazionale). In particolare, la collaborazione con il regista Edoardo Winspeare ha riguardato il film "Pizzicata". Al film, girato interamente in Salento, Officina Zoè ha contribuito, non solo per la realizzazione della colonna sonora, ma anche con la partecipazione in qualità di attori. Il film ha ottenuto un lusinghiero successo, distribuito e premiato sia in Europa che negli U.S.A. (San Sebastián, Festival di Edimburgo, Parigi - Festival Cinema Latina, New York - Premio N.I.C.E.).

Formazione
Intorno al nucleo storico e creativo, tuttora costituito da Lamberto Probo, Donatello Pisanello e Cinzia Marzo, si sono avvicendati, nel corso degli anni, decine di musicisti salentini e non solo. Questa la formazione attuale:

 Cinzia Marzo: voce, flauti, tamburello e castagnette.
 Donatello Pisanello: organetto diatonico, chitarra, mandola, armonica a bocca.
 Lamberto Probo: tamburello, tamborra, percussioni salentine varie: cupa cupa, lavaturu, violino a sonagli
 Giorgio Doveri: violino, mandola.
 Luigi Panico: chitarra, mandola, armonica a bocca.
 Silvia Gallone: tamburello, tamborra e voce

Ex componenti del gruppo:
 Danilo Andrioli: tamburello, tamborra e voce
 Rachele Andrioli: tamburello, tamborra e voce
 Ambrogio De Nicola (chitarra classica in Sangue vivo)
 Claudio Miggiano (chitarra, tres, violino in Sangue vivo)
 Pino Zimba (tamburello, voce, castagnette, violino a sonagli su Sangue vivo)
 Raffaella Aprile (voce in Terra e Sangue vivo e castagnette in ijentu di sangue vivo)
 Antonio Ancora (chitarra in Anima bella di Crita)
 Antonio Palma (chitarra, voce in tutte le altre di Crita)
 Ruggiero Inchingolo (violino, oud, mandolino) - arrangiatore dell'album Terra

Importante è la collaborazione dell'armonicista tricasino Umberto Panico (armonica in ijentu e menevò) che tuttora continua in alcune date live del gruppo.
Dario Muci (bouzouki ne il miracolo; buozouki, chitarra, armonica e voce in crita). Hanno anche collaborato, alla realizzazione de Il miracolo, il sassofonista Marco Tuma, il violoncellista albanese Redi Hasa.

Discografia
 1997 - Terra (autoprodotto. Riedito nel 2005 da Anima Mundi edizioni)
 2000 - Sangue vivo (cantoberon)
 2003 - Il miracolo, (Minus Habens records) con la regia di Edoardo Winspeare
 2004 - Crita (Polosud Records)
 2007 - Live in Japan (Polosud Records)
 2010 - Maledetti guai (Polosud Records)
 2015 - Mamma Sirena (AnimaMundi)

Collaborazioni
2011 nel brano Pietra Bianca, dell'album "A hail of bitter almonds" (dei Corde Oblique)

Note

Voci correlate
Tarantismo
Danza popolare
Etnomusicologia
Terra d'Otranto
Grecìa Salentina

Collegamenti esterni

Gruppi e musicisti della Puglia

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Q: How do I deallocate all derived dynamic memory of a member? Say I have a class:
struct foo{
    foo* bar=nullptr;
};

Now if I use new to allocate memory like a chain:
foo instance;
instance.bar= new foo;
instance.bar->bar=new foo;
...

Then how can I delete all those children of instance in a single call to delete the top level instance, i.e. when I call destroy(instance); //dummy name then all those dynamically allocated memory are all freed?

A: You may get used to std::unique_ptr (or std::shared_ptr, if needed):
#include <memory>
struct foo{
    std::unique_ptr<foo> bar;
};

int main() {
    // Please do not use '_' as a variable name.
    // (Some people do: #define _(T) gettext(T) // for gnu gettext support)
    foo _;
    _.bar = std::make_unique<foo>();
    _.bar->bar = std::make_unique<foo>();
    // ... the destructor will deallocate.
}

However, assuming foo has a data member (structure) T, you may consider a single linked list:
#include <forward_list>
std::forward_list<T> foo_list;

Which leads to related questions like: Remove all nodes in linked list

A: First you should define your problem correctly.

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*What does copying foo mean? will every thing being deeply coped?

*Is this type movable?

*Can a child foo live without its parent?

I will take a general case and answer your question based on it:

*

*Copying is a deep copy.

*It is movable.

