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Ability (1985) 1 Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations Communications Database DOS
Originally released in 1984 by the Canadian company Xanaro that went bankrupt, and then by Migent, Ability is an integrated office suite for DOS that includes word processor, spreadsheet, database, telecommunications, business graphing, presentation graphics capabilities, and built in file management. It features good integration between the different components, with the ability to import, share, and dynamically update data between them. It was advertised as a very easy to use and a quick to learn system.
Plus 2.0
AdvanceLink (1987) 0 Communications DOS
AdvanceLink is a terminal emulator that integrates with the HP NewWave desktop. It has built in scripting tools and features specifically for communicating with HP 3000, HP 9000, and HP 1000 hosts. It can emulate HP 2392A, HP 700/94, HP 700/92, HP ANSI, and DEC VT100 terminals. It appears a lesser version of this product was bundled with early Vectra computers under the generic name of "HP Terminal Program"
for DOS
Allways (1988) 0 Spreadsheet DOS
Allways is a lotus 1-2-3 add-in that enhances 1-2-3 by providing a graphical preview, graphs and spreadsheets on the same printed page, embedded graphic pictures, font formatting for individual cells, and enhanced cell formatting. It supports HP and PostScript laser printers.
Applause (1988) 1 Presentations Graphics DOS
Originally called Draw Applause, Applause is a slide making, charting, and presentation program for DOS from Ashton-Tate. It also served as a client front end to Ashton Tate's Graphics Service, through which one could purchase high-quality prints. Applause II beefs up the standalone desktop presentation and graphing abilities.
Bank Street Writer (1986) 0 Word Processor DOS
Bank Street Writer is an easy to use word processor intended for beginners and educational use. It was very popular on the Apple II, but also had ports for Atari, Commodore 64, MSX, Macintosh, IBM PC, and IBM PCjr.
Better Working Eight-in-One (1989) 0 Word Processor Spreadsheet Graphics Communications Database DOS
Better Working Eight-in-One, from Spinnaker Software is an integrated office suite for DOS. It contains a word processor, a spelling checker, a data base, a spreadsheet, an outliner, a graphics program, a communications program and a set of desktop utilities - all in one single, consistent application.
Beyond Words Composer (1991) 0 Word Processor DOS
Beyond Words Composer is a GUI-based word processor developed by former Micropro (WordStar) employees and distributed by Cannon. Technology from this product was incorporated in to IBM DisplayWrite 5/2.
BitFax (1992) 0 Communications DOS
BitFax is a basic fax program, used with compatible FaxModems. It was available for both DOS and Windows. BitFax/OCR includes optical character recognition used in conjunction with receiving fax documents.
4.x (DOS)
Boeing Calc (1986) 1 Spreadsheet DOS
Boeing Calc was a spreadsheet package written by Boeing Computer Services, an independent subsidiary of aviation manufacturer Boeing. It had originally been developed as an in-house accounting tool, but was launched as a commercial product in April 1985 for IBM 4300 mainframes running IBM MVS and IBM PC microcomputers running MS-DOS. Boeing Calc was notable for introducing the concept of 3D spreadsheets. Often Boeing Graph was sold alongside Boeing Calc.
3.00E
Boeing Graph (1987) 3 Presentations Graphics DOS
Boeing Graph is a graphing program for the IBM PC that specializes in producing high quality 3D plotted graphs. It was sold as a companion product to Boeing Calc.
Borland Sprint (1988) 0 Word Processor DOS
Sprint is a text-based word processor for DOS that features a powerful scripting language, multiple user interfaces, exceptional speed, the ability to handle very large files, and powerful PostScript capabilities. "Mark of the Unicorn", and bought by Borland where it was renamed to "Sprint" in 1987. WordPerfect, Microsoft Word for DOS, and Multimate. preview at a time when that was clearly the way forward. However Sprint was targeted towards power users that needed advanced features WYSIWYG editors did not yet provide.
Brown Bag Word Processor (1985) 0 Word Processor DOS
The Brown Bag Word Processor was an inexpensive word processor that offered features comparable to more expensive programs. It is essentially an OEM licensed version of Quicksoft's PC-Write with a different user interface. Formatting is done using "dot" commands and it includes a mail-merge module.
By Design (1993) 0 Word Processor DOS
By Design is an add-on set of document design utilities, fonts, and clipart for WordPerfect. Graphics include lead characters, page borders, graphics fonts, and page headers. Templates include newsletters, letterheads, title pages, and business forms.
CalcStar (1980) 0 Spreadsheet DOS CPM
CalcStar is a spreadsheet from MicroPro, somewhat like VisiCalc but using commands similar to WordStar. You can also format content similar to WordStar. It was available for CP/M and DOS, and often part of early 80s system's bundled software.
cc:Mail (1993) 0 Communications OS2
cc:Mail, originally from Concentric Systems, Inc and later Lotus and IBM, is a desktop e-Mail system intended for small LANs. It relies on accessing a shared database file rather than client-sever methods.
1.x for OS/2
Celebrity (1987) 0 Word Processor DOS
Celebrity is a powerful word processing program that includes a Speller, Thesaurus, Forms System, Report Writer, Calculator, Calendar, and File Cabinet. It was advertised as a solution for novice users, however the command based interface makes it less than user friendly.
Chart-Master (1985) 0 Presentations Graphics DOS
Chart-Master, originally introduced in 1981 by Decision Resources, Inc., was the first software that could produce presentation quality graphics with a plotter on a personal computer. Decision Resources also produced Sign-Master and Diagram-Master. They were acquired by Ashton-Tate in 1986. This program was also bundled in the Master Graphics Presentation Pack.
ChiWriter (1990) 1 Word Processor Mathematics DOS
ChiWriter is a WYSIWYG scientific text editor for DOS. Created by Cay Horstmann in 1986, it was one of the first that could write mathematical formulas on common PC computers.
Citrix Multiuser Link (1991) 0 Communications DOS OS2
Multiuser Link is a telecommunications program that Connects a PC running DOS or OS/2 to a Citrix Multiuser system via standard RS-232C serial directly or with a modem.
CO/Session (1992) 0 Communications DOS
CO-Session is a remote communication access program that supports remote control, file transfer, automates session, and promoted itself as faster and more powerful than Carbon Copy Plus.
COMit (1994) 0 Communications DOS Windows
COMit, from TradeWind Software, is a small, lightweight, and easy to use telecommunications terminal emulator for MS-DOS systems. OEMs commonly bundled it with modem hardware.
Company Ladder (1990) 0 Presentations DOS
Company Ladder is a budget oriented tool that specialized in making corporate organizational charts. It could handle large numbers of entries and print high quality graphs.
CompuServe Information Manager (1989) 0 Communications DOS
CompuServe Information Manager is the client software used for accessing the CompuServe service.
Corel Presentations (1995) 0 Presentations DOS
Corel Presentations (which is often referred to simply as Presentations) is a presentation program akin to Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress.
Correct Grammar (1989) 0 Word Processor Utility DOS
Correct Grammar is a grammar checking and analysis tool for DOS. Correct Grammar incorporates technology from the Houghton Mifflin CorrectText system.


