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Godzilla In Retro
A look back at "Godzilla vs. Megalon" and "Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster."
Originally Published in JAPANESE GIANTS Issue # 4 September 1977
In this review, I shall focus on the two latest Godzilla films released in the United States. GODZILLA VS. THE BIONIC MONSTER (GOJIRA TAI MEKAGOJIRA, 1975) is the better of the two, but is not much of an improvement over GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (GOJIRA TAI MEGARO, 1973). Both films are released by Cinema Shares International, with publicity material available from Donald L. Velde, Inc.
GODZILLA VS. MEGALON is first and foremost a kiddie film, with little to suggest otherwise. It's funny that Velde's prerelease material came out with an "R" rating on it; if that had not been changed, there might have been a fatal reduction of the studio's target audience. The film did relatively well at the box office—ironic, since it is by far the worst film in the Godzilla series. The monsters in the movie are Godzilla, Megalon, Gigan (from GODZILLA VS. GIGAN, 1972), and a cyborg called Jet Jaguar, who makes a one-shot appearance. The opening scene features a few stock shots of Rodan and Angilas from DESTROY ALL MONSTERS.
In this outing, Godzilla resembles nothing so much as a muppet, with an almost lanky body; big, plastic-looking bug-eyes; and a head much too large in proportion to the body. It's arguably the worst suit of the series (the SON OF GODZILLA suit being the other contender) and is dismally inferior to the previous design (used in DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER, and GODZILLA VS. GIGAN). Worst of all, Godzilla (as well as the rest of the monsters) bounces around clumsily instead of lumbering convincingly, as if he's lost all coordination; one actually wonders if the man inside the suit (Shinji Takagi) might have been getting into the saké stash between takes. Even though the Megalon suit is interestingly designed, the monster (played by Hideto Odachi) moves even more clumsily, and in a scene where he is shown hopping around like a giant, two-legged insect, almost falls flat on his back. He also flies, but on absolutely motionless wings—so unlike Rodan in MONSTER ZERO, for example. Gigan (Kengo Nakayama), also well conceived but poorly executed, hops, bounces, dances, and leaps, and, like the rest of the creatures, resorts to idiotic tag-team wrestling tactics. He never uses any sort of death ray, although he supposedly has the ability to produce one. Oddly, Jet Jaguar (Tsugutoshi Komada), the giant robot, comes across somewhat better than the "living" monsters; his movements seem more natural—considering he is supposedly automated, though in one ridiculous scene, Megalon flies in a circle around him at high speed, which makes him so "dizzy" that he stumbles. Funny.
The special effects in the film are almost nil, with most of the effects being stock footage from GODZILLA VS. GIGAN (these look promising), GHIDRAH—THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER, GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS, and various others with effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. At times, the stock footage is quite noticeable because of the change in the film grain. Other times, the scene shows things it shouldn't, such as Gigan, rather Megalon, swatting down airplanes. In the scene of maser cannons obliterating a forest, Megalon supposedly dives behind the trees for cover—but that's not Megalon, it's Gaila, the green gargantua from WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS. Megalon is shown blasting Tokyo with his ray, but often, there is more than one ray on the screen (scenes from GHIDRAH, the disparity made more obvious by the fact that Megalon's ray is reddish and King Ghidorah's are yellow). However, a few good, original effects shots find their way into the film, such as a beautifully photographed scene of Godzilla and Jet Jaguar surrounded by a wall of fire. In a fine scene of Megalon destroying a dam and a bridge, high-speed photography lends the appearance of awesome size. These shots are the most realistic in the film; almost worth the price of admission.
The dubbing, ever the bugaboo of Japanese monster movies, is rotten to the core, especially the voice of the little kid, Roku-san (Hiroyuki Kawase); fingernails on a chalkboard, a choir singing off-key, and the screeching of tires on asphalt are all infinitely more agreeable. And the High Priest (Robert Dunham) of Seatopia! When he calls Megalon up from the depths, he spouts stuff like "Megalon! Wake up! Come on, Megalon!" as if it were time for breakfast. When Professor Ibuki (Katsuhiko Sasaki) and Roku-san find a button pulled from the coat of a Seatopian spy, the prof brilliantly observes that "it looks kind of red!" Such quips make one break out laughing and thus miss the even more hilarious absurdities to come.
Composer Riichiro Minabe contributes the worst Godzilla score ever, bringing back his blaring "Godzilla Theme" from GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER. Other pieces sound like obnoxious parade music and detract from the action, rather than highlight it. One gracing piece, though, is the Japanese song ("Punch! Punch! Punch!") at the finale, surprisingly left intact for American release.
The title GODZILLA VS. THE BIONIC MONSTER gives one bad premonitions from the start. The literal translation of its original title, GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA, sounds far more intriguing; thankfully, MechaGodzilla is not referred to as "the Bionic Monster" anywhere in the movie. BIONIC MONSTER opens, as did MEGALON, with one blast of music and the title, with nary a credit to be seen. The Godzilla suit, disappointingly, is the same one used in MEGALON, though with a slightly improved facial design. At least Godzilla (now played by Isao Zushi) bounces a bit less than in the previous farce, and, from some camera angles, actually appears menacing. However, a second suit (used in a few miscellaneous scenes) looks more like a lumpy papier-mâché mockup than anything that ought to have made it to the screen. Fortunately, MechaGodzilla himself (played by Ise Mori) is built to impress, the suit convincingly appearing to be constructed of metal. The other monsters in the movie, Angilas and King Seesar (both played by Momoru Kosumi, since they never appear together), are minor characters, yet a huge portion of the plot concerns the mysterious process of waking King Seesar. Despite his ferocious-looking design, King Seesar looks very rubbery and hops around almost as dopily as Megalon. His part in the final battle is so small that one can only wonder why the aliens made such a fuss about trying to get rid of him. And sadly, Angilas has never looked so phony, crawling around all-too-obviously on his hands and knees, lacking even high-speed photography to increase the illusion of size.
The aliens' ape-like make-up looks mighty ugly, but the transformation from man to monkey, accomplished by processing still images, ruins any illusion of realism. Strangely, the script never reveals just who these aliens are; only that they come from some "third planet" that is being destroyed by a black hole.
Fortunately, Teruyoshi Nakano's special effects rise a notch above those in MEGALON (most notably because stock footage is almost nonexistent) and feature many nice model shots, such as the cave in which King Seesar is sleeping. One of the movie's best moments is an early scene of MechaGodzilla, disguised as the "real" Godzilla, destroying a building, bringing to mind the fearsome daikaiju of old. Also, the oil refinery where the two Godzillas do battle appears expansive and highly detailed. Unfortunately, while MechaGodzilla is destroying the plant, Godzilla suddenly appears out of nowhere by popping out from beneath a building—deus ex machina rearing its ugly head.
There is a lot of blood in this movie. When MechaGodzilla breaks Angilas's jaw, out globs a mess of fake-looking blood. When MechaGodzilla unleashes his (apparently inexhaustible) hand missiles, geysers of blood spew from Godzilla's wounds, suspiciously resembling the stuff in Sam Peckinpah's latest western as performed by Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Happily, Masaru Sato composed the score this time, and it's far superior to Minabe's MEGALON soundtrack, featuring distinctive orchestrations reminiscent of SON OF GODZILLA. Now if Toho could get Ifukube back, they would have a winner. (Who knows, though? Supposedly, Ifukube has been approached about scoring the remake of GODZILLA.) The downside of the soundtrack is that BIONIC MONSTER's dubbing job is as bad as or worse than MEGALON's. At least profanity is kept to a minimum, unlike in MEGALON, which contained enough to almost justify its original, erroneous R-rating!
Again happily, veteran actors Akihiko Hirata (GODZILLA—KING OF THE MONSTERS, RODAN, THE MYSTERIANS, ATRAGON, et. al.) and Hiroshi Koizumi (GIGANTIS—THE FIRE MONSTER, MOTHRA, GODZILLA VS. THE THING, ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE, et. al.) star in BIONIC MONSTER, bringing back some of the flavor of the better 60s movies; in MEGALON, the few parts were played by relatively unknown actors. Perhaps the biggest plus of all for BIONIC MONSTER is the absence of any little kids, another major plague of the Japanese monster film. On the other hand, for male viewers, the movie's biggest draw might be its two leading ladies, played by Reiko Tajima and Hiromi Matsushita. Say no more!
Interestingly, the Okinawan princess (Beru-Beru Lin [a.k.a. Barbara Lynn]), who has a dream of a monster attacking civilization, sees King Ghidorah, though only in a still shot. Contrary to what FAMOUS MONSTERS says, this is King Ghidorah's only appearance in the film.
One absurdity in BIONIC MONSTER, almost equaling Godzilla's flying in GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER, is that he is turned into an electromagnet by a bolt of lighting. In KING KONG VS. GODZILLA and GODZILLA VS. THE THING, Godzilla had a distinct aversion to electricity. Yet now it has become a reviving force, as it was to Kong in KING KONG VS. GODZILLA. This contrivance allows Godzilla to attract electrical towers and, finally, MechaGodzilla himself, and thus rip off his head. This head-twisting scene, by the way, is very nice indeed, but the preceding events are so dismaying that they tend to overshadow the better effects.
All in all, GODZILLA VS. MEGALON and GODZILLA VS. THE BIONIC MONSTER come across primarily as kiddie films, despite the fact that the latter undeniably has many of the makings of a respectable entry in the Godzilla series. Both are way below Toho's usual standards and may really hurt the American public's attitude toward Japanese films in general. NBC's recent showing of the drastically butchered MEGALON (hosted by John Belushi in a silly Godzilla suit) certainly won't help matters. Let's hope the new GODZILLA will rectify the problem and let the public see Japanese film making at its best.
Original article © 1977 Stephen Mark Rainey/Japanese Giants.
Revised article © 2004 Stephen Mark Rainey/Visagraph Films International.
Original drawings © 1977 Stephen Mark Rainey.


