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/**
 *
 * App
 *
 * This component is the skeleton around the actual pages, and should only
 * contain code that should be seen on all pages. (e.g. navigation bar)
 */

import React, { useEffect } from "react";
import { Switch, Route, Router, Redirect } from "react-router-dom";
import NavigationBar, { INavigationBarProps, INavItem } from "../../components/NavigationBar";
import WelcomePage from "../WelcomePage/Loadable";
import Dashboard from "../Dashboard/Loadable";
import TargetsPage from "../TargetsPage/Loadable";
import SettingsPage from "../SettingsPage/Loadable";
import Help from "../HelpPage/Loadable";
import LoginPage from "../LoginPage/Loadable";
import SignupPage from "../SignupPage/Loadable";
import ForgotPasswordPage from "../ForgotPasswordPage/Loadable";
import OtpPage from "../OtpPage/Loadable";
import WorkersPage from "../WorkersPage/Loadable";
import WorklistPage from "../WorklistPage/Loadable";
import NotFoundPage from "../../components/NotFoundPage";
import TransactionsPage from "../Transactions/Loadable";
import Report from "../Report/Loadable";
import EmailSendPage from "../EmailVerification/Loadable";
import EmailVerificationPage from "../EmailVerification/emailVerification";
import NewPasswordPage from "../NewPasswordPage/Loadable";
import LogoutPage from "../LoginPage/logout";
import { connect } from "react-redux";
import { loginAutoCheck } from "../LoginPage/actions";
import { toaster } from "evergreen-ui";
import history from "../../utils/historyUtils";
import PropTypes from "prop-types";
import { createStructuredSelector } from "reselect";
import {
  makeSelectLoginIsAuthenticated,
  makeSelectLoginUsername
} from "../LoginPage/selectors";
import "../../styles/main.css";

interface IAppProps{
  tryAutoLogin: Function;
  isAuthenticated: boolean;
  username: string;
}

interface IPrivateRoute{
  path: string;
  component: Function;
  authenticated: boolean;
}

export function App ({tryAutoLogin, isAuthenticated, username}: IAppProps){

  useEffect(() => {
    tryAutoLogin();
  }, []);

  const navitem: INavItem = {
    linkTo: "",
    text: "",
    links: [],
    dropdown: false
  }

  const navbar: INavigationBarProps = {
    brand: navitem,
    links: []
  };

  navbar.brand = { linkTo: "/", text: "OWASP OWTF" };
  navbar.links = [
    { linkTo: "/dashboard", text: "Dashboard" },
    { linkTo: "/targets", text: "Targets" },
    { linkTo: "/workers", text: "Workers" },
    { linkTo: "/worklist", text: "Worklist" },
    { linkTo: "/settings", text: "Settings" },
    { linkTo: "/transactions", text: "Transactions" },
    { linkTo: "/help", text: "Help" }
  ];
  if (isAuthenticated) {
    const link: INavItem = {
      dropdown: true,
      text: username,
      links: [{ linkTo: "/logout", text: "Logout" }]
    }
    navbar.links.push(link);
  } else {
    navbar.links.push({
      linkTo: "/login",
      text: "Login"
    });
  }
  return (
    <Router history={history}>
      <div>
        <NavigationBar {...navbar} />
        <Switch>
          <Route exact path="/" component={WelcomePage} />
          <PrivateRoute
            path="/dashboard"
            component={Dashboard}
            authenticated={isAuthenticated}
          />
          <Route exact path="/targets/:id" component={Report} />
          <PrivateRoute
            path="/targets"
            component={TargetsPage}
            authenticated={isAuthenticated}
          />
          <PrivateRoute
            path="/workers"
            component={WorkersPage}
            authenticated={isAuthenticated}
          />
          <PrivateRoute
            path="/worklist"
            component={WorklistPage}
            authenticated={isAuthenticated}
          />
          <PrivateRoute
            path="/settings"
            component={SettingsPage}
            authenticated={isAuthenticated}
          />
          <PrivateRoute
            path="/transactions"
            component={TransactionsPage}
            authenticated={isAuthenticated}
          />
          <PrivateRoute
            path="/help"
            component={Help}
            authenticated={isAuthenticated}
          />
          <Route
            path="/login"
            component={isAuthenticated ? NotFoundPage : LoginPage}
          />
          <Route
            path="/logout"
            component={LogoutPage} />
          <Route
            path="/signup"
            component={isAuthenticated ? NotFoundPage : SignupPage}
          />
          <Route
            path="/forgot-password/otp/"
            component={isAuthenticated ? NotFoundPage : OtpPage}
          />
          <Route
            path="/forgot-password/email"
            component={
              isAuthenticated ? NotFoundPage : ForgotPasswordPage
            }
          />
          <Route
            path="/email-send/"
            component={
              isAuthenticated ? NotFoundPage : EmailSendPage
            }
          />
          <Route
            path="/email-verify/:link"
            component={EmailVerificationPage}
          />
          <Route
            path="/new-password/"
            component={
              isAuthenticated ? NotFoundPage : NewPasswordPage
            }
          />
          <Route path="*" component={NotFoundPage} />
        </Switch>
      </div>
    </Router>
  );

}

function PrivateRoute({ component: Component, authenticated, ...rest }: IPrivateRoute) {
  if (!authenticated) {
    toaster.danger("Login Required!");
  }
  return (
    <Route
      {...rest}
      render={props =>
        authenticated === true ? (
          <Component {...props} />
        ) : (
          <Redirect
            to={{ pathname: "/login", state: { from: props.location } }}
          />
        )
      }
    />
  );
}

App.propTypes = {
  tryAutoLogin: PropTypes.func,
  isAuthenticated: PropTypes.string,
  username: PropTypes.string
};

const mapStateToProps = createStructuredSelector({
  isAuthenticated: makeSelectLoginIsAuthenticated,
  username: makeSelectLoginUsername
});

const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch: Function) => {
  return {
    tryAutoLogin: () => dispatch(loginAutoCheck())
  };
};

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(App);