*Yes

This the solution based on the constraints:
struct foo{
    foo()=default;
    foo(foo const& other){
        bar=new foo(*other.bar);
    }
    foo(foo&& other){
        bar=other.bar;
        other.bar=nullptr;
    }
    ~foo(){
        delete bar;
    }
    foo* bar=nullptr;
};

A: Add a destructor to your struct foo.
struct foo{
    foo* bar=nullptr;
    ~foo() {delete bar;}
};

When the instance of foo goes out of scope, the destructor will be called and delete bar.

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Guinea On High…
Credit: Abbas Dulleh / AP
Guinea On High Alert As Ebola Death Toll Rises In Days
With a death toll of over 11,000 in 2014, new reports have revealed a fresh outbreak of Ebola on Sunday in Guinea which has now claimed four lives.
Guinea reported an outbreak of Ebola on February 14, 2021, the first return of the disease there since the 2013-2016 surge, with cases and deaths reported in the N'zerekore region of the country, PUNCH Healthwise reports.
According to Guinea's ministry of health, the cases were detected among seven people who had attended the burial of a nurse on February 1, 2021.
The victims still alive have been isolated and health ministry officials have commenced contact tracing according to Agence Nationale de Scurit Sanitaire (ANSS), in a Facebook post on Sunday.
Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an assistant professor of medicine for infectious diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, told The Associated Press that the news of the outbreak poses a serious concern for the economy and the health system.
"The resurgence of Ebola is very concerning for what it could do for the people, the economy, the health infrastructure,"
Kuppalli was the medical director of an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone during the 2014-2016 outbreak, which began in Guinea then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. More than 28,000 people contracted the virus during those years, according to the CDC.
The Guinean government has however assured its people that it is doing all in its power to quash the resurgence of the disease. Officials announced that it is currently building a new Ebola treatment centre, while also accelerating the distribution of the Ebola vaccine.
"The government reassures the people that all measures are being taken to curb this epidemic as quickly as possible," the ANSS said in its Facebook post.
With a fatality rate of about 50%, Ebola spreads through the bodily fluids of a sick or recently deceased person. Certain body fluids, like semen, can still transmit the virus after an infected person has recovered from their illness, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Infected animals, like bats or primates, can transmit the virus to humans and spark new outbreaks.
WHO Response To The Ebola Outbreak
New reports confirm that the World Health Organization has begun gene sequencing of Ebola samples from both Congo and Guinea to learn more about the origins of the recent outbreaks and identify the strains.
The organization has also asked six African countries around Guinea to be alert for possible Ebola infections.
"We have already alerted the six countries around, including of course Sierra Leone and Liberia, and they are moving very fast to prepare and be ready and to look for any potential infection," Margaret Harris for WHO.
Neighbouring countries to Guinea include:
Senegal,
Guinea-Bissau,
Mali,
Ivory Coast,
According to the health ministry, it has identified 115 contacts of the known cases in the southeastern city of Nzerekore and 10 in the capital Conakry, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Congo has confirmed that its latest cases are not linked to a new Ebola variant but represent a resurgence of its tenth outbreak, the second-largest on record that caused more than 2,200 deaths in 2018-2020.
"As for the infection, we're not yet able to identify its origin," said provincial health minister Eugene Nzanzu Salita, referring to how the first person to fall sick in this resurgence caught the virus.
Ebola can cause fever, aches, and fatigue before progressing to "wet" symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea, and hemorrhaging and death.
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What You Probably Do Not Know about the Syrian Conflict.
It's possible that the matter of Syria and chemical weapons is a distraction and not really the main issue, although it may have ended up serving the interests of Russia. Let me explain.
The Syrian rebels want to overthrow Assad and some may have high aspirations about democracy and regime change, but a large geopolitical energy issue is being played out here. It's the kind of story that does not interest most people, nor get much attention in the press. God only knows that religious conflict, evil dictators, chemical weapons, and Muslim sects killing each other is far more interesting, not to mention the grandiose abstractions about democracy development.
In 2016 what is called the Islamic pipeline is set to open. This will be the largest gas pipeline in the Middle East and is being constructed by Iran, Iraq, and Syria. It is designed to run from the south of Iran to Europe and it will weave its way through Iraq, Syria, South Lebanon and the Mediterranean. As you might imagine, the pipeline has been politicized with some Muslims calling it a Shiite pipeline that will serve Shiite interests. There are more than a few journalists and commentators who have suggested that the current conflict in Syria is highly related to the pipeline politics. There are claims that Sunnis will be disadvantaged; Al Qaeda will be resurgent; Saudi Arabia wants to eliminate Assad; and Middle Eastern countries want to deny Russia. You can read more about the pipeline here.
Russia is such a big player and so prominent in the news about the Syrian conflict because they currently supply a very large portion of Europe's energy. The new pipeline poses a threat to Russian capabilities and supply orders. Qatar would like to see Assad relieved of his duties because they proposed a gas pipeline that would traverse Syria and ship energy to Europe. Assad nixed the deal and instead signed a deal with the Russians.
A few people, mostly the alternative media, have thoroughly dismissed the issue of Assad and chemical weapons and suggested that the entire matter is about the natural gas pipeline. The charge goes that Saudi Arabia wants to remove Assad and install a favorable government which will allow the Saudis to control the flow of energy. Russia, on the other hand, supports Assad partially because he helped block the flow of natural gas to Europe which is helpful for the profits of Gazprom.
You want to hear the left-wing conspiracy theorist on this issue? Check out the site called Who Is Really behind the Syrian War? The reasoning on this site is quite poor because the commentator selectively chooses some information and interviews and uses these as authoritative when they are clearly ideologically motivated. Not only that, the assumption is that the United States and Israel are intentionally trying to destabilize the Middle East and there is a sort of conspiracy going on to topple various governments for energy reason. Again, the person who controls the site makes connections between people and countries that are unjustified in the service of some sort of conspiracy theory about Israel being concerned with the greater Israel, and the United States doing Israel's bidding.
The news stories are full of claims about how Obama has been outmaneuvered by Putin. Putin has been close with Assad for a long time and even helped him acquire chemical weapons. The Russians have a real stake in the relationship with Syria and have probably made promises to the Syrian regime that they would help them manage the United States. It is rare that the Russians would become so involved in directly challenging the US with respect to military activity. But Putin has done just that. He has blamed chemical attacks on the rebels rather than the government, sent his representatives out to lobby the U.S. Congress, and promised to play a more supportive role in the United Nations.
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These curriculum and lists of defects are informed by the house examination DACUM (Creating An Educational program) procedure, an additional evaluation of the procedure of home assessment that was created for developing assessment education starting Cals, AB for Canadian and also UNITED STATE residence inspector education and also accreditation evaluations in 1997.
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Caratteristiche tecniche
È un difensore centrale.

