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COVID-19 Outbreak Forces Carpenter Elementary to Online Learning
Danny Merrell Published: December 10, 2020
According to a release on the District's website, Nacogdoches ISD's Emeline Carpenter Elementary School will transition to online learning beginning Thursday, Dec. 10, because a number of campus staff are absent due to COVID-19-related quarantines.
The closure affects only Emeline Carpenter; all other NISD campuses will remain open for face-to-face instruction.
The campus will remain closed to students through Friday, Dec. 18, which will mark the start of the school's Christmas break. Classes are expected to return to normal and face to face at Carpenter on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
Curbside meal pickup will be available for students enrolled in Carpenter. On Thursday and Friday, those meals will be available at McMichael Middle School. Beginning Monday, Dec. 14, Carpenter parents can go to the Carpenter campus to receive meals. Pickup time for meals at both locations will be 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
"First and foremost, we're closing the campus for the protection of our students and staff," Trujillo said. "Our first priority is the health and wellbeing of everyone at Carpenter and everyone in the district.
The campus will undergo an extensive deep-cleaning on Thursday and Friday of this week.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 among staff is relatively low, Trujillo said, around 6 percent. But more have been quarantined because of exposure to someone who's tested positive for COVID-19, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are currently no students at Carpenter with active cases, although some are quarantined because of exposure at school or elsewhere.
Districtwide, there are 31 active cases as of Wednesday, or roughly one-half of one percent of NISD's total enrollment.
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January 7th, 2015 we became the proud owners of a Companion Animal Class IV Laser which is 30 times more powerful than our 3b laser shown below. We gotta get some photos and stories up on the web. We are shocked by the success we are having with osteoarthritis.
Laser therapy aims to biostimulate injured tissue. Clinical studies and trials have shown the following beneficial effects.
Accelerated Tissue Repair and Cell Growth. Photons of light penetrate deeply into tissue to accelerate cell reproduction and growth. Therapeutic lasers increased the energy available to the cell so that the cell can take on nutrients faster. As a result of exposure to laser energy the regeneration of tendons, bone, ligaments, and muscle injury repair faster.
Faster Wound Healing. Laser light stimulates fibroblast development (fibroblasts are the building blocks of collagen, which is predominant in wound healing) in damaged tissue. Collagen is the essential protein required to replace old tissue or to repair tissue injuries.
Reduces Fibrous Tissue Formation. LLT reduces scar formation after cuts, burns or surgery.
Anti-Inflammation. LLT has an anti-edema effect as it causes vasodilation and activates lymphatic drainage.
Anti-Pain. LLt has a high beneficial effect on nerve cells that block pain signal transmission. Also due to less inflammation, there is less swelling and pain. Another pain-blocking mechanism involves the production of high levels of pain-kiling chemicals such as endophans and enkepahlins from the brain and adrenal gland.
Improved Vascular Activity. LLT significanly increases the formation of new capillaries in damaged tissue which speeds up the healing process.
Increased Metabolic Activity. LLT creates higher outputs of specific enzymes, greater oxygen and nutrients for cells.
Improved nerve function. Raises the pain threshold in the small pain nerve fibers. The effect is cumulative.
Trigger Point and Acupuncture Point Stimulation. LLT stimulates muscle trigger points and acupuncture points on a noninvasive basis providing musculoskeletal pain relief.


Color photograph of kids participating in summer camp, organized by Northwest YMCA for more than 500 kids in Sunnyvale and Cupertino. The photo was taken at Ortega Park on August 12, 2008.
Description Color photograph of kids participating in summer camp, organized by Northwest YMCA for more than 500 kids in Sunnyvale and Cupertino. The photo was taken at Ortega Park on August 12, 2008.


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Q: How to programatically reboot a BLACKBERRY device? Is there an API that will allow you to reboot the blackberry device?

A: Look at using the requestPowerOff() method in the Device class.
Edit: Ok, here's some sample code.  To get the device to turn on again you have to schedule another application to run at some point in the future.  You'll probably want to write an application that doesn't show anything to the user and schedule that.  However, I happened to have the module name for the video recorder on me so I bring that back up.
    Device.requestPowerOff(true);
    int handle = CodeModuleManager.getModuleHandle("net_rim_bb_videorecorder");
    ApplicationDescriptor desc =
        CodeModuleManager.getApplicationDescriptors(handle)[0];

    //Schedules the video recorder to come up two seconds after the current time.
    ApplicationManager.getApplicationManager().scheduleApplication(desc,
          System.currentTimeMillis() + 2000, true);

A: Please try this code
http://aliirawan-wen.blogspot.com/2011/10/reset-programmatically-in-blackberry.html

A: Device.requestStorageMode().  This will induce the device to reset (reboot)

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Harvest 2020 in Europe, quality and too much wine?
There is optimism about the quality of the 2020 crop, but millions of litres of existing stocks in France, Italy and Spain are being converted into industrial alcohol to make room for the new crop.
Distilling wine, but not for fine liquor
To make room and to provide financial support to producers, France, Italy and Spain plan to jointly spend hundreds of millions of euros distilling existing stocks into industrial alcohol. It is suggested that this can be used to make disinfectant.
Not every region has submitted an application for the use of distillation financing, but search for other solutions like limiting production in 2020 or simply add more storage space.
Government support and yield management
The 2020 European harvest got off to a relatively early start after a warm growing season but is also taking place against a backdrop of lost sales - largely due to the economic impact of the Covid-19 lockdown.
In France, with a harvest forecast of around 45 million hectolitres, the government has pledged 250 million euros to support the wine sector.
In Champagne, homes and growers have recently agreed on a maximum yield of 8,000 kg of grapes per hectare, or about 230 million bottles versus a more regular annual production of more than 300 million.
The harvest in Spain for 2020 had a forecast of +14 to 15% compared to 2019.
The government announced this summer that it would pay $ 10 million to fund winemakers to destroy grapes, as part of nearly $ 92 million in emergency aid to the industry. This can improve the quality!
Italy has been working on a state-funded compensation scheme for premium producers to encourage some of them to cut their yields.
In Brunello di Montalcino, producers have agreed to reduce potential production by 12.5% this year.
Chianti Classico sales have recovered after the lockdown, but the consorzio is encouraging producers to share cellars when stocks are high. There is also an exceptional permission that producers can store the wines for 12 months outside the classified production zone, in the provinces of Florence and Siena.
Hopefully enough manpower
It will be exciting how the harvest will develop in the various regions and whether sufficient manpower is available from other parts of Europe in connection with Covid-19 code orange and red rules and quarantine regulations.
To be continued!

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Escala scharrerae is a species of cockroach found in Australia.

