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Q: How to set onPressed properly in Flutter? I am setting "onPressed" for a floatingActionButton in Flutter and it is giving me a weird error although i saw almost the same code working in the tutorial...
Note : This button is in a scaffold widget...
Note : "context" is an argument in the function which contains the scaffold widget
Note : i tried to use a raised button and the same error was given
main.dart :
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import './pages/home.dart';

main(List<String> args) => runApp(HomePage());

home.dart :
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
import 'package:english_words/english_words.dart';
import './item.dart';
import 'dart:math';
import './tabs/create.dart';
import './tabs/manage.dart';

class HomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _HomePageState createState() => _HomePageState();
}

class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> {
  Color _mainColor = Colors.green;
  final List<Map<String, String>> mainList = [];
  List<IconData> iconsList = [
    Icons.add,
    Icons.add_alarm,
    Icons.adjust,
    Icons.all_inclusive,
    Icons.android,
    Icons.attach_money,
    Icons.audiotrack,
    Icons.battery_charging_full
  ];

  showTheDialog(BuildContext context) {
    showDialog(
        context: context,
        builder: (BuildContext context) {
          return AlertDialog(
            title: Text("Welcome to max!"),
            content: Text("We hope you enjoy our app :)"),
            actions: <Widget>[
              FlatButton(
                child: Text("Ok"),
                onPressed: () => setState(() {
                      _mainColor = Colors.lightGreen;
                    }),
              ),
              FlatButton(
                child: Text("Ok"),
                onPressed: () => setState(() {
                      _mainColor = Colors.lightGreen;
                    }),
              ),
            ],
          );
        });
  }

  Icon getRandomIcon() {
    Random randInt = Random();
    int randNum = randInt.nextInt(8);
    return Icon(
      iconsList[randNum],
      size: 35,
      color: _mainColor,
    );
  }

  Widget _buildListItem(BuildContext context, int index) {
    return Card(
        child: InkWell(
      onTap: () => Navigator.pushReplacement(context,
          MaterialPageRoute(builder: (BuildContext context) => Item())),
      child: Column(
        mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.center,
        children: <Widget>[
          Text(
            WordPair.random().asCamelCase,
            style: TextStyle(
                fontSize: 25, fontWeight: FontWeight.bold, color: _mainColor),
          ),
        ],
      ),
    ));
  }

  Widget checkItems() {
    if (mainList.isEmpty) {
      return Center(
        child: Text(
          "There are no Items here",
          style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold, fontSize: 15),
        ),
      );
    } else {
      return ListView.builder(
        itemBuilder: _buildListItem,
        itemCount: mainList.length,
      );
    }
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    SystemChrome.setSystemUIOverlayStyle(
        SystemUiOverlayStyle(statusBarColor: _mainColor));
    return MaterialApp(
        debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
        title: "Max Course",
        theme: ThemeData(
          primarySwatch: _mainColor,
        ),
        home: DefaultTabController(
          length: 4,
          child: Scaffold(
            appBar: AppBar(
              bottom: TabBar(
                tabs: <Widget>[
                  Tab(
                    text: "Create Item",
                    icon: Icon(Icons.create),
                  ),
                  Tab(
                    text: "Manage Item",
                    icon: Icon(Icons.list),
                  ),
                  Tab(
                    text: "Create Item",
                    icon: Icon(Icons.create),
                  ),
                  Tab(
                    text: "Manage Item",
                    icon: Icon(Icons.list),
                  )
                ],
              ),
              centerTitle: true,
              backgroundColor: _mainColor,
              title: Text(
                "Max",
                textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
                style: TextStyle(
                  fontFamily: "Arciform",
                  fontWeight: FontWeight.w300,
                  fontSize: 25,
                ),
              ),
            ),
            body: TabBarView(
              children: <Widget>[
                CreateItems(),
                ManageItems(),
                CreateItems(),
                ManageItems(),
              ],
            ),
            floatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton(
              child: Icon(Icons.add),
              onPressed: () => showTheDialog(context),
            ),
            drawer: Drawer(
              child: Center(
                child: FlatButton(
                  child: Text("test"),
                  onPressed: () => showTheDialog(context),
                ),
              ),
            ),
          ),
        ));
  }
}

create.dart :
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class CreateItems extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Center(
      child: Text(
        "Create Items..",
        style: TextStyle(
          fontWeight: FontWeight.bold,
          fontSize: 25,
        )
      )
    );
  }
}

manage.dart :
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class ManageItems extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Center(
      child: Text(
        "Manage Items..",
        style: TextStyle(
          fontWeight: FontWeight.bold,
          fontSize: 25,
        )
      )
    );
  }
}

the error is :
I/flutter (11665): ══╡ EXCEPTION CAUGHT BY GESTURE ╞═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ I/flutter (11665): The following assertion was thrown while handling a gesture: I/flutter (11665): No MaterialLocalizations found. I/flutter (11665): HomePage widgets require MaterialLocalizations to be provided by a Localizations widget ancestor. I/flutter (11665): Localizations are used to generate many different messages, labels,and abbreviations which are used I/flutter (11665): by the material library. I/flutter (11665): To introduce a MaterialLocalizations, either use a  MaterialApp at the root of your application to I/flutter (11665): include them automatically, or add a Localization widget with a MaterialLocalizations delegate. I/flutter (11665): The specific widget that could not find a MaterialLocalizations ancestor was: I/flutter (11665):   HomePage I/flutter (11665): The ancestors of this widget were: I/flutter (11665):   [root] I/flutter (11665): When the exception was thrown, this was the stack: I/flutter (11665): #0      debugCheckHasMaterialLocalizations.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter/src/material/debug.dart:124:7) I/flutter (11665): #1  debugCheckHasMaterialLocalizations (package:flutter/src/material/debug.dart:127:4) I/flutter (11665): #2  showDialog (package:flutter/src/material/dialog.dart:701:10) I/flutter (11665): #3      _HomePageState.showTheDialog (package:max/pages/home.dart:29:5) I/flutter (11665): #4
_HomePageState.build.<anonymous closure> (package:max/pages/home.dart:154:30) I/flutter (11665): #5
_InkResponseState._handleTap (package:flutter/src/material/ink_well.dart:513:14) I/flutter (11665):
#6      _InkResponseState.build.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter/src/material/ink_well.dart:568:30) I/flutter (11665):
#7      GestureRecognizer.invokeCallback (package:flutter/src/gestures/recognizer.dart:166:24) I/flutter (11665): #8      TapGestureRecognizer._checkUp (package:flutter/src/gestures/tap.dart:246:9) I/flutter (11665): #9    TapGestureRecognizer.handlePrimaryPointer (package:flutter/src/gestures/tap.dart:175:7) I/flutter (11665): #10   PrimaryPointerGestureRecognizer.handleEvent (package:flutter/src/gestures/recognizer.dart:436:9) I/flutter (11665): #11     PointerRouter._dispatch (package:flutter/src/gestures/pointer_router.dart:73:12) I/flutter (11665): #12     PointerRouter.route (package:flutter/src/gestures/pointer_router.dart:101:11) I/flutter (11665): #13
_WidgetsFlutterBinding&BindingBase&GestureBinding.handleEvent (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:214:19) I/flutter (11665):
#14     _WidgetsFlutterBinding&BindingBase&GestureBinding.dispatchEvent (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:192:22) I/flutter (11665):
#15     _WidgetsFlutterBinding&BindingBase&GestureBinding._handlePointerEvent (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:149:7) I/flutter (11665):
#16     _WidgetsFlutterBinding&BindingBase&GestureBinding._flushPointerEventQueue (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:101:7) I/flutter (11665):
#17     _WidgetsFlutterBinding&BindingBase&GestureBinding._handlePointerDataPacket (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:85:7) I/flutter (11665):
#21     _invoke1 (dart:ui/hooks.dart:223:10) I/flutter (11665): #22     _dispatchPointerDataPacket (dart:ui/hooks.dart:144:5) I/flutter (11665): (elided 3 frames from package dart:async) I/flutter (11665): Handler: onTap I/flutter (11665): Recognizer: I/flutter (11665):   TapGestureRecognizer#b0516(debugOwner: GestureDetector, state: possible, won arena, finalPosition: I/flutter (11665):   Offset(299.0,
544.2), sent tap down) I/flutter (11665): ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ I/flutter (11665): Another exception was thrown: No MaterialLocalizations found.

