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30/12/14 - UKIP's Historic Victory
Laura Pitel underestimates Ukip's achievement by describing it as "the first non-mainstream party to win a national poll in 100 years when it topped the European elections" (Dec.27). In 1914 the two main parties, Liberals and Unionists (as the Tories then called themselves) had 272 seats each in the Commons. Asquith's impressive government had been dependent for four years on the support of Irish Nationalists, the most successful of the smaller parties. Their 84 seats had been won with just 2.5 per cent of the total vote.
Ukip is the first non-mainstream party ever to won a national election since organised parties emerged 335 years ago.
24/12/14 - Special Advisers
Is Britain better governed as a result of the work of more than 100 special advisers to ministers? No one knows ("Special Forces", leader,Dec.20). A rigorous independent study of their contribution to government is badly needed. That should be followed by cross-party agreement on an upper limit to their numbers and by the establishment of a simple and transparent set of criteria that they would need to meet before being considered for appointment. Allowing ministers to appoint whomsoever they wish is hardly a satisfactory basis for good government.
To complement the work of career civil servants, special advisers need a firm understanding of the policies of the political party whose interests they are helping their ministers to advance.
That is unlikely to be available to those whose political education has been derived principally from a lobbying or public relations organisation.
On the Tory side, many of the best special advisers have been graduates of the Conservative Research Department . It was there that both the current Prime Minister and Chancellor served their apprenticeships. So too did Nick Timothy and Stephen Parkinson whose work is highly valued by the home secretary ("Cameron approved removal of May's aides from candidate list", Dec.20).
(Deputy Director, Conservative Research Department 1985-97)
20/12/14 - The diverse talents of Churchill's budgie, Toby
It was not only at meal times that Churchill's budgie Toby left his mark ("Entertainer Churchill's dinner table budgie trick", Dec.13).
This much loved creature slept in a special cage in Churchill's bedroom during his peace-time premiership in the 1950s. The cage was opened when ministers gathered for matutinal confabulations before the great man got up. In his diary, Churchill's Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne, gives an affectionate account of Toby " flying round the room ,pecking at Cabinet papers, taking nips from the whisky-and-soda at the Prime Minister's bedside and settling upon the domed head of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with the inevitable consequences".
Rab Butler came to these meetings with a special silk handkerchief which he used to mop up after Toby, murmuring "The things I do for England". From his master Toby received only kisses, never rebukes.
1/12/14 - Royal Assassin
Queen Victoria scarcely turned a hair when on March 2, 1882, Roderick Maclean became the seventh person to try and kill her (" Mad poet who shot at Victoria", Nov.27). "He had fourteen bullets on him", she noted calmly. She much enjoyed reading, and replying individually, to the 206 telegrams that came pouring in. Two Eton schoolboys, who had set about Maclean at Windsor station with umbrellas, brought nearly 900 others with them to present an address in the castle quadrangle to which " I read a short answer" while noting how good-looking her young champions were. She told her eldest daughter: "It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved".
20/11/14 - DJ's Royal Creator
The DJ was not invented by New York's Tuxedo Club in 1886( letter ,Nov.14). One of the members, James Potter Brown, was introduced to it in England by its creator, the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The aim was to enable him to dispense with full evening dress while at sea during the first royal visit to India in 1875. There was no relaxation of other formalities. Sweating in temperatures of 100F, the party rose to toast Queen Victoria at the end of each meal while the band played the National Anthem.
11/11/14 - Lord Lexden joins leading lawyers in highlighting threat to libel law reform in Northern Ireland
In debates in the Lords, Alistair Lexden has consistently pressed for libel law reform in Northern Ireland to bring the Province back into line with England and Wales whose law it shared until 2013. The whole process of reform is now under severe threat. The reasons were set out in the attached letter, published in The Times on November 11, which was also signed by two leading QCs.
11/11/14 - Putin's rewriting of history
President Putin claims that "Britain and France had destroyed any chance for an anti-fascist front with the Munich Agreement"("There was nothing wrong with the Soviet Union's pact with the Nazis,says Putin", Nov.7). He flagrantly falsifies history. Throughout the summer of 1939, months after Munich, Anglo-French negotiators, led by Lord Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, held intensive discussions with Soviet officials about the possibilities of a mutual defence pact. Neville Chamberlain complained that the Soviets were "the most impossible people to do business with", constantly increasing their demands. Nevertheless, detailed talks about a military alliance began on August 12. Nine days later the Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed. Stalin cynically used the apparent prospect of a Western alliance as a ploy to get Hitler to promise him large territorial gains in Poland and the Baltic states when war broke out.
01/11/14 - We Shall Not Fight
Politicians love quoting Churchill. Why did they not heed the words he wrote in 1897 on military action in Afghanistan? " Financially it is ruinous. Morally it is wicked. Politically it is a blunder".
14/10/14 - Andrew Lansley
Andrew Lansley's talent for acting foolishly without regard to the financial consequences first became apparent when, as Director of the Conservative Research Department, he changed the Party's manifesto for the 1992 election behind the back of John Major's advisers while it was at the printer. It cost some £50,000 to return it to the condition that the cabinet had approved. If the kindness of the party hierarchy had not saved his career at that point, the NHS budget today would be in a better state.
(Deputy Director, Conservative Research Department,1985-97)
6/10/14 - Heed Churchill's advice over the European Convention
The European Convention on Human Rights was drafted in 1949-50 by David Maxwell- Fyfe, subsequently Home Secretary in Churchill's post-war government. Its principal purpose,he said, was to provide "a beacon to the peoples behind the Iron Curtain, and a passport for their return to the midst of the free countries".
The Convention set out "the minimum standard of democratic government" which they would need to meet in order to rejoin the European family of nations.No one then envisaged major legal changes within democratic western European countries .
It was on that basis that Churchill expressed strong support for the Convention in a speech in Strasbourg in 1949. He endorsed the establishment of a court on the strict understanding that it " would depend for the enforcement of its judgments on the individual decisions of the States now banded together".
To this original Churchillian vision the whole of Europe now needs to return.
5/10/14 - Deep Blue Boris
My friend Mark Field doubts whether Boris was a Tory at Oxford (NS Profile, 26 September). He was sufficiently interested to apply on graduation for a job in the Conservative Research Department where his father had once worked--rather by accident, it is true--as its first environment specialist.
My diary records that I interviewed a "Boris Johnston [sic]" on Friday 29 July 1988. I wish I could remember what he said. I retain only a vague impression of merry chatter which led nowhere because glittering prospects in journalism presented themselves to him a few days later. A post would have been his if he had wanted it-- and he would have found himself alongside David Cameron who had been taken on after an interview five weeks earlier. What a pity they missed that chance to establish their rivalry.
Deputy Director, Conservative Research Department (1985-97)
4/10/14 - How Balfour Chillaxed
Adrian Wooldridge ('The Cameron Way', 27 September) refers to one of Arthur Balfour's hobbies—golf –but omits two others that were no less important to him: tennis (he played on Wimbledon's Centre Court in his sixties) and being spanked by his mistress, Lady Elcho. He was the greatest prime-ministerial exponent of 'chillaxing' in British history.
30/9/14 - Hanoverian Succession
Very little has been said or written so far about the tercentenary of "the arrival of the German Georges on the British throne", to which John Jungclaussen referred ( " Germany has moved on. Why haven't you?", Sept.27). The centenary of World War One has inspired many books; not one has appeared to mark the Hanoverian succession 300 years on. It was not even mentioned in the brief history of Anglo-German relations which you published on September 23. This neglect is extremely regrettable.
The arrival of George I, a soldier- statesman respected throughout continental Europe, put an end to the longest and most destructive period of party political strife in British history. The Whigs triumphed in the general election of 1715, creating an era of political stability marked by a surge of wealth and prosperity. The defeat of the Tories also paved the way for a reduction in the power and pretensions of its close ally, the Church of England, which had been responsible for years of religious intolerance.
It is not too late to make amends. Having arrived at Greenwich on September 18,1714 , the new monarch was crowned on October 20 in a frugal ceremony at Westminster Abbey which cost £5000.
16/9/14 - Ian Paisley
Oliver Kamm (Notebook, Sept.16) does well to remind us of the chilling impression created by Ian Paisley when he bellowed on behalf of the "Protestant and loyalist people of Ulster". It was his frequent appearances on the British television screen which did more than anything else to give vast numbers of people in Britain the illusion that Ulster Unionists were a horde of religious maniacs and political fanatics,a strange and alien breed for whose welfare a malign fate had made the British responsible. In this way, Paisley did more damage to the Union than any other politician of the day.
15/9/14 - One Nation
The myth of a Disraelian vision of "one nation" is so pervasive that even my brilliant historian friend John Bew accepts it in assessing Richard Nixon (NS Essay,12 September). Dizzy held that the two nations--rich and poor--were so divided that they could never be brought together. It was the unloved Stanley Baldwin who first uttered the phrase in a speech on 4 December 1924 when he called for "the union of those two nations of which Disraeli spoke two generations ago...to make one nation of our own people at home".
11/9/14 - David Cameron and Scotland
When the American colonies were lost in 1782(leading article, Sept.8), George III stubbornly refused to accept his prime minister's resignation. Lord North had to submit it several times, wailing that he could not remain after having brought about "the ruin of my King and country". The monarch eventually acquiesced. Should Scotland be lost next week, it is unlikely that David Cameron would encounter similar royal resistance if a sense of honour should lead him to conclude that, as leader of the Conservative and Unionist party, he ought not to remain in office. George Osborne, the strategic mastermind, ought to consider his position too.
8/9/14 - Scotland
If it is to succeed,the campaign to save the Union must change course.It has been a grave mistake to rely almost entirely on economic arguments. There is no way of showing decisively that Scotland would be less prosperous outside the Union. Incessant, inconclusive argument over currency,oil and the provision of public services has led to an unproductive and unseemly wrangle which has brought discredit on both sides.
The Unionists must make their case in strong patriotic terms during the days that remain.They must invite the people of Scotland not just to say no to independence, but to say yes to a new and positive relationship with the rest of the United Kingdom on terms of full equality. The Scottish Parliament has been promised additional powers.It should be made clear that their conferment will mark the start of work in all parts of the UK to devise a new constitutional settlement that would bind them together on a federal basis.Unionism would acquire the sense of vision it badly needs and the UK would be put on a firm,stable foundation for the future.
22/8/14 - The Speaker and the Clerk of the Commons
In his book, Who Goes Home? Sir Robert Rogers, outgoing clerk of the House engaged in combat with Mr Bercow, cites a 1313 statute banning armour from both Houses. Should it be repealed at once to permit a wider range of methods to settle the dispute over the choice of Sir Robert's successor? He also quotes an 18th-century predecessor who ruled that the Commons should be prepared to consider all expedients to ensure that business was "not subject to the momentary caprice of the Speaker.
8/8/14 - Royal Yacht
The future Edward VII dominated Cowes week in the early 1890s through his prowess in sailing the first Britannia which later passed to his son (" Britannia to rule the waves once more, Aug. 2). In 1896, however, the Kaiser gained the upper hand sailing the giant Meteor II, a bigger, faster version of Britannia. "The regatta used to be a pleasant relaxation for me", his British uncle lamented."Since the Kaiser took command, it is a vexation". In this early round of hostilities, victory went to Germany.
After the First World War George V gave Britannia a second glorious era undimmed by competition from abroad. In 1934 he calculated that it had sailed in 569 races, winning 231 first prizes and 124 others.
31/7/14 - Lord Lexden suggests ways of resolving a serious constitutional issue in the Lords
Quite rightly, the House of Lords supported Baroness Boothroyd by a large majority yesterday evening (" Boothroyd hits at Lords demotion", July 28). As we were reminded during the debate, the summary removal of the Lord Chancellor under the last government cost the Lords one of its traditional cabinet seats. That underlines the importance of the remaining historic seat.
Throughout the 19th century the Leader of the Lords was either the Prime Minister or one of his closest colleagues. The Duke of Wellington, who held the position under Sir Robert Peel from 1841 to 1846, defined its principal function as "the avoidance of dispute and division with the lower house". A bicameral parliament is unlikely to serve the interests of the nation effectively in all circumstances if one of its two houses is unrepresented in the full cabinet to which disputes will always be brought.
