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The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job
When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?
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In 2016, an anonymous confession appeared on Reddit: "From around six years ago up until now, I have done nothing at work." As far as office confessions go, that might seem pretty tepid. But this coder, posting as FiletOFish1066, said he worked for a well-known tech company, and he really meant nothing. He wrote that within eight months of arriving on the quality-assurance job, he had fully automated his entire workload. "I am not joking. For 40 hours each week, I go to work, play League of Legends in my office, browse Reddit, and do whatever I feel like. In the past six years, I have maybe done 50 hours of real work." When his bosses realized that he'd worked less in half a decade than most Silicon Valley programmers do in a week, they fired him.
The tale quickly went viral in tech corners of the web, ultimately prompting its protagonist to delete not just the post, but his entire account.
About a year later, someone calling himself or herself Etherable posted a query to Workplace on Stack Exchange, one of the web's most important forums for programmers: "Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?" The conflicted coder described accepting a programming gig that had turned out to be "glorified data entry"—and, six months ago, writing scripts that put the entire job on autopilot. After that, "what used to take the last guy like a month, now takes maybe 10 minutes." The job was full-time, with benefits, and allowed Etherable to work from home. The program produced near-perfect results; for all management knew, its employee simply did flawless work.
The post proved unusually divisive, and comments flooded in. (It's now been viewed nearly half a million times.) Reactions were split between those who felt Etherable was cheating, or at least deceiving, the employer, and those who thought the coder had simply found a clever way to perform the job at hand. Etherable never responded to the ensuing discussion. Perhaps spooked by the attention—media outlets around the world picked up the story—the user vanished, leaving that sole contribution to an increasingly crucial conversation about who gets to automate work and on what terms.
Call it self-automation, or auto-automation. At a moment when the specter of mass automation haunts workers, rogue programmers demonstrate how the threat can become a godsend when taken into coders' hands, with or without their employers' knowledge. Since both FiletOFish1066 and Etherable posted anonymously and promptly disappeared, neither could be reached for comment. But their stories show that workplace automation can come in many forms and be led by people other than executives.
The promise of automation, touted by optimistic economists and sanguine futurists, has been that yielding work to machines would eliminate the drudgery of mindless, repetitive labor, freeing humans to fill our days with leisure, creative pursuits, or more dynamic work. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes famously speculated that "automatic machinery and the methods of mass production" would help deliver a 15-hour workweek—and even those hours would only be necessary to help men feel they had something to do.
Nearly a century later, despite formidable advances in technology, repetitive tasks persist. Automation continues apace; millions of jobs once carried out by humans are accomplished by software and mechanized factories, while Americans are working harder and increasingly longer hours. The gains from automation have generally been enjoyed not by those who operate the machines, but by those who own them. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the share of income going to wages in OECD nations has been decreasing since the 1970s, while the share being funneled into capital—into things like cash reserves and machinery—has been increasing. It can seem that some of the only workers who have realized any scrap of that rusty old promise of automation are the ones who've carved out the code to claim it for themselves.
Programmers, of course, have been writing code that automates their work for decades. Programming generally involves utilizing tools that add automation at different levels, from code formatting to merging to different code bases—most just don't take it to the extreme of fully or nearly fully automating their job. I chatted, via direct message on Reddit and email, with about a dozen programmers who said they had. These self-automators had tackled inventory management, report writing, graphics rendering, database administration, and data entry of every kind. One automated his wife's entire workload, too. Most asked to remain anonymous, to protect their job and reputation.
"When I started, my job literally took me eight hours a day," an early self-automator, whom I'll call Gary, told me. He worked for a large corporate hotel chain that was beginning to computerize its workflow in the '90s. Gary quickly recognized that he was spending a lot of his time repeating the same tasks, so he started learning to code after-hours. "Over the course of about three months, I built a piece of code in Lotus [1-2-3, then a popular PC spreadsheet program] that not only automated individual repetitive tasks, it effectively automated the entire job," he says. He didn't tell his bosses exactly what he had done, and the quality of his working life improved considerably.
"It felt weird to have free time during the day," he told me. "I spent that time learning about the other systems in the hotel." He then made himself useful, helping management with bottlenecks in those systems. Auto-automation had erased menial toil, reduced his stress, and let him pursue his actual interests. "In effect, I made my position into something I love, which is troubleshooting," he says. Two weeks before he left, he handed his boss a diskette loaded with the program and documentation on how it ran. His boss was upset that he was quitting, Gary says—until he handed over the diskette, showed him how the program worked, and told him to call if there was ever any problem. No call ever came.
Todd Hilehoffer was compiling reports for a Pennsylvania insurance company in 2000 when he realized his work could be done by a computer program. "I was very green at the time, with only a year of IT experience," he told me in a direct message, when he started writing code that could replace his job. "It took me about a year to automate it. I always thought my bosses would be impressed and would find more work for me." They were impressed, but they also didn't have another job for him. He passed his days playing chess online. "I was really only completely idle for about 6-9 months," Hilehoffer writes, after which he received a promotion.
In most fields, workers rarely have any formal input into whether their job is automated, or how and when automation could be implemented. Self-automators offer a glimpse of what it looks like when automation is orchestrated not by top-down corporate fiat, but by the same workers who stand to reap its benefits. Some embrace the extra leisure time, while others use the spare hours to learn new skills and tackle new programmatic challenges.
"What I quite like about these stories is that it shows that automation still has the potential to reduce the amount of boring work we have to do," Jamie Woodcock, a sociologist of work at the Oxford Internet Institute, told me. "Which was the promise of automation, which was that we wouldn't have to work 60-hour workweeks, and we could do more interesting things like stay home with our kids."