Carriera

Nazionale
Il 16 ottobre 2018 ha esordito con la nazionale camerunese disputando il match di qualificazione per la Coppa d'Africa 2019 pareggiato 0-0 contro il Malawi.

Statistiche

Presenze e reti nei club
Statistiche aggiornate al 19 giugno 2020.

Cronologia presenze e reti in nazionale

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale camerunese


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In February, I built a WordPress plugin that allowed users to browse blogs by choosing a top-level category in one select box and then having whatever top-level category they select populate a second select box with the subcategories of that top-level category. I decided I would re-create that functionality as a Drupal 8 module.
My new Drupal 8 creates a block that pulls in the category and subcategory browsing form, and the module also creates a config page that allows admins to choose which taxonomy they want to use as the top-level category in the browsing form. On this website, I enabled the module and placed the block at the top of the left-hand sidebar. The categories and subcategories in this example just contain dummy content, but it gives you an idea of how the module works.
The code for the module is here: https://github.com/mckinzie25/tag_subtag_browsing. Lots of Drupal 8 module development tutorials are starting to percolate around the web now, so what I will focus on here is just how I used routing to create an admin menu link and form redirects in the module code.
One of the most notable changes in Drupal 8 is that configuration information is contained in YAML files, and pages are defined not by hook_menu but by routes. For my Multi-Level Category Browsing module, I wanted to create a link to its admin screen from the Search and Metadata section of the Configuration page. This required two YAML files, one to create the page for the admin screen, and one to link to it from the configuration page.
Notice that unlike in Drupal 7, the route is what will be used to refer to the page everywhere else, not the path. This means the path can be changed later without messing anything else up.
Other important YAML files can be found in /core/modules to help you find the routes you need. For example, when the user submits the category and subcategory browsing form to go to a subcategory page, the script in /modules/custom/tag_subtag_browsing/src/Form/TagSubtagBrowsingForm.php uses the setRedirect() method of the $form_state object to send the user to the right page. But the setRedirect() method requires the proper route to do that, so I had to find the route for taxonomy pages. I found this by going to /core/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.routing.yml and finding "entity.taxonomy_term.canonical" as the route for taxonomy term pages.
Sifting through YAML files to find routes may take some getting used to, but if you do a grep-like search on /core/modules for a path or partial path (e.g., "/taxonomy/term") or a title (e.g., "Search and metadata"), you should be able to find what you are looking for.


