Promising to cut corporate taxes, roll back regulations on Wall Street, and get government off the back of business, Donald Trump was enjoying a honeymoon with the stock market and the CEOs of the most iconic brands in the U. S. What a difference four days can make.
Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 274 points. Also yesterday, Trump announced that he was cancelling his business advisory council on infrastructure. That move followed his prior day's axing of his star-studded CEO councils on manufacturing and Strategy & Policy Forum. According to published reports, Trump was saving face by axing the councils after getting a heads up that the CEOs were leaving en masse.
The rapid move by top CEOs to distance themselves and their brands from the President came after Trump delivered impromptu remarks on Tuesday in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he appeared to equate the KKK and neo-Nazi groups that protested in the weekend Charlottesville, Virginia rally with the protesters opposing them.
George Soros is betting against American markets.
PowerShares QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQ) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (AMEX: SPY) iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE Arca: IWM) These index ETFs represent the tech-heavy Nasdaq, the broad S&P 500, and the small-cap Russell 2000 indexes – three of the four major market indexes in America. And Soros holds put options on all of them, which means he's banking on the failure of not just one or two companies, but the markets as a whole.
This post was published at Wall Street Examiner by Money Morning Staff Reports ' August 18, 2017.
It is sad to see that, facing the evidence of the failure of demand-side policies and money printing, many commentators propose some of the most outdated and failed policies in modern economic history. In the UK, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the Labour Party, believes that the government spends too little. With a current 44.4% of GDP public spending, saying the government spends 'too little' is an insult to taxpayers and efficient public bodies alike.
But Mr. Corbyn wants to penalize the private sector creating the largest transfer of wealth from savers and taxpayers to government ever designed. The Peoples QE (quantitative easing).
In Europe, we are already used to the follies of magic solutions from populist parties. Syriza, Podemos, and others always come up with 'magic' and allegedly 'simple' ideas to solve large and complex economic issues, and always fail when reality kicks in, but there are few that match the monumental nonsense of the wrongly-called 'Peoples QE'. It is the 'Governments QE', rather.
Why Is this People's QE a Bad Idea? The analysis starts from the right premise. Quantitative Easing, as we know it, does not work, and creates massive imbalances. So what do they propose? Sound money? Erasing perverse incentives of printing money and unjustifiably low rates? No. Doing exactly the same, but passing the massive perverse incentive of currency debasement to politicians who, as we all know, have no perverse incentive whatsoever to overspend (note the irony).
This post was published at Ludwig von Mises Institute on August 18, 2017.
The race war in America is hitting a fever pitch, and though President Trump may have been partially joking this week when he warned that George Washington statues would be the next to be toppled, it looks like there are large swaths of Americans who actually think it might be a good idea.
This post was published at shtfplan on August 18th, 2017.
AUGUST 18/2017*/STEVE BANNON OUSTED/BREITBART PROMISES 'THERMONUCLEAR WAR'/GOLD DOWN 35 CENTS/SILVER DOWN 4 CENTS ON 7TH CONSECUTIVE RAID/DEBORAH WASSERMAN SCHULTZ'S AIDE CHARGED.
This post was published at Harvey Organ Blog on August 18, 2017.
The world's major gold miners just wrapped up their second-quarter earnings season. After spending decades intensely studying and actively trading this contrarian sector, there's no gold-stock data I look forward to more than the miners' quarterly financial and operational reports. They offer a true and clear snapshot of what's really going on, shattering the misconceptions bred by ever-shifting winds of sentiment.
The definitive list of major gold-mining stocks to analyze comes from the world's most-popular gold-stock investment vehicle, the GDX VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF. Its composition and performance are similar to the benchmark HUI gold-stock index. GDX utterly dominates this sector, with no meaningful competition. This week GDX's net assets are 19.9x larger than the next-biggest 1x-long major-gold-miners ETF!
This post was published at ZEAL LLC on August 18, 2017.
A new milestone on the American populaces' collective pursuit of insolvency was reached this week. According to a report published on Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, total U. S. household debt jumped to a new record high of $12.84 trillion during the second quarter. This included an increase of $552 billion from a year ago.
Moreover, this marked the second consecutive record high on a quarterly reported basis for U. S. household debt. Indeed, this is a momentous achievement. From our vantage point, it is significant for several reasons.
One, it shows U. S. household debt has returned to its upward trend which had previously gone uninterrupted from the close of World War II until the onset of the Financial Crisis in late 2008. Second, it demonstrates that, like the S&P 500, new all-time highs are being attained with the seeming precision of a quartz clock. Is this just a coincidence?
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Greg Weldon, CEO and President of Weldon Financial. Greg has over three decades of market research and trading experience, specializing in the metals and commodity markets, and even authored a book in 2006 titled Gold Trading Boot Camp, where he accurately predicted the implosion of the U. S. credit market and urged people to buy gold when it was only $550 an ounce. He's a highly sought-after presenter at financial conferences and is a regular guest on financial shows throughout the world.
Greg, thanks so much for joining us and it's a real pleasure. How are you?
Greg Weldon: I'm great. Mike. Thanks for the invite.
Mike Gleason: Well, before we get into the metals specifically, Greg, to start out here, give us your thoughts on the U. S. stock market, the state of the U. S. economy, and the geopolitical environment, and so forth. Obviously, there's a tremendous amount of exuberance still in the equity markets despite a lot of headwinds or black swans circling about, but yet things keep rolling along, and we keep seeing records made in the Dow. What are your thoughts about how long this might continue?
Greg Weldon: Well, you got a couple hours, I'd be happy to share all that with you, because there really is so much going on. I think you're right to pick on the stock market to kind of center the viewpoint, because right now that kind of is, to me, a potential land mine. It's not so much that the simple fact that the fundamentals and the expectations seem to have gotten a little bit out of alignment if you want to talk about the macro economy. You want to talk about you've gone through earning season. You want to talk about individual companies. You want to talk about certain businesses. That's well and good. There's always a place to look in the stock market where you can find opportunities.
This post was published at GoldSeek on Friday, 18 August 2017.
Confirming earlier reports from Matt Drudge and the NYT, on Friday afternoon the White House confirmed that Trump decided to push out his chief strategist, and the man who according to many got him elected, Stephen Bannon.
'White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve's last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,' the White House said in an emailed statement.
And so, Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon, the "nationalist firebrand" who helped to fuel Donald Trump's dizzying rise to the presidency, is leaving the administration.
Before Bannon, Trump already fired two other aides who helped him win the White House – Reince Priebus and Michael Flynn – but the departure of Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, is perhaps the most significant change yet.
Reporting on the departure, the NYT says that Trump has decided to remove Bannon, and he and top aides "were debating when and how to dismiss" the strategist. Ultimately, Bannon was fired, although there was some confusion: "A person close to Bannon" said the chief strategist first decided to leave, according to the Times, having submitted his resignation on August 7, but the announcement was delayed after violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, the newspaper reported.
The University of Michigan survey of consumers just released their montly update on inflation expectations. If only The Fed's Janet Yellen was watching consumer inflation expectations because consumers expect more inflation than The Fed's inflation target of 2%. Apparently, The Fed is having trouble whipping inflation above 2%.
Consumer inflation expectations remained at 2.6% for August, but the expectations for inflation down the road fell to 2.5%.
This post was published at Wall Street Examiner by Anthony B Sanders ' August 18, 2017.
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A decision is reportedly imminent from White House chief of staff John Kelly on whether Steve Bannon will keep his job, according to administration officials with knowledge of the situation. Axios reports that man West Wing officials are now asking "when," not "if," Bannon goes.
Axios points out that Bannon, who has run afoul of Trump in the past, is now suspected by the president of leaking about his West Wing colleagues.
Trump resents the publicity Bannon has been getting as mastermind of the campaign.
Many West Wing officials are now asking "when," not "if," Bannon goes.
Chief of Staff General John Kelly has been reviewing Bannon's position.
A recent deluge of media coverage of Bannon – including Bannon's explosive conversation with the American Prospect – have not escaped either the president's or Kelly's attention.
One White House source twists the knife: "His departure may seem turbulent in the media, but inside it will be very smooth. He has no projects or responsibilities to hand off." Interestingly, the market is bouncing on these headlines (presumably this would be a win for Cohn).
I started observing the slow-motion train-wreck in process in 2001 – a year removed from my perch as a junk bond trader on Wall Street and living several thousand miles away from NYC and DC in the Mile High City, where the view is a lot more clear than from either coast.
The United States has been in a state of collapse for several decades. To paraphrase Hemingway's flippant description of the manner in which one goes bankrupt: two ways: slowly than suddenly ('The Sun Also Rises').
The economic decay was precipitated by the advent of the Federal Reserve; then reinforced by FDR's executive order removing gold from the citizenry's ownership, the acceptance of Bretton Woods, and the implementation of what is capriciously termed 'Bretton Woods Two' – Nixon's completely disconnecting the dollar from the gold standard. If you study the monetary and debt charts available on the St. Louis Fed's website, you'll see that post-1971 both the money supply and the amount of debt issued at all levels of the system (public, corporate, household) began gradually to go parabolic.
This post was published at Investment Research Dynamics on August 18, 2017.
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STOCKS HAVE AGAIN FALLEN UNANIMOUSLY… AND MATERIALLY in global terms and what had heretofore been a rare circumstance when all ten markets incumbent in our International Index have fallen has now become commonplace for this happened one week ago today and it has happened yet again. Indeed, in the course of the past week, we've now seen three such 'unanimous' days, for on Tuesday stocks 'unanimously' rose. Such 'unanimous' days had, until this week, been a truly rare event and had in the past marked major turning points in the market, marking final periods of exhaustion to the upside or to the down. It is interesting that with all of these violent price movements, stocks in global terms as measured by our Index have move barely at all, for last week our Index was 11,168 and this morning it is 11,226, or 0.5% higher.
We do not and we have not 'trusted' equity valuations for quite some long while, believing that the markets individually and collectively have gone to levels that are not justified by earnings or economic fundamentals. The one fundamental that has been at work over the past several years has been the monetary expansions by the main monetary authorities: the Fed; the ECB and the Bank of Japan. Those authorities are now preparing to end their experiments with QE, and if they not prepared to end them they are at least prepared to slow down the seriousness of their expansions. This we find disconcerting.


