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PR Façade or Potential?: Justin Trudeau as Leader of the Free World
By Jennifer Chan	 On Jul 28, 2017
https://flic.kr/p/qfMk1y
Has Canada ever had a Prime Minister more globally adored than Justin Trudeau? Trudeau has appeared on Live with Kelly and Ryan, Vanity Fair, GQ and Vogue, has participated in the Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, and will be gracing the cover of Rolling Stone magazine this August. While this was unexpected I doubt anyone is really surprised. In a recent segment of the CBC's The National, panelists were asked: "Is Trudeau branding himself the leader of the free world?" Panelist Lincoln Blades answered that there is a vacancy in the position and that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is "effectively campaigning for that job" against Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron. While Germany and France may have a stronger economy and greater military power than Canada, neither Merkel nor Macron have been focusing on their brand more intensely than Trudeau. According to Abacus Data, Trudeau is the most popular Canadian Prime Minister in Canadian history, and an Ipsos poll stated that 4 in 10 Americans would prefer having Trudeau as their leader rather than Donald Trump.
For the first time in decades, Canadians are receiving global praise and love directed towards their Prime Minister. It doesn't hurt that Justin Trudeau has a very impressive and impeccable social media presence from Snapchat to a new trendy and "super Canadian" Spotify playlist. It's no wonder that his fan base keeps growing as his "hip with the youth public relations" continue to bolster his brand. The splendor of his social media presence highlighted by his quirky socks, however, evidently lacks actual display of public policies and politics. The Rolling Stone article asks "Is he the free world's best hope?" and with the title of the article referring to Trudeau as "the North Star"—the guiding light of the liberal world order—we need to ask if Justin Trudeau really has the potential to fill the current void? Or is world class progressive branding responsible for this mirage?
Prime Minister Trudeau takes a selfie with the Woman's National Soccer Team https://flic.kr/p/GZ3H5y
Sensationalizing Trudeau: The Role of Social and Global Media
Prior to the Rolling Stone feature, there already existed a plethora of articles that recap the wonderful things Trudeau has done to enamour domestic and international audiences. The day after Trudeau won the October 2015 elections, he was at the Jarry metro station in his riding of Papineau, thanking his constituents by shaking hands and taking selfies. This behaviour was seen as a breath of fresh air in contrast to incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who avoided and censored Canadian media. We didn't know it at that time, but this was the beginning of Trudeau's immaculate public relations campaign. Now he's known for perfectly-timed running selfies, quirky themed socks, apparent knowledge of quantum mechanics, and photobombing. While Trudeau's personal photographer Adam Scotti has a knack for snapping seemingly candid photos, CBC columnist Robyn Urback states that a majority of these seemingly coincidental and mundane occurrences "usually involve some sort of prior coordination."
The casual nature of Trudeau in combination with the fact that he is a social media savant means that his public engagement has not been lost on others. Not many incumbent world leaders have been able to attain the same level of international attention. The closest has been France's Emmanuel Macron, who garnered similar coverage during his 2017 Presidential campaign when a Snapchat video of him doing the bottle flip went viral and grabbed the attention of young voters. Political youth engagement has traditionally been difficult for governments to bolster but today, utilizing social media is now a way for politicians to engage with young voters. This has been recognized by political parties to attract membership. The Conservative Party of Canada has been attempting this tactic and while not a lot of people know who newly elected party leader Andrew Scheer is, the Conservative Party Facebook page has been churning out a lot of memes to interact with and engage their currently divided party members and attract young Conservatives. With all this manufactured attraction cluttering up news feeds, it's hard to see through the mirage of trendiness.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis at a State Dinner with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2017. https://flic.kr/p/UQWBPZ
Ultimately the article from Rolling Stone on Justin Trudeau is the epitome of foreign praise. The article is an apotheosis of the Prime Minister's ascent on the global stage. It glorifies him and notes all of his noteworthy quirks and accomplishments. American author Stephen Rodrick does this by contrasting Trudeau's policies and actions to Trump's, but doesn't acknowledge how easy it is to come out on top when being compared to a sexist, xenophobic, racist, transphobic demagogue. This article romanticizes Trudeau with ridiculous lines such as "His dark hair is a color found in nature." While some Canadians are aware of the false glorification from this article, an acquiescent majority of people reading this article will probably agree that Trudeau has become a "North Star," leading the way for liberal western democracies and thus the leader of the free world. The article does Justin a great service by painting him as a relatable man – comparable to America's nostalgia Barack Obama. Whilst the article touches on the failure to uphold the promise of electoral reform and the Liberals' neglect of Indigenous communities, the tsunamic praise overwhelms the dissonance.
In all respects, Trudeau is doing more for the fight against climate change than his predecessor and President Trump. Trudeau is agreeing and adhering to the Paris Agreement and calling for carbon pricing and carbon caps for all provinces. However, he broke an election promise when he gave the green light on both Keystone XL and Kinder Morgan pipeline projects. In addition to this, the Canadian government still fails to regulate mining companies, which means they are able to continue to exploit diminishing natural resources in developing countries – contributing both to carbon emissions abroad and human rights abuses. With Canadians making up less than 1% of the world's population and emitting 1.6% of global GHG emissions, it is evident that we need to do more in the global fight against climate change. This can be accomplished by recognizing both Trudeau's accomplishments and failures and calling for him to be held accountable for his promises. Overall, the Rolling Stone article has been dubbed "highly cringey" by Canadian media and it features tokenization of cabinet members such as Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. Many will read this feature article thanks to Trudeau being a photogenic man and the eye-grabbing question on the cover of the 1293 issue "Why Can't He Be Our President?" Hopefully, most will recognize that it is an exaltation of Trudeau and will not take it as the truth.
The Overshadowed Truth of Canadian Politics
When one is unaware of the failures of the Liberal government it is far easier to praise Trudeau. While international news outlets report on Trudeau through rose-tinted glasses, domestically we must face the reality that the Liberal government has been in office since October 2015, yet they have only passed half of the bills that the Conservative government under Harper did by this time in their mandate. The previous government had passed 50 while the present government has only passed 23. Nevertheless, quality is greater than quantity and the legislation that the Liberal government has passed has arguably been more substantial. This includes laws on medical assistance in dying, the Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement (CETA), policies on safe injection sites, reversals on immigration and citizenship laws put in place during the conservative era and passing Keystone XL and Kinder Morgan. That being said, these major policy changes and introductions have been eclipsed by a multitude of disappointing policy failures such as electoral reform. It was a highly popular platform promise that garnered Trudeau support from millennials, and with the rejection of electoral reform, Trudeau has seen a decline in youth support. It is also irritating to see how whimsical public relations can overshadow low quality climate change policies, broken promises to Indigenous peoples, and military deals. While there are bright spots in this administration, it is dangerous and concerning when citizens of a nation can tell you about their Prime Minister's socks but not their policies. Symbolism should not overshadow substance.
Prime Minister Trudeau and President Trump walk in the White House https://flic.kr/p/UZnZHF
Another reason for Trudeau's unprecedented popularity is his utilization of feminism and the fact that he is a self-proclaimed feminist. Feminism as a movement is facing accelerated commodification. As corporations capitalize off of feminism it reduces to no more than a political buzzword. He constantly reminds us that he is a feminist and thus many believe it. After all, Trudeau made gender parity cool before Macron! Trudeau makes it no secret that he loves his wife and has said that he wants his daughter to be the first elected female Prime Minister. Many question Trudeau's feminism and deem it as performative, as statistically we continuously see women unrepresented in Canadian government. Recently, Oxfam released a feminist scorecard that called for the Liberal government to "turn feminist words into action."
For example, women in Canadian parliamentary standing committees are underrepresented. 2 of the current 10 member committees have no women and three-quarters of them have two women or fewer. When the government was given the opportunity to address domestic issues through policies such as the proposal of Bill C-237, which called for parties to have greater gender parity in their party candidates, this bill ultimately failed. Meanwhile, the Liberal government has announced a feminism-focused foreign aid policy. Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau announced that they want to ensure that at least 95% of the country's foreign aid helps to improve the lives of women and girls. Currently, the government spends just 0.26% of the country's gross national income on foreign aid. The United Nations outlines a target of 0.7%. While we attempt to present a global image of feminist crusaders, the Canadian government fails Indigenous women and lacks feminist domestic policies. In Canada, for every dollar that a man makes, a woman makes on average $0.74. Even while acknowledging the fact that women are disproportionately represented in low-wage jobs, the Canadian government cannot be a false champion for feminism when there are still a multitude of gendered issues at home. In surveying 69 of Canada's largest companies, the McKinsey Global Institute found that women made up 45% of entry-level workers and 15% of CEOs in addition to the fact that fewer women were being promoted.
As frustrating as it is to see feminism to be reduced to a buzzword, it is because not all feminists are intersectional or adhere to it completely. The government has committed to tabling pay equity legislation for federally regulated sectors but will not do so until 2018. Additionally, Canada fell last year in the World Economic Forum's global gender equality rankings to 35th place. For context, in 1995 it was first place. These numbers and Trudeau's public statements such as "poverty is sexist" should result in a government aiming to increase feminist policies but that does not seem to be the case. This is probably because utilizing feminism as a buzzword is politically expedient. It costs politicians very little to say they are a feminist to reap the attention of feminists and women. It is a smart move to tell half your electorate that you care about their rights but it is a more costly move to actually follow through on these words. Nevertheless, Trudeau's image as a feminist heartthrob is stronger due to mass international attention. While both Canada and the US have committed 20 and 50 million respectively to the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, there is still more to do on the line of policy in combination with monetary commitment. Trudeau's feminism is not intersectional, his feminism thus far has been performative so he can benefit from the mainstream commodification of it. Feminists need to stop praising Trudeau's mainstream feminism to encourage him to prove himself by turning his words into actions.
Justin Trudeau speaks at a Liberal Debate https://flic.kr/p/e5XsmM
Though many believe that Trudeau could fill the void for leader of the free world we need to fully evaluate the situation. Of course, Trudeau's Canada looks like a haven in comparison to Trump's America. Coming out of Harper's anti-science and xenophobic government makes the rule of the Liberal government look like a political renaissance. The Liberal government is not doing terribly; they just ought to be doing better. If only Canada could be a fraction of the glamour that global media casts us as. In a time where the populist right are becoming more overt, we as citizens need to see past the glamour of public relations and keep the government accountable through their policy rather than through international reputation. We cannot be disillusioned and complacent when there are still Indigenous communities that lack access to clean drinking water and Indigenous communities where suicide rates are profoundly high. It is hard to praise Trudeau when we have headlines like: "Amazon Prime does more for northern food security than federal subsidies, say Iqaluit residents." While Trudeau has been dubbed anti-Trump by the Washington Post, it is impossible to see him lead an anti-Trump Western liberal agenda when he doesn't even publically condemn the man for his policies and actions. We need to keep the government accountable, especially noting how weak the current political opposition is. The Conservative Party is evidently divided in terms of their goals and ideas. Internationally, Justin Trudeau is a star but as Canadians, we must not let that inflate our egos and allow us to ignore the failures of our government. We cannot let our Prime Minister uphold a public relations façade that distracts from politics; rather, we should use the newfound platform to engage and role model the values that both Canadians and international audience believe we have.