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Home Radio and Music Industry News The Jazz Scene in New York City is Alive and Well
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The Jazz Scene in New York City is Alive and Well
Rainer Harris
New York's vibrant jazz scene is the envy of the world. For decades, musicians from around the United States and abroad have convened in New York's renowned jazz clubs. Jazz clubs attract people of all backgrounds and are locally in some of the most diverse neighborhoods in New York, including Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, and other places. New York City is widely considered as the Jazz Mecca and these five jazz clubs help maintain its status as the most premier jazz scene in the world. All the venues listed below, prove that New York City was and will remain in the near future to be the undisputed Jazz Capital of the World.Blue Note: "The Jazz Capital of the World"From down the street, you can see a piano, slightly ajar, jutting out from the building. Above it a banner, in royal blue and white, is the iconic Blue Note logo with its eighth note in the middle. Inside, the scene is even more amazing. It's feeling is intimate and the musicians can be heard clearly. The tables are compact and closely packed, instantly creating an intimate and comfortable setting to relax and enjoy the music. The club itself was founded on September 30, 1981, by the owner and founder Danny Bensusan. New York City's premier jazz club boasts iconic performers ranging from Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, among others. The club is famous overseas as well by maintaining locations all around the globe in Japan (Tokyo and Nagoya), Italy (Milan), China (Beijing) and Slovakia (Nové Mesto nad Váhom), and elsewhere in the United States (Waikiki and Napa in Hawaii and California respectively). Dizzy's Club Coca Cola: "One of New York City's most intimate music venues"Located five stories from the New York City's always-moving energy is Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in Frederick P. Rose Hall of Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC). The iconic jazz club is sometimes considered the epicenter of the jazz scene in New York. Dizzy's Club, the lights are turned down, the food is exquisite (and expensive). What is maybe the best part of Dizzy's Club is the palette of musicians you are able to hear. From cool jazz, to R&B, to bebop and the blues, Dizzy's Club really lives up to its hype. The club itself is named after trumpeter Dizzy Gillepsie, one of the pioneers in the development of bebop and modern jazz in the 1940s alongside the alto saxophonist Charlie Parker. Iridium:"New York City's Best Live Music Venue"The Iridium Jazz Club is easy to miss from the outside. On either side, a Mamma Mia! sign and a Stardust restaurant look much more imposing. But inside, Iridium is vibrant, far out teaching the energy in other places in New York City. It is widely known as the "Home of Les Paul," a now-deceased guitar legend that performed weekly at the venue. Located at 1650 Broadway, nearby Jazz at Lincoln Center, it is considered a musical landmark where with its neon signs, 180-seat capacity, and high-quality food, Iridium is a force to be reckoned with.Jazz Standard: "One of the World's Top Jazz Venues"This club hosts some of the most renowned bands in the worlds as regular performers from the Mingus Big Band, to the Mingus Dynasty, to the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. Located on the Lower East Side in the Rose Hill neighborhood of New York City, the Jazz Standard is owned by restaurateur†Patr Danny Meyer in the basement of one of his many Blue Smoke restaurants located around New York City. Birdland: "Your Choice for Virtuoso Live Jazz in New York City"Situated in Midtown Manhattan at 315 West 44th Street, Birdland Jazz Club is the sight to see. This coming December will mark its sixtieth anniversary since its founding in December 1949. Birdland has a rich history. Its headliner was the Charlie Parker, who alongside Dizzy Gillespie, was one of the forefront pioneers and champions of bebop and modern jazz. Consistently, jazz legends had been regulars at the iconic venue, From Count Basie to John Coltrane, the performers' list has been nothing short of spectacular. It was at this venue that the now unforgettable George Shearing tune "Lullaby of Birdland" was originally recorded. The clubs did not just attract jazz musicians but also household celebrities including Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra.
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The evaluation of large amounts of data plays an increasingly important role in climate monitoring. In many areas of our daily life numerous data on environmental factors have to be measured and evaluated accordingly. Modern big data systems are increasingly being used to ensure that this process can be completed within a manageable time period. But what exactly are the advantages of Big Data and what must be considered when implementing them?


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Q: Xdebug not available in Composer plugin I'm trying to debug a Composer plugin with Xdebug. I have my environment set up (export XDEBUG_SESSION=1) and the Xdebug loaded in php.d. The script breaks at first line in Composer so everything works so far.
In a composer-plugin class method code I add an xdebug_break(). What I get when that code gets executed is Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function xdebug_break().
Does Composer spawn a crippled shell of sorts without the environment set or runs PHP without extensions? How can I fix this to debug the Composer plugin?

A: Found myself the answer: As per Xdebug documentation,
export COMPOSER_ALLOW_XDEBUG=1

did the trick.


Tech Enigma > Articles > Search Engine Optimisation > How to optimize a website for Google and Yahoo?
Normally people promote their website using the SEO techniques and they are amazed by the results because they rank high in one search engine and they attain a lower rank in the other search engine.
This is where you need to learn a lot and this piece of information is targeted to enable you to get high ranking in both the search engine namely Google and Yahoo.
The first thing that you need to learn is that every search engine uses a different algorithm to index your website. You need to take the algorithm into account if you really want to rank higher.
Google reads inbound links where as yahoo reads the keywords density and Meta tags.
No search engine depends on one such method but they use all the methods; the difference is that one lays emphasis on one thing and the other emphasizes on the other thing. This is what you need to keep in mind above all other techniques.
Google owns the patent for Page Rank and this leaves Yahoo and other search engines with no other options but to use other techniques to index web pages. Alternatively they use url name, keyword density etc to rank the websites.
The other thing that you must take notice of is keyword targeted URL. If your URL name does not include the keywords that you are writing about, you should consider buying a domain that contains the keywords.
A Meta tag is another thing that the web owners have been concentrating on for years. Once this was the main tool for search engines and they used meta tags to index websites. Now a days its not that important anymore but Yahoo will still rank you better if you have done your work on meta tags.
Keywords density is another important factor which determines your rank on a search engine. It has been said a million times that keyword density must remain in between 2% to 3% but Yahoo still looks for keywords density in between 6-8%. Make sure you do not go over 8% as this will have a negative impact over your ranking.
Link building can get your higher on Google. You should make such an appealing website that others will feel compelled to link to you. This will give you a much better ranking in the Google's search engine and will help you to get to the top 10 results.
I think having unique relevant content is the key. It may take long to do, but it is also long lasting from an SEO viewpoint.


