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Anwar Ibrahim upgraded by PM to status with ministerial-level amenities. The story of 'Farm Fresh'. Rare red 'sprite' seen from ISS - a lightning that shoots upwards, instead of to the ground.
1. MARKET SUMMARY
Information as at 0800 GMT+8 on Oct 13, 2021
2. NUMBERS AT A GLANCE
13th — Malaysia's passport ranking in 2021. Malaysia's passport can travel to 179 visa-free destinations.
23,992 cargo units — the capacity of the world's largest container ship, the Ever Ace. Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) officially became the first port in Southeast Asia to welcome Ever Ace.
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7,448 units of Youth Transit Housing (RTB) will be built by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) in an effort to help ease the burden of young people who live in the Klang Valley.
3. COVID-19 SUMMARY
Individuals travelling to Langkawi will no longer be required to take the mandatory Covid-19 test following the low number of tourists who had tested positive, also adding that there were no Covid-19 clusters detected from the Langkawi travel bubble.
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4. IN MALAYSIA 🇲🇾
Politics and Local
Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has received confirmation from the PM, upgrading his status with ministerial-level amenities. The request is part of the MoU on Transformation and Political Stability signed on Sep 13, 2021.
The facilities for the Opposition bloc in Parliament will also be upgraded to be on par with the prime minister's, as confirmed by DAP's Anthony Loke. The bilateral meetings between the government and the opposition will take place once every fortnight.
The High Court has set Dec 14, 2021, for the hearing of MUDA's application to challenge the Home Minister and Registrar of Societies (RoS) in rejecting MUDA's appeal to register as a political party.
Only in Malaysia, you can buy a promotion to Superintendent with money. The price? RM100,000. Two suspects have been arrested for allegedly intimidating a woman who lent RM100,000 to a police officer, a Deputy Superintendent, for his promotion.
The police in question has yet to be arrested.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob once again assured the proposal to introduce an equity safety net framework in the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP) will not take away the rights and interests of other races.
He added that the framework would be introduced to ensure that the sale of shares or companies by Bumiputera-mandated agencies would only be offered to qualified Bumiputera consortiums, companies or individuals.
The gerrymandering issues will likely persist in Malaysia for the upcoming general election. Undi18 will bring an influx of young voters in the country, but the redelineation exercises will only happen later — Sarawak would be in 2023, Sabah in 2025 and other states in 2026.
Prime Minister's Department (Parliament and Law) Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the number of voters in a constituency is more or less the same after considering factors such as communication, transportation, demographics and geography.
Gerrymandering explained. Source: Washington Post
AirAsia Group Bhd's digital businesses have achieved unicorn status with a valuation of over USD1 billion in less than two years, according to Group CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes. The statement came after Credit Suisse's report identified AirAsia Digital as one of three ASEAN unicorns based in Malaysia.
While it was cited in Credit Suisse's report, the USD1 bil valuation came about after AirAsia acquired Gojek's Thailand opposition. The actual valuation is anybody's guess.
Click here to read Credit Suisse's full report.
Lion Industries Corporation Bhd's (LICB) Amsteel Mills Sdn Bhd is disposing of its 100% stake in Antara Steel Mills Sdn Bhd to Singapore's Singapore's Esteel Enterprise Pte Ltd for USD122mil (RM509.96mil). The disposal would improve LICB's financial position as it allows LICB to realise a substantial gain of approximately RM403.10 mil.
How did Amanah Raya Bhd (ARB) lose money? Worse than an amateur investor, the investments made by ARB have no benchmark. Investments were also made without the approval of the Investment Committee. These were the findings by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). PAC further found ARB does not have a complete investment policy and the board has no control over the investments made.
Case in point — ARB invested in Keppel Bay, Singapore, where the gross development value (GDV) was insufficient to cover the investment cost, causing ARB to lose RM114.34 million.
Dewan Rakyat passes amendments to the Windfall Profit Levy Act 1998 (Act 592). The Windfall Profit Levy (Amendment) Bill 2020 was mooted to develop existing provisions and introduce new provisions to improve the administration of the windfall profit levy.
Three Tune Talk Sdn Bhd shareholders seek Axiata to be prohibited from including 5.25 million Tune Talk shares (representing a 35% stake) registered in the name of Celcom Axiata in the proposed merger with Digi.com Bhd.
Axiata Group Bhd, Celcom Axiata Bhd and Celcom Mobile Sdn Bhd have applied to strike out the said lawsuit. The High Court has fixed Jan 5, 2021, to hear the striking out application.
5. AROUND THE WORLD 🌎
LG Electronics has agreed to reimburse General Motors (GM) up to USD1.9 bil to recall and fix all Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles since production began in 2016 due to fire risks caused by faulty batteries provided by the South Korean supplier. The faulty batteries have caused at least 13 vehicles to catch fire, according to GM.
The reimbursement will allow GM to recognise an estimated recovery in Q3 that will offset USD1.9 bil of USD2 bil charges associated with the recalls. The manufacturing problems occurred at LG Battery Solution's plant in South Korea and Michigan. GM says that the "rare manufacturing defects" in the Bolt EVs are a torn anode tab and folded separator that, when present in the same battery, increase the risk of fire.
Yieldstreet, a site that democratises access to alternative investments, has agreed to a multi-year sponsorship deal with the American football team, New York Giants, worth about USD1mil. Founded in 2014, the platform offers users access to nontraditional investments usually reserved for institutions like hedge funds and wealthy family offices. These assets typically are private loans in sectors including real estate, shipping, art, finance and aviation.
The company said it has returned more than USD1 bil in principal and interest and currently has over 300,000 users on its platform. In June, the company raised USD100 mil at a valuation of USD800 mil and counts George Soros as an early backer. The company expects to reach USD100 mil in revenue in 2021 and is planning to go public via a SPAC merger.
Just how fast Chinese EV carmakers are producing cars? Xpeng and Nio took about six years to produce 100,000 vehicles, half the time Tesla took to reach the milestone. Tesla took 12 years from launch to produce 100,000 vehicles in 2013. To be clear, Tesla is still much larger in comparison. It crossed the one-millionth car mark back in Mar 2020. In September, Tesla sold a record 56,006 China-made vehicles since it started production in Shanghai about two years ago.
Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network has raised USD400 mil in its latest fundraising round, valuing the company over USD3 bil - a 2,400% increase from its previous fundraising round last year that valued it at USD120 mil. The round was led by WestCap, a New York-based growth equity firm and CDPQ, a global investment group.
As of Oct 2021, the company reported that it has crossed the USD25 bil threshold in total assets with more than one mil registered users. In just three years, it has paid more than USD850 mil in interest to users.
Thomas Pesquet, an astronaut onboard the ISS, captured a "very rare occurrence" of a "sprite" above Europe. Sprites are red flashes that last for milliseconds and are made of lightning that shoots up toward space rather than down to the ground. Pictures of a sprite are so rare, and little is known about it. The first image was captured in the late 1980s.
The Chinese government is proposing new rules that would ban news reporting by outlets not directly funded by the Communist Party, further blow to freedom of speech in the country. The proposal prevents private capital from funding newsgathering, broadcasting and distribution, including social media. It is not clear if foreign news outlets operating in China would be impacted.
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We did a thread on Farm Fresh! Quite a remarkable story.
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Farm Fresh is the No1. brand in the fresh milk category in Malaysia. Farm Fresh Bhd (formerly Holstein Milk Company Sdn Bhd) has filed to be listed on Bursa, with an expected value of RM2 billion. From padang to Bursa, the story of the milkman & his cash cows. THREAD 👇
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The Glass-House Community Led Design > Blog > Blog > What is the role of the built environment in the future of our High Streets?
Last week, Louise and I had the pleasure of taking part in High Street Camp, an 'unconference' which brought together a diverse group of people from community representatives to regeneration professionals, to explore the future of our town centres and to share ideas and experience to address some of the key issues involved.
We ran two workshops in partnership with Living Streets (a national charity who work with people to create safe, attractive, enjoyable streets where it's great to walk) to think about the spatial experience of the High Street and consider how the built environment can be used to make High Streets more vibrant and exciting places.
During the workshops, we asked participants to think about the qualities that make a good High Street before taking them outside to observe and experience the case study on our doorstep – Willesden Green High Street in North West London. Living Streets used their successful Community Street Audit tool to get participants to identify what improvements to the built environment would make this place safer, more attractive and more enjoyable for all users. Overall what emerged from these sessions was the importance of ease of movement around a High Street, an emphasis on the need to give people diversity and variety in the high street and to create safe, pleasant and inviting spaces for rest and interaction.
High streets are not just retail space – they respond to a social need and these needs along with many others are mixed and interlinked. The High Street is an 'experience space'.
Is there a need for a set of standards to bring a consistency of quality to a high street?
We will be watching the Town Team pilot projects closely and hope to see community led design playing a leading role in making these town centres more friendly, vibrant and successful places!


