text:
Good Looking Fundamentalist Politicians with Really Cool Names
Auda Burrumgee
For many years now, American freethinkers have been well aware of the fundamentalist threat that is sweeping the nation - sneaking into the educational system, slithering into the political arena and cleverly skewing public opinion towards one absurdity or another. Now, in what was once considered the virgin land of the Great White North (both in urban development and religious stronghold), Canada is experiencing similar epidemics as her big brother to the south. The Canadian Alliance, a group comparable to the Moral Majority but with a greater appreciation for hockey and beer, has managed to gather enough support from the public to warrant a voice in Parliamentary proceedings, battling on equal ground with Jean Chretien himself. In what appears as a spontaneous (or miraculous) coup, the Alliance has been able to win the hearts of Canucks from the Maritimes to the Prairies and up into Nunanuvet as well. Their agenda is tailored according to the dictates of religious fundamentalism but their campaign, of course, focuses on tax relief. Perhaps a greater concern is deserved since Canada doesn't have much in the way of a Constitution or Bill of Rights. The earth is only 6000 years old says Stockwell Day from the pulpit of the House of Commons and a public reared on Bob and Doug Mackenzie cheer loudly from the bleachers, touks and all.
What is it though that really gets the votes and wins the popularity of the public? Armchair philosophers and barnyard intellectuals have been debating the issues for decades. Is it the truth? The sincerity with which politicians sacrifice their lives for the welfare of their country? Could it be the thoughtful platforms that candidates take on the issues that stir and shake us and the mutual commitment we feel towards careful and critical analysis of the same? Perhaps it's the good deeds, the intelligence and the foresight of future Presidents and Prime Ministers that merit our votes?
No, it's none of these things.
What it boils down to is this: good looks and cool sounding names. If a passionate religious fervor is thrown into the package, all the better, it increases the likelihood that chairs and fists will be flung a la Jerry-Springer, providing ample entertainment for one and all. Who on God's green earth would truly vote for a Ralph or an Alfred? Joseph isn't all that bad, it still inspires respect although it's rather old-fashioned and we've been livin' in Marlboro country now for over a decade. Dubya's a full-blooded American from the land of big guns and kickass revolutions. Dubya's also got much greater linguistic appeal. Try it! It's like having an orgasm in your mouth! Some prefer to call him Junior, as that too is all the rage. Texans really do know how to inject an extra syllable into the party and make for one rockin' good time! Imagine your next conversation over mocha cappuccino frappaccino with a touch of caramel machiato; Alfred would shock everyone into an uncomfortable silence of the highest magnitude. Dubya's ability to impress the crowd even gets a mention in the latest edition of How to Make Friends and Influence People, now required reading in business schools across the country. All this being said, Dubya's got a Dick (Cheney) to boot. He's going to win by a landslide.
We can go beyond the superficiality of names however. Dubya did cocaine and partied away a large part of his life. He is hailed as a "fraternity party-dude" and "cavalier anti-intellectual" by admirers. This far surpasses any of the pansies claiming they did or did not inhale marijuana. Dubya was a jock at school (well, actually a cheerleader but we won't go there.) He knows football statistics for Christ's sake! Recently Dubya called someone an asshole and went so far as refusing to take it back. Man, this guy's way cool. Stop the press! Papers all across the land dropped everything to explore the issue - The Washington Post referred to the blunder as "a vulgar euphemism for a rectal aperture" and got more specific with: "***hole", The New York Times chimed in with "ass****", USA Today left no stone unturned with "******" Some of the local newspapers favored dashes over asterisks, some chose the safety of a combination of symbols like "&%!@." Headlines haven't been this profound since the Kansas/Oz connection during the Summer of 1999.
Although we can't say much for Dick's physical attractiveness, his nerd-like appearance does indeed fit well within our future president/vice-president model. Cheney's role is one of sidekick and television dictates that sidekicks are a little on the geeky side. They should not deter our attention from the dynamism of our main man. Think of Batman and Robin, Hercules and Newt, Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Obviously critical thought was injected into the process when choosing a running mate for Junior.
But let's move from the confines of the United States of America and see just how far reaching this new political science theory truly is.
Fundamentalists now have the Canadian political arena licked with such greats as Stockwell Day, Rod Love and Preston Manning. Their mothers surely were advanced beyond their years in soap opera viewing. Daytime and Primetime Dramas like the Young and the Restless and Melrose Place have always offered us such foresight and originality in the business of names and finally it's truly making a difference in the global state of affairs. Personally, I always had a fondness for the name Stone. And Montana for girls is simply the cat's meow. Just think of what brilliant Supreme Court Justices they would make! Jean Chretien and Eddie Goldberg just can't keep up. Sven Robinson had a chance but then he went and botched it all up by representing the freethinkers. Stockwell doesn't just have a cool name though, he also provides great eye candy to his constituents and anyone else who channel surfs between porn and government public access TV. If Stockwell says the earth is 6000 years old, by golly, the earth is 6000 years old. We would do the same for blue-eyed Stockyards and muscular Stockholms, would we not? Stockwell Day could be Canada's own John F. Kennedy! Campaign pictures could depict him alongside the beautiful Pamela Anderson Lee or Cindy Crawford, both Canadian!
England, although low on the religious extremism, offers a bit of evidence for our theory as well. Both Tony Blair and John Majors have been caught by the paparazzi in their swimsuit attire and British lassies went hysterical. A bit like evangelical tent rallies. And of course you've heard of Lee Majors - he was the six million-dollar man. He was married to a Charlie's Angel - Farah Fawcett herself. An attractive wife may in fact be an unofficial criterion when deciding to seriously dedicate your life to serving your country and living in the public spotlight that the political arena provides. Even Prince Charles knew the appeal of a blonde and what could be more rad than a Prince or Sir in front of your name and a few roman numerals in the back. Duke is also making a comeback, no longer limited to dogs. The name criterion is far more prevalent in North America though, as are the fundamentalist leanings. Both may be connected in part to the unbridled capitalism and ruthless opportunism that flourishes in the grand ol' land of opportunity. England is more of a socialist country with Canada having been somewhere in between but now tending towards the American Way due to the introduction of MTV and successful protesting against Monty Python and Kids in the Hall.
What about Australia? China? Moscow? Egypt? Nigeria? Mexico? Argentina? And all of those countries that have really neat sounding names somewhere in the Middle East? What a worthwhile research project this could turn out to be. The US Government now has grant applications on the Internet - just a sec.....
Fundamentalism, Politics, Science


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title: User Locations V1
layout: reference
---

{% include prerelease.html %}

# User Locations

* [Overview](#overview)
* [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
* [Service Details](#serviceDetails)
* [Regional Availability](#regionalAvailability)
* [Schema](#schema)
  * [Client](#client)
  * [Users](#users)
  * [Locations](#locations)
  * [Source Partner](#sourcePartner)
  * [Transaction](#transaction)
* [Request Headers](#requestHeaders)
* [Response Headers](#responseHeaders)
* [Status Codes](#statusCodes)
* [Example](#example)

## Overview

The goal of this API is to allow customers and 3rd party vendors to add their traveler's location data to Concur Locate so it can be utilized locate and contact travelers to address their duty of care requirements.

This API supports POST only.

## Prerequisites

1. [Obtain a client ID, secret and sandbox environment](/manage-apps/partner-applications.html) if you don't already have one.
2. Obtain your [Source partner](#sourcePartner) information. This will be provided along with your application credentials.
3. This API supports all valid authorization tokens, specifically those with the client_credentials grant. Read the [Getting Started](/api-reference/authentication/getting-started.html) section of [Authentication API](/api-reference/authentication/apidoc.html) for details. Your sandbox will be configured to accept posts from your application.

## Service Details
 The service is a POST call adhering to the following steps:

* Vendor onboarding has been completed prior to invoking the API. All the authentication and authorization credentials have been set up at this point.
* Third party vendors invoke the User Location API using the client credentials (JWT)
* Since the new service is registered with API gateway, the call is intercepted by the API Gateway and basic authentication and authorization for the given client credentials (JWT) is done
* If the checks fail, then the appropriate error response is returned to the caller.
* If the checks pass, then the request is forwarded to the load balancer which routes the request to the appropriate node for processing
* The selected node processes the request which is in JSON format. Validations are performed the data conversion takes place. If any of the validations fail, then the appropriate error response is returned to the client (HTTP 400 Bad Request / HTTP 403 Unauthorized)
* If the validations pass, then the request is processed, and the data is persisted to the backend (DB) in the following ways:
    * Direct persistence
    * Persistence via queues
* If the persistence is successful, then an HTTP 200 OK is returned to the caller
* If there are any issues with the persistence, then the appropriate codes are returned to the caller (HTTP 500 Application exception)
* Note that the error messages are intentionally ambiguous to prevent exploitation

## Regional Availability

```
https://us.api.concursolutions.com/locate/api/v1/user/locations
```
```
https://emea.api.concursolutions.com/locate/api/v1/user/locations
```

## Schema

_POST /locate/api/v1/user/locations_

See the schema documentation below for the specifications of each type, plus the various schemas that are shared components of each receipt schema.

The user locations API includes users and itineraries (locations) in addition to information about the company and post type (add or cancel).

Property Name|Type|Format|Description
---|---|---|---
UserLocations|Object|JSON|**Required** Contains the Client, Users, Locations, Source Partner and Transaction.
Client|Object|JSON|**Required** This indicates which entity within the organization the traveler belongs to.
Users|Object|JSON|**Required** This is the users' information. This will be used to either create a new traveler or to match with an existing traveler.
Locations|Object|JSON|**Required** This is the users' location information. Multiple locations can be passed for a single user.
SourcePartner|Object|JSON|**Required** This is used to identify your application. This information will be provided to you in advance.
Transaction|Object|JSON|**Required** Whether this transaction adds or cancels itineraries/locations.