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Home News Taking Liberties Election 2014: The Big Picture
Election 2014: The Big Picture
by Joel McNally
After a particularly terrible election, it's important for Democrats and others who oppose the policies of Republican Gov. Scott Walker to keep focused on the larger picture.
Democratic challenger Mary Burke ran neck-and-neck with Walker until the final days of the campaign despite all the advantages Republicans have turning out voters in off-year, lower-turnout, non-Presidential elections.
Only the final vote counts. But the last thing progressives should do is start abandoning their own agenda. Not only are they right, but history ultimately is on their side.
First, though, let's dismiss all the excuses. That Burke was a flawed candidate, a non-politician who'd never run a statewide campaign. And that she was victimized by unfair press coverage and Republican smears.
Yes, Burke was a non-politician. That was her strength. Politicians aren't very popular, you know, and Walker has never been anything else.
Burke focused relentlessly on the issues that matter most to voters and the future of Wisconsin—jobs and the economy—which also happened to be Walker's biggest failures.
Along the way, she closed the gap between Democratic and Republican fundraising and turned out the most Democratic voters in midterm state election history.
And, yes, media coverage was poor, particularly in the Milwaukee area. But so what? As an outside takeover of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continues, coverage parroting right-wing websites and tossing around false charges of plagiarism will only get worse and more irrelevant.
The absurd last-minute Republican fabrication—Burke was fired by the highly successful family company she helped build—just confirmed how frightened Republicans were of her candidacy.
So if none of those complaints matter, how did we end up stuck with Walker as governor again? And what's this big picture that could possibly promise a better future?
Walker's personally popular, but his policies aren't
Walker's always gotten away with putting a benign, Eagle Scout face on really bad policies. But while many ordinary voters find Walker likable, they aren't particularly attracted to his extreme politics.
Walker may long for the cruel sweatshops of the 1800s when there was no minimum wage, but most Wisconsinites support raising the minimum wage at least high enough to get full-time workers out of poverty.
They also think Walker is crazy for refusing hundreds of millions of federal dollars to expand health care for people who need it. They know too many people in Walker's Wisconsin who've lost their jobs and health coverage and know they could be next.
People love tax cuts, but they're still flat broke
Democrats still haven't found a way to adequately explain to voters just how fraudulent Walker's tax cuts are.
Across-the-board tax cuts sound like money is being showered on everybody in Wisconsin. Except that ordinary working people never even notice the few hundred dollars they got. It's not even enough to pay for the car repairs caused by all those potholes in their streets.
Meanwhile, Scrooge McDuck and other wealthy Republican campaign contributors are filling their swimming pools with their tax cuts.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Walker may sincerely believe right-wing policies work, but they don't
Believing in the sincerity of politicians is risky, especially when they claim to believe something that allows them to funnel enormous amounts of public money to their wealthy, corporate benefactors.
But the reason Wisconsin trails most other states in job creation is because enormous tax giveaways to the wealthy don't trickle down to create more jobs and better wages for everybody else.
Those bonanzas go into tax shelters and investments anywhere in the world where they will make even more money for those who already have more of it than anyone else.
The way to create jobs for ordinary working people and improve their incomes is—guess what—creating jobs for ordinary working people and improving their incomes. Which leads us to:
Walker's re-election is old news. The next election starts now
Elections aren't every four years or even every two years any more. They're continuous.
After the historic election of 2008 made Barack Obama the first African American president in U.S. history, Republicans immediately began opposing every single action by an illegal alien president who'd falsified his own birth certificate as a baby.
Which led to the Tea Party racist backlash campaign of 2010 electing Walker and other extremist, right-wing Republican governors and congressmen.
Which led to the overwhelming re-election of Obama in 2012.
Which led to Walker's re-election and the Republican Party's overthrow of the U.S. Senate in 2014.
Everyone knows what comes next.
The long-overdue, historic election of the first female U.S. President in 2016 and Democrats retaking the U.S. Senate by defeating terrible Republican senators first elected in the racist backlash 2010 election, including the extremely embarrassing Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
So who says there isn't anything to look forward to anymore?
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Joel McNally is a national-award-winning newspaper columnist and a longtime political commentator on Milwaukee radio and television. Since 1997, Joel has written a column for the Shepherd Express where he also was editor for two years.
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I enjoy the "Shepherd" but this time I finally got...
I enjoy the "Shepherd" but this time I finally got tired of Joel. In the Dec. 11 issue, in his "serial killers", the first 3 paragraphs were so full of exaggerated tripe, I figure any reader that is interested in real news would say "this guy is an ---hole.Why would a serious writer say so many obvious extreme things? Who in their right mind would believe it? That kind of junk will only do more harm than good. I'm afraid next week won't be any better.
mrfun more than 4 years ago
Walkers policies might not work for the poor and ...
Walkers policies might not work for the poor and lazy. They do work for me. Sorry they don't work for druggies, drunks, sluggards,and the hammock class. Thats your punishment for making bad choices. Don't expect the democrats to just open up the state treasury and hand out money either. If you are inclined to be poor you are the only one who can change, not the government.
djlresearch more than 4 years ago
Heard this morning on OWN, Oprah's "Super Soul Sun...
Heard this morning on OWN, Oprah's "Super Soul Sunday" (yeah, go ahead and "dis" me for it). It was about "spirituality", but it can be applied to our American political and sociable lives as well.Oprah's guest said we are a society of "solar spirituality", where we are told to "stay in the light, avoid and ignore the dark" and this is reflected by teaching things like "light is better than dark", "white is better than black", "Religious is better than Secular" and so forth. You white conservatives know exactly how this applies to real life outside your church. -- This guest went on to say that the "darkness" should not be eliminated from our lives (politically, some of you require this!). The presence of "darkness" serves to remind us of what light and goodness is.Look at Public Health, the prospect of attending to the healthcare of the poor as well as the "valuable working consumer". When was the last time we had an "epidemic" in America? Smallpox, cholera, typhoid, polio, measles, tuberculosis, all have been wiped out of our personal memories. The vast majority of "those who work and pay taxes" have never known this, so what is the problem with cutting costs and going back to when only those who can pay their own way should get healthcare? You are even too young to remember that our government-managed water and sewer had everything to do with eliminating cholera and typhoid, our vaccination of "even the poor" helped us get rid of smallpox, polio, measles, and others. Even the "government intrusion into business" called a restaurant inspection. Now, we see all that as an "unnecessary cost", we lost sight of why we "taxed and spent" in the first place.
WaukeshaGuy more than 4 years ago
Joel, I do not agree that Democrats need "to keep ...
Joel, I do not agree that Democrats need "to keep focused on the larger picture". If your larger picture is a race-equal society, a push for "equal outcome" despite differences in talent, ability, ambition, and "connections", then you have already lost.Listen to the voters nationwide. Obama winning the presidency was not a sign that America has accepted race equality, it was a "curiosity" that the corporate owned press allowed to happen. If consumers and workers had been ready to accept race equality, business was ready to work with it, money is green no matter what color hands it passes through. But letting it happen also renewed people's focus on their "battle with those below", a handy distraction from the real failure of American capitalism to maintain America's way of life in the face of global labor trade.It is the majority voter, the American consumers and workers playing from their current position of "favor" over the minority that cannot accept it, has not been able to stomach it since Lincoln freed the slaves to prevent secession of the south. America has always wanted to be "separate" from those who are different, and unless Democrats can find a way to find a way to fit segregation into "equal opportunity to stay in the game", they will not win this one.That is the big challenge, how to allow 2 separately run communities to thrive in a way that does not leave one taking economic advantage of the other. The "integration" experiment would have allowed all to thrive if integration would have been accepted. But we all know it was not accepted.
"People love tax cuts, but they're stillflat broke...
"People love tax cuts, but they're stillflat broke" -- Look, taxes are too high. but look at this... add up your entire tax bill as a member of the Middle Class, IRS, State, and Property taxes, even Sales tax... imagine that bill just wiped out to Zero. Is that enough to make up for your pay cuts or lack of raises over the years? Enough to make up for the drop in your home value that you needed to borrow against to bankroll your lifestyle?Our problems are deeper than taxes. Even without ANY taxes, the net difference of wages and cost of living is still too far apart. All the while consumer demand is down, people lose jobs. With the surplus of trained workers now available, they can under-cut those who are still working, cost-conscious employers can take advantage of that and let go of their high-paid workers (especially if unions were not there to protect seniority). Wait a bit off their deep corporate pockets then re-hire somebody else's trained workers at a lower wage. Keep this condition running long enough to get all your workers replaced and re-hired at the wage business prefers to pay, then allow the economy to rise again, but always making sure that the pay increases after the re-hire are no faster than inflation.
"People love tax cuts, but they're stillflat broke" If you are broke its because you have chosen not to have money. Tax cuts don't go to people who choose not to earn an income. Its a reward to those who have chosen higher income occupations. Its not suppose to be a windfall, life changing event, like hitting the lottery. Those who choose to embrace the economy and grow are doing fine. The governor cannot handle your personal finances and teach you how not to be broke, that is an individual responsibility not the government's. So guess what, the people who choose to work harder and smarter and make more will get a bigger reward. Duh!!!.
Your talk about having all "choose" to earn an inc...
Your talk about having all "choose" to earn an income is flawed reasoning. Suppose we have 10 jobless people and all 10 do the right thing and "choose" to earn more, but there is only enough "paying customers" to divide among the 10 for 4 of them to actually get enough to be worth the effort. 6 just got "denied" their right and proper choice! More likely, the combined consumer demand divided among the 10 can support only 7 of them at non-assistance levels, leaving all 10 "right choosers" to be unfulfilled.Your "reasoning" of "choice" presumes that only 2 of those 10 will actually be ambitious enough to work harder for it, leaving 1 short of the ability to provide full consumer demand and therefore we have Governor Walker's "work problem", where "able-bodied people are too lazy"... re-phrase that as white Christian conservatives too lazy to accept an "inner city" pay-grade.
Good people are not unemployed. So your reasoning...
Good people are not unemployed. So your reasoning is flawed. Plenty of good paying good jobs for good people all the time. The unemployed persons first needs to find out what making them not a good person. What is it about them that employers find contemptible. A stout boy or a willing girl, is never unemployed. For an unemployed person to choose to work he must choose to investigate what people find so negative and then choose to correct the problem.
Joel, the top 1%'s job for the Republicans is not ...
Joel, the top 1%'s job for the Republicans is not done yet, they have not finished setting up an oligarchy. They will continue using hardship for the working class and Middle Class, continue using "tax and spend" rhetoric, even dog-whistle racist rhetoric until they have undone the one thing the top 1% fears most... the concept of "one person one vote". Got to change it so vote power is tied to wealth.Funny how the elected officials are becoming more red, but public sentiment on the individual issues remains blue. It is the fault of our having to vote for the "package deal", complete with swallowing some issue by issue unpleasantness to get the most "publicly promised" goal, that of "jobs for my kind, and government out of my life" (only to end up betrayed as an empty promise).Look at all the states that turned red, thanks to the effective gerrymandered US congressional districts, and gerrymandered state government districts. Only a few races are immune to gerrymandering, for national it is President and US Senator, for state it is Governor and Attorney General. How do you gerrymander these? Get the opposition voters to leave the state! In fact, get them to concentrate into only a handful of states, no more than 12 states. Wisconsin is still in play for this. With a 3/4 majority of states as solid Red, not only do vetoes get over-ridden, but Constitutions can be changed!
