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package net.objectlab.kit.pf.ucits;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.List;

import net.objectlab.kit.pf.RuleIssue;
import net.objectlab.kit.pf.Severity;
import net.objectlab.kit.pf.ValidatedPortfolioLine;

public class ValidatedPortfolioLineForTest implements ValidatedPortfolioLine {
    private String assetCode;
    private String assetName;
    private BigDecimal quantity;
    private BigDecimal priceInPortfolioCcy;
    private BigDecimal valueInPortfolioCcy;
    private BigDecimal allocationWeight;
    private boolean valid;
    private List<RuleIssue> issues;

    public ValidatedPortfolioLineForTest() {
    }

    public ValidatedPortfolioLineForTest(final ValidatedPortfolioLine t) {
        this.assetCode = t.getAssetCode();
        this.assetName = t.getAssetName();
        this.quantity = t.getQuantity();
        this.priceInPortfolioCcy = t.getPriceInPortfolioCcy();
        this.allocationWeight = t.getAllocationWeight();
        this.valueInPortfolioCcy = t.getValueInPortfolioCcy();
        this.valid = t.isValid();
        this.issues = t.getIssues();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isValid() {
        return valid;
    }

    public void setValid(final boolean valid) {
        this.valid = valid;
    }

    @Override
    public List<RuleIssue> getIssues() {
        return issues;
    }

    public void setIssues(final List<RuleIssue> issues) {
        this.issues = issues;
    }

    @Override
    public String getAssetCode() {
        return assetCode;
    }

    public void setAssetCode(final String assetCode) {
        this.assetCode = assetCode;
    }

    @Override
    public String getAssetName() {
        return assetName;
    }

    public void setAssetName(final String assetName) {
        this.assetName = assetName;
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal getQuantity() {
        return quantity;
    }

    public void setQuantity(final BigDecimal quantity) {
        this.quantity = quantity;
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal getPriceInPortfolioCcy() {
        return priceInPortfolioCcy;
    }

    public void setPriceInPortfolioCcy(final BigDecimal priceInPortfolioCcy) {
        this.priceInPortfolioCcy = priceInPortfolioCcy;
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal getValueInPortfolioCcy() {
        return valueInPortfolioCcy;
    }

    public void setValueInPortfolioCcy(final BigDecimal valueInPortfolioCcy) {
        this.valueInPortfolioCcy = valueInPortfolioCcy;
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal getAllocationWeight() {
        return allocationWeight;
    }

    @Override
    public void setAllocationWeight(final BigDecimal allocationWeight) {
        this.allocationWeight = allocationWeight;
    }

    @Override
    public void addIssue(Severity sev, String ruleName, String message) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }
}

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Astana-e-Aliya Qadriya, Dargah-e-Hazrat Mahboob-e-Zaat, Mundair Sharif Syedan, Sialkot, Pakistan.
If my servant likes to meet Me, I like to meet him; and if he dislikes to meet Me, I dislikes to meet him.
But when the unbeliever is given news of Allah's punishment and His displeasure, he dislikes to meet Allah and Allah dislikes to meet him.
It was related by al-Bukhari and Malik. The Prophetic version is related by Muslim.
This Manqabat (منقبت) was written by Bashir Hamid (from Kamaliya).
My faithful servant's reward from Me, if I have taken to Me his best friend from amongst the inhabitants of the world and he has then borne it patiently for My sake, shall be nothing less than Paradise.
It was related by al-Bukhari.
There was amongst those before you a man who had a wound. He was in [such] anguish that he took a knife and made with it a cut in his hand, and the blood did not cease to flow till the dead. Allah the Almighty said: My servant has himself fore stalled Me; I have forbidden him Paradise.
This Manqabat (منقبت) was written by Khalifa Bashir Aziz (from Kamaliya).
On the authority of Masruq who said: We asked Abdullah (i.e. Ibn Masud) about this verse: And do not regard those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead, rather are they alive with their Lord, being provided for (Quran Chapter 3 Verse 169).
He said: We asked about that and the Prophet (Sal Allahau Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam) said: Their souls are in the inside of green birds having lanterns suspended from the Throne, roaming freely in Paradise where they please, then taking shelter in those lanterns. So their Lord cast a glance at them (1) and said: Do you wish for anything?
They said: What shall we wish for when we roam freely in Paradise where we please? And thus did He do to them three times. When they say that they would not be spared from being asked [again], they said: O Lord, we would like for You to put back our souls into our bodies so that we might fight for Your sake once again.
And when He saw that they were not in need of anything they were let be.
(1) i.e. at those who had been killed in the cause of Allah.
It was related by Muslim (also by at-Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'I and Ibn Majah).
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There are many laws that fight against discrimination and while some have worked a lot, there are still many people being discriminated daily. There are many white people who discriminate black people and Muslims or other races and this problem has been going on and on ever since this world began. It may sound funny that there is discrimination going on in the court because this is suppose to be a place where justice is served; even lawyers and judges discriminate people in the court because of certain things. It can be really difficult for these people to win a case if the judge is against them because they are being discriminated. When you come to look at this world and the people living in this world, there is a lot of discrimination and you probably have discriminated someone before already because of certain things.
When someone starts thinking that they are better than other people, this always leads to racism and discrimination so if ever you feel this way, you should really correct your thinking. There are so many people who discriminate other on a really low key but to the one they are discriminating, this can be really sad for them because they can not really do anything much. Yes, it is true that there are people who are smarter than others and there are people who are more skilled than others but this does not mean that you can go around and boast that you are a better person than others just because you have these skills. You can also detect discrimination when you think that you are a higher class than others. You should always help a person who is being treated wrong just because they are of a different race or just because their skin color is different.
If judges were racist, they can not really make fair judgments because they are racist against some people and this is really bad and must be stopped; the thing is, it is really hard to detect these kinds of discrimination. Winning a case is usually pretty easy especially if you are in the right but it becomes really hard to win a case when the judges are against you and if they are racist against you. These judges or people in the courtroom should be those who are not racist or those who should not discriminate people but unfortunately, some are like these. If these judges and people in the court are like this, who will anyone win a case when the judge is racist against that person? There is not really much you can do about discrimination but you can try talking to people against it and see how they will react.
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The Philaidae or Philaids () were a powerful noble family of ancient Athens. They were conservative land owning aristocrats and many of them were very wealthy. The Philaidae produced two of the most famous generals in Athenian history: Miltiades the Younger and Cimon.

The Philaids claimed descent from the mythological Philaeus, son of Ajax. The family originally came from Brauron in Attica. Later a prominent branch of the clan were based at Lakiadae west of Athens. In the late 7th century BC a Philaid called Agamestor married the daughter of Cypselus, the powerful tyrant of Corinth. In 597 BC a man named Cypselus was archon of Athens. This Cypselus was probably grandson of the Corinthian tyrant of the same name and son of Agamestor.

Some years before 566 BC, a member of the Philaid clan, Hippocleides, was a suitor for the hand of Agariste, the daughter of the influential tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes. However Hippocleides lost out to Megacles from the rival Alcmaeonid clan when Cleisthenes was unimpressed with a drunken Hippocleides who stood on his head and kicked his heels in the air at a banquet.

Tyrants of the Thracian Chersonese

In c.560-556 BC a Thracian tribe, the Dolonci, offered the rule of the Thracian Chersonese (a peninsula in a strategic location dominating the grain route through the Hellespont) to the Philaid Miltiades the Elder, the son of Cypselus the archon. Miltiades accepted the offer and became tyrant of the Chersonese. He built a wall across the Bulair Isthmus to protect the peninsula from raiders from Thrace. Pisistratus, the tyrant of Athens, did not object to Miltiades leaving Athens to set himself up as a semi-independent ruler on the far side of the Aegean Sea as it removed a potential rival from the city and gave him a useful role as an ally of Athens in a strategically important location.

Meanwhile a Philaid called Cimon Coalemos, ('coalemos' meaning simpleton), won the prestigious Olympic chariot race three times in succession during the rule of Pisistratid tyrants. He earned a recall from exile by dedicating his second victory to Pisistratus but when he unwisely continued his winning streak by notching up a famous third consecutive Olympic victory he fell foul of Pisistratus' sons Hippias and Hipparchus who had him assassinated.