Yet many self-automators are afraid of sharing their code outside the cubicle. Even if a program impeccably performs their job, many feel that automation for one's own benefit is wrong. That human labor is inherently virtuous—and that employees should always maximize productivity for their employers—is more deeply coded into American work culture than any automation script could be. And most employment contracts stipulate that intellectual property developed on company time belongs to the employer. So any efficiency hack or automation gain an employee might make is apt to be absorbed by the employer, the benefits rerouted upstream.
One coder described keeping the fact that he'd fully automated his job from his company because he feared it would claim the IP as its own and refuse to compensate him. Another, who asked to be identified only as Jordan, told me he had once inadvertently automated an entire department into redundancy. He now saves "several weeks'" worth of time a year with automation scripts. Jordan says he and his colleagues keep a tight lid on their automation techniques, to maintain control over how they're used: "We generally keep these tools to ourselves."
Another programmer went to great lengths to conceal the contours of his fully automated $50,000 per year job from his boss. Management could check in on his computer screen via the network, so he ran a loop of prerecorded video to hide the fact that he wasn't actually working. In his advice-seeking post, Etherable wrote, "It doesn't feel like I'm doing the right thing."
"I don't understand why people would think it's unethical," Woodcock says. "You use various tools and forms of automation anyway; anyone who works with a computer is automating work." He says if any of these coders had sat in front of the computer, manually inputting the data day after day, they'd never be reprimanded. But by demonstrating that they're capable of higher levels of efficiency, some may, perversely, feel like they're shirking a duty to the companies that employ them. This is perhaps why automating work can feel like cheating, and be treated as such by corporate policy. On Amazon Mechanical Turk, the tech company's marketplace for microwork, automation is explicitly against its terms of service—and the gig workers like those on the platform, who labor for cents per task, could stand to benefit from automation most of all.
Some coders say that they've been fired outright for automating their work. In 2011, a user posting as AcceptableLosses wrote, "They took what I had developed, replaced me with an idiot that they showed how to work it, and promptly fired me for 'insubordination.' I had taken a business asset that was making them $30 grand a year profit and turned it into a million dollar a year program for the company, and they fired me for it to save ~30 grand a year on my salary. Job creators my ass." As such, gainfully employed self-automators' concerns are less likely rooted in ethical questions and more in not wanting to be fired or exploited by an employer that, as Woodcock notes, "expects not only all our time, but anything we create." Wary self-automators, he speculates, "don't trust our workplaces. The boss is going to say, 'Thank you, good work. Now do it again.'"
Few workers may have the desire to fully self-automate, but it appears a growing number are interested in scripting the busy work. The productivity web is littered with blog posts and how-to articles with titles like "How I Automated My Job With Node JS," and there are dozens of podcasts about every conceivable kind of automation: small business, marketing, smartphone. It's a burgeoning cottage industry.
"I see it as a grassroots effort by office workers and others who use a computer as part of their job," Al Sweigart, the author of Automate the Boring Stuff With Python, told me in an email. Even those with little or no familiarity with programming are now seeking out his work, driven by the ease of automating modern jobs. "I get emails from readers who tell me that they've freed up several hours of their (and their coworkers') days with a collection of small programs," Sweigart writes.
As it stands, self-automation can be empowering. But as automation techniques become better understood, they may simply become yet another skill set management can expect employees to possess, or learn—passing the gains to their organization, then making themselves useful in some other way. "Employees will increasingly need to automate their own jobs or get moved out," writes the Harvard Business Review. "Worldwide, we'll see many more top-down managerial mandates for bottom-up automation initiatives." And the rich and their employee-built bots will again swallow the gains.
Before that happens, anyone who works with code may want to consider the benefits enjoyed by self-automation. They're a sort of test case for how automation could deliver a higher quality of life to the average worker, albeit an imperfect one. "The problem is for automation to work, it needs to be democratized," Woodcock told me. "It's a step forward that it's not a corporate manager who's delivering automation. It's still not a democratic process." Self-automators are acting alone, deciding when and how to replace their own job with code. Ideally, automation decisions would happen collectively, with colleagues' and peers' input, so the gains could be evenly distributed.
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In 1932, Bertrand Russell wrote that "a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work." In 2018, that might mean self-automators' reclaiming parts of their workday; tomorrow it could mean working to secure automated gains for the masses. "I worry quite a bit that there really isn't enough work to go around for everyone to work full-time," Todd Hilehoffer says. Gary, the early-'90s self-automator, asked me, "Why is earning money for stockholders more important than employee quality of life? The system shouldn't be more important than the individuals who helped make that system relevant."
Self-automators show that coders are in a unique position to negotiate with employers over which automation-derived gains—like shorter workweeks and greater flexibility to pursue work that interests them—should be kept by workers. There's little evidence of any interest in doing so, but theoretically, self-automators could organize, and distribute automation techniques among middle- and working-class coders, giving rise to an industry that could actually enjoy that 15-hour workweek. It seems a rare opportunity—perhaps, with the advance of AI, one of the last—to try to set the terms for a mode of automation that puts people first.
Brian Merchant is a writer and editor in Los Angeles. He's the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, and the forthcoming Blood in the Machine, a book about the Luddite uprisings and the impact of automation.
In some ways, President Donald Trump refuses to follow any of the established rules, like avoiding open racism. In others, he is perfectly derivative—for example, when called on his racist remarks, the president reverted to one of the most tired cliches in the book:
As Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer wrote in an April Washington Post essay on the history of "racist bones," the phrase gained currency during the Reagan administration. When confronted about the racial impacts of its policies, the White House would simply insist it didn't see color; the policies were intended to affect everyone the same. It took to citing Martin Luther King Jr.'s exhortation to judge people on their character rather than skin color: "This embrace of colorblindness—a selective and distorted reading of what King actually advocated—enabled Reagan to frame his relentless attacks on civil rights as motivated by a morally righteous and apolitical commitment to equality."


