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Kemp proposes refunds for Georgia income taxpayers
by Dave Williams | Capitol Beat January 12, 2022 January 12, 2022
Gov. Brian Kemp wants to use a record state budget surplus to cut taxes.
The Republican governor proposed $1.6 billion in tax refunds Wednesday worth $250 for state income tax single filers and $500 for joint filers.
"We should continue to fund our priorities but also be good stewards of that taxpayer money," Kemp told Georgia political and business leaders during the annual Eggs and Issues breakfast sponsored by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
Kemp said the record $3.7 billion budget surplus the state posted at the end of the last fiscal year in June resulted from Georgia's ability to recover quickly from the recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. While some states shut down businesses during the pandemic's early months, Kemp chose to keep Georgia's economy open.
"We chose hope over fear, freedom over lockdowns," he said. "As a result, our state led the nation in economic recovery."
While the governor's tax refund plan likely will enjoy smooth sailing in the Republican-controlled legislature, an Atlanta-based think tank criticized it as overly broad.
"Public opinion data shows that what most Georgians want is not a smaller one-time payment for all taxpayers, but strategically targeted tax relief for those who need it the most," said Danny Kanso, senior policy analyst with the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. "State leaders should reconsider the approach to one-time payments and choose a lasting solution that would benefit those hardest hit by the pandemic."
Kemp also announced plans to reverse the budget cuts to higher education the state imposed during the Great Recession of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
He said he will ask the General Assembly for $262 million to remove "institutional" fees the University System of Georgia slapped on students during that economic downturn and $25 million to increase the HOPE Scholarship program's coverage to at least 90% of tuition costs at the state's public colleges and universities.
The mandatory institutional fees, which were not earmarked for specific purposes such as athletics, have been a major source of complaints by students and their parents. The lottery-funded HOPE program, which used to provide full tuition coverage for eligible students, was reduced in 2011 because growing student enrollment was failing to keep pace with HOPE revenues.
Kemp also announced legislation will be introduced on his behalf during the 2022 General Assembly session to exclude from taxes retirement income earned by members of the military.
Also during the Eggs and Issues breakfast, Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan pitched his proposal for a $250 million state tax credit to raise money to support law enforcement.
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston said he will introduce a comprehensive bill aimed at improving mental health services in Georgia by, among other things, providing parity to mental health-care workers.
"For too long, our state has ranked among the worst in the nation for delivering mental-heath services," said Ralston, R-Blue Ridge. "That is a distinction that's going to change."
Wednesday's Eggs and Issues breakfast was the first held inside Midtown Atlanta's Fox Theatre and the first to be held in person since before the pandemic struck Georgia nearly two years ago.
This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.
Tagged: Brian Kemp, Geoff Duncan, Georgia General Assembly
Dave Williams | Capitol Beat
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Agastyatirtha – 1 (Agastyatīrtha)
Agastyatīrtha is a place of pilgrimage in the Paṇḍya region in South India.
Mahābhārata (Kinjawadekar)(3.88.13)
Mahābhārata Vols. 1-43 (Siddhāntabāgīśa)(3.37.13)
It is a place of pilgrimage lying close to the southern sea in South India. Arjuna, having set out on a pilgrimage for twelve years after violating the condition of the Pāṇḍava brothers' spending nuptial turns with Draupadī, came to this place while visiting the holy places or tīrtha (tirtha) near the southern sea. It is said that five tīrtha, namely Agastyatīrtha, Saubhadratīrtha, Paulamatīrtha, Kārandhamatīrtha and Bharadvājatīrtha, had been abandoned by brāhmaṇas (Brahmins), sages and and all good men. Brāhmaṇas had told Arjuna that those five tīrtha had become haunts of five fearsome crocodiles, who pulled down into the water the pilgrim bathers. Even after hearing these words an exceptionally brave Arjuna went in for a dip at Soubhadratīrtha. As said to him by the sages, the crocodile came and caught hold of his ankle with his jaws. With the crocodile clinging to his ankle, Arjuna dragged it towards the shore and came out of the water with it. The crocodile instantly assumed the form of a beautiful woman. She said to Arjuna that as the result of pestering a brāhmaṇa, he had cursed and turned them into crocodiles, who had been haunting the waters of the five tīrtha since then. At the woman's request, Arjuna rescued her other friends from the waters of the other four tīrtha and broke the curse, thus purifying the waters around these cursed places of pilgrimage. In our opinion, Agastyatīrtha had become inaccessible to the people because of various reasons. Arjuna brought back to life these about-to-be-obliviated places of pilgrimage. Agastyatīrtha is one of the important places of pilgrimage over here. [See Vargā]
Mahābhārata (Kinjawadekar)(1.216.1-23)
Mahābhārata Vols. 1-43 (Siddhāntabāgīśa)(1.209.9-23, 210.1-3)
It is also possible that Agastyatīrtha, along with the other four nearby tīrtha, had come to be infested by terrifying marine creatures and had thus come to be avoided by pilgrims. It is perhaps for the same reason that these places came to be marked as evil places of pilgrimage (mandatīrtha).
Scholars often identify the Agastyamalai Hills of the mountain range separating modern day Tamil Nadu and Kerala with Agastyatīrtha. Agastyamalai is the source of the river Tāmraparṇī (Tamraparni). The other name for Agastyamalai is Agastyakūṭa (Agastykuta). According to a different opinion, Agastyamalai is a part of the Kalīñjara Parvata (Kalinjara mountains).
Encyclopedia of Anciend Indian Geography(P. 13)
Geography of India 86
Mahabharata 910
Original research by Nrisinha Prasad Bhaduri.
Chief Research Associate: Sucheta Bandyopadhyay Research Associate: Aitrayee Sarkar.
Compiled by Shiraz Ray and edited by Rajarshee Gupta.
An Initiative of Netaji Institute for Asian Studies.