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A Seat At The Table, Solange's third album is a bittersweet diary of black existence in 2016. It's soulful R&B is relatively minimalistic when compared with the already sleekly (Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange) produced 2012 True EP. The production is delicate but the messages are heavy-handed, stirring and vital in a year that has thus far been burdened with horrific and consistent police brutality, accounts of casual racism bombarding social media as people increasingly endeavour to share their despair whilst we (I would like to believe the majority of us) look in in complete shock and bewilderment. How have we come so far yet changed so little in 2016?
Solange herself shared a heartbreaking account of the discomfort associated with being present in a predominantly white space when she and her son Julez attended a Kraftwerk concert in New Orleans. Solange and Julez were dancing to their favourite Kraftwerk song 'The Hall of Mirrors' when she was met with hostility from four older white women who even resorted to throwing a lime at her head in order to urge her to sit down. Furthermore, Julez and his friend who was also in attendance were told to cease smoking e-cigarettes by a venue worker (they are 11 years of age) even though the vapour was blowing from the older white men in front of them.
"After you think it all over, you know that the biggest payback you could have ever had (after, go figure, they then decided they wanted to stand up and dance to songs they liked) was dancing right in front of them with my hair swinging from left to right, my beautiful black son and husband, and our dear friend Rasheed jamming the hell out with the rhythm our ancestors blessed upon us saying….
A month later we are met with A Seat At The Table, an ode to the black experience that is exasperated but never exhausted. A Seat At The Table finds itself both harrowing and euphoric as it navigates through the equal measures of pain and joy associated with the black experience. Solange compliments her storytelling with moving interludes spoken by her parents and other members of her collective as they cite their own aches and ecstasies.
On another interlude, 'So Much Magic', Solange, Kelly Rowland and Nia Andrews sing acapella. "Don't let, don't let, don't let anybody steal your magic" they joyfully sing on a recording that sounds like Solange has flopped out her iPhone recorder during a singalong. It's optimistic, intimate moments like these that bring an overwhelming sense of community and warmth to the record that make its political statements so impactful and personal.
That sense of community is revisited on 'F.U.B.U' (aka For Us By Us), when Solange recounts universal experiences shared by people of colour as they board planes, nervously drive around in tinted cars, deemed criminals simply for being alive, and possessing black skin or even in the safety of their own homes, reflecting on feelings of isolation. The title pays tribute to the fashion label F.U.B.U which aimed to exhibit blackness in any space and whose acronym is today globally renowned for its simple and iconic message of black pride.
On 'Mad' Solange is joined by Lil Wayne in a down-tempo anthem of frustration that indicates there's still a lot to be mad about in 2016. Lil Wayne, on his second collaboration with Solange, rhymes in a syrupy drawl over fleeting pianos and slow travelling bass whilst he explains that there's still a lot to black survival. That he's got a lot "to pop a Xan about." Wayne's contribution to this track pulls at your heart strings as he describes a suicide attempt and posits that despite his riches he's still judged as a criminal, tip toeing through existence in grief. Solange's vocals on this track are other worldly and fit perfectly over that soulful piano, as though they always belonged there.
The moments of self-doubt and infuriation about her experiences are met with anthems of celebration and a song such as 'Junie' perfectly encapsulates this. 'Junie' is a cheeky, wide-grinned ode to funk legend Junie Morrison, instrumentally with its honky tonk pianos and Andre 3000 falsetto. Junie, thrilled by the tribute stated "Solange has a great talent for representing and promoting freedom." And it seems some of this ethos has rubbed off from his own arrangements for the Ohio Players and Parliament Funkadelic on the groovy and upbeat but ultimately political track that takes aim at cultural appropriation. "Don't want to do the dishes/ Just want to eat the food." It sounds Millie Jackson throughout and Kraftwerk towards the outro.
Singles 'Cranes In The Sky' and 'Don't Touch My Hair' are both sonically light but incredibly powerful. 'Cranes In The Sky' utilises a simple drum beat, bass and sunny bursts of piano as Solange expresses a listicle of temporary and ineffective solutions to never-ending despair. "I tried to drink it away" she says "I slept it away, I sexed it away, I read it away." At the conclusion of the song Solange finds her resolve as she hits a note that would have both Minnie Riperton and Mariah Carey nodding with approval.