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Hospital bed availability decreases in region amid "tripledemic"
Mayzie Olson KAALTV
(ABC 6 News) – Ahead of the holidays, shocking new numbers from the Minnesota Department of Health indicate that there have been more than 2,100 hospitalizations this season.
Public health officials are on high alert amid the 900 influenza-like outbreaks in schools and 40 outbreaks in nursing homes. They say that the number of cases this flu season surpasses the two previous winters put together.
"We are experiencing a surge in respiratory viruses now," said MDH Commissioner Jan Malcolm.
A surge, many officials say, is buckling the state's health care systems.
Since Sept. there have been 1,500 hospitalizations for RSV in Minnesota, with 900 of them being children under one year old.
As more people get infected with these respiratory illnesses, the number of open hospital beds continues to dwindle.
In southeastern Minnesota, only 3% of beds are available to local hospitals. But, health officials say there are things that people can do to ease the strain.
"Our hospital capacities are tight. The vaccination for COVID and influenza are easy ways we can do our part to help limit the strain on the health care system," explained Commissioner Malcolm.
As we approach 33 months since the pandemic began, fewer people are following Centers for Disease Control recommendations.
The MDH reports that as of last week, fewer than 20% of Minnesotans were up to date with their COVID vaccine.
"It's really important that people shake off this COVID fatigue and lethargy," added Mayo Clinic Dr. Greg Poland.
In Mower County, a surge in COVID cases has led to the CDC recommending that the community mask up.
"It's been occurring over the last two weeks that we've seen our numbers going up," explained Pam Kellogg, health services manager with Mower County. "We're seeing more cases in our congregate peer settings, so like your nursing homes, your assisted living. We're seeing it both with residents and staff and that's where the driver is of our large numbers."
Recent data from MDH indicates that Mower County's community levels are much higher than the neighboring areas, as the number of COVID cases increased by more than 200% as of last week.
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Q: Step-down Regulator Voltage Drop / Frying I'm trying to implement an Exar XRP7659 on a breadboard to step 17V to 5V @ 1.5A. The regulator is rated for 18v. Now, I have the circuit wired up and initially the output voltage is 5V on the regulator but after I add load (a phone to charge via USB) the voltage drops to 3.25V and then spikes to ~16V (presumably fried because it won't step to 5V anymore). I even had one regulator catch on fire! As far as my components, all resistors are 1% except for the 100k EN resistor. The capacitors are all ceramic as well.
Here's the regulators application guide for 5V:

Here's my breadboard's layout with labels:

Any idea what I'm doing to destroy these regulators?
Thanks!

A: It looks like you misplaced the feedback resistors. They are tapping off   the wrong end of the inductor.
Making a switched regulator on a breadboard is asking for trouble. If you check the manufacturers demo board layout you see that its nowhere near this type of breadboard layout. With this you will have stray capacitances, messy ground paths to mention some of the problems.

