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Q: C# WPF oledb MS Access I have:
1) C# WPF DataGrid
2) MS Access db that include one table ("Temp")!
   I already read a lot of forums and arcticles but I'm not find an answer!
I want to add/edit/delete data in MS Access DB using DataGrid!
I'm tried these code but it's doesnt work!
private void Button_Click_3(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (_dataSet != null && _dataSet.Tables[0] != null && _dataSet.HasChanges(DataRowState.Modified))
        {
            DataTable dt = _dataSet.Tables[0].GetChanges(DataRowState.Modified);
            adapter.Update(dt);
        }
        adapter.Update(_dataSet.Tables["Temp"]);
    }

I'm from Ukraine so translalte u!
I have an error (I'm hope I do it right):
"Dynamic SQL generation for the DeleteCommand is not supported for the SelectCommand, does not return any key column information"
Error like this always return when use update or ad data to DataGrid!
PLEASE, Help me!
Thanks You for a all!

A: Maybe you will use ORM (object relational mapping) for data access. For .NET exist: Entity Framework, Fluent Nhibernate, Dapper (micro-orm) - maybe beast options for you because it is very simple. Also note MVVM pattern (beast option for WPF). Good article with example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx

A: A have an answer!
To work this code he need a key cell(column)!
If there is not, commandBuilder can't get a default comands, so you always get an errors! Here are code:
adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(comand, con);
            _dataSet = new DataSet();
            adapter.Fill(_dataSet, "TargetAndProbability");
            cb = new OleDbCommandBuilder(adapter);
            cb.QuotePrefix = "[";// it's need if your cells contains others symbols
            cb.QuoteSuffix = "]";
Than all very simple!
adapter.Update(_dataSet, "TargetAndProbability");