This grave constitutional issue must now be permanently resolved. A new report by the Lords all-party Select Committee on the Constitution, of which I am a member, has suggested three remedies, all of which would require a short, simple amendment to the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975. The limit on the total number of cabinet posts for which salaries can be paid could be raised from 21 to 22---or, perhaps more attractively, one of the existing 21 could be explicitly reserved for either a member of the House or for its Leader. For those with a sense of history the last will seem the best.
31/7/14 - The Lords Farce
There is even more to the bizarre story of Baroness Stowell , the first Lords Leader without a Cabinet seat, and the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster than Charles Moore indicates (The Spectator's Notes, 26 July).
The proposed salary top-up from Tory party funds, subsequently abandoned in the face of an outcry in the Lords, was pointless in the first place. Under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 any payment made to the holder of the office from outside sources leads automatically to a corresponding reduction in the amount provided by Parliament.
Neither that legislation or any other prevents the Chancellor of the Duchy being paid out of party funds. So there was no legal reason why Mr Cameron should not have stood by his original plan instead of getting her to swop with Mr Letwin to whom the Privy Seal had been offered. Equally there is no reason why they should not swop back again. It would be a pity not to add further to this comedy of political errors.
11/7/14 - Lord Lexden exposes a scoundrel at the British Museum
It is wholly inappropriate for the Elgin Marbles to be housed in the British Museum's Duveen Galleries(" Elgin Marbles to move--but not to Greece",July 3). They are named after Joe Duveen (1869-1939) who made a fortune by buying old masters for a song from impoverished aristocrats and selling them at an immense profit to American millionaires. In return for making lavish donations to the Museum, he was made a trustee in 1929, becoming the first dealer ever to buy his way on to the board.
The new galleries for which he paid in 1931 horrified his fellow trustee, Lord Crawford, who described them as " a painful contrast to the strength and simplicity of the new Pergamon Room at Berlin". The Marbles were lucky to escape serious damage. Duveen wanted them to be " thoroughly cleaned--so thoroughly he would dip them in acid".
7/7/14 - Edith Cavell
The execution of Edith Cavell made a profound impression on the then Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith(" Wartime heroine Edith Cavell is honoured with £5 coin", July 5). "She has taught the bravest man amongst us a supreme lesson of courage", he said in 1915," and in this United Kingdom and throughout the Dominions of the Crown there are thousands of such women, but a year ago we did not know it". Overnight this hitherto unyielding opponent of votes for women, who had been physically attacked by Mrs Pankhurst's suffragettes, was converted to the cause.
1/7/14 - Lord Lexden expresses admiration for the Prince of Wales's discussions with politicians
We are fortunate to have a Prince of Wales who takes a close and constructive interest in politics (" Prince tried to influence policy ,say Blair ministers", June 30). In the eighteenth century heirs to the throne used politics destructively to attack the monarch. After that they were debarred from all involvement. As Prince of Wales the future Edward VII was not allowed to see a single state paper. The future Edward VIII, who was prohibited from holding serious discussions with politicians, developed facile right-wing views unchecked. Wisely, Prince Charles has been allowed to equip himself with the full understanding of politics that will enable him to perform his duties as a constitutional monarch well. Furthermore, at a time when parliamentarians are fobbed off with incomplete and misleading answers to questions, the nation gains significantly from having a Prince who engages in rigorous private exchanges with our rulers. On no account should this invaluable role be diminished by making his comments public.
18/6/2014 - Stuck to the seat
Sir, Tories have not represented Canterbury since 1835 without interruption ("Tory addiction", June 14).
Between 1880 and 1885 the constituency had no MP. It was disfranchised as a result of electoral corruption. A Liberal candidate at the 1880 election made it known that he had been offered £1,000 to stand down. The Tories owned up but spread the dishonour by revealing that he had tried to extract £2,500 as his price for withdrawing.
6/6/2014 - The last hotly contested Tory victory in Newark
The last occasion on which the Conservative Party campaigned so intensively in Newark was in 1832 immediately after the Great Reform Act. Their leading candidate in the then two-member seat was none other than Gladstone, at that time "the rising hope of the stern, unbending Tories".
On the day of his nomination he spent six and a half hours on the hustings with stones missing his head by "twelve inches", as he noted with his customary precision. "An outrageous noise, in groaning, hissing, and shouting prevented him proceeding" with his speech.
Nevertheless he finally emerged at the head of the poll by 89 votes in an electorate of 1,575 after lavish sums had been spent on free food and drink. "I was born Red, I live Red and I shall die Red", the victor proudly proclaimed, that being the defiant Tory colour.
3/5/2014 - Queen Mary
Richard Ryder ('The poor man in his castle', Apr.26) confines Queen Mary's war-time tyranny at Badminton to the house, but it also extended to the estate. ' " Now, Aunt May", her niece the Duchess of Beaufort told her, " remember that those shrubs outside the stable wall are not to be touched"; the next day Queen Mary took her out and every shrub was gone, revealing a naked wall which then had to be cemented and painted. "I'm so glad to see you like my yesterday's work", she said'. Surely her spirit should be powerful enough to quell the outbreak of gay orgies with which the estate is currently afflicted.
22/5/2014 - PM on the Tube
One especially modest prime minister took care to retain his anonymity as he travelled home to Baker Street by underground from Westminster (letter, May 21). " Good Lord!", said a fellow commuter. " Do people ever tell you that you are the spitting image of Clement Attlee?" " Frequently", he replied.
10/5/2014 - Queen Victoria and Nudity
Queen Victoria's taste for nudity was confined strictly to paintings. She would been horrified that Spencer Tunick has invoked her in support of his ventures ("Artist hails queen and country for our love of nudity", May 6). She told her second daughter that anyone who even talked about anatomy was "disgusting". She could not avoid the prying eyes of doctors when giving birth, but thereafter she was never seen in the buff again. Her medical advisers had to guess the state of her health from the endless flow of information that she provided about it. Even so, the fact that she had a ventral hernia only became known to them when they finally examined her after her death.
30/4/2014 - War and Peace
Halifax and Churchill were not so far apart in May 1940 as Daniel Finkelstein suggests(Apr 26). They agreed that the war should be ended through a negotiated settlement; the demand for Germany's unconditional surrender was adopted as policy only in 1943. Both wanted to preserve the British empire. Churchill said that "if we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies he would jump at it".
As Andrew Roberts puts it in his biography of Halifax, but for Hitler's blunders of declaring war on both Russia and the US in 1941, the war might well have stayed unwinnable for Britain.
The two men had to ask themselves whether tolerable conditions for peace could be found.
19/4/14 – Exams
My hero, Freddie Forsyth, errs in saying that Churchill "passed no exams" (letter, Apr.12). He took immense pride in just managing to scrape through the Sandhurst entry exam in 1893. " I consider my triumph", he wrote later, "was in learning Mathematics in six months". The crammer in the Cromwell Road where he achieved this proficiency complained that he was " rather too much inclined to teach his instructors instead of endeavouring to learn from them".
14/4/14 - Electoral graft
Sir, Sir David Butler (letter, Apr 10) attributes "the relative purity" of 20th-century elections in Britain to the decision in 1868 to give the courts power to settle disputed contests. Yet corruption continued to rise after 1868. John Gorst, the Conservative Party's chief agent, wrote in 1883 that "election expenses had, during recent years, increased to a scandalous amount (in order) to distribute money amongst the greatest possible number of electors, and a candidate who refused to conform to this universal custom had, or was believed to have, no chance of being returned".
It was the Corrupt Practices Act, passed in 1883,which produced electoral purity by placing strict limits on the amounts that could be spent. This led the political parties to turn for the first time to unpaid volunteers marshalled on the Tory side by the Primrose League, founded on April 19, 1883, which provided the Conservative Party with an army of some two million faithful constituency workers.
5/4/14 - A better sort of earl
His great-grandfather, the 5th Earl, who gambled away the family fortune in six years and then devised a system to break the bank at Monte Carlo (but failed), was part of the Marlborough House set that fawned on the future Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales. He was tolerated because his sister, the Countess of Warwick, was for a time the Prince's maitresse-en-titre (later she tried to use her love letters to blackmail the Royal family, but was forgiven).
The new senior courtier's grandfather, who died in 1929 as Lord Loughborough before inheriting the earldom, tried but failed to win the friendship of the next Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII. "He was sacked from the RN College, Osborne, my first term there in the summer of 1907", the latter recalled. He was much taken, however, with Lady Loughborough, as was his brother, the future George VI, her lover before his marriage.
In entering the service of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, the current Earl has made up for the failings of his predecessors.
4/3/14 - The wartime spy who never wanted to be Smiley
SIR – John Bingham was one of our most remarkable Second World War spies. The M15 documents that have just been released ("Spy who turned Hitler's British supporters into unwitting double agents", report, February 28) show the scale of his achievement in neutralising the espionage of British fascists, who were more widespread than is supposed.
This modest hero, who was also the 7th Baron Clanmorris – an Ulster title without property – was not treated as respectfully as he deserved by his protégé, John le Carré, who immortalised him as George Smiley. He was hurt by the portrayal of his secret world in the novels.
The author, Bingham once said, "was my friend, but I deplore and hate everything he has done and said against the intelligence services". No one cared more about his country and its institutions than John Bingham, to whom we owe so much.
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26/2/14 - Cabinet 'gimmick'
Sir, Monday's Cabinet meeting in Aberdeen was an obvious political gimmick, laboriously planned (report, Feb 25). The only previous meeting of a coalition Cabinet held in Scotland took place in the council chamber of Inverness town hall on September 7, 1921. It was totally unplanned. The Liberal Prime Minister, Lloyd George, happened to be on holiday near by when an Irish crisis blew up.
The then Tory leader, Austen Chamberlain, said, "This is outrageous, dragging us up to Inverness" as he boarded the night train from Euston with his colleagues, including the Home Secretary, who went quickly to his berth "with a bottle of whisky and six soda water bottles".
13/2/14 - An alternative to Scottish separation
SIR – Benedict Brogan's great-uncles (I was overawed by one of them as a Cambridge undergraduate in the Sixties) would not have described themselves as Conservatives and Unionists, but simply as Unionists (Comment, February 11). Under this banner, the party encompassed a good deal of what has now been absorbed by the Scottish National Party. Scottish Unionism asserted the country's full equality with England. The Conservative brand, arrogantly imposed by Ted Heath in 1965, demoted Scottish national pride.
The Conservative Party today should turn the challenge of Scottish separation into an opportunity to recreate a Unionism that fulfils Scottish patriotism once again and inspires the entire United Kingdom with a sense of common purpose. A new constitutional settlement is needed that embraces all parts of the country fairly and equally, possibly on a federal basis. It is at this point, not after the Scottish referendum, that debate about a positive alternative to separation should begin.
11/2/14 - Bong, bong
Sir, My friend Lord Finkelstein should tell his visitors confidently that Big Ben is named after Sir Benjamin Hall (Notebook, Feb 8).
The great 13-ton bell arrived in London by sea (nearly sinking during the voyage) in October 1856. On October 22 The Times commented: "All bells, we believe, are christened before they begin to toll, and on this occasion it is proposed to call our king of bells 'Big Ben' in honour of Sir Benjamin Hall, the President of the Board of Works during whose tenure it was cast."
I always cite this when my visitors quiz me about the alternative theory that the honour belongs to "Big Ben" Caunt, a much-loved prize-fighter in his day, but whose fame had faded after his retirement from the ring over a decade earlier.
1/2/14 - The Ward files
Sir: Michael Ward (Letters, 25 January) looks forward to seeing the conviction of his uncle, Stephen Ward, overturned when the transcript of his trial is disclosed. Recently, however, the government revealed that no transcript exists. Earlier this month the House of Lords was astonished to be told that only 'partial records' survive. We were also told that only one of the six files seemed to be entirely secret. I suggested that the historian Peter Hennessy should be asked to visit the files and clear up the confusion. Nothing could be done 'for another 100 years or so', I was informed. The establishment seems determined that Ward should continue to be denied justice.
13/1/14 - Princes at Cambridge
With the arrival of Prince William, Cambridge University has the grandson of a reigning monarch among its dreaming spires for only the second time in its history. In October 1883 Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, known everywhere as Prince Eddy, came into residence at Trinity College with a don who was a radical MP and outspoken critic of the monarchy as his neighbour. " He hardly knows the meaning of the words to read", wailed his tutor. After two years the most that could be said for his scholarship was that he had " a fair memory for the more picturesque parts" of English history. It is perhaps not surprising that the university has made no reference to this interesting royal precedent.