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what happens if you want to pay an agreement off early.
If you borrow from an illegal lender (loan shark) you won't have any rights under the Consumer Credit Act so try to avoid borrowing in this way.
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it is not an exempt agreement.
If you signed a credit agreement before 6 April 2008, it could only be a regulated agreement if it was for credit under a certain amount.
your cancellation rights and whether you can pay off the loan early.
If your agreement doesn't include all this information and you have problems paying, the lender may not be able to take action to get their money back without the permission of a court.
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Some secured loans are covered by the Consumer Credit Act but not mortgages. If your secured loan is covered by the Act, you may be able to apply for a Time Order, if you have problems paying back what you owe. A Time Order is a special order that the courts can make, allowing you time to pay. This can help you keep your home if you fall behind with payments.
If you are behind with payments on a secured loan, get help from an adviser straight away. You can get advice from your local Citizens Advice.
some short term trade agreements.
over £25,000 which is predominantly for business purposes.
Your rights for these agreements will only depend on what is written in the contract, not on what is in the Consumer Credit Act.
how you should repay the amount borrowed including how much you will have to pay, the amount of the instalments and how often payments are due.
In practice lenders often only give you this information just before they give you the agreement to sign. You shouldn't feel under pressure to sign an agreement if you haven't had time to read the information and take it in. You can always ask to take away the information to look at and come back to sign the agreement later.
Once you have signed an agreement, the lender should send you a statement at least once a year, showing what you owe under the agreement. But you can ask for a statement at any time.
You can cancel a credit agreement at any time before you sign the agreement or within 14 days of signing it. You don't have to give a reason. This includes credit bought over the phone, by mail order, through the internet or digital TV.
You must tell the lender that you are cancelling the agreement. This is called giving notice. It's best to put the notice in writing and send it by recorded delivery if you can. Remember to keep a copy for your own records. You can also give notice verbally. You might need to do this if the 14 days is almost up. If you give the notice verbally, make sure you keep a record of the date and time and who you spoke to and follow it up in writing.
loans to pay death duties.
Even if you don't have a right under the Consumer Credit Act to get a refund when you change your mind, it's worth checking the agreement you signed to see whether it says you can return the goods within a certain time limit and have a full refund.
If you cancel a credit agreement you'll need to return any money given to you in advance under the agreement and pay for goods already installed, such as a kitchen or conservatory. If you bought goods on credit and cancel the agreement, you'll have to pay for them in another way or return them.
If you've paid a deposit or part-payment for goods or services which you are buying on credit, you should get all of your money back when you cancel. However, this does not apply if you arranged your own credit, for example you took out a loan separately to pay for the goods or service.
If you're having trouble paying back your loan, you should contact your lender - or get free, independent advice from a debt advice agency such as your local Citizens Advice.
If you want to pay off a loan early, under the Consumer Credit Act you should get a rebate of some of the interest and charges you've paid. To do this, you need to write to the lender and ask them to give you an early settlement amount for the loan. This is the total amount you must pay to clear the loan in full, including any rebate.
The lender must tell you the amount if you ask and allow you 28 days from when they received your request to pay the amount off in full. How much interest you have to pay depends on when you took out the loan and how much of it you have already paid off.
You don't have to pay off the loan just because you asked for an early settlement figure. You can carry on with your usual instalments instead.
If the lender doesn't answer your letter asking for an early settlement amount or if you think they are charging you too much, get advice from a specialist adviser.
If you don't want to pay off the whole amount owed, you can still pay off part of the loan early. This is called partial early settlement. The amount of rebate you get will be less than paying the loan off in full.
Paying off part of the loan early will affect how you pay the rest of the loan. The credit agreement may be clear about how any partial early payment will affect your remaining loan instalments. If it doesn't say anything about this, you can negotiate with the lender about whether you reduce the regular instalments or pay the rest of the amount owed over a shorter period of time.
You must tell the lender verbally or in writing that you intend to pay off part of the loan and make the payment within 28 days. Once you've made the payment, ask the lender to confirm how much is left to pay and how it affects the rest of the money owed.
If you're already behind with your payments under the loan agreement, any partial early settlement payment you make will be used to pay off the arrears first.
In England, Wales and Scotland you can get energy efficiency improvements by paying for them through instalments on your electricity bill. Paying through your bill is like a loan. This is called a Green Deal Plan. It is a consumer credit agreement.
You will be able to repay a Green Deal Plan early, in part or in full at any time.
If your Green Deal plan was taken out before 16 May 2014, and if the loan was for less than 15 years and the early repayment is less than £8,000 there is no charge for repaying early. If the loan is to be repaid over 15 years or more and is for £8,000 or more, you can be required to pay the total loan amount plus the total amount of interest that would have been paid over the course of the original term of the loan.
If your Green Deal plan is taken out on or after 16 May 2014, you will not be charged any early repayment fees.
You can find more about Green Deal finance on GOV.UK.
Under a hire purchase or a conditional sale agreement you do not own the goods until you have paid them off in full. This means you can end the agreement and return the goods at any time. However, you may still owe money depending on how much you have paid so far.
For more information about ending a hire purchase or conditional sale agreement.
A lender can end a credit card agreement by giving you two months notice in writing. They can also end your right to use your credit card either permanently or for a temporary period, but they must tell you in writing that they are going to do this and have a good reason. For example, the lender might suspect you of fraud or have a reason to believe you won't be able to repay what you owe.
If your card is refused because you're over the limit this doesn't mean your agreement has been ended. You should be able to put things right by paying back some of the money owed or reducing the amount you want to spend.
If you fall behind with payments the lender must send you an arrears notice including a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) information sheet. They don't have to do this in the case of a Green Deal Plan. This gives you key information about your rights and tells you where you can get help and advice to sort out the arrears. You can get the FCA information sheets from the FCA website.
Before they can take further action to get back what you owe, the lender must send you a default notice which must also include an FCA information sheet. The default notice tells you what you need to do to put things right and what will happen if you still don't pay what you owe.
The lender also has to send you a notice if they want to add on charges, for example, because you are late with a payment.
If the lender doesn't give you the right information when they should, they're not allowed to take you to court or add more interest or charges on your arrears until they've sent you the right notice. If a lender does try to take further action in this situation, get advice about what you can do.