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… of Dr. Basil Bartley who spent the entire second half of the 20th century in the field, including extensive wild cacáo explorations throughout the Amazon Rainforest & other regions of the world, becoming responsible for introducing the concept of hybrid cultivars along the way. His view on the term 'Trinitario' is unequivocal & straightforward – do not use it, particularly in its current sense.
'Trinitario' originated as a specific cultivated variety (cultivar) on the island of Trinidad. Two events are seminal in its emergence: 1) a mysterious natural disaster destroyed much of the island's Criollo in 1727. Amazon trees were brought in to crossbreed with the few surviving Criollos; 2) In 1757, Criollos in Venezuela, threatened with disease, were transplanted to the island sanctuary of Trinidad, just 5 miles off Venezuela's east coast. These, in turn, were crossed with an Amazon from that introduction 30 years earlier that local Trinidadians called 'Forastero Calabacillo' or 'foreign calabash' (with respect to the shape & size of the fruit, as well as to its lineage originating off the island). This is perhaps when the term 'Forastero' was coined.
Not until another 200 years, around 1940, did the term 'Trinitario' begin circulating, coming into vogue as the hybrid of Criollo & 'Forastero' grown in Trinidad. Since then, 'Trinitario' has developed into a cover-all for any hybrid that's neither too strongly Criollo nor too Amazon – a crazily confused jumble, with just about everything & anything swept under the 'Trinitario' rug in what Bartley describes as a "mental dust bin".
Only Amazon-Criollo hybrids whose parentage can reasonably be traced to Trinidad should be designated 'Trinitario', & then more accurately labeled 'Trinitario Complex' to convey that it's no variety per se but rather an admixture of many types. (Molecular markers identify 3 main progenitors in most Trinitario hybrids — a) SP1 Criollo genotype from Venezuela; b) MAT1-6, a Matina Amelonado-type from Costa Rica; & c) SIAL70 Amelonado from Seleção do Instituto Agronómico do Leste, Brazil.) And even in Trinidad different estates have vastly different subcomponents in the mix. The ones that share a common Venezuelan Criollo ancestry are called 'Old Trinitario' by geneticists.


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Gionee A1 Plus is a metal body phone?
Yes, Gionee A1 Plus is made of Aluminium Alloy.


I have had a blast of a weekend! I have done three things (all of which are very important to me!) Firstly I worked yesterday & had an amazing Saturday in wingham at the lovely little shop SCRAPSIDAISY . secondly I spent the afternoon/evening with my family at a local family fireworks night & then thirdly I SCRAPPED well into the night! I have just been so inspired lately with the Love Elsie papers & embellishments. I managed 5 pages in all. The first 3 are in the 8.5 x 11 size & the others in the usual 12 x 12. I hope you like them! Because I really enjoyed doing them.
I hope everyone has a safe funfilled week!
First page is using the ever so beautiful Urban Lily p.p range with one of my favourite photo's of my D.D.
next we have a double page using the ever so popular Love Elsie p.p & embellishments. I just LOVE these photo's of my D.D with my great niece!
A really beautiful photo used on truly beautiful Infuse Basic Grey range.
And lastly I created this very very simple page using the new Autumn Leaves p.p & alphas.
WOW what a week! My kiddies returned to school last Tuesday (all excited to be back!) all was going well, as expected, & then I get the phone call that every parent dreads! Brock has had a fall in the playground & has hurt himself! So hubby rushes to the school to discover my brave little boy unable to move his arm. So it is off to the hospital for xrays & such & the conclusion was that he has a fractured collarbone! So today as he celebrates his birthday he is on the mend. He insisted that he return to school today as it much more fun sharing the day with his buddies. So I made him a cake & took it on for his class to share. He has been really spoilt with lots & lots of pressies tonight & a second cake to share with the family-how lucky was he!. But boy does he deserve them. I am so proud of my brave little man!
I have some new pages/projects to share so I will post them soon.
WOW, WOW, WOW what a wonderful DAY! Leisa & I headed off bright & early this morning for the crop that was held in Newcastle as a Fundraiser for M.D.
The pages below are the two that I managed to create all by myself. I am stoked as I actually finished them & quite like them as well!
I aslo managed to create this card using my cuttlebug embossing & die cuts.
We met some lovely, lovely ladies! & caught up with the adorable Mishell!
& then to top it all off I won this great set of stamps!
Just a few pages to share tonight. I created this layout with a photo that is a few years old now. Not something I do that often ( As I seem to take more photo's then I can keep up with) & looking at it I can not believe how much my babies have grown!
The next is a page of my little man in the 2007 Taree & District Eisteddford. The day was so long for the poor little darlings & then to top it off(after waiting all day to sing last) the music didn't work in their C.D player, so they sang beautifully without music!
I am loving these Love Elsie papers!
And the third & final page is a page I created using the Urban Lily range.
All these pages are simple (I know) BUT I felt for a while that I had lost my MOJO so I am creating with a simple style to encourage my creativity to re-appear! heres hoping!!!


