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BREAKING BOMBSHELL: Maricopa Co. DELETED Entire 2020 General Election Database Days Before Equipment Was Delivered To Audit: "This is spoilation of evidence!"
May 13, 2021 Kevin Robert News, Politics
By Patty McMurray at 100 Percent FED Up–
Last week, the Gateway Pundit reported about the emergency meeting that was called by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors after the County was reportedly unable to provide passwords to the auditors performing an audit of the county's 2020 Election results. They also did not provide access to the routers, which were requested in the audit as well.
This afternoon, it was discovered that "the entire database" for the 2020 General election, showing the "Results Tally and Reporting," has been deleted!
President of the Arizona Senate Karen Fann has written a letter to Chairman Sellers, demanding answers.
Here is the letter to Chairman Sellers from AZ Senate President Karen Fann:
Dear Chairman Sellers:
I am writing to seek your assistance and cooperation in the resolution of three (3) serious issues that have arisen in the course of the Senate's ongoing audit of the returns of the November 3, 2020 general election in Maricopa County.
I. Ongoing Non-Compliance with the Legislative Subpoenas
The first issue concerns Maricopa County's apparent intent to renege on its previous commitment to comply fully with the legislative subpoenas issued on January 13, 2021, which, as you know, Judge Thomason found were valid and enforceable.
To date, attorneys for Maricopa County have refused to produce virtual images of routers used in connection with the general election, relying on a conclusory and unsupported assertion that providing the routers would somehow "endanger the lives of law enforcement officers, their operations, or the protected health information and personal data of Maricopa County's citizens."If true, the fact that Maricopa County stores on its routers substantial quantities of citizens' and employees' highly sensitive personal information is an alarming indictment of the County's lax data security practices, rather than of the legislative subpoenas.
Similarly, the County's assertion that producing the internet routers for inspection would cost up to $6,000,000 seems at odds with Deputy County Attorney Joseph La Rue's prior representation to Audit Liaison Ken Bennett that the routers already had been disconnected from the County's network and were prepared for imminent delivery to the Senate.
Nevertheless, in an effort to resolve the dispute regarding production of the routers, we propose that agents of CyFIR, an experienced digital forensics firm and subcontractor of Cyber Ninjas, review virtual images of the relevant routers in Maricopa County facilities and in the presence of representatives of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.Such an arrangement would permit Maricopa County to retain custody and monitor the review of router data, while ensuring that the Senate may access the information it requires—and to which it is constitutionally entitled—to successfully complete its audit.The Senate has no interest in viewing or taking possession of any information that is unrelated to the administration of the 2020 general election.
Separately, Maricopa County has refused to provide the passwords necessary to access vote tabulation devices.Its attorneys' insistence that the County does not have custody or control of this information is belied by the County's conduct of its own audits, which, if they were as comprehensive as they purported to be, almost certainly would have entailed use of the passwords to examine the tabulation devices, and it strains credulity to posit that the County has no contractual right to obtain (i.e., control of) password information from Dominion.
II. Chain of Custody and Ballot Organization Anomalies
As the audit has progressed, the Senate's contractors have become aware of apparent omissions, inconsistencies, and anomalies relating to Maricopa County's handling, organization, and storage of ballots. We hope you can assist us in understanding these issues, including specifically the following:
The County has not provided any chain-of-custody documentation for the ballots. Does such documentation exist, and if so, will it be produced?
The bags in which the ballots were stored are not sealed, although the audit team has found at the bottom of many boxes cut seals of the type that would have sealed a ballot bag. Why were these seals placed at the bottom of the boxes?
Batches within a box are frequently separated by only a divider without any indication of the corresponding batch numbers. In some cases, the batch dividers are missing altogether. This lack of organization has significantly complicated and delayed the audit team's ballot processing efforts. What are the County's procedures for sorting, organizing, and packaging ballot batches?
Most of the ballot boxes were sealed merely with regular tape and not secured by any kind of tamper-evident seal. Is that the County's customary practice for storing ballots?
The audit team has encountered a significant number of instances in which there is a disparity between the actual number of ballots contained in a batch and the total denoted on the pink report slip accompanying the batch. In most of these instances, the total on the pink report slip is greater than the number of ballots in the batch, although there are a few instances in which the total is lower. What are the reasons for these discrepancies? For your reference, please see several illustrative (i.e., not comprehensive) examples in the table below:
For your convenience, images of the corresponding pink report slips are attached in Exhibit A.
III. Deleted Databases
We have recently discovered that the entire "Database" directory from the D drive of the machine "EMSPrimary" has been deleted. This removes election related details that appear to have been covered by the subpoena. In addition, the main database for the Election Management System (EMS) Software, "Results Tally and Reporting," is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed. Can you please advise as to why these folders were deleted, and whether there are any backups that may contain the deleted folders?
The image below shows the location of the files known to be deleted. In addition, the main database for "Results Tally and Reporting" is not present.
I am hopeful that we can constructively resolve these issues and questions without recourse to additional subpoenas or other compulsory process.To that end, I invite you and any other officers or employees of Maricopa County (to include officials in the Elections Department) who possess knowledge or information concerning the matters set forth above to a meeting at the Arizona State Capitol on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. in Hearing Room 109.Chairman Petersen, former Secretary Bennett and I will attend the meeting, which will be live-streamed to the public.
Please let me know at your earliest convenience whether you accept my invitation and, if so, which Maricopa County personnel will attend.
Thank you for your cooperation on these important issues of public concern.
Karen Fann, President
Arizona State Senate
When inspectors received the boxes of ballots where the audit was being performed, the tamper-proof tape was cut on the boxes, and the number of ballots inside the boxes was not the same as what was reported by the County reporter, and what was turned over to the Senate.
A week before the machines were turned over; records were deleted by an administrator—this has to be treated as an act of intentional cover-up!
The Maricopa Arizona Audit team has also tweeted about the breaking bombshell:
Breaking Update: Maricopa County deleted a directory full of election databases from the 2020 election cycle days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit. This is spoliation of evidence!
Breaking Update: Maricopa County deleted a directory full of election databases from the 2020 election cycle days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit. This is spoliation of evidence! pic.twitter.com/mY0fmmFXAm
— Maricopa Arizona Audit (@ArizonaAudit) May 13, 2021
Why would the database be deleted unless there was something massive they were trying to hide? This article is for everyone who's been trying to convince Americans that no voter fraud took place in the November election and that it was the safest and most secure election in modern history.
Nothing to see here!
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The Ilyushin DB-4 (DB - Дальний бомбардировщик - Dalniy Bombardirovshchik - long-range bomber) or TsKB-56 (TsKB - Tsentral'noye Konstruktorskoye Byuro - central construction bureau) was a Soviet twin-engined bomber aircraft of the early 1940s.  It was a development of the Ilyushin DB-3 and was intended as a replacement for the earlier aircraft, but only two prototypes were built; engine problems and the need to concentrate production on existing types following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 meant that no more examples were built.

Design and development
In the late 1930s, the Ilyushin OKB (or design bureau) was tasked with designing a replacement for its DB-3 twin-engined, long-range bomber. Ilyushin carried out design work on the new aircraft, which was given the internal design bureau designation TsKB-56, in parallel with the DB-3F (later designated the Il-4). While the DB-3F was a relatively simple upgrade of the DB-3, the TsKB-56, which had the service designation DB-3, was larger and heavier, in order to meet the requirements for greater performance and a heavier bombload. The DB-4 had a high-mounted wing to accommodate a large bomb bay, with a retractable tailwheel undercarriage fitted, while the radial engines of the DB-3 were to be replaced by the new Klimov M-120, an 18-cylinder liquid-cooled engine of unusual design, with three banks of six cylinders arranged in an inverted "Y"-shape, which was to have a takeoff power of 1,800 hp (1,346 kW). It was to have a crew of four consisting of a pilot, navigator, dorsal gunner and radio operator. Defensive armament was three ShKAS machine guns, one in the nose, one in a dorsal turret and one firing through a ventral hatch, while the deep bomb bay could carry 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) of bombs.

The proposed M-120 engines proved to be troublesome, and it was decided to replace them with 1,400 hp (1,044 kW) Mikulin AM-37 V12 engines to allow testing of the first prototype to be completed. This aircraft, fitted with a single vertical fin, made its maiden flight on 15 October 1940, with test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki at its controls. The second aircraft, with twin tails, was completed in November 1940 with M-120 engines, but these were replaced with AM-37s before it flew on 20 February 1941.