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Mammal è un film del 2016 diretto da Rebecca Daly.

Trama
Margaret vive una vita solitaria, è divorziata e ha recentemente perso il figlio. Un giorno fa la conoscenza di un giovane ragazzo di nome Joe, che vive sulla strada, e inizia a sviluppare con lui uno strano e morboso rapporto. Nel frattempo, deve anche fare i conti con il ritorno dell'ex marito Matt, il quale non ha ancora superato il dolore per la morte del figlio.

Distribuzione
Il film è stato proiettato in anteprima al Sundance Film Festival 2016 il 24 gennaio 2016, all'interno della rassegna World Cinema Dramatic Competition, dove è stato accolto con un buon successo di critica. Il film è stato proiettato il 2 febbraio successivo nei Paesi Bassi per l'International Film Festival Rotterdam ed il 4 febbraio in Svezia al Göteborg International Film Festival.

Il film è stato distribuito nelle sale irlandesi il 1º aprile 2016 dalla Wildcard Distribution.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Film drammatici

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Finally! A Vacation!
I've been meaning to blog on this vacation for quite a while. I've been to busy enjoying it to do anything about it until now. I just woke up ( for no reason that I can figure) at about 4:00am (EDT) and couldn't get back to sleep. Blogging seemed like something vaguely useful to do. I'm sitting at my laptop with the headphones on listening to WPR's broadcast of the BBC World Service. I'm realizing how little news I've listened to since this trip began. I don't feel to bad about it. Ingrid and I haven't had a vacation together in roughly three years. We got something of a late start last Thursday. It took us longer to get packed than we had anticipated. We got on the road just before 5:00pm (CDT). We decide that, even with the late start, we weren't going to rush. We would arrive when we arrived and no sooner. Destination? St. Joseph, Michigan. Why? Ingrid grew to her teens there and hasn't been back in forty years. We found that many things had changed, but many others had not. We discovered the difference between the two in our explorations on Friday and Saturday. Ingrid's old house is still standing, although it has undergone much renovation. It is a small, two story, very blockish sort of house. The kind that most real estate agents would sell to a young married couple as a "starter" house. When Ingrid lived there it was decidedly a "fixer-upper". That particular part of town; the housing between the train tracks and Lake Michigan, forty years ago, was considered the poor side of town. That is no longer the case. Somewhere along the line, somebody finally figured out that that was lake-front property and the value shot through the roof, as it were. Gentrification has possessed the neighborhood. There has been a lot of restoration and even some new construction there. The house which used to be just south of Ingrid's, for example, has been torn down and replaced with a McMansion . The downtown area is thriving and vibrant with many diverse shops both new and old. Of the former variety is a small bead shop from which Ingrid has been ordering material for her art and jewelry projects. It took some doing to get her out of there to move on to other shops. Of the latter variety, across the street from the bead shop, is an old style five and dime store which Ingrid remembered from her childhood. The young lady working at the counter told us that her grandmother had worked there as a teenager. At the south end of the downtown strip is a small music store. It's accent is on band instruments. The walls are covered with trumpets, trombones, and the like. There is a small display of stringed instruments; cheap, acoustic guitars, one or two violins, and a fire-engine red ukulele. In the counter display I found something for which I have been searching for years -- a steel slide whistle. The only ones available in most places are the crummy, little, plastic ones. I couldn't pass it up. At the north end of the downtown strip in a huge, old, very official looking building which currently houses the St. Joseph Tourist Information Office. The structure was built in 1932 to house a bank. It is startling to imagine that someone had the moxie to establish a bank at the depth of the last Great Depression. The interior has been fully restored. The marble counters and teller-window cages are in tact. Ditto for the original vault doors (although, the vaults are now used to store tourist brochures). The most jangling change, according to Ingrid, is that St. Joe has become a very arts-friendly city. There many outdoor sculptures , and more galleries per block than many, much larger cities. We ended our stay in St. Joe watching (and photographing) the sunset over Lake Michigan. Having grown up in Chicago I have seen many sunrises over the lake. One must admit that most of them were seen as an adult, on a Saturday or Sunday morning, after closing some four o'clock bar (they're open until five on Friday and Saturday nights). Thus, my appreciation of said events were experienced through something of a haze. That having been said, this particular sunset was very different from anything which I have ever seen. Though the sky was cloudy, they were the sort of puffy, cumulous clouds one associates with a warm, summer evening ( the temperature was in the forties). They formed a great, gauze screen through which bit of sunlight shown , causing the horizon to colorfully glow with the promise of a better tomorrow. Sunday morning we moved north to Ludington, Michigan. I'll write more about that part of the trip soon. BTW, new photos from this trip are posted in the photo gallery.

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Q: Linq Expression property type I have a linq expression defined as follows:
private void GetMyPropertyType<T>(Expression<Func<T, object>> expression)
{
    // some code
    ----- HERE -----
}

which is called as
GetMyPropertyType<SomeType>(x => x.Age);

Now I want to know what the type is of "Age" at the position marked as "HERE".
The closest I've gotten is:"
expression.Body.Member.ToString()

which returns the value Int64 Age that I can then split and only take the first part of. The problem however is that I want to get the full path (System.Int64) which it only returns for certain types (like String).
Am I missing a completely obvious method? Or should I be doing it in this very ugly fashion?
Thanks in advance for any help.

A: You can use Expression.Type to find out the static type of the expression. However, because you've got Expression<Func<T, object>> you've actually got a conversion expression around the property expression, so you need to remove that first. Here's some sample code which works for the simple cases I've tried:
using System;
using System.Linq.Expressions;

class Person
{
    public int Age { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

class Test
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        ShowMemberType<Person>(p => p.Age);
        ShowMemberType<Person>(p => p.Name);
    }

    static void ShowMemberType<T>(Expression<Func<T, object>> expression)
    {
        var body = expression.Body;
        // Unwrap the conversion to object, if there is one.
        if (body.NodeType == ExpressionType.Convert)
        {
            body = ((UnaryExpression)body).Operand;
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Type: {0}", body.Type);
    }
}

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statement but the two classes are compiled together, GCJ does not fail.
If the OmittedImport class is compiled alone, it does fail as one would expect.
The Sun SDK does not compile the OmittedImport class in any case.
All gcj front end bugs have been fixed by the gcj-eclipse branch merge.
I'm mass-closing the affected PRs.
with a note explaining why.


