A weak dollar balances nothing, banks taking as much risk as ever, and more, the economy has been eating its own young, Fed makes new credit card rules, significant increase in securities earnings due to Fed response to downturn, pondering the derivative collapse, Obama plans to tax the banks, parasites also profiting wildly, rail traffic still derailed.
We have been told over and over again a weak dollar would build exports and turn our balance of payments deficit down. Well, it hasn't happened yet.
Goldman Sachs has admitted that they have been front running and opportuning against their clients in the fundamental strategies group, which is not subject to the same regulatory rules that equity research departments are. That is why they are called "Hannibal Lecter" in the business.
They have been setting up clients to take losses so their trading would be profitable. That is like eating your own children. This is the bottom of the moral and ethical totem pole.
The notional value of derivatives held by US commercial banks rose $804 billion in the third quarter, or 0.49%, to $204.3 trillion. That consisted of 1,065 banks, a fall of 45 from the prior quarter. Five major banks held 97% of the amounts and 88% of the exposure. The CEO's are sorry for their risky behavior, but they are still engaged in it in a bigger way than ever.
Incidentally, these are the same banks that have a record short position in the dollar.
The Federal Reserve yesterday issued sweeping new rules designed to better protect Americans from sudden increases in interest rates on credit cards.
The rules, effective Feb. 22, bar rate increases during the first year after an account is opened. After the first year, companies must provide a 45-day notice.
Some lenders have pushed through rate increases ahead of the new rules. That irked lawmakers in Congress who had wanted to speed up implementation of the Fed's rules.
The new rules also ban - with a few exceptions - increasing the rate on existing card balances. But if, for instance, a customer is behind more than 60 days on a payment, the rate can be boosted.
Credit card companies will need a customer's consent before charging fees on transactions that exceed their credit limits and will forbid companies from issuing credit cards to people under age 21 unless they - or a parent or other cosigner - have the ability to make the required payments.
Payments will be applied to highest interest-rate balances first, helping customers pay off their balances faster and more cheaply. And due dates will be the same every month.
The Fed wrote the rules to carry out provisions of legislation signed into law last year. Other provisions of that law take effect later this year.
School administrators across the state of Massachusetts are crafting bleak budgets for the next school year and warning of steep cutbacks, including teacher layoffs, to cope with a probable sharp drop in funding from Beacon Hill and dwindling federal stimulus money.
Though schools grappled with thinned-down budgets last year, they got relief from a massive infusion of federal education dollars that is now all but spent, and officials are bracing for cuts that go deep into the classroom.
Arlington is weighing the elimination of 21 elementary school teaching positions. Needham, for the first time in recent memory, is also proposing that teaching positions be cut, despite growing enrollment. Hingham, facing a $3 million deficit, has similarly placed 33 teaching positions on the block. Brockton is looking at a staggering shortfall that could approach $20 million.
Investors are the most bearish on Treasuries in more than two years as the reliance on government debt to revive economic growth weighs on sovereign issues, a survey of Bloomberg users showed.
Yields on the benchmark U.S. 10-year note will rise over the next six months, according to the Bloomberg Professional Global Confidence Index. The 5,437 respondents from New York to Tokyo to Paris were optimistic on the outlook for the global economy for a sixth consecutive month, pushing the index, which began in November 2007, to a record high.
Treasury yields will rise for a second consecutive year as U.S. debt sales climb above $2 trillion and the Federal Reserve unwinds stimulus programs, according to the 18 primary dealers that trade with the central bank. The survey shows sentiment is also the most pessimistic on record for the U.K., Spain and Switzerland, where governments also enacted measures to support their economies.
The US Federal Reserve has reported a record profit of $52 billion in 2009 due to earnings gained from investments aimed at rescuing the US economy.
The Fed says it paid $46.1 billion to the US Treasury last year from its investments in Treasury bonds and mortgage-related securities — including those of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
"The significant increase in earnings on securities was primarily due to increased securities holdings as a result of the Federal Reserve's response to the severe economic downturn," the Federal Reserve explained in a statement on Tuesday.
The entity that functions as a central bank for the US says it returned any profit to the Treasury Department after paying operating costs.
The Fed's profit last year was $14.4 billion more than it had earned in any year since 1914.
The numbers are a sign that the Fed has been successful in dealing with the economic crisis triggered by a dramatic rise in mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures.
But there is a risk of significant future losses if the Fed sells investments or loses money on its stakes in bailed-out firms.
The Commerce Department said December retail sales fell 0.3%, the first decline in three months, after rising 1.8% in November. Versus December 2008, sales rose 5.4%, but fell 6.2% for all of 2009.
Commercial paper rose $26.2 billion to $1.102 trillion.
November business inventories rose 0.4% after gaining 0.4% in October.
Foreclosures rose 15% in December to 350,000, or a 14% month-on-month increase, shattering all records in 2009. 2.8 million properties were foreclosed, up 21% from 2008. The figure would have been worse had it not been for foreclosure prevention programs.
The president wants Wall Street banks to pay $117 billion to taxpayers for their financial blowout.
As we observe the congressional sideshow regarding banking we reflect on the industry's 2009 compensation pool of $200 billion financed in part with taxpayer loans. Then there are the $80 billion in tax deductions, not to mention the profits inventoried offshore tax-free. Of the $80 billion in tax deductions $20 billion went to Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley. Those doing God's work over at Goldman Sachs in 2008 paid a tax rate of 1%, while CEO Lloyd Blankfein made $40 million.
These are the people who strong-armed rating agencies to rate junk as Triple A graded paper and then securitized them as toxic waste causing their clients and others to lose hundreds of billions of dollars. It was plain and simply fraud, but no criminal charges have ever been filed and these are the firms that carry two sets of books, and are allowed to do so by the BIS and the FASB.
These are the people who deliberately caused our economic collapse and control our government in Washington. We ask, what will happen when the derivative edifice collapses? Of course we all know the answer, and that is financial chaos.
Under normal circumstances economic fundamentals would hold forth. This time they are not going too. That is because our depression didn't just happen, it was planned that way. Over the past year the Fed has purchased 80% of the government debt and a goodly portion of toxic debt from banks, Wall Street, insurance companies and corporate America. American taxpayers will pay that bill. It is obvious foreign dollar holders and central banks are no longer willing to buy bonds from a bankrupt country. Most intelligent Americans are in denial. They know something terrible is going on and they just don't want to hear about it.
In spite of stimulus, November pending home sales fell 16%, but yoy they were up 15.5%. Cash for clunkers was disruptive and all it did was lump sales into September and October. Residential housing is facing another 15% to 20% decline this year. Such a decline would take the houses under water from 15 to 30 million, or from 25% to 50%.
The International Council of shopping Centers showed December same store sales up 2.5% yoy. The November-December number was plus 1% versus a minus 5.6% in 2008.
Mortgage rates are around 5.14%, up ½% recently, which disqualifies many buyers.
Congress continues to evaluate an initiative to reinstitute the Glass Steagall Act, which was enacted in the early 1930s to eliminate fraud by splitting brokerage and insurance from banking. It was passed to keep banks from going under again. It was eliminated in 1999 and has since been a cause for failure again, for having been eliminated.
President Obama plans Thursday to propose a sharp increase in the taxes paid by the nation's largest financial institutions designed to raise $90 billion over the next decade while constraining the industry's ability to take large risks and reap outsize rewards, a senior administration official said.
The tax proposal, which would require congressional approval, is meant to make a splash, demonstrating to the public that the administration is now focused on reforming the financial industry after more than a year of bailout efforts. The official, who spoke with reporters before the president's announcement on condition of anonymity, said that large firms were reaping renewed profit from a rescue intended to help the broader economy and that the public deserved a larger share of the money.
Ray Stone, chief economist at Stone & McCarthy Research, said the U.S. Federal Reserve's balance sheet, bloated by asset purchases, could become a major liability if inflationary pressure surges. "They've created a monster that they don't fully appreciate," Stone said. "They have a portfolio-management problem."
Yet some economists, including the beauties at the Fed, still think that inflation will remain constrained because of excess US capacity. These economic alchemists still labor under the delusion that the US is a closed economic system that is immune from global inflationary factors.
A publisher of industrial directories said Monday that losses in factory employment in the Chicago area are among the steepest it has seen in 98 years of compiling data.
Manufacturers' News Inc. said Chicago has lost 8 percent of its industrial jobs since late 2008, bringing the total number of jobs to 114,092. Over the same period, it said, industrial employment fell 6 percent in northeast Illinois, to 593,370 jobs.
Statewide, 51,925 jobs and 709 companies have been lost since late 2008, the publisher said. It reported Illinois now has 854,081 industrial workers at 20,079 employers. Twenty years ago, its database had 1.1 million industrial jobs in Illinois.
The White House has abandoned its controversial method of counting jobs under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus, making it impossible to track the number of jobs saved or created with the $787 billion in recovery money.
"It is troubling that the administration is changing the rules and further inflating the Recovery Act's impact and masking the failure of the stimulus to produce sustainable economic growth or real job creation," Issa said in a letter sent last week to the government board monitoring stimulus spending.
The economy once again showed that its road to recovery is proving to be a shaky one with some disappointed retail sales figures coupled with some lukewarm weekly unemployment figures.
Retails sales fell a surprising 0.3% in December, while November's sales were revised upwards to 1.8%. This contraction flies in the face of market forecasts of sales growth in the 0.4% range.
When car sales are excluded, retail sales declined 0.2%, down from November's 1.2% and analyst prediction's of 0.4%.
Unemployment, perhaps considered the largest threat to the tentative US recovery, gave mixed signals. While initial claims rose to 444,000 for the week ending on January 9 compared to 433,000 the previous week, continuing jobless claims fell to 4,596,000 from 4,802,000 over the week of January 2.
The index of prices for imports, for its part, remained steady in December.
Import prices moderated to zero in December as fuel prices dropped, suggesting the global economy's recovery and a weaker U.S. dollar don't pose an immediate inflation threat to the economy.
Prices of goods imported into the United States were flat in December compared to November, following a downwardly revised 1.6% increase the previous month, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had expected a 0.1% gain in import prices last month. The November increase in import prices was originally estimated to be 1.7%.
In 2009 as a whole, U.S. import prices rose by 8.6%, rebounding from a 10.1% decline in 2008.
Fuel prices fell 1.4% in December, led by a 2.0% drop in petroleum prices which more than offset a 6.9% increase in natural gas prices. Despite the December drop, fuel prices have jumped 61.4% in 2009 after a 47% decline the previous year.
Excluding petroleum, import prices were up 0.5% in December versus November. Excluding all fuels, import prices rose 0.4% in December, the fifth consecutive monthly rise. The latest figures should reassure the Federal Reserve that the world economy's recovery and higher oil prices in 2009 don't pose an inflation risk to the U.S.
The Fed is later this month expected to keep its benchmark interest rate at a record low near zero due to low inflation and high unemployment.
In a report released Wednesday that will be used for the Jan. 26-27 rate-setting meeting, the central bank said the economic recovery was broadening, but remains too weak to bring down unemployment. The Fed's beige book also noted that price pressures remained subdued in nearly all of its 12 districts.
Friday's import prices report showed that food prices rose by 0.9% in December, the same rise as the previous month. For the whole of 2009, food prices were up by 1.0%.
Prices of goods from Japan and China both increased in December, rising by 0.3% and 0.1%, respectively.
Meanwhile, U.S. export prices advanced by 0.6% in December and were up by 3.4% in 2009.
The government will release the more closely watched consumer price index for December on Friday. Analysts expect consumer price inflation slowed to just 0.1% last month from 0.4% in November 2009.
The average number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits over the past four weeks dropped to the lowest level since August 2008, indicating companies are making fewer job cuts as the economy improves.
Jobless claims increased in the latest week. The four-week moving average of initial claims fell to 440,750 last week from 449,750, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Weekly jobless claims, which are more volatile, rose a more-than-anticipated 11,000 in the week ended Jan. 9, to 444,000.
California bondholders got an early glimpse of what the state's budget-negotiation season may bring as a looming $20 billion deficit led Standard & Poor's to cut its credit rating for the second time in less than a year.
S&P yesterday lowered its assessment on $64 billion of the most-populous U.S. state's general obligation bonds one level to A-, four steps above speculative grade, saying a plan by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to erase the spending gap relies too much on proposals that may not succeed.
It was S&P's first downgrade of California since February, when it preceded Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings in lowering the state's rating as lawmakers were locked in a stalemate over how to fill what was then a $46 billion gap.
We've been noting since July that Bernanke constricts or holds the Fed balance sheet neutral except during expiration week. Then Bennie jams liquidity into the system. This cannot be an accident. After today's close, the Fed's H.4.1 will reveal if Ben juiced the market for expiration again.
High-frequency trading accounts for as much as 70 percent of U.S. stock volume, according to… financial services consultant Tabb Group LLC. New regulations may make the practice less profitable for trading firms and hurt U.S. exchanges, where revenue hinges on the number of transactions executed.
HFT is parasitic. Once there is a critical mass of parasites, the host becomes impaired or dies.
Zero Hedge: …we find out that today's crowning moment of S&P manipulation was purely a function of yet another fat finger. We say manipulation, because while according to the CME the two 200,000 ESH0 block trades allegedly offset each other, the market ended up shooting higher as a result, which was likely driven purely from favorable robotic interpretations of the volume spike. This market is so broken, and so upward biased, the mere observation of abnormal volume activity is sufficient to gun it higher. Also, can someone please explain how 200,000 e-mini contracts can possibly trade without soaking up all of the advertised bid and offer side on the NBBO?
Between 11:03 and 11:04 CT today, there were a series of transactions in ESH0 in which a market participant appears to have inadvertently traded approximately 200,000 contracts as both buyer and seller. CME maintains trade practice and risk management rules and procedures respecting such matters. In keeping with standard practices and CME's self-regulatory responsibilities, CME is reviewing the circumstances of this event.
Good riddance to 2009. U.S. freight railroads completed a very difficult year by originating 1,241,293 carloads in December, an average of 248,259 carloads per week. That's down 4.1% from December 2008's average of 258,915 carloads per week and down 17.6% from December 2007.
• Rail traffic always falls sharply in late December due to the holidays. This year, unusually heavy early- season snow in parts of the country also negatively affected rail traffic.
For the full year 2009, U.S. railroads originated 13,812,989 carloads, down 16.1% (2.6 million carloads) from the comparable period in 2008 and down 18.2% (3.1 million carloads) from 2007. 2009's carload total (unadjusted for changes in rail car capacity) was the lowest for U.S. railroads since before 1988, when the AAR data series begins.
Financial industry leaders fielded mostly softballs and soft toss from Congress yesterday. One interesting item was Goldman High Priest (He professes to be 'doing God's work'.), Lloyd Blankfein's assertion that Tiny Tim and his coterie never asked Goldie to take a haircut on their CDS with AIG.
Please recall that according to TARP Special Inspector General Barofsky, Tiny Tim's NY Fed cabal asserted that they paid off AIG crappy paper in full because Street firms refused to take a haircut.
Here's a story that demonstrates the delusion of corporate American and how it sold average Americans down the drain for the dubious promise of foreign riches: (BN) Google Inc.'s threat to pull out of China is the most visible reflection of U.S. companies' growing disillusionment with the country nine years after it joined the World Trade Organization, business groups said.
President Barack Obama's proposal to tax the biggest financial firms will face "fierce" opposition in Congress, former Florida senator and Republican National Committee Chairman Mel Martinez said.
Obama said yesterday the levy, which would be imposed on as many as 50 financial firms, is aimed at getting back "every single dime" of taxpayer money that bailed out those companies during the worst recession since the 1930s. Analysts and investors say it may cost JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. more than $1.5 billion each.