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FSI elects new directors
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Hongkongers rally against Lee Hsien Loong and demand Amos Yee to be freed
On hearing news about 16 year old Amos Yee being sent to a mental hospital by the Singapore Government, Hongkongers today rallied outside the Singapore consulate in Hongkong to protest against Lee Hsien Loong and demanding that the YouTuber be freed.
About 50 students from universities and polytechnics in Hongkong joined the protest and condemned the Singapore Government for oppressing human rights and free speech. Amos Yee, 16, was sent to more than 39 days of jail and a further 14 days in the mental asylum because he created a video criticizing the recently-deceased former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, calling him a horrible person and a dictator.
The Hongkong protest is the second international protest after Taiwanese protested in Taipei wearing caricatures of Lee Hsien Loong.
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Withdrawal of sedition charge against Azmi Sharom only silver lining in gathering of dark clouds following Apandi's appointment – call for dropping of all sedition charges
The only good news in the past six months is the withdrawal of the sedition charge against Universiti Malaya law professor Azmi Sharom, following on the earlier withdrawal of the sedition charge against DAP MP for Seputeh Teresa Kok over a Chinese New Year video "'Onederful' Malaysia CNY 2014".
The withdrawal of sedition charge against Azmi, and the earlier withdrawal of the sedition charge against Teresa Kok, are the only silver lining in the gathering of dark clouds following the sudden and shocking sacking of Tan Sri Gani Patail as Attorney-General and the appointment of Tan Sri Mohamad Apandi Ali as the Public Prosecutor of the land six months ago.
But this is not adequate, as both Teresa and Azmin should not have been charged in the first place.
I fully agree with Azmi that Malaysians are relieved that common sense had prevailed, but this must apply not only in the two cases of Azmi and Teresa, but also in all the other cases where the Sedition Act been used to stifle legitimate dissent and criticism.
For this reason, I call on Apandi to drop all charges under the Sedition Act against Opposition MPs, civil society activists, lawyers and cartoonist including Zunar.
Furthermore, Apandi should heed the outrage and opposition, both in Malaysia and in international circles, and announce an immediate halt to his proposal to increase criminal penalties under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) to punish and deter whistleblowers and journalists for publishing information to combat corruption, as corruption has worsened under the Najib administration as compared to the Abdullah and Mahathir premierships.
It is a total mockery of Malaysia's commitment to combat corruption, elevating it as one of the six National Key Results Areas (NKRAs) of the National Transformation Programme, the talk about "Big Results" in the NKRA agenda to combat corruption, and the hosting of the 16th International Anti-Corruption Convention in Putrajaya from Sept 2 – 4, 2015 for the government to produce the "Big Result" to make the OSA the most repressive and draconian law in democratic countries to undermine and even paralyse anti-corruption efforts.
It is just unthinkable that the Najib government could think of such retrogressive measure after Malaysia had just been named third in the world's "worst corruption scandals in 2015" and fallen four places in Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2015, and risk being overtaken by China and Indonesia in both TI CPI rank and score within a decade.
The Attorney-General's Chambers should not take a single step forward to draft proposals to increase criminal penalties under the OSA to punish and deter whistleblowers and journalists from publishing information to combat corruption, unless the Attorney-General is specifically directed, sanctioned or authorised by the Cabinet to do so.
The Attorney-General should not take the sycophantic support of a few UMNO Ministers to his proposal as Cabinet sanction and authority to amend the OSA to clamp down on whistleblowers and journalists from fighting corruption in Malaysia, which can only further impair Malaysia's image in the world.
Speech by Lim Kit Siang in Labis DAP Chinese New Year Open House in Labis on Saturday, 13th February 2016


