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Fund Traders Association - The Bigger Picture
Mr Roger K. Olsson 18 Apr 2009 09:45 GMT
Financial Newsletter 2009 - The Bigger Picture
I want you to see the bigger picture, question everything you've been told and develop a coherent philosophy.
Because these are the ingredients to becoming wealthy, powerful and free.
A few quotes to start off:
Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, November 21, 2002:
"Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost."
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel: "You never want a serious crisis go to waste. This crisis [the economic turndown] provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "never waste a good crisis"
Bill Jenkins, market commentator: "We are not the noble people we once were. Much of our citizenry is infected with indolence. Multitudes look to the State as the supplier of everything from soup to nuts, cradle to grave, and womb to tomb. You can see it in the faces of ordinary Joes when they light up at getting their "tax refund." Forgetting the tremendous sum of money the state has already taken, they are just glad to "get something back. We have become a nation of slaves. Bound to the idea that the government will provide"
Mencken, great investor: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)."
Right now, there's a big sideshow going on: bankers are being hauled over the flames and used as a scapegoat when it was government laziness and ignorance that let the children in the sandbox do what they want.
Governments can't let the population get too rowdy. Torches and pitchforks on Capitol Hill alarms governments and they have to throw them a carcus, you see.
So the politicians vilify the rich hand in hand with the media.
But let's get real for a second. The rich and powerful control the world. They always have and they always will.
The rich and powerful OWN the media and wish to make a profit from doing so. FEAR SELLS so the media peddle fear. By tuning into fear mongering news channels and newspapers you are making the rich and powerful richer.
The rich and powerful are buddies with the politicians. They put them in power through contributions. They know that if a government strangles them too much they will take their business elsewhere.
Why am I telling you these sad facts?
Because I don't want you to waste your life away trying to change this. The world is just the way it is and that's that. True, if enough people marched through the streets and demanded a specific change and stood by their conviction, things would change. Alas, that won't happen. All that will happen is what is happening now: a bunch of political rhetoric to calm down the angry mob until they forget about it and move on.
I'm sure that you, like so many right now, would like to lynch the boss of AIG and torture him to death. Let's say that you COULD do that right now. Will your situation have changed?
The government, corporations and the media are mere reflections of the masses. Each of these 3 entities gives the people what they want. The products they want, the hopes and dreams they want, the right they think they have to a job and free handouts, the fears they have.
The whole thing works nicely as long as everyone shuts up, pays their taxes and lives a docile and compliant existence. People meet at Starbucks and bitch about stuff, get it out of their system and go back to their jobs on Monday.
By meeting you here, I know you're at least starting to question this whole game and wondering if you should play anymore. Of course, you should always pay your taxes, but there is a path to a more fulfilled life where you are free of what is in effect slavery to corporations, media and government. Indeed, as an investor, corporations and governments can become slaves to you as they compete to borrow your money through the issuance of bonds (IOUs) and pay you handsome interest.
When you derive your income this way, that's when you've turned the tables on the whole system. You've got off the merry-go-round. You've decided NOT TO PARTICIPATE in the whole nonsense.
This is the world of the sophisticated individual; the life of a League of Power member. Members don't delude themselves about the reality of the world, they simply slip between the cracks and prosper legally. Freedom comes when you break the chains you've attached from yourself to media, government and corporations.
Remember: government and country are 2 different things! You can love your country but dislike your government. That is how this country was founded.
Once you dump the media, you stop being frightened. The media now work for you- the fear and chaos that they cause makes anomalies appear in markets that you can take advantage of.
Once you dump corporations- as in stop working for them and succumbing to their lame marketing campaigns to buy stuff you don't need- you become free. Income? Start your OWN corporation. Sell stuff back to these corporations. Make them pay you interest on bonds.
Once you dump the politicians... well, I don't know what you had to gain hanging around with those people anyway! Instead of bitching about them devaluing the currency or whatever, a League of Power member makes money from the fact! A League of Power member is neither a Republican or a Democrat; they know it's all a big dog and pony show and that in reality, both parties will reflect the mob at any given moment. And when you think about it, how many people are Republican or Democrat because their father and their father before them was one? Does anyone question anything anymore?
Have a great Spring Break. Take some time out to reflect and regroup. Life doesn't have to appear as the nightmare that the media and the politicians want you to see it as. Remember, it's all part of the big game- a game you don't have to play.
Source by: Mark Patricks
Fund Trader's Association / Pension Fund Investment Management
Global Pension Plan (GPP): http://www.globalpp.tv/?id=cwmtrader
Mr Roger K. Olsson
Phone: +46 (0) 705474830
http://www.myspace.com/giuenholding
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I want to wear all-white but I don't have all-white items yet. I would love to have all-white shoes!
When I was on the loop the other day I saw all those freshmen and realized "I am 6 years older than these kids!!! I am so old!!!" So I feel ya!
Good luck and HAVE FUN your senior year!
great all-white outfit, Angie!! and perfect right before Labor Day!
I love all white! So fresh and clean!
aww..love the back side detail !!
The all white looks great on you. I really love the details on the back of the top!
<33 all white look on u !!
I love those shoes. So cute, great pictures, nice post!