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Have you made a resolution to give back to your community in 2016?
The 1st cleanup of the year is this Saturday, January 2nd from 1pm-2:15pm. We will be meeting outside of the Randolph Community Center (1415 Grayland Ave). This cleanup is appropriate for kids since we will be cleaning up in Petronius Jones Park which has two playgrounds available for short attention spans. We will also be cover Idlewood, Grayland, and venturing over to Parkwood which it in need of some loving.


I had written a series of articles for a magazine on How to Get Organised and I have been asked to rewrite it based on today's "culture". I suppose by that what they mean is that Perfect Homemaking is no longer an acceptable term!
Today, we are emphasising that we are not seeking perfection because perfection is intimidating and unnecessarily stressful, so we are going to go with PROGRESS.
Frankly, does it really matter what you call it as long as it feels efficient and capable right??!! But it seems that it matter because people have become more sensitive to terminology.
That being the case, the underlying principles have not changed.
In order to get organised, you need to organise your home, yourself and your family, but let's start with our homes. Of course, you will also have to organise yourself because that is how you are going to free your time and energy – a whole lot of energy goes into running the home for our family and ourselves. You will need to set your priorities in order.
In this section we are going to deal with organizing our home and I would like to divide this into two parts.
I love calling the process of giving away, donating and throwing out things a detox of my home. Just by saying detoxing, I already have a sense of clean and healthy and that feels good. So this part is about detoxing and getting things in order to create a warm home for my family and me.
We will get rid of all the things that we do not need. These things can be given to family and friends who might want it, thrown away, donated or kept.
Whatever is kept will need to be 'homed", meaning it needs to be kept in a permanent and proper place.
And how to avoid procrastination at this stage.
In short, let's just say the first part is about getting the house in order and the second part is about keeping it that way!!!