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Dom Giulio Oggioni (Villasanta, Italia, 15 de junho de 1916 - Bergamo 24 de fevereiro 1993) foi um bispo católico italiano, das cidades de Lodi e de Bergamo .

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Nasceu em Villasanta, perto de Milão, em 15 de junho 1916.

Consagrado bispo de Lodi para as mãos do Cardeal Giovanni Colombo, em 1972, passou para Bergamo em 1977. Aposentou-se em 1991.

Faleceu como bispo emerito de Bergamo em 26 de fevereiro 1993.

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Many of the New World Symphony's most generous supporters—members of the exclusive Maestro's Circle Society—celebrated the launch of NWS' 25th Anniversary Season at W South Beach with fantastic music, cocktails and a scrumptious dinner. Sponsored by the W South Beach Hotel and Residences and hosted by NWS' illustrious Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas, the evening celebrated music, philanthropy and the organization's brilliant future.
While dining on filet mignon with dauphinoise potatoes and wild mushrooms, guests were delighted by the sounds of Mozart's oboe quartet followed by John Cage's avant-garde Living Room Music, both performed by NWS' talented Fellows. After dinner, everyone gathered in the reception area for dessert, mingling and cocktails courtesy of Bacardi, U.S.A. Upon departure, guests were treated to a stunning gift from Harry Winston - the famed jeweler and one of the premier sponsors of this year's 25th Anniversary New World Symphony Gala.