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Q: Periodically update files from s3 in a Java maven library used as Packaged JAR I have an application say x which uses another Java library(say Y) as a JAR file . So y basically needs to download a file and load it into memory before any of it's methods are called at runtime by X. How do I make sure that files are downloaded and loaded before any of the methods of y are called ? Also, Y is being used in multiples apps.
Should i use akka pattern here?
y is a Java framework used to detect useragent type. y is going to use a file to detect useragent stuff which needs to be downloaded from s3 and refreshed periodically and only then this library/framework should be used to detect type of useragent from X.
For example:
X is something like :
import com.data.Extract
public class X {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
   System.out.println(Extract.getUserAgentInfo(args[0]));
  }
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pom.xml of X(Includes dependency of Y):
<dependency>
         <groupId>group-y</groupId>
         <artifactId>extract-data</artifactId>
         <version>3.8.1</version>
         <scope>runtime</scope>
      </dependency>

Now before X calls getuseragentinfo, Y should have already loaded files into memory to get data from.
I'm wondering if I can use WatchService or Threading here to run a separate thread to just download the file and load into memory before this jar is being used .i.e. from inside the jar.
Please advise.

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To use this technique you take several images of the same scene focusing your lens on a different part of the object for each shot. Byron Prukston went to the Baikal Lake region in Russia with the Leica M- P 240 Safari and worked in frozen landscapes down to - 30° Celsius ( - 22 Fahrenheit). None are what I' d call " fast" AF so I wouldn' t suggest any of them to shoot sports – but they work fine for portraits and landscapes. The tool was designed to boost image quality of the company' s own camera models Obsidian QooCam, but also works with most DSLRs other Raw- capable cameras that are supported by Adobe Camera Raw.
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Inspired by retro glamour, with an added touch of Playful naughtiness, the Juliet Girdle is all about the sheer! Compiled of black mesh, featuring a naughty back cut out, this matches our Juliet Bra and brief perfectly. This high-waist girdle is sheer, in a retro-inspired cut, sitting at the smallest part of your waist to accentuate an hourglass shape. 4 thick metal suspender straps finish off the look and hold your stockings in place.


Starting a new business is not always an easy decision and is usually a lengthy one. Hershel Graber's decision to start Graber Insealators was an easy one back in late 1994. After a day on the farm, watching "This Old House" was a regular occurrence (Hershel loves to "tinker"), but a new episode showcased Icynene spray foam insulation and Hershel was "hooked"!
The benefits of spray foam insulation installed in a home were amazing to what was currently being installed in 99% of homes. One amazing quality about Hershel is that he wants to help everyone as much as he can. This was one way to help make homes more energy efficient to save on utility bills and have a healthier environment for the families that occupy the homes. The show aired on a Saturday and on Monday Hershel was on the phone with a representative from Icynene on how he could gain more information about becoming a contractor in the Loogootee, Indiana area.
Hershel was on a plane within two weeks to visit Icynene and within a week, he was certified. Since a foam truck cannot be bought off a showroom floor, Hershel took photos of a sample truck and came home and custom built his first foam truck. On March 2, 1995 he was installing Icynene!
That is a pretty quick turnaround to start a new business, but when you are passionate about helping others like Hershel is on a daily basis it was easy. Now, 21 years later, Graber Insealators is the longest running Icynene contractor in the nation! What an accomplishment when you succeed at something you truly believe in.