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Dan Durda • Jul 30, 2002
The 2002 Gene Shoemaker NEO Grant Recipients
The 2002 Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object (NEO) Grants, totaling $28,290 (US), were awarded to an international collection of amateur astronomers and researchers.
James McGaha from Tucson, Arizona.
John Broughton from Reedy Creek in Queensland, Australia.
Matt Dawson from the Roeser Observatory in Luxembourg.
Roy Tucker from Tucson, Arizona.
Richard Kowalski from Zephyrhills, Florida.
These dedicated observers and their projects were selected from a group of 37 proposals that The Planetary Society received from 13 different countries. Each Shoemaker Grant proposal offered ways to better our understanding of Near Earth Objects, which couldn't have be more appropriate, with the recent discovery of Asteroid 2002 NT7 and all of the media attention it has received. With so many highly qualified proposals, the selection committee's choice was a difficult one.
James McGaha, an amateur astronomer from Tucson, AZ, was awarded $10,000 to automate the operations of his 0.62-m telescope. His Grasslands Observatory is located at a superb dark site at an altitude of 5,000 feet, but its remote location 55 miles from Tucson does not allow for maximum fulfillment of its potential. The Shoemaker NEO grant awarded to McGaha will be used to install a computerized control system to allow automated operations at Grasslands Observatory and considerably improve the efficiency of the NEO observations he will make.
Read updates from McGaha: March 25, 2004 - March 8, 2007
John Broughton, an extremely active observer from Reedy Creek in Queensland, Australia, has been awarded $8,140 for the purchase of an Apogee AP6Ep CCD camera to be used on a new computer-controlled 0.46-m telescope. The new CCD camera purchased with Shoemaker NEO grant funding will immediately be put to work making follow-up position reports on fast moving NEOs and NEOs that cannot be seen by northern hemisphere observers.
Read updates from Broughton: April 16, 2004 - July 28, 2005 - June 17, 2006 - March 5, 2007
Matt Dawson, a dedicated amateur NEO observer representing the Roeser Observatory in Luxembourg and the Cote de Meuse Observatory in France, has been awarded $6,300 to purchase an Apogee AP47 CCD camera that will be used to follow-up faint NEO discoveries. Dawson will use the new CCD camera at both observatories, where he will be able to reach magnitudes as faint as V=21.
Read updates from Dawson: June 6, 2006
Roy Tucker of Tucson, AZ has been awarded $2,950 to purchase software and computer equipment. Tucker's three telescope/camera systems produce more data that any one person can fully examine and measure, so with the help of the grant, he can now distribute the data among fellow local amateur observers to help him in the reduction and analysis of data.
Read updates from Tucker: March 24, 2004 - August 3, 2005 - June 15, 2006 - March 7, 2007
Richard Kowalski of Zephyrhills, FL is the owner, founder, and maintainer of the Minor Planet Mailing List (MPML) (http://www.bitnik.com/mp), which over the last four years has become a vital link between observers and other researchers worldwide involved in NEOs and other minor planets. It costs Kowalski approximately $300 per year to run and maintain the MPML and its associated web pages. The Planetary Society will award Kowalski $300 per year for the next 3 years to fund MPML operations, a bargain considering its value to the NEO community.
Read updates from Kowalski: September 16, 2003
The Planetary Society would like to thank the other Shoemaker NEO Grant applicants.
Gene Shoemaker Near-Earth Object Grants
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Top floor of live-work units opens to private gardens over one half of multi-storey car park.
Plan showing location of Treatment A (off-plot, multi-storey) and Treatment B (off-plot, podium) case studies within the wider scheme.
Treatment A - Plan showing typical arrangement of off-plot, multi-storey parking treatment within the scheme.
A high-density development where initial perimeter blocks put most parking in either a landscaped underground or a podium car park. Comparisons between the two models point to how enveloping parking decks on all sides with real streets enhances any design.
GMV on the Greenwich Peninsula is a sustainable community of up to 2950 planned homes, 800 of which are built. This site was remediated by English Partnerships which also ensured that infrastructure such as a Combined Heat and Power plant, schools, parks, shops, health care facilities and a wetlands ecology centre were provided early on.
There are a variety of residential perimeter blocks including the 199 home Maurer Court which envelops a 0.28 hectare richly planted courtyard. This sits on a two-storey podium car park. From the exterior of the block it is possible to see into the podium only where it is wrapped in wooden slats. Mostly it is concealed behind a facade of banded brickwork at lower level and balconies and render above. The brickwork faces maisonettes at lower level with doors onto the street helping to keep it active.
The car park is well proportioned and naturally lit through the slats and extends to bike storage and a car washing bay. The podium is richly planted, accessed directly from small gardens to homes at podium level or through shared accesses for apartments on other floors. The underground is supported by on street parallel parking on a highway running up to the riverside, from which there is an access to the car park.
Besides this, there is little on-street parking in the early phases. Secondary roads running between perimeter blocks are mostly shared surfaces in paviors. The other block reviewed here has a conventionally dimensioned street, but its use is restricted. Parking to the livework units which form one side of this street is confined to a multi-storey. This is neatly screened by the live-work units on one side and by a grass bank on the other, and by cedar slats to the other ends. There is also soft landscaping over and gardens to the rear of the upper storeys which again soften the impact of the concrete frame. However, many residents who park there have an indirect route back to their homes.
The development has two key areas, each of which features a different strategy with regard to parking provision.
Area A comprises ground floor commercial units and duplexes at 71 homes to the hectare, in 2.5 and 3-4 storey blocks - whilst Area B is much denser and comprises maisonettes and apartments at 292 homes to the hectare.
Parking ratios are at 100% throughout.
Treatment A - Section showing typical arrangement of off-plot, multi-storey parking treatment within the scheme.
Treatment A - Gardens sit on two-storey car park (left). Top level of three-storey car park (right).
Treatment B - Podium is screened. Maisonettes (centre) open onto street or into courtyard.
Treatment B - Plan showing typical arrangement of off-plot, podium parking treatment within the scheme.
Treatment B - High-quality amenity space over podium.
Red: The route from cars to homes is too indirect for some residents.
Amber: The aim of providing car-free streets results in relatively low parking provision and inert streetscapes.
Green: The car park fits neatly against the section of the live-work units with landscaping over and to back, whilst cars are moved to a secure unit at the edge of the site allowing streets to be pedestrianised and used for play.
Amber: Physical distance between car and homes is restrictive, however, detailing and storey heights make what is a typically claustrophobic design more acceptable.
Green: Includes secure storage for 200 bicycles and a carwash bay, and a high percentage of secured and monitored parking. Parking is wrapped in buildings to create active streets, and the parking also supports high-quality amenity space above.
Treatment A - Ramp between levels in the multi-storey.
Treatment A - Vehicles access streets only to drop off or deliver.
Treatment A - Shuttered access and exit to the multi-storey.
Treatment B - Slatted screen to podium for light and ventilation.
Treatment B - Access to podium car park with maisonette to left.


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Q: Generate non-repeating, no sequential numbers how does one use code to do this:
produce 15 random numbers [EDIT: from 1 - 15] that are not in any order, and that only occur once
eg.
1 4, 2, 5, 3, 6, 8, 7, 9, 10, 13, 12, 15, 14, 11
rand() or arc4rand() can repeat some, which is not what im after.
Thanks

A: The simplest way is to produce a collection (e.g. an array) of the numbers 1-15, and then shuffle it. (EDIT: By "collection of the numbers 1-15" I mean 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 15. Not a collection of random numbers in the range 1-15. If I'd meant that, I'd have said so :)
You haven't given details of which platform you're on so we can't easily give sample code, but I'm a big fan of the modern variant of the Fisher-Yates shuffle. For example, in C#:
public static void Shuffle<T>(IList<T> collection, Random rng)
{
    for (int i = collection.Count - 1; i > 0; i--)
    {
        int randomIndex = rng.Next(i + 1);
        T tmp = collection[i];
        collection[i] = collection[randomIndex];
        collection[randomIndex] = tmp;
    }
}

If you want to produce "more random" numbers (e.g. 15 distinct integers within the entire range of integers available to you) then it's probably easiest just to do something like this (again, C# but should be easy to port):
HashSet<int> numbers = new HashSet<int>();
while (numbers.Count < 15)
{
    numbers.Add(rng.Next());
}
List<int> list = numbers.ToList();
// Now shuffle as before

The shuffling at the end is to make sure that any ordering which might come out of the set implementation doesn't affect the final result.

A: Generate the full list, then shuffle it.
Python:
import random
r = range(1, 16)
random.shuffle(r)

A random number generator by itself can, almost by definition, not do what you want. It would need to keep track of all the numbers already generated, which would be as memory-hungry as the solution sketched above.