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I answered his question with my best intentions and put quite a thought into my reply. Therefore I got already 4 ups/likes (don´t know how to call em) after a short period of time. But when I logged into stackoverflow this morning my at least 40 reputation gained through the answer were gone, as well as the whole question itself, including any notifications in my inbox, comments etc., every track of the question is gone.
My questions now is: What happened? Can a question be removed completely, even undoing the reputation it has delivered to some guy and everything else that has happened because of it? If so, by whom and under what conditions?
I was/am kind of angry, I didn't get any notification about what happened, it's just gone, even the (in my opinion) useful question and answer.
I don´t know if that has happened to anyone else before or was just a bug because of some kind of update in the last hours - maybe this is supposed to be directed to the support, but I feel right to ask/post it this way (if it isn´t, please tell ;) - maybe the fact that I can´t find any suitable tag is an indicator it is the wrong way).

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The same question by the same user had been posted, closed and deleted a few days earlier.  Since they don't seem interested in improving the question, I just deleted the copy without waiting around.  Don't be surprised when your answers to questions of this quality are deleted.

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Several CIA Contractors Were Reportedly Fired for Stealing Vending-Machine Snacks
By Lisa Ryan
Vending machine. Photo: Getty Images
It is the greatest ethical quandary of our time: You stumble upon a hack that allows you to procure free snacks from the vending machine — do you, or do you not, exploit the hack and take the snacks? Apparently, if you're a CIA contractor, the answer is yes.
According to documents recently obtained by BuzzFeed News through a FOIA lawsuit, a declassified Office of Inspector General report details the thefts, which went on from fall 2012 through March 2013. The scheme, we'll be frank, was actually quite brilliant: The contractors would disconnect a cable that linked the vending machines to an electronic-payment system called FreedomPay, and then they'd use "unfunded FeedomPay cards" to get the snacks for free, like criminal geniuses. Per BuzzFeed News:
After being informed of the thefts, the OIG installed "surveillance cameras at several key vending locations where a high occurrence of thefts were taking place," according to the report. "Video footage recovered from the surveillance cameras captured numerous perpetrators engaged in the FreedomPay theft scheme, all of whom were readily identifiable as Agency contract personnel," the report states.
Several contract employees were identified as suspects, although one "unidentified" man was pinpointed as the mastermind of the whole operation, according to BuzzFeed News. But they all apparently broke pretty easily, as they "quickly" admitted to the thefts, surrendered their badges, were escorted out of the building, and then were fired by their respective employers.
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Turkey's failed coup reveals 'army within an army'
The air force and gendarmerie forces played key roles in the uprising. The coup attempt launched by generals calling themselves "Peace in the Country Council" was planned at the Gendarmerie General Command Headquarters in Ankara. Akinci Air Base, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the city, served as the coup's operations center. In addition to several armored units in Ankara and Istanbul, assault and general-purpose helicopters of the army aviation units supported the coup attempt.
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I love them so much and I love their books.
Now, another thing is, I have been dreading writing this review.
Because well, I honestly am not a fan of Burn for Burn.
I wanted to love it so much!
And I wasn't crazy about it.
Maybe it's because I had such high expectations for it.
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I just felt like the entire book was kinda.... immature.
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What I love so much about Jenny Han's books are that they have so much heart and emotion in them.
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This will be a series, so I'm hoping the books get better as the series grows.
I just finished this one and although I liked it, I definitely see where you are coming from. Personally, I didn't know this was going to be a supernatural book. I think that was a huge part of the problem for me, that it was (is) marketed wrong.
Thank you for your honest review, I appreciate it. I was planning on reading this one right away, but now I think I'll wait and see what others have to say.
It's tough to right a bad review. But don't worry, not every book can be a home run. :) Thanks for sharing your honest review!!
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This was an interesting insight for me as well.
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Theresa May should stop worrying about Northern Ireland
by Kate Hoey, David Trimble
Written by	Kate Hoey, David Trimble
We understand the future of Northern Ireland weighed heavily in your decision to agree an Irish backstop in the draft Withdrawal Agreement and remains a factor in your continuing support for the backstop, albeit now on a temporary basis.
Dear Prime Minister,
We understand the future of Northern Ireland weighed heavily in your decision to agree an Irish backstop in the draft Withdrawal Agreement and remains a factor in your continuing support for the backstop, albeit now on a temporary basis. Your concerns are said to include maintaining a peace widely seen as fragile, sustaining the union and protecting jobs.
We fully agree, of course, that peace is vital. Your undertaking on no new infrastructure on the border in Ireland is wise. No-one wants the police or others to come under attack erecting, repairing or maintaining barriers, cameras or anything else. Expert opinion given to the Northern Ireland Select Committee suggests that infrastructure is no longer needed since modern electronic procedures can do the job, so we hope that this is not an issue.
On your trips to Northern Ireland some will have told you in all sincerity of a more general danger to peace from disaffected republicans. However, in the over-heated context of Brexit many arguments are self-serving and cannot always be taken at face value. Sinn Fein themselves say there will be no return to violence. Indeed, sacrificing their hard-won electoral position in the Republic of Ireland would be an illogical thing for them to do.
Gerry Adams also asserts that dissident republicans have negligible support in the nationalist community. A few dozen dissidents may always be capable of criminal activity as the recent Londonderry car-bomb showed, but the security services have managed the dangers with admirable skill and will no doubt continue to do so.
Nor is there much evidence that Brexit puts the union in any real danger either from nationalist disaffection or because protestants would prefer Irish unity in order to remain within the EU. Reliable evidence shows little rise in support for Irish unity following the 2016 referendum. While, some polls have indicated support for Irish unity in the high 40 per cent range, more reliable polls have it down closer to the traditional 20%.
Polls showing higher support for Irish unity use samples drawn from voluntary panels and these seem to be biased away from working class people and especially from the unionist working classes. The gold-standard polls are undertaken for the Life and Times Survey funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council using face to face interviews.
The latest LIFT survey from 2018 showed that support from both communities for Irish unity was around 20% and only a little above pre-referendum levels. Support for Irish Unity among self-described protestants remains miniscule and of course the DUP made major gains in the 2017 general election in reaction to claims that Brexit meant growing support for Irish unity. Even among Catholics Brexit has not led a majority to support Irish unity. Sinn Fein's calls for a border poll have become Augustinian – a border poll yes, but not yet.
The correlation between Catholicism and support for unity is weaker than many assume. The 2011 census showed that only half of Northern Ireland's Catholics identified as 'Irish' and under half had an Irish passport. The Life and Times Survey shows that even in 2017/18 the proportion of Catholics who support eventual Irish unity is 41%. Only 7% express a desire for immediate unity.
Professor John Fitzgerald of ESRI in Dublin has recently calculated that living standards are 25% higher in Northern Ireland compared to the South. Although wages are generally higher in the South, higher taxes and fees and inferior levels of public service provision mean that northerners do better even before we take cheaper housing into account.
Some argue that the rising share of Catholics in the Northern Ireland population will continue, leading to a majority in a few decades. There is no evidence for this. The 2011 Census clearly shows that the percentage of the population who described themselves as Catholic had peaked among those born almost two decades ago and has subsequently slowly declined. Since Catholic birth-rates are now close to those of Protestants it seems likely the trend will continue.
Migration is also important and here there is major new factor. One in twenty of Northern Ireland's Catholics are now from Poland, Lithuania, Portugal and the Philippines. The future constitutional preference of these immigrants and their children is hard to predict but it would be wrong to expect them to support Irish unity.
Nor do we believe that jobs are greatly at risk in Northern Ireland. Studies which purport to show economic damage from no deal are self-contradictory and fail to take into account obvious opportunities. The main challenge would face the dairy industry, but the large potential loss of GB markets by southern food producers in the event of no deal would open substantial opportunities for Northern Ireland's farmers to fill the gap in GB.
All in all, we believe the dangers facing Northern Ireland are much smaller than you may have been led to believe. You face difficult decisions on the UK's future outside the EU. We do not believe that these decisions should be dominated by groundless fears about Northern Ireland.
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Home » More... » Interview » Nigeria lost it from lack of focus and oil money – Mrs Phil Okoroafor
Nigeria lost it from lack of focus and oil money – Mrs Phil Okoroafor
On July 16, 2019 3:13 amIn Interviewby Emmanuel Okogba
By Ebele Orakpo
Mrs Phil Biobele Okoroafor is the CEO of Marvel Matrix, an event planning outfit based in Abuja. She started event planning in 1996. She said the advantage of being an event planner is that you get to work with a diverse group of people, especially if you are into corporate events. In this chat with Vanguard, the graduate of Industrial Chemistry from the University of Port Harcourt says that one of the worst things to happen to Nigeria is the monthly allocation that governors come to Abuja to collect.
•Mrs Phil Okoroafor…Some see holding our leaders accountable as waste of time, they are not ready to fight for their rights.
What was it like growing up in Nigeria?
While growing up, we had a very strong family structure, we had security; there was no much difference between public and private schools; there were standards that were fairly balanced across board. We had state and federal schools, we had the Universal Primary Education, UPE, and not many people were in private schools. Education was balanced and much more affordable and everyone was doing what he was supposed to do. I went to a government university in the late 80s/early 90s, though there were some things we didn't get to see like people say they were given food and chicken in those days. They didn't give us those things but I paid about N110.00 per annum: N90.00 for accommodation and N20 for toiletries. Tuition was free. Now we pay millions for children's education.
Where did we get it wrong?
I think it has to do with vision; when you have a vision, there is staying power, you have something you are working towards. If I want to build a duplex, when money comes, I won't squander it because I have a vision and focus. I think we lost it from lack of focus and oil money. We came upon oil money and stopped working. Work is an integral part of life, even if you have money, if you don't work, you atrophy and that is what has basically happened with Nigeria. We came upon oil money and everybody became brain dead. The oil money seemed to serve everybody and then people in government who were supposed to manage the resources didn't have sufficient vision to work towards building that future.
Lack of vision
When you are saving to build a house, you tell your children that you want to build so now, some of their requests may not be granted; you lead them into making sacrifices, so I think our leaders didn't have a clear vision because when you have a clear vision, you would work out a strategy towards acualising it. There was no strategy towards spending our resources to better our lot.
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I remember watching a program on CNN and the reporter said he was standing in Forcados in Warri, an oil-rich town. Then he said if this were to be in the UAE or Texas or somewhere else in the world, the skyline behind him would be dotted with skyscrapers but in this place, all he saw was squalor, then he had pictures to show. That is the truth. If we had vision, we would have put our resources into better use. Our governors do not exactly have vision. One of the worst things to happen to Nigeria is the monthly allocation that governors come to Abuja to collect, it stifles creativity. I always say that the reason Lagos State is where it is now is because of the cold war between the then President Obasanjo and then Lagos State Governor, Tinubu. Obasanjo seized their money, Lagos damned the centre and looked inwards. That made internally-generated revenue, IGR, popular in Nigeria. Governors should begin to look inwards instead of continually looking to Abuja for monthly stipends. What I see as a challenge is the fact that vision and creativity are lacking in our leaders to put in place, structures required for growth and development. It is interesting that even the existing structures are not being maintained. Just imagine the situation where a project instituted by Obasanjo was completed 23 years after when he became president again! That, for me, is lack of vision. Tha's why we are where we are.
How do you find the business climate in Nigeria?
I don't know if what I found out is across board. I won't talk about leadership without talking about followership. People get the kind of leaders they deserve; most of us are not sincere to ourselves. We don't take responsibility. A simple thing as keeping to time is difficult. Most people seem to be marking time in their work places. Schools are not churning out graduates that can fill the need of the workplace so you find entrepreneurs struggling to put people through and at the end of the day, before you begin to enjoy the benefits, they leave. In fact, I have taken it as a ministry; I just train them and let them go. Most times, they go and set up their own so I get a sense of pride from that.
Loyalty lacking
Loyalty is lacking and the business climate is like that. You find your staff trying to undercut you. You find a business doing the best it can to ensure salaries get paid and the office is kept running, then you have the challenge of disloyal staff which you have to deal with; you are buffeted from all sides. Then you are your own government as you supply your water, electricity and construct your road. So government does not create the enabling environment for businesses to thrive.
Dead industries
Our industries are dead and people now take Nigerian designs to China. Recently, I saw ankara printed on silk and other kinds of fabric; no longer cotton that is typical of ankara. That happens because it's cheaper to do business in China.
When they say Nigerians don't pay tax, I wonder why we must pay tax because I fix my car often because of bad roads. In my estate, every house is to pay N40,000 so we can build the road that the government is supposed to build and I ask them why I should contribute, is it not bad enough that I am my own water and electricity supplier? I feel that if Nigerians can hold their leaders accountable, the government will wake up to its responsibilities but when we are buffeted like that, most of us, just find an alternative. They see holding our leaders accountable as waste of time, they are not ready to fight for their rights.
Does it mean we are docile?
Honestly, I don't know what it is that we are. I bought a house in an estate that was perimeter fenced. Before moving in, a heavy rain fell and the fence fell. I informed the estate security because it is not safe for the estate, (it's the perimeter fence, not my direct fence). The guy said I should write to the estate authority. I did and they didn't respond. The chief security officer, CSO, came with other people one of the days and I overheard him saying: Why this madam dey do like say she no be Nigerian? She no know wetin dey?' That really got me. It was their responsibility as securitymen to go and report and follow up until the facility managers came to repair it. The CSO and his team did not think it was their responsibility and they did nothing about it. One day, he called me and said: "Madam, if you can afford it, just go and fix the fence." I fixed it eventually but this goes to show you the kind of society we live in. People are not taking responsibility and when you even want to do something that is seemingly geared towards making them take responsibility, they look at you like a stranger; as if in Nigeria, things are designed to go bad. They know that in Nigeria, people don't take responsibility, and they expect me to tow that line. So doing business in Nigeria is not easy.
But you don't really blame people going to China where labour is cheap. By the time you finish everything, and import it, it is still cheaper but there is a cost to that – loss of jobs and it deepens our unemployment so I expect the government to try as much as possible to make it easy for people to do business in Nigeria so that the cost of production can come down and local manufacturing industry can thrive. Everybody goes to China now and it's bad for our economy.
So many things that have caused some countries to boil happen here and nothing happens, why?
The interesting thing about Nigeria is that there are loyalty issues and we have not found a way of maximising our diversity. Our diversity is deepening our issues with disloyalty and then the powers-that-be play on that. The Igbo man will not want to stick out his neck when something unjust is happening to a Yoruba man and the same for the Yoruba man. The Hausa man will never stand against his brother for anybody. At the end of the day, if something is really going bad and you want to resist it, and you realise it involves a Hausa man, the Hausa people will say: 'We know he is bad but leave him there for us,' so you are not just contending with something that is bad at that point, you can only protest and make noise and at the end of the day, they will probably put you in jail and release you after. But without diversity, you will see people stand. That's what I think. Our diversity is playing against us so we are not objective in our reasoning. If your kindred is doing something wrong and somebody else is protesting, you will protect your kindred. The only person that I see that didn't really act that way is ex-President Jonathan, he cut across every group and his people were very angry with him. When I think about it, I feel that is the real change; he didn't do things like a typical Nigerian, he was not nepotic; he did not surround himself with Ijaw people. He got competent hands and allowed them to work. So I think to a large extent, our diversity is one of the things preventing us from taking ownership of what belongs to us as a people. That diversity is robbing us of a lot of things. It is possible to melt that diversity through proper public enlightenment. That's where the National Orientation Agency and the NTA should come in. If NTA is doing what it is supposed to be doing, Nigeria would be less fragmented because it has incredible power to unify this country if they use it.
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ZTE unveils Axon 30 Ultra with triple 64MP camera and periscope, Axon 30 Pro joins it
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There are two other models – the Axon 30 and Axon 30 Pro. Those aren't coming to North America, in fact, the vanilla model was barely mentioned at the presentation – all we know is that it will have an under display camera. The implication here is that the other two do not.
The ZTE Axon 30 Ultra draws attention with its triple 64MP camera. That includes a 64MP main IMX686 sensor with OIS (f/1.6 aperture), another 64MP module with a slightly longer lens (35 mm, f/1.9) and a 64MP ultrawide-angle shooter (120º, 13mm). The main camera can record video at up to 8K 30 fps.
There's a fourth camera on the rear – a 5x periscope (123mm lens with OIS) and an 8MP sensor behind it. The gap between the main cam and the periscope will have to be filled by that second 64MP module, its 35mm lens should be around 1.5x magnification over the main lens and further magnification will be handled by the high-res sensor.
On the front, the punch hole camera makes a comeback. Considering that the Axon 20 5G was the first with an under display cam, this return to the supposedly-outdated tech was unexpected. And it has a 16MP sensor, down from 32MP. We guess selfies weren't a priority.
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Q: Make an input radio button checked…using $(this) JQuery? I'm trying to set an input to be checked when it's button is clicked. I know how to do this using an ID like in the function below:
$(".buttonsQuestion50").click(function() {
$('#radio-1').prop('checked',true);
});

I'm trying to figure out how to make the same functionality work using $(this). The goal is as follows:
  $(".buttonsQuestion50").click(function() {
    $(this).prop('checked',true);
    });

Using $(this) in that way does not work. Any advice on how to make it work?
Thanks!
HTML for reference:

<button id="masters" type="button" class="fourButtons  buttonsQuestion50 btn btn-info   ">
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         <input class='' type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-2"> Strongly Agree </button>

<button id="associates" type="button" class="fourButtons buttonsQuestion50 btn btn-info   ">
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     <input class=''  type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-5">Strongly Disagree </button>

A: You can use find() method to do what you need, but the markup is not W3C valid. You shouldn't have inputs inside buttons. You can do a test validation of your code here.

$(".buttonsQuestion50").click(function() {
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<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

  <button id="masters" type="button" class="fourButtons  buttonsQuestion50 btn btn-info   ">
    <input class='' type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-1">Agree</button>

  <button id="doctorate" type="button" class="fourButtons  buttonsQuestion50 btn btn-info   ">
    <input class='' type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-2">Strongly Agree</button>

  <button id="associates" type="button" class="fourButtons buttonsQuestion50 btn btn-info   ">
    <input class='' type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-3">Disagree</button>

  <button id="bachelors" type="button" class="fourButtons  buttonsQuestion50 btn btn-info   ">
    <input class='' type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-5">Strongly Disagree</button>

I would recommend you to use div elements instead of buttons, or any other fitted elements, as long as you use Bootstrap classes they will look the same as the buttons, like this:

$(".buttonsQuestion50").click(function() {
  $(this).find('input[type="radio"]').prop('checked', true);
});
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <input class='' type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-1">Agree

    <input class='' type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-2">Strongly Agree

    <input class='' type="radio" name="group1" id="radio-3">Disagree

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Yet though Ltd Col Chris Davis admitted a personal lack of enthusiasm for Christmas music, he nonetheless led the band in a spirited performance of Langford's arrangement A Christmas Fantasy and indulged audience and band alike in a swinging version of Jingle Bells!!


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In a compelling quest for a lost language, the brilliant, driven Suzannah Grant is thrust into adventures she had not counted on, and realities beyond her wildest imagining. The physical dangers of her trek into remote African mountains are surpassed only by the power of her discoveries about language, the human spirit, and the unbounded dimensions of her own nature.
This is a book I must read and re-read. It has kick-started my morbid creativity and has led to a breakthrough regarding the direction I want to go with my art.
I could hardly put the book down, I only did because I had to.
This is truly a book that everyone should read. I cannot recommend it enough.
The only way to make it through this fantastic journey is by re-reading and savoring passages to puzzle out the multilayered lexicon and mysterious parable. Highly recommend !
A.H. Jessup stands out, just as Kafka, Curzio Malaparte, André Baillon, Flaubert, Malcolm Lowry and other great writers stand out.


I love to look at the local sale pages on Facebook. The things people sell are so varied and often unusual if not slightly whacky.
But then, there's the good stuff which you just happen upon. Right time, right place. Like this display cabinet for instance. I saw it and told the woman I would buy it... even before I had figured a way to get it home... or where it would go in the house.
It cost about $70 from memory and is solid wood. Very solid wood. Trust me, I had to help FlyBoy move it.
My wonderful husband sanded it back and painted it white for me, just as I had requested. We took a little time deciding where it would live. I'm still not 100% sure about the location, but I have a wonderful new space to store & display quilts.
Now, I just need to work on him to give the buffet & hutch the same sort of makeover!
Have you bought any fabulous items online lately?
Last week, I stumbled upon your blog about the mini quilt in 2013. It was so cute that I had to make one. Here is the link to my blog that I showed the one I made. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, BTW, love the treasure you found!
What a find! It looks wonderful in white.
It's beautiful! I would have bought it if I had been there.
Love it, I would have bought it too if I'd seen it :) Barb.
Bravo au mari, le meuble est très bien comme ça.
A great place for quilty displays. I would have had it in an instant too!
A few weeks ago I answered an ad for a chair, padded seat and back and wooden frame - FREE! I couldnt get in the car fast enough.
Dont know where it will go eventually, its (in the way) in the garage at the moment but I plan on sanding and painting it and recovering the seat and back.
I love it! Wish I could happen onto something like that!


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Q: python object building using multi-inheritance I want to build an object dynamically which allow use to mix the class properties in whichever way they like base on multiple inheritance. This is the expected behaviour. These classes are dataclasses so there won't be many methods in them, mostly data properties.
class Foo():
    def bar(self, x):
            return x

class FooA(Foo):
    def bar(self, x):
        p = super().bar(x)
        p += __class__.__name__
        return p

class FooB(Foo):
    def bar(self, x):
        p = super().bar(x)
        p += __class__.__name__
        return p

class FooC(FooA, FooB):
    def bar(self, x):
        p = super().bar(x)
        p += __class__.__name__
        return p

f = FooC()
f.bar('S') # SFooBFooAFooC

However this code violate the DRY principle in broad daylight, hence I want to avoid the bar method completely, if there is no special operations in the current class.
Ideally I want something like
@bar_wrapper
class FooA(Foo):
    pass

# OR

class FooA(Foo):
    __metaclass__ = BarBase

Instead of this full implementation
class FooA(Foo):
    def bar(self, x):
        p = super().bar(x)
        p += __class__.__name__
        return p

Essentially is there a way that I extract the middle layer class information in a multi-level inheritance class through a decorator or metaclass (the two options that I can think of)? Anyone has any idea on how to do this?

A: Write a class decorator that adds the bar method to the class:
def bar_wrapper(cls):
    def bar(self, x):
        p = super(cls, self).bar(x)
        p += cls.__name__
        return p

    bar.__module__ = cls.__module__
    bar.__qualname__ = '{}.{}'.format(cls.__qualname__, bar.__name__)

    cls.bar = bar
    return cls

class Foo():
    def bar(self, x):
        return x

@bar_wrapper
class FooA(Foo):
    pass

@bar_wrapper
class FooB(Foo):
    pass

@bar_wrapper
class FooC(FooA, FooB):
    pass

f = FooC()
print(f.bar('S')) # SFooBFooAFooC


Does Exercise Support a Healthy Brain?
From birth, the brain is an incredibly important organ to keep healthy. What many people don't realize, however, is regular physical activity is among the best ways to maintain and improve brain health.
We tend to slow down and stop moving as we age, making it more difficult to stay active and stick to regular exercise. However, as U.S. News¹ reports, a number of research studies have shown a connection between exercise and brain health – meaning exercise is important for our brains at any age. Here are seven key ways exercise helps to support a healthy and happy brain.
Exercise provides significant mood-enhancing and stress-reducing benefits. While working out, the brain rewards your efforts by releasing floods of feel-good compounds like dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. One study from the University of California at San Francisco² suggested that exercise may work on a cellular level to reverse the various tolls stress takes on the body during the aging process — including damage aging may cause to the brain.
Getting regular exercise may improve your ability to learn and to retain new information. One of the reasons it does so is by increasing levels of growth factors in the body. These growth factors play an integral role in the development of new brain cells and new connections between them—and this boosts our ability to learn. The Guardian³ reports that "complicated" exercises like dancing and tennis may be especially beneficial because they force you to think about coordination and balance. This stresses the brain cells, which causes them to grow bigger and stronger. Just as muscles partially break down during exercise and strengthen and grow upon rebuilding, brain cells may take a small hit while processing complicated exercises, but they become stronger and more resilient in growing accustomed to them.
If you think a decline in memory functioning is an inevitable part of aging, think again. Studies have shown that regular exercise helps to keep the brain fit and to ward off signs of aging, including memory loss and a decline in vocabulary retrieval. In fact, a 2011 study published in the Journal of Aging Research⁴ showed non-sedentary elderly people who got even just a tiny amount of exercise scored much better on cognitive-functioning tests than their sedentary counterparts. This group also showed the least amount of cognitive decline, which suggests keeping moving is a terrific way to keep the brain plugging along too.
If you suffer from depression, you know how difficult it can be to find a treatment that truly makes a difference. One study published in The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry⁵ found getting regular, sustained periods of sweat-causing activity can reduce the symptoms of depression almost as effectively as antidepressants. One possible explanation is that exercise may trigger the growth of neurons in areas of the brain that tend to be affected by depression.
According to the New York Times⁶, regular exercise may be one of the best weapons against the development of Alzheimer's disease later in life. Researchers are not precisely sure why that is, but they believe that regular exercise may help to protect the hippocampus. This component of the brain plays a significant role in things like spatial navigation and memory, and it is one of the first regions to be affected by Alzheimer's damage. A study that was published in the Journal of Clinical Neurology⁷ showed that people who went on a daily jog or walk may have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's or may experience less severe symptoms if they do develop it.
If you're looking for ways to prevent the damaging effects of aging, or want to stay as healthy as possible during your golden years, exercise could be the key to keeping your brain in tip-top shape. Exercise offers a host of benefits beyond brain health, too, boosting everything from your mood to your ability to learn – and there are plenty of types of exercise you can try. From low-impact workouts and easy at-home exercises to high intensity routines and group fitness classes, there's a perfect way you can fit exercise into your schedule and your fitness level. And with every type of exercise, your brain will get a unique health boost.
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Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for PS4 - The Review
Saturday, 29 March 2014	Written by RealMsH
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - Unboxing
After playing part of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition video game for the first time, I have a three letter word to describe it -- "Wow!" I preordered this game awhile back and have just now had the opportunity to play part of it. When I received Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, starring Lara Croft on the release date in March, 2014 from Amazon.com, I did an unboxing of this game complete with pictures. I was that impressed by the artistry of the video game packaging which included a hard cover book with artwork from the game that is worthy of framing. What was missing was a poster of Lara Croft in action as she braves the perils and tribulations of what it takes to survive.
Tomb Raider Unboxed (game and book) with Pixelbot robot courtesy of DPL looking on
Of course packaging is just that -- packaging. What really counts about a video game, in my opinion, is the enjoyment that you experience from playing the game, whether your excitement for the game stems from the action, characters, story line, creativity of plot, or any number of other reasons. If you ask me which of these choices Tomb Raider: Definitive Collection excelled in, I would have to say the character and the action.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - Expectations
When I slipped the physical video game disc in my PS4, and the Tomb Raider cover art showed on the screen, I was unsure what to expect. I saw the previous version of this game played during the holidays by my family member, and at that time, I was impressed by the realistic graphics, as well as the requirement to use logical thinking skills to advance in the game. At that time, I was a bystander, just looking at the video game playing action, listening to the realistic sound effects as Lara Croft splashed her way through the deep seas, roamed forests, etc., to accomplish her missions. Just as there is a saying "Seeing is believing" -- regarding video game playing I think there should be a saying "Playing is believing." It is only by actually holding a video game controller, controlling and experiencing the actions of the video game characters yourself that, in my opinion, you can truly decide if you will not only play the video game again, but will also recommend others to play it as well.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - Spoiler Alert
I am going to give you a spoiler alert here, just in case you have not played the game and want to experience the gameplay with the surprises and suspenseful moments in tact. If you have not played Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, you may want to stop reading here, because the next sections I will be talking about my experiences with this video game, including how Lara Croft got through certain obstacles during the first part of the game, that you may prefer to figure out on your own. I played this game in the normal mode, vs. the easy or hard options. Also as a disclaimer, this review does not cover the complete video game -- only the first parts that I played.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - Actions/Adventures
I liked the action-packed movie introduction which included actions where Lara Croft seemingly spirals down a long drop before she reaches the bottom. She is visibly in pain, her clothing is soiled and she has blood all over her, including her face. Unfortunately, she also is hurt and has a sharp object jutting in her left side. My first action in the gameplay was to use the controller to remove the shart object from hurting her -- which I succeeded in doing. From then on -- for the part of the game I played, Lara Croft moves throughout the video game environments, clutching her side with her right hand over the wound while in some cases holding a torch in her left hand. But not to worry, as I played the game longer, eventually she felt well enough to remove her hand from her side, to regain use of both of her hands.
As I continued to move her along the terrains, I had already decided that this was an exploratory type game, where you use the character to discover the surroundings. However, I stood to be corrected. I found out soon enough that Lara Croft does a lot more than move around the environments. Just when I was getting comfortable moving her through parts of the dark cave where she had landed, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, an enemy apppeared and tried to capture her. I literally jumped when this happened, because this was totally unexpected. From then on, I knew this game would be adventurous and suspenseful. After about three tries, I was able to get Lara Croft to fight off her enemy, and breathed a sigh of relief when within the small cave she was in, a door closed that blocked the enemy from entering.
That one particular unexpected action got my adrenalin going. I kept thinking what would happen next. I had Lara Croft continue her adventures in the cave by having her to traverse treacherous waters where there was fire on one side of a waterfall and barrels of fuel on the other. The problem was that in order to get out, Lara Croft had to go through the waterfall while carrying her torch -- which of course did not work. The water would put out the fire each time, as expected.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - Strategies
Throughout the game, you are given pictures of which buttons on the controller to push as well as information on the mission or environment that Lara Croft has entered. Also, when you push the L1 button on your controller, the environment turns to black and white and items that can help you to escape, etc. are lit up brighter than the others. Once you release the L1 button, the game actions, including the colors return.
I studied the environment and saw a hanging apparatus, as well as a street car-like vehicle on another level of the cave area. Both were lit or shined brighter when I pushed the L1 button so I knew these items were required for her to escape. Also the square button would appear on the screen to push as barrels and boxes floated in the water. When I did so, the barrels would start burning and continued to float in the water. To give you a visual of where she was during this part of the video game -- Lara Croft was in thrashing waters, among lots of burning boxes and barrels, with debris, old bottles, shoes etc. floating around with loud sounds of waves of water crashing through several areas.
To make a long story short, I was unable to get Lara Croft to push the street car off the ramp or get her on the hanging apparatus. This is the first part of the game where I got stuck. After a phone call for advice, I went back to the game and tried again, this time using different actions to get her out of this cave-like atmosphere that had water and firey barrels and boxes everywhere. I was unable to pile barrels beneath the hanging apparatus as suggested, so I tried a different strategy which surprisingly to me -- worked. Somehow I got her into the hanging apparatus. She was unable to swing back and forth -- so I had her to jump from this apparatus. Then I had her to try once again to push the street car which by this time was full of burning barrels. Lo and behold -- this time the street car actually moved out of the way. Previously, it would move just a little and then return to its original position. When the street car moved, a multitude of actions seemed to happen all at once which resulted in her being in a totally different mountainous environment. I had Lara Croft jump over mountains where she hung dangerously off tall cliffs. She also had to fight off another enemy in this environment. As a disclaimer -- The apparatus/street car scene actions I did when I played this game, may or may not work for you. It may depend on the level of game that you are playing, i.e., easy, normal, hard -- or even some other reasons.
Now for the next adrenalin moment I experienced when playing the first section of Tomb Raider:: Definitive Edition. When Lara Croft reached the mountains, she had to actually climb the mountains, by frantically clawing her way up. To keep her from falling, I had to keep pushing the L2 and R2 buttons quickly at the same time. I also had to move the left stick on the controller either right or left to have her dodge large, gigantic boulders before I got her to the top of the mountain. I tried numerous times to keep her from falling by pushing these buttons, even at one time turning the PS4 controller around so the L2 and R2 buttons were facing me. However, I got her on the mountain-top and kept her away from the boulders by using the controller positioned in the normal way. My fingers got a true workout here, and with the controller rumbling, the sound effects of her climbing up the mountains, and her gasping -- when she finally reached the top of the mountain, breathing heavily, I was doing just about the same thing. I felt as if we had both shared a victory at that point, and felt quite exhilarated that she had made it up the mountain safely.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - Likes and Dislikes
Here's what I liked and did not like about the part of the game I played. I liked the realistic video game graphics, where the grass moved with the wind. I liked that the game started over close to the part where you may have tried to complete a mission, instead of starting all over again. I liked the sound effects including the sounds of the rushing waters that in some ways can be a nice sound to listen to, but can also be frightening as well -- especially if the character is on a high mountain, looking down in deep, thrashing waters. The voice acting, was ok; however, in some of the scenes, the voice actor was difficult to understand, and when the character fell from a tall mountain, I personally think that she could have screamed more realistically. Also the illustration of the character can be improved in some of the scenes, because in some, her face seems to be swollen at her jaws -- not in all scenes -- but in some. I liked the realistic movement of the character's eyes, as well as the expression she had which signaled that she was at a loss as to what to do in certain situations -- however, she was able to figure things out. I also liked the voice commands where you actually speak your options, such as showing the maps, pausing etc.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - Highly Recommended
If you have not played this game, and enjoy playing adventure, action games, I highly recommend you play Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition on your PS4. If you do not have a PS4, you may be interested to know that Tomb Raider is currently free to play on the PS3 for PS plus members. I also have a PS3 -- but I was happy to play this game on my PS4 where I was able to use the new features of the PS4 and experience the improved graphics and sound qualities.
I'm looking forward to playing more of this game as well as seeing and experiencing via video game play the other adventures/missions Lara Croft will encounter in Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is rated M for Mature and is playable on the PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Windows PC and Mac.
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Sapindikarana ("uczynienie [zmarłego] sapindą")
– jedna z pięciu kategorii ofiar hinduistycznych za przodków śraddha (श्राद्ध) opisanych w dziele Jadźńjawalkjadharmaśastra.

Termin
Sapindikarana odprawiona winna być rok po ceremonii pogrzebowej (czyli w warunkach hinduizmu najczęściej po kremacji). Akceptowane było jednak skrócenie tego okresu np. do sześciu tygodni. Wystarczającym powodem by tak postąpić były:
 ślub
 narodziny chłopca
 inna szczególna uroczystość rodzinna
 szczególnie szczęśliwy dzień

Znaczenie
Celem przeprowadzenia tej śraddhy było zakończenie trwania duszy zmarłego w formie błąkającego się ducha typu preta i zmiany jego statusu na "ojca" (przodka) określanego terminem pitry.
Wtedy dopiero stawał się w pełni mieszkańcem mitycznego świata przodków pitryloki. Dzięki temu statusowi, wierzono, że dusza zmarłego, jako pełnoprawny przodek, może uczestniczyć w ważnych zdarzeniach rodzinnych, na czym zależało żyjącym.

Przebieg rytuału
Śraddha sapindikarana była rytuałem indywidualnym. Syn lub w zastępstwie inny bliski krewny z linii męskiej, przygotowywał cztery naczynia, które następnie napełniał sezamem, substancjami zapachowymi i wodą. Ich liczba reprezentowała trzech poprzednich męskich przodków (już będących mieszkańcami pitryloki) i ostatnio zmarłego. Ofiarnik przelewał mieszaninę z czwartego naczynia dedykowanego ostatnio zmarłemu do trzech pozostałych. Równocześnie recytował modlitwę o wspólnocie.

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Tirana Clock Tower (Kulla e Sahatit)
Sheshi Skënderbej (Skanderbeg Square), Tirana, Albania, 1000
A walk through the Clock Tower's small museum reveals exhibitions on Albanian life and culture. For wide views of Skanderbeg Square and the rest of Tirana, climb the Clock Tower's 90 stone steps to reach the balconies below the clocks. At night, view the Clock Tower from the street as it's illuminated alongside the mosque's minaret.
Small-group walking tours visit the Clock Tower, and it is a common stop on day tours of the city. Tours often also visit the Pyramid of Tirana, Skanderbeg Square, Archaeological Museum, Ethem Bey Mosque, and Presidential Palace.
Wear comfortable shoes to climb the Clock Tower.
The Clock Tower is a must-visit for history and architecture buffs.
The admission ticket to the Clock Tower also gives you access to the adjacent museum.
The Clock Tower is located in Skanderbeg Square, next to Ethem Bey Mosque. It is close to several bus stops and easily reached on foot from most places in the city center, though you can also arrive via taxi. For convenience, book a tour that includes round-trip transportation to the Clock Tower.
Located in Skanderbeg Square, the Clock Tower is open to the public on weekdays from morning to early afternoon. It's closed on weekends. Stop by early to beat the crowds, as the Clock Tower and the surrounding area can get busy in the afternoon.
The Many Faces of the Clock
When the Clock Tower was constructed in the 19th century, it was fitted with a bell from Venice that marked the hour. It was replaced by a German clock, which was destroyed in World War II. The replacement, from a church in Shkoder, had Roman numerals. Most recently, a Chinese-made clock graces the tower.
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Commissioned in June 1979, Vice Adm. Raquel Bono obtained her baccalaureate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and attended medical school at Texas Tech University. She completed a surgical internship and a General Surgery residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, and a Trauma and Critical Care fellowship at the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine in Norfolk.
Shortly after training, Bono saw duty in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm as head, Casualty Receiving, Fleet Hospital 5 in Saudi Arabia from August 1990 to March 1991. Upon returning, she was stationed at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth as a surgeon in the General Surgery department; surgical intensivist in the Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit and attending surgeon at the Burn Trauma Unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Her various appointed duties included division head of Trauma; head of the Ambulatory Procedures Department (APD); chair of the Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committee; assistant head of the Clinical Investigations and Research department; chair of the Medical Records Committee and command intern coordinator. She has also served as the specialty leader for Intern Matters to the surgeon general of the Navy.
In September 1999, she was assigned as the director of Restorative Care at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, followed by assignment to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery from September 2001 to December 2002 as the Medical Corps career planning officer for the chief of the Medical Corps. She returned to the National Naval Medical Center in January 2003 as director for Medical–Surgical Services.
From August 2004 through August 2005, she served as the executive assistant to the 35th Navy Surgeon General and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Following that, she reported to Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida, as the commanding officer from August 2005 to August 2008. She then served as the chief of staff, deputy director Tricare Management Activity (TMA) of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs (OASD(HA)) from September 2008 to June 2010. She later served as deputy director, Medical Resources, Plans and Policy (N093), chief of Naval Operations. From November 2011 to June 2013, she served as the command surgeon, U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii. From July 2013 to September 2013, she served as acting commander Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical. From September 2013 to October 2015, she served as director, National Capital Region Medical Directorate of the Defense Health Agency, and as the 11th Chief, Navy Medical Corps. She currently serves as director, Defense Health Agency.
Bono is a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery and has an Executive MBA from the Carson College of Business at Washington State University. Her personal decorations include Defense Superior Service Medal (three), Legion of Merit Medal (four), Meritorious Service Medal (two) and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medal (two).
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