what a diatribe! what a load! i wonder if this art...
what a diatribe! what a load! i wonder if this article wasn't written ahead of time - just in case. the sad state of affairs for the Dems is that Burke is the best they had to offer. libs tell me ANYONE is better than Walker - why sugarcoat it & just be honest!? where's Kaiser's take on the election? she's always blabbing about something in the paper edition. where is she now?
belairjeff more than 4 years ago
We must eliminate Scott Walker's corporate welfare...
We must eliminate Scott Walker's corporate welfare in Wisconsin.Consider Acuity Insurance. Wisconsin offered the company $7 million worth of incentives toward a $40 million expansion of its home office in Sheboygan after the company said Illinois had offered even more. The Acuity complex hugging the east side of I-43 is easy to spot because of one prominent feature: the massive U.S. flag atop a 338-foot pole, tallest in the United States, Acuity boasts. The corporation's distinctive $450,000 flagpole was part of the expansion project, but according to the company was not erected with state funds (That is a lie). If Wisconsin hadn't stepped up, would Acuity have left? "I don't know," Acuity Vice President Wally Waldhart said. "That decision didn't have to be made, because (Wisconsin) came through." Wisconsin doubled its tax credit offer to Acuity just days after the firm e-mailed figures showing that Illinois had offered Acuity $18.6 million to move. Illinois officials confirmed they had discussed a possible Acuity relocation but declined to say what incentives were offered. Acuity has accepted a $3 million tax credit for retaining existing jobs. The company also received $480,000 in tax credits for creating 96 jobs and turned down a $1 million loan.The tax credits for new jobs amount to $5,000 per position. Did Acuity actually create 96 new jobs or did they just steal our money? Call Acuity and ask them directly.
moochy more than 4 years ago
The article states "most Wisconsinites support rai...
The article states "most Wisconsinites support raising the minimum wage at least high enough to get full-time workers out of poverty."Let's dispense with this crap. The 2014 poverty level in Wisconsin is $11,670. The minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. $7.25 x 40 hours per week x 52 weeks in a year is $15,080. A full-time worker at minimum wage IS out of poverty.I support keeping the minimum wage where it is AND I support a minimum wage at least high enough to get full-time workers out of poverty.Old math, new math, Common Core math ... It ends with the same conclusion ... Shut The Fist Up!
Car84 more than 4 years ago
If you are a person who has gotten accustomed to l...
If you are a person who has gotten accustomed to life in the "ring of suburbs" around the Milwaukee core, can you make it as a minimum wage worker with a non-working wife and 2.3 kids? NO WAY, especially when owning and insuring a reliable car is an absolute must in the no mass transit suburbs! And, you will most definitely not accept having to move back into that Milwaukee core to get a slum-lord apartment in a high-crime area where your kids are now sitting next to "them" in school.Put that together with the reality that a minimum wage worker most certainly will not be scheduled beyond 29 hours each week as a means to avoid crossing the line that requires providing the rights and benefits of a full-time worker, such as health insurance. Even taking 2 jobs at 20-29 hours is seldom tolerated by an employer, the difficulty of scheduling a "moonlighter".Minimum wagers are not just kids in the comfy home of up-scale parents.Want to solve the work-hours problem? Take away the requirement that sick-pay, paid vacation, paid holidays be provided at all, make it common for employer provided Health Insurance to have full premiums deducted from the employee's minimum wage with no match from the employer. You will find that maybe $5 of the $7.25 will be soaked up by the health premiums. "Business" problem solved. An employer NEEDS to have their trained labor's time so fully dedicated they cannot have time to "organize co-workers" or be politically active outside of work. -- Good for employers, bad for workers.
Its designed to be good for employers. After all ...
Its designed to be good for employers. After all they are the ones who are kind enough to provide a business and jobs. When a person is choosing their job and negotiating their salary, they have the freedom to opt into higher wage jobs. If you look around many do so they may enjoy the comforts in the ring of suburbs. The employer himself is not guaranteed a minimum wage. He might even lose money. A farmer, store owner, small businessman - none are provided a minumum wage. They must rely on their wits to earn an income. There I suggest to the minimum wagers to just shut and do better. They actually have it easier than business owners.
WaukeshaGuy. I evaluate arguments based on what t...
WaukeshaGuy. I evaluate arguments based on what they say, not some ethereal meaning. Is there a better way to have a meaningful argument? Or is the objective to toss out words to get reactions?The fact of the matter is that Wisconsin has a "minimum wage at least high enough to get full-time workers out of poverty." I did the math. That's the end of it. Don't change the argument. I won.
$11,670 is poverty level for 1 person.$23,850 is p...
$11,670 is poverty level for 1 person.$23,850 is poverty level for a family of 4,making it $11.47 / hour at 52 weeks of 40 hours each,or $15.82 / hour at a 29 hour week (no health benefits).
I've never understood the mind set of politicians ...
I've never understood the mind set of politicians who feel the need to help out the rich. Especially the rich who, like is said, don't create new jobs or even bank their money in their own nation, the USA. If you are an American Corporation, you should pay American taxes, pay American wages, and be loyal to the American Economy. These Corporations just don't get it. If they keep making money hand over fist outsourcing, getting tax cuts by putting their money off shore and making excuses that they are over taxed and can't pay American workers a living wage. In actuality these American Corporations are TRAITORS. We don't need terrorists, or a war, or the weather to destroy us. We have the RICH to do that.
Michelle Kasar more than 4 years ago
Arguing is the only thing that dumb Republicans ar...
Arguing is the only thing that dumb Republicans are good at. But why argue with a Republican who thinks that the world is "flat"?Republicans think that the world is only 4,000 years old and that Jonah actually lived for a month in the belly of a whale. Republican Senator Ron Johnson said that global warming is caused by sun spots. That's why he's known as "Sun Spot Johnson".You can't win anything by arguing with dumb Republicans. What was George W. Bush's IQ anyway? 50 or 52? 41 or 42?
We think the world is only 4,000 years old? Gee, ...
We think the world is only 4,000 years old? Gee, that would be a surprise to the Catholic school nuns who taught me the theory of evolution. And no Republicans think the world is flat. Hey, the Koch brothers zoom around the earth in their private jet plotting world domination, remember? But hey, keep insulting the imaginary Republicans who live in your little tiny pea brain, rj. Of course, you don't want to argue - because you don't have the intelligence or knowledge to construct an argument. All you can do is spit out the insults you learn on MSNBC.I'm not any great fan of Dubya's, but his college grades were better than Gore's. What were Obama's? Gee, we don't know, because they're under lock and key. Why is that, do you think? Perhaps because he was an affirmative action admission who spent more time toking than he did studying?
ExiledOnMainStreet more than 4 years ago
Barack Obama probably was enrolled as a foreign st...
Barack Obama probably was enrolled as a foreign student. Convenient at the time, but in later years, not so much.
Speculation that persuades people... just like the...
Speculation that persuades people... just like the late-breaking claim (not news) that Burke was fired. Does not matter if it was true, it got the job done, got Walker re-elected. By the time the rebuttal came, it was too late.
"But the reason Wisconsin trails most other states...
"But the reason Wisconsin trails most other states in job creation is because enormous tax giveaways to the wealthy don't trickle down to create more jobs and better wages for everybody else."Actually Joel its because the highest taxed States, of which Wisconsin is a perennial top 10, are laggards in job creation. Consider the 9 highest taxed States against the 9 States with no income tax:"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between January 2001 and January 2011, no income tax states created 2.1 million net new jobs while the highest tax states lost over half a million net jobs."HowMoneyWalks dot com:.com/critics-such-as-liberal-think-tank-itep-continue-to-impales-themselves-on-the-job-creation-data-from-no-income-tax-states/
John832 more than 4 years ago
Very good, John, but remember, this is the Shepher...
Very good, John, but remember, this is the Shepherd Express. Facts confuse them.
Haha!You should do stand up comedy and travel with...
Haha!You should do stand up comedy and travel with Seinfeld!!
Can you rebut his arguments? No, you can't. You...
Can you rebut his arguments? No, you can't. You're not bright enough. No wonder the Democrats were able to fool you.
That would be better than Joel McNally trying to d...
That would be better than Joel McNally trying to do journalism by making assertions that the facts clearly contradict.
I looked at "HowMoneyWalks" about criticizing the ...
I looked at "HowMoneyWalks" about criticizing the ITEP report.The most glaring problem is in the statistics used... Using "Average" income instead of ITEP's more correct "Median" income. There is a huge difference when you look at the data underneath the "statistic". For a clear example google "Anscombe's quartet", Wikipedia shows it well. The importance of looking at the "picture" of the data instead of just the summary, see how a few outliers can skew the statistics we all like to preach."Average" income rising faster in no-tax states simply shows that those at the top choose to live in no-tax states, and the presence of their "outlier-sized" incomes drives up the average more than the median. They will even move their businesses there to both avoid taxes on themselves and take advantage of a lower median income. The median is where we as common people live and work.But they are correct that people moving to these states is because that is where the jobs are being offerred, offered there because of the lower income for the common worker, not because taxes on the wealthy are lower. While they offer more jobs, it is lower paid jobs, people flooding there to escape job loss elsewhere also creates a surplus of workers, which pushes down the going rate of labor in those states. A low paid job is still better than no job at all. This will continue until the US sinks (while Mexico and China and India rises), will stop only when they match each other.
"Which led to the Tea Party racist backlash campai...
"Which led to the Tea Party racist backlash campaign of 2010 electing Walker and other extremist, right-wing Republican governors and congressmen."Republicans elected 8 Hispanics and two black men to the House of Representatives in that election, which seems a strange way to stage a racist backlash. Also, hyperbole much?"Democrats still haven't found a way to adequately explain to voters just how fraudulent Walker's tax cuts are."There is nothing fraudulent about a tax cut just because a larger percentage of the money is going to higher income people, since those people pay a larger share of the taxes. Maybe the Democrats might want to spend their time talking about their own tax cuts instead of trying to convince people that the money Walker's tax cuts saved them is somehow fraudulent.
"Republicans elected 8 Hispanics and two black men...
"Republicans elected 8 Hispanics and two black men to the House of Representatives in that election, which seems a strange way to stage a racist backlash. "Ah, but you know what Joel will say to that. GOP minorities are just "tokens." They're not "real" blacks or Hispanics - because white liberals know exactly how real minorities should think and vote. No stepping off the plantation!It's a wonderful Catch 22: castigate the GOP for being the party of "old white men" and then, when they elect women and minorities, claim those women and minorities don't count. That way, liberals can just keep playing the old race card, although everyone but them knows that card is terribly worn and tattered.
I heard the term "weaponized minorities" to descri...
I heard the term "weaponized minorities" to describe that. And I also find it highly amusing those folks aren't considered "real" blacks compared to a guy like President Obama, who is only half-black owing to the fact his Mom was a white woman from Kansas I believe.
-Question: Why are Republicans so racist and hatef...
-Question: Why are Republicans so racist and hateful?Answer: Because their ancestors came from the planet Uranus.-
Wow. I'll bet you're the hit of your 3rd grade cl...
Wow. I'll bet you're the hit of your 3rd grade class.
Is that you, Charlie Sykes?...
Is that you, Charlie Sykes?
If you actually tried to debate Sykes, he'd have y...
If you actually tried to debate Sykes, he'd have you crying in 30 seconds.Do you have anything intelligent to say? Apparently they don't teach "how to rebut an argument" at your public grade school.
I would be winning the debate and then Charlie Syk...