Around 534 BC Miltiades the Elder died and the tyranny of the Thracian Chersonese passed to his step-brother's son Stesagoras. Then in c.520 BC Stesagoras was succeeded by his brother Miltiades the Younger, son of Cimon Coalemus. This younger Miltiades cemented good relations with neighbouring Thracian tribes by marrying Hegesipyle daughter of the Thracian king Olorus.

Miltiades the Younger also served with King Darius I of Persia during his campaign against the Scythians in c.513 BC and when the Greek contingents were left guarding a bridge over the Danube River Miltiades tried to convince his fellow Greeks to demolish the bridge so as to leave the Persian king stranded in Scythia (or so he later claimed).

Miltiades returns to Athens

After Miltiades took part in the failed Ionian Revolt against the Persian Empire he fled the Chersonese and returned to Athens in c.493 BC. He survived a prosecution for tyranny and when the Persians landed at Marathon in 490 BC
Miltiades, as one of ten generals (strategoi) played the major part in winning the battle for Athens.

Miltiades now enjoyed great prestige at Athens as the victor of Marathon. The following year he was given command of forces which besieged the pro-Persian island of Paros. However the expedition was ill-fated as Miltiades failed to capture the city of Paros and fell off a wall during the siege operations and arrived back in Athens with gangrene in his leg.

The debacle of the Parian expedition led Miltiades' enemies to renew their attacks on him in court and just one year after the victory at Marathon Miltiades the Younger died from his infected leg.

Cimon leads the war against Persia

After the Greek victories over Persia at Salamis, Plataea and Mycale in 480-479 BC the Athenians soon took the lead in launching an offensive against Persian forces in the Aegean region.  The Philaid Cimon, son of Miltiades the Younger and grandson of Cimon the Olympic victor, became the leading general of this offensive phase of the Persian Wars.

Cimon drove the Persians out of the city of Eion in Thrace in 477–476 BC. After clearing pirates from the island of Scyros and putting down a rebellion on Naxos Cimon in 466 BC launched a bold attack on large Persian land and naval forces gathering at the Eurymedon River in Pamphylia. In the greatest victory of his career Cimon led the Athenian and Delian League forces to a crushing double victory over the Persians destroying the Persian fleet while heavily defeating their army.

Later Cimon expelled the Persians from the Thracian Chersonese and put down a revolt on Thasos. He was acquitted on a charge of bribery largely through the efforts of his half-sister Elpinice. In c.462 BC Cimon encouraged the Athenians to send military aid to the Spartans who were trying to put down a major revolt by the Helots in the wake of an earthquake which had heavily damaged Sparta. But the conservative Spartans became worried by the revolutionary democratic spirit of the Athenian troops and sent Cimon and his army back home to Athens.

War between Athens and Sparta soon followed this rebuff and Cimon as a prominent pro-Spartan advocate was ostracised from Athens for ten years. He was recalled in 451 BC to lead an Athenian attack against the Persians in Cyprus but he died at the Siege of Citium.

Thucydides

Thucydides, son of Melesias, the leader of the anti-Periclean conservative party during the 440s BC, was a relative of Cimon and a member of the Philaid clan.

Thucydides, son of Olorus, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War was also a Philaid according to the biographer Plutarch who notes that his remains were returned to Athens and placed in Cimon's family vault and that his father's name, Olorus, was the same as Cimon's grandfather.

Later Philaids

Lacedaimonius the son of Cimon was named after Lacedaimon, another name for Sparta. This was an indication of the admiration his father Cimon felt for the Spartans and their way of life. Lacedaimonius was one of the three Athenian commanders at the Battle of Sybota in 433 BC.

Epicurus the philosopher (341 BC–270 BC) was descended from Athenian settlers on the island of Samos and was of the Philaid clan. Eurydice of Athens, a descendant of Miltiades the Younger, married Ophellas the Macedonian who was ruler of Cyrene. After the death of Ophellas she became the wife of the Antigonid king Demetrius Poliorcetes, the famous 'besieger of cities', after he took control of Athens in 307 BC.

References

Ancient Athenian families

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Q: unable to compare data from database to array of strings i have a program where i need to insert words as much as i wish and then those words will be checked through database, if it is present in database , it should return how many words where present in database.
please tell me what is wrong with this code, it is not returning the number of similar entries to database

<form name="myform" action="" method="post">

<textarea name="inputtext"></textarea>
<input type="radio" name="placement" value="append" checked> Add to Existing Text

<input type="radio" name="placement" value="replace"> Replace Existing Text

<input type="button" value="Add New Text" onClick="addtext();">

<textarea name="outputtext"></textarea>

<input type="submit"/>
</form>
<?php
$string=$_POST['outputtext'];
$array=array();
$array=explode(';',$string);
@ $db=new mysqli('localhost','root','','words');
if(mysqli_connect_errno())
{
    echo 'Error:Could not connect to the database';
}
else
echo 'connected';
$db->select_db('words');
$count = 0;
foreach($array as $s)
{
    $query="select * from collection where word LIKE '%".$s."%'";
    $result=$db->query($query);
    if($result)
    $count += $db->num_rows;
}
echo $count;
$db->close();
?>

A: $db->num_rows is already the number of rows... You don't need to manually count them.

A: $count = 0;
foreach($array as $s)
{
    $query="select count(*) as num_matched from collection where word LIKE '%".$s."%'";
    $result=$db->query($query) or die($db->error);
    $row = $result->fetch_assoc();
    $count += $row['num_matched'];
}
echo $count;

You should also switch to parametrized queries instead of using the input directly.
$stmt = $db->prepare("select count(*)
                      FROM collection
                      WHERE word LIKE CONCAT('%', ?, '%')");
$stmt->bind_param("s", $s);
$count = 0;
foreach ($array as $s) {
    $result = $stmt->execute();
    $stmt->bind_result($num_matched);
    $stmt->fetch();
    $count += $num_matched;
}
echo $count;

A: its not feasible to run query in for loop so, you can try below solution,
$array=array('abc','xyz','lmn','pqr');
$query="select word from collection where word LIKE '%".$s."%'";
$result=$db->query($query);
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) )
{
  $tblarray[] =  $row['word'];
}
foreach($tblarray as $k => $v)
{
  foreach($array AS $key => $value)
   {
    if (strpos($v, $value) !== false)
     {
      $finalarray[] = $v;
     }
  }
}
echo sum($finalarray);

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Hey Mr. DJ! Play Something We Can DANCE To!
I can't begin to tell you how many times I've heard people complain about their DJ not playing the right dance music at their wedding reception. But what exactly is "the right music"? When asked, brides say they want music that's fun and danceable. But when I ask for specific song requests, my clients don't always know the titles and artists' names.
Most good DJ services will provide an extensive list of song selections which may or may not be right for your guests. Overwhelmed by the hundreds (or even thousands) of songs to choose from, the bride & groom will choose some of their favorites or they'll just leave it up to their DJ. An excellent DJ will be able to quickly read the crowd and determine which songs to play and when to play them. He or she will have some gems (secret weapons if you will) that will pack the dance floor and keep it packed all night.
Now, some critics might say, "Yes, I know…the same cheesy songs that are overplayed at every wedding reception in the country". And some brides & grooms demand that their DJ NOT play any of these songs and play their eclectic favorites instead. Then, on their wedding day, they wonder why no one (including themselves) is dancing. But there is a reason why these so-called "cheesey" songs are still played. They are played because THEY WORK!!
Some songs are classic and work every time for every wedding because they appeal to all ages and are fun to dance to. The key is having a DJ who can feel the vibe of the crowd and then give the right mix of classic and newer music to keep the dance floor crowded. This takes a great deal of knowledge and experience in doing hundreds of weddings. So to help you get started, here are some of my top wedding "gems" to keep your dance floor sizzling!
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Our private tour with Adam was unreal, he took us around the island at our pace. His knowledge of the area, passion for the land and people, his understanding of culture, heritage and faith in SHAKA (hang loose) kept us entertained all day. He educated us with question and answer time and kept it local with little family run places which we would just pass by. Adam took us to 'secret spots' no other people knew about (well sort of). Overall our family had a terrific day so thank you Adam for making it memorable.
I highly recommend using Adam for touring Oahu. We had a great day doing and seeing what we wanted (no temples)with Adam guiding us around.
It is very safe and I recommend it highly as an alternative to an organised tour.
Make sure you buy a few beers and stop at the shrimp farm for lunch.
We will definitely do it again the next time we visit.
Thanks to Adam for running us around the whole Island. The time spent swimming,eating shrimp & checking out the triple crown on the North side was a great memorable day with some great friends. Highly recommend them for any Aussies.