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"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons." Pythagoras Tweet this quote
Did you know? Wingspan of a Boeing 747 airliner (64.4 m) is 2.5 x Length overall of the `Mayflower` sailing ship (26 m) Tweet this comparison
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Forest in Ukraine (2011) (101,400 km^2)
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If Forest in Ukraine (2011) (101,400 km^2) was a standard unit ...
Land Area of World (510 km^2)...more would be 5000 x Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Canada (9.98 km^2)...more would be 100 x Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Australia (2014) (4.1 km^2)...more would be 40 x Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in India (2011) (1.99 km^2)...more would be 20 x Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Mauritania (1.031 km^2)...more would be 10 x Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Egypt (1.001 km^2)...more would be 10 x Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Thailand (513,000 km^2)...more would be 5 x Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Chad (2011) (510,000 km^2)...more would be 5 x Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Spain (505,000 km^2)...more would be 5 x Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Iran (2011) (500,000 km^2)...more would be 5 x Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Pakistan (2011) (499,000 km^2)...more would be 5 x Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Zambia (2011) (499,000 km^2)...more would be 5 x Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Algeria (2014) (410,000 km^2)...more would be 4 x Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Paraguay (407,000 km^2)...more would be 4 x Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Ethiopia (2011) (400,000 km^2)...more would be 4 x Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Mauritania (2011) (400,000 km^2)...more would be 4 x Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Saudi Arabia (2011) (400,000 km^2)...more would be 4 x Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Malaysia (2011) (204,500 km^2)...more would be 2 x Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Botswana (2011) (200,100 km^2)...more would be 2 x Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Kyrgyzstan (200,000 km^2)...more would be 2 x Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Iceland (103,000 km^2)...more would be about as big as Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Cambodia (2011) (102,300 km^2)...more would be about as big as Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Burkina Faso (2011) (100,400 km^2)...more would be about as big as Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Morocco (2011) (51,400 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Bosnia and Herzegovina (51,200 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Costa Rica (51,100 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Laos (2011) (50,900 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Gabon (2011) (50,900 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Honduras (2011) (50,800 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Ghana (2011) (50,600 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Central African Republic (2011) (50,500 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Western Sahara (2011) (50,000 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Tajikistan (2011) (50,000 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Azerbaijan (2014) (49,900 km^2)...more would be 1/2 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Switzerland (41,300 km^2)...more would be 2/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Bulgaria (2011) (40,700 km^2)...more would be 2/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Sierra Leone (2011) (40,300 km^2)...more would be 2/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Malawi (2011) (40,300 km^2)...more would be 2/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Greece (2011) (40,200 km^2)...more would be 2/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Egypt (2011) (40,000 km^2)...more would be 2/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Syria (2011) (39,800 km^2)...more would be 2/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Macedonia (25,710 km^2)...more would be 1/4 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Finland (2011) (25,360 km^2)...more would be 1/4 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Moldova (2011) (25,350 km^2)...more would be 1/4 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Romania (2011) (25,270 km^2)...more would be 1/4 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Laos (2011) (25,100 km^2)...more would be 1/4 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Dominican Republic (2011) (25,070 km^2)...more would be 1/4 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Cambodia (2011) (20,640 km^2)...more would be 1/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Burundi (2011) (20,400 km^2)...more would be 1/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Slovenia (20,270 km^2)...more would be 1/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Algeria (2014) (20,000 km^2)...more would be 1/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Guinea-Bissau (2011) (19,940 km^2)...more would be 1/5 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Macedonia (2011) (10,230 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Belgium (2011) (10,230 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Denmark (2011) (10,210 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Kyrgyzstan (2011) (10,200 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Jordan (2011) (10,180 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Fiji (2011) (10,180 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Estonia (2011) (10,040 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Greenland (2011) (10,000 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Niger (2011) (10,000 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Saudi Arabia (2011) (10,000 km^2)...more would be 1/10 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Trinidad and Tobago (5,130 km^2)...more would be 1/20 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Syria (2011) (5,000 km^2)...more would be 1/20 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Macedonia (2011) (4,090 km^2)...more would be 1/25 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Cabo Verde (4,030 km^2)...more would be 1/25 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Moldova (2011) (4,030 km^2)...more would be 1/25 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in West Bank (2011) (2,540 km^2)...more would be 1/40 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Mauritius (2,040 km^2)...more would be 1/50 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Puerto Rico (2011) (2,000 km^2)...more would be 1/50 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Haiti (2011) (1,000 km^2)...more would be 1/100 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Luxembourg (2011) (410 km^2)...more would be 1/250 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Seychelles (2011) (403 km^2)...more would be 1/250 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Palau (2011) (402 km^2)...more would be 1/250 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Barbados (2011) (206.4 km^2)...more would be 1/500 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Sao Tome and Principe (2011) (204.4 km^2)...more would be 1/500 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Malta (2011) (102.1 km^2)...more would be 1/1000 of Forest in Ukraine
Land Area of Montserrat (102 km^2)...more would be 1/1000 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Guam (2011) (101.7 km^2)...more would be 1/1000 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Andorra (2014) (100.6 km^2)...more would be 1/1000 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in San Marino (2011) (50.8 km^2)...more would be 1/2000 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Djibouti (2011) (50 km^2)...more would be 1/2000 of Forest in Ukraine
Forest in Montserrat (2011) (25.5 km^2)...more would be 1/4000 of Forest in Ukraine
Other land in Niue (2011) (25.22 km^2)...more would be 1/4000 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in Aruba (2014) (19.98 km^2)...more would be 1/5000 of Forest in Ukraine
Land used for agriculture in San Marino (2011) (10.19 km^2)...more would be 1/10000 of Forest in Ukraine
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Trump administration 'very optimistic' about deal on homelessness with LA, ending clash
By Katy O'Donnell
Politico January 14, 2020
The Trump administration official coordinating the government's response to homelessness said Tuesday he's "very optimistic" the White House will reach an agreement with California on a joint response to the surge of people sleeping in the streets of Los Angeles.
After months of clashing with state Democrats over the problem last year, Trump administration officials have been in talks with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger about a potential deal to supplement a local plan with federal funding and land.
"I'm spending most of my time on that, and there's a whole team of people that are working in the mayor's office, also the supervisor's office, and the administration, and we're very optimistic," said Robert Marbut, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.
The more collegial approach marks a sharp departure from the antagonistic stance that President Donald Trump took in the fall, when he accused Democrats of giving people experiencing homelessness free rein to "destroy" cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco.
As recently as Christmas Day, Trump was threatening to go around state officials, tweeting that the federal government would take action if California Gov. Gavin Newsom fails to "fix the problem."
By last week, the president was framing federal action as an offer rather than a threat: If a city "is willing to acknowledge responsibility, and politely asks for help from the federal government, we will very seriously consider getting involved in order to make those poorly run Democrat Cities great again!" he tweeted.
After speaking with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson by phone on Jan. 8, Garcetti followed up with a letter requesting aid. He thanked Carson for offering "support for service and housing programs; potential federal land for housing and shelter development; and leveraged resources needed to address critical public health needs."
But Carson's own letter after the call made clear that federal dollars will come with strings attached.
"To address this humanitarian crisis in the long term, the city and county of Los Angeles must partner with our efforts and make necessary policy changes," Carson wrote in the letter, which was obtained by POLITICO.
Those changes include expanding mental health services, reducing regulations to cut the cost of construction and "empowering and utilizing local law enforcement," Carson wrote. He added that he was "very encouraged by the recent discussions" about partnering on the issue.
Garcetti spokesperson Alex Comisar said, "Los Angeles is already taking bold steps forward, and more emergency assistance from our federal partners could help us scale up our work, and get our homeless neighbors off the street more quickly." He said the mayor "looks forward to working with all levels of government to turn productive discussions into real progress on humane and lasting solutions."
Marbut also emphasized the need for a "holistic" approach Tuesday.
"This is not going to get solved with one level of government; this is going to get solved with the federal government working with the local government," he said at an event in Washington on homelessness. "But we also have to change some of the stuff we're doing."
His remarks came as Republicans and Democrats in Congress argued over who was to blame for homelessness during a House Financial Services Committee hearing.
A 3 percent increase in homelessness nationwide last year was "largely driven by high-cost, high-tax states, specifically California and New York," ranking member Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) said, citing the latest HUD count, which found that the unsheltered population in California had spiked 21 percent in 2019.
"The fact is that since 2007, blue states have not been able to reduce their homeless populations at all while red states have cut homelessness by about a third," McHenry added.
Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) rebuked McHenry for injecting politics into the issue.
"This should be a nonpartisan issue; homelessness is prevalent all over this country," Waters said. "I don't want to hear anything about red or blue."
Marbut, a controversial consultant whose appointment last month alarmed Democrats in Congress, has advocated in the past for moving people experiencing homelessness to large "campuses" with onsite treatment for issues like addiction.
The idea of conditioning shelter on the acceptance of services has drawn criticism from housing advocates, who generally espouse a "housing first" policy of placing people in permanent homes before addressing other concerns.
Democrats reiterated their support for that approach Tuesday.
"I want to lead with compassion when I look at these issues, and the housing first approach has been supported by Republican administrations and Democratic administrations in the past," progressive freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan said. "It is the way forward."
Republican Rep. Andy Barr of Kentucky countered that the policy is not "actually caring for people when you disregard the underlying causes of why those folks are struggling."
Jeremy White contributed to this story.
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HIV: Early infant diagnosis coverage low, group says
Lara Adejoro
The National Coordinator of the Association of Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria, Assumpta Reginald has said that the uptake of antenatal care, facility delivery, and early infant diagnosis coverage of human immunodeficiency virus is low.
Reginald, however, said the low uptake of facility-based services by mothers is not peculiar to women living with HIV.
Reginald said this on Thursday in Abuja at the advocacy workshop for mentor mothers on the uptake of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Early Infant Diagnosis (EIDs) services, and 16 days of activism and a close-out ceremony of four days of training organised by ASWHAN with funding support from UN Women.
She said "I am aware that the ongoing national strategic plan is moving forward to plan for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This is an extremely good development. We are, however, still far from this vision.
"In 2020, the prevention of mother-to-child transmission coverage was 37 per cent. The uptake of ANC, facility delivery, and EID coverage is still very low.
"This low uptake of facility-based services by mothers is not peculiar to women living with HIV. The national data on the use of the facility by women reflect that what you see with women living with HIV is a reflection of what is happening in Nigeria.
"There is evidence of good practices that success of PMTCT programming in Nigeria. All the evidence for improving maternal uptake of facility services points to the need to invest in community structures and systems. PMTCT or Elimination of mother-to-child transmission as it is called now will require active community engagement to make the needed difference.
"We as community members have a huge concern about the poor will to invest in community systems to drive what concerns us. Investments in community systems to drive PMTCT is poor, inconsistent, and done with tokenism. It is a bridge of our rights to care to know about best practices and not institute this.