Flight testing showed that the aircraft had poor low speed stability, while the fuselage, with its large bomb bay was prone to flexing, resulting in larger tail surfaces being fitted and the fuselage being strengthened. The AM-37 engines, while a development of the earlier AM-35 engine, proved to be unreliable, and plans were made to fit alternative engines, including the Shvetsov M-71 and M-82 radial engines and the Charomskiy ACh-30 Diesel engine, although none of these alternatives were fitted. The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 lead to an end of production of the DB-4, with the factory allocated for production evacuated from Moscow to the East, and ordered to concentrate on urgently needed Il-2 ground-attack aircraft and the Il-4 bomber. The two prototypes continued in use as testbeds to aid development of improved versions of the Il-4 and the later Ilyushin Il-6 bomber.

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References

 Gordon, Yefim, Dmitry Komissarov and Sergei Komissarov. OKB Ilyushin: A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft. Hinkley, UK: Midland Publishing, 2004. .
 Gunston, Bill. The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995. London: Osprey, 1995. .

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Under Trump, Transparency is Out, Corruption is Back
Michelle Harrison
Big Oil's demands to Keep Tax Payments Secret lead U.S. to Withdraw from Global Transparency Initiative
With the smell of indictments and corruption already stinking up the air, the Trump Administration added to the corporate lobby's haul this year by announcing this week that it will no longer participate in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international transparency initiative aimed at shining a light of extractive industry deals and exposing corruption.
Countries that sign up to EITI commit to publish the payments they receive from extractive companies, and extractive companies within their jurisdiction publish what they pay to the government. There are currently 52 EITI implementing countries that have gone through the multiyear validation process. The U.S. has supported the initiative since 2003, and in 2011, President Obama announced that as part of "our leadership of the global effort against corruption," the U.S. would formally become an EITI candidate country to ensure "greater transparency so that taxpayers receive every dollar they're due from the extraction of natural resources."
Fast forward 6 years. Under the Trump administration, transparency is out, corruption is back.
The Interior Department, the agency in charge of US EITI implementation, announced this week that the U.S. will withdraw, effective immediately, claiming "domestic implementation of EITI does not fully account for the U.S. legal framework." Translation: industry groups have spent years trying to undermine payment transparency, and the new administration has done everything it can to help them. It's part of the broader trend. With the corporate lobby now in charge of the government agencies that are supposed to regulate corporate conduct and protect Americans, Big Oil is winning big. The first piece of legislation Trump signed was an expedited measure jammed through Congress to gut the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) extractive transparency and anti-corruption regulations. Put in place as part of the Cardin-Lugar provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the rules required extractive companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to publicly disclose project-level payments they make to foreign governments in all countries of operation and the U.S. federal government. (I've written at length about the outright, shameful lies told by industry and their allies in Congress to force through this measure, which I won't go into again here.)
Chevron, Exxon and the American Petroleum Institute were the biggest opponents of the SEC transparency rules, yet all three are also members of the U.S. EITI multistakeholder group and Chevron and Exxon somehow managed to get themselves on the board of the U.S. EITI and the International EITI – roles that require good faith efforts to comply with the EITI standard. Their conduct, specifically intended to undermine EITI implementation, has been anything but good faith. Although central to the EITI standard, they've refused to disclose their federal income tax payments (hmm… sound like anyone else you know?). Chevron and Exxon said they would only disclose the payments when it was legally required by the SEC rules (which were set to take effect in 2018), while simultaneously lobbying to repeal those rules. While the SEC is still required to reissue disclosure rules eventually, without those rules in place now, the companies have continued to withhold their tax information – without which, the U.S. couldn't pass its formal EITI review – and this administration has shown it's more than willing to give them a pass.
The cynics among us probably don't find it that surprising that big oil companies like Chevron and Exxon don't want public scrutiny of their dealings with corrupt dictators – oil is a notoriously corrupt industry. But it's worth looking at what exactly their concern might be in the U.S. context, which generally is assumed to be less corrupt than places like Equatorial Guinea and Russia.
The answer, as far as I can tell, is almost certainly a fear that the American public will see just how little they actually pay in federal income taxes, particularly now when Congress has revealed a massive tax plan that would disproportionately benefit multinational corporations and the super wealthy, while harming small businesses and many middle-class Americans. Multinational corporations frequently complain about the U.S. corporate income tax rate, and companies like Exxon like to claim they are "one of the largest taxpayers in the U.S. and around the world." But the dirty little secret is that many companies – and especially fossil fuel companies – often manage to pay significantly less, and sometimes zero income tax, thanks to regulations, loops holes, and other tactics that enable them to reduce their tax burden.
Our friends at Publish What You Pay US (PWYP-US) have taken a look at the 2015 U.S. federal tax payments from the six multinational extractive companies that did make the full set of EITI disclosures. Two companies listed tax payments in the negative hundreds of millions of dollars and two listed tax payments as zero – only two companies disclosed positive amounts of tax payments.
And the fossil fuel industry benefits from a mind-blowing array of industry-specific subsidies in the U.S. A recent study calculated at least $15 billion in direct federal subsidies, and $5.8 billion in state-level incentives. That's more than $20 billion each year in corporate handouts for fossil fuel extraction to some of the most profitable corporations in the world. Another study found that ExxonMobil alone was the beneficiary of $12.9 billion in tax subsidies between 2008 and 2015.
These numbers are staggering, and yet they appear to be one of the best-kept secrets from the average American.
The U.S. departure from the EITI may make it easier to keep those numbers secret in the short term, but this administration's continued advancement of corporate profits and shady deals over the interests of ordinary people – not to mention its own seemingly corrupt dealings – has made it increasingly isolated on the international stage, and in the eyes of the general public, and at a certain point, companies may very well find that's bad for business.
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and former Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN), long time champions of extractive industry transparency efforts, summed up what happened well in their joint statement condemning the move:
The Department's justification for withdrawing from EITI — because the initiative contravenes the U.S. legal framework — is a front meant to mask Big Oil and Gas' money and influence, the real reason fueling this sad day in the movement toward greater global sunlight and transparency in extractive industries. There is no U.S. law that prevents oil, gas or mining companies from voluntarily disclosing their federal tax payments to the American people. The Trump Administration's move today is a painful abdication of American leadership on transparency and good governance.'
The rest of the world has actively embraced the extractive industry transparency. Companies listed on stock exchanges in Canada, the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union are already reporting their payments to all governments – including the U.S. – under mandatory disclosures rules in those jurisdictions modeled off of the SEC's now-voided rule. Even state-owned Chinese and Russian companies, which are subject to those rules, are now more transparent than Exxon and Chevron.
So we need to keep asking: what is it Exxon and Chevron are so worried we'll find?