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A message from our founders to our team on recent company developments, restructuring exercise and business plans in a post-COVID world
I hope you are all well and are taking every safety measure to keep yourself safe as lock-downs continue to ease.
While we are seeing countries and businesses slowly opening up, for most fashion SMEs across Asia, the recovery will be slow and will likely take another 3-6 months.
Over 25% of fashion MSMEs in South and South-East Asia have shut their businesses as you know and we are taking rigorous efforts in making sure that our merchants can be supported in these uncertain times.
Various initiatives in the last quarter have helped us not only improve profitability significantly but also ensured we are only focused on the areas of business that need our most attention.
Finding opportunity in adversity:
1. Digital distribution partnerships & remote sales: In the last few months, most brands, distributors, factories, and SMEs have sought help with digitizing their sourcing and sales even more during COVID as they have wanted limited physical contact for sampling and delivery during these times.
Our teams have leveraged digital sales across the board and helped digitalise multiple workflows for businesses helping them with their sourcing and distribution needs even as lock-downs continued in many regions.
2. Expansion to new categories: In the last few months, we have opened up the Zilingo platform to include wider categories like health, beauty, home & living and some categories of essential goods and PPE and are seeing tremendous early traction from these. The expansion of our catalogs have enabled our partner merchants to take advantage of our tech and infrastructure and paved the way for new opportunities and associations.
I want to take a moment and thank each one of you for your individual and combined efforts, your hard work and for staying resilient through this crisis that has tested us on all fronts. These achievements would not have been possible without your continued dedication towards the company.
Razor-sharp focus on our Core Value Propositions:
In the last few months, we have sharply reassessed evolving needs for businesses along the entire supply chain who work with us. We remain focused on our two core propositions.
1. Enabling B2B Commerce: We are committed to enabling merchants to source from and sell better to one another. Now is the time when it is most needed, in the middle of this pandemic. Never before has the world seen supply chain digitalisation happen so fast and we plan to aggressively help businesses adapt to this new reality.
2. Enabling Merchants with the critical digital services: It's fundamental to our mission as an enabler to give businesses comprehensive solutions across Software, Logistics, Marketing and Payments. Our product and services teams are hard at work to cater to more customers and their evolving needs during these times.
We have successfully strengthened the business over the last few months with improved margins across all segments and cutting down various costs. We have a strong runway to chase this big, audacious mission.I am extremely proud of all your efforts in helping scale the organisation during this tumultuous period. All of your cohesive efforts have helped us gear up for long term profitability and a hopeful future.
Prioritizing profitability in the face of COVID
While we have been so focused on expanding margins, it is equally important for us to cut down costs to ensure long term profitability in times where it is hard to predict the future.
We believe a global economic recovery will take a year or more - we must be prepared to stay on course and ready for what the market demands.
1. Remote Work
For the safety and well being of our workforce we have decided to adapt for some teams, full-time work from home until the end of Q3 2020. Most teams will shift to part-time work from home (a few days a week in teams) in some offices. We would accordingly, let go or sublet some of our office spaces. You will be intimated of your work space details from your local HR teams. The current Singapore Office will be fully functional starting August with the required safe distancing measures in place.
2. Leadership team pay cuts
We are extremely grateful to those who have opted to take voluntary pay cuts to help save numerous jobs, which would otherwise be impossible.
The leadership has taken a 30% pay cut at the very least and these efforts during the pandemic have helped save costs and use our cash reserves judiciously. For now, we would be accepting pay cuts only from the groups that have been invited to do so, and we would like to ensure a majority of our teams remain on full pay.
3. Re-locations & Office Transfers
While the Singapore office remains the Global HQ, a few positions in the SG office have been relocated to other offices in Philippines, Thailand, India and Indonesia to make the roles focused on local geographies.
For those of you whose roles have been identified for relocation, your manager would have informed you already. We will support the transition in every way we can.
4. Organisation restructure
We have as a company, realigned to focus only on key value propositions for the next 12 months and swiftly conducted restructuring exercises across various geographies. In our first phase, we downsized Marketing, Sourcing and Support teams in US, Australia, Singapore and Indonesia to adapt to our current business model and operate more efficiently.
Over the last few weeks, as the pandemic continued to wreak havoc across the board, we have executed a similar organisational restructure across Thailand, India, Vietnam offices.12% of our total workforce has been affected.
For those who were affected, I am extremely sorry.
You have been an integral part of the Zilingo team and without you, we couldn't have made it this far. I want to take this opportunity to thank you, for your service, your dedication and your effort towards furthering Zilingo's mission. We are going to do our absolute best to ensure this transition is a smooth one for you.
In the spirit of transparency with all of our other colleagues who were not affected by the restructure - We have enabled each of your affected colleague to immediately hand over their duties to their teammates so that 100% of their time can be spent on job search and interviews throughout the notice period. The Zilingo HR and leadership team is here to drive outplacement efforts for all those affected. We wish that everyone affected lands a suitable opportunity. They will all receive experience letters from the Company and all our networks will be opened up so that job opportunities can be accessed actively.
With those consenting, we have created a roster with LinkedIn profiles and other personnel details that will assist each in finding their opportunity by actively circulating and matching relevant profiles among top investors, recruiters, tech companies, founders and CEOs that are in our networks. Every manager/leader is here to help out and will provide necessary testimonials or referrals or any other help we can do to vouch for you as you look for new opportunities.
All non-compete clauses have been waived so that our team does not have any limits for future opportunities and can join any of our competitors across any segments, geographies or functions.
ESOPs will continue to vest throughout the entire notice period.
Cliffs have been waived off, for everyone without any conditions.
As founders, it is hard to explain the sheer guilt attached to decisions of letting go of your people who have shaped the company. Dhruv and I are not exempt from this feeling and we want to assure you that we are doing our best. I understand it is a challenging time but it is important for us to stand strong and not let the noise around us deter us or distract us from the goals we have set for ourselves to achieve together. It is of utmost importance that my dear team, we stay connected and engage in honest conversations with our managers, our HR and the leadership.
We appreciate your continued support and passion and I request that should you have any questions, please reach out to us anytime.
Ankiti & Dhruv
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Zilingo Co-Founder Ankiti Bose On Pivots, Resilience And "Pathological" Optimism
Ankiti discusses the potential "curse" of the near-unicorn tag, tackling misogyny head-on, the mental health struggles entrepreneurs deal with, and the tough decisions she faced at the beginning of the pandemic, when Zilingo had to restructure to weather the storm.
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Strength to Strength: Strides Made in the New Normal
A message from Co-founder and CEO, Ankiti Bose to team Z on the latest business developments and growth curve in the face of the pandemic.
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These female founders are trailblazers in their industries
Ankiti Bose, Co-founder and CEO of Zilingo, with Fortune's Claire Zillman at the Fortune MPW Next Gen Summit on Wednesday. As part of our celebration of Women's History Month, Fortune talked to a range of female founders whose companies all have something in common: a mission to help women. Molly Hayward is the founder and chief brand officer of Cora, which makes organic tampons and pads. Hayward was inspired to start the company after learning about how periods stopped girls from attending school in some parts of the world. For every order it sells, Cora now provides menstrual products to girls in need. "Every 'no' was just the motivation to keep going," Hayward says of building the company.
Digital disruption: Fashioning a supply chain tech platform for SMEs
Founded by Dhruv Kapoor and Ankiti Bose, B2B fashion tech startup Zilingo Technologies has used the growing mobile and data penetration to envision a technology platform for SMEs. Using technology, it has been able to broaden the sourcing base for fashion-lifestyle companies, and enable financing where banks and NBFCs were not ready to finance these businesses, and to provide additional services using data in the form of intelligence and analytics.
Zilingo Introduces SheWorkz Thailand - Enabling, Empowering, and Inspiring as Many Women as Possible & Committed to empowering women in all walks, Zilingo signs UN-backed Women's Empowerment Principles
Bangkok, 10 March 2020 - In celebration of International Women's Day, Zilingo joins over 2,000 other business leaders around the world by signing the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), developed by UN Global Compact as a sign of commitment to empowering women in the workplace, marketplace, and community. These principles are the result of a collaboration between the UN Global Compact and UN Women and are adapted from the Calvert Women's Principles® to promote gender equality and women's empowerment.
Take Five: "The future of fashion can belong to everyone"
Ankiti Bose is CEO of Zilingo, an online fashion retail business (B2B and B2C). She has been featured in the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30, Fortune 40 Under 40, and Bloomberg 50 lists. In visiting Chatuchak market in Bangkok, she noticed a gap in the fashion industry: while small- and medium-sized enterprises had a lot to offer and were hungry for growth, they were ill-equipped to scale up or to compete with global players without the right tools and software. She set out to level the playing field by starting Zilingo with Chief Technical Officer Dhruv Kapoor. In March, Zilingo formally committed to the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), which UN Women helped develop to promote fairness for women in the private sector. Bose, 28, is an Indian national now based in Singapore.
Meet the IITian who is improving efficiency in the $3 trn fashion industry
Four years ago, during a house party in Bengaluru, Dhruv Kapoor, an engineer at gaming studio Kiwi Inc, had a conversation with his neighbour Ankiti Bose who was an investment analyst at venture capital firm Sequoia. Both had reached a point in their careers where they wanted to create their own start-up. But they had contrasting skill sets and had done different kinds of work. "But we had a very common vision (about) the future of technology and commerce," says Kapoor. Later, after many similar conversations, the duo quit their jobs and in 2015 launched their own start-up, Zilingo, a commerce and technology platform that powers the entire fashion supply chain. A lot has changed for Kapoor in these four years. Early last year the firm raised $226 million from marquee investors such as Sequoia, Sofina and Temasek. The funding valued the firm at about $970 million.
Material Exchange and Zilingo partner with shared goal
Material Exchange, a footwear & apparel brands trust, partnered with Zilingo, a technology platform that powers fashion supply chain, in 2019 with an aim to promote sustainability within fashion supply chains and to enable brands connect to suppliers with the help from the Material Exchange digital material library and the Zilingo commerce platform.
Zilingo acquires software company nCinga Innovations in landmark US$15.5 million cash and stock deal
The Singapore-headquartered technology platform scales up global supply chain capabilities with acquisition of Sri Lanka-based Software-as-a-Service company. Leading technology platform Zilingo has bolstered its position as a global digital supply chain enabler with its acquisition of Sri Lanka-based software company nCinga Innovations. The acquisition is touted to be one of the largest tech exits in Sri Lanka in recent times. The deal marks a major win for the region's startup ecosystem.
Zilingo's Ankiti Bose: On track to build a unicorn
Ankiti Bose charted Zilingo's road to progress by changing track from being a fashion marketplace to a service provider to businesses. Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor brought their maiden venture Zilingo within sniffing distance of becoming a unicorn within four years of launching their company in 2015 largely by taking a few unusual and tough calls. Its gradual transition into an entity focused on business-to-business (B2B) sales, as against the Southeast Asia-focused fashion marketplace that Zilingo started out as, is a case in point. "Scaling down our business-to-consumer [B2C] business is definitely one of the toughest decisions we have made recently," says Bose, co-founder and CEO.
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Full color LCD touch screen with no buttons. Can be used with our without gloves on.
Full mapping with trail tracking and waypoints. Uses satellites which can be found through the settings.
Control your LED lightbar with the touch of the screen. Also, turn your heated seats on high or low.
Grab and mount a camera to your unit and enjoy on screen visibility during your ride.
Soundbar for audio output not included. Wetsounds Surge was made for Zeus models and is suggested. Can be purchased directly with ODES.
GoPro device not included and not sold by ODES. Needs to be wifi capable.
Front and Rear camera not included. Can be purchased directly with ODES.
See standard warranty page for full warranty details on LCD 12 month coverage.
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Ten of the 1,600-plus members of the Dartmouth Association of Latino Alumni.
In recognition of Latino Heritage Month at Dartmouth, we're spotlighting just ten of the 1,600-plus members of Dartmouth's Association of Latino Alumni. Thanks to Francisco Herrera '13k, assistant director of admissions, for help in compiling the list.
On campus, there have been lectures, documentaries, and receptions to celebrate the month. The poet Richard Blanco and the author Junot Díaz are among those to visit. Dartmouth's Keysi Montas, assistant director of safety and security, served as a consultant during the English to Spanish translation of Díaz's latest book, This Is How You Lose Her.


Today we are so excited to be able to present to you our newest colour range of essentials! Beautiful basics available in key colours to take you from winter to summer for many years to come. You can view the newest range of Elk Essentials here (hyperlink when page is ready).
What you may not have realised about these pieces is that they have all been constructed using sustainable plantation timber in the Philippines.
All Elk products are designed right here in Melbourne, Australia and our wooden jewellery is then made by hand by a small family run manufacturer using traditional techniques.. The wood is first cut to our designs and sanded, then dyed in large baths of natural dye before being tumbled in a special wax sealant to lock in the rich colours. The wax is non-toxic and gives the piece a lovely finish.
All of our wood is sourced from farms associated with the GoGreen Foundation. GoGreen is a sustainable environmental program aimed at ensuring that all wood harvested and manufactured for the fashion industry is done under strict forest management guidelines. It ensures that all materials used are recyclable, replenished and ensure that no reefs are affected by the harvest of farmed forest. Because of the traditional techniques used in construction, our wooden jewellery will require some care to extend its life and keeping it looking as good as possible.
Our wooden articles will maintain their colour and appearance as long as they are sealed properly and kept dry. Should you accidentally wet the jewellery, milky spots may appear which is due to the waxy outer layer lifting from the bead. To help remove these spots, simply apply a very small amount of natural bees wax or a waxed based furniture polish. Using a clean cloth, gently remove any wax deposits and restore your pieces lovely shine and colour, then gently buff the surface to remove any excess with a dry cloth and leave to set for a few minutes. This process will not only help remove any marks, it will help restore colour and re-seal the beads to protect them for future wear.
Not sure what wax to use? Never fear. We have made some for you!
We now have available natural bees wax in convenient little pots to help you care for your jewellery at home. You can purchase the wax here or simply contact your local Elk stockist to see if they have some in store for you to use.
Perhaps it's time to restore some of your old classics?


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//
//  CTouchComponent.h
//  OpenJam
//
//  Created by Yevgeniy Logachev on 8/31/16.
//
//

#ifndef CTOUCHCOMPONENT_H
#define CTOUCHCOMPONENT_H

#include "Global.h"
#include "IComponent.h"

namespace jam {
CLASS_PTR(CUpdateComponent)

class CTouchComponent final : public CComponentBase {
    JAM_OBJECT
public:
    typedef std::function<void(const glm::vec2&)> TTouchFunc;

public:
    CTouchComponent();
    virtual ~CTouchComponent();

    void SetOnBeginTouch(const TTouchFunc& touchFunc);
    void SetOnMoveTouch(const TTouchFunc& touchFunc);
    void SetOnEndTouch(const TTouchFunc& touchFunc);

    void OnBeginTouch(const glm::vec2& touch);
    void OnMoveTouch(const glm::vec2& touch);
    void OnEndTouch(const glm::vec2& touch);

private:
    TTouchFunc m_BeginTouchFunc;
    TTouchFunc m_MoveTouchFunc;
    TTouchFunc m_EndTouchFunc;
};

}; // namespace jam

#endif /* CTOUCHCOMPONENT_H */

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At Texas Stream Team, Citizen Scientists Give Back to Waterways
Volunteers monitor water resource conditions at rivers, lakes, and streams across Texas
Amelia Nonemacher
Written by Natalie Moore | Updated: July 19, 2022 | Filed Under: Travel News
Volunteers conduct measurements at a Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment training session at Spring Lake. Photo by Andrew Shirey.
Texans depend on rivers and lakes for relief and recreation during hot summer months, as well as being invaluable water resources year-round. In return, most visitors know to clean up after visiting a waterway—take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, as the saying goes.
But trash isn't the only pollutant threatening Texas waterways. Oil spills, bacterial blooms, and chemical leaks also pose dangers to the health of lakes, rivers, and streams. Such threats may seem impossible for average visitors to combat. Or are they?
Texas Stream Team offers those who care about the state's waterways another option to help look after them. Since 1991, the organization has provided training for citizen scientists that includes coordinated data collection and environmental education. Originally part of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the program was founded to fill gaps in the state's water-monitoring activities. Today, the Stream Team is part of the Watershed Services division of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University in San Marcos.
"With Texas being such a large state with over 191,000 miles of waterways, water resource professionals did not have the bandwidth to monitor every waterbody in the state as often as was needed, if at all," says the division's deputy director Jenna Walker.
After completing their training, citizen scientists take measurements of conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, water transparency, and other levels. By submitting these findings, a Stream Team member's assistance can help the Meadows Center assure that regular observations are being conducted at various sites—and hopefully catch serious problems early.
"The more data collected, the more we understand our water bodies—what is considered normal, how it changes seasonally, and what readings are abnormal," says Aspen Navarro, a program coordinator of Watershed Services.
Citizen scientists serve as the "eyes" of their waterways, says Christina Lopez, the former watershed coordinator for the Plum Creek Watershed Partnership. Stretching for 52 miles from Kyle to Caldwell County, Plum Creek has its own set of eyes in the form of the Plum Creek Stewards, a chapter of Texas Stream Team formed in summer 2021. Lopez says the stewards monitor a specific site once a month, collecting standard measurements of the water and recording field observations such as weather, water clarity, and odor.
Texas Stream Team
Trainings are conducted at locations across the state and available to all, including children sixth grade and up.
For more information, visit www.meadowscenter.txstate.edu/Leadership/TexasStreamTeam.html
Seventeen-year-old Evan Schuelke of Lockhart has been volunteering as a citizen scientist with the Plum Creek Stewards for the past nine months. He measures a site on the creek near his home. "I've always been very interested in conservation, specifically aquatic and marine, anything that has to do with the water," Schuelke says. "So it was a really good opportunity to get involved in that whole world of conservation and citizen science."
Schuelke's monthly monitoring goes beyond tracking the water itself. "As important as measuring is, just being there in person and being able to observe the ecosystem as a whole is important as well," he says. Fertilizer runoff or spilled oil from an accident on a nearby roadway could result in dramatic changes in algae populations, dissolved oxygen, and aquatic life in general.
"Citizen scientists have sounded the alarms for professionals to investigate fish kills, illegal dumping, toxic wastewater spills, and more that may have otherwise gone undetected for months if not years," Walker says.
For conservation-minded citizens like Schuelke, the Stream Team allows them to have a direct hand in the health and safety of their local waterways. Schuelke hopes to bring the experience he's gained to a future career in conservation, and he's already managed to get a head start. He's the founder and secretary of Lessening the Impact of Nylon on the Environment (LINE) Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to recycle monofilament fishing line found in Texas waterways. The foundation incorporated last winter, and Schuelke's been working on getting it up and running when he's not busy with school. "It's been really gratifying, even just starting small," he says. "It's something that's a big part of my life."
Anyone can join the Stream Team. Trainings are free of charge and available to all, including children sixth grade and up. After completion, new citizen scientists can get to work monitoring and submitting their data.
Beyond the Stream Team, Lopez notes, Texans can contribute to protecting their local watersheds by studying up on how their local water systems are connected—rivers, lakes, wastewater, and drinking water.
"The health of our waterways is largely dependent on our actions," Navarro says. "Help is always needed to look out."


Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Rajkummar Rao, Jim Sarbh, Kalki Koechlin, Taapsee Pannu, Jacqueline Fernandez and more celebrities attended the hottest party of the year (so far) – the GQ Style & Culture Awards — on Saturday night. There were winners (13 of them) that were honoured for not just pushing sartorial boundaries, but also for changing perceptions with their chosen craft. And then there was music and dancing. But in case you weren't there, then you missed out on one epic night — especially on Ranveer Singh doing what Ranveer Singh does best, which is thoroughly entertain us.
At the second-edition of the GQ Style & Culture Awards, Singh of course took home the highly coveted Most Stylish Man title. In his Julien Macdonald statement jacket, Singh delivered a speech that ended with him rapping to Spitfire (Nitin Mishra) – one of the three artists he has signed for his recently launched indie record label IncInk.
Also, in case you were wondering, no one was hurt during this performance.
For other highlights from the night, check out our Instagram page.


