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Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Created Its Own Brand of Creative Destruction
Amazon-Whole Foods is no doubt good for AMZN shareholders, but what does the rise of Big Tech mean for humanity?
July 22, 2021 By InvestorPlace Research Staff Jun 26, 2017, 11:03 am EST July 22, 2021
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is a company that began by selling books and is now zeroing in on selling … well, everything. It's a one-company wrecking ball. In fact, AMZN is putting together its own form of creative destruction — one that may be like none that's ever been seen in the history of business, leaving behind potentially the biggest and mightiest crumbling when the dust settles.
The term "creative destruction" was coined 75 years ago by Australian economist Joseph Schumpeter, and it refers to the destruction of old businesses, products and services by new and improved versions driven by the free market rewards that are central to capitalism.
In fact, Schumpeter called capitalism "the perennial gale of creative destruction," a perpetual machine that churns out better mouse traps while living in the evolutionary wake of a trail of busted, older mouse trap companies.
Fast forward to Jeff Bezos and Amazon.
The "eureka" moment came a couple weeks ago when Amazon announced that it would buy Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:WFM) for $13.7 billion. WFM naturally jumped and AMZN stock surged higher, but the news also sent shares of pure grocers and other big food retailers spiraling, losing $50 billion in market capitalization in just one day.
Two days later, rumors of a deal to sell Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE) footwear on Amazon's website sent sports retailers into a freefall. Then apparel retailers like Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE:JWN), J C Penney Company Inc (NYSE:JCP), Chico's FAS, Inc. (NYSE:CHS) and Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROST) fell on Amazon's announcement of a Prime Wardrobe service that will let customers order clothes, try them on at home and then send back what they don't want at no cost.
I have no doubt the Amazon/Whole Foods deal will go through, and while the grocery has a relatively small portion of market share, I suspect the merger will trigger a wave of deals designed for growth for some and survival for others.
The fact that AMZN stock rallied enough on the day of the announcement to cover the cost of the acquisition underscores the fact that this is great news for its shareholders, and therefore I view the stock as a good potential investment.
My fear here isn't from a business point of view. It's from a personal freedom point of view.
The De Facto Big Brother
It's one thing to talk about and study destruction, but it's another to watch it happen at dueling speeds.
Right now it feels like watching a slow-motion train wreck, yet it's happening exponentially faster that most expected just a couple years ago. It's not the beginning of the end for brick-and-mortar retailers; this is a coup de grace.
I think there is a three-headed tech hydra that is becoming the de facto Big Brother we were warned about a long time ago.
AMZN, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) will soon know everything about everyone, possibly to the point where they will be able to manipulate our thoughts and habits. They may even usher in a different kind of creative destruction.
As an investor, it's clear that these companies are only beginning to make the next move in a path of destruction that will change everything. There's no question it will be good for shareholders.
The question is: At what cost?
Matthew McCall is the founder and president of Penn Financial Group, an investment advisory firm, as well as the editor of FUTR Stocks and the ETF Bulletin. Matt is currently in the midst of an exciting launch centered around his trademark three-prong investing approach that targets the mega-trends old Wall Street is missing out on. His next-gen investing strategy is delivering enormous profits in stocks and ETFs. Click here for more information on his latest venture.
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Christopher "Kris" Marshall, född 1 april 1973 i Bath, Somerset, är en engelsk skådespelare. Marshall fick sitt genombrott och är även mest känd som Nick Harper i sitcomen Jämna plågor, han har sedan gjort flera framstående filmroller.

Biografi
Marshall växte upp i Malmesbury, Wiltshire samt i Hongkong och Kanada. Marshall har gått på Wells Cathedral School, men efter att blivit underkänd på sin studentexamen (A-levels) fortsatte han på Redroofs Theatre School. År 2008 bodde han i Windsor, Berkshire.

Karriär
Marshall började inom skådespeleriet redan 1993 med Closing Numbers, samt i den brittiska TV-serien The Bill (1999), men det var först 2000 han fick sitt genombrott i komediserien Jämna plågor som Nick Harper. År 2003 lämnade han serien men gjorde några enstaka inhopp.

Filmografi (urval)
 - Nick Harper (44 avsnitt)
 - Pasha Antipov
 - Colin Frissell
 - Gratiano
 - Art
 - Sutton (11 avsnitt)
 - Troy
 - Dick Puddlecote
 - Humphrey Goodman
 - Tom Parker

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When Sheridan first introduced an animation course in the 1960s, no one could have imagined the growth it would see in the decades that followed. Graduates of Sheridan's Animation programs have gone on to produce some of the most beloved characters on screens big and small, and have found success in fields such as illustration, game design and visual effects.
Pixar storyboard artist Domee Shi (Animation '11) reflects on the success of her animated short, Bao, and the role Sheridan College played in her career.
Fireflies is an animated short created by Annika, a fourth-year animation student in celebration of Sheridan's Animation program turning 50.
Watch Dog Painter, an animated short created by Annika, a fourth-year animation student in celebration of Sheridan's Animation program turning 50.
Creativity is everywhere at Sheridan. As we mark our 50th anniversary, take a look at what sets Sheridan apart.
Or email your photos to the alumni office and we can post them for you. Your photo could be showcased in our 50th anniversary events this fall.
Sheridan alumna Domee Shi (Bachelor of Animation '11) has been awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for her directorial debut, Bao.
To best understand Sheridan animation and discover how it's sustained its renown for half a century, you really have to speak with the faculty who have always been at its heart.
Two Sheridan alumni were honoured at the 46th annual Annie Awards. Trevor Jimenez (Animation 2007) took home the award for Best Animated Short Subject while Chris Sauve (Animation 1986) was part of the team to win in the category of Best Character Animation in a Live Action Production.
Sheridan alumni were celebrated, when 12 graduates won Canadian Screen Awards (CSAs). The CSAs celebrate Canadian productions and talent in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes in film, television and digital media.
Award-winning children's author and illustrator Jon Klassen is among the 105 individuals to have been appointed to the Order of Canada.
Sheridan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design (IADT), located near Dublin, Ireland, which will see the two institutions work together towards an articulation agreement that will allow qualified Sheridan graduates to enroll in IADT's Master of Animation program.
Sheridan was recently ranked in The Hollywood Reporter's (THR) list of Top 10 Visual Effects schools, alongside postsecondary institutions in Germany, England, the United States (Los Angeles; Sarasota, Florida; San Francisco; Savannah, Georgia) and Vancouver. The ranking was based on surveys with recruiters, industry professionals and sources in academia.
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Appeal after rider of motorised scooter dies in York
Police investigating a collision involving a motorised mobility scooter in York are appealing for information and dash-cam footage following the death of the rider.
The collision happened at around 10.45am on Wednesday 5 June 2019 near the Aldi store on Fulford Road when a Ford Fiesta, which was travelling towards the city centre, was in collision with the scooter.
The rider of the scooter, a man in his 80s from York, was taken to York District Hospital where he sadly died from his injuries a week later.
The driver of the Fiesta, a woman in her 80s, was uninjured.
Police are appealing to motorists in the area at the time who may have dash-cam footage of the scooter or Fiesta prior to the collision, or footage of the incident to contact them.
They are also appealing to anyone else who was in the area and saw either vehicle prior to the collision or witnessed the incident, to contact them.
Anyone who can assist the investigation is asked to contact North Yorkshire Police on 101, and ask for the Major Collision Investigation Team at Tadcaster. Please quote 12190070738 when sharing information.