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Minor Shirk
Posted on March 9, 2007. Filed under: 101 - Ruboobiyyah and Uloohiyyah |
Minor shirk can only occur in Uloohiyyah. Minor shirk is still a major sin.
The Prophet Muhammad (saw), in an authentic narration, said that they would be among the first groups of people thrown into because the scholar, when he taught the knowledge that Allah gave him, did not do so for the sake of Allah. He taught so that people would praise him, saying what a great scholar he is and how knowledgeable he is. Allah will say to him: "You received your praise, what you sought in that world. But there will be nothing for you in the next." So he will be drawn off on his face and thrown into Hell.
Similarly the rich individual – the philanthropist, who was generous with his wealth. He gave and people praised his generosity, but Allah will say, "You did it for the praise and you were praised. There was no sincerity there; it was not for the sake of Allah. You did it for as long as people appreciated it, but when people did not pay you mind, you were not generous anymore. Your generosity was conditional; it was not really for the sake of Allah." So that individual will be drawn off on his face and thrown into Hell.
And the martyr – the one whom we all assumed had died fii-sabilillah. We would think that his place in Paradise is guaranteed. But Allah will say: "You fought so people would say, 'How brave this one is! How strong and courageous he was!'" People said it; they praised him, but he did not do it for the sake of Allah, so he will be drawn off on his face and thrown into Hell. (Tirmidhi)
Shirk in Uloohiyyah can also be divided into 2 categories: major shirk (shirk akbar) and minor shirk (shirk asghar).
Every matter which contains a type of shirk but does not reach the level of major shirk
Every matter that the religion has prohibited and which is a means and channel to major shirk, and which Islamic Law has termed 'shirk'.
Equating other than Allah with Allah in a matter that is specific to Him, either by attributing it as a means, or by way of accident.
Minor shirk could be to rely on the cause instead of the creator of the cause. For example, medicine. A 'cause' must be either something Allah has informed us, or a direct, physical, common-sense relationship.
Or it could be making something which Allah has not made a cause into a cause (while believing that Allah is the Rabb). For example a talisman. We cannot invent a cause. This is minor shirk if we acknowledge Allah as the Rabb. If we say talisman is holy in and of itself, its major shirk, if you say Allah has made the talisman holy, it is minor shirk.
We can differ about physical causes like homeopathy vs. traditional medicine, but we cannot get into supernatural like 'chi energy' as this borders on the religion.
Minor shirk is a grave issue.
"The matter that I fear the most for you is minor shirk…" (Al-Albaanee's As-Silsilah As-Saheehah)
"Were I to lie and swear by Allaah, it would be more beloved to me than to swear by other than Allaah while telling the truth." (Saheeh Tarheeb wa Targheeb)
"Minor shirk is more hidden than a black ant on a black stone in a dark night." (Ibn 'Abbaas)
Differences between major and minor shirk.
1. Major shirk expels a person from Islam. This is the main point and the other points follow from this one.
2. Major shirk necessitates a person's eternal punishment in the Fire of Hell.
3. Major shirk nullifies all of a person's good deeds.
4. Major shirk makes it permissible for a Muslim state to take the life and property of its practitioner.
There is a difference of opinion about whether Allah can forgive minor shirk without punishment.
Minor shirk in acts of worship pertaining to the heart. These are only some examples and not a comprehensive list.
Minor shirk in the heart.
The most common type is riyaa: worshipping Allah based upon the Sunnah but to impress people, and this is the most common type.
"When they get up for the prayer (Salaah), they get up lazily. That is because they only show off in front of the people, and rarely do they think of Allaah." (An-Nisaa', 4:142)
"The thing that I fear most for you is the minor Shirk; Riyaa"(Ahmad in his Musnad)
Allah(swt) will ask the one who does riyaa on the Day of Judgement to take his rewards from those he showed off for.
You have to fight riyaa. This is one thing that simple knowledge cannot cure. It is something that affects the most ignorant worshipper and the greatest alim. It is a continuous struggle.
The question arises about performing a good deed purely for a worldly benefit. For example, going on hajj purely for business. Unlike riyaa, which nullifies your deed, worldly benefit can be combined with the deed.
"There is no sin on you if you seek the Bounty of your Lord (during pilgrimage by trading, etc.). Then when you leave 'Arafat, remember Allah (by glorifying His Praises, i.e. prayers and invocations, etc.) at the Mash'ar-il-Haram. And remember Him (by invoking Allah for all good, etc.) as He has guided you, and verily, you were, before, of those who were astray." (2:198)
In one hadith the Prophet (saw) mentioned that the best wages one can earn are those from teaching the Quran.
Minor shirk in statements of the tongue
Swearing by other than Allah while believing that Allah is the Rabb.
A Jewish man came to the Prophet (saw) and said to him: "Verily, you (Muslims) commit Shirk, for you say: "As Allaah (swt) Wills and as you will;" and you say: "By the Ka'bah!" And so the Prophet (saw) ordered whoever wanted to swear, to say: "By the Rabb of the Ka'abah!" and to say: "As Allah (swt) Wills, then as you will." (Narrated by An-Nasaa`ee)
Equating Allah with the creation using the conjunctive 'and'. Do not say I was cured because of Allah and the doctor, but say Allah first and then the doctor.
Naming created objects with names that go against pure tawheed like "Abul-nabi" or "King of Kings" – "Verily, the lowest name to Allaah is that of a man who calls himself "King of kings," for there is no king except Allah (SWT)." (Reported by Al-Bukhari)
Minor shirk in actions of the limbs
This includes amulets and charms. It also includes certain types of riyaa, like trying to show off to people that one is a great worshipper.
Frequent riyaa leads to nifaaq.
The 'Shin' and 'Face' of Allah(swt)
On Allah's Elevation, Rising, and Direction
Ibn Qudama on Tafwid
Tafwid al-Ma'na in Istiwa?
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10 Movies That Critics Loved (And Audiences Didn't)
Claire Epting Published: December 23, 2022
A24/Lucasfilm
When it comes to watching movies, film critics and the majority of theatergoers are going to have a very different experience. Critics are going into a movie with the intention of reviewing it, making note of things they liked and disliked. Sure, everyone is subconsciously doing that when they view a film, but critics are tasked with putting those feelings into words.
What's interesting, though, is that critics and audiences often disagree about the quality of a movie. Things that appeal to reviewers may not sit well with those who just popped into the local theater on a Friday night. And, thanks to aggregate review sites such as Rotten Tomatoes, it's easier than ever to see how critics' opinions stack up against that of the audience's.
Of course, all taste is subjective. There's no real way to distinguish a "good" film from a "bad" one — it all comes down to personal preference. You might turn to a critic to tell you which movies are worth seeing, but that doesn't mean that you will automatically like it. In the cases of these 10 movies, the response from reviewers was way more positive than how conventional audiences reacted. Now, that doesn't mean that every critic loved each movie — aggregate sites determine a film's score based on the percentage of positive reviews to negative ones. But after enough reviews, it's easy to get an overall picture of how people reacted to a movie.
Here are 10 films that critics raved about but a majority of audience members didn't care for. Whose side are you on: The critics or the audience?
Movies That Critics Loved But Audiences Didn't
These movies all got high marks from critics, but general audiences were less than enthusiastic.
The Franchises With the Most Bad Movies
Usually, when a franchise gets bad, that's the beginning of the end. But some film series are too successful to ever truly die.
Source: 10 Movies That Critics Loved (And Audiences Didn't)
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Unemployment fell 1.1 percent in April to 5.8 percent from the same period in 2015.
Clark County's unemployment rate rose from 5.9 percent in March to 6.2 percent in April. But the rate fell by 0.8 percent from April 2015.
Taxable sales grew, gasoline sales and total passengers coming in by plane in a yearly analysis, at 3.1, 1.4 and 3.2 percent, respectively.
Statewide visitor volume increased 0.6 percent. However, gaming revenue fell 2.4 percent in April from a year earlier.
Clark County gaming revenue decreased 5.5 percent in April from March. Year-over-year, the number fell 3.9 percent.
The passenger count coming into McCarran and visitor volume in Clark County fell from March to April, but rose year-over-year in both months: 3.4 percent rise in March 2016 over the same period last year and 0.6 percent in April.
In Clark County, residential housing permits rose by 26.5 percent from March to April 2016.
Faraday Future has announced plans to become the core technical partner and title sponsor for Dragon Racing, a Formula E team—a new Federation Internationale de l'Automobile championship featuring cars powered by electric energy.
The team will be renamed Faraday Future Dragon Racing. The partnership is set to initiate at the beginning of the third season of Formula E at the Hong Kong ePrix in October.
The move is a continuation of Faraday's interest in the sport. Earlier in 2016, Faraday was the title sponsor for the Formula E Long Beach ePrix. After that, Faraday pursued a path to compete through the Dragon Racing organization.
Faraday Future and Dragon Racing will work to maximize performance of the vehicle's powertrains during the upcoming season. The team will also work to improve data acquisition and analytics to improve vehicle simulation models.
In the following season, the team will work to implement Faraday powertrain components, software, firmware and other hardware.
Phoenix-based PikFly recently expanded its mission to partner with small, local brands on delivery of food and alcohol to Las Vegas.
In a partnership with Mariana's Supermarkets, which has four locations throughout the city, local delivery is underway.
"We are extremely excited to be offering our customers a new way to order from our stores, while expanding our reach with new customers into different areas of Las Vegas," said Ruben Anaya, Mariana's Marketplaces chief operating officer.
Hungry or thirsty customers can head to pikfly.com or order through their mobile device.
Once an order is placed, an order is sent out to a certified driver—which the company has dubbed "navigators." The driver picks up an order and delivers it in about an hour, PikFly said in a statement.
Also in the statement, PikFly said it planned to expand the delivery of hot food from its local partner Mariana's and other locally owned restaurants.