A: Try using Builder widget to obtain the correct BuildContext
             home: DefaultTabController(
                    length: 4,
                    child: Builder(
                      builder: (newContext) {
                        return Scaffold(
                          appBar: AppBar(
                            bottom: TabBar(
                              tabs: <Widget>[
                                Tab(
                                  text: "Create Item",
                                  icon: Icon(Icons.create),
                                ),
                                Tab(
                                  text: "Manage Item",
                                  icon: Icon(Icons.list),
                                ),
                                Tab(
                                  text: "Create Item",
                                  icon: Icon(Icons.create),
                                ),
                                Tab(
                                  text: "Manage Item",
                                  icon: Icon(Icons.list),
                                )
                              ],
                            ),
                            centerTitle: true,
                            backgroundColor: _mainColor,
                            title: Text(
                              "Max",
                              style: TextStyle(
                                fontFamily: "Arciform",
                                fontWeight: FontWeight.w300,
                                fontSize: 25,
                              ),
                            ),
                          ),
                          body: TabBarView(
                            children: <Widget>[
                     CreateItems(),
                     ManageItems(),
                     CreateItems(),
                     ManageItems(),],
                          ),
                          floatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton(
                            child: Icon(Icons.add),
                            onPressed: () => showTheDialog(newContext),
                          ),
                          drawer: Drawer(
                            child: Center(
                              child: FlatButton(
                                child: Text("test"),
                                onPressed: () => showTheDialog(newContext),
                              ),
                            ),
                          ),
                        );
                      },
                    ),
                  ),


text:
The Lingering Ghost of the North Carolina Republican Supermajority
After six years, the Republican supermajority in the North Carolina state legislature is dead.
I'd wager most people who don't call the Tar Heel State home haven't given much thought to what's been happening in North Carolina politics, beyond an outlandish headline that might have caught their eye. So, allow me to issue this warning to those lucky souls: Ignore North Carolina's active slide into extremist conservatism at your own risk.
Chances are most citizens at least know the reality of living in an all-blue or all-red state. As of now, just four state legislatures in the entire country feature split chambers—that is, a Republican majority in the House and a Democratic one in the Senate, or vice versa. This trend didn't stop for the 2018 elections. Once the smoke settled from last Tuesday's midterms, Democrats around the country had taken back and emboldened their stances in state legislatures. On the whole, this is good news for those hoping for a more progressive society, especially for those in North Carolina.
But with these gains, and the power that accompanies them, is the inevitable risk of complacency among even the most politically aware citizens—of believing that the folks in charge will be fine simply because of the "D" next to their name. That comfort can lead politicians into greed, laziness, and misguided policies—the kind that, among many other things, helped drive North Carolina's Democrats into the political wilderness for eight long years.
In North Carolina, Democrats ruled state politics for over a century. Then, after a series of missteps and a four-decade racism-fueled campaign by Republicans, the GOP snatched control of the state and claimed a majority in 2010. Just two years later, seizing on their red wave, they established a two-thirds majority—also known as a supermajority—in both the state Senate and House. After that, they stopped caring that much about what anyone else thought. With the power to write the budget and set the bounds on social issues, they set about installing a right-wing government in the quickest, most vicious way possible.
Last Tuesday, in theory, should have been a day to rejoice. The North Carolina Democratic Party was able to break the supermajority in both chambers for the first time since 2012. But for those that experienced the years that preceded the comeback, the elation that accompanied the few gains the Democrats made felt too soon, and too hollow given the carnage wrought by Republicans during the previous eight years. Carnage which, though it drew a tremendous backlash and caused a wave of powerful activist movements to break out across the state, nevertheless set progress back in North Carolina in ways that will not be easy to repair.
Keeping in mind that the GOP still owns majorities in both the state House and Senate, it feels all the more crucial to reflect on the individuals that drove the Tar Heel State in reverse for the better part of a decade, because even after the midterms, the politicians and lawyers at the top of that Republican machine remain in power. Even with a Democratic governor and the courts and city governments solidly in Democratic, the hold that Democrats have on my home state is slippery and delicate.
What happened in North Carolina is the reality of what happens when conservative politics are pushed through unabated, and it's one that the state's Republicans are planning, right now, to return to.
Since 1898, North Carolina's General Assembly had largely been a one-party operation, and the Democratic Party was the massive umbrella under which progressives and conservatives elbowed each other for space. It wasn't until 1972 that North Carolina elected its first Republican governor or Senator. Republicans began siphoning off conservative Democrats, leading to slight swings in the Assembly in the late 1970s and mid-1990s. Still, the Democrats never ceded the majority, and so for a long time, North Carolina stood out as a relative beacon of Southern progress thanks to a legislature that was able to raise taxes to build community colleges and fund their public schools.
But as the Republicans pushed an agenda of social conservatism and lower taxes, Democrats failed miserably at finding a distinctive platform that resonated with a citizenry which had become justifiably distrustful of direct government involvement thanks to corruption being normalized at the highest levels. Nearly every top Democrat from 2000-2010 was involved in some sort of bribery or fraud or bribery-fraud-sex scandal, but the party thought it could weather the storm simply because power was its natural home.
The Limits of the New South
The fall from power is never short, and it's rarely graceful.
In 2008, Barack Obama beat John McCain by 20,000 votes to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to claim North Carolina since 1976. The same year, Democrat Bev Perdue edged out Pat McCrory and became the state's first female governor, and Republican Elizabeth Dole lost her Senate seat to Democratic newcomer Kay Hagan.
The North Carolina Republican Party (or NCGOP, as it's commonly known) seemed to have little direction or potential, while the Democrats, the party that had ruled state politics since the turn of the century, grew content. But this was all a surface-level facade. Even as the statewide offices swung left, the General Assembly remained an open battlefield, with Republicans picking up a seat in the Senate. It was in these chambers that the NCGOP would make its move.
As much as the 2010 midterm wipeout was the result of weak leadership, it was also the result of the GOP understanding precisely how to capitalize on the racist backlash to the first black president, and the sexist backlash to the first woman governor. All they had to do was pick the right storylines.
Birth certificate, check. Healthcare, check. Gay marriage, check. Local Democratic scandals, check. It was frequently shameful, but not hard.
Democrats were slaughtered on Election Day 2010. The combination of racist backlash to Obama and the scandal-tarred state party was unrelenting. Republicans took a majority in the House (68-52) and Senate (31-19) for the first time since the turn of the 20th century.
But that wasn't the end.
With the housing and financial crises still looming in 2012, the North Carolina Democrats shied away from pushing anything close to a left-leaning, worker-focused platform, leaving themselves running, basically, as Republicans But Nicer. Perdue, spent from her four years in office, backed out of the 2012 gubernatorial race 10 months before the election, leaving Lt. Governor Walter Dalton scrambling to throw together a run. He had neither the campaign infrastructure or the message or the political savvy to do much of anything.
And so it came to pass that Republican Pat McCrory moseyed into the governor's mansion; the GOP took and held onto both U.S. Senate seats; and, in Raleigh, the Republicans claimed the dreaded supermajority. With the General Assembly being smoothly operated by Senate president pro tempore Phil Berger and then-House Speaker (now U.S. Senator) Thom Tillis, the GOP managed to hold the supermajority through two election cycles.
While their intentions were reprehensible, I'll be damned if they didn't operate one of the most efficient and effective state legislatures in recent memory.
I understand if it seems hard to care about any of this if you're not from North Carolina. But what happened there is not unique.
Conservatives across America look at what the Republicans accomplished in the General Assembly and salivate. In just a few short years, the North Carolina GOP stripped the state of both its natural resources and already-thin social safety net; rejected the very idea that transgender people existed; and redrew district maps to favor themselves and disenfranchise poor black citizens. And they did it all while the hamstrung Democrats worked at a sloth-like pace to slow the bleeding.
Starting with Berger and Tillis's control of the General Assembly in 2010, the Republicans committed to a rash of regressive tax cuts. The tax reform passed by then-House Speaker Tillis from 2011-2014 ended the estate tax paid by heirs of estates valued at more than $5.25 million. It also lowered the corporate tax rate from 6.9 percent to 3 percent, and dropped the individual tax rate to a single rate, lowering it from a high of 7.75 percent to 5.49 percent. The corporate rate will fall to 2.5 percent and the individual rate to 5.25 percent come 2019. And now, thanks to the actions of North Carolina voters last Tuesday, the income tax rate for state taxes is capped at seven percent.
Republicans in North Carolina have defended all of these cuts by pointing to a Best-in-Business rating from Forbes; the state was already in the top 5 on the list over the previous 10 years, not because their tax cuts actually help poor citizens get good-paying jobs, but because they help businesses jerk them around knowing full well they'll never be able to unionize.
The Murder of Mill Town, USA
Norma Rae was a lie.
The GOP was outright homophobic, too, pushing both a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and the infamous so-called "bathroom bill," House Bill 2 (cutting legal discrimination coverage based on sexual orientation and rejecting the very concept of being transgender) into being. They enacted voter ID laws that were determined by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to target black voters "with almost surgical precision," and followed this with two sets of Congressional maps that were so clearly gerrymandered you'd think the racist Dixiecrats of 50 years ago drew them. (These maps were still in use in the 2018 midterms.)
The GOP adopted an aggressive anti-environmentalist stance. They slashed the Department of Environmental Quality budget. They then turned around and criticized the department for not dealing with contamination in the town of Cape Fear, and then used that as reasoning behind further withholding funding needed to study the effects. They (along with business-minded Democrats) backed the Atlantic Pipeline, which will carry natural gas through some of the state's poorest eastern communities.
They said little when Duke Energy announced plans to make consumers pay for its coal ash mess, two decades after the company realized it was a big problem. They also repealed renewable energy tax credits during the 2015-16 session, after becoming one of the top solar farm states in the union. And they're doing their darnedest to shut down a wind farm off the coast of Pasquotank and Perquimans counties.
This is all before you get to the re-segregation of North Carolina's public school system, which was left in such tatters from budget cuts and stagnant funding that teachers from across the state descended upon Raleigh in April to protest the legislature.
The North Carolina GOP did all of this in the time it took me to complete my high school and undergraduate degrees. By the time I was done, the state I had grown up knowing and hearing about from others as being the light of the South was dim, dark, and in an ugly rightward slide. The people who were architects of the entire movement are still there, at the top, looking down, plotting their return to unchecked dominance.
Learning the names of your state and local representatives, to put it lightly, is not that high up on the list for most folks.
It's tiring enough to keep up with the minutiae of national politics; trying to figure out who sits on the Capital Improvements Oversight Committee of your state legislature is a hassle most folks would care to avoid
But it's the folks behind these unknown names that have a prolonged effect on everything from education to Medicaid expansion. What happens on the local level can end up making or breaking a state just as much as having a game-show host president.
So let's get comfortable with the major political actors starring in North Carolina's take on this hot new Hellworld stage adaptation. Every person you're about to meet is still in office, even after the midterms.
In Washington, Senator Richard Burr is the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee; his fellow North Carolina senator, Thom Tillis, was a member of the key Senate group drafting DACA legislation—which is also, because of Republicans, now also mostly about border control security—but he was reportedly booted from the group after his staffers couldn't keep quiet, irking the other senators. According to Open Secrets, of the 535 active members of Congress, Burr ranks No. 2 in total donations received from the NRA at $6.9 million; Tillis ranks No. 4 at $4.41 million.
At the federal judicial level, lawyer Thomas Farr is still up for a judgeship he'll almost certainly get, despite an Indy Week report detailing his potential involvement with an infamous Jesse Helms campaign tactic during his 1990 run against Harvey Gantt, in which the Helms people mailed postcards threatening black voters with legal retribution should they register or vote improperly.
North Carolina has also been able to place a number of nuts high up the tree over the past eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
There's Patrick McHenry, who was the chief deputy whip for the Republican majority; Virginia Foxx, who chaired the House Education Committee (and who said Jesse Helms was "the truest of patriots"); and the leaders of two key House caucuses—Mark Walker of the Republican Study Committee and Mark Meadows of the House Freedom Caucus. Meadows is the one who sits so rigidly and so far on the right that he got John Boehner to resign and call him an "idiot."
Alongside them is George Holding, former legislative counsel for Helms and heir to the First Citizens Banks fortune. This beautiful ghoul holds between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock in the bank and routinely votes on its behalf. He voted for a handful of amendments two years ago to block federal funding for fair housing investigations similar to the one targeting his family bank. At the time, First Citizens Bank was being investigated by HUD for discriminating against minority loan applicants.
In August of 2017, Holding refused to support the renaming of a Chapel Hill building after historic Black Wall Street banker and community leader John Harvey; when asked, he said it was because the bill's sponsor, Democrat G.K. Butterfield, had refused to support a recent bill naming a federal building after Jesse Helms. Holding was challenged by Linda Coleman this past Tuesday and while the race was closer than his 2014 election, he still won by six points.
Then there are the state-level Republicans.
House Speaker Tim Moore and Lt. Governor Dan Forest provocatively harangue the Democratic leadership while allowing their legislative wizard, Phil Berger, to continue his reign as the General Assembly's most powerful politician. After a brief break to work on other campaigns, Berger's key aide, Jim Blaine, is back by his side. Berger and Blaine are the people who waited until items like the repeal of HB2 (the so-called "bathroom bill) dominated the headlines to enact their more heinous measures, including their successful attempt to strip the incoming Democratic governor of his appointment powers.
There's a whole string of lunatics that make up the fringes of the North Carolina House—Larry Pittman, Carl Ford, Michael Speciale—who are basically anthropomorphized Breitbart blogs. They tend to put the most radical propositions on the floor (and on Facebook) in order to appease the extremists in their ranks and to make people like Berger look moderate in comparison. They rarely get their ideas (such as Pittman's call to arm teachers in the wake of the Florida school shooting) passed into law, but do an excellent job of slinging just enough mud and doing just enough public chest-beating to remain in office.
Take, for instance, Speciale's heavy-handed defense of Roy Moore in the face of the horrifying child sex abuse allegations against him:
"If the accusations against Roy Moore are proven, then I will withdraw my support but accusations do not prove guilt," he said. "This is still America and we are still innocent until proven guilty!"
Or you can take a gander at Ford's proposal to keep marriage wholly heterosexual, known as the Uphold Historical Marriage Act. By the will of our Lord and Savior, apparently, Ford returned to the General Assembly, only now he has a seat in the Senate—Ford moved his campaign there after redistricting put him and Pittman in the same district.
Then there's the actual institution of the NCGOP. Its executive director Dallas Woodhouse is crucial to understanding how Trumpian tactics bleed down to local politics.
Woodhouse is little more than an off-the-rack conservative activist—he rose up through the North Carolina faction of the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity, was a vocal opponent of Obamacare and was a key local actor when it came to mobilizing the state's rebuke of the Affordable Care Act (which, as has been said a million times now, was basically a conservative idea in the first place.) He's now a proud Trump supporter, an unabashed tweeter, and among the best people in all of American politics at effectively deploying bad-faith discussions to fire up a base.
It's best to think of Woodhouse as a bloated Flavor Flav of Modern Conservatism—a hype man and something of a clown—as can be seen in this MSNBC appearance before the 2016 election, when he waved some handcuffs at Hillary Clinton.
These are the leaders my home state has chosen. They are not particularly striking characters or candidates. But the North Carolina Republicans found leaders that understand how to work both the Senate and the House by way of fundraising loopholes, special sessions, last-minute committee meetings, rushed votes, and the sheer unadulterated power of outnumbering your opponent. As a result, the state now looks the way they want it to look.
The important thing to realize after burning through the above rundown of conservative characters is that they are not permanent. They are very much replaceable, by representatives that would turn the legislature in the opposite direction or by folks that would carry on the very goals they laid out for themselves. The point is that when left to their own devices, state governments can pull off some incredible heinous shit.
Take Alabama, for example. There, the GOP has held a supermajority in the state legislature since 2010. This past Tuesday, 42 new representatives were elected to the two chambers of the Alabama Legislature and yet the Republican Party still has a supermajority, meaning it can continue putting forth ballot measures and bills that deconstruct and defund abortion clinics and, oh yes, allow for the Ten Commandments to be plastered on any type of public property. The point isn't who sits in the chairs, necessarily, but what the end results of a given faction claiming power will consistently result in for the citizens of that state.
The biggest reason North Carolinians turned their back on the Democratic Party after a full century of commitment was the fact that the peddlers of race-baiting tactics the South has grown to love simply switched party membership. But another cause was the fact that the people felt disappointed by the neoliberal results they produced. Under the Democrats, rural schools and minority-heavy districts still got the raw end of the stick, entire mill towns flocked overseas with no steady replacement jobs, and corrupt party leaders ran rampant, only to be caught by the media or the cops and be replaced by another person with a "D" next to their name.
In breaking the supermajority, the Democrats have provided themselves a bit of breathing room, though they'll have to act as a cohesive unit if they want to influence any future legislation. Republicans, even if only slightly, will have to start listening to the left-leaning voices and votes in the House that decry their power grabs, though I wouldn't hold my breath for any of them crossing the aisle. Another ramification of the supermajority's death is that Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will now no longer have his vetoes discarded like expired lunch meat by a Republican supermajority. He will instead be able to reject any particularly heinous pieces of legislation that make their way to his desk, though his track record suggests that he will need watching.
Democrats now also rule both the state Supreme Court and the appeals courts, and they dominate the city commissioner seats as a result of the elections. What is likely to follow is a round of progressive and moderately liberal urban and suburban representatives being pitted against their conservative rural counterparts in the General Assembly, as the two groups grow increasingly partisan. This means more petty spats that blow up in the state's face, like HB2, and more unchecked power for Democrats in urban areas—which, as was proven in the last two decades, does not always produce great results, not that the alternative is any better.
And yet, given the alternative, these gains and this party are what anyone hoping for the emergence of a new, progressive North Carolina will have to cling to and fight for. If they don't, then they can take a look at the last six years and decide if the alternative of living in a twisted 1950 cosplay reality suits them better.

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text:
Home News 2023: Nsukka people pledge support for Enugu APGA candidate Nweke
2023: Nsukka people pledge support for Enugu APGA candidate Nweke
The people of Nsukka have assured Frank Nweke Jr, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Enugu State, of their total support in the 2023 elections.
They gave their assurance on Monday during a Town Hall Meeting at the Nsukka Civic Centre, Obachara, Nsukka where they used the occasion to present their needs to him.
The people said they pledged their support to him for his visionary leadership qualities and impeccable track record over the years.
Speaking at the event Uchenna Ugwuanyi, APGA House of Assembly candidate for Nsukka-West, noted that the people of the area had suffered a lot.
He added that their challenges could only be redressed by voting in Mr Nweke and other APGA candidates because they were truly for the people.
On his part, Emeka Agbala, APGA House of Assembly candidate for Nsukka-East, told the people that a vote for Nweke was a vote for him.
Mr Agbala said that the aspiration of the APGA governorship candidate was to fix Enugu State and not to short change the poor masses as the current ruling party in the state was doing.
Other residents such as Elder Emmanuel Obeta; a woman leader, Lebechi Onah; youth leaders, Joseph Ejike and Jacinta Onyekelu listed bad roads, lack of water, lack of electricity, insecurity and unemployment amongst others as the problems they currently face.
Responding, Mr Nweke assured them that his government would fulfil the promise of providing critical infrastructure and instituting a visionary, transparent, God-fearing and people-oriented leadership, if elected.
Assuring the people that his government would make provision of those basic amenities a priority, Mr Nweke pledged to tackle the bad state of roads in the area and indeed in all parts of the state.
He also decried the lack of water across the state assuring he would address them squarely.
"For our roads, we are clear on how to approach the rehabilitation and construction of roads in the state through a Strategic Road Construction and Rehabilitation Programme.
"Water availability and good access roads are also critical to economic growth, as well as personal comfort and we already have plans to revive the Adada Water Scheme with a water distribution plan to serve towns and cities in Enugu-North," he said.
Mr Nweke said that new water supply systems would also be designed.
He said with infrastructure working, as well as the right policies, companies would be confident enough to set up their businesses in the state and provide jobs to solve the problem of unemployment.
He also assured the people that his government would stop the diversion of local government funds which he accused the incumbent government of doing.
Mr Nweke added that he would ensure that only competent, visionary, knowledgeable and honest individuals were allowed to run the local government councils in the state.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Women with multiple sclerosis (MS) may have lower levels of important antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, such as folate from food and vitamin E, than healthy people, according to a new study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 67th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, April 18 to 25, 2015.
For the study, researchers identified 27 Caucasian women with MS and compared them to 30 healthy Caucasian women between the ages of 18-60 and with body mass index of less than or equal to 30 kg/m2. Participants reported on their diet and nutrition over the previous year prior to starting vitamin D supplementation.
On average, the women who had MS had lower levels of five nutrients with antioxidant or anti-inflammatory properties: food folate, vitamin E, magnesium, lutein-zeaxanthin and quercetin. For food folate, the women with MS had average intake of 244 micrograms (mcg), while the healthy women had an average intake of 321 mcg. The recommended daily allowance is 400 mcg. For magnesium, the women with MS had average intake of 254 milligrams (mg), while the healthy women met the recommended daily allowance of 320 mg with an average of 321 mg. The women with MS also had a lower average percentage of their calories from fat than the healthy participants.
The study was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
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Torsional Oscillations (TO) were first observed on the surface of the Sun as waves of small deviations from differential rotation, which propagate from high latitudes to the equator over solar-cycle time scales. More recently they have been inferred from observations of solar global oscillations to occur in the convection zone. Long-lived brightenings in the corona have also been observed to propagate from near the poles to the equator over similar time scales. This paper will discuss the relationship between TO as observed on the solar surface and in the convection zone and brightenings in the corona. We find that there is an apparent connection between these two phenomena that extends from the equator to latitudes as high as 70◦ to 80◦. This may imply control of both of these phenomena by the driver of the solar cycle (the solar dynamo) and thus place observational constraints on dynamo models.


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GAI Consultants Adds Director of Transportation Engineering
Richmond, VA—GAI Consultants, Inc. (GAI) welcomes Director of Engineering Mark C. Burris, PE to its Richmond, Va. office as part of the Transportation Business Unit. Mr. Burris brings over 29 years of engineering experience with civil, roadway, drainage, and structural design projects. Mark served as Project Manager on numerous Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) projects over the past 18 years, including the Jamestown Corridor Improvements PPTA Project in Williamsburg and Jamestown, VA; the I-81 Widening Project in Rockbridge County, VA; and the Route 58 arterial widening project in Grayson County, VA.
"I am excited that Mark has joined the GAI team, solidifying our commitment to grow the firm's presence across Virginia" offers Senior Vice President and Infrastructure Business Unit Leader Greg Nettuno, PE. "We are focused on bringing depth and additional resources to our Richmond office through strategic hires like this one." Mark holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Old Dominion University, and is a registered professional engineer.
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Within the confines of an intensely rigid culture – the upper tiers of Victorian high society – four rebellious characters choose to follow their hearts and desires in romantic affairs that don't go unnoticed! Modern ideas of love and freedom collide with strict morality in this enchanting Romantic Comedy set in 19th Century New Zealand.
Brought vividly to life by players from The Acting Collective, this delicious drama unfolds in the historic setting of Alberton, an epicentre for Auckland's elite in the 1870s and 80s.
In the opulent parlour, experience this classic Drawing Room Play – a genre of intimate 19th century theatre both performed and set in the parlours of the well-to-do, laced with self-referential wit and wry social critique.


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European Packaging Distributor RAJA Group Acquires Office Depot Europe and Viking
By Wouter Maatman
The RAJA Group acquires Office Depot. Earlier this week, the RAJA Group announced that it signed an agreement to take over Office Depot Europe. This includes Viking and the Office Depot Europe operating business. In short, the RAJA Group is present in 18 European countries, employing 3,000 people, and generated € 730 million in revenue in 2019. Furthermore, with 1 million customers, 11 warehouses, and 25 entities it is Europe's leading distributor of packaging. And a major player in the office supplies and furniture market.
The acquisition of Viking and the Office Depot Europe Contract business will support RAJA Group sales growth, customer base expansion, and product diversification. According to the RAJA Group, this acquisition will allow them to strengthen its position. But it also completes its geographical coverage in this strategic market. The transaction is subject to approval by the competition authorities. The finalization of the deal is probably in the fourth quarter of 2021.
As RAJA Group acquires Office Depot, this represents a tremendous strategic opportunity to strengthen our positions in Europe, in particular in these seven countries, where we are already present with our RAJA subsidiaries. It will further expand the Group's presence and give new impetus to our ambition in the office supplies market. This acquisition perfectly alignes with our strategic vision of becoming a global partner of European companies. From start-ups to major multinationals and will reinforce our partnership with globally known brands. Most important, I am delighted to welcome into our Group the 1,500 new employees with recognized skills and professionalism
Danièle Kapel-Marcovici, CEO at RAJA Group
Disclosure: my employer, Icecat, works for the companies named in this release.
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Consumer prices increased 0.2% over the previous month in June, mirroring the reading observed in May. There was an upturn in the prices of 10 out of the 12 sub-components, while the remaining two registered a drop in prices. Leisure and culture recorded the biggest rise in prices, while food and non-alcoholic beverages, and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels were the two categories that saw a decline in prices from the previous month.
Inflation edged down to an 11-month low of 5.9% in June from 6.2% in May, remaining close to the mid-point of the Central Bank's target range of 5.0%–7.0%. Annual average inflation edged down to 6.8% in June from 7.0% in May, which marked the lowest print in two-and-a-half years.
FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast panelists expect inflation to end 2018 at 5.9%, which is up 0.1 percentage points from last month's forecast. The panel expects inflation to end 2019 at 5.5%.


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Edagar Degas' study of body movement.
Edagar Degas, one of the most important artists in impressionism, was born in French 1834. Before seeing a lot of monotypes work, one would might expect about his color pallets. However, I could feel power of movement without colors. The exhibition includes 120 monotype prints and 60 pieces of different works.
In the exhibition, we could imagine how much he was interested in ballet, which probably showed the best beautiful body movement. He used strong line and rough line in drafts. It seemed to move a ballerina even though it was a painting. There were several magnifying glasses because MOMA might wanted to look into his powerful line. However, there were gigantic people in the show, so I could not focus on the point. That made me feel inconvenience.
On the MOMA website, they mentioned that "captivated by the monotype's potential, he immersed in the technique with enormous enthusiasm, taking the medium to radical ends". Most of his works in the MOMA, people could see his desire thought works, and it made me thinking about research of artists. Through his life, he tried to study and draw human body. These study helped him to be one of the best artists in impressionism, even in the world.
I feel that one of the last sentences in your final paragraph really could have been the framework for the entire critique, as I found it to be a very interesting idea in response to his work. you say you are interested in the "research of artists" and how he was trying to study the human body. More so than that, he was trying to study movement, a theme you imply throughout the work, but do not ground your discussion in.
I do enjoy some of the simple details, like how MOMA includes magnifying glasses. I think it is important to recognize the subtlety of his works, and this is another topic you could elaborate on. However I don't think it's necessary to focus on the fact that the show is crowded, as MOMA is a famous gallery, and Degas even more famous, so it is almost expected that the show would be crowded. With that in mind, it is a nice touch for MOMA to try and encourage its viewers to slow down and take in the movement of the line.
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The clean air zone scheme proposed by the Bath and North East Somerset council (B&NES) has caused much worry for garage owners in Bath as several of them have banded together to protest, claiming the scheme could put them out of business if it goes ahead.
They say that the project could seriously impact upon them and their families.
The scheme entails charging certain vehicles £9 to enter the city – a move Mr Moxham, of Bath MOT Centre, thinks could drive his customers away. He is of the opinion that the plan hasn't been well thought out by the Bath and North East Somerset council.
Angus Sheppard, who runs Henriette Mews Garage, thinks B&NES are being "overzealous".
Archway Garage owner, Paul Firth believes more attention should be given to businesses who will be affected.
Roy Flavell of HiQ Tyres and Autocare, and Ken Wheeler of Midland Car Company, have also joined the protest.
The clean air zone scheme is as a result of the government order which will attract a fine if not obeyed.
An independent advisor to B&NES in a report has put the total cost of the proposed zone at £133 million over 10 years.
The report predicts that the zone will take some cars out of the city centre, reducing congestion and shortening travel time for those that remain.
B&NES has stressed that the zone would improve the air and reduce the threat air pollution poses to all who live, visit or travel through the city.


i have a problem with the Version History functionnality.
This problem appear only in our production environment, the functionality works fine in our test environment.
How can i do to force the update for all the js script ?
I have stopped onlyoffice and deleted /app/onlyoffice/CommunityServer/data/bundle/ folder.
But i still have a little problem : when i select a revision, the change should be highlighted with a different color by user, am i right ?
Because in our both environment, there is no highlighting.
When i switch from "Thibault" to "Maxime", there is no highlighting.
We tried to reproduce the issue, but have no luck. Is OnlyOffice updated?
yes, with the latest version.


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Q: iptables, forwarding between interfaces I'm trying to setup a router using iptables.
But, after a lot of examples I've tried, I can't get anything to work.
My idea is to setup a box in between my Cisco and the main switch for firewall, bandwidth graphs, filtering, etc.
I am using an old laptop as a test unit for now.

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*Interface eth0 is static with an ip of 192.168.10.5/255.255.255.0
and gw 192.168.10.1. This works as a valid Internet connection.

*Interface eth1 is static with an ip of 192.168.10.6/255.255.255.0.
I have forwarding enabled via sysctl.conf and double checked the value inside ip_forward.
When I connect a test Windows laptop via cable to eth1, I get no DHCP
(dhcp is handled by the Cisco on 192.168.10.1). This is normal I suspect
since I need several iptable rules, but the question is which? I have tried
so many variations but none seem to work, can anyone help me please?
Summary:
cisco: 192.168.10.1
eth0 : 192.168.10.5
eth1 : 192.168.10.6

CISCO<->[eth0]box[eth1]<->devices(eg. Windows laptop)

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Ramona Quimby Age 8 is a fun book. Ramona has a big accident in front of her whole class. Her sister Beezus is a little mean but there was a part when Ramona and Beezus worked together and they did something that was very secretive and fun. Beezus has a party at her friend's house. Check out what will happen to Ramona and Beezus.
This book is so fun. I liked it because this book has lots of funny parts and the best one was when Ramona and Beezus made dinner together. My favorite part was when Ramona saw the picture that her dad, Mr. Quimby, drew for her to make her feel better. That was my favorite because it also makes me feel better and it's a nice, sad part .The best character for me is Beezus. I liked that character because she is funny and silly. When Beezus was invited to a party and wasn't allowed to go, she started whining like a baby.
I would recommend this book to people aged 7-8 who like funny books. I would like to recommend this book because it's fun and I like reading funny books. I think people will enjoy reading about how Ramona was sneaky when she cooked dinner. The way that the author wrote the story was easy to read.


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Exploring Verona, a city made for lovers
Adam Jones | 17/06/2019
Romeo & Juliet's setting paid homage to the work with Juliet's balcony at the eponymous house.
"In fair Verona" are three famous words that provide the setting of one of the most famous love stories of all time — Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Whether you're visiting with you sweetie, or exploring the city on your own, get ready for a delightful cocktail of art, history, architecture and natural beauty.
What to do in Verona
Verona has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000. So naturally you're in for some remarkable art, history and architecture.
The city was conquered by the Romans back in the First Century AD, and many of those ruins still stand today. If you weren't able to make Rome this trip, or were thwarted by the long lineups at the Coliseum, the Verona Arena is enormous — the third largest in the world.
One of the best known year-round attractions year-round is Juliet's house in Verona. While not, in fact, a place that inspired the actual play, it was once home to the Cappello family and dates back to the 13th century. Much like the play, the home is a symbolic blend of fact and fiction. The Juliet balcony wasn't added until the 20th century, but it still serves as a stirring symbolic reminder of the power of love.
Verona's Teatro Filarmonico is one of Europe's finest opera houses. Originally built in 1716, it was lovingly restored following fires and Allied bombing during World War II. The Teatro Filarmonico is still a working theater. If you're lucky, you'll be able to catch one of its opera, ballet, or concert series.
Beyond Verona's cultural history, take time to explore it's military past. Explore the Castelvecchio, a 14th-century red brick castle. Visit its city museum, or wander the grounds to admire the fortifications and a stunning view from the Castelvecchio bridge.
Verona in Love festival
Every year, during the week before Valentine's Day, the city comes alive in a celebration of love complete with delicious food, magic, entertainment, and many romantic themed adventures. With the ancient city around you, loved one at your side, beautiful song, and lights twinkling all around, what could be more romantic than Valentine's Day in Italy?
The festival bills itself as not only for couples, but for anyone "in love with love itself." You can also enjoy the romance as a single traveller and maybe even run into someone for the ultimate meetup. Stroll through the old town as decorations and illuminations light up its streets and medieval architecture.
Valentine's Day in Verona wouldn't be complete without further romantic activities. Climb to the top of the Lamberti Tower, which is illuminated in red during the festival. Or sign up for "Tours in Love": a series of love-themed guided walks that will introduce you to some of the city's most famous sites and compelling tales.
Perhaps you'd like to be a more active participant in your love story? Try the Romeo and Juliet themed game tour, certainly one of the most unique things to do in Verona Italy. An expert tour guide will lead you and your partner through Verona's poetic alleyways where you'll discover secrets and solve mysteries that surround the Shakespearean lovers. You'll work your way through history to rewrite the tragic end of this long-told love story.
If neither walking nor intrigue aren't your thing, maybe go on the run with your partner young-love style. Experience a bit of adrenaline, commitment, and fatigue with the Romeo and Juliet Half Marathon, which brings you through some of the city's most famous spots before you cross the finish line at the Piazza Bra.
Getting into nature
If you'd like a break from all that architecture, Verona has great options for those who enjoy the outdoors. Start off lightly with a trip to the Giardino Giusti. Planted in 1580, it is considered one of the finest examples of an Italian Renaissance garden. There's a hedge maze, hidden grottos, sculpture, and even angry stone faces originally designed to breathe fire.
Maybe you'd like something a bit more adventurous? What about whitewater rafting through a medieval city? Though not the wildest river, you will pass through some rapids and get an unusual river's eye view of Verona. Enjoy the panoramic views and river thrills as you get up close and personal with the Adige River.
If you'd like to get even further out, Verona is a great staging ground for some excellent day trips.
Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy, with a decidedly Italian resort-like feel. Buses from Verona run frequently; or you can rent a car for a private tour of the area. Stop by a local restaurant for lunch and a glass of Lugana wine while enjoying spectacular views of the lakeside and surrounding mountains.
If seeing mountains from below isn't enough, get to the top. Verona can be a gateway for a day trip to the UNESCO Heritage Dolomite mountain range. Ride a funicular to the 10,000 foot summit to take in the spectacular natural vistas all around you — including views of the white stone mountains Marmolada and Sassolungo.
Once you get back to Verona, wander the streets at night, look at the way the lights hit the river Adige, have a glass of the city's local Rossa di Verona beer, and imagine those first few moments of looking at someone, and falling in love.
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In large skillet, cook and stir beef, onion and celery over medium–high heat 5 to 7 minutes. Drain.
Add seasoning mix, beer and taco sauce. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 7 to 9 minutes. Add corn; cook and stir until corn is heated through.
Spoon into warmed tortilla bowls and top as desired. Makes 8 taco bowls.
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The exuberant, pugnacious, crockery-smashing billionaire president Americans elected in November 2016 is a much different man behind closed doors.
The Donald Trump that Florida evangelical minister Paula White sees is a good listener, a man who takes his faith seriously while not always being fluent in "Christianese" and, unlike so many of his predecessors, a politician who has kept his promises to faith voters and evangelical Christian groups after he won the presidency with the help of their votes.
Evangelical voters have proved an unlikely rock of the Trump coalition: More than 80 percent say they support the president. Ms. White said that support has been fully repaid by the administration's record with the appointments of two Supreme Court justices and a slew of conservative lower-court judges as well as new Justice Department guidelines on religious expression, the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and the president's executive order easing enforcement of rules restricting political speech from the pulpit.
The 52-year-old televangelist, a sometimes polarizing figure in conservative Christian circles who is senior pastor of the New Destiny Christian Center megachurch in Apopka, Florida, is one of several religious figures who meet regularly with Mr. Trump and White House aides. She became the first clergywoman to offer a prayer at a presidential inauguration and sits close by the president at gatherings of faith leaders at the White House.
Ms. White repeatedly insists in an interview that Mr. Trump's spiritual growth in the 18 years she has known him "comes from a much deeper place" than the so-called "prosperity theology" — the belief that spiritual and financial success are part of God's plan for believing Christians — that detractors accuse him of following.
"He holds his faith close to his chest and is not as open about it as some people," she said.
Ms. White even hinted that Mr. Trump may have been the victim of a biblical-political dirty trick in one notorious incident from the 2016 campaign trail at Liberty University. The candidate referred to a favorite scriptural passage from Paul's "Two Corinthians," though the widely accepted term is "Second Corinthians." A supporter of "another candidate" suggested the passage — and the wrong wording — to Mr. Trump as he prepared to take the stage, hoping to embarrass a rival.
Mr. Trump "never mentioned it, he never retaliated, he never threw that person under the bus. He just kept going," Ms. White recalled.
Ms. White expressed great admiration for the late North Carolina preacher and for the work his family continues to carry out, but she noted that she met Mr. Trump in New York more than a decade before he ever thought of a political career — he cold-called her to praise her television preaching, she said — and she plans to be a friend and spiritual adviser long after he leaves the White House.


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At our Littleton, CO consignment store, we're picky so you don't have to be! Get the best fashion forward, brand name clothing here.
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Denver Area Thrift and Consignment Stores. 10 S. Broadway, Denver, 80209 303-871-0373 Clothing from the turn of the last century plus lots denim. Buffalo Exchange 51 Broadway, Denver, 80203 303-866-0165 Trendy vintage and used clothing and accessories for men and women.
Boss Vintage specializes in "Retail" and "Wholesale" Vintage clothing from the turn of the century to the 1970's. We carry vintage denim as well as new denim. Store Location: Our Store is located at: 10 S Broadway in Denver, Colorado. Store Hours: Mon-Sat. 11-6. Sun 12-5.
Buy, sell, or trade your clothes and accessories at Buffalo Exchange for cash or trade on the spot. You can shop for men's and women's clothing. Buy, sell, or trade your clothes and accessories at Buffalo Exchange for cash or trade on the spot. You can shop for men's and women's clothing.
Find the best Used, vintage & consignment stores in Denver, CO as recommended by your neighbors.
Upscale Resale in Denver: Secondhand but First-Rate (Shopping Guides): The economy has turned many fashionistas into recessionistas. They haven't given up their desire for designer clothing, shoes and accessories, they're just shopping more discriminately at their favorite stores, or maybe venturing out to upscale resale shops for gently worn but still desirable items.


The cast of Fuller House won at the 2019 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and they seemingly referenced co-star Lori Loughlin's college admissions scandal during their speech.
Candace Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber, and Jodie Sweetin were joined by their co-stars to accept the award for Favorite Funny TV Show at the Galen Center on Saturday (March 23) in Los Angeles.
While they never mentioned Lori or the scandal, the stars opened up about sticking together as a family through hard times.
"This family has a lot of heart," Andrea said.
We completely support and back what Lori Loughlin did!! Isn't that what money is for?? I mean, like totally! The rules need to be like changed in her favour! She did nothing wrong in our eyes!! The public has spoken, we won bithches!!
People really watch Full House?
Yeah, I doubt they'd be so sickly-sweet if THEY had lost a college seat to her kids.


Dr. Jason Adams is a pulmonology specialist in Sacramento, California. He graduated from the medical school of the University of California San Francisco. After graduation, he completed a residency at the Stanford University and a fellowship at the University of California-Davis. Dr. Adams is a board-certified specialist in Pulmonary Disease. At the moment, he is affiliated with the UC Davis Medical Center.
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Q: LiveCycle ES 8.2 PDF dynamic population in PHP I want my website to generate dynamic reports in PDF format. I found out recently about Adobe liveCycle Designer ES which create editable fields inside of PDF document.  Does anyone knew if it is possible to create a empty template in Adobe liveCycle Designer ES and for example populate it with php form values dynamical after user clicking a button?

A: Of course you can create PDF template in LiveCycle Designer, however in order to populate it with data in a automatic manner you need a Adobe LiveCycle server with Forms module. It has some web services that combines data and template together. You should now that it is quite a costly solution.
More details about generating pdf with data via web service you can find here


Just a quick reminder to sign up for the TOP of UTAH HALF MARATHON HERE (beginning March 1st at midnight!) This race has a cap so if you're going to do it get registered. We had a small group last year participate, but I know our group of capable athletes has GROWN! Be sure and let us know if you sign-up so we can all get some group training in together. BE UN-SCARED!!
As many eagerly anticipate the announcement from CrossFit HQ about the Reebok CrossFit Games Open WOD#2 (Feb 29th at 6pm Mountain Time), I just wanted to share a little history about the Burpee….
Hopefully none of us feel this way after our team has officially finished WOD #1 in 7th place in our region.
TEAM – This is the LAST CALL for after photos for the THROW YOUR SCALE AWAY CHALLENGE! Tomorrow night Stacey and Tami will get together and start comparing before & afters, so if you haven't taken yours or we don't have it (I've got a list at the box) then you won't be included in the judging.
Lots of our athletes have been pre-ordering our 2012 team shirts and that is GREAT!! I just wanted to clear up a few common questions I've been getting as the order will be placed at the end of this week and I want to make sure that EVERYONE that wants one of the new shirts gets one….
What will the shirt look like? Well here is the finished graphics 🙂 – Click the image to the right to enlarge.
How much do the shirts cost? $10, that's it (you can pay for them when they arrive or when you order). Thanks to our amazing sponsors, we've kept the costs LOW!! – There are 3 men and 3 women styles available (we've got samples at the box for you to try on) and you can also get them in a T-shirt for your kids too, so when you bring them to cheer you on or participate with you at events this year, they'll be easy to spot!!
Who can get the shirts? ANYONE and everyone that comes to our box is welcome to order one or more of these shirts. You DO NOT have to race to get one, they're a great workout shirt, but if you do we'll ALL be wearing this shirt this summer, SO GET ONE!! This is a one and done deal, so don't wait!
Tell us about yourself… I grew up in Richmond and moved all the way to Smithfield. I've been married to Matt for 16 years and have 2 boys, Ethan and Tate.
What is your day job? I oversee the education for students in custody of the state for ages K-12, and coordinate the Independent Study work at Cache High School.
How were you introduced to CrossFit? I first heard about it from my boss and told him he was crazy for trying it. Then Gina convinced me to come try it with her and have been hooked ever since.
What is your favorite WOD or Lift? I'm not sure I have a favorite (it seems like I leave every day feeling beat up LOL) but I really like weights, Turkish Get Ups and flipping the tires.
How has CrossFit changed your life? Before CrossFit I exercised, but always looked for an excuse to not have to go. Now if something gets in the way of me being able to go it frustrates me. I physically feel better and emotionally feel better about myself.
What keeps you motivated and coming back for more? Always wanting to be able to do just a little bit more than I did yesterday. Oh, and trying to perfect those @#!$ double unders!
What's something you know now that you wish someone would have said to you when you started CrossFit? It's not necessarily that someone didn't say it, but I wish I would have believed that what you eat is so important.
It's RACE DAY. Did you TRi?
Today we got a few more members of our team out for the 3rd USU Indoor Tri (400m swim-8 laps, 6 mile bike, 4k run). We all had a great time and for Trisha and Mindy this was their fist Tri. They both did AWESOME and had a blast to boot! Start looking at the race calendar or pick and event that you would like to participate in and DO IT! You'll be amazed at how having something to train for will keep you focused and motivated. Live this year UNSCARED!!
John, Jerry, Steph, Paul, Trisha & Mindy....good times with some GREAT ATHLETES!
I am a PROUD PAPA! I just have to tell all of you who came and finished of the challenge how proud I am of each of you. We have an amazing community and support network at our box. So many of you have caught the vision that nutrition truly EFFECTS both your appearance and your performance! We witnessed some AMAZING PR's today. Some people dropped double digits off of their old times. We will continue to take pictures and you can turn in your food logs tomorrow and Monday. Then the deliberating will begin. We'll try to make the announcement in about a week. Congrats to all who made such a positive change. Keep up the good work! We'll see you tomorrow morning at 7:30 am. You can come do the Filthy 50, CrossFit Games Open WOD #1 (just an FYI our box is currently ranked 1st in our region and second worldwide) or we'll have something else for those who need it. Well see you then!


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C-SPAN wants live coverage of House
After covering the 14 votes to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, C-SPAN sent a letter to new McCarthy to ask if C-Span could cover all House floor proceedings for all credited news outlets. Usually, footage of the proceedings are government-produced unless there are special events such as the election of the speaker. (CNN, January 10, 2023, by Oliver Darcy)
The Washington Post editorial board, January 13, 2023, argues that the usual government coverage is dull while the coverage of the speaker vote by C-SPAN provided the public with interesting sidebars including a near fight, bipartisan conversations, and McCarthy and his team working the holdouts. The board says it is not about ratings since Nielsen doesn't rate C-SPAN but "about giving the nation a more accurate view of how Congress really works — and often doesn't."
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Valleybrink Road | Recipes | Avocado And Black Bean Quesadillas | Makes 1 quesadilla 2 tortillas (brown rice, corn, or flour) 3 slices of cheddar cheese (I used a goat cheddar) 1/2 an avocado, pit and skin removed and the flesh thinly sliced 2 tablespoons organic black beans 1 tablespoon salsa verde o.
I love quesadillas. In this version, I used gluten-free brown rice tortillas and filled them with goat cheddar cheese slices, avocado, cilantro, black beans, and a little salsa verde. Cook until melted through and crisp. Top with pico de gallo, guacamole, or the salsa of your choice!
In a heavy bottomed skillet over medium heat, melt 1/2 tablespoon butter. Place the bottom tortilla in the pan. Top with slices of cheese, avocado, black beans, cilantro and salsa verde. Top with the second tortilla. Cook until golden and the cheese has started to melt. Flip and cook on the other side until golden and melted through.
Cut quesadilla into 6 pieces and top with salsa, guacamole, sour cream or all three!


I am a self-taught artist and have enjoyed drawing since an early age. The practice of Realism has taught me the value of clear-sightedness, how to see things as they are, and not so much as I am, which in turn allows me to render ideas with great clarity and focus.
Relaxing and trusting in the process is something I'm still practising to this day with my design work. In that respect, art continues to play a major role in the development of my design skills. Because more often than not, designing requires visualising, then rendering, with the intent of evoking positive emotional responses to composition, form, subject and colour — these I believe are some of the fundamental underpinnings of modern-day Visual Design.


Cunoniaceae is commonly known as the Cunonia Family. The Cunoniaceae is a family from Oxalidales Order, splits from Magnoliopsida Class. It is a family among about 406 families in Magnoliophyta or Flowering Plants Division. The family consists of 20 genera and about 205 species.


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AT&T's new Digital Life plans aim to connect caregivers to their loved ones via in-house monitoring services. Dubbed Digital Life Care, the plan is an expansion to the company's Digital Life platform, and will help those that need extra care to safely and independently remain in their own home. AT&T released some stats to reveal why they've expanded the platform: for the next 20 years, 10,000 Americans will turn 65 each day. Annual assisted living costs are projected to start at $50,000 a year in 2015. Today, 25% of adults are caregivers to elderly or disabled persons. AT&T plans to deploy the solution to customers in 2015 and will start limited employee trials later this year.
A surprise to no one, elderly or disabled persons would rather remain in their homes than relocate to an assisted living facility. The AT&T Digital Life platform is a customized solution that adapts to the changing needs of the caregivers by providing real time monitoring and accurate alerts related to their loved one's eating, personal care, mobility, medication schedule, and more.
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What do you like-love/dislike-hate about your NX?
No digital compass in the mirror???? wowwwww.. Now I have to take an hour to scan through the 2000 bits of information that's ALREADY crowding the center console just to check my direction. Dam.
Still can't figure out how to open the hatch while the vehicle's running. I hit three buttons so far and can't get it to open. Lexus, it's just a hatch, not the blast doors on the space shuttle.
I've found the digital compass on the upper left corner of the NX navigation screen is in a better field of view than my older Lexus that had the compass in the mirror. I assume your navigation screen also includes the compass.
Regarding the hatch, I too cannot open my hatch if the engine is running and the car is in gear, but when it is in Park, the hatch opens with the normal push of the lower left button. If you cannot do this, I suggest you check your manual for a buried setting that is preventing it...or even easier, and something I've done, call your dealer and ask why you cannot open the hatch!
I love the look of my 2016 f-sport. I am still bugged about not having leather seats. My last lexus was a 1999 Rx, I purchased New and traded it in w/90,000 miles on it. The leather was pristine in my RX, as I babied it. I wish an option for leather was available for the nx...other than that I love everything about this car!
Lots of technology on our 2018'. In fact so much so that it's almost distracting not playing with it all while driving.
Seats are comfortable, and the interior looks great. We have the extended tan leather on the dash which looks nice.
Looks pretty nice. I REALLY with you could get the F sport front bumper on the Luxury model and leather trim. The main reason we didn't get an F sport even though that's what I wanted initially was the leather choices for the F sport were not good to us at all. I want our interior how it is with the extended leather dash/color but with the F Sport front bumper. Seems silly to me this wasn't an option.
Love that the hatch as a lock button so that when it's opened you can hit the lock button and it locks the entire car.
The ride seems more harsh than my wife's Toyota Solara. It feels more bumpy, tingy in a way. Her solara was extremely smooth. Lexus like ride quality honestly.
Power or lack there of. It's perfectly fine cruising and when you are at 80mph it's fine. But getting to that from a stop or just city traffic it feels much slower. I'd say that's the biggest disappointment to me. If it had an extra 30hp it wouldn't feel as bad.
Can't seem to get the rear lift gate foot sensor to work most of the time or maybe we are just swinging our feet wrong. Seems like a good idea but silly.
Remote start that turns on, but then when you get in the car to unlock it, shuts off. I understand WHY, but it just seems so silly that the engineers couldn't have designed a better plan. While we are on remote start. Have it built into the KEYFOB instead of having a service that you have to pay for at the end of the free year... That I can't stand.
Panoramic Moon roof. Why was one not offered? I like the moon roof and try to get it with everything we have, but given the choice I'd take a pano roof any time!
I think this is a wonderful vehicle. We've never owned a Lexus before but we've had Toyota and I am hoping that the reliability is the same between the two, even though I've heard Lexus dealers/repairs can reach that of German cars... I do the majority of the work on our cars since I have a lift in the garage. Our Mercedes hasn't been bad. My Ranger is an older truck so that's cheap to fix and my STi is a garage queen unless I'm upgrading something. My biggest thing really are just the front looks of the F sport that I wish would have come with the Luxury interior/features of the NX we got, lack of power, and the remote start quirk. Everything else is a huge upgrade to us in terms of technology and just overall features.
I agree on most of your points. We also liked the look of the F Sport but didn't like the seats and interior colors. I' 5'6" and my wife is 5'4". We just felt the seats were to confining and not near as comfortable as the luxury seats. I know they're supposed to be like that. Comfort is more important to us than having sport seats.
But we just felt they wouldn't be that great for long drives. Like you said, it would be nice if you could get the F exterior with the luxury interior model. Overall my wife loves her NX. It's our first Lexus as well.
One thing that's kinda funny though. I drive a 2017 Chevy Colorado Z71. The free Onstar remote app works great. But we can't get the Lexus Enform app to work at all. After trying everything including reinstalling, talking to the dealer tech guy and lexus, still won't work.
It's going in Saturday to the dealer to get it working. Dealer has been great so far. We live about 100 miles from them. They offered to send a driver with a new loaner to pick it up and drop it off when it's done.
- Solara is built on Camry platform and has supple ride of typical family sedan. So, no comparison here between sedan and small SUV.
- Your car engine is not broken in yet. I have 2017 with 16K miles on odometer now, and the power is fine, especially in sport mode. Expect, to see major power improvement at about 5K on odometer.
i noticed the power thing that most people talk about is sort of a matter of how the vehicle is driven. i personally noticed that by feathering the fuel pedal not just mashing it, the car responds better. it a low rpm torque motor so that may be why.
Power liftgate is slow and canntt be accelerated by hand.
Residue on the bottom inside of the doors when driving in snow/slush.
Poor gas mileage (22 mpg is the best ever with 50/50 highway/city.
OEM wipers not clearing evenly from Day 1.
High beams are not LEDs.
This might be based on year/optional headlights, but my wife's 18' has the upgraded triple led headlights. Which when in high beam/auto high beam mode are definitely leds, there are no other projectors/lights on the front of the headlight for the high beam.
I have 2018 for about 3 months now. Some people complain about the car is noisy, but I felt car is pretty quiet, unless they improve in 2018 model.
Seat comfort. Heat seat and heat steering warm up quickly.
Handling like a car. I test drove 2017 RX and decided to get NX instead.. RX drove like a boat and cabin is not quiet.
Rear lift kick sensor works well and lock button in the rear lift gate.
LED lights everywhere. Except vanity lights.
backup camera resolution is good.
Auto fold side mirrors when lock the door. Auto dim outside mirrors.
Lack of storage in the center console.
Memory seat buttons are not illuminated and location is award. It should be in the upper part of the door.
Vehicle settings cannot be customized to each key fob.
no USB in the back.
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The NX is as long as my 2008 IS was. The IS was build on the Corolla platform, and not the Camry platform. So it makes sense that the Camry is longer.
As I noted in my post above, 22 mpg is the best I've ever gotten in mixed driving.
Those of you chasing MPGs chose the wrong model. I get between 31 and 33 depending on seasons and about 95% city driving. The dash was reading 32 when I parked tonight and it usually shows about 1 to 1.5 MPG higher than calculated.
- I like the sun glass holder- buy RayBan's, they fit fine, not understanding the beef?
- small gas tank, constantly at the gas station!!!
- weak stereo, need a ML option. I'm not even a audio guy but this system lacks power, especially for an SUV.
I have a long list of gripes but I'm actually very happy with my decesion to purchase the NX. The exterior styling makes it easier to over look anything I included on the list.
Great list and totally agree. In Australia, cars are totally loaded with all the features except panoramic sunroof (climate too hot). The 360 camera is a must have on any vehicle once you get accustomed to it.AND NX F now! 3.0 twin turbo V6 from LS preferably.
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Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
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Local Site Name: 北京人周口店
City: Beijing
Address: Zhou Sheng Lu, Fangshan Qu, Beijing Shi, China
Opening Hours: Monday - Sunday -> 08:30-16:30
Entrance Fee: CNY 30
Time to Stay: 2 hours (Suggested)
Prehistorical remains of Peking Man was discovered 50km from southwest of Beijing, small town named Zhoukoudian. Zhoukoudian was believed to be occupied by a species of early proto-humans named Peking Man 500, 000 years ago. The discovery of fossilized human bones from Sinanthropus pekinensis provide a lead to the missing link between Neanderthal and modern humans. Providing testimony for the process of human evolution, the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian is recognised as a UNESCO cultural heritage site in 1987, listed together with other most renowned China attractions such as the Great Wall and Forbidden City.
History of Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
In 1918, a Swedish geologist called Johan Gunnar Andersson begun to lay his eyes on the fossils in Zhoukoudian after his friends had brought him some bones from that location, he had realised that the bones were different from normal mammals fossils. Then he sent his Austrian assistant Otto Zdansky to further excavate the site, eventually broken pieces resulted from sharp artificial strike was unearthed, Andersson deduced that the primitive of human was buried in Zhoukoudian. Until 1926, Zdansky unearthed a molar from the fossils, which was identified as a tooth of apes. From then on various sponsorships were attracted to excavate Zhoukoudian, which included USA, Sweden and China.
The Name of Peking Man
It was the first time for China scholars to officially participate in Zhoukoudian excavation. The only objective of their partnership was to discover the remains of the ancestor of human. After a year, another tooth was found. And "Ape of China Peking", Peking Man in short, was a new classification of ancient human which lived half a million years ago.
But a small single tooth was still too weak to proof the existence of Peking Man. As the skills of Chinese excavation began to mature, the foreigners began to went back home and the Chinese scholars gradually took charge of the excavation work.
During December of 1929, a site worker claimed the discovery of a leg of rhino, under the careful examination of Pei Wenzhong, the Chinese archaeologists who was in charge of this project, he identified it as a skullcap of the Peking Man.
In 1936 during the Japanese Invasion, another Chinese archaeologist Jia Lanpo and his team unearthed 3 more skullcaps. Up till 1937, 5 skullcaps, 9 pieces of head bones and numerous bone fossils were extracted. They came from 40 different bodies, from male to female, and old to young, signifying a complete set of human prototype. Besides human fossils, thousands of stone artifacts and plants fossils had been excavated. This showed that Peking Man was capable of using these tools.
Lost of Skull
Despite of the promising excavation, no one was interested in what their origin was in the times of war. Later in the same year of 1937, excavation work had been suspended because of the Japanese invasion.
In late 1937, two Japanese from the Tokyo University asked Pei Wenzhong for a look of the skulls in the name of academic research. This rose Pei's suspicion, so he had declined their offer.
At that time the skull was still under the control of Chinese authority, and was kept at the deposit box underground in the medical academy. Due to the unstable state, the authority planned to move the skulls and fossils to United States by US marine corps from Qinghuangdao on 5th December 1941; on 8th of December, the train carrying the fossils arrived Qinghuangdao, where the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour in the previous day, initiating the second world war. Disembarking Shanhaiguan (near Qinghuangdao), the US marine corps was too attacked and captured by the Japanese. From then on nobody could track the fossils.
Half year later, the Japanese papers stated that the fossils were stolen from the medical academy, authorities of Japan stationed in Beijing ordered to locate the fossils of Peking Man.
Near the end of 1942, a secret Japanese agent Goargia was appointed to the Peking Man mission. He had questioned Pei and the related parties, at the same time hunt all over Beijing and Tianjin. But no clue was left for him. After a year no progress had been made, Goargia tried to kill himself in a Beijing apartment.
The fossils of Peking Man were missing forever. Had they been destroyed by war, or either China, USA or Japan had secretly hiding them from the world? So now in the museum of Zhoukoudian, visitors could only see the photos and documentaries of the skullcaps.
The discoveries in Zhoukoudian testified the process of evolution for the origin of human, at the same time verify the theory of evolutionary proposed by Charles Robert Darwin.
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PANGILINAN CALLS FOR SENATE INVESTIGATION ON CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS IN PCA
MANILA — To shed light on the issues surrounding the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan has filed Senate Resolution 338 directing the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation on the alleged corruption at the agency.
On March 15, 2017, Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr., chairperson of the PCA Governing Board, issued a resolution suspending PCA Administrator Avelino Andal for his alleged extortion of P1.50 per board foot of trees being cut in Basilan, Mindoro, Marinduque, and Quezon as well as his alleged order to collect fees on transport permits.
The collected fees purportedly amounted to as much as P90 million in Basilan alone.
In an earlier statement, Pangilinan refuted Andal's accusation that the "yellows" were behind the so called "evil scheme to undermine the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte."
"Blaming the Liberal Party for their own internal conflict concerning serious accusations of corruption has become the easy recourse of top government officials," said Pangilinan, former Presidential Assistant on Food Security and Agricultural Modernization (PAFSAM).
Moreover, Andal specifically accused Cabinet Undersecretary Halmen Valdez for orchestrating such a "scheme" in viewing of Valdez's purported connection with the OPAFSAM, which was under Pangilinan during the previous administration.
Pangilinan noted in the resolution that he resigned as Secretary of OPAFSAM on September 30, 2015, months before Valdez joined OPAFSAM.
Andal has said that the accusations hurled against him are in connection with the anticipated enactment of Senate Bill 1233 or the Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Act.
"The ongoing rift and grave accusations heaved between PCA and the Office of the Cabinet Secretary cast serious doubt on the integrity, capacity, and reliability of PCA to administer the proposed trust fund which must be investigated," Pangilinan noted in the resolution.
The bill, pending on second reading in the Senate, proposes to establish the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund estimated at about P100 billion in cash and assets for the benefit of the coconut farmers and the development of the coconut industry.


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Home / Jewelry, Timepieces & Luxury Accessories / 2015 December 15 Tuesday Internet Watch and Jewelry Auction Auction #171550 / Lot #73052
Multi-Stone, Diamond, Seed Pearl, Gold, Yellow Metal Stickpins. ... (Total: 16 Items)
Multi-Stone, Diamond, Seed Pearl, Gold, Yellow Metal Stickpins
The lot includes sixteen stickpins: one featuring a full-cut diamond, enhanced by a seed pearl, set in 14k gold, completed by a 14k pinstem (Length: 2-1/4 inches); one featuring a full-cut diamond, enhanced by colorless glass, set in platinum, completed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2-1/2 inches); one featuring bluish-green glass, set in 10k gold, completed by a 10k gold pinstem (Length: 2-1/4 inches); one featuring yellowish-green glass, enhanced by an imitation pearl, set in 10k gold, completed by a 10k gold pinstem (Length: 2-3/8 inches); one featuring glass, set in yellow metal, completed by a 10k gold pinstem (Length: 2 inches); one featuring red glass, set in 14k gold, completed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2-1/2 inches); one featuring purple glass, set in 10k gold, completed by a 10k gold pinstem (Length: 2-3/8 inches); one featuring imitation pearls, set in 14k gold, completed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2-3/4 inches); one featuring a round-cut ruby, enhanced by seed pearls, set in 14k gold, completed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2-1/4 inches); one featuring plastic, set in 14k gold, completed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2-1/2 inches); one featuring synthetic rubies, set in 14k gold, competed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2 inches); one featuring lapis lazuli, set in 14k gold, completed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2-1/4 inches); one featuring blue glass, set in 10k gold, completed by a 10k gold pinstem (Length: 2-3/8 inches); one featuring a full-cut diamond, enhanced by a round-cut sapphire, set in 14k gold, completed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2-3/8 inches); one featuring a full-cut diamond, enhanced by a round-cut sapphire, set in 14k gold, completed by a 14k gold pinstem (Length: 2-3/8 inches); and one featuring a synthetic ruby, set in 14k gold, completed by a 10k gold pinstem (Length: 2-1/4 inches). Gross weight 23.90 grams.
Condition Report*: Diamond Average Color: J-K-L
Diamond Average Clarity: SI
Gem Type: Ruby, Sapphire, Synthetic Ruby, Lapis Lazuli
Gem Average Clarity: Good
Gem Shape: Round-cut, Oval-shaped Cabochon
Notes: A wide selection of fanciful stickpins! Some of the pinstems are slightly bent from wear.