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County Library summer program is a fun way to keep kids reading all year
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It may not feel quite like summer yet, but as of this week the San Juan County Library summer program is in full swing.
Library director Pat Smith said the kids really look forward to it every year, and it's a great way to keep them reading while school is out.
She said the fun activities and cool prizes the kids get are good encouragement. Again this year, there are plenty of exciting activities planned throughout June and July.
The puppet shows are always a favorite. Smith said they are very entertaining and there are usually as many adults as kids in the audience.
This year, the Hampstead Stage Group will perform "The Jungle Book" at the Monticello branch on June 24 at 11 a.m. and "Story in the Stars" at the Blanding branch at 2 p.m.
Rocky Mountain Puppets presents "Space-a-cade" on July 9 in Monticello at 11 a.m. and in Blanding at 2 p.m. And the Great Arizona Puppet Theater performs "Peter Rabbit" on July 27 with the same locations and times.
The Canyon Country Discovery Center (CCDC) will visit the library branches with planetarium and solar viewings in Monticello on June 13 and in Blanding July 25.
Smith said the CCDC has an inflatable planetarium that – on a good day – they will inflate outside where children can learn about the solar system. She said they also have a solar telescope for safely viewing solar flares and sunspots.
In addition, special events will take place every Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Blanding and Monticello branches throughout June and July.
Smith said a group of Bluff Elementary teachers will run the summer program at Bluff Elementary School in June, then they will travel to the Reservation housing areas for weekly activities in July.
Kids who sign up for the San Juan County Library summer program will receive a prize and an age-specific booklet chock full of things to read, activities, puzzles, websites to check out, and even recipes.
They can get their progress marked off by a librarian as they read during the summer. And the Utah Food Bank will provide non-perishable food items for the children again this year.
Visit your local library branch or sanjuancountylibrary.org for full details on the 2019 San Juan County Library summer program.
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Immortality, Cryogenics and UBI: How The Crypto Rich Influence Science
The rise of cryptocurrency is changing the philanthropic world by causing the redistribution of wealth from old money to visionary innovators and early tech adopters. The new crypto rich invest their donations by supporting scientific research in groundbreaking fields that may one day enable humanity to cure aging, reverse death and completely change the relationship between work and income.
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The Cryptorati Want to Defeat Aging
Examining the record of donations made by the crypto rich reveals a pattern of support for goals that others may feel belong in the pages of science fiction novels. Having benefited greatly from recognizing the potential of peer to peer electronic cash earlier than the masses, it is no surprise that they have great optimism in the power of technology to radically change our lives for the better.
One of the main benefactors of this type of donation focus is the SENS Research Foundation located in Mountain View, California. The non-profit SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) defines its goal as working to develop, promote, and ensure widespread access to therapies that cure and prevent the diseases and disabilities of aging. Unlike the traditional medical approach of only treating or managing old age problems as they kick in, this approach focuses on comprehensively repairing the damage that builds up in our bodies over time, thus mitigating the aging process as much as possible.
In the early 2000s, Michael Novogratz donated to the research organization and the Pineapple Fund gave SENS $2 million in BTC last year. Moreover, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin also donated $2.4 million to SENS in 2018 and another $350,000 in January 2019. The regenerative medical therapy organization also raised another $4.1 million in cryptocurrencies last year in addition to the Pineapple Fund donation.
The chief science officer of SENS, British biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, talked about the relationship between his venture and crypto proponents last year and detailed that many have donated to the research organization. "I'm not in this to do science for the sake of doing science," de Grey explained. "I'm in it for the ultimate goal." He further revealed that a few anonymous donors have given SENS $1 million each and other cryptocurrency personalities are also long-term donors of the foundation.
The Cryogenics Connection
Another main benefactor of donations made by crypto personalities is the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. This nonprofit based in Scottsdale, Arizona, advocates for, researches, and performs cryonics. This entails the freezing of the whole human corpse or just the brain in liquid nitrogen after legal death, with hopes of resurrecting the individual when the requisite technology is developed in the future.
According to reports, a number of crypto rich have anonymously donated to Alcor's cryonics research. The top connection between the field and cryptocurrency is that Alcor might be preserving the body of a man some believe to be Satoshi Nakamoto himself. Hal Finney is the computer scientist who received the very first bitcoin transaction and helped get the network up and running during its first year. On Aug. 28, 2014, Finney's body was taken to an Alcor facility soon after his death and underwent the cryogenic process. In May 2018 the foundation announced that cryptocurrency enthusiast Brad Armstrong gave it a $5 million research contribution, being held in the name of the "Hal Finney Cryonics Research Fund".
Another connection between cryptocurrency and cryogenics is that computer scientist Ralph Merkle, known for creating cryptographic hashing, the Merkle tree and other inventions, is also a researcher and advocate of cryonics. He reportedly knows a few crypto people who have donated to cryonics and also helped raise funds for Alcor.
Universal Basic Income and MDMA
A more economic research topic, but one that could have drastic implications for human society no less than curing aging or cheating death, is Universal Basic Income. UBI is one of the hottest economic debate topics of the last couple of years, talked about as a possible solution to technological unemployment, preventing humans from falling behind once robots take over all the jobs. The idea has even gained support from various politicians around the world recently such as U.S. democratic candidate Andrew Yang.
Basically the UBI plan is to provide everyone with a stipend so that they can live their lives without worrying about making enough money from work just to survive. This raises several questions as it goes against how many believe the world should function and it will also be an unprecedented experiment in the human condition. The Pineapple Fund made a $5 million donation to the organization Give Directly in 2017 to sponsor cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda where it is possible to test the UBI concept before it's implemented in more expensive regions of the world. The Pineapple Fund has also donated more than $1 million to aid in the research of using MDMA as a treatment for PTSD.
Crypto rich and well-known community personalities have of course donated to other causes than the above mentioned scientific research projects. To list a few examples, Justin Sun gave $3 million to the Binance Charity Foundation, $250,000 to the ALS association and over $4.5 million to Glide which aims to alleviate poverty. John McAfee donated a 27-foot boat worth $1.1 million to the Belize Coast Guard. The CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, even signed the Giving Pledge, the drive started by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates for rich people to give away the majority of their wealth instead of leaving it to their heirs.
What do you think about the fields of scientific research the crypto rich donate to? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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This is understood in the commentaries to mean 'in the same instant', but we shall show that the meaning is 'upon arriving at the point of seeing, as it really is, in it's totality'.
This is a very interesting sutta from the point of view of doubtful matters.
Bhk. Bodhi, in a note to the print edition, confirms my belief that this statement is not made elsewhere in the four nikaya, by the Buddha or anyone else.
What is said elsewhere is that each of the four truths is the equivalent of each of the others.
It is quoted it the Vissudhi Magga and in Points of Controversy.
Curiously in Points of Controversy Gavampati's point is defended by the Thereavadans in spite of it's being (at least on the face of it ... we will get to that) in contradiction to numerous places where awakening is stated to be a gradual process.
That awakening is an instantaneous (that is, all or nothing) event is the position of at least some Zen Buddhist schools.
How can we reconcile this dilemma without dismissing the statement of Gavampati as being false?
The key term here that must be understood is 'passati', 'seeing'.
nana and dassana, 'knowing and seeing'. The difference between dassana and passati is that the former is an intellectual understanding whereas the latter is a penetrating vision, discovery, realization, of the actual reality.
So we can say there is, up to the point of passati, a gradual expansion of comprehension, 'dassana,' which, at a certain point results in a penetrating, comprehensive, all-encompassing vision of all aspects of a single truth which can be expressed in each of four ways (an awakening which could be called 'instantaneous').
Said another way, you cannot see the full scope of the idea that everything is pain until you see that it is a result of thirst. One cannot see the full scope of the statement that existence itself is pain, for example, until one is able to see that it is thirst-motivated behavior which brings about existence - to that point one is continuously trying to awaken the existing being, that is to 'awaken myself,' which is to say: 'to awaken myself within myself,' which cannot be done because awakening is outside of existence, - and that by ending thirst that pain will end and that the way to end thirst is to mold one's behavior such that it does not exhibit any form of self-interest, i.e., thirst, that is, follow the Magga.
And it is the same whether you approach the problem from this or any of the other three Truths.
There is a gradual course which leads up to a sudden, comprehensive, liberating vision, and one does not fully 'see' until one has reached that point.