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Penguin Point Brand
In Layout Design, Brand Development
An Identity for a New Type of Immersive Exhibit.
In 2009, the National Aviary kicked off a major renovation and expansion of their facility with the development of the first-ever immersive experience. They wanted to brand it in a way that spoke to the type of experience it is as well as educationally informed to the conservation efforts they supported.
My agency was invited in to view first-hand the construction of the project and the vision to incorporate into foundational ideas. The exhibit was going to be mostly rocks with sparse greenery, a swimming area, and a view-tube where children could crawl into the center of the exhibit for a closer look.
Myself and another designer incorporated all of these elements into an array of options. From the initial designs, the direction moved to support their native habitat and pull in elements that gave it a more 'African' feel. I explored elements of african art and design that eventually let to a representation of penguins that had a more tribal feel.
Fitting into the Full Aviary Family.
There were a few logos for programs and exhibits that were already completed as part of the renovation, and I wanted to make sure that the final design created a feeling of a family, with all of the logos looking like they were related. I was able to achieve this by mimicking the same overall shape of a rounded top and flat bottom.
Once sponsorship by the Tribune Review was secured, the logo was adjusted to make this the focus and thereby dropping National Aviary out of the name.
Promoting the New Exhibit.
National Aviary members and donors got a special preview of the exhibit at a groundbreaking event. Since the exhibit and expansion hadn't been publicized much, we decided to go with a 'top secret' James Bond-esque theme.
When the exhibit open to the public, there was a lot of media attention around it since it was the first of it's kind, so we leveraged this to simplify the marketing message. By pulling the same fonts and colors we were able to strengthen the new brand while reminding people that they can see the new colony of penguins.
The Aviary installed a camera where people could view a live-feed of the penguins in the exhibit. I created a landing page to embed this live feed while providing more information and an opportunity to convert visitors if they arrived at the page organically.
The National Aviary, located in Pittsburgh, is the only independent indoor nonprofit aviary in the United States. It is home to more than 500 birds of more than 150 species, many of which are threatened or endangered in the wild. It has one of the most diverse collections in North America
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Man dies after being bitten by sea snake while fishing
Harry Evans was bitten as he pulled up a net
A sea snake (Image: Fred von Lohmann)
A 23-year-old Westcountry-man has died after being bitten by a sea snake in Australia while "living his dream" working on a fishing boat.
Harry Evans was bitten as he pulled up a net while working off Groote Eylandt, 400 miles east of Darwin on Thursday afternoon.
Northern Territory Police said that a helicopter crew was scrambled and the trawler made its way to Borroloola, inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria, where Mr Evans was pronounced dead.
His mother, Sharon Evans, told the Press Association: "We know Harry was bitten by a snake and died.
Shock as rare SNAPPING TURTLE pops out of Exeter riverbed
"No more details are available. Harry was not a backpacker, he was working in a job he loved and was living his dream.
"He had contact with his family and friends at home regularly and couldn't have been any more loved. We couldn't have been prouder of him."
Friend George Jackson-Carter posted on Facebook: "RIP Harry Evans, you were one of the most kind hearted and funniest people I've ever met. Always made everyone laugh and smile."
Harry was from Poole in Dorset.
All known species of sea snake are venomous and "produce some of the most dangerous venoms know in the animal kingdom", the Marine Education Society of Australia said.
The terrifying moment escaped PYTHON was found in blind Exeter man's loo
They grow to between 120cm and 150cm but can get as long as three metres, and are considered to be non-aggressive.
They tend to be found in tropical and sub-tropical waters through south-east Asia, the western Pacific and northern Australia.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "We are supporting the family of a British man who had died in the Northern Territory and are in contact with the Australian authorities."
A woman woke up to find this snake in her kitchen
It is the second death of a British man while working on a fishing boat in the north of the country in five years.
In November 2013, 20-year-old Ryan Donoghue was electrocuted while using a power tool when a wave washed on deck as the boat returned to Cairns.


German society invests heavily in the creative arts as a whole, with this mind set seeping down to the importance of cultural institutions at local levels throughout Ruhr. The result is national, state and local funding to a relatively high standard and sometimes surprisingly broad divergence.
Essen boasts the renowned Alvar Aalto building, a stunning opera house, which forms the beautiful venue for classical opera and some terrific jazz. The Finnish designer was up there with Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier in his day.
Opportunities are available for film lovers to see original language movies in a few movie theaters (theatres) where cinema operators screen films in English and some other languages. Terms such as OV, OmU, OmdU, OmdtU are used to denote original version and with subtitles (Untertiteln).
A rather special place to experience opera is in the Aalto Music Theater in Essen. The architectural style of the interior conjures up a timeless aura, complementing the unfolding of scenes on the stage. Other locations to enjoy opera include the towns of Dortmund, Duisburg and Hagen.
One of the most enjoyable aspects of classical music is the vast repertoire of different styles from many eras that most orchestras and ensembles are able to perform. The Essener Philharmoniker are a delight to hear, as are the wide variety of musicians in Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg and Hagen.
Many festivals take place, guest performances abound and several locations in the Ruhr region have long and strong traditions. Possibly the most renowned is "domicil" in Dortmund, which opened its doors in 1968. Jazz musicians thoroughly enjoy playing for enthusiastic local audiences.


Planning to tour "The United States in 40 Days," 10 Belmont University students and two faculty members will board a chartered sleeper bus June 6 to begin a 9,300+ mile, cross-country journey in an attempt to answer the question, "What Does It Mean to Be an American?" The class will travel through 40 states on this first-of-its-kind, study-at-home journey, chronicling their experiences on a daily blog as they visit sites of national and historical significance and encounter "local culture" everywhere from the Deep South to the West Coast to the Northeast and all points in between.
Constructed to include cultural and economic epicenters, iconic landmarks and places of special interest, "The United States in 40 Days" will involve at least one full day of exploration and discovery at each stop as well as an evening discussion of the uniqueness of each place along with the larger themes at play: politics, religion, education, identity, media, the economy, family, race, gender, etc. Upon signing up for the class, each student was assigned three stops on the trip and made responsible for documenting the location's history and biography along with determining potential site visits for their assigned locations. The students will also facilitate evening discussions in the stops for which they are responsible.
The summer experience will be offered as two classes for a total of six credit hours: three in Cultural Sociology (Sociology 3990 or Junior Cornerstone 3015) and three in Third-Year Writing (English 3010). In the longstanding tradition of Belmont service learning, at least three stops on the trip will also include community service projects with students working at a soup kitchen in New Orleans and a homeless shelter in San Francisco, among other volunteer efforts.
At the conclusion of the trip—the bus is scheduled to arrive back in Nashville on Thurs., July 16—all of the students will write major papers for both courses, including five to eight pages on each of the three stops they were responsible for facilitating. Spring will edit the chapters and add an introduction and conclusion, ultimately compiling a book for publication that is tentatively titled We the People: (Re)Discovering America in 40 Days. Conversations are currently underway to secure a publisher for the work.
A complete trip itinerary can be seen below. Schedule is subject to change. In addition, students will be posting daily blogs, photos and videos online. To follow their journey, visit http://forum.belmont.edu/40states/.
Thursday, July 9-Saturday, July 11: Washington, D.C.


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Q: How to HTTP POST a Unicoded Japanese data in Python Trying to mine data off my institute's web server. (With permission, of course.)
Since I could not bring the codes back with me, I am sorry but I can only provide some snippets.
The intranet webpage's charset is 'euc-jp', I had tried encode and POST both utf-8 and euc-jp to the website but it still doesn't accept my payload. Payload here means that the webpage doesn't accept the passed parameters and defined it as invalid values. The most possible culprit should be the BEGINTIME, ENDTIME and showBtn's value. According to the webmaster, he personally tried sending utf-8 to the server and it seems like the webpage only accepts euc-jp.
Below is my code and I will include what I had tried after my codes.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout)
sys.stdin = codecs.getreader('utf-8')(sys.stdin)
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

from lxml import html
import requests

POST_PAGE = 'http://www-cont.randomserverwebpage.jp/zLog/frame_showSearchResults'

#Login
USERNAME = 'randomusername'
PASSWORD = 'randompassword'