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"I'm Boss Up Here": The importance of "Night of the Living Dead" in Black horror history
Monday, October 26, 2020 - 10:26pm
Graphic courtesy of Meghana Tummala, MiC Graphic Designer
Camille Moore
MiC "Off the Record" Blogger
Content Warning: The following piece contains spoilers of the films "Night of the Living Dead" and "Get Out"
I've never been a fan of old horror films. Though I can understand why people love movies like "Psycho" or "Frankenstein," I can't seem to find them satisfying or entertaining to watch. That was until I watched the 1968 independent horror film, "Night of the Living Dead."
The black and white film is a classic horror story. A mysterious zombie apocalypse plagues the country and strangers are forced to band together in order to survive from the man-eating creatures. The film starts off with Barbara, played by Judith O'Dea, running from a herd of zombies after her brother was murdered by one of them. She arrives at an empty house in complete despair. I was annoyed with her nonsensical actions at this point in the film and felt myself getting bored until a new character made his entrance. A tall Black man named Ben, played by Duane Jones, arrives at the house and quickly jumps into action, unfazed by Barbara's state of shock.
Ben quickly became my favorite character. He wasn't overcome with fear at the horrors outside of the house. As more people joined the group, he adapted to the situation and became a natural leader. He was boarding up the house, making plans and ensuring the safety of others. He got shit done. Until recent years, I hadn't seen many horror films where the token Black characters weren't playing a trope or a villain. So to have a Black lead as the responsible, smart, bad-ass leader of a group of white people in a movie from the 60s was shocking. My jaw dropped multiple times throughout the film at his assertiveness and bravery. When Ben proclaimed "I'm boss up here" to a hardheaded group of white folks, I understood why so many Black viewers love this movie.
"Night of the Living Dead" holds an important space in Black history. Duane Jones was one of the first African Americans to have a lead role in a mainstream horror film. This is even more notable because there is no mention of Ben's race in the film. The director George Romero said that, though the character wasn't written to be a Black man, Duane Jones had simply given the best audition, so they hired him. In a time period as tumultuous as the late 1960s when Black people were participating in sit-ins, planning marches and receiving violent push back from white America every step of the way, Ben was taking charge and leading a group of white people to safety. Duane Jones' performance as Ben showed audiences around the country and the world that Black people could be dynamic leaders. We could play more than side characters or troublemakers, and our storylines should hold more substance than just making a social commentary stance.
I found myself really enjoying the movie despite my admitted disdain for old movies until I reached the ending. As I had hoped, Ben was the last survivor. Throughout the film he didn't make rash decisions, he put himself in danger to help others and he tried his best to find a way out of the house and to a nearby military base for safety. He earned his survival. In the last few minutes of the film, a rescue/zombie-killing team made its way toward the house. Ben crept upstairs from his hiding spot in the basement. He laid low in the house and waited for help to come his way. Instead, the armed mob shoots Ben in the head and kills him after mistaking him for one of the undead. The film ends with a slide show of stills as the mob carries Ben's lifeless body to be burned with a pile of dead zombies.
My heart sank to my stomach. I sat in front of my screen in disbelief as the credits rolled to the end. Of course, many good horror movies end in a 'gotcha' death of the protagonist but knowing that didn't make me feel better. Ben made it all that way, and in the end he was still murdered. Not by the undead, but by a gun-toting mob of white men. A truly horrific sight for Black people in rural America in the 1960s. His murder was unjustified and felt a little too familiar to the lynchings of Black folks throughout American history. The imagery of his body being carried by smiling white men was jarring. I couldn't help but make a connection to those old photos of lifeless Black men hanging from trees or their mangled bodies held up like trophies with a crowd of smiling white people in the background.
Despite how I felt about the ending, I wholeheartedly believe we need more characters like Ben in horror films. Horror is not a film genre that Black folks are usually given the chance to shine and be the hero. But nearly fifty years after "Night of the Living Dead," Jordan Peele's "Get Out" changed the narrative.
The widely successful 2017 film tells the story of Chris, played by Daniel Kaluuya, who finally meets his white girlfriend's parents on a weekend getaway trip only to find out the family has a disturbing secret hiding in the basement. To me, "Get Out" is one of the most well-written and thought-out horror films of all time — Jordan Peele won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his creative brilliance.
While the film remains an exception and not the standard representation of Black people in horror, it's major success shows white-run studios that there is a demand for movies that are actually representative of the people that watch them. And one of the most impactful aspects of the movie is the fact that Chris survives in the end! Not only does he avoid going to jail and murder, but he defeats the racist white family and is rescued by his best friend, another Black man.
Peele's intentional decisions to turn the presence of Black horror characters completely around is why Chris' ending feels so different to Ben's. "Get Out" challenges the stereotypical, white supremacist image of Blackness while "Night of the Living Dead" purposefully remains colorblind. White people stealing the bodies of Black folks is not a new story of America but in this case Chris is the hero. He became the survivor that Ben didn't have a chance to become. It's a triumphant ending and I think it really shows how far Black horror has come and how far the Black community has come as well. We are the creators, leaders and heroes of our own stories.


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Gross negligence manslaughter on the cusp: the unprincipled privileging of harm over culpability
Anne Lodge
Despite playing a significant role in defining the boundaries of manslaughter, the 'gross negligence' concept is notoriously indeterminate. There is no comprehensible and consistent means of measuring whether conduct is sufficiently gross to warrant criminal conviction. The gross negligence condition also sets the culpability bar too low by permitting the criminal censure of undeserving defendants who did not advert to any risk of death associated with their conduct. Whilst acknowledging the difficulties of distinguishing advertence from inadvertence in cases that straddle the margins of legitimate criminal punishment and accidental death, it is argued that punishment should only be meted out to those who are consciously aware, or at least had a conscious inkling, of the risk of encroaching on the victim's legally protected interests. A reformulated offence that regards the defendant's conscious choices as the true determinant of culpability is theoretically plausible and would inject the clarity, certainty and consistency that is required of a law that dictates the parameters of a serious homicide offence.
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Q: SQL%notfound issue When I am executing below code it's not printing the message "Employee doesn't exist with department id" for deptno=40.
declare
    Cursor c1 is select * from dept;
    Cursor c2(p_deptno number) is select * from emp where deptno=p_deptno;
Begin
    For i in c1
    Loop
        for j in c2(i.deptno)
        loop
            if sql%notfound then
                dbms_output.put_line('Employee doesnt exist with deartment id' || i.deptno);
            else
                dbms_output.put_line(i.deptno || ' ' || j.empno || ' ' || j.ename);
            end if;
        end loop;
    end loop;
end;
/

Output:
10 7782 CLARK
10 7839 KING
10 7934 MILLER
20 7369 SMITH
20 7566 JONES
20 7788 SCOTT
20 7876 ADAMS
20 7902 FORD
30 7499 ALLEN
30 7521 WARD
30 7654 MARTIN
30 7698 BLAKE
30 7844 TURNER
30 7900 JAMES

Contents of tables:
SQL> select * from dept;

    DEPTNO DNAME          LOC
---------- -------------- -------------
        10 ACCOUNTING     NEW YORK
        20 RESEARCH       DALLAS
        30 SALES          CHICAGO
        40 OPERATIONS     BOSTON

SQL> select * from emp;

     EMPNO ENAME      JOB              MGR HIREDATE         SAL       COMM     DEPTNO
---------- ---------- --------- ---------- --------- ---------- ---------- ----------
      7369 SMITH      CLERK           7902 17-DEC-80        800                    20
      7499 ALLEN      SALESMAN        7698 20-FEB-81       1600        300         30
      7521 WARD       SALESMAN        7698 22-FEB-81       1250        500         30
      7566 JONES      MANAGER         7839 02-APR-81       2975                    20
      7654 MARTIN     SALESMAN        7698 28-SEP-81       1250       1400         30
      7698 BLAKE      MANAGER         7839 01-MAY-81       2850                    30
      7782 CLARK      MANAGER         7839 09-JUN-81       2450                    10
      7788 SCOTT      ANALYST         7566 19-APR-87       3000                    20
      7839 KING       PRESIDENT            17-NOV-81       5000                    10
      7844 TURNER     SALESMAN        7698 08-SEP-81       1500          0         30
      7876 ADAMS      CLERK           7788 23-MAY-87       1100                    20

     EMPNO ENAME      JOB              MGR HIREDATE         SAL       COMM     DEPTNO
---------- ---------- --------- ---------- --------- ---------- ---------- ----------
      7900 JAMES      CLERK           7698 03-DEC-81        950                    30
      7902 FORD       ANALYST         7566 03-DEC-81       3000                    20
      7934 MILLER     CLERK           7782 23-JAN-82       1300                    10

14 rows selected.