October 1999. Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin lies motionless on the Veterans Stadium turf. Almost 20 minutes go by before he is lifted onto a stretcher with his head in a makeshift brace and is wheeled off the field with a career-ending injury. All the while, cheers rain down from Eagles fans. A moment that then Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell had to admit "in terms of bad taste was as bad as it gets."
A classic moment of ugliness. But at least Irvin didn't have to hear the joy of thousands of people at the expense of his pain come from his home crowd. People he thought and believed had some semblance of love for him, even when he was at his worst on the field.
Kansas City Chiefs QB Matt Cassel isn't that lucky. His "Michael Irvin" moment came yesterday at a place he considered home, inside Arrowhead Stadium, as he lay on the turf with a head injury that forced him to be removed from the game.
The usual, customary and morally appropriate silence that accompanies serious injuries to players from their own fans didn't apply. Not for him. Not on this day. The cheers Cassel heard for the time he was down were probably more painful than the hit he took from the Ravens' Haloti Ngata that laid him out in the first place.
So here we are, America. Facing the truth of our internal hate; facing the depths of how low we can go.
A fan base turned on one of its own. Something that in the past has been regarded as what can happen "on the road" or "in hostile environments" in sports happened to a player in a game where -- even though there was a cry for a QB upgrade and/or replacement -- the team (and player) felt that in a worst-case scenario the city still had his back.
But it didn't. And Cassel and the rest of the Chiefs found out that loyalty between players and fans can sometimes be a one-way street.
One resident and Chiefs fan put it to me in a text after the episode: "Nobody deserves that treatment but maybe this is more about our culture of hostility and NOT thinking before we speak or feeling that we have the 'right' to engage in this kind of behavior."
Somehow, I don't think this new expression of fear and self-loathing is exclusive to Kansas City. It just happens to be the city to go there first. Let Tony Romo have a few more five-interception games in Cowboys Stadium like the one he had last Monday night against the Bears; let Philip Rivers keep melting down, putting only 3 points on the board and having 45.2 QBRs like he did against Atlanta two weeks ago; let Michael Vick keep playing the way he's been playing in almost every game this season, let him keep having multiple-turnover games that end up being the reason the Eagles don't make the playoffs.
The uncalled-for cheers that Cassel heard in Missouri could very well echo to Texas, Southern California and Pennsylvania so fast and so loud that, by season's end, we'll have forgotten where this whole trend started and who was the player whose hometown fans turned on him first.
"It's 100 percent sickening," Chiefs tackle Eric Winston said after the game Sunday. "I've never, ever -- and I've been in some rough times on some rough teams -- I've never been more embarrassed in my life to play football than at that moment right there ... Matt Cassel hasn't done anything to you people."
But maybe Cassel has. Not to the degree that he got what he deserved or that the fans were justified in cheering him being physically hurt, but the resentment for Cassel as the Chiefs' quarterback has been building for months. The cheers could have been more about the physical nature of the game forcing a decision that coach Romeo Crennel and the front office seemed reluctant or didn't have the guts to do.
As one Chiefs fan put it: "They've been booing [Cassel] since he threw out the first pitch at the All-Star Game. He has the distinction of being booed at both stadiums and the sports complex."
The Chiefs should have seen this coming. This incident with Cassel didn't come from nowhere. In K.C., it's been brewing. For years. The frustration began to take its toll long before that hit by Ngata. Just like Tom Cruise shouldn't have been surprised when Katie Holmes walked out the door; the Chiefs shouldn't be surprised by what occurred on Sunday.
Last season the Denver Broncos recognized the "climate" when they finally put Tim Tebow into the lineup. The Chiefs could have done something by taking the temperature of their own fan base quicker and making a move of their own. So, the Chiefs are as much to blame for putting their quarterback through a situation like this as the fans are for expressing their misdirected feelings in the way that they did.
So other NFL teams take note. This is where we are in the culture of sports. There's only so much today that a fan base is going to take. The economics of professional sports have brought to the forefront the coldheartedness of the game outside of the game.
NFL fans pay a lot to be NFL fans, from tickets, parking, souvenirs, refreshments and gear all the way to their cable or satellite bills. Which explains the nature of the fans' behavior and, partially, the direction of it.
"Fans who pay $27 to park ... $75 (at least!) [for a] ticket want to express their displeasure," said the first season-ticket holder.
"Don't fans with the money they invest on a weekly basis to their teams have a right to like or dislike a player?" another season-ticket holder asked. "They are in the business of performance -- if you don't perform then you are disliked."
This is where hostility and economics and sports get married. Or at the least, have a ménage a trois.
Guido "the Killer Pimp" said it so beautifully in "Risky Business": "In a sluggish economy, never, ever [bleep] with another man's livelihood."
Football is America's livelihood and the economy is in bad shape. Fans turn to football. An expensive diversion, any given Sunday is an escape or relief from their everyday. So, there is not a lot of tolerance or patience for extended NFL futility.
Not that it justifies what the fans in K.C. did, but it explains where they stand. And where other cities may follow. The days of supporting your own for the sake of it or because it's the "right thing to do" may be coming to an end. Fans don't have the time and can't afford an overabundance of B.S. anymore.
Maybe it's time for all of us to rethink the true meaning of loyalty and how sports fans of the future may choose to express it.


There is one God, who created all things, who exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit — The Trinity.
The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. As a man he lived a life of perfect love towards God and towards his neighbour. On the cross he died in the place of human sinners, bearing God's punishment for their sin. He rose bodily from the dead on the third day.
He ascended into heaven where he now reigns in glory with the Father. He is the only mediator between God and man. He will return some day in glory, bringing judgement on evil and welcoming his people into eternal joy.
The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of God. He has been sent from heaven to bring glory to Jesus and to enable human beings to live in a relationship with God by bringing them to spiritual birth through repentance and faith in Christ. He lives in all believers, bringing assurance of salvation, producing increasing likeness to Christ and empowering and equipping them for worship, ministry and mission.
All people are created in the image of God and possess inherent (and equal) dignity and worth. Our ultimate purpose is to know and love God and to be with him eternally. However, the human race has rebelled against God and committed wrongdoing (sin).
As a result we have all become spiritually dead, guilty, and estranged from God. We therefore need to turn away from all wrong, to come to spiritual life through new birth, to be forgiven and reconciled to God. This is 'salvation'.
Salvation is brought about by God alone. It cannot be earned or deserved. We enter into salvation as we contritely seek God's forgiveness, turn away from all wrong and put our trust in Jesus as the one who has paid the penalty that our sin deserves. We are then reconciled to God, adopted into his family, and receive eternal life.
God has revealed himself in the Bible. Its human authors were so led by the Holy Spirit that the Bible is fully trustworthy, and is the final and sufficient authority in all matters of faith and conduct.


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Egipatske kraljice
 Kleopatra I. (o. 204. – 176. pr. Kr.), seleukidska princeza i egipatska kraljica
 Kleopatra II. (o. 185. – 116. pr. Kr.), egipatska kraljica
 Kleopatra III. (161. – 101. pr. Kr.), egipatska kraljica
 Kleopatra IV. (138. – 135.), egipatska kraljica
 Kleopatra V. (95.- o. 69./68. pr. Kr.), egipatska kraljica
 Kleopatra VI., egipatska kraljica
 Kleopatra VII. (69. – 30. pr. Kr.), zadnja kraljica ptolemejskog Egipta

Astronomija
 216 Kleopatra, asteroid neobičnog oblika, otkriven iz Pule 1880. godine

Filmska umjetnost
 Kleopatra (1963), američki povijesni film.

Glazba
 Kleopatra (glazbeni sastav, Split)

