We're throwing an art party with our girl @stefciaa for the Venice Art Crawl tonight!
Stephanie Hulewicz's is an Australian artist who's created a trippy surf art world inspired by the ocean, vintage posters, comic books and retro Japanese comic graphics. Her preferred medium of pen and watercolour allows her to translate a love of bold colours and line drawings.
Come check out her work in store tonight and get yourself a rad print. The beers are on our mates Pabst Blue Ribbon so even more reason to come hang.
I woke up to my new puppy licking my face and rolled around with her for a while.
It's time to wake up - La Femme.
Teaching little kids how to swim at an outdoor pool and getting peed on a lot.
A little Toyota Starlet that was like a little dodgem car and a moving wardrobe.
In the morning sun after a swim or a run.
Vintage posters, record covers, labels. I usually take pics of cool images or colour schemes I see in thrift stores or on the street.
Working with my friend on a print for her swimwear line and painting a surfboard in the print!
Asia and Central America. I love travelling in tropical developing countries that are by the water. Nicaragua and Sri Lanka are favourites.
A vintage jacket that I donated by accident then bought it back haha..either that or a tartan hat that I bought in Berlin and have had for years.
Racecourse beach south coast of Sydney is paradise.
Crack a coldie with your mates!!


From a modest start as a nine hole course through to today where we are half way through a total course redevelopment programme, Kilcock Golf Club has been recognised as a progressive club. With the developments over recent years that progressive tag has been almost worn out as we continue to invest in the course and general infrastructure of the Golf Club. One thing we haven't changed is the warm friendly atmosphere that is afforded all who join our club.


In honor of our 18 Best Places to Go in 2018, we launched a photo contest on Instagram. Thanks to all the talented shutterbugs who participated, and congratulations to the winners!
When Frommer's launched its Best Places to Go 2018 Instagram photo contest back in February, there was one simple rule: Each submission was to depict one of the 18 hotspots we feel you should visit this year.
Though our destinations run the gamut from Malta to Madurai, the editorial staff made a few predictions regarding the entries. We expected a storm of snapshots of New Orleans' French Quarter, or at least an album's worth of Caribbean beach scenes. Instead, there was nary a Mardi Gras bead nor Windex sea in sight.
Turns out our travel community really, really, loves Jordan. Not surprisingly, two of the winning photos highlight this Mideast desert marvel.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest—and happy travels!
Shon and Jenia Rand travel the world with their two small children, both of whom were born abroad. They've lived in three countries outside the USA and traveled many more; by the time their son was 2 years old, he had already visited more than 20 nations. These days, the family lives and works in Shenzhen, China. They maintain a blog called Our Traveling Zoo, where they share more photographs and stories about their adventures.
Prayash is a Delhi-based architect, urban planner, and (occasional) travel photographer who is currently planning a trip to the 16th country on his "50 countries to visit before turning 50" list. He supports community involvement and universal accessibility in travel, and covets window seats and pools with views. His all-time favorite destination is the Himalaya, but he also has a (very) soft spot for London (during its short summer), Calcutta (during its short winter), and Mauritius (all the other times of the year).
Daniel is an amateur landscape photographer based in Monterey, California. He's been into photography since high school, and it's one of his biggest passions. Daniel's goal is to travel the world full-time as a photographer.


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By Tom Peterson on February 18, 2019 in Social Change, world changing
Every year Oxfam reports on the massive gap between the world's super-rich and the poor. In 2017 the report named just eight men—Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim Helu, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Michael Bloomberg—who have more wealth than the poorest half of people on earth. Some of the names change each year but not this insane concentration of wealth that mucks up our world and breeds all kinds of social ills. And those who suggest a more equitable taxing of the super wealthy are demonized and called names: socialist, anti-capitalist, idealist, naïve.
Oxfam's executive director Winnie Byanyima points out that with one-in-ten people living on less than $2 a day this wealth inequality "is trapping hundreds of millions in poverty; it is fracturing our societies and undermining democracy. Across the world, people are being left behind. Their wages are stagnating yet corporate bosses take home million dollar bonuses; their health and education services are cut while corporations and the super-rich dodge their taxes; their voices are ignored as governments sing to the tune of big business and a wealthy elite."
This rich-poor gap is just one measure of the injustice being experienced by so many people this very hour. There are, of course, many others; because of their gender or sexual orientation, their ethnicity, the color of their skin, their age, their religion and beliefs, or some other identity many are disadvantaged, mistreated or victims of violence.
Avoiding doomsday
Since 1953 the Bulletin of Atomic the Scientists have used a metaphorical "doomsday clock" that tells us how close we are to nuclear disaster (climate change was later added to the calculations). The clock was recently moved up a half-minute—to two minutes to midnight—in part because of the "new abnormal" that "describes a moment in which fact is becoming indistinguishable from fiction, undermining our very abilities to develop and apply solutions to the big problems of our time. The new abnormal risks emboldening autocrats and lulling citizens around the world into a dangerous sense of anomie and political paralysis."
Study after study concludes that if we don't act radically our planet will soon become unlivable. Approaching this environmental crisis by getting a few more people to do a bit more each year simply won't cut it. Humorist Andy Borowitz writes in the New Yorker that since "climate change" no longer elicited much concern from the public "leading scientists are recommending replacing it with a new term: 'You will be burnt to a crisp and die.'" They considered other options, too, says Borowitz: "your future will involve rowing a boat down a river of rotting corpses" and "earth will be a fiery hellhole incapable of supporting human life."
Years ago I came across a question, I can't remember where or who asked it. It was about global poverty but could just as easily have been asked about rising oceans or the disappearing species. It could have been asked about the wicked problems tied to mass incarceration, the drug epidemics, poor public education. It could have been about the rise of fascism, racism or the many faces of injustice. Here's the question: What insanity makes us think this is not our problem?
Know this: You are needed
Beyond any doubt, all of these challenges belong to us. They are ours. We either see the urgency in them or we are truly mad. Any one of these powder kegs could go off and start a chain reaction that changes everything. Fortunately, millions of concerned citizens who are saving everything from whales to voting rights are more organized and pushing harder than ever. But the pathways are tough.
"We stand now where two roads diverge," said Rachel Carson. She continues:
But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road – the one 'less traveled by' offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
To prevail against the many challenges, we will have to accelerate world change. This starts by awakening ourselves and those who have been lulled to sleep. Each of us has something to give. We have money. Or we have some time. We have willingness to do something. We can learn about more a cause, we talk with a friend. We can act, and we can act again. We can choose for the sake of the world to take a road less traveled. But we won't be traveling alone.
10 Ways to Be Audacious (and change the world)
Find and keep talent, avoid "normal" people

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Jan. 18, 2004 Updated: Aug. 14, 2011 1:06 a.m.
Author appearances:
John Carver will sign Winning at 1 p.m. today at Barnes & Noble, Deerbrook Mall.
Glinda Bridgforth and Gail Perry-Mason will sign Girl, Make Your Money Grow at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Shrine Bookstore, 5309 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Michael Hick will sign and discuss Global Deals at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Borders, 3025 Kirby.
Author Robert Arnett and illustrator Smita Turakhia will sign Finders Keepers? and India Unveiled at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Barnes & Noble, Deerbrook Mall.
Nellie Connally will sign and discuss her memoir From Love Field 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Barnes & Noble, 3003 W. Holcombe.
Carmine Stahl will sign and discuss Trees of Texas at 10 a.m. Friday at Barnes & Noble, 12850 Memorial.
Mystery novelist Susan Wittig Albert will sign A Dilly of a Death at 6 p.m. Friday at Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet.
Michael Martinez will sign and discuss Understanding Middle Earth at 10 a.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, 12850 Memorial.
Jude St. James will sign his thriller Iguana 2-4 p.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, The Woodlands.
Poet Lisa Kahn will read from A Bluebonnet Trail of Verses at 2 p.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, 7626 Westheimer.
John Paul Allen will sign Gifted Trust at 4 p.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, Deerbrook Mall.
Items for this column run on a space-available basis and should be submitted in writing to Book Events, Features Department, Houston Chronicle, Box 4260, Houston, Texas 77210. Fax: 713-354-3538. Deadline for receiving material is 5 p.m. Monday.
Today's Picks
Why did Houstonians risk their lives for Bow Wow?
Rapper Bow Wow is currently under fire for performing at a packed-out Houston nightclub.
Rare 'super-Earth' discovered by NASA
The rare "super-Earth" is orbiting one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Here's when Part 2 of 'Selena: The Series' will be released
Netflix has set the date for the much-anticipated second season.
Give your walls some pizazz with art under $50
If your walls leave you feeling uninspired, maybe it's time to spruce 'em up.


How to choose the right genre for your mobile game?
Questions that frequently occur at the stage of developing or supporting free-2-play games are: how should the premium currency purchase window look like and how should the discounts work?
Which game mechanics make it to the top?
Before battle royale there were survivals Last Day on Earth and mech actons War Robots . And in Top Free there are many small duel action games. The trend is not Battle Royale by itself, the trend is action games for younger audience.
Hi Alexander. This diagram shows the number of games in each category in the Top 300 grossing.


A copyright violation occurs when a movie, TV show, music or video game is illegally downloaded over the Internet. Copyright violations are serious allegations against online users that can lead to significant consequences.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) created a website to help Internet users protect themselves against illegal downloads. Check out www.respectcopyrights.org for more information.
For additional information regarding online copyright provisions see 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A) or view TrioTel's Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy.
If you have received notice of a copyright infringement and you believe that a copyright holder has accused you in error, you may file a DMCA Counter-Claim with TrioTel Communications' designated agent.


For those of you who are interested in reporting services, here are a few Report Services blogs that I have come across recently (and subscribed to).
Update: but what? I'm not sure what happened but somehow the rest of my post got cut off. The but was that I have too many feeds to enter them by hand. So I guess I will need to write an XSL to convert the OPML from SharpReader to HTML.
Update: I've added three of my categories. I'll try to post the others soon.
Patrick Tisseghem has added part 3 to his series on Building WebParts for Microsoft SharePoint. The article covers the basics of how to connect WebParts. If you're building WebParts you will also find parts 1 and 2 to be very useful.
I just finished upgrading the site to the .95 version of .Text. It was a very easy upgrade. It took me a minute to realize I needed to copy the contents of the images folder to the new site folder, but other than that everything was well documented. I also noticed that it reset all my entries to be unread in SharpReader.
Well I finally got my Reporting Services issue resolved. It seems the problem wasn't really with RS itself, but rather I had entered into some kind of Assembly Hell. Here is what happened.
1) I installed the Resharper Visual Studio add-in. I tried it out for a bit and then uninstalled it because some of the things it did to my IDE was driving me nuts.
2) I uninstalled the Enterprise version of RS.
3) I installed the Developer version of RS.
4) At this point the RS report designer no longer worked.
What finally gave me the clue that unlocked the mystery was the error message I was getting when I tried to create a new RS project. It was telling me that the "the located assembly's manifest definition does not match ...". The assembly that it was reporting this problem for was Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll. So I then searched my hard drive for this file and discovered the problem.
Resharper had installed a copy of Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll in the Common7/IDE/PrivateAssemblies folder. The version on this file was 7.0.3266.0. RS also had installed a version of this file in it's own folder that which was version 8.0.30310.1. So apparently when VS was trying to load the report editor it was looking first in the private assembly folder and finder the version that didn't match what it was looking for. Once that happened it would just quit without giving any errors unless you specifically tried to create a new RS project.
So in the end, I could probably uninstall the Enterprise edition (which I now have running) and install the Developer version, but I really don't want to since everything is working and now I can go back to being productive. This is my first experience with Assembly Hell and somehow I doubt it will be my last.
Yesterday I decided I wanted to run Reporting Services on my local development machine which is running Windows Server 2003. I already had the Reporting Services client tools installed. When I ran the Reporting Services Developer version install program it told me it couldn't upgrade the version that was already installed (which was Enterprise). So I had to uninstall Reporting Services and then reinstall the developer edition.
Now I can't open Reporting Services projects or create new Reporting Services projects. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling many times to no avail. I've tried both developer and eval versions. We no longer have the Enterprise CD so I can't try that. Any ideas?
Update: I did a reinstall of VS and a reinstall of Reporting Services, still doesn't work. The report designer does not show up in installed products. But in the registry there is a key for the report designer under installed products and the package exists. I tried modifying the package settings (I changed MinVersion to "Developer") and then I get an error message when I start visual studio. So it seems like the package at least attempts to load. Maybe I can look into the log files to see if there is any information there.
Tom Rizzo has asked for people to try some things out in Reporting Services.
1) Try customizing Reporting Services via its URL customization. You can easily drop RS into an IFrame, SharePoint, etc. by using an URL.
The toolbar. It would be nice if you could specify to get only certain parts of the toolbar and if you could load the toolbar by itself in another frame.
It seems there is something strange with the report width and height. It seems like you always get an extra wide report even if you set it up to be narrow in the report designer.
2) Try programming the Web Services of Reporting Services.
This is pretty straightforward, however, it doesn't work very well if you're trying to hit the web service from a another server by passing the Credentials. You end up not being able to authenticate since it is a "double-hop".
Haven't tried this yet. What would be a good reason to export this to XML?
4) Subscriptions and rendering formats.
These are also pretty easy to use. The email subscription doesn't seem to be compatible with Lotus Notes which is a real problem for us. Links do work, but they aren't as impressive as getting the full report in the email itself.
1) Get some decent charting functionality. The way it currently works you can't even change the color of the chart items (you can only switch between pallettes).
2) Allow me to pass in the RDL to the Render function. There must be some way to do this since the report preview works in Visual Studio, but I haven't figured it out yet.
3) Provide some best practices for accessing the service via ASP.Net apps. I've heard that there are some Reporting Services Web Parts coming soon (which will solve a lot of problems for me), but how about some general guidelines on how to integrate Reporting Services into a web application.
Overall Reporting Services is a great product that we have been very happy with.
Michael has posted part 2 of using For Xml in Yukon. He even answered my question from my previous post. I must say I'm very impressed with the new For Xml syntax. It looks like it solves a lot of problems and removes the complexity that kept so many people from using For Xml.
1) Will the new nesting mode support stored procedures?
2) Would you be able to store the results of a For Xml query into a variable? And if so, can you use those results in For Xml nested queries?
What does this result in? ?
I guess if your moving on to XQuery next I will have to find a good XQuery book to get read up on the subject. The information posted so far has been great and I'm looking forward to more of it.
Dr. Michael Rys has a great post up on how For Xml nesting will work in Yukon.
Obviously, this query is easier to write, understand and maintain. OTOH, due to the fact that we create intermediate XML objects, it may have worse performance characteristics (altough, sometimes it can be faster since we do not need the union and less joins).
I think the performance hit will be well worth it. Plus if you don't want to take the performance hit you can still use the explicit mode.
This gives me an Xml result that can be deserialized into a collection. Would nesting help me? Maybe not since I really wouldn't be able to specify the root element type. Comments?
I joined up on the team just at the end of the [SqlXml] 2.0 release cycle. The 3.0 release was given to me completely and I've owned all of the SqlXml releases since then (so when you have issues, I'm the guy at fault). I continue to work on that while also addressing SqlXml in the future. We're working on integrating the idea of mapping XML to relational data into our Whidbey offerings, making it much more of a mainstream product.
If you're doing any SharePoint development, then you will almost certainly be familiar with WebParts. WebParts are pretty much just fancy ASP.Net controls that allow the user to place them into WebPart Zones and save a personalized state, all of which is managed by SharePoint. WebParts are created using Visual Studio.Net (or a .Net compilier if you're into that type of thing).
One of the biggest problems I've run into so far when developing WebParts was in regard to web services. One of the WebParts that I've been working on was a Reporting Services WebPart. To program against Reporting Services you have to use the Report Services web service. This web service handles security using Windows NT authentication, so when you make calls to the service you have to provide it with credentials.
All of this is fine except for the fact that you can't take the credentials that you get in the WebPart (which are the ones passed in via the browser) and then pass those same credentials to the web service. This is known as a "double-hop" and isn't supported due to the way NT authentication is done (an interesting read). So what can you do?
Some other approaches can be taken such as using basic authentication with https. I'm also looking into seeing if I can make the web service calls using an administrator account but using a security check that passes in the userid to see if the user has permission to access the report. But I've had to put the project on a backburner for a bit while I build some more MDX reports.
Update: I've posted my first article on Reporting Services webparts here which covers the client side script approach.
And while were at it, lets get rid of variable names. I think I must spend at least 25% of my time thinking up good variable names. If we didn't have to name them, I'd be done so much faster.
One of the interesting things at my new job is the technology culture. The group that I work in is a big MS proponent, but not everyone is. I know nothing when it comes to Java since I've never had to do any programming with it. So when upper management made the claim that .Net is fine for front-end apps, but you really need Java to do anything on the back-end since it can do more complex things, I kind of chuckled. I assumed they had no idea what they were talking about.
So in my last post I mentioned that I have a new job. I now work for Countrywide as a developer in a pretty small group that does mostly reporting. I'm doing a lot of work with SharePoint*, Reporting Services*, Analysis Services*, SQL Server, and .Net. I've spent quite a bit of my time developing web parts which has been pretty interesting. All the * items are products that are pretty new to me. So this has been an exciting change for me.
I will try to post some of my thoughts on these new products later this week.
Wow it has been a long time since I last blogged. In December I was too busy finishing up school and going on vacations to blog and on January 8th I started a new job. But I feel like things are finally normalizing enough to where I can start blogging again.


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We fell for this dress' of-the-moment textured fabric on sight and knew we needed to design a dress around it. The Brigitte is coolly polished, with a stunning boat neck and flattering cap sleeve. Slight pleating around the waist gives the dress movement and ease. The Brigitte has a stretch lining in the skirt for added comfort.
Fit: Fitted through bust and waist, skirt has pleating at front waist and a subtle tulip shape that appears straight but provides ease. Body length is 39" for a size 6. Model is size 6 and is 5'10".
Care Instructions: Machine wash cold in delicate cycle with like colors. Lay flat to dry, cool iron if necessary. Alternatively, dress can be dry-cleaned.
The most versatile Little Black Dress!
I was thrilled to take this dress out of the box and find that it was even more beautiful than the online photos can show. The skirt is an elegant textured fabric that creates a subtle contrast from the bodice. This dress will be perfect for a day at the office (with flats and a cardi, perhaps) and can easily be dressed up for evening wear with beautiful jewelry and heels.
I recently ordered this dress to wear to my office's holiday party; I needed a dress that was a little more special than what I typically wear to work, but not so glam that I'd feel silly wearing it throughout the workday. This dress fit the bill on all accounts; not only is it incredibly comfortable (and machine washable!), the textured tulip-shaped skirt is eye-catching and provides a little shine, but is toned down by the ponte top (which has the perfect neckline). I am 5'4" with an hourglass figure; the dress was cut perfectly for me! I paired this dress with pearl studs, a pearl necklace, and pale lip gloss for day; I traded my patent leather heels for satin pumps, swapped my tote for a beaded gold clutch, and added red lipstick and a red pashmina to take this amazing dress from daytime to evening. I also received amazing customer service from Jess at Dobbin, who ensured that I received the dress (which I ordered at the last minute) in time for the party.


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Бланкізм — політична теорія та практика революційного руху, яка базується на вченні французького революціонера Луї Огюста Бланкі. Передбачає повалення капіталізму з допомогою революційних змов, створення вузьких підпільних організацій, раптового збройного перевороту. Робиться наголос передусім на швидкому державному перевороті, здійснюваному невеликим авангардом втаємничених конспіраторів, які згодом зміцнюють свою владу за допомогою диктаторських методів. Після того, як цей передовий загін візьме владу у свої руки, нагальним кроком має стати революційне повалення буржуазного ладу. Такі спроби мали місце у 1839 і 1870 роках у Парижі (закінчилися невдачею). Велике значення в революційній стратегії Бланкі надавав індивідуальним агітаторам, які були вихідцями з буржуазного середовища. Революційна диктатура, на його думку, — це не диктатура пролетаріату, «а диктатура революційної меншості». «В кого меч, в того і хліб», — романтично розмірковував Бланкі.

Розроблена Бланкі стратегія революції стала важливою сполучною ланкою між якобінською традицією прямих дій (Французька революція 1789 року) та виплеканими Леніним традиціями російського більшовизму. Бланкісти відіграли помітну роль під час Паризької комуни 1871 року і ще на початку ХХ століття продовжували справляти певний вплив на французьких лівих. Бланкізм набув певного поширення в Росії, деяких державах Латинської Америки, Азії серед студентства багатьох країн.

Термін часто використовується в творах лівих теоретиків як синонім путчізма.

Література
 Шведа Ю. Р. Політичні партії. Енциклопедичний словник. — Львів: Астролябія. — 2005. — 488 с.
 Шведа Ю. Р. Теорія політичних партій та партійних систем: Навчальний посібник. — Львів: Тріада плюс. — 2004. — 528 с.
 Обушний М. І., Примуш М. В., Шведа Ю. Р. Партологія: Навчальний посібник / За ред. М. І. Обушного.- К.: Арістей. — 2006. — 432 с.

Посилання
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Oroton losses fall after rescue, cuts rent bill as it faces stronger future
High-end Australian accessories specialist Oroton Group managed to slash its losses in its latest financial year as it cut back on marketing and other spend after its A$24 million rescue by fund manager Will Vicars, who had been one of its largest shareholders.
The now-privately-held company said this week that the 12 months to June 2018 saw pre-tax losses of A$6.7 million, down sharply from the year earlier's A$17.6 million. And with one-off costs of A$9.9 million factored out, underlying pre-tax profit would have reach A$3.3 million, despite sales falling 5.7% to A$116 million.
The company, which recently got a boost when Meghan Markle carried one of its bags while visiting Australia, went into voluntary administration a year ago but could get back to full profitability in the current financial year, assuming no other one-off costs dent the balance sheet.
The accounts also showed the firm's cash reserves at year-end were higher than they've been in five years, although some of the A$15.1 million it had was used to pay unsecured creditors under the deed of company arrangement, which had been approved by creditors in March, The Australian Financial Review reported.
The newspaper also said that the company has successfully renegotiated onerous leases with three of its 59 stores having closed and "material rent reductions" being secured at other stores.


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Q: Why is a typed string literal seen as (pure) string in TypeScript? If I have this pretty straight forward TypeScript code:
type example = 'BOOLEAN' | 'MULITSELECT' | '';

interface IObjectExample {
    a: string,
    readonly b: example
}

const handleObj = (obj: IObjectExample) :void => {
    console.log('have obj', obj);
}

const actualExample = {
    a: 'hello',
    b: 'BOOLEAN'
};

handleObj(actualExample); // error pops up here

I am getting the following error:
Argument of type '{ a: string; b: string; }' is not assignable to parameter
of type 'IObjectExample'. Types of property 'b' are incompatible.
Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'example'.

See in the playground.
It seems to be a 'widened literal type of the expression' (here: 'BOOLEAN'), but I have no clue why this happens. Additionally I'm not using let here, but even a readonly property.
Even more important: what should I use for ensuring a certain string literal as a property of an object, an Enum?

A: Just tell typescript the variable's type:
const actualExample: IObjectExample = {
  a: 'hello',
  b: 'BOOLEAN'
};

playground

A: This is because you have readonly b: example.
You need to tell TS compiler that actualExample.b is also readonly.
const actualExample = {
  a: 'hello',
  b: 'BOOLEAN' as 'BOOLEAN' // <-- small trick
};

Now, there is no error:
type example = 'BOOLEAN' | 'MULITSELECT' | '';

interface IObjectExample {
  a: string,
  readonly b: example
}

const handleObj = (obj: IObjectExample) :void => {
    console.log('have obj', obj);
}

const actualExample = {
  a: 'hello',
  b: 'BOOLEAN' as 'BOOLEAN'
};

// You can also add `as const` to actualExample variable
const actualExample2 = {
  a: 'hello',
  b: 'BOOLEAN'
} as const; // <-- works as well

handleObj(actualExample);

UPDATE
To ensure that some string is a property of an object, just use keyof operator.
See next example:
const obj = {
  a: 1,
  b: 2
}

type Obj = typeof obj;

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Marijuana task force eyes potential problems in legalization
Oct 4th, 2017 · by Matt Bittle · Comments:
DOVER — This time next year, Delaware could be the ninth state with legal marijuana and just the third east of the Mississippi River.
But the main sponsor of a bill that would let individuals use cannabis recreationally wants the First State to do it right.
Other states legalized marijuana "backward," approving recreational use and then working out the specifics, Rep. Helene Keeley, D-Wilmington, said.
To prevent that, lawmakers created a panel to examine potential obstacles that might arise after legalizing marijuana.
That group, the Adult Use Cannabis Task Force, held its second meeting Wednesday, and attendees heard from state officials and cannabis advocates on a variety of things that could create problems if marijuana is legalized.
House Bill 110 would allow adults to buy cannabis and marijuana-infused edibles from specialized shops. Businesses would require a license to sell marijuana, which they could obtain it from the state for $5,000 with a $10,000 renewal fee every two years. There would be no more than 40 stores unless more are needed due to high demand.
Unlike most of the states with legal marijuana, Delaware would not allow residents to grow their own plants.
The state's medical marijuana program would not be changed by the bill.
Gov. John Carney has expressed opposition in the past, but Rep. Keeley said she believes he is open to signing the proposal. A spokesman for the governor said in an email Gov. Carney "believes Delaware should continue to learn from other states before taking any additional steps, and looks forward to the findings of the task force."
Rep. Keeley feels "momentum's growing" for the bill, which is currently awaiting a vote on the House floor.
According to an October poll from the University of Delaware, 61 percent of Delaware voters support legalizing the drug.
Cannabis advocate Tom Donovan said the state would be putting a halt to "prohibition" by legalizing the drug.
"We're doing a good thing by ending a bad policy," he said.
But some Delawareans are worried legalization could lead to children using the drug, more car accidents and higher rates of addiction.
Tim Holly, representing the Delaware Chamber of Commerce, said many businesses are concerned about their ability to discipline employees who use cannabis if the drug is legalized.
"Such a burden should not be forced upon employers," he said.
Workers who are injured or fired because of marijuana use should not be able to collect workers' compensation or unemployment, he said.
Afterward, Rep. Keeley agreed companies should be able to have terminate employees who use the drug even if it is legal, noting businesses have the right to instruct workers not to drink alcohol even when off the clock.
"If the employer has a zero-tolerance policy that's the way it is," she said.
Packaging of marijuana products may not be the first thing to come to mind when thinking about issues around marijuana legalization, but several people at the meeting said the law must include strict instructions about exactly how products are wrapped and stored.
Cannabis should be sold in child-proof bags or containers, like pills, and should be clearly labeled with a variety of information, Jamie Mack with the Division of Public Health said.
Some states have placed restrictions around edibles, such as what shapes they can be sold in, to lower the likelihood a child thinks such a substance is candy.
Food safety concerns also come into play for edibles, as do THC concentration and serving size, Mr. Mack said.
"Given that this is a new market we feel it's better to start simple and allow ourselves to expand later," he said.
John Yeomans, director of Delaware Alcohol & Tobacco Enforcement, had a similar stance, advocating for training requirements for all employees of marijuana sellers, setting a strict limit on the number of licenses to be issued and adopting strong security measures for dispensaries.
The bill uses the same "three-tiered" system used the state for alcohol, where a manufacturer sells to a wholesaler, a wholesaler sells to a retailer and a retailer sells to a customer.
State law requires manufacturers to offer the same price to all wholesalers, and retailers cannot offer alcohol at a lower price than what they paid.
House Bill 110 has a passionate group of supporters working to persuade lawmakers, but there are also plenty of opponents, ranging from the transportation lobbying group AAA to average citizens.
William Lynch of atTAcK addiction noted Wednesday the country is in the midst of a drug "crisis" and repeated the common claim that cannabis is a "gateway drug."
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has noted many people who take hard drugs started with marijuana. However, it has also determined most cannabis users do not go on to other substances, and it concluded more research is needed on whether marijuana makes people more likely to move to other drugs.
According to the institute, "30 percent of those who use marijuana may have some degree of marijuana use disorder," although it notes dependence is not the same thing as addiction.
The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area reported the number of traffic deaths in Colorado increased from 481 in 2013, the last year before marijuana legalization went into effect, to 547 in 2015, while the number of drivers who tested positive for the drug jumped from 63 to 105 over the same period.
At the task force meeting, Jack Guerin expressed concern over what legalization might do to the state's medical marijuana program, which saw more than 3,200 applications from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017.
But others defended the drug: Rich Jester called it "the most nontoxic, well-tolerated drug in existence," and Delaware Cannabis Advocacy Network President Zoë Patchell noted there are no recorded instances of anyone fatally overdosing on marijuana.
Delaware budget officials are currently working to determine what costs and revenue might be generated by the bill.
Rep. Keeley previously claimed the bill could bring in at least $25 million. In July, the first month marijuana was legal in Nevada, the state reported $27.1 million of revenue from the drug.
The Adult Use Cannabis Task Force's report is due to the governor and the General Assembly Jan. 31 but Rep. Keeley said Wednesday the final date might be pushed back to March.
Staff writer Matt Bittle can be reached at 741-8250 or mbittle@newszap.com. Follow @MatthewCBittle on Twitter.


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Education Secretary Nicky Morgan addressed the Creative Industries Federation this month, in a speech on the arts and how they "underpin our understanding of Britishness". During the speech the Education Secretary cited research from Sutton Trust when emphasising her belief that every pupil should do the EBacc in school.
The reason I think every child should do the EBacc, that is GCSEs in English, maths, a humanity, a foreign language and a science, is because for too long, certain pupils have been told that these subjects aren't for them. And we know it's the most disadvantaged students who face these damaging assumptions most often.
According to research published by the Sutton Trust, the brightest pupils at primary school – those in the top 10% nationally – are still less likely to take history, geography, a language or triple science at GCSE than their peers, if they're disadvantaged.
A transcript of the speech may be found here.
The research referred to by the Education Secretary may be found here.


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Breaking Story – 'Rust' armorer's father, Thell Reed, speaks out on fatal incident and investigation
Sharpshooter and movie consultant Thell Reed said he's not concerned about the possibility that his 24-year-old daughter, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, could go to jail.
Gutierrez-Reed was in charge of all weapons on the set of the film "Rust." On Oct. 21, actor Alec Baldwin was holding an antique revolver during a dress rehearsal for "Rust" at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico, when the prop gun discharged a live round, killing the film's cinematographer, 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins, and injuring the director, 48-year-old Joel Souza, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
An investigation into the fatal incident is ongoing and no charges have been filed. Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza told ABC News that his office has "not ruled out anyone in this case." Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies has previously said "everything is on the table" and that any decision to bring charges could take weeks or months.
"The sheriff's department will get to the bottom of this. I'm not worried about that at all," Reed told ABC News' Kaylee Hartung in an exclusive interview airing Tuesday on "Good Morning America."
The entrance to the Bonanza Creek Ranch where the movie "Rust" was filming near Santa Fe, New Mexico, is seen in this file photo taken on Oct. 29, 2021.
Baldwin, who was starring in and co-produced the Western film, told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an earlier exclusive interview that he "didn't pull the trigger."
According to the sheriff's office, an initial investigation determined that two other people had handled or inspected the loaded gun before it discharged — the film's armorer, Gutierrez-Reed, and the first assistant director, Dave Halls.
Gutierrez-Reed's attorney, Jason Bowles, said his client had no idea where the live rounds came from and that she was not in the church where rehearsal was taking place.
"She had two duties: prop duties and armor duties," Bowles told ABC News in the interview airing Tuesday. "She had spun the cylinder, she had given it to Halls, she had shown him each of the six rounds. Halls was going to take custody of that weapon. He was inside the church then, Hannah was outside the church having to do her prop duties."
Thell Reed, a longtime Hollywood armorer and the father of "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, and Gutierrez-Reed's attorney, Jason Bowles, appear on "Good Morning America," Dec. 7, 2021.
Reed said he "didn't like" that his daughter was having to take on both roles of armorer and prop assistant, and that "she complained about it, too."
According to an affidavit for a search warrant filed on Oct. 22 by the sheriff's office as part of the ongoing probe, Halls handed a Colt .45 revolver to Baldwin while proclaiming "cold gun," to let the crew know a gun with no live rounds was being used. Halls told investigators he did not know there were any live rounds in the firearm he gave to the actor, according to the affidavit.
Baldwin confirmed the series of events to ABC News.
"I let go of the hammer — bang, the gun goes off," the actor recalled in an earlier exclusive interview. "I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never. Never. That was the training that I had. You don't point a gun at somebody and pull the trigger."
Halls' attorney, Lisa Torraco, would not confirm that her client was the one who handed the gun to Baldwin, but she told ABC News in an earlier interview that Halls was on set when the firearm discharged.
Thell Reed and Hannah Gutierrez Reed pose on the set of "310 to Yuma".
Gutierrez-Reed's attorney said it was the first time during the production of "Rust" that his client did not personally hand the gun to Baldwin.
Reed said his daughter should have been called into the church for the rehearsal and that if she had, the tragedy could have been avoided.
"That one time they should have had her on set, she would've rechecked that gun," he told ABC News. "If there was a live round placed there, she would've found it."
"She knows what to do," he added. "She does the job as good as I do now."
Thell Reed poses with "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed on the Bonanza Ranch when she was in 5th grade.
Reed has worked as an armorer or weapons specialist on the set of a number of films, such as "Tombstone," "Django: Unchained," "3:10 to Yuma" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." His daughter followed in his footsteps and was hired to work on "Rust." It was only the second movie that Gutierrez-Reed was brought on to serve as the lead armorer.
"She didn't need anymore training, she's got me," Reed told ABC News.
Both Reed and his daughter's attorney said they believe sabotage was behind the fatal incident.
"Sabotage is the most likely possibility, probability," Bowles told ABC News. "Somebody wanted to cause a safety incident on set. Nobody wanted anybody to be killed. We developed evidence of motive for that — why they might've wanted to do that, why Hannah might've been a target — and that's all gone to the sheriff and we're asking for that to be completed before any decisions are made on charging."
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Study | Vaccinated Discriminate Against Unvaccinated
Sign outside of a restaurant in New York City | Image by ABC
By Eric Geist - Freelance Writer
A new comprehensive study reveals discriminatory attitudes by the COVID-19 vaccinated population toward the unvaccinated population.
The study, published in Nature, spanned 21 countries and included over 15,000 respondents. The researchers' findings were derived from three separate studies conducted between December 2021 and May 2022.
While calling the development, testing, approval, and mass production of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, in less than a year a "historical feat of science," the researchers claim that finding willing recipients for vaccination was actually the "major challenge."
As governments pushed vaccine mandates and widespread public health information campaigns, the two Danish authors of the study cited "pandemic fatigue" — which they defined as the public's waning support for lifestyle and social restrictions and dwindling trust in authorities — as a leading cause for some individuals choosing to forego the vaccine altogether.
The study argues that "individuals who comply with the advice of health authorities morally condemn the unvaccinated" for what the former consider is a violation of "a social contract in the midst of a crisis."
Meanwhile, "those who refuse vaccines report that they feel discriminated against and pressured against their will."
To truly gauge the potential prejudice against unvaccinated people, the researchers asked 15,233 individuals how they would feel if a close relative decided to marry a vaccinated or unvaccinated person as part of a larger exercise.
Participants in the study were given profiles of two fictitious individuals that each had six attributes. Of the six, one was vaccination status, randomly assigning one of the two profiles with "fully vaccinated" and "unvaccinated."
Among other attributes were age, occupation, hobbies, family background, nationality, and more. The study also included "immigrant from the Middle East" as an attribute for a point of comparison, as research shows "exclusionary attitudes" against this group in many countries.
In an effort to assess the attitudes of "both Western affluent and non-Western developing nations," one of the studies was fielded in Germany, India, Indonesia, Morocco, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Amongst vaccinated participants, 14% indicated a dislike for the profiles of unvaccinated individuals, which is comparable to the 15% dislike rate for profiles that listed one of the attributes as drug addiction.
Disliking unvaccinated profiles came in significantly higher than profiles containing attributes including previous stints in prison, atheism, and a history of mental health issues.
Overall, across all three studies, 13% of vaccinated individuals disliked profiles containing unvaccinated individuals, which was two-and-a-half times greater than profiles containing the "immigrant from the Middle East" attribute.
"Unvaccinated targets face significantly more exclusionary reactions than immigrants in 11 out of 21 countries, while immigrants do not face significantly more exclusionary reactions in any of the countries," the findings claimed.
The study also found that this prejudice toward the unvaccinated is essentially "one-sided," citing that only in the United States and Germany did researchers "find that the unvaccinated feel some antipathy towards the vaccinated."
However, the researchers argued that this aversion does not manifest in any statistically significant way or result in exclusionary attitudes by unvaccinated people toward the vaccinated.
Remarking on the findings of the study, one of the researchers, Alexander Bor, said, "The observation that vaccinated individuals discriminate against those who are unvaccinated, but that there is no evidence for the reverse, is consistent with work on the psychology of cooperation."
"Indeed, vaccinated individuals in cultures with stronger cooperative norms are shown to react more negatively against those who are unvaccinated," Bor concluded.
Study was not needed This played out in society with business's and government employees including the military personnel who did not want to be vaccinated.
Bill Fox
Poor baby snowflake. True, everyone has a choice to make, but there are consequences sometimes.
Crawford Hart
Discriminate all you want, sheep. Enjoy your clots, your heart failures, your compromised immune systems, and your four-times a year boosters. The majority of COVID deaths are now among the vaxxed and insurance companies will be charging higher premiums because of it.
My uncontaminated blood will soon be going for $15,000 a pint on eBay. Have a good life.
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William Danielson
Reply to Crawford Hart
You're just crawdadding. Weirdo talk. What a DA!
Reply to William Danielson
I think being a mudbug is better than being the mud.
You missed a whole traunch of memos, didn't you?
No point talking science. But how's this: beginning in 2021, and compared to the previous five year average, all-cause mortality rates are up 40%. Insurance companies survive by actuarial tables—if they can't accurately predict death rates, they go bankrupt. A 10% increase is unheard of, a once in a century anomaly. 40% doesn't even compute it's so impossible. There's no natural explanation for it. But there it is. And it will have to be dealt with and folks with spike proteins and carbon nanotubes won't like the solution.
It's par for the course in these comment sections on here, but I do love to troll these morons.
Jimmy Arnett
I totally agree. The number of people who have been given clean bills of health in checkups and then drop dead of sudden heart attacks will eventually be too noticeable to ignore.
Reply to Jimmy Arnett
It's far less than all the morons that died of COVID gasping they wish they would have been vaccinated. Boom!
John Gault
I don't mind being discriminated against at all. I consider it natural immunity from stupid ill-informed masses.
If you wanted the vax that was your business, if you didn't want the vax that was also your own right to do so.
Any group or establishment that banned me from entry or participation for being unvaccinated was fine with me. Their loss not mine. I just took my business somewhere else and took note of their foolishness for future reference.
Fred Sawtelle
Reply to John Gault
"…took note of their foolishness…"
All Truths come out in the End, the Gov told the Vaxxed to discriminate, just like you can't get certain Jobs without a Vax…talk about unfair-Financial Class system based on what you are willing to accept and give up.(rights wise)
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Vax mandates have been in place for years, why complain about it now? Certain jobs, certain places you travel to have also been in mandate for years. I do think everyone that can be Vaccinated should be but if there not that's there business, till they go around people and get them sick. My best friend is not vaccinated and she has had Covid 3 times, but she stays home when she is sick and she wears a mask just in case. So I just think if you are sick stay home or wear a mask. This is not just for Covid but the flu also. Most people don't care but there are people out there that have health problems and can't afford to get sick. I have a compromised immune system and I have been told by other people that are unvaccinated that it's my problem not there's if they pass a virus. So I think if we become aware of other people and be compassionate we can protect people from getting sick. Wash hands, stay home when you are sick and if you can wear a mask. No one should be forced to take the vaccine but there are job's that need to have mandatory vaccines. It suck but if you want a job that has mandatory vaccines the you have to get a new one. It a choice, a shitty one but it is a Choice. I had to leave the medical field because I couldn't produce antibodies for the hepatitis B vaccine.it also doesn't help when the unvaccinated call the vaccinated names, so it goes both ways. I think everyone should just respect what someone does to there body, and people should also protect passing the virus to other people.
No one told us to discriminate. It's just common sense to call out stupid. Stupid.
For each question, were all attributes the same for each individual except for vaxed or unvaxed? If not, then the survey is flawed in making the assumption. It is misleading/leading to push bias. But apparently that's what was wanted as 13% is enough for the unvaxed to comment, "Told ya so." I thought Dallas Express touted being unbiased news. Quite a few articles I've seen suggest differently.
Reply to Bob Smith
This rag? Unbiased? Hahahaha! This site is a steaming pile of garbage. It seems like there is a new crime boss every week, but the stats are somehow based on comparing month to month with the prior year. It's just weak sauce all around.
So does the vaxx cause bigotry or do only bigots get vaxxed
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Injecting rat tested experimental foreign genetic code to trick the body into producing foreign proteins that express on widely dispersed cell surfaces causes all kinds of things.
A product so great that they have to misclassify it as a common vaccine in order to get you to take it.
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So exactly how big is your trailer and how much meth do you smoke?
Wolfman
I haven't been vaccinated against Covid. I have never gotten Covid. Covid has become the disease of the vaccinated. Discriminate against me? It none of their business if I've gotten the jab or not. If they want to kick me out of their business for not wearing that retarded mask, I'll go somewhere else and do business and never visit that establishment again.
On a side note. I've seen stupid, fearful people wearing masks while alone in their cars. I've seen stupid fearful people wearing a mask in public while walking alone with not a soul anywhere near them.
Roxanne Arnold
There is something I'd like to address ,,, I am a unvaccinated 64 year old female & my life has been distorted over the last Going on three years, I have been a hairdresser for 44 of those years, I have a quarter of the clientele that I had before Covid, I also had a cleaning business for 30 years completely destroyed, my son was Two weeks shy from opening up a restaurant that him and I worked on 3 years to the tune of $156,000, gone, I have paid out over $20,000 in storage fees, can barely keep my electricity on, now what??? There's no hope for us, I was completely totally discriminated against because I cannot have the vaccine due to severe anaphylactic reaction to vaccines, I can't even have tetanus vaccine, I am way more afraid of tetanus than I am Covid, I do not blame the people that discriminate against me and left me after years of doing their hair and years of doing their cleaning I pray for them every day ,,, I'm sad for every single person that has fallen victim to an enormous lie ,,, sadly now I have had countless amounts of people die and not from Covid, the grieving is horrible I don't know how to process this, all the people I know not one died from Covid and now every week 2 to 3 people are dying Im so afraid for my family & dear friend s , Pray pray pray pray pray pray pray every one please
I beg of you all
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I am so sorry you have to go through this. You have a medical exemption. Like I wrote above I do think people that can be vaccinated should be, but people that can't get it should not be treated like this. We all have a different option on Covid but that should not stop us from being around each other. Just take precautions. Wash hand, stay home when your sick and wear a mask if you can. I would probably die if I got Covid but I can't stop living. No one should be going through this because someone can't medically have a vaccine. People like you, that can't get vaccinated is why in my opinion everyone that can be vaccinated should get vaccinated cause then you are protected by Heard immunity. I will keep you in my prayers.
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Thank you so much ,,,, just to let you know I have not gotten Covid,,, Been exposed to it plenty of times, but I've tested about 10 times and I have not gotten covid so my thoughts & prayer is that You will never get Covid, blessings to you & yours
I'll agree with you if she is telling the truth. If she truly has severe anaphylaxis to vaccines, which is about 1 per million, then she would be unable to get basic vaccines against measles and polio and probably shouldn't be put in the service industry cutting hair or cleaning homes. Just saying.
They can go ahead and discriminate, I'm not sick and I'm not going to die of an untested vaccine. Only the stupid sheeples are taking this garbage!
Man, I loved and relished in all the stories of the anti-vax pundits that died of COVID and say "If I could go back, I would have gotten the vaccine." The problem is now we have more means of treating the unvaccinated idiots and they end up living. Too bad. I miss those stories. Hahaha!
BTW you can't sell blood on eBay. More idiocy.
For all the dudes in here claiming that COVID is a hoax and the vaccines kills you, I bet you would fight to be first in line for the vaccine if COVID made your d*ck fall off. Just saying. 100% fact. Stop with this idiotic theories.
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Last night, we heard the famous (in Hungary) opera Bank Ban by the "father of Hungarian opera," Ferenc Erkel. We had never heard of Erkel or Bank Ban, but were intrigued by seeing something described as so quintessentially Hungarian in the Hungarian State Opera House.
Ferenc Erkel whose statue sits on the left side of the main opening to the opera house. Liszt is on the right.
BanK Ban has only ever been performed in Hungary. If you look up the opera on the internet, you will find two classes of opinons why. One group says it's because the opera is second-rate; the other, that the opera is first-rate, but that it is difficult to find opera companies who can sing in Hungarian outside of Hungary itself. We, from our limited opera-going experience, now belong to Group 2. In a word, we loved it.
The opera was first performed in 1861. The plot is too complicated to summarize but it involves a 13th century historical incident when Hungary was being ruined by foreign powers. It thus has many analogues with 19th century Hungary. These analogues are highlighted in many patriotic arias, and there are hints of folk music (including a violin sounding like a balalaika) running through it. It is a unabashedly sentimental at times, more psychologically complex than the plot summary suggests, and includes folk dancing, drinking songs, and lush, melodic music that is easy to like on a first hearing. Whether it is a Great Opera is hard to say. But it was magical hearing it when and where we did.
Here we are in the gorgeous Budapest Opera House waiting for the performance to start.
Here are some photos of the opera house itself.
Here are some pictures of the cast.


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The debate didn't offer much clarity on what the 2020 candidates want to do.
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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 in Detroit. Paul Sancya/AP
After months of not clarifying where, exactly, she stood on the details of health care reform, Sen. Kamala Harris released her idea for a version of Medicare for All earlier this week, which seemed designed to give her a specific platform to discuss at Wednesday's Democratic primary debate. And the night kicked off on just that topic. "I designed a plan," Harris said, "where, yes, responsive to the needs of American families, there will be a public plan, under my plan for Medicare, and a private plan, under my plan for Medicare."
Wait, what? The initial question that provoked her statement read like parody in hindsight: CNN's Dana Bash noted that former Vice President Joe Biden had described Harris' proposal as "part of a confusing pattern of equivocating about your health care stance." What did she have to say to that?
But instead of clearing up the confusion, Harris struggled to explain what she had in mind. A few minutes later, she defended her decision to expand Medicare coverage to the masses by noting that "millions of seniors are going into the Medicare system and they are getting full coverage and the kind of coverage they need." Harris neglected to note that the current Medicare system is often criticized for not offering dental or vision coverage—or that her very own would plan remedy those shortcomings.
Biden quickly took aim at Harris' words, but his rebuttal didn't offer much detail about what his own plan would entail, as the former vice president simply noted that health care was the most important issue, and that "you can't beat President Trump with double-talk on this plan." But over the next 45 minutes, all that seemed to emerge from the two Democratic frontrunners was "double-talk" that did little to clarify where either candidate stood on health care.
Both campaigns had strived to stake out their territory on health care since they faced off during the first round of debates in June. Earlier in July, the Biden campaign released a plan that is essentially a beefed-up version of the Affordable Care Act—along with the addition of offering a public option for people who don't have, or don't like, employer-based coverage. And on Monday, Harris shared her much-anticipated vision, which suggested a decade-long transition to a single-payer plan that would reserve a more limited role for private insurance.
But if primary voters had hoped to walk away from Wednesday's debate with some of the key points of those health care platforms, they were sorely disappointed. Lucidity, it seems, only extended to the prior evening's sparring, when former Maryland Rep. John Delaney and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan served as foils to Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), who used the formers' jabs as opportunities to lay out their vision for single-payer health care.
The lackluster delivery on Wednesday raised questions as to how well either Biden or Harris even understood what was in their own plans. While Harris underscored the motivation behind why health insurance shouldn't be tied to employment, she wasn't able to outline the precise circumstances under which employers could offer private insurance to their employees. "Private insurance companies and private carriers, if they comply by our rules and play by our rules, will be able to offer [companies'] employees health care coverage under a private Medicare plan or they can have the option of a public Medicare plan," she said. And when the former VP charged that the plan would be too expensive costing $3 trillion per year, Harris sidestepped explaining how she'd pay for that cost, only offering up that "the cost of doing nothing is far too expensive. Second, we are now paying $3 trillion a year for health care in America. Over the next 10 years, it's probably going to be $6 trillion. We must act."
Biden, meanwhile, insisted that everyone would be covered under his plan, even though an estimated 10 million Americans wouldn't be, and he mistakenly said his plan would cap copays at $1,000 (his proposal is to actually limit deductibles to $1,000 per year).
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California's Hotel Figueroa is a historic retreat for solo women travelers to Los Angeles
by Brenda D. Brooks | Sep 9, 2021 | Hotel News
As a woman who has traveled widely, and very happily, alone — long after getting married, and after having kids — I'm used to people finding it odd that I take off by myself as often as I do. Even now, nearly 15 years into a career in which travel is my literal job, I'm frequently asked if I'm afraid to be on the road in Central America or Morocco or downtown Los Angeles by myself.
The question can be grating. It feels like a throwback to another time and there's a way that, to my ear, it sounds like an accusation. One that echoes along matrilineal lines. I hear it and think of my grandmothers — women who left small, poor, rural towns (in southern Italy and northwestern Montana, respectively) — and the indignities they endured as they navigated the world away from home. So while the question feels like an old, badly healed wound, it's also a reminder that I'm only two generations removed from a time when women traveling alone were not only a bit odd, eccentric or selfish but scandalous, dysfunctional, maybe even dangerous.
The ladies of the YWCA. Photo from the Hotel Figueroa's archives.
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That realization is almost certainly why LA's Hotel Figueroa, which on its face is just another fashionable downtown hotel, evoked such emotion in me. It's a nice place to stay, the kind that feels fancy after years of hostels and Motel 6's, but it's not ostentatious or particularly expensive (rooms start around $200 per night, which is solidly mid-range by California standards).
What's compelling about the Figueroa is not its Spanish Colonial facade, though it's a glamorous old dame, or its elegantly remodeled interior — where contemporary artists show their work and stylish Angelenos take meetings at the hotel's lush, tropically inspired, colorfully tiled poolside bar. Instead, what sets Hotel Figueroa apart is its history — its past life as a refuge for women like me.
Hotel Figueroa's facade.
"The Fig," as it's affectionately known, had its 95th birthday this month. Built in pre-Depression, pre-New Deal, pre-war Los Angeles, it was "the largest individual financial transaction ever undertaken by a body of women in the United States," according to contemporaneous coverage in the Los Angeles Times. The ambitious venture was the work of the Young Women's Christian Association, which saw creating safe accommodations for solo female travelers as part of their progressive mission.
While the YWCA might not be as well known as their sibling organization, the Young Men's Christian Association — celebrated by the Village People and beloved as an affordable place to hit the gym or use the pool — both organizations are rooted in a social justice philosophy that emerged among the working class in London post-Industrial Revolution. The movement came to the United States soon after.
Maude Bouldin and Mrs. Chester C. Ashley (left. 1926) and a historic newspaper clipping (right) from the Hotel Figueroa's archives.
From its earliest days, the YWCAs served women who worked outside the home — teachers, students, factory workers — by offering professional training and boarding houses. Pulley weights on closet doors at the Boston YWCA allowed farm girls new to the city to continue to exercise all the way back in 1870, and, by 1877, they "offered a course in calisthenics for young women at a time when women are considered too frail for exercise," the YWCA's website says. Around the turn of the century, it began providing women sex education, training girls in "self-government" and teaching bilingual education to immigrant women.
But it was one program the YWCA helped establish, Travelers Aid, that laid the ideological groundwork for the Hotel Figueroa. The first national program to protect women traveling alone was born of a moral panic — a fear of women being trafficked into prostitution or lured into vice.
The Hotel Figueroa's ground-level pool has been a draw since the hotel opened as a YWCA in 1926.
In May, on a couple days' notice, I took my first flight since February of 2020. While the trip, to try out a new airline, was only to Southern California, it felt momentous. Not because I was taking a plane ride, but because it was my first solo travel of any consequence in more than two years. For me, not traveling was one of the more disorienting parts of a wildly disorienting year.
Of course, I know I was among the lucky ones. My work as a travel journalist wasn't "essential," and I had the relative good fortune of being able to stay home safe, if unemployed and restless, while caring for my two small kids. At the same time, a year at home fundamentally upended my life — both my day-to-day reality and my larger sense of self. At a time of such grief and loss and profound hardship, what I lost is comparatively tiny. Still, in that way that our own little lives are huge to us, mine felt unrecognizable.
A cocktail at the hotel bar (left) and a Hotel Figueroa key card sleeve (right).
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So the opportunity to travel alone again, even for a couple nights, ahead of Mother's Day weekend was a rare opportunity to do things I had achingly missed: I met up with a favorite colleague and shared a bottle of wine on a Thai Town patio. I went to a Korean spa and treated myself to a (vaccinated, masked) 75-minute massage. I dined alone on a downtown roof-deck, where I ate spectacular Mexican food as the sunset behind the palms and cacti. And, after learning about Hotel Figueroa's remarkable history as a haven for women travelers, I booked myself a room.
According to an excellent deep dive by LA's KCET public radio station, in the first 30 years after the YWCA's LA chapter was formed, it created clubs for outings, like cycling and rowing, hosted a midday lunch series for women who worked downtown, and created two residences — one for single working women and another dormitory-style building for young actresses.
The Hotel Figueroa began its life as a YWCA in 1926 in downtown Los Angeles.
In the early 1920s, the LA YWCA saw the need to expand its housing offerings beyond subsets of "vulnerable" women to the broader, and growing, number of women travelers — including white collar businesswomen. The association raised money and commissioned the construction of the 13-story, 409-room building at 939 South Figueroa St. The association hired women to run the hotel and its popular ground floor coffee shop as well.
The hotel's founding manager, Maude N. Bouldin, was a particularly colorful character — and the first women to head a hotel in the country. She was also the first thing I saw when I walked in the Fig's front door to its small, old-fashioned entry lobby. There, opposite the reception counter, was a looming, life-size portrait of Maude astride a motorcycle set against a red backdrop. Bouldin, who was also an accomplished airplane pilot, pushed boundaries. When the Hotel Men's Association held its convention, she showed up.
Then and now.
Sadly, the Fig's heyday as a woman's hotel was short-lived. Under the YWCA, the hotel struggled economically and within two years it had moved to a more traditional model, without the women-only accommodations that had distinguished it. Not long after, the Depression forced the Y to sell the hotel entirely.
By the time I showed up at the Fig, nearly a century after it first opened its doors, I was so eager to reclaim some semblance of my pre-pandemic life, I probably would have fallen in love with anywhere that wasn't the place I'd spent nearly every minute of the previous 15 months. But the Hotel Figueroa won me over on its merits. It was engrossing. Between the art, compelling and quirky and seeming to occupy every odd wall, and the artfulness of its design, I felt as if I could spend days reading in the Fig's lobby, wandering its corridors, and sprawled in the sun poolside. I wanted more than one night.
Works by featured artist Shyama Golden in the Hotel Figueroa's lobby gallery.
As I sat at the hotel's bar that evening, my back to its coffin-shaped pool, enjoying some of the best people-watching west of the Mississippi, I couldn't help but feel like the YWCA's spirit somehow remained. I relished my aloneness. It was just me, a suspiciously solitary woman, my notebook and a mezcal cocktail.
I like to think Bouldin would have been proud.
The downtown LA's Hotel Figueroa YWCA's coffee shop was a popular lunch spot for professional women.
A suite at the Hotel Figueroa.
The Hotel Figueroa's lobby bar.
Another view from the Hotel Figueroa's famous pool.
The rooms at the Hotel Figueroa are elegant and art-filled.
Much of the art in the Hotel Figueroa's lobby highlights the work of female artists and feminist themes.
The Hotel Figueroa's grand lobby is packed with plants and large-scale artwork.
The Hotel Figueroa's lobby doubles as an art gallery, with a new featured female artist each year.
The Hotel Figueroa's lobby.
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This is a idioms, coloring page and sentence writing resource. Great activity with a simple sentence to cut and paste, then write. This coloring resource can be used for summer school, early finishers, small group therapy sessions, occupational therapy, speech therapy, classroom activities or can be left for a substitute. Students color the picture, cut out and paste words in order to make a sentence. Then they copy the sentence for handwriting practice.
Idioms included are: I'm all ears, when pigs fly, time flies, sick as a dog, raining cats and dogs, piece of cake, in the same boat, hold your horses, head in the clouds, frog in the throat, fish out of water, cry over spilled milk, cold shoulder, can of worms, butterflies in my stomach and apple of my eye.


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Simi Fajemisin Flying Under the Radar, Visiting Gonzaga
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Simi Fajemisin (44) will visit Gonzaga on September 25th. If he impresses the staff, he could be the recipient of his first big-time scholarship offer.
During this very, very dull time in college basketball news, the one saving grace during this period is when word breaks about recruiting official visits. This morning, news broke about a gigantic (literally) prospect who has an official visit set up with Gonzaga.
"I'm visiting Gonzaga on September 25," said Fajemisin. "And I'll definitely visit San Diego, but haven't set a date yet."
The prospect is Simi Fajemisin, and if I misspell that at any point during this post I apologize but it doesn't exactly roll off the fingers. Fajemisin is a 6'9'', 270 pound prospect from Lynnwood High School in Washington. He falls into what would be the recruiting class of 2010, which has become a very difficult class to nail down if you are a Gonzaga fan. The wrap on Fajemisin is the same for basically every other enormous high school prospect: he has to learn how to use his relatively new size. A recent ESPN.com evaluation of him said that he is one of the top unknown prospects on the West Coast but he has some serious work to do as far as getting himself in shape to play 30+ minutes of big time college basketball. With that being said, they note that he has a remarkably smooth stroke for a man of his size and he is a pretty decent rebounder. His size will remind people of a guy like Josh Smith but Smith is obviously much more polished an is definitely not flying under the radar.
Fajemisin's visit will obviously be important in dictating whether or not he actually receives an offer from Gonzaga. At this point he only has offers from San Diego, Portland St., and Long Beach so he will have to really impress the Gonzaga staff to pull out an offer but I imagine they will give him a jersey and let him bang around with guys like Rob Sacre and Will Foster and see how he fits in. Fajemisin is a player that, if he asserts himself, can be very good down the line around his junior year but it will take a lot of work to get him there. The key for the staff is to dictate if they believe he is more of an Abdullhai Kuso or a Mamery Diallo. With all the youth on this team and the lack of scholarships, the latter option would be catastrophic if Mark Few decides to offer a scholarship. Like we have detailed a number of times, Gonzaga only has three available scholarships in the next two recruiting cycles but Fajemisin does pass the eye test as far as what we would like to see a 2010 scholarship be used on. He's a big and would provide depth at the position but we'd love to see Gonzaga get a player who can help immediately rather than throw a scholarship to another project.
The news about Fajemisin may also mean that the staff is very pleased with what they are seeing out of guys like Rob Sacre, Andy Poling, and Sam Dower to the point where they think they can afford another project type big. We'll keep you updated if anything else comes across and we are working to secure various interviews to learn more about the newest Zag prospect.


Microsoft Visible Primary (sering disingkat sebagai VB saja) merupakan sebuah bahasa pemrograman yang menawarkan Integrated Growth Atmosphere (IDE) visual untuk membuat program perangkat lunak berbasis sistem operasi Microsoft Windows dengan menggunakan model pemrograman (COM). Lately, avenue art has undergone a significant transformation in public opinion to even become a socially accepted and respected accent to the general public locations that they adorn. Absolutely, saying that it may signify a rare hybrid form of inventive expression could be taking the easy method out.
Highlights from Tuesday's vogue present the place artists painted instantly on attire, tastefully paraded down a runway by native beauties with gentle pleasure. I feel it is honest to say that road artist Roa is on top of his game. One of the first recognized road artists in Argentina is Alfredo Segatori, nicknamed 'Pelado', who began painting in 1994 and holds the document for the longest mural in Argentina 51 measuring greater than 2000m2.
Whereas street artwork and graffiti shows have been the topic of quite a few exhibitions over the past five years, it is the largest acknowledgment to date of urban art as a respectable artwork kind, with an unlimited fanbase worldwide. His illusions are turning city landscapes into incredible colorful caverns, however the place they lead is simply as mysterious because the artist himself.
Blek le Rat, 66, who studied at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris however made his identify spraying graffiti rats on the streets of Paris within the Nineteen Eighties, mentioned he was thrilled that an establishment was validating his life's work.
Equally, in Bengaluru , we did a mission with this organization known as the Aravani Art Challenge which works throughout the transgender neighborhood to supply visibility, and open up dialogue about points that are prevalent throughout the larger LGBTQ group.


Despite all attempts to make it otherwise, the American health care system remains arcane, bloated, inefficient, and damaging to our health. We pay high premiums, endure exorbitant out-of-pocket costs, see little to no information about treatment options, and suffer often meager and sloppy care. The Affordable Care Act was an unambitious reform not likely to have an impact on these fundamental problems. But, politics aside, health care doesn't have to be this complicated. And, its costs don't have to be this high.
In this provocative and convincing essay, David Goldhill outlines the myriad misconceptions that plague American health care, and makes a radical case for reform. There is no panacea, but if we want to preserve our health and our pocketbooks, we need to normalize health care and enable a competitive, dynamic and diverse exchange where providers will be held accountable to the Americans they care for.