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With the merger of TNT Crane & Rigging with Southway Crane & Rigging, the company will own o
Crane rental house TNT Crane & Rigging in the USA has sold a majority interest to Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC, American Cranes & Transport has learned. A privately held crane and rigging company based in Houston, TNT has eight branches in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
As one of the largest mobile crane service providers in the nation, TNT has experienced rapid growth organically and through four acquisitions since 2008, the company said. TNT is ranked 15th in the ACT 100 list of North America's largest crane owning companies. In 2011 it was also ranked as the fastest growing crane company.
With the Odyssey investment, TNT plans to continue to grow the business both organically and through acquisitions, the company said. The management team, including Mike Appling, Randy Dobbs, Pat Tesson and Deana Haygood, will continue to own a substantial percentage of the company, according to TNT.
"We would like to thank our former board and shareholder base," said Appling, president and CEO. "MML Capital, Frans Brinkmann and Troy Lambert provided excellent guidance and support as we tripled the size of the business over a four-year period. We are extremely excited to partner with Odyssey for our future operations. They have an excellent reputation and deep understanding of our end markets, which will make them an invaluable strategic resource."
Of the transaction, Bill Hopkins, managing principal of Odyssey, said, "We have a long and successful history supporting and building businesses in the industrial equipment rental and services industries. We believe that TNT is a tremendous opportunity. Odyssey is extremely impressed with the management team and we look forward to working closely with them to continue building this business."
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In the US, TNT Crane & Rigging has purchased the assets of Kuhn Crane Service. TNT is a privately held full service crane and rigging operator based in Houston, Texas. Crane rental house Kuhn operates from Corpus Christi and Edinburg, Texas. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Why India Tested Nuclear Weapons in 1998
Much of the conventional wisdom is wrong; only domestic politics really mattered for the decision.
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece for The National Interest arguing that India's acquisition of nuclear weapons had been a mistake because it had not achieved its initial purpose of addressing the Chinese threat to India's border, while it worsened Delhi's ability to deal with Pakistan.
I was pleased to learn that Dhruva Jaishankar of the German Marshall Fund had taken the time to write a rebuttal to my piece, which also appeared in TNI. On Thursday TNI was kind enough to publish my response to Jaishankar's piece.
In order to address Jaishankar's major points, my response ran rather long. As such, I tried to reduce the length of the piece by eliminating one section. Specifically, Jaishankar had argued I ignored the context in which India's nuclear-decision making took place. He countered by arguing:
"Given its adverse security environment in the early 1990s, India's pursuit of nuclear weapons as a deterrent against Chinese and Pakistani adventurism would have appeared not only wise but necessary, particularly when considered in conjunction with the relatively low costs of a nuclear program, a multilateral order that threatened to recognize China's nuclear status in perpetuity while denying India entry, and an enabling domestic political environment."
In my response, I focused mainly on whether it made sense to examine India's nuclear calculus solely through the decision to test nuclear weapons in 1998. Not surprisingly, I argued that it did not. However, I also noted in passing that many of Jaishankar's specific claims were questionable on the merits, without elaborating on why this was the case.
Since Jaishankar's claims are representative of the ones often given for why India tested nuclear weapons in 1998, its worth explaining in greater detail why these are indeed questionable on the merits.
First, Jaishankar argues that India faced in adverse security environment in the early 1990s. Although this is rather vague, he is probably referring to the collapse of the Soviet Union, India's Cold War ally, as this is often used by Indian officials and analysts to justify the nuclear tests in 1998.
Although there is something to this argument, it is grossly overstated because the loss of the immense Soviet military machine meant that Russia's defense industry was all too willing to continue selling India military supplies. Delhi may have had to pay more for weapons under the Russian Federation, but its economy was also expanding rapidly starting in the 1990s and 2000s. Thus, it could afford to do so.
But India's security environment in the early 1990s cannot be characterized as highly adverse because its external threat environment was greatly reduced. China, for instance, spent the first few years of the decade completely immersed in domestic affairs following Tiananmen Square. Its interest in threatening Indian territory was greatly reduced during this time. Additionally, during this time the People's Liberation Army (PLA) began to downsize its ground forces, which had historically taken precedence. Since these were the primary menace to India along its shared border with China, this also reduced the threat Beijing posed to India in the early to mid-1990s.
The China threat to India was further reduced in the middle 1990s by the fact that China began to encounter greater external threats from the U.S. during this time. For example, in 1994 it had to contend with the prospect of a U.S. military invasion of North Korea along China's northwestern border. The next two years it had to deal with the Taiwan Strait Crisis. Thus, in the years leading up to India's nuclear tests in 1998, China was greatly distracted and reducing its capability to threaten India.
Pakistan was, if anything, in worse shape during the 1990s. First, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union entirely, left it with a nasty civil war along its western border. This would partially distract it from antagonizing India.
More importantly, the withdrawal of the Soviet Union also saw Pakistan's great power patron, the U.S., lose interest in the region. This had profound negative repercussions for Pakistan. For instance, during the 1980s, the U.S. had shelved its concerns about Pakistan's nuclear program and poured immense amounts of various kinds of aid into the country. The year after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, however, the George H.W. Bush administration broke with tradition in declaring that it could not confirm Pakistan's nuclear program was completely peaceful. In line with existing U.S. law, the administration then halted all economic and military aid to Pakistan and imposed sanctions against it. Thus, if anyone lost a great power patron in the early 1990s, it was Pakistan; India's just changed names.
Jaishankar also tried to put in context India's nuclear calculus by declaring that India's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons (likely meaning its decision to test nuclear weapons) was strategically wise given "a multilateral order that threatened to recognize China's nuclear status in perpetuity while denying India entry." This likely refers to the often-heard argument from India officials that they had to test weaponized nuclear weapons before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)—which had opened for signatures in 1996 and which 150 nations had signed by the time of India's nuclear weapons test—went into effect.
If so, India's decision was paradoxically both premature and much delayed. It was premature in so far as the CTBT still has not gone into effect. On the other hand, if India's goal was to avoid a "multilateral order that threatened to recognize China's nuclear status in perpetuity while denying India's entry," India's 1998 nuclear tests were two decades too late. After all, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) enshrined in the global order that China is a legal nuclear weapon state and India will never be. And the NPT was extended indefinitely in May 1995, a full three years before India's nuclear test.
Next Jaishankar argues that India's nuclear tests made sense given the "relatively low costs of a nuclear program." It's unclear what he means by the "relatively low costs of a nuclear program." The development and maintenance of a nuclear arsenal is an enormously expensive undertaking, and India's nuclear program—which began as a peaceful nuclear program in the 1950s but changed to one geared toward developing a nuclear weapons capability by the middle 1960s—was no exception.
An argument can be made—in fact I would make it—that nuclear weapons are still cost-efficient if used to deter a strategic threat that conventional arms would otherwise have to meet. For instance, the U.S. used its nuclear deterrent to prevent the massive Red Army from overrunning Europe during the Cold War. The cost of fielding a conventional force that could do this would have been many times higher than the cost of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. However, as I explained in my initial piece and my response, India's nuclear arsenal is not deterring a strategic threat—it's merely been an enormous drain on the country's resources that could have otherwise been spent on conventional weapons that could actually meet or defeat the threats India does face.
That leaves Jaishankar's claim that an "an enabling domestic environment" made it strategically wise to test nuclear weapons in the late 1990s. It's unclear exactly how. But Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retaking the premiership in the 1998 general elections is indeed the most compelling explanation for why India tested nuclear weapons later that year. That is not to say that these political dynamics undergirded India's decision and implementation of a nuclear weapons program, only that it explains the precise timing of the tests.
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Q: Displaying a user input in an html tag from the other file [HTML+JS] I am sort of building an electron app using HTML, JS and CSS - just a basic thing.
I have two html files (say FILE1.html and FILE2.html).
In file1 a user provides his username/password pair, which then takes him to file2.
What I want to do is to capture user's input (username specifically) in file1 and display it in file2.
Now, I can do that within a single file; here is my code:
FILE1

  <input type="text" id="username" />

    <button onclick="getUserName(); return false;">Continue</button>

and JS file:
const getUserName = () => {
  let userName = document.getElementById('username').value;
  document.getElementById('receivedUserName').innerHTML = userName;
};

All works fine within file1 but what I actually need is to pass the captured username to the FILE2.
FILE2
<form>

</form>

Just cannot think of a way to go around it ...
Surely the line

 in file1 is for for a single file testing.
Thank you in advance.

A: Use localStorage something like the below (I haven't tested this):
let username = document.getElementById('username').value;
localStorage.setItem('username', username);

Then in the other file:
let username = localStorage.getItem('username');
document.getElementById('receivedUserName').innerText = username;

VERY IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: you must use innerText, not innerHTML to set the contents of the receivedUserName element, in case the username contains a < or &. This is not just an aesthetic thing - it will cause the app to break badly, and if ever show data from one user to another user this way, you have a huge security hole as they could put malicious script in a script tag in their username. Google XSS or Cross site scripting.

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Q: how to call the value stored in the union I have value of X = 140, stored in union, how should I call the that value?
So that I can proceed to do conversion by calling that value of X,  from union, in the first stage.
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        long int   in;
        byte by[LONGEST];
        double db;
    } un;  //union code

A: To clarify, when you say calling a value from a union, you mean accessing it?
If so, here is an example on how to do so:
#include <stdio.h>

union
{
    long int   in;
    byte by[LONGEST];
    double db;
} un;  //union code

int main (void)
{
    union un myUnion = { 0 };

    myUnion.in = 10; // Storing in a union.

    printf("in value = %ld\n", myUnion.in); // Accessing union members.

    return 0;
}


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A stimulánsok olyan szerek, melyek ideiglenesen növelik a figyelmet, az éberséget, és a tettrekészséget.