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Nets star James Harden ruled out for Game 2 vs. Bucks with hamstring tightness
The Brooklyn Nets will have to go to work without James Harden again on Monday night.
According to ESPN's Malika Andrews, Harden has been ruled out for Game 2 against the Milwaukee Bucks with right hamstring tightness.
Harden exited Saturday's series-opening 115-107 win over the Bucks after just 43 seconds. He suffered the hamstring injury after kicking the ball out to Joe Harris in the corner.
Harden previously had an issue with the same hamstring earlier in the season. It caused him to miss more than a month before returning for the final week of the regular season.
Several other players stepped up with the three-time scoring champion unavailable for much of Game 1. Joe Harris finished the series opener with 19 points, two rebounds and two assists, while Blake Griffin notched 18 points, 14 rebounds and three assists. Mike James also contributed 12 points, seven rebounds and three assists.
The Nets will need those players to have similar performances in Game 2 if they hope to take a 2-0 series lead over superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks.
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If you are thinking of getting a divorce, consider wrapping it up this year. Alimony payments made in 2018 are deductible. However, any alimony payment made after 2018 are NOT deductible. Yuck!!
Even better, avoid all alimony next year and opt for a larger property settlement.
Other interesting news, It looks like there will be no further tax reform this year (2018), with the control of the House and Senate split. Frankly, although you may have liked a further tax cut, the HUGE deficit is making me very uneasy and may well create unsolvable problems for our country in the future. I am really worried about the economic future for our kids and grand kids as a result of this huge deficit.
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Urban Dandy London | Local and Global. Big Ideas.
There is a level of being which is the same for us all regardless of our social and economic circumstances, ethnicity, age and the other categories we regularly have to tick boxes for. The School of Meditation teaches the Advaita Vedanta philosophy, which sees an infinite source of everything that exists in creation.
This idea is a mystery to the conceptualising mind; but the practice of meditation can offer a direct experience of this infinity.
Let go of any sense of a separate existence.
Advaita teaches us that this practice of meditation will bring equanimity. The individual self (or Atman in Hindu parlance) merges with the Universal Self (Paramatman). The School of Meditation teaches that the practice prepares the mind to receive subtle truths that we would otherwise miss.
On the surface level, everything is in constant flux. But the real Self does not change, despite the turbulence. Subtle truths are experienced at a deeper level. Advaita encourages students to identify with the deeper Self rather than the activities on the surface of life. It encourages people to return, with regular reminders, to this deeper Self.
To identify with a passing state on the surface is to invite suffering. Like a teenager seeking status in a group, with the two extremes of being puffed-up with pride and certainty when they are accepted but becoming bitterly depressed and lost when they are met with rejection.
The Shankaracharya (Shri Shantananda Saraswati) described two aspects of existence: the mobile and the immobile. The mobile refers to creation; all the action we see and do. Immobile refers to 'the Absolute' (what is more commonly labelled God and was called the Paramatman earlier in this blog).
The Shankaracharya explains more: that the Absolute contains everything, that all creation is a manifestation of the Absolute.
When most people want to end their suffering, they yearn for an end to movement and yearn for the presence of stillness. The Advaita tradition teaches that the stillness is already there, always within us, where we are already – eternally in the presence of the Absolute.
When we suffer, we seek to escape the pain, and we may develop a happy knack of connecting with the stillness of a deeper experience. Unfortunately, we cannot reside in that peace forever – our eyes open and then life moves us along to the next thing.
But we can remember, and that is something worth dwelling on for a while. Remember who you are. Are you the movement or the stillness?
The material in this blog was inspired by the teachings at the School of Meditation, Holland Park Avenue, London, W11 4UH. The school opened in 1961 and was taken under the wing of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles' meditation teacher, who introduced the school's founders to Shri Shantananda Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Northern India. In a series of Q & As, the Shankaracharya provided answers to the questions of the visitors from London. These answers formed the basis of the school's teaching material.
2019's first session was about letting go and desiring nothing. This, apparently, is the way to contentment.
The advice in the material was: 'don't be driven by desire'.
If I pause and think about it, I find that my mind is filled with desire: for material things, for situations to be different in the world, for a different government, for money, for pleasure, for knowledge, to be accepted and loved.
It's easy to say 'don't be driven by desire' but surely that desire helps me to get the things I need to stay alive and thrive. The point of the teaching is not that I should try to abandon desire, but it is a warning against being driven by it.
As desire falls, contentment rises. It appears to be a more natural state.
Contentment also comes from connecting with other people. The material explains that this phenomenon occurs because the people making the connection are enjoying a shared experience of the Self. The Self with a capital S is a frequently-used phrase in spiritual books and teachings. It means the same thing as Soul might to a Christian or Muslim, Neshama to a Jew, or Atman to a Hindu. Different words, same impossible-to-define thing. If it even is a thing.
Through human connections, often referred to through the ages as Satsang, but at the school called Good Company, the shared experience of the Self allows the feeling of separation to evaporate. That's why I sometimes feel so refreshed when I leave the school – after a day of separating myself from my fellow beings around London, I connect again.
The Advaita teaching at the school presents what appears to be a path to contentment. Except that it isn't a path. According to Vedanta teachers, we already are that contentment – we cannot travel a path that we already are. Instead of a long, complex and strenuous journey, we just come to realise that we already are everything.
What a double-edged sword life is. The two quotes suggest liberation from looking for a way to live, but they also open us up to the chaos of there being no set course. It's a pathless path for us all, chaos and stark realities, where pain and contentment vie.
This can be exciting or terrifying, depending on our state of mind, mood, circumstances and so on. What is a total rip-off is the idea that we have to travel somewhere or do something to be validated. Here, Advaita provides a useful reminder that what we already are is already enough, that there is nowhere to go, and that the Kingdom is all inside.
What was that all about Dad?
Are those men truly bad?
Raffaella Cappello is the founder of Seeds For Kids, a unique Kensington-based company specialising in healthy food education for children.
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Just the throb in my temples.
From this sofa I know what's important and I let go of what isn't.
Now an experience of Being that would have been out of reach had my working day gone to plan.
Dead relatives flirt with modern day girlfriends!
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This article contains information about the Grenfell Tower fire that readers might find distressing.
Change is essential in North Kensington, an area of London still reeling from the Grenfell Tower fire, where 72 people were killed on June 14th, 2017. The trauma inflicted is only now starting to manifest in residents. On becoming leader of Kensington and Chelsea council (RBKC) a month after the fire, Elizabeth Campbell promised "change", invoking the word eleven times during a brief speech to survivors. She had the right idea – people wanted change – but has her council delivered? Of all the opportunities RBKC has had to make good on its promises, surely its own Grenfell recovery site, the Curve, is one where it would not dare to fail. But have they failed? It is a complex case study, and one in which I am personally involved.
What is RBKC's Change Policy?
For years prior to the Grenfell Tower fire, people in North Kensington were routinely ignored, even when attempting to raise serious concerns about fire safety. Previously, to assess whether any tangible change to this pattern of willful neglect had been made, Urban Dandy used RBKC's official policy, 12 Principles of Good Governance, as the yardstick. In the cases of Canalside House and Lancaster Youth Centre, it was clear that the policy had not translated from theory to practice. You can read about the two examples and the twelve principles here and here.
Facing widespread criticism and calls for commissioners to replace them in 2017, RBKC hired the Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS) to carry out an independent review of the council. RBKC welcomed CfPS's subsequent report and adopted "12 principles of good governance we should embed in the council." The 12 Principles were bespoke, designed specifically for RBKC to act on its claims to want to "change" following the fire. The council's leadership were to be held to account on this by its Executive and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee. Papers to date reveal talk about listening forums and citizens panels, but nothing in the way of challenge or scrutiny from the Labour-led committee.
The Curve Community Centre is a building rented at commercial rates by Kensington and Chelsea council. It was obtained shortly after the fire at Grenfell Tower. The Curve replaced the Westway Sports Centre as the focal point of the council's response. It still provides essential services for survivors and the bereaved including housing support, post delivery and counselling. Additionally, it hosts workshops and classes and offers space for community cooking and other gatherings. The Curve has three principal sets of users: survivors and the bereaved; residents of Lancaster West estate and the wider North Kensington community.
The Curve sits on Bard Road, just behind Freston Road, by what was once the self-declared Republic of Frestonia. Nowadays the area is characterised by poverty, a high density of social housing and large national business' headquarters; the Westway flyover runs nearby, and from the Curve's windows visitors can look across the A3220 to Westfield and the old BBC Television Studios.
From the outset, and probably inevitably, the Curve has been a controversial issue. Being council-run, it has naturally been scrutinised by local residents who have lived through the Grenfell atrocity and its aftermath. RBKC's actions at the Curve can be taken as approximate indicators of where the council is, politically.
In early 2018, RBKC decided to appoint an independent Board of Governors "to ensure that the Curve is accountable to the local community" and to be "critical friends" of the Curve's management team as well as "to contribute critically and substantially to the public's perception of the Curve" (The Role of Governor of the Curve, 26th February 2018).
I was appointed governor in May 2018, and quit in February 2019, but will try to give the public some perspective on the Curve: its place in North Kensington, the council's approach to it and why I had to leave.
From a North Kensington perspective, the Board of Governors has been notable mainly for its silence, a point of frustration to many local people wondering what has been going on at the Curve. The building is, after all, for the public and the Board is supposed to represent them. The Board spent its collective time and energy over the winter devising an alternative vision for the community centre, one that would take control of the building away from RBKC.
The governors' vision was of the Curve being transformed into a fitting legacy for North Kensington, a space that would be congruent with the rich and diverse culture of the local area. Specifically, the governors proposed the Curve to be split into three areas of work: high quality, expert trauma therapy; skills training for jobs of the future for young people (in the technology, gaming, sports and culture industries) and a welcoming, safe living room environment for those wanting to drop in. Something roughly akin to the Tabernacle but for the West end of the borough. The plan initially called for the Curve to operate separately from RBKC as a charity, although the council would be expected to do its bit by providing the rent, which it could secure long-term and at a discounted rate.
If the vision was adopted, obvious issues would remain, including the Curve's location, which is considered unattractive and unsafe by some residents. The building, its lighting and signage would need to be beautified if the Curve were to be transitioned from a community centre run by a distrusted local authority to a beacon of recovery, culture and opportunity. Challenges, certainly, but not insurmountable ones, if RBKC could grasp the potential of both the building and the local population and make resources available to help something happen.
The council has its own visions for the Curve and none of them are expansive. One RBKC vision sees budget cuts that would be applied to staffing, services or both; another sees the Curve closed, possibly as early as July 2019. RBKC has indicated there is some scope for changing what is on offer to the public at the Curve, but budget cuts are not conducive to transforming people's life chances.
Such is the political landscape in early 2019. RBKC are no longer feeling the pressure from Downing Street and there is no appetite to push forward and invest in North Kensington's potential. Austerity, the euphemism for impoverishment, is the real legacy, and North Kensington is the last place in Britain it should be imposed. It was RBKC's devotion to austerity that led to them ignoring North Kensington's residents for so long.
Last year, Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, after a fact-finding mission to the UK, said that child poverty levels were "not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster" in the world's fifth largest economy. He said the government had caused "great misery" with its "punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous" austerity policies. Projected figures suggest that the number of additional deaths caused by austerity policies in the UK between 2009 and 2020 will be 152,141.
This kind of absorption into the council's existing plans barely registers as a problem any more; from the massive cuts of the RBKC youth review, to Canalside, to the Curve, RBKC is comfortable and complacent. We have come a long way since summer 2017 when the people of North Kensington responded heroically to the fire at Grenfell and the idea that we would be left powerless was unthinkable. Even a Board of Governors genuinely representative of the diversity of the area has been side-lined, reduced to the role of 'advisers' to a service-cutting Tory council, and certainly not 'governing' anything.
This was the limit for me and I handed in my resignation the day after the Fairman meeting.
The problematic dynamic between the governors/wider community and RBKC didn't appear suddenly at the meeting with Robyn Fairman. Disquiet has simmered since summer 2017, and chaos is to be expected in the aftermath of a disaster so shocking that it made headlines worldwide. In such chaos, serious commitment to principles (of good governance) are needed. But this is lacking with RBKC.
The Curve cannot contain the entropy, as trauma manifests and fights its way out of people in a setting ill-equipped to address it. One drama after another has beset the Curve's management. At board level, resident steering groups that were promised for us to work alongside on day one still have not been created, undermining the governors' credibility and effectiveness. Meanwhile, RBKC has sat back, their every move orchestrated by communications officers with their corporate jargon.
Perhaps the idea is to narrow the scope of any scrutiny so that RBKC leaders can convince themselves they are changing. Certainly the long pause in the Grenfell Inquiry does not help. While in legal limbo, pursuing serious change might look like an admission of guilt by RBKC. It is not just business-as-usual with the council, there is a kind of forced joviality to the tone of their communications, inappropriate for a local authority apparently implicated in the Grenfell fire.
The result is an uneasy marriage between RBKC and local people who engage with them. With a functioning inquiry, if the possibility of guilty verdicts being handed to RBKC or TMO staff were less distant, or if the public could hear the evidence and start to understand the political background to the fire, it would curtail the council's phony change agenda. The imposition of austerity would be harder to get away with and feel-good reality TV shows showing the resilient Grenfell community would be considered in bad taste. With some legal clarity it would not be possible for residents engaging with the RBKC change agenda to remain apolitical.
The council, who claimed to have "no intention of defending anything" at the inquiry, but then did just that in their opening statement, have to maintain the illusion that they are changing. They have to maintain it in their own minds at least, even while every political instinct they possess takes them back to the same policies and same approach as before 2017. Their inability to change has been exposed in all three case studies we have looked at and there is nothing substantial they can use to refute the damning evidence.
There is no change in approach. Over £400 million has been spent on Grenfell 'recovery' – but who has recovered? The Conservative leadership. Meanwhile millions in cuts are imposed on North Kensington. As a governor at the main recovery site, using up more public resources, I saw the jig was up – there is no partnership, there is no change. I fear the Curve's Board of Governors has sleep walked into being a tick box exercise for a highly ideological local authority who hide their true intentions behind well-paid bureaucrats and well-meaning residents.
Change at RBKC? No, they are still committed to austerity, and all that it brings, in North Kensington.