"Nigeria has success stories to tell about how the Mentor Mothers program can make the needed paradigm shift with PMTCT services. We can build on the lessons learnt with the Mentor Mothers program and bring this program to scale up. However, building and bringing to scale up cannot be done with the current practices of poor remuneration or inconsistent engagement of mentor mothers. Mentor mothers need to be developed as a national program with all systems and structures to support its implementation. Community systems and structures also need to be given the due visibility to drive and do what it is specialized to do.
"The USAID localisation agenda, PEPFAR, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Global Fund all speak to the need to strengthen community response and ensure the community owns their response. If there is any place where the realisation of this localisation agenda needs to be grounded in Nigeria, it is with the PMTCT programme. Funding of facility care services to the exclusion of community care services cannot move the country from a PMTCT programme paradigm to the EMTCT programme paradigm.
"Women having positive babies is not a data matter. It is a source of emotional turmoil for any woman. The emotional and physical pain of nursing a child who could have been born HIV Negative is not what anyone here will want to go through. We all have the responsibility to spare all women from such agony when we have the tool and the technical knowledge to make it happen."
According to her, PMTCT policymakers and programmers need to develop the will to make the needed change happen.
"ASWHAN can actively play a role in this respect. ASWHAN is a network that has the coverage to support community programming for PMTCT or EMTCT. Direct funding for ASWHAN-led community-based activities, to support delivery by skilled personnel, in systems and structures that promote PMTCT and EID uptake will make the needed difference.
"ASWHAN is a willing partner. We have been doing and will continue to do what we know how to do best – support women living with HIV to live high-quality lives with family and children."
Meanwhile, the Programme Director, Global Fund-supported National Aligned HIV/AIDS Initiative, Christy Laniyan, said there is a need for every woman to know their HIV status.
"We must ensure that every woman who becomes pregnant tests for HIV, knows their result just like they will test their packed cell volume to know whether they are anaemic.
"If a woman is pregnant and anemic, she may die, and she may give birth to a low-birth-weight baby but once she knows she is anaemic, there are things she will be given that can increase her blood, make the baby be born healthy, so is the same with a pregnant woman who is HIV positive.
"When she knows her status, there are enough technology and tools in hospitals to help her deliver an HIV-negative baby. It will be good to have a generation of children in Nigeria who are not HIV positive to achieve the EMTCT," she said.
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Sears workers demand hardship fund as company teeters on edge of closing
May 22, 2018 January 9, 2019 Joseph Lautier
As Sears Holdings Corp teeters on the brink of liquidation, its employees are pushing for a hardship fund they hope can replicate the success of bankrupt retailer Toys 'R' Us, whose workers collected $20 million in severance pay from its former owners.
Sears on Tuesday agreed to consider a revised takeover bid from Chairman Edward Lampert, temporarily staving off a liquidation that would have spelled the end of the company.
The latest attempt by Lampert follows a decade of revenue declines, hundreds of store closures, and years of deals in an attempt to turn around the company he put together in 2005 in an $11 billion deal.
Now, the retailer's approximately 68,000 workers are pushing Lampert to set up a financial fund giving laid-off workers a week of pay for every year of service.
"If he (Eddie Lampert) can drum up the money for another takeover bid, he can find the resources to come up with a hardship fund," said Onie Patrick, a laid-off Kmart employee who is part of the organizing effort.
The fight for a hardship fund has become the new normal in U.S. retail, signaling a growing push for severance pay and benefits in an industry that has witnessed a raft of store closures and bankruptcies.
Sears is among the dozens of retailers like Gymboree, Claire's, Nine West, Payless Shoe Source and True that have filed for bankruptcy in the past two years. Others like Bon-Ton Department Stores and Toys 'R' Us have gone out of business.
In the case of Sears, if liquidation is announced, employees will have to file claims with the court for both lost wages and severance that was promised to them, said Jerry Glass, president of labor relations at consultancy F&H Solutions Group.
Sears employees will be competing for the limited funds available, with other creditors, investors, and management employees who will be retained to assist in the liquidation, he said.
Last year, private equity firms Bain Capital and KKR & Co Inc — which bought Toys 'R' Us in a 2005 leveraged buyout and loaded it with billions of dollars in debt before liquidating the chain in June 2018 — set aside $20 million for retail workers, who had demanded $75 million.
The fund was an unusual move for private-equity owners, who are not required under bankruptcy law to provide such assistance for ex-employees.
Rise Up Retail, a campaign from labor group Organization United for Respect which assisted Toys R Us employees, does not think that will be a barrier.
The group has sent a letter to Lampert and other creditors demanding financial assistance for workers. It is also pushing for state and federal legislation that would require bankrupt companies to make severance payments.
"Eddie Lampert has picked apart this company and this is about him taking financial responsibility for his actions and the impact that is going to have on thousands of families," said Lily Wang, deputy director for Organization United for Respect's Rise Up Retail campaign.
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Turkey's Erdogan criticizes John Bolton as rift between NATO allies deepens
ANKARA, Turkey — President Donald Trump's plans for withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria were thrown into more uncertainty Tuesday as national security adviser John Bolton left the region after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to meet with him. Bolton's mission to smooth a troop withdrawal with U.S. allies instead ended in only widening the rift with Turkey.
The path forward now appears more muddled than ever given Trump's demand for assurances that Turkey protect Syrian Kurds after U.S. troops depart and Erdogan's public snub of Bolton.
A senior administration official told NBC News that Trump thought he had gotten a commitment from Erdogan in a Dec. 23 phone call that Turkey would protect the Syrian Kurds, who have been a key U.S. ally in the fight against the Islamic State, after the American troops leave.
But a defiant Erdogan on Tuesday declined to meet with Bolton, who was in Turkey for talks about the withdrawal. In a speech to his political party, Erdogan said that Bolton had made a "serious mistake" in saying no U.S. troops would leave northeast Syria without such a commitment.
Erdogan said that Turkey would never compromise on the issue of the Syrian Kurds, or YPG Kurdish militia, which Turkey sees as a terrorist organization and part of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party.
Bolton met for more than two hours earlier in the day with his Turkish counterpart, Ibrahim Kalin, the senior administration official, who was at the meeting, said. During that meeting, Bolton presented Kalin with a list of five conditions the U.S. has for withdrawing troops from Syria — items agreed to by Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford and James Jeffrey, the U.S. envoy for Syria and the fight against ISIS, according to the senior administration official.
The list includes "a negotiated solution to Turkish security concerns," the official said, and stipulates: "We want the protection of all civilians, particularly local minority populations. We'll cooperate with Turkey on de-conflicting the airspace over northeast Syria. The United States opposes any mistreatment of opposition forces who fought with us against ISIS."
Turkey rejected the proposal.
"I think it's fair to say that the United States stuck by the president's request as reflected in these points that the Kurds, that the opposition forces that fought with us, not be mistreated," the U.S. official said. "And the Turks stuck by their position that the PYD and the YPG are terrorist groups and they're free to go after them." (The PYD, or Democratic Union Party, is the political wing of the YPG.)
Kalin told Bolton that Erdogan had committed Turkey to not taking offensive action in Syria while U.S. forces were there, the official said.
The official said Erdogan's speech on Tuesday was not at odds with the commitment Trump thought he had gotten from Erdogan during their Dec. 23 phone call.
National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said Erdogan called Kalin during their meeting and told him to send his regards to Bolton. However, Erdogan said he wouldn't be able to spend any time with Bolton because he was headed to Parliament to deliver a speech.
A meeting between Bolton and Erdogan was never confirmed, a U.S. official said, but administration officials had said one was expected.
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Jobs report is good news, but American workers still need skills training
April 23, 2018 January 9, 2019 Joseph Lautier
With more and more Americans entering a booming labor market and unemployment hovering at 50-year lows, 2019 would seem to be the year of the worker. Wage growth has started to improve, hitting 3.2 percent over the past year, and government data shows there are more job openings than people looking for work.
Ironically, those conditions might mean a better year for those who already have jobs and might be considering a change. Those who have been without jobs, however, face the dual problems of missing skills and disadvantageous location. In addition, the lack of available workers could put the brakes on economic growth.
There's been an employment boom, with January likely to be the hundredth consecutive month of job growth, according to Becky Frankiewicz, president of North America for ManpowerGroup. "We're seeing growth across all sectors" and types of work, she told NBC News. In a recent survey, the company found that among the top positions needed were skilled building trades, drivers, and sales representatives. "These aren't your future AI jobs."
However, technology has again changed the nature of work. Increasingly, workers need specialized technical knowledge. "We don't have enough labor and we don't have enough with skilled capabilities," Frankiewicz said.
The shortage is hitting many industries hard. The National Kitchen & Bath Association, an industry group for remodelers, surveyed its members and found that 74 percent had difficulty in recruiting labor. "Nearly 50 percent of our members say they're having trouble even finding professionals" like architects, said CEO Bill Darcy. The organization's members say the lack of available help causes delays on 30 percent of their jobs.
"We can't remember a busier period," said Joanie Courtney, a vice president of industrial staffing firm EmployBridge. "We have about 90,000 temporary employees working every single week," including drivers, warehouses, and call centers.
Companies find they can't necessarily do as they once did, which is look for people whose experience and knowledge are exact matches for corporate needs. Fewer high schools have classes that address many types of work that are in critical shortage. For example, Darcy says that only one person enters the building trades for each five that leave.
People who might go into high-tech manufacturing may not have a clear course of training to gain the necessary skills. And in some areas like food service and hospitality, automation increasingly replaces people at tasks. But the economy has been doing well under many measures and so education and training haven't been a first priority for governments.
"This is when policymakers should think of broad retraining programs," said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US.
Until then, private industry will have to pick up the slack. "Three years ago, 12 percent of employers in the U.S. were providing more training and development," Frankiewicz said. "Today, half are investing in learning platforms to build their talent pipeline."
Corporations will have to look more at the changing nature of jobs and, rather than laying off people whose job has been outsourced or automated, prepare them for something else.
Furthermore, a focus on average numbers, like unemployment figures, can miss the variations that leave many without ready access to jobs. Across metropolitan areas, the percentage of jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree that are good or promising ranges from 35 percent in Spokane, Washington, to 9 percent in Washington, D.C., according to a recent Brookings Institution study.
Similarly, unemployment rates vary substantially by region. "While it's great to see the official unemployment rate at 3.9 percent, this figure doesn't tell the full story," said Marie Trzupek Lynch, chief executive officer at Skills for Chicagoland's Future, a public-private partnership that tries to place unemployed and underemployed people in jobs. The organization works in Chicago neighborhoods with unemployment as high as 16.4 percent.
Cities and states should focus on broader types of employment to extend economic improvement to every part of society, instead of trying to attract the big names such as Amazon.
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France is planning to jail protesters who wear masks in the wake of weeks of violent demonstrations by the "yellow vest" movement. Prime Minister Edouard …
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"A clear lack of accurate and complete intelligence across several federal agencies contributed to this event, and not poor planning by the United States Capitol Police," former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told lawmakers. "We properly planned for mass demonstration with possible violence. What we got was a military-style coordinated assault on my officers and…
**UPDATE 3:43 PM** All wolf killing "Zones" closing at 3:00 PM TOMORROW 2/24/2021 It's often been stated that "history repeats itself" and in the case of Wisconsin's wolf slaughter that is most definitely the case. Just as countless wildlife advocates have feared two "Zones" are already over the kill quota with over a day and…
Dictator in Training: Walker Moves Anti-Environment and Anti-Science Agenda to Forefront
When college dropout/Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker took power following his election to governor in 2010 we got a taste of what was to come when he "dropped the bomb" on public employees with his infamous 2011 Act 10 legislation. At the time hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites took to the streets surrounding the state Capitol…
Wisconsin DNR's Conundrum: How to Eradicate Wolves and Pretend That We Aren't
The wolf hating and bear hounder pandering Wisconsin DNR now finds themselves in a conundrum of their own making. The task at hand is to pretend they don't wish to eradicate Wisconsin's wolf population while continuing to pander to the bear hounders and the other anti-wildlife extremists that control their agency. The first mistake they…
Appeals Court Rules That Hounders Are Able To "Train" Their Dogs Against Wolves…….The Fix Is In
**UPDATED 7/10/2014 4:45 PM** According to a wildlife advocate that spoke with Wisconsin DNR Carnivore Biologist Dave McFarland, today's court ruling means that there are ZERO rules for "training" with dogs against wolves and that hounders can now use their dogs against them 365 days a year. You read that right. Hounders as of now…