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Chain Migration to Add Foreign-Born Voting Population Double the Size of Annual American Births by 2038
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John Binder
29 Jan 2018 Washington, D.C.
In the next two decades, a foreign-born voting population will be added to the United States electorate via "chain migration" that is double the size of the number of annual American births.
By virtue of chain migration, newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. with them.
Currently, the legal immigration system to the U.S. prioritizes foreign nationals who have foreign relatives already living in the country. This process is commonly referred to as "chain migration" and it makes up more than 70 percent of all legal immigration to the U.S.
MUST WATCH: What you need to know about #ChainMigration pic.twitter.com/obBgkm3lxl
— FAIR (@FAIRImmigration) January 17, 2018
In the next 20 years, Breitbart News reported how chain migration is expected to import between seven to eight million new foreign-born voters, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Director of Research Steven Camarota revealed.
The chain migration importation of eight million new foreign-born voters in the next two decades would be double the size of the annual number of U.S. births; about four million American babies are born every year.
Overall, including all legal immigration and not just chain migration, the U.S. is on track to bring in about 15 million new foreign-born voters in the next 20 years, as the country continues admitting more than one million legal immigrants every year.
In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, CIS estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population. Chain migration has brought more than nine million legal immigrants to the U.S. since 2005.
Democrats are expected to make enormous gains, politically, as University of Maryland, College Park researcher James Gimpel has found in recent years that more immigrants to the U.S. inevitably means more Democrat voters and thus, increasing electoral victories for the Democratic Party.
In 2014, Gimpel's research concluded with three major findings:
Immigrants, particularly Hispanics and Asians, have policy preferences when it comes to the size and scope of government that are more closely aligned with progressives than with conservatives. As a result, survey data show a two-to-one party identification with Democrats over Republicans.
By increasing income inequality and adding to the low-income population (e.g. immigrants and their minor children account for one-fourth of those in poverty and one-third of the uninsured) immigration likely makes all voters more supportive of redistributive policies championed by Democrats to support disadvantaged populations.
There is evidence that immigration may cause more Republican-oriented voters to move away from areas of high immigrant settlement leaving behind a more lopsided Democrat majority.
Democrats like former San Antonio, Texas mayor Julian Castro admit that mass immigration to the U.S. will result in Democrat dominance for generations in swing states.
The Hispanic vote in Texas will continue to increase. By 2024 Democrats can win Texas, Arizona and Florida. A big blue wall of 78 electoral votes. https://t.co/6FT0NJyjyP
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 23, 2018
Americans, by a wide majority, want to see chain migration ended in exchange for a legal immigration system that brings in fewer legal immigrants and more highly-educated, English-proficient legal immigrants – a plan that President Trump has demanded the Republican-controlled Congress get behind, but which has been stalled by the Republican establishment.
As Breitbart News reported, a new Harvard-Harris poll revealed that nearly 80 percent of Americans said they believe "immigration priority for those coming to the U.S. should be based on a person's ability to contribute to America as measured by their education and skills—and not based on a person having relatives in the U.S."
Additionally, 85 percent of black Americans said they supported a merit-based immigration system, rather than the current flow of chain migration. Another 72 percent of Democrat, former voters for Hillary Clinton agreed that the legal immigration system should be based on skills, not family ties.
Last year, Trump endorsed Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. David Perdue's (R-GA) RAISE Act legislation, which would have ended chain migration and created a merit-based immigration system that admitted no more than 500,000 legal immigrants a year based on their education levels and English abilities.
The open borders lobby and corporate interests have opposed any cuts to legal immigration levels that would raise the wages of American workers and better the quality of life for America's working and middle class. Under the current mass immigration system, Washington, D.C. has kept U.S. wages stagnant for big businesses at the expense of Americans.
Black Americans, as Breitbart News reported, are the most supportive demographic group in the country of reducing legal immigration levels to benefit America's working and middle class.
When asked, "In your opinion, about how many legal immigrants should be admitted to the U.S. each year," 48 percent of black Americans said they would like to see between only one and 250,000 legal immigrants brought to the U.S. a year.
A total of 30 percent of Hispanic Americans, likewise, said they wanted to see one to 250,000 legal immigrants admitted a year, a far drop from the more than one million legal immigrants who are imported every year.
Overall, a plurality of 35 percent of Americans said they wanted to see only one to 250,000 legal immigrants admitted to the U.S. every year, with nine percent of Americans saying they want to see a full stop to legal immigration, favoring an immigration system that admits zero legal immigrants.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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Mobility Showdown: Bird Scooter vs. Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG in Santa Monica