Shampoo bars are an environmentally friendly way to cleanse all hair and scalp types. Traditional shampoo packaging fills landfills and oceans with plastic, negatively impacting the environment. The following conditioning shampoo bar recipe will beautifully cleanse hair and lacks the plastic bottle packaging!
NOTE: If you are making these products for sale, good manufacturing practices a mask. We also recommend a clean apron and workspace.
Prepare double boiler by adding water to bottom of double boiler and placing on stovetop until water is boiling.
To top pan of double boiler, add SCI noodles and bubble up and heat until noodles have melted down to a pasty consistency. Stir well.
Add lathanol powder, sodium lactate, silk amino acids, emulsifying wax and mix well.
When mixture is 122ºF add fragrance and preservative and mix well.
Spoon into molds and tap mold on counter.
Place in the freezer for an hour and then remove from mold, placing on a paper towel.
Let sit for 24-48 hours to let liquid evaporate before using.
TO USE: Wet your hair, and wet the bar. Rub the bar on your hair until you have the bubbles and lather you wish. Wash your hair. Rinse and repeat, if desired.
Ingredient Label: Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Emulsifying Wax, Sodium Lactate, Silk Amino Acids, Fragrance, Propylene Glycol, Diazolidinyl Urea, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate.
"Is this meant to be a replacement for bottled conditioner or is this actually a cleaning shampoo?"
Staff Answer This shampoo bar can condition hair in addition to cleansing it. Each individual is different so you may find this works great on your hair alone or you may need an additional conditioning product after shampooing.
"I love argon oil and I was wondering how much I might be able to add to this recipe? Thank you so much. Mary"
Staff Answer Since an oil was not factored into the recipe calculations, we cannot say for sure how much to add. You can start with 1-2% but you will need to test that the bar performs to your satisfaction.
"My shampoo bar came out with air bubbles in the design. Are there any tips on how to get a smooth look for these? "
Staff Answer We can only suggest that you push the mixture down as much as you can to prevent the air bubbles.
"Can these bars be pressed into a regular soap mold (for instance the 1623 silicone mold), rather than using the oval mold in the kit? Thanks in advance!"
Staff Answer Yes, you can use other molds for these shampoo bars if you wish.
"Are these bars considered safe for color treated hair?"
Staff Answer This would need to be tested by the individual but these are normally safe for color-treated hair.
"Can you use phenonip as a preservative so I can mix in the preservative at a higher temperature Thanks JoAnn"
Staff Answer Yes, Phenonip can be used in these shampoo bars.
"How much do you recommend each bar be sold for?."
Staff Answer If purchasing our kit, we recommend a suggested retail price of $11.95.
"Can you add Lauric acid and cetyl alcohol to the shampoo bars and at what percent ? Thank you JoAnn"
Staff Answer You can add both of these ingredients to a shampoo bar. You can add between 2-4% but we do recommend testing this since our original recipes do not include these ingredients.
"My question is regarding the conditioning emulsifier. I know that behentrimonium methosulfate is a cationic surfactant and the SLSA and SCI are ionic surfactants, normally these are "incompatable" but I know it works as far staying solid and emulsified because I have made many shampoo bars with both, my question is this, does the conditioning ingredient even work on the hair since it is included in a product with such a high percentage of ionic ingredients? "
"I just wanted to start out by saying that this is an awesome recipe! I made the 1st batch following the recipe exactly and perfection! My question is if I run out of bubble up, can I replace it with body wash base/shampoo base? I tried another batch with bubble bath base and they turned out perfectly as well, I just don't want to waste my ingredients if it won't work.. Thank you!"
Staff Answer We're so glad you like our shampoo bar recipe! We cannot be sure how this substitution would work. But, it sounds like you have made another batch with the bubble bath base and it was successful!
"Are these considered sulfate free?"
Staff Answer Yes, these shampoo bars can be considered sulfate free.
"You folks usually suggest how to package the finished product..is there any rule on shampoo bars? I'm not familiar with the base just yet. Do I need to saran-wrap it like Melt & Pour?"
Staff Answer They do not need to be wrapped in plastic wrap as with MP soap. You can package them however you like - in a soap box, cello bag, wrapped in a piece of cloth and tied with a ribbon, etc.
"What's the Ph of final product? "
Staff Answer These shampoo bars have a pH of about 6.
"is this really almost $50 to make just 3 bars?"
Staff Answer This kit contains items that can be reused such as the Domed Oval Soap Mold ($7.95) and the Mini Mixer ($10.95). Also, there are some left over ingredients that can be used for another batch.
"It's been 30 hrs since I made my bar , The top round at side feels dry but the bottom side and the centers still feels mushy and fall apart a little bit I don't know if I need to melt the noodles longer there wasn't too much description on how long the noodles were to be melted except to start and start the whole time until it's creamy I did everything right and it still doesn't feel like a regular shampoo bar and my doing something wrong has anybody else tested out these"
Staff Answer We are not sure why these are still soft. The directions are to melt the SCI noodles and Bubble Up until they have melted to a pasty or thick consistency. We recommend letting them sit out until they are hard enough to use.


I fell in love with the Francesca's ring while walking around the mall while particularly out of it with anxiety and depression last month. I didn't buy it then, but as we learned with my cat scarf, my willpower only lasts about 48 hours! 😂💸 It's so different and cool-looking, I couldn't resist. The band turned super quickly, though, which is annoying.
I had been looking for a slimmer wallet with a detachable crossbody strap, and sign me up for one with iridescent mermaid vibes for $5!
Is this the kind of thing that's only funny after two English degrees?
What did you buy in July?
On Saturday, I went over to Kristin's, where she joked that she was going to "make" me watch The Big Chill. Now, I love The Big Chill—and so does she! So you can imagine our surprise when we couldn't remember any of the characters' names! Whoops! Also, I'm sad that there's not a gif of my favorite line: Jeff Goldblum, who has had to sleep in one of the kids' airplane-shaped beds, announces (in light of all the other various hook-ups going on in the house) that "I was all alone in my airplane, no co-pilot." I legit say this IRL because I am insane.
I wasn't going to go to my usual Sunday yoga class, since I was staying at Maggie's with Pudge, but I had a change of heart when I woke up wildly anxious and had watched like half a season of Happy Endings by noon! It was a really great class. We had a sub with the most calming voice, and I managed to get a few minutes of anxiety relief. She was also super positive that I had come at all when I told her how I was feeling, which warmed my heart.
Maggie's housemate (and one of my fellow YTT gals) Karuna was around this week, which was a godsend. Which I'm super anxious, I have a really hard time being alone with my thoughts and feelings, and Karuna very kindly let me pace around her bedroom and beat her ear! We also had an awesome impromptu Target and tarot night!
On Saturday night, I went over to Kristin's for a tarot night! She gifted me this awesome set of tarot cards and guide book (which are not the cards pictured here, although she had given those to me as well LOL), and I proceeded to have the most crazy accurate tarot reading of my life!
We did the "Clarity spread" reading from the Wild Unknown Guidebook, so the card at the top is the "overall situation" in my life and the other three cards are "contributing factors." The question I asked was, "What is the Universe trying to tell me?" The answer was more like, "What does the Universe already know I'm struggling with?"
OH, JUST EVERYTHING I'VE BEEN FEELING LATELY, COOL. (Can you tell that my hormones took me in a depressive direction this month?) Complete with the flying metaphors from last fall too.
So the Universe is basically yelling at me, guys. I guess I need to start listening.
On Sunday, Pops was out all day, and when the cat's away, the mice will play... which means breaking out the nail polish! I love painting my nails, but I hadn't done it in ages because Pops hates the smell. But having my nails painted this gorge gold-infused purple (Zoya Zara) has given Stella (some of) her groove back!
I randomly started watching Happy Endings on Hulu this week, which is a great show if you're just looking for a fun comedy. I have fallen in love with Adam Pally and his adorable/fantastic accent, and Damon Wayans Jr. is just hilar.
My bffl and I love "The World Series Defense" ep of It's Always Sunny. We have witnessed dudes at Citizens Bank Park basically weeping over Chase, so Mac's love letter really isn't too far off!
Sunday was about a thousand degrees—I went for a walk and had to lay down on the floor under the air conditioner afterwards to recover! So it was definitely an ice cream day! We went to Pops's favorite place (Handel's), and I got Peppermint Stick for a change. It was SO GOOD.
On Wednesday, I don't know what possessed me to do this, but I called into a radio contest! 😂🤷🏼♀ I knew the answer, and no one else had gotten it right, so I was like, "What the hell!" I didn't end up getting through but maybe next time! I love this game called "Connect 3" on the classic rock station—they play three songs, and you have to figure out what they have in common. The three songs on Wednesday were "Gypsy," "Breakfast in America," and "Stuck in the Middle with You." Any thoughts?
How fun is this wallet that I found for $5 at Target?! The iridescent mermaid vibe makes me so happy! 😍😍 And it also has a removable crossbody strap, which I'm super pumped about. I love me a multitasking wallet!
I had a pretty chill weekend, which was much appreciated after last weekend's One Wedding and An ER Visit! I watched a lot of The West Wing (who am I?), got some dumb but delightfully satisfying tasks done (washing clothes! sorting the mail! reading a library book!), and even napped! The only legitimately exciting thing I did was soaking up some of these views in Reading again!
On Tuesday, I found the hydrangea of my girly girl dreams! And a million other gorgeous flowers, as I took a different route on my post-therapy flower creep!
It's so PURPLE! Like my aura ideally is!
My friend Kristin made me a BAG! Only the purplest bag in all the land! I'm so excited and touched (and IMPRESSED!) and can't wait to use it!
I loved this picture that popped up in my IG feed this week. I only need this reminder, oh, daily!