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import java.sql.Timestamp;

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public class Desinfection {

	private WaterSystem waterSystem;
	private Timestamp date;
	private String chlorineType;
	private double chlorinePureness;
	private double chlorinePrice;

	public Desinfection(WaterSystem waterSystem, Timestamp date, String chlorineType, double chlorinePureness,
			double chlorinePrice) {
		super();
		this.waterSystem = waterSystem;
		this.date = date;
		this.chlorineType = chlorineType;
		this.chlorinePureness = chlorinePureness;
		this.chlorinePrice = chlorinePrice;
	}

	public String getChlorineType() {
		return chlorineType;
	}

	public void setChlorineType(String chlorineType) {
		this.chlorineType = chlorineType;
	}

	public double getChlorinePureness() {
		return chlorinePureness;
	}

	public void setChlorinePureness(double chlorinePureness) {
		this.chlorinePureness = chlorinePureness;
	}

	public double getChlorinePrice() {
		return chlorinePrice;
	}

	public void setChlorinePrice(double chlorinePrice) {
		this.chlorinePrice = chlorinePrice;
	}

	public WaterSystem getWaterSystem() {
		return waterSystem;
	}

	public Timestamp getDate() {
		return date;
	}
}

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Q: Iterate through Contours - OpenCV ( C# ) I am trying to get Area of a contour using ContourArea() method in OpenCV (C#). It always returns the same value for the Area in each iteration.
Here is the relevant part of my Code.
public void getcontour()
    {
        IplImage binary_image= Cv.LoadImage("binary.png", LoadMode.GrayScale);
        CvMemStorage memory = new CvMemStorage();
        OpenCvSharp.CvSeq<CvPoint> contours;

        Cv.FindContours(binary_image, memory, out contours);
        double area=0;

        for (int k=0; k<=contours.Total;k++)
        {
            area= contours.ContourArea();
            /*need to access properties such as width & height of current contour in here*/
        }

        //draw contours
        IplImage save = Cv.CreateImage(binary_image.Size, BitDepth.U8, 1);
        Cv.DrawContours(save, contours, col1, col2, 1, 1);
        Cv.SaveImage("cont.png", save);

    }

A: Found a solution to iterate through contours with OpenCv (C#)
Here is the code.
public void getcontour()
{
    IplImage binary_image= Cv.LoadImage("binary.png", LoadMode.GrayScale);
    CvMemStorage memory = new CvMemStorage();
    OpenCvSharp.CvSeq<CvPoint> contours;

    Cv.FindContours(binary_image, memory, out contours);
    double area=0;

    while (contours != null)
    {
        area = contours.ContourArea();
        /* logic */
        contours = contours.HNext;