### Client

This indicates which entity within the organization the traveler belongs to. This will vary by client. You will be provided with a list of the applicable agencies for each customer.

Property Name|Values/Length|Type|Description
---|---|---|---
Id|36|String|**Required**  Id: This maps to the top-level corporation
firstSubLevel|36|String|This is the child corporation i.e one level below the top level corporation.
secondSubLevel|36|String|This is the sub level of the child corporation (firstsublevel).

### Users

This information will be used to match or create a new user. Either login ID or email address must be provided. If an existing user is not found for the login ID or email, one will be created.

Property Name|Values/Length|Type|Description
---|---|---|---
visitorId|10|Long|**Required** This is a unique identifier for the user generated by your application.
firstName|100|String| **Required** The first name of the user.
lastName|100|String|**Required** The last name of the user.
email|255|String|**Either email or concurLoginId must be provided**
employeeId|19|String|Optional field to indicate the employee id of the user
mobileCountryCode|4|String|Either ISO Alpha-2 code or International Calling Codes (4 digits). As a reference the full set can be found at [Country Codes](http://www.mcc-mnc.com/).
mobile|10|String|The contact number of the user
optedIn|'True' / 'False'|String|Indicates if the user has chosen to receive messages via SMS or Text
concurLoginId|128|String|**Either email or concurLoginId must be provided**
affiliation|255|String|Used to indicate the type of traveler (e.g. employee, student, faculty)

### Locations

This section includes information about the traveler's future or current location. Either the location latitude and longitude OR the IATA (airport) code must be present. If both are present, the latitude and longitude take precedence.

Property Name|Values/Length|Type|Description
---|---|---|---
locationId|-|String|Identifier of the travel location
locationAddress|512|String|Address of the travel location
locationName|100|String|Name of the travel location
locationDescription|100|String|A short description of the travel location
locationPhone|50|String|Contact details of the travel location
locationLatitude|-|String|**Either the airport or latitude/longitude must be provided**
locationLongitude|-|String|**Either the airport or latitude/longitude must be provided**
locationIATACode|3|String|[IATA Airport Codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_by_IATA_code:_A) Either the airport or latitude/longitude must be provided.
startDate|16|String (format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM)|**Required** Traveler's arrival date
endDate|16|String (format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM)|**Required** Traveler's departure date
timezoneId|60|String|**Required** As a reference the full set of timezones can be found at <http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/timezones.html>
visitorID|10|-|This corresponds to the visitorId provided in the [Users](#users) schema.Ids present in this array must be present in the [Users](#users) schema.

### Source partner

This information will be provided to you along with your client ID and secret.

Property Name|Values/Length|Type|Description
---|---|---|---
Id|2|String|**Required** This will provide to clients similar to the Client ID
name|100|String|The name of the source provider e.g Source Provider1
description|100|String|A short description of the source provider

### Transaction

Itineraries can be added or cancelled. This section allows you to indicate whether this is an addition of a new itinerary or cancellation of an existing itinerary. A cancellation request is for canceling the itinerary completely in our system and if there are any updates to the existing itineraries then it needs to be resent using the same booking or transaction id.

Property Name|Values/Length|Type|Description
---|---|---|---
transactionId|5|String|**Required** This is a unique identifier generated by your application for the request.
createdDate|16|String (format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM)|**Required**
transactionType|10|**Required** 'Add' or 'Cancel'| Add is indicative of creating a new itinerary or updating an existing itinerary. Cancel means removing the itinerary. Cancel works only on future dated itineraries

## Request Headers

* [RFC 7230 Host](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-5.4)
* [RFC 7231 Accept](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.3.2)
* [RFC 7231 Accept-Encoding](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.3.4)
* [RFC 7231 Accept-Language](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.3.5)
* [RFC 7235 Authorization](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7235#section-4.2)
* [RFC 7231 Referer](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.2)
* [RFC 7231 User-Agent](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3)

## Response Headers

* [RFC 7231 Content-Encoding](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.2.2)
* [RFC 7231 Content-Type](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.1.5)
* [RFC 7231 Date](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.1.2)
* [RFC 7230 Transfer-Encoding](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.3.1)
* [RFC 7231 Vary](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.4)

## Status Codes

* [200 OK](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.3.1)
* [204 No Content](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.3.5)
* [400 Bad Request](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.1)
* [401 Unauthorized](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7235#section-3.1)
* [500 Internal Server Error](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.6.1)

Exceptions from the service will be mapped to one of the aforementioned
error codes.

## Example

### Mobile and Mobile Country Code valid combinations
Example with Country code for South Africa (Country Code:ZA)

Country Code|Mobile Number
---|---
Empty|7160986233
JP|800122334
81|800122334

* When `mobileCountryCode` is non-blank it will validate the mobile number against that country's market. It will accept the country letters (in this case JP) or the country code (in this case 81)
* When `mobileCountryCode` is blank, it will default to the client country (client id defined in the client section of the JSON)
* Mobile is validated against the `mobileCountryCode` or default country (as mentioned in point 1 above) if this field is blank. When a mobile number is provided there are no issues as long as it follows the appropriate format and is a valid mobile in the country where it is registered. For e.g If the `mobileCountryCode` provided in the JSON is 81 (JP - Japan) then the subsequent mobile number must be valid in JP.
* If the `mobileCountryCode` is not provided in the JSON and the client country is US then the mobile number provided must be valid in US because of the default behaviour mentioned above.
* `mobileCountryCode` can be of the following two variants
    * A 2-letter ISO code (e.g US, JP, IT)
    * A 4 digit International Calling Code.
    Please ensure that there are no special characters and spaces in the `mobile` or `mobileCountryCode` fields. Also ensure that the above limits and datatypes are strictly followed to prevent unwanted behaviour of the system.

A new field `partiallyProcessedTransactions` is introduced in the response to cater to the following invalid mobile scenarios.
    * Mobile number is not valid for the country derived based on details provided for traveller
    * A well formed mobile number could not be derived using the mobile provided

### Request
###### Cancel request without location and user fields (minimal request)
```shell
POST https://{baseURI}/locate/api/v1/user/locations
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {token}
```

```json
{
  "userLocations": [
    {
      "client": {
        "id": "UL_CLI"
      },
      "sourcePartner": {
        "id": "SP",
        "name": "Source Partner",
        "description": "Source Partner"
      },
      "transaction": {
        "transactionId": "AAAAAA",
        "createdDate": "2018-08-06T12:05",
        "transactionType": "Cancel"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

### Response

```shell
200 OK
date: Mon, 15 May 2018 14:28:07 GMT
content-length: 20
content-type: application/json
```

```json
{
    "processedTransactions": {
        "AAAAAA" : "Successfully Processed"
    },
    "unprocessedTransactions": {
    },
    "partiallyProcessedTransactions": {
    }
}
```

### Request
###### Add request

```shell
POST https://{baseURI}/locate/api/v1/user/locations
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {token}
```

```json
{
  "userLocations": [
    {
      "client": {
        "id": "UL_CLI",
        "firstSubLevel": "",
        "secondSubLevel": ""
      },
      "users": [
        {
          "visitorId": 22,
          "firstName": "Test",
          "lastName": "TEST3",
          "email": "test.test3@abcd.com",
          "employeeId": "abc333",
          "mobileCountryCode": "27",
          "mobile": "7160981138",
          "optedIn": true,
          "concurLoginId": "",
          "affiliation": "Student"
        },
        {
          "visitorId": 23,
          "firstName": "Test",
          "lastName": "TEST4",
          "email": "test.test4@abcd.com",
          "employeeId": "abc334",
          "mobileCountryCode": "US",
          "mobile": "2125551138",
          "optedIn": true,
          "concurLoginId": "",
          "affiliation": "Student"
        }
      ],
      "locations": [
        {
          "locationId": 0,
          "locationAddress": "",
          "locationName": "SomeLocation",
          "locationDescription": "",
          "locationLatitude": "",
          "locationLongitude": "",
          "locationIataCode": "LHR",
          "startDate": "2018-09-01T12:07",
          "endDate": "2018-09-02T12:07",
          "timezoneId": "Europe/London",
          "locationPhone": "",
          "visitorId": [
            22,23
          ]
        }
      ],
      "sourcePartner": {
        "id": "SP",
        "name": "Source Partner",
        "description": "Source Partner"
      },
      "transaction": {
        "transactionId": "ASDFGH",
        "createdDate": "2018-08-06T12:05",
        "transactionType": "Add"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

### Response

```shell
200 OK
date: Mon, 15 May 2018 14:28:07 GMT
content-length: 20
content-type: application/json
```

```json
{
    "processedTransactions": {
        "ASDFGH" : "Successfully Processed"
    },
    "unprocessedTransactions": {
    },
    "partiallyProcessedTransactions": {
    }
}
```

### Request
###### Add request - mobile phone variation

```shell
POST https://{baseURI}/locate/api/v1/user/locations
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {token}
```

```json
{
  "userLocations": [
    {
      "client": {
        "id": "UL_CLI",
        "firstSubLevel": "",
        "secondSubLevel": ""
      },
      "users": [
        {
          "visitorId": 22,
          "firstName": "Test",
          "lastName": "TEST3",
          "email": "test.test3@abcd.com",
          "employeeId": "abc333",
          "mobileCountryCode": "",
          "mobile": "+(27)7160981138",
          "optedIn": true,
          "concurLoginId": "",
          "affiliation": "Student"
        },
        {
          "visitorId": 23,
          "firstName": "Test",
          "lastName": "TEST4",
          "email": "test.test4@abcd.com",
          "employeeId": "abc334",
          "mobileCountryCode": "US",
          "mobile": "2125551138",
          "optedIn": true,
          "concurLoginId": "",
          "affiliation": "Student"
        }
      ],
      "locations": [
        {
          "locationId": 0,
          "locationAddress": "",
          "locationName": "SomeLocation",
          "locationDescription": "",
          "locationLatitude": "",
          "locationLongitude": "",
          "locationIataCode": "LHR",
          "startDate": "2018-09-01T12:07",
          "endDate": "2018-09-02T12:07",
          "timezoneId": "Europe/London",
          "locationPhone": "",
          "visitorId": [
            22,23
          ]
        }
      ],
      "sourcePartner": {
        "id": "SP",
        "name": "Source Partner",
        "description": "Source Partner"
      },
      "transaction": {
        "transactionId": "ASDFGH",
        "createdDate": "2018-08-06T12:05",
        "transactionType": "Add"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

### Response