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Displaced Student from Louisiana Gives Thanks For Life
As the holiday season continues to gain momentum, some Hurricane Katrina victims have come to find personal truth in the fact that, "home is simply where their heart is." More than three months later, many college students who were displaced by the storm and forced to attend other institutions away from home, are concluding a semester that has been filled with numerous unknowns and new experiences.
Ronald Richardson, a sophomore education major at Howard University, is from New Orleanswho ransferred to Howard in mid September from Southern University. He said that even with this semester drawing to a close, he is still trying to completely grasp the fact that he has begun a new life in Washington, D.C.
Richardson, who used to live in downtown New Orleans, said that when his family heard about the hurricane, they initially thought that the storm gave them the perfect excuse to take a vacation. After looking at different hotels and discussing where to go, Richardson said that his family finally decided to head to Brookhaven, Mississippi, where his father had family.
"We filled up the water pots for the dogs, cut the alarm on, cut the water off so we wouldn't have to pay for the bill, and got two to three days worth of clothing," Richardson said. "I said let me get all of my old, raggedy clothes cuz we going to the country. I left my car cuz I said 'the water isn't going to get that high'. That's the kind of attitude we left with."
Richardson also said that leaving his family behind in Mississippi to come to school at Howard was the hardest thing that he's ever had to do. "I didn't want to go off to college. I wanted to stay. I had to leave my family in Mississippi and come up here by myself. "
Nonetheless, Richardson faced his nervousness about his future and set out to explore a new life in Washington, DC. About a week after he moved to Howard, both his immediate family and some members of his extended family, totaling about 25 people in all, moved to the DC metropolitan area as well. They lived out of different hotels for weeks before settling into various communities in Maryland.
Richardson said that he was faced with many challenges and changes upon is arrival at Howard including financial trouble, having to transition into dorm life, and getting used to the entire Howard atmosphere. In comparison to life at Southern, Richardson noted more differences than similarities.
His first observation of change was that because Southern didn't have dorms, he stayed at home, where he had his own room. But at Howard he moved into a freshman dormitory, which required him to adapt to sharing his space and getting along with a roommate. He also said that on a good day the cafeteria at Southern had about 20 people, while at Howard the lines wrap around the dining area
However, the most striking difference that he spoke of between the two institutions was the elaborate production of Homecoming at Howard. "Homecoming at Southern . . . it's possible to be there and find out in the middle of the week that it's going on. Howard treats it like it's a Jewish festival or something," he said.
Overall, he said that people were welcoming when he first arrived to Howard and that by the end of October he began to feel more at ease with the entire situation. As far as the Howard administration is concerned he said, "I think they were doing everything they could with the time they had because everything happened so fast."
Yet, Richardson did encountered mixed feeling from many students on campus especially in response to the financial aid that displaced students like him received to attend Howard for the fall semester. He also said that he was unfortunate enough to overhear one administrator voice concerns about whether or not the incoming displaced students were involved in the looting shown on television after the hurricane.
Although Richardson said that a part of him believes that he will return to New Orleans one day, that time is not right now. Currently, he said that he is focusing on the new year and that his short term goals are to continue to excel in his academics and to feel a little bit more at home at Howard. In reviewing his semester in its entirety he said, "I managed the semester. I did better than I thought I would with everything. The Lord helped me out."
Recently, Richardson joined his first campus organization, the Howard University Community Choir, which he said was instrumental in helping him feel more welcome and at home. He noted that in light of his goals of academic excellence, he is satisfied with his campus involvement only consisting of the choir for right now.
While still wading through the rubble of childhood memories and ever-present nostalgia, Richardson continues to count his many blessings. Refusing to complain about any of the hardship that he has experienced this semester, he summed up his first semester at Howard and his life by saying, "I'm just so glad to be alive. No one died in our family. I just thank God that were still here."
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Opinion: Is Iowa still a good place to live? P-C editorial board to answer this question in 2023.
Opinion: Is Iowa still a good place to live? We'll explore this.
Press-Citizen editorial board
When we wrote our previous end-of-year piece, we had hopes for 2022. While some things did improve, there's a general feeling among the Press-Citizen editorial board that many of the issues we were concerned about (and some new ones) have not improved or have gotten worse. Here we're going to outline the current issues in Iowa as we see it, then talk about the issues we hope to address in 2023.
Internally, what is most concerning to us as the Iowa City Press-Citizen editorial board is the recent actions of Gannett, which have led to fewer and fewer staff (and an increase in staff turnover) at the Iowa City Press-Citizen and the Des Moines Register over the years. We should all be concerned that when local news organizations are taken over by companies who only care about the bottom line, the journalism inevitably suffers. That's where we are now. While we commend the reporters still valiantly trying to report on the issues important to our community (and we miss the many excellent reporters and editors we were privileged to work with), their job gets harder and harder. These issues are not specific to Gannett or Iowa City — local news is being decimated across the country, and many communities now live in news deserts. This has influenced not just the reporting but the operation of the board as well. However, we believe an independent voice representing the community is necessary, and we will continue to fight to engage with the community to be that voice for as long as we can.
Another area of concern is the move in Iowa from a moderate, purple state that chose President Barack Obama to a deep red state that supports former President Donald Trump and his politics of grievance. We are a state governed by a party that is increasingly focused on fighting culture wars vs. governing for all Iowans, and the Iowa Democratic Party does not seem up to mounting any sort of strong defense. Given the issues we've outlined over the year, we've started to ask ourselves: What impact has this had on our state? Is Iowa still a good place to live? Where do we stand with issues like the state of K-12 education and higher education, the environment, health care, the economy, protection of individual rights and underrepresented groups, and the state of local news and politics?
Here we will outline our general sense about these issues, which we hope to explore more in depth over the course of 2023 to examine whether our instincts prove to be true and if so, what our leaders can do to address such issues.
Our concerns with education are far-ranging. We've seen a massive disinvestment in both K-12 and higher education by our state Legislature. We've seen attacks on the academic freedom of teachers and students making Iowa a less attractive place to teach and learn. Our public school national rankings have dropped, and Republican governments are making it harder for teachers to teach the full history of the United States. Overall, it seems as though Iowa is increasingly becoming hostile to public education at all levels and more interested in diverting public funds to private schools, often religious schools. Iowa historically has been known for two things: education and agriculture. A state of decline in either is unconscionable.
As a state heavily dependent on agriculture, environmental issues will always be important to Iowans, particularly issues related to water quality and climate change. We consistently rank low in water quality issues. What does that mean for our most important industry? Our waterways are also important for recreation, such as fishing, swimming, and other water sports, which are affected by issues such as harmful algal blooms that are especially dangerous for children and animals. The quality of our waterways also affects the quality of our drinking water, whether you are on a municipal or well system. Climate change, whether related to fluctuations in temperature, changing patterns of precipitation, or increased severe weather events, also will have far-reaching effects not only for agriculture, but also for emergency management coordinators across the state. What are we doing to ensure our communities are resilient in the face of these changes in climate?
Over the past year we've seen issues related to the administration of Medicaid in Iowa, attacks on women's reproductive rights, continued burnout for medical professionals, and a need to focus on access to mental health treatment. With the University of Iowa Healthcare systems a major driver of the economy here in Iowa City, it's important that we pay attention to these issues and continue to improve health care access and costs.
Where does Iowa's economy stand in comparison to our neighbors? We should be doing everything we can to attract talent to our state, yet we seem to be losing our young people and college graduates to other areas where they perceive there to be more opportunity. We should be doing everything we can to retain these Iowans, and we need to make sure we are friendly to businesses while balancing the needs of our communities. Many companies are moving from more expensive areas and we should be actively courting these opportunities.
As we have highlighted in past opinions, we have become increasingly concerned that our leaders want to govern only for specific groups of Iowans. Whether making it harder to enact commonsense gun legislation, to attacking transgender students, to censuring Republican leaders who voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, state and local Republican leaders seem intent on fighting culture wars through legislation. This should concern all Iowans, but especially those in underrepresented or vulnerable groups.
We look forward to engaging with community members on these and other issues in the coming year. Every member of the board remains a proud Iowan, but we want to ask some hard questions about what we might have lost over the past few decades. Are we still the Iowa of Bob Ray, Jim Leach, or Tom Harkin? Or are we moving in a different direction, one that may be discouraging for many of our citizens? Questioning our leaders is a hallmark of a functioning democracy, and we hope to encourage our state leaders to work for all Iowans to ensure we can continue to be proud to be from the Hawkeye State!
The Iowa City Press-Citizen Editorial Board is a volunteer group of readers who meet weekly. They are Venise Berry, Dave Bright, Shams Ghoneim, Robert Goodfellow, Kylah Hedding and John Macatee. The editorial board is separate from newsroom editors and reporters, and its views do not influence the decisions they make about news coverage.