There's plenty of software-speak that goes whooshing over the heads of most people — and even some of the heads of those programming! Two of the terms that you might hear thrown about in the world of software are microservices and web services. These are both ways of defining software products by breaking larger software products down into manageable chunks that can talk to each other. Let's take a closer look.
Microservices architecture involves breaking down a software application into its smaller components, rather than just having one large software application. Typically, this involves splitting up a software application into smaller, distinct business capabilities. These can then talk to each other via an interface.
Let's take a basic example, for instance, your business is a small retailer. Instead of going and looking at your shelves all the time to see when you need to reorder stock, you want to automate it, see what's been sold and order when stocks are low. You want to be able to effectively manage and update your product catalog rather than just knowing off the top of your head. A software product can do all these things at once – however, breaking it into these three main capabilities (catalog management, inventory management, and order management) means separation of both logic and services, and makes more sense.
You can do this just in a regular monolithic software – do separation of components – however, a microservice architecture takes it further. Each service component is a piece of software within itself. The inputs and outputs that can flow from the other services are only defined by an API (Application Programming Interface), which ensures security and atomicity of each component, while still being able to talk to its neighbor software components, making it far easier for testing and reuse if necessary.
So, if microservices are like mini-applications that can talk to each other, then what are web services? Well, they are also mini-applications that can talk to each other, but over a network, in a defined format. They allow one piece of software to get input from another piece of software, or provide output, over a network. This is performed via a defined interface and language, such as XML.
If you're running on a network where your software components or services won't be co-located, or you want the option of running them in separate locations in the future (e.g. cloud to cloud, server to premises, client to server, server to server) then you will likely need to use web services in some form.
What's Best for My Project?
For anything beyond a singular-function software, it's advisable to choose a microservices architecture: developers can work on distinct parts, it's easier to test, and it generally takes less time to "put together." Single teams can work on single distinct business components.
If your software needs to speak to other software over a network, or you'd like the software itself to "live" in separate places, then you'll likely need to use web services to do so.
So, yes, your software can use both microservices and web services at the same time — in fact, it probably will.
The right architecture for your project, of course, depends on the requirements themselves. For a small program that exists solely on your phone or laptop and doesn't require a network connection for any reason, then you might not use a microservices architecture, or any web services to get the job done. In this case, the development is probably pretty straightforward and the software won't take too much time to develop (unless the operations are complex or compute-heavy, there's in-depth graphics, etc.).
As the saying goes, there are many different ways to skin a cat, and so too is the case with software development — there's no "right" way to do something. You could develop a huge, complex, network-heavy program without using microservices or web services, but it might be a big mess that takes forever to develop (and never makes it out of the testing phase).
Choosing the right design architecture for your software, in the beginning, is critical to seeing it be developed along a healthy time frame, ensuring it's well-tested, and that it's robust enough to ensure a change doesn't break the whole thing.


There is a substantial amount of pollution that goes into our oceans every day. This can come in the form of garbage, plastic, metal, or even raw sewage. This problem gets worse every year as the population continues to expand. People have tried to come up with ways to dispose of municipal solid waste, but the sheer volume of it often makes the ocean a likely place for some of this to end up in. If you are trying to think of ideas on how to save our oceans from the pollution that is contaminating it, here are a few possibilities that might help.
A business that is focused on cleaning up the ocean might be the best solution. There are actually companies that have done this already. A business started by two friends that were surfers called 4Ocean have created a multimillion dollar business that has cleaned up an incredible amount of trash. They actually have bracelets that you can purchase for $20 that will effectively help remove 1 pound of trash from the ocean. Although this may have seemed like a far-fetched idea years ago, it is often those ideas which seem ridiculous which are the ones that we consider to be the best now.
If you want to recycle more municipal solid waste at one of these facilities is to integrate a pyrolysis machine. These are able to take organic material, plastic, rubber, and other materials that can be extracted and convert those into burnable fuels. The process is very simple. The materials are chipped up, made much smaller, and are put into a pyrolysis reactor. The oxygen is removed, and once it reaches a certain temperature, chemical processes will occur. This will lead to the production of charcoal and burnable fuel that can be sold. The cost of these operations can be offset by the immediate sale of these materials that are in high demand.
Solving ocean pollution issues does not have to be difficult. Almost anyone can think of great ideas. Sometimes all it takes is someone with one good idea, that has the funding and the time to implement that idea, that will change the way we are as a society in the future. Hopefully people will expand upon what 4Ocean has done, and also step up recycling efforts with pyrolysis machines and reactors at local MSW facilities.


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The project "You are no longer in charge Mr Man" represents the concept of virtual space and position of individual within it.
My work was inspired by Charlie Brooker's television anthology series "Black Mirror". The episodes belong to the speculative fiction genre and examine contradictory codependence between modern society and technology/media. Brooker paints a picture of a near future gone technologically awry.
Originally, I intended to create a project demonstrating the potential outcome of human's dependence on technology. We strive for comfort and invent gadgets and media that we hope will simplify our lives. However, constant innovations and further developments in the world of technology can have an opposite result to the one that we desire.
I began my research with exploration of films focusing on apocalypses such as "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" and dystopian societies that arouse from the conflict between various parties. I was going to capture the state of disaster, chaos and isolation, which I would show through the view of a single character who witnessed the unfolding events.
I have started building a story around the virus that could have been potentially developed by the AI and spread around the humans. The P-Virus where "P" stands for "Pixelatus" would be contracted via various technological devices. Individuals would have a week since the day of contraction. The virus spread would come in stages:
Stage 1: Activation of previously inactive departments of a brain
Stage 2: Transformation of the physical body. The skin surface would be changing its structure to resemble pixels
Stage 3: Disintegration of the body. The matter would become a part of the grid controlled by AI and The Cloud. They would gather human intelligence to obtain the full control over everything alive.
I have started documenting the events of apocalypses by capturing photos of abandoned places, writing a diary of the survivor, producing articles. However, during my research and the process of the project development I have reassessed my ideas. I started coming to terms that the aftermath does not matter as such. The main conflict between the individual and technology starts from their first interaction.
We enter an absolutely new territory and space. It captivates and scares us at the same time, we gain power within this space, but loose control. It overwhelms us, intrigues us, lightens us up, destroys us. Technology and media can be a blessing or a deadly weapon. Therefore, I have decided to reflect the idea of the individual detachment and loss of the feeling of realty within the digital space. The idea is still inline with my original project, however now it is shown through the installation and the hologram.
The installation shows the number of the self-portraits taken by the "survivor". His mind is changing, his body transforms into digital matter. He is becoming a part of the grid and the reality is unavoidably slipping through his fingers. He takes the photos again and again to prove to himself that he is still real, that he still exists.
The second part of the project involves the creation of a hologram that creates an effect of a ghostly figure levitating in space. This represents the transition from the real world into the digital space. The video reflects the feeling of entrapment and disturbance. The individual cannot escape and is bound to merge with the digital reality.


Samsung fans now have just over one week to go until the company's hot new flagship smartphones finally hit store shelves. They were officially announced just last week, but the wait seems so much longer since details surrounding the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, and Galaxy S10e began leaking months ago. We knew just about all of the important details long before Samsung execs took stage at the company's first Unpacked event of 2019, but fans will still be pleasantly surprised at how impressive these phones are when you actually get your hands on one.
We published our in-depth Galaxy S10 review just yesterday, and you should definitely check it out if you're considering picking up any of Samsung's new Galaxy S10 phones for yourself. We don't want to spoil too much, but suffice it to say we were very impressed. Samsung needed a win after releasing three of the most boring flagship phones we've ever seen in 2018, and the Galaxy S10 series is indeed destined to be a big win. As if Samsung's overhauled design and all of the S10's nifty new features weren't enough, there's now even more good news for future Galaxy S10 owners in the United States.
When we review upcoming smartphones, we aim our analyses toward the average consumer. Anandtech, on the other hand, is aimed squarely at tech geeks. The tech blog is known far and wide for its deep dives into all things technical, and it just published a great comparison of the Galaxy S10 for the US and the international model.
Samsung uses two different chipsets to power its flagship smartphones. In the US and China, it uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors. Then in other markets, Samsung's phones are powered by its own Exynos processors. In the past, Exynos-powered phones have often outperformed their Snapdragon-equipped counterparts, though performance has always been pretty close. Can the same be said of the Galaxy S10, which packs the Snapdragon 855 SoC in the US and Samsung's new Exynos 9820 chip?
The Snapdragon 855's apparent performance edge can be attributed in part to the fact that it uses more advanced process technology. In a nutshell, the Snapdragon 855 is a 7-nanometer chipset that packs more transistors into a smaller amount of space than the 8-nanometer Exynos 9820. There may be other factors at play as well, but the bottom line is that US consumers finally have bragging rights over other markets.
The Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, and Galaxy S10+ are currently available for preorder from Samsung and all major US wireless carriers, and they're set to be released next Friday, March 8th.