Polymyxin B Sulfate and breastfeeding. Are they compatible?
The small dose and low absorption to the plasma in a majority of preparations that are topically used on the eye, ear or skin make a significant excretion into the milk unlikely.
Its high molecular weight makes less probable an excretion into breast milk in significant amount.
Polymyxin E or Colistin with a very similar molecular structure is excreted into breast milk in non-significant amount.
It is advisable to avoid the application of creams, gels and other products for local use that would contain paraffin (mineral oil) to prevent absorption by the infant.
We do not have alternatives for Polymyxin B Sulfate since it is relatively safe.


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Alatriste v. Cesar's Exterior Designs, Inc. - California Contractor's License Law - The "Sword" Gets...
Alatriste v. Cesar's Exterior Designs, Inc. - California Contractor's License Law - The "Sword" Gets Sharper
California's Contractor's License Law (Business & Professions Code section 7026 et seq.) establishes that a contractor without a valid license cannot bring legal action to recover any compensation for work performed. B&P section 7031(a). That is the hiring party's "shield" against an unlicensed contractor. Responding to a court decision, the legislature added a "sword" in 2001. With the sword, an owner who has paid an unlicensed contractor for work performed can sue to recover those payments. B&P section 7031(b). The decision in Alatriste v. Cesar's Exterior Designs, Inc.1 answers questions about ambiguities in the "sword" statute – making it clear that it is intended to be punitive toward an unlicensed contractor. Following the Alatriste decision, it is more clear that the intent and application of the "sword" and "shield" mirror each other.
The contractor in the Alatriste case admitted that it was not licensed at the time it entered into the contract for $91,900 in landscaping at a new home. One of the principals of the company was in the process of obtaining a license, and the license was actually obtained while the work was being performed. The contractor also asserted that its customer actually knew these facts before the contract was entered into.
The Alatriste case answers three questions, relying largely upon application of similar concepts and decisions under the "shield" portion of the law.
Is the hiring party's actual knowledge of the contractor's unlicensed status of a defense to a lawsuit under the "shield" either legally (under the theory of fraud) or equitably (under the theories of unjust enrichment, equitable estoppel or unclean hands)?
Is the contractor entitled to compensation for work performed after it obtained a license?
Does the "sword" require disgorgement of the value of labor only, or also material that the property owner kept and which increased the value of the property?
The court ruled against the contractor in each instance.
Relying upon the Supreme Court's interpretation of similar provisions in the "shield" law2, this court ruled that the hiring party's knowledge that the contractor was unlicensed does not preclude utilizing the sword. Neither the legal nor equitable defenses claimed by the contractor are available.
Again relying upon a case with a similar set of facts under the "shield" statute3, and the legislative history of the "sword" statute, the court ruled that the contractor must be licensed at all times or qualify under the substantial compliance provision of the code. The fact that the contractor obtained a license part-way through the work is not relevant.
The court ruled that "all" means "all" and that the contractor must repay all the funds that it was paid by the hiring party, even though that means the property owner will be unjustly enriched by the increased value of the property.
The lessons for the contractor are clear. Your license is extremely important. A contract entered into before your license is valid is not only unenforceable but you can be forced to disgorge any payments you receive under that contract even if the work was accepted without defect or complaint. Lapses in your licensure can be equally dangerous unless you can convince the court that the circumstances fall within the narrow exceptions of the "substantial compliance" doctrine.
The court acknowledges that the impact of the ruling is punitive. They note that this punitive intent is found in the legislative history of section 7031(b) and they therefore are required to enforce it.
1Fourth District Case No. D054731; 2010 DJDAR 5125
2Hydrotech Systems, Ltd. V Oasis Waterpark (1991) 52 Cal.3d 988
3MW Erectors, Inc. v. Niederhauser Ornamental & Metal Works Co., Inc. (2005) 36 Cal.4th 412
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Join Gary Hustwit for an in-depth discussion in this video 19th century to Brasília, part of Urbanized.
Historically, cities have come into being for many different reasons. Cities grow up around logistical issues, for example, on a port, and/or somewhere that is advantageous specifically for trade. I mean it's almost always an economic question. By the mid-1800s, industrialization had been a reality for a couple of decades already in the major cities of Western Europe, and the congestion, the insalubrity, the just unlivability of those cities made it such that there needed to be some sort of a solution.
In Paris, Baron Haussmann comes in and radically demolishes the city, eliminating all of its medieval streets, its slums, and rebuilds the city, with the round-abouts and the other iconic elements of Paris. Unlike Europe, America's cities didn't have a really strong architectural legacy. City Beautiful was a movement to bring the grand boulevards, large civic arenas of classical architecture into American cities, to encourage a kind of civic pride.
The next major shift would be the Garden City movement, which is happening right at the end of the nineteenth century. The idea would be to separate out the different functions of the city, with concentric roadways and greenbelts. The Garden City proved to be incredibly influential on the modernist movement. Modern city urban planning is very similar to modern graphic design, or modern industrial design, it's minimalist, very ordered, very rational, separate everything out.
(translated) I think architecture is invention. In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful, it can be different, it can create surprise. And surprise is the main thing in a work of art.
Brasilia was designed by a very competent Brazilian architect, Lucio Costa. He made it with his heart, with great desire. I am responsible for some of the architecture. I went to Brasilia to make the Cathedral. I thought about making it round, so I built the columns up and the Cathedral was ready. It's astonishing, I've made how many churches? 23, and I'm an atheist.
But the problem is so beautiful, it is so rich, it allows many ideas. I like and respect Brasilia very much. It is a simple city, a rational one. Brasilia was the ultimate modernistic city built on all the ideas of the modernistic manifests.
It looks fantastic from the airplane, but if you are down at eye level, on your feet, and going from one place to another, Brasilia is a disaster. Every distance is too wide, things are not connected, you have to travel for endless miles and miles along completely straight paths. Nobody ever started to think about what would it be to be out in Brasilia between all these monuments.
Of course it makes a certain logic to separate things out. You don't want cars and pedestrians in the same place. It's not safe. But as we've certainly come to experience, if you design the city so that every single trip has to be made by car, suddenly, you're not zipping around anymore, you're stuck in enormous traffic jams.
The 1950s is when the automobile starts to have a real impact on cities, especially American cities, and largely a detrimental effect. Not only do you have increased means of access to the city, bringing more cars and creating congestion and noise, but also radically changing the way cities are designed. And this is becoming increasingly a global issue, especially in developing countries.