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namespace MQTTnet.Server
{
    public class MqttApplicationMessageInterceptorContext
    {
        public MqttApplicationMessageInterceptorContext(string clientId, MqttApplicationMessage applicationMessage)
        {
            ClientId = clientId;
            ApplicationMessage = applicationMessage;
        }

        public string ClientId { get; }

        public MqttApplicationMessage ApplicationMessage { get; set; }

        public bool AcceptPublish { get; set; } = true;

        public bool CloseConnection { get; set; }
    }
}


Lovely restaurant in Marbella and well deserving of its listing in the Michelin guide. Japanese food at its best with a very comprehensive menu. Good wine list. Decent service. Reasonable setting. We visited for dinner twice. If you enjoy Asian food this is the place to go!
Urban Chai: Industrial, authentic, unique!
The beeeeest! Finca Cortesin in beautiful Casares is the most luxurious hotel on the Coast!!! I felt like a princess 🙂 if anyone can suggest a hotel/spa similar i would love to know where to visit next???
Camuri in Laguna Village is by far my favourite beach restaurant. All the food is fantastic and the sushi is amazing! A bit expensive so it is a treat to go but definitely worth a try if your up that way!!
planet beat great value.. but prepare to wait !
been to this mexican 3 times now amd will continue to go as the food and value are top class unfortunately on the down side they open when they want and serve you when they want ! or was i just unlucky three times ! ? anybody else found different ?


A digital marketing strategy is an important part of the overall marketing strategy of a business. This is true whether or not a company is doing business online. It is also true for a small, medium or large size company but especially true for a small company. Here is the Marketing Strategy for local business.


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namespace Kyrodan.HiDrive.Authentication
{
    public enum AuthorizationRole
    {
        User,
        Admin,
        Owner
    }
}


It is interesting how the tulips come up a little different each year despite the fact that I don't replant any of them. This tulip couple wasn't around last year, which leads me to believe that I will be able to get a whole new set of photographs from the same garden. This obviously makes me very happy.
Should I not visit this blog during May?
Any other year and I would say no, but I have a bunch of portrait shoots coming up that will be posted here…but they will also be posted on Flickr.


