When it comes to your wood stove, fireplace, furnace and chimney, it's important to ensure all parts are well-maintained and functioning great, so you can enjoy with peace of mind your home heating appliance during the winter months. There are some issues you simply shouldn't ignore, so if you're worried about the state of your system, give us a call so we can help you out. Clean Sweep of Anne Arundel County has got your back!
Cracked and damaged brickwork and mortar is, unfortunately, all too common for homeowners with a masonry system, especially when regular check-ups and upkeep have not been maintained. Most of the time, these breakdowns are caused by water damage, which weakens your entire structure quite significantly and leads to safety and performance issues.
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Anything from a rusted chimney cap to a misaligned damper to a crumbling chimney crown can trigger even bigger issues that will cause you a lot of distress down the line. Each and every piece of your chimney's anatomy plays an integral role in ensuring everything runs well, and some issues could cause problems that affect the performance and safety of your system.
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Exactly 4,640 of the 16,750 psychology professionals employed in California, work in Malibu. The number of psychology professionals in Malibu has shrunk by 10% from 2006 to 2010. As the number of psychology professionals in Malibu has decreased, overall employment in Malibu has increased.
In Malibu, salaries for psychology professionals have decreased. In 2010 psychology professionals in Malibu reportedly earned an average salary of $82,405 per year. Psychology professionals in Malibu made a yearly average salary of $98,515, four years earlier in 2006. The decline in the salary of psychology professionals in Malibu is faster than the salary trend for all careers in the city.
Psychology professionals in Malibu make a median yearly salary of $85,575. The 10% of psychology professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $34,910 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately 256% higher salaries.
On average psychology professional salaries in Malibu are higher than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.
Many of Malibu's psychology professionals are graduates of the only accredited psychology school in the city.
Malibu's psychology schools offer 5 psychology degree and certificate programs.
Approximately 353 students completed psychology courses in 2010.
We are in the process of collecting data for the number of psychology faculty, growth in the field of psychology academia and psychology faculty salaries in Malibu. Please enter your information in the form below if you are involved in teaching psychology courses to students at the bachelors degree in psychology, masters degree in psychology, and doctoral degree in psychology levels. This will help us build a valuable free database resource for the benefit of current and future faculty in the field of psychology in Malibu. All information you submit will be anonymous. A summary of the data collected thus far will be available to you once you have submitted your information.


Stockholder Meeting to Be Held on May 15, 2019.
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Proposal to ratify the Audit Committee's appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019.
Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation: To approve, in a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation paid to our named executive officers.
Advisory Vote on Frequency of Stockholder Votes on Executive Compensation: To determine, in a non-binding advisory vote, whether a Stockholder vote to approve the compensation paid to our named executive officers should occur annually.
Proposal to approve Amendment No. 3 to the Town Sports International Holdings, Inc. 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (as amendment and restated effective April 2, 2015) to increase the number of shares available for issuance thereunder by two million shares.
NOTE: To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.


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Toronto's The Auras Are The Psych Band Of The Year
Near as our detectives can tell, they've only released 16 songs since 2013. Their three-song single (featuring Tess Parks on vox on "I Believe In Everything") was their only purchasable output in 2015. But make no mistake, in Tulip Frenzy World HQ, The Auras were the Psych Band Of The Year.
Formed six years ago when they were all age 18, The Auras have great songwriting, a swirling, sparkling, shimmering guitar sound and the singing — downfall of many a well-conceived psych band — has grit when it's called for, and lassos the moon when that's the phase this particular lysergic outing is heading in.
We admit to not having heard of them before they pushed "I Believe In Everything" out there this summer, just in time to ride Parksmania in the weeks following release of her rec with Anton Newcombe. Thing was, while that song sure was alluring, it was "Islands In The Sea" and "Charlton Heston"that got spun at all the pool parties we threw.
Which brought us to their two EPs from 2013, imaginatively titled The Auras EP and EP 2. But trust us: they save the creativity for the sonic explorations that, from the sound of it, ought to keep any Ontario fans of Spaceman 3, Cosmonauts, and The Asteroid #4 tapping their toes 'til the wee hours. They never stray too far from the melody, have a native instinct for how to structure pop songs, and yet there is always something interesting going on at the edges. We are intrigued that in 2012, just as we were pining to hear First Communion Afterparty's suppressed "Earth-Heat-Sound" The Aura's had a song out on Bandcamp called "Earth, Sky, Love." (Could two parallel cultures have arisen, with or without knowledge of each other, across Great Lakes and giant piles of snow?)
On "I Don't Want To Know You," which will be out on their Saturn Day EP in January, we hear seeds from The Stems' "Jumping To Conclusions." If that tune doesn't come rushing into your frontal lobes, know this: it is lovely.
While Joe Contreras of By Divine Right produced their last three-song single, The Auras are putting the finishing touches on the new one, which they've produced all by themselves. A U.S. tour is promised (it's warmer down here, guys). And from there, world conquest. Psych Band Of The Year.
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frankgutchjrFrank Gutch Jr. Says:
I'm hearing you, but I wish I could have found a link to something Auras-related. Will be watching for info on that US tour.