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This luxurious vase was made by Michael Hunter for Twists Glass in 2016. Mike has named it "Jewel". The base is made of numerous zanfirico canes in red yellow blue orange black and white and is interspersed with murrine canes of red & purple arranged to imitate the pattern in a peacock's tail. It has a deep incalmo top in a rich orange. The underside of the base is scratch signed "M Hunter Twists 16 Jewel".


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Q: still have "windows" partitions after installing ubuntu I have looked at similar questions on what I have, for example this and this but can't find the answer I'm looking for.
I originally wanted to do a dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04, I started following this tutorial. I followed step one and partitioned the disk by "shrinking the volume" of the partition. I burned the Ubuntu OS and installed it. I ended up deciding to have only Ubuntu so selected "erase disk and install Ubuntu" when I was setting it up.
I was worried I'd messed something up with the partitions so ran

sudo fdisk -l

to see if anything looked ... odd (you've probably figured out by now that I don't really understand much and am trying to figure it out as I go along). I got this a lot of text but the bit that concerns me is this:

Device         Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048    616447    614400  300M EFI System
/dev/sda2     616448    878591    262144  128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3     878592 166305791 165427200 78.9G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4  248225792 250068991   1843200  900M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda5  166305792 231632895  65327104 31.2G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6  231632896 248225791  16592896  7.9G Linux swap

Why is there still room for Microsoft? How can I change this so I have more space?
Many thanks.

A: The installer erases the disk when told so and needs to. By creating the unallocated space, unnecessary step given the goal was to have Ubuntu as a single OS, it allowed Ubuntu to be installed there.
You can now remove sda2, sda3 and sda4 and then, from a live session, move the Ubuntu partition to the left and resize to use the remaining unallocated space.