    }
 }

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The streets of Belfast were nearly empty, just a handful of buses and the odd car easing through the city. It was the summer of 1994 when the Tour De France had not yet been tarnished by widespread drugs scandals and my mate Alan Ritchie and I were inspired by the performances of sprint specialists, time trialists and Tour winners.
Each night that summer we pulled on our pro-cycling replica jerseys and jumped on our bikes. I wore an ONCE jersey and rode an old 1980s steel framed Peugeot that my Dad owned before me. Alan rode a Raleigh Team Banana and wore a Carrera Jeans jersey.
We powered through the city streets in our own imaginary time trials. We raced the buses and each other, sprinted through traffic lights about to turn red and broke free from fictional pelotons, crossing imaginary finish lines with arms held high to celebrate multiple fantasy stage wins.
But losing my sight in 1998 meant the days of surprising the opposition by making a break from behind the bus as it pulled off were gone. So too was my ability to look over my shoulder to see if I had broken away from the one-man peloton. Like so many things, the independence that the bike gave me disappeared along with my sight.
But it soon became clear, I just needed a work-around and that came through my Trek tandem road bike and my mates to pilot me. They were great years and for that reason, despite breaking my back in 2010, I haven't been able to sell my tandem; I'm much too attached to it. Nick Wolfe, James O'Callaghan, Brendan Smyth all piloted that bike and led me through Ireland's Wicklow 200, New Zealand's Coast to Coast and Zurich's Ironman.
Now, 22 years after those summer time trials with Alan in Belfast, and 6 years after breaking my back and losing my ability to ride my tandem I am back in the saddle. And for the first time in 6 years, I am competing in sport. It seemed it could never happen – the blindness took me out of the sports that paralysed people competed in and the paralysis took me out of the blind-friendly sports I'd built my adventure athlete career on. But a new bike – a glorious custom built tandem from Utah Trikes is the bike and pilot, Simon O'Donnell, my teammate from the South Pole Race, are both changing all that.
I can't quite believe it yet, but I will be back cycling in Northern Ireland on the 10th September. We will be taking part in the cycling event – the Giant's Causeway Coast Sportive.
The Peugeot is long gone and the Trek tandem is in dusty retirement hanging from the joists in my Dad's garage. And the freedom they represent to me is being unlocked by my Utah Trikes tandem. I will get to feel the buzz of competition, the pain of the effort and the shared purpose of the hundreds of competitors as we snake along Northern Ireland's spectacular Causeway Coast.
And, like those early days in Belfast, Alan will again be cycling alongside me. He will be on his Boardman road bike, (a substantial upgrade from his Raleigh Team Banana). We won't be wearing replica pro-team jerseys, rather, along with a massive group of riders, we will be wearing #TeamUnbreakable jerseys with Mark Pollock Trust and Arrow Electronics' logos on them.
We'd love you to join us on #TeamUnbreakable.
Go to www.markpollocktrust.org/teamunbreakable and sign up for £85/€100 and choose to ride 57km, 126km or 182km routes.
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If I Knew Then...
HR Confidential
Up and away: Sacramento economy to stay strong through 2018
By Alan Naditz
ManufacturingSmall BusinessStartupsReal EstateRetail
It's going to be a bright year in the Sacramento region, according to local business owners. But, they believe the rest of the country may see slightly darker times.
According to Union Bank's annual Small Business Economic Survey, 53 percent of local small business owners are confident Sacramento's economy will continue to be positive in 2017, and 5 in 6 think their own companies will find the year productive. One in four also believes the nation's economy is headed in the right direction.
Sacramento business owners' optimism extends beyond 2017. Sixty percent of respondents say the economic upswing should continue through 2018.
"I'm bullish on the Sacramento region for 2017," says Lance Loveday, CEO of Closed Loop, a Sacramento digital advertising firm. "I'm meeting an increasingly impressive number of entrepreneurs moving to the area already, and I see that trend continuing as our reputation improves and as the influx of Bay Area real estate refugees continues."
Union Bank Managing Director Todd Hollander called the local business owners' attitudes encouraging. "Retention of this confidence is essential if further job growth and expansion is to occur," he says.
In contrast, only 41 percent of respondents along the West Coast believe the regional economy will improve through 2018. Similarly, one-third of Sacramento respondents expect the business climate to worsen during that time.
Scott Slavensky, president of Skatetown Roseville in Roseville, says he's optimistic about the now, but a bit worried about 2018 and beyond. "We are very concerned about the impact the increase in minimum wage will have on us and our business," Slavensky says. "We've become one of the top operators in our industry by providing very high levels of guest service that we're not sure that we'll be able to continue to provide."
In January, California's minimum wage increased to $10.50 per hour for companies with 26 or more employees. Smaller businesses will pay the existing $10 an hour until January 2018.
Nine out of 10 Sacramento businesses say they will keep staffing levels as is during 2017. This is slightly better than the 84 percent of companies nationwide that do not plan to expand payrolls this year.
Loveday says he expects his company to continue the massive growth it has experienced in the past six years. "Our current business plan over the next 12 to 18 months is to continue to grow our online and retail sales while expanding into more-customized products that you cannot find in other retailers," he says.
Those sales in Sacramento and elsewhere are expected to be generated primarily by referrals, followed by networking and additional advertising, according to the study. If so, that would continue the efforts of the past few years. But all three are becoming less prominent.
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Velma Vincent
Velma Vincent Fund
Published 2009.
She is 97 years young and never wears black. She thinks that black is too depressing.
Velma regularly visits Jenkins Nursing Home residents. "I know I get as much out of it as they do," she says. Her mother had lived at Jenkins for five months before passing away. Velma says she and her dad visited her mother every day. "I was never very outgoing. I learned from my dad." Velma said he would never pass anyone up without a smile, kind word or hand shake.
Velma is very independent. She just quit driving three years ago. "My parents taught me to take care of myself," she said. Macular degeneration is beginning to slow her down. She loves reading the newspaper and correspondence from friends but reading has become a difficult task.
Velma believes your attitude has a lot to do with how good your life is.
Over the years she has stitched a lot of beautiful needlework which complements her home.
Though her eyesight is failing, she, no doubt, knows the quotes embellished by her handiwork by heart. One framed piece, says "You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give."
Jesse D. & Jesse E. Vincent Memorial Scholarship
This story was written in 2010.
It always helps to have a good start in your quest for success. That start may come from your upbringing, your attitude, a helping hand or all of the above.
Take it from someone who knows. "They wanted me to get an education," says Velma Vincent of her parents. "They were middle class, hard working and succeeded in all accounts."
Velma remembers her parents and their encouragement fondly. She graduated from Watertown High School in 1930, and then worked in Watertown for several years. She later went to college in Kansas City graduating there and working for 25 years in a Kentucky college before moving back to Watertown in 1974 to care for her mother.
"My folks had done a lot for me," she explained. "Then it was time for me to help. So, I came home." Her mother passed away in 1980 and Velma stayed at home with her father who passed away in 1984.
Velma credits her parents with her good start and she wanted to honor them while giving others a start, too. She set up the Jesse D. and Jessie E. Vincent Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Watertown Community Foundation 25 years ago.
Many good starts and successes have happened ever since.
"The scholarship meant a lot to us for the simple reason that I'm a brick layer," said Gary Ploof. With the help of scholarships, loans, and no doubt, a lot of hard work, Ploof's son, Sean, graduated from Creighton University in Omaha, NE and is now doing a six-year residency with the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina. "It got him on his way," said Mr. Ploof.
JoAnne (Lamb) Paulson received the scholarship in 1992. She obtained a community health education degree from Mankato State University. "I had lots of different thoughts of what I wanted to do when I grew up," Paulson recalled her high school years. "You don't always know where the path will take you. But even if you don't know exactly what you want to do right away, taking a step in education gets you started. Scholarships gave me opportunities. We didn't have a lot of financial assets. I worked through college and received grants and scholarships when I could to make it through."
Paulson is the Public Health Regional Manager for the SD Health Department here in Watertown.
Kathi (Algard) Brandt was the 1994 recipient. The Vincent and other scholarships led her to the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. "I wouldn't have been able to go onto college without the scholarships," Brandt says. "I needed that extra bit of help." Brandt lives near St. Cloud, MN, and does legal research as a business analyst for a software company.
Like many recipients, Brandt knows a scholarship is about more than the dollars. It really is a start that can lead you anywhere. There should be more people like Velma, Brandt said. "She is empowering people."
A bittersweet success was that of the 1997 scholarship recipient Carrie (Belatti) Griffin. She received her master's in speech pathology and was employed with the Watertown School District when she suddenly passed away three years ago from Crohn's and Colitis. Her mother Bonnie told the Foundation that the scholarship, as well as education, was very important to Carrie. "We always encouraged further education with all four of our children," Mrs. Belatti said. "We aren't wealthy people, so it was important to her to have that help."
Tom Mattingly received the 2002 scholarship. He currently teaches at Watertown High School. "For me, the true impact of the Vincent Memorial Scholarship was not fully realized until the start of this past school year," Tom shared. "Starting my first year as Social Studies teacher at Watertown High School, I received a letter from Velma Vincent congratulating me on the new teaching position. Her letter was a prime example of her caring attitude for the future of students in Watertown, which has been evident with her generous donations offered to others through the Vincent scholarship over the years. I look forward to being part of the culture in Watertown Velma takes pride in and want to thank her for helping me obtain my educational goals."
The list goes on through many more starts and successes. So far, there have been 20 scholarships awarded from the Jesse D. and Jessie E. Vincent Memorial Scholarship Fund.
The most recent recipient is Heather Weber. She is off to her own good start just finishing her first year in nursing courses at SD State University.
Though it wasn't always easy, Velma looks back on her 97 years with gratitude. "I had a good life," she says. "Sometimes you get down in the dumps," she explained her failing eyesight due to macular degeneration. "That's when you have to pinch yourself because really you've had it so good." Encouraging parents, an education, a good job and an opportunity to give back…Velma has experienced it all.
"I wanted to help people get started because I had the feeling they could see what they can do with a start."
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A Montreal man is #ErasingHate with a power washer and his Instagram account
Corey Fleischer removes graffiti whenever he sees it — and then posts to his Instagram account, which has amassed more than 55,000 followers.
Immigration Rewind
Ignored and deported, Cree 'refugees' echo the crises of today
Indigenous Crees lived in the northern Plains long before the US-Canada border divided the region. But bisected by the line and labeled "foreign" Indians in the US, Cree were denied basic necessities, work — and eventually, even the right to stay in the country.
Canadian accused of drug smuggling sentenced to death in China
The ruling, and Prime Minister Justin Trudea's reaction, could aggravate already sour relations between Beijing and Ottawa following the arrest of a senior Chinese executive in Canada and China's subsequent detention of two Canadians.
Food inspections continue through shutdown but with some compromises
Among the US federal agencies shut down are the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, the two agencies tasked with keeping our food safe.
China says second Canadian being probed for harming state security
Canadian businessman Michael Spavor is being investigated on suspicion of harming China's security, according to Chinese authorities.
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to appear in Canada court as Chinese media slam arrest
A top executive of China's Huawei Technologies who is under arrest in Canada is set to appear in a Vancouver court on Friday for a bail hearing as she awaits possible extradition to the United States.
A top Huawei executive has been arrested on a US request, clouding the China trade truce
The daughter of Huawei's founder, a top executive at the Chinese technology giant, was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States.
This founding father's legacy is darker than some Canadians care to remember
Sir John A. Macdonald is as close to a founding father as Canada has and monuments in his memory are sprinkled across the country. But now Macdonald is being remembered for a crueler aspect of his legacy: the infamous residential school system.
For some Iranian families separated by the travel ban, this border library offers brief moments of reunion
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the US-Canada border as a historical anomaly and thrust into an unlikely role as the site of emotional reunions between people separated by the Trump administration's immigration policies.
International lawmakers seek global regulations for social media
For the first time in decades, the UK and nine other countries met to talk about disinformation, fake news, electoral interference and data misuse. But Mark Zuckerberg didn't make an appearance.
Arctic scientist's dilemma
Julia Kumari Drapkin profiles Kate Moran, a scientist who studies the history of climate change in the Arctic and whose team has also found potential sources of oil and coal, which if exploited
US deserters in Canada
Reporter Derek Stoffel has the story of American war deserters in Canada, where some 150 US soldiers have moved north of the border to avoid serving in Iraq
Global Hit - Tanya Tagaq
Today's Global Hit features throat singer Tanya Tagaq. She's from a remote Inuit community way up in Canada's High Arctic.
Geo answer
Anchor Lisa Mullins has the answer to today's Geo Quiz. It's the Canadian province, Saskatchewan, home to the village of Love.
For today's Geo Quiz we are asking for the name of a city in Canada that's been nicknamed "the capital of Google Earth." The answer is Nanaimo, British Columbia. Anchor Katy Clark speaks with the city's chief technology officer, Per Kristensen.
The answer to today's Geo Quiz - name the third most populous city in Alberta, Canada - is Red Deer. This time of year, the frozen Red Deer River is covered with outdoor hockey rinks
Geo answer: Canada
The answer to today's Geo Quiz - name the country that designed Dextre, the new robot at the International Space Station - is Canada.
Calls for Olympic boycott
The World's Katy Clark reports on continuing calls for world leaders to boycott the opening ceremonies of this summer's Beijing Olympics.
Global Hit: Pacifika
The World's Marco Werman introduces us to the music of Vancouver-based band Pacifika, and its Peruvian singer.
The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Ellesmere Island. An international dog sled expedition led by explorer Will Steger is currently crossing the island in an effort to document the effects of climate change.