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Madonna, Harvey Weinstein and Gwyneth Paltrow at the 1998 Golden Globes after-party. Image: Patrick McMullan, Getty.
She liked it, she wanted it: The complex terrors of Mary Gaitskill's This is Pleasure
Pip Adam | Guest writer
'I finished This is Pleasure at about 4am on a Sunday. I hadn't been able to sleep – I'd had an uncomfortable interaction with a powerful person, and it was keeping me awake …'. Pip Adam on a book that challenged and changed her.
From where I'm typing this, I can see a copy of Bad Behaviour, Mary Gaitskill's 1988 short story collection. I don't like to get too far away from it when I'm writing. It has this power to make me work harder. Whenever I'm contemplating the easy way out, if I catch a glimpse of it a voice in my head says, "Do you really want to do that?" In life, pleasure is complicated, pain is complicated, power and sex are complicated. But I didn't realise this complication could be replicated so keenly in literature until I read Bad Behaviour. Nothing is easy in Gaitskill. Her new work This is Pleasure is possibly her most uneasy.
First published online at the New Yorker in July 2019, This is Pleasure is now also available as a hardcover book. The book, published in November, requires a degree of publicity and marketing – especially, I guess, because it's available online for free – and it's this marketing that began to unnerve me. There's an urge to describe a book in simple terms, so people can tell if they want to buy it or not. A phrase that sticks in the first interviews and reviews is that This is Pleasure offers a "more nuanced view of #MeToo". The book sounds worrying in the abstract (to me at least) – a story of sexual harm told through the voice of the abuser, Quinn (Q.) and Margot (M.) a very close friend of Q.'s who believes she has protected herself from his sexual predation. A review in the Guardian says, "There's room to feel sympathy with the flamboyant, roguish Q, and some readers will; it's an astonishingly humane characterisation, articulated within mutable social dynamics."
Gaitskill's complication has a way of rendering terms like "good and evil" ridiculous and I'm not sure if I'm ready to have this degree of ambiguity extended to an abuser and their supporter. I know how hypocritical this sounds – I'm willing to extend this complication to some characters and not others. It's an irrational discomfort but I feel invested in Gaitskill's work in a way I don't in others. I feel like there's so much more at stake here than just a book – I found something of myself in her work and I'm not sure I want to share that with people who do sexual harm or the people who protect them.
I'm a reader forged in Lolita and American Psycho – all the terrible people nuanced through beautiful language into complex humans with perspectives of their own. Most of the writers I read in my 20s and 30s have turned out to be terrible people themselves. The backdrop to my burgeoning sexuality was independent films produced by Harvey Weinstein. I've spent years trying to undo this cultural conditioning and Gaitskill has been a huge part of a journey home of sorts, toward a self-determination of desire and a renegotiation of my relationship to power. An un-teasing of my black and white ideas of good and evil – many of which were put there by people who did harm. These early stories, the ones I've tried so hard to out-run, were often used to characterise me in a way that made it possible to control me. These are the things I brought to Bad Behaviour when I first read it in 2006. The book didn't give me answers to the questions I had about how to live but it was a huge help in revealing the things I'd hidden under other people's stories of who I was and what I wanted.
I finished This is Pleasure at about 4am on a Sunday. I hadn't been able to sleep – I'd had an uncomfortable interaction with a powerful person, and it was keeping me awake. After finishing the book, I went to the bathroom and found myself running back to my room afraid something would 'get me' if I walked. During the interaction that was causing me trouble in real life I'd felt powerless, I'd felt stupid, but most of all, I'd felt like my story was being re-written by someone else – like I was being redefined by another person's actions. And I think that's what I was reacting to so strongly in This is Pleasure. In the unrelenting voice of the abuser and his defender and the screaming absence of an accuser's voice I felt like I'd been hit by all the narratives used to restore the order of the rape culture – she liked it, she wanted it, she overreacted, she's crazy, she shouldn't have dressed like that, or walked like that, or come into my office by herself.
I felt that by giving voice to these arguments Gaitskill was complicating something that didn't deserve to be complicated. At first, I felt betrayed, then I launched into justification. I started frantically making excuses as to why that wasn't what the book was trying to do. All these justifications were superficial, based on Gaitskill's gender and her past writing. They were the weakest of justifications, ones based on the writer not the work. As the morning wore on, I found myself sinking unhappily into the idea that maybe this was just another piece of culture that attempts to make us forgive abuse and question victims. When I finally stopped the justification and surrendered to this idea, I was able to feel what I was feeling, rather than think what I was thinking and I was able to recognise – in my body – that this book apologises for nothing.
Mary Gaitskill and her latest book, a story of sexual harm told through the voices of an abuser and his close friend and defender. Portrait: Derek Shapton
In an attempt to re-introduce a voice of a person at the receiving end of someone else's power and sexual attention, I re-read Gaitskill's story 'Secretary' in Bad Behaviour. It had been a long time since I'd read it and in my head it had been superseded by my memories of the 2002 film of the same name which Gaitskill wrote the screenplay for. I looked at some of the trailers for the film and it was how I remembered it – an almost uplifting story of a woman who finds her kink as her boss's submissive. It made me wonder: maybe that was what This is Pleasure was up to. Maybe Q. is just a masochist in search of a sadist and maybe I'm being a prude. This thought immediately made me feel almost physically ill.
What I found when I re-read 'Secretary' was completely different to the hijinx of the film and it helped me understand some of the machinery of This is Pleasure. 'Secretary' is an extremely uncomfortable read. The narrator is simultaneously repulsed and excited by her boss's escalating sexual behaviour. She has no power in the situation. In a HuffPost interview on the launch of her essay collection Somebody with a Little Hammer, Gaitskill talks about those devastating encounters where people say yes, out of the fear of saying no. 'Secretary', and perhaps all of Gaitskill's work operates on this knife edge. 'Secretary' is an extremely unsettled story largely because, as a reader, I felt the same simultaneous revulsion and excitement in my body as I read the story. Because of this undeniable physical reaction I felt like I wasn't learning about the characters as much as learning about myself.
I think there's a tendency to understand this type of feeling as sympathy. I think fiction has a particular gearing toward the type of sympathy the Guardian review is suggesting. But I think Gaitskill is up to something much more terrifying in This is Pleasure than making me feel sympathetic toward Q.
Gaitskill has a way of almost absenting herself or any authorial voice from the work. There's a sense of reading the events of her stories unmediated. I'd suggest, the effect of this lack of a moral compass is to make us far more implicated in the work. There's no one telling us what to think or who to trust or that we'll be okay – no one telling us how to be a decent human being in this situation. I think this inevitably turns the questions of the book back on the reader. I'd suggest that what I was reacting to so strongly in This is Pleasure wasn't the monsters of Q. and M. but my own participation in rape culture – my many silences, those ingrained thoughts put there by someone else but inevitably my responsibility, the ways I misuse my privilege and power, my resistance to calling powerful people to account when it risks that privilege and power. This is what I thought would 'get me' as I ran back to my room in the dark.
What makes This is Pleasure so terrifying isn't the risk that someone will tell us that rapists are okay, but that we have to decide for ourselves. In almost exactly the same way that Bad Behaviour had 13 years previously, This is Pleasure challenges me to learn something about who I am and what I believe. There is, of course, a problematic shadow text in the available reading outlined in the Guardian review: I imagine another person reading this book and finding justification for their own terrible behaviour, and this challenges me to learn something about the world I live in.
So, in the end, this is how I'm left after reading This is Pleasure – knowing more about myself and knowing more about the people and systems I live with. Most of what I know I wish I didn't. I think finally, the effect of Gaitskill's unmediated stories is the complete absence of someone to direct us away from the awful.
This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill (Pantheon, $18) is available from Unity Books.
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Our top five picks of what's good on Netflix in April
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With festival season fast wrapping up and our pockets feeling a little shallower than we remember, after a few long hard months of partying... "what's coming to Netflix this April?" seems like a pressing question.
Unfortunately we're seeing the back of some excellent shows come April. Good bye Firefly. Good bye Wilfred. We enjoyed binge watching you in all your glory, all over again. Also see ya, see ya later House, Buffy, Angel, and a bunch of Superman classics.
But don't let that freak you out TV-bingers. Summer has come to an end, the rainy day's are closing in on us and Netflix has us set up with a slew of new goods.
Our top pick is part 2 of The Get Down
The Get Down (Season 1 – Part 2) - April 7th
Baz Luhrmann's bank-breaking hip-hop centric drama returns April 7th, set a year after we left the final of part one. Mylene's a disco star. Zeke's figuring shit out. Shaolin's still stuck in the shady part of town. Jaden Smith is there to say "wow" at the appropriate cue.
And we hypppped. Stock up on buttery popcorn and find someone to cuddle up with, but don't Netflix-and-chill too hard friends, cause this is one you actually want to WATCH. Big budget music drama with sexy cinematography, a solid story and some banging tunes.
Dear White People – April 28th
Justin Simien's acclaimed 2014 film is now getting a 10-episode series on Netflix. The show takes place on a predominantly white Ivy League campus, where educated students witness racial tension that builds up to an explosive point thanks to a blackface themed party...
However, the show reportedly goes well beyond the films narrative, each episode told from a different point of view of a different character.
This alternating POV is a formula that's been shown time and time again as one of the most powerful ways to piece a full story together, and build characters we actually give a shit about (think of iconic shows like Skins, Game of Thrones).
Win It All - April 7th
An anxiety-inducing Netflix original movie about a gambling addict who gets left with a big ass duffel bag of cash by an acquaintance who's heading for the slammer...
This mixed with Jake Johnson's satirical charm and co-starring Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele), is sure to be winner.
Plus, there's something kinda comforting in watching a fictional story about someone who makes worse financial decisions than us.
Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On – April 21st
This is a follow up to the successful documentary, and will be a docu-series with six separate episodes that cover six real stories about people who's lives have been forever changed by the forms of sex and intimacy they've found on the depths of the interwebs.
Some of the characters include a cam girl, a woman who works for an amateur porn agency in Miami and some of a man who's life have been consumed by his online fantasy.
Casting JonBenet - April 28th
This new true-crime documentary revisits the tragic story about the six year old pageant star who was brutally murdered in her own home back in 1996.
The crime has never been solved and as such, the documentary has taken a very unique approach .
Director Kitty Green returns to Boulder, Colorado (where the murder took place) and enlists locals to audition for the different roles. Green captures the locals attempts to get into character and their thoughts on the 1996 case. The trailer looks eery as all hell, and the doco look like a mixture of commentary with performance and investigation with interpretation.
The Sundance Film Festival couldn't stop raving about it. If you were a Making A Murderer fan this will probably be right up your alley. It begins streaming April 28.
Happy watching!