Kyiv will retake Crimea and the parts of Donbas it does not currently control using political and diplomatic methods, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.
"I say once again: we seek to regain Crimea and part of Donbas politically and diplomatically, but Ukraine has already benefitted from the Minsk agreements [on settling the conflict in Donbas]," Poroshenko said in Kyiv on Tuesday at a meeting with the heads of Ukraine's diplomatic missions abroad.
"We'll struggle, and we'll liberate each piece of our land, including in a political and diplomatic way, where the main burden lies on your shoulders. But we'll be reinforcing our military capability, as we have an aggressor country next to us that's capable of challenging European and global security," he said.


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This list contains best of the Anime series available on Netflix belonging to various genres
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
In the aftermath of a great war, Violet Evergarden, a young female ex-soldier, gets a job at a writers' agency and goes on assignments to create letters that can connect people.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
The Seven Deadly Sins were once an active group of knights in the region of Britannia, who disbanded after they supposedly plotted to overthrow the Liones Kingdom. Their supposed defeat came at the hands of the Holy Knights, but rumors continued to persist that they were still alive. Ten years later, the Holy Knights staged a coup d'état and captured the king, becoming the new, tyrannical rulers of the kingdom. The third princess, Elizabeth, then starts out on a journey to find the Seven Deadly Sins and enlist their help in taking back the kingdom..
Carole & Tuesday
Genre: Animation, Music, Sci-Fi
Two girls, from different backgrounds but sharing a love for music, meet and change history with their united musical talent.
When Lisa Tepes, beloved wife of Vlad Tepes AKA Dracula is acused of witchcraft and burned at the stake by an overzealous bishop, Dracula declares war on the people of Wallachia and unleashes an army of murderous demonic creatures from hell. Luckily, Trevor Belmont, last survivor of the Belmont clan, a disgraced family known for hunting all kinds of monsters, is still in town and agrees to take the fight to the lord of vampires
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Demons invade humanity after being frozen in ice for millions of years. Akira, a timid boy, is tasked by his friend Ryo to merge with one of these demons in order to be able to fight back against them for the sake of humanity.
Forest of Piano
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Two different people - the son of a prostitute, and the son of a professional musician - develop a bond of friendship through their love of playing the piano.
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama
In an alternate universe the theft of the Holy Grail 50 years previously ushers in a new conflict between the Mages Association and the rebellious Ygdillemna Family. With the activation of the Greater Grail, 15 Servants are summoned for an unprecedented battle royale in a new Holy Grail War.
Akko Kagari is an ordinary girl who joins the renowned witch academy for witch girls, Luna Nova Academy. When she was younger, she went to Magical Festa, a magic show hosted by a witch named Shiny Chariot. Akko was so mesmerized and inspired by Shiny Chariot's performance that she dreamed to someday be a "cool" witch like her.
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Young warrior Sinbad sets himself on the path to his destiny, encountering both friends and foes, and changing the world on his way.
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
The funny and romantic misadventures of a couple of kids passionate about arcade games in 1991 Japan.
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First prepare the fillet: plums to remove the stem and put it to boil with the addition of sugar, in a quiet fire for 15-20 minutes, almost turn into a jam. Make sure the fil does not light up. At the end of the cooking, add vanilla and 1/2 gelatin bags and mix well on the fire to dissolve gelatin. To me, this amount of gelatin is enough to fix a little bit of the fil, so that it does not scrub, yet it does not make the filthy and impeccable. The gelatin I use is usually dissolved in 4 dl of water (1 whole bag) and cooked until fermentation, and the water in this case has replaced plum fillets. Let go of the prepared flour to cool down a little, how much to prepare dough and chew.
In a large frying pan on a gentle fire, heat the pieces of butter and add the noodles. Ask them to get a pretty yellow color, but make sure they do not blaze. Get off the fire and mix the vanilla sugar.
Milk pour into the deeper sherry, say the 3 l, add sugar and put it to be cooked. When it starts to lower the temperature, it is easy to mix the bite and instant mashed potatoes. Cook a few minutes as long as the bite is cooked and then removed from the fire. Stir another wick to combine, add butter, and finally mildly stir the egg into the dough quickly.
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I have come to find that this is the truest thing I have ever heard in my life. I have made quite a few assumptions in my life and have had many relationships end because of this. I'm working on fixing this and everyday I get better. I'm always assuming the worse in everything whether it is with my son or my love life. Things are looking up and I'm moving toward becoming a better me.