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{-# LANGUAGE
  NoImplicitPrelude
  #-}

module Hakflow.Abstraction.Map
    ( MapCfg (..)
    , map
    ) where

import Hakflow.Makeflow
import Hakflow.Monad
import Hakflow.Util
import Hakflow.Magma
import Hakflow.Instances.Vector
import Hakflow.Commands.Cat
import Hakflow.Commands.Rm

import Data.Default
import Data.Vector (Vector)
import qualified Data.Vector as V
import Prelude.Plus hiding (group, map)
import qualified Prelude.Plus as P (map)
import Data.Maybe
import qualified Data.Set as S

import Control.Monad.ST
import Data.STRef

chunk :: Foldable f => Int -> f Rule -> Vector (Vector Rule)
chunk limit xs = foldl' pick empty xs
    where
      pick rs r
          | V.length rs == 0             = pure . pure $ r
          | V.length (V.last rs) < limit = V.init rs <|> pure (V.last rs `V.snoc` r)
          | otherwise                    = rs `V.snoc` pure r
{-# INLINE chunk #-}

data MapCfg = Map { chunksize    :: Int
                  , groupsize    :: Int
                  , outputPrefix :: String
                  }

instance Default MapCfg where def = Map {chunksize = 1, groupsize = 16, outputPrefix = "map"}

map :: (Traversable t, Traversable t') => MapCfg -> Command -> t (t' Parameter) -> Hak File
map cfg c ps = do
  rules <- mapM (addRule c) ps

  rules' <- if chunksize cfg > 1
            then let chunks = chunk (chunksize cfg) rules in mapM mcat chunks
            else return $ foldr' V.cons empty rules

  addFlow rules'

  groups <- group rules' (groupsize cfg)
  addFlow groups

  res    <- withPrefix' (outputPrefix cfg) (clean groups)
  addFlow $ pure res

  return . fromJust $ mainOut res

group :: Flow -> Int -> Hak Flow
group rules size = do
  let chunks = chunk size rules
  rules' <- mapM clean chunks
  return rules'

clean :: Vector Rule -> Hak Rule
clean rs = do
  let mains = V.map fromJust . V.filter isJust . V.map mainOut $ rs
  [rCat, rRm] <- mapM (\cmd -> cmd (V.map (param . FileInArg) mains) >>= eval) [cat def, rm def]
  return Rule { outputs = S.empty
              , inputs = S.fromList . V.toList $ mains
              , mainOut = mainOut rCat
              , commands = commands rCat V.++ commands rRm
              , local = True
              }
{-# INLINE clean #-}

newRule :: Command -> Parameter -> Command
newRule c p = c {params = params c `V.snoc` p}

addRule :: Traversable t => Command -> t Parameter -> Hak Rule
addRule c ps = eval $ foldl' newRule c ps