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Påskekrim: Norway's Mysterious Easter Custom
As Norway prepares to celebrate Påskekrim – the tradition of settling down to a good crime novel over the Easter break – several new titles look set to chill readers. Top of the most wanted list are Kjell Ola Dahl's The Assistant, a murderous tale spanning the precarious inter-war years in Oslo, and Smoke Screen, the latest collaboration by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger. Investigating the intriguing and incongruous Påskekrim ritual, Barry Forshaw talks to some of Norway's leading crime writers – and suggests five classic titles to take to your hytte.
While writing books on Scandinavian crime fiction – including Nordic Noir and Death in a Cold Climate – I've occasionally found myself talking to Norwegian writers about the notion of Easter Crime – or påskekrim as it is known in Norway. I first heard about it from Anne Holt, a forthright and popular crime author and an ex-Minister of Justice for her country. "In Norway, certainly, there is a long tradition of crime reading and writing," she says. "There is even the concept of Easter Crime, which involves people buying a good crime book to take to the mountains with them at Easter."
Holt believes that Norwegians are progressive in their reading. "I think that crime writing was accepted as a viable, 'respectable' and serious literary genre in its own right in Scandinavia before it was in Britain and America. I also think there is an exoticism attached to Scandinavia which we ourselves are proud of – the bleak landscapes, the dark, the snow, all the elements that are prevalent. Having said all that, let's be frank: I also think that the hype is a major contributing factor. We buy into what we are told is good – such as the attractive notion of Easter Crime."
Anthology of crime stories for Påskekrim 2021
A frequent visitor to Britain's crime fiction book festivals is Nordic Noir's premier practitioner of the private eye novel (with his exemplary Varg Veum series), Bergen's Gunnar Staalesen. The personable writer gave me his views on the phenomenon. "Easter crime, yes… Norway is the only country in the whole world that has this tradition," he says. "And it started in the 1920s when some smart publishers saw that a lot of Norwegians went up to their cabins in the mountains during the Easter vacation. And what should they bring with them to read in the candlelight in the evening? Paperback crime novels, of course. Lightweight publications, not clothbound, and therefore easy to carry in their rucksacks. They were, let's face it, seen as 'second-class literature' that nobody wanted to have on their bookshelves at home, but up in the mountains, where nobody could see what you were reading, perfect!"
This Easter things are somewhat different. "Because of the coronavirus situation," Staalesen explains, "people are not allowed to go to their cabins at Easter, but the tradition has survived on television, radio, in audiobooks and e-books, and there are still some readers who prefer a good old-fashioned physical book to read. So there will be a lot of Easter crime in Norway this year of the plague, I'm sure!"
Jørn Lier Horst, a veteran author of Påsekekrim stories. Photo: Dag G. Nordsveen / www.nordsveenfoto.no
Two writers I asked for their thoughts on 'Easter Crime' are Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger (who have recently collaborated on Smoke Screen, in which police officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm team up to investigate a cold case involving a missing girl). There's no confusing these two authors: ex-police detective Horst is physically imposing and cuts quite a figure (particularly when he turns up in Norwegian national dress, as he has been known to do in England), while Enger is a quiet but authoritative presence.
"There are Easter crime mysteries on television, on radio, in magazines and books in Norway," Horst says. "Even – believe it or not – there are short crime stories on the milk cartons at Easter. The tradition may be related to the fact that Easter, in its origin, was something of a venerable historical crime drama: namely, the trial of the religious agitator Jesus of Nazareth!"
"There are several explanations for the custom," Horst continues: "Among other things, we in Norway have the world's most extended Easter holidays: ten days in total. And crime is popular reading material during the holiday season. Many Norwegians spend their holidays at their cabin (hytta), often in the mountains. Norwegian cottages are full of old crime books that have never been taken home again, but are read again and again.'
Nordahl Grieg, co-author of The Train to Bergen Plundered Last Night, the novel that started the Påskekrim tradition in 1923
Horst (who lives in the south of Norway, by the coast) recounts how the tradition started: "Almost a hundred years ago, in 1923, Nordahl Grieg and Nils Lie published a book about a train robbery under the pseudonym 'Jonatan Jerv'. The story took place at Easter and was launched just before the Easter holiday. The publishing house placed a large ad on the front page of Norway's biggest-selling newspaper [Aftenposten] with the book's title, 'The Train to Bergen Plundered Last Night', in capital letters."
"It would have taken an attentive reader to see that it was actually an advertisement, not a newspaper headline," he notes. "Readers thought that a real train had been robbed. That campaign was so successful that the book was a massive seller, and a new season for publishing books had accidentally emerged."
Front page of Aftenposten from 1923 featuring the fictional train robbery which started the Easter Crime tradition
The Anglophile Thomas Enger has a strong connection to the phenomenon. "I have distinct memories of my childhood when we gathered round the television, eagerly awaiting the next episode of a Miss Marple or a Poirot, not to mention the excellent PD James Inspector Dalgliesh series, which became sort of an adopted tradition in itself in Norway. My appetite for crime fiction definitely has its roots in the Norwegian Easter Crime tradition."
In recent years, Enger observes, the tradition appears to have lost its tight grip. "The main reason for that? We can download or stream whatever we want at any given time now, all year round. So it's not a special season-related thing any more. People read crime fiction all the time now, but readers still tend to read more during Easter, because at the end of the day we are suckers for traditions up here in the cold north. And as a supplier of content in the crime fiction genre, I can only say I'm grateful."
Smoke Screen by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger (Orenda Books)
The last word on the tradition comes from the queen of Norwegian crime fiction, Karin Fossum, a Scandinavian writer held in particularly high esteem in Britain. "I have several theories when it comes to this very Norwegian tradition," she states. Like Staalesen, she emphasises the portability of paperbacks. "When Norwegians travelled to their remote cabins and huts, they frequently had no cars of their own. They had to travel by train, and they had to carry their books in their backpack." And in Norway during the 1940s and 1950s the only books in paperback format were crime novels.
"And so readers sat in the dark hinterlands and read disturbing books," Fossum continues, "and they were even more unsettled by the solitary setting, far from other people. Nowadays, of course, all genres of books come in pocket editions. But, traditionally, in the woods and up in the mountains, we Norwegians like to be scared."
Easter Crime Treats: Five Norwegian Noir Classics
THE REDBREAST BY JO NESBO (2000)
Nesbo is the breakthrough Nordic crime writer post-Larsson, more quirky and individual than most of his Scandinavian colleagues – not least thanks to Nesbø's wonderfully dyspeptic detective Harry Hole. The Redbreast bristles with a terrifying vision of Nordic fascism. (The Redbreast is published by Penguin/Vintage)
1222 BY ANNE HOLT(2010)
Anne Holt usually paints an unsparing picture of Norway's urban areas and outer reaches, but 1222 has a classic, isolated setting for its mayhem: the frigid climes of Finse, a mountain village in northern Norway. (1222 is published by Corvus)
HE WHO FEARS THE WOLF BY KARIN FOSSUM (2003)
Norway's Ruth Rendell, Karin Fossum, has more acute psychological insight than is to be found in the work of many respectable 'literary' novelists. The third in her Inspector Sejer series delves into the woodland murder of a woman. (He Who Fears the Wolf is published by Penguin/Vintage).
THE CONSORTS OF DEATH BY GUNNAR STAALESEN (2009)
Grandmaster of the Scandinavian private eye novel, Gunnar Staalesen (and Norwegian heir apparent of Ross Macdonald), is here on cracking form as his detective, Varg Veum, finds his past catching up with him. (The Consorts of Death is published by Arcadia Books).
THE LAST FIX BY KO DAHL (2000)
Veteran Norwegian writer KO Dahl's novel, The Last Fix is a calling card book. Oslo detectives Frank Frølich and Inspector Gunnarstranda are notable Scandi-coppers in a bustling arena, and in this thriller the pair are thrown into the murky – and murderous – world of the city's drug addicts. (The Last Fix is published by Faber).
Top photo: detail from the cover of He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum (Penguin/Vintage)
The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl and Smoke Screen by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger are both published by Orenda Books
Barry Forshaw
10 April 2020 / Barry Forshaw is one of Britain's leading experts on crime fiction. He is the crime reviewer for the Financial Timesand the author of numerous books, including Nordic Noir, Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fictionand The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson. Categories
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Highly Recommended: The Forever Sky by Thomas Peacock
The Forever Sky
Written by Thomas Peacock
Illustrated by Annette S. Lee
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Reviewer: Jean Mendoza
Review Status: Highly Recommended
My husband Durango is an artist and writer, and I value his reactions to the children's books Debbie and I study. He isn't always drawn to what's in my Books to Review pile. But when The Forever Sky was delivered during our first day of "shelter in place", I invited him to look it over. When he finished, he asked, "What age is this for?" I said, "I think it could be for older kids, but they're saying ages 3-7." "How about 74?" he asked. (He's 74).
That sounds right to me. The central idea of The Forever Sky has emotional impact across generations, though the vocabulary and plot are not complex. The book touches on familial love, loss and healing, imagination, and how humans tell stories that make sense of the world, all in the context of Indigenous (Ojibwe) knowledge and perspective.
The text by Thomas Peacock (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe Ojibwe) would stand on its own, but the paintings by Annette S. Lee (Lakota-Sioux) add considerable depth and nuance. Example: The end papers (front and back) consist of a two-page spread showing two small, shadowy figures seated on a blue-gray rectangle at bottom, slightly off-center. They are surrounded by swirls of deep night-time blues and greens that are freckled with white dots that might be stars or fireflies, or some of each. The same painting is the basis for the title page, and it appears again at the end of the book, as background for the brief glossary.
Two figures wearing shorts and tee shirts appear on the pages of dedications and publishing information. The first page of the story shows the same figures lying on a blanket, pointing at the sky. They are young Ojibwe brothers, Niigaanii and Bineshiinh. They miss Nooko, their grandmother, who died recently. Throughout the book, the boys return to the meadow to watch the ever-changing night sky. Niigaanii, the older boy, tells his little brother Ojibwe stories their uncle has shared with him about the sky and the stars. Their uncle has said that Nooko's spirit is in the stars. So are all those who have passed on. In the northern lights, they are dancing together. Finally, one night, something happens that helps ease some of the boys' grief. This is a story of serious matters, yet it conveys hope and healing.
Not many artists are astrophysicists in the rest of their lives. What Annette Lee knows about the sky is evident in The Forever Sky, as well as in her web gallery. She also collaborated on some tribally-specific resources including the Ojibwe Sky Star Map - Constellation Guide (2014) and D(L)akota Sky Star Map - Constellation Guide (2014). Some of those constellations appear in The Forever Sky. Clearly, "Western" science is only one lens on what's overhead.
"The sky is so big it goes on forever," Niigaanii says. "That is why we call it Gaagige Giizhig, the Forever Sky."
I'd love to share this book with kids, and hear their ideas about what's going on in each of the pictures. Are the brothers present in every illustration? Do any of the constellations show up more than once? What does the artist do to depict Niigaanii, Bineshiinh, and their parents and uncle, at the end of the story? Every page holds mystery, like the night sky, in keeping with the gravity of Peacock's subject matter.
Especially important, I think, is how the author anchors the boys' experience in the cycles that are part of Ojibwe life. Niigaanii tells Bineshiinh that they need to know the stories their uncle tells, "So when we are uncles we can teach our nieces and nephews." "So they will teach their nieces and nephews," his brother adds. And so "the stories will go on forever," Niigaani says.
Readers may notice that some illustrations depict the boys in shorts and tee shirts, but in others they seem to be dressed as if for a ceremony. Perhaps this shows that time is passing -- not just astronomical time but the calendar of an Ojibwe community's traditional events. Or perhaps some of those figures are not the boys and their uncle at all, but past and future relatives, telling and hearing the stories across generations.
The night sky has always given humanity a focus for its most challenging questions. The Forever Sky foregrounds some of those, from an Ojibwe perspective. What is the meaning of all that darkness, those many lights that brighten it? What happens when a person dies? Given that individual life on earth is finite, what role does a person, a child for example, have in the continuity of their community's ideas about the world? Peacock has addressed Ojibwe attitudes about disabilities in at least two of his other books, and he presents another facet of those in The Forever Sky.
As I wrapped up this review, I started reading the Ojibwe Sky Star Map Constellation Guide, mentioned earlier, which Annette S. Lee was involved with as first author (image below right).
This passage from its first page echoed what she and Thomas Peacock have created in The Forever Sky:
....Native star knowledge is disappearing as elders pass. One Ojibwe elder spoke of his vision of "the star medicine returning through the native youth." He specifically called them "star readers."
It struck me that Niigaanii and the uncle are some of those "star readers." Though I was already appreciative of what Peacock and Lee have done, my understanding of it has been deepened by the star map/constellation guide.
If you're among the many who can't leave home now because of COVID-19, this may be a good time to get more familiar with the night sky, and to do so with the children in your life, if you can. Reading The Forever Sky together may be a way to start. And a book like the Ojibwe Sky Star Map Constellation Guide can add even greater depth to your night-sky experience.
Hear an archived interview with Thomas Peacock on Native America Calling. It's really good. Kirkus gave The Forever Sky a starred review, and Debbie and I include it on AICL's Best Books of 2019. Thomas Peacock also wrote The Dancer, which is also on our Best Books of 2019 list, and which Debbie mentions in her post about social distance powwow books.
Edited on 4/11 to add: On Monday, April 20, 3:00 pm, the Minnesota Historical Society Press will post a video of Thomas Peacock reading The Forever Sky aloud here. And see MHSP's The Forever Sky web page to link to coloring pages based on Annette Lee's illustrations.
Posted by Jean Mendoza at 11:29 AM
Labels: #ownvoices, #The Forever Sky, Annette S. Lee, astronomy, Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe Ojibwe, Highly Recommended, Minnesota Historical Society, Pub Year 2019, Thomas Peacock