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House Breaks Ground on Immigration Reform
February 5, 2013 RYAN ABBOTT
WASHINGTON (CN) – Congress debated mass deportation versus amnesty in a seven-hour brainstorming session on immigration reform Tuesday.
After Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., took the floor some hours into the session, protesters stood in the back and shouted, "Undocumented and Unafraid!"
Capitol police ushered them outside as Issa remarked, "I don't think those disrupters understand my politics."
Members of both parties said the country's immigration system is broken, marking the first time in 25 years that Congress plans to address immigration with a comprehensive reform.
Rep. John Conyers Jr, D-Mich., said, "We need an earned immigration process that is fair, not firm or subject to a lot of manipulation."
"I hope that this committee will rise above its political instincts and try to serve the nation and American citizens in a very important way," he added. "I hope nobody uses the term 'illegal immigrants' – they're not illegal, they're out of status, they're new Americans."
The hearing, which is the first official hearing of the Judiciary Committee for the 113th Congress, comes just days after the introduction of a bipartisan immigration bill in the Senate, proposing to increase the number of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) visas distributed each year.
Though Judiciary Committee members from both parties agreed on prioritizing the retention of skilled STEM workers, Republicans refused to embrace amnesty.
Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio and a rising star in the Democratic Party, faced grueling questions at the hearing from Republicans fighting a pathway to citizenship.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who serves as chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, criticized Castro for refusing to compromise between the extremes of mass deportation and a pathway to citizenship.
"I don't think a pathway to citizenship is the extreme," Castro said. "That would be open borders."
Castro applauded the Obama administration's efforts to "increase the boots on the ground" in border states, stating that the president's efforts have helped keep dangerous criminals out of the country.
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, said border patrol agents have nabbed more than 356,000 people trying to illegally cross the border last year.
Duke University engineer Vivek Wadhwa, Harvard Law School fellow Michael Teitelbaum and Puneet Arora, the vice president of Immigration Voice, also testified at the hearing.
Wadhwa spoke passionately about America losing the global race to attract and retain skilled immigrants, a trend that puts the country's economic recovery at risk.
"The spouses of H1-B workers are not allowed to work, and, depending on the state in which they live, they may not even be able to get a driver's license or open a bank account," Wadhwa said. "They are forced to live as second-class citizens. Not surprisingly, many are getting frustrated and returning home. We must stop this brain drain and do all we can to bring more engineers and scientists here. Contrary to what anti-immigrants group say, these people expand the economy and create jobs for Americans."
Some Republicans scoffed at Wadhwa's proposal to "make the pie bigger" by giving all undocumented workers green cards.
"We have to put faces on things, and when I saw the children gathered around the president as he often does now I think about the financial burden we're placing on our children, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said. "Who's going to pay?"
Arora, the nonprofit officer, proposed that Congress address the deep backlog of visa applications for workers and their families, which span dozens of years. He also echoed Wadhwa's believe that STEM workers will create more jobs for Americans.
The bill introduced in the Senate last week, known as the Immigration Innovation Act, proposes both an increase the number of STEM visas and in the number of H-1B visas awarded every year. It would also allow H-1B spouses to work in the country.
Several Judiciary Committee members worried over the languishing visa applications from families of documented immigrant workers, kept apart from loved ones for as long as 20 years.
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was particularly concerned with recognizing gay and lesbian partnerships in a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
Republicans, who have shied away from committing to a comprehensive reform as opposed to dealing with the issue through a series of smaller bills, appeared more concerned over the effects and costs of amnesty. Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., asked Castro about the benefits of being able to deport illegal immigrant felons with known gangs associations before they commit violent crimes.
Castro pressed on: "You want to deport people before they commit the crime?"
Forbes replied that "these are the tough questions we have to consider."
Wadhwa and some committee members brought up the idea of retina scans and other identification technology as a way for local governments to control undocumented workers.
This and other proposed solutions to limit the amount of undocumented workers failed, however, to take the spotlight from the theme of the hearing – how the country can benefit from immigrant STEM workers and how to solve the problem of the 10 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country.
Citing findings from the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, Teitelbaum suggested that awarding visas through a priority system would benefit workers as well as employers that depend on the cheap labor.
"The commission could find no credible evidence that employers who offer adequate remuneration would face difficulties in hiring from the large numbers of low-skilled and unskilled workers already in the U.S. domestic workforce," Teitelbaum said.
Most attendees failed to return to the marathon session after a one-hour recess.
This segment featured a second panel of witnesses, including Guidepost Solutions president Julie Wood and Chris Crane, president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council.
"This is about people lying to stay in the country," Crane said. "This is about politics."
Crane, one of several ICE agents who sued the Department of Homeland Security for allegedly prohibiting them from doing their jobs, testified that his agency is understaffed and politically handcuffed from enforcing immigration laws.
"In fact, under current policy individuals illegally in the United States must now be convicted of three or more criminal misdemeanors before ICE agents are permitted to charge or arrest the illegal alien for illegal entry or overstaying a visa, unless the misdemeanors involve the most serious types of offenses such as assault, sexual abuse or drug trafficking," Crane said.
Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., closed the hearing with reservations about the ability of Congress to adopt comprehensive immigration reform.
"If we want to talk about comprehensive immigration reform, we better include this aspect of enforcement," he said.
"It's been a long day, but a good day," he added.
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Sr. Mechanical Engineer (Optics)
Location Dallas
Join TuSimple and help change the way the world moves. Together we're making freight transportation safer, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly.This opportunity is located in Tucson, AZ.You can apply to the job with this email address: Company OverviewCome join a higher calling and find a deeper purpose!As a multi-national Artificial Intelligence Technology Company, we are at the epicenter of the Autonomous Vehicle Universe. Our breakthroughs are leading the industry in autonomous trucking.While inventing the framework of Autonomous Driving, our current fleet of autonomous Trucks are helping communities receive much-needed supplies and medical equipment around the clock. Our people are some of the most talented engineers and contributors who are leaving behind a historic legacy.TuSimple was founded half a decade ago with the goal of bringing the top minds in the world together to achieve the dream of a driverless truck solution. With a foundation in computer vision, algorithms, mapping, and Artificial Intelligence, TuSimple is working to create the first global commercially viable Autonomous Freight Network.Role Responsibilities• Experience with optical elements and digital cameras• Design, develop, build, and test optical components, systems, and products• Experience packaging small PCAs• Sources, selects, and qualifies components used in the company's technology• Investigates alternate component technologies or supplies, reducing cost and improving quality and reliability• Acts as technical interface between component/production suppliers and development engineers, determining new and alternate sources• Investigates alternate component technologies or supplies for reduced cost or improved quality and reliability, and implements changes• Will be involved in all design phases: R&D, POC, Prototype, Pre-production, Production• Hands-on integration and collaboration with multiple disciplines software, electrical, and other engineering disciplines• Develop test methodologies for components and systems evaluation• Maintain and update product functional specifications• System level understanding and whole picture approach to development• Ability and desire to work in a collaborative environment and fast-growing R&D team• Innovative, self-motivated with a "can-do" attitude• May require up to 20% travel• Work closely with Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, and other Engineering TeamsExperience & Skills RequiredBS degree in Engineering (Required) MA in Mechanical Engineering (Preferred)Mechanical Engineer should have a basic understanding of manufacturing mechanical systems within the auto industry.+5 years direct experienceTuSimple Benefits100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you and your familyWork visa sponsorship availableRelocation assistance availableBreakfast, lunch, and dinner served every dayFull kitchens on every floor with unlimited snacks, drinks, special treats, fruits, meals, and moreStock options / equityGym membership reimbursementMonthly team building budgetLearning/education budgetEmployer-paid life insuranceEmployer-paid long and short disabilityTuSimple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not discriminate in employment and personnel practices on the basis of race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above-listed items.This opportunity is located in Tucson, AZ. 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Q: Ocultar dinâmicamente uma coluna de um WebGrid Como posso ocultar em tempo de execução uma coluna do WebGrid ?
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Neste post: Esconder uma coluna de um WebGrid mostra como ocultar mas não em tempo de execução.