A: You loop through a list of rows:
BEGIN
    FOR j IN (SELECT * -- fake table with no rows
                FROM DUAL
               WHERE 1 = 2)
    LOOP
        DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('work, work..'); -- this won't happen
    END LOOP;
END;

If you don't have rows, you don't loop through anything.
You can use sql%notfound within a select into:
DECLARE
    v_tmp   NUMBER;
BEGIN
    SELECT col1
      INTO v_tmp
      FROM (SELECT 1 col1 FROM DUAL -- select nothing from a fake table
            UNION ALL
            SELECT 2 col1
              FROM DUAL
             WHERE 1 = 2 -- change to 1=1 to get a too-many-rows exception
             );
EXCEPTION
    WHEN OTHERS
    THEN
        IF (SQL%NOTFOUND)
        THEN
            DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('I didn''t find anything..');
        ELSE
            DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('We have some other exception..');
        END IF;
END;

Your solution could be to set a flag and check it after your inner-loop:
DECLARE
    CURSOR c1
    IS
        SELECT * FROM dept;

    CURSOR c2 (p_deptno NUMBER)
    IS
        SELECT *
          FROM emp
         WHERE deptno = p_deptno;

    v_found   BOOLEAN;
BEGIN
    FOR i IN c1
    LOOP
        v_found := FALSE; -- will be set when we find something..

        FOR j IN c2 (i.deptno)
        LOOP
            v_found := TRUE; -- we found something!

            DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (
                i.deptno || ' ' || j.empno || ' ' || j.ename);
        END LOOP;

        IF (NOT v_found) -- check if we did find i.deptno
        THEN
            DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (
                'Employee doesnt exist with deartment id' || i.deptno);
        END IF;
    END LOOP;
END;

A: Do not do loop around a cursor within another loop around a cursor if you can at all avoid it. By doing so, you have reinvented the nested loops join, which may not be the most efficient way of joining your result sets.
Instead, you should first combine the two cursors into one. That way, the optimizer gets to choose the best way of doing the join.
In your case, you need to outer join the second cursor to the first, which means your procedure becomes:
BEGIN
  FOR i IN (SELECT d.deptno,
                   e.empno,
                   e.ename
            FROM   dept d
            LEFT   OUTER JOIN emp e
            ON     d.deptno = e.deptno)
  LOOP
    IF e.empno IS NOT NULL
    THEN
      dbms_output.put_line('Employee doesn''t exist with department id' || i.deptno);
    ELSE
      dbms_output.put_line(i.deptno || ' ' || i.empno || ' ' || i.ename);
    END IF;
  END LOOP;
END;
/


Narmada. The very name means 'pleasure-giver', and it adorns a river that is life-giver to millions. But it has also been the source of much consternation over the decades—a running sore that has flared up once again. In Gujarat, the last few months have seen a torrent of criticism directed at the manner in which the river's water is apportioned. The most marginalised stakeholders—farmers and fishermen—complain of major shortages and blame uncompromised supply to industries and splurging on optics during last year's assembly election campaign while they are left to suffer. This criticism didn't dry up after PM Narendra Modi's seaplane ride from the Sabarmati ahead of the polls.
The impact struck home this summer when the water in the Sardar Sarovar reservoir fell to 106 metres. But the monsoon will set things right, hopes the Narmada Control Authority (NCA). "The Narmada basin had a deficit rainfall of 26 per cent, and the dam had a deficit of 46 per cent, which we had intimated to all state governments in November. Due to lack of non-monsoon rainfall, this was further aggravated," says Mukesh Sinha, executive member, NCA.
Despite the NCA's warning, a lot of water overflowed in dams across the state before the elections. It had been diverted to fill reservoirs in Saurashtra and Bhuj, showcasing how the government had channelled water to dams in those areas, but the excess water could not be stored and had to be let out. Terrific optics, to be sure—but farmers and fishermen are now paying the price.
Sagar Rabari of Gujarat Khedut Samaj, the state's largest farmer activist group, blames this diversion for the shortfall. He points out that in the 1980s, the Gujarat government had demanded nine million acre-feet (MAF) of water from the Narmada, to be shared as 0.86 MAF for potable water, 0.20 MAF for industries (increased to 0.25 MAF) and 7.94 MAF to irrigate 18,41,000 hectares of rain-fed farmland. "Every dam has a water use plan and any use beyond that requires cabinet approval. The release of water to fill up dams in Saurashtra and Bhuj is not part of the plan," he says.
Such things were fixed long ago, and surely need updating. "600 cusecs is released downstream from the dam to feed the main river as per a 25-year-old decision when the only industry here was the GIDC unit in Ankleshwar. Since then, several industrial areas have come up in Dahej and Bharuch and the population has increased at least threefold. We petitioned the governments of MP and Gujarat and the Centre for 6,000 cusecs of water to be released into the main river," says Bharuch-based advocate Kamlesh Madhiwala.
The shortages have hit the fishermen who ply the waters of the Narmada's mouth. A large chunk of their catch is the Hilsa, shipped to Mumbai and West Bengal. The male Hilsa fetched Rs 250–300 per kilo for the fishermen while the egg-bearing female would fetch around Rs 700–800 till a few years ago.
In its 2018 report, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) was severely critical of the fisheries department. "There was no physical and financial planning for completion of the scheme within a certain timeframe...The funds were diverted to show the utilisation of grants and to receive subsequent instalments. This resulted in erroneous booking of expenditure and irregular parking of funds, apart from the planned activities not being completed," the CAG report notes.
Even amid the scarcity, activists claim that industry has not suffered, thanks to malapportionment of water. "They have refused to share the exact data for water released to the industries, but supply to them during this period has not been interrupted for several pumps, as per the response to some RTIs we filed," says Rabari. Pumping stations in Jhanor draw and send water from the river to the Dahej industrial area 60 km away. This substantially reduces the fresh water released from the dam into the river. Most of Bharuch relies on private reverse osmosis plants that sell potable water for Rs 20 per 20 litres.
"Now, the government is planning another barrage near Bhadbhut, near the river's estuary, to supply water to Dahej. This is the place where the Hilsa used to spawn since the sea current would meet the river's flow right here. The barrage will kill whatever fishing remains on the river," says Madhiwala.Simultaneous developments in 2017 have played havoc with the river-based economy. The sluice gates of the dam were shut, leading to shortages along the route of the river and the canals.
Many are also concerned about how the Narmada's water is pumped into the Sabarmati. "The Sabarmati River has been reduced to a pond for riverfront aesthetics under the Rs 2,000-crore beautification plan. The water from the Narmada is fed into the Sabaramati through canals in the north, and the Vasna barrage downstream, in the south of the city, keeps the level constant," says Bharatsinh Jhala, an RTI activist with civil society organisation CRANTI, which has a focus on farmers' rights.
Criticism has not dried up after the PM's seaplane ride from the Sabarmati during last year's election campaign in Gujarat.
On June 30, Jhala took this reporter to his native village of Khambalav in Surendranagar district, 100 km south-west of Ahmedabad. A major irrigation canal of the Narmada dam has been dry since March, freezing all farming activity till the monsoon. "Last year, there was so much water that it damaged all the crops along the canal. This year, everyone bought seeds and prepared for a summer crop, but now there has been no water in the canal for the last three months and it has stalled all farming activity," says Mahesh Bharwad of Tokrala village, who saw this reporter taking photographs of the dry canal and strolled up with a list of complaints.
Littering the sides of the canal are the diesel engines and PVC pipes that people use to pump water from the canal into their fields. This is illegal, so the farmers are labelled thieves and face cases. They claim they have to grease palms to water their fields, while minor irrigation fields are yet to be completed. The promise of irrigating every field in every village remains a distant dream.
Closer to Jhala's village, Jitendrasinh Parmar has already taken loans to spend on the seeds and the tractor but can't wait for the rain. Time was running out and so he hired a diesel pump to draw water from the well he had installed, which is fed by pre-monsoon showers. "We have to pay whatever we are asked to pay for drawing water 'illegally' from the canal. Since the Narmada water has been stopped, I must draw this hard water from the well. It costs more than Rs 1,000 per day to hire and use the diesel rig, and if the monsoon is sparse, you have to continue to use it. Around 50 per cent of my input cost is towards water," says Parmar, who is busy pumping water from the well.
In Khambalav, a few farmers share Parmar's woes and also bemoan the sums they must borrow to survive. The whole village, they claim, depends on money sent by villagers who have moved to the cities. There are no new jobs. And the drinking water situation is as pathetic as in Bharuch: the villagers must buy water at Rs 20 for a 20-litre can.
"Farmers here take loans of Rs 5 lakh from the bank and up to Rs 20 lakh from private moneylenders, who charge three per cent per month, and we have to mortgage our lands. The moneylenders show some leniency but the bank sends notices as soon as we default. But 720 farmers here are yet to receive any money for the crop failures under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana," say the Khambalav farmers. Any recurrence of such a crisis would invite a review of how the state had apportioned its water. And politically motivated diversions may not go down very well.