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HomeInsights'Stranger Things' Lawsuit Dropped Ahead of Trial Date
'Stranger Things' Lawsuit Dropped Ahead of Trial Date
May 5, 2019 – Media Mention
VarietyQuoted | Aaron Moss
Charlie Kessler has dropped his idea theft lawsuit against Matt and Ross Duffer on the eve of trial, acknowledging the brothers came up with the idea for the Netflix show "Stranger Things" on their own.
Kessler had alleged that the Duffer brothers stole his idea for the series after the trio got to talking at a reception for a 2014 screening of "Honeymoon" at the Tribeca Film Festival. Kessler said he pitched the brothers an idea for a project based on urban legends about a decommissioned military installation in Montauk, New York. He said he was stunned a year later when Netflix announced the Duffer brothers' show, which contained similar themes and was originally titled "Montauk."
"It would create a situation where any reputable director or producer should never go to cocktail parties," argued Aaron Moss, a partner at Greenberg Glusker who specializes in intellectual property cases. "If the mere act of asking somebody 'What are you working on?' and saying 'We ought to work together' is going to give rise to an obligation to pay for whatever happens to come out of the person's mouth, I think we're all in trouble."
Aaron J. Moss


"TRS is going to polls alone, there are no tie ups, I am declaring this hereby. I am advising all Congress leaders to stop firing allegations on us and go to the public and win their support.
TDP's Babu is the biggest liar we have seen. Babu himself, as recently as in his recent Srikakulam meeting, he declared that he would have stopped Telangana if he had more MPs in his hands. I request all Telangana public to be aware of these liars. If you vote for them, Telangana will be crushed under them again.


As many of us awaken today we are celebrating Father's day. A day where dads are given ties, socks, hand drawn pictures from their kids, breakfast in bed from their loved ones and treated like kings for the day. A lot of us will be silently reflecting on our fathers and the things that they taught us as we grew up. Most of us will reflect back on the times when out fathers took us fishing for the first time or the first fish we caught with our dads. Those are the times that are engrained into our minds forever and that mean the most to us. Those are the memories that we should be building with our children and if you don't have children then a family member or any loved one.
Passing down the sport of fishing does several things. First, it ensures the future of the sport that we love so much. Second, it builds lasting memories that can never be replaced. If done correctly is also teaches conservation to the next generation of anglers making sure they have fish to catch. If you are teaching your children it creates a great bond that builds trust and can pave the way to some amazing days and conversations that may have never taken place without our passion for fishing.I have found with my daughter that when we started fishing together that we began to not only learn more about each other but I got to spend quality time with her and teach her about life and how to deal with adversity and how to win and lose with pride.
In closing there are many ways to ensure a successful day of making memories with your children and loved ones but the most important one of all is patience. With a little patience and some luck you may just create the next Kevin Van Dam or Bill Dance.


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pectively by Colonel Warren, Lieutenant-Colonel Walton, Major Wood, Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, Major Parsley and Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert; Nicholls' brigade, Colonel J. M. Williams commanding, consisting of First, Second, Tenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Louisiana regiments, commanded respectively by Lieutenant-Colonel Nolan, Lieutenant-Colonel Burke, Major Powell, Lieutenant-Colonel Zable and Major Brady, with Andrews' battalion of artillery, Major Latimer commanding, consisting of Raines', Dement's, Brown's and Carpenter's batteries. On June 16th my division left camp at Stephenson's and marched to Sbepherdstown, where Jones' brigade was temporarily detached, with orders to destroy a number of canal boats and a quantity of grain and flour stored at different points, and cut the canal (Chesapeake and Ohio canal). A report of his operations and the disposition made of his captures has been forwarded. June 18th we crossed the Potomac at Boteler's ford and encamped upon the batt
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th, Twenty-third and Thirty-seventh Virginia regiments, First Maryland battalion and First and Third North Carolina regiments, commanded respectively by Colonel Warren, Lieutenant-Colonel Walton, Major Wood, Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, Major Parsley and Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert; Nicholls' brigade, Colonel J. M. Williams commanding, consisting of First, Second, Tenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Louisiana regiments, commanded respectively by Lieutenant-Colonel Nolan, Lieutenant-Colonel Burke, Major Powell, Lieutenant-Colonel Zable and Major Brady, with Andrews' battalion of artillery, Major Latimer commanding, consisting of Raines', Dement's, Brown's and Carpenter's batteries. On June 16th my division left camp at Stephenson's and marched to Sbepherdstown, where Jones' brigade was temporarily detached, with orders to destroy a number of canal boats and a quantity of grain and flour stored at different points, and cut the canal (Chesapeake and Ohio canal). A report of his operations a
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ed to the support of the others, and the assault was renewed with great determination. Shortly after, the enemy moved forward to recapture the line of breastworks which had been taken the night previous, but was repulsed with great slaughter. Daniel's and Rodes' brigade (Colonel O'Neal commanding) of Rodes' division having reported to me, two other assualts were made; both failed — the enemy were too securely entrenched and in too great number to be dislodged by the force at my command. Ileft and rear, behaved as brave men. For particular instances of gallantry, I have the honor to refer you to the reports of brigade and regimental commanders herewith transmitted. I take pleasure in bearing testimony to the gallantry of Brigadier-General Daniel and Colonel O'Neal, and to Brigadier-General Smith and their brigades while under my command. We marched on the 5th across the mountain by Waynesboroa towards Hagerstown, and remained for a few days within three miles of the latter pl
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on the 1st of July. In one instance, when the Twenty-sixth North Carolina regiment encountered the second line of the enemy, his dead marked his line of battle with the accuracy of a line at dress parade. Archer's brigade on the right, Colonel D. B. Fry commanding, after advancing a short distance, discovered a large body of cavalry on its right flank. Colonel Fry judiciously changed his front, thus protecting the right flank of the division during the engagement. This brigade (Archer'Colonel Fry judiciously changed his front, thus protecting the right flank of the division during the engagement. This brigade (Archer's), the heroes of Chancellorsville, fully maintained its hard won and well-deserved reputation. The officer making the report of the part it played in the first and second charges, has failed to particularize any officer or soldier who displayed particular gallantry, which accounts for no one being named from this gallant little brigade. After breaking through the first and second lines of the enemy, and several of the regiments being out of ammunition, General Pender's division relieved my
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tenant-Colonel Nolan, Lieutenant-Colonel Burke, Major Powell, Lieutenant-Colonel Zable and Major Brady, with Andrews' battalion of artillery, Major Latimer commanding, consisting of Raines', Dement's, Brown's and Carpenter's batteries. On June 16th my division left camp at Stephenson's and marched to Sbepherdstown, where Jones' brigade was temporarily detached, with orders to destroy a number of canal boats and a quantity of grain and flour stored at different points, and cut the canal (Chesapeake and Ohio canal). A report of his operations and the disposition made of his captures has been forwarded. June 18th we crossed the Potomac at Boteler's ford and encamped upon the battle-ground of Sharpsburg; thence marched via Hagerstown and Chambersburg to within three miles of Carlisle. From Greencastle, Steuart's brigade was ordered to McConnellsburg to collect horses, cattle and other supplies which the army needed. The brigade having accomplished its mission to my satisfactio
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cuous gallantry on this occasion, are noticed Colonel Stone, commanding Second Mississippi regiment; Colonel Connally, commanding Fifty-fifth North Carolina regiment; Major Belo, Fifty-fifth North Carolina regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Moseley and Major Feeny, Forty-second Mississippi regiment, severely wounded while gallantly leading their regiments to the charge. Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, of the Fifty-fifth North Carolina regiment, was at the same time killed, as also was the gallant Lieutenant Roberts, of the Second Mississippi regiment, who, with a detachment of the Second and Forty-second Mississippi regiments, after a hand to hand conflict with the enemy, succeeded in capturing the colors of a Pennsylvania regiment. The good conduct of this brigade on this occasion merits my special commendation. On the right of the road Archer encountered heavy masses in his front, and his gallant little brigade, after being almost surrounded by overwhelming forces in front and on both fla
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ard Johnson. headquarters Johnson's division, September 30th, 1863. Major — I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of my division from June 15th to July 31st, 1863, embracing the campaign in Pennsylvania and battle of Gettysburg. My division comprised the Stonewall brigade, Brigadier-Gen-J. A. Walker, consisting of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Twenty-seventh and Thirty-third Virginia regiments, commanded respectively by Colonel Nadenbousch, Major Terry, Colonel Funk, Lieutenant-Colonel Shriver and Captain Golliday; J. M. Jones' brigade, consisting of the Twenty-first, Twenty-fifth, Forty-second, Forty-fourth, Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Virginia regiments, commanded respectively by Captain W. P. Moseley, Colonel Higginbotham, Captain Richardson, Captain Buckner, Lieutenant-Colonel Dungan and Lieutenant-Colonel Salyer; George H. Steuart's brigade, consisting of Tenth, Twenty-third and Thirty-seventh Virginia regiments, First Maryland battalion and First
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rs, and from its shattered condition it was not deemed advisable to bring it into action again on that day. After resting in line of battle for one hour or more, orders were received to attack the enemy in my front, with the notification that General Pender's division would support me. The division had not advanced more than a hundred yards before it became hotly engaged. The enemy was steadily driven before it at all points, except on the left, where Brockenbrough was held in check for a sher or soldier who displayed particular gallantry, which accounts for no one being named from this gallant little brigade. After breaking through the first and second lines of the enemy, and several of the regiments being out of ammunition, General Pender's division relieved my own, and continued the pursuit beyond the town of Gettysburg. At the same time that it would afford me much gratification, I would be doing but justice to the several batteries of Pegram's battalion, in mentioning th
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Pettigrew's brigade encountered the enemy in heavy force and broke through his first, second and third lines. The Eleventh North Carolina regiment, Colonel Leventhorpe commanding, and the Twenty-sixth North Carolina regiment, Colonel Burgwyn commanding, displayed conspicuous gallantry, of which I was an eye-witness. The Twenty-sixth North Carolina regiment, of its whole number, lost in this action more than half, in killed and wounded, among whom were Colonel Burgwyn killed, and Lieutenant-Colonel Lane severely wounded. Colonel Leven-thrope, of the Eleventh North Carolina regiment, was wounded and Colonel Ross killed. The Fifty-second and Forty-seventh North Carolina regiments,. on the right of the centre, were subjected to a heavy artillery fire, but suffered much less than the Eleventh and Twenty-sixth North Carolina regiments. These regiments behaved to my entire satisfaction. Pettigrew's brigade, under the leadership of that gallant officer and accomplished scholar, Br
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er being severely wounded. His conduct entitles him to a commission. Fewer wounded from my division were left in the hands of the enemy than from any other division of the army, for which I am indebted to the active exertion of Chief-Surgeon R. T. Coleman. Mr. E. J. Martin, my volunteer Aid-de-Camp, rendered valuable service by his prompt transmission of orders; and Major E. L. Moore faithfully performed his duties as Assistant Inspector-General. The troops are much indebted to Major T. E. Ballard and G. H. Kyle, of the Commissary Department, for supplies during the trying period covered by this report; cattle and flour were frequently procured within the enemy's lines. All of the officers and men of the division who came under my observation during their three days exposure to the enemy's incessant fire of musketry and artillery from the front and artillery from the left and rear, behaved as brave men. For particular instances of gallantry, I have the honor to refer you to