Áttekintés
A stimulánsok többsége a szimpatikus idegrendszert aktiválva fejti ki hatását, a jelenleg kapható többségük pedig komoly eufóriát is okoz, ami már néhány alkalom után komoly szellemi függőséget okoz (ld. Dizájn(er) drogok), veszélyességük ezért is kiemelkedő mértékű. Használható terápiás célokra (hatásosak a narkolepszia, ADHD kezelésében), vagy olyan helyzetekben amikor a használónak ébernek kell maradnia (pl. pilóta). Növelik a teljesítőképességet, a tűrőképességet, valamint elnyomják az étvágyat. Sok eufóriát is okozó stimuláns hazánkban – ahogy a legtöbb országban is – tiltott.

Néhány stimuláns:
 nikotin
 koffein
 amfetaminok
 MDMA (Extasy)
 Kokain
 Metilfenidát (Ritalin)
 Ecstasy
 Dizájn(er) drogok

Több ezer stimuláns vegyület létezik. Alapul véve csak a metamfetamin-származékoknak van több mint 200 fajtája, ilyenek az MDMA, MDEA, MDA, MDE, 2C-B stb. Ezek többségét Alexander Shulgin professzor szintetizálta elsőként.

A legnépszerűbb legális stimulánsok a koffein és a nikotin, az illegálisok közül az ún. Dizájn(er) drogok vették át a sokáig vezető Extasy helyét.

Fiziológiai hatások

 megnövekedett pulzus és vérnyomás
 megnövekedett légzésfrekvencia
 eufórikus hangulat, "képességsokszorozódás" érzése
 pupillatágulat
 csökkent étvágy
 fejfájás
 idegesség
 ritkán fókuszálási zavarok
 álmatlanság
 több nap használat után zavartság

Amfetaminok

 Szócikk: Amfetamin

 Néhány esetben pszichiáter felírhat különböző amfetaminokat bizonyos rendellenességekre, pl. a narkolepszia tüneteinek csökkentésére. Rendeltetésszerű használat esetén növeli az éberséget és a pszichikai képességeket.

Visszaélés

 Nem-rendeltetésszerű használata (értsd "túladagolás", mennyiségben vagy időben) szívritmus-zavart, és teljes fizikai összeomlást idézhet elő. Jellemző túlhasználat, az előző napi altató (barbiturátok) mellékhatásainak csökkentésre reggel, majd az amfetaminok hatásainak csökkentése este, altatókkal. Ez a "hullámvasutazás" jelentősen károsítja a szervezetet.

 A kezdetben tapasztalt pozitív hatásokat 2-3 nap nem alvás után felváltják az érzékcsalódások, hallucinációk és a paranoia. Mindez 4-6 nap után bizarr, akár agresszív viselkedéshez vezethet. A mellékhatások többsége a szer elhagyásával megszűnik (a fokozott kalcium- és egyéb sók ürítése azonban visszafordíthatatlan fog- és csont-károsodást okozhatnak, akár már néhány tucat használat után is)).

 Több módon vihető be a szervezetbe:
 orálisan (tabletta, folyadék)
 nazálisan (porként felszippantva, gőzét, füstjét belélegezve)
 injektálva (bőr alá, izomba, vénába; ez utóbbi okozza a legintenzívebb élményt, s egyben a leggyorsabb leépüléshez vezet)

Függőség

 Szellemi függést könnyen és gyorsan kialakít, de a "hagyományos" szereknél (pl. Amfetamin, Metilfenidát) még a legtöbb használó könnyen viseli hiányát. Az Dizájn(er) drogok esetében azonban a szerek többségénél ún. "gyors-szerotonin-kilökődés" történik, aminek a "másnapos" következménye már 1-2 alkalom után is súlyosabb depresszió érzése, öngyilkossági gondolatok, erős fejfájás stb. lehet, amit csak az idő, vagy újabb szerhasználat mulaszt el. Ezzel nem árt tisztában lenni, ez a tudás csökkentheti a visszaesés kockázatát.

 Tünetei:
 kimerültség
 rosszkedv
 megnövekedett alvásigény
 idegesség
 depresszió

Kokain

 Szócikk: Kokain

 Kokacserjéből állítják elő Bolíviában, Kolumbiában és Peruban. Por formában fordul elő leggyakrabban. Terápiás célokra ritkán használják, az orvoslásban leginkább helyi érzéstelenítő szerepet tölt be. A legtöbb országban -ahogy nálunk is- droglistán szerepel.

Visszaélés

 Napjainkban a felső tízezer drogja, főleg az ára miatt (-). Használói között színészek, üzletemberek, politikusok szerepelnek. Nagyobb dózisban könnyen halált okoz, szívelégtelenség, légzési elégtelenség, esetleg mindkettő formájában. Sok használó panaszkodik mellkasi fájdalomra, melyek a szer elhagyásával rendszerint elmúlnak.

 Használata:
 orálisan
 nazálisan (főleg crack)
 injektálva

Függőség

Gyorsan alakít ki erős szellemi függést, sokak szerint segítség nélkül nem lehet abbahagyni, mások viszonylag könnyen elhagyják.

 Tünetei:
 irritáltság
 idegesség
 fáradékonyság
 fáradtság
 paranoia
 hallucinációk
 "kokainbogarak" érzése

Koffein

 Szócikk: Koffein

 Többnyire teában, kávéban, csokoládéban, energiaitalokban és a kakaóban fordul elő. Stimulálja a testet növelve a pulzust és a vérnyomást, a használó könnyebben tud koncentrálni. Vízhajtó hatású. Előfordul tabletta formában is, vizsgázók, sofőrök és pilóták használják éberségük fenntartására. Legálisan kapható.

Nikotin

 Szócikk: Nikotin

MDMA

 Szócikk: MDMA

Dizájn(er) drogok

 Szócikk: Dizájn(er) drogok

Antidepresszánsok

 Szócikk: Antidepresszáns

 Lásd még

 Kábítószer
 Nyugtató
 Pszichoterápia

 Az irodalomban

Kosztolányi Dezső Mák c. kötetében (1916) olvasható költeménye, a Mérgek litániája'' számos stimulánst megversel.

Jegyzetek

Külső hivatkozások
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080605235801/http://www.licadd.org/aboutdrugs.htm
 https://web.archive.org/web/20050824161001/http://www.health.org/govpubs/rpo926/#Stim
 http://www.apaic.org/
 http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/


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"""
    robo.tests.test_misawa_handler
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Tests for robo.handlers.misawa.

    :copyright: (c) 2016 Shinya Ohyanagi, All rights reserved.
    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
"""
import os
import logging
import requests
from mock import patch
from unittest import TestCase
from robo.robot import Robot
from robo.handlers.misawa import Client, Misawa

def dummy_response(m, filename=None):
    response = requests.Response()
    response.status_code = 200
    if filename is None:
        response._content = ''
    else:
        root_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
        file_path = os.path.join(root_path, filename)
        with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
            data = f.read()
        response._content = data

    m.return_value = response

class NullAdapter(object):
    def __init__(self, signal):
        self.signal = signal
        self.responses = []

    def say(self, message, **kwargs):
        self.responses.append(message)
        return message

class TestClient(TestCase):
    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.client = Client()

    @patch('robo.handlers.misawa.requests.get')
    def test_generate_url(self, m):
        """ Client().generate('query') should generate search by keyword. """
        dummy_response(m, './fixture.json')

        ret = self.client.generate(u'\u30C9\u30E9\u30E0')
        self.assertTrue(ret.startswith('http://'))

    @patch('robo.handlers.misawa.requests.get')
    def test_generate_url_query_is_none(self, m):
        """ Client().generate(None) should generate random image. """
        dummy_response(m, './fixture.json')

        ret = self.client.generate()
        self.assertTrue(ret.startswith('http://'))

class TestMisawaHandler(TestCase):
    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        logger = logging.getLogger('robo')
        logger.level = logging.ERROR
        cls.robot = Robot('test', logger)

        misawa = Misawa()
        misawa.signal = cls.robot.handler_signal
        method = cls.robot.parse_handler_methods(misawa)
        cls.robot.handlers.extend(method)

        adapter = NullAdapter(cls.robot.handler_signal)
        cls.robot.adapters['null'] = adapter

    @patch('robo.handlers.misawa.requests.get')
    def test_should_misawa(self, m):
        """ Misawa().get() should search misawa url. """
        dummy_response(m, 'fixture.json')
        self.robot.handler_signal.send('test misawa')
        response = self.robot.adapters['null'].responses[0]
        self.assertTrue(response.startswith('http://'))
        self.robot.adapters['null'].responses = []

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Posted the 19th Jan. 2004.
A level editor, to create new maps and save them in a database, edit the existing maps or delete them.
A shop system, for a kind of RPG-like feeling : you can buy an sell useful or just collectible items.
A save/load function, to register your position in the game.
You can take a look here to see how it moves (this is not a final version).