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MLB News: Padres signs former Orioles Dominican catcher, who used banned substances this year
December 20, 2022 by Rodolfo Scott
The San Diego Padres agree to a split contract with the Dominican catcher Pedro Severino. The deal will pay him $1.95MM if he's in the Majors. and contains an additional $550K in performance bonuses. The 29-year-old, 6-foot-1, Severino has appeared in the Majors in each of the past eight seasons.
He broke into a depth player with the Nationals, playing in a combined 35 games from 2015-17. The backup got his fair share of action over the next four seasons, which he split between the Nationals and Orioles. While he struggled a lot during his final season in Washington, he posted respectable offensive numbers for a receiver during his three years in Baltimore:
From 2019-21, Severino hit .249/.315/.397 in 938 plate appearances. He hit 29 home runs with about league-average strikeout and walk numbers. However, the Orioles did not offer him in lieu of a projected $3.1MM arbitration salary last offseason.
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While he was partially motivated by the upcoming arrival of Adley Rutschman, the O's decision also reflected defensive deficiencies from Severino. Public metrics have cast him as a far below average defender behind the plate. He routinely rates himself as a worse-than-average pitching framer, according to Statcast, which pegged him as 10 runs under par in that regard in 2021.
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Houston star chefs and Texas foodies heat up smokin' Butcher's Ball
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Acclaimed TV chef's eagerly anticipated new bakery heats up in EaDo
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Houston's 'bread man' rises with exciting new restaurant and bakery
Bread Man's country sourdough. Photo by BrandTree Media
Bread Man Baking Company's Tasos Katsaounis. Photo by BrandTree Media
Chico Ramirez, Scott Simonson, Stacy Crowe-Simonson, and Tasos Katsaounis. Photo by Eric Sandler
Houston's bread man keeps rising. Over the course of two years, Tasos Katsaounis has turned Bread Man Baking Company from a side hustle into a rapidly growing small business that provides artisan bread to many of Houston's top restaurants as well as several locations of Whole Foods Market.
Now, Katsaounis is getting into the restaurant business. He's partnered with Chico Ramirez, formerly of Field & Tides, and Chez Nous owners Scott Simonson and Stacy Crowe-Simonson to open White Elm Cafe Bakery.
Slated to open in January 2020 in a former location of The Egg & I at 14079 Memorial Dr., White Elm will feature a bread and pastry program developed by Katsaounis and Bread Man baker Desirae Vasquez alongside a savory, French-influenced menu created by Crowe-Simonson. Ramirez, who sold his ownership stake in Field & Tides in June, will manage the cafe day-to-day as its operating partner.
"He had known it was an interest of mine to do something from a retail perspective," Katsaounis says about Ramirez. "I think the stars just aligned and the timing was right."
With their partnership established, Ramirez recruited the Simonsons to join. As he explains, he's been eating at Chez Nous for decades and admires the Humble restaurant's status as a beloved institution where people go to celebrate special occasions. The structure of White Elm allows the couple to become involved in another restaurant without having to take time away from Chez Nous.
Katsaounis didn't use the term "dream team" to describe the project, but it's certainly a veteran crew that's earned a laudable reputation for executing at a high level. That confidence shows itself in the cafe's name; "White Elm" is the street in Dallas where he grew up and learned to bake bread from his mother.
"If you've got a good solid product that's doing well in the market and you've got other people with talent on the savory side, you put those together with Chico who's been operating in this market for years and had success," Katsaounis says. "To us, it was a good equation for everything you need for a successful concept."
Although the menu is still under development, Simonson-Crowe, Chez Nous' executive chef, describes it as French-Mediterranean influenced with a focus on comfort food. Locally-sourced, seasonal produce will feature prominently in the dishes. As at Chez Nous, all dishes will be made from scratch.
On the pastry side, expect breads made with heirloom and artisan grains such as those sourced from Barton Springs Mill. In addition, the cafe will serve croissants, Danish, and other items Bread Man typically features at its stand at the weekly Urban Harvest farmers market.
Scott Simonson also promises service in line with what diners have come to expect from Chez Nous.
"The customer service we're going to bring to this place, too, not just food knowledge but the feel that you get when you come in," he says. "It's a better feel when people actually give a shit, because they love what's happening."
According to Ramirez, part of the location's appeal is that the neighborhood seems relatively underserved for this kind of casual cafe. If White Elm takes off, more locations could follow.
"This is something we think has legs," Ramirez says. "It's something we all enjoy. Who doesn't like the best bread in the world?"