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Our salary calculator indicates that on a £94,500 salary (gross income of £94,500 per year) you receive take home pay of £63,346 (a net wage of £63,346).
The total tax you owe as an employee to HMRC is £31,154 per our tax calculator. Your employer collects this through PAYE and pays it over to HMRC on your behalf.
The total tax of £31,154 is made up of £25,300 income tax and £5,854 employee national insurance contributions.
Your employer pays a separate tax to HMRC for employing you. This employer National Insurance contribution totals £11,850. This tax is not taken out of your pay. It is an additional cost to your employer on top of your salary of £94,500.
The total cost of employing you to your employer is therefore £106,350 which is your salary plus the employer national insurance contribution.
£94500 after tax is £63346.


Local startups are un-bootstrappable. You suffer the up-front product costs and then either attack a bunch of tiny markets in series or use PR to hit them all in parallel. The former is expensive because of your burn rate, the latter is just plain old expensive.
You can't trust your learning. Are your users in Pittsburgh and Atlanta the same? Probably not. My go-to definition of a customer segment includes the condition that members of the same segment must be able to run into each other at an niche-specific event. If they're geographically disparate and don't travel for relevant business conferences, they likely don't spend money or time the same way.
You need all the data. Local startups are built on the assumption that valuable data exists which isn't global. If it isn't global, then by definition you have to gather it again for each location. That means either manual content creation, a huge set of scrapers, or user-generated-content. Each of those is hard enough (for its own set of reasons) when you're making just one set of content.
Too many chickens, not enough eggs. You need data for users to get value. The major way of getting cheap data is to ask your users. Creating your own data to get the ball rolling is expensive, but doable. But it again comes back to money — since the local market is small, the expense only makes sense if it leads to investment.
Ultimately, my distate for local businesses comes down to funding paths. I truly believe they are un-bootstrappable. This isn't undesirable because of some abstract distaste for VC — any kind of money is terrific, so take it if it's there. It's just unwise to start a business with a probably-unscalable business model that crosses its fingers for VC as a Plan A and has no viable Plan B. Especially when so many better options exist.
Analogues can sometimes clear the fog. For local businesses, I suggest looking toward the big mailing lists. They only need to make one piece of content per day, have an amazing revenue model baked in ($100+ CPMs), and have still decided that targeting more than a dozen-ish major cities is too much granularity to be worth the trouble. They are highly metric-driven businesses with investors specialised in only this. Their model is cheaper to scale than yours and can make more money. If there was a way to make money going super-local, they would be doing it.