I would be winning the debate and then Charlie Sykes would cut off my microphone or hang up on me. That's what they always do on right wing, conservative, hate radio.sigh...
Thanks for the laughs, Joel! After a tough day at...
Thanks for the laughs, Joel! After a tough day at work, this really brightened my evening. I see you're still as deluded as ever - well, good! I never want you to change. You and most of the other commenters here are exactly who Jonathan Gruber was thinking of when he called the American people stupid fools who would swallow the lies the administration fed them about Obamacare. I not only enjoyed the election results, I feel pretty damn good because I wasn't one of those gulliable dolts. Here's hoping SCOTUS sends Ocare to the dustbin of history! And go Scott Walker!As for Mary Burke, well, I hope she has a happy return to snowboarding - the one thing she's competent at. At least, I hope she is. I'd hate to think she's as bad at it as Obama is at golfing and shooting hoops and throwing baseballs and being president.
Republicans Charlie Sykes and Jeff Wagner have rat...
Republicans Charlie Sykes and Jeff Wagner have ratcheted up their hateful rhetoric on their radio shows since the election.Thank God they stop short of condoning murder.
Then don't listen to them. Switch to liberal radi...
Then don't listen to them. Switch to liberal radio on Sirius.
Somebody has to report Sykes and Wagner to the aut...
Somebody has to report Sykes and Wagner to the authorities when they incite people to kill.Some people say that Wagner and Sykes whipped up anti-Muslim hatred on their radio and television programs and caused a Milwaukee man to murder those Sikh worshipers in Oak Creek.Charlie Sykes sponsored war rallies for Bush and Cheney leading up to the Iraq war. Kill, kill, kill said Charlie Sykes. Only problem was that Sykes was telling lies. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Millions of Iraqi women and children were killed because of people like Charlie Sykes.sigh...
Call Sheriff Clarke immediately. Just tell him ex...
Call Sheriff Clarke immediately. Just tell him exactly the way you are telling us. He is a Democrat and here to help you. People telling lies on the radio? We must alert the media at once!! Make sure to tell the Sheriff you are Jesus. He will know what to do.
Did you know that a Jewish group invited George W....
Did you know that a Jewish group invited George W. Bush to Switzerland last year but he didn't go. Switzerland told Bush that if he set one foot on Swiss soil, they would arrest him for crimes against humanity for murdering millions of women and children in Iraq.Switzerland rules!Question: Who murdered more people? Bush or Hitler?Answer: George W. Bush.
You are correct as usual Joel. Thanks for your fin...
You are correct as usual Joel. Thanks for your fine work.
Looked at all the crazed right-wingers who have no...
Looked at all the crazed right-wingers who have nothing better to do then troll Joel McNally! Like he, or the dreaded 'liberals,' care what you think. lol
RE: the troll comments, would you prefer just sit...
RE: the troll comments, would you prefer just sitting around and patting each other on the back repeating the same comments ad nauseum? you're not interested in debate or hearing the other side of you the issue, are you? really.
Here's yet another liberal rant about racism that ...
Here's yet another liberal rant about racism that just exposes them for the extreme hypocrites that they are. Mia Love, among others, has been exposed to some of the most vile and despicable racist comments that one can imagine. But liberals brush these incidents off because she is both black and a conservative. Apparently, according to the liberal "morality with exceptions" code, this is OK.
Geoff Ackley more than 4 years ago
In a nutshell; when it comes to Racism, perhaps li...
In a nutshell; when it comes to Racism, perhaps liberals should remember the saying "physician heal thyself"
Nothing crazier than commenting on yourself....
Nothing crazier than commenting on yourself.
Geoffrey, whining about the racism of those who ca...
Geoffrey, whining about the racism of those who call conservatives racist is poor strategy. Although racists are a small minority, they uniformly embrace the conservative principles of self-determination, states rights, individual liberty, patriotism, etc. All those things that justify suspicion of help for the downtrodden.To really stick it to the liberals- which is really what you want and need to do- you might try hitting them where they are weaker. Too soft on poverty and spinelessness, too touchy about political incorrectness, too little appreciation of militarism and capitalism.When you get all huffy about racism, you sound a little too much like a liberal. Buck up, hoss, or get out of the club.
greese007 more than 4 years ago
Same old broken record and whiny crybaby excuses. ...
Same old broken record and whiny crybaby excuses. Guess what, we cheated, what are you going to do about it? We just outsmarted Burke. If people are so stupid to believe Burke was fired, thats their problem. Really? You think all those political ads from both sides are really true? Its TV, entertainment, get over it. I think most people know that if you want a job you can get one. We don't need more jobs. Joel thinks his friends who enjoy laying around in hammocks all day guzzling beer would suddenly change if they just had a nice easy $50 a hour job to go to. The kind where you get to wear a white lab coat, safety goggles, carry a clip board and point at things.My advice to Democrats would be to grow up and learn how to be a worker, investor, and entrepreneur. Take all your Mary Burke signs and put them in a bonfire, dance a jig and pray for forgiveness. Some people are either wired to win or they are not. You are either a competitive self sufficient person or you are needy and can't get by without someone giving you a hand out -- creating a make-work job, subsidizing your life. Most of us either Republican or Democrat don't pay attention to ads and they don't influence us. I could really care less if Walker cheated. The bottom line is he's our boy. Just like Burke is your girl and you could care less if she cheated. We are greedy for tax cuts so we can keep our money. The Democrats are greedy for handouts so they don't have to work. For a lot of Republicans, we don't have to worry about unemployment, poverty and such because making money is just second nature. Its a part of our natural ability and we don't miss it unless we lose it. For a lot of Democrats, it does not come natural and they get frustrated. For a lot of Democrats, making money, investing, working etc, is like me trying to read Chinese -- can't comprehend it.
Very revealing. There are only two kinds of peopl...
Very revealing. There are only two kinds of people in the world -NOT. That if Republicans are fine with cheating, so are Democrats -NOT. Your warped view of human nature is merely a projection of your own views and does not represent the views of many of us. Go ahead thinking that you're superior and we're not. Funny how that doesn't jive with the facts: many Democrats are high achieving, high earning competitive self sufficient people who understand that sometimes people less fortunate in their circumstances can get ahead with some help. And that children should not be starving in this country, regardless of whose they are. I won't go on, you can't be convinced, your amygdala is too activated by your fear of those unlike you.
DJL speaks from the worst part of the Wisconsin ci...
DJL speaks from the worst part of the Wisconsin citizen, those who found a way to "get over" in life by taking advantage of different levels of ambition, of different levels of ability. There is no compassion except for their own friends and relatives, as those they can use to get over in life must never by allowed to switch places with them. Life is easier that way.What is it that normal people want? They do not want to work for the sake of work or duty, they work for the goal of having built up "enough" so they can stop working, and enjoy their gains, including "laying around in hammocks"! By "work" I include the work of personal life, having to deal with people they do not want to deal with, for whatever reason, lack of understanding included. Life is easier to not have to know so much.As for working to get "enough", the question is "enough of what"? Enough personal material stuff? Enough cash to buy the service of others with (or buy separation FROM others)? Or is it enough power and control over others! And if it is that you personally does not have this power and control, then at least you want to know that your group as a collective has this power and control over others around them, just not over you personally.Hence the Republicans have a bigger amygdala, which means they are driven by their fear, the fear of what others might do back at them should they ever get a bit of power.
I think that the Democratic Party would achieve be...
I think that the Democratic Party would achieve better election results if they returned to Democratic Party values at the top. The centrists have taken the party so far to the right that subjects like peace and jobs for US workers aren't even discussed seriously during most campaigns. Running a hawk for the Presidency in 2016, one that supports further erosion of American jobs to Asia, sounds like something the Republicans would push. Try a candidate that truly supports peace, sensible foreign policy moves and an aggressive plan to recapture jobs for Americans and I think your problems with Walker, his patrons the Koch family and other Republicans will end.
Robert Larrance more than 4 years ago
Completely ridiculous story. It appears that Mr. M...
Completely ridiculous story. It appears that Mr. McNally isn't interested in "News" , or an investigated and well researched opinion piece. Instead he takes DNC propaganda and shallow talking points, then regurgitates them here to rally all of those liberals standing out on the ledge (never mind all of those conservatives standing on the street below screaming JUMP) Please, do tell Mr. McNally, how progressives are "notonly right, but history ultimately is on their side." Right? If the now renowned liberal ignorance is in play here I can see how your delusions would lead you to believe that. History is ultimately on their side? Revisionist history (one of liberalism's best friends) maybe. Anything that has to do with this world and it's real history; I don't think so!
Please do tell how history is "on your side" Mr. M...
Please do tell how history is "on your side" Mr. McNally...I'm not having a particularly good day and I'm always up for a good chuckle!
You are a partisan political writer. A racist ele...
You are a partisan political writer. A racist election? It is the same racist electorate that gave the presidency to a black president. I guess if Hilary doesn't win, it will be a sexist election.
Kun Kim more than 4 years ago
Don't forget Mia Love and Tim Scott....
Don't forget Mia Love and Tim Scott.
bytebear more than 4 years ago
Joel McNally is obviously not a fan of Scott Walke...
Joel McNally is obviously not a fan of Scott Walker. McNally's skewed vision helps him pen delusionary thoughts (see above). As far as this piece, besides the delusionary thoughts, Joel's piece has an aroma of "sore loser" about it. Oh well, I suppose as long as they keep payin' ya Joel...you'll keep smellin' up the paper...without having to put it under the litter box. ;)
2 Moons and a Screw more than 4 years ago
the entire paper is as left as you can go, Mattera...
the entire paper is as left as you can go, Mattera.
If progressive policies are so good, why do they a...
If progressive policies are so good, why do they always produce such bad results?
Racists? That's what it was all about - you know,...
Racists? That's what it was all about - you know, with Mary Burke being a poor black African American who didn't have a decent education because she lived in the central city. Yep. All the racists voted against her because of her background.Except she is a 1 per-center wealthy white woman, born into privilege with access to the best schools and never really having to worry about money,Yep, it's all about those mean Republican racists, isn't it?
guythompto more than 4 years ago
Obviously you don't get it at all. Walker saved t...
Obviously you don't get it at all. Walker saved this state from the 1% who were spending and spending ans spending and giving and giving our children's children future away. The public schools and public supported services need an major overhaul. Anyone in the private sector would loose their jobs if they performed as they do. There is no accountability. Really you have no business being a journalist but a propagandist.
This one of the most biased, twisted articles I ha...
This one of the most biased, twisted articles I have read during this political season. It does not focus on issues and does not show any understanding of economics or the world situation. All it does is re-affirm that Democrats have dogmatically entrenched themselves in public entity unions that seem to be oblivious to spending while easily criticizing campaign spending by private parties supporting the Republican Party candidates. It is also preposterous to call Democrats "progressive". Both parties need to show imagination on healthcare, immigration and other important issues in addition to understanding that we cannot spend our way out of our problems. The private sector is being bogged down by public sector bureaucracies at the municipal, state and federal levels of government. Things need to change. Moderation is something the Republicans stand for. Try it sometime.
Have you ever considered that you are just as bad ...
Have you ever considered that you are just as bad as the Republican/conservative extremists? You are too extreme. Too biased. Too quick to use incendiary language. It comes across as condescending and annoying. I want to agree with you, but you are so unlikable I can't overcome it.
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type EncodingMultipartWriter struct {
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}