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Paytm Acquires Edukart
Last Updated on 25th October, 2022 • Akhil • 2 Minute Read
Leading Mobile Payment giant Paytm has now acquired Edukart, online education platform. Although technically, it could be called that Edukart has merged itself to Paytm. The reason being, there is no financial considerations involved in the deal.
Edukart was founded in the year 2011 and has more than 10,000 paying students in its platform and was offering more than 250 courses to its students at its online platform. It had also managed to raise $2 million from angel investors including Cricketer Yuvraj Singh and Paytm's Vijay Shankar Sharma.
As per Economic times, the reason for the merger could be the financial crunch all the start-ups are going through. The fund crunch also has been faced by the many leading e-commerce players including Flipkart.
After the merger, the 50 plus employees from Edukart will now be working with Paytm at different sections of the company. This includes Ishan Gupta; the founder of Edukart will now be working in Paytm's marketplace unit as Vice President-Business.
The founder of Edukart was an ex-employee of Paytm and had left the company to start Edukart. It seems like a turnaround for him. At the time of writing this article, it is not clear what happens to the existing students who were a part of Edukart.
The online business is always filled with news. It could be of acquisition, merger, or change of leadership. It never fails to amaze the consumers. You can also recollect E-commerce Company, Flipkart, had previously purchased Jabong. Snapdeal, on the other hand, had acquired Gojavas.
You can always expect much more news from these players as they go for more and more changes.