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/**
 * Test utils class for unit examples.
 *
 * @author Bertrand Martel
 */
public class TestUtils {

    /**
     * generate a header for unit examples message.
     *
     * @param className class name to print
     * @return message prefix
     */
    public static String generateMessageHeader(final Class className) {
        return "[" + className.getSimpleName() + "] ";
    }
}

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The following is an excerpt from Earth Wisdom, by Glennie Kindred. This book has been on my shelf for many years, and I often refer to it at the times of the yearly changes for inspiration and insights. It explores some of the Celtic traditions, knowledge and beliefs from Britain and Northern Europe and brings them forward to the present day.
"The power of the sun is increasing, the days are lengthening and the nights are shortening. We begin to feel empowered to reach out for what we want and to take risks, strike out on our own, go for walks and connect to the Earth again.
We can use the potential and fertility of this time to create opportunities for positive change in our lives and in the world. At his point we are poised between opposite forces, light and dark, receptive and active, unconscious and conscious, inner and outer. These can be united within us so that we are whole and balanced individuals. This gives birth to actions that come from the heart.
At this time of year we can inspire each other with prophecies of hope, the power of "we" and our willingness and power to bring change into the world as we create opportunities for a bright new future." Glennie also offers an awareness of tree energies, and the role of the spirit of trees through Celtic folklore and mythology.
Another way that we enjoy bringing intentional blessing and joy to the awakening earth is making decorations for branches outside with colourful pieces of wool, yarn, string, beads, bells, shells and whatever else we find that can be crafted into a joyful offering to the efforts of the blossoming plants. Creations can be hung in the branches of budding fruit trees to bless the fertility of the harvest. Alder trees, being the 3rd tree in the Celtic Tree Ogham*, represent balance and inspired action, and begin their rebirth in spring by bearing bright red catkins. Hazelnut trees, bearing clumps of yellow catkins, are associated with creative change and inspiration, and willows are trees of intuition, inspired action, fertility, visions, dreams, and expressed emotions. These trees all have an energetic commonality in the quick movement of water as a refreshing, spring clean quality, and so adorning these trees with bright celebrations of joy to be caught by the breeze also blesses the water that flows with new nourishment into the life that reaches out all around… including to and from ourselves.
*The Oghams were used by the Druids to classify, memorize, and store information. The Tree Ogham is a means of communication through each of the 20 Ogham symbols carved into Ogham sticks or staves. Each symbol, called a fedha or few, represents a tree or shrub and its underlying energy or wisdom.
This reminds me of an activity I did with my children: they created a tree book., We correlated the seeds, to the leaf and they drew the tree and researched and labeled what it was. It lead to an exploration of the trees in our neighborhood. It was fun. Your post is making me think I should post those pictures. Thank you.
Sounds great! There is so much to learn about and from trees.


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>Aviation & Space
>Robert "Bob" Cummings - HFSID 173090
ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 05/22/1982 - HFSID 173090
ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS The Emmy Award-nominated star of Love That Bob signs a form for an interview on a program for KABC Radio, during which Cummings, who was the godson of Orville Wright, discussed flying and acting Document Double Signed: "Bob Cummings" and initialed "B.C.", 1p, 8½x11.
Condition: lightly creased, otherwise fine condition
ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS
The Emmy Award-nominated star of Love That Bob signs a form for an interview on a program for KABC Radio, during which Cummings, who was the godson of Orville Wright, discussed flying and acting
Document Double Signed: "Bob Cummings" and initialed "B.C.", 1p, 8½x11. No place, but probably Los Angeles, California, 1982 May 22. Form for Cummings' appearance on Ray Briem's late-night program on KABC-AM (790) in Los Angeles. Cummings, whose interview was heard from 12:07 a.m.-1:56 a.m., discussed "flying-acting". Typed synopsis of the interview at lower margin. In full: "He said that he was on tv much to the displeasure of film producer Jack Warren. He said that Oroville (sic, Orville) Wright is his godfather after his doctor-father saved the aviators (sic) life. He stated that he was issued the first flight instructors (sic) ratings on earth...he said that ratings were issued because of misinfo." Cummings was the godson of Orville Wright, who taught him to fly. Cummings, who piloted his own plane for most of his life, was a pilot during WWII and he was issued Certificate No. 1 when the government began issuing flying instructors' licenses. RAY BRIEM, who worked the midnight-5:00 a.m. shift, was famous for his calls around the globe. The long-time on-air personality for KABC was honored for his work in radio with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Known primarily as a comic actor in films from the early 1930s, ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS (1910-1990), born Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, could handle meaty dramatic roles when they were offered (King's Row, 1942; Dial M for Murder, 1954). His frequent TV work included the hit series, The Bob Cummings Show, which also known as Love That Bob (1955-1959), for which he was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959. Cummings was also nominated for an Emmy for his role as Bob S. Beanblossom in My Hero, and he won an Emmy Award for an appearance in "Twelve Angry Men", an episode of the TV anthology series, Studio One. Lightly creased. Ink "X" at upper margin above Briem's name. Three file holes at blank left margin. Fine condition.
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ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS - DOCUMENT MULTI-SIGNED 04/10/1947 - HFSID 288900 - HFSID 288900
ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 07/24/1941 - HFSID 217176 - HFSID 217176
ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS - RECEIPT SIGNED 3/1961 - HFSID 209446 - HFSID 209446
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Does Ukuu Include Any Kind of Email Automation?
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Q: ajax success function not fired MVC I am trying to get my success result in a div through ajax query.
Ajax query is taking model value as parameter and filtering result according to that.
Here is my ajax query and view page-
@model IEnumerable<FunRanger.Models.TagModel>
@foreach (var item in Model) {

        #@item.tagName

}

I am trying to filter this result in another div whose id is 'funhome-partial`. This div is in Another project file of my project.
Action-
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult TagFilter(TagModel tag) {
    var cardlist = (from u in db.CardTables
                    where u.CardHashCode.Contains(tag.tagName)
                    select new CardModel {
                        cardHashCode = tag.tagName,
                        cardDate = u.CardDate,
                        cardFileName = u.CardFileName,
                        cardFilePath = u.CardFilePath,
                        cardID = u.CardID,
                        cardTitle = u.CardTitle
                    }).ToList();
    return View("FunHome", cardlist);

}

Everything works fine. I get filtered records according to that parameter that i can check by putting breakpoint there.
But This query doesn't call success function of ajax and shows me this error-
In case of a parameter named RipEnglish.
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) http://localhost:61203/Tag/TagFilter/?tagName=RipEnglish

How do I get ajax success result called, also is this a fine way of doing it?