const newline = "\r\n"

func isPrintableASCIIString(s string) bool {
	for _, c := range s {
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		if !unicode.IsPrint(c) && c != '\n' && c != '\r' {
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By Leman Mammadova
Azerbaijan's relations with Japan continue to develop steadily. Japan has provided significant financial support for the implementation of a number of projects in the country.
In particular, Japan contributed to the development of the large oil and gas sector of Azerbaijan. Japan was one of the first countries to support Azerbaijan's forward-looking oil strategy.
Two major Japanese companies Itochu and Impex are involved in the Contract of the Century, a large-scale international contract dated September 20, 1994, on the joint development of three oil fields - Azeri, Chirag and Gunashli (ACG) in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
These companies will operate in Azerbaijan at least until 2050 within the modified and redeveloped agreement on joint development and shared distribution of production from the Azeri, Chirag fields and the deepwater part of the Gunashli field, signed in 2017.
Rovnag Abdullayev, President of the state oil company SOCAR, met with a delegation led by Keita Ishii, President of Itochu Corporation, Co-Chair of Japan-Azerbaijan Economic Committee, and discussed further cooperation between the two companies on July 10.
Abdullayev congratulated Ishii on his appointment as the co-chair of the Committee. He spoke about the long-term cooperation between Itochu and SOCAR, pointing to the great opportunities for the development of these ties.
Abdullayev gave detailed information about the conditions created for protection of foreign investment in Azerbaijan and highly appreciated the Japanese companies' participation in the oil and gas sector of the country.
Head of Japanese delegation, in turn, noted that Itochu is interested in cooperation with SOCAR in all directions and formats.
It should be noted that along with ACG block field, Itochu also participated in Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline project and in the construction of the SOCAR's Star Oil Refinery in Turkey.
Moreover, leaders of Japanese business – Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Marubeni, and Sojits – are also involved in energy and infrastructure projects in Azerbaijan. Mitsui intends to develop cooperation especially in alternative energy.
Also, construction of "North" electricity and "North-2" gas-steam power stations in Azerbaijan is implemented through the loan provided by Japanese government.
The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Japan amounted to $394 million in 2018, the largest share of which accounted for the imports from Japan.
Leman Mammadova is AzerNews' staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @leman_888
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No, I'm not changing my tune. I still say, "Don't cut the price, build the brand!" I still advocate competing on value rather than price simply because there is always some short-sighted competitor out there who is willing to give away the store. Just as I believe an undeniable truth is that quality is always cheaper in the long run, I believe building a quality brand experience will yield far more long-term benefits for the organization.
I propose another undeniable truth is that marketing requires an investment of resources.That may mean a huge budget if you're a huge company or a lot of sweat equity if you're a small business or startup. An investment in marketing has to be made in order to ultimately yield a return and get you results, which is where a "discount" can be considered less a discount and more of reallocation of your marketing investment. If you have reason to believe offering a lower price than you'd optimally like to command will yield future benefits significant enough to warrant it, then it may not be such a bad idea.
For example, you might offer your discount in the form of an introductory offer. By taking away some of the perceived risk the customer has, you earn their business sooner. Once you show them value, they should see why your offer is worth the original price and offer less resistance to paying it. Trust is hard to earn, but worth its weight in gold once we have it. If you really have your act together, you'll build a relationship the customer won't sever without a very good reason.
Because it's far more efficient to grow an existing relationship than to build a new one, even if we aren't able to raise the discounted price right away we stand to benefit from the ongoing cash flow and from the opportunities to gain more of their business on other offers. We may make less than we'd like on a particular product, but if we can count on that discounted cash flow over time, that alone may be worth considering. And if we can grow share-of-customer by involving them with other products, that's how we can really maximize the profits of the relationship.
A discount isn't a discount if it ultimately pays for itself!
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Far Fetched Fables No 29 Dylan Horrocks and Adam Browne
November 4, 2014 by nicola
First Story:
"Steam Girl" by Dylan Horrocks
The first time I see her, she's standing alone behind the library, looking at the ground. Faded blue dress, scruffy leather jacket, long lace-up boots and black-rimmed glasses. But what really makes me stop and stare is the hat: a weird old leather thing that hangs down over her ears, with big thick goggles strapped to the front.
Turns out she's in my English class. She sits right next to me, still wearing the jacket and goggles and hat. She smells like a thrift store.
"Weirdo," says Michael Carmichael.
"Freak," says Amanda Anderson.
She ignores the laughter, reaching into her bag for a notebook and pencil. She bends low so no-one can see what she's writing.
Dylan Horrocks is a cartoonist, writer and illustrator who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of the graphic novels Hicksville, Incomplete Works and Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen, as well as the comic book series Pickle and Atlas. He has written comics for DC and Vertigo, including Batgirl and Hunter: the Age of Magic. His website is at hicksvillecomics.com
Second story:
"Blood Drunk" by Adam Browne
The day I ask Josephine out is the same day the media first mentions the disease. Nothing much, just a curiosity piece in a couple of the papers. It gives us something to chat about on our first dates. I think the story is an urban myth, but she's not so sure. I press the point – even on a biochemical level it seems unlikely. Are we meant to believe in a disease – a virus is it? a bacterium? – that renders serum fats into glycerine, generates nitrates from urea, then blends the two compounds in the correct ratio?
Jesus. Writing it down here, I wonder how she suffered through those first dates.
Adam Browne, 50, lives in Melbourne, Australia. His story 'Neverland Blues' originally appeared in 2008 in Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction. It won the 2009 Chronos Award for Best Short Fiction. His first novel, Pyrotechnicon: Being a True Account of the Further Adventures of Cyrano de Bergerac among the States and Empires of the Stars, by Himself (Dec'd), was published by Coeur de Lion in 2012, and is still available as a print-on-demand illustrated hardcover. His collection of short stories, Other Stories, and Other Stories, was recently published by Satalyte, and will be available as an audio book later this year. Visit http://adambrowne.blogspot.com.au/ for more.
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James is a budding author and role-playing game designer, with credits from the 7th Sea and Stargate RPG lines. He's working on the upcoming 'Cairn' RPG, as well as a series of stories about a 1940's private eye in a city of the undead. James feels that there are always more amazing stories that need to be told, and he writes, narrates, and runs games to share them with the world. He loves speculative fiction, noir detective tales, and pulp fantasy, and is honored to be a returning reader in the District of Wonders.
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HomeBusinessAs India assumes G20 presidency, PM Modi calls for a paradigm shift
As India assumes G20 presidency, PM Modi calls for a paradigm shift
The Prime Minister praised the previous 17 G20 presidencies, saying that they successfully ensured macroeconomic stability, rationalized international taxation, and helped countries reduce their debt burden, among other things
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As India's G20 presidency commenced on December 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set the tone of India's G20 presidency on the great spiritual premises of Indian philosophy and called for a paradigm shift that focuses on human-centric globalisation.
"India's G20 agenda will be inclusive, ambitious, action-oriented, and decisive. Let us join together to make India's G20 Presidency a Presidency of healing, harmony and hope. Let us work together to shape a new paradigm - of human-centric globalisation," PM Modi said in his December 1 blog post.
The Prime Minister praised the previous 17 G20 presidencies, saying that they successfully ensured macroeconomic stability, rationalized international taxation, and helped countries reduce their debt burden, among other things.
He noted that humanity has so far fought for limited resources marked by confrontation and competition—between ideas, ideologies, and identities—while discussing the shaping of human history.
Now as India takes the mantle, PM Modi wondered whether the G20 could catalyse a fundamental mindset shift, to benefit humanity as a whole - a shift from a zero-sum mindset, fight over territory or resources, weaponization of essential goods etc? He questioned the claim that humans are inherently selfish and that conflict and greed are just part of human nature, asking why so many spiritual traditions advocating our fundamental oneness have persisted since time immemorial.
G20 Presidency: PM Modi tells all party leaders a unique opportunity to showcase country's strengths...
"Some may argue that confrontation and greed are just human nature. I disagree. If humans were inherently selfish, what would explain the lasting appeal of so many spiritual traditions that advocate the fundamental one-ness of us all?" he asked.
He referred to one such popular Indian tradition that sees all living beings, and even inanimate things, as composed of the same five basic elements - the panch tatva of earth, water, fire, air and space. "Harmony among these elements - within us and between us - is essential for our physical, social and environmental wellbeing".
India's G20 presidency
He further added, "India's G20 presidency will work to promote this universal sense of oneness. Hence our theme: One Earth, One Family, One Future." The Prime Minister lamented that despite having the means to produce enough to meet the basic needs of all people in the world, we have collectively failed to appreciate and suggested the need to shun fight for survival and look up to more peaceful and prosperous future.
He emphasised that "our era need not be one of war. Indeed, it must not be one!" The reference could be read as his sense of urgency to remove poverty and inequality and for that the need to stop squandering away of resources in senseless wars. This is possible by fostering honest and accommodating conversations.
He pointed to the world's greatest challenges, such as climate change and terrorism, and stated that these issues could be solved not by fighting each other, but only by working together.
The Prime Minister held that India and its thriving democracy could show the way for a collective response to global issues. He said that as the mother of democracy, India's national consensus is forged not by diktat, but by blending millions of free voices into one harmonious melody.
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India, microcosm of the world
Describing India as a microcosm of the world with its immense diversity of languages, religions, customs and beliefs, he asserted that it presents the oldest-known traditions of collective decision-making. This is one of the "great contributions of India to the foundational DNA of democracy." As to why India's G20 presidency raises hopes for acting as an engine of growth and global cooperation for prosperity, he said that India today is the fastest-growing large economy and has displayed the capacity to leveraged technology to create digital public goods that are open, inclusive and interoperable.
He added, "Fortunately, today's technology also gives us the means to address problems on a humanity-wide scale. The massive virtual worlds that we inhabit today demonstrate the scalability of digital technologies." According to him, there is a need to shift the paradigm that our survival depended on denying limited resources to others signifies the zero-sum mindset of the past.
He said that for promoting harmony within the human family, "we will seek to depoliticise the global supply of food, fertilisers and medical products, so that geopolitical tensions do not lead to humanitarian crises".He meant to emphasise that those whose needs are the greatest must always be our first concern.
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The reference was intended to point out the problems of hunger, starvation and malnutrition in many parts of developing countries and urgency to address them together on priority basis whatever it takes.
The Prime Minister concluded that the world needs to work together to shape a new paradigm - of human-centric globalisation. This would require an honest conversation among the most powerful countries - on mitigating risks posed by weapons of mass destruction and enhancing global security.
Additionally, he also indicated that G20 needs to be responsible even for those countries which are not members of the group.
He said, "Our G20 priorities will be shaped in consultation with not just our G20 partners, but also our fellow travellers in the global South, whose voice often goes unheard. Our priorities will focus on healing our One Earth, creating harmony within our One Family and giving hope for our One Future."
One of the messages of the Indian Prime Minister was "imbuing hope in our future generations" by good governance including citizen-centric governance model which would not consider development as an exercise in top-down governance, but rather a citizen-led people's movement.
He also emphasised that "we will encourage sustainable and environment-friendly lifestyles, based on India's tradition of trusteeship towards nature" for "healing our planet".
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A souvenir of Everett Shinn's only trip to Europe, The Hippodrome, London is apparently the first oil painting devoted to what would become the artist's signature subject: popular forms of entertainment, including the circus, vaudeville, and the theater. Shinn's idiosyncratic use of perspective and choice of subject matter correspond to French Impressionist and Postimpressionist work by artists like Edgar Degas (1834–1917) and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), but his commitment to this type of scene is also linked to his own theatrical leanings and early career as a periodical illustrator. The Hippodrome opened in London in January 1900 as a circus and was transformed into a music hall a decade later; it is likely that Shinn attended a performance there during the first year of its existence.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 325–326, no. 172.
Judith A. Barter et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 85.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students Leagure of New York, 1951, cat. 36, ill.
Cologne, Germany, Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of American Art, Nov 23, 2018–Mar 24, 2019, cat. 85.