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FEATURE STORY November 8, 2018
Championing Costa Rica's Transition to Clean Transportation Systems
Officials from Latin America on a study tour in Spain to learn from Madrid's experience of electrifying the transport sector.
Photo Credit: Spanish Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean
Costa Rica's transition to clean transport systems is vital to meeting its climate goals and hinges on effective engagement of the public and private sectors
A World Bank-NDC Support Facility funded project is helping key decision makers strengthen their technical capabilities to launch an electric public transportation initiative for Costa Rica's cities
The experience of Costa Rica, a member of the NDC Partnership, offers valuable takeaways for countries in the region where the demand for support for clean transport systems is growing
Lush forests, pristine beaches and mesmerizing volcanos may spring to mind when you think of Costa Rica. Behind-the-scenes, as well, a green engine is humming with promising signs of even greater ambition on climate. In 2017, the country of five million was powered entirely by renewable energy for 300 consecutive days. By 2030, Costa Rica hopes to make a complete switch to renewable energy. The country also recently passed a breakthrough law to promote electric vehicles through improved access to credit and economic incentives. The move has set the stage to decarbonize the transport sector which currently accounts for 60% of its greenhouse gas emissions.
The shift to electric mobility could hold the key to significant emissions reductions and a pledge to do so was accordingly made in the country's nationally determined contribution (NDC) submitted in advance of the Paris Agreement. Additionally, a key aspect of the shift to electric mobility, namely, scaling up sustainable public transportation infrastructure, will not only deliver emissions reductions but also allow Costa Rica to more fully harness its abundant clean energy resources and lower its dependence on imported fossil fuels.
The "Electrification of the Public Transport System" project funded by the World Bank's NDC Support Facility is contributing to an important national agenda on electrifying the transport sector headed by Costa Rica's President and First Lady. The project is also aligned with a regional World Bank project, 'Supporting a Sound Energy Transition for an Efficient Central America', an extension of the 'Central American Energy Assessment (6C)' project focused on addressing market and policy barriers to support a smooth low-carbon economic transition in six countries in Central America.
The project brings together a range of stakeholders, helping establish a multi-sectoral steering committee including participants from the Ministries of Energy, Environment and Transport, as well as private bus and taxi operators, financial institutions and electric utilities to plan and implement the electric mobility initiative. The committee has been transformational in facilitating information exchange among diverse institutions and sectors. Its decision-making is guided by the project's analyses of the cost structures of electric buses vis-a-vis conventional transport technologies.
This undertaking requires mobilizing capital and technical expertise from both the public and private sectors. Through high level workshops, trainings and discussion of international best practices, the project is building the capacity of the committee to plan investments, identify financing sources and develop a strategy to introduce affordable tariffs for electric buses.
Costa Rica is also currently drafting an NDC Investment Plan with support from the NDC Partnership, of which it is a member, and aligning its fiscal framework with this plan, proactively seeking support for implementing its NDC. Earlier this year, the World Bank, with NDC Support Facility support, co-organized a technical workshop on e-mobility in Brazil with the research organization, World Resources Institute (WRI), and the German Organization for Development Cooperation (GIZ) called "Green Your Bus". At the workshop, which focused on Latin America's sustainable transportation agenda, Costa Rica showcased its experience as a regional frontrunner, much to the inspiration of participants.
As the first Latin American country to assess the energy impacts of electrifying the transport sector, its approaches to assessing the costs of the transition and setting tariffs for electric buses, could be scaled up and replicated across Central America. The project's support in terms of building government capacity to develop low-carbon policies and regulations could also be of vital relevance for the region. The "NDC Support Facility has demonstrated how to be a flexible and fast response instrument to support Costa Rica's endeavor to fulfill its international climate commitments," says Mariano González Serrano, the Project's Team Leader.
And beyond Costa Rica, the NDC Support Facility aspires to be central to the World Bank Group's efforts to showcase Costa Rica's example to inspire similar endeavors in other countries.
The Project's Team Leader, Mariano González, is a Senior Energy Specialist at the World Bank. He can be reached at gonzalez@worldbank.org .
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Chicago lost tight end Zach Miller to a gruesome dislocated left knee injury Sunday.
Miller was trying to make a 25-yard TD catch when his left leg got bent in an unnatural position as he landed in the end zone at New Orleans. The injury was replayed several times on the scoreboard and officials overturned the potential touchdown catch, saying the ball came loose when the 33-year-old tight end crashed to the turf.
It appeared that Miller only let go of the ball on the ground because he was in pain.
"He'll be in our thoughts and prayers on our flight home," Bears coach John Fox said.
Miller suffered the latest in a long line of tough injuries. After making a career-high 47 catches in 2016, he missed the final six games with a fractured foot. He did not play in any game from 2012 through 2014, primarily due to foot and shoulder issues.
The Bears also lost two offensive linemen. Right guard Kyle Long left the game with a hand injury in the first quarter and center Cody Whitehair left later with an elbow injury.
They weren't the only linemen to go down Sunday. Vikings right tackle Mike Remmers left after sustaining a concussion on the second drive of the win over Cleveland. New England lost right tackle Marcus Cannon to an ankle injury in the first half of a win over the Chargers.
Los Angeles linebacker Hayes Pullard and Patriots receiver Chris Hogan were both hurt on a collision in the fourth quarter of their game. Hogan had a shoulder injury.
The 49ers got blown out by Philadelphia and suffered a bunch of injuries, too. It was so bad after left tackle Joe Staley (eye) and right tackle Garry Gilliam (knee) went down that tight end Garrett Celek was next in line to play tackle. Defensive linemen Solomon Thomas (knee) and DL C.J. Jones (knee), safety Jimmie Ward (forearm) and wide receiver Pierre Garcon (neck) also didn't finish the game. Shanahan said Staley injured his orbital and needed stitches in his eye. The team said he was staying overnight at a hospital.
Dallas lost wide receiver Cole Beasley to a concussion in its win over Washington. The Redskins, who came into the game without three starting offensive linemen, a starting cornerback and a starting linebacker who just went on injured reserve. By game's end, a fourth starting offensive lineman (left guard Shawn Lauvao, stinger) was gone, too, as was the backup to the backup left tackle (T.J. Clemmings, left ankle).


not read UMD games and you haven't indication for insertion games. The problem probably is in UMD switch.
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If you haven't indication for inserted disk the problem probably is in UMD switch.
Unhook the door metal plate and disassemble UMD door.
With a screwdriver I short the UMD switch to test the laser.
Disconnect and remove the display.
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I used soldering station to remove the old one and put the new one (UMD switch).
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By Ian Dunt
Tuesday, 29 May, 2012
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'Leader in waiting?' Gove surprises everyone with Leveson performance
Right wing commentators branded Michael Gove 'leader-in-waiting' this afternoon after he used his appearance at the Leveson inquiry to launch a full-blooded defence of the British press.
In a tense exchange with Lord Leveson, the education secretary said the inquiry into media standards could produce proposals which would be "worse than the disease".
He said: "The case for regulation needs to be used very firmly before we curtail liberty.
"I'm unashamedly on the side of those who think we must think carefully. The cry 'something must be done' isn't always wise."
Lord Leveson, who appeared more irritated with Mr Gove than he has with any witness during the inquiry, replied: "Mr Gove I don't need to be told about the importance of free speech – I really don't.
"I have made my point about liberty and I'm not going to repeat myself.
"Believe me, I am thinking very carefully."
Elsewhere in the session Mr Gove issued a full defence of Rupert Murdoch, saying he was "a great man". He also spoke out in favour of Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre who he dubbed "one of the most impressive editors of our age".
Mr Gove's historical approach to the subject matter and various witticisms won him enthusiastic support from right-of-centre commentators online, in a manner which bears comparison to Boris Johnson.
"The Socialist Worker and the Morning Star are available on the news stands, they have sporting and literary coverage, but they sell rather less than the Sun or the Mail," Mr Gove observed at one point.
Asked about the existence of spin under New Labour and subsequent governments, Mr Gove replied: "Spin is a term that's been interpreted in many different ways. We've been spin doctors since the Roman Republic."
When Lord Leveson inquired as to why journalists and politicians had become so hated by members of the public, Mr Gove replied: "T'was ever thus. Journalism has always been a rough old trade which attracted non-conformists and rebels."
The education secretary did appear to make one slip-up however, when he admitted free schools might be allowed to earn a profit in a second Tory term – contradicting assurances from the Department of Education.


The Rejectionist is having a pre-resolution uncontest. We must make our New Year's resolutions on the first day of December to try them out. Even better, she suggests, we should make them excessive so the REAL resolutions are easy.
My resolution will be 3000 words each weekday in December. Why, if I couldn't do it in November during NaNoWriMo, would I think I can do it in December while trying to get ready for Christmas?
I had two sick weeks in November and I'm hoping that was the end of the winter illnesses not covered by the flu shot. I'm hoping certain family members don't make me upset enough for my annoying but non-fatal health condition to act up. But mostly I know that if I want to be a writer I need to actually get words on paper. All the education, all the books, all the blogs, will not help me if I have nothing to submit and nothing ready to publish.
Yes, I've "finished" one, but for now, that one is what I think they call a drawer novel. Finished -- as in written all the way to end and edited to hell and back -- but not quite right, not quite ready for publication. That means, I currently have nothing and I need to have something. And I need to figure out how much progress is reasonable to expect from myself.
In January, I should be able to use the December experiment to figure out what I can really do.
Who knows, maybe I'll be able to do it. Maybe if I can convince myself to look at it like this is my job, rather than the thing I fit in when the children are playing pleasantly together without needing me, then I might be able to do this for a living some day.
Another resolution would be to go regularly to the gym -- which is not one of the forbidden weight loss resolutions, but because my stomach issues are lessened by regular exercise. Unfortunately when my stomach is acting up I'm in too much pain to go to the gym so it sort of defeats the plan all on it's own.
Good ones! Good luck with writing AND keeping your health. Just the "don't get sick" thing is hard enough in December.
I wish you much luck, and no carpal tunnel or hand cramps.
I'd advise against the 3,000 word minimum. Writing every day is important, but writing an entire novel in a month is a good way to burn yourself out if you aren't ready for it. Treat it like the exercise. Build up. 500 words a day for a week. Then 1,000 for two weeks, and so on.
Other'n that, rock on. It is the wise man (or woman) who recognizes his limits, and the fool who surrenders to them.
Good luck! Hope you feel better! Exercise is totally allowed.
@Victoria - I was lucky enough to have an agent read it all and give the useful feedback of too much happening -to- the character and not enough character action. Fixable but only with major re-writes and I know I should write a second before putting that much more effort into the first. It gets easier when you have the feedback to tell you that.
@Laurel, yes. yes, it is. Sigh. I swear I'm fluish every other week and I'm getting really tired of it.
@Le R, thank you. Had fun with the uncontest, no matter how serious my plan ended up being. I've loved reading the others that managed to instill humor into theirs.


Today, we will answer modern society's most asked question, and we won't cut any corners or try to sugarcoat it.
Let's take a look at some pictures of a dude on Instagram trying to make a beard out of random things and see if it works. Buckle up, boys 'n gals. It's gonna be a rough one. (Side note: you can actually give the guy suggestions on what to make a beard out of. Do it.
Yup, LEGOs can make a beard. It also solves that "stepping on a LEGO brick" issue. Win-win.
Simpsons LEGO beards add a bit more character to the plain-looking LEGO beard. This is next level material, guys.
The full LEGO beard – for the man without facial hair. May or may not be compatible with other LEGO beards.
Dinosaurs make for excellent extinction beards. Also gives a nice, colorful vibe to your man-hair.
At least this beard makes people feel welcome and appreciated.
It makes you look like a colorful rabbi, but it works.
Nope. Nope nope nope. This just looks like a beard that hasn't been washed in over a year.
Lollypops and facial hair? Match made in heaven.
I wonder if the spaghetti will be perfectly al dente when he's done showering.
As amazing as this looks, I can't imagine how long it took after taking this picture until he no longer found sprinkles in his beard.
Toothpicks seem to work just fine. Just be sure to not stab yourself in the cheek.
Scissors look pretty weird and have the added risk of accidentally chopping off part of your beard. Only for the experts.
Pencils. Pretty much like toothpicks, but with the added bonus of being able to take notes and erase them as you please.
Straws are the go-to beard material if you want to let people taste your beard juices.
The birthday beard, as it is called, is perfect for those special occasions. Just be sure to remove them before lighting them on fire.
While not making for the best beard experience, this does allow you to blow bubbles. I'll allow it.


This project increased the size of this home to accommodate a large family who is the third generation to live in this home! There were several additions made to the existing footprint and a complete rehab of the existing structure. The insulation and mechanical systems installed will surely provide comfort for the next generation to come.


Approx. Run Time 85 min.
From our Private Collection, Steel Kittens brings you Vintage Professional Ladies Wrestling Circa 1940's – 1950's. This is rare footage from 16mm film of live matches Featuring Classic Lady Wrestlers like Ella Waldeck, June Byers, Lilly Bitter, Jane Mull and unknown ladies a the Civic Auditorium in Hollywood, CA. These ladies really know how to put on a show! Great Classic Pro Wrestling Action from the glory days of wrestling! Digitized, some matches have live audio others have sound overlay. If you're a collector of Ladies Professional Wrestling, this tape is a must!
We think one of these girls is Rita Martinez.
Two Unknown Women Wrestlers. A curvy blonde and brunette.
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A Lambton citizens group is hopeful that recent scientific literature that documents health impacts from wind turbines will provide ammunition in its battle against a planned wind farm.
The review of existing research literature was published in the winter edition of the Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine and concludes turbines placed too close to homes "can negatively affect the physical, mental and social well-being of people."
The group We're Against Industrial Turbines Plympton-Wyoming (WAIT-PW) is now touting the results in its efforts to lobby against Suncor Energy's plan to build up to 46 industrial wind turbines in rural Lambton County.
The review also states there is sufficient evidence to support the conclusion that noise from industrial wind turbines "is a potential cause of health effects."
Ontario requires wind turbines be built at least 550 metres back from neighbours, but opponents argue that's too close.
The Town of Plympton-Wyoming has a bylaw, being challenged in court by Suncor, calling for a 2-km setback for wind turbines.
"Our conclusions are finding, based on all the evidence we've collected and reviews we've done of the material, some genuinely do suffer adverse health effects," said Carman Krogh, one of the article's co-authors.
She and her co-authors have been researching the risk to human health from industrial wind turbines for about five years.
"That's a very serious issue because it's known that chronic sleep disturbance will lead to more serious medical conditions," she said.
Ingrid Willemsen, with the group WAIT-PW, said, "In our opinion, if this literature review involved a drug, a car, a toy, there would be an immediate withdrawal of the product from the market."
Krogh said current setback distances and sound levels proposed for wind projects in Ontario "aren't working because, at the people end, we're having some pretty serious effects occurring."
That includes neighbours who are no longer able to live in their homes after turbines were built nearby, she said.
Krogh said she believes the government should stop approving wind projects to allow time to research the correct placement of turbines so health impacts can be avoided.
Kate Jordan, a spokesperson with Ontario's Environment Ministry, said Ontario is a leader in establishing clear wind turbine setbacks that protect human health and the environment, adding it has among the strictest in sound level criteria in North America.
"The ministry continues to review emerging scientific, health, acoustics and engineering studies to ensure Ontario's requirements remain in line with the best available science," she said.
Suncor's wind project for Lambton County has been posted on Ontario's Environmental Registry as part of the province's environmental approval process for renewable energy projects. Public comments are being accepted until Feb. 3.


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Christina Surer (born 26 March 1974 in Basel) is a Swiss race car driver. She spent several years in go-karts before participating in the Ford Superseries (2002), Alfa 147 Cup (2002) and the Ford Fiesta Cup (2003).  She has participated in two 24 Hours Nürburgring races (2004, 2005) and since 2004, has been racing in the Seat Leon Supercopa.

Surer has modelled for Playboy and was married to Formula One driver Marc Surer from 1997 to 2000. In 2012, she became engaged to DTM racer Martin Tomczyk. Aside from racing and modelling, she hosts television programs.

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Geneva Seal has been home to the rarest diamonds found in Chicago for years. Our family founded a diamond wholesale business 35 years ago whose clientele reads like a who's who of famous jewelers. Our diamond buying office is still located in Chicago, so you can be assured that you will find the finest diamonds at Geneva Seal. Choosing the perfect engagement ring is one of the most difficult decisions a person in love makes. The look on your partners face after you hand them the engagement ring of their dreams is priceless and at Geneva Seal, that look is our only goal.


Veterans Day is this weekend, and we'd like to thank all our veterans for their service. We couldn't do what we do without your sacrifice.
Today, we'd like to highlight and review some ways that military vets can save money when they file their taxes.
Disability payments from the VA don't count as taxable income—so you won't have to report them on your taxes, and you shouldn't include them in your gross income. There are more disability benefits that aren't taxed, which you can see on our disabled vets blog post; the point is that some vets might not actually have to file their taxes at all.
The downside to not filing is that you wouldn't be able to claim some tax breaks like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC), simply because taxable income is a requirement to claim the credit. It doesn't hurt to go through the process, even if you're pretty sure you have no taxable income—especially with an interface as simple as 1040.com's.
You're a vet now, but if you were enlisted and based in a designated combat zone during the tax year, your income from that period is probably not taxable. Combat zone pay doesn't need to be included in your gross income amount if you're an enlisted member, warrant officer or commissioned warrant officer.
If, on the other hand, you're a commissioned officer, your tax exclusion is limited to the highest rate of enlisted pay. That goes for combat pay and any months spent hospitalized as a result of combat service. See our section of the Tax Guide on taxes for US service members for more info.
Unreimbursed moving costs can be partially deducted on Form 3903, Moving Expenses. Starting in 2018, the moving expense deduction is only available to military members (see the moving expense deduction section of our Tax Reform 101 guide). To qualify, you must have made the move within one year of the end of your active duty.
The moving expense deduction is an above-the-line deduction, not an itemized deduction. It is not impacted by the new, much-higher standard deduction introduced by the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which will cause fewer taxpayers to claim itemized deductions. The moving expense deduction can be claimed whether or not you itemize deductions on Schedule A.
You can use our Tax Estimator App to get a better idea of how tax reform may affect you this year.
From everyone at 1040.com, we'd like to thank our veterans for all they've done, and we hope this information helps make your taxes simpler and better than ever.


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import functools
from wapi.exceptions import ApiLoginRequired
from wapi.parameters import FunctionParameter

def wraps(wrapped, wrapper):
    """Contionally copies all the attributes a Wapi function can define"""
    assigned = ('__module__', '__name__', '__doc__')
    conditionally_assigned = ('_required_parameters_',
        '_optional_parameters_',
        '_read_only_',
        '_write_only_',
        '_private_',
    )

    for attr in conditionally_assigned:
        if hasattr(wrapped, attr):
            assigned += (attr, )

    return functools.wraps(wrapped, assigned=assigned)(wrapper)

def login_required(func):
    """Requires the API function to be called by a logged-in user"""
    def wrapper(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if not request.user.is_authenticated():
            raise ApiLoginRequired
        return func(self, request, *args, **kwargs)

    wrapper.requires_login = True
    return wraps(func, wrapper)

def private(func):
    """Prevents an API function from being exposed"""
    func._private_ = True
    return func

def readonly(func):
    """Marks an API function as read-only"""
    func._read_only_ = True
    return func

def writeonly(func):
    """Marks an API function as write-only"""
    func._write_only_ = True
    return func

def undocumented(func):
    """Prevents an API function from being documented"""
    func._undocumented_ = True
    return func

class function_parameter(object):
    """Base class for decorators which specify function parameters"""
    func_attr = None
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs

    def add_args(self, params, *args, **kwargs):
        """Walks trough the arguments, identifying their types and creating
        FunctionParameters as needed"""
        if len(args) == 1 and hasattr(args[0], '__iter__'):
            params = self.add_args(params, *(args[0]))
            return params

        if isinstance(args[0], FunctionParameter):
            params.append(args[0])
            if len(args) > 1:
                params = self.add_args(params, *args[1:], **kwargs)
            return params

        params.append(FunctionParameter(*args, **kwargs))
        return params

    def __call__(self, func):
        params = getattr(func, self.__class__.func_attr, [])
        params = self.add_args(params, *self.args, **self.kwargs)
        setattr(func, self.__class__.func_attr, params)
        return func

class required_parameter(function_parameter):
    """Adds a required parameter to the target function"""
    func_attr = '_required_parameters_'

class optional_parameter(function_parameter):
    """Adds an optional parameter to the target function"""
    func_attr = '_optional_parameters_'

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The MBO K80 purchase sees the end of a long equipment refresh, which is probably why the 50,000 sq. ft site in Stockport, Cheshire, has over 100 items of finishing equipment including other high speed folders, trimmers, sewing machines, a Wohlenberg perfect binder purchased in 2014 and Wiro binding machines, as well as being capable of manufacturing boxes, slip cases, folders and ring binders. A fleet of vehicles transports finished jobs to customers throughout the UK.
The £3m-turnover business provides a huge range of finished products for government, trade and educational bodies, with 42 employees fully trained and skilled at using all the equipment. Most runs ranging between 1000 to 100000 sheets, case-bound book with runs of 100-3000 are the most common, and over 300000 wiro bound products per year especially for the educational sector.


text:
package com.supermeetup.supermeetup.model;

import com.google.gson.annotations.Expose;
import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;

import org.parceler.Parcel;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * Created by yuxin on 10/13/17.
 * Sample:
 * {
 *      "created": 1488936101000,
 *      "name": "Adventures in Common",
 *      "id": 22812516,
 *      "join_mode": "open",
 *      "lat": 37.779998779296875,
 *      "lon": -122.41999816894531,
 *      "urlname": "Adventures-in-Common",
 *      "who": "Adventurers",
 *      "localized_location": "San Francisco, CA",
 *      "region": "en_US",
 *      "category": {
 *          "id": 31,
 *          "name": "Socializing",
 *          "shortname": "socializing",
 *          "sort_name": "Socializing"
 *      },
 *      "photo": {
 *          "id": 461031337,
 *          "highres_link": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/8/8/9/highres_461031337.jpeg",
 *          "photo_link": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/8/8/9/600_461031337.jpeg",
 *          "thumb_link": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/8/8/9/thumb_461031337.jpeg",
 *          "type": "event",
 *          "base_url": "https://secure.meetupstatic.com"
 *      }
 *  }
 */
@Parcel
public class Group {

    @SerializedName("created")
    @Expose
    private long created;
    @SerializedName("members")
    @Expose
    private long members;
    @SerializedName("name")
    @Expose
    private String name;
    @SerializedName("id")
    @Expose
    private long id;
    @SerializedName("join_mode")
    @Expose
    private String joinMode;
    @SerializedName("lat")
    @Expose
    private double lat;
    @SerializedName("lon")
    @Expose
    private double lon;
    @SerializedName("urlname")
    @Expose
    private String urlname;
    @SerializedName("who")
    @Expose
    private String who;
    @SerializedName("localized_location")
    @Expose
    private String localizedLocation;
    @SerializedName("region")
    @Expose
    private String region;
    @SerializedName("photo")
    @Expose
    private Photo photo;
    @SerializedName("group_photo")
    @Expose
    private Photo group_photo;
    @SerializedName("category")
    @Expose
    private Category category;
    @SerializedName("member_sample")
    @Expose
    private ArrayList<Profile> member_sample;

    public ArrayList<Profile> getMemberSample() {
        return member_sample;
    }

    public void setMemberSample(ArrayList<Profile> member_sample) {
        this.member_sample = member_sample;
    }

    public long getCreated() {
        return created;
    }

    public void setCreated(long created) {
        this.created = created;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getJoinMode() {
        return joinMode;
    }

    public void setJoinMode(String joinMode) {
        this.joinMode = joinMode;
    }

    public double getLat() {
        return lat;
    }

    public void setLat(double lat) {
        this.lat = lat;
    }

    public double getLon() {
        return lon;
    }

    public void setLon(double lon) {
        this.lon = lon;
    }

    public String getUrlname() {
        return urlname;
    }

    public void setUrlname(String urlname) {
        this.urlname = urlname;
    }

    public String getWho() {
        return who;
    }

    public void setWho(String who) {
        this.who = who;
    }

    public String getLocalizedLocation() {
        return localizedLocation;
    }

    public void setLocalizedLocation(String localizedLocation) {
        this.localizedLocation = localizedLocation;
    }

    public String getRegion() {
        return region;
    }

    public void setRegion(String region) {
        this.region = region;
    }

    public Photo getPhoto(){
        return photo;
    }

    public void setPhoto(Photo photo){
        this.photo = photo;
    }

    public Category getCategory(){
        return category;
    }

    public void setCategory(Category category){
        this.category = category;
    }

    public long getMembers() {
        return members;
    }

    public void setMembers(long members) {
        this.members = members;
    }

    public Photo getGroupPhoto() {
        return group_photo;
    }

    public void setGroupPhoto(Photo group_photo) {
        this.group_photo = group_photo;
    }
}


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Existen muchas clases de búhos las cuales habitan en casi todos los lugares del planeta. Su hábitat son los árboles, praderas, rocas y zonas no habitadas. Se alimentan de otros animales vivos como: peces, insectos, ratones, lagartijas, etcétera. Estas aves son nocturnas, por lo que son excelentes cazadores en la oscuridad. Tienen mucho cuidado al intentar agarrar su presa, no hacen ni el más mínimo ruido y así la atacan, por ser aves nocturnas tienen muy desarrollado su parte visual y auditiva.
Para reproducirse y criar a sus crías, el búho manchado del norte necesita hasta 40 hectáreas de bosque maduro.

Distribución
El búho manchado puede encontrarse desde el suroeste de la Columbia Británica, pasando por el oeste de Washington y Oregón hasta la costa norte-central de California.
También están presentes, aunque en poblaciones más pequeñas,  en las zonas montañosas de la costa y el sur de California, desde Monterrey hasta el norte de Baja California. En los Estados Unidos, el búho manchado mexicano se da en poblaciones separadas en sierras y cañones de Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nuevo México, y el extremo oeste de Texas. En México se extiende desde Sonora, Chihuahua, Nuevo León y Coahuila, a través de la Sierra Madre Occidental y la Sierra Madre Oriental hasta el sur de Michoacán.

Hábitat
El tiempo también puede influir en la selección del hábitat del búho moteado. En el Parque nacional Saguaro, la temperatura promedio durante el día es más fría que la temperatura ambiente circundante. En el norte de Arizona, los sitios de anidación las temperaturas eran un poco más bajas. En lugares con una mayor humedad se encontraron mayores grupos de estas aves, mientras que en lugares donde la humedad era más baja eran muy pocos los búhos manchados.
esto puede deberse a diversos factores como por ejemplo los animales que son alimento de estas aves y que dependen a su vez del clima y las condiciones ambientales.

Migración
Aunque generalmente los búhos manchados no son migratorios, algunas personas, aseguran haberlos visto migrar distancias cortas (menos 50 km) entre el invierno y épocas de reproducción.
En los casos en los que los búhos manchados migran, abandonan sus lugares de cría de octubre a diciembre y regresan durante los meses de febrero hasta mediados de abril.

Requiere de zonas de descanso pues sus migraciones son muy largas, en estas zonas se queda periodos cortos de tiempo, sin embargo son de gran importancia para que su trayecto pueda ser cubierto en su totalidad.

Alimentación
Los Búhos manchados son nocturnos, y se caracterizan por ser depredadores que esperan pacientemente a sus presas. A menudo cazan desde los árboles saltando y abalanzándose sobre sus presas. Aunque es raro, algunas veces cazan de día.
Aunque la dieta búhos manchados varía con su localización, la mayoría consiste típicamente en especies de mamíferos, incluyendo ardillas voladoras, ratas de campo, etc. La dieta más común de aquellos búhos que habitan el sur de Estados Unidos se basa en su mayoría por ardillas mientras que aquellos búhos que se encuentran en el norte mexicano suele ser de ratas de campo.
Otras fuentes de alimento pueden ser otras especies de búho más pequeñas, insectos, pájaros y en ocasiones lagartos.

Conservación
El búho manchado es una especie en peligro de extinción, en los últimos años se ha incrementado su declive hasta en un 50%. Se espera que se extinga de Canadá en los próximos años y se cuenta con solo 30 parejas reproductivas en California.
En 2008, se destinaron 35000 km cuadrados para su conservación, sin embargo los esfuerzos siguen siendo en vano.

En peligro
Las razones son muchas, sin embargo las principales son las mismas a la mayoría de los animales que corren este riesgo, la caza excesiva y el daño a su hábitat. Es importante recordar que su hábitat no solo es el lugar en el que vive y se encuentra esta ave la mayor parte del tiempo, puesto que es un ave migratoria requiere de zonas de descanso en las que pasa poco tiempo pero en donde debe buscar refugio y alimento, si estas zonas se destruyen el búho manchado no puede migrar de México a Estados Unidos y va desapareciendo de ciertas áreas, y al mismo tiempo debe enfrentarse a los cambios climáticos y de temperatura al quedarse en una zona en la que no debía estar en ciertos periodos del año.

Consecuencias
Si desaparecieran estas aves, podría ocasionarse un incremento descontrolado en algunas de las especies que son alimento de los búhos manchados y que a su vez le causarían daños al entorno afectando a otras especies.

Referencias
 F. Bernis, E. de Juana, J. del Hoyo, M. Fernández-Cruz, X. Ferrer, R. Sáez-Royuela y J. Sargatal, Nombres en castellano de las aves del mundo recomendados por la Sociedad Española de Ornitología (Quinta parte: Strigiformes, Caprimulgiformes y Apodiformes). Ardeola 47(1), 2000, pp. 123-130.

Enlaces externos
 https://web.archive.org/web/20130211100116/http://www.nationalgeographic.es/animales/pajaros/raptors/imagen/buho-manchado-del-norte
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Owl

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What Gets Granite Staters Excited? The Sox
Watching the Sox is the closest we get to excitement
Rebecca Rule,
Illustration by Brad Fitzpatrick
Fella from away: What do you folks do for excitement around here?
New Hampshire Native: Don't know. Never been excited.
Which is not entirely true. In my family we do occasionally get excited … about the Red Sox.
Yes, they're based in Boston, and we are genetically predisposed to fear Boston. When I was a kid, on our annual Christmas shopping jaunt to Mammoth Mills, upon spotting the highway marker that said Boston straight ahead, for Manchester exit right, my mother would panic: "Turn right, quick, or we'll end up in Boston."
I learned early on that Boston was not a good place to end up.
Unless you went straight to Fenway Park and straight home. Bring a lunch. Might not be anything to eat in Massachusetts. Fenway! The family held hands so's not to get lost in the crowd. We heard a little boy (evidently enjoying his first trip to the park) say: "Daddy, it's in color!" We located our seats. The field so green; the sky so blue. Or maybe it was drizzling. I don't remember a single player by name or even who won or lost that day. (Maybe Carlton Fisk played, though I might be misremembering because he was a New Hampshire boy and we are so proud of Pudge.) But there was the singing of the national anthem, the literal roar of the crowd and the seventh inning stretch — long before Sweet Caroline was a glint in Neil Diamond's eye.
"We watched. We hoped. We swore. And we hoped some more."
My grandfather, Bob Stewart, loved the Red Sox so much he called them "thosegodamredsox" all-one-word. A teenager when they won the World Series in 1918, he was still waiting for a repeat when he died in 1966. So in 2004, 2007 and (holy moly) 2013, I felt him celebrating with us. 'Bout time.
One of my mom's early memories was listening to the Sox on the radio into the night, just she and her dad, while the rest of the family slept. Toward the end of a particularly good game, topped by a dramatic home run, she yelled "Good Ole Pesky" and woke the house.
Fast forward to April 20, 2012, the 100th anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park. My daughter, Adi, great-granddaughter of Bob Stewart, sang the national anthem with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus on the field at Fenway. I don't recall who the opposing team was, who won or lost, but I saw the pictures of Bob Stewart's great-granddaughter on that green, green grass singing for thosegodamredsox. Our godamredsox.
And who was the honored guest that day?
Johnny Pesky.
The 2012 season? Yuh. Well. When asked why the Sox lost so much on the road, Coach Bobby Valentine infamously said: "What difference does it make?"
But did we stop watching?
We watched. We hoped. We swore. And we hoped some more.
Bob Stewart's granddaughter returned to sing with the chorus at the final home game celebrating the All-Fenway Team and the return of many former players. Her special memory of that day: "Walking down the hall and Nomar Garciaparra was walking next to me and I was close enough to touch his butt AND I DIDN'T because, you know, keeping it classy."
So proud of us.
Fella from away: What do you folks do up here all winter?
New Hampshire Native: Look forward to spring training. And, even better, Opening Day.
Categories: Humor


text:
Q: Validate Json Schema I'm getting an error when using json-schema-validator API v4.
I try to do :
final JsonValidator validator = new JsonValidator(JsonLoader.fromPath("schema.json"));
ValidationReport report = validator.validate(data);

but every time I get an error : # [schema]: unknown keyword contacts
schema.json :
{
    "contacts": {
        "description": "The list of contacts",
        "type": "array",
        "optional": true,
        "items": {
            "description": "A contact",
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
                "givenName": {
                    "description": "Person's first name",
                    "type": "string",
                    "maxLength": 64,
                    "optional": true
                },
                "familyName": {
                    "description": "A person's last name",
                    "type": "string",
                    "maxLength": 64,
                    "optional": true
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Regards

A: As far as I can intuit, your data looks like this-> json_data={"contacts":array}. If this is true, basically your outermost thing is an object (basically the full json object itself), for which you "might" need to define the schema starting from the "top level root" of your json as->
schema.json:
{
"description": "the outer json",
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
            "contacts": {
                          "description": "The list of contacts",
                          "type": "array",
                          "optional": true,
                          "items": {
                                     "description": "A contact",
                                     "type": "object",
                                     "properties": {
                                     "givenName": {

etc.....

Forgive me for rough indentations. Also, I have not tested this, please see if it works, if it does not, I would suggest you to provide your json_data (example at least) and the API's examples so that one can try to locate where what is wrong.

A: Use AVJ. Instead of having your data validation and sanitization logic written as lengthy code, you can declare the requirements to your data with concise, easy to read and cross-platform JSON Schema or JSON Type Definition specifications and validate the data as soon as it arrives to your application.

// validationSchema.js

import Ajv from "ajv";
import addFormats from "ajv-formats";
import ajvErrors from "ajv-errors";

const schemas = {
  newUser: {
    {
      type: "object",
      properties: {
        lastName: {
          type: "string",
          minLength: 1,
          maxLength: 255
        },
        firstName: {
          type: "string",
          minLength: 1,
          maxLength: 255
        },
        description: {
          type: "string"
        },
        birthday: {
          type: "string",
          format: "date-time"
        },
        status: {
          type: "string",
          enum: ["ACTIVE", "DELETED"]
        },
      },
      required: ["name"]
    }
  }
};

const ajv = new Ajv({ allErrors: true });

addFormats(ajv);
ajvErrors(ajv /*, {singleError: true} */);

const mapErrors = (errorsEntry = []) => {
  const errors = errorsEntry.reduce(
    (
      acc,
      { instancePath = "", message = "", params: { missingProperty = "" } = {} }
    ) => {
      const key = (instancePath || missingProperty).replace("/", "");

      if (!acc[key]) {
        acc[key] = [];
      }

      acc[key].push(`${key} ${message}`);

      return acc;
    },
    []
  );

  return errors;
};

const validate = (schemaName, data) => {
  const v = ajv.compile(schemas[schemaName]);
  let valid = false,
    errors = [];

  valid = v(data);
  if (!valid) {
    errors = mapErrors(v.errors);
  }

  return { valid, errors };
};

export default { validate };

You can validate it like this:

import validationSchema from "your_path/validationSchema.js"

const user = {
  firstName: "",
  lastName: "",
  ....
};

const { valid, errors = [] } = validationSchema.validate("newUser", user);

if(valid){
  console.log("Data is valid!");
} else {
  console.log("Data is not valid!");
  console.log(errors);
}

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I felt that I owed the music something better than the words I'd cobbled together, which struck me as more emotional and stream-of-conscious in their ramblings than they should have been. And then, with the music out in the world, I just never got back to the drawing board in the hope of crafting a better homage.
It's a wonderful duo of records, and if you haven't listened to both of them, straight through in sequence as they were meant to be heard, you really should. It's an incredibly moving experience.
The albums weren't made to be a collection of "singles", but they are nevertheless home to many tracks that stand alone quite beautifully, even if you'll get something more out of them based on their context within the albums' flow. I've picked one of those tracks for this list, maybe in part because I'm writing this installment of the list while at the tail end of the biggest snowfall Seattle has experienced in 50 years, a week-long stretch that has delivered a lot more snow than the region normally gets in an entire winter, and has made the tall forests around my home into a wonderland. The song is "Snow Burdened Branches".
The song begins with a recorded statement by Sigurd Olson ((1899-1982), a well-known environmentalist, award-winning conservation activist, and best-selling author of nine books, including The Listening Point. He spent most of his life in Ely, Minnesota, on the verge of the Quetico-Superior wilderness, and (like Austin Lunn) was a lover of the great north woods, and you can feel that passion in this music.
"Snow Burdened Branches" blazes, all that passion bursting forth in the roaring riff and roaring voice, the thundering bass, the soaring and scintillating lead, and the extravagant blasting drumwork that launches the song. The panoramic sweep of the music is as grand as the great forested vistas that provided part of the inspiration, while the guitar melodies seem to combine feelings of wonder and wistfulness, melancholy and yearning, a feeling of being surrounded by great, ancient presences that might still leave you alone with your inner-most thoughts as new rings of growth count the passing years. Even when the drums cease at the end, the music is glorious… and then as fragile as a moment of peace beside a rippling creek.
Seid is the third studio album by the Norwegian black metal band Kvalvaag, and it was released last year by the Dusktone label. In advance of the release, I wrote about an advance track from the album named "Bergtatt" that I thought for sure would make this list of mine, but over time it got edged aside by the one I finally chose, "Mare".
Moody and mystically inclined at first, the song begins to cast an otherworldly spell — a beautiful one, made brighter by darting violin strings. Even when the music begins to surge and sear, there is beauty (albeit a dangerous beauty) in the shining, cascading keyboard layers, yet the head-moving drum rhythms know how to find your brain stem and get their hooks in there, too. The blend of ear-shrieking shrieks and rising choral voices work very effectively together, as do the whirling, dancing riffs and the ones that jab like a maniacal jackhammer.
There's something almost carnival-like and mad in the music, as well as something ravishingly magnificent, and something demonic and vicious. It's a weird and wondrous swirl of sound mixed with a carnal physicality — and somehow it works, everything meant to be just as it is. It's also highly addictive.
"Opener 'Animal Crown', for example, is akin to galloping across a windswept plane as the sand and soil shifts beneath you, exposing the rocks and the roots which lie just beneath the surface, and bringing old bones into new light.
"As metaphors go, I think this is a pretty good one (if I do say so myself), as the song paints a vivid musical landscape through which the listener journeys, encountering unexpected sights and sounds along the way, as well as elements – the bare-bones melodies of American folk music, the raw fury of primal Black Metal – which have been resurrected to serve a new purpose".
"Animal Crown" really is a viscerally arresting song that merits the above description — and it's also damned memorable, which is why you're finding it here. This song is also the second one in today's installment that was performed live at Fire In the Mountains festival last summer in Wyoming. It's the first thing you'll see and hear in the video below, filmed as part of Wayfarer's entire set by (((unartig))).
I guess maybe the unusually snowy conditions in the Seattle area had something to do with my selection of this song, as perhaps it did in the case of the first one today, or at least something to do with why I decided to close today's selection with it.
The song is the title track from an EP named Сеногной by this band from Siberian Russia (reviewed here, along with our premiere of a different track from the EP). The EP begins with "Новый рассвет (New Dawn)", a two-and-a-half minute track, continues with the four-minute song "Frost leash", and ends with "Сеногной (Senognoy)", which nearly reaches eight minutes. The music flows and evolves; as they have before, Neverending Winter manage to successfully braid together differing strains of black metal (both savage and atmospheric) and crust punk in a way that makes the EP a riveting listen from start to finish.
There's tremendous dramatic power and explosive energy in these three tracks, which mix furious rampaging with sensations of dark and ominous grandeur and glimmers of otherworldly, melancholy beauty. The longer tracks are the more diverse, of course, and the title track is the one that made the deepest impression on me — and it turned out to be a lasting impression, as you can see.


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Trenton Democrats need to call out Bryan Miller's racist image
March 05, 2019 / Jersey Conservative
This is Bryan Miller. He advocates for taking away the means of self-defense for working class single moms in cities like Paterson, Newark, and Camden.
Even the Star-Ledger's Tom Moran now understands that the police have no legal responsibility to protect each and every individual in America. In a Republic, that job is left up to its citizens. YOU CANNOT SUE THE GOVERNMENT WHEN IT FAILS TO PROTECT YOU. That is established legal precedent.
So disarming single moms in towns like Paterson, Newark, and Camden… or anywhere else in New Jersey for that matter… is an open invitation to rape and murder for any thug passing by.
But that's not enough for Bryan Miller. He wants to use racist images like the one above to scare groups like Moms Demand Action and the Brady Campaign into taking away the rights of single moms and other at-risk people to get the training and equipment to defend themselves against violent criminals determined to harm them and their children.
This is an old and sad story in America. Gun control laws were first used to disarm black people so that they couldn't defend themselves against groups like the racist KKK. Racist appeals to support these laws were made to upper middle class women like those who make up Moms Demand Action and the Brady Campaign today.
Along with disarming black people and taking away their right to self-defense, came something called the "poll tax" which served to take away black people's participation in public life. Now the Trenton Democrats – led by Governor Phil "coddler of rapists" Murphy – have come up with a way to do both in a single piece of legislation that raises the permit fee to own the means of self-protection from $5 to $300.
These Democrats are filthy racists and they need to be opposed.
No hard-working single mom should have to live in fear just because she can't afford to live where the politicians live. Fear of rape and other forms of violence shouldn't be the penalty for not having enough money to raise your kids in a town like all those Moms Demand Action and Brady Campaign folks come from.
Unless Murphy and the Trenton Democrats are willing to pay to post a full-time police officer on every street in every at-risk community, raising the cost by which women and other at-risk people can get the training and equipment to protect their bodies and lives is morally wrong and should be opposed by all right-thinking people.
March 05, 2019 / Jersey Conservative/ Comment
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Pushing for a $15 minimum wage, the Star-Ledger pays its drivers $10 an hour (are any undocumented?)
January 09, 2019 / Jersey Conservative
The Star-Ledger doesn't report the news. As Editor Tom Moran wrote (November 1, 2018): "Our core mission is helping voters decide which lever to pull."
That's right, the Star-Ledger is a advocacy organization. First and foremost, you can always depend on the Star-Ledger to lobby for its own bottom line.
For years, the newspaper was a strident supporter of the New Jersey State Supreme Court's Abbott Decision – which forces working class families in suburban and rural New Jersey to subsidize the property taxes of wealthy corporations and professionals in urban areas. Among those wealthy corporations was the parent corporation that owns the Star-Ledger, whose property holdings were so extensive in Newark that the city named a street… no, make that a plaza, after the Star-Ledger.
Now comes this new hypocrisy.
A few days before Christmas, the New Jersey Globe reported that while editorializing for a $15 minimum wage, the Star-Ledger was paying workers at $10 an hours, with no benefits. The corporation that owns the Star-Ledger is itself owned by one of the richest families in America.
Here's an excerpt from the New Jersey Globe:
The state's largest daily newspaper ran an advertisement in Wednesday's print edition seeking drivers for newspaper deliveries willing to work 2-3 hours daily, "starting around 3 AM," with a typical bi-weekly compensation that starts at $400. That could mean less than $10-per-hour.
To get a job like that, applicants must have their own cars. Star-Ledger drivers – they call them Delivery Service Providers — receive no benefits; they "are independently contacted, meaning they are self-employed" and receive 1099s. Minimum wage laws do not apply.
There is no paid vacation time, no workers compensation, and since drivers do not handle collections, there are no gratuities involved.
"The job, once the bastion of neighborhood kids looking to make a few extra bucks on their bikes, has evolved into a grueling nocturnal marathon for low-income workers who toil almost invisibly on the edge of the economy," wrote Associated Press reporter Michael Levenson in 2016.
Today the Star-Ledger once again editorialized for drivers' licenses for resident undocumented immigrants illegally in the United States. Is this another self-serving position for the owners to take? Will this help drive down the cost of newspaper distribution? We wonder if there are any internal memos on this?
While the Star-Ledger and its owners are up on all the latest virtue-signaling, paying just enough lip-service to reassure the cocktail set that they are good and worthy people, their actions seek to drive down the wages of American workers, while creating an immigrant class of toiling wage slaves. Raising the minimum wage is a farce until you can control the gray economy that doesn't abide by such rules. Normalizing the gray economy (by things like drivers licenses) will only solidify its position as an alternative workforce.
And while the Democrats talk about the minimum wage, Governor Murphy is doing his utmost to flood the state with illegal labor that every economist tells us will drive down wages. When there is more of something, you pay less, we all know that. Either the Democrats are well-meaning but stupid, or they are engaging in the very same hypocrisy that the Star-Ledger is engaging in.
Here is the original New Jersey Globe story:
https://newjerseyglobe.com/media/star-ledger-editorializes-in-support-of-15-hour-wage-but-pays-drivers-much-less/
January 09, 2019 / Jersey Conservative/ Comment
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The Hugin campaign would have done better in a Democrat primary.
Bob Hugin is a great guy. Really. He's a good and decent man. It was unfortunate that he found himself in a Republican primary… this year. The fact that he persevered with such confidence and grace makes him a heroic, somewhat tragic, figure.
Bob Hugin could have run in the Democrat primary. $35 million… against Bob Menendez? Hugin had the issues right for a Democrat primary… and the media wouldn't have pounced on a Democrat Bob Hugin the way they did a Republican Bob Hugin. The media love rich members of the One Percent when they are Democrats (it is a capital sin when you are a Republican)… they love woke, right-on pharma folk of the proper political affiliation. They would have forgiven him everything.
But Bob ran as a Republican, and he ran this year. A year when the media he wanted to appeal to was working to nationalize the election – to make it about Trump. That media ended up vouching for Bob Menendez, despite having formerly called for his resignation. That media still cuts it with the people who Bob Hugin wanted to convince: Democrats and liberal-leaners.
Rather than shutting down Menendez, Hugin's attacks were used by the media as evidence that he – Bob Hugin – was a "bad" man. Of course, this only works with those who are open to receiving a message from the likes of Tom Moran and MSNBC. Unfortunately, they were precisely the voters that the Hugin campaign was aimed at.
Can we put aside the myth that Republican voters will come out no matter what, and dutifully vote Republican? That myth should have finally, once and for all, been discarded after the low turnout Assembly races in 2015, when Republicans AGAIN lost seats in the Legislature and were AGAIN provided with irrelevant excuses for having done so.
Oh the excuses! One year it is Christie's fault, the next it is Trump's, and in between, the dog ate it! New Jersey Republicans should set up their own public relations firm specializing in excuse-making. Excuses aside, New Jersey's GOP establishment should understand that the days of Republicans "holding their noses" and voting are over.
Republican voters are like anyone else. Ignore them, say you are embarrassed to be with them, that you are "different" from them… and they will reward you in kind. As an experiment, try some of that language next time you are in public with your wife and her family (or your husband and his). Invite them out to a restaurant, then tell the host: "I'm a different kind of member of this family, I'm not really one of them… They are a little, umm… backward." And say it so they hear it. Say it loud, like ten million dollars' worth of loud, and see how they like it. Go ahead, try it. Get back to us on it.
And that's what the whole Hugin campaign was based on, wasn't it?
"I'm a different kind of Republican." They are a little backward, a little off, but I'm with it. I am a cool Republican. Except that there are no "cool" Republicans. Not in the minds of the media. They only thought John McCain was cool when he was pissing on Bush. The moment it became about him and Obama, John McCain became a troglodyte in the minds of the media. After the dust settled, he became cool again, especially when pissing on other Republicans… especially when pissing on Trump. But when he needed them, the media screwed John McCain. So why even bother with them?
President Ronald Reagan understood the media (and they were a lot more condensed, more centralized, and a lot stronger back then). That's why he talked past them – to the people. He didn't give a damn about their approval. He fed them the diet he wanted them to eat and even when they shit it out it contained the kernels of his message. Reagan wasn't afraid to be a Republican and to explain what that meant. He had a message that he tested and honed by human contact – by speaking to people, engaging them, listening for the examples that would be used in his speeches, turning them on to his way of thinking, building a movement of ideas and about issues that mattered to people.
How many Republicans today, in New Jersey, can explain why they are Republicans or what Republicanism is? At the big Republican show put on by the NJGOP last spring in Atlantic City, two professional Republican organizers up from Washington, DC, posed the same questions to attendees. Not only was there no apparent theme or connectivity between the responses, even the organizers couldn't adequately provide reasons or an explanation as to why they were there in the first place. It was kind of sad.
What that confab did showcase, however, is the top-down meddling that has become the hallmark of the establishment in New Jersey, with a congressional candidate in a contested primary receiving top billing as the event's featured speaker. Yes, there was resource-draining meddling in districts 2, 5, and 11 – in an effort to promote candidates who would fit seamlessly with the statewide message being promoted by the campaign of Bob Hugin.
Instead of building a grassroots coalition of Republicans and reformers – of the kind Ralph Nader wrote about in his book, Unstoppable – the Hugin campaign actually determined that their best chance lay in targeting "soft" Democrats and culturally "left-leaning" independents. But these are the very same voters open to arguments from left-leaning media like CNN, MSNBC, NJ.com, and the Bergen Record. So when the Hugin campaign pushed a relentlessly negative message about Menendez, those "independent arbiters" pushed back and were listened to.
This allowed the Menendez campaign to focus on making the link between Hugin and Trump – which the media backed up. The more the media pressed, the more Hugin denied Trump, the more he suppressed his own base. Meanwhile, the Hugin campaign went right on churning out GOTV communications and efforts to turn out those "soft" Democrats and culturally "left-leaning" independents who had by now been convinced by the media that Hugin was a "bad" man who was lying about Menendez. Gagged and gagged again.
In the days and weeks ahead we will be taking a proper, in depth, examination of the Republican operation in the Garden State. It will be a necessary, warts and all, detailed review. So stay tuned.
For now, we will leave you with this:
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
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Tom Moran's propaganda or the A.C. Press' journalism?
The showdown over the future of journalism is happening right here in New Jersey. It's between the editors of the Atlantic City Press and Tom Moran (and his acolytes) at the Star-Ledger (and elsewhere).
In October, the Atlantic City Press published an editorial which included these very remarkable lines: "Telling readers how to vote, however, is contrary to the mission of newspapers and other media, which is to extend the public's experience and perspectives. News gathering organizations give the public eyes, ears and memory beyond the capability of an individual. People want them to be reliable and credible. When the media start making judgments, their audiences wonder if they're altering their content to support that judgment too."
"Altering their content to support (a) judgment"? Isn't that what Jonathan Salant (pronounced S'lant) does every day? Isn't his tongue so far up Editor Tom Moran's perspective that it functions as a redundant tongue for Moran? Repetition, repetition, repetition… via Salanted coverage and outrageously partisan editorials… isn't that what political propaganda is all about?
But don't take our word for it. Here is Star-Ledger Editor Tom Moran himself, in his own words, in an editorial published just yesterday: "Voters will be standing in the booth Tuesday, and our core mission is helping them decide which lever to pull."
Well shit, if swaying voters is your "core mission" shouldn't you register as a political action committee? Afterall, the Star-Ledger is owned by some of the richest people in America – real 1 percenter scum – who have left no stone unturned in their relentless screwing over of working class union members and their families. If they are going to exist with their "core mission" to influence elections, shouldn't there be some transparency? Or are we just going to let them operate in darkness – to use their billions and their paid whore mouthpieces like Tom Moran and Jonathan S'lant to keep screwing over working people and working class families?
Labor unions need to account for how their money is spent. So do political campaigns and lobbyists and special interests groups. So why not billionaire newspaper publishers whose "core mission" is helping voters decide which lever to pull?
What makes it worse is that the rich pricks who own these newspapers are subsidized with taxpayers' money. They used their power and influence to lobby for a law that forces municipalities to buy advertisements in newspapers that could run for free on their own municipal websites. This not only vastly expands their carbon footprint, and with it the threat to environmental sustainability, but it turns beautiful green forests into shitty pulp factories. End the taxpayers' subsidy unless the newspapers institute some transparency!
Now for some thoughts on the conduct of the campaign season that will come to a close on Tuesday.
The two major parties have starkly different ideas on how to conduct a political campaign. The Democrats are all about the grassroots. They raise money from their grassroots. They make use of their grassroots base and their allies to prepare the ground, soften up their opponents, and inform their candidates. You see it in these debates, with the Democrat candidates constantly referencing some conversation or concern with a real or mythical human being in the district
Most insiders don't get what's happening here because they are creatures of Trenton or Washington or politics – but it skews the outsider perspective into one where the battles appear to be between "a representative of the government" (call him the Sheriff of Nottingham) and "a movement or collective of people" who are speaking through this individual who appears to be on their side and fighting for them (call him Robin Hood). It is moving under the surface and goes beyond the traditional ideas of scoring debate points, which most pundits seem to focus on.
The Democrats have the advantage here because they still have a grassroots that they have a relationship with and can work with and that depends on and works with them. Because of their symbiotic relationship, the Democrats' grassroots is well-funded enough to produce a harvest of volunteers, money, and votes for regular Democrat candidates. Yes, there is a tinge of radicalism to much of this grassroots, but they appear to understand when to tone it down or keep it underground. That' probably because they are helped in their financing by the regular Democrats.
Republicans have largely decommissioned their grassroots in the Garden State, with campaigns becoming smaller and smaller "entrepreneurial" enterprises outside state and county party organizations. The answer to everything is some new service or technology offered by some for-profit wunderkind. The idea of motivating people with a message, of reaching out to one's natural allies and of making them a part of a mission is utterly superfluous to this style of campaigning.
And so, in keeping with this, Democrat candidates talk about the people they have met and what they have learned from them, while Republicans land the punches rehearsed in barren settings, devoid of anyone not political. If the Democrats are real. If the stories are not make believe. If there is a depth of humanity to back each one up… look out on election day.
Finally, the talking heads who bracket these televised debates – both Democrats and Republicans – appear to forget that the same audience viewing the debate, is viewing them. Cut the gentlemanly bullshit and get to work. Rip the opponent worse than your candidate did (hey, your name isn't on the ballot). It's the same damned debate, the same viewers, you are just a different means to deliver the message and continue the fight. So get in the killer point that your candidate forgot. Be a good wing man. Shoot the bastard down.
Besides, nobody wants to see a self-reverential daisy chain of colorless "experts" or "professionals". Get into the mud and fight!
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Tom Moran shits the bed again. NJ.com editorial goes nuts with the name-calling (again).
October 22, 2018 / Jersey Conservative
By Rubashov
At what point did Star-Ledger/NJ.com editor Tom Moran go from a somewhat reasonable – albeit excruciatingly liberal – man of journalism, to New Jersey's own Julius Streicher, throwing invective and hate at anyone who doesn't see the world through the increasingly dark and confused lens he does. Like Streicher, who edited a newspaper called "The Attacker," Moran discards journalism and adopts a political role as the state's leading propagandist for what has come to be known as "The Resistance."
Of course, what he is "resisting" is the outcome (under long established rules) of a national election in the world's foremost democracy. Moran and his movement are not only threats to the political and economic stability of United States, but of the World. It takes humility to live in a democracy, to preserve a Republic. But Moran and his movement place their will above all else – and if their will should triumph, all future elections would be fought after the fact, regardless of outcome, endlessly, the way they are fighting this one.
To Moran and his movement, we are in year three of the 2016 presidential election. This election will not be over until they get their way. Only then will they permit us to move on to the next election.
But who is this movement? They are the permanent Establishment Party of government. That's what they would be called if they were honest about it. In Mexico, where honesty rates higher than in Washington, DC, the longtime ruling political party calls itself the Partido Revolucionario Institucional – the Institutional Revolutionary Party. They held power for 71 uninterrupted years – until the corruption and economic decline got so bad that voters, in their pain, sought other answers (both good and bad). Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, like Ralph Nader and Ron Paul before them, are symptoms of a corrupt institutional party producing more pain than benefits.
Tom Moran is a chief propagandist for global corporatists, like those who publish his newspaper, and for all those who are made comfortable and secure by government and the largesse of the taxpayers. These include the crony capitalists, pay-to-play government vendors, the Wall Street operators (like Moran's heroes Jon Corzine and Phil Murphy), and the legions of lobbyists and senior bureaucrats who might as well be interchangeable. It includes too, those well-off academics, like Brigid Harrison of Montclair State University. A failed Democrat candidate, Harrison was provided a second life as an Establishment propagandist whose work has been pushed as required reading.
The permanent Establishment Party straddles both established political parties in America – where our political choices are limited to faux chocolate and faux vanilla – and where propagandists like Tom Moran direct members of the working class to battle each other over race, ethnicity, and gender. Using the last, they are now in the process of endlessly expanding the opportunities for internal division amongst the 99 percent.
Candidates like Mikie Sherrill are the face of this "Resistance" to working class pain – to those same voters who bet on Barack Obama to rescue them in 2008, and who, in their pain, reached for Donald Trump in 2016. A wealthy, expensively trained, representative of the Elite – whose career path was to "check the boxes" on the way to being given "power" as a safe pair-of-hands for those who actually wield it.
The means to Sherrill's rise to celebrity are notorious. Along with her Antifa-inspired thugs, she stalked and hounded the aged Congressman and Vietnam War Vet, Rodney Frelinghuysen. They spat insults at him and lied about his record – acting as if this most bi-partisan and gentlemanly of public servants was akin to David Duke. In this, they are not so different from Tom Moran and the NJ.com editorial board who over the weekend used words like "fraud" and "fanatical" to describe those who oppose their nurtured-by-hand celebrity, Mikie Sherrill. If anything, they are using others as a mirror to reflect back what they see in themselves… frauds and fanatics.
Over the next two weeks and beyond – until they get their way and the result from the 2016 presidential election that they believe they are entitled to – Tom Moran and company will continue to behave the way they have been, calling names, spitting hatred, urinating down their own trousers. They are like beings possessed, confirmed in their certainties, their righteousness and indignation. They can not think outside of it… just ask Jonathan Salant.
October 22, 2018 / Jersey Conservative/ Comment
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