Yeah, I know, "Oh no! Not one of those posts again!" Yeah forgive me, but with Saint Patrick's Day coming up me and my friends have been discussing plans, which of course include lots of Guinness. And of course with non-beer drinkers, or mass swill beer drinkers standing around the statements come flying at you like mosquitoes in summer time. And of course you're then forced (if you wish to even take up the fight) to deflect the on coming misinformation bullets like Wonder Woman (or Neo from the Matrix which ever outfit you think you rock best).
For sake of discussion, all references to Guinness in this post pertain to the Guinness we're served over here in the US. Guinness is brewed to different ABV% depending on the country it's being sold in. And since I just had my first Australian to stop by my blog the other day, I need to keep things clear for my *ahem* international audience.
Of all the beliefs about Guinness from those who don't know, busting this misconception is probably what shocks people the most. While it is true that you can get Guinness Extra Stout which clocks in at 5.0% and Guinness Foreign at 7.5%, draft Guinness contains a non-threatening 4.2% ABV. In comparison Bud, MGD , and Coors Original each contain 5.0% ABV. If you spin the math, you find out that if you drink a 16oz pint of Guinness verse a 12oz glass of any of the others, you'd be getting less than 0.1oz more alcohol from the Guinness.
Perhaps it is its reputation for being "a meal in a glass", but some people believe that just being in the presence of someone drinking a Guinness will toss their diet into a complete tailspin. But what does the data say? Is his secret love for Guinness the reason Richard Simmons spends so much time sweating to the oldies? Well, if we again look at the big three (Bud, MGD, Coors) we see that in a typical 12oz serving they all contain about 143 calories. For a 12oz serving of Guinness? 125! Want to up that to a pint? No problem 167, a whopping 24 more calories. And for those of you out there who are inclined to keep an eye on your carbs, you'll be happy to know that a 12oz portion of Guinness will only run you 10.0 where the other three will cost you 10.6, 13.1, and 11.3 respectively. So next time you have an order of wings and a belly buster burger don't blame the fact that your pants are too tight on the Guinness you had with them.
It's hard to empirically argue this one away. American lagers usually clock in at 5-15 IBUs (International Bittering Unit) with most falling at the low end. Dry stouts usually fall within 30-35 so yes they are more bitter, but an American lager has nothing to balance its IBUs against, where a stout should have a nice creamy mouth feel along with some roasted malt profile. It should be balanced with a slight bite, but not bitter in the way unsweetened chocolate is bitter. To me, if you can drink coffee then Guinness should not be a problem for you. As for having a heavy taste, again I can't toss out any magic numbers for this one but give me a day to expose you to some of the stouts that are coming out of the craft beer world today and I'll change your mind on that, trust.
I don't drink black beer.
Good! Because Guinness isn't black, it's actually a dark ruby red. Nope, not making it up. You can hold it up to a very bright light and see for yourself. Or if you don't trust your eyes you can go to Guinness' official FAQ, third question down from the top.
Ok, now you're just fishing.
Good work. Someone needs to keep the haters at bay.
On the flip side, let them hate. More for me.
That's very true about the colour, you can even buy Guinness red which is obviously a redder version… well that's my bit of St Patrick day knowledge before I get right royaly pissed tomorrow.
I've heard of the Red but have not stumbled upon it yet. I can tell that I don't like the Black Lager. Enjoy yourself on St Pat"s (I'm already 5 Guinness in) and thanks for stopping by! Sláinte!!
Guinness has a product image problem with some people. You cleared up a number of them. Hopefully it will awaken some to try it with fresh eyes and taste buds.
Yes, I agree with you, that coffee drinkers or say grapefruit juice lovers, should not complain about it being too acidic or bitter.
Thanks for stopping by. That's true about the image problem. Swill drinkers will pass on it for looks alone. I'm not going to say that you should love it on first sip, but the stuff's been around for what? Almost 300 years. There must be something there worth drinking. Sláinte!
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Don't know. I can't find any beer. Maybe they went to get some?
There you go Magnus - your shiney "I got here First" button!
Someone mix me a mojito - it's gonna get warm in here soon.
How's it going Nokose? Long time, no see.
Long time no sea as well.
just remember, drinking rum at 8am doesn't make you an alcoholic, it makes you A PIRATE!!
So - my daughter is about to turn 16 years old and I get to go to Disney World in February.
Two unrelated yet newsworthy events in my life.
As for drinking in the morning - give me a mimosa or a coffee and Bailey's any day.
16!? I wouldn't have thought you were much over 16 yourself!
There's always more rum my friend.
Alas my doctor says no go on the rum. For now anyway.
Until then join me in a steaming hot cup of java and we will sit and laugh at the drunken bastards.
time for a second opinion, methinks!
Flattery will get you almost anywhere. It will definately get you more rum.