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CNN chief executive Chris Licht says the 'vitriol' aimed at him over his efforts to make the network less partisan has been 'stunning'
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CNN CEO Chris Licht said the "vitriol" aimed at him over changes at the network has been "stunning."
In an interview with The NYT, Licht said he wanted CNN journalists to be seen as "truth tellers."
"So much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation," he told the outlet.
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When Chris Licht took over the reins at CNN in May, he had a clear vision for reshaping one of the most recognizable news brands in the world.
In late April, days before Licht assumed his new position, the newly-minted chief executive informed staffers that CNN+, the much-hyped streaming service that had just launched, would be shut down. The decision was made after the network had already invested $300 million into the venture, luring big names like former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and former NPR journalist Audie Cornish to the streaming service.
Hundreds of staffers suddenly found themselves staring at an uncertain future, brought on to a venture that folded less than a month after it had started.
Licht — faced with declining ratings compared to last year — has made big changes at the network, ending the 30-year-old program "Reliable Sources," moving prime-time anchor Don Lemon to the revamped "CNN This Morning," nixing live programming on HLN, and laying off a swath of staffers earlier this month amid an ongoing reorganization.
And Licht has been adamant that CNN should be a network that people can trust, with less partisan coverage.
"This wasn't to plot a new course but to assure people we would not let up one inch in being truth tellers," he told The New York Times in one of several interviews with the newspaper.
"The change is we will not do Trump 24/7 or let him dictate our agenda," he continued to say, referencing former President Donald Trump, who has made his distaste for CNN a big part of his political brand.
Licht in previous company town hall meetings has stressed that less partisan coverage did not equate to a move to the "center," but is a way of delving into controversial subjects from different points of view — without telling viewers "what to think" but "how to think."
Still, the reaction from some in the media ecosystem has been harsh.
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann slammed Licht as a "TV Fascist" after the chief executive moved Lemon to the new morning show, which the veteran journalist now co-anchors with former CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins and former CNN Newsroom stalwart Poppy Harlow.
"The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning," Licht told The Times. "Which proves my point: so much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation."
Licht told the newspaper that he knew coming into the position that it would not be an easy role.
While CNN for years had enjoyed profits of over $1 billion, the company's revenue and profits are slated to fall to roughly $750 million this year, with much of that decline attributable to costs related to CNN+.
"I want CNN to be essential to society," Licht told The Times. "If you're essential then the revenue will follow."
With many households eschewing cable for streaming services, Licht said he wants "rational" conversations on the network to inspire viewers to "take what they've heard to the dinner table and have a discussion."
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Seeking fundraising help from the pros: Where ProPublica is turning
By Jim Barnett @jimbarnett26 Sept. 23, 2009, 9 a.m.
A frequently misunderstood aspect of nonprofits is the idea that fundraising is somehow a tin-cup substitute for a smart business plan. That misunderstanding gained traction in some circles a couple of weeks ago when Geoff Dougherty, editor of the Chi-Town Daily News, announced that he and his staff were leaving to start a new, for-profit publication with the backing of unnamed "angel" investors. In his post, Dougherty said CTDN needed $1 million to $2 million per year to "do a great job of covering a city as sprawling and complex as Chicago," but could raise no more than $300,000 per year.
Electing to operate as a nonprofit, whether producing journalism or another type of public service, dictates that a robust fundraising effort must be part of the business plan. The plan must generate enough revenue to achieve the organization's mission while also guarding against overdependence on any single source of support.
Few understand this reality better than the folks who run ProPublica, the New York-based startup that has been given a $30 million, three-year lease on life by Herb and Marion Sandler. Faced with the need to meet its $10 million annual budget for the long haul, ProPublica has hired two of the biggest guns in the fundraising world with help from a $1 million Knight Foundation grant.
One is New York-based Community Counselling Service Co., which will advise "how best to conceptualize, structure and execute fundraising from institutions and individuals capable of making larger gifts, as well as laying the groundwork for hiring our own director of development next year," ProPublica GM Dick Tofel said in an email interview.
The other is Watershed Co., a specialist in online fundraising, which will "look for us at the potential for small gifts in large numbers," Tofel said.
Both CCS and Watershed come to ProPublica with lists of well-known clients, and they have experience that can help move ProPublica — and ultimately, other journalism nonprofits — into a new sphere of fundraising professionalism and partnerships.
Among CCS's clients is Habitat for Humanity. While Habitat may be best known for building low-income housing, it also has gained renown within the nonprofit world for working closely with the communities it serves and for successfully involving deep-pocketed corporate partners in its mission. Building houses and writing investigative news stories are decidedly different activities, but CCS no doubt will examine how it can apply the experience of its other clients to ProPublica.
Watershed is headed by Madeline Stanionis, who has been a leader in applying technology to fundraising. For example, in a Feb. 26 article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Stanionis talks about the growing potential for philanthropic gifts made over mobile phones, now that carriers are taking a smaller cut than before. In the article, Stanionis relates the success that one of her clients, the Humane Society of the United States, found by using text messages to solicit year-end gifts. Such experience could translate well to online journalism, as more publishers connect with readers through phones rather than computers.
For smaller startups, a strategic fundraising plan may be less elaborate than what ProPublica can afford, but creating one is no less vital to the organization's long-term viability, according to Voice of San Diego's Andrew Donohue. There's more foundation money available for journalism startups than ever before, Donohue told me in an email. But he added: "We've learned that this isn't money you should rely on for your long-term. It's startup money to get you going. You've got to be absolutely obsessed with finding as many revenue streams as possible to sustain and diversify you for the future."
VOSD is working on developing some as-yet-undisclosed "nontraditional" sources of revenue, Donohue said. "This seems to be the stage that the early nonprofit news organizations are reaching right now: We've proven we can do the journalism and attract the early money. Now we've got to be preparing to wean ourselves off of foundation money or diversify from our original donors."
Exactly where will ProPublica go with all the high-dollar advice it's getting? It's too early to say. But whatever it does is likely to be emulated by other journalists who have chosen the nonprofit model and are willing to put some creative energy behind their business plans.
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Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has confirmed the club are actively pursuing a deal for Torino right-back Matteo Darmian.
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Louis van Gaal confirms #mufc are pursuing the signing of Matteo Darmian from Torino.
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) July 10, 2015
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The Church of England is creating a new bishop specifically to reach out to black, Asian and minority ethnic people and to drive cultural change in Leicester, one of the UK's most diverse cities.
The diocese of Leicester has petitioned the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, for permission to create a new see, and expects that a new suffragan bishop of Loughborough will be installed by the end of the year, The Guardian newspaper reported.
The church is the State church of England and will appoint the new bishop to reach out to ethnic minorities because it is seen as too "quintessentially English," The Daily Telegraph reported.
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It dates its establishment as a national church to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury when the church was attached to the Church of Rome.
Despite the title, the new bishop will be based mainly in Leicester, one of the first majority black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) cities in the Britain, In the 2011 census, only 45 percent of the city's population identified as white British.
"The diversity of the city is not reflected in our churches," Martyn Snow, the bishop of Leicester, told the Guardian. "The majority of people going to Anglican churches are white British, while there are more than 100 BAME churches, mostly neo-Pentecostalist."
He said: "If we truly want to be inclusive of all who live in our parishes, then we have to heed the cultural changes and challenges within our cities."
Snow noted, "We're going to have to make some cultural adjustment. The C of E is seen as quintessentially English, but we have a lot to learn from other cultures."
his month, the first black bishop to be appointed by the church in 20 years, Nigerian-born Woyin Karowei Dorgu, was consecrated as Bishop of Woolwich.


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Authors: Danielle Steel
BOOK: Blue
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Danielle Steel
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The trip by jeep from the small village near Luena to Malanje in Angola, in southwest Africa, followed by a train ride to Luanda, the capital, had taken seven hours. The drive from Luena was long and arduous due to unexploded land mines in the area, which required extreme diligence and caution to avoid as they drove. After forty years of conflict and civil war, the country was still ravaged and in desperate need of all the help outside sources could provide, which was why Ginny Carter had been there, sent by SOS Human Rights. SOS/HR was a private foundation based in New York that sent human rights workers around the globe. Her assignments were usually two or three months long in any given location, occasionally longer. She was sent in as part of a support team, to address whatever human rights issues were being violated or in question, typically to assist women and children, or even to address the most pressing physical needs in a trouble spot somewhere, like lack of food, water, medicine, or shelter. She frequently got involved in legal issues, visiting women in prisons, interfacing with attorneys, and trying to get the women fair trials. SOS took good care of their workers and was a responsible organization, but the work was dangerous at times. She had taken an in-depth training course before they sent her into the field initially, and had been taught about everything from digging ditches and purifying water, to extensive first aid, but nothing had prepared her for what she had seen since. She had learned a great deal about man's cruelty to man and the plight of people in underdeveloped countries and emerging nations since she'd started working for SOS/HR.
As she cleared customs at JFK airport in New York, Ginny had been traveling for twenty-seven hours, after the flight from Luanda to London, the four-hour layover at Heathrow, and then the flight to New York. She was wearing jeans, hiking boots, and a heavy army surplus parka, her blond hair shoved haphazardly into a rubber band when she woke up on the plane just before they landed. She had been in Africa for four months, since August, longer than usual, and was arriving in New York on December 22. She had hoped to be back out on assignment by now, but her replacement had not gotten to them on time. Ginny had tried to orchestrate her absence from New York at this time, but now she had to face Christmas alone in New York.
She could have gone to Los Angeles to spend the holiday with her father and sister, but that sounded even worse. She had left L.A. nearly three years before, and had no desire to return to the city where she had grown up. Since leaving L.A., she had lived the life of a nomad, as she put it, working for SOS Human Rights. She loved the work, and the fact that it was all-consuming, and most of the time kept her from thinking about her own life, a life in which, in her wildest dreams, she had never imagined she would be living and working in the countries that were familiar to her now. She had helped midwives to deliver babies, or done it herself when there was no one else at hand. She had held dying children in her arms, and comforted their mothers, and cared for orphans in displacement camps. She had been in war-torn areas, lived through two local uprisings and a revolution, and had seen anguish, poverty, and devastation that she would otherwise never have encountered in her lifetime. It put everything else in life into perspective. SOS/HR was grateful for her willingness to travel to some of the worst areas it serviced, no matter how desolate or dangerous, or how rugged conditions were. The more rugged the conditions, and the harder the work, the better she liked it.
She cared nothing about the potential dangers to herself. She had actually disappeared for three weeks in Afghanistan, and the home office had thought she had been killed. Her family in Los Angeles feared it might be the case, but she had come back to camp weak and sick, having been taken in and cared for by a local family who had nursed her through a high fever. She seemed to welcome and embrace the worst SOS/HR had to offer. And they could always count on her to show up and stick it out. She had been in Afghanistan, several parts of Africa, and Pakistan. Her reports were accurate, insightful, and helpful, and twice she had made presentations to the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations, and once to the Human Rights High Commissioner in Geneva. She was impressive in describing, in all its poignancy and pathos, the plight of those she served.
She was worn and tired when she landed in New York. She had been sad to leave the women and children she had been caring for in a refugee camp in Luena, Angola. The human rights workers had been trying to relocate them, despite a web of red tape that prevented them from accomplishing their mission. She would have liked to stay for another six months or a year. Their three-month assignments always seemed too short. They just became familiar with the conditions in the country when they were replaced, but their job was to report accurately on local conditions as much as to change them. They did what they could while they were there, but it was like emptying the ocean with a thimble. There were so many people in desperate need, and so many women and children in dire circumstances around the world.
And yet Ginny was able to find joy in what she did, and couldn't wait to leave again on another assignment. She wanted to spend as little time as possible in New York, and she was dreading the holidays. She would have preferred to spend them working to the point of exhaustion in a place where Christmas didn't exist, as it didn't now to her. It was rotten luck that she had landed in New York three days before Christmas, the worst days of the year for her. All she wanted to do was sleep when she got back to her apartment, and wake up when it was over. The holidays meant nothing to her except pain.
She had nothing to declare in customs except a few small wooden carvings the children in the refugee camp had made for her. Her treasures now were the memories she carried with her everywhere, of the people she met along the way. She had no interest in material possessions, and everything she traveled with was in a small battered suitcase and the backpack she wore. She never had time to look in a mirror when she was working, and didn't care. A hot shower was her greatest luxury and pleasure, when she was able to take one; the rest of the time she took cold showers, using the soap she brought with her. Her jeans and sweatshirts and T-shirts were clean but never pressed. It was enough that she had clothes to wear, which was more than many of the people she cared for had, and she often gave her clothes away to those who needed them more. Except for a Senate hearing where she spoke eloquently, she hadn't worn a dress, high heels, or makeup in three years. And when she made her presentations to the United Nations or the Human Rights Commission, she did so in a pair of old black slacks, a sweater, and flat shoes. The only thing important to her was what she had to say, the message they needed to hear, and the atrocities she had seen on a daily basis in the course of her work. She had a front-row seat to the cruelties and crimes committed against women and children around the world. And she owed it to them to speak on their behalf when asked to do so when she came home. Her words were always powerful and well chosen and brought tears to the eyes of those who heard her.
She walked out of the terminal and took a deep breath of cold night air. Holiday travelers were rushing to buses and taxis or greeting relatives outside the terminal, as Ginny silently watched them with deep blue eyes the color of a lake. They were almost navy blue. She looked serious for a moment, debating whether to take a shuttle or a cab into the city. She was bone tired, and her body ached from the long trip, and from sleeping in cramped quarters in coach. She felt guilty spending money on herself after what she saw in the course of her missions, but she decided to spoil herself. She walked to the curb and hailed a taxi, which swerved and rapidly approached to pick her up.
She opened the door and put her bag and backpack into the back seat, climbed in, and closed the door, as the young Pakistani driver checked her out and asked where she was going. She saw his name on the license on the partition between them as she gave him her address, and an instant later they took off, darting through the airport traffic, and headed toward the highway. It felt strange to be back in civilization after the desolate area where she'd been living for the past four months. But she always felt that way when she returned, and by the time she got adjusted to it, she left again. She always asked that they reassign her quickly, and most of the time they did. She was one of their most valuable workers in the field, both for her willingness and for her expertise after almost three years.
"Where are you from in Pakistan?" she asked him as they joined the flow of traffic moving toward the city, and he smiled at her in the rearview mirror. He was young and looked pleased that she had guessed.
"How did you know I'm from Pakistan?" he asked her, and she smiled back.
"I was there a year ago." She guessed his region then, and he looked amazed. Few Americans knew anything about his country. "I was in Balochistan for three months."
"What were you doing there?" He was intrigued by her as traffic slowed them down. It was going to be a long, slow ride into the city in holiday traffic, and talking to him kept her awake. He seemed more familiar to her than the people she would meet in New York, who seemed like foreigners to her now.
"I was working," she said quietly, glancing out the window at what should have been a familiar landscape but no longer was. She felt like a woman without a home, and had felt that way since she left L.A. She sensed now that that would be the last real home she'd ever have, and she preferred it that way. She didn't need a home anymore—whatever tent or camp she was living in was enough for her.
"Are you a doctor?" He was curious about her.
"No, I work for a human rights organization," she said vaguely, fighting waves of fatigue as she sat in the warm, comfortable cab. She didn't want to fall asleep until she got back to her apartment, had a shower, and could climb into her bed. She knew that the fridge would be empty, but she didn't care, she had eaten on the plane. She didn't want to eat that night and could buy whatever she needed the next day.
They drove on in silence then, and she watched the skyline of New York come into view. It was undeniably beautiful, but it looked like a movie set to her and not a place where real people lived. The people she knew lived in old military barracks, refugee stations, and tents, not brightly lit cities with skyscrapers and apartment buildings. With the passing years, she felt more and more separate from this way of life each time she returned, but the organization she worked for was based in New York, and it made sense for her to keep an apartment here. It was a shell she crawled into briefly once every few months, like a hermit crab needing a place to stay. She had no attachment to it, and had never considered it home. The only personal things she had were still in boxes she had never bothered to unpack. Her sister, Rebecca, had packed them for her when Ginny sold her house and left L.A., and shipped them to her in New York. Ginny didn't even know what was in them, and didn't care.
It took them just over an hour to reach her apartment, and she paid the driver with a generous tip. He smiled at her again and thanked her, as she looked for her keys in a pocket of her backpack, then stepped out into the frigid air. It felt like it was going to snow. She stood fumbling with the lock to her building for a moment, with her bags on the pavement beside her. The facade looked faintly battered, and there was a chill wind coming from the East River a block away. She lived in the upper eighties near East End, and she had rented the apartment because she liked walking along the river in warmer weather, and watching the boats drift by. After living in a house in L.A. for years, living in an apartment seemed less oppressive and more impersonal, which she preferred.
She let herself into the building and pressed the button of the elevator to the sixth floor. Everything in the building had a dreary look to it. She noticed that several of her neighbors had Christmas wreaths on their doors. She didn't bother with Christmas decorations anymore, and this was only the second time she'd been there for Christmas since she'd moved to New York. There were so many more important things to think about in the world than putting up a tree or a wreath on the door. She was anxious to get to the office, but knew that it would be closed for the next several days. She was planning to do some reading, work on her latest report, summing up her mission, and catch up on sleep. The report would keep her busy for the next week, and all she had to do was pretend that it wasn't the holidays.
She turned on the lights when she walked in, and saw that nothing had changed. The beaten-up old couch she had gotten at a garage sale in Brooklyn looked as tired as it had before. She had bought a well-used, secondhand leather recliner, and it was the most comfortable chair she'd ever owned. She often fell asleep in it while she was reading. There was another large chair facing the couch in case she had a guest, which she never did. But if so, she was prepared. Her coffee table was an old metal trunk with travel stickers on it that she had bought when she got the couch. There was a small dining table and four unmatched chairs, and a dead plant on the windowsill that she had meant to throw away in July, had forgotten, and it had become part of the décor. The person who cleaned her apartment didn't dare throw it away. She had a few old lamps that cast a warm light around the room, and a television she almost never used. She read the news on the Internet, which she preferred. And the décor in her bedroom consisted of the bed, a chest she had also bought secondhand, and a chair. There was nothing on the walls. It wasn't a cozy place to come home to, but it was a place to sleep and keep her clothes. She had a cleaning woman who came once a month when she was away, and once a week when she was there.
She dropped her suitcase and backpack in her bedroom, came back to the living room, and sat down on the couch, which was welcoming, despite the way it looked. She leaned her head back, thinking about how far she'd come in the past twenty-eight hours. She felt as though she had been on another planet, and had just returned to Earth. She was still thinking about it when her cell phone rang. She couldn't imagine who it was since the SOS/HR office was closed, and it was ten o'clock at night. She fished it out of the pocket of her parka and answered it. She had turned it on in customs, but there was no one she wanted to call.
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Trump Gives Both Positive and Negative Comments Re: Phase 1 Deal with China
Posted on 11/27/2019 7:25 AM
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USMCA meeting today with trade officials from Canada, Mexico and U.S. In today's updates: * Trump comments both positive and negative re: trade deal with China * Trade negotiators inching closer to Phase 1 deal between U.S. and China * Discussions continue on where, or whether, Trump and Xi could meet re: Phase...
USMCA meeting today with trade officials from Canada, Mexico and U.S.
In today's updates:
* Trump comments both positive and negative re: trade deal with China
* Trade negotiators inching closer to Phase 1 deal between U.S. and China
* Discussions continue on where, or whether, Trump and Xi could meet re: Phase I
* Who pays the tax on imports from China?
* More signs of an economic slowdown in China
* China 2020 GDP outlook in focus
* Retailers preparing for one of their biggest weekends of the year
* Deere earnings impacted by trade, weather
* Officials from Canada, Mexico, U.S. to meet today re: USMCA
* Propane and grain are moving again in Canada
* Trump says U.S. to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists
* American cattle ranchers fight back against fake meat
* Repo operations escalate
* A flurry of U.S. economic reports today
* Greenspan comments on trade, U.S. economy
Markets observe normal trading hours today; closed Thursday. U.S. commodity and financial markets will trade normal hours today and will be closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Friday will see abbreviated trading hours in several markets, with the NYSE and other markets closing at noon (CT) while the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has recommended a 1 p.m. (CT) close for the bond market. In the ag commodity markets, Friday will see CBOT trading halt at 12:15 p.m. (CT) and CME trading at 12:05 p.m. (CT). US government offices will be closed on Thursday but will be open on Friday.
Retailers are preparing for one of their biggest weekends of the year, with an estimated 165.3 million Americans going shopping Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, according to the National Retail Federation. The majority of consumers are planning to make their purchases on Black Friday, though the day is becoming less and less crucial to retailers as sales stretch beyond Thanksgiving week and more shoppers opt to make their purchases online.
Deere earnings impacted by trade, weather. Deere & Company reported fourth quarter net income of $2.27 per share, above expectations, but below the year-ago period. "John Deere's performance reflected continued uncertainties in the agricultural sector," Chief Executive John May said. "Lingering trade tensions coupled with a year of difficult growing and harvesting conditions have caused many farmers to become cautious about making major investments in new equipment." Deere is also forecasting a decline in sales in the agriculture-and-turf segment and its construction-and-forestry unit in fiscal 2020. They expect ag and turf sales to fall 5% to 10% for the full year and the construction and forestry sales to fall 10% to 15%. Full-year industry sales of ag equipment in the U.S. and Canada are likely to be down 5%, Deere said, as there is likely to be less demand for large equipment.
Federal Aviation Administration admitted it significantly underestimated the number of commercial drones in service. It now expects that there will be more than 450,000 of them in the sky this year, a total it originally predicted for 2022. Analysts at Barclays estimate that the global commercial drone market will grow tenfold from $4bn last year to $40 billion in five years. They believe the use of drones will result in cost savings of some $100 billion. The unmanned aircraft are finding a range of applications, from agriculture to emergency services.
Powerful winds are expected today in the Northwest, with blizzard conditions in the Midwest and rain in the Northeast, after foul weather disrupted plans during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.
— U.S./China trade policy update:
American and Chinese trade negotiators are inching closer to agreeing on a Phase 1 trade deal, according to officials from both countries. "We're in the final throes of a very important deal," President Trump told reporters at the White House yesterday. "It's going very well." And White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said negotiators were "getting really close" to completing a "Phase 1" deal.
The two sides also have been discussing where — or whether — Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping would get together to sign a partial deal. A possible location for signing a deal would be at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. Trump has talked for months about Switzerland as a "neutral location" for a signing ceremony between the two nations, say people familiar with the discussions.
Trump tempered his optimism in an interview with the former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly about the trade deal. "We can't make a deal that's like, even," Trump said in radio interview with O'Reilly, adding that he said that to China's President Xi Jinping. "I'm holding it up. Because it's got to be a good deal," Trump says "We have to make a deal where we do much better, because we have to catch up."
Who pays the tax on imports from China? U.S. wholesalers, retailers, manufacturers, and consumers are left paying the tax, the New York Fed's Matthew Higgins, Thomas Klitgaard and Michael Nattinger write in a blog post. Link to commentary.
More data shows China economy struggling. Chinese industrial profits fell 9.9% in October at 427.6 billion yuan ($60.79 billion) compared with year-ago levels, and a bigger decline than the 5.3% registered in September. State-owned enterprises saw profits fall 12.1% in October and 2.9% for the first 10 months of 2019 versus the same period in 2018, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. "The big drop suggests the real economy is still facing plenty of difficulties... likely prompting authorities to unveil more growth-boosting measures in a gradual and restrained way," said Nie Wen, economist at Shanghai-based Hwabao Trust.
China 2020 GDP outlook in focus. China's 2020 GDP target should be set around 6%, according to Yao Jingyuan, an advisor to the State Council. "Growth should be around 6%. We cannot achieve that goal if growth is lower," Yao told reporters at a briefing in Beijing. The State Information Centre, a government think tank, has also proposed setting the target at around 6%. For 2019, China is targeting GDP of 6% to 6.5%. The focus on the economy is coming ahead of the Central Economic Work Conference, a session set for December that will discuss economic targets and policy goals.
— USMCA update:
Officials from Canada, Mexico, U.S. to meet today. Chrystia Freeland, Canada's deputy prime minister, and Jesus Seade, Mexico's USMCA negotiator, are due to meet U.S. Trade Representative Bob Lighthizer today in Washington to discuss the "side letter" that would include the changes negotiated with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told Fox News that Lighthizer will "do whatever needs to do to give them what they need to get confident about it, meaning that, if they want paper on the deal, yeah."
— Canada rail strike ends, but recovery could still take time. The week-long strike by the Teamsters Canada union against Canadian National Railway ended Tuesday, but reports indicate the backlogs created by the work stoppage could still take time to be worked through.
Canada Transport Minister Marc Garneau said that work will focus on getting backlogs cleared up quickly, but he warned that the process was complex and would take time. He also hailed the agreement and said that had the government intervened by bringing the parliament back in, "We would not have had a solution." The agreement must still be ratified by the 3,200 workers in the union.
Potash and fertilizer giant Nutrien Ltd. had said it planned to cut production at its largest potash mine due to the railroad strike.
Major companies warned that the Canada's rail sector is essentially a duopoly with CN and Canadian Pacific Railway Co., leaving "shippers with very few, if any, alternatives during a service disruption," the Wall Street Journal reported (link).
— Other items of note:
Trump says U.S. to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists. Mexican officials criticized the plans, saying it opens the door to more direct U.S. intervention in their affairs. The move comes three weeks after nine Americans were killed in northern Mexico.
American cattle ranchers fight back against fake meat. Beef producers and their allies are marshalling food scientists and lobbyists in an effort to derail the rise of alternative meats. Link to Wall Street Journal article.
— Markets. Another set of records for U.S. equity markets on Tuesday as the the Dow gained 55.21 points, 0.20%, at 28,121.68. The Nasdaq rose 15.44 points, 0.18%, at 8,647.93. The S&P 500 moved up 6.88 points, 0.22%, at 3,140.52.
Repo operations escalate. Stepping up its actions to prevent another surge in repo rates, the New York Fed added $92.7 billion in temporary liquidity to the financial system on Tuesday. The previous day, the bank conducted the first operation of its third, longer-term repo loans, which — at 42 days —go beyond year-end. The Fed has been intervening in markets in the current fashion since mid-September and hopes to cut back on interventions at the start of 2020.
A very busy day for economic numbers. Some of them:
U.S. durable goods orders for October are expected to fall 1% from the prior month. (8:30 a.m. ET)
U.S. gross domestic product for the third quarter is expected to advance at a 1.9% pace, unrevised from an earlier reading. (8:30 a.m. ET)
U.S. jobless claims are expected to fall to 220,000 from 227,000 a week earlier. (8:30 a.m. ET)
Chicago purchasing managers index for November is expected to rise to 47.1 from 43.2 a month earlier. (9:45 a.m. ET)
U.S. consumer spending for October is expected to rise 0.3% from the prior month. (10 a.m. ET)
The personal-consumption-expenditure price index excluding food and energy for October is expected to rise 0.1% from a month earlier and 1.7% from a year earlier. (10 a.m. ET)
U.S. pending-home sales for October are expected to rise 0.8% from the prior month. (10 a.m. ET)
The Baker Hughes rig count is out at 1 p.m. ET.
The Federal Reserve releases its beige book report on U.S. economic conditions at 2 p.m. ET.
Greenspan comments on trade, U.S. economy. Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Fox Business Network Tuesday that expecting the U.S. to slide into recession is premature and he expressed a hope that the U.S./China trade situation will be resolved. Asked to comment on the current backdrop for the U.S. economy, Greenspan said, "I read it by the fact that there is an ever increasing expectation that the issue of tariffs and the tariff wars are going to get resolved because there is no question that the type of tariff structure that we have had and the customs that are flowing in have been a significant deterrent to economic activity. And if the Chinese/U.S. relationship, which is a major one in the world, can come together so that there is a maximum amount of interaction and trade, the expectation is that the economies will rise faster. And it is reflected in the stock price." Asked if he thought there would be a U.S./China deal, Greenspan commented, "You are asking me to make a political forecast, and… these days this is not the easiest thing to do." As for the U.S. economy, he said it has been doing "far better" than he has expected. But he said a 1.9% GDP mark for the third quarter would be a reflection that things are stabilizing. "This economy is not about to run away on the upside, but I think that the presumption that it is going to sink into a recession, which means a negative rate of growth, I think is very premature at this stage."
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Physics homework can be a challenge for anyone. That is why getting all the help you can with your homework is the best way to stay on top of things.
Firstly you need to stay organized.
Organization is important for all students. Learning how to stay organized with your homework now will bode quite well for you in the future. One of the best ways to stay organized is with a calendar. Try and use a physical calendar in a place where you can see it a lot. Avoid an electronic one because you need the tactile response of writing down a task for that task to really sink into your memory.
When you make a calendar try and break it down by week and by day. You want to have a weekly calendar where you can list the big tasks you have for your physics class (and all other classes) as well as a daily calendar where you can list the daily assignments such as labs or textbook questions.
Having this calendar will always keep you apprise to what you have due. So on nights where you don't think you have any homework you can look at your calendar and perhaps prepare note cards for your upcoming physics quiz or start on the lab questions for the next week. This will keep you ahead of the curve and never leave you working on a project the night before.
You want to ensure that you take larger projects and tasks and break them down into smaller ones. So if you have a big report due for your physics class at the end of the month you should break it down into smaller tasks each day such as reading the chapters or finishing the notes at the end of the text. This will make it much easier to complete your homework.
Having this calendar and breaking down small tasks will also teach you time management. Some tasks are going to be more important than others. This will remain true your entire life. In school a homework lab might be rolled in with all of your homework grades and amount to ten percent of the total grade but your final report will be worth fifty percent. That being said if it comes down to having to choose between a lab for homework or finishing your final report you should choose the one that is worth more.