Saturn's active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view of Enceladus was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017. It is among the last images Cassini sent back. The view is part of a movie sequence of images taken over a period of 40 minutes as the icy moon passed behind Saturn from the spacecraft's point of view.
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet and closing a thrilling chapter in the exploration of our solar system.
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Q: How to find a basis for this set of polynomials with matlab I'm new on Matlab tools. Teacher told me to find the basis for this polynomials using matlab:
$$ -15 -x+x^2+x^3+x^4+x^5 $$
$$ -35+x+2x^2+3x^3+4x^4+5x^5 $$
$$ -70+x+3x^2+6x^3+10x^4+15x^5 $$
$$ -126+x+4x^2+10x^3+20x^4+35x^5 $$
$$ -210+x+5x^2+15x^3+35x^4+70x^5 $$
So, all I know is define the matrix relative to this system. How to proceed?
Please help me step by step. I don't know how to to solve the problem in matlab, but I know how to do it with paper.


One way to create an unforgettable dining experience is telling a story through a restaurant's interior design. Stories create memories, and good memories bring customers back.
When it comes to a space that targets both kids and adults, the story become even more important. The Neobio restaurant in Shangai, China, creates a fairy-tale ambiance with its smart interior design dreamed up by the architect and designer Li Xiang and her X+Living team.
White cutouts placed all around the area of the restaurant give it the aura of a castle, yet the light color and the graceful, supple lines of these wood elements make the interior rather dreamy. Against this background, other elements in both pastel and vibrant colors add to the story: mythical creatures, hot air balloons and transparent tunnels that invite children to move between different areas and explore.
The Neobio restaurant design is proof that an interior created with children in mind does not have to be tacky, nor to rely on a combination of strident primary colors. This is a place where adults can enjoy the relaxing, clean and airy color palette, the modern furniture and even a bit of glamor when using the gold-framed benches in the sitting area.
Another type of story is told by the interior of the Il Mercato Gentiloni restaurant in Saltillo, Mexico. While mixing elements of both Mexican and Italian cultures and offering plenty of decorative detail, the restaurant design, brought to life by Cadena+Asociados, has an ambiance defined by one simple addition to the design mix – a series of white wheel carts that give the place a whimsical and dynamic feel.
A cross between street vendor carts and bicycles, these mobile additions call to mind carefree vacation days spent walking up and down cobblestone streets, where delicious treats wait just around the corner. Inside the restaurant, the white theme continues with simple furniture and shelving laden with greenery, a combination that keeps the interior light and fresh.


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Daniel R. Fischel
Jessica P. Mandel
Todd D. Kendall
Clifford S. Ang
Avisheh Mohsenin
Robin E. Stahl
Kevin D. Hartt
Andrew Lin
Heather J. Freilich-Farby
Compass Lexecon's Client the United States Prevails in $1 Billion Chrysler Dealers Takings Litigation
Court Relies on Testimony of Compass Lexecon President Professor Daniel R. Fischel
After struggling for years, in late 2008 Chrysler Corporation was forced to seek Government assistance to avoid failure. As part of the TARP program, the U.S. Treasury provided Chrysler a bridge loan which required Chrysler to develop a plan to achieve long term viability. In April 2009, Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, in the process rejecting 789 dealer franchise agreements. Several groups of rejected dealers sued the United States claiming that the Government, in its role as lender of last resort, coerced Chrysler into rejecting the franchise agreements and claiming the rejection was an illegal taking under the Fifth Amendment. Plaintiffs claimed that, but for the rejections, the dealers would have survived and retained value under several scenarios. The dealers sought $1 billion in damages.
Compass Lexecon and its President, Professor Daniel Fischel, were retained by the Department of Justice to respond to plaintiffs' various alleged scenarios. A trial was held in the Court of Federal Claims in April and May 2019. Professor Fischel testified, among other things, that Plaintiffs' scenarios were implausible and unsupported, that Chrysler was insolvent and could not have survived absent Government support, that Plaintiffs' experts claims that Chrysler could have been bought by various other auto companies were not plausible, that financing necessary for a restructuring with continued production was not available in the market, and the Government's terms, rather than being coercive, were consistent with terms commonly requested by commercial lenders to protect their capital.
On October 3, 2019, Judge Nancy B. Firestone of the Court of Federal Claims rejected the Plaintiffs' claims in their entirety, holding that "the evidence established that Chrysler would have faced immediate liquidation" absent Government assistance and that Plaintiffs "failed to prove their franchise agreements would have had value" absent Government assistance. Her opinion extensively discussed and repeatedly relied upon Professor Fischel's testimony. The court emphasized, for example, that "Professor Fischel, with his extensive expertise, provided persuasive testimony which confirmed to the court that [Plaintiffs' expert's] opinions were based on pure speculation," and that Professor Fischel's testimony "systematically and convincingly explained" why Plaintiffs' claims had no merit.
Professor Fischel was supported by a Compass Lexecon team led by Jessica Mandel in Compass Lexecon's Chicago office that included Todd Kendall, Clifford Ang, Avisheh Mohsenin, Robin Stahl, Kevin Hartt, Andrew Lin and Heather Freilich. We worked closely with attorneys at the United States Department of Justice including Kenneth Dintzer, Elizabeth Hosford, James Connor, Alison Vicks and Zachary Sullivan.


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Taqchita ( تكشيطة, alternatieve spelling: takchita, takcheeta, tackchita) is een traditioneel Marokkaans kledingstuk voor vrouwen welke veelal tijdens bruiloften wordt gedragen. Het bestaat uit twee stukken. Een onderjurk van fijne stof. Dit wordt een "Tahtia" genoemd. Daarboven komt een overjurk met op de voorkant vaak de traditionele "Dfina". De bovenste laag is vaak rijkelijk versierd met kraken borduurwerk en pailleten.

Marokkaanse folklore
Kleding in Marokko

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Do exercises 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.9 from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (second edition).
never use mutating operators, such as (re)assignment of variables. Define is ok.
Be certain you are using the correct edition of the text. Not all exercises are similar between the first and second editions of the text. Ditto for the online version.


PROGRAMME: Preliminary design started early 1994. Registration PH-VXM reserved March 1997. Main fuselage moulds completed early 1999. Main wings due to be completed by mid-2001, but this slipped to 2003 due to redesign work. The landing gear was due for completion by mid-2003. Certification to JAR 23 being undertaken under supervision of Prof dr ir Theo van Holten (flight performance); Prof dr ir J A Mulder (stability/control), ir F van Dalen (construction); Prof ir R J Zwaan (aero-elasticity); ing K van Woerkom (systems); ir van Badegom (fuel and propulsion systems).
DESIGN FEATURES: Twin-boom layout with pod-type fuselage and high wing of parallel chord; swept fins.
FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual. Actuation by pushrods (ailerons and elevator), with cable and pushrod interconnected twin rudder and nosewheel system. Servo-actuated electric pitch trim and electrically operated single-slotted flaps.
STRUCTURE: All-composites wing with GFRP sandwich skin and spars; GFRP tail unit. Some GFRP parts will be produced by resin transfer moulding process. Fuselage steel tube frame with glass fibre shell will be used to finalise design of cockpit and control systems.
Wing section NACA 633415 with RA163CW3 flaps; twin tailbooms joined by NACA 0012 section horizontal stabiliser.
LANDING GEAR: Non-retractable tricycle type; GFRP cantilever sprung mainwheels. Non-steerable nosewheel; mainwheels have 45 cm (17¾ in) tyres pressurised to 3.14 bar (45.5 lb/sq in). Hydraulically operated brakes on mainwheels.
POWER PLANT: One 74.6 kW (100 hp) Mid-West AE110R rotary engine driving a three-blade fixed-pitch propeller. Fuel capacity 65 litres (17.2 US gallons; 14.3 Imp gallons) in single tank located between cockpit and engine. Oil capacity 3.0 litres (0.8 US gallon; 0.7 Imp gallon).
ACCOMMODATION: Side-by-side seating for pilot and passenger under one-piece, Perspex canopy. Baggage space behind seats.


Post -graduate training in Medicine. Two years of training for eligibility to appear in Fellowship exam of college of Physicians & Surgeons, Pakistan.[FCPS part-II].
Baqai institute of Diabetology is recognized for two years training for Fellowship exam of college of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan (FCPS part-II).At present three postgraduate doctors are under training at BIDE.