#Parameters needed to be passed in URLs
#NOT CONFIRM if the 0:00 should be inside a pair of parenthesises
msYear = 2007
msMonth = 11
msDay = 19
meYear = 2007
meMonth = 11
meDay = 20
payload = {unicode('SELECT_GROUP').encode('euc-jp'): unicode('ALL').encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('SELECT_SX').encode('euc-jp'): unicode('NONE').encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('KEY1').encode('euc-jp'): unicode('').encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('KEY2').encode('euc-jp'): unicode('').encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('KEY3').encode('euc-jp'): unicode('').encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('LOGYYYYS').encode('euc-jp'): unicode(msYear).encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('LOGMMS').encode('euc-jp'): unicode(msMonth).encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('LOGDDS').encode('euc-jp'): unicode(msDay).encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('BEGINTIME').encode('euc-jp'): unicode('0:00').encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('LOGYYYYE').encode('euc-jp'): unicode(meYear).encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('LOGMME').encode('euc-jp'): unicode(meMonth).encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('LOGDDE').encode('euc-jp'): unicode(meDay).encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('ENDTIME').encode('euc-jp'): unicode('0:00').encode('euc-jp'),
       unicode('showBtn').encode('euc-jp'): unicode('表示(指定期間で)').encode('euc-jp')}

def crawl_search_page():
    global payload
    rheaders = {'content-type': 'text/html;charset=euc-jp'}
    r = requests.post(POST_PAGE, data=payload, headers=rheaders, auth=(USERNAME, PASSWORD)).content
    r = r.decode('euc-jp')
    tree = html.fromstring(r)
    texts = tree.xpath('//title/text()')
    ff = open(FileName, 'w')
    for item in texts:
        ff.write(item)
    ff.close()

#Main
......
    while True:
        crawl_search_page()
        if ...:
            break

I also found out that I must put utf-8 in
    sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') or else the Japanese words will not be shown even in the
<title>randomJapaneseTitle ランダムジャパニーズタイトル</title>

After running the crawler/scraper, I got error 500. It is highly possible that I passed an invalid parameter/invalid unicoded showBtn. But, I may had missed something else too.
NOTE
utf-8 is only useful to decode other unicoded texts like what I did below with
r = r.decode('euc-jp')

Sending utf-8 to a webpage that only accepts euc-jp will not work. Because obviously, you are passing a totally different value to the webpage. So...
'showBtn': u'表示(指定期間で)'.encode('utf-8')

will NOT work. It is a totally different value to the button's euc-jp encoded value.  Nonetheless, I tried that as well.
Update: I am in the lab now so I can post what I got from r.content after decoding.
When the header is defined like this rheaders = {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded, charset=euc-jp', 'content-encoding': 'gzip'}, it had become like what shown below. SELECT_SX not defined. Is there anything wrong about my payload definition? I think I may had defined the payload incorrectly. BTW, should I put text/html or application/x-www-form-urlencoded for the content type?

<meta http-equiv="Content_type" content="text/html;charset=euc-jp">
  <title>randomJapaneseTitle ランダムジャパニーズタイトル</title>

Site Error

An error was encountered while publishing this resource.

      Error Type: NameError

      Error Value: name 'SELECT_SX' is not defined

Troubleshooting Suggestions

This resource may be trying to reference a
      nonexistent object or variable name 'SELECT_SX' is not defined.

The URL may be incorrect.

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When the header is defined like this rheaders = {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded, charset=euc-jp', 'content-encoding': 'gzip'}, below is what I got for error.
*note that the difference is the ';' and ',' between urlencoded and charset

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      Error Value: ERROR:  relation "none" does not exist

select id,
       opetime as "opetime_org",
       to_char(opetime,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') as "opetime",
       to_char(opetime,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') as "opetime2",
       operation, comments,num_image,trouble_level,related_group
from   None
where
(trouble_level <> '0'
 and (active_flg = 1)
 and (hidden_flag = 0)
 and opetime between
      '2007-11-19 0:00' and to_timestamp('2007-11-20 0:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI')
)
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SELECT_GROUP=ALL&SELECT_SX=NONE&KEY1=&KEY2=&KEY3=&LOGYYYYS=2014&LOGMMS=9&LOGDDS=19&BEGINTIME=0%3A00&LOGYYYYE=2014&LOGMME=9&LOGDDE=22&ENDTIME=0%3A00&showBtn=%C9%BD%BC%A8%A1%CA%BB%D8%C4%EA%B4%FC%B4%D6%A4%C7%A1%CB

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Free Your Mind Podcast #106 0
We welcome HomeschoolLeader.com founder David Rodriguez to the show. David James Rodriguez is the publisher of The Underground History of American Education by the world-renowned schoolteacher, John Taylor Gatto, which will be released on May 10th.
He is also the Founder of the Education Options Expo, which is an event where parents are introduced to respectful schools and approaches to learning, and where they hear from world leaders who are demonstrating the future of education today.
After selling his business at age 26, he moved to South Korea where he taught English at a high-performance high school. His business background includes work in the fields of insurance, biotechnology, and dentistry. He was born and raised in California, where he attended public school. He received a business degree from San Jose State University. His newest book project with Mr. Gatto has exclusive contributions from Dr. Ron Paul, G. Edward Griffin, and Lew Rockwell, and will be made into a film in 2019.
In addition, Mr. Rodriguez is the Founding Principal of Valor Academy, which is a private school that empowers students to pursue their own interests, passions, and dreams, which may be assisted by courses he's created at HomeschoolLeader.com.
He is the author of the upcoming book, The Apprenticeship: What Every Student Wants and How to Get It.
Find him on the web at HomeschoolLeader.com – IG: Homeschoolleader – Twitter: W
We welcome thecrowhouse.com founder Max Igan to the show. Max is a musician and artist who travels the World speaking about the current state in which we are all living in and solutions to help free, and empower humanity.
http://thecrowhouse.com/home.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/thecrowhouse
Donate: https://www.patreon.com/maxigan
In this episode we welcome Larken Rose to the show. Larken Rose is a self-described "enemy of the state" and "tax heretic." The author of several books -- two of which were written during his one-year stay as a political prisoner in the U.S. prison system Mr. Rose is an outspoken advocate of self-ownership and a voluntary society. For more information, see
http://www.larkenrose.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LarkenRose
Candles in the Dark 2017
Redlands: http://www.larkenrose.com/store/seminars-events/2277-candles-in-the-dark-redlands-may-13-14.html
Phoenix: http://www.larkenrose.com/store/seminars-events/2276-candles-in-the-dark-phoenix-may-6-7.html
The Most Dangerous Superstition:https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Superstition-Larken-Rose-ebook/dp/B00UV41W2U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492024456&sr=8-1&keywords=the+most+dangerous+superstition
The Iron Web: https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Web-Larken-Rose-ebook/dp/B00UXJ9CLG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492019547&sr=8-2&keywords=larken+rose
How to be a Successful Tyrant: https://www.amazon.com/How-Successful-Tyrant-Megalomaniac-Manifesto/dp/0977783413/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1492024552&sr=8-3&keywords=larken+rose
Kicking the Dragon: Confessions of a Tax Heretic: https://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Dragon-Confessions-Tax-Heretic/dp/0977783421/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1492024552&sr=8-10&keywords=larken+rose


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Q: Regular Expression needed to match the following format the format is:
19 digits followed by an underscore followed by 4 digits ,followed by an underscore ,followed by 1 digit, followed by an underscore, followed by 1 capital letter, followed by an underscore, followed by 4 digits, followed by a dash, followed by 2 digits, followed by a dash, followed by 2 digits, followed by an underscore, followed by 2 digits, followed by a dash, followed by 2 digits, followed by a dash, followed by 2 digits and ending with a ".db"extension
Here are a few filenames, as i thought the above information would be boring to read. :) thanx in advance to anyone who answers.
2408002705100010002_0002_0_V_2012-11-02_06-35-24.db
2408002705100010001_0001_0_V_2012-11-05_05-32-06.db
2408001000200000002_0002_0_E_2012-03-03_00-20-06.db

A: \d{19}_\d{4}_\d_[A-Z]_\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}_\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2}\.db
http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ - a website to test your RegEx
but I noticed that for example, in the middle you have sth like _0002_
Do you accept any 4 digits or those that start with "000"?

A: \d{19}_\d{4}_\d_[A-Z]_\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}_\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2}\.db

This one also does a basic check on the date/time part (assuming date YYYY-MM-DD):
\d{19}_\d{4}_\d_[A-Z]_\d{4}-(0(?!0)|1(?=[0-2]))\d-(0(?!0)|[1-2]|3(?=[0-1]))\d_([0-1]|2(?=[0-3]))\d(-[0-5]\d){2}\.db

Basic check means you can still insert dates like February 30th, but not January 32nd.

A: Based on your data:
\d{19}_0+\d_0_(V|E)?_(-?(\d{2}|\d{4}))+_(-?\d{2})+\.db

If seeking more generic:
\d{19}_\d+_\d_[A-Z]?_\d{4}(-\d{2}){2}_(-?\d{2})+\.db

HTH
EDIT: On a side note, I would rather split this string with _, and then validate each section individually based on some pattern and/or property. That way you will have more control over how this string must look.