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Houston County Schools hit by malware attack in 2019, officials say it took weeks bounce back
by: Kelley Smith
HOUSTON COUNTY, Ala. – Huntsville City Schools announced it was the target of a ransomware attack Monday. School has been closed as the district navigates this challenging situation.
Huntsville City Schools is not the first district in the state to be the target of a cybersecurity attack. Houston County Schools were the victim of hackers in 2019.
The South Alabama school system says it never received a ransom note. District officials call it a malware attack. The incident had some serious implications for district.
It happened in the summer of 2019 and forced them to push back their school start date and cost them an estimated $50,000 according to Superintendent David Sewell.
On July 24th, 2019 the folks at the Houston County Schools noticed something was wrong with their network.
"Everything was crashing. We couldn't get on websites," Sewell remembered.
The district was the target of a malware attack that essentially shut them down.
"Our servers all were locked out," said Bob Blalock, HCS technology coordinator.
It took a few days just to get the phones up and running again. The school system had to completely reformat and rebuild its network. They also had to scan every device in the district. Sewell says they still found evidence of the attack long after it happened.
Students were supposed to come back to school August 8, but class didn't begin until September of 2019.
"We had to start with keeping roll with pencil and paper and we had to go back to the old school way of doing things," Sewell said.
Jay Town, former US attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, says ransomware attacks are becoming more common, up an estimated 300 percent in the last couple years alone.
He says navigating an attack means answering tough questions.
"First its analyzing what critical data has now been encrypted, how valuable is that data, how valuable is the disruption in business per day, per hour, per week? and then divide that by the amount of money that is being demanded and that's sort of how you make your decision as to whether or not you pay this ransom," Town explained.
Getting information back can be more difficult depending on the sophistication of the ransomware.
Monday Huntsville City Schools announced it was the target of a ransomware attack and asked everyone with a district device to turn it off until further notice.
"I think what the indicates is that there is a level of sophistication to this ransomware attack. They might believe if you were to say get on your at home wifi network or your virtual personal network at home that the ransomware itself might extend into your own personal network," Town stated.
It took Houston County Schools 8 weeks to get back to normal. Sewell says they say they consider themsevles lucky and he has a message to other school systems.
"Dont say it's not going to happen to me because it can and it will," Sewell said.
Officials from the Houston County district say they were able to get their information back, but they had backups saved on other servers. Superintendent Sewell says law enforcement officials who investigated the incident do not believe any of the district's information was compromised during the attack.
More Huntsville Stories
by Ethan Fitzgerald / Jan 17, 2021
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Rocket City leaders expect upwards of 50,000 people to move to North Alabama over the next few years. Space Command, if everything stays the course, will bring upwards of 1,600 jobs in 5-6 years.
According to the Huntsville-Madison County Builders Association, new families will likely continue to see the same housing inventory issues beyond Space Command's timeline.
36th Annual Huntsville MLK Unity Breakfast going virtual
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Huntsville's annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Celebration Breakfast is nearly 40 years in the making, but it's going to look a little bit different in 2021.
Like many events during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 36th annual unity breakfast will also be going virtual this year.

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On 8 November 2016 Brown Rudnick, alongside Hotel Solutions Partnership, hosted a panel of industry experts for an insightful discussion on the value of the brand in the hotel industry.
Katrina Craig of Hotel Solutions Partnership provided an overview of the hotel market and the discussion was then moderated by Omega Poole of Brown Rudnick.
The panellists summarised their experience within the hotel industry and addressed the question of brand from their current perspective before delving into a deeper discussion.


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Labor Day reflections: Challenging time for U.S. workers
Tagged: labor, unions, Initiative 77, Janus,
As another summer winds down, and we plan for one last extended weekend before turning the page onto fall, Labor Day offers a time to reflect on the increasingly challenging environment that working families face securing fair wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Currently 16,000 members of the United Steelworkers union are waiting to hear whether they'll be going on strike when their employment contract with U.S. Steel expires in just days. Union and management are reported to be at a near-stalemate over a new contract that the union has described as "extremely insulting" and would offer marginal wage increases for workers, who would be locked into a proposed 7-year term.
For the first time, incarcerated workers are courageously raising their voices, and are in the middle of a multi-week, nation-wide strike organized in response to the slave-labor wages they are forced to accept as further punishment for their lives behind bars. It's shameful that we treat prisoners like chattel.
And the courts continue to batter workers, spurred on by a Chamber of Congress and a business community that attack working folks' right to organize at every turn. Earlier this summer, a narrow 5-4 anti-worker and anti-union ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus v. AFSCME, found hat unions cannot collect "fair share fees" from workers who have not joined the union but receive the benefits of organizing—a major blow to unions in their efforts to improve working conditions for all employees.
In Washington, DC, where NCL is headquartered, we are fighting alongside restaurant and other hourly workers to preserve Initiative 77 from being rescinded by the D.C. City Council. Initiative 77, a worker-led campaign that passed by a 56 percent to 44 percent margin, would raise the paltry $3.89 hourly tipped wage by $1.50 a year until it reaches $15 by 2025. After its passage, seven members of D.C. City Council pledged to overturn the initiative, undermining the 46,000 DC voters who supported it.
Wage theft, misclassification, and other employer abuses continue to plague our workforce, but at the National Consumers League, which was founded by a group of Progressive-era women concerned about factory conditions for workers—including children's—we will continue to fight for worker protections alongside our allies to ensure that protections for America's working families are strengthened, not eroded.
Earlier this year, we observed the 80th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act with a national conference. This landmark legislation—which NCL helped to pass in 1938—provided our nation's basic minimum wage and overtime pay laws, lifted wages, and improved working conditions. But advocates agree that the FLSA is in dire need of updating, and many of the problems facing workers today could be addressed by an FLSA for the 21st Century.
This Labor Day, we are grateful for the improved quality of working conditions for many of our nation's employees, but we lament the constant attacks on unions, workers' rights, and fair and equitable working conditions for so many. The struggle continues, and we are proud to be part of it.