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Spat threatens Malaysian reforms
A recent quarrel within Malaysia's leadership is threatening to derail social and economic reforms in the country.
Abdullah: I don't have any problems with Mahathir
When Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's long-ruling former leader, handed the reins of this multi-ethnic nation to his deputy Abdullah Badawi in 2003, planned political and economic reforms promised to take the country into a new age of prosperity.
While Mahathir had overseen the country's transformation from an agrarian backwater into a manufacturing exporter, it was Abdullah who declared war on the country's endemic graft and scrapped mega projects that were leaving the nation sorely in debt.
He began easing restrictions to attract outside investors and promoted Islam Hadhari (Civilisational Islam) to curb creeping fundamentalism.
But a recent war of words between Mahathir and Abdullah that has intensified in recent weeks may impede Malaysia's goal of realising Vision 2020, an ambitious national strategy to transform the country into a fully developed Asian giant by 2020.
In June, Mahathir began excoriating his handpicked successor for recent policy decisions, notably to scrap a new bridge connecting Malaysia with neighbouring Singapore.
He also criticised Abdullah's move to lower vehicle tariffs which were put in place to protect the struggling national car maker Proton.
Mahathir has questioned some of
his successor's decisions
By doing so Mahathir is hardly championing reform.
His stinging criticism is a not so subtle call to restore his vision of the country and is raising doubts about Abdullah's effectiveness and sincerity as a reformist.
Ramon Navaratnam, president of the Malaysian chapter of Transparency International, a non-profit organisation working to counter corruption, says: "Suddenly people are asking, what's gone wrong in the current leadership that we don't know about?"
Navaratnam says what appears as a political struggle between the two men from the same ruling party, "has turned into an issue of transparency and integrity".
Mahathir wants a thorough probe, for instance, into why the bridge project was cancelled.
One theory suggests that it was because Malaysians could not sell a billion cubic feet of sand to Singapore as part of the deal.
Mahathir has called Abdullah's talk of greater transparency "a big bluff".
In the initial stages of the rift, the prime minister mostly ignored his predecessor's allegations, opting to allow allies in his party the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) to rally to his defence.
Top Umno figures have declared their firm support for Abdullah in recent weeks, with some calling for Mahathir's removal from the party.
Meanwhile, the state-controlled press has mostly turned a deaf ear to Mahathir's allegations.
Abdullah responds
Last week, however, Abdullah made his first remarks on the row.
"Well, certainly you do feel [hurt] but you overcome it very quickly. Why should I have any ill feelings towards anybody? I don't have any problems with [Mahathir]," he said at a press conference.
Malaysians are worried about the
state of their economy
In a move to get his former boss off his back, Abdullah recently declassified some documents pertaining to the bridge project that included letters between Malaysian and Singaporean officials.
But Mahathir charged that only part of the correspondence was revealed and that full disclosure would reveal that Malaysia offered to sell sand to Singapore in return for access to Malaysian airspace.
Malaysian economic analysts believe the publicised disputes are leading to a loss of faith in the direction the government is taking the country.
On websites, blogs and call-in radio shows, a growing number of Malaysians are expressing exasperation with the situation.
Steven Gan, editor of news website Malaysiakini, told Aljazeera.net: "In the last year we've seen a lot more complaints about Abdullah not meeting his promises."
Disappointment, Gan said, is attributed to the lack of corruption charges levelled against senior officials and what is perceived as Abdullah's feet-dragging on the establishment of an independent police commission.
But most of all, Malaysians are worried about the state of their economy.
The nation is in debt and growth has been sluggish despite the state-run oil giant Petronas posting record profits of $12 billion and seeing revenues jump 22.6% for the year ending March 2005.
The government has invested heavily to create a knowledge-based, innovation-driven economy only to find many companies are setting up shop in neighbouring countries with fewer entry barriers, cheaper labour costs or a larger talent pool to draw from.
A race-based affirmative action programme propping up the Malay majority is also resented and is increasingly thought to be hindering progress.
Charles Santiago, an economist, says the country is slowly losing in competition with others in the region.
"With Abdullah it's not clear where exactly the country is going," he said, adding that investors may be less inclined to pour billions into the country if their interests are not secured.
"By not disclosing to people the details of what transpired [to cause the bridge deal to collapse], he doesn't build investor confidence," Santiago told Aljazeera.net.
Social reforms impeded
Meanwhile, Badawi's promotion of Islam Hadhari has failed to beat back the tide of fundamentalist Islam.
"We can't let the debate remain on the surface but have to steer it toward substantial change in the system, to create a mechanism of transparency, to prevent non-disclosure and abuse of power"
Yap Swee Seng,
Suaram rights group
A recent amendment to a family law has further diminished the rights of Muslim women in a nation where women's rights already lagged behind many Muslim nations.
In May, hundreds of Muslims broke up a conference on freedom of religion in the northern state of Penang.
A memorandum calling for the protection of rights of religious minorities was withdrawn under heavy criticism by Muslim cabinet members.
And Hindu temples are being destroyed at a rate of one per week to make room for development.
But some social reformers believe the Mahathir-Abdullah spat could offer a "small window of opportunity".
Yap Swee Seng, executive director of local rights group Suaram, says civil society and opposition parties committed to human rights, such as the People's Justice Party and the Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP), must not allow Mahathir to run the debate.
"Rather, we need to take on board the issues caused by the rift and link those issues with the agenda of reform we are pushing for now," he told Aljazeera.net.
"We can't let the debate remain on the surface but have to steer it toward substantial change in the system, to create a mechanism of transparency, to prevent non-disclosure and abuse of power."
Such mechanisms will generate greater public awareness and spirited participation in the political process and only then could Malaysia fulfil its economic and strategic goals, he says.