```shell
200 OK
date: Mon, 15 May 2018 14:28:07 GMT
content-length: 20
content-type: application/json
```

```json
{
    "processedTransactions": {
        "ASDFGH" : "Successfully Processed"
    },
    "unprocessedTransactions": {
    },
    "partiallyProcessedTransactions": {
    }
}
```

### Request
###### Add request - invalid mobile phone variation

```shell
POST https://{baseURI}/locate/api/v1/user/locations
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {token}
```

```json
{
  "userLocations": [
    {
      "client": {
        "id": "UL_CLI",
        "firstSubLevel": "",
        "secondSubLevel": ""
      },
      "users": [
        {
          "visitorId": 22,
          "firstName": "Test",
          "lastName": "TEST3",
          "email": "test.test3@abcd.com",
          "employeeId": "abc333",
          "mobileCountryCode": "",
          "mobile": "+(27)7160981138",
          "optedIn": true,
          "concurLoginId": "",
          "affiliation": "Student"
        },
        {
          "visitorId": 23,
          "firstName": "Test",
          "lastName": "TEST4",
          "email": "test.test4@abcd.com",
          "employeeId": "abc334",
          "mobileCountryCode": "US",
          "mobile": "0005551138",
          "optedIn": true,
          "concurLoginId": "",
          "affiliation": "Student"
        }
      ],
      "locations": [
        {
          "locationId": 0,
          "locationAddress": "",
          "locationName": "SomeLocation",
          "locationDescription": "",
          "locationLatitude": "",
          "locationLongitude": "",
          "locationIataCode": "LHR",
          "startDate": "2018-09-01T12:07",
          "endDate": "2018-09-02T12:07",
          "timezoneId": "Europe/London",
          "locationPhone": "",
          "visitorId": [
            22,23
          ]
        }
      ],
      "sourcePartner": {
        "id": "SP",
        "name": "Source Partner",
        "description": "Source Partner"
      },
      "transaction": {
        "transactionId": "ASDFGH",
        "createdDate": "2018-08-06T12:05",
        "transactionType": "Add"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

### Response

```shell
200 OK
date: Mon, 15 May 2018 14:28:07 GMT
content-length: 20
content-type: application/json
```

```json
{
    "processedTransactions": {
    },
    "unprocessedTransactions": {
    },
    "partiallyProcessedTransactions": {
        "ASDFGH": "Partially processed the transactions : [Incorrect mobile for [23] ]"
    }
}
```

### Request
###### Add request - unprocessed transaction

```shell
POST https://{baseURI}/locate/api/v1/user/locations
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {token}
```

```json
{
  "userLocations": [
    {
      "client": {
        "id": "UL_CLI",
        "firstSubLevel": "",
        "secondSubLevel": ""
      },
      "users": [
        {
          "visitorId": 22,
          "firstName": "Test",
          "lastName": "TEST3",
          "email": "test.test3@abcd.com",
          "employeeId": "abc333",
          "mobileCountryCode": "",
          "mobile": "+(27)7160981138",
          "optedIn": true,
          "concurLoginId": "",
          "affiliation": "Student"
        },
        {
          "visitorId": 23,
          "firstName": "Test",
          "lastName": "TEST4",
          "email": "test.test4@abcd.com",
          "employeeId": "abc334",
          "mobileCountryCode": "US",
          "mobile": "asdfrgh",
          "optedIn": true,
          "concurLoginId": "",
          "affiliation": "Student"
        }
      ],
      "locations": [
        {
          "locationId": 0,
          "locationAddress": "",
          "locationName": "SomeLocation",
          "locationDescription": "",
          "locationLatitude": "",
          "locationLongitude": "",
          "locationIataCode": "LHR",
          "startDate": "2018-09-01T12:07",
          "endDate": "2018-09-02T12:07",
          "timezoneId": "Europe/London",
          "locationPhone": "",
          "visitorId": [
            22,23
          ]
        }
      ],
      "sourcePartner": {
        "id": "SP",
        "name": "Source Partner",
        "description": "Source Partner"
      },
      "transaction": {
        "transactionId": "ASDFGH",
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}
```