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Parasite to Receive Expanded US Theatrical Release
Following the film's historic night at the 2020 Oscars
by Lake Schatz
on February 10, 2020, 11:47pm
Parasite (Neon)
After a historic night at the 2020 Oscars, Parasite will receive an expanded theatrical release starting this weekend.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Parasite is set to hit "as many as 2,000 or more locations" in the US. That's more than double the amount of theaters Bong Joon-ho's acclaimed comedy thriller has reached thus far (1,060).
While Parasite is already a box office smash in the States — it's one of the country's top-grossing foreign-language films — it's predicted to increase its tickets sales from $35.5 million to $50 million following its impressive showing at the Academy Awards. A ticket sales surge like that would likely place Parasite within an elite top five foreign-language film group led by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ($128 million).
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And it could very well happen, considering the feat that Parasite has accomplished. Last Sunday, Bong's widely lauded masterpiece beat out the likes of 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to become the first non-English language movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture. The film also landed Bong an Oscar for Best Director and Best Screenplay (with Jin Won Han), as well as nabbed an Oscar for Best International Feature.
All the Parasite rage won't stop at the theaters, though. Back in January, news broke that Bong and Adam McKay were teaming up to create an HBO limited series based on the film. As the Oscar winner explained, the idea would be to "expand this film and explore all the ideas that I've had from the script writing stage from what could happen in between the scenes through the TV series."
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Barbara Hammer at Neuer Kunstverein Wien
Artist: Barbara Hammer
Venue: Neuer Kunstverein Wien
Date: March 31 – April 30, 2016
Full gallery of videos, images, press release and link available after the jump.
Barbara Hammer, excerpt from I Was/I Am, 1973. 16 mm film transferred to Digibeta, 1:1, B&W, sound 5:35 min.
Barbara Hammer, excerpt from Menses, 1974. 16 mm film transferred to Digibeta, 4:3, color, sound, 3:46 min.
Barbara Hammer, excerpt from Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of Aids, 1986. Video, color, sound, 7:43 min.
Barbara Hammer, excerpt from Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It, 1998. 8 mm film transferred to Digibeta 4:3, color, silent, 2:22 min.
Barbara Hammer, excerpt from Double Strength, 1978. 16 mm film transferred to Digibeta, 4:3, color, sound, 14:03 min.
Barbara Hammer, excerpt from Tourist, 1984. 16 mm film transferred to DVD, color, sound, 2:43 min.
Images and videos courtesy of Barbara Hammer and KOW, Berlin. Photos by Mario Blum.
The Neuer Kunstverein Wien presents an exhibition of a queer experimental cinema pioneer and documentary filmmaker, Barbara Hammer.
Born in Hollywood in 1939, she has increased the visibility of lesbian love and sexuality to which she dedicated over eighty works. Since 1968, as a feminist activist she has worked on alternative visions that sharply contrasted with the prevailing filmic languages in which a male and heterosexual gaze predominated. "Even if the characters were lesbian, the script projects lesbian characters within a heterosexual world of role-playing, lovemaking, and domestic and professional life," Hammer wrote. She often broke new ground both with her themes and narrative forms and in her aesthetic experiments. For almost five decades, her art has continued to surprise her fans and – deliberately no doubt – defied social clichés and conventions.
Hammer experimented with filmic representations of new lesbian self-awareness that was only just breaking free from social taboos.
"Visibility was the central concern for lesbians making cinema at this time, for the simple and profoundly sad reason that there were few or no pictures, images, or representations available. The screen space, on and off, was blank. Not just marginalized, but not there. There was no cinema to deconstruct. There was no gaze to analyze. […] We stepped into the void, the invisible, the blank screen, and named ourselves 'lesbian'."
Barbara Hammer, who has lived in New York since 1983, beyond her film works branched out into performance art, sculpture, photography, installation art, collages and drawings.
Her first films she were shot using an 8-mm hand-held camera. Her experimental films are noted for their physical presence and painterly quality. Her works on paper share this characteristic sensual and expressive style. Created concurrently with her film projects or – as in the case of Tourist (1984) presented at the Neuer Kunstverein Wien – as part of an animated film, they reflect Hammer's yearnings and struggles as a lesbian woman, comment on political events of the Reagan era, and broaden their author's thematic range and scope of action beyond her filmic practice.
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It (1998) is a found porn flick: a threesome. Hammer excises the male part, retaining the two ladies and an amusing digest of voyeuristic platitudes.
In Double Strength (1978) she creates portraits of herself and lovers in lesbian relationships and biographies and seeks to define an active, participant, and passionate gaze on lesbian sex. Her films such as Menses (1974) breach taboos such as the female orgasm and menstruation.
They intertwine the intimate and the public, poetry and critique, tenderness and recalcitrance, and illustrate how both social spaces and the body and love are arenas pervaded by anxieties and desires, by constraints as well as utopian aspirations.
The film retrospectives at the MoMA (2010), Tate Modern (2012), the Jeu de Paume (2012) and the first monographic exhibitions of her work at KOW in 2011, 2013 and 2015 recalled the artist as a pioneer of queer cinema who made vital contributions to feminism and gay liberation as well as avant-garde cinema and performance art.
Link: Barbara Hammer at Neuer Kunstverein Wien
Tags: Austria, Barbara Hammer, Europe, Institution, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna


Exactly 21 minutes after publishing that post, the Douglas County Sheriff's office was alerted to an active shooter on the campus of Umpqua Community College.
That means at the exact moment I was writing about Christians being metaphorically lynched by the Institutional Left — the Oregon shooter was scurrying around campus preparing to shoot people in the head for their Christian faith.
The shooter didn't build that. Guns made that happen.
The President proudly politicized the tragic events, thereby re-affirming the left's commitment to not letting "good crises" go to waste.
If I had to come up with a definitive answer for President Obama, I'd guess he's agnostic or atheist but with an affection for Islam coupled with a disdain for Christianity.
Why? Because when he talks about Islam he speaks personally and glowingly, and when he talks about Christianity he speaks academically and critically. What's more, I believe Obama's ultimate religion is redistribution — and that he sees Christianity as a wealthy religion that therefore loses immediate ground to the religion of Islam which he sees as a poor one.
We saw this exact same deflection — this exact same audacity, this exact same refusal to engage in any introspection at all because they were too busy "not letting good a crisis go to waste" — after the August 26, 2015 murders of WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward. In that case, the leftist gunman believed "RACISM!" to be the cause of all of life's woes, and thus thought he was justified to go shoot a couple of white folks.
Did Obama and the left stop even briefly to consider that they may have played a part in fanning these flames of misguided racial animus?
And so today I turn on MSNBC and see Colin Goddard — who I'd never heard of before but apparently is a 'prominent' anti-gun nut — bloviate about how guns are the problem.
So the left will fan the flames of racial animosity, and when one of their faithful uses that as an excuse to go on a killing spree — guns, not leftism, are to blame.
The left will deem Christian-based organizations as "Hate groups!" who are a threat to all of mankind, and when one of their faithful uses that to excuse his attempted killing spree — guns, not leftism, are to blame.
And of course as demonstrated yesterday by the events in Davis County, Oregon…the left will trash Christians and Christianity any chance they get, and when someone uses that as an excuse to go on a killing spree — guns, not leftism, are to blame.
Over and over and over again…leftism is to blame. And the solution, as noted throughout most of this now nearly month-old blog, is for we on the right to start adopting new messaging that will actually have us winning the national conversation for a change — thereby mitigating leftism's influence. As it stands now, the only time we win the national conversation is with respect to the 2nd amendment. And that's nothing to sneeze at! But as long as the institutional left continues manipulating public opinion using lies and hate as their primary weapons, and the ends-justify-the-means Democrats continue audaciously deflecting blame away from themselves and at actual victims of this persistently leftist violence — we can expect more of the same.
If your child spent time every week with a psychologist who filled his head with lies about the hardships he endures in life, ultimately warping his world view in ways that are exponentially more destructive than constructive — would you keep sending him back to that psychologist?
Such is the case we allow among our mostly recreationally-engaged electorate at the hands of the Democrats and institutional left. Our elected officials in the GOP, their inbred strategists & advisers, and the dominant majority of our right-leaning media and non-profit groups — fail miserably when it comes to reaching that recreationally-engaged electorate. We can do so in ways that sustain a united right, attract/educate those recreationally-engaged voters, and most importantly with respect to this post — disarm the institutional left and put the Democrats so far on defense that they're forced to repackage their entire platform.
But we won't, because those we rely on to craft and communicate more compelling messaging are often too busy elevating themselves and each other to be bothered with doing anything other than preaching to already-faithful choirs who will ensure clicks for their cliques.
More often than anyone else, anywhere else…the left are responsible for the violence we see play out over-and-over again across our nation. And at the root of that violence, the left are responsible for the deficit of liberty eclipsing all other US deficits as it exacerbates division, disparity and destruction. We on the right are responsible for stopping the left, and God willing our amplified voices will start doing so in ways that eclipse preaching to our already-faithful choirs.
You're right. I actually hadn't connected their rhetoric with these shootings before. But, it's just too coincidental. Every shooting seems to play into their hands. But, of course, they have been drilling the nonsense of hate into the brains of these crazies. So, yes, eventually, their narratives come to fruition. Thanks for clarifying.