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Q: My Markers won't show on Google Map in Angular I am trying to use the Google Maps component which is now part of material. I was able to get the map showing and trigger the events when clicking etc. but for some reason, I have no luck showing a marker on my map.
My HTML Code looks like this, I can see there is a value in Markers as I print it on button of the page. So I am not sure what I am missing here or what's wrong.
<google-map
  height="500px"
  width="100%"
  [zoom]="zoom"
  [center]="center"
  [options]="options"
  (mapClick)="click($event)"
>
  <map-marker
    *ngFor="let marker of markers"
    [position]="marker.position"
    [label]="marker.label"
    [title]="marker.title"
    [options]="marker.options"
  >
  </map-marker>
</google-map>

{{markers | json}}

My TS code looks like this
import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { GoogleMap } from '@angular/google-maps';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {

  constructor(){
  }
  @ViewChild(GoogleMap, { static: false }) map: GoogleMap;

  title = 'ag-google-map';
  markers = [];
  zoom = 12;
  center: google.maps.LatLngLiteral;
  options: google.maps.MapOptions = {
    mapTypeId: 'hybrid',
    zoomControl: true,
    scrollwheel: false,
    disableDoubleClickZoom: true,
    // maxZoom: 15,
    minZoom: 8,

  };

  addMarker() {
    this.markers.push({
      position: {
        lat: 35.5362475,
        lng: -117.9267386,
      },
      label: {
        color: 'red',
        text: 'Marker label ' + (this.markers.length + 1),
      },
      title: 'Marker title ' + (this.markers.length + 1),
      options: { animation: google.maps.Animation.BOUNCE },
    });
  }

  click(event: google.maps.MouseEvent) {
  console.log(event);
  this.logCenter();
}

  ngOnInit() {
  navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition((position) => {
    this.center = {
      lat: position.coords.latitude,
      lng: position.coords.longitude,
    };
  });
  this.addMarker();

}

  logCenter() {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(this.map.getCenter()));
}

A: I think your geo location (map center) is far from the marker point. So you can't see it in your viewing area of map. So only you are not able to see the marker.
to test that I changed the map center position to marker location then I can see the marker in map.
 ngOnInit() {
  navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition((position) => {
    this.center = {
      lat: 35.5362475,
      lng: -117.9267386,
    };
  });
  console.log(this.center);
  setTimeout(() => {
    this.addMarker();
  }, 1000)

}


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Health Care & Wellness
Dr. Dash, born in Odisha, came to USA in 1979 and earned a doctorate in nutrition. Currently living in Edina, Minnesota, he embodies the "American Dream" as an innovator, entrepreneur, community leader and philanthropist. His vision and relentless efforts led a little known probiotic company in seventies to an industry worth $35 billion today.
Probiotics are generally regarded as a good bacteria for digestive health and immune functions. Dr. Dash pioneered the idea of commercializing probiotics while he was working as the director of the department of Food and Drugs at South Dakota State. At the time, he discovered a probiotic product that was licensed as a drug to treat E.coli infection in pigs. Dr. Dash felt it had the potential to be a good antidote for digestive health and immune function for humans. Subsequently he established UAS Laboratories, a leading probiotic company, in Minneapolis in 1979.
"The financial challenges and inability to hire probiotic scientists and executives" slowed the growth, according to Dash. Today, he says with pride, the company is a global leader with presence in 55 countries including USA and India. When asked about future research and development in probiotics, Dash said he is funding innovation centers and endowed chairs at IIT- Bhubaneswar, India and South Dakota State University, USA.
Dash says "helping others and giving to the have-nots" means a lot to him. He recounts a "satisfying" endeavor of helping hundreds of students for higher studies in the USA.
The adoption of his village and helping build shelter homes, a school, a micro bank and temple sets a fine example of corporate social responsibility. As for his leadership in the local community, Dash regularly supports activities financially to preserve and promote Indian heritage and culture in the US. Examples include Odisha Society of America, Indian Association of Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society and Hindu Society of Minnesota among others. Dr. Dash has served in various roles including the past chairman of Hindu Society of Minnesota and is very actively involved in Hindu Society projects today. Dr. Dash was honored as the Distinguished Alumni of South Dakota State University on October 24, 2014. He was also awarded an Honorary D.Sc. by Utkal University in February 2015 for his contribution to probiotic research, philanthropy and love for Odisha.
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Ketchum is a kid-like decorative typeface based on the title logo of Nintendo's Pokemon game and animation franchise. Includes full alphabet, numerals, extended punctuation and euro. Includes regular and italic versions.
Ketchum font contains 241 defined characters and 188 unique glyphs. The font contains characters from the following unicode character ranges: Basic Latin (93), Latin-1 Supplement (96), Latin Extended-A (3), Spacing Modifier Letters (9), Greek and Coptic (1), General Punctuation (16), Currency Symbols (4), Letterlike Symbols (2), Mathematical Operators (10), Private Use Area (2), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (2).
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people been asking/talking about having RSS feeds today ? can you possibly turn on the feature if its present ?
A calendar mod / page be nice as well? (if not possible maybe we can work together and setup an offsite one,and link it into the site so the theme is same and it looks integrated ?
OK there are several mods out there that can enable an RSS feed, though I'm not too sure of the security aspects of them so I am reluctant to install them.
I've excluded Small Talk from the feed for obvious reasons !!
I'll see if I can find a suitable calendar mod.
The feed works perfectly in google reader and thus will work in feedly on my android device or either app for that matter. So that one is solved, the atom feed built into website is one i was talking about.


Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion, with over 520 million followers or over 7% of the global population. It follows the non-theistic tradition and is primarily concerned with teaching the right way to lead a good life with its principles of karma and rebirth.
Buddhism chapter begins with the story of Buddha, somewhere between 6th century BC and 4th century BC. Note that his actual name was Gautama Siddhartha, and Buddha is the title awarded to him.
It is believed that he was born in Lumbini, which is in present day Nepal. Before his birth, his mother saw a dream, which was interpreted (by a sage) telling her that she would have a son and that son would go on to become a great king or spiritual leader.
Until, one day, when he ventured outside his palace and saw a diseased man, a corpse and an ascetic. This disturbed him deeply, and he started to realise that life comes with sufferings. This changed his life and he left everything in search of meaning.
After travelling extensively and meditating, Gautama discovered the Middle Way – a path of moderation away from the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification. Following this, Gautama famously sat under a pipal tree in Bodh Gaya, India – where he finally attained Enlightenment.
It is a noteworthy fact that Buddhism did not spread immediately after the death of Buddha, and it was King Ashoka who made it the state religion in 3rd century BC.