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Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Literature: history & criticism
History > Regional & national history > Asia
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu (Hardback)
JianJun He (author)
Hardback 294 Pages
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period. This collection of political history, philosophy, and fictional accounts depicts the rise and fall of Wu and Yue and the rivalry between them, the inspiration for centuries of poetry, vernacular fiction, and drama.
Wu Yue Chunqiu makes use of rich sources from the past, carefully adapting and developing them into complex stories. Historical figures are transformed into distinctive characters; simple records of events are fleshed out and made tangible. The result is a nuanced record that is both a compelling narrative and a valuable historical text. As one of the earliest examples of a regional history, Wu Yue Chunqiu is also an important source for the history of what is now Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
In Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue, Jianjun He's engaging translation and extensive annotations make this significant historical and literary work accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
The Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is part of a major tradition within Chinese literature, dealing with the long drawn out and highly dramatic conflict between these two kingdoms in the early fifth century B.C.E., which culminated in the conquest of Wu by Yue. He Jianjun is to be commended for taking on the challenge of translating this book into English.
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package lambdasinaction.examples.dsl;

import lambdasinaction.examples.dsl.model.Order;
import lambdasinaction.examples.dsl.model.Stock;
import lambdasinaction.examples.dsl.model.Trade;

import java.util.function.Consumer;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

public class MixedBuilder {

    public static Order forCustomer(String customer, TradeBuilder... builders) {
        Order order = new Order();
        order.setCustomer( customer );
        Stream.of(builders).forEach( b -> order.addTrade( b.trade ) );
        return order;
    }

    public static TradeBuilder buy(Consumer<TradeBuilder> consumer) {
        return buildTrade( consumer, Trade.Type.BUY );
    }

    public static TradeBuilder sell(Consumer<TradeBuilder> consumer) {
        return buildTrade( consumer, Trade.Type.SELL );
    }

    private static TradeBuilder buildTrade( Consumer<TradeBuilder> consumer, Trade.Type buy ) {
        TradeBuilder builder = new TradeBuilder();
        builder.trade.setType( buy );
        consumer.accept( builder );
        return builder;
    }

    public static class TradeBuilder {
        private Trade trade = new Trade();

        public TradeBuilder quantity(int quantity) {
            trade.setQuantity( quantity );
            return this;
        }

        public TradeBuilder at(double price) {
            trade.setPrice( price );
            return this;
        }

        public StockBuilder stock(String symbol) {
            return new StockBuilder(this, trade, symbol);
        }
    }

    public static class StockBuilder {
        private final TradeBuilder builder;
        private final Trade trade;
        private final Stock stock = new Stock();

        private StockBuilder(TradeBuilder builder, Trade trade, String symbol) {
            this.builder = builder;
            this.trade = trade;
            stock.setSymbol( symbol );
        }

        public TradeBuilder on(String market) {
            stock.setMarket( market );
            trade.setStock( stock );
            return builder;
        }
    }
}

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Keep It Rural — What's That Mean?
It says "Keep It Rural" there in the Yonder logo. But what the heck does that mean? I need your help, readers.
Oh, the pleasures and pains of rural life. But what is rural? Has the definition and concept changed from 20, 30, 50 or even 100 years ago to now, rural life in 21st century?
Are there a rural heaven and hell? What if we lived our lives entirely rural and then transplanted to city life? Will St. Pete hold that against us at the Golden Gate? Will he know we remained rural in our hearts to the end?
And what-in-the-world is The Daily Yonder talking about with that phrase, "Keep It Rural"? Could it be the Yonder's thinking politics, running on the farmers' platform? That was awhile back, in 1892 when some farmers tried to launch a new political party, the People's Party (or Populists). Or is the Yonder implying we head off to D.C. dressed in our bib overalls, barefooted and wearing straw hats to meet our Congressional rural representatives?
These mind-boggling questions may be a bit too much for the farmers already hit with record drought/flood and loss of subsidies or the farmer's housewife holding down a full-time job and trying to shop for groceries or pay college tuition on a strict budget. Rural-ites don't need the extra burden of trying to "keep it rural" without guidelines of what living a rural life means in this 21st century.
Somebody out there in-the-know can clear this up. A general definition would be suitable. One that doesn't involve Wikipedia or Prozac. A snapshot shared by a reader could be the best explanation of rural life now or in the past.
We ought to be able to find an answer somewhere. There are rural policies, rural healthcare, rural transportation, rural schools, and rural columnists like Verlyn Klinkenborg who writes for the New York Times — countless resources to draw from — but more importantly there are life experiences that tell the tale.
I would like to offer a recent account of what I believe rural life to be in the past and in the present. I was hoping to have photos to share from this venture, but unfortunately my digital camera had to be returned to the factory and I resorted to my conventional camera to capture the moments. When I took the film in for developing I was told the results were 24 white images on white paper. So I here instead are pictures drawn with words.
I raced out of race city Saturday afternoon towards the Blue Ridge Mountains. My destination: The Nunn Brothers Bluegrass Festival, 13th edition, which according to Mr. Nunn's directions was either 8 or 10 miles out of Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
The first indication I was entering rural life was the sudden drop in temperature from a blistering 99 to a cool 76 degrees as I cruised into the folds of the hills. Mt. Airy is a rural town. The sparse population in town (10,388 in 2010) and surrounding farmland validate the fact.
I followed a crooked road up the mountain with a GPS as my guide. Nearing my destination, she (the GPS voice) told me to make a right turn. I did so immediately and drove up a private drive. I could tell the home owner was connected to music in some manner because, using the lawn mower as a paint brush, the owner had carved out a guitar — a Gibson, no doubt — half the size of the house on the backside of the lawn.
My traveling companion informed me the bluegrass festival was around the turn and down over the hill. I complied with her directions.
The festival was taking place in a deep grassy valley with a creek running through. The ticket was $9.00. Parking was free. When we walked between the yellow ribbon separating parking from seating, a deputy sheriff, resting in an easy chair, smiled and welcomed us without losing time tapping his foot to the fiddle tune being played on stage. We didn't go through a pat down or body scan. Our backpacks and purses were not emptied out.
We set up our chairs in the shade of big trees that lined both sides of the valley. Local vendors were an added attraction. I ordered a hot dog prepared by the Welcome Baptist Church. Price: $1.50. They asked if I wanted it customized or all-the-way. I also ordered strawberry shortcake for $2.00 — a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the bottom, short cake drenched in red, ripe strawberries, topped with whipped cream. I wanted coffee so they made a pot of coffee and delivered it to me free of charge. I offered to pay the 50 cents.
We soon met the Nunn Brothers, musicians and hosts of the bluegrass festival. The two brothers roamed the crowd, shaking hands and welcoming the audience. I roamed, too, finding an old tractor with an umbrella and numerous pieces of old-time farm equipment.
When I commented on the beauty of the log barn with a front porch as the stage, Arnold Nunn invited us to tour the building. This was a tobacco barn, made of logs with red clay mixed with water plastered between the logs. Inside the barn, poles ran across the top lengthwise all the way to the top. He explained that the tobacco was tied with string and hung on the poles to dry, and then was sold to local warehouses in the area. The barn was insulated thoroughly as the drying temperature was a hot one hundred fifty-five degrees.
[img:yonder.gif]He, his father and his father's father had raised tobacco on this farm. The last crop was harvested in 1997. He turned the building and tobacco field into a bluegrass music venue where local musicians, including himself and his brother, now perform.
When we returned to our chairs I noticed farmers surrounded us. The men talked to each other of their crops and farm animals. The women talked of gardens, canning and freezing vegetables, flower gardens and church socials. I took in the beautiful rural life, from the fiddle tunes on stage, clogging on the concrete dance floor, hotdog and strawberry shortcake, tobacco barn and all the talk from farmers and farmers' wives who surrounded me in this Blue Ridge Mountain tobacco field. I admit rural life has changed but in so many ways remains the same.
What does it mean to be rural in 2011?
•Rural America comprises 80% of the American landscape and is home to 55 million Americans.
•Rural America provides important corridors for transportation, telecommunications, energy and wildlife.
•For many Americans, both urban and rural, rural America is our vacation, recreation and, increasingly, retirement destination.
•Rural America is an important source of raw materials — food, fiber, energy, lumber and minerals. In the 21st century, our need for both traditional and renewable energy will rise dramatically.
•Advanced telecommunications such as the Internet, coupled with massive waves of corporate and government outsourcing, enable people to live where they want and still make a good living. Both these trends present opportunities for rural communities.
• More and more rural communities are witnessing growth in farmers' markets and niche agricultural producers who deliver a range of products directly to consumers — wine, cheeses, specialty meats and fresh vegetables and fruits.
• 78 million Baby Boomers are reaching retirement. While most of this generation has chosen city life for jobs, today an significant percentage is returning home or moving to selected rural areas. Some want to be close to family in their retirement, while others are seeking affordable and quality rural communities where the cost of living, taxes, and traffic congestion are low.
•As workers lose their jobs in the city because of the recession and economic crisis, they return to their rural roots. This trend is real and appears to be growing.
For those of us who grew up in rural America we may have thought, "If I ever get off this farm, I will never look back" because of the financial hardships and hard physical labor.
Then one day we realize the importance of a rural life — the closeness of families, working together, worrying together, worshiping together. You come to appreciate the rural school where the teachers knew you, your mom and dad and their mom and dad. You come to love the fact, you are a person with a name and personality, not just a number. There are flowers in the spring and people showing their goods at parades and church picnics.
To me, "Keep It Rural" is a state of mind – a place both physical and spiritual, one that I love and never want to leave.
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Betty Dotson Lewis is a West Virginian and a writer.