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Former Southaven alderman sentenced to 7 years for child pornography
Phillip Jackson and Ron Maxey
A former Southaven alderman was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for child pornography, according to U.S. Attorney William Lamar.
Ronald W. Hale pleaded guilty April 2 to transporting child pornography.
Chief U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock also ordered Hale to serve five years of supervised release and pay a $3,500 restitution fee to the victim of the crime, according to a press release.
"There is sometimes a misconception that child pornography is a victimless crime and that no one is injured by those who merely view or exchange it," Lamar said in a press release.
"Individuals who choose to view and transport those images provide a market for these unconscionable and illegal acts, and re-victimize those children each time it is shared or viewed. We must continue to protect these vulnerable child victims by holding accountable those who produce, distribute or view child pornography," Lamar added.
Hale held the Ward 2 alderman seat for one term before losing to Shirley Kite, who at the time was Shirley Beshears, in 2013. Hale then won the seat back in a 2016 special election after Kite resigned.
Hale was on the board during the tumultuous tenure of former Mayor Greg Davis. Hale and other aldermen at the time asked the state auditor's office to step in after questions arose about spending by Davis, who ultimately was ordered to repay more than $170,000 to the city.
Davis was acquitted of fraud and embezzlement charges resulting from the case.


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Cartha Queens Park RFC ou Cartha QP est un club de rugby à XV écossais situé à Glasgow, qui évolue en troisième division du championnat d'Écosse lors de la saison 2010-11.

Histoire
Cartha Queens Park RFC trouve ses origines dans un club omnisports fondé en 1889 sous le nom de Cartha Athletic Club, qui eut d'abord des sections de cricket, de tennis, de hockey sur gazon et de football. Ses membres auraient commencé à jouer au rugby en 1906, d'où la date de fondation retenue qui est celle de la section rugby du club. En fait, on suppose que la pratique du rugby a débuté au minimum deux ans plus tôt. En 1908, le Cartha AC devient membre de la fédération écossaise. Les joueurs sont alors vêtus avec des rayures violets et vertes mais comme panneaux sous les bras et intégrés dans le design des chaussettes.

À partir de 1935, le club organise un tournoi de rugby à sept, discipline très populaire en Écosse, toujours en activité. En 1974, la section rugby du club fusionne avec Queens Park RFC, donnant naissance au club actuel, Cartha Queens Park RFC. Dans les années 80, celui-ci absorbe Bellahouston FP. Le club joue presque exclusivement dans les ligues régionales avant d'entamer une montée vers la première division, niveau atteint à l'issue de la saison 2001-2002. Il évolue actuellement en troisième division.

Palmarès
 Champion d'Écosse Cinquième Division : 1985
 Champion d'Écosse Sixième Division : 1976
 Champion d'Écosse Troisième Division : 2005
 Promotion en Deuxième Division : 1999
 Promotion en Première Division : 2002

Joueurs célèbres
 Ruaridh Jackson  passé par le club avant de rejoindre les Glasgow Hawks puis les Glasgow Warriors.

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Site officiel

Club de rugby à XV à Glasgow
Club de rugby à XV fondé en 1906

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Energy harvesting powered devices have the potential for widespread use in buildings. The most prevalent ambient energy source available in buildings is light, which is normally harvested using photovoltaic devices. The light to be harvested can be from both natural and artificial sources and a range of different types of solar cells are available to suit differing light sources and intensities, and as such must be selected to suit the type of light to be encountered. For use inside buildings it is desirable to choose a device which will operate efficiently under artificial lighting as many locations have limited or no natural light, however, the nature of artificial sources is changing over time from incandescent sources, through fluorescent lights, with LED lights currently attracting significant interest due to energy savings. This paper presents an investigation into the selection of solar cell type for a range of artificial lighting sources and illumination levels.
Li, Yi, Grabham, Neil J., Beeby, Steve P. and Tudor, John (2013) Energy harvesting from solar cells under typical illumination conditions in buildings. Nano Energy 2013, Italy. 10 - 13 Jul 2013.
Additional Information: Poster published in NanoEnergy Letters 2013.


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��Ensnaring the Ashes of a Cigar as You Smoke
YOU need not let the ashes of a cigar get away from you. A new appliance has been devised for catching them and for holding them safely. You need only to turn a cigar which has this appliance until its butt-end faces upwards and then until its butt-end faces downwards and the cigar is decapitated of ashes, which are caught in a small receptacle.
The mystery is easily explained. A long pin, jabbed into the cigar, serves the double purpose of holding the appliance on and of providing a shaft on which the receptacle may slide. But this is not an ordinary receptacle. It is divided into two parts by a metal partition having a small opening. In the half nearer to the cigar is a spiral-shaped coil of wire while in the farther half is a metal disk placed near the opening in the parti- tion. Into this disk the innocent ashes are made to fall.
��A Convenient Holder for Dental Floss
YOU can clean your teeth after every meal very quickly and conv^eniently with the dental-floss holder illustrated. No bulky acces- sories have to be carried about, only a small glass tube an inch-and-three quarters long which can readily fit into a small pocket. The floss is contained in this tube and when wanted for use a short projection on it is slipped out to receive the end of the floss. The accumulations of food between the teeth can now be quickly and easily removed. The floss is tasteless. Dentists claim that such use of the floss is abso- lutelv necessarv for cleanliness.
��The coil of dental floss in the jar is drawn out, one length at a time, and this length is held in posi- tion for use
��A Stimulating Climate May Be
the Cause of Suicide N estimating the relative stimu- lating power of the various climates of the world, Ellsworth Hungtington ("Civilization and Climate," Yale University Press) says that in Eng- land the mean temperature of the seasons and the degree of storminess are both highly favorable, while the seasonal changes are only moderate.
"On the other hand," writes Mr. Huntington, "Germany is above medi- um in temperature, and high in seasonal changes and storminess. In this respect, it resembles the north- eastern United States and southern Canada. Japan is similar except that it is somewhat too warm and damp. The coast of British Columbia and the neighboring states is highly favorable in mean temperature, and medium in storminess and seasonal changes. Around San Francisco, the mean tempera- ture is still better, but both seasonal changes and storms are mild. In compen- sation for this, however, there are fre- quent changes of temperature because fogs blow in from the ocean, and are quickly succeeded by the warm, bright weather which generally char- acterizes the interior. Farther south where the fogs cease, the conditions become less favorable from the point of view of the changes from one day to another, although the mean temperature of the seasons still remains advantageous.
"The chief defect of the climate of the California coast is that it is too uniformly stimulating. Perhaps the constant activity which it incites may be a factor in causing nervous disorders. When allowance is made for the fact that California's urban population is relatively smaller than that of states like Massachusetts and New York, insanity appears to be even more prevalent than in those states. Moreover, the cities of the California coast have the highest rate of suicide. In proportion to the population the number of suicides is greatest in San Francisco; then come San Diego and Sacramento; while Los Angeles and Oakland are exceeded only by Hoboken and St. Louis." Possibly these facts may be connected with the constant stimula- tion and the lack of relaxation.


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using System;
using Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR;
using Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Hubs;

namespace MyMoney.Domain.Application.WebServices.Controllers
{
    public class AccountsControllerWithHub<THub> : AccountsController
        where THub : IHub
    {
        readonly Lazy<IHubContext> hub = new Lazy<IHubContext>(
          () => GlobalHost.ConnectionManager.GetHubContext<THub>()
        );

        protected IHubContext Hub => hub.Value;
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Храм Димитрия Донского — название православных храмов, освящённых во имя святого благоверного князя Димитрия Донского.

Обиходное название: Дмитровская церковь.

 Церковь Святого Дмитрия Ростовского — в Барнауле.
 Храм Димитрия Донского — в Ижевске.
 Церковь Димитрия Донского — в Иловле Волгоградской области.
 Храм святого благоверного князя Димитрия Донского — в Краснодаре.
 Храм Благоверного Князя Димитрия Донского в Садовниках — в Москве.
 Храм святого благоверного великого князя Димитрия Донского в Северном Бутове — в Москве.
 Церковь Святого Дмитрия Ростовского — в Ростове-на-Дону.
 Церковь Димитрия Ростовского — в Сальске.
 Храм Дмитрия Донского — в Нижнем Тагиле.
 Успенский кафедральный собор — бывший храм в Салавате в честь святого благоверного Великого князя Димитрия Донского.