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Software // Information Management
Curt Monash
Big Data is Watching You!
The subjects of large-scale analytics may be categorized as: people, financial trades, electronic networks, and everything else... Some of the most interesting -- and potentially privacy-invading -- use cases are concentrated in the areas of identifying individuals, groups of people, or behaviors of (groups of) people. For example
There's a boom in large-scale analytics. The subjects of this analysis may be categorized as:
Financial trades
Electronic networks
The most varied, interesting, and valuable of those four categories is the first one. That may change some day, with the growing importance of machine-generated data, and of big-data science in particular. But I think it's a fair assessment at the present, and for at least the next few years.
Some of the most interesting use cases are concentrated in the areas of identifying individuals, groups of people, or behaviors of (groups of) people. For example...
comScore works hard to identify individual web surfers -- i.e. to deanonymize them -- even though they may have given incomplete or false personal information.
Other companies at least try to figure out which information in a user's profile is unreliable, so as to classify them better. (Yes, there are 62-year-old video-game-obsessed Lady Gaga fans, but that's generally not the way to bet.)
Multiple telecom vendors try to identify who their most influential customers are (to a first approximation, they're the ones most often called by the most people, but it surely gets more sophisticated than that). This information is then used to reduce churn, either by working hard to retain those users, or -- if they do churn -- to move very fast to retain the business from their friends.
Other kinds of companies do similar kinds of analysis, to the extent that they have enough of a social graph to do so. (This application is a case where the term "social graph" is not a misnomer.)
Turing detectives (I just coined that phrase) try to determine whether users are humans or bots.
Central to detecting insurance fraud is identifying suspiciously close connections between claimants, service providers, and so on.
Identifying groups of people is also important in flagging insider trading. Even more important are other kinds of analysis, along the lines of "is this normal innocent trading behavior?"
Intelligence agencies try to detect networks of terrorists and their sympathizers. They further try to identify unusual patterns of communication or meetings along those networks that might indicate terrorist acts are being planned. (Civilian law enforcement agencies can use similar techniques.)
In most cases, the analysis and/or run-time execution of the relevant models is done with the help of analytic DBMS. Other technologies that come into play include non-DBMS MapReduce (Hadoop), graph engines, and CEP (Complex Event Processing). The vendor most heavily represented on that list is probably Aster Data, because:
Aster Data is focused on hard-core analytics.
I talk a lot with Aster Data, and in particular had a long, detailed use-cases discussion with them last week.
The comScore example happens to come from a speaker at an Aster event I also participated in. And by the way, all this only scratches the surface of what will be possible down the road. It's based mainly on where you live, what you purchase, how you behave on websites, and who you communicate with. Other kinds of data, which could be used to be yet more intrusive, generally aren't involved.
I actually have two points in drawing up this list. One is golly-gee-whiz about how a lot of analytically sophisticated applications are actually getting into production. The other is to highlight the privacy and liberty threats If This Goes On Unchecked (which is why I didn't include some other less-people-focused examples). There's also a related danger that, to the extent we don't get some smart regulations to keep us safe(r), we'll get a bunch of stupid regulations instead.
The Analytic Era has only just begun.The subjects of large-scale analytics may be categorized as: people, financial trades, electronic networks, and everything else... Some of the most interesting -- and potentially privacy-invading -- use cases are concentrated in the areas of identifying individuals, groups of people, or behaviors of (groups of) people. For example
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A new edition of our Euro Master Circuit started today in Antibes, organised by Société des Régates d'Antibes.
20 Laser Radial and 18 Laser Standard sailors participate of this first 2019 Laser Master's event in France.
After 2 races, the Laser Radial fleet is governed by Fausto Vasallo ITA (1-1) with perfect score, escorted by Claire Ernouf FRA (3-3) and Helen Waite FRA (4-4) on 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
The Laser Standard competition is also led by an Italian sailor, Roberto Bini ITA (1-3) with 4 points, followed by Christoph Marsano AUT (6-1) and David Bourghardt SWE (5-2) draw in 7 points.
2019 Euro Master FRA – Full results here.
Agustín Argüelles – EurILCA | Photos: Société des Régates d'Antibes.


When we discuss the financial genome, we use the analogy of traveling through it. This is specific to personal finances. The Financial Genome Project is not meant to be purely about personal finances, but it's hard to discuss your impact to the genome without talking about personal finances. Here's personal finance travel plan to get to retirement by the age of 55. Before you start implementing this personal finance travel plan, please start here.
Don't use your credit card for any other purpose. STAY AWAY FROM DEBT.
Talk to your parents about short- and medium-term goals. Short-term goal like saving for a car/Long-term goal like saving for college expenses. Talking to your parents about personal finances can be difficult, but extremely important.
Check to see if your employer offers a 401(k) [or similar retirement plan], then make sure you at LEAST save enough to get 100% of the matching. If there is a ROTH option for your 401(k), then use that. For example, if your company will match up to 5%, then make sure you get the entire 5%. If your employer offers a Total Stock fund, then put 100% of your money into that; if not, then find a "Target" retirement fund.
Put the remaining savings into a ROTH IRA by going to www.fidelity.com or www.vanguard.com. If you like Fidelity, then invest all your ROTH IRA money into FSTMX. If you like Vanguard, then invest all your ROTH IRA money into VTSMX.
If you joined the military, then max out the ROTH IRA first, then invest in the Thrift Savings Plan's longest-dated LifeCycle fund. Also, many military installations have certified personal financial planners who can help you with your personal finances.
Save for short- and medium-term goals. Short-term goal like a car fund and a vacation fund. Long-term goals like saving for a down payment on a house.
Try not to have financially irresponsible friends and try to find a potential partner with similar financial goals. Dating/marrying someone financially irresponsible can hamper your entire life.
You should be maxing out your ROTH IRA, receiving 100% of your 401(k) matching, and saving even more. I still recommend putting all your money into Fidelity's FSTMX (or it's premium version) or Vanguard's VTSMX (or it's premium version).
Pay for everything in cash; cars, vacations, emergency expenses, etc.
Continue saving for a significant down payment on a house (25-30) or purchase your first house (30-35). If you buy a house at 25 then it will be paid off by 55; at 35 then it will be paid off by 65. If you saved closer to 50% of your income, you might definitely qualify and have the money for a 15-year mortgage.
Continue paying for everything in cash; child expenses, cars, vacations, etc.
You should be saving as much as you can–find ways to save more than just your income like bonuses, raises, and commissions. Also consider starting 401(k), IRA, and/or Thrift Savings Plan catch-up contributions at age 50.
Hopefully you've stayed away from debt, but if not, ELIMINATE ALL CONSUMER DEBT. Carefully consider paying your child's/grandchild's student loans.
Make sure your investments are appropriate for your age and overall health. If you're healthy and may live many years, you may want to be a little more aggressive. Spend time research investment and banking fees. These fees add up and maximizing every penny helps before entering retirement.


In the September 2006 issue of the AARP Bulletin, Carole Fleck describes the problems many older persons experience in finding affordable dental care. She attributes their dental health problems either to lack of insurance or the inability to pay for services. She does not mention that dental health depends almost entirely on the self-care one uses to control oral infections, not on the fillings, crowns, bridges, root canals, etc. that are used to treat diseased teeth.
The "50+ Americans" who go to a dentist or hygienist on a regular basis should be receiving hands-on oral hygiene instructions that will prevent and arrest tooth-destructive diseases. Unfortunately, this does not happen in most dental practices. Thus, a great need exists for the costly reparative services Ms. Fleck writes about.
Comprehensive dental care should put infection control first and appropriate restorative services after that. Providing large sums money for "fixing" teeth will not lead to better dental health unless a change occurs in the orientation of most dentists in practice today. They should be teaching prevention by educating patients on how to take control of their own oral health. My letter to the editor of the AARP Bulletin follows.
I am Dr. Paul H. Keyes, a dentist who served in the U.S. Public Health Service from 1955 to 1981. I was stationed in the National Institute for Dental Research where I spent 20 years in the laboratory working with colleagues on bacterial cofactors associated with dental caries and periodontal diseases. From 1975 to 1981, I worked in the dental clinic in the NIH Clinical Center. While there, I spent most of my time using conservative non-surgical anti-infective measures in the treatment of patients with advanced periodontal infections. Some of these patients had been previously treated once or twice with surgery. I am the clinician who has advocated the combination of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide as a bactericidal dentifrice. Many baking soda dentifrices on the market today are there because of my recommendations. My work received considerable attention 20 years ago and was written up in "Modern Maturity," "Reader's Digest," "People", "Saturday Evening Post", etc. You can find my website at drpaulhkeyes.com. Throughout my professional career, I have been especially interested in prevention.
As you know, on the front page of the latest issue if the AARP Bulletin there is a picture of a man with his hands covering his mouth and the question, "Why Isn't This Man Smiling." Apparently he isn't smiling because his teeth have been severely damaged by tooth decay and/or periodontal (gum) disease. Unfortunately, this has occurred because his dental self-care has not prevented and intercepted the tooth-destructive bacterial infections that have damaged his teeth. It has not occurred because he has not received adequate restorative dentistry. The same can be said for the mother of three who, mentioned by the author of this article, Carole Fleck, needs restorative services that would cost thousands of dollars. Fixing dentitions damaged by tooth-destructive infections without first arresting them would be like repairing a house damaged by termites without first eradicating the termites.
Tooth decay and periodontal diseases are caused by contagious infections induced by microorganisms transmitted from mouth to mouth largely by saliva while kissing. What happens to these microorganisms depends on the conditions in one's mouth after they are acquired. Persons, who consume products that leave sugar-residues around their teeth, put themselves at risk of cavities caused by Streptococcus mutans. Acid produced by this bacterium, as it metabolizes sugar, is the primary cause of tooth decay. Research in Sweden has shown that this bacterium can be passed from the mouths of mothers to the mouths of their children. One can prevent tooth decay by not consuming, or removing soon after ingesting them, substances that contain sugar. Fluoride in drinking water and dentifrices helps to make the teeth more resistant to decay-producing acids.
Destructive periodontal infections are caused by pathogenic germ-life, now called bacterial biofilms, that grows on the necks and roots of one's teeth. These are complex microbial infections. Several different types of bacteria contribute to the inflammation that destroys the tissues and bone that attach the teeth to one's jaws. Clinical observations and anecdotal data reveal that these infections can be largely prevented by measures as simple as careful tooth-brushing with salt and/or soda.
So, why is there a "50+ America's growing dental epidemic"? It exists because persons have not taken proper care of themselves, not because they have not had adequate restorative dentistry. There are two possible reasons for this very unfortunate situation: carelessness or ignorance - and by that I mean lack of know-how. All too many persons have not received the information and guidance they need to prevent "dentopathic" infections. Excellent dental health can be attained with two relatively simple measures: keeping sugar residues in one's mouth at very low levels and by carefully brushing one's teeth for few minutes a day with an antibacterial solution or dentifrice. Salt and/or soda have an excellent antibacterial potential after they go into solution in one's mouth.
Unfortunately the dental profession at large has not done a very good job in promoting dental health. The teaching of preventive dentistry has been sadly lacking in dental education. Far too much emphasis has been on cosmetic and restorative services, but that is where the money is. Dental hygienists have been far more interested in preserving dental health than most dentists. Perhaps in the future they will be able to provide their services without so many of the restrictions they now experience in many dental offices.
"America's growing dental epidemic" is not unlike the AIDS epidemic. It is caused by contagious infections. Effective control can only be attained by the use of effective preventive measures. Comprehensive care is needed for all infected persons. For dental patients, resources are badly needed for providing anti-infective treatment and appropriate restorative measures for persons willing and able to use self-care that will help to control existing and future infections.
Americans who have computers can find valuable information on prevention by searching for dental health on the Internet.