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You're both trembling in your boots, but determined this is the right, the only choice. After all, isn't that what people do? Like swans, humans around the world tend to bind ourselves to another for life. We make our forever vows and say the magic words, "I do," then go off to make a practical life out of the dream. It's just the way we are, and it works pretty well, especially to provide a nest for our children.
Inherent in the whole coming together process is the notion that the love we experience, the tsunami of sensation that swept us into marriage "till death do us part," will last forever.
The truth is that, just as we humans do, Love changes its character over time. Are you the same person you were ten years ago? Of course not. And yet, in the most fundamental ways, you are.
It's the same with your Love for each other. Marriages between two people who really adore each other change their character, but the original bond, the Love, remains… if it was real to begin with.
For Love to be real, the most important part of the recipe is that neither party presents himself or herself as someone they are not. Obviously, if this kind of subterfuge is engaged in, the lover has fallen in love with someone who does not exist. The Love that is the basis of the relationship and the marriage, therefore, is not real. That marriage is endangered.
Love, true Love, is an elastic thing. Its expression, over time, invariably becomes less overwhelmingly all-encompassing. We mellow into another phase, and that's a good thing. Who could tremble in their boots for a lifetime? Who would want to?
Enter into a conscious, honest marriage, and you have a good chance of keeping your Love, for the rest of your lives, and beyond.
Stephen Kreutzer is a freelance publisher based in Cupertino, California. He publishes articles and reports in various ezines and provides wedding tips on http://www.your-wedding-plan.info/.


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SDE chairman Jevgeni Ossinovski. Source: Anna Aurelia Minev/ERR
Introduced by party chairman Jevgeni Ossinovski on Wednesday, the economic programme of the coalition Social Democratic Party (SDE) ahead of the upcoming Riigikogu elections focuses on education, the development of the e-state as well as a green economy.
"The competitiveness of the Estonian economy is one of the central mainstays upon which the well-being of the Estonian people rests, and Social Democrats believe in the market economy," Mr Ossinovski said when presenting the programme. "This means that business decisions and the risks accompanying them are borne predominantly by companies, and it is the duty of the state to create the necessary preconditions for companies."
According to Mr Ossinovski, the party's economic policy could be summarised in three keywords: human capital, innovation, and green economy. Of these, he emphasised the importance of education in particular.
"In a country with few natural resources like Estonia, education policy is the best economic policy," said the party chairman, adding that basic education is no longer sufficient in modern society. Thus, the party believes that young people should acquire at least a vocational education.
The programme also highlights the need for further investments in higher education and research. At least one of Estonia's universities should be helped to make the top 100 of universities worldwide, Mr Ossinovski said.
Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Rene Tammist highlighted the importance of the digitisation of the economy, which would create a better business environment for startups as well as cut red tape.
In developing the e-state, he said, the number one priority should be convenience of use. To ensure this, legislative drafting and bureaucracy need to be reduced by a quarter over the next four years.
Regarding the development of the green economy, which is also a priority in the party's economic programme, the SDE believes that good prerequisites exist in Estonia for successfully working on innovations that could help solve critical environmental challenges.
The SDE is one of two junior partners in the current three-party government coalition.
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Q: Checkbox is cleaning after searching I did an application using checkbox options but after doing click on search is cleaning what  checked and starting all checked (is not saving the last checked clicked).
Here the table
|people|
  |id|    |name|   |state|
   1       ABC       0
   2       DEF       0
   3       DEF       1
   4       DEF       1

Here the controller:
class PersonController < ApplicationController

  def search
    @people = Person.find(:all,:conditions=>['state = ?',params[:state] ] )
  end

end

Here is the view:
 <% form_tag :controller=>"person",:action=>"search" do %>
    Single  <%= check_box_tag "state", "0", params[:state] %>
    Married <%= check_box_tag "state", "1", params[:state] %>
    <%= submit_tag "Search", :name => nil %>
 <% end %>

 <% @people.each do |p|  %>
    p.name
    p.state
 <% end %>

I tried:
    Single  <%= check_box_tag "state", "0", params[:state].to_i %>
    Married <%= check_box_tag "state", "1", params[:state].to_i %>

And tried this too:
    Single  <%= check_box_tag "state", 0, params[:state].to_i %>
    Married <%= check_box_tag "state", 1, params[:state].to_i %>

And finally this:
    Single  <%= check_box_tag "state", "0", params[:state] %>
    Married <%= check_box_tag "state", "1", params[:state] %>

Everytime do click on SEARCH, the check option is cleaning and isn't saving the checked that I did.
The checkbox isn't saving what I checked after doing SEARCH.
Please somebody can help me?

A: You are actually using params[:business] instead of params[:state] thats the whole problem i think?

A: What you want is to maintain the "check" state of the checkbox, not its value.
Checkboxs submit values 1 when checked or 0 when unchecked. So you'd use a variable to store the value of those params.
Something like this:
Controller
@single_check = params[:single]
@married_check = params[:married]

Then, at your view, use it like this:
<% if @single_check == "1" %>
<%   chk_single = "true" %>
<% else %>
<%   chk_single = "false" %>
<% end %>
<% if @married_check== "1" %>
<%   chk_married = "true" %>
<% else %>
<%   chk_married = "false" %>
<% end %>

Single  <%= check_box_tag "state", 0, :checked=> chk_single %>
Married <%= check_box_tag "state", 1, :checked=> chk_married %>

A: Syntax for checkbox tag is
check_box_tag(name, value = "1", checked = false, options = {})

So in third parameter you have to pass either true or false, depending on your params to check or uncheck the checkbox.
Try this
Single  <%= check_box_tag "state", "0", params[:state].to_s == '0' %>
Married <%= check_box_tag "state", "1", params[:state].to_s == '1' %>

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Virginia Supreme Court Holds That Subcontractors Did Not Waive Statute of Limitations, With The Result That The General Contractor Was Liable To Owner For Defective Work But With No Recourse Against Subcontractors Who Performed The Work
Hensel Phelps Constr. Co. v. Thompson Masonry Contractor, Inc., et. al., No. 151780, 2016 Va. LEXIS 166 (Va. Nov. 3, 2016)
The dispute arose from the construction of a student health and fitness center at Virginia Tech. The prime contractor, Hensel Phelps, and its subcontractors substantially completed their work in 1998, and Virginia Tech made final payment in 1999. In April 2012, Virginia Tech discovered defects in the work, elected to repair them, and then sought to recover the costs from Hensel Phelps. Despite the significant passage of time between completion of the work and Virginia Tech's assertion of its claims, Hensel Phelps could not invoke the statute of limitations because under Virginia Code § 8.01-231, statutes of limitation do not apply to claims asserted by Commonwealth agencies such as Virginia Tech. Ultimately, Hensel Phelps paid $3,000,000 to Virginia Tech to settle the defective work claims.
Hensel Phelps, in turn, sought to recover from the subcontractors that performed the defective work. When the subcontractors refused to pay, Hensel Phelps commenced an action alleging, among other things, breach of contract against the subcontractors and their sureties. All of the defendants argued that Hensel Phelps' claims were barred by the applicable statute of limitations. The lower courts agreed. On appeal, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed.
In arriving at its decision, the Supreme Court reviewed the language of the subcontracts to determine whether there had been a waiver by the subcontractors. In Virginia, a "waiver" is the "intentional relinquishment of a known right, with both knowledge of its existence and an intention to relinquish it." Waivers may be either express of implied. In this case, Hensel Phelps argued that the waiver was expressed in the subcontracts. Specifically, Hensel Phelps relied upon two provisions in each of the respective subcontracts. The first provision was a standard "flow down" provision which provided that "each Subcontractor is bound to the Contractor by the same terms and conditions by which Contractor is bound to [Virginia Tech] under the Contract." The second provision provided that the subcontractor's warranty period covered any time "prior to Contractor's release from responsibility to [Virginia Tech] therefor as required by the Contract Documents." The Court held that the provisions failed to incorporate a waiver of the statute of limitations because they did not "expressly acknowledge the right to a limitations period or intent to waive that right."
The Court also noted that the prime contract between Hensel Phelps and Virginia Tech did not itself contain a waiver of the statutes of limitations. Rather, it was the operation of Virginia Code § 8.01-231 and Virginia Tech's status as a Commonwealth agency that made the statutes of limitations inapplicable to the claims asserted by Virginia Tech. Therefore, the Court concluded that even if the terms of the prime contract were contractually imposed upon the subcontractors, there was still no contractual waiver of the statute of limitations to be imposed upon the subcontractors.
Hensel Phelps argued, in the alternative, that its claims, while explicitly brought as claims for breach of contract, were actually claims for indemnification, and as such did not accrue until the subcontractors breached the subcontracts' indemnification provisions by refusing to pay. Consequently, Hensel Phelps argued, its claims were timely. The Virginia Supreme Court disagreed. Citing Uniwest v. Amiech Elevator Services, Inc., a case decided after execution of the subcontracts, the Court held that the indemnification provisions in the subcontract were void because they required the subcontractors to indemnify Hensel Phelps from and against damages arising from its own negligence. The Court also rejected Hensel Phelps attempts to repurpose other provisions in the subcontracts as indemnification provisions.