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New airport towers don't have room for paper strips still used to track planes
In this May 17, 2016, file photo, a plane lands at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. Union officials say new airport towers in San Francisco and Las Vegas need extensive remodeling so they can accommodate paper strips used by air traffic controllers. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
WASHINGTON — Two state-of-the-art airport towers due to go into operation this fall in San Francisco and Las Vegas are designed for electronic tracking of planes as they taxi and takeoff. But union officials say the towers will have to be extensively remodeled before they can open to accommodate older technology that uses paper strips to track planes.
The new rooms on top of the towers where controllers watch aircraft operations are designed exclusively for electronic tracking, said Paul Rinaldi, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. But the prototype electronic strip system the Federal Aviation Administration plans to use is too unstable and "crashes" too often to be relied upon, he said. This means that controllers need to quickly turn to the historical system of passing paper strips from one controller to another to hand off responsibility for a plane and carefully line up multiple strips to keep tabs on the status of flights.
Here's the problem: the tower "cabs" have been designed without the tables, printers and places to hang strips that are necessary for controllers to use the old system while still keeping an eye on planes, he said.
This is an example of the larger problem — that the FAA's remodel of these towers relied on the assumption that the new technology would work. The FAA's continued use of paper strips to track planes when air traffic control systems in many countries have long since moved to electronic methods is frequently cited by lawmakers and industry officials as an example of the agency's often painfully slow adoption of new technology. The paper strips are more time-consuming, which slows the handling of planes.
Remodeling the cab at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas may not be too difficult because it's fairly roomy, but remodeling the one at San Francisco International Airport will be tough because there is no extra space, Rinaldi said.
The FAA's head of air traffic operations said she was unaware of this problem until Rinaldi raised it during a recent aviation symposium. If the electronic strips can't be relied upon, "we'll figure out what we need to do," said Terri Bristol.
Rinaldi raised the issue during a discussion of legislation sponsored by Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., chairman of the House Transportation Committee, to remove air traffic control operations from the FAA and spin them off into a private, nonprofit corporation controlled primarily by major airlines and other segments of the aviation industry.
The union supports the bill as a means to break FAA's cycle of failed or delayed technology acquisition programs, and to eliminate chronic understaffing at air traffic facilities, Rinaldi said. The roughly 14,000 controllers employed by the agency is the lowest number in nearly three decades, and many controllers in New York, Atlanta and other busy facilities routinely work six-day weeks and 10-hour days, union officials said.
The prototype electronic system developed by the FAA has been in use in the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport tower for several years, but has been plagued with problems that frequently require controllers to revert to using paper strips, Rinaldi said. The most recent crash of the system's server was on May 16, said Doug Church, a union spokesman.
"The most frustrating thing is that there are systems out there that would work off the shelf," said Rinaldi, citing electronic flight strip systems made by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Thales and Canada's air traffic control agency. "Why are we recreating the wheel?"
The FAA recently solicited bids from manufacturers to create an electronic strip system for the agency to replace the internally developed prototype system. However, even after a contractor is selected, there are likely to be many years of development, testing and installation, Rinaldi said.
Construction of the San Francisco tower cost the FAA $77 million, while the airport is spending an additional $50 million to remove the old tower and construct several unrelated facilities, said airport spokesman Doug Yakel. The FAA estimated the cost of the Las Vegas tower at about $100 million at the time ground was broken in 2011.
The agency announced last week that it has broken ground on construction of a third new airport tower at Charlotte, North Carolina, that is also designed to use the prototype electronic tracking system. The design of the Charlotte cab appears to allow enough room to add equipment for the use of paper strips as a fallback, said Church.
Bristol and Rinaldi are expected to discuss the problem at a meeting Monday, he said.
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Within the UK, we have worked on projects in urban locations including central London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Southampton, Newcastle, Cardiff and Preston as well as more remote locations such as Orkney, Ullapool, Isle of Man and Wick. We have worked in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Sites of Special Scientific Interest as well as in chemical plants, gas terminals, on motorways and at airports. We played a dual role in the preparation to raise the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that capsized in a protected marine environment off the coast Italy in 2012. Our project list includes landmarks such as the Thames Barrier, Canary Wharf Tower and The Shard. We have worked on The Commonwealth Games Athletes' Village in Glasgow, Lee Tunnel in London, Tyne Tunnel 2, Heathrow T5 & T2, Crossrail and London Gateway Port.
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The state legislature has found that misrepresentations of pets, therapy animals, or emotional support animals as service animals has made it harder for people with disabilities to get acceptance of their properly trained and essential service animals.
Does this include emotional support animals?
What kinds of work do service animals do?
Restaurants, stores, hotels, and so on. The longer list is at RCW 49.60.040(2).
How will the law work in real life?
• Do you need the animal because of a disability?
• What work or task has it been trained to perform?
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Turkey's not so splendid isolation
March 12, 2016 March 14, 2016 Vessela Tcherneva and Fredrik Wesslau of the ECFR Turkey
Turkey is in a bind. It is on the losing side of the war in Syria and engaging in an increasingly bloody fight with the Kurds. Domestic politics are becoming ever more fraught and the human rights situation is steadily deteriorating. It also feels isolated in a troubled region. The spat with Russia continues and Moscow shows no sign of wanting to normalise relations.
Meanwhile the EU – consumed by the refugee crisis – has re-engaged with Turkey in hope of gaining Ankara's support for stemming the flow of refugees. The EU-Turkey summit on 7 March has been sold by European leaders as a great success and "possible breakthrough" in the refugee crisis. This remains to be seen.
Turkey has committed itself to taking back all new irregular migrants who go to the Greek islands and, for each migrant, the EU will take one Syrian refugee from Turkey. The arrangement might work to reduce the numbers refugees who decide to cross the Aegean but it is riddled with practical challenges and legal questions
The price the EU paid for Turkey's surprise proposal is high. The EU committed to pushing forward the date for visa liberalisation for Turkish citizens to June 2016, preparing to open five negotiation chapters, and speeding up the payment of the promised €3 billion, to become €6 billion over the next two years.
The problem with this deal, as with the deal from November, is that it relies on mutual distrust. Neither side believes the other will deliver on its commitments. Visa liberalisation requires support from all member states. This is far from certain – and is why Ankara demanded that it be brought forward to June, a point in which the wave of refugees entering Europe is likely to peak. The opening of new chapters is still blocked by Nicosia. While prospects for a deal over Cyprus look better than in a long time, an agreement is far from certain. A failure to deliver on commitments could set back the EU-Turkey relationship by years.
But the more fundamental challenge to the relationship, however, relates to where Turkey is heading domestically and its place in a troublesome region.
No mater how confidently Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu acted in Brussels, politics in Turkey are becoming increasingly polarised. The ruling AKP party seeks to consolidate its rule and President Erdoğan is working to revise the constitution to introduce an executive presidential system. At the same time, journalists and intellectuals are being intimidated and imprisoned for supporting terrorism or for "insulting the President". The dissatisfaction with the regime (supported by around 55 percent of Turks, and bitterly opposed by the rest) also taints the EU, which is seen as failing to live up to its own principles. The latest crackdown on media freedom happened when the government seized the most popular opposition newspaper Zaman Daily. The protests that followed were put down with tear gas and water cannons.
At the same time, Ankara's relationship with the Kurds is deteriorating. An intense military campaign is spreading against groups associated with the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Such actions are tied to Erdoğan's electoral calculations, and to fears that Syrian Kurds could consolidate control over a swathe of land in northern Syria. The primarily Kurdish HDP finds itself squeezed between the war-mongering mood propagated by the government and the mobilisation of Kurds by the PKK. The constant presidential push for the Parliament to lift the immunities of HDP's leaders and members after accusations of terrorism, raises the spectre of Turkey sliding back towards the 1990s.
The situation in the predominantly Kurdish southeast is dire and likely to deteriorate. Towns such as Cizre and parts of Diyarbakir have been under a 24 hour a day siege since early December. The wave of violence is likely to intensify and possibly spread, with little chance that peace negotiations will restart anytime soon. The PKK guerrillas may become directly involved come spring and summer, which will only worsen the situation as the latest Ankara attack proves. The politically desperate co-leader of HDP Selahattin Demirtas is now calling for resistance and protests are held on a daily basis.
In Syria, even before the fragile truce, Turkey had lost the initiative and could do little against regime forces and Russia air power. While the mini-war in Turkey's southeast is intimately tied up in domestic politics, it is also linked to Ankara's stand-off with the PKK's branch in Syria – the Democratic Union Party (PYD). For the Turkish government, fighting the PYD's territorial ambitions is the top priority in Syria, as a Kurdish entity in the neighbouring country would provide a platform for Kurdish separatism in Turkey.
However, the PYD has gained international support, including from the US, through its fight against Islamic State (ISIS). Russia has stepped up its support for the Kurds after Turkey shot down the SU-24. Russia and the US are pursuing contradictory goals through their support for the Kurds in Syria. Given its obsession with the PYD, Ankara is right to believe that if a more permanent truce comes as a result of a United States-Russia agreement, Turkey will be the biggest loser.
Although the media attention is elsewhere, thousands of Syrians from Aleppo and the surrounding areas have sought refuge at the border with Turkey. Ankara continues to push for a safe zone in hope that the US would find itself forced to defend it. However, there is little prospect that the current administration in Washington would act at all. And a "safe zone" without anyone to ensure its safety could end up being a death trap.
These are tremendous challenges. By focusing primarily on the refugee issue, the EU is entering into a transactional relationship with Turkey but with a weak hand. In the end, this may lead to the EU losing Ankara. Yet the EU has an interest in engaging on a much broader platform with Turkey: a strategic relationship is more necessary than ever.
ECFR organised a study trip to Istanbul, Ankara, Gaziantep and the Syrian border, and Diyarbakir in February 2016. Some of the main findings were used in this text.
This article first appeared on the website of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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I went to a local well supermarket and purchased some frozen boxed beef burgers. At home I prepared a burger and started to eat it. As I bit into the burger something extremely hard collided with my teeth causing a cracking sound and I noticed blood dripping from my mouth.
I spat out what seemed to be a bit of glass and I asked my friend to call an ambulance as I wasn't feeling well. At hospital the foreign body was examined and it was confirmed as glass – I was also examined and it was discovered that a tiny piece of glass had lodged in my throat and was causing the bleeding. In addition the glass had cracked my tooth.
I was in hospital for two days as a precautionary measure. At the hospital's request a friend checked the product information of the boxed burgers and the hospital notified the manufacturers of the problem together with the supermarket. And I believe the Environmental Health Agency.
When I left the hospital I also spoke to the manufacturer who had a record of the hospital's call. They requested I sent a sample of the glass found for their examination.
I have also required dental treatment from my dentist who told me that my tooth is so badly cracked that I need a crown.
The hospital recorded the cut to my throat and gum and has he told me that this should heal within a month.
Am I entitled to claim compensation for my throat, tooth and gum injuries?
When you purchase a product from a supermarket – the supermarket and the manufacturer of the product owe you a duty. The manufacturer has what is known as "strict liability" – in other words you only need to show that the burger was defective – here had a dangerous foreign body such as glass and that glass caused you injury. You do not need to show how the glass got into the product.
It would seem that you are entitled to claim compensation for your injuries. Clearly when you purchase a beef burger you do not expect a piece of glass or other form of sharp or hard substance to be in the burger. It is entirely foreseeable that you can suffer injury to your throat, teeth and mouth from the glass.
You have indicated that you attended at the hospital and dentist who have recorded your injuries. The hospital and later yourself reported the matter immediately to the manufacturer and supermarket and you have helpfully retained the glass which caused you injury.
This would seem to me to be all the proof that is necessary to show that primarily the manufacturer is responsible for your injuries.
I would suggest that you use a specialist product liability solicitor to claim your compensation, which could be quite substantial given the nature of your throat injury and the treatment required on your tooth and potential few dental treatment.
Click glass in burger claim to commence a claim for your throat, tooth and gum injuries or to arrange a call back from me in person to discuss any further queries you might have concerning claiming compensation for foreign bodies in food or any other form of product liability claim.