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Little Nikita (1988)
Richard Benjamin
Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava, Richard Bradford, Richard Lynch, Loretta Devine, Lucy Deakins, Jerry Hardin
Little Convoluted
When young Jeff Grant (River Phoenix) applies to the Air Force Academy it is veteran FBI agent Roy Parmenter's (Sidney Poitier) job to interview him and do a background check. When he does his suspicions are raised when the computer says that Jeff's parents died in the 19th century. It is then he discovers that Grant's parents, Richard (Richard Jenkins) and Elizabeth (Caroline Kava), are in fact sleepers, Russian spies sent to America with their son to lead a normal life until they get a call to action all of which young Jeff has no idea off. But with the deadly, renegade agent Scuba (Richard Lynch) currently blackmailing the KGB as he sets about killing their sleepers it brings things to ahead especially as Scuba was the man who killed Roy's partner some 20 years earlier.
Back in 1988 if the local cinema had been closer "Little Nikita" would have been the sort of movie I would have gone to see because it starred River Phoenix. But I am pretty sure that whilst the cinema would have had many teens in there it would have had plenty of grown ups as it also stars Sidney Poitier. The trouble is that whilst "Little Nikita" offers something for teenagers and grown ups in the casting it falls short when it comes to pretty much everything else.
Take the storyline, the words tangled web really is a polite way of saying convoluted as we have Jeff just happening to be applying to a military academy without his parents knowing. We have the ridiculous computer scene where Parmenter types in Jeff's name and it only finds the one match with parents who died the previous century. I could keep going on because "Little Nikita" is one of those movies where the writers have come up with an idea which doesn't get the time and attention to detail to make it work on screen. But I wonder if that was the point as half the time this drama seems to be trying to make you laugh with Jeff's parents being part of a civil re-enactment group and of course look over the top being so.
The trouble is that "Little Nikita" is trying to appeal to two different audiences and can't pull off the juggling act. For grown ups we have this thriller about a renegade agent who is killing sleepers but in order to not make it too dull for the teen audience who showed up because of Phoenix it is dumbed right down with that annoying lack of detail and scenes which seem to be thrown in for some light relief. It is an issue which many a movie suffers when they are going for two diverse audiences and whilst convoluted "Little Nikita" is still kind of entertaining in a shallow way.
But there is a knock on issue from "Little Nikita" trying to be entertaining for both teens and grown ups and that is no character depth and as such it wastes its acing talent. There is not a single actor in the movie who has anything more to do than say their lines and act like a stereotype. In the case of Phoenix that means look cool when you come flying in on a bike whilst dismounting by jumping off the back with it still moving. Phoenix was capable of a whole lot more as is Poitier but neither of them get the chance to show any of their skills.
What this all boils down to is that "Little Nikita" ends up a troubled movie as whilst mildly entertaining it's not as good as it could have been. And the majority of the movies issues come down from it trying to appeal to young and old but in doing so dumbing things down to the point that not only does "Little Nikita" end up convoluted but also shallow.
Martin Bishop (Robert Redford - The Natural) and Donald Crease (Sidney Poitier - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) is in charge of a group of electronics experts who have skills in hacking and surveillance. They make a legitimate living ...
Deadly Pursuit (1988)
When a man kills two hostages and escapes FBI Agent Warren Stantin (Sidney Poitier) feels guilty that the bad guy got away. But the killer has a much darker plan as he joins up with a group who are going hiking through the rugged mo ...
To Sir, with Love (1967)
Mark Thackaray (Sydney Poitier) trained as an engineer but with no job and bills to pay he takes a job teaching at a rough East End school where the teachers are pessimistic and the kids are unruly. Mark finds it a tough place as he ...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Joey Drayton (Katharine Houghton) decides to pay her parents a surprise visit having returned from holiday in Hawaii and she is sure to surprise them as whilst Mr. & Mrs. Drayton (Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn) are liberal and h ...
The Jackal (1997)
After his brother is killed, Russian mobster Terek (David Hayman) declares war on the FBI and Russian militia and hires world renowned assassin The Jackal (Bruce Willis - Die Hard: With a Vengeance) to kill the director of the FBI. ...
World War Z (2013)
Gerry Lewis (Brad Pitt - Moneyball) use to work for the United Nations, travelling the globe as a special investigator, but decided to call it a day in order to spend more time with his wife and two daughters. But when a pandemic ca ...
Whirlpool (1959)
Lora (Juliette Gr�co) has done some bad things in her time, usually in collaboration with Herman (William Sylvester - Albert R.N.), but now she wants to live her life on the level. Unfortunately Herman refuses to let her do so, whic ...
Murdered at 17 (2018)
Brooke Emerson (Cristine Prosperi - The Wrong Neighbor) seems like a pretty typical high school kid with some at her school being jealous due to her popularity. But ever since a cheerleading accident, where she hit her head, Brooke ...
Big Hero 6 (2014)
When a devastating event befalls the city of San Fransokyo which catapults Hiro into the midst of danger, he turns to Baymax and his close friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanbo ...
The Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered (2019)
Alex McPherson (Alison Sweeney - Christmas at Holly Lodge) spent her childhood summers in Harrington and now twenty years later, having set up her own true-crime podcast, is returning to investigate a 20 year-old cold case involving ...
Deepwater (2005)
After recovering from an ankle injury Nat Banyon (Lucas Black - Jarhead) continues on his journey to Wyoming where he dreams of setting up an Ostrich farm. But not only does he end up in a bar room brawl and stealing a car but he en ...
CHRISTMAS MOVIES ON THE MOVIE SCENE
A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004)
Broadcasting Christmas (2016)
The Christmas Candle (2013)
The Christmas Shoes (2002)
Home Alone (1990)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Santa Claus (1985)
The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve (2004)
Bad Dad Rehab (2016)


I'm obviously not "in to" the idea of regular posts on the website- it's nearly a month since the last one. I've been busy with Christmas presents (will have to upload pictures - some really novel ski hats for Jon and his girlfriend)! I also did the annual pair of mittens/gloves for Caroline (with ribbon so she can hang them round her neck, and name tape with mobile phone number). Wonder if they'll come back from her trip to New York and Peru?


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Explore Pantone Color Trends for 2018 – From powerful pink to minion yellow, these are the hues you can look forward to seeing in home design next year.
Distilling the complex universe of color concepts into eight distinctively designed palettes, Design Build Ideas will help you stay well ahead. With our desire to inspire and ensure you are on the right color path, Pantone's key color stories for 2018 break free from traditional thinking.
According to Pantone Color Institute executive director Leatrice Eiseman, "metallics we know are classic, but they have really moved over into neutrals". Another color trend is all about combining a movement to intense colors rather than pastels. "Intense colors seem to be a natural application of our intense lifestyles and thought processes these days," she said during the International Home + Housewares Show.
Are you ready to discover which are the Pantone color trends for 2018? Here is a glimpse of the color trends you can expect next year!
Decorating your room is one thing, giving a personality and a character is when things get serious. To achieve the desired effect, besides the ability to match the color shades of your furniture and accessories with the walls, you need the right ideas for colors and decorations. Click HERE to download free ebook 50 Striking Color Scheme Decor Ideas.


Beautiful Townhouse BEAUTIFUL 2BR/2.5 BA TOWNHOUSE IN QUIET GATED COMMUNITY CLOSE TO TOWN. DINING/GREATROOM COMBO W/CORNER FIREPLACE, EXTRA AREA PERFECT FOR OFFICE/LIBRARY, SPACIOUS KITCHEN W/GRANITE COUNTERTOPS AND LOADS OF CABINETS. VAULTED 2ND BEDROOM, EXTRA LARGE MASTER W/SITTING AREA. ALL LARGE ROOMS, TONS OF CLOSETS AND STORAGE SPACE. GREAT ROOMMATE PLAN OR IDEAL FOR FAMILIES. SWIM/TENNIS/CLUBHOUSE AND GATED COMMUNITY.


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Chirita brassicoides är en tvåhjärtbladig växtart som beskrevs av Wen Tsai Wang. Chirita brassicoides ingår i släktet Chirita och familjen Gesneriaceae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Tour de Yorkshire fever takes over this week as the world's best cyclists descend on the region. Stage 3 of the route on Sunday 30th April not only passes through Thornton and Skipton, it will also stream past 52 of our local suppliers as the rider's sprint, climb and race through God's Own County. We have one of the best views in town in Thornton as you'll be able to see the cyclists up close as they refuel at the feeding station opposite our shop.
We're getting into the spirit of the Tour with our very own field art. It might be hard to spot while at the shop but keep an eye out for us on the TV to see what we have created.


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Q: How do I dynamically populate the options in a combobox inside of a grid based on another row in Flex? I'm trying to setup a DataGrid that contains a column of combo boxes.  The values of the combo boxes are defined by data specific to that row.  I cannot get this to work though, I'm asking for a solution to this, either fixing what I have below or a recommendation on a different way.
One of the columns of my DataGrid has an object derived from a ComboBox for an ItemEditor. The itemEditor is set like this:
    <mx:DataGridColumn editorDataField="selectedItem" dataField="type" editable="true" >
        <mx:itemEditor>
            <mx:Component>
            <FilterCell:SelectCellBase initialize="set_combo()" grid="{this}"/>
            </mx:Component>
        </mx:itemEditor>
    </mx:DataGridColumn>

So that when the itemEditor is generated (when the user double clicks on the cell) the data is populated.
Then, the SelectCellBase set_combo() function is defined as such:
            public function set_combo( ) : void
            {
                var type : String = grid.dataProvider[grid.selectedIndex]['type'];

                if( 'text' == type )
                {
                    this.dataProvider = text;
                }
                else
                {
                    this.dataProvider = number;
                }
            }

This implementation isn't working though because when I try to call grid.selectedIndex this always seems to return -1.
What am I doing wrong, or what better way is there to do this?