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Q: Exception when calling ExecuteNonQuery with 0 argument(s): "The multi-part identifier "System.Data.DataRow.id" could not be bound." I am trying with this script to query and collect data from a Postgres server and then load this data in a table DatenBankTable. After that i want to insert this collected information in a table in a SQL Server this is the table in the SQL Server. So it's basically data migration from Postgres to SQL Server.
#### connection to the Postgres server######
$MyServer = "H01POSxxx"
$MyPort  = "5xx"
$MyDB = "daxx"
$MyUid = "akxx"
$MyPass = "xxxx"

$PgConnectionString = "Driver={PostgreSQL Unicode(x64)};Server=$MyServer;Port=$MyPort;Database=$MyDB;Uid=$MyUid;Pwd=$MyPass;"
$PgConn = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection;
$PgConn.ConnectionString = $PgConnectionString;
$PgConn.Open();

#######connection to the SQL Server#########

$SqlConnecting = "Server=h01sqlxx\insxx;Database=KPIs_DBInxxx;Integrated Security= True;Connect Timeout=30";
$SqlConn = new-object System.DATA.Sqlclient.sqlconnection;
$SqlConn.ConnectionString = $SqlConnecting;
$SqlCommand = $SqlConn.CreateCommand();
$SqlConn.open();

#############query the data from the Postrgres server############

$DatenBankQuery = $PgConn.CreateCommand();
$DatenBankQuery.CommandText = "

SELECT pg_database.oid AS ID,
pg_database.datname AS Datenbank,
(pg_stat_file('base/'||pg_database.oid ||'/PG_VERSION')).modification AS Erstellt,
pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(datname)) AS Datenbankgröße,
pg_database.datcollate AS Collation,
pg_shdescription.description AS Beschreibung,
joblog.jlgstart AS Backup
from pg_database LEFT JOIN pg_shdescription
ON pg_database.oid = pg_shdescription.objoid,
pgagent.pga_job jobs
LEFT JOIN pgagent.pga_joblog joblog
ON jobs.jobid = joblog.jlgjobid
WHERE jobs.jobname LIKE '%BACKUP%'
AND joblog.jlgstatus = 's'
AND joblog.jlgstart = (SELECT MAX(jlgstart) from pgagent.pga_joblog) "

######Execute the queries and load the data in the table "DatenBankTable"#########

$DatenBankAdapter = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter($DatenBankQuery)
$DatenBankTable = New-Object System.Data.DataTable
$null = $DatenBankAdapter.Fill($DatenBankTable)

##### insert the data in the table "postgres.DATABASE_TABLE" on the SQL Server########

foreach($tab in $DatnBankTable) {

    $SqlCommand.CommandText = @"

insert into postgres.DATABASE_TABLE (ID, Datenbank, Erstellt, Datenbankgröße, Collation, Beschreibung, Backups)

VALUES ($tab.id, '$tab.datenbank', '$tab.erstellt', '$tab.datenbankgröße', '$tab.collation', '$tab.beschreibung', '$tab.backup');

"@;
}

$null = $SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();

The queries are working and the data is stored in the table DatenBankTable.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $DatenBankTable

id             : 13012
datenbank      : postgres
erstellt       : 05.10.2020 13:47:37
datenbankgröße : 32 MB
collation      : German_Germany.1252
beschreibung   : default administrative connection database
backup         : 11.12.2022 00:00:03

id             : 83481
datenbank      : lrsql_db
erstellt       : 11.03.2022 13:57:31
datenbankgröße : 9549 kB
collation      : German_Germany.1252
beschreibung   :
backup         : 11.12.2022 00:00:03

id             : 1
datenbank      : template1
erstellt       : 05.10.2020 13:47:22
datenbankgröße : 7661 kB
collation      : German_Germany.1252
beschreibung   : default template for new databases
backup         : 11.12.2022 00:00:03

id             : 13011
datenbank      : template0
erstellt       : 05.10.2020 13:47:37
datenbankgröße : 7513 kB
collation      : German_Germany.1252
beschreibung   : unmodifiable empty database
backup         : 11.12.2022 00:00:03

id             : 53356
datenbank      : CrosscapEnterprise_Q
erstellt       : 01.12.2020 13:51:20
datenbankgröße : 14 MB
collation      : German_Germany.1252
beschreibung   :
backup         : 11.12.2022 00:00:03

id             : 86458
datenbank      : TNM_Remox_Q
erstellt       : 07.06.2022 11:22:34
datenbankgröße : 7773 kB
collation      : German_Germany.1252
beschreibung   :
backup         : 11.12.2022 00:00:03

id             : 115715
datenbank      : Test_DB_LM
erstellt       : 03.11.2022 15:55:00
datenbankgröße : 7805 kB
collation      : German_Germany.1252
beschreibung   : TEST11
backup         : 11.12.2022 00:00:03

However, I get this error when trying to insert this data into SQL Server:

Exception when calling ExecuteNonQuery with 0 argument(s): "The multi-part identifier "System.Data.DataRow.id" could not be bound."

I'm not sure what the exact problem is, but if I had to guess, I would say that the values are not being interpreted, because I have more than one table, as you can see here:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $SqlCommand

Connection              : System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection
NotificationAutoEnlist  : True
Notification            :
Transaction             :
CommandText             :
                          insert into postgres.DATABASE_TABLE (ID, Datenbank, Erstellt, Datenbankgröße, Collation, Beschreibung, Backups)

                          VALUES (System.Data.DataRow.id, 'System.Data.DataRow.datenbank', 'System.Data.DataRow.erstellt', 'System.Data.DataRow.datenbankgröße', 'System.Data.DataRow.collation', 'System.Data.DataRow.beschreibung', 'System.Data.DataRow.backup');

ColumnEncryptionSetting : UseConnectionSetting
CommandTimeout          : 30
CommandType             : Text
DesignTimeVisible       : True
Parameters              : {}
UpdatedRowSource        : Both

I tried to solve the problem with parameters but that doesn't work either.
    $SqlCommand.CommandText = @"

insert into postgres.DATABASE_TABLE (ID, Datenbank, Erstellt, Datenbankgröße, Collation, Beschreibung, Backups)

VALUES ("@id", @da, @qw, @er, @rt, @tz, @zu);

"@;

$SqlCommand.Parameters.Add("@id", $DatenBankTable);

and I get this error:

The table type parameter '@id' must have a valid type name

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>   $SqlCommand.CommandText = @"

insert into postgres.DATABASE_TABLE (ID, Datenbank, Erstellt, Datenbankgröße, Collation, Beschreibung, Backups)

VALUES ("@id", @da, @qw, @er, @rt, @tz, @zu);

"@;

$SqlCommand.Parameters.Add("@id", $DatenBankTable);

$null = $SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();

CompareInfo                     : None
XmlSchemaCollectionDatabase     :
XmlSchemaCollectionOwningSchema :
XmlSchemaCollectionName         :
ForceColumnEncryption           : False
DbType                          : Object
LocaleId                        : 0
ParameterName                   : @id
Precision                       : 0
Scale                           : 0
SqlDbType                       : Structured
SqlValue                        :
UdtTypeName                     :
TypeName                        :
Value                           : {13012, 83481, 1, 13011...}
Direction                       : Input
IsNullable                      : False
Offset                          : 0
Size                            : 0
SourceColumn                    :
SourceColumnNullMapping         : False
SourceVersion                   : Current

Ausnahme beim Aufrufen von "ExecuteNonQuery" mit 0 Argument(en):  "Der table-Typparameter '@id' muss einen gültigen Typnamen haben."
In Zeile:11 Zeichen:1
+ $null = $SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException

I am really lost and I have been trying to solve this problem for 3 days. Any help is greatly appreciated


Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Harry Winks has said that he is not feeling pressure in his new role as the replacement for Mousa Dembele.
The Spurs fans favourite ended his seven-year spell with the Lilywhites last month as he became the latest player to swap the Premier League for the financially lucrative Chinese Super League.
Dembele has been a key part of the Tottenham first-team for the past few years. However, he started to suffer from injury problems towards the end of his time in North London.
His departure from the club is not necessarily a bad thing. He is certainly past his peak and Tottenham can now give his position to a more hungry and young player such as Winks.
Dembele on the other hand could see out his days in a less physically demanding place such as China and this could also help him to prolong his professional career by a few years.
Winks had to deputise a lot for the 31-year-old during the first half of the season. The 23-year-old has also been a mainstay in the heart of the Tottenham midfield for Mauricio Pochettino's side along with Moussa Sissoko and Christian Eriksen after Eric Dier picked up an injury in December.
Winks is still a player who is relatively young and there is no doubt that he is capable of blossoming into one of the Premier League's best central midfielders within the next 2-3 years.
The experience that he is now getting will certainly prove invaluable in terms of his development as a Tottenham player.
Winks has however played down suggestions that he is a replacement to Dembele.
"I learned a lot from Mousa, not only was he fantastic on the field as everyone knows but he was top off the field as well, he was a real humble guy and a nice person to speak to," he told The Daily Mail.


This past weekend saw Lahore play host to the PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week. This show was meant to showcase collections for the summer season (let's not pretend that we're in spring anymore, it's freaking hot). This fashion week saw the ramp showcase some pretty funky, vibrant and light collections for the heat, and we're seriously impressed with how many trends came up this time around.
These featured heavily on day one and two of the fashion show, with different designers showing long shirts, made of light fabric. This is the perfect summer look!
Polka dots were HOT on the ramp this time around. Polka dots are a fun way to spruce up an outfit. They have the ability to be muted and also loud at the same time- depending on what you pair them with. They can also offer a whimsical touch, to what would be a more modern-looking outfit.
3. Color blocking like we've never seen before.
Color blocking is an international sensation, and it is something we know very well in Pakistan, however, at this fashion week the color combinations were to die for. Get ready to screenshot this, because y'all need the inspiration for summer!
Both these fabrics are ideal for summer- it's pretty basic knowledge for desis who want to survive the heat! This year, chikankari based designs made it big on the ramp, paired with gota and color. It's clearly time to hit summer fashionably! Also, side note, these make for GREAT eid looks.
Internationally, yellow has been the color of the season, however, almost all the designers who showcased at this fashion week had items in white, and truth be told, they were stunning!
6. Structured shoulders and shoulder pads.
Structured jackets and shoulder pads have been happening for a while, in the international fashion community but they're having their exaggerated moment on the fashion week.