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Hi, do they have any lessons at weekend for 19mths little boy, please?
what days/time are the aquatots sessions?
My friend and I took our children to the 11.30 'Aquatots' session at the Neath Pool on Wed 13th June 07, and while the pool was warm and the atmosphere was nice, there were no actual lessons....just lots of parents and children....a bit misleading...but ok value for £1.50.


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The Stargate Rewatch: Lazarus Rising
Stargate SG-1 Review: Lazarus Rising
SG-1 goes to a planet that has many blue crystals. Most are broken, but Jack finds a whole one. He touches it and passes out. The crystal transforms itself into an exact duplicate of Jack who goes back to Earth in his place.
This is possibly the most un Stargate like Stargate has ever been. Having the locations be where they are for pivotal parts of the story certainly gives this one a different feel. There are certain scenes that if you were to view them out of context really don't feel as though they are in an episode of this show. Not that that's a bad thing though, just something I thought was worth mentioning. For the most part, this is a marked improvement over the previous few episodes. It really focuses on Jack and his painful past, even if it isn't Jack himself who is there for the real emotional parts until the ending. Knowing the history of what happened to Jack's son, Charlie, is bad enough, but here we are taken back to the moment where the young boy stumbled upon the gun. It's a pretty effective and chilling moment when the shot is heard. It's also much more personal than we tend to get with Stargate. Every character does get a chance to take centre stage at some point in the shows mammoth run, but rarely is it ever quite so intimate at delving into events of the past.
It's a shame then that while the flashbacks do what they need to do, they feel far more dated than they need to. That's largely due to the whimsical score and slightly blurred filter used each time they happen. This one does also suffer from the fact that it is purely a standalone episode when it shouldn't be. This should be visited again in depth but instead, it is rarely mentioned and as far as I'm aware, this is the last time we even get a mention of Sara- let alone see her again. Granted this is more the fault of Stargate as a whole rather than this episode in particular, but it is a shame. Thankfully, Charlie is referenced several times just through Jack's actions as the series progresses; Skara is a prime example of this. Richard Dean Anderson does a fine job of portraying this crystal version of Jack as almost an infant like persona and is able to convincingly add layers as the figure becomes more aware of what happened.
What this episode lacks, Anderson more than makes up for in his performance and adds real conviction to a plot that in lesser hands could have been shaky at best. He also adds good value as the real Jack who is understandably frustrated at being left behind and instantly locked up upon his return to the SGC. His best work here though is saved for the episodes end when he see's 'Charlie', it's just a powerful moment and beautifully executed. The effects of the alien planet were visually great too and added to the feel of this being a different kind of episode. There were no primitive tribes or forest dwelling locals here, this was a bright, and importantly alien, looking planet- great work with that. There are some comical moments scattered throughout too. Teal'c, in particular, stealing the best with his bewildered experience watching television and deciding that Earth is a place that is unsafe to be around without his staff weapon. It's a fair point Teal'c, one that hasn't changed in the 21 years since.
I loved Daniel and Carter lying that he had permission to fire the staff in the gate room too; watching the trademark humour that this show is known for slowly coming into play is fun. The crystal life forms themselves were an interesting idea, but they feel a little underdeveloped. I was left wanting to know more about the history there and all we really had was the one exposition scene. The scene itself was good though and watching the crystal take Carter's form partially was an interesting moment. But how irresponsible do Carter and Daniel come across when the entity reveals it will die unless it gets home? They just discuss it and how important a discovery it is while the poor thing sits there dying. You're trying to make friends here SGC- sitting around chatting while something is dying is not going to help with that goal.
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A great episode for Richard Dean Anderson this. Comparing the two different versions of Jack here really shows what a fine job he did.
Sam : I'd love to get this into the spectrometer at Stanford
Teal'c : What is a Stanford?
Teal'c : You received permission for me to fire my staff weapon in the gate room?
Carter : Oh Yeah
Daniel : Absolutely
Teal'c : Yours is a strange world.
Daniel : So's yours
Connor: Kill me.
Jack: You sure? I've come all this way.
Not perfect but a largely more enjoyable instalment than the previous few with a fantastic dual performance from Richard Dean Anderson.
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Edward Hirsch Reading at GSU on April 2nd, 3:00pm
by Megan Sexton · March 27, 2015
We are honored to be hosting Edward Hirsch at GSU on Thursday, April 2nd. He will read from his poetry and also sign books. The reading will take place in the English Department's new home on the 23rd floor of the Sun Trust Building, 25 Park Place.
Edward Hirsch has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, the Prix de Rome, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
His first collection of poems, For the Sleepwalkers (1981), received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. His second collection, Wild Gratitude (1986), won the National Book Critics Award.
Since then, he has published six additional books of poems: The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994),On Love (1998), Lay Back the Darkness (2003), Special Orders (2008), and The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010. Hirsch is also the author of five prose books, including A Poet's Glossary (2014), The Poet's Choice (2006), which consists of his popular columns from the Washington Post 's Book World, and How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), a national bestseller. His most recent book of poetry is Gabriel: A Poem (2014). He is president of the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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EDWARD VII, KING
Neg No: GP 3675
Sitter: King Edward VII (1841-1910).
Biog: Reigned 1901-1910.
Date: 11 November 1902.
Occasion: The Kaiser's visit to Sandringham, 8-15 November 1902.
Location: Sandringham House, Norfolk.
Descr: FL, standing, with cigar.
Published: An image from this photographic session was published by various postcard companies
Image published in Daisy of Pless: The Happy Years
Registered Photographer: James Stack Lauder (1853-1923), Lafayette Ltd., 179 New Bond Street, London.
Biog: Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd ed., Burke's Royal Families of the World, Vol 1, London, 1977, pp 308-309.
Occasion: Sir Sidney Lee, King Edward VII, Vol II, London, 1927; Philip Magnus, King Edward VII, London, 1964; The Times.
Photog: Copyright Records, Public Record Office, Kew, COPY 1/459, 10 February 1903 & COPY 1/460, 27 March 1903. (3 poses registered).
Reproduced: The Ladies' Field, 28 March 1903, front page; (Version) Sir Richard Holmes, King Edward VII: His Life and Times, Vol II, London 1911, p 677 with the caption "King Edward as a Country Gentleman".