A: AJAX can be difficult to troubleshoot if you don't have a lot of experience with it. The Developer Tools (or FireBug) available for all modern browsers are your friend. They make it much easier to see/understand what the server is returning as a response.
Since the request is using Ajax, the browser won't render any error pages that are returned.
Using Chrome (the other tools are similar and usually opened with CTRL + SHIFT + I or F12):

*

*Open the Developer Tools pane with (CTRL + SHIFT + I).

*Click the Network tab.

*Click your page element to fire the click handler and send the Ajax request.

*Find and click the network request in the Network tab (bottom-left).

*The pane next to the network request has Tabs for 'Headers', 'Preview' and 'Response'.

Headers will show you the contents of the request (what got sent to the server).
Response will show you the content of the servers response. This might be JSON for a successful request or it might be HTML source for an error page if an error occured.
The Preview tab will render the servers Response (if possible). This is especially helpful if you receive an error response/page from the server since you won't have to wade through the raw HTML to find the error details.
If your AJAX call is failing, and your server returns a 500 error, you can always check your server logs or look at the Network > Preview tab to see the error detail that is returned. You can troubleshoot the error just as you would any traditional server response.

A: I reconstructed your scenario and then solution goes this way, you need to check out your jquery click function.
Sample model which I used -
public class Tag
{
    public string TagName { get; set; }
}

Controller Actions -
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

    public ActionResult SubmitTag(Tag t)
    {
        return new ContentResult() { Content = t.TagName + "1" };
    }

Index View with JQuery -

<input type="button" id="ClickMe" value="ClickMe" />

And finally the output -

At debugging -

A: I managed this issue working.
It was so simple to track after @gooberverse's answer.
I checked in developer tools>network>response and it said me no view engine supports the searched locations or not found in searched locations error.
Though I had to create a shared view-->  shared>_SharedView and had to render it with the same method.
And it worked like charm.

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Q: How can str.translate from Python 2, only removing characters, be made to work in Python 3? This is an assignment that needs to change the name of the file within a certain folder, however, it doesn't change the name after all. Can anyone help?
import os

def rename_files():
    file_list = os.listdir(r"C:\Users\Downloads\prank")
    saved_path = os.getcwd()
    print("Current Working Directory is " +saved_path)
    os.chdir(r"C:\Users\Downloads\prank")
    for file_name in file_list:
        os.rename(file_name, file_name.translate(None, "0123456789"))
    os.chdir(saved_path)

rename_files()

result:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Downloads\prank\rename_files.py", line 10, in <module>
    rename_files()
  File "C:\Users\Downloads\prank\rename_files.py", line 8, in rename_files
    os.rename(file_name, file_name.translate(None, '0123456789'))
TypeError: translate() takes exactly one argument (2 given)

This code works in Python 2, but does not work in Python 3. How can it be made to work in Python 3.6, I only need to delete characters.

A: You are confusing the Python 2 str.translate() method with the Python 3 version (which is really the same as unicode.tranlate() in Python 2).
You can use the str.maketrans() static method to create a translation map; pass your string of digits to be removed in as the third argument to that function:
file_name.translate(str.maketrans('', '', '0123456789'))

Better still, store the result of str.maketrans() outside of the loop, and re-use it:
no_digits = str.maketrans('', '', '0123456789')

for file_name in file_list:
    os.rename(file_name, file_name.translate(no_digits))


Welcome to 2015! I believe that this is the year of growth, spiritual growth. We all should want to grow and mature in God's ways. Anything that is healthy will grow. The Christian life, in a lot of ways, is a parallel to our physical life, in that we are "born" and then we are supposed to grow and finally we are to attain maturity. I Corinthians 14:20 says, "Brethren, do not be children (immature) in your thinking; continue to be babes in (matters of) evil, but in your minds be mature (men)." When we are born-again we are babes in Christ; this means that we are new to God's kingdom and unsure of His ways. We must learn to operate and function now as Christians. However, we all need a desire to grow. Some never get out of being a "baby" Christian. The characteristics of a new baby are: having no responsibility, every need is taken care of, and not contributing or involving him or herself. These characteristics boil down to a "free ride;" therefore, their relationship with God remains very fragile. As a new Christian, we should grow. In the physical realm, children want to grow and as parents, we want them to grow. We get excited about their first words, first steps, and really excited when they are potty trained.
There is no difference within the spiritual realm. We should grow, contribute, and consistently learn more each day about who our Father in heaven is, who our Lord Jesus is. We need to walk, talk and act like Him. We will only grow as we learn the Word of God. Jesus said, "Man does not live on bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4). We need to hear and learn the Word of God and practice it. Let's be committed to getting involved and really growing and maturing. A story has been told of a little boy who fell out of bed and when asked what happened, he said, "I guess I just stayed too close to the gettin-in place." That is exactly why many people fall away from God, after they are born-again. They stay too close to the gettin-in place and do not grow to maturity. Welcome again to 2015; this will be the year to grow.


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require 'securerandom'

module Poke
  module API
    class RequestBuilder
      include Logging
      attr_reader :position, :start_time

      def initialize(auth, pos, endpoint, http_client)
        @access_token = auth.access_token
        @provider     = auth.provider
        @endpoint     = endpoint
        @position     = pos
        @client       = http_client ? http_client : HTTPClient.new
        @start_time   = Helpers.fetch_time
      end

      def request(reqs, client)
        logger.debug '[+] Creating new request'
        request_proto = build_main_request(reqs, client)

        logger.debug "[+] Generated RPC protobuf encoded request \r\n#{request_proto.inspect}"
        logger.info '[+] Executing RPC request'

        resp = execute_rpc_request(request_proto)
        resp = Response.new(resp.body, reqs)

        resp.decode(client)
        resp
      end

      private

      def build_main_request(sub_reqs, client)
        request_envelope = POGOProtos::Networking::Envelopes::RequestEnvelope
        req = request_envelope.new(
          status_code: 2,
          request_id: 814_580_613_288_820_746_0,
          unknown12: 989
        )
        req.latitude, req.longitude, req.altitude = @position

        build_sub_request(req, sub_reqs)
        set_authentication(req, client, request_envelope)

        logger.debug "[+] Generated RPC protobuf request \r\n#{req.inspect}"
        req.to_proto
      end

      def set_authentication(req, client, request_envelope)
        if client.ticket.get_ticket
          use_auth_ticket(req, client)
        else
          logger.info '[+] Using provider access token'
          token = request_envelope::AuthInfo::JWT.new(contents: @access_token, unknown2: 59)
          req.auth_info = request_envelope::AuthInfo.new(provider: @provider, token: token)
        end
      end

      def use_auth_ticket(req, client)
        req.auth_ticket = POGOProtos::Networking::Envelopes::AuthTicket.new(
          start: client.ticket.start, end: client.ticket.ends,
          expire_timestamp_ms: client.ticket.expire
        )

        Signature.load_signature(client) if client.sig_path
        Signature.create_signature(req, self, client) if client.sig_loaded
      end

      def build_sub_request(req, sub_reqs)
        sub_reqs.each do |sub_req|
          if sub_req.is_a?(Symbol)
            append_int_request(req, sub_req)
          elsif sub_req.is_a?(Hash)
            append_hash_request(req, sub_req)
          end
        end
      end

      def append_int_request(req, sub_req)
        entry_id = fetch_request_id(sub_req)
        int_req = POGOProtos::Networking::Requests::Request.new(request_type: entry_id)

        req.requests << int_req
        logger.info "[+] Adding '#{int_req.request_type}' to RPC request"
      end

      def append_hash_request(req, sub_req)
        entry_name = sub_req.keys.first
        entry_id   = fetch_request_id(entry_name)

        logger.info "[+] Adding '#{entry_name}' to RPC request with arguments"
        proto_class = fetch_proto_request_class(sub_req, entry_name)

        req.requests << POGOProtos::Networking::Requests::Request.new(
          request_type: entry_id,
          request_message: proto_class.to_proto
        )
      end

      def fetch_request_id(name)
        POGOProtos::Networking::Requests::RequestType.const_get(name)
      end

      def fetch_proto_request_class(sub_req, entry_name)
        entry_content = sub_req[entry_name]
        proto_name    = Poke::API::Helpers.camel_case_lower(entry_name) + 'Message'
        logger.debug "[+] #{entry_name}: #{entry_content}"