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Definitely, We believe the coming budget will be about giving benefits that make an impact at large. Since there are many things to do so as the current environment is favorable. The low inflation environment, growing GDP with a rate above 7%, Higher FDI's and on the top of it all a contained Fiscal deficit. This certainly gives extra space for the budget to be populist. A recent wave of farm loan waiver has also increased the expectation in the economy and is now seen as a game changer for any political party during elections. So yes, We expect there may be some populist measures that can be seen in this budget.
The range for the market is likely to be in a range of 11200 to 10700 on the downside. So given the days left to budget, we expect the market to test 11100 - 11200 while only a decisive break beyond that we may see a next move since that would call in for a much aggressive rally that may be supported by short covering as well. On the downside, support is established at 10700 - 10650. These are important for this move and a breach of these levels will see a downward move to take the Index to lower levels of 10200 - 10250.
Construction, Infrastructure, real estate & housing at large are likely the sector that is going to see special attention in the 2019's budget since that been the trend for last few years in present government. Water and sanitation along with a focus on rural projects will be seen. Fertilizer, as an industry, may see some good news since a lot of focus will be seen on improving the present circumstances in the Agricultural sector. These sectors are driven mainly based on government policies and rely on the subsidized and favorable environment.
Markets are likely to see an expanded move though study suggests we may see a move higher that can take the market to higher levels of 11100 - 11150. We expect a halt at levels of 11100 - 11200 since it's a very strong resistance placed there. Historically market has reacted to budget in a positive way if we take out last year when global markets were taking a toll of volatility. So a kind of return post Budget we have seen is in two digits.
Post Budget we can see some profit booking as the rebalancing of the portfolio will be there and shifted to specific sectors and stocks that will be highlighted. Though the earnings outlook for most companies in Nifty 50 remains in double digits but we may see some margin pressure. The Small-cap and Midcap have been beaten down due to lower earnings, rising pressure on margins hence we expect the rally to be participated largely by Blue chips with visible earnings growth. this makes our view specific on select stocks in 2019. Though the trend overall remains largely positive it would be prudent to utilize the dips. Post Budget we expect volatility to rise but the undertone of the trend may be visible due to the fact that a lot of news will be discounted in prices. A lot will also depend on global macroeconomic activity and fed rates. A tightening environment may dampen the outlook while Soft crude prices shall continue to support the positive sentiment in Indian equity markets. Any change there might hamper the trend. Lastly, It all comes down to the mandate that is given in LS as a decisive mandate brings a lot of money flow into the market for a longer time horizon that can help in a capital generation. UPL Ltd, Titagarh wagon, NCC, NBCC, Dilip buildcon are few stocks we expect to see some positive momentum after the budget.
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Q: Critical values for maps in discrete topology I am confused about a counterexample where Sard's theorem fails without second countability (taken from this link):

Consider the real line with the discrete topology, a zero dimensional manifold, mapping via the identity onto the real line with the normal topology. Every point in the real line is thus a critical point and the real line has non zero measure.

I'm not sure why the critical points are everything now that we're mapping from discrete topology on $\mathbb{R}$.