### Response

```shell
200 OK
date: Mon, 15 May 2018 14:28:07 GMT
content-length: 20
content-type: application/json
```

```json
{
    "processedTransactions": {
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    "unprocessedTransactions": {
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}
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Hearing against police chief delayed until July
State will review Ferrelview chief
There will be a delay in a matter to hear state-level complaints against the police chief of the Village of Ferrelview.
The matter, originally set to be heard against Daniel Clayton, police chief, on Feb. 6, has been pushed back until July 26.
A delay was not completely unexpected. The Landmark recently reported Clayton had retained legal counsel in the matter and that a delay in the hearing was possible.
The Administrative Hearing Commission of the State of Missouri will hear the matter. A representative of the state attorney general's office will present the case of the allegations against Clayton.
Last summer when the petition in the matter first became public, Ryan McCarty, an assistant in the office of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, told The Landmark Clayton's appearance before the administrative commission is a process similar to a preliminary hearing. McCarty stressed the attorney general's office "is not like a prosecutor's office in this situation. We have no agenda, we just present the case."
McCarty added the attorney general's position is to defer to the Missouri Director of Public Safety, who will make the call on any disciplinary action against Clayton's licensing.
McCarty said in dealing with a police officer's license, the Peace Officer Standards and Training Program (POST) gathers all reports and all evidence.
"The POST makes a recommendation to us and we go from there," McCarty said.
Complaints made against the Ferrelview police chief include accusations of being physically abusive, using unnecessary force and giving a sexually aggressive pat down.
The complaints put Clayton's license as a police officer at risk.
If the commission finds "cause" for the allegations, the matter is then advanced to the Missouri Department of Public Safety for a decision on whether to suspend or revoke Clayton's license as a police officer.
Clayton in recent weeks was suspended with pay by the Village of Ferrelview Board of Trustees. He remains on suspension with pay as of this writing.

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Last month, Joe did something pretty amazing: he watched every single MCU movie (prior to Infinity War) over a single weekend, without any breaks inbetween. And as well as raising a ton of cash for Parkinson's UK, he spent the weekend livetweeting and recording short mini pod segments for Soundcloud after each film. So if you didn't catch any of that while it was going on, we've stitched every one of those little bits together – along with a freshly-recorded intro and outro with Seb and James along for the ride!
Note that this podcast is technically the first time you'll hear Joe talk directly about Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, since we haven't got as far as covering those on main episodes yet; and you'll also get to hear what happens when a man has to watch Thor: The Dark World in the small hours of a Sunday morning.


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The photo's are just WOW! You have captured some lovely moments but most importantly you have managed to get all the love that was in that room that day! We loveeee it! You have got a great selection of all the super important people to us too! We will hands down recommend you to anyone and everyone!
Priya & Mayur held their Indian wedding at Braxted Park in Essex, and it was a great day! After months and months of meticulous planning by Priya and Mayur, their Hindu Wedding and Reception was an amazing day full of celebrations and I was so happy to be documenting it for them. I can see why they chose Braxted Park for their wedding celebrations, its a beautiful and historic estate located in the heart of Essex, with a long sweeping driveway, picturesque gardens, and an elegant Georgian Mansion, what more could you ask for.
I started my day capturing Mayurs entrance as he arrived in a vintage car, with his family waiting for his arrival. Once he arrived, he was welcomed by dhol players, and his family who were ready to get the celebrations started, and began dancing all the way to Priya's family who were ready to greet them. After Mayur's arrival I went to see Priya and document her finishing touches with her make up, before she made her entrance into the mandap when the wedding ceremony would officially begin.
The Hindu ceremony was filled with moments, and witnessing the connection between Priya and Mayur was wonderful to see, they were constantly smiling with one another, and enjoying every moment of getting married. They had real love for each other, their families and everyone that was close to them. After the ceremony had finished, everyone went to change into their reception outfits, whilst Priya and Mayor had their civil ceremony surrounded by their nearest and dearest. They joined the other guests at the evening drinks, before their reception, which was an amazing evening with speeches, and plenty of shape cutting on the dancefloor.
Thank you Priya and Mayur once again for allowing me to document your day, I had an amazing time with you both, your wonderful friends and family. Now onto some of my favourite frames from their Hindu Wedding and Reception at Braxted Park.
I had an amazing time shooting at Braxted Park, Essex, it was the perfect setting for any Wedding Ceremony. If you're planning on having a wedding in Essex, or anywhere else in the world, then please get in touch. I'd love to hear all about it and have the opportunity to be your London wedding photographer.
That last frame is the equivalent of a mic drop. Epic.
So many lovely moments. What a great set. Top class work !!!
Awesome work as always Rahul. Some gorgeous moments.
I want to have been at this wedding! Looks so good! Awesome shots.


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Middle-Grade Book Chat with Author Megan E. Freeman: Could you survive alone?
The shop was thriving on Saturday–Niwot Around the World Day was so fun, and loads of people were having a blast running around. All that (fun) chaos stopped when we closed up shop to welcome local author Megan Freeman for a book chat about her verse novel, Alone.
Kids and adults crammed in the shop, hanging on Freeman's every word. First, she explained what writing a novel in verse meant: "each poem connects to poems around it." This was a point of interest for many attendees, especially the young writers. Some of them asked her about the "rules" of poetry, and others asked for her advice. Freeman explained that poetry can be simultaneously very open and very structured, "I make up the rules as I write the poems."
The event then shifted gears to talk about her book, which is about a 12-year-old girl, Maddie, who wakes up to find that her entire town has been evacuated while she's been left behind. Inspired by Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins and her daughter's youth book club, Freeman started writing the book around 2010. It had gone through several iterations and drew strongly upon Freeman's experiences in Colorado; the book itself is set in the state and is "very eastern Boulder County," Freeman joked. Set in the fictional town of Millersville (Freeman's version of Lafayette, Colo.), Maddie is faced with challenge after challenge, with only a rottweiler named George for company. Emotional and engaging, it was clear that the book was a fan favorite.
"[We're] so much less alone," she said when talking about the challenges of writing a 21st-century survival story compared to one from past generations. She went into detail about her research and plot-development process. For example, to get around the issue of increased communication nowadays, she had to kill the electricity. "I had no idea how complex it is!" Freeman described reaching out to various professionals for input and information so that she could make Maddie's experience as dramatic yet realistic as possible.
Freeman's crowd was extremely interactive. When she asked questions, they gave their two cents; likewise, when she asked for questions, various were thrown her way–
Why this decision or that decision?
What was it like to write it?
How do you fight writer's block? [work on something else and come back to it later–"learning I didn't have to write in chronological order was huge for me!"]
And why oh why the kitten and the bunny?? [spoiler: sometimes "bad things happen in good books" -Freeman '22]
We're so grateful to have had Freeman swing by to give such a fun, illuminating chat about her book and the writing process. We're also super thankful to everyone who showed up for the event!
If you attended, let us know your thoughts by emailing us at hello@twjbookshop.com! We love hearing from you and getting your feedback on books, events, and everything in between.
Happy Wandering!
Four Questions with Author LB Schulman
Get to know LB Schulman with four interview questions and a bonus lightning round! LB will be signing copies of her books at The Wandering Jellyfish Author Signing Fair from 11-12 on December 4th!
Four Interview Questions with Author Laura Perdew
Get to know Laura Perdew with four interview questions and a bonus lightning round! Laura will be signing copies of her books at The Wandering Jellyfish Author Signing Fair from 12-1 on December 4th!


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Герт Олеск (; 8 августа 1973, Пярну) — эстонский футболист, центральный защитник, футбольный тренер. Выступал за национальную сборную Эстонии.

Биография

Клубная карьера
Начинал играть на взрослом уровне в клубе из Пярну «КЕК»/«Тервис», по итогам сезона 1992/93 вышел в высшую лигу. В ходе следующего сезона перешёл в таллинскую «Флору», в которой в сезонах 1993/94 и 1994/95 сыграл 11 матчей, в этих чемпионатах выигрывал золотые медали. Однако в основном составе таллинского клуба не закрепился и в последующих сезонах отдавался в аренду в фарм-клубы «Флоры» — команды из посёлка «Лелле» и свой прежний клуб «Тервис».

В 1997 году перешёл в «Тулевик», в нём провёл следующие четыре сезона. В 1999 году помог клубу добиться наивысшего успеха в истории — завоевать серебряные медали. В 2001—2002 годах играл в первой лиге за «Элву», затем вернулся в родной город и выступал за «Вапрус». В составе клуба из Пярну в 2004 году выиграл турнир второй лиги, а в 2005 году — первую лигу. В 2006—2007 годах провёл два своих последних сезона в высшей лиге. Завершил игровую карьеру в 2012 году, играя за дубль команды из Пярну.

В 2016 году выступал за команду по пляжному футболу в высшем дивизионе Эстонии.

Карьера в сборной
В 1994—1995 выступал за молодёжную сборную Эстонии, сыграл 10 матчей.

Дебютировал в национальной сборной Эстонии 1 июня 1994 года в игре против сборной Македонии, отыграв полный матч. В 1994—1997 годах часто вызывался в сборную страны, но играл нерегулярно, в основном в товарищеских матчах. После двухлетнего перерыва был вызван в сборную в феврале 2000 года и принял участие в двух матчах, свою последнюю игру провёл 25 февраля 2000 года против Таиланда.

Всего в 1994—2000 годах сыграл 13 матчей за сборную Эстонии, голов не забивал.

Карьера тренера
С 2004 года работал в «Вапрусе» детским тренером. В 2009 и 2010 годах некоторое время работал главным тренером основной команды «Вапруса» (по другим данным, главным тренером клуба в этих сезонах был Антс Коммуссаар). В 2011 году завоевал бронзовые медали чемпионата Эстонии среди 17-летних.

В 2013—2014 годах возглавлял клуб «Пярну Линнамеэсконд», игравший в 2013 году в Эсилиге Б (вторая лига), а в 2014 году — в Эсилиге. В обоих сезонах клуб заслужил право на повышение в классе, заняв соответственно второе и третье места. В декабре 2014 года уступил тренерский пост Марко Лелову и стал его ассистентом.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Профиль на сайте ЭФС
 Gert Olesk: Pärnu võib minna II liigasse

Футболисты Эстонии
Игроки сборной Эстонии по футболу
Игроки ФК «Тервис»
Игроки ФК «Флора»
Игроки ФК «Лелле»
Игроки ФК «Вильянди»
Игроки ФК «Элва»
Игроки ФК «Вапрус»
Футбольные тренеры Эстонии
Тренеры ФК «Вапрус»

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The 4th of July is a fun time to get together, celebrate the founding of our country and totally pig out with friends!!! This is a roundup of 50 out of this world Fourth of July recipes!
I love getting together with friends to celebrate the Fourth of July! It so much fun to start the pigging out early, take it all day and then pack up snacks to eat in a night picnic while you wait for the fireworks to start! Here's a collection of 50 out of this world Fourth of July recipes rounded up by Julie!
What a great roundup – thanks for including my triple berry crepes!