A: Encontrei a solução que funcionou para o meu cenário:
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Working From Home is Taking a Toll on Mental Health
Jen Austin Published: April 16, 2020
As if we didn't have enough to worry about. Working from home can be a good thing, but with kids doing school at the same time and constant snack temptations, it can cause stress too.
The good news is, about half of the people who are working at home say there has been no impact on mental health one way or another. Maybe they've been working home for years or maybe it's a new adventure, but either way, they're getting along just fine.
About 33 percent say they're having a rough time of it for three reasons.
1. It's hard to separate work from personal life. Even if you're planning to be disciplined and work from 8 to 4, the kids will probably need help getting on Zoom for school and they'll have questions about assignments, and there's laundry and lunch and episodes of Tiger King to be distracted by. It all blends together and that can cause stress.
2. Home is more confining and it's harder to get enough exercise. At the office, it's easier to walk up and down the hallways all day, take the stairs, walk to the car, and the house has smaller square footage and less opportunity for movement. Home gyms and virtual exercise programs rock right now so we can keep up the calorie burn.
3. Communicating with coworkers has become more difficult. There's too much ceiling in the Zoom frame and pets have been taking center stage a lot, and it's not quite the same as being able to walk down the hall to a conference room meeting. And are the co-workers really there? We've been hearing some people have put themselves on video loops to act like they're there. Hard to communicate, yes.
We might be working at home for a while, so we've got to find ways to make the best of it. It's kinda fun to work in pj's and no makeup if we want, right?
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It should come as no surprise that Microsoft has already started to populated the yet unreleased Windows Phone 7 Marketplace with a couple of third-party applications alongside some in-house apps. I already saw this 2 days ago when I was at the Microsoft Campus for some WP7 development work but Justin Angel from Vertigo Software actually decided to take a screenshot of the Zune software and post it on Twitter a couple of hours ago. As you can see in the shot above Microsoft has already released the in-house applications that we saw in the Channel9 video this week and a few third-party apps are already up for grabs. (like Yelp, Hexic etc) Interestingly there's a YouTube extension to the Music & Video hub which should make everybody happy. WP7 users will apparently be able to directly access Youtube hosted videos via the Zune Hub.


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On This Day in History -
Founding Father Nicholas Gilman dies
On this day in history, May 2, 1814, Founding Father Nicholas Gilman dies. Gilman was from a politically prominent family in New Hampshire. His father was a member of New Hampshire's Provincial Congress and served as the state's treasurer during the American Revolution. His older brother John Taylor Gilman served as a soldier in the war. John Taylor would be the first person to read a copy of the Declaration of Independence to the citizens of Exeter in July, 1776. He would also later become a 14 term governor of the State.
In late 1776, the 21 year old Nicholas was appointed adjutant (or chief administrator) of the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment of the Continental Army. The Regiment served in the Battles of Saratoga and saw the surrender of British General John Burgoyne's army there. After this, Nicholas' New Hampshire Regiment reported to Valley Forge and served with Washington for the rest of the war.
Nicholas Gilman
Nicholas' superior officer, Colonel Alexander Scammell, was appointed the Continental Army's Adjutant General and Nicholas became his chief assistant. In this pivotal administrative position, Gilman was in daily contact with George Washington, General Henry Knox, General Nathanael Greene and other key figures. Nicholas saw action in key battles such as the Battle of Monmouth and the Battle of Yorktown.
Ladd-Gilman House
Exeter, New Hampshire
Birthplace of Nichlas Gilman and location of the
recently discovered copy of the Declaration of
Independence read to the citizens of Exeter by
Nicholas' brother John Taylor Gilman.
After the war, Gilman returned to Exeter to take over his recently deceased father's business, but he was soon appointed to the Continental Congress. In 1787, Gilman attended the Constitutional Convention and signed the US Constitution. Gilman and his brother, John Taylor, helped secure the Constitution's ratification in New Hampshire on June 21, 1788. New Hampshire was the 9th state to ratify and with this vote the Constitution became law since 9 affirmative votes were needed for adoption.
Gilman was elected a member of the US House of Representatives in the 1st through 4th Congresses from 1789-1797 and to the US Senate from 1804-1814. He also served in several state offices during this time, including as a state legislator and as state treasurer. In 1793 and 1797, he was a presidential elector, and in 1802, he was appointed a Federal bankruptcy commissioner by President Thomas Jefferson. Nicholas Gilman passed away on his way home to Exeter from Washington in 1814.
The Ladd-Gilman House in Exeter still stands today and was the place of Nicholas Gilman's birth. In 1985, an electrician discovered the original copy of the Declaration of Independence brought to Exeter and read by Gilman's brother, John Taylor, to the citizens of Exeter, in the floorboards of the house. This copy of the Declaration of Independence from the original run of copies of the document is now on display in the home, which was purchased and is now operated by the American Independence Museum, whose mission is "Connecting America's Revolutionary past with the present."
Read what happened on other days in American history at our On This Day in History section here
May 2, 1814 - Founding Father Nicholas Gilman dies
May 3, 1727 - Loyalist publisher Margaret Green Draper is born
May 4, 1776 - Rhode Island is the first state to declare independence
May 5, 1775 - Ben Franklin returns from Great Britain
May 6, 1743 - Seth Warner of the Green Mountain Boys is born
May 7, 1775 - John Hancock writes of his arrival in New York City
May 8, 1822 - American General John Stark dies
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Brice Marden's remarkable five-panel painting "Moss Sutra with the Seasons" (2010-2015) is reproduced from the new Glenstone Museum Marden monograph published to commemorate the opening this week of the Pavilions at Glenstone, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners (here, in collaboration with the artist). Commissioned by Glenstone, "Moss Sutra" brings together several signature stylistic elements from Marden's career. "Two monochromes with complex, layered palettes flank each side of a large central panel featuring fluid, calligraphic gestures against a subtly oscillating ground. Each of these monochromatic panels is inspired by a season, beginning at the left with the yellow of springtime and ending on the right with the blue-black of winter."
Hbk, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 134 pgs / 60 color.


Read here for the summary of this great discussion on what policies and tactics are needed for Brisbane's live music scene and music economy to thrive.
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Summary by Chloe Forsyth, Consultant Urbis.
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Cursus honorumnak nevezzük a tisztségek, kezdetben a magistratusok, betöltésének sorrendjét az ókori Rómában. Végső formájában Sulla szabályozta. A Rómán kívüli birtokok, coloniák, municipiumok és provinciák kialakulásával a lovagi rend és a helyi tisztségek cursus honoruma is kialakult.

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Kezdetben törvények nem, csak a szokásjog szabályozta a magas állami tisztségek betöltésének szabályait. Nem volt sem korhatár, sem betöltési sorrend, a consuli tisztséget viszont régóta csak 10 év elteltével lehetett ismét betölteni. Általában minél befolyásosabb volt egy család, annál könnyebben elérhette az egyes tisztségeket, gyakran a consulit is bármely más tisztség előzetes betöltése nélkül. A második pun háború idején többször eltértek a szokásjogtól, ezért i. e. 208/7-ben előírtak egy hivatalmentes évet a patricius-i tisztségek viselése között, i. e. 197-ben pedig kötelezővé tették a consuli tisztséghez a praetori tisztség előzetes betöltését. i. e. 180-ban Villius néptribunus törvénye a praeturát 40, a consulatust 43 éves alsó korhatárhoz kötötte. A questurához pedig 10 év katonai szolgálatot írt elő a pályázó lovagok számára.