Dyson V8 Vs. V10 Absolute Cordless Stick Vacuums (Differences): Dyson makes what we believe to be the best quality and performing cordless vacuums available. The Dyson V8 and V10 are outstanding cordless cleaning machines. The Absolute models come with extra accessories that allow you to clean your entire home and car. The key differences of the V8 and V10 lies with its bin size, configuration, suction, Floor tool, and battery life.
Bottom Line Dyson V8 Vs. V10: The V10 has many improvements such as 40% larger dust bin, increased suction using the new inline configuration, new Floor tool allows you to adjust suction, longer battery life. The V10 is a little bulkier in handheld mode than the V8 due to the larger bin. The V10 has new clog and filter indicator lights. The V8 is a fantastic cordless vacuum, the V10 is an improvement on the V8, but either cordless vacuum will do a great job of cleaning your home.
Battery Life V8 : Battery life is 40 minutes (suction only), and 25 minutes with a floor tool. In Max mode (115 airwatts) you will get 6-7 minutes of runtime. The max mode is only needed for heavily soiled carpet.
Battery Life V10 : Battery life has increased from 40 minutes (V8) to 60 minutes in the suction mode. There are now 3 suction modes: These modes are Low (16 airwatts with 60 minutes suction or 30 minutes with motorized tool), Medium (32 airwatts with 30 minutes of suction or 20 minutes with a motorized tool), and High (150 airwatts with 6 minutes of runtime).
What makes Dyson Cordless Vacs Unique- Main Differences: Dyson has re-invented the cordless vacuum and has been an innovator and pathfinder in creating new technology. Dyson is known for strong, powerful, suction using new digital V7, V8 and V10 motors. One area that Dyson stands out is its tools. Dyson uses Nylon and Carbon Fibers on its main floor tool, to vacuum both carpets and hard floors. Recently Dyson introduced its new Fluffy hard floor tool, capable of vacuuming both large and tiny particles at the same time (Cheerios and flour). Dyson uses high impact polycarbonate plastics (same as used in crash helmets and riot shields) for greater durability.