To start properly negotiating debts with a debt collector, the type of debt and your personal history with debt must be determined. In other words, find out what you owe and how much you owe. Thereafter, it's imperative to understand your history with debt management. These two factors will help you create a solid negotiation plan that is logical and affordable.
There are various types of debt you might have, and the type of debt will determine the proper methods of negotiating debts with a collector. For instance, debt incurred from credit cards is vastly different from defaulted loans. Credit card debt owed to a large, national bank will have different protocols for negotiation than if debt is owed to a local bank or credit union.
Likewise, negotiating debts from an unpaid medical bill will depend on the insurance. If you have medical insurance, your unpaid bill may be partially or fully covered by your insurance. But, if the insurance company did not cover a portion of the claim, negotiating with a collector could prove difficult. Often, collection agencies are tied to contracts with insurance companies or the medical service provider which dictate whether or not a lower payoff is available.
It is always a good idea to pay off incurred debt as quickly as possible. Typically, if you pay off debts in full and in a timely manner, a collector will be more likely to offer you the best settlement deal. If you have a consistent track record of paying off debts and your accounts are in otherwise good standing, your account is less likely to be flagged for reduction options. But, life happens. Falling behind in payments can negatively affect the final settlement. However, if you can prove that this particular bill is a "one time only" offense, collectors may be able to offer a good deal. Whereas, if you continue to incur debt and the collector sees that you have many offenses of similar debt over time, the collector is more likely to deny settlement and instead seek a full payoff.
The easiest way to assess your history with debt is by reviewing your credit report. There are many free credit reports from major credit reporting agencies which you can use to track how much debt you have.
When negotiating debts, more often than not, the collector will either offer or refuse a settlement deal. There are several types of collectors that you find yourself negotiating with. Contingency debt collection agencies, for example, focus on collecting debt immediately. Contingency debt collectors tend to receive a lot of unpaid accounts at one time and work diligently to collect full payoff amounts. These types of collectors are much more difficult to negotiate with because they work directly for creditors. If the collection agency is a contingency collector, chances of agreeing on a lower payoff settlement are rather unlikely.
Yet, working with a contingency collection agency may prove worthwhile if the first round of negotiations were not in your favor. Once the contingency debt collection agency receives your account and does not immediately receive payment from you, they may wait for several months for your full payment. If full payment is not received, there is a small timeframe wherein negotiations take place and result in a lower settlement. This is because the creditor can retract the account from the initial agency and send the account to another agency. Shortly before they lose your account, the initial agency may be more willing to negotiate a settlement deal with you.
As previously mentioned in Step 2, creditors have the option to work with many different agencies. If one agency is unsuccessful in obtaining payment, the creditor may transfer your account to another agency. Additionally, a creditor may sell your account, thereby changing the legal ownership of the debt. As such, negotiating debts will change as a new debt owner can offer different settlement options.
While account turnover is good in theory, the process can happen rather quickly. One agency may be in charge of your account today, but can sell the account to another agency tomorrow. Because you may be dealing with different agencies, always try to resolve a collection debt with a lump-sum payoff and get any agreement in writing.
Negotiating debts not only takes time, but also requires a logical approach to the three steps outlined above. When negotiating debts, it's necessary to know the type of debt, amount of debt, your history with debt, the collection agency, and payoff options. Identifying, assessing, and evaluating these criteria will help you negotiate the best settlement.


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He said that they had discussed the issue with Turkmen authorities. Both sides agreed on extending the power supply to Afghanistan for one month. Two days back, Turkmenistan cut power supply to Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan and Sar-i-Pul provinces. The electricity supply, however, resumed Monday night.
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An extraordinary cave animal found in Eastern Turkmenistan ... Entrance of the cave Kaptarhana, Lebap Province, Eastern Turkmenistan.
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You know the difference between going out and going out out? Well today, let introduce you to the concept of going in out.
Hot Tub Cinema have made a comeback with the Autumnal equivilent of their summer screenings: Pillow Cinema. And while I wasn't quite game for sharing a hot tub with strangers, this I can get down with.
Hosted in the former Shoreditch Underground station (who knew that existed?) with massive floor cushions and soft furnishings, I'm loving the idea of spending Sunday 9th November lounging without the guilt, because I will have technically left the house. And get this, you're only allowed entry if you bring a pillow and once you get snuggly, a waiter service will bring drinks to you throughout the screening. Not having to get up and eliminating the whole running half-crouched across the screen mid-showing thing? Double win.
I couldn't wait to tell you about this one as it's sure to be a sell out. I've bought tickets for Ben and I to watch Chef as part of his birthday present as we never got round to it when it was in the cinema. Other screenings include Amelie, Up, Wolf of Wall Street and... hold onto your knickers...a Ryan Gos-fest triple bill. There was also a screening of Fight Club (with pillow fight thrown in for good measure), but I thought better of that as we (read: I) have been known to take play fighting a little too seriously.
I can't wait for this. Screenings take place between 6th - 9th and 11th - 16th November. Buy your tickets here.


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Q: Allow a moderator migration to strip off the community wiki flag People have on occasion asked whether golf questions on SO should be migrated to Code Golf Stack Exchange. Notwithstanding whether this should or shouldn't be done, I think we should fix one big hurdle for doing such migrations:
Golf questions on SO are community wiki. Golf questions on CGSE are not. This pretty much renders most every golf question on SO unsuitable for migration to CGSE.
Obviously, only a moderator is able to migrate SO questions to CGSE. Should we add an option to the migration to enable the corresponding post on CGSE to not be CW?

A: Moderators are now able to remove Community Wiki status from questions that receive it. It's not automatic stripping, but this functionality mostly solves the unique problem that the puzzle site runs into with incoming code golf.


Christian missionaries are a threat to India's unity, a Hindu-nationalist parliamentarian told reporters on Saturday (21 April).
Singh added that democracy in India's Christian-majority north-eastern states has been "weakened" because of the "conversion of people there to Christianity".
But just last month, the BJP became a governing party in two Christian-majority states in the northeast, Nagaland and Meghalaya.
Responding to the comments, Sajan K. George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians, said Singh had "one intent: to sow discord among religious communities".
In an attempt to stop the spread of hatred along religious lines in India, some 1,500 religious leaders came together earlier this month in the central Indian city of Indore to promote a better understanding of the different faiths, UCAN reported.
"We see a rise in sectarian violence in the country and have yet to find a solution. Those spreading violence are not religious people. They do not understand the tenets of their religion," said Adil Sayeed, one of the organisers.


Summer camp season on the University of Akron campus is in full swing, and the Akron Global Polymer Academy has been busy helping make these experiences memorable for the visiting campers.
Last Thursday, June 14, the high school Women In Engineering (W.I.E.) campers visited the Polymer Engineering Academic Center for a polymer engineering session with AGPA. Among other activities, campers tried to determine the optimal ratio of a cross linking chemical (borax) to make polymer putty with the best stretch properties.
The middle school W.I.E. polymer engineering session took place Monday, June 18. These future STEM leaders examined the properties of cross-linked putty using two different polyvinyl polymers; polyvinyl alcohol, and polyvinyl acetate. Tests conducted on each of the samples helped determine rebound, flow, and stretching ability.


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Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol: In and Out of Place
May 15, 2005–April 10, 2006, Dia Beacon
Louise Lawler, In and Out of Place: Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures
"In and Out of Place: Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol" comprises a selection of photographs Lawler has shot over the past twenty-five years in diverse sites, all of which include works made by Andy Warhol. Additionally, an audio work Birdcalls (1972/1981), can be intermittently heard at Dia:Beacon's west garden.
Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler was born in Bronxville, New York, in 1947. She lives and works in New York City.
Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh in 1928. He died in New York City in 1987.
Glenn Ligon on Andy Warhol's Shadows
James Welling on Andy Warhol
Jorge Pardo on Andy Warhol
Kara Walker on Andy Warhol
Robert Buck on Andy Warhol a
DiaTalks - Donna De Salvo on Andy Warhol
DiaTalks - Sandra Brant, George Condo, and Raf Simons on Andy Warhol
Lyle Ashton Harris on Andy Warhol
Dia's Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage
Agnes Martin: "...unknown territory..." Paintings from the 1960s