Los Angeles traffic is the great equalizer.
By Alex RoyJuly 23, 2018
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There is no good reason to compare an electric Bird Scooter to a $200,000 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG, but there is a fundamental one: both move people from A to B.
That they do it differently doesn't make a comparison less relevant. It makes it more relevant.
Welcome to mobility. Forget the shills, consultants and experts. Mobility has and always will mean the ability to move or be moved freely and easily. Mobility began with sandals, greatly improved with the advent of the wheel, and now extends all the way to commercial aviation. If it helps you get from A to B faster than walking barefoot, it's a mobility solution.
But there's a catch.
Modern American society was created by, for, and around cars. The more cars on the road, the worse the traffic, and the worse cars become as a mobility solution. In cities like LA, where public transit sucks, your alternatives are motorcycles, biking, and walking. Each bring their own set of pros and cons.
Enter Bird, a dockless electric scooter rental startup that seemed to come out of nowhere and has raised $400 million at a valuation of $2B, to the consternation of anyone who didn't invest in the friends and family round. Bird launched earlier this year in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Santa Monica. Yadda, yadda. If you don't know the details, you already missed your chance to get in on the latest bubble to come out of Silicon Valley. I'd love to discuss it, but we're here to answer a much more fun question: Is a Bird scooter rental better than a Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG when it comes to getting around Santa Monica?
In order to find out, I took a 2018 S63 AMG Coupe to Bird's native habitat and spent the weekend comparing LA's favorite German lease to something I wanted to hate.
You won't believe what happened next.
The Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG is a very good car. But its price is an insult.
A 2018 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe is an expensive car. We could talk about value, but if that word means anything to you, you wouldn't be looking at anything with an AMG badge. The one I tested was $208,295 with options. Base examples start at $167,700, but that's irrelevant because no one has them in stock. If you want one, you'll have to special order it. Which no one does, because the kind of person who wants an S63 AMG isn't going to wait. Because they're not actually car-shopping, they're badge-shopping. Because they don't actually like cars. Or driving—if they like driving, they own something else.
A Bird scooter has no price, because you can't put a price on happiness. Well, you can, but it's not a 1-to-1 correlation to an actual Bird scooter. If you wanted to buy the example I used—a Xiaomi m365—it would cost you approximately $499 on Amazon. But then you'd have to chain it up every time you stopped, or carry it inside with you, which is annoying. If that made sense, Xioami wouldn't have any excess product to sell to Bird.
Winner: Bird
COST-PER-MILE
Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe: If you have to ask, stop reading now.
Bird Scooter: $0.15
Lots of birds in Santa Monica. Lots.
An S63 AMG Coupe is almost always available at Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills, which requires an Uber or Lyft to take you there. After initial delivery, it's always available if you're willing to wait for the restaurant valet, which will cost at least 15 bucks, every time. Or $20 if you tip them to leave it in front of the restaurant, assuming no one showed up with a cooler car, which is always a possibility in LA. (AMG? No. One. Cares.) Or you can just walk to the parking lot where you put it. Not a lot of lots in Santa Monica.
Bird Scooter availability is very good. Open the app. Find Bird. They're usually close. If not, take an Uber. No need to walk anywhere or tip anyone. Womp. Womp.
Onboarding with Mercedes-Benz sucks, because you have to go to a car dealer, but it sucks even more because you will likely meet other Benz shoppers. And at least two people who work at Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills. At least you only have to do it once every 24-36 months, depending on the length of your lease. You could buy your AMG, but that would be insane because of Kelley Blue Book and Tavarish's work on Youtube. The day after a lease ends, the only thing more worthless than an AMG is any Maserati ever made.
Another hassle of onboarding a Benz? Insurance. You have to call someone. If there's a crash, you have to call someone else—probably a few people. Driving a Benz (or really any car) in Santa Monica is nothing but a hassle. You're always in fear of having to call people you don't want to, none of whom want to talk to you, either.
Onboarding with Bird is amazing. You download the app, you open it, and—voila! Birds are available. Also, if you have a crash, drop it, run two blocks away, call 911 and tell them someone stole the Bird from you ten minutes earlier. We'll cover this in great detail in my upcoming article, Offboarding.
This amazing exterior is totally useless in Santa Monica.
The exterior of the S63 AMG is gorgeous, but it has a major problem, in that it exists. So much busy bodywork for no purpose except to excite teenage boys, other owners, and the guy holding the tip bucket at the local car wash. The only time you want an exterior in Santa Monica is if it rains, in which case no one is looking at your car anyway, and you might as well take an Uber.
Function, meet form.
Bird scooters don't have or need an exterior, which would only get in the way of slicing through traffic, parking, and ditching it once you're done with it.
The S63 AMG's interior is stunning. Also, stunningly irrelevant.
The Bird scooter has no interior because it doesn't need one.