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AATA: Moving Us Where? The Politics II
All transit politics is local—and regional—and statewide
As we outlined earlier, there are many political impediments to passage of a county-wide transit millage. Indeed, even the threat of a millage vote could move some townships to opt out of the new county authority once it is incorporated. (Recall that there is a 60-day window for units to opt out.) Thus, it is perhaps not too surprising that AATA leadership has begun to hint that a millage might not be necessary.
Now that AATA is coming close to what they hope is the finish line for the Transit Master Plan, the assumption has continued to be that a 1-mill property tax would be voted on countywide. As we noted (with perhaps too obvious a note of panic) in our previous post, there has been a subtle shift away from this presumption. In its brief coverage of the Ann Arbor City Council December 12 (2011) working session, the Ann Arbor Chronicle used annotations to the 4-party agreement to note that the draft plan actually calls for a voter-approved funding source. Here is the actual language (as part of a list of contingencies; see Section 8.f.) :
Countywide voter approval before December 31, 2014, of a New TA Act 196 funding source adequate to fund ongoing operations of New TA.
The "funding source" is not identified, but since Michigan law prohibits almost all forms of taxation at the local level, again a millage was presumed to be the subject here. There is now apparently hope among some at AATA, especially Board Chair Jesse Bernstein, that this funding source might be a vehicle registration tax as proposed by Governor Snyder in his October 26 address on transportation and infrastructure.
AATA interpretation of RTA plan. Click for larger image.
This address by the Governor caused some consternation, as we noted, and as has been described by the Chronicle. His proposal for a regional transit authority would appear to shift all state operating funds as well as both the local share of the state's new transportation measure (using a fee on motor vehicles to supplement the gas tax) to a SE Michigan regional transit authority. But AATA has now interpreted the proposal more favorably. (A pdf of their explanatory slide is here.)
Part of the Governor's proposal would enable local transportation authorities to levy a vehicle registration fee of up to $40 per vehicle (NOT a tax, for constitutional reasons) upon approval of the voters in the locality. If this could be done in Washtenaw County, solely to support the TMP, it might be possible that it could replace a property tax. Bernstein has repeatedly held this out as a tempting possibility. It appears more and more likely that Bernstein and others are actually steering the process toward skipping a public vote on a countywide millage at this time and instead hoping that the vehicle registration fee replaces it.
Here are some reasons that this would be desirable, from their viewpoint:
A public vote on a vehicle registration fee (which is required under the Michigan Constitution, and is included in the Governor's recommendation) would satisfy the clause in the 4-party agreement. (Note that the clause only specifies "a funding source", not a specific tax.)
The millage vote appears to be politically unsound and likely to fail. This would put the TMP out of business.
If there is a public vote on a vehicle registration fee, it would be a broader campaign than merely a transit issue. The Governor has proposed this as part of a general transportation initiative, mostly aimed at roads. It might have more popular support than a property tax aimed only at transit.
But would the new fee actually yield enough to pay for operations? Here is what Snyder's statement says:
The Michigan constitution allows up to 10 percent of highway user fees to go to transit. That is appropriate, because transit systems reduce highway congestion by offering alternative ways to travel, particularly for those who do not own or cannot drive a car. New regional transit investments supported by a regional motor vehicle registration fee will allow funding for long-awaited transit improvements that will help jumpstart Michigan's urban areas and create jobs.
The Governor also estimates that local fees will raise up to $300 million. It is not clear how that is calculated; presumably he is counting all the more heavily populated areas of the state. In any event, only 10% of that fee would be available for transit.
But would even that amount appear? Rick Olson, a local state representative who was on a task force studying transportation issues, has weighed in (see article on AnnArbor.com). The report that he wrote has a number of interesting comments about Michigan tax law and the way a statewide referendum to change transportation funding would work. He makes it clear that the package of funding proposals is very complex, and has many controversial elements. He also (disturbingly) says that the package should be "revenue neutral"; like a good Republican, he is proposing no net increase in transportation funding. The local vehicle registration fee gets short shrift. It is clear that the Michigan legislature has a lot of ground to plow before the specific idea of a local fee for transit blooms. In fact, AATA itself, in the slide shown above, estimates a 3-year timeline. Don't forget: as laid out by Olson, this would require a statewide referendum on a major change in tax structure in Michigan.
Even if this idea progresses relatively smoothly through the Legislature and survives the statewide referendum, the local fee itself would depend on another public vote, namely in the four-county region designated for the Regional Transit Authority. As explained at the November meeting of the Financial Task Force, there would be a vote in the designated counties (Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw) and if a majority vote in the entire region is obtained, the RTA could impose the fee. (No opt-outs for individual counties, even if their own voters did not approve the tax.) According to AATA's interpretation, Washtenaw County would then receive the portion of the proceeds coming from this county, less 5% to the RTA for administration – but then only 10% of those proceeds would be designated for local transit operation (the remainder would be for roads and bridges).
So it appears that some high-stakes poker is being played. Should AATA keep a safer, but perhaps losing, hand with cards that rely on a countywide millage vote? Or should they ask the dealer for those extra cards? If they do, they'll be betting on just the right cards from the State Legislature – the statewide voters – and the voters in a four-county region. Quite a gamble.
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Strictly star Tom Chambers is Crazy For You ahead of Milton Keynes visit
Published: 06:00 Wednesday 14 March 2018
There are many people out there who would like to spend Valentine's Day with Tom Chambers.
Well sorry, I had that privilege when we chatted to him between matinee and evening performances of his new musical Crazy For You coming to Milton Keynes Theatre next week.
The musical tells the troubled love story of Bobby, played by Chambers, and frustrated Broadway hoofer Polly, daughter of the proprietor of a failing theatre in Deadrock, Nevada.
Sent to close the theatre down, Bobby falls for Polly and, in the guise of a Hungarian impresario, decides to save the theatre by putting on a show.
It also comes packed with well known tunes - I Got Rhythm, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It and Embraceable You all feature in this exhilarating celebration of the great Broadway musicals.
"When I saw the show when it was first performed in 1992, I thought please, please, please let me play Bobby in Crazy For You," Tom said.
It's at this point that the popularity of the Holby City actor and Strictly Come Dancing winner becomes apparent as our chat is interrupted by adoring fans. But he is happy to take the time to pose for photos.
Tom said: "It's such a funny, clever, brilliant musical and such a joy to see and perform."
You've heard of the expression actors suffering for their art, well there are certainly big challenges for Tom.
He said: "This is a very energetic show and Bobby, being the main character, is on a lot of the time doing singing and dancing. It's a very energetic show which takes a lot out of you.
"There is an ice bin that I get into at the end of every show. It's a kind of cryotherapy that some sports people use. It gets rid of the lactic acid that builds up in your muscles. You do get a hell of a work out doing this show."
He is also full of praise for the songs of the show and struggles to pick just one that he especially loves.
Tom said: "I think I Got Rhythm is a fantastic song as is They Can't Take That Away From Me. They are just timeless songs and wonderful to perform."
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The show will also see a return to Milton Keynes Theatre for Tom having previously originated the role of Jerry Travers in Top Hat which started at the venue in 2011 before going out on tour and ending up in the West End.
Tom said: "It was great to have that role in Top Hat, it was a great joy to do.
"I remember the venue, we were able to play lots of Laser Quest near the theatre which is great fun."
And while Tom is equally known for his television work and now for his time on the stage thanks to performing in Top Hat, he's quite happy to do both.
Tom said: "I really love doing both things but you cannot beat the reaction that you get from a live audience. You get a lot more of an immediate response as well."
He also confirmed that he will be returning to the small screen after the tour has finished, reprising his role as Inspector Sullivan in the BBC daytime drama Father Brown starring Mark Williams in the title role.
But for the immediate future, his co-stars in the show are Claire Sweeney and Charlotte Wakefield as Irene and Polly respectively with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.
Crazy For You can be seen at Milton Keynes Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday, March 20 to 24. Tickets cost from £19 and they can be booked by calling the box office on 0844 871 7652 or visit www.atgtickets.co.uk/miltonkeynes


Mathrubhumi Kalyan Silks Film Awards 2010 is an award function which came on the Asianet channel. It felicitates members of the Malayalam cinema world for outstanding contributions made during the year of 2010. The function got held at the Thrissur Palace Grounds located near the Municipal Stadium in the city of Thrissur. The jury for the prestigious awards consists of eminent members of the film fraternity. They have all contributed in various capacities to the development of cinema in the modern world and have made a distinct mark for themselves. They judged and analyzed the various movies which got released during the year on various fronts and finally took the call of deciding which were the very best of them.
The awards ceremony got organized in a collaboration between the Mathrubhumi group and the Kalyan Silks. This annual exercise awards some of the best performers and contributors in the film circuit. It aims at finding and promoting talent which stands out. The evening saw the entire Malayalam film fraternity come together in this act of celebration. Some of the best names in the industry got seen applauding their co-stars and coming out in strong numbers to support them all. They also put up a number of dazzling performances to some of the most popular tracks of the past year. They put up some truly riveting sequences which were nothing less than works of art themselves. The winners of this year include some noted personalities.
Mammootty took home the award for the Best Actor. Kavya Madhavan, on the other hand, got the award for the Best Actress. She got the same for the movie Banaras. This proved a testament to the immense talent she has shown over the years with 2010 being particularly good for her. Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja got the award for being the Best Movie of the year. Renjith got the award for the Best Director. He got the same for his commendable work on the movie Paleri Manikyam.
Hariharan too got recognized with the award for being the Best Director of a Popular Movie. He got the same for his film titled Pazhassi Raja, which was a fan favorite and did great business at the Box Office.Jayaram took the award for the Family Hero for his endearing performance in the movie Bhagya Devatha. Srinivasan and Lakshmi Rai's superb performances got them the award for Popular Actor and Popular Actress respectively. Palery Manikyam became the recipient of a Special Jury Award for Best Movie. Sarath Kumar and Swetha Menon too got a Special Jury Award each for their roles in Pazhassi Raja andPalery Manikyam respectively.


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Біргамська угода, також відома як угода в Солсбері включала два договори, спрямовані на забезпечення незалежності Шотландії після смерті Олександра III 1286 року, який не залишив прямих спадкоємців.

Угоди було підписано у Солсбері 1289 та Біргамі (Бервікшир) 1290 року. Було передбачено, що якщо спадкоємиця шотландського престолу Маргарита Норвезька Діва вийде заміж за Едуарда, Шотландія залишиться «окремою, незалежною від Англії державою зі справедливими кордонами, вільною й без підпорядкування будь-якій іншій державі.»

Угода виявилась безрезультатною, оскільки малолітня Маргарита померла від гарячки дорогою до Шотландії на Оркнейських островах у 1290 році. Через це в Шотландії розпочалась боротьба за спадщину. У 1291 Едуард I погодився бути арбітром у цій боротьбі за умови, що він буде верховним феодальним та військовим сюзереном Шотландії до тих пір, поки престол країни є вакантним.

Примітки

Література
 «Біргамська угода» у Collins Dictionary of Scottish History (Harper Collins, 2001, ISBN 0-00-714710-4)
 «Середньовічна Шотландія, 1100 — 1560». David Ditchburn та Alastair J. MacDonald (Penguin Books, 2001, ISBN 0-14-026367-5).

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Ford Calls Out Tesla For an "Apples to Apples" Test Of Truck Strength
Nov. 26, 2019 9:13 AM ET by Ian Wright / 11 Comments
Tesla showed a video of its truck in a tug-of-war with and F-150. Ford has fired back.
In case you missed it, Elon Musk posted a video on Twitter showing the Tesla truck engaged in a tug of war with an F-150. The Tesla truck successfully drags the struggling Ford F-150 uphill in what looks like a one-sided battle of torque and grip. This kind of stunt doesn't prove anything, however, as the F-150 used is shown clearly in the video to be rear-wheel-drive only, and we don't know exactly what its powertrain was or what tires either vehicle was kitted out with. It gets more curious, though.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1198751258384818176
In theory, the Tesla truck with the specifications Musk outlined should out-pull many commonly specced gas-powered trucks, but you have to wonder why Tesla chose to use a rear-wheel-drive F-150 for the "demonstration." However, even Neil Degrassi Tyson weighed in on Twitter to point out: "Electric vehicles are famously heavy - over both axles. It's all about the weight borne by spinning tires. That's the source of traction, not the engine power."
To which Musk replied: "Electric motors also have insane torque. If we load both trucks to the max, electric still wins. Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation."
However, there's still the fact that neither was loaded to the max. Plus, the F-150 was rear-wheel drive, which is where Ford steps in.
https://twitter.com/sundeep/status/1198988235252199424
Vice President of Ford X, Sundeep Madra, told Musk to send the automaker a Cybertruck for a proper "apples to apples" test. Musk replied, "Bring it on," but it seems unlikely Tesla is about to send Ford a prototype vehicle.
The video has done its job for Tesla by creating headlines, and it doesn't matter now whether it could truly pull the F-150 in a fair grudge match. All publicity is good publicity for Tesla, even breaking windows that are declared unbreakable on stage. We'll wait and see what the actual Tesla truck looks like and performs, assuming it reaches production, and judge it from there.
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After working his way through several loosely related careers, Ian finally took the hint and became an automotive journalist and photographer. He spent a few years freelancing before joining up with CarBuzz to combine his love of writing, photography, and cars into one neat package. When Ian is not staring down a lens or into a computer screen writing reviews and features, you can find him in Southern California enjoying winding mountain and canyon roads. If you can't find him, he's probably off-roading in the desert.
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Road death total reaches 187 after OAP killed in crash
Gardai at the scene of the crash in north Cork in which a man in his 70s was killed
Ralph Riegel
December 31 2016 02:30 AM
Gardai are investigating whether a fatal two-vehicle motorway collision was caused when another vehicle did a U-turn at a toll plaza and drove the wrong way along the southbound carriageway.
An elderly motorist was killed and a young man was seriously injured in the collision in north Cork, which happened shortly after 11am yesterday.
The tragedy brings the number of people killed on Irish roads this year to 187.
That represents a 15.5pc increase on the numbers who died in 2015.
Total collision numbers were also up this year, by almost 14pc.
Yesterday's crash happened a short distance from junction 16 of the M8 between the north Cork villages of Rathcormac and Watergrasshill.
A garda source said they are investigating whether the collision was caused by a vehicle that approached the Watergrasshill toll plaza on the southbound carriageway.
It then appeared to do a U-turn and drove the wrong way against oncoming traffic.
The collision involved two vehicles, a Mitsubishi Pajero and a van.
The driver of the Mitsubishi, Tom Joe O'Riordan (84), from Castlelyons, Co Cork, suffered critical injuries and died at the scene before he could be transferred to Cork University Hospital. He is understood to have been a farmer.
The van driver, a man aged in his 20s, suffered multiple injuries.
He was taken to hospital by ambulance and remains in a serious but stable condition.
If it is confirmed that a vehicle was driving in the wrong direction on a carriageway, it will be the second time such an incident has been responsible for a fatality on the M8 in north Cork in recent years.
A vehicle being driven the wrong way down the north-bound carriageway outside Fermoy resulted in the death of a young man three years ago.


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Were Hot, Humid Summers the Key to Life's Origins?
3-Oct-2019 5:00 PM EDT
Credit: Bracher Lab, Saint Louis University
A new study from the NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution reports a possible model for how biological polymers may have formed during the origin of life on Earth.
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Uncovering how the first biological molecules (like proteins and DNA) arose is a major goal for researchers attempting to solve the origins of life.
SLU researchers found that deliquescent minerals, which dissolve in water they absorb from humid air, can assist the construction of proteins from simpler building blocks during cycles timed to mimic day and night on the early Earth.
Deliquescent minerals offer natural regulation of the water present in a solution by absorbing a limited amount of water from the air, based on the relative humidity.
The SLU team believes their system may provide clues relevant to solving the mystery of why all life on Earth spends so much energy enriching potassium inside cells and throwing sodium out.
Newswise — ST. LOUIS — Uncovering how the first biological molecules (like proteins and DNA) arose is a major goal for researchers attempting to solve the origin of life. Today, chemists at Saint Louis University, in collaboration with scientists at the College of Charleston and the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, published a study in the journal Nature Communications that suggests deliquescent minerals—which dissolve in water they absorb from humid air—can assist the construction of proteins from simpler building blocks during cycles timed to mimic day and night on the early Earth.
"In terms of the history of the planet, how life originated is probably the greatest scientific question we can ask," said Paul Bracher, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Louis University and principal investigator of the study. "A key piece of this grand challenge is figuring out how big polymer molecules we know to be important for life could have formed before all of our biological machinery evolved to make them."
Baking Proteins in the Prebiotic Kitchen
Amino acids are the molecular building blocks linked together by peptide bonds to form proteins. Chemists have long known that simply baking mixtures of amino acids to dryness will lead to the formation of peptide bonds. The yields of peptides improve when water is added and the sample is dried again, after the ingredients are allowed to re-mix. Subjecting amino acids to repeated wet–dry cycles could have been a good recipe for cooking up peptides and proteins on the early Earth, as hot sunny days interrupted by the occasional rainstorm seem like reasonable weather patterns. But a major criticism of this process is its reliance on unpredictable storms that may have watered-down the ingredients to excess.
Water: A Necessary But Problematic Ingredient
"Follow the water" has been NASA's motto in the search for life outside our planet. Without water, the biochemistry of life as-we-know-it would be impossible.
In origin-of-life chemistry, the solution is often the problem. For constructive chemical processes to occur, the building blocks must dissolve in a liquid solution to find partners to react. On Earth, this medium is water, the solvent of life.
However, water can be a double-edged sword. While life needs water to survive, too much water can be destructive. Most biological molecules are prone to hydrolysis, a process in which water breaks apart chemical bonds. And too much water will eventually flood developing cells that contain the evolving biomolecules, strewing them too far away from each other to react.
Deliquescent minerals offer a means to side-step the limitations of traditional wet–dry cycling. These salts absorb a limited amount of water from the air, based on the relative humidity, offering natural regulation of the water present in a solution.
The new study—a collaboration between scientists at SLU and the College of Charleston—reports how deliquescent salts can assist making peptides from the simplest amino acid, glycine, during self-regulated, repeating wet–dry cycling. During the day, the reaction mixtures form peptides when they evaporate to dryness at high temperatures. At night, the reactions acquire water from the atmosphere to form aqueous solutions at low temperatures, thereby rewetting without the addition of water by a rainstorm and avoiding the possibility of destructive overdilution.
Seemingly minor differences, like changing the ambient humidity from 50% to 70%, can lead to profound differences in the tendency of samples to absorb water, and hence, large differences in the yields of reactions they host. And while potassium and sodium are neighbors on the periodic table with almost identical reactivities, many potassium salts are deliquescent where their sodium counterparts are not. The salt K2HPO4 fostered yields of peptides from glycine ten times greater than in Na2HPO4.
The team believes their system may provide clues relevant to solving the mystery of why all life on Earth spends so much energy enriching potassium inside cells and throwing sodium out.
"This creative research, exploring how the chemical environment regulates formation of large molecules, represents another major step toward CCE's goal of understanding the chemistries behind early biological molecules. Successful engagement of undergraduate researchers in this work also reflects NSF's mission of integration of research with education for the training of future workforce," said Dr. Lin He, the Acting Deputy Division Director for the Division of Chemistry at the National Science Foundation.
Bakeries Beyond Earth
Despite their exotic-sounding name, deliquescent salts are common and exist in natural settings where they can play a role in enabling liquid water to exist in environments that are otherwise too cold and/or dry.
In a hyper-arid region of Chile's Atacama Desert that is inhospitable to life, microbial communities reside in deposits of the mineral halite. Their photosynthetic activity spikes when the relative humidity rises above 70%, exceeding the threshold where their halite environment becomes deliquescent.
Deliquescent mixtures of chloride and perchlorate salts have also been identified on Mars. These mixtures appear to flow seasonally and have garnered significant interest from astrobiologists as the only liquid water on the surface of the planet.
Making use of these naturally occurring minerals, this new study proposes wet–dry cycles regulated by natural daily oscillations in temperature and humidity—not on uncontrollable rain events—constitute a prebiotically feasible model for driving the chemical formation of biopolymers central to biology.
Was a simple pinch of salt the missing ingredient for cooking up life on Earth? We may never know for sure, but in this case, it certainly seems to make a great improvement to the recipe for baking proteins.
Read more about the scientists' findings in the published research paper: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11834-1
Campbell, Thomas D.; Febrian, Rio; McCarthy, Jack T.; Kleinschmidt, Holly E.; Forsythe, Jay G.; Bracher, Paul J. "Prebiotic Condensation Through Wet–Dry Cycling Regulated by Deliquescence." Nat. Commun. 2019, https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11834-1
This work was jointly supported by the NSF and the NASA Astrobiology Program, under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution (award CHE-1504217).
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Single-cell atlas of early human brain development highlights heterogeneity of human neuroepithelial cells and early radial glia
Nat Neurosci. 2021 Apr;24(4):584-594. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-00794-1. Epub 2021 Mar 15.
Ugomma C Eze # 1 2 , Aparna Bhaduri # 3 4 , Maximilian Haeussler 5 , Tomasz J Nowakowski 1 6 , Arnold R Kriegstein 7 8
1 Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.
2 The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.
3 Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA. Aparna.Bhaduri@ucsf.edu.
4 The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA. Aparna.Bhaduri@ucsf.edu.
5 Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
6 Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.
7 Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA. Arnold.Kriegstein@ucsf.edu.
8 The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA. Arnold.Kriegstein@ucsf.edu.
The human cortex comprises diverse cell types that emerge from an initially uniform neuroepithelium that gives rise to radial glia, the neural stem cells of the cortex. To characterize the earliest stages of human brain development, we performed single-cell RNA-sequencing across regions of the developing human brain, including the telencephalon, diencephalon, midbrain, hindbrain and cerebellum. We identify nine progenitor populations physically proximal to the telencephalon, suggesting more heterogeneity than previously described, including a highly prevalent mesenchymal-like population that disappears once neurogenesis begins. Comparison of human and mouse progenitor populations at corresponding stages identifies two progenitor clusters that are enriched in the early stages of human cortical development. We also find that organoid systems display low fidelity to neuroepithelial and early radial glia cell types, but improve as neurogenesis progresses. Overall, we provide a comprehensive molecular and spatial atlas of early stages of human brain and cortical development.
Cerebral Cortex / cytology
Cerebral Cortex / embryology*
Ependymoglial Cells / cytology*
Neural Stem Cells / cytology*
Neuroepithelial Cells / cytology*
Neurogenesis*
Single-Cell Analysis
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After having worked in southern Shenzhen for years, 31-year-old Pan Qin decided to return home. She got a new job in Laodong Village in southwestern Guizhou Province. The village is just a 10 minutes motorbike ride away from where her parents live.
Pan is committed to handicraft production in Laodong, but she had to learn the skills from scratch.
The needlework used to be auntie and grandmas' job, as many young adults left the villages and joined the tides of urbanization. But the increasing demand for embroidery and batiks brought back some young people like Pan.
"I came back because I have to take care of my children and parents. This job also helps me learn something that is a signature of my own culture," Pan said.
For many locals in Guizhou, the skill was written in their genes.
"We started embroidering things when we were young. It's part of our Miao ethnic culture. We learned the skills from our elders," said Wu Ruqun, an embroidery artist in Laodong.
Both Pan and Wu joined a group called Gen-Silk, a company that runs training workshops for handicraft artists and collects orders from clients.
"Some young people are not even interested in their own cultures due to outside influence," said Yu Ying, Gen-Silk's founder, "this business can help them realize the value of their own history."
Young people ought to receive respect, said Yu, and the best way to ensure that was by getting sufficient payment.
"Many people had hoped that they would branch out and see the world. But once they came back, they found the place where they got the most respect is at home," Yu said.
The final products are sold both online and offline. One offline store, Vimemo, is located just half an hour from the workshops.
Vimemo belongs to the commercialized Danzhai town built by Wanda Group. There are 210 tourist shops in the town which was established to help local villages alleviate poverty.
"Wanda Town brings a large number of foreign tourists to Danzhai County every year, which creates opportunities for young people in Danzhai to return home for employment and entrepreneurship," Wanda's spokesperson Liu Mingsheng wrote in an email interview with CGTN.
The design products at Vimemo combine traditional styles with fashion tastes.
"Merging culture doesn't mean we are losing our roots, but it shows that we have become more tolerant," Yu said.