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The potential of JRR Tolkien's story-telling in The Hobbit movies
November 25th, 2013 by Kelvarhin
In our newest TORn Library feature, Brian Tither discusses the effectiveness of portraying Tolkiens' story-telling via cinematography.
It is often my experience that whenever The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies are discussed it is said that they did a lot for Tolkien. This is because his heirs allegedly made a lot of money out of them from the increase in the sales of the books that they were based on, including an increase in sales for foreign-language editions of the books that did not exist before the movies were made. And these things are often said without any due consideration given to how the advent of the movies also created extra publishing costs. This includes the money that the publishers would have to pay to the movie studios for the publication of the cinematographic images on the movie tie-in editions of the books, and for the translation costs incurred for the new foreign-language editions. Furthermore, those translations could have adversely impacted on the etymologies that formed Tolkien's story-telling, which were based on the philology that makes up Old and Middle English and Old Icelandic that he specialized in as an academic. And those etymologies are more on my mind when it comes to considering what the movies did for Tolkien than any increase to book sales.
Probably also these etymologies are what were on Christopher Tolkien's mind when he said just before the release of the movies that the books were peculiarly unsuitable for dramatic visual transformation but that was also a question of art. And maybe that is also one of the reasons why he has had books such as The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun and The Fall of Arthur published in recent years. This is because these include, along with verse written by his father in the Old Icelandic and Old English form, explanations of these forms by himself he having also specialized in these forms, as well as Middle English, as an academic. This is so to complement other publications such as A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary edited by Kenneth Sisam (who was Tolkien's New Zealand-born tutor at Oxford University) and JRR Tolkien, which explains the Middle English form.
These etymologies could also be on the Tolkien Estate's mind when taking out lawsuits against Saul Zaentz Ltd et al. This is because, besides these lawsuits testing whether or not there are parts of the movie franchises' that breach the intentions of the original deed of sale, it could test whether or not there are parts of the movie franchises' copyright that infringes on the etymologies' general use. This is due to the possible adverse impact that such misunderstanding of copyright could have on promoting what forms story-telling like Tolkien's so that the Estate can put any damages accrued from the lawsuits towards continuing this promotion.
For example, in New Zealand the impact that such misunderstanding of copyright could have had is narrowing the focus of various 'Middle-earth' tourism campaigns to over considering the copyright demands of these franchises. This has meant that small businesses have had their trade limited to when the movie studios have said that it is alright to reference the books and movies. Meanwhile, such campaigns have not considered alternatives based on the etymologies that Tolkien derived his Middle-earth from that did not even reference the movies and the books. And this would have circumvented these copyright matters and given these small businesses alternative ways to operate their trade using the 'Middle-earth' term.
Such alternatives could have involved consulting specialists in New Zealand in Old and Middle English and Old Icelandic who gave public lectures on what formed Tolkien's story-telling at the time of the release of The Lord of the Rings movies and have also contributed to this specialty throughout the world. This included at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, where prior to them other New Zealanders had contributed a lot to their English schools. Indeed this was something that Tolkien said of New Zealanders at Oxford in his valedictory address, when he retired from his academic chair. This was while alluding to his close contest for his professorship with Kenneth Sisam, and subtly pitching, at the same time, for New Zealand-born Norman Davis to succeed him, which happened. And all this could have been brought out in a 'Middle-earth' campaign that was focused on New Zealand's culture and heritage rather than the country being just a tourist and film-making destination, especially when considering that Sisam and Davis were graduates of New Zealand universities.