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I am pleased to have been able to take over this young lady's sponsorship. When you have time could you please confirm which is her given name and which is her family name. I am guessing now she's Enshaba?
All the best. No need to rush to reply.


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Q: Double-click event fires after every successive click in python tkinter I'm writing an Explorer-like application using the tkinter listbox. On a double click, I want to enter the selected folder, so I clear the list and input the folders content.
When I click directly after I double-clicked, it is still considered as a new double-click. Thus, no single-click is performed, meaning no list box entry is selected and a change occurs before I actually double-clicked again.
Is there a way to "reset" the double-click so my program will consider the next click a single-click no matter what I did before?
I tried to use the click event coordinate to get the "double-clicked" entry, but this will fire at the third instead of the fourth click, which is not desired behaviour. I also tried to bind a triple-click to block off a second double click, but then the program won't respond if I click more than 3 times and only react again after a delay.
import tkinter as tk
import random

def fill_box(event):
    """Clear and refresh listbox"""
    try:
        listbox.get(listbox.curselection()[0])
        selection = True
    except IndexError:
        selection = False
    print("Event:", event, "Selection:", selection)
    listbox.delete(0, tk.END)
    for _ in range(10):
        listbox.insert(tk.END, random.randint(0, 1000))

root = tk.Tk()
listbox = tk.Listbox(root)
for _ in range(10):
    listbox.insert(tk.END, random.randint(0, 1000))
listbox.bind("<Double-Button-1>", fill_box)
# listbox.bind("<Triple-Button-1>", lambda x: 1)  # Triple click
listbox.pack()
root.mainloop()

My Expectation is that after I double-clicked an entry, I can immediately interact with the GUI again without having to wait for a double-click cooldown to pass. Also, I do not want to double-click new entries with (relative to the current view) single click.

A: I would handle it with creating a new class to remember curselection and intercepting rapid clicks:
import tkinter as tk
import random

class MyListbox(tk.Listbox):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        super().__init__(parent)
        self.clicked = None

def fill_box(event):
    """Clear and refresh listbox"""
    try:
        listbox.get(listbox.curselection()[0])
        selection = True
    except IndexError:
        selection = False
        activate()                               # intercept rapid click
        return
    print("Event:", event, "Selection:", selection)
    listbox.clicked = listbox.curselection()[0]  # remember the curselection
    listbox.delete(0, tk.END)
    for _ in range(10):
        listbox.insert(tk.END, random.randint(0, 1000))

def activate():
    listbox.selection_set(listbox.clicked)

root = tk.Tk()

listbox = MyListbox(root)
for _ in range(10):
    listbox.insert(tk.END, random.randint(0, 1000))
listbox.bind("<Double-Button-1>", fill_box)
listbox.pack()

root.mainloop()

As mentioned @Reblochon Masque, activate could be a method of the class. In this case function name should be changed, because listbox has own activate method:
class MyListbox(tk.Listbox):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        super().__init__(parent)
        self.clicked = None

    def activate_clicked(self):
        self.selection_set(listbox.clicked)

And can be called listbox.activate_clicked() istead of activate().

A: The following takes inspiration from @VladimirShkaberda's answer.
FastClickListbox is a subclass of tk.Listbox that abstracts the logic of handling fast successive double clicks, without lag. This allows the user to focus on the desired actions triggered by a double click, and not worry about the implementation details.
import tkinter as tk
import random

class FastClickListbox(tk.Listbox):
    """a listbox that allows for rapid fire double clicks
    by keeping track of the index last selected, and substituting
    it when the next click happens before the new list is populated

    remembers curselection and intercepts rapid successive double clicks
    """

    def _activate(self, ndx):
        if ndx >= 0:
            self.ACTIVE = ndx
            self.activate(ndx)
            return True
        else:
            self.selection_set(self.ACTIVE)
            self.activate(self.ACTIVE)
            return False

    def _curselection(self):
        ndxs = self.curselection()
        return ndxs if len(ndxs) > 0 else (-1,)

    def is_ready(self):
        """returns True if ready, False otherwise
        """
        return self._activate(listbox._curselection()[0])

# vastly simplified logic on the user side
def clear_and_refresh(dummy_event):
    if listbox.is_ready():
        listbox.delete(0, tk.END)
        for _ in range(random.randint(1, 11)):
            listbox.insert(tk.END, random.randint(0, 1000))

root = tk.Tk()
listbox = FastClickListbox(root)

for _ in range(random.randint(1, 11)):
    listbox.insert(tk.END, random.randint(0, 1000))

listbox.bind("<Double-Button-1>", clear_and_refresh)
listbox.pack()

root.mainloop()

A: The best way to fix this would be to have a global variable storing the click state.
Place this at the start:
dclick = False
def sclick(e):
    global dclick
    dclick = True #Set double click flag to True. If the delay passes, the flag will be reset on the next click

Then, replace the fill_box function with:
    """Clear and refresh listbox"""
    global dclick
    if not dclick: #if clicked before the delay passed
        sclick(event) #treat like a single click
        return #Do nothing else
    else: #if this is an actual double click
        dclick = False #the next double is a single
    try:
        listbox.get(listbox.curselection()[0])
        selection = True
    except IndexError:
        selection = False
    print("Event:", event, "Selection:", selection)
    listbox.delete(0, tk.END)
    for _ in range(10):
        listbox.insert(tk.END, random.randint(0, 1000))

Then, bind the sclick function to a single click.
This works because:
* If the user double-clicks, the dclick is set to True by the single-click, meaning the second click counts as a double.
* If the user then single-clicks, the dclick flag was set back to False, meaning it is treated as a single.
* If the user waits out the delay, the first click resets the flag, as it counts as a single.
It's untested but I hope it helps.