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NYC & COMPANY REVEALS NEW GLOBAL TOURISM CAMPAIGN "TRUE YORK CITY"
Campaign Welcomes Global Traveler to Explore Deeper and Discover New York City's "True" and Authentic Local Culture
Concept Introduced in 17 Countries Including the US and in NYC, with More Creative Elements to Debut in 2018
NYC & Company, New York City's official destination marketing organization, recently revealed a new global tourism campaign titled "True York City," with advertisements and promotion now live around the world. "True York City" showcases the unique culture produced by the 8.5 million residents of New York City's five boroughs. The campaign invites travelers to discover the iconic experiences we are known for, as well as lesser-known aspects that can't be found anywhere else in the world.
"When people think New York City, they think authenticity," said Mayor Bill de Blasio. "As the safest and most dynamic big city in America, we have endless cultural offerings that continue to make the five boroughs a global draw for tourists. But now with 'True York City,' we can give those travelers an even more genuine, bona fide New York City experience while helping our businesses and communities thrive at the same time."
"Over the last decade, New York City has grown into one of the world's most exciting and popular destinations, as evidenced by our record number of tourism-related jobs, almost double the number of international visitors and unprecedented economic impact, now the largest in the US; but we ask ourselves, where do we go from here?" said Fred Dixon, president and CEO of NYC & Company. "The answer is we go deeper by enticing tourists to become travelers. With 'True York City,' we celebrate the fact that we are the world's greatest creator and exporter of culture, and invite travelers who seek authentic experiences and appreciate the 'local,' from arts, design and retail to culture and cuisine. These travelers tend to stay longer and return often to explore both our iconic sights and our neighborhood gems—likely to be small businesses, locally owned and operated. The more integrated into the local culture the visitor becomes, the more positive the impact on the City and its residents."
"True York City" is being introduced through NYC & Company's most expansive campaign presence to date, with media and partnerships running across 17 countries including the US this fall through next spring. In-kind, partner and paid media contribute an approximate value of $15.6 million* globally with ad messaging "Famous Original NYC" and digital and content elements incorporating the overarching campaign of "True York City." The campaign reach utilizes global media partner JCDecaux and media contributions from NYC & Company's city-to-city tourism alliances. A comprehensive list of global campaign presence is detailed below.** "True York City" was developed in-house this year by NYC & Company's marketing department.
"For a city that can't be defined by one single statement, one simple logo or a single spokesperson, 'True York City' is a platform to remind the world why we love our home," said Elan Cole, creative director of NYC & Company. "NYC is the most creative place on the planet, and we want to give the artists, designers, dancers, chefs, filmmakers, bartenders and writers the opportunity to speak to the rest of the world about why they love NYC through their chosen mediums."
Introductory campaign artwork depicts the phrase "Famous Original New York City," a tongue-in-cheek toast to the City, with typography using a sampling of NYC visuals from past and present as an art form. Graphics include an apple ("The Big Apple"), five noise lines to represent the boroughs and the lively, energetic sound of NYC, and a heart, in homage to the love for NYC so widely shared around the world as well as to the iconic "I Love NY" logo, which debuted 40 years ago. The hashtag #TrueYorkCity serves as a call to action on advertisements for audiences both local and from away to share their "True York City."
Tourism works for New York City—in 2016, New York City's travel and tourism sector saw a record-breaking year, with 60.5 million visitors and $43 billion in direct spending, the largest economic impact of any US destination. The industry also sustained a record 383,000 jobs for working New Yorkers in all sectors of the economy. In the past decade, the industry's contribution to City tax revenues has more than doubled to $4.2 billion. Half of the new hotels since 2006 have been built in the boroughs beyond Manhattan. The visitation forecast for year-end 2017 will increase to 61.8 million visitors, comprising 49.2 million domestic and 12.6 million international visitors
For more on "True York City" and for inspirational winter travel content, visit nycgo.com/famousoriginal and search hashtag #TrueYorkCity on social media.
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This Decade in Marketing – What designers can look forward to in the 2020s
The past decade has seen a paradigm shift across sectors due to the exponential rate of digital-led growth. The world today has embraced technology as an essential part of everyday activities. Data and social media will dictate marketing content. Shortened attention spans will pave the way for snippety visuals as the most successful means of communication.
The growth of digital avenues of marketing will continue to influence the way we do business. The world is set to go fully digital in the coming decade and digital marketing firms must adapt their strategies accordingly. The ability to analyze data that is constantly being generated will be the primary skill that allows for such strategies to be designed.
Where will all this data come from? From a marketing standpoint, social media is the answer. The rapid growth of Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram as platforms for personal as well as professional content has led to an expansion of opportunities for marketing. Brands have the power of social media and this is only bound to increase in the next decade as newer platforms like TikTok emerge. Such a diversity of platforms has also leveled the playing field, allowing smaller brands to compete
The key takeaways from the popularity of Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter, in particular, are two-fold: The reduction in attention spans leading to the need for short, catchy content and the emergence of visuals, be they static images or videos, as the most successful means of communication.
Content in bite-size chunks, hence, will become an important marketing tool as it can be shared across platforms with minimal adjustments. Snapchat exemplifies this trend through its use of short videos that disappear in a day, creating a class of 'transient marketing' that hits the sweet spot on the scale of audience attention. This form of marketing, when transferred over to other platforms, allows for strengthening brand messages and prolonging retention times.
Audiences have changed and will continue to change with respect to the ways in which they interact with brands today. The rise in the population of digital has led audiences to become much more discerning, a fact that organizations must keep in mind while designing future communication.
Consumption patterns have shifted; today's consumers look to purchase experiences rather than merely products, tying quality and relatability with how a brand is perceived. The ability to deliver these experiences in a smooth, engaging manner will be a major factor in determining a brand's market performance.
Building trust is set to be the next important challenge that marketing firms must look to address. Unlike in the past, audiences will define their trust in a brand through a blend of their own interactions with the brand and their discussions with others who have interacted with the same brand. Audiences today learn from and trust each other when it comes to evaluating brand reputations, making it important for marketing firms to cater to individuals rather than communities.
Personalization will soon become a mandatory part of the strategies they adopt, given the depth of data currently being collected and analyzed. This will allow firms to design communication that can be targeted at customers individually.
The relentless pace of technological growth will ensure that such personalized experiences come closer and closer to audience expectations. It may even be possible in the future for audiences to merely think of their needs before marketing firms deliver them instantaneously.
This data will involve not only insights drawn from search engine databases but from voice recognition technology as well. This will allow marketing firms to not only learn how to adapt to emerging forms of communication but also optimize interactions with customers to create a seamless experience that will ultimately contribute to a better return on investment. In all of this, the ultimate aim for marketing firms is to deliver end-to-end experiences with highly personalized communication.
The next decade is sure to bring greater than opportunities for innovation in the marketing space as organizations look to expand their capabilities to cover the cycle of brand creation, promotion, and sustenance. Midwest Marketing is here to provide the marketing tips you need to become greater than.
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Saprotrofy występujące na martwym drewnie drzew i krzewów. Powodują białą zgniliznę drewna. Owocniki rozpostarte lub rozpostarto-odgięte o gładkim lub guzkowatym hymenoforze. W hymenoforze tym znajdują się ostre szczecinki brązowego koloru (dostrzegalne tylko pod lupą).