Sulla rögzítette a magistratusok cursus honorumát, a tisztségek betöltéséhez szükséges minimális életkort és a tisztségek kötelező sorrendjét. Ezeket a Lex Vilia annalis és a Lex Cornelia de magistratibus határozta meg. Ezen törvények előírták továbbá azt is, hogy az egyes tisztségek betöltése között legalább három évnek kell eltelnie.
A quaestori hivatal elnyerésének alsó korhatára 30 év volt, a hivatali idő letöltése után az illető bekerült a senatori rendbe. A jelölt ezután aedilis lehetett, de ez nem volt feltétele a többi tisztség elnyerésének.
A következő lépcső a praetori hivatal volt, 40 éves alsó korhatárral.
Ezután következhetett a consuli hivatal, 43 éves alsó korhatárral, A tisztséget újból viselni csak 10 év elteltével lehetett.
Végül censorrá volt consulok válhattak.
Különböző tisztségek viselése között is legalább egy évnek el kellett telnie. A sorrendiség szigorúan csak a curulisi, azaz eredetileg patriciusi tisztségekre vonatkozott, a plebeiusi eredetűekre (néptribunus, aedilis) nem, az aedilis curulisra sem.

A császárkorban minden évben 20 senatori családból származó ifjú számára nyílt lehetőség, hogy elinduljon a hivatali ranglétrán.
 25 évesen először a Vigintisexviri ("20 férfi") valamelyik tisztségét, az ún 20 magistratus minor egyikét kellett betöltenie.
 Ezután 1 év katonai szolgálat következett egy legiónál mint tribunus laticlavius.
Majd a hagyományos magistratusi tisztségek következtek, amelyek közé azonban új tisztségek tagolódtak be a köztársaságkorhoz képest.
 A praetori tisztség alapvető volt a továbbiak betöltéséhez.
 A legatus legionis a légióparancsnoki tisztség volt.
 Egylégiós provincia helytartósága volt a következő: legatus Augusti pro praetore egy császári vagy propraetor egy szenátusi provinciában.
 Ezután következett a consuli tisztség.
 Majd többlégiós provincia helytartósága: Legatus Augusti pro praetore egy császári vagy proconsul egy szenátusi provinciában.

Lovagok

A köztársaság idején a lovagok cursus honoruma megegyezett a szenátorokéval. A két rend teljes, formális elkülönülése csak a császárkor elején következett be. Ekkortól elkülönült a két rend cursus honoruma, azt nem lehetett kombinálni. A császár, mint a censori hatalom birtokosa, az arra érdemes lovagokat felvehette a szenátusba (adlectio), de onnantól az új senator a senatori cursus honorum szerint folytatta pályafutását.

A császárkorban a fiatal lovagoknak először a saját katonai szolgálatuk fokozatait (militia equestris) kellett teljesíteni. A többfokozatúság, a fokozatok sorrendje és az egyes fokozatokhoz tartozó posztok már Claudius idején létrejöttek, a kötelező hármasság – tres militiae, majd Septimius Severus idején quattuor militiae – csak Traianus idején rögzültek.
 Először a militia primát kellett teljesíteni. Egy 500 fős gyalogos segédcsapat, egy cohors quingenaria parancsnoka lett, mint praefectus cohortis.
 Majd a militia secunda következett. Egy legio egyik cohorsának parancsnoka lett, mint tribunus angusticlavius.
 Végül a militia tercia részeként egy 500 fős lovas segédcsapat (ala quingenaria) parancsnoka lett, mint praefectus alae.
 Septimius Severustól a militia quarta következett negyedik fokozatként, amely egy ezer fős lovas segédcsapat, egy ala milliaria parancsnokságát jelentette, ugyancsak mint praefectus alae.
Ezen fokozatok teljesítése kötelező volt a további tisztségviseléshez, sőt volt is egy társadalmi elvárás minél több fokozat teljesítéséhez, azonban ez már nem volt kötelező. Ha valaki abbahagyta a közszolgálatot és visszatért a civil életbe egy-két fokozat teljesítése után. Az elérhető tisztségek száma nem is tette lehetővé, hogy minden generáció minden tagja ezeket teljesítse. Aki ezeket mind teljesítette, azok mint militiis tribunus-ok, vagy quattuor militiis-ek vagy egyszerűen militiis-ek, folytathatták a lovagi cursus honorumot.

Hadrianus uralkodásától a különféle procuratori posztokat négy fizetési kategóriába sorolták, amelyek növekvő sorrendben ezek voltak:
 a sexagenarius az évi 60 ezer sestertius (HS) jövedelmű csoportba tartozó volt, a 3. század inflációja után nevük megmaradt, bár fizetésük megnőtt
 a centenarius az évi 100 ezer sestertius jövedelmű csoportba tartozó volt.
 a ducenarius az évi 200 ezer sestertius jövedelmű csoportba tartozó volt.
 a trecenarius az évi 300 ezer sestertius jövedelmű csoportba tartozó volt.
Az Augustus uralkodása vége felé a lovagok számára létrehozott magasabb pozíciók:
 a praefectus frumenti dandi a Római városi gabonaosztás elöljárója.
 a praefectus vigilum a Róma városi tűzoltóság parancsnoka.
 a praefectus annonae a Római városi gabonabeszerzés elöljárója.
A legrangosabb hivatalok a principatus idején:
 Egyiptom helytartója, a praefectus Alexandreae et Aegypti
 a Róma város élén álló praefectus urbi,
 és a lovagi karrier csúcsát jelentő praefectus praetorio, a császári testőrség parancsnokának tisztsége volt.

Municipális tisztségek

A városi cursus honorumnak megfelelően római mintára a decurio végigjárta a városi magistratusok ranglétráját, s lehetett először városi quaestor, aedilis, végül a consulnak megfelelő duumvir, azaz polgármester. Ötévente a két duumvirt kiterjesztett - a censornak megfelelő - hatáskörrel, mint duumviri iure dicundo quinquennales-t választották meg, hogy kiegészíthessék a tanács névjegyzékét, az album decurionum-ot.

Úgy tűnik, hogy a duumviri tisztség elnyeréséhez elég volt egyet viselni előzetesen a questori vagy aedilisi tisztségből. A városi tanácstagságnak viszont nem volt feltétele az előzetes tisztségviselés. Ez nem is lett volna lehetséges a tanács 100 fős tagságát figyelembe véve, amikor évente csak 1-2 új tisztségviselő léphetett be a rendszerbe. Aki minden lépcsőfokot végigjárt, azt omnibus honoribus functus-nak nevezték.

Az afrikai tartományokban a helyi papi tisztségek (pontifex, augur, flamen, haruspex) is részét képezték a municipális cursus honorumnak, máshol azonban nem.

Egy ember általában csak egy városban futhatott be hivatali karriert, mert csak egy városban lehetett polgárjoga. Ez alól akadtak azonban kivételek olyan lovagok esetén, akik több városban is rendelkeztek földbirtokkal. Ilyenre Daciából és az afrikai provinciákból ismerünk példákat.

Jegyzetek

Források

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Római társadalom

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Q: How to do pagination for angular table? I am trying to do pagination for scope object in angularjs,for that am using jquery data table plugin.
But am getting Cannot read property 'insertBefore' of null error,Table datas are also not displaying.
What is the meaning for this error?Is anything wrong in my code?

var app= angular.module('myApp',[])
app.controller('myController',function($scope){
$scope.details=[
{
'name':'aaa',
'age':'20'
},
{
'name':'aaa',
'age':'20'
},
{
'name':'aaa',
'age':'20'
},
{
'name':'aaa',
'age':'20'
},
{
'name':'aaa',
'age':'20'
},
{
'name':'aaa',
'age':'20'
},
{
'name':'aaa',
'age':'20'
},
{
'name':'aaa',
'age':'20'
}
]

$scope.init = function(){
$('#myData').dataTable();
}
})

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">

    S.no
    Name
    Age

      {{$index+1}}
      {{data.name}}
      {{data.age}}

Can anybody let me know what am wrong?Please correct me if am wrong.Thanks!!:-)

A: for perform jquery object in controller you can create an directive in this way
but for pagination in table you can download angular-table and add angular-table module to your app.and then use angular table in bellow way
angular table in  your view :

          {{$index+1}}

<at-pagination at-config="config" at-list="details"></at-pagination>

add config in your  controller:
 $scope.config = {
        itemsPerPage: 10,
        maxPages: 5,
        currentPage: 0,
        orderBy: 0,
        fillLastPage: false
    };

you can also use pagination directive for your purpose


The investigations undertaken by the WJC are long-term, extensive research projects, using the best available intelligence and resources. Operation Typhoon was an 18-month long investigation into the trafficking of ivory and rhino horn in Lao PDR. Our undercover teams estimated the illegal trade was worth more than USD 17 million.
A lengthy and detailed case file was given to the Laotian authorities in order to support their enforcement work.
Not only does this illegal trade threaten the future of some of the world's most vulnerable species, it also knowingly breaches the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The Convention – which is signed by 183 countries, bans trade in endangered species. Appendix 1 listings are applied to species that are under the highest threat of extinction. All of the animals documented during Operation Typhoon were listed on Appendix 1 and should have been guaranteed the highest level of protection, not killed and shipped to the highest bidder.


We are doing well in Nigeria. Have a great Thanksgiving today with your family and friends. We are definitely thankful that you are thinking of us and praying for us.
First I have a few pictures from our journey here Sunday and Monday too.
We arrived at our gate in Atlanta with plenty of time.
The flights between Lagos, Nigeria and Atlanta are always full. This time of year, many Nigerian mothers are on their way home to escape the cold. I have talked to some of them and they spend some time in the US helping their children take care of their children, but the cold weather drives them back home. Who can blame them?
Many of them are elderly and need assistance inside the airport and boarding the plane. In 2012 there were 17 wheelchairs waiting to board the flight. Sunday they set a new world record of 25! The Delta ticket agents and airport personnel handled it all very well.
We had the quickest flight over that have ever had. They used to advertise the flight as 11 and 1/2 hours. Now they say it is 11 hours and 5 minutes. We must have flown in the jet stream Sunday night. The flight took 10 hours and 10 minutes! I will take a faster flight any day.
We zoomed through immigration, fought our way through baggage claim (All of our bags made it) and then breezed through customs and the rest. A few minutes after we went outside, Bro. Shobanke and the welcoming committee arrived to collect us.
This was our first picture on the road after we arrived.
These taxi vans are a common sight in between Lagos and Abeokuta. It is common for someone to be standing in the open sliding door on the passenger side. This one had a guy standing on the bumper at full highway speed. No one even looks twice.
This is part of our welcoming committee at the airport. They conducted us safely to our hotel and carried all of our luggage into the room. Thank you, brothers!
We had a great first day in Nigeria after and very good first night's sleep. Some of you may remember that some years we struggle mightily trying to sleep while we are here. Even those years, we usually sleep well the first night after being up 36+ hours. It is nearing bedtime here as I type this so hopefully and prayerfully this will be the year of great sleeping.
We spent the late afternoon and evening Tuesday at Bro. Shobanke's house with some of his children, Pastor Kuye and others. It was a wonderfully relaxing visit with our friends. We enjoyed a great meal with them too. May God bless them for their hospitality and kindness toward us.
We did sleep Tuesday night, but not as good as we would like and not near as good as Monday. Hopefully, we do even better tonight.
Wednesday morning we were up early and traveled about 3 hours north to preach one service at a camp meeting during the day. I preached the night services of this camp meeting back in 2016 and we happen to be here at the right time again.
A few days ago Pastor Isaac asked Bro. Shobanke if I would be willing to drive up for one service and I consented. He knew it would be a lot of time in the car for one service and it was. We were driving a total of 7 hours plus a 45 minute stop at KFC in Ibadan. That was definitely worth it!
The Nigerians are resourceful people. We have seen people on the motorcycle taxis carrying a lot of different things. We have seen them with kitchen sinks, ten-foot pieces of conduit, lumber, mattresses and many other things. Wednesday we saw this below.
I guess this man was delivering a big truck tire. Clever.
We made it back to Abeokuta by 5:30 Wednesday evening. Minister's Conference begins Thursday morning by God's grace.
Thank you for praying for us. I will check in again as time and connectivity permits.


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Weekend! I love it, especially the relaxed feel it brings and the anywhere-anything goes mood. I'm so sorry for the lack of blog updates but I've been enjoying the days so much. I'd like to thank everyone for their sweet comments. I'll be getting back to you soon and I just miss everyone on the blogging world. If there's one word that can describe me right now is GIDDY. Just giddy with everything in life right now. It's been a roller coaster ride of emotions but I feel like I'm just starting.
This is also an overdue BIG, BIG thank you to the lovely Cheryl of the blog Adventures of Pinay Neska. She gave me this lovely blog award and I am so happy. It is like receiving a beautiful present and just what I needed. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Just a quick shout out to my Papa: Happy Father's day! You are my dad, my mentor, you taught me everything in business and still learning. I am humbled, always. I've always been a daddy's girl and my mom is always amazed that my dad and I could talk so much and never get bored. I miss you so much and also my mom and my sisters. You save me everytime because whenever I feel like I can't do it, you push me and inspire me guys. Cheers!
happy father's day to ur dad!!!
btw, i tagged u from my blog. juz answer it wen u have the time.
how was the weather in Baguio?
looks like it's foggy out there.
girly, i love the pink shoes and orange trench coat! good color!
missed visiting your blog C! had to take a brief hiatus---anyway i'm loving the flash of neon pink and that orange trench. and belated happy father's day to your daddy!
cute coat! i miss baguio!
happy daddy's day to your dad!


Whether you're trying to get new leads or convert existing ones into loyal customers, you're going to need landing pages. Lots of 'em.
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And we're only talking about the usage of landing pages here. A little more than half of the businesses (52%) that use landing pages are actively trying to improve conversions.
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Here's how it works. This guide is divided into 9 chapters. Each chapter contains several links to hand-picked resources from all over the web. You can skip to any chapter you want by clicking the links below.
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If you're new to landing pages, or you're looking to brush up on the basics, these resources are for you. You'll learn what a landing page is, when to use them, and what goes into a great one.
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However cool landing page might be, they're only part of your funnel. Next you'll need to nurture our leads and convert them into loyal customers. These resources will help you out.
Landing page optimization requires you to do a lot of different things. Luckily, there's a bunch of software out there that will help you make the whole process easier.
Robin, one of the most helpful blog post I have ever seen. I sent it out on all my channels. Thank you!
I shared this on Facebook and Twitter. I think it's a terrific resource. It should keep me and my team busy for weeks.
Which actionable tip from all those links do you think is the most important?
I'd say customer feedback is the most important. Check out "Everything you need to know about designing valuable customer surveys" (under chapter 2).
Knowing exactly what it is that people want can go a looong way.
This is such a complete post on landing page optimization and actually it is a resource hub to get everything known from one place. It is going to help all beginners, professionals and entrepreneurs. I am going to share this in all my networks and will also share this personally, with my clients.
Thanks for sharing this post and resources.
Thanks for sharing it with your network!
Robin, this is a fantastic resource that I can show some PPC clients when they ask "Why wouldn't I send my ppc clicks to my homepage"? Well organized and put together!
Thanks Robin, Ultimate resource for landing page optimization which explains all in-depth for the valuable customer surveys and how we can make our customers to stay long.
Depth Research and Well Written!


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One woman's story about a meowing colleague highlights the role silent witnesses play in workplace harassment
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A whitepaper released by Spot — an artificial intelligence tool where people can anonymously report abuse — showed that while 79% of 1,096 interviewed participants had seen an incident of workplace harassment or discrimination, 77% of them never reported it to human resources.
This is a stark reality for people who face these problems in the office.
Sergaya Krantz told Business Insider she believes she was the victim of intense bullying and harassment in her old job.
She claims her former manager spread a false rumor that she was mentally ill, which led to her being told to leave the office. She said she felt nobody in the office supported her, either taking part in the abuse or ignoring what was going on.
Psychologist Julia Shaw, cofounder of Spot, believes her team's artificial intelligence bot is the key to encouraging more people to report what happens to them and others.
There are many reasons people don't speak up, including fear of losing their job, and not wanting to interfere. But Shaw said it's up to everyone to realize the power they may have over others, and that harassment is not an individual problem, but a structural one.
When Sergaya Krantz raised concerns about a coworker who wouldn't stop pretending she was a cat, she didn't realize it would start what she believed was a vicious campaign to remove her from the office.
Krantz worked at the UK branch of Bloomberg Tax, a department within Bloomberg Industry Group, in London until February 2018. The company is a small subsidiary of Bloomberg LP, with about 25 employees, that supplies legal tax information.
A former colleague of Krantz's confirmed this cat-like behavior to Business Insider, and Krantz said her problems at the company began when she spoke up about it and told a younger colleague not to pander to it anymore.
She believes this was when the meowing woman conspired against her, sparking a chain of events that culminated in her manager telling her to leave and spreading a lie that she was mentally ill.
"It had such horrific repercussions on my life at that time," she told Business Insider. "Even now if I see [my old colleagues] at tax conferences, they tend to run away from me. They literally run away or they look very embarrassed ... They know that I was treated badly, but they're scared to ask."
People worry about the consequences of speaking up
New research published by Spot — a company that created an AI bot for reporting misconduct— has shown witnesses of harassment hardly ever speak up. Spot cofounder Julia Shaw told Business Insider some of the psychological reasons for their silence and how it makes the hugely under-reported problem of harassment even worse.
The survey that collected personal stories from 1,096 participants from the US, UK, and Australia revealed a stark reality: While 79% of subjects had seen someone be the victim of an incident of harassment or discrimination at work, 77% of them never reported it to HR.
"I think I was expecting intuitively, to some extent, that witnesses wouldn't report because frankly I've witnessed things and not reported them, just like I've been the target and not reported them," Shaw told Business Insider. "So that's why we wanted to investigate this, because they could be a huge resource currently untapped."
Spot and Shaw have not investigated Krantz or Bloomberg and they did not form part of Spot's survey or whitepaper.
Witnesses cited many reasons why they didn't go to HR. The top one, at 34% of participants, was being worried about the consequences. Following that, 29% said they didn't want to intervene.
"Being worried about the consequences is mostly about yourself," she said. "For being worried about other people judging you or not believing you, or not promoting you because they perceive you to be a snitch or some other negative attribute."
People can report abuse and harassment anonymously by using Spot.
Business consultant and leadership coach Britt Andreatta told Business Insider most of us are not taught to question authority or speak our minds back when we're at school because it leads to punishment.
"This socialization carries into our adulthood and makes us naturally hesitant to speak up to anyone who has real or perceived power over us or our job or career," she said. "People need to feel safe in order to speak up, both physically safe and psychologically safe."
She added people risk being blamed and shamed as well as losing their jobs and careers if they go up against someone more powerful than them.
"This certainly was the case in Hollywood, is true at many universities, and was even at the core of the accident at Chernobyl," she said. "If you have seen others come forward and not be successful, there is even less incentive."
There's also the worry you'll make things worse
Not wanting to interfere, on the other hand, is more of a "benevolent" reason, Shaw said.
"[It] mostly comes from a good place," she said. "Where people think this isn't my story to tell. And the problem with that is by not wanting to interfere, or make things worse, usually what it seems is that people do nothing."
It's all very well saying you don't want to get involved in someone else's business, but you can always talk to the person and see if they are okay, Shaw said, rather than washing your hands of it and thinking it's not your problem.
Krantz said she felt like she had nobody to turn to within her company. There was no HR department in the UK office, and people seemed more likely to ignore the situation rather than try to help, she said.
She said she requested mediation with the coworker after she'd accepted another job offer as she wanted to sort things out before she left.
But rather than receiving help from her manager, she said she was told to leave the office because she had a "chemical imbalance" and didn't understand English people. Krantz is from Slovenia, but has lived in the UK since she was three.
"I got emails saying I was creating dramas in the office for attention and I needed to be removed from the office," she said. "I was actually apologizing for things and didn't know what I was apologizing for. When you're being bullied you don't realize until later. You think you're doing something wrong."
Krantz made a formal complaint in November 2018 after she had left the company, only to be told her claims were unfounded. In an email, seen by Business Insider, she was told by the data privacy and security director that her manager "acted appropriately and was motivated by genuine concern for your wellbeing" in removing her from the office. She was also told the comments were not "disseminated more broadly" and that her "complaints in this regard are unfounded."
When she repeatedly asked for the company to retract statements of her being mentally ill and for further investigation into the employees she said bullied her, she received a short response, also seen by Business Insider, telling her the company considered the matter "closed."
A Bloomberg representative told Business Insider they do not comment on these types of issues. But in a legal letter addressed to Krantz, seen by Business Insider, the company denied any wrongdoing and refuted her claims of harassment and discrimination. The company stated it takes allegations of harassment very seriously.
"[My manager] said I refused to accept my mind was deteriorating," Krantz said. "I said 'my doctor says I'm fine' but they refused to let me give them a doctor's note. And then this message spread around that I was mentally ill."
Gossiping makes the problem worse
Social contagion makes workplaces toxic, Shaw said, which is when people gossip and spread negative information about the company or an individual. Nearly half of respondents in the survey said they had told someone else when they'd witnessed harassment, but didn't tell HR.
"You get this sort of seeping of this negative toxic information and toxic situation throughout the organization and sometimes even outside and beyond the organisation, possibly to new recruits, possibly to the industry more generally," she said. "And this is has a potentially tremendously negative effect on the culture as a whole."
Krantz felt like she was being talked and theorized about constantly before she left her position at Bloomberg Tax. At one point, a male colleague yelled at Krantz across the room "have you taken your medication?" Krantz said.
"I said 'my doctor says I'm being bullied, actually,'" Krantz said. "And then he panicked and he ran to the managers."
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Andreatta said there could also be tribal behavior at play when people talk amongst themselves, because it's a reaction to sensing danger.
"We are a tribal species so are biologically compelled to gather as much information as we can to assess the threat and figure out what to do about it," she said. "Sadly, in most workplaces, HR is not seen as a safe place to go, because they ultimately work for the company and their first priority is protecting the organization from litigation."
People don't want to think of their workplace as problematic
Witnesses sometimes end up feeling partially responsible for the harassment if they don't step in as soon as they see something. This guilt can be enough to stop them reporting it at all, Shaw said.
Humans are also prone to the belief that they are good people, she said. This means we don't like to consider that we've chosen to work somewhere people are harassed and abused, and are more likely to diminish or dismiss anything we see that challenges that view.
"What you're trying to do is you're trying to justify that your workplace isn't problematic, so that you can stay with status quo and feel good about your choice of workplace," Shaw said. "It's a completely protective mechanism where your brain is going, 'I don't want this to be true.'"
She said the only way to ensure the company actually is a good place to work is to have a healthy workplace culture.
"And the only way you're going to do that is by having appropriate mechanisms for reporting things when they inevitably occasionally go wrong," she said.
Harassment isn't an individual issue
Shaw believes that there needs to be a shift in the consequences of something being reported, too. She said humans have a tendency to pretend harassment and discrimination are something individuals do, and if those people are removed, the company will be fine.
"I think that's hugely problematic because that underestimates that all of us are capable of both being harassed or discriminated against, and harassing or discriminating against others," she said. "We need to stop pretending that this is an individual level problem and acknowledge that this is a structural issue."
She said everyone should be "benevolent with their power" and realize the harm they can do, intentionally or not, just by having authority over someone else. That power can be held in all sorts of ways, including position, race, and gender. Recognizing this can mean abuse is prevented earlier.
"Otherwise it becomes us versus them — us the good people and the good employees versus them the bad harassers," Shaw said. "And that's just not a good way of looking at the world."
Krantz said all she wanted was an apology from her old company. She said she can't let the situation go because someone else in the same position could have been severely damaged if they were more vulnerable than she was.
"I found it so degrading and so humiliating, my treatment in the office, that I just think it's wrong," she said. "I'm 45 now and I don't think my career will die as a result of this. I just don't think I can be at peace unless I speak up about it."
You can read the full report about witnessing workplace harassment here.
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Q: How do I execute a "runuser" command, with arguments, in a bash script? I have a niche requirement to run commands stored in another config file within a wrapper script for another utility. My wrapper script (below) works for every command in that config file that does not use "runuser" and also include arguments. If a command uses runuser and my "-c" command includes arguments, the script fails.
The wrapper script
#!/bin/bash
nagios_cmd=$(grep $1 /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg | awk -F "=" {'print $2'})
exec=$($nagios_cmd)
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
  #exitok
  echo $exec
  exit 0
else
  #exitcritical
  echo $exec
  exit 1001
fi