Trees are located in the Southern California Region only, making them rare. Growth is in the form of low, angular limbs, with an open canopy. The trees are drought-deciduous, with tendencies to grow in deep, loamy soil. The seedling are fire tolerant and grow quite readily in partly shaded areas.
Some assume that, because this oak is native to Southern California, it will tolerate all of the climatic vagaries handed out by Mother Nature and be plastic enough to adjust; most authorities recommend that, when the annual precipitation is below normal (fifteen inches), supplemental deep and thorough monthly watering through spring is advisable. If summer temperatures are above normal (with extended periods of extreme heat), one or two supplemental applications of water are also advisable (in August and/or September). Apply the water several feet from the trunk, well into the drip zone and beyond; keeping the water away from the trunks helps avoid concentrated amounts of water soaking directly onto the main roots.
Any pruning should be restricted to the month of September, when the trees are most dormant.


At the very dawn of civilization the Ancient Mysteries, a secret worship or wisdom religion that flourished for thousands of years in Egypt, India, Greece, Persia, Thrace, Scandinavia and the Gothic and Celtic nations, prescribed and practised fasting. The Druidical religion among the Celtic peoples required a long probationary period of fasting and prayer before the candidate could advance. A fast of fifty days was required in the Mithriac religion in Persia. Indeed, fasting was common to all the mysteries, which were all quite similar to the Egyptian mysteries and were probably derived from these. Moses, who was learned in "all the wisdom of Egypt," is said to have fasted for more than 120 days on Mount Sinai.
The mysteries of Tyre, which were represented in Judea in the days of Jesus, in a secret society known as the Essenes, also prescribed fasting. In the first century A.D., there existed in Alexandria, Egypt, an ascetic sect of Jews, called Therapeutae, who resembled the Essenes and who borrowed much from the Kabala and from the Pythagorian and Orphic systems. These Therapeutae gave great attention to the sick and held fasting in high esteem as a curative measure.
Fasting is mentioned quite frequently in the Bible while several fasts of considerable duration are recorded therein, as, Moses forty days (Ex. 24:18; Exodus 34:28); Elijah forty days (1st Kings, 19:8); David seven days (2 Sam. 12:20); Jesus forty days (Matthew 4:2); Luke, "I fast twice in the week" (Luke 18:12); "This kind cometh not out save by prayer and fasting" (Matt. 17:21); a fast throughout all Judea (2 Chronicles 20:8). The Bible cautions against fasting for mere notoriety (Matt. 6:17, 18). It also advises fasters not to wear a sad countenance (Matt. 6:16); but to find pleasure in fasting and to perform one's work (Isa. 58:3), and that certain fasts shall be fasts of gladness (Zech. 8.19).
We may very properly assume that some great good was the object of the many fasts mentioned in the Bible even though we may be sure that they were not always intended for the "cure" of "disease." We may also be sure that the ancients had no fear of starving to death by missing a few meals.
For two thousand years the Christian religion has recommended "prayer and fasting" and the story of the forty days' fast in the wilderness has been told from thousands of pulpits. Religious fasts were frequently practised in the early days of Christianity and during the Middle Ages. Thomas Campanella tells us that frail nuns often sought relief from attacks of hysteria by fasting "seven times seventy hours,"--or twenty and one half days. John Calvin and John Wesley both strongly urged fasting as a beneficial measure for both ministers and people.
Among the early Christians, fasting was among the rites of purification. Fasting is yet a regular practice among the nations of the Far East, especially among the East Indians. The many fasts of Ghandi are generally known.
Penance-worn members of the early church frequently retired to the desert for a month or two to fight down temptations. They would drink water from some dilapidated old cistern during the period, but to eat so much as a millet-seed was considered a breach of their vows and destroyed the merits of their penance. At the end of the second month the "gaunt world-renouncers" generally had sufficient strength to return home unassisted.
The writer of Peregrinato Silviæ, in describing how Lent was observed in Jerusalem, when she was there about 386 A.D., says: "They abstained entirely from all food during Lent, except on Saturdays and Sundays. They took a meal about midday on Sunday, and after that they took nothing until Saturday morning. This was their rule through Lent."
Although the Catholic Church has no law requiring fasting, as we use the term, it was voluntarily practiced by many individuals in the past. Fasting, whether total abstinence from food or abstinence from proscribed foods, is regarded by this Church as a penance. The Catholic Church also teaches that Jesus fasted in order to instruct and encourage belief in the practice of penance.
The Roman Church has both "fast-days" and "abstinence-days," though they are not necessarily the same. The "law of abstinence" is on a different basis and "is regulated, not by the quantity, but by the quality of food" permitted. "The law of abstinence forbids the use of meat or meat broth, but not eggs, 'lacticinia' (milk) or condiments of any kind even from 'the fat of animals'." The rule of the church in fasting is: "What constitutes fasting is the taking of only one full meal in a day." "In earlier times a strict fast was kept until sunset. Now this full meal may be taken any time after mid-day, or, as the church's approved authors hold, shortly before. Some even hold that the full meal may be taken at any time during the 24 hours." But this "one full meal in twenty-four hours" does not prohibit the taking of some food in the morning and evening. Indeed, "local custom," which is often a somewhat undefined phrase, as determined by the local bishop, determines what extra food may be taken daily. In America the rule is that the morning meal should not exceed two ounces of bread; in Westminster (England) the limit is three ounces. Obviously a "fast" of this nature is not what we mean by fasting, for a man may eat enough in this manner to grow fat. Nor can Hygienists accept the so-called moral principle of the Roman Church--"parvum pro nihilo reputatur" and "ne potus noceat"--"a little is reckoned as nothing," "lest drink unaccompanied by anything solid should be harmful." We hold, as Page expressed it, that little driblet meals are not fasting.
The Lenten fast of Catholics is also merely a period of abstinence from certain proscribed foods, although there are Catholics who take advantage of the period for a real fast. The early practice of fasting until sundown, then feasting, is similar to the practice of Mohammedans in their so-called fast of Ramadan. During this season the people do not eat and cannot drink wine nor smoke cigarettes from sunrise to sunset, but they have their cigarettes handy, ready to begin smoking as soon as the sun goes down and they enjoy a night of feasting. A grand carouse at night makes up for their abstinence during the day. Their cities hold nightly carnivals, the restaurants are lighted and the streets are filled with revelers, the bazaars are well illuminated and the peddlers of lemonade and sweetmeats are in their glory. The wealthy sit up all night receiving and returning calls and giving dinner parties. After forty days of this feasting and revelling, the people celebrate the end of their month of "fasting" with the feasting of Bairam.
At the present time Christians of all sects and denominations rarely undergo real fasts. Most fasts of Roman, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant communicants are merely periods of abstinence from flesh foods. Abstinence from flesh foods other than fish on "fast" days appears to have been enjoined merely to aid the fishing and shipbuilding industries. Among the Jews fasting always means entire abstinence from food, and at least one of their fast days carries with it abstinence from water, also. Their periods of fasting are commonly only short ones.
While the Hindu Nationalist's leader, Ghandi, fully understood the hygienic value of the fast, and often fasted for hygienic purposes, most of his fasts were "purification" or penance fasts and political weapons by which he compelled England to accede to his demands. He even fasted for the purification of India, and not merely for his own cleansing.
Fasting formed part of the religious observances of the Aztecs and Toltecs of Mexico, the Incas of Peru and of other American tribes. Fasting was also practiced by the Pacific Islanders; while there are traces of fasting in China and Japan, even before their contact with Buddhism. In Eastern Asia and wherever Brahmanism and Buddhism have spread, fasting has been kept alive.


All are invited to the Avid Reader on Friday, Feb. 3, 7:30-8:30 p.m., to hear excerpts from iPinion Syndicate's second anthology, "Cats, Dogs, and Other Things That Poop in the Yard." The book, which was edited by Debra DeAngelo and David Lacy, features the work of iPinion Syndicate contributors, and their thoughts, feelings and experiences on the rainbow of emotions that go along with having pets, from bringing home our "fur babies" to the day we must let them go forever.
These stories are heartfelt, heartwarming and heartbreaking too, with plenty of humor sprinkled throughout.
On Feb. 3, meet Winters writers Debra DeAngelo, Georgeanne Brennan and Kate Laddish, Davis writers Kathy Keatley Garvey, David Weinshilboum and Cathy Speck, as well as Sacramento area writers David Lacy, Kelvin Wade and Carolyn Wyler, and hear selections from their stories in the writers' own voices. Those who don't already have a copy of the book for signing can purchase them right there at the Avid Reader. The book is also available on Amazon.com.
In addition to the writers coming to the Friday reading, the book contains stories by other writers from across the country, as well as Winters writers Crystal Apilado Cooper and Tom McMasters-Stone.
The Avid Reader is located at 617 2nd Street in Davis. For more information about the Feb. 3 event, call the store, 530-758-4040.
iPinion Syndicate, which is an online commentary and blogging syndicate, is based in Winters, California. DeAngelo is the CEO, and Lacy is the COO.
For more information about iPinion Syndicate and its contributors, visit www. ipinionsyndicate.com, "like" iPinion on Facebook, and follow iPinion on Twitter.


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N3TV
The first serious video segment made about the Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) was produced by Koula Bouloukos and broadcast on the Canadian Brodcast Company show N3TV on 11 November 1999. (As we noted in our response to the show that aired on Zone Libre in October 1998, the first people who put the SCP on TV presented the group as "comic relief" from an otherwise very serious subject.) About five minutes long, the segment that aired on N3TV was taped in New York in September 1999. It includes a great many shots of surveillance cameras in New York City, interpolates relevant information about their number and the lack of laws governing their installation in public places, and includes good interview segments with both the SCP's Bill Brown and Norman Siegel, the Director of the the New York Civil Liberties Union, as well as with NYPD Chief Howard Safir and several "everyday people" encountered in Washington Square Park. (Though they are approaching the issue from very different perspectives, both Bill and Norman Siegal say pretty much the same things: surveillance cameras do not make people fell safe against crime; the cameras make certain areas of the city safe to own and operate a business, and so do nothing for people who do not own property.) Bill also explores the tendency of police officers to use surveillance technology for the purposes of sexual gratification.
As good as it was -- and, to be fair, it remains one of the best pieces on the SCP ever aired on TV -- Koula's show could have been even better. It doesn't include any of the interviews conducted with SCPers Susan and Jack DeMolay, and, in one key shot taken in Washington Square Park, it manages to lose Miranda in the shadows behind Bill. In general, the show gives the mistaken impression that the SCP consists of Bill and Bill alone. The show also doesn't contain any of the truly amazing footage that Koula's crew managed to take during an SCP performance that was interrupted by a total of seven officers from the New York Police Department.