Systematyka i nazewnictwo
Pozycja w klasyfikacji według Index Fungorum: Hymenochaetaceae, Hymenochaetales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi.

Gatunek ten opisał Joseph Henri Léveillé w 1846 roku. Synonimy naukowe: Cyclomycetella Murrill, Cycloporellus Murrill, Hymenochaetella P. Karst., Leptochaete Lév., Stipitochaete Ryvarden.

Nazwę polską podali Barbara Gumińska i Władysław Wojewoda w 1968 r. W polskim piśmiennictwie mykologicznym należące do tego rodzaju gatunki opisywane były także jako pleśniak, skórnik, powłocznik, szczeciniak.

 Gatunki występujące w Polsce
 Hymenochaete carpatica Pilát 1930 – szczeciniak jaworowy
 Hymenochaete cinnamomea (Pers.) Bres. 1897 – szczeciniak cynamonowy
 Hymenochaete cruenta (Pers.) Donk 1959 – szczeciniak jodłowy
 Hymenochaete fuliginosa (Pers.) Lév. 1846 – szczeciniak sadzowaty
 Hymenochaete rubiginosa (Dicks.) Lév. 1846 – szczeciniak rdzawy
Wykaz gatunków (nazwy naukowe) na podstawie Index Fungorum. Uwzględniono tylko gatunki zweryfikowane o potwierdzonym statusie. Nazwy polskie według W. Wojewody.

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Q: Xetex support for .otf features In the .otf fonts where they are present, the Contextual Alternate (calt) and Localized Forms (locl) functions work fine in LibreOffice.
Experiment: I create a quoteright.fr glyph with a large bearing and impose a calt because quoteright glyph in Italian and in French is replaced by quoteright.fr glyph.
With LibreOffice the difference is evident: for the first line I set the Italian language, for the second line the English language (without bearing):

Instead with Xetex I can not enable these functions.
If I do not specify anything in the font features, the contextual substitution rule does not work.
If I enter Contextuals = Alternate I receive the message:
Package fontspec Warning: OpenType feature 'Contextuals = Alternate' (calt) not
(fontspec) available for font 'GaramondPremPro' with script
(fontspec) 'Latin' and language 'Default'.

and again the contextual replacement rule does not work.
Here is Xetex (first line in Italian, second in English

with the following code:
\documentclass {article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers=OldStyle]{Garamond Premier Pro}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{italian}
\setotherlanguages{english}

\begin{document}

I'I N'P

\begin{english}I'I N'P\end{english}
\end {document}

What can you depend on? Is there an error or a lack in my code?
Thank you
PS
otfinfo -f recognizes only system-wide features, and not localized ones (neither calt nor locl), that are also present in the font if I check it with FontLab or FontForge:
samiel@darkstar:~/work$ otfinfo --features font.otf
aalt    Access All Alternates
c2sc    Small Capitals From Capitals
cpsp    Capital Spacing
dnom    Denominators
frac    Fractions
kern    Kerning
liga    Standard Ligatures
lnum    Lining Figures
numr    Numerators
onum    Oldstyle Figures
pnum    Proportional Figures
smcp    Small Capitals
sups    Superscript
tnum    Tabular Figures
zero    Slashed Zero

PS2
I tried various possibilities. The following one:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers=OldStyle,Language=Italian,RawFeature={+calt}]{Garamond Premier Pro}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
%\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{italian}
\setotherlanguages{english}

\begin{document}

I'I N'P

\begin{english}I'I N'P\end{english}

\end{document}

produces the calt all over the document, not only for Italian and French languages (as in the font localized calt rule).
If I set
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers=OldStyle,RawFeature={+calt}]{Garamond Premier Pro}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{italian}

the replacement is never produced
Added answer to wrong question:
I tried various possibilities. The following one:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers=OldStyle,Language=Italian,RawFeature={+calt}]{Garamond Premier Pro}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
%\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{italian}
\setotherlanguages{english}

\begin{document}

I'I N'P

\begin{english}I'I N'P\end{english}

\end{document}

produces the calt all over the document, not only for Italian and Frenc (as inthe font cal rule.
If I set
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers=OldStyle,RawFeature={+calt}]{Garamond Premier Pro}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{italian}

the replacement is never produced

A: The font in your comment works fine for me:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Language=Italian]{SamielPro.otf}
\setsansfont[]{SamielPro.otf}

\begin{document}

I'I N'P

\sffamily
I'I N'P

\end{document}

With lualatex it doesn't work, there one need to add the calc-feature explicitly:
\setmainfont[Language=Italian,RawFeature=+calt]{SamielPro.otf}

A language depending call could be setup with babel and \babelfont:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[english,italian]{babel}
\babelfont{rm}[Ligatures=TeX]{SamielPro.otf}

% for luatex:
%\babelfont[italian]{rm}[RawFeature=+calt,Ligatures=TeX]{SamielPro.otf}

\begin{document}

I'I N'P

\selectlanguage{english}
I'I N'P

\end{document}


We specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the interplay among health, financial resources, and the labor market behavior of men late in their working lives. We model health as a latent variable, for which self-reported disability status is an indicator, and allow self-reported disability to be endogenous to labor market behavior. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study. While we find large impacts of health on behavior, they are substantially smaller than in models that treat self-reports as exogenous. We also simulate the impacts of several potential reforms to the Social Security program.
Bound, John & Stinebrickner, Todd & Waidmann, Timothy, 2010. "Health, economic resources and the work decisions of older men," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 156(1), pages 106-129, May.
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Stinebrickner, Todd R, 2001. "A Dynamic Model of Teacher Labor Supply," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 19(1), pages 196-230, January.
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Have you made Apple Cider Salad?
1. Dissolve gelatin in 2 cups hot cider; stir in raisins.
2. Let cool. Add remaining 2 cups cider; chill until consistency of unbeaten egg whites.
3. Stir in chopped apples, celery, lemon juice and rind.
4. Pour into a lightly oiled 6 cup mold. Chill until set.
5. Unmold onto lettuce leaves and garnish with apple slices, if desired.
This recipe contains potential food allergens and will effect people with Lemon, MSG, Fructose Malabsorption, Celery, Apple, Citric Acid allergies.


Anyway, I'd read their biography quickly and I'd mistakenly thought that Nate Morris had passed out $100.00 bills at a BoyzIIMen concert. One of my carefully planned questions was: "How do you chose the women that you give $100.00 bills to?"
With my questions ready, the conference call began. About forty reporters shot questions like bullets from a gun. Not being a veteran reporter, I mostly listened to the various questions. I "overheard" plenty of useful information, but didn't ask McCary any questions. Early on, I squeezed in a question to Nate Morris: "Do you sing in the shower?"
Nate's answer? "Uh...Not really. Sometimes." But that wasn't the most embarassing part - far from it. At last, Ramona Baine, their publicist, interruped the call, and announced that there was time for one more question. She introduced "yours truly", and let me ask the last question. You guessed it. I asked how he picked the women he gave $100 bills to.
Nate replied, "I don't. Babyface does that." Great! Now I really made a fool of myself.
Fortunately, Ms. Baine was kind enough to let me have another question. This time I asked Nate if he had any advice for kids interested in a musical career. His answer: "Go full-heartedly. Believe in what you want to do, and don't ever give up!"
Along with that good advice, I heard an abundance of juicy information: None of them have girlfriends because "it's hard to have a relationship while traveling and constantly being on the road". So - ladies, - they're still eligible.
Is there any danger of "the Boyz" breaking up, as, unfortunately, so many great bands do? Absolutely, positively, 100 %, without a shadow of a doubt, "NO!" According to Nate, they don't have a paper contract to "stick" together, but it's in their hearts. They've grown up together; they need each other; they are a "brotherhood".


text:
MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE MEN'S TOURNAMENT
Lee Cummard
Dave Rose
Jonathan Tavernari
BYU – 80
Air Force - 69
THE MODERATOR: We're joined by BYU student-athletes Jonathan Tavernari and Lee Cummard, and Coach Dave Rose. We'll take a general statement from coach first.
COACH ROSE: Well, I thought it was an extremely competitive game. When you consider the last 80 minutes of basketball that we've played, you know, Air Force has been an extremely competitive team. Give a lot of credit to those seniors who made a lot of big plays against us.
But really proud of our players for being able to find a way to win in both those games.
We got a lot of help from a lot of different players, but that's the way our team kind of has been throughout the season. So it was a good win for our team and we're excited to move on.
THE MODERATOR: We'll open it up to questions for the student-athletes.
Q. You were out-rebounded by six in the first half. I think you out-rebounded them by 16 in the second half. Talk about, was that something you talked about at halftime? Why the difference?
LEE CUMMARD: Well, the coaching staff told us at halftime that we needed to play a little bit harder, a little more effort, and with more sense of urgency.
I think that's the difference in the second half in rebounding.
JONATHAN TAVERNARI: Coach always says that if you are playing hard on the other team, you're going to rebound more. In the first half, they outplayed us. Like Lee said, we needed to play with a little more sense of urgency. As soon as the season starts, that's what coach says. If you're playing hard, giving your best shot, you're going to get the loose balls and rebounds. We just buy into the game plan. That's what happened the second half.
Q. Lee, can you talk a little bit about Air Force, how well they played you the last two games.
LEE CUMMARD: Well, the biggest thing with them is how hard they play. They always fight till the end. Like coach said, they got a few seniors that just will their team to play hard from start to finish.
But the toughest thing after that is the stuff they run. It kind of takes a moment to get used to it, all the back doors and the false motion that they run. They get you standing up, then they make a play.
You just got to get used to that and stay in a stance. They're just senior-led. Another good team.
Q. Lee, obviously these opponents are doing a lot of good things. But are you kind of waiting for your team to put together a full game? Is it going to take more to win from this point on?
LEE CUMMARD: Well, I've been saying, we've been playing good enough to win lately. But, I mean, 46% is a good shooting day, but we're capable of shooting better than that.
Then I thought we made a lot of game plan mistakes where we got back-doored or we gave an open three, the three right in my face at the end of the first half. Just stuff like that. When we put it all together, we should be pretty successful.
Q. Lee, you came in knowing you were probably going to be playing in the post-season. Air Force knew this was their last. How much are you guys thinking in terms of beyond this tournament, going back to the NCAAs?
LEE CUMMARD: Well, I think that our coaching staff won't let us. If they sense that we're thinking past the next game, we'll probably find a quick seat right next to them on the bench. We're just trying to stay focused. We're trying to play as if we're out to prove something. We're just taking it a game at a time.
Q. The game seemed to have several possessions, momentum-changing possessions. Looked like you were going to shake them a couple times. They would come back. Can you talk about some of those clutch possessions.
JONATHAN TAVERNARI: You know, certain times in practice we work on certain situations. You're down one or you're down three or you're up five. Even though we do in practice till the very end of the game, at certain points in the game, that's exactly what's going on. We're up two or three, or game is tied. That's what we need to do. We work on those things.
Air Force, like Lee said, they play really hard. We couldn't really put 'em away. They played different than everybody else. They play more of a halfcourt set. They're really good at it, back-dooring us and everything. We had to step up and make big plays. Jimmer did a great job. Chris Miles, Jacks, Lee. Lamont came in and hit a big, big three in the corner. Again, just good players making good plays.
Q. JT, the three-point shooting in the last game was kind of a struggle for you guys. In this game it came at the right time. Do you think you have got that behind you from the last game?
JONATHAN TAVERNARI: Our mindset was different. You know, our mindset was different from the last game. We played completely different than we played them at their place, the way we played them our place, and today. It was three different games.
They're a really good team. But our sense of urgency today I think was probably the best out of those three games because we needed to have a sense of urgency quick and finish the game tonight. When we played them at their place, it was kind of a spread moment throughout the second moment, our game was the last five minutes, today we had to do it in the second half.
You know, I just think that shooters will make a shot. You go through slumps. As long as you keep shooting, I mean, sometime the ball got to go in (smiling).
Q. The run in the beginning of the second half, Chris Miles was a big part of that. He sat down, they made a run. Talk about Chris and the job he did.
LEE CUMMARD: He did a great job in the second half. I think the biggest thing he did was when Anwar was getting in the lane, he would come over and basically put a wall up. I think that's what helped us the most.
He had a few big plays, one nasty dunk. But the biggest thing he did was help defense.
Q. What's the recovery process like now?
LEE CUMMARD: Well, we'll watch this game and then head back to the hotel. Probably get a bunch of ice buckets in the hotel, one of the hotel rooms, just take turns taking an ice bath. Then resting and get some food in you.
JONATHAN TAVERNARI: Amen (smiling).
Q. Lee, can you talk about there's a possibility you could face UNLV, a team that beat you twice, and for the conference championship last year.
LEE CUMMARD: Yeah, I mean, if it happens, it happens. I'll look forward to it. I've been unsuccessful here every time I've been down here. Whoever it is we're playing, plan on playing hard and being successful.
Q. Would you rather face UNLV or San Diego State?
LEE CUMMARD: We'll leave that to the game out there.
THE MODERATOR: At this time we'll dismiss the student-athletes. We'll open it up to questions for Coach Rose.
Q. How much of a security blanket is it for you that your team shoots the ball so well from free-throw line going down the stretch in a game?
COACH ROSE: Well, I think that you have a lot of confidence in the ability to get a three or four, five-point lead and then to have teams foul you. But you still have to be able to go up there and hit those.
I thought tonight we were a little bit sporadic finishing that game off. We left a few on the line. I think that, you know, with the way that we've shot free throws the last probably month or so, I think all our team has confidence in the ability to spread the floor and get the ball to any player, and that they can step up and go make those free throws.
Q. Coach, you started the game in a zone for the first time this season. Talk about that. Also talk about the rebounding turnaround from first to second half.
COACH ROSE: You know, we started the zone the other day, too, against Utah. In this situation tonight, it was a little different. They had changed their starting lineup a little bit. We had wanted in our game plan to zone a little bit, especially in the first half, to kind of see how the flow of the game was going and how they were attacking it. We thought our best opportunity was before they subbed, because when they subbed, they were subbing in their shooters.
So that was kind of our thought process. Players were pretty excited about it. I thought the first three or four minutes we did a really good job in that zone. You know, it's a team that you can't -- I mean, you've got to vary how you guard 'em because they have an answer for about everything, especially when they've got guys playing with the confidence that they're playing with right now. I mean, they're playing extremely confident.
Q. Can you talk about playing specifically your bigs, playing defense against a team like Air Force, all the things that they do.
COACH ROSE: Lee mentioned it. But Chris Miles was just terrific in the second half. We got him involved a little bit offensively, which kind of creates a lot of energy for Chris. Was able to get an early basket. Like Lee said, got a nice finish at the rim with a dunk. It really got him a lot more active on the defensive end, which really helped us.
They were dribbling that thing hard right to that right block, trying to elevate and score. Chris was doing a good job of keeping 'em a little further out than we were in the first half. I think it made a little bit more difficult on them. Then JT did a good job of coming in and rebounding from the weak side.
That was, you know, a big part, I think, of our success in the second half.
Q. Do you agree that kind of a key to this game was Air Force was winning the hustle points in the first half, but in the second half you started getting the rebounds, loose balls? Do you think that's what turned the game around?
COACH ROSE: I think that's a factor. We played pretty hard in the first half. Air Force was pretty efficient in the first half, shooting over 50% from the field, spreading the floor pretty well. Made big shots on big plays. We had opportunities to kind of spread it out a little bit, and they just hung right in there.
But I think, you know, when you look at the game and kind of break it down, you're going to go to -- the games were very similar, both of them. First we were 3 for 22, tonight we were 9 for 22. That's about the difference in the score.
Q. Can you talk about the start of the second half. Jimmer scores nine points in a couple minutes.
COACH ROSE: I think this group does a really good job of kind of rallying together and coming out. We had a few situations earlier in the year where we played great first halves, then kind of let it slip away. I think they've made a real adjustment in their ability to get in there at halftime. I think it shows a lot of maturity of some young players that have come together, real good leadership from our captains and from Lee. But I think that our halftime adjustments with this group has improved, and we've come out and been able to play better second halves.
Q. You've trailed the last five games at halftime and came back to win. Does that worry you or is this how this team is?
COACH ROSE: It worries me to trail, yeah. I'd rather be ahead.
But I got a lot of confidence in our players, a lot of confidence in our coaching staff, that we can make adjustments.
The key is that it's close at halftime, so we're not in a big hole like we were, like San Diego State, some of those places where we really had to come back from.
This is a very good shooting team. We led the country in field goal percentage for a few weeks during the season. But 62% is not realistic. And I think 34, 32% isn't realistic for this team. When you can shoot somewhere between, you know, 45 and 55%, then you've got a pretty good chance to win. So, you know, I think that's realistic for this group.
Q. I know you're concentrating on this tournament. That being said, do you feel like avoiding the first-game upset, that you are absolutely for sure in the tournament now, the Big Dance?
COACH ROSE: This is a very, very big win for our team. I mean, you want to play as consistent as you can to get yourself in the conversation of being invited to that tournament. Then you don't want to, at the end of the year, give them any reason or any excuse not to invite you.
This was a very big win for our team, to be able to get through that.
Q. I understand that obviously the company line is always going to be, We'll just play our next opponent. But knowing the rivalry between yourselves and UNLV, knowing they also beat you twice this year, do you think probably deep down these kids would rather see the Rebels tomorrow even though they may not say so?
COACH ROSE: I would bet that you get a bunch of them that would say that just because of how competitive they are.
But we can't control that. It will be a challenge because on one hand, you're playing a team that you beat twice, that is really good. Then, on the other hand, you're playing a team you're trying to beat for the first time.
We understand that tomorrow will be a big challenge for this group.
Q. Jonathan seemed to hit a really big shot about three and a half minutes left. Can you describe his confidence in those kind of moments, how you try to harness that for your team.
COACH ROSE: Well, I mean, if you follow our team, he's done it all year long for us. He likes that big shot. He was extremely excited about that 'cause in the huddle right before that we had a conversation. I told him he had a couple more in him, let's just get a little closer to that line. You know, play the percentages.
He hit a huge shot the other night, a three-pointer, Saturday night, put us in a situation where we could hold 'em off. You got to let shooters shoot. Hurt their confidence. JT is a guy that can make big shots consistently.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, coach.
End of FastScripts


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Culturally associated with the medical activity, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a technique that allows the visualization of the body structures that are not directly accessible to the naked eye. However, MRI also has an aesthetic component that is the basis of inspiration for several works of artistic expression. This component (aesthetics) is recognized not only in the artistic world. In the laboratory , the aesthetic value of MRI is recognized.
Here, however, it assumes a secondary role since in this context, these images are to serve other purposes (helping to decide if a certain structure is healthy or not). On the contrary, in the artistic context, aesthetic value is of primordial importance, being identified, deconstructed and interpreted by the artist in order to create his work.
Glass self portrait of the artist, based on MRI scans.
Heart sculpture based on MRI data.
MRI scans of an individual. Red areas represent activated locations of the brain.
These are some of the examples where art and science intersect, raising awareness of the beauty of science and philosophical questions on science.
NOTE: "MRI is an electromagnetic technique that realigns hydrogen nuclei in the body. It exploits the property of these atoms to move when they are inserted into a bigger magnetic field and to align themselves according to field-specific frequency. The magnetic field causes these atoms to emit an electric current which is translated into an image of the scanned area" (1).