A: Your problem is that when you're inside of an <mx:Component> the scope is local, and no longer set to the outside MXML file.  So when you have:
<mx:Component>
<FilterCell:SelectCellBase initialize="set_combo()" grid="{this}"/>
</mx:Component>

the "this" you're referring to is the inline component you've defined, not the base MXML component you're working on.  The easy fix is to change it to
<mx:Component>
<FilterCell:SelectCellBase initialize="set_combo()" grid="{outerDocument}"/>
</mx:Component>

the outerDocument variable is automatically set when you're inside of an <mx:Component> tag, and can be used to access anything needed from the parent scope.


SACRAMENTO, October 19, 2015 ? The California Housing Finance Agency has launched the MyHome Assistance Program for first-time homebuyers who may need help with down payment or closing costs when purchasing a home.
The California Housing Finance Agency was created in 1975 with the goal of helping more Californians find a place to call home. Its Single Family Lending division has invested more than $19.5 billion to help more than 156,000 families buy their first home with a mortgage they can afford. CalHFA is a self-supported state agency that doesn't rely on taxpayer dollars. For more information on CalHFA programs, and how we are creating progressive financing solutions for affordable housing in California, visit www.calhfa.ca.gov or call toll free 877.9.CalHFA (877.922.5432).


As a result of the rapid development of information and communication technologies, educational software has become readily available in the global market. Although the international transfer and trade of most technological products seems straightforward, the actors in the field must have cultural sensitivity when it comes to implementing technology-based learning tools and digital materials. This is due to the individual and cultural diversity of the global e-learning community. This diversity should be recognized when designing and implementing modern learning environments or when activating technology-based study zones. First of all, by contextualization, we refer to the various methods and processes related to design issues, pedagogical aspects and approaches, contents, or applied technologies that are needed for a learning environment to be functional and useful in a particular cultural setting. Consequently, we need to discuss contextualization from diverse perspectives. As such we have identified: cultural differences in producing e-learning materials and tools, culturally flavored learning paths, technical platform and cultural factors, and taking a multidisciplinary approach to contextualization.


Ideal for fertilizer or ag lime, the New Leader® L3020G4 features a 30 inch wide conveyor system, allowing operators to broadcast fertilizer from 75 lb per acre up to 3 tons per acre of ag lime while consistently achieving spread patterns with swath widths from 60 to 105 feet with fertilizer and up to 60 feet with ag lime. The heavy-duty #4 belt-over-chain conveyor effectively spreads materials and nearly eliminates bridging. An easy-to-access conveyor drive shaft and bearing make maintenance and tension adjustment simple.
Available in 304 or painted 409 stainless steel construction, the L3020G4 is popular choice for operators that spread high volumes of lime using single axle trucks and want to minimize material bridging.


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Cannabis Culture crackdown is all questions and no answers. Marc and Jodie Emery's arrest, and the simultaenous police raids of their dispensaries across the country, have pro-pot commentators speculating that it's all about the Liberals making an example of the pair as it prepares to hand lucrative pot-producing licenses to corporate growers. The Prince of Pot has already crossed the floor:
"No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil and just leave it on the ground." Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Houston to declare to energy executives that he'll be better than his dad on extracting wealth for them. Getting down to business proved a better look for him than trying to be the hero of International Women's Day.
Senator's sexual relationship with teenager declared ethics violation. Don Meredith denied the allegations when they were originally reported by the Toronto Star in June 2015. But, in a new report, the Red Chamber's ethics officer finds reason to believe Meredith had sex with a much younger woman at least three times. Soon after the public release of the report, Meredith's social media disappeared. This was the final thing he posted beforehand:
Kingsway Theatre is now producing its own content. The debate continues over whether racism played any role in the Kingsway Theatre's decision to ask actress Wendy Oluniké Adeliyi to leave her backpack at the front before seeing a movie a week ago. Her claim that it only happened because she's black is challenged by a trail of online reviews that accuse owner Rui Pereira of being a jerk to patrons of every colour. Either way, he continues to seek retribution, mainly through Facebook rants.
Postmedia turns to cutting staff benefits to save some money. The publisher's discontinuation of an employee assistance program and maternity and parental leave top-ups roused another round of skepticism about its survival. But an editor job can still get over 100 people applying via LinkedIn.
Word of the moment
Mars Canada announced it will now produce the British chocolate spheres in Newmarket.
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Q: How should I go about inserting a full .lic or .licx file into a mongodb collection? I want to test MongoDB as a possible alternative to my file system set-up. I have 3 folders, two hold JSON data (so no problem there), but one holds .lic and .licx files. I simply want to store and retrieve these files easily from a MongoDB collection in a database. I'm testing on the command line... How would I insert a .licx file into a collection that is in a database?
I've tried a command line argument
I've read a bit about gridFS but no clear example of how to use it.
--db license-server --collection licenses --type BSON --file C:\Users\<myname>\Desktop\<projectname>\private\licenses\<filename>.licx

I expect the licx file to be inserted into the collection with an id so I can retrieve it later.
I'm getting: error validating settings: unknown type bson as an error for the command line command.

A: To insert a document that's bigger that 16MB or has an extension like .licx for example, run the command
mongofiles -d license-server put <filename(includingfullpath)>.licx

this will store the file in the fs.files and fs.chunks collections within your database.
To retrieve the file on the command line use
mongofiles -d license-server get <filename(includingfullpath)>.licx

Additional Documentation can be found here:
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongofiles/#bin.mongofiles


There is a new Doctor, and her name is Jodie Whittaker!!!
Original Cybermen are coming back to haunt your nightmares!
Destroyed negatives cannot stop "The Power Of The Daleks" coming to theaters!
The teaser trailer for "Doctor Who" spin-off series, "Class" is here!
There is a new companion in town, and her name is Bill!
Variety is reporting that BBC America will be broadcasting Class, the spinoff of Doctor Who, in 2016.
The Title for the "Doctor Who" Christmas Special Is….
Now You Can Sleep As Comfortably as The Doctor With These TARDIS Sheets!


1.3 Support for "workspace patches"
New stash option in branch result dialog. This allows to quickly stash any conflicting changes that are preventing a branch from being checked out.
Note: This feature can be installed on Eclipse 4.2 and higher since it requires at least Team API 3.6.100.
Incremental loading of history improves performance and significantly reduces memory footprint. Incremental loading is disabled if the find toolbar is enabled.
New command "Show Annotations" in context menu of the history view table when the input is a single file. Running the action will open the editor with the file blamed starting at the selected commit. The same command is added to the context menu of the file list in the History View's "Revision Details" pane.
When creating a new branch the first found remote referring to the selected commit is selected as the default source of the new branch.
This page was last modified 01:56, 13 June 2012 by Matthias Sohn. Based on work by Robin Stocker.


Many at times, we do not understand why we go through pain and suffering and people often argue that when we go through them, we are being punished by God. That was the case of Jobs' friends when they heard of his affliction. Job was a righteous and God-fearing man. Satan approached God and God told him about the righteousness of Job. Satan replied to God saying that Job is righteous only because he has been blessed financially and has many possessions. Satan therefore asked God's permission to bring hardship upon Job and see if Job would continue to be faithful to Him. Job lost his sons, daughters and all his possessions but he still continued to worship God. Because Job continued to worship God, Satan went back to God and asked permission to attack his health. Job was afflicted with boils and was in great pain. Job's wife could not bear watching him go through the pain and therefore asked him to curse God, but Job would not listen to her. Jobs' friends could not understand why he would go through pain and suffering because he was someone who had faith in God. They thought Job should only enjoy blessings because he was a righteous man and should not suffer pain. In the end, God blessed Job double more than he had before. Job did not understand why he suffered such great pain, but he realized that God was God and Job was to believe that God was in control (Job 1, 2). We learn through pain and suffering, it equips us to help others in the same situations. Our pain and suffering draws us closer to God. Maybe you are going through a great pain and you may be thinking it's because of something you did. Even if so, be assured that God wants His grace, His mercy, His love, and works to be displayed in you. He loves you, He is good and you can trust and rest in His perfect plan for your life.