The S63 AMG's interior is both comfortable and stunning. It's also stunningly irrelevant if you consider whether you'd rather be comfortable, or already at your destination. It's a beautiful bow on a failed mobility solution; in LA traffic, being in an S63 AMG is like being stuck on the runway in a private plane. If the goal is driving for pleasure, buy an AMG-GT for Sunday morning drives to Malibu, and use a Bird the rest of the time.
Want to go out with a friend at night? Neither work if you're drinking, which you probably are, in which case it's back to Uber or Lyft.
RIDE QUALITY
The S63's ride quality is excellent, especially when stopped, which you will be much of the time because you are at a red light or in LA traffic, which is basically the same thing.
The Bird scooter's ride quality is terrible, encouraging one to exploit its small size and agility to reach your destination as quickly and efficiently as possible, fulfilling the goal of mobility.
These tires cost more than buying your Bird scooter.
The S63 AMG's handling is as good as a 4,586-pound car's will ever be. Actually, that's not true, because there several cars of similar weight that handle better, and many cheaper cars that do, too—none of which matters, because if you're pushing the handling limit of any car on the West Side of LA, you're an idiot.
Don't expect much from these. Then again, you won't need much.
The Bird scooter's handling is only as good as your abilities, fulfilling Neitzsche's desire for each and every one of us to reach our full potential—or die trying—on the glorious road to mobility.
The S63 AMG has tons. The Bird, none.
Winner: Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG
Rule for luxury retail: Nothing that says "high end" on it actually is.
If the S63 AMG's stock sound system is an embarrassment, the $6,400 Burmester upgrade is pure criminality. I own a high-end home audio showroom in NYC, and can confirm that 1) Burmester looks cool; 2) Burmester is overpriced; 3) Burmester in-car systems don't sound as good as their home gear; 4) no one buys it for the sound quality, anyway; and 5) nothing that says "high end" on it actually is high-end. All it does is remind me that luxury cars are rarely equipped with sound systems anywhere as good as the best home audio, at any price.
The Bird doesn't have a sound system, which is good because you shouldn't be listening to music while riding one.
Winner: Tie
The S63 AMG's visibility is terrible. With its high belt line, hardtop, and the sun reflecting harshly off the windows, no one can see you in it, which is the whole point.
The Bird scooter? Total visibility. You can see everything, and everyone can see that you had the good judgment to use a scooter to get where you want to go. Quickly, and on time.
SOCIAL LIFE IMPROVEMENT FACTOR
The likelihood of running into friends in Santa Monica is high. In the S63 AMG, you can't stop to talk to them. You could, but you'd have to double park and/or stop traffic. In SoCal, this will likely lead to someone throwing their smoothie at you. If you're on a Bird, you can simply stop, profoundly increasing the likelihood of maxing out your social calendar and improving your social life.
The S63 AMG's aircon is terrific, which is good, because you're basically riding around in a gilded sarcophagus with wheels. If you roll the windows down you barely get enough airflow to keep you alive during three out of four seasons. Switch to A/C and you look like the jerk who couldn't wait for the convertible version to show up at the dealer. Impatience is unattractive.
The Bird scooter has the world's best HVAC, provided by mother nature. You're in Santa Monica. Enjoy it.
NAVIGATION/GPS
The S63 AMG's nav/GPS systems sucks, at any price. You're better off using Waze or Google Maps. Buy a good phone mount, because there's nowhere good to put your phone in the center console area.
The Bird scooter doesn't have a built-in nav/GPS, but there's one available to you, anyway. Just yell at anyone you see and ask for directions. They'll be happy to help, because they don't want you dumping your Bird in front of their house.
The S63 AMG's performance is incredible—as a symbol. As a mobility solution, it's terrible. Specs won't get you to your destination any faster anywhere in LA, and certainly not in Santa Monica.
The Bird's performance is off the charts, and improves relative to how bad is the surrounding traffic.
Also, an AMG spec racing series would be incredibly boring. A Bird series? Awesome.
WARRANTY, SERVICE & SUPPORT
Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG: has a warranty, which requires going to the dealer. Dealers suck.
Bird Scooter: if it breaks, ditch it and get another one.
FIT & FINISH
The S63 AMG is built like a tank.
The Bird/Xiaomi is a toy. Unless you find a new one, expect them to be in rough shape. The good news? You can always ditch it and find another one with almost zero hassle. Try that with an S63 AMG.
ADAS/DRIVER ASSISTANCE
The S63 AMG's ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) includes Mercedes-Benz's excellent Distronic radar cruise control. The rest of it is junk. I'm not joking. Their storied history of safety and technology may lead you to believe you're using the state-of-the-art. That would be a mistake. If and when you crash, your life may be saved not because of the system, but despite it.
Technically, the Bird offers no assistance of any kind. Practically, every Bird comes with the world's most advanced ADAS, which is you. At current levels of technology, the human eye is a more reliable sensor than anything mounted in any car. In conjunction with the human mind—still the most intelligent computer available—it is possible to achieve safety levels far beyond that of any ADAS system. You just have to turn it on. Also, it's free.
The S63 AMG is a very safe car. Probably one of the safest ever made, especially at the average speeds you will experience in Santa Monica.