См. также
 Храм Димитрия Солунского
 Храм Димитрия Ростовского


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INTERVIEW | Oliver Stanley discusses the outrageously fun musical, Avenue Q.
1 Garrick Walk, Leicester LE1 3AF, UK
The newly refurbished Leicester Haymarket Theatre is thrilled to be welcoming Avenue Q to their theatre during their UK Tour this Spring. The outrageous musical took to the stage on Broadway in 2003 and soon enough it won the TONY "Triple Crown" for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. Within the new tour cast is Oliver Stanley (Brian) who I got to chat with about Avenue Q. He is a Leicester native who has "fantastic memories of going to this theatre to see shows when I was younger. It will be pretty special standing on the stage. And I know Leicester audiences are always up for a laugh and will really enter into the spirit of it!"
For those unaware of the context of this show "essentially it is a journey of self-discovery for Princeton, a university graduate who wonders what he's going to do with his newly gained BA in English, and - ultimately - his life!" explains Oliver, "After searching some of New York's more pleasant neighbourhoods for somewhere to live, his small budget brings him all the way down to Avenue Q, where he meets a host of lively characters who become his new neighbours. Once settled into his new home, the story follows the relationships he forms as he searches for his purpose in life. So far, so normal.."
But as Oliver explains he suspects most people know this musical from its iconic puppets "- and the adult content!" Avenue Q has the classic Broadway traditions for a cracking musical with the big show tunes, hummable melodies, and a live band, the show is also a parody and homage to TV shows such as Sesame Street and The Muppets. As Oliver does explain to me "Although it has no official affiliation to those shows, it draws a lot of inspiration from them. Where Sesame Street teaches children some core values and life lessons in a fun and colourful way, Avenue Q tries to do the same for adults".
The show has gained quite a loyal audience since it first appeared on stage over sixteen years ago and has almost gained a "certain cult status among theatre fans". "We have people visiting us at Stage Door who have seen the show dozen of times. Some even bring their own puppets!" So what does Oliver think Avenue Q has that encourages its audiences to visit over and over again? "I think at the heart of it the story is fairly timeless, which means the appeal to audiences is quite broad. We attract all ages and walks of life. It's also incredibly well-written. Before it ever got close to Broadway or the West End, it was in development for years, which means it really is a slick piece. There's not a note or lyric that doesn't belong there."
In Avenue Q, Oliver Stanley takes on the role of Brian. His character is, in fact, one of three human/non-puppet characters in this show, along with his fiancee Christmas Eve, and grown-up child TV star Gary Coleman. "He has a bit more life experience than Princeton, having left university ten years ago, but his dreams haven't really materialised in the way he expected. He has a big heart, and beneath his comedic persona has an encouraging and nurturing personality. I think if he were an animal, he'd be a Golden Retriever: loving, endlessly loyal, quite chilled out, and an easy temperament. It might seem odd to compare a person to an animal, but it's something actors sometimes do in their approach to working on a character, so you'll have to forgive me that particular oddity!" Oliver goes on to explain that "ultimately Brian is a steady and predictable kind of guy, and a good friend to those around him. He's the kind of guy who'd come to your gig, even if it was miles away and really expensive. (And even if you were sh*t.)"
This production has a lot of puppets in it and what a challenge for the "human" characters like Oliver Stanley. "Working with puppets is a unique challenge!" Oliver goes on to discuss the challenges of this with me; "Of course, the puppeteers have a very hard job. Physically the show is very demanding, and they're often voicing multiple characters. As a human character, I'm lucky that I get to play the same person throughout. But as an actor, so much of your performance is about the connection to your fellow actors on stage, and much of that comes through eye contact and almost imperceptible physical movements."
"In Avenue Q, the challenge is to avoid looking at the actor manipulating the puppet, which means you've lost a lot of that visual connection. You're essentially acting alongside a very impressive piece of needlework! As a result, you have to listen a lot harder to the delivery of other actors' lines to gauge your own delivery and acting choices. I've never relied on my hearing and peripheral vision more in a job!"
Read more: Avenue Q UK Tour Review.
Although the puppetry is obviously a challenge, there are challenges associated with touring a large show for such a long time. "In total, there are about forty people involved with Avenue Q, including actors, musicians, creatives, producers, crew (and many more). Not all of these people tour with the show, but most do." Another challenge is being an actor during a tour, "we barely set foot in a city before we have to move on to the next venue".
Oliver says that his favourite part of the show is "how popular the show is. Night after night, we have audiences laughing for a solid two hours, and that feels fantastic! There's nothing worse than turning up to work if you know the audience aren't on your side. But with Avenue Q we feel so supported wherever we go."
Being a fan of the show himself I wondered whether Oliver had a dream role in the show (if he wasn't nailing it as Brian!) "As a teenager, I dreamed of playing Princeton/Rod. Ten or more years on I'd be more interested in having a go at Trekkie/Nicky. But actually, I'm probably my happiest playing Brian. I never thought I would play this part, but getting the job has meant I've really grown to love him. Every night I get to walk in his shoes, and he's a pretty great guy!"
The show does express some risque subject matter and Oliver believes people "see the show out of curiosity! Obviously some people will know from the adult content warnings that it's really not their type of thing, but generally, we get very large audiences and a fantastic reception so we must be doing something right!"
So why should you purchase your tickets to see Avenue Q during its tour?
"As with all theatre, styles and trends go in an out of fashion. So you never know when you might next have the opportunity to see something. I think Avenue Q will be popular for many years to come, but who knows?! So see it while you can!"
"Also - on a personal note, Leicester's my home city and I'd like as much local support as possible. Come along and show the Avenue Q cast how great a Leicester audience can be! And don't be afraid to come and find us at Stage Door after the show. We're always happy to sign a programme and meet fans of the show! See you there!"
You can see Avenue Q perform at Leicester Haymarket Theatre between 21-25 May. Book your tickets here.
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after losing the playoffs finals last season, Angers took its revenge on Briançon winning the Match of Champions (Jacques Lacarrière Trophy), the trophy which opens the season in France between the Ligue Magnus champion and the winner of Cup of France. Angers won 4-1 (1-0, 0-0,3-1) at home in front of 1100 spectators. Goals were scored by Yannick Tifu,Tim Crowder, Guillaume Lefebvre and Brian Henderson for Angers and Marc-Andre Bernier for Briançon.
Angers goalie Alexis Neau was named MVP.
Angers and Rouen have qualified for the French finals. Angers beat Epinal in the semi finals. Rouen eliminated Briancon. The first final is played on the 26th.
Rouen HE win its third French League Cup beating 4-3 at overtime Angers in the final played in a sell out arena in Meribel.
Angers is winning 3-1 with 5 minutes to play but Rouen turn the game and scores decisive goal at minute 68 in the overtime with Julien Desrosiers.


Summary : I was expecting more from Lipton in this tea, as there other flavored black teas had been enjoyable. This one wasn't. Very weak and poor flavor makes this a forgettable tea...at best.
Review : Yes, you have permission to hit me. I confess to committing the cardinal sin in the tasting of a new tea...I built up a positive expectation for this tea before tasting it. But really, I can't be faulted too much. After all, the other flavored black teas from the sampler pack I bought were by and large surprisingly good. And so, dimwit me, I naturally assumed this tea would at least be halfway decent too.
I had bad vibes from this tea the minute I opened up the package, due to the lackluster aroma of this tea. You could smell a faint whiff of raspberry...but you did have to use your imagination a bit.
Here is how Lipton describes this tea on their website : "Brighten your day with LIPTON Raspberry Tea, a delicious blend of pure black tea leaves and natural raspberry flavors. A tangy taste that's a refreshing, all natural change from your everyday tea. Plus, LIPTON Tea provides a healthy dose of protective flavonoid antioxidants."
The tea contains the following ingredients : Fine imported black tea leaves, hibiscus flowers, rosehips, roasted chicory root, orange peel, roasted barley malt, natural raspberry flavor with other natural flavors (contains soy lecithin), licorice root.
One would think with all these ingredients the taste of this tea would be rather strong, if not decent. But...that was not the case at all.
The taste of this tea was exceptionally lackluster. It wasn't "bad" per se...it just was very, very weak. And not entirely pleasant, either. And while I wouldn't describe this tea as a "drain cleaner tea," it does come awfully close.
Recommendation : No. This is neither a good black tea nor a good raspberry flavored tea. And in this particular blend, the raspberry infusion mixes with the black tea leaves to produce a lame a quickly forgettable taste.
Brewing Instructions : Pour boiling water over tea bag. Let brew 3-5 minutes. For stronger flavor, brew the full five minutes.
Bigelow Eggnogg'n Tea : No substitute for Real Egg-Nog!
Adagio Teas Christmas Flavored Black Tea : Christmas in a cup, this excellent cinnamon flavored tea is sure to put anyone in the holiday mood.
Ahmad Teas Strawberry Flavored Black Tea : A tasty strawberry flavored tea that will bring back the memories of summer.