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Q: How can I check object equality in object array with using array includes function? I want to check an array has the object which given as parameter to js includes function. For example:
let arr = [
    {'name': 'max', 'age': '20'},
    {'name': 'max', 'age': '21'},
    {'name': 'jane', 'age': '22'}];
console.log(arr.includes({'name': 'max', 'age': '21'})); // FALSE

That give me "false" value. How can I check object equality in object array without for loop eq.

A: You cannot do this with includes because you don't handle the equality check and the objects are different, therefore, nothing matches.
To do what you want, you can use some or find !

let arr = [
    {'name': 'max', 'age': '20'},
    {'name': 'max', 'age': '21'},
    {'name': 'jane', 'age': '22'}
];

console.log(arr.some(({name, age}) => name === 'max' && age === '21'));
console.log(!!arr.find(({name, age}) => name === 'max' && age === '21'));

Please note that find returns the object, I've added !! to print a boolean result, but that's not necessarily mandatory.

A: You can write a generic function like
let matches = flt => x => Object.keys(flt).every(k => flt[k] === x[k]);

and then
arr.some(matches({'name': 'max', 'age': '21'}))

This performs shallow, partial comparison. If you need other modes, like full and/or deep comparison, this would be far more tricky to implement. I'd suggest using lodash (_.isMatching, _.isEqual) in this case.

A: Here's another way to achieve the same result :
If the structure of the object is not known well in before, i.e when they change dynamically, from an API or something then you can use the following solution

let arr = [
    {'name': 'max', 'age': '20'},
    {'name': 'max', 'age': '21'},
    {'name': 'jane', 'age': '22'}
];

let x =   {'name': 'max', 'age': '20'};
let result =arr.map( ele => JSON.stringify(ele)).includes(JSON.stringify(x));
console.log(result)

The above solution will work for nested objects as well.
Note
The solution has two caveats

*

*It works provided that order of your keys remain constant throughout the array as well in the x object, the one which you wish to compare

*If there is too much of nesting in your objects then it will be really slow. I won't recommend JSON.stringify for anyone who care about performance.

Edit 1

*Doesn't work with Circular structures

A: Here is an option relying on both .some and .entries to ensure that all the key-value pairs passed exists and are matched inside the targeted array.
This also will ignore the order of the keys, and accepts a dynamic input.
This example assumes that if fewer keys are provided, only these are checked. For example, checking for {'name': 'max'} only will return true.

let arr = [
    {'name': 'max', 'age': '20'},
    {'name': 'max', 'age': '21'},
    {'name': 'jane', 'age': '22'}];

function includedInArray(lookups, _arr) {
  // Ensure every lookup match.
  return _arr.some(i => {
    // Loop key-value pairs.
    return Object.entries(lookups).every(([key, value]) => {
      return i[key] === value;
    });
  });
};

console.log(includedInArray({
  'name': 'max',
  'age': '21'
 }, arr)); // should return true.

 console.log(includedInArray({
  'age': '21',
  'name': 'max'
 }, arr)); // should return true.

 console.log(includedInArray({
  'age': '55',
  'name': 'max'
 }, arr)); // should return false.

 console.log(includedInArray({
  'name': 'max'
 }, arr)); // should return true.

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Posta Kenya: 'We don't want hand-outs'
By Kepha Muiruri For Citizen Digital Published on: March 14, 2021 04:30 (EAT)
The management of the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK)- Posta Kenya says the agency will not join the queue of State parastatals depended on Treasury bail outs to stay afloat.
While the Corporation had stated it required Ksh.1 billion annually to keep its operations going, Post Master General Dan Kagwe insists the parastatal can still foot its own bills.
This is as he terms last year's Ksh.810 million bail out by the exchequer as a one off occasioned by disruptions by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We don't want hand-outs. I've always said that we have not been funded by the National Treasury for over 100 years, nothing has changed. We are not in a situation where we need day to day assistance from the government. If this has not happened in 100 years, I don't think we will die tomorrow," Kagwe told Citizen Digital in an interview on Thursday.
The sentiments by the Post Master General are on the back of a fall out between Parliament and the Communication Authority of Kenya (CA), over the funding of Posta through the Universal Service Fund (USF).
According to Kagwe, the funding of Posta via the USF is unnecessary and would moreover require prior law changes by the National Assembly.
The CA has deemed the proposal to fund the PCK to the tune of Ksh.1 billion as untenable as a long-term intervention to prop up the operations of the parastatal.
On its part, Posta believe the government focus should be on growing the parasatatal's revenue by choosing it the corporation as its clearing and forwarding agent of choice.
"What the government needs to do is utilize the capacity of the post-office to do its business. We've already seen the impact this can have. Our best years have been during elections where the government has handled and distributed election material through the post office," added Kagwe.
Kagwe sees the future of Posta Kenya intricately tied down to logistics with modern means of communication having trimmed part of its business.
"The future of this Corporation as far as I'm concerned is logistics. Something somewhere must be delivered in one way or another. Even if we have emails and the internet, 99 per cent of other things must be delivered and most of them physically," he said.
"In terms of brick and mortar, Posta Kenya has the greatest network in this country. What we are asking is for people to make use of the system."
Posta says it is currently through two months of its rapid response initiative which is targeted at improving the turnaround time (ToT) and optimizing its routes and other resources.
The State Corporation is nevertheless still reliant on mail business for three quarters of its business meaning it must quickly change is channel contribution to revenues to keep floating.
Only about 24 per cent of PCK's revenues are derived from courier services with the balance coming from rentals and finance agency services.
The National Assembly Labor and Social Welfare Committee has recommended the PCK be integrated to the newly formed Kenya Transport and Logistics Network (KTLN) to meet the last mile delivery role.


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Vibram FiveFingers Shoe Settlement: $3.75M, Banner Ads Required
By Brett Snider, Esq. on May 08, 2014 2:32 PM
Vibram, maker of those funky FiveFingers running shoes, has reached a settlement in a suit over the shoes' supposed health benefits.
The shoe manufacturer has agreed to shell out $3.75 million in settlement funds to be distributed to eligible class action members. According to Runner's World, the average class member will receive between $20 to $50 per pair.
What was the issue with the FiveFingers shoes, and how is this settlement going to fix the problem?
False Health Claims in Shoes
Back in March 2012, a class action suit was filed against Vibram for allegedly making claims that its FiveFinger shoes could "reduce foot injuries and strengthen foot muscles." Professor John C. P. Goldberg told Runner's World that this initial lawsuit asserted that Vibram knew their claims were false but continued to profit from this misrepresentation.
As legitimate advertisers know, there is a difference between a subjective claim (e.g., "our product is the best for runners!") and illegal claims with no science to back them up. Adidas was sued around the same time for its adiPure "barefoot" running shoe because of its spurious health claims.
And other shoe companies had already begun to settle. In 2011, the FTC ordered Reebok to pay $25 million in a settlement over unsupported health claims in its EasyTone and Run Tone shoes.
The setting aside of $3.75 million is only part of Vibram's settlement agreement. The company must also:
Set up a website, www.fivefingerssettlement.com, to inform class members of the terms of the settlement (as of Thursday afternoon, the site is not yet active);
Discontinue claims that FiveFingers is "effective in strengthening muscles or reducing injury," unless there is scientific evidence to support those claims;
Deliver about 300 million impressions through banner ads with settlement information on websites and social media;
Donate remainder of settlement funds to American Heart Association; and
Pay $70,000 to plaintiffs' attorneys for out-of-pocket expenses.
Runner's World reports that it's possible for FiveFingers owners to receive up to $94 per pair in the settlement, and claimants can ask for a piece of the settlement without a proof of purchase (for up to two pairs).
As with most settlements, this agreement will release Vibram from liability for its alleged FiveFingers false advertising, except from those owners who opted out.
Vibram can no longer claim its goofy FiveFinger shoes offer health benefits (Ars Technica)
23andMe Faces $5M Class Action Lawsuit (FindLaw's Injured)
Facebook Privacy Settlement: Users May Get $10 (FindLaw's Law and Daily Life)
NJ Harrah's Casinos to Pay $8M for Misleading Advertising (FindLaw's Decided)


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Q: Dynamic Select Menu Rails 4 I'm trying to make a dynamic select menu using this guide; however, it doesn't seem to be changing the select select statement.
Here is what I have as far as code:
#characters_controller.rb
    def new
        @skills = Skill.all
        @classes = Classe.all
        @background = Background.all
        @character = Character.new
    end
    def update_classe_skills
        classe = Classe.find(params[:character][:classe_id])

        @skills = classe.skills.map{|a| [a.name,a.name]}.insert(0,"Select a Skill")
        respond_to do |format|
            format.js
        end
    end

#routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
    resources :characters
    get 'characters/update_classe_skills', :as => 'update_classe_skills'
end

This is the .js.erb file:
#update_classe_skills.js.erb

$('#character_classe_skill_option_one').html("<%= escape_javascript(options_for_select(@skills)) %>");

This is my AJAX script:
#skills_select_handler.js
$(document).ready(function() {
    $(document).on('change','#character_classe_id', function() {
      $.ajax({
        url: "#{update_classe_skills_path}",
        data: {
          classe_id : $('#character_classe_id').val()
        },
        dataType: "script",
        type: 'GET'
      });
    });
 });

And lastly, this is my select menu:
#new.html.erb
<%= javascript_include_tag "skills_select_handler.js"  %>
<%= form_for :character, url: characters_path, method: :post do |f| %>
    <%= render :partial => "info_step", :locals => {:f => f} %>
    <%= render :partial => "rand_prompt_step", :locals => {:f => f} %>
    <%= render :partial => "skills_step", :locals => {:f => f}%>
<% end %>
#_info_step.html.erb

    <%= f.label :classe_id, "Class" %>

    <%= f.select :classe_id, options_for_select([["Barbarian", 1], ["Bard", 2], ["Cleric", 3], ["Druid", 4], ["Fighter", 5], ["Monk", 6], ["Paladin", 7], ["Ranger", 8], ["Rogue", 9], ["Sorcerer", 10], ["Warlock", 11], ["Wizard", 12]], selected: "#{@character.classe_id}"), include_blank: true, id:'character_classe_id' %>
    <%= @character.errors[:classe_id][0] %>

#_skills_step.html.erb

        <%= f.label :classe_skill_option_one, "Skill Proficiency" %>

        <%= f.collection_select(:classe_skill_option_one, @skills, :name, :name,{:prompt   => "Select a Skill"}, {id: 'character_classe_skill_option_one'})%>

I used to have all the partials rendered off the 'new' view, however, that wasn't working. I've tried troubleshooting it myself, so things may have gotten a little wonky.
When I look at the server console after changing the class, I do see the following:
Processing by CharactersController#new as JS
  Parameters: {"classe_id"=>"1", "_"=>"1454977094482"}
  [list of stuff being loaded and rendered]
  Skill Load (0.0ms)  SELECT "skills".* FROM "skills"

So that leads me to believe it is leading as far as the AJAX request, but then just loads the entire skill list instead of the the skills joined to the particular class.
The join tables are made correctly, so that is not the issue.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get the select menu to change it's options?

A: Do this:
#config/routes.rb
resources :characters
  get "update_classe_skills/:classe_id", as: 'update_classe_skills', on: :collection #-> url.com/characters/update_classe_skills/:classe_id
end

#skills_select_handler.js
$(document).on("change","#character_classe_id", function(e) {
  var classe_id = $(this).val();
  $.ajax({
     url: "characters/update_classe_skills/" + classe_id,
     data: { classe_id : classe_id },
     dataType: "script",
     type: 'GET'
   });
 });

 #app/controllers/characters_controller.rb
 class CharactersController < ApplicationController

    def update_classe_skills
      @classe = Classe.find params[:classe_id]
      respond_to do |format|
        format.js
      end
    end

end

#app/views/characters/update_classe_skills.js.erb
$('select#character_classe_skill_option_one').empty.append("<%=j options_from_collection_for_select(@skills, 'name', 'name') %>");

I believe you have several errors in your code:

*

*Your ajax URL is reliant in a JS value (classe_id), yet you don't have it

*Your update_classe_skills JS doesn't update the select (only the container div)

*Your controller method was inefficient

A: I ended up figuring it out. It ended up being a route issue.
I changed the following:
#characters_controller.rb
def update_classe_skills
    classe = Classe.find(params[:classe_id])

    @skills = classe.skills.map{|a| [a.name,a.name]}.insert(0,"Select a Skill")
    respond_to do |format|
        format.js
    end
end

#skills_select_handler.js
$(document).ready(function() {
    $(document).on('change','#character_classe_id', function() {
      $.ajax({
        url: "/update_classe_skills",
        data: {
          classe_id : $('#character_classe_id').val()
        },
        dataType: "script",
        type: 'GET'
      });
    });
 });

#routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
    resources :characters
    match "/update_classe_skills", :to => "characters#update_classe_skills", :via => [:get]
end

I also had to add protect_from_forgery_except :update_classe_skills to my characters controller.
The reason why this was happening is because of the show route generated by resources :characters in my routes. It was looking for /characters/:id and therefore my route was being processed as show route, and getting no results since there was no :id => "update_classe_skills"