Bird scooters are dangerous at any speed. Although the app suggests you wear a helmet, no one does. You better make your trip a quick one, because every minute on a Bird is life on the edge.
GREEN FACTOR
Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe: Make enemies wherever/whenever you drive.
Bird Scooter: Like jazz—if you have to ask...
RANGE & INFRASTRUCTURE
I know what you're thinking. The S63 AMG has to win because gas stations are everywhere and its range is anywhere from 200 to 567 miles, depending on your maturity. You're wrong, of course, because no trip on the West Side of LA is more than a mile or two long.
A Bird Scooter always has enough range in its native habitat, because Bird users don't have to worry about infrastructure. Charging is Bird's problem, outsourced to people who get paid weekend money to do it. If only fueling up your car was so easy.
GLOBAL MOBILITY SCORE
Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG: 2
Xiaomi/Bird Electric Scooter: 17
If you're lucky enough to live and work in Santa Monica, Bird is the clear winner. If it rains, you're drunk, or you want to bring friends, get an Uber/Lyft and skip the parking hassle.
If you work more than a mile from home, or want to leave Santa Monica for any reason, you need a car. Whether or not you need to own one depends on something for which the Mobility propagandists have no answer—but Mercedes-Benz does.
It's not cost, it's agency. It's freedom. Not the freedom to use an app to summon a car; the freedom not to need an app, to do something Bird, Lyft, and Uber can never offer, which is guarantee that you can get from A to B, whenever you choose, without relying on external factors like an app, connectivity, a human driver, or available inventory.
What's the ideal solution? Unless you want to be confined to the West Side of LA, you need to own a car. The good news? Uber's partnership with Lime — Bird's competitor — means there are more such deals coming. If only Uber would partner with Turo, then you could book cool cars on weekends, use Lime and hailing the rest of the time, and you'd have everything you need.
Unless there's an earthquake or tsunami, in which case you're really going to regret not having your own car in the driveway.
I can't wait to see whom Bird partners up with next.
[CORRECTION: Uber partnered with Lime and acquired Jump. It's hard to remember all the acquisitions in this space sometimes.]
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How many of these books have you read?
This is a meme going around Facebook at the moment and, I haven't written a blog post for a while so this is as good as place as any!
For a geek I've done a rather poor job! (I've tagged both mine and Emma's in the one list!)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Emma)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (Emma)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (Emma)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - read first 3 (Emma)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Chuq)
6 The Bible - read parts (Emma)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Emma)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Emma)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read 7 or 8, seen more on stage. (Emma)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (Emma)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Chuq)
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (Emma)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (Chuq)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Chuq)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Emma)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (Emma)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Emma)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (Emma)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Emma)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (Chuq) (Emma)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Emma)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (Emma)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Chuq)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Emma)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (Emma)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Chuq)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Emma)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Emma)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (Emma)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White (Chuq) (Emma)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (Emma)
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Emma)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (Chuq) (Emma)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
9 out of 100. How embarrassing! If you don't count the ones which are (a) children's books or (b) books that were a compulsory part of our high school english curriculum, then the ONLY book on the list would be Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
What is even worse is that a significant number of the books on the last are sitting right on our bookshelf and have done so for the past 9 years. Most of them were inherited, not purchased ... I know many of them are classics which is why they are still there!
Some titles on the list do stand out as standard geek fare.. Nineteen Eighty Four, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Catch 22 and The Time Traveller's Wife are titles that I should really familiarise myself with more!
If I scrape the bottom of the barrel ... I've read the book of Contact, and it WAS better than the movie, does that give me cred? Also there were episodes of Lost named 'The Little Prince' and 'A Tale Of Two Cities' .. there was a lot of CS Lewis references in the show as well. That has to count for something?
Emma scored 27 on this list, quite a few of which she attributes to owning the complete works of Jane Austen, the whole Harry Potter series, and all of The Lord of the Rings books!
Quick plug: If you are a bibliophile - check out http://www.librarything.com - fellow geek John Dalton helps to run this one!