        POGOProtos::Networking::Requests::Messages.const_get(proto_name).new(entry_content)
      end

      def execute_rpc_request(request)
        resp = @client.post(@endpoint, request)
        raise Errors::ForbiddenAccess if resp.status == 403

        resp
      end
    end
  end
end


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Pictorial warnings
Karnataka High Court
Supreme Court asks cigarette companies to adhere to new rules on pictorial warnings
"You owe a duty to society," a bench of justices Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and Amitava Roy said while staying the Dharwad bench order.Samanwaya Rautray | ET Bureau | May 05, 2016, 08:56 IST
The earlier 2008 rules required pictorial warnings on just 40% of the packaging on one side.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reminded tobacco makers of their "duty to society" and to carry pictorial warnings spread over 85% of both sides of their packaging as mandated under the government's amended 2014 rules, staying a Karnataka High Court order that had prevented implementation of these rules.
"You owe a duty to society," a bench of justices Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and Amitava Roy said while staying the Dharwad bench order.
The earlier 2008 rules required pictorial warnings on just 40% of the packaging on one side. The new rules mandate pictorial warnings that the industry has said are "gruesome", "gory" and "extremely repulsive", intended to "shock and terrorise the user" rather than being factual and intended to warn the consumer.
The industry has said that the images as well as the textual warnings prescribed are false and misleading. It has said there is no evidence to prove that the images on the pictorial health warnings are of tobacco-related diseases or tobacco consumers.
However, non-governmental organisation Health for Millions, which has been demanding its implementation, urged the court to impose a stay on the high court order.
The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (packing and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2014, made under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution), Act of 2003, were notified to take effect from April 1, 2016.
These were immediately challenged in different high courts. A plea was later made to transfer all these petitions pending in different high courts to the top court which could then deal with the legality of these rules. Instead the top court transferred all these pending cases to the Karnataka High Court for a decision.
The top court requested the Karnataka High Court chief justice to ensure that the case was disposed of within eight weeks and despite resistance from the tobacco companies asked them to implement the rules in the meantime. To facilitate this, the top court bench stayed a Dharwad bench order which had prevented these rules from coming into effect for now.
The Dharwad stay "shall not be given effect to till further orders of the Karnataka High Court", it said. Earlier, appearing for the Tobacco Institute of India, senior advocate Arvind P Datar, argued that these rules were "unreasonable", "arbitrary", "unforceable" and violative of the 2003 Act. Datar argued that no consultations were made with the industry before enacting rules which made it mandatory to carry such "gruesome" warnings.
The earlier rule, covering 40% of the packaging only on one side, cannot be overruled without any consultation as it has a huge socio-economic impact on many sections, Datar argued. "The rules were ultra vires of the Act…as it does not empower the central government to prescribe the size of the warnings.
The Act merely requires the warnings to be legible, prominent and conspicuous as to the size and colour which were met by the unamended 2008 rules. This increase is completely arbitrary, unreasonable and is not based on any parameter," Datar said.
The industry association claimed that the new warnings would prevent tobacco makers from appropriately displaying their trademarks and would cause the market to be flooded with counterfeit products. It said that the tobacco crop directly and indirectly supports 38 million people engaged in production, processing, marketing and exports, including six million farmers.
Tags : Industry, tobacco, Supreme Court, Pictorial warnings, Karnataka High Court
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*The Cottage WatercolourOnly available as 22"x17" on paper. This reproduction is a limited edition of 500. Only 200 remain.price per print: 195.00149.99 per print when ordering more than 3 prints."The Cottage" was Robert's only reproduction of his watercolour works. It was produced in 1979 and kept unreleased until 2009 It is an excellent representation of the artists watercolour style going through the mid 1970's through to 2002. Now considered a collectors item.


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Observatoire Place Ville Marie
Tickets for Place Ville Marie Observatory
Drink in a 360° panorama 185 meters above the beautiful city of Montreal
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Tomorrow: 10:00 - 19:00
Take in spectacular views across the skyline of Montreal from 185 meters above street level
See Saint Lawrence River, Mount Royal, Old Montreal, Quartier des spectacles, and the Olympic Stadium, and more from an entirely new perspective
Go for a couple of drinks (or a meal) in the widely acclaimed Les Enfants Terribles restaurant, and toast to the amazing views out the windows
Take your stay in Montreal to new heights with a visit to the Place Ville Marie Observatory. See the city sparkle from 185 meters up, and learn about the incredible sights with a helpful online audio guide.
Get a bird's-eye view out over Montreal, and see the city from an entirely new perspective, while an informative audio guide gives you a history of the city and the observatory in your ear.
Take in the Saint Lawrence River, Mount Royal, Old Montreal, Quartier des spectacles, and the Olympic Stadium – to name but a few of the landmarks visible 185 meters above ground.
After you've settled into your newly elevated position in life, why not check out the fantastic Les Enfants Terribles restaurant, and savor a delicious meal, or chat over a cocktail or two!
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5 Place Ville Marie, QC H3B 2B6, Montreal
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The Pirate Bay has Started Mining Cryptocurrency Again
The most annoying thing about the new craze in cryptocurrency are the sites that think it's a good idea to take over users' processors to mine crypto (and therefore revenue) for themselves. The Pirate Bay was one of them, and it's just activated another miner that will mine crypto from users while they're using the site.
Miners first appeared last September and has been appearing on and off ever since, with the official line being that The Pirate Bay needs to generate revenue to stay in operation. Anyone who's paid attention to piracy-centric news will know that sites like The Pirate Bay has faced issues with revenue, as rights holders try and stop advertisers and financial organisations from associating with them.
Users naturally complained, especially since they hadn't been given the option of opting out of the miner. While the site had made a statement about its crypto-mining tests at the beginning, people have been unsure about the future. Recent events have shown us what seems to be going on, however, after it was reported a miner had been activated on the site's upload page - before spreading to other areas of the site.
Last week forum supermoderator Sid expressed some disappointment at the decision, but told people there are ways they can minimise the effect the miner may have on their CPU:
Yeah, yeah, whatever. The time it takes to download a torrent is completely and utterly irrelevant.
All you require from TPB is a magnet link. Open the site. Find a torrent. Click the magnet link. Close the site. End of miner.
If you are ever on TPB for more than 5 minutes or so you're doing it wrong.
And if you're ever on TPB without an ad blocker you're doing it doubly wrong.
If you are going to The Pirate Bay, for totally legit non-criminal reasons, be aware that it's going to be mining your CPU. Either minimise the time you spend on the site, or install an extension that prevents sites running mining scripts. There are plenty of them out there, and some of them even let you whitelist certain sites in case you decide you do want to support The Pirate Bay (or someone else) that way. [TorrentFreak]


Its time to end the secrecy and back room deals that have given the harbour cleanup a dirty name, says Judy Darcy, National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Its time to pull the plug on a public private partnership that will have disastrous results for taxpayers, for public health and for public accountability.
Darcy will be in town Thursday to release a report by an independent economist, John Loxley, on the request for proposals on the harbour solutions project. The analysis looks at public sector versus private sector financing and the process for preparing bids.
The report states that the financing costs for this project will likely be higher for private corporations than if the HRM financed the cleanup itself, says Darcy. As well, it takes issue with the secrecy behind the whole bidding process. We need a process thats open to public scrutiny.
Darcy says the analysis supports CUPEs position that the public sector option has not been given fair consideration.
Loxley questions whether the reference bid is valid given that its been prepared by a private sector group thats on record as supporting P3s.
Darcy will be holding a news conference tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Harbourview in Dartmouth to release details of the analysis. At the same time CUPE will also release responses from municipal candidates to a questionaire on the harbour cleanup.
Millions of taxpayers dollars are going to be poured into this harbour cleanup, Darcy concludes. The bidding process should be open and accountable, not behind closed doors at City Hall.
Following the news conference, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. CUPEs Water Watch Committee will be airing dirty laundry as part of an information picket at the Dartmouth Ferry Terminal.


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Live Review: Sleater-Kinney; Damien Jurado tonight (and take your chatter outside)…
Category: Blog,Reviews — Tags: Carry Brownstein, Corin Tucker, Damien Jurado, Janet Weiss, Sleater-Kinney — @ 1:17 pm February 16, 2015
Sleater-Kinney at The Slowdown, Feb. 13, 2015.
Sleater-Kinney have never been on top of my "must-listen-to" list. There's just something harsh and forced about their music, an abrasiveness that utterly lacks melody. It's tough to sing along to an S-K song unless it's something mellow like "Modern Girl" off The Woods, which is not characteristic of the band's usual sound.
Their new album, No Cities to Love, fits right in with the rest of their catalog — a bracing punk rock record loaded with shrill vocals, singing about what I do not know. The title track says it's not the cities but the weather they love. The rest of the song, the verses, are cryptic: "Atomic tourist / A life in search of power / I found my test sight / I made a ritual of emptiness." And so on. It's not so much the words that matter as the energy, and S-K exuded it Friday night at The Slowdown in front of a sold out crowd who loved every minute of it.
The trio, joined by an extra guitarist, rolled right into their set with gusto, with guitarist/vocalist Corin Tucker taking the lead as she would throughout the night, spitting out vocals over the din. There is little doubt that she is the leader of this band, though Carrie Brownstein is the crowd favorite thanks to a brighter, less jagged voice and her notoriety as an actress in Portlandia. Brownstein is a real star among indie stars.
I spent a good part of their set trying to figure out where the bass was coming from, as no one was playing bass guitar. It turned out (I think) that Brownstein and Tucker were trading turns playing their bass strings, though I swear at times neither was playing bass.
Despite taking a few years off the road, the band played as if they'd never left after The Woods came out almost a decade ago. If there was any ring rust, it came early in the set when Tucker sounded like she was trying a bit too hard on vocals (as she does at times on the record). As the set rolled on the band loosened up and got into a groove, injecting more soul into the music.
Holding it all down was drummer Janet Weiss, mesmerizing behind the kit and further enforcing the old punk adage that you're only as good as your drummer. That being the case, Sleater-Kinney remains one of the finer punk rock bands that emerged out of the '90s. And while I still don't care much for their records, after last Friday's show I've grown a new appreciation for their live stuff, which sounds less stiff and more…human than what they've put down in the studio.
While Sleater-Kinney was slaying it at The Slowdown, fellow Seattle-ite Damien Jurado was having less of a good time in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The acoustic folk artist berated the audience at Kalamazoo State Theater after they just wouldn't shut up. According to this MLive report, during his opening set for Jason Isbell, Jurado was pushed over the edge.
"The best way for me to do my job is to not be distracted by your talking," Jurado scolded. "If you want to talk there's lots of room and people out there talking, but this is not the place to do it, okay?"
It goes on from there, peaking with "Laugh all you want man, seriously, but this is not funny. This is my job." And, of course, the entire exchange was captured on video, which you can watch here. We've all been at shows where the crowd isn't paying attention to what's going on up on stage. I, for one, have to hand it to Jurado for telling them to shut up.
No doubt Omaha audiences are much more respectful than Kalamazoo's, right? So if you're headed to The Waiting Room tonight to see Jurado headline, take your chatter out to the sidewalk. No one wants to hear it, least of all Jurado, who is on the road supporting last year's Secretly Canadian release Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Sun. Opening is Oquoa's Max Holmquist. $15, 9 p.m.


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Shel dropped out of bartending school.
Sean decided to quit smoking.
Seth said you were happy here.
Do you think Roman would go on a date with me?
We won't hear from Clara.
I told Matthias you were hungry.
I can't do something like that without Spock's approval.
To compensate for his unpleasant experiences in hospital, Piete drank a little more than was good for him.
Miki was there as well.
I won't waste time trying to change Lee's mind.
Ricardo is a fighter pilot.
Sherri has always been a very easy person to get along with.
Patricio couldn't make the grade with Fay; she refused him when he asked her for a date.
Randolph said he didn't have time to read the newspaper this morning.
I'm sorry, Geoff, but seeing how much you've dissapointed me, I'm afraid that I am unable to believe in your abilities.
I wasn't expecting you to do it for Boyd.
I think Elijah was the one who told me that.
Norma was here earlier this morning.
Are you really going to let Novorolsky go there by himself?
Amy didn't hear that from me.
Ramadoss kissed her on the cheek.
Ahmed ran over to help Martha.


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Trump campaign raises over $3 million on first day of public impeachment hearings
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale announced the Trump campaign hopes to raise $5 million within a 24-hour span
President Donald Trump on Jan. 11, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
President Donald Trump's reelection campaign raised more than $3 million on the day of the first public House impeachment hearing.
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale announced the haul on Twitter Thursday. He says the campaign raised $3,144,257 Wednesday and now hopes to raise $5 million within a 24-hour span.
Democrats are investigating whether Trump abused his office when he pressed the Ukrainian government to investigate his political rivals.
But Trump's campaign has argued the probe is helping Trump, citing a spike in contributions and enthusiasm.
Rick Gorka, a spokesman for the national Republican Party and the campaign says that pushback efforts have generated nearly $10 million in free press in the states.
He's also reporting a surge in volunteers and says the response "we're receiving from the field has been tremendous."


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Q: Google Chrome wrong text displaying To make it short, I have a page which has a text "Šmarje" inside.
In Safari and Firefox the text shown is OK. but in Google Chrome I get a "small 8" instead of Š.
I have
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

In my html file.
I have "AddDefaultCharset utf-8" in Apache.
In Google Chrome I set the encoding to Central Europe.
And my file is saved as UTF-8.
I also tried echo the text from encoded UTF-8 MySql database and still..it works fine in Safari and Firefox, but not in Chrome.
For letters Č,č,Ž,ž there is no problem. My Google Chrome has only problem with the letter Š,š.
I tried using htmlentities, but it is not working... If I copy/paste the strange symbol that compares instead of "Š", the copied letter is "Š"..
MOVED HERE: Google Chrome wrong character - bug?
Thx for any help!

A: I have tested this and it seems to work fine in Google Chrome. If your grabbing the text from the database have you tried to echo it with htmlentities? like this:
<?php echo htmlentities($text); ?>


Micah I've been an avid listener of GatH for a few years, and I constantly fall in love with her voice and the way she translates feelings. I'm hoping she hits us with studios for these demos, because they're lovely. Favorite track: Stay True - Demo.
raik Oh oh oh, raw GatH!
Grant Evan Nordine Meredith Godreau is one of the greatest songwriters alive today. And I'm not saying that with a hint of irony and fully aware of who is currently writing. Her lyrics are stunning and original. Her thoughts are her own. Her music is beautiful simplicity. I always always always look forward to anything that Gregory and the Hawk releases. Favorite track: Heart Attack - Demo.
All demos recorded from July-September 2013 at home in Portland, Oregon, except 'You Read On' and 'Do You Wrong' recorded in Red Hook Brooklyn by Osei Essed.


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Here's the Last Game of Thrones Preview Trailer You'll Ever Watch
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Filed to:Game of Thrones
Daenerys, or someone who looks like her, standing before an army.
Game of Thrones has been delighting and horrifying us with its story of would-be kings and queens vying for power in a world full of people too ignorant to understand that everything that all of their petty squabbling had the potential to doom the entire world. Now, though, it's all coming to an end, and a new ruler will soon sit on the Iron Throne.
In response to Cersei's refusal to bend the knee and her savage murder of Missandei, Daenerys responded in Game of Thrones' penultimate episode by climbing onto her remaining dragon and descending upon Kings Landing to rain down fiery vengeance the way we've been waiting for her to do all season. The move came just as it seemed as if Cersei's forces were going to call it a day and relinquish power peacefully. But it was also at a time when the truth about Jon Snow's parentage was beginning to become known by more people throughout Westeros, necessitating the dragon queen to take drastic measures to ensure that people recognized (and feared) her power, and so she incinerated her more visible opponent to make a statement.
Now that Daenerys has almost entirely destroyed the city and killed tons of innocent people, though, there's still the business of actually getting onto the Throne and officially taking hold of the country's seat of power which, one imagines, is going to be rather complicated even now.
Here's our look at the series finale of HBO's Game of Thrones...
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'use strict';
const should = require('chai').should();
const expect = require('chai').expect;
const iceworm = require(__dirname + '/../index.js');
const FieldInfo = iceworm.FieldInfo;

describe('Float Validator', () => {
  it("Type", () => {
    let fi = FieldInfo.create('', "float");
    let v_float = fi.validate(13.5)
    let v_int = fi.validate(8)
    let v_bool = fi.validate(true)
    let v_string = fi.validate("some string")

    v_float.valid.should.equal(true);
    v_int.valid.should.equal(true);
    v_bool.valid.should.equal(false);
    v_string.valid.should.equal(false);
  })

  it("Type from numeric string", () => {
    let fi = FieldInfo.create('', "float")
    let result_from_string = fi.validate("12.5")
    result_from_string.valid.should.equal(true)
  })

  it('Required', () => {
    let fi = FieldInfo.create('', "*float");
    let result = fi.validate(undefined)
    result.valid.should.equal(false);
    result.errors.length.should.equal(1);
    result.errors[0].reason.should.equal("required");
  })

  it("Min", () => {
    let fi = FieldInfo.create('', "float>10")
    let result = fi.validate(9)
    result.valid.should.equal(false)
    result.errors.length.should.equal(1)
    result.errors[0].reason.should.equal("min")
  })

  it("Min (no value provided)", () => {
    let fi = FieldInfo.create('', "float>10")
    let result = fi.validate(undefined)
    result.valid.should.equal(true)
  })

  it("Max", () => {
    let fi = FieldInfo.create('', "float<10")
    let result = fi.validate(10)
    result.valid.should.equal(false)
    result.errors.length.should.equal(1)
    result.errors[0].reason.should.equal("max")
  })

  it("Max (no value provided)", () => {
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    let result = fi.validate(undefined)
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  })

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A 0/ ± 1 matrix is balanced if it does not contain a square submatrix with exactly two nonzero entries per row and per column in which the sum of all entries is 2 modulo 4. A 0/1 matrix is balanceable if its nonzero entries can be signed ±1 so that the resulting matrix is balanced. A signing algorithm due to Camion shows that the problems of recognizing balanced 0/ ± 1 matrices and balanceable 0/1 matrices are equivalent. Conforti, Cornu´ejols, Kapoor andVuˇskovi´c gave an algorithm to test if a 0/±1 matrix is balanced. Truemper has characterized balanceable 0/1 matrices in terms of forbidden submatrices. In this paper we give an algorithm that explicitly finds one of these forbidden submatrices or shows that none exists.