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If you've been scrolling through YouTube or doing a Google search recently, you probably have noticed a trending topic called Avatar. No, not the show, but the movie with blue people in it. A new movie is coming out to add to the Avatar franchise, called Avatar: The Way of Water. Now, you might be thinking, the last time people heard of Avatar by James Cameron was a long time ago. Why is a new film being released just now? To get to know the setting of this movie, and to understand where James Cameron is coming from, it is necessary to take a look at the original Avatar movie.
The original movie Avatar was first released way back in Decemeber 2009. The film was written and directed by Hollywood giant James Cameron and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang. Upon release, the movie was praised by critics and audiences alike, especially for its stunning visual effects. Avatar also achieved impressive box office success. Adding the original 2009-2010 theatrical run with several subsequent re-releases, Avatar holds the title of being the highest-grossing film in the world, standing at a staggering worldwide box office total of over $29 billion.
A huge contribution to its success was its groundbreaking visual effects. The movie was the first movie ever to be filmed entirely with 3D cameras, which were unheard of at the time. It also utilizes extensive cutting-edge technology like motion capture and advanced CGI created by Weta Digital, which is the industry-leading visual effects company that's behind many great works like The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Along with the hard work to make every frame of the movie as photo-realistic as it can be, it's safe to say the CGI in this 2009 movie still holds up today, and honestly even looks better than some movies today and even some recent Marvel CGI.
Avatar follows the story of a paraplegic ex-marine, Jake Sully, as he's sent to a planet called Pandora to begin a new life under the Avatar program, run by the human faction in this film, known as the Resource Department Administration. He remotely drives an "Avatar," which is a genetic hybrid made using the DNA of the indigenous humanoids called Navi and his own DNA, in order to interact with the Navi. When spending time between the RDA and the Omaticaya clan, he falls in love with Neytiri, the daughter of the chieftain. He begins to find the Navi culture and their connection to Pandora compelling. As time progresses, the greed of the RDA increases and the Navi tribe he has grown to love is in great danger. Jake has to choose a side, either remaining loyal to his fellow humans or helping to protect the Navi and their planet.
While doing research online, I found out that many people said that, for how big the film is, it's not memorable, and does not leave a cultural impact. Many also argued its plot was basically a remake of Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, Princes Mononoke, The Last Samurai, and so on. Indeed, the selling point of Avatar is its visual effects and overall cinematic experience, as it's not a dramatic film that focuses solely on the richness of the story. The plot is a little predictable at times, but it's not a bad plot by any means. Avatar needed an ordinary, straightforward plot to work with its complex setting and story. The great visuals then wrapped everything into a complete package. When the movie came out, there was a phenomenon called "Avatar Syndrome." Many people grew so attached to the mesmerizing world of Pandora (thanks to the stunning visual effects) that they couldn't accept the fact that they couldn't live in that lush world of Pandora but instead had to deal with the tiring life on Earth. As proven by many other similar examples, in the end, people did care about this film, and it did leave a cultural impact.
When Avatar was being made in the late 2000's, the war in Iraq was still going on. Avatar reflected these events in its story. As a vessel to present the issue of neo-colonialism and imperialism in the 21st century, the movie paralleled American actions in the initial stages of the Iraq War during key points and climaxes in the film. Lines like "Our own security lies in pre-emptive strike," and "We will fight terror with terror" were said by the main antagonist who happened to be an American, reflecting the remarks of President George W. Bush and his top generals during the invasion of Iraq. The story of Avatar is a tale of humans discovering nature and establishing connection with it. It channels the theme of environmentalism. According to Cameron, the movie is simple but universal in its message. It speaks to the whole world because protecting the environment and ultimately the earth we all live on is so urgent. It was an issue in 2009, and it is an even more dire issue in 2022. It advocates connection, whether with each other or nature itself. It urges people to be more open and compassionate. Avatar speaks to the audience on a personal level too. At an extremely low point of the movie, when the Navi clan home is destroyed by humans, the audience can't help but wonder: are we pushing our own Mother Nature to the verge of destruction? When is the time that we need to do something?
Now back to the present. The sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, is coming out after a 13-year hiatus. If you take a look at the filmography of James Cameron, you see that he is very talented and proficient with the use of visual effects technology in his work, with films like Terminator 2, Aliens, Titanic, and The Abyss under his belt. He always uses cutting-edge technology and a good story to create successful blockbusters. And whenever he's not satisfied with what he has, he always pushes the limit to achieve what he desires. Cameron is an ambitious and risk-taking director, so how is this going to affect the Avatar sequels? Cameron has already implemented his technology into underwater shooting in the upcoming sequel, which he has said is meant for the big screen in 3D. In addition, all scenes that involve water are shot in huge indoor water containers with actors actually performing underwater. It is reported that he even created a new underwater camera system to shoot the underwater scenes better. It has been confirmed that the shooting for a third movie has already been completed and principal shooting has begun for a fourth one. And fortunately, they are not going to come in each thirteen years apart. For the perfectionist James Cameron is, this time he finally is going to do things normally.
By the time you read this article, the movie will have been released. It's the right time to take a break from Marvel or your current TV show spree and to return to the big screen in the movie theater. In my opinion, this is the movie that people have been waiting for; it is the movie of the year, and definitely will be worth the money to see it in IMAX 3D. Always trust in James Cameron, because he never disappoints.


The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.
In fact, however, NATO was given a central role in Afghanistan because of the influence of US officials concerned with the alliance, according to a US military officer who was in a position to observe the decision-making process.
"NATO's role in Afghanistan is more about NATO than it is about Afghanistan," said an officer, who insisted on anonymity because of the political sensitivity of the subject.
The alliance would never have been given such a prominent role in Afghanistan but for the fact that the George W. Bush administration wanted no significant US military role there that could interfere with their plans to take control of Iraq.
That reality gave US officials working on NATO an opening.
Gen. James Jones, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) from 2003 to 2005, pushed aggressively for giving NATO the primary security role in Afghanistan, according to the officer.
"Jones sold [Defence Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld on turning Afghanistan over to NATO," said the officer, adding that he did so with the full support of Pentagon officials with responsibilities for NATO. "You have to understand that the NATO lobbyists are very prominent in the Pentagon - both in the Office of the Secretary of Defence and on the Joint Staff," said the officer.
Jones admitted in an October 2005 interview with American Forces Press Service that NATO had struggled to avoid becoming irrelevant after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. "NATO was in limbo for a bit," he said.
But the 9/11 attacks had offered a new opportunity for NATO to demonstrate its relevance.
The NATO allies were opposed to the US war in Iraq, but they wanted to demonstrate their support for stabilising and reconstructing Afghanistan. Jones prodded NATO member countries to provide troops for Afghanistan and to extend NATO operations from the north into the west and eventually to the east and south, where US troops were concentrated.
That position coincided with the interests of NATO's military and civilian bureaucrats and those of the military establishments in the member countries.
But there was one major problem: public opinion in NATO member countries was running heavily against military involvement in Afghanistan.
To get NATO allies to increase their troop presence in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005, Jones assured member states that they would only be mopping up after the US military had defeated the Taliban. On a visit to Afghanistan in August 2004, Jones said, "[W]e should not ever even think that there is going to be an insurrection of the type that we see in Iraq here. It's just not going to happen."
Reassured by Washington and by Jones, in September 2005, NATO defence ministers agreed formally that NATO would assume command of southern Afghanistan in 2006.
But conflicts immediately arose between the US and NATO member countries over the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Britain, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands had all sold the NATO mission to their publics as "peacekeeping" or "reconstruction" as distinct from counterinsurgency war.
When the Bush administration sought to merge the US and NATO commands in Afghanistan, key allies pushed back, arguing the two commands had different missions. The French, meanwhile, were convinced the Bush administration was using NATO troops to fill the gap left by shifting US troops from Afghanistan to Iraq - a war they strongly opposed.


The classic Tremor finds a spot in the gun magazine.
Gun World is on a roll with its Kershaw spottings lately. This time, the discontinued Kershaw Tremor was used in the opening spread of an article. The review in questioned covered the XD-E handgun. This Kershaw made for a great EDC companion.