As a result, the prime contractor found itself in a situation where it was liable to a public owner for damages stemming from defective work, but with no recourse against the subcontractors that performed the work. The Court commented on this seemingly onerous result for contractors entering into agreements with the public owners by directing such contractors to "draft or amend their subcontracts to comply with Uniwest."
To view the full text of the court's decision, courtesy of Lexis®, click here.
– James M. Kwartnik, Jr.
February 9, 2017 January 31, 2017 defective work, Hensel Phelps Construction Company, Inc., Indemnity, Statute of Limitations, Thompson Masonry Contractor
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Land of Plenty - A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain
Author(s): Charlie Pye-Smith
Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat? Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those who are supplying us with the most essential things in life: our daily bread and butter, meat and fish, fruit and vegetables? In Land of Plenty Charlie Pye-Smith travels the length and breadth of these isles to explore the little-understood world of British agriculture. From ultramodern indoor dairy units producing millions of liters of milk a year to small, old-fashioned farms making cheese with twenty or thirty cows, and from landowners whose families have farmed the same fields for centuries to tenants who have just joined the industry, Pye-Smith investigates the timeless connection between land and people in the twenty-first century. Revealing the dairy industry in Somerset and Gloucestershire; beef in the Scottish Borders; sheep in North Yorkshire; pigs and poultry in East Anglia and Hampshire; vegetables in Norfolk; and fruit in Essex and the West Country, Land of Plenty is a colorful and rewarding travelogue that gets to the very heart of modern British life.
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Mountain View to Google: Take your techno-utopian factory town and shove it
By Heather Smith on May 8, 2015
Google made a ton of promises to the city of Mountain View, Calif.: New bike paths. New pedestrian bridges over the highway. Two new parks. Wetlands restoration. An educational science center. Major expansion of the free shuttle system that Google started running in Mountain View a year ago. $1.5 million in scholarships for local high schoolers. And a new police station.
What Google wanted in return was development rights to implement its master plan for a new Googleplex — which, if architectural renderings are to be believed, looks like what you'd get if a bay shore area had a baby with a giant glass tent. But when, Tuesday night, it came time for Mountain View to give Google the go-ahead, the city council instead gave the company a big middle finger.
As the Silicon Valley Business Journal put it:
The city council handed LinkedIn about 1.4 million square feet, the lion's share of roughly 2.2 million square feet of available commercial square footage for the area. Google came away with 515,000 square feet — enough for just one piece of its futuristic four-part campus expansion.
Seriously. LinkedIn! OK, it's a very successful public company, but for many of us it feels like the Friendster of professional networking sites. LinkedIn did not promise Mountain View the smorgasbord of civic bling that Google did, but it had one key thing in its favor — not being Google. As Silicon Valley Business Journal's Nathan Donato-Weinstein wrote:
Elected officials all praised Google's stunning futuristic design, but also worried about choking off LinkedIn, which they consider a key ingredient for the city's business diversity. (This is how a friend of mine put it to me today: "In Cupertino, the good news is you have Apple. The bad news is, you have Apple.")
In March, I wrote about how a few tech companies — but particularly Google — have been trying to rewrite the decades-old template of the office park. As Silicon Valley has continued to add office buildings, but refrained from building housing, the amount of car traffic through the area has skyrocketed — along with the number of commuters on Caltrain, the regional passenger rail system.
Google has tackled this problem first through its bus network and now through housing — ideally, 5,000 units of it on the grounds of the new Googleplex. This solution may be a hit with fans of infill development, but it has not been a hit with Mountain View. As a Mountain View city council member put it three years ago, "Housing by companies went out with the mining towns." Mountain View was more than happy to host the mine, but was unwilling to become the town.
According to Donato-Weinstein's analysis, Google's push for more housing was not the only factor that scuppered the approval of its plans, but it was a major one. Which raises a few questions. If the future of the suburbs is to make them more like cities, how to persuade the suburbs of this? And are tech companies really the best vehicles for this new urbanism?
Places like the 7.2 in Detroit, downtown Las Vegas, and Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood are serving as petri dishes for the tech industry's idea of how the city of the future should look. Right or wrong, Mountain View's refusal to petri it up is a warning shot across the bow to anyone who puts too much faith in techno-utopian city planning.
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