Also, such intellectual property was drawn on to help with the movies' development through the productions' employment of linguist specialists attune to Old and Middle English and Old Icelandic literature who also helped with the promotion of The Lord of the Rings movies to the latter's benefit. Meanwhile, it has been to The Hobbit production's detriment so far that it has not been promoted in the same way. This is with the latter production being too caught up in promoting the movies through the cinematography that has been used for it, with the latter having not been received too well by all movie viewers.
This raises the question about whether or not story-telling such as Tolkien's is any better off because of the movies than if the books had of continued selling at the rate that they always sold at in the near half-century that preceded the making of the movies. And this also raises the question about how effective film is in reflecting such story-telling. Henceforth, after briefly explaining the essence of Tolkien's story-telling, I will discuss the potential of such story-telling in the first Hobbit movie.
The essence of Tolkien's story-telling:
The essence of Tolkien's story-telling is that the world of his stories provides the means to give the language used in it expression and meaning, for which Tolkien applied his philology training in Old and Middle English and Old Icelandic. This is with an example being him creating the name and character of Hobbits by conflating the name of the character Hott, which is Old Icelandic for 'small', from The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, with Hott's parents' habitation of a house built in a hole in the ground, who would be referred to as hol–bytlan or 'hole-builders' in Old English, (i.e. hol–bytla singular). This conflation was then worn down to 'hobbit' singular and 'hobbiton' plural, thus reflecting how English words commonly wear down in Middle English.
Furthermore, Hott's acquirement of the sword Gullinn-Hjalti, which is Old Icelandic for 'Golden-Hilt', and the bestowment of the name Hjalti on him after he becomes a warrior, is analogized in Bilbo Baggins' character transformation. This is seen in the Hobbit's name changing in meaning after he acquires a sword and becomes a warrior from 'Dweller-in-a-dwelling-in-a-bag' to 'Dweller-with-a-sword-from-the-ones-in-a-bag'. This is when considering it as conflation of the Middle English words bilt (dwelling) bo (dweller) baggi (bag) inne (in) and the Old English words bil (sword) bua (dweller) bagge (bag) anum (ones). This is also enabled by Bilbo being referred to as a burglar by the Dwarves, which in Old English meant 'plunderer of a burg' (burg meaning fortress), which, in turn, came to mean 'invader of a borough' (i.e. town) in Middle English and now means 'thief of a building', with Bilbo becoming more of a burglar in the original sense as the quest progresses.
Bearing this in mind, and both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie productions' employment of linguist specialists attune to Old and Middle English and Old Icelandic literature, as I referred to above, I have come to the conclusion that the potential of The Hobbit movies is such that they could have delivered more of Tolkien's story-telling than they have, and probably will, but are also limited in doing so. I will now attempt to illustrate how more of Tolkien's story-telling could have been portrayed in the first movie.
The first Hobbit movie:
The movie begins with Bilbo narrating as he writes to Frodo: 'My dear Frodo, you asked me once if I had told you everything that there was to know about my adventures. And while I can honestly say that I have told you the truth, I may not have told you all of it. I am old now, Frodo. I'm not the same Hobbit that I once was. I think that it is time for you to know what really happened'. I refer to these words because they are seemingly intended to introduce the movies as an embellishment of the book and how the Ring will be more potent in the movies, which will probably be introduced at the beginning of the second movie and developed more from there. And for this the movies will probably embellish on how Tolkien changed the story of Bilbo and Gollum's encounter in The Hobbit's first edition for the book's subsequent editions to increase the Ring's potency, which is also probably why the first movie ends not too long after the Ring comes into Bilbo's possession. I refer to this to make the point from the outset that my own proposals are merely an embellishment of the movies and probