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Conquering South Africa's litterbug
A pair of South Africans determined to see cleaner beaches around the country's coastlines will embark on a seven-month journey from October 2012 to April 2013 to create awareness about littering and the changes in attitude that citizens should embrace.
The daily plan for Baretta and Howard requires them to start each day of their journey at 6am and walk anything between 18 and 35km before resting for the dayCamilla Howard, the founder of a Cape Town cooking school and Michael Baretta, a manager for branding agency The Creative Counsel, plan to walk along 3 300km of coastline from Alexander Bay near the Namibian border, around the southern tip of the country and all the way up the east coast to Kosi Bay, next to the border with Mozambique.
GROWING PROBLEM OF LITTERING
Trekking for Trash, as their initiative is called, aims to raise awareness among South Africans about the growing problem that is littering.
"Camilla and I have always wanted to combine our passions," said Baretta. "This is something we've always wanted to do and we'd really like to inspire a change in our society."
Before starting Trekking for Trash, the two researched the common reasons for littering and what this means to the South African society. "Litter is so much more than just unsightly," explained Baretta, adding that it results in some serious environmental, social and economic issues.
"Most notably it perpetuates the broken-window effect in our country."
The broken-window theory argues that a clean environment that is well maintained is a sign that the area is monitored and that criminal behaviour will not be tolerated. "If we can clean up South Africa, maybe we can reduce crime," said Baretta. "Fundamentally it's about an attitude of respect."
Howard added that litter is something that has always bothered the pair on a personal level, and this is prompting them to make a real difference and to change the attitudes of South Africans, especially young people, towards littering.
TAKING EACH DAY AS IT COMES
The daily plan for Baretta and Howard requires them to start each day of their journey at 6am and walk anything between 18 and 35km before resting for the day. While one carries the litter bin – made of cloth, and can be carried like a backpack to take about 20 litres of trash at a time – the other will be responsible for carrying their food and water supplies for the day.
The objective for each day's mission is to fill the bin as many times as possible, while identifying the problem areas with regard to littering. The pair also hopes to encourage communities in the different towns they will pass through to make an effort to keep their areas clean.
"It's very difficult to measure change in perceptions," said Baretta. "The strongest motivation for us would be to see how many other people we motivate to do something similar to our cause."
The objective for each day's mission is to fill the bin as many times as possible, while identifying the problem areas with regard to littering (Photos: Trekking for Trash)They also plan to visit 15 schools along their route, where they will perform a skit with a theme related to littering and recycling. Furthermore they plan to install recycling stations sponsored by Collect-a-Can on the schools' grounds. The schools will participate in a programme where they will compete for a cash prize that will be given to the one that collects the most cans.
The visit in each town will be marked by the delivery by Howard and Baretta of a letter – signed by authorities at the National Department of Environmental Affairs – to municipal authorities that testifies to the efforts of Trekking for Trash. The letter will serve as a challenge to each municipality to take up the task of cleaning up the environment.
MAKING NOISE FOR A CAUSE
Using social media like Facebook and Twitter, Baretta and Howard expose just how dirty South Africans are by posting pictures of the most littered areas. By geo-tagging areas that are too large for the two of them to manage, the two challenged friends and fans of their initiative to take on the task of gathering volunteers to help clean them up.
On a national level, they are raising funds to support informal waste collectors by providing them with protective gear, reflective outfits, gloves and also the skills to develop their small businesses.
Packaging giant Nampak and Collect-a-Can have collectively formed an organisation called Can Do, which is the headline sponsor for Trekking for Trash. It is funding the maintenance of the social media platforms and providing money to keep Baretta and Howard nourished throughout their journey. Other sponsors include Nokia, sports clothing manufacturer Hi-tec, battery maker Energizer and Vodacom.
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Is 'Christian roommate' ad legal?
By Tony Tagliavia
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Is a posting seeking a Christian roommate illegal discrimination or an exercise of constitutional rights?
It's very hard to tell which interpretation of the posting at a Grand Rapids-area church is exactly right, Cooley Law School Associate Professor Paul Sorensen told 24 Hour News 8 on Friday.
"I think it's important to point out that people could choose if they want to -- even under the federal law -- to live with someone who shares their own faith," the professor said. "The problem is, can you advertise seeking that type of person?"
State law appears to allow that advertising, Sorensen said, but it appears the federal Fair Housing Act does not.
The Fair Housing Center of West Michigan -- a local nonprofit -- filed a state civil rights complaint after it received a complaint about the posting, executive director Nancy Haynes said.
"Open and shut -- it's a violation," she said. "What if it said, 'looking for a black roommate,' or 'looking for a white roommate' or 'looking for a Hispanic roommate' ?"
Joel Oster, senior legal counsel for Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund, said the logic used in the complaint would also mean the woman could not seek a female roommate.
He said ultimately, the issue is a constitutional one.
"They're quibbling," he said. "She has a first amendment right to free speech. She has a first amendment right to the free exercise of religion. And what they're basically telling her is she cannot go out there and seek out a Christian roommate."
Sorensen called that argument "broad ... and frankly, I think other than kind of the first-blush reaction to this, it's probably not going to go very far if it ever got into the courts or even at the civil rights department."
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights is investigating the complaint. It was filed in September and the average complaint takes 10 months to investigate, department spokesman Harold Core said.
Haynes said she hopes the issue can be settled before that time passes. She said she wants to see the woman who posted the ad get some training -- and reimburse the Fair Housing Center for its investigation costs.


SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Nick Ritchie's timing has been good for the Anaheim Ducks the past two games.
Ritchie broke a tie with 1:28 left with his second goal of the game, John Gibson made 42 saves and the Ducks beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Wednesday night.
Ritchie grabbed a loose puck in front and beat goalie James Reimer to the right side. Ritchie also scored the winning goal in Tuesday's 3-1 win at Tampa Bay.
"Obviously, being a bigger guy, I like to get to the front of the net," Ritchie said. "It's a place where I need to do it on this team. I've done a good job of it the last couple of games and I got rewarded for it."
Josh Manson also scored to help the Ducks win for the fourth time in five games.
"Anytime you can take two games, especially back-to-back, you've got to feel good about ourselves a little bit, but we've got lots of room for improvement in the game," coach Randy Carlyle said. "The most encouraging part for us is we were able to get our feet underneath us and play a decent third period and found a way to get a goal."
Evgenii Dadonov and Aaron Ekblad scored for Florida, Jonathan Huberdeau had two assists, and Reimer made 22 saves.
The Panthers lost for the fourth time in five games. On Monday, the Panthers gave up the tying goal with 1.8 seconds left in regulation, then lost 5-4 in overtime to the Chicago Blackhawks.
"It is frustrating. These kinds of games, we've got to at least get a point," Huberdeau said. "We can't get scored on late like that. You've got to battle through it the whole 60."
Dadonov gave Florida a 2-1 lead midway through the second period with a power-play goal. Dadonov redirected Huberdeau's shot from the point. The Ducks tied it at 2 at 12:28 of the second when Ritchie deflected Marcus Pettersson's point shot.
"We couldn't find the third goal," said coach Bob Boughner. "We haven't been good at winning these 2-1 or 3-2 hockey games lately."
Manson opened the scoring for the Ducks 15 seconds in, the second-fastest goal in Ducks history. He got the puck at the blue line off the faceoff and his shot bounced off Florida's Bogdan Kiselevich and past Reimer. Paul Kariya holds the team record of eight seconds, set March 9. 1997, at Colorado.
Ekblad tied it at 3:01 of the second. Aleksander Barkov passed from behind the net out to Ekblad in the right circle and Ekblad one-timed the puck past Gibson.
NOTES: Panthers D Keith Yandle played his 738th straight game to take sole possession of sixth place on the consecutive games list. Yandle last missed a game March 22, 2009 when he was with the Coyotes. ... Boughner said goalie Roberto Luongo, out with a knee injury since Friday, might return to the lineup on Friday or Saturday.
Ducks: At Carolina on Friday night.
Panthers: Host Buffalo on Friday night.


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Renowned Mathematics Historian to Speak at St. Mark's
On Tuesday, April 16, renowned math historian Dr. William Dunham will speak on campus. His visit is hosted by the St. Mark's Mathematics Department. Dr. Dunham will be speaking on "Euler: the Master of Us All," starting at 7:00 p.m. in the Putnam Family Arts Center's Class of 1945 Hall.
Internationally recognized for his significant scholarship on the history of mathematics, Dr. Dunham taught for many years at Muhlenberg College (where he has been professor emeritus since 2014). He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Bryn Mawr, where he is now a research associate in mathematics.
Dunham has written four books on the subject of mathematics history: Journey Through Genius (1990), The Mathematical Universe (1994), Euler: The Master of Us All (1999), and The Calculus Gallery (2008). He won the American Association of Publishers' award for the Best Mathematics Book of 1994 with his The Mathematical Universe. He received a Lester R. Ford Award in 2006 for his expository article Touring the Calculus.
He is considered the foremost expert on the work of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), the Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer, who made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, such as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory, while also making pioneering contributions to several branches such as topology and analytic number theory. Euler also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. He is also known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory.
In his book Euler: The Master of Us All, Dunham examines Leonhard Euler's impressive mathematical work. In 2007, Dunham gave a lecture about Euler's product-sum formula and its relationship to analytic number theory, as well as discussed Euler's evaluation of a non-trivial integral at the celebration of "Year of Euler" by the Euler Society.[5] He published a chapter "Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra" in the book The Genius of Euler published in 2007 to commemorate the 300th birthday of Euler.
Dr. Dunham is featured in the Teaching Company's DVD course, "Great Thinkers, Great Theorems" and most recently was a co-editor of an anthology from Cambridge University Press titled The G. H. Hardy Reader.
After Tuesday evening's talk, Dr. Dunham will be doing some work with St. Mark's advanced math students.
The presentation is free and open to the public.


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Come and learn this exciting and enjoyable musical by Roger Jones, based on the story of Mary Jones and her Bible, which inspired the founding of the Bible Society. Learn and rehearse during the afternoon and then perform it in the evening at Sandfields Methodist Church. Rehearsals begin at 1.30pm, to be followed by a performance at 7.00pm. Even if you have never sung in a choir before, come and have a go. It will be a great experience. Please bring a food contribution towards a faith tea. It costs just £3 for adults and £1 for under 18s to take part.
If you cannot take part, then come and enjoy the performance at night. "Greater Than Gold" will be led by Helen Pollard and a team from Christian Music Ministries. For further details, please contact Chris or Viv Gray on 01639 644404.
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This Sunday's Celebration service on BBC Radio Wales at 7.30am on March 18th will be led by the Synod Chair, Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley and will take as its theme, 'the Victory of the Cross'.
This entry was posted in News on March 15, 2018 by Lisa Medina.
Another successful Come and Sing took place at Whitchurch Methodist Church in Cardiff in February.
More than 120 singers joined Ben Pinnow as the musical director and Ben Teague as the organist with the St Woolos Synfonia, in rehearsing and presenting the Coronation Anthem, Zadoc the Priest by G. H. Handel and the Gloria in D by A Vivaldi.
The guest soloists for the day were Sarah Jane Griffiths, soprano and Matthew Farrell, counter tenor. After almost four hours of rehearsal and a very enjoyable afternoon tea, the performance was attended by a large appreciative audience. The church was again filled to capacity for a musical event that it hopes will be repeated in the future.
The popularity of the Come and Sing events is growing rapidly and each one welcomes all singers of any ability to come along for a very enjoyable day and the opportunity to sing with a large choir.
Further to an invitation from Synod Cymru to have exploratory conversations about the possibility of creating one Synod of the Methodist Church in Wales which was shared with members of Y Cyngor in November, the Wales Synod Leadership Team recommended, and the Synod Policy Committee meeting on 10th February unanimously agreed that we enter into such exploratory conversations. Further information will be shared with the SPC as conversations develop, but in the meantime should anyone have any comments, they are asked to contact Mr. Graham Illingworth, the Assistant Synod Secretary.
This entry was posted in News on February 14, 2018 by Lisa Medina.
On Saturday 3rd February Momentwm (Methodist Youth Wales) held it's second BIG DAY OUT in Swansea. 35 young people drawn from many Churches and Circuits across the region joined together for, what turned out to be, a fantastic day of faith, fun and fellowship.
Children's Rights – Kath Mattingly who works with the Children's Commissioner for Wales led this session.
There was also a prayer room with prayer stations available throughout the morning and we were delighted that this remained full of young people engaging with the prayers. Next stop was LC2 for an afternoon of the ever popular swimming, slides and waves. The day finished with a bite to eat and some time of reflection and worship. I can say most definitely that everyone had a great time. Friendships were strengthened, faith was deepened and fun was had.
This entry was posted in News, Youth on February 8, 2018 by Lisa Medina.
Amelia Methodist Trust Farm are part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017.
Between now and noon on Tuesday 5th December, money given to the Farm through the Big Give Christmas challenge will be doubled.
The money raised will be used for an animal assisted therapy project.
With no statutory funding, the Farm relies on supporters new and old, to be able to continue their invaluable work and keep the Farm open for the public to enjoy. And without these specialised interventions this highly vulnerable group enter adulthood without the life skills people need to cope, let alone succeed.
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95P IN EVERY £1 WAS SPENT ON PROVIDING AND SUPPORTING CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES with 5p spent on governance costs.
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Our project helps young people to develop behavioural, emotional and social skills to enable them to be better equipped when regaining control of their lives. Animal assisted therapies help improve self-esteem and mood where individuals are feeling angry, depressed and tense. Our aim is to increase motivation and self-worth so that there is a greater willingness to re-engage with education and training and to get their lives back on the right path and to find employment on leaving education.
Jake, aged 16 found school life really hard. He was subjected to bullying which affected his confidence and anxiety levels, which eventually led to Jake being excluded from school due to his change in behaviour. On the Farm Jake was given a chance to become re-engaged with learning and gain experience from vocational activities. We are pleased to report as a result Jake started at Bridgend College studying land based studies!
This entry was posted in News on November 29, 2017 by Lisa Medina.


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Lockerbie Bomber: Obama Amateur Administration Needs Lessons In Diplomacy by Ian R. Thorpe
The Obama Adminisdtration showed gobsmacking arrogance in summoning Scottish and British justice miniters to give evidence before a Senate committee into the release on humanitarian grounds of Abdelbaset al - Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber. It demonstrates nothing has changed since the Bush administration were in power.
Lockerbie Bomber: Obama Amateur Administration Needs Lessons In Diplomacy
by Ian R Thorpe.
KEYWORDS: Obama, Clinton, Bush, President, America, USA, Britain, Scotland, Oil, Gulf, BP, Lockerbie, Megrahi, Senate, government, Washington, justice, opionion, comment, news
We often used to ask during the Presidencies of George W Bush and Bill Clinton, "Just who do the bloody Americans think they are." It was translated into many languages around the world as representatives of the USA tried to ride roughshod over diplomatic protocols.
Many deluded people thought things might change when Obama assumed power but now as we watch this vain, vacuous man strutting around the globe with all the pomp and swagger of an African village tyrant it is becoming clear those of us who warned things would be worse rather than better under Obama were right.
That Obama hates the British was always self evident, from the racist lies he wrote in his fantasy novel Dreams From My Father to the petulant dismissals of dissenters from the Obama imposed orthodoxy it is clear America has put in The White House a narcissistic solipsist who has no difficulty convincing himself he is President Of The World.
That he does indeed believe such a thing has been demonstrated in his handling of BP and the Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster. As well as displaying a woeful lack of leadership Obama has sought throughout the crisis to make political capital from it by demonising the British. When this failed he then sought to implicate BP in the release of the Lockerbie Bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. In response to a completely unsupported allegation that BP had lobbied the British government to push for the release of Al Megrahi to help the company secure lucrative oil deals with Libya.
In an attempt to spark a diplomatic incident the Obama administration then appointed a Senate committee to look into the allegation. Despite it being quite clear the Obama White House had ben closely involved throughout the release process and the Senators being granted an interview with David Cameron on his visit to Washington they still summoned former Justice Minister Jack Straw, an Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and Justice Minister Kenny MacKaskill to Washington to be questioned by the Senate. To their credit all have declined to attend.
British Embassy sources in Washington, said the government had provided a "clear, comprehensive and credible account" of its understanding of the circumstances that lead to Megrahi's release, and Prime Minister David Cameron had met with four US senators "at very short notice" last week. It would have been extremely unusual for a parliamentarian of one country to be held accountable to the parliamentarians of another,.But more importantly, individual testimonies from former British ministers would not have materially added to anyone's understanding of what, how and why Megrahi was released by the Scottish Executive."
US politicians are looking into claims the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was linked to oil deals with Libya.
The Senate hearing which is to be chaired by Senator Menendez of New Jersey, was due to get under way on Thursday July 29 but has now been postponed.
"We don't intend for this to be forgotten or swept under the rug," Menendez told the media, "They have stonewalled. Each side has claimed innocence, each side has blamed the other."
"In the case of BP, it is hard to imagine that a company on such thin ice with the American people, after devastating our Gulf Coast, would not fully cooperate in getting to the bottom of the release of a terrorist who murdered 189 Americans," he added."
Announcing the postponement - which he stressed was a not a cancellation - Senator Menendez said it was "outrageous" none of the key witnesses would cooperate.
Not nearly so outrageous as the US government's high handedness in "summoning" member of the British and Scottish Parliaments over whom they have no authority to account for their sanctions to a foreign government. Outrageous but typical of the amateurish egomania of Obama and the ineptitude of his administration of pimps, perverts, paedophiles, rent boys and race hustlers.
Obama And The Lockerbie BomberThe Daily Stirrer has commented many times on the racist nature of the Obama administration and the detestation of "white" people in general and the British in particular that President Barack Hussein Obama can barely be bothered to conceal. No matter we say, Britain benefits little from the so called "special relationship", the myth of which has been perpetuated by recent Labour Prime Ministers in order to justify
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Deepwater Tide TurnsObama has tried to politicise the Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill hoping to prop us his failing reputation and his failed Presidency. But is the tide of public opinion turning asgainst him as political posturig proves to be no substitute for action...
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Obama Credibility ProblemThe 'Birther' movement in the USA questions the elegibility of Barack Obama to serve as President because his father being non - American means he is excluded from the Presidency under the US Contitution. The official response to the 'birthers' is to ridicule them as conspiracy theorists but if that was the case the expensive legal actions to prevent lawsuits challenging Obama from comng to court are, are they not, an over - reaction.
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Ryan Gosling Goes to the Moon in New Trailer for Damien Chazelle's 'First Man'
If anything is clear about Damien Chazelle's First Man, it's that you'll definitely want to see this one on the biggest screen possible. Based on the footage we've seen so far, the Neil Armstrong biopic looks absolutely stunning.
The Oscar-winning director is back with his La La Land star in First Man. The newest trailer includes a bunch of new footage of Ryan Gosling's Armstrong preparing to go to space while wrestling with the fact that he may never come back. There's some more intense footage highlighting the dangerous of space travel, his astronaut training, and NASA's rocket testing. What stands out most from this trailer though is Claire Foy as Armstrong's wife Janet.
A few of the first reactions to the film out of the Venice Film Festival this morning praised Foy's performance as the standout. With this and her Dragon Tattoo reboot arriving this fall, it's going to be a great season for The Crown star trying out different roles. Here's the official synopsis:
On the heels of their six-time Academy Award®-winning smash, La La Land, Oscar®-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for Universal Pictures' First Man, the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong's perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost—on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself—of one of the most dangerous missions in history.
First Man hits theaters on October 12. Stay tuned for our review out of the Toronto Film Festival next weekend.
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Concurrency level of the semaphore.
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Subclass friendly method to add conditions.
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"Vilner Studio 20 Years Anniversary" stamp, the first car of a special series that will highlight those 20 years of experience, craftsmanship and perseverance of Art Studio Vilner.
"I've always adored the car from the moment I got it. It shares a lot of technologies with Ferrari, but the largely vinyl interior has always been easily damaged and degraded. The new interior by Vilner is simply wonderful. If only Maserati could produce an interior of this quality that looked even half as spectacular. It finally has an inside to match the outside." These are the words that came from the owner of this beautiful GC Sport. The car was especially driven from the UK to be totally redone by Art Studio Vilner.
Fibra dе Carbono Rosso. Alfa Romeo Spider specially treated by Vilner.
Alfa Spider. Pure art on wheels. Vilner wanted to create a design masterpiece which is in perfect harmony with the character of the car. The name of the project? Fibra de Carbono Rosso.
How eccentric One MINI could be? The newly opened Art Studio Vilner – China answers that question with one of the first cars made in Beijing. "Modesty" and "discreteness" are the words that are definitely not in place, when we speak for the lady that commissioned this project. The young actress Tyan Lynn moved to Beijing in 2011, together with her beloved MINI One Cabrio R57. Lynn also bought a brand new JCW F56, but nevertheless she decided to give the old One some extensive 'Vilner' therapy.


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When buying a house, whether it be for the first time or not, there is a buying a house process that everyone typically has to follow and until the process is complete it is not possible to move. When you are selling a house there is also a process you need to go through. Our job is to try and make the two processes run as smoothly together as possible, and hopefully the sale and purchase will go through together at the same time.
Many of these activities take place at the same time but this should give you a rough idea of what happens when buying a property.
Location, Location, Location – this is the fun part – finding your home! We often have our clients explain to use why they have chosen a particular property to buy, for example, to move closer to family, good schools in the area, big garden for their pet dog, a renovation project. These are all considerations when looking for your new home.
Making an Offer 'subject to contract and survey' – once you have found a property you would like you can put in an offer, this often involves some negotiation to agree the price. At this stage we would recommend you instruct a solicitor, once the offer has been accepted it is all systems go!
Once the offer has been accepted we get the Contract from the seller's solicitor and make sure it matches what you have told us.
Local Authority Searches – We obtain and report to you on various searches. These tell us a range of things such as: whether there are any public works that will affect the property; whether there are any proposals to build a new road; whether there are any planning restrictions; whether the property connects into the public sewers; or whether the property could be built on contaminated land. They do however only relate to the house you are buying and not to the neighbouring property.
Surveys – We recommend that, in most cases, you obtain a surveyors report as many lenders are only concerned with the value of the property. A slightly more detailed report might prevent you from finding out once you have moved in that the house you bought has problems.
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Contract Approval – Once all the searches are back and you are happy to proceed, a draft contract will be drafted by your Solicitor for you to sign. A formal mortgage offer will be sent to your Solicitor for you to agree and sign.
Exchange of Contracts – This is the signing of the contracts by both you and the Seller. It is important before we exchange that you are happy to go ahead and that any concerns have been discussed with your Solicitor. At this stage a deposit can be paid and a completion date set. The deposit (10%) is non-refundable. At this stage you are also responsible for insuring the property (building insurance only) in case of anything happening to the property.
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Anything you've seen about The Last Night over the years looks like it could be its own piece of art, each scene handcrafted with such care and minute detail that the city in which it takes place appears to be a character in of itself. It is nothing short of jaw dropping in its beauty and since the winning prototype debuted at the #cyberpunkjam almost three years ago, fans have clamored for any inkling on what Odd Tales have been up to since. The team, led by Creative Director Tim Soret, have only given scant glimpses here and there, but today we can pull aside a piece of the curtain.
Odd Tales and Raw Fury are partnering up to help bring The Last Night to life. The Last Night has always been alive though, make no mistake. Odd Tales have been working tirelessly over the years to maintain their promise of crafting a post-cyberpunk world inspired by the great cinematic platformers, and now we are fortunate to have a small part in making The Last Night a reality.
Our infatuation with The Last Night comes from before Raw Fury was even formed, from a time when the individuals who eventually created Raw Fury stumbled across this evocative and beautiful neon landscape during their previous lives, but that's a story for another time.
The story here is that The Last Night has been thriving behind the scenes all these years and now we're preparing to show the world what Odd Tales is creating. Later this year when you see how far The Last Night has come, you'll know exactly what we mean.
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It is normally quite rare to come across professionals with hugely successful careers lobbing grenades in the direction of the industry that has brought them fame and fortune over many years. When did you last hear a magic circle City lawyer or a bulge bracket investment banker complaining about the level of fees that their firms charge? It doesn't really happen. It's a grown up world out there and you take what you can get.
So it is both interesting and refreshing to hear Neil Woodford, one of the biggest hitters in the fund management industry, politely and firmly pointing out some of the ways in which the largest firms in his line of work come up short. Quitting his job at the industry giant Invesco Perpetual two years ago to set up his own fund management business was, he says, an opportunity to do things differently – and better.
In the 25 years that Woodford spent working for his former firm, it grew from a tiny start-up based in Henley-on-Thames with some £300 million under management to a multi-billion dollar industry megalith run, following its takeover by Invesco, from Atlanta in the United States. His own funds, an automatic go to choice for thousands of professional and private investors in the UK, alone accounted for £33 billion of the total, more than that run by any other UK fund manager. The consistent outperformance of his funds established his reputation as one of the most respected and highly paid figures in the business.
Yet leaving to set his new firm, with himself running the money and his colleague Craig Newman running the business, has proved to be a liberating experience. The environment at Invesco Perpetual had become, he says, "quite difficult for a long period of time". The great thing now is that with 60 years of experience between them "Craig and I, starting with a blank sheet of paper, have been able to design a business that works well not just for the fund managers and the employees of the organisation, but better for clients as well".
What that means, in practice, is streamlining operations and overheads, cutting the management fee that investors have to pay, and providing much more information about how and where the fund is investing – for example, committing to publish promptly every month the name and size of every holding that the fund owns. "We've got a very disruptive pricing model and we're a lot cheaper than we were before. We're able to communicate very openly and transparently. We're providing an incredible amount of information to our clients. Nobody else comes close to providing what we're providing". He pauses, then adds: "We're treating our investors like grown-ups. We haven't got anything to hide".
This is a pointed reference to the way that many firms which sell funds to the public have traditionally disguised quite how much money investors are paying for the privilege. After years of dithering, with the so-called Retail Distribution Review two years ago, regulators finally got round to banning commission payments to financial advisers and other intermediaries and requiring fund managers to give much more information about the all-in cost of their charges and other costs Woodford's view is: "RDR is changing the business and for the better. There's more change to come too. The industry needs to change and maybe the pace should pick up a bit. It's been a little complacent. While I am not necessarily a supporter of all the regulation that we are subject to, in this instance I'm all for the notion that there should be more transparency about how and what you charge a client".
His hope is that greater disclosure will prompt more money to flow to those funds that are genuinely adding some value for customers, and away from so-called "closet trackers", funds that charge hefty fees for doing little more than copy what is in the main market indices. Something like 30% of the 2,500 funds sold in the UK are guilty of this practice, a dirty little industry secret which Woodford rightly describes as "outrageous". As his own investment style is predicated on never following the herd, it is not something in which he himself has ever been accused of indulging.
Woodford's success and reputation as an investor rests on his rare but proven ability to think for himself and plough a lonely course even when majority professional opinion is against him. For years he has invested heavily in two sectors (tobacco and pharmaceutical companies) that most investors like to hate, and avoided two others (big oil companies and banks) that make up a significant proportion of the UK equity market. The refusal to own BP and Shell is particularly striking given that his funds are "equity income" funds and the two big oil companies account for a sizeable chunk of the [£xbn] of dividends paid each year by UK-listed companies. Woodford's argument is that Big Oil is over-investing in a desperate but ultimately futile effort to replace the reserves that once provided them with supernormal profits.
Another way in which Woodford has ploughed his own course has been his willingness to put a chunk of his fund into smaller, early stage businesses, some of them not even listed on a stock exchange. These are higher risk, potentially higher return investments that require different skills to back and monitor. So convinced is he by the merits of this style of investment that he recently announced the launch next month [April] of a new closed ended fund (investment trust) that will invest in nothing else and sit alongside his firm's only other fund, his much larger £4bn equity income fund.
The aim is to help fill the notorious funding gap that exists, particularly for university-sourced scientific breakthroughs, between venture capital, private equity and the tradeable public equity markets. Most fund managers are too short term and too risk-averse to make these kind of investments, which Woodford believes are key if the UK is ever to match the United States in the development of world-beating technology businesses. "It is the failure of my industry to understand the needs of the science community and the innovation community, or even to want to participate in it, that is the single biggest explanatory factor behind our failure as a country to translate the great science we have into commercial success".
That said, Woodford's optimism about the huge potential of early stage business is matched by his pessimism about the general economic and political environment. He admits to being a fully paid up supporter of the "secular stagnation" thesis advanced by Larry Summers and others. The idea that the world will return any time soon to the kind of economic growth we experienced before the global financial crisis is wishful thinking. "My view on the world is that the world is a very difficult place. We are a long way away from what I think continues to be the consensual view that just around the corner there's this event that's going to result in a return to normal – that economies are going to start to grow, inflation will normalise, interest rates will normalise, QE will be a thing of the past and we will be back to where we were before the crisis. I think this consensus view is completely and utterly wrong. It isn't the product of rational analysis. It's a wish".
Only the United States has had any real success in fixing its banking system and reducing debt in the private sector, though even over there the risk of a policy error, raising interest rates too soon, remains high. The relative success of the US economy, says Woodford, is "for me the counter-factual that proves how policy has gone wrong in Europe, and to some extent in the UK". The idea that you can "insulate the economy from all of the nasty effects of a crisis and somehow magically growth will return some stage" is fanciful. "It won't and it can't". In the meantime political risk and uncertainty is growing.
So where does this leave investors? Remember, he says, that reinvested dividends account for the great majority of equity market returns over time, so equity income remains a tried and tested approach. Investors need however to remain highly selective in what they look for. "That is what I am paid to do and that's why I believe I can deliver high single digit returns per annum over a three to five year view. That's what I said when we started the new fund and that's what I would say now, but I don't disguise it's going to be bloody difficult". If even the UK's most famous fund manager thinks that, you have to worry even more about the rest.
This is the original version of my interview with Neil Woodford for The Spectator March 7th 2015 issue.


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Q: how to validate a value with a set of rules given in an array? i have a value say 3000, and i have a set of rule in an array
var rule = [greaterthan-2000,lessthan-4000,greaterthan-5000,lessthan-6000];

Now how will i validate the value (3000) with the set of rules given in the array.
(Note: which condition satisfy first, that will be the result. In this case, '3000' satisfy rule[0] and rule[1], but the output should be rule[0])

A: you can prob use some
Some iterates and array and runs a given function for each member of the array.
Once it you return true it stops scanning. So you could use that to test each of the rule function (assuming they take an int) and once found save the found result and return.
Here is an example:
var x;
var foundRule = null;
rules.some(function (rule) {
  if (rule.call(x)) {
    foundRule = rule
    return true;
  }
}

A: You could get the operator from this function.
var getop = function(input)
{
    if(input.includes("greaterthan"))
        return '>'
    else if(input.includes("lessthan"))
        return '<'
}

and the number from this function.
var getnum = function(input)
{
    var pos = input.indexOf("-");
    return(input.substring(pos+1,input.length))
}

Now check for the conditions using the check function.
var check = function(number, conditions)
    {
    for(var i in conditions)
    {
        var op = getop(conditions[i]);
        var cond_no = getnum(conditions[i]);

            if(op == '>')
                if(number > cond_no)
                    return i
            if(op == '<')
                if(number < cond_no)
                    return i

    }
    }

Now declare your conditions and the number for it and get the output
var conditions =  ["greaterthan-2000","lessthan-4000","greaterthan-5000","lessthan-6000"];
var number = 3000;
console.log("rule["+check(number,conditions)+"]");

this would result in
rule[0]

A: This is a work around using function itself:

var rules = [
  function(x) {
    return x > 2000;
  },
  function(x) {
    return x < 4000;
  },
  function(x) {
    return x > 5000;
  },
  function(x) {
    return x < 6000;
  }
];

var indexOfRule = function(x) {
  var j = -1;
  for (var i = 0, l = rules.length; l > i; i++) {
    if (rules[i](x)) { //function call, matches rule
      j = i;
      break;
    }
  }
  return j;
};

alert(indexOfRule(3000)); //0
alert(indexOfRule(0)); //1

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Job Posting: Tier II Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment, Trent University
By webmaster On March 25, 2019 · In Job Postings, News
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment
Trent University invites applications from emerging scholars with a strong research profile for a Tier II Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Media, Culture, and the Environment. We are interested in candidates working on any subject in the intersection of the environmental humanities, media studies, and cultural studies, and from many different methodological approaches.
As a faculty member appointed to both the Department of Cultural Studies and the Trent School of the Environment (TSE), the CRC will have a strong multi-disciplinary background and the demonstrated potential to collaborate with faculty in the humanities and the social and natural sciences. The successful candidate will develop a personal five-year research plan within a collaborative institutional context: they will teach one or more courses in undergraduate degree programs associated with Cultural Studies and the TSE, and they will supervise graduate students in one or more MA or PhD programs, including Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental and Life Sciences, Indigenous Studies, and Sustainability Studies. Additionally, they will benefit from research centres and groups including the Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture, and Politics, the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, the Institute of Integrative Conservation Biology, and the Communicating Conservation Science Research Group.
As a Tier II CRC, the candidate must be an emerging scholar, which means that they will have received their PhD no more than ten years ago. At the same time, they should be an emerging world-class researcher who has demonstrated the sort of creative research and leadership that can attract, develop and retain excellent students and future researchers. Most importantly, the candidate must propose an original, innovative research program of high quality. Applicants who are more than 10 years from having earned their highest degree (and where career breaks exist, such as maternity, parental or extended sick leave, clinical training, etc.) will have their eligibility for a Tier 2 Chair assessed through the program's Tier 2 justification process. More information can be found on the Canada Research Chairs' website.
CRCs are highly competitive research professorships funded by the Government of Canada through the Canada Research Chairs Program. As such, the successful candidate will emphasize research over teaching and administrative responsibilities: CRCs typically teach one course each semester. They will be appointed as a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor to Trent University for a five year term, renewable once. The Trent appointment will be conditional on a successful Canada Research Chair nomination.
Application materials must be sent as one pdf file and include the subject line "Tier II CRC in Media, Culture, and the Environment." By April, 30 2019, applicants should electronically submit the following to Cathy Gates, Director Office of Research and Innovation:
A signed letter of application;
A 5 year research plan (including your intentions for mentoring graduate and post-graduate students);
A teaching philosophy (including your experiences in increasing equity, diversity, an inclusion in previous institutional environments and curricula and in supporting diverse students);
A copy of your three most influential publications;
A current CV;
A completed self-identification form; and
The names of three referees.
We respectfully acknowledge that we are on the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg. We offer our gratitude to the First Peoples for their care for, and teachings about, our earth and our relations. May we honour those teachings. Recognized as Canada's outstanding environmental university, Trent has an extensive riverfront campus, including several nature reserves; less than two hours from Toronto, Ontario, it attracts a diverse student body.
Trent University is actively committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive campus community and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. The University especially welcomes applications from the members of the four designated groups (applicants who identify as women, Indigenous people, racialized people, and people with disabilities). Recruitment will be guided by the Canada Research Chairs Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Practices, the Trent University Canada Research Chair Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan and by the University's commitment to employment equity and diversity. Training and development activities related to unconscious bias, equity, diversity and inclusion for administrators and faculty involved in the recruitment and nomination processes for chair positions is mandatory.
All Candidates are invited to complete and submit a self-identification form alongside their application. By identifying, CRC applicants allow Trent University, and the Canada Research Chair Program, to measure the levels of diversity and collect data for all groups to ensure any systemic barriers within our policies and processes can be identified. The collected forms, and their associated data, will be kept confidential, and only accessed on a need-to-know basis by members of the selection committee and, for nominees selected, by the Canada Research Chair Program Office.
Trent University recognizes the impacts that interruptions (e.g., parental leave, extended leave due to illness, etc.) can have on a person's career and research achievements, and these leaves will be carefully considered when reviewing the candidate's record. Candidates are encouraged to explain in their application how career interruptions may have impacted them.
Trent University offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment processes. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process or require an accessible version of a document/publication, please contact Cathy Gates, Office of Research and Innovation.
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Brady-Mahomes I was everything we could have wanted
Jay Busbee
October 15, 2018, 3:29 AM UTC
Brady-Mahomes I was an instant classic.
How many times have we seen this over the past decade-plus? A team rolls into Foxborough riding high on its gaudy record and sparkling stats, and after 60 game minutes in the land of Belichick and Brady, slinks out, battered and humbled.
This time around, it was the Kansas City Chiefs and their spotless 5-0 run, led by their walking "Madden" cheat code Patrick Mahomes. K.C. rolled into town feeling invulnerable, and left with its first loss, 43-40 … but with a strong measure of pride besides. The Patriots won this, but it's tough to call this a loss in anything but the standings for Kansas City. Mahomes has arrived, and it took all Tom Brady had to beat him.
Patriots show off new offensive weapons
Brady notched his 200th regular-season win Sunday night, and early on, he got to show off a pair of new offensive weapons: veteran receiver Josh Gordon and rookie running back Sony Michel. Although we'll need to put the caveat "if he stays on the field" ahead of Gordon for the foreseeable future, Gordon is looking like a true difference-maker in New England, huge and talented and an integral factor on offense even if he runs nothing but slants. Teams doubling Rob Gronkowski leave Gordon single-covered, and he's more than large and fast enough to match up with any defensive back in the league.
Michel, meanwhile, fits neatly into the rent-a-running-back philosophy of Bill Belichick. Michel didn't have any theatrical long runs, but he didn't need to; he hammered away at the woeful Chiefs defense to the tune of two touchdowns. Michel might become an integral part of the Patriots backfield or he might be in Belichick's doghouse and effectively neutered by December, you never know. But for this night, at least, he held up the ground game aspect of the Patriots' gameplan.
The first half was all New England; Brady guided drive after precision drive right into the heart of the Kansas City defense. Mahomes, meanwhile, couldn't get started, throwing two interceptions and stalling out in field-goal range. By the end of the half, the score stood at 24-9 in favor of New England, and the gleam and luster appeared to have faded from the Chiefs.
Patrick Mahomes tried to guide the Chiefs to a win over New England. (Getty)
Mahomes does Mahomes things
But then Mahomes showed why he's already getting justifiable MVP talk. He opened the second half with a bit of vintage Mahomes … if, that is, we can call anything done by a quarterback seven starts into his career "vintage." After a frustrating first half, Mahomes found his touch, hitting Kareem Hunt in stride for a gorgeous, leading-"SportsCenter"-type 67-yard touchdown that drew the Chiefs within eight.
What could have been the key moment of the game came with just under three minutes left in the third quarter, with the Patriots sitting at third-and-10 on their own 36. Brady couldn't find an open receiver, and eventually the Chiefs swarmed him and forced a fumble. Four plays later, Mahomes found Tyreek Hill on a crossing pattern for a touchdown that, with the extra point, drew Kansas City within a point of New England after being down as many as 15 points.
The beats rolled on. New England managed only a field goal, and on the ensuing kickoff Tremon Smith came within an eye blink of taking the ball the full 100 yards. Three plays later, Mahomes found Hill sliding in the end zone, and Kansas City had its first lead. Could this be the passing of the torch?
Going toe-to-toe
But you don't get to be the GOAT without bouncing back from adversity, and Brady guided the Patriots to 10 straight fourth-quarter points to put New England back up by seven, at 40-33. Over? Perhaps. Good job, good effort, Kansas City … ?
Not so fast. Or, in the case of New England's defenders, not nearly fast enough. On the very first play from scrimmage, 3:03 left in the game, Mahomes found Hill on a deep route; Hill flat-out outran the entire field, and the extra point evened the score once again.
So there it was: Brady, once again, with the ball in his hands and the game on the line. And who else would Brady go to in this moment than Gronkowski, quiet all night but in the exact right spot as this game wound down, wide open and rumbling down to the 9-yard line. One Stephen Gostkowski kick later, and this one was over, an instant classic and a foreshadowing of a hell of a fine playoff bracket.
Mahomes finished the night with four touchdowns, three to Hill, and 352 yards, while Brady threw for 340 yards and a touchdown. This rivalry likely won't last as long as, say, Brady-Manning, but it's already off to a fine start.
The Chiefs get the Bengals on a Sunday night return next week, followed by three near-guaranteed wins against the Broncos, Browns and Cardinals. The Patriots, meanwhile, get the Bears, Bills, Packers, and Titans, and could, in theory, win or lose all four of those games based on their seasons to date. Regardless, it's likely we'll see these two teams meet again, very likely in the second-to-last game of the season.
Dont'a Hightower of New England runs back an interception of Patrick Mahomes (15) in Sunday night's game. (Getty)
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The Boston Bruins have quietly retooled a good portion of their team, infusing their team from within their own system and they have made some smaller, shrewd signings here and there to help the team win right away. It had worked pretty well for the 2017 version of the team, which managed to make the playoffs again, after some key players stepped up their game and younger players filled some voids in well.
The 2018 season will carry a couple more expectations, as their youth is starting to flourish, more and more, and it won't be a very well kept secret for very much longer.
As the roster stands right now, it looks like they'll have a good influx of young players occupying some key spots in the lineup, mixed in with some of the regular contributors. It will be the leadership capabilities of Patrice Bergeron, Zdeno Chara and Brad Marchand, which will aid and guide this team appropriately. With that kind of leadership core, I think it's fair to assume that this team is in capable hands this season, but the growing pains of youth are somewhat unpredictable, but we're giving it our best shot.
Tuukka Rask G 100 N
Brad Marchand F 75 N
David Krejci F 60 N
Patrice Bergeron F 60 N
Torey Krug D 50 N
Ryan Spooner F 45 N
David Backes F 40 N
Charles McAvoy D 40 Y
Zdeno Chara D 30 N
Jake DeBrusk F 25 Y
Matt Beleskey F 20 N
Brandon Carlo D 20 N
Riley Nash F 15 N
Frank Vatrano F 15 N
Tim Schaller F 15 N
Noel Acciari F 15 N
Kevan Miller D 15 N
Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson F 15 Y
Anton Khudobin G 15 N
Adam McQuaid D 10 N
Paul Postma D 10 N
Sean Kuraly F 10 Y
Peter Cehlarik F 10 Y
Probably one of the players I am most excited about at this draft is the young Charlie McAvoy, here in Boston. The rookie defenseman made his NHL debut in the playoffs and certainly didn't look out of place on the ice, even if he didn't hit the scoresheet too often. In six games played, the bulky defender still registered 3 assists, so he has some offensive pop to his game and in the lesser checking days of the regular season, we might get to see him open up.
McAvoy, along with fellow young defender, Brandon Carlo, are making sure that the Bruins are well stocked on the blueline these days and there should be plenty of optimism, if it only comes from the back end.
The Bruins will offer a couple of solid players to be taken early in the draft, starting goalie Tuukka Rask could be in for one of his best years and forward Brad Marchand will try to follow up on a solid 2017 campaign with another big effort. I don't see Marchand replicating his 2017 season, but I still figure it's going to be a very good year, one that the Bruins will ride back into the playoffs on.
The forward group in behind Marchand all seemed to tail off a bit last season, so they are certainly in line for a bounce back season. Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, Ryan Spooner and David Backes will be among the veteran group that the Bruins are going to count on for offense this year. All four had fairly down seasons, Bergeron most notably, who saw a 15-point drop from 2016 to 2017, and he wasn't able to capitalize on the successes that Marchand had in the year, despite being on his line for the better part of the season.
The anchors on the Bruins defense, Torey Krug and Zdeno Chara, should still be fairly strong, even if Chara is due to turn 41 in March. They'll be guiding the future of this team's blueline, McAvoy and Carlo, making all four of these guys worthy players to look at this season. Krug should be able to keep pace, Chara's numbers may continue to decline, but these kids look like they are going to be special and if you can snake one of them, your blueline certainly shouldn't let you down.
Anton Khudobin is back as the number two guy for the Bruins and one would have to think that he is going to see about the same amount of action as he did last season, which was only 16 appearances. He may not be a very good back-up option, if you're in need of one this season, unless the unforeseen happens.
Rookies Jake DeBrusk and Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson are looking like they are going to make the roster for the Bruins and in doing so, could be someone to look at in those later rounds, especially if you're hoping that the rookie pool comes up on the wheel this year. Besides those two, the depth is somewhat questionable for offense in Boston, but they'll provide quality minutes to help this team win.
There's a big piece of the puzzle still left out of place in Boston and that's forward David Pastrnak. The restricted free agent was a 70-point player last season, scoring 34 goals, and if you take that out of the lineup, the team is going to suffer. I have the Bruins in with plenty of unused space heading into the season, $7.7 million, but I'm sure they don't want to scoop up too much of that with this one deal, trying to leave themselves some flexibility for the season and/or the deadline.
A knee injury really did in David Krejci's playoffs, after what was such a good healthy regular season for one of the forward leaders of the group. It sounded like that if the Bruins could make it past the Senators, he would have played further, so we'll assume he'll be ready to go for camp. Defenseman Brandon Carlo was also disappointed by missing the playoffs, he was suffering from a concussion and couldn't quite jump into the lineup. Sounds like he should be ready to go for camp as well. Off-season groin surgery should ensure that Tuukka Rask should be ready for the start of the regular season, having it way back in May, that should be more than enough time for him to be ready. Patrice Bergeron is another one of the full-time Bruins that needed off-season surgery and his was for a sports hernia, but he too, should be ready for the start of the season. Torey Krug's MCL sprain that forced him from the playoffs shouldn't be anything to worry about either, it gets a mention since it is a serious injury.
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Lush vs Amazon: the battle continues
Posted by James Worrall, Partner
In December last year, we commented on the David vs. Goliath battle between Lush and Amazon. The story has now developed further with the High Court ruling that Amazon did infringe Lush's trade mark.
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In December last year, we reported on the David vs. Goliath battle between Lush and Amazon. Lush, which refuses to permit Amazon to stock its products, asserted that (among other claims) by presenting users who searched for "Lush" with results containing products manufactured by Lush's rivals, Amazon was infringing Lush's trade mark. By doing so, Lush said, Amazon was misleading its customers into thinking that they were buying genuine Lush products.
In what is seen by some as a surprising result, the High Court has determined that, by directing consumers who searched for "lush" to similar products produced by Lush's rivals, Amazon did infringe Lush's trade mark. The Court pointed out that it would not be easy for the average consumer to establish that the goods were not genuine Lush products. The court also held that using "Lush" as a keyword within Google AdWords to prompt advertisements for Amazon's website (which included references to "Lush soap"), amounted to infringement.
The Judge explained: "[The] right of the public to access technological development does not go so far as to allow a trader such as Amazon to ride roughshod over intellectual property rights, to treat trade marks such as "Lush" as no more than a generic indication of a class of goods in which the consumer might have an interest."
Lush has now registered "Christopher North" (the managing director of Amazon.co.uk) as a trade mark and are considering whether to start selling a range of new products using this new brand including a new shower smoothie described on the label as "rich, thick and full of it". Mark Constatine, Lush's co-founder, said that "This was to make a point about how upsetting it is to have something personal to you, used by someone else." Lush's reaction (though humorous!) doesn't sufficiently emphasise how significant this judgment could be, not just for Amazon, but for many online retailers whose business models rely on controlling a user's search process.
We are sure we haven't heard the last of this case. Amazon has vowed to appeal the decision and we will continue to keep an eye on the case and report any updates in our blog.
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Q: can I get visual studio to open a drag/dropped .sln file? Mostly there in the title. I'd like to be able to drop a .sln file onto a blank VS 2010 surface -- with no solution open -- and have it open the solution. Is there any way to get VS to do this? All I get is the crossed-circle, indicating I can't.

A: This is a known bug in Visual Studio when running Visual Studio in Vista or later.
While the bug is reported for Visual Studio 2008, I believe that it is the same problem for 2010 as well.


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Q: Get Value from a Input field Angular With Code I want to take values from input to a function to alert
here is my html

  <input #titleInput *ngIf="isClicked"  type="text"  class="col-4">

  <button (click)="OnClick()" class="btn btn-primary col-2 ">
    Show
  </button>
  <button (click)="Send(titleInput.value)" class="btn btn-success col-2 m-3">
    Send
  </button>

and here is my componet.ts
import { Component} from '@angular/core';

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

Send(data: any) {
  alert(data)

}

OnClick() {
  this.isClicked=true;
}
  title = 'demoproject1';
  isClicked=false;
}

I want to get value from input field and I want get value into components function

A: Create Variable to store input value:
component.ts
...
export class AppComponent {
input: string;
...

Add FormsModule to your module.ts if not already imported
module.ts
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

setup ngModel on your HTML:
html:
<input type="text" [(ngModel)]="input" ></-input>

Important:
Dont forget to add a Route to the component in your app-routing.module.ts
ngModel Docs

A: @ViewChild('titleInput') titleInput:
ElementRef;

ngAfterViewInit() {
  // Put your logic here ...
}

i put the code here :
https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-ivy-b4hcqw?file=src%2Fapp%2Fapp.component.ts,src%2Fapp%2Fapp.component.html


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Sundance 2020 Deals: The Complete List of Festival Purchases So Far
Here's an up-to-date breakdown of the acquisitions at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Though the Sundance Film Festival's 2019 edition, which runs January 23 through February 2 in Park City, Utah, is still a week away from unfolding, some are the hottest films will arrive at the festival with distribution already in hand. IndieWire has compiled all of the acquisitions so far and will continue to update the list as the festival unfolds and more buys come in.
Netflix, which dominated this years Oscar nominations, is the distributor coming to the festival with the most titles (eight as of this writing) including the high-profile documentary "Taylor Swift: Miss Americana" from director Lana Wilson and Sundance regular Dee Rees' latest effort, the Anne Hathaway-starring "The Last Thing He Wanted."
Still, there are plenty of other buzzy titles up for grabs to the highest bidder from across Sundance's sections, like "Shirley," a psychodrama from "Madeline's Madeline" director Josephine Decker starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg as author Shirley Jackson and her husband. Elsewhere, Miranda July will debut her first film in nearly a decade. The untitled Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering documentary, focused on a former music executive's accusations of sexual assault against Russell Simmons, will be searching for a buyer after former executive producer Oprah Winfrey backed out of the project, which was set for release on Apple TV+.
Here's everything that's been picked up, with more to unfold in the coming days.
Title: "Charm City Kings"
Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition
Buyer: Sony Pictures Classics
Inspired by Lotfy Nathan's 2013 documentary of the same name, Angel Manuel Soto's narrative take follows 14-year-old Mouse (Jahi Di'Allo Winston, "The Upside") in his bid to join Baltimore's Midnight Clique, a group of dirtbike riders who rule the streets. Midnight's leader, Blax (Meek Mill, in his feature film debut) takes the teenager under his wing and Mouse finds himself torn between a straight life and one filled with money and violence. The screenplay is by Sherman Payne, with a story by Chris Boyd, Kirk Sullivan, and "Moonlight" writer-director Barry Jenkins. SPC announced it acquired the film in December and plans to release it in select theaters April 10 before a wide release the following week.
Title: "Never Rarely Sometimes Always"
Buyer: Focus Features
Pastel's Adele Romanski, who produced 2017 Best Picture winner "Moonlight," was among the producers of this intimate portrait of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. The pair make a trek across state lines to New York after one of them unintentionally becomes pregnant.
Title: "Zola"
Buyer: A24
Director Janicza Bravo ("Lemon") returns to Sundance with a film adaptation of an infamous 148-tweet Twitter thread. The film tells the story of two women (Taylour Paige and Riley Keough) who bond over their "hoeism" and embark on an ill-fated trip from Detroit to Florida.
Title: "Crip Camp"
Section: U.S. Documentary Competition
Buyer: Netflix
Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht's film explores a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers that helped ignite a landmark movement.
Title: "Dick Johnson Is Dead"
Kirsten Johnson's inventive portrait seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever using the tools of her trade and her family's dark humor to stage fantasies of death and beyond as part of a family's reckoning with death.
Title: "Welcome to Chechnya"
Buyer: HBO
Director David France's investigation into a group of activists risking peril to confront anti-LGBTQ policies in Chechnya uses unfettered access and protection of subjects' anonymity to help expose an under-reported atrocity.
Title: "Into the Deep"
Section: World Cinema Documentary Competition
What started as a documentary of amateur inventor Peter Madsen turned into something else after Madsen murdered Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine.
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Title: "Downhill"
Section: Premieres
Buyer: Fox Searchlight
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell star in this English-language remake of the "Force Majeure." Like the Swedish original, directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash ("The Way, Way Back") explore one couple's marital tension after barely escaping an avalanche during a ski vacation.
Title: "Dream Horse"
Buyer: Bleecker Street
Toni Collette stars as a cleaner who, along with a bartender (Damian Lewis) decide on a whim to breed a race horse in their Welsh village. As the horse rises through the ranks, Jan and her community are pitted against the racing elite in the film from Welsh director Euros Lyn.
Title: "Kajillionaire"
Buyer: Annapurna Pictures/United Artists Releasing
Writer-director Miranda July's third feature, and her first in almost a decade, explores what happens when a family of low-stakes grifters (led by Evan Rachel Wood) invite a chipper young woman into their insular clan.
Title: "The Last Thing He Wanted"
Dee Rees ("Mudbound") directs Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, and Ben Affleck in an adaptation by the Joan Didion book of the same name. The film follows a Washington, D.C. journalist who finds herself wrapped up in the very story she's trying to break.
Title: "Lost Girls"
Based on a true story, the first narrative film from documentarian Liz Garbus ("The Fourth Estate") centers around a woman's (Amy Ryan) quest to find her missing daughter in a tony Long Island community. Her search brings her attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
Title: "Promising Young Woman"
Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton star in "Killing Eve" showrunner Emerald Fennell's look into the life of a, yes, promising young woman whose life is turned upside down. That leads her to live a double life by night and right the wrongs of the past in this revenge thriller.
Title: "Sergio"
After directing the 2009 documentary of the same name, Greg Barker delivers a scripted take on the story of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose life hangs in the balance during a treacherous mission following the US invasion of Iraq. Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Garret Dillahunt, Will Dalton, Bradley Whitford, and Brían F. O'Byrne star in the film with a screenplay from "Dallas Buyers Club" Oscar winner Craig Borten.
Title: "Wendy"
In a re-imagining of Peter Pan from "Beasts of the Southern Wild" director Benh Zeitlin, Wendy is lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued and she must fight to save her family, freedom, and the spirit of youth from the peril of growing up.
Title: "The Go-Go's"
Section: Documentary Premieres
Buyer: Showtime
From Alison Ellwood ("American Jihad"), an examination of the first all-female band to play their instruments, write their songs, and have a No. 1 album featuring candid testimonies from band members and others.
Title: "Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind"
Buyer: HBO Documentary Films
Known for his work on behind-the-scenes documentaries, director Laurent Bouzereau turns his lens to the story of Natalie Wood, who drowned in 1981, with a focus on the unique perspective of Wood's daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and others who knew the "Rebel Without a Cause" actress.
Title: "Taylor Swift: Miss Americana"
"After Tiller" Emmy winner Lana Wilson directs an inside look at a transformational period in Taylor Swift's life as she learns to embrace her role as songwriter and performer and harnessing the full power of her voice as a woman.
Title: "Rebuilding Paradise"
Buyer: National Geographic Documentary Films
From director Ron Howard, the documentary unfolds during the year after the most destructive wildfire in California history as the people of the town of Paradise rebuild their lives.
Title: "Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made"
Section: Kids
Buyer: Disney+
Tom McCarthy, director of Best Picture-winner "Spotlight," turns to family fare with an adaptation of the kids book by the same name. The film follows Timmy Failure and his 1,500-pound polar bear partner as they operate a Portland detective agency.
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We don't particularly like to report every few months about attacks on the Fourth Amendment, but here we go again. The crucial protection afforded U.S. citizens against unlawful search and seizure by that key component of the Bill of Rights continues to face challenges.
In Tracking the Fourth Amendment, an NMA newsletter from last August, the conflicting decisions from two different U.S. appellate courts regarding the planting of a GPS device on a suspect's vehicle without the issuance of a court order were detailed. We predicted (and still predict) that this matter will eventually wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
A January newsletter, The People v. Gregory Diaz, presented the situation of a California defendant whose cell phone was confiscated during arrest. The police downloaded personal information from the phone, including potentially incriminating text messages, without a search warrant. That information was used as evidence to convict Diaz. An appeal made its way to the California Supreme Court, which ruled the warrantless evidence admissible.
State police would not be required to get a warrant before planting a GPS tracking device on a suspect's vehicle as long as that vehicle is part of a criminal investigation and is parked on public property.
The Texas Department of Public Safety would be directed to create a pilot program to install automatic license plate readers in state troopers' cars.
Fingerprints collected for Texas driver license renewals would be run through various governmental databases to search for individuals with outstanding complaints.
The Dallas Morning News noted that ". . . some ideas (to help combat drug trade), such as checkpoints to ask drivers for their licenses, missed the mark with constituents and have been set aside, at least for now" and that Texas lawmakers like Williams are proposing new ideas to give the police more authority.
The overriding issues are the constitutionality of these kinds of enhanced police powers and the cost to our civil rights. The U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately have to decide and we, as motorists and as citizens, should have more than just a passing interest in the debate leading up to that point.


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Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists expanded their rocket offensive to include Egypt on Wednesday when they fired a short-range Kassam into the Sinai border town of Rafah.
An Egyptian woman was wounded when the rocket hit a residential neighborhood on the Egyptian side of Rafah, which is split by the Sinai-Gaza border.
Egyptian security officials expressed "concern" over what appeared to be a new phenomenon of Palestinian terrorist aggression against Egypt.
Presumably, whoever fired the rocket is angry over Egypt's cooperation with Israel in hunting down those responsible for last week's three-pronged terrorist assault near the Israeli resort town of Eilat.
Palestinian terrorists from Gaza had used the Egyptian Sinai to infiltrate the southern tip of Israel before killing eight Israelis and wounding many more.
Since then, Egypt has tightened security along the border and launched a widespread effort to reassert its control over the increasingly lawless Sinai.
Another part of that effort is ending attacks by Islamists on the Sinai pipeline that transfers Egyptian natural gas to neighboring Israel and Jordan. The pipeline has been blown up by local militants six times since the February ouster of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
As regards Gaza and the Palestinians, Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk reported on Wednesday that in order to minimize the ability of terrorists to enter the Sinai, Egyptian security forces are planning to destroy the network of tunnels that run under the Gaza-Sinai border.
Those tunnels have been used for years to smuggle everything from luxury items to outlawed weapons into Gaza.