The config file
command[check_crsdb_state]=sudo /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_crsdb_state
command[check_crsasm_state]=sudo /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_crsasm_state
command[check_ora1_tablespace_apex]=sudo /usr/sbin/runuser -l oracle -c '/check_oracle_tablespace APEX 32000'
command[check_ora1_tablespace_lob1]=sudo /usr/sbin/runuser -l oracle -c '/check_oracle_tablespace LOB1 32000'

Successful Script Run
[root@quo-mai-ora1 /]# ./rmmwrapper.sh check_crsasm_state
OK - All nodes report 'Started,STABLE'
[root@quo-mai-ora1 /]#

Failure Script Run
[root@quo-mai-ora1 /]# ./rmmwrapper.sh check_ora1_tablespace_apex
APEX: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
APEX: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
[root@quo-mai-ora1 /]#

Failure Script Run (with bash -x)
[root@quo-mai-ora1 /]# bash -x ./rmmwrapper.sh check_ora1_tablespace_apex
++ grep check_ora1_tablespace_apex /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
++ awk -F = '{print $2}'
+ nagios_cmd='sudo /usr/sbin/runuser -l oracle -c '\''/check_oracle_tablespace APEX 32000'\'''
++ sudo /usr/sbin/runuser -l oracle -c ''\''/check_oracle_tablespace' APEX '32000'\'''
APEX: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
APEX: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
+ exec=
+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'
+ echo
+ exit 1001
[root@quo-mai-ora1 /]#

The Problem
You can see in the bash -x output, that for some reason when the $nagios_cmd gets executed, it places single quotes before the spaces separate multiple args that are supplied to that resulting script (/check_oracle_tablespace). I've tried different ways of executing $nagios_cmd (using backticks instead etc. I've tried escaping the space characters by modifying the config file to look like this:
command[check_ora1_tablespace_apex]=sudo /usr/sbin/runuser -l oracle -c '/check_oracle_tablespace\ APEX\ 32000'

I've also tried encapsulating the command after -c on runuser in double quotes instead of single, or just no quotes at all.
I'm clearly missing something fundamentally wrong with bash. How can I get the script to just execute the contents of $nagios_cmd as it appears in plain text?

A: This looks like one of those rare cases where eval is actually the right answer. Try this:
exec=$(eval "$nagios_cmd")

Explanation: bash doesn't expand variables until fairly late in the process of parsing commands, so the string in the variable isn't parsed like it would be if it were actually part of the command. In this case, the problem is that it's expanded after quotes and escapes have been parsed, so it's too late for the single-quotes around the multi-word command to have their intended effect. See BashFAQ #50: "I'm trying to put a command in a variable, but the complex cases always fail!"
What eval does is essentially re-run the entire command parsing process from the beginning. So the variable gets expanded out to the command you want to run (including quotes, etc), and that gets parsed like it would be normally.
Note that I did put double-quotes around the variable; that's so it doesn't go through the partial-parsing process that is done to unquoted variable references, and then through the full parsing process. This one-and-a-half-times parsing process can have rare but really weird effects, so it's best avoided.
Also: eval has a well-deserved bad reputation (I've used the phrase "massive bug magnet" to describe it). This is because what it fundamentally does is treat data (e.g. the contents of variables) as executable code, so it's easy to find that you're doing things like executing parts of your filenames as commands. But in this case, your data is supposed to be a command, and is (hopefully) trusted not to contain malicious, invalid, etc content. In this case, you want the data to be treated as executable code.


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