A: While trying to implement the solutions from @Vadim Shkaberda and @Reblochon Masque, I ran into a problem, these solutions worked flawlessly for the example, but apparently I made it too minimal to catch all, because the solutions introduced some new edge cases in my project, e.g. when I refresh the List programmatically.
Though I could apply the idea of suppressing the false double-click (or better: have it invoke the single-click functionality) by making the following edits to the function bound to the double-click:
def double_clicked(event):
    """Check if double-click was genuine, if not, perform single-click function."""
    try:
        current = self.current_val()
    except KeyError:  # False-positive Double-click
        # Simulate single click funktion by marking the currently hovered item
        index = self.listbox.index("@{},{}".format(event.x, event.y))
        self.listbox.select_set(index)
        return
    # If this is reached, a genuine Double-click happened
    functionality()

listbox.bind("<Double-Button-1>", double_clicked)

This works because here, a false double-click can be detected by checking if something is selected, if not, no single-click has happened before.


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MArch Unit 15 :: Post – Continuity Architectures: 21st Century Follies and Fun Palaces :: Nic Clear / Hyun Jun Park :: 2016/17
The sequence becomes a jagged collage of fragments of explosions, crashes, physical lunges, and violently accelerated motions. There is no sense of spatiotemporal continuity; all that matters is delivering a continual series of shocks to the audience.
Steven Shaviro
(Note to architects: You thought that you could ignore Junkspace, visit it surreptitiously, treat it with condescending contempt or enjoy it vicariously . . . because you could not understand it, you've thrown away the keys . . . But now your own architecture is infected, has become equally smooth, all-inclusive, continuous, warped, busy, atrium-ridden . . . )
Rem Koolhaas
A form of spatial disjunction has occurred within the built environment under the rubric of neo-liberalism, physical space has become absorbed as part of a wider set of informational and economic networks and relations that combine virtual, augmented and mixed realities.
This new spatial regime requires new forms of measurement, calibration and notation, traditional forms of orthography need to be questioned in terms of their ability to generate, develop and represent architectural possibilities for these mutated spaces of late capitalism.
In film, space is no longer organised around the relationships of classical mis-en-scene, through the use of unconventional cinematography, c.g.i and non-linear editing techniques the type of coherent, contiguous and consistent spatial narrative is eclipsed, this has been described as post-continuity cinema.
In his essay "Junkspace," which reads like a frenzied stream-of-consciousness SF story, Rem Koolhaas creates a vivid indictment of a culture trapped by its own hubris, technological addiction, and vapidity. Junkspace is both fragmented and homogeneous, it is lacks continuity and is at the same time ubiquitous and in it we are completely surrounded and yet totally alone. Junkspace describes a form of post-continuity architecture.
To combat the totalities of Junkspace, and to immerse ourselves in it, Unit 15 will be engaging with a landscape of flows and spaces of desire through the deployment of multiple vectors, exemplified by the nefarious world of the Architectural Folly and the scurrilously irreverent Fun Palace. These vectors will be organised and curated into an exhibition to be part of next years London Festival of Architecture located in and around the Old Royal Naval College and the Queens House.
Stage 1: 21st Century Follies
Unit 15 will create 21st Century Architectural Follies based on the literal interpretation of their own drawings.
Stage 2: 21st Century Fun Palace
Unit 15 has agreed to take part in PolyArk 4 run by the RIBA and linking over 30 International Schools of Architecture.
Stage 3: 21st Century Representations
Unit 15 will curate and exhibit their work in the University of Greenwich Heritage Gallery next June as part of the London Festival of Architecture
At the start of year conference Nic Clear will be presenting a lecture on Radical Drawings.
Throughout the first semester Nic Clear will be giving a series of seminars as part of his third year dissertation group on the relationship between film and architecture.
For nearly twenty years Unit 15 has been making 21st century architecture using film and animation to generate, develop and present their proposals.
Clear, Nic, Drawing Time, in Spiller, N. (ed) Drawing Architecture, AD Profile 210, Wiley, Chichester 2013.
Jameson, Frederic. The Geo-Political Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System, Indiana, 2009
Koolhaas, Rem. "Junkspace." The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. Ed. Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, and Leong Sze Tsung. Cambridge MA: Taschen, 2001. 408-21
Lefebvre, Henri. – The Production of Space, Blackwell, Oxford, 1991.
Martin, Richard. – 'The Architecture of David Lynch', Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Shaviro, Steven. – Post Cinematic Affect, Zero Books, 2010.
Isozaki, Arata, Price Cedric. Taki, Koji. Osaka Follies, Architectural Association, 1991
Reference Films
The Story of Film: An odyssey. (2012) Directed by Mark Cousins, [DVD] UK: Network.
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema 1, 2, 4: Presented by Slavoj Zizek. (2007) Film. Directed by Sophie Fiennes. [DVD] UK: P Guide Ltd. ICA Projects Ltd.
The Century of the Self (2002), Directed by Adam Curtis, BBC Films.


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Chemistry in Oxford is taught by a mixture of lectures, laboratory work, classes and small group tutorials. The tutorials take place in College, and are given by one of the College's tutors or lecturers (who are listed below). In addition to the College-based tutorials, classes in Mathematics and Physics are also arranged in the first year.
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BURNING QUESTION any idea if BC will burn up again in 2019?
BURNING QUESTION any idea if BC will burn up again in 2018?
In 2017 we drove from the Lower Mainland to Saskatchewan trying to escape wildfire smoke. We never really got away from the smoke.
May I should have included the word predictions?
I don't know, I'll be driving down to CA at the end of the month. Am I going to have a ton of snow on Siskiyou Pass or mudslides blocking the hwy. in CA? Who knows, I make plans and modify them if I have to.
The snow pack is good this year...of course it was good last year as well.
I'm considering spending spring and early summer in the Northwest, OR, WA, ID, etc. It seems the fires aren't too bad till July/August there. Then move south to Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, etc for July/August/September. Last year the fires were bad in AZ early but burned out by mid summer. That's my plan but who knows. Or if not on the road, vacation early in the north and later in the south.
No clue about BC though. Pretty country but I don't have a feel for fires up there.
On a positive note, much of the debris that fuels the fires has already burned. My buddy and I were evacuated from Kettle Recreational Area years ago at 2am when lightening started a fire in the campground. Spent the night up on the highway.
He was there again a three years ago when much larger fires attacked Rock Creek. Campers had to leave their trailers, cross the Kettle River and walk out on a trail to Rock Creek. He and his wife spent about a week as guests of a Midway family before they could get into the campground and retrieve the trailer ( which was undamaged ).
This picture is of the campground a year or so after the fire. It was certainly different, but not likely to burn again any time soon.
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Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has a 24-hour fitness center and a bar/lounge. Additionally, a coffee shop/café, a snack bar/deli, and a sauna are onsite. All 917 rooms offer comforts like premium bedding, plus 24-hour room service and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels, WiFi, Netflix, and coffee makers.
Hyatt Regency St
3 restaurants, a restaurant, and 2 bars/lounges are available at this smoke-free hotel. Additionally, a health club, a coffee shop/café, and a rooftop terrace are onsite. All 910 rooms offer conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers, along with free WiFi, & iPod docks, flat-screen TVs, room service, and premium bedding.
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