Since the broadcast, Koula has refused to answer several e-mailed messages regarding licensing of the footage her team recorded but didn't use. The N3TV Web site quotes Norman Siegal but makes absolutely no reference to the SCP. It's as if Koula is sorry she put the SCP on the air. What's up with that?


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Fascism Set to So-Called Music: 'The Official Donald Trump Jam' is No Laughing Matter
Donald Trump has been gifted with a theme song for his 2016 presidential campaign.The Official Donald Trump Jam is sung by a Pensacola, Florida-based children's singing and dance troupe called The USA Freedom Kids.
The song is a failure on both aesthetic and musical grounds.
Rolling Stone was spot-on in its mockery of The Official Donald Trump Jam:
The surreal, saccharine song boasts the finest in Midi drum loop technology and a pulsing synth melody that Blondie might want to consider taking to court… The crowd was suitably enthralled and jazzed by the performance. In fact, approximately 52-seconds in, a woman in the second row was thrown into such a patriotic fit that she — bless her heart — started clapping on beats one and three.
The song is horrible. But the political vision it signals is no laughing matter. Humor is a universal human experience. However, what a person finds humorous, entertaining, or pleasurable—and how they choose to express those feelings—is shaped by specific social, political, and cultural practices.
The Official Donald Trump Jam's superficial embrace of empty "Americana" is easily mocked by liberals and progressives (beyond any questions of personal taste) because it signals to a vacuous myth-making about the past and present that they have rejected.
In the United States, conservatives are much more likely to embrace Americana and a belief in "American Exceptionalism." As a political value system, conservatism reveres and embraces the past. In most political contexts, conservatives are typified by their authoritarian personalities. Together, those elements generate a deep anxiety and hostility toward social change.
Due to a combination of brain structure, insular news media and information sources, child rearing practices, and other cultural habits, American conservatives have constructed their own alternate reality. Phrases such as "red state," "blue state," and the "purpling" of America are not empty talking points for the political chattering classes: Said language captures a real social and political phenomenon.
The United States has high levels of political polarization (with an important caveat: elites are far more apart than the general public). Marketing research has shown how these divergences in political values extend even into popular culture.
For example, John Stewart's The Daily Show featured actor Stephen Colbert in a role where he mocked Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly.
Colbert, to his credit, was able to create a character that effectively exposed the theatrics, lies, duplicity, and broader disinformation campaign of Bill O'Reilly and the right-wing news entertainment propaganda machine. The Daily Show's viewers (and those who later watched the eponymous spin-off, The Colbert Report) understood the context for Stephen Colbert's performance because they are 1) outside of the right-wing media's bubble of epistemic closure and 2) possess a political worldview that is grounded in empirical reality. However, conservatives who watched The Colbert Report actually believed that Stephen Colbert was actually endorsing Bill O'Reilly's political views. Because conservative viewers of The Colbert Report were/are fully propagandized by the right-wing media, they were unable (or unwilling) to discern the true meaning of Colbert's performance.
The same dynamic is at work with The Official Donald Trump Jam. Ethnomusicologist R. Serge Denisoff's work is extremely helpful here. He outlined the relationship between music and politics in the following way:
1. The song attempts to solicit and arouse outside support and sympathy for a social or political movement.
2. The song reinforces the value structure of individuals who are active supporters of the social movement or ideology.
3. The song creates and promotes cohesion, solidarity, and high morale in an organization or movement supporting its world view.
4. The song is an attempt to recruit individuals for a specific social movement.
5. The song invokes solutions to real or imagined social phenomena in terms of action to achieve a desired goal.
6. The song points to some problem or discontent in the society, usually in emotional terms.
This framework is extremely useful for "reading" The Official Donald Trump Jam's lyrics:
Cowardice, are you serious? Apologies for freedom, I can't handle this When freedom rings, answer the call On your feet, stand up tall Freedom's on our shoulders, USA
Enemies of freedom, face the music
C'mon boys take 'em down
President Donald Trump knows how to make America great
Do it from strength or get crushed every time
Over here, over there
Freedom and liberty everywhere
Oh say can you see, it's not so easy
But we have to stand up tall and answer freedom's call
USA, USA, we're the land of the free and the home of the brave, USA
The stars and stripes are flying
Let's celebrate our freedom
Inspire proudly freedom to the world
Ameri-tude, American pride It's attitude, it's who we are, stand up tall We're the red white and blue Fiercely free, that's who Our colors don't run, no siree
The Official Donald Trump Jam is a statement of purpose for his proto-fascist, right-wing, Herrenvolk, nativist, and racist political project. Strength and national virility are to be restored by Donald Trump. As David Neiwert highlighted in his excellent piece on Donald Trump's ascendance and questions of American fascism, gestures to masculinity and violence are common elements of right-wing political thought.
Of course, there is also no critical thought at work in Trump's bromide, "Make America Strong Again!"
[Strong by what criteria? As compared to which country? Military power? Economic power? The United States is the leading global power, by most measures, in both categories.]
The father of one of the girls in the USA Freedom Kids, (who also wrote the Trump campaign song) explained this logic in an interview with New York Magazine. There, he explained:
Why no Democrats? "When you have a business you have to identify who the market is, and the Democrats are not our market," he explained. "They don't seem to really respond to the patriotic call, if you will, in the way the Republicans do. The Republican people, like me, have tears in their eyes when they hear the national anthem. I think you're either on the side of freedom or you're not, the Republicans choose that team more than the Democrats do."
As I suggested in Salon, Donald Trump is a political cult leader. Consequently, for Trump and his supporters, emotions supersede serious policy proposals.
Donald Trump's theme song contains the lyrics, "Do it from strength or get crushed every time." As he has explained during debates and interviews, Donald Trump imagines himself as a street enforcer vigilante who uses his gun to "stop the bad guys" while he kills the families of America's enemies, and tortures "terrorists." It would seem that Trumpism involves a full daily schedule of war mongering, brutality, and sadism. This is arousing to conservatives, those disaffected and angry working-class white voters especially, who are attracted to such authoritarian rhetoric and promises of action.
The semiotics of the The Official Donald Trump Jam song and performance are extremely coherent. Trump's sirens are white children. They are the literal future of Trump's America. It is no coincidence that they are also young girls. Trump's brand of nativism and racism has repeatedly returned to the idea that white women are imperiled by "illegal immigrants" who only come to the United State to rob, steal, and rape (white) women.
The changing racial demographics and white anxieties about America being a "majority minority country" (a claim that is not true, as the boundaries of whiteness have historically expanded to include new groups)—or what Trump's white supremacist supporters describe as "demographic winter" for the "white race"—are signaled to by the white children in USA Freedom Kids, girls who will presumably give birth to white children in the future.
If conservatism imagines itself as under siege (and because it's a belief system most popular among the white, aged, and dying in the United States), Trump's USA Freedom Kids, with their American flag regalia and recitation of right-wing talking points about strength, nationalism, and militarism, are a symbol of ideological renewal and continuity across generations. Old white American conservatives can watch, smile, and clap along to The Official Donald Trump Jam because the USA Freedom Kids are a reminder of the "immortality" and "permanence" of their "sacred" values, values that they hope will exist once the older generation has died. This is an antidote to worries about both physical mortality and the obsolescence of American conservatism.
Donald Trump's political policies are incoherent. This is unimportant for his base and the movement conservatives who will likely flock to him in a general election. Like the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates, Trump's appeal is based on fear, empty symbolism, and the manipulation of white racial anxiety. The Official Donald Trump Jam is a horrendous song, but aesthetic assessments are irrelevant. Trump's foot soldiers are still happily marching right along to its beat.
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Norway's Police Watchdog Drops Case Concerning Racism
"I am very disappointed in the decision. I feel that it is unfair and I had done nothing wrong. That I was stopped and questioned about dealing drugs and prostitution was humiliating. They put me in a cell basically naked and searched me for drugs. Then say that I refused to get dressed, but this is not true!" – Mrs Enyam
Shane Alexander Caldwell
On the 8th of July 2014, Nobuhle Enyam and her ex-husband Jean who originated from both South Africa and Chad respectively, (aged around 50) were sitting in car outside their family home preparing a trip to IKEA when they were approached by two plain-clothed female Norwegian Police Officers. Hours later, both were being released from Norway's largest Police District's holding cell's. Mrs Enyam was pushed out of the facility in a wheelchair wearing only underwear and a singlet.
With the son of the couple filming the event and the husband documenting his ex-wife's physical state upon release, the arrest gained significant media attention in Norway. The former couple called out the treatment as racially motivated, went to the press, and lodged formal complaints. However, after 14 months, Norway's Police watchdog, "The Special Unit for Police Investigation" has dismissed the case.
Mrs Enyam told Circus Bazaar that she was "very disappointed in the decision. I feel that it is unfair and I had done nothing wrong. That I was stopped and questioned about dealing drugs and prostitution was humiliating. They put me in a cell basically naked and searched me for drugs. Then say that I refused to get dressed, but this is not true."
The eight-page document outlining the decision describes dissimilar interpretations of events. On one side, two individuals, one of whom, had sought shelter in Norway from racial oppression under Apartheid South Africa, and non-uniformed police tasked with confronting drug sellers in an ethnically diverse neighbourhood that to their denial apparently stated, "many are Nigerians".
The couple, who clearly believed at the time that they were subjected to racial profiling has been met with denials in the testimony's provided by the officers involved who stated that they were "focused on drug trafficking in general" and not that they were "specifically looking for dark-skinned women and men". Further, the officers insisted that had a plausible explanation been given for what they deemed "strange" behaviour", such as "they lived in the area", they would have been excused.
Mrs Enyam claimed in her testimony that she felt disrespected by the way the two female civilian officers engaged her. She tells of how "Norwegians drink and use drugs near a kindergarten" in the area and that she asked "why they had walked past several people who ran drugs before they approached her. She asked Circus Bazaar, "Are they going to stop every person with dark skin to ask about trafficking women and drugs?"
As the situation escalated, Mrs Enyam and her husband interpreted the behaviour as racially motivated. She reacted emotionally when one of the officers grabbed her arm. "Do not touch me, do not touch me" the officers claimed she yelled. At this point, uniformed reinforcements were called and the couple were handcuffed.
Mrs Enyam told Circus Bazaar that "she just didn't understand why this was happening". The investigative documents read that she yelled, "you make me hurt you makes me hurt" and resisted as they handcuffed her and tried to walk her to the car. Whilst Mrs Enyam recalls being forced to the ground by the officers, they testified that she laid on the ground herself. As they claim that she refused to move, she was later picked up by her legs and arms and loaded into a police wagon.
The police explained that upon arrival at the Police Station that Mrs Enyam once again refused to walk. She was then put in a wheelchair and taken into a cell for several hours. After time passing and upon her release she yelled and insisted on both a "doctor and lawyer". Without her skirt and laying on a bed with a blanket the Police claim that she "refused to get dressed" so they put her belongings in a bag and dragged her from the cell forcefully.
Mrs Enyam disregards this explanation and told Circus Bazaar; "How could I go naked? I asked them for help. I was in pain and I could not move. They threw the clothes at me from the door and put me in a chair and threw me out almost naked. My back is still injured!"
After once again putting her in a wheelchair she was removed from the building where Mr Enyam was there to await her and at which point he photographed his obviously traumatised ex-wife. According to statements from the officers she once again refused to remove herself from the chair. The decision states that she was removed by 3-4 officials.
The decision concludes that no evidence was available to show that more force was used than was required in the situation. They believe that based on the evidence that includes surveillance images from within Oslo Police districts holding cells, that the "use of force was occasioned by her own behavior". Doctors reports state that Mrs Enyam was sick for 21 days following the event with back problems and psychological imbalance resultant of a crisis situation.
Shane Alexander Caldwell is the Editor-in-Chief of Circus Bazaar and owner of Circus Bazaar Productions. He is a Political Scientist by education with a specialisation in International Relations. He has written for Vice World News and is the producer of the forthcoming documentary project, "The Serpent in Paradise".
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Announced Friday that the newly approved invitation phase for the 2024 Olympic bid process will start January 15, 2015.
Last week, prior the the IOC's 127th Session in Monaco, the IOC announced the 2024 bid schedule was to begin September 15, 2015. However with the new reforms being approved by the IOC during the Session, an invitation phase is now required to be added in advance of the process. The phase is designed to open a dialogue between the IOC and potential host city prior to the submission of the an application to determine where synergies exist and how a partnership can be built. This will be a consultative and learning process and an evaluation will not take place at this time.
Several cities have already expressed interest in bidding for the 2024 Olympic Games including Paris, Rome, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku, Duban or Johannesburg in South Africa, Hamburg or Berlin in German and either Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Washington in the United States.
The United States Olympic Committee will view presentations from possible nominees on December 16 when they could choose their bid city. In Germany, sport governing body DOSB expects to make its selection in March.
The election of the host city will take place 2017 at the IOC's 130th Session in Lima, Peru.


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Ælmebjær er et naturreservat i Køinge sogn, Falkenbergs kommun, Hallands län, Sverige. Det er en del af  Åkulla bøgeskove.

Området har et areal på 62 hektar, hvoraf 21,6 er vand (hovedsageligt Bjørkasjø). Reservatet ejes af Naturvårdsverket (det svenske miljøstyrelse) og har været beskyttet siden 2003. Undergrunden består hovedsageligt af gnejs, men nogle granater forekommer også. Det højeste punkt er 176 meter over havets overflade. Der er omkring ti truede lavarter i området, herunder brun thelopsis (Thelopsis rubella), rosenrød tensporelav (Bacidia rosella), bøge-kantskivelav  (Lecanora glabrata) og bøge-megalaria (Megalaria laureri).

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July 9, 2015 By Joshua Jablons Ph.D.
With Metal Cutting's long history of supplying and manufacturing high-grade tungsten materials, we've developed a special appreciation for the element and what it can do. So just for fun, this week we thought we'd take a look at some of the more interesting — and sometimes curious — facts about tungsten.
The derivation of the name "tungsten" — and the story of why the element's symbol on the periodic table is W — is an internationally paradoxical tale. The element itself was discovered back in 1783 by two Spanish chemists, brothers Juan José and Fausto Elhuyar, in samples of the mineral called wolframite. Today, in many countries around the world, the element is referred to by the Germanic name "wolfram," after the mineral wolframite. So, it's easy to see where the chemical symbol W came from — although if you're like us, you might wonder why the element wasn't named "Elhuyarite" or if there is a Spanish word for wolframite.
However, the name "tungsten" is what is used today in the U.S. and in English, French, and various other languages. This term came from the Swedish words tung and sten, meaning "heavy stone," and is the old Swedish name for the mineral scheelite, another source of tungsten ore. But ironically, "tungsten" is NOT used as the name of the element in Sweden or the other Nordic countries. There, as well as in most Germanic and Slavic languages, they use the name "wolfram" or "volfram".
Tungsten/Wolfram/Volfram is still extracted primarily from wolframite and scheelite. Of all metals in pure form, tungsten has the highest melting point (3422°C, 6192°F), lowest vapor pressure (at temperatures above 1650°C, 3000°F), and the highest tensile strength. So, whether you call it tungsten or any other name, this range of properties means tungsten is used in many industries and products around the world, from high-speed cutting tools and jet turbine engines, to ammunition, lighting, and even fishing weights.
2. Tungsten wire diameter is expressed in milligrams.
You might hear people describe tungsten diameter as 14.7 mg, 3.05 mg, 246.7 mg, and so on. It's because in the old days, lacking tools for accurately measuring very thin wires — say, from .001" up to .020" in diameter — the convention was to take 200 mm (about 8") of tungsten wire, weigh it, and plug the weight into a mathematical formula to determine the diameter.
The standard diameter tolerance is ± 3% of the weight measurement, although tighter tolerances are available, depending on the application for the wire product. This method also assumes the wire has a constant diameter, with no significant variation, necking down, or other conical effects anywhere on the diameter.
3. Most tungsten wire comes doped — whether you need it that way or not!
Once again, the practice goes back to the old days — specifically, a time when the main purpose of tungsten wire was in filaments for light bulbs. The trouble was, light bulbs throw off white-hot temperatures that caused early filaments to sag, leading to lamp failure. Through experimentation, someone came up with the idea of adding alumina, silica, and potassium to alter the mechanical properties of the tungsten wire. The dopants were added at the powder mixing stage and then, in the process of hot swaging and hot drawing the tungsten wire, the alumina and silica would out-gas and the potassium would remain, giving the wire non-sag properties under white-hot temperatures.
Adding these dopants at the powder mixing stage of tungsten wire manufacturing dates to the time when there were no other significant uses for the wire besides light bulb filaments. And while there are many other uses of tungsten wire today — not to mention incandescent light bulbs are becoming a thing of the past — the use of dopants in tungsten wire manufacturing continues. However, it happens that Metal Cutting can also offer 99.999% pure, undoped tungsten wire. All you need to do is ask.
4. Tungsten and tungsten carbide are NOT interchangeable.
Tungsten carbide is famous for its wear resistance; in fact, it can only be cut using diamond tools. But while tungsten carbide does have a lot of tungsten in it, the addition of cobalt to make it a cemented carbide gives tungsten carbide properties that are very different from those of pure tungsten.
Pure tungsten has many properties that make it useful; however, it is also known for being notoriously difficult to machine. Try to use diamond tools, and pure tungsten will simply load, or "gum up," the diamond wheel. Metal Cutting specializes in methods that are very effective for cutting pure tungsten, but interestingly, those same methods are not useful when trying to cut tungsten carbide.
For example, a customer may tell us they have or want a tungsten tube, but upon further investigation we may find out they actually have or need tungsten carbide. Pure tungsten simply cannot be made into a tube, aside from gun drilling final sizes — and that assumes the part has a favorable length to ID ratio and the customer has lots of money and doesn't want a lot of these painstakingly produced parts. Tungsten carbide, on the other hand, can be pressed and sintered into tubular shapes, but that, too, is not a cheap or high-volume process. And unlike other metals, neither tungsten nor tungsten carbide can be drawn into tubes.
People sometimes ask if you can have liquid tungsten, and the answer is … well, it's complicated. Having the highest melting point of any known metal, at 3422°C, obviously tungsten would be very difficult to melt. In theory, anything can be melted if you apply enough heat. However, for commercial purposes, tungsten's melting point makes liquid tungsten an insurmountably impossible proposition.
For instance, in what type of container would you hold a large amount of liquid tungsten? In all practicality, anything you'd try to use would be melted by the high temperature of the tungsten. That is why tungsten is manufactured in a non-liquid state, using powder metallurgy. Commercially, tungsten products, such as heavy alloys, copper tungsten, and electrodes, are made through pressing and sintering in near net shape. For wrought products,the pressing and sintering, followed by swaging and a repeated schedule of repeated drawing and annealing, produces the characteristic elongated grain structure, which carries over to the finished product, whether it is a large rod or a very thin wire.
The only known element with a higher melting point than tungsten is carbon, at 3550°C. However, even carbon cannot be used to hold liquid tungsten, because at high temperatures the two will react to form tungsten carbide. Experimentally, liquid tungsten has been produced, using super-conductive copper crucibles in which the heat is pulled away from the surface of the crucible so that it remains intact. But again, this is impractical for commercial volumes — and that means, at least for the present time, you just can't buy liquid tungsten products.
How do facts 1-5 add up?
With all of its unique and interesting properties, tungsten is one of the most widely used of the refractory metals. (And no, it is not a rare earth element, even though for political reasons tungsten can be grouped with those elements that make the headlines — but that is a topic for another time.) As a company that has been delivering specialized tungsten wire and rod products since 1967 — and, as the exclusive North American distributor for Nippon Tungsten Co., Ltd. — Metal Cutting can help you untangle the mysteries of tungsten for your applications.
Metal Cutting Corporation has been in the specialty tungsten products business since 1967. For tips on tungsten wire or other precision metal fabrication needs, download our free guide to tungsten wire properties and applications!


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Home Industries Restaurants New bar and cafe Aperitivo coming to Pritzlaff Building
New bar and cafe Aperitivo coming to Pritzlaff Building
Happy hour concept opening early next year
Maredithe Meyer
Aperitivo is located at 311 N. Plankinton Ave., photo courtesy of Richard Kerhin.
Last updated on March 17th, 2020 at 01:34 pm
A new Italian-style bar and cafe is opening soon on the ground floor of the historic Pritzlaff Building in the Third Ward.
Aperitivo is slated to open in early-to-mid January at 311 N. Plankinton Ave. The concept will focus on happy hour, serving drinks that pair well with a rotating selection of internationally inspired small plates.
The atmosphere will reflect the meaning of its name, which is an Italian ritual where people get together after the workday to enjoy drinks and food as a prelude to dinner.