I've completed the first classic/puzzle level to build the palace. Are there more levels? When I go back to build the palace I see 1 laural awarded but appears there's room for more laurals to attain but no way to continue. Is the game over?
Re:When does the game end?
You can take the option of building your palace, now . . .
All the little seals in the palace building area are different puzzles that you can complete to gain more laurel leaves. You can add on to your palace with enough laurel leaves. Look at the bottom of the screen to see how many you need to build the next part of your palace, then complete levels on the left or right side to get more laurels.
The levels on the right side are puzzle levels.
The levels on the left side are classic levels.
Good evening! I have the same question, and the post above does not answer it. Once the palace is completely built, i.e. all 15 Classic and all 15 Puzzle levels are done, is that the end of the game? It appears to be - but if so, it's VERY anti-climactic.
As the original posted wrote, once all 30 levels are completed in the "Palace" mode, a single wreathe appears at the bottom of the screen. It is on the left-hand side of the display, giving the impression that additional wreaths (sp) can be added. To ask the question a different way - are there more than 30 levels in Palace mode? If so, how do you access them?
Have any of you had a problem with the palace build bonus games not being able to beat it? Im stuck on the puzzle side its on the first row Going down the 4th one down from the top I have tried everything I get 7 moves and i can get the pink key to drop but no matter what I try I cant get the yellow key to drop there is no coin or the last yellow piece needed to match together with the 2 yellows on the very bottom left side. There is only 4 pink an they don't give a coin if matched an if I match the 4 pink it will drop down a dark blue piece an on the other side on bottom the 5 red give me a coin when matched but its no where near the 2 yellow on the bottom left corner to be able to match together an once the red are matched it drops a pink key and a dark blue piece down which I match with the other dark blue pieces an coin at the bottom which once matched turns some silver blocks green with the arrows that shoot across to break a gold piece to drop the light blue pieces down so that they can be matched an drop the laurel off the board. I don't know what to do I've spent hours trying to figure this out an nothing . I'm wondering if this puzzle is messed up an there's no beating it. If I can get this last laurel an can build the last piece on my palace I will have beat the game . Can any of you help me beat this puzzle or if you have came across the same problem not being able to beat this puzzle.


Ask the team: Route 66, and is Kalkan safe?
It's my brother-in-law's 60th birthday this year, and he likes the idea of riding Route 66 on a Harley-Davidson. When is the best time of year to go, and would you recommend an organised tour?


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5 Questions: "25" and "00"
What duo hit Number One on the Billboard Pop Chart in 1969 with "In the Year 2525"?
England Dan and John Ford Coley
Zager and Evans
Ferrante and Teicher
Hall and Oates
What did the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution establish?
Repeal of Prohibition
Federal income tax collection
Line of Presidential succession
Which actor played Agent 007 in just one James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service?
On what TV sitcom did one of the characters give up his dream of becoming a brain surgeon to pursue a career as a "Double Naught Spy" instead?
The Beverly Hillbillies
Edwin Starr had Top 40 hits with "Agent Double-O-Soul" and "25 Miles"; what was his sole Number One Pop Chart single?


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Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi is a canon novel by Charles Soule, set 200 years before the events of The Phantom Menace.
The story follows the Jedi Knight Avar Kriss and introduces a new threat to the Republic and the Jedi Order.
It was originally set for release in September 2020, but was pushed back to January 2021 due to publishing industry delays brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a frightening threat to themselves, the galaxy, and the Force itself....
The character Avar Kriss was first introduced in the Marvel comic book The Rise of Kylo Ren 3, which was also written by Charles Soule.
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All of the examples so far have shown a single component but in real applications we build a tree of components each with a variety of responsibilities. In this short tutorial I hope to explain how redux has better informed my component design in ember by requiring the data down actions up paradigm.
Before we dive into code it's worth describing how components have evolved over the last year. I'm sure it goes without saying but to be totally clear, I did not coin any terms or ideas you will hear about below. Dan Abramov in particular has done a phenomenal job outlining what I now believe to be the foundation of modern component design in a blog he wrote back in early 2015. I highly recommend reading more about his opinion on the subject as a primer.
The core concept is that we should separate the responsibility of components into 2 groups. The first group is given the label Container Components and they act like the "backend of the frontend" in a way. They will be "connected" to the datasource and delegate to other components for any html that is rendered on the page. The second group is given the label Presentational Components and as you can probability guess the only job they have is to render html given some object/data.
I took the diagram below from the react-redux documentation because it clearly shows how each type of component operates.
I've personally seen two big benefits after adopting this strict separation in production apps. The first is that teams can more easily reuse the Presentation Components because they are nothing more than html/css. Over time this will allow the team to amass a great component library that is more composable allowing even greater code sharing across the organization. The second benefit is that teams can more easily upgrade the infrastructure that powers data flow throughout the application. Because this code is isolated in the Container Components we don't need to untangle the plumbing code from the html/css that displays it. So you want to swap your global store for an ember service? No problem! We just modify the entry point in the Container Components and the data still flows down to any Presentational Components like it did before the refactor.
To illustrate this with an example I decided to build a minimal grid view component and show the steps involved. I felt this was a great way to put "data down actions up" on display for anyone with doubts about this approach.
Like any modern ember application we always start by defining a route.
With the route in place we now need to fire an async network request to fetch the list of user data. In classic ember we would use the identity map or "store" abstraction (ember-data/ember-model/ember-cli-simple-store) but in this example we are using redux and want to send an action up with the response upon success so the reducer can do it's work. I'm using a very simple ajax helper but you can use anything you like here so long as it's "then-able".
The end result is the same as anything you've done in ember previously but you no doubt noticed that the model hook is now a function we pass into the route function from ember-redux. This pattern isn't a hard requirement so if you prefer idiomatic ember you can always inject the redux service and use dispatch directly.
When the ajax request has resolved we dispatch an action to the redux store with a type of DESERIALIZE_USERS and the http response. We later deserialize that response and return the data as part of the next state of our application using the reducer function (shown below).
The reducer has a code path for storing each user in the object literal using the key all. Inside the conditional we use a simple array helper to ensure we get a basic merge of the current state and json response. One of the key ideas in redux is that we shouldn't mutate the current state so we also use Object.assign here to avoid any side effects. The returned value from the reducer function represents the next state. It's important to note that this new state will live independent from the previous. In similar fashion the code path for removing a user will avoid side effects with help from the array helper function remove.
This reducer is fine but without an entry in the index.js file (found in the reducers directory) it will never be executed. Simply import the users reducer function and export it with a key of users.
Before we can start building the component tree we need to add the template file for the users route and define the users-list component.
Now that we have fetched the data we declare the Container Component that will be redux aware.
The component itself maps the state of redux to a computed called users and the remove function to an action. Notice we don't use that array or action directly in this component. Instead we pass the data and closure action down to a Presentational Component that will be responsible for rendering the html.
Now that we have the basics down we can iterate once more to enable maximum reuse. In real ember apps the Container Components shouldn't hard code the presentation component directly as you see above. Instead if we yield up the state and actions our development team(s) can more easily mix and match components.
First remove the hard coded users-table component from the layout of users-list. Next add a yield statement passing out both the users and the remove action.
Finally in the users template itself we declare the Presentational Component inside the Container Component and use anything we yielded out.
This pattern has greatly improved reuse and simplicity in my ember applications. Even if you don't use ember-redux this example should serve as a good reminder of the advantages behind "data down actions up".
Note: When designing your first component it's often best to solve the problem in front of you, then refactor to a more modular design as needed. I've seen this pattern taken to an extreme so I wanted to share my favorite quote from Sandi Metz as a word of caution.
Next learn about the different extension points by reading the configuration documentation!


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The Seven Obsessions Behind Method
Fewer industries are more difficult to break into than the cleaning supplies business. Long entrenched brands like Procter & Gamble (PG), Unilever, and SC Johnson have long ruled the space. Even tougher is convincing consumers that safer and "greener" alternatives are just as effective as products like Windex and Tilex.
Nevertheless, Method has emerged as a strong competitor to the established giants in 10 years. From scrappy startup to a US$100 million brand, Method has earned a devoted following and is showcased in large retail chains including Target and Lowe's. Eric Ryan, Method's co-founder, explained the seven obsessions that built Method at last week's PSFK San Francisco conference--and that is also the theme of a book he co-wrote with Adam Lowry, the other brain behind Method.
So what are the seven pillars, or obsessions, of Method's success?
Create a culture club. Method has turned its corporate culture into a competitive advantage. Like many new companies, Method has adopted a horizontal approach to its internal operations. The company has transformed traditional functions within an organization: for example, Ryan told the audience that "your HR director is really your marketing director." You won't find Receptionists in Method's headquarters--everyone helps with that role. Method vets its candidates seriously and looks for unorthodox approaches towards solving problems. Bringing fun into an organization hardly disappeared with the circa 1998 dot-com startups, as Method demonstrates: irreverence within one's organization goes hand-in-hand with trust, transparency, and a creative culture that has helped making housecleaning fun, not frustrating.
Inspire advocates. Speaking of housecleaning, Method has changed the way we look at cleaning supplies. Instead of packaging spray cleaners into drab bottles that are banished to confinement under bathroom and kitchen sinks, the company has made surface cleaners part of the home. To that end, in Ryan's words, "every brand has a social mission," and consumers are encouraged to offer advice about their products. Method's customers have also been quick to help--as when Clorox sent a nasty-gram to the company's office demanding that the firm stop using a daisy as a logo.
Be a green giant. "Progress, not perfection," is the mantra behind Method's growth. Most of the company's products are shipped by trucks running on biofuels. The company has started making bottles out of plastic harvested from the Pacific Ocean. Yet not everything about Method's operations is perfect in the eyes of the sustainability maven. For example, the company is now working with vendors so that its soap refill packages can be made from a more eco-friendly material, which for now is not the case. But, while Method parters with vendors to find a solution, the company also trains and inspires everyone within the company to be a sustainability expert.
Kick ass fast. "If you are not the biggest, be the fastest," urged Ryan. Method's open office environment lends itself to speed becoming as a function of the company's culture. Ideas are openly displayed all over the headquarters' walls, and employees push each other to think of products that they would use themselves. The San Francisco office thrives as an open laboratory: its employees prototype products like mad.
Relationship retail. At a time when the web had a role in commoditizing everything, Method takes relationship selling serious. Most consumer packaged goods companies rely on a transactional approach paired with massive data crunching, but not Method. "We don't sell," boasted Ryan, "we consult." Successful selling, in Ryan's eyes, is the transformation of emotion.
Win on the consumer's product experience. Here is where Method thrives. One of the most eco-friendly products on the market emphasizes design and performance, not "green." Yet the company does a fine job educating its customers on sustainability. One case study is the evolution of its triple-concentrated laundry detergent, which pushed other companies to sell similar products. After all, that thin line on the inside of detergent bottle caps was hard to see and yet great for companies because wasted product boosted the bottom line--but also meant these products were bad for the environment, bad for clothing, bad for washing machines, and bad for the skin. Method's leadership in rethinking how laundry detergent is packaged was also impressive considering that the company has three scientists, not hundreds, on staff. In short, out-innovate your competitors.
Design-driven leadership. Build design leadership into your company's DNA. The results speak for themselves when you see Method's products at such stores as Target.
Learn more about Eric Ryan's and Adam Lowry's journey here.
Leon Kaye is a consultant, writer, and editor of GreenGoPost.com and also contributes to The Guardian Sustainable Business; you can follow him on Twitter. He lives in Silicon Valley.
Leon Kaye
Leon Kaye has written for 3p since 2010 and become executive editor in 2018. His previous work includes writing for the Guardian as well as other online and print publications. In addition, he's worked in sales executive roles within technology and financial research companies, as well as for a public relations firm, for which he consulted with one of the globe's leading sustainability initiatives. Currently living in Central California, he's traveled to 70-plus countries and has lived and worked in South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay.
Leon's an alum of Fresno State, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the University of Southern California's Marshall Business School. He enjoys traveling abroad as well as exploring California's Central Coast and the Sierra Nevadas.
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First of all, I heard they have a wine called Fireworks Red Merlot! Sounds to me like the perfect wine to enjoy on the 4th of July. I also heard they sell wine in a portable, resealable bag called an Astrapouch and that it holds the equivalent of two bottles of wine. It's probably not a bad idea to skip the glass bottles when outdoors and if you happen to not finish your wine (not sure why that would happen), you can re-seal the bag to preserve your wine longer.
There are some new wine glasses in there as well; both of which work perfectly for enjoying your wine outdoors. First is the Vino 2 Go Wine Tumbler. This cup is double-walled and comes with a lid to keep your wine cool and bug free! Second is the Stemless Flex Glass; an inexpensive, stemless, plastic wine glass that is sure to withstand the elements... especially if that element is a clumsy relative that may really enjoy Fireworks Red Merlot!
Lastly, I looked a little further into that wine slushie, I was telling you about the last time and it turns out, it is pretty delicious! With the heat we've been enduring this week, a refreshing wine slushie is the perfect way to enjoy your Adirondack Winery wine & beat the heat! The even better news is, they don't just sell samples to try in the Tasting Room (although, I highly recommend this), they sell the SLUSHIE MIX, so that you can take it home and serve it at your 4th of July festivities; Although, I wouldn't blame you if you kept it all for yourself!
I hope everyone has a very happy and safe 4th of July weekend! Don't forget to stop and say hi when you are visiting us in Lake George. Take your picture with me and share it on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using #VincenttheVine and you might just make it into my next blog post!
Until next time... you heard it through the grapevine!