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Q: How to get all xml elements from a specific section of xml column using xpath? I have two tables tblUser and tblUserPermissions and I need all the permission elements from the below xml column (XmlData) for each user in tblUser. There is only one userid element in each XmlData.
<User xmlns="">
  <userid>user1</userid>
  <permissions>
    <permission>per1</permission>
    <permission>per2</permission>
    <permission>per3</permission>
  </permissions>
  //Other elements here
</User>

I am trying this query.
SELECT u.UserID, UserPermissions.perm.value('permission', 'varchar(50)')
FROM tblUserPermissions up WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN tblUser u ON u.UserID = up.XmlData.value('(/User/userid)[1]', 'int')
cross apply up.XmlData.nodes('/User/permissions') AS UserPermissions (perm)

How can I get the result as shown below?
UserID | Permission

user1 | per1
user1 | per2
user1 | per3
user2 | per1
user2 | per2
user3 | per1
user3 | per2
user3 | per3

I get an error as below. Any idea what needs to be changed in my query? Thanks for any suggestions!
XQuery [tblVORRequest.RequestXml.value()]: 'value()' requires a singleton (or empty sequence), found operand of type 'xdt:untypedAtomic *'

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XQuery [value()]: 'value()' requires a singleton (or empty sequence), found operand of type 'xdt:untypedAtomic *'
Although there is only one ProductID attribute in the XML instance, the static typing rules require you to explicitly specify that the path expression returns a singleton. Therefore, the additional [1] is specified at the end of the path expression. For more information about static typing, see XQuery and Static Typing.

So to start you off, all you need to do is something like this.
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #temp
CREATE TABLE #temp (test XML)

INSERT INTO #temp
(
    test
)
VALUES
('<User xmlns="">
  <userid>user1</userid>
  <permissions>
    <permission>per1</permission>
    <permission>per2</permission>
    <permission>per3</permission>
  </permissions>
  //Other elements here
</User>'
    )

SELECT UserPermissions.perm.value('permission[1]', 'varchar(50)')
FROM #temp up
cross apply up.test.nodes('/User/permissions') AS UserPermissions (perm)


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[Guest post by Molly Redden]
This election cycle, one congressional race is already a comforting reminder that when a lawmaker spends more time making splashy headlines than substantive policy, he sometimes actually pays for it.
That lawmaker is Representative Joe Walsh of Illinois, a Tea Party incendiary with such legislation to his name as the "Save Christmas Act", not to mention an unsavory habit of yelling at constituents, and his competition is—well, it's actually not clear yet. Due to Democratic-led redistricting in Illinois, Walsh's district got redrawn and he's been mulling a run in two different districts. He's already announced his intentions to run in one, then, in Hamlet-like fashion, waffled and hinted to the public he would run in another. He promised to announce his final decision this past Monday—then Monday came and went without an announcement. His latest promise is that he will announce his choice at a Tea Party event at the Cubby Bear restaurant tonight.
But no matter where he chooses to run, Walsh will find himself running against the odds. Walsh originally planned to compete in the modified 14th district, which would pit him in an expensive race against Randy Hultgren, the freshman Republican incumbent for many of the 14th's constituents. Hultgren isn't a hot political name, but he is an effective longtime state lawmaker—not exactly an ideal matchup for Walsh, whose latest legislation dictates what should happen if the United Nations were to encroach on the U.S. Constitution. But then Illinois pushed back the filing deadline for congressional candidates, and word got out that Walsh was considering a run in his own redrawn 8th district instead, where there is no other incumbent and no credible Republican challenger.
It's no wonder there isn't: Voters in the new 8th district went for Obama in 2008 by about a 60-40 margin. And the Democratic challenger will either be Raja Krishnamoorthi or Tammy Duckworth—the former backed by powerful local business and Democratic forces, the latter a popular Veterans Affairs official supported by national names like David Axelrod and Senator Dick Durbin. (Duckworth, for her part, has the potential to become a Democratic starlet. She's already been featured in an Emily's List mailer and seen on MSNBC, and she made a Veterans' Day appearance on Hardball.)
So Walsh faces a difficult choice: He can risk the wrath of his party by forcing a divisive race in the 14th, or he can go to near certain death in the 8th, where at least he will draw more GOP support and dollars. But that would be a boon to Duckworth, whose campaign is relying heavily on drawing contrasts between her candidacy and Tea Party-brand Republicans like Walsh. When Walsh indicated he was dropping out of the 8th district race in September, her camp was practically in mourning.
Wherever Walsh chooses to run tonight at the Cubby Bear, however, it's already clear from his vacillations that his hyper-conservative blustering, while good for his personal brand, hasn't done much for his reelection chances and hasn't done much for his party. At a Duckworth campaign event, Axelrod accused Walsh of devoting his time in office to "essentially auditioning for right-wing talk radio" instead of governing. At least he's already got a job lined up.
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