"What I'm hoping is that it becomes the place to hang out after work, that place to relax and have a couple drinks before you go home," said Richard Kerhin.
Kerhin has teamed up with Kendall Breunig, Pritzlaff Building owner and principal of Franklin-based Sunset Investors, to operate the business. Kerhin also owns Richard's Cafe inside The Tannery building in Walker's Point.
The 1,600-square-foot cafe shares the building with 100 apartment units and offices and businesses on its second-floor so it was a promising site for the business, Kerhin said. It is also located along The Hop's M-Line, with a stop adjacent to the Pritzlaff Building at West St. Paul Avenue and South 2nd Street.
In addition to its happy hour offerings, Aperitivo will serve Milwaukee-based Valentine Coffee, espresso drinks and tea. It will also sell a selection of to-go items for breakfast and lunch.
The bar menu will include Italian craft cocktails, wine by the bottle and glass and a variety of macro and micro brews served from six draft lines.
Starting in January, Aperitivo will be operate on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., serving happy hour Monday through Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. and from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. It will be open until midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Aperitivo is located in inside the historic Pritzlaff Building in the Third Ward. Photo courtesy of Richard Kerhin
Maredithe has covered retail, restaurants, entertainment and tourism since 2018. Her duties as associate editor include copy editing, page proofing and managing work flow. Meyer earned a degree in journalism from Marquette University and still enjoys attending men's basketball games to cheer on the Golden Eagles. Also in her free time, Meyer coaches high school field hockey and loves trying out new restaurants in Milwaukee.
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A new Italian-style bar and cafe is opening soon on the ground floor of the historic Pritzlaff Building in the Third Ward. Aperitivo is slated to open in early-to-mid January at 311 N. Plankinton Ave. The concept will focus on happy hour, serving drinks that pair well with a rotating selection of internationally inspired small plates. The atmosphere will reflect the meaning of its name, which is an Italian ritual where people get together after the workday to enjoy drinks and food as a prelude to dinner. "What I'm hoping is that it becomes the place to hang out after work, that place to relax and have a couple drinks before you go home," said Richard Kerhin. Kerhin has teamed up with Kendall Breunig, Pritzlaff Building owner and principal of Franklin-based Sunset Investors, to operate the business. Kerhin also owns Richard's Cafe inside The Tannery building in Walker's Point. The 1,600-square-foot cafe shares the building with 100 apartment units and offices and businesses on its second-floor so it was a promising site for the business, Kerhin said. It is also located along The Hop's M-Line, with a stop adjacent to the Pritzlaff Building at West St. Paul Avenue and South 2nd Street. In addition to its happy hour offerings, Aperitivo will serve Milwaukee-based Valentine Coffee, espresso drinks and tea. It will also sell a selection of to-go items for breakfast and lunch. The bar menu will include Italian craft cocktails, wine by the bottle and glass and a variety of macro and micro brews served from six draft lines. Starting in January, Aperitivo will be operate on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., serving happy hour Monday through Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. and from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. It will be open until midnight on Friday and Saturday.


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Win-Win: A Satisfying Sports-Themed Movie The Whole Family Will Enjoy
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The new movie, Win-Win, should appeal to all age groups, but, may be especially appealing as a movie for grandparents to see with their sports-active teenage grand-kids.
The movie deals with a number of real life intergenerational issues that many families wrestle with (pun intended) - a grandfather with signs of dementia who wants to stay in his own home, a mother fighting drug addiction while trying to stay connected to her teenage son, even a young athlete facing and overcoming performance anxiety - in a way that is, at times, immensely entertaining and at others, heartbreakingly depressing. In some ways, it reminded me of The Blind Side. Like the football player in that movie, Kyle is a gifted athlete with a drug addicted, couldn't-give-a-damn mother and a deceased father, who begins to flourish when he is taken in by a caring family.
Interestingly, many in the audience the night I saw the movie were older and probably related more to "Lou" the grandfather, played by Burt Young, than to "Mike" the financially struggling forty-something lawyer and high school wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti) who volunteers to be Lou's guardian after Lou is deemed incapable of taking care of himself as he slips toward dementia, or to Kyle, Lou's sixteen-year-old wrestling grandson, who Mike takes in when he comes to visit Lou.
Some of the scenes in the movies weren't quite believable to me, so I wouldn't say Win-Win was an outstanding film, but, as a sports-themed movie I found it satisfying. The scenes were knit together quite well by a talented cast of actors who sometimes had to save the movie from being too contrived. My favorite character was "Terry" a high school wrestling teammate and Mike's best friend, who, when he realizes how talented a wrestler Kyle is, jumps on the bandwagon and becomes an assistant coach for a wrestling team, that without Kyle, had been on a long losing streak (shades of the "Bad News Bears").
Adding authenticity to the movie is the fact that Kyle is played by Alex Shaffer who, in real life, won the New Jersey state wrestling championship in 2010 when he was seventeen.
The best thing about the movie is the life lessons it teaches for all athletes. My favorite involved one of Kyle's teammates, Stemler, played with goofy charm by David W. Thompson. Inspired by Kyle's gung-ho, never-give-up attitude in the wrestling circle, Stemler finally musters the courage to overcome his fears to wrestle the pivotal match for his team. From years of watching and coaching boys' sports teams, I know that, like Stemler, some boys are fine with riding the bench as long as they can be part of a team yet never feel they are making a contribution. Stemler's story is one that both coaches and athletes will find inspiring.
I highly recommend Win-Win as a movie for the whole family to enjoy together.


This recipe is something else, it's absolutely stunning! I normally find myself dripping a new mix as soon as my cotton is dry but I can't put this down. If there was vape perfection, this is it.
I was skeptical but darn if this isn't good! Very balanced between vanilla and honeysuckle.
Absolutely stunning vape! Perfect! Very well done @ID10-T!
Delicate and well balanced creamy flavour with a floral note. The only negative aspect (totally subjective) is that it is slightly under-flavoured at least for my setup (Guardian Vaporesso 0.5Ω at 230-250 C), thus the 4 stars and not 5. Amazing balance and roundness to the flavour though!
I don't know why this is special, but it is. I was afraid the vanilla would be pronounced, but steep it for 7 days and this is an amazing vape. It's smooth, it's sweet, it's beautiful. Honeysuckle cream.
This recipe is really something special. Every percentage has been balanced perfectly to bring great qualities to the profile, without adding anything unpleasant or unnecessary. There are no noticeable notes of egg, or bakery elements of a crust or cone. It is a simple and elegant mixture of three things: freshly churned cream, deep, rich vanilla bean, and the floral delicacy of honeysuckle. I could never create a better description than the recipe's creator so please make sure to read the notes.
Very amazingly balanced, slightly floral, incredibly interesting and super creamy ADV. Those particular creams and the extra vanilla really helps stand up to the Honeysuckle. This is definitely one of my top 5 favorite recipes.
Fluffy clouds of summer. Close your eyes. Inhale. Now exhale. Think of walking down the street as a child, smelling the flowers. The ice cream truck's tinkling notes drift down the street. Right, now the silliness is over with, that is exactly what this juice made me feel. It reminded me of summers when I was a kid, grabbing an ice cream from the ice cream van with my mum and walking back with it in hand past our neighbour's garden and inhaling the strong scent of honeysuckle from the vines creeping up their house. The Vanilla is a background companion to the star of the show, the honeysuckle. I can see this being overpowering for people that don't usually like florals, but this was exactly what I hoped it would be. Beautiful.
The vanilla is soft and sweet, not too overpowering which is nice. The vanilla bean ice cream is a background note that makes this more elaborate but it doesn't take over. The honeysuckle is the star of the show here, and although I can tell the balance of the recipe is great and the vape is smooth, I just don't like the flavor in this one. The honeysuckle taste very green and perfume like to me which reminds me of why I can't vape strawberry vapes. It's my own fault but I can't bring myself to like this one.
I mixed this with a degree of trepidation because florals aren't usually my thing but somehow I have honeysuckle on the shelf. I should have mixed this a lot sooner...it's been sitting in the queue waiting to be mixed for months. It's beautiful.
I wasn't sure about this at first, but it grew on me more & more. It became a favorite by the time I finished the bottle. This recipe shows what is special about DIY.. making flavor combos that aren't found in any commercial juices.
Lacks flavor. Nothing impressive about this and I'm surprised it gets so many 5 star reviews.
Love this recipe both by itself and a base for other flavors. Delicate yet decadent.
This is listed as a S&V, but I have really enjoyed sampling it over the course of 4 weeks. Yes, this seems to be true to the profile and that is cool on its own, but there are some other things I would like to note. The ice cream is great. I may have fallen in love with INW Shisha Vanilla as well. I enjoy this recipe with coffee and heavier, darker, and sweeter beers. After a couple of weeks, the overall vape gets softer on the palate and the Honeysuckle blends through a bit more as if the ice cream has melted. The honeysuckle doesn't fade though...no, sir. The vanilla holds its own as well. Beautiful work.
Delightful recipe for a rainy day.
I like this but don't love it. Simple, inoffensive, but not that engaging to me.
I've been meaning to mix this recipe for a few weeks but kept putting it off because I didn't think I'd like it, but I was wrong... I basically shake and vaped.. I'm enjoying this quite alot and look forward to what it tastes like in a few days.. I did add .5 cap super sweet by the way.
I can't Shake and Vape this one, the honeysuckle is too subtle, but after about 5 or 6 days the juice darkens and then the honeysuckle really comes out to play, and it turns into a fantastic juice. Great stuff.
Tasty ice cream with a slight hint of honeysuckle. I needed some time to fully enjoy it. Sit down, relax and listen to the birds. Perfect companion for a good book.
Tastes exactly like you wouldn't expect lol! Its so different and great for a springtime ADV. The creams really tone down to floralness from the honeysuckle and turn it into something completely different. This really showcases @ID10-T 's mixing skills and I see why he won the competition.
I paid for a subscription in part so I could leave a 5-star review for Longing. This recipe is beyond words for me, and if you don't mix it up, you're definitely missing out on something special.
The recipe that encouraged me to DIY . . .once I read the description, I knew I needed it. This is a juice I can't put down. This is nectar-of-the-gods-type e liquid!!! ID10-T has created a masterpiece!
This juice is amazing man! Probably my favorite ice cream vape. I made a bunch of 30ml so all my friends could try it. Thanks for creating this masterpiece.
A very authentic ice cream base. It has some heavy butter/dairy notes from VBIC and Cream Fresh especially after a bit of steeping, but always just enough to make the flavor feel dense. This is the first floral vape I've truly enjoyed, and almost exactly what I imagined my first floral vape I liked being like: creamy, good amount of vanilla, and not too floral as is jasmin, not too sharp as in cactus, but something.. Pastel purple? I love it.
This is absolutely delicious. Great job on the recipe and congrats on your win!


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