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I recently attended a Positive Life NSW Peers Connect Online! 'Special Event' where a panel of peers living with HIV discussed the significance of the long-running Candlelight Memorial, held on the third Sunday of May every year.
Five panel members shared what the Candlelight Memorial means to them personally and reflected on the relevance to the Body Positive community here in NSW. After the panel, the discussion was opened up for questions and further reflections. I found the experience very moving and I've collated some of the thoughts from the evening, tried to capture the essence of their words and added a few of my own.
The Candlelight Memorial is a time to gather together and remember, grieve and honour the lives of those who have been taken by HIV/AIDS. It is a time to reflect on the collective struggles and the individual hardships faced by those who were there from the beginning of the epidemic. It is also a time to remember the role that allies played during those times, such as nuns, loved ones, family and friends, and to acknowledge the significant difference that they made.
The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial was first held in San Francisco in 1983 by people living with HIV. From those early days, the Candlelight Memorial has grown to be one of the world's oldest and largest grassroots campaigns for HIV awareness. Each year, our communities come together to respect, honour, and mourn the loss of our loved ones.
These grassroot beginnings of the Candlelight Memorial showed the power of peers in times of grief and the value of the communal grief process. The sharing of grief was an important aspect of the memorial, as it was not always possible to grieve openly in the early days, due to the enormous fear that gripped society.
The Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, first launched in 1988 in Sydney, is an everlasting memorial to those lost to HIV/AIDS. Each quilt panel, roughly the size of a human grave, bears individual names in tribute on personalised quilt panels, which are stitched together to form a quilt. Many of these individual quilts form the Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt. The communal process of making the segments and panels to form the whole quilt is the physical embodiment of the community uniting in grief. The Memorial Quilt is currently housed at the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Museum Discovery Centre at Castle Hill.
As part of the memorial ceremony, the tradition of a roll call, where the names of those who have passed are read aloud, is still one that honours and respects partners, friends and family who have died from HIV/AIDS. The tradition calls to mind military traditions of remembrance of those who died in battle, albeit on a very different battlefront.
Panel member Natasha spoke of the comfort in remembering loved ones on the list, which community member Antonio said, can feel "like they are still in the room". Some nicknames read from the list are amusing and even if we didn't know them personally, it gives us a flashing glimpse into their life and their sense of humour. All are remembered for who they were, as ordinary people with no judgement.
As another panel member Freddy remarked, the roll call can also be seen as quite an "ordinary process of ordinary people reading out names on a list," and yet those named were far from ordinary. The roll call honours their lives for both their personal struggles and their role in the fight for treatments and medications, for rights, recognition and acceptance.
Panel member Paul observed, the Candlelight Memorial is "a gathering of the tribe" with a powerful sense of community and belonging.
As I listened to my peers reflecting on this solemn occasion on the HIV calendar, I could see there was no single significance of the memorial. I realised that it is our diversity that ensures that the Candlelight Memorial will always have a different personal significance for each of us. Some of us are long-term survivors and others have no personal connection to those who are being remembered, yet we can identify with parts of their stories. Others of us have had quite different experiences altogether, with only the memorial connecting us as people living with and affected by HIV.
As Freddy said, "It's not about your status." The memorial is a place where you "need no explanation" and a place to show how "you are a part of the bigger fabric." Even in this online forum, I could almost feel the ambience of warmth, caring and love that people at the Candlelight Memorial sense.
As Natasha said, "You are not on your own" but in a place to share the path for a while with others who have had similar experiences and who understand.
The Candlelight Memorial reminds us of our history, the Quilt is our heirloom and the list is our legacy.
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A Grim Pattern: Presidential Voting and Workplace Deaths
By Paul Feldman on February 23, 2017
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More than 4,800 American workers are killed on the job each year. But in states that were carried by Donald Trump, the chances of dying at work are higher than in states that Hillary Clinton won.
With a single exception, the states that voted Republican had at least three job-related deaths per 100,000 workers, according to the most recent federal labor statistics for 2015. In all but two states that went Democratic, the workplace death rate was less than three.
Two states that Trump won by landslide margins, North Dakota and Wyoming, had the highest fatality rates of 12.5 and 12.0 per 100,000 workers, respectively–more than four times the death rates of most states that went for Clinton.
A key factor, experts say, is that red states tend to have a higher percentage of hazardous blue-collar jobs, while the more urbanized blue states have more white-collar and service jobs. "The big cities where Hillary got most of her votes are not where the foundries, the mills, the logging, the mines are," said Adam Finkel, a former OSHA official now at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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And with the Trump Administration and Republican Congress pledging sweeping cuts to federal regulations, which they say will spur economic growth, some analysts warn that workers in states that voted for Trump could be in greater peril.
"Workers and citizens in states in which a majority voted for Trump have much to lose if the Trump Administration weakens enforcement or reduces support for health, safety and employment standards," said Professor Thomas A. Kochan, co-director of MIT's Institute for Work and Employment Research. "Trump states have, on average, weaker state level laws and enforcement agencies than do states that have stronger Democratic histories."
Since the relatively small number of workplace deaths can give rise to random variations, particularly in low population states, analysts caution against giving too much weight to the statistics. Nevertheless, the most recent data follow a pattern of death rates being higher in the South and Appalachia and lower in New England and the West Coast, said John Mendeloff, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
"Where workers are lower paid, not as skilled, easier to replace, that probably gives lesser incentives for safety to employers," Mendeloff said. "In other words, the costs of accidents are lower."
The pattern is strikingly similar to the link between state voting preferences in the November election and traffic death rates. As FairWarning reported earlier this month, the states that favored Trump consistently had higher traffic fatality rates than the states that backed Clinton.
Since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created in 1970 during the tenure of President Nixon, workplace deaths have shrunk nationwide from 38 a day to 13, agency data shows.
During that period, which also saw the enactment of such measures as the Mine Safety and Health Act, the death rate for miners has dropped by more than 75 percent, according to research by the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group for low wage workers.
Although Trump's controversial first nominee for labor secretary, Andrew Puzder, withdrew and his replacement R. Alexander Acosta has yet to be confirmed, efforts to scale back workplace protections are already underway.
The Senate is expected to vote in coming days to strike down an Obama-era rule requiring businesses seeking federal contracts to disclose previous labor violations –anything from wage-and-hour abuses to workplace hazards. The move would come under the Congressional Review Act, which Republican lawmakers are using to target a number of environmental and health rules enacted during the Obama administration.
Also vulnerable is an OSHA regulation requiring companies to submit workplace injury rates for posting on the Internet. Interest groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Chicken Council last month filed suit in federal court in Oklahoma to have the measure overturned.
OSHA has yet to reply to the lawsuit, and it's uncertain how, or if, the agency will defend the rule. But in a sign of the times, among the first people dispatched by the Trump administration to the Labor Dept. was longtime business lobbyist Geoffrey Burr, who as a vice president of Associated Builders and Contractors fought both the requirement for federal contractors to disclose labor violations and the electronic filing of injury rates.
Business groups contend that federal regulations are weighing down the economy. According to Eric J. Conn, a Washington D.C. attorney who specializes in defending OSHA cases, government rules "when taken collectively, can stifle job growth."
Cutbacks in labor protections would reverse the approach of the Obama administration, which stepped up enforcement and upgraded safety standards for exposure to silica, beryllium and other hazards.
"If they start cutting back on enforcement and do fewer inspections, I think that will likely lead to more workplace deaths," said David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor in charge of OSHA during the Obama administration. "Many employers don't need OSHA to motivate them to protect their workers, but others clearly do."
"Where are the trenches and where are the derricks?" Finkel asked. "The hazards are in the red counties and so that's where the death toll will rise if all of a sudden there was no enforcement or if there was a rollback of existing regulations."
For whatever reason, workplace death rate statistics for 2015 almost precisely mirrored 2016 presidential voting results.
The only red state with a death rate lower than 3.0 was Arizona (2.4).
The lowest death rates were in dependably blue states ranging from the very largest to the very smallest –California at 2.2, Washington and Massachusetts at 2.1, Delaware at 1.9 and Rhode Island at 1.2.
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TFin April 24, 2017 at 9:20 am
You have got to be kidding me!! SMH! I have NEVER heard anything so ridiculous in my whole life! Because people voted for TRUMP there's more on the job fatalities? And if you voted for Hillary there's less? WTH is this world Country coming too. I can't believe these unbelievable statistics! How absolutely ridiculous! Get over it! I totally agree with what RegT said.
RegT April 8, 2017 at 8:28 am
Yes, thanks for the hype you present in making a spurious connection between who voted for whom, and the state they voted in. Anyone reading this should remember the Mark Twain quote, "Lies, damned lies, and statistics".
Had you simply provided the relationship between hazardous occupations and workplace deaths, I might have applauded your article. To link it to how people vote is the slimiest bit of progressive trash I can imagine. Unfortunately, the Left has degraded the performance of our schools so badly that many people these days are unable to see the atrocious twisting of the truth that the media, the schools, and organizations such as yours use to meet their agenda of vilifying those who disagree with that agenda.
Thanks for the "fair warning" that your web site can't be trusted for being impartial or truthful.
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In California, Inspectors hands are tied by lawsuits from the United Farm Workers and the Cal Rural Legal Association.
Louis V. Lombardo February 24, 2017 at 5:01 am
Readers should also see how many legislators are doctors and how much money they raised. For example see Wyoming's Sen Barrasso who is a surgeon and should be concerned about deaths in his State.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicians_in_the_United_States_Congress#114th_Congress_.282015_-_2017.29
Louis V. Lombardo February 23, 2017 at 4:58 pm
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Even though his HP was (predictably) increased, the rest of his abilities seem fairly on par. All demonstrated attacks came at the expected damage. Even the breath weapon, which rolled at 82 and 81 acid damage per attack, was well in range of the standard 15d8 acid damage. The difficulty classes of the wing attack (DC 23 Dex) and the breath weapon (DC 22 Dex) also met textbook standards for an ancient black dragon.
We saw that 23 hit Umbrasyl. Unfortunately, we did not see any attacks at 22, the AC of a textbook ancient black dragon. We suspect that since Raishan's hide was tougher than that of an ancient green's, The Hope Devourer's AC is also probably increased by one. We won't know for sure until an attack lands, though!
The first round was where most of the good decisions happened. Vex focused all of her attention straight away, dealing 108 in the first round. Percy's Hex ensured that Umbrasyl stayed tied down for a full round, making the dragon have to wait to take to the air and to use its breath weapon. The herd also served their purpose quite well in the first round, allowing most everyone to get a few good licks in. Even when Umbrasyl succeeded on his disadvantaged save, Scanlan's Cutting Words gave Grog room to avoid a tail attack. Grog's Reckless Attacks also went to great use in this encounter.
Umbrasyl blew two of his three Legendary Resistances. Even if he somehow gains a short rest in the time it takes for the party to catch back up to him (which we find highly unlikely), those will not reset until the next day.
The battle started to turn once Umbrasyl broke from the trap and chains. At the beginning of the battle, the teams consisted of Umbrasyl (1) vs. Vox Machina (7), Fassbender (1), Noja (1), and the herd, including Zanror and Worra (26): 1 vs 35. By the time Umbrasyl fled at the end of the fourth round, the herd's numbers had been reduced to five. With Worra, Noja, and Fassbender effectively out of the battle, the numbers for the second half of the battle decrease to 1 vs. 11.
It has yet to be decided if having two small party members trapped inside the dragon is in fact a bad thing. We wouldn't consider it a good thing, honestly, but any little bit of damage from the inside helps. Fassbender also was little use this battle, as he spent one of Vax's actions to unsuccessfully cast Slow, and has yet to recharge his slow ability (though Umbrasyl is already out of range- 120 feet- for it).
The party member who has the most to be concerned about is Grog, who has lost his acid resistance and is dangling in the air as the only visible target. Even Vex's broom, which has a Dash speed of 100 ft, can't compare to Umbrasyl's Dash of 160 ft. Include the additional 15 ft. it gains for using a wing attack as a legendary action, and Umbrasyl can travel 175 ft. per round. How the other half of the party is going to catch up in time to join the battle with the other three is a mystery that only time will tell.
At the end of Episode 54, Umbrasyl took off near the end of the fourth round. Assuming initiative order holds steady, Pike, Vax, and Scanlan will get the next turns to finish the round, respectively.
The ominous mountain that lords over Westruun and the southern base of the Cliffkeep Mountains, Gatshadow's peak is nearly always obscured by storm clouds or mist. The actual stone that comprises the monstrous landmass is of a darker, more dense stone that is considered to be the finest for crafting on this side of the world (hence why many craftsmen and smiths make the dangerous journey there to harvest the rock... and not all return.
Several critters have questioned whether or not Umbrasyl could have set up his lair in Gatshadow in the time since the Conclave announced his presence, as black dragons tend to lair in swamps rather than mountains. However, we consider the perpetually-obscured peak of the mountain as a potential clue that Umbrasyl may have set up shop there long before.
With that in mind, should the battle continue in Umbrasyl's lair, that will add a number of wrinkles to the battle. The first will be traversing the dangerous journey to the lair itself, which will magically take twice as long to traverse as a regional effect, and will be guarded with traps as is the way of paranoid dragons. The second will be lair actions, an extra ability that Umbrasyl will be able to evoke near the beginning of each round that will greatly increase the difficulty of the battle.
The third wrinkle (which is entirely speculation on Lauren's and Andrew's parts) is the potential communication he will make with the rest of the Conclave. Brimscythe had a series of gems that granted him contact with the rest of the dragons, and there is reason to believe that Umbrasyl will have the same system in place in his residence. While it is unlikely that the Conclave would arrive in time to provide support, paranoia and defenses will likely be increased, and any hints of resistance will be immediately crushed. Westruun may also not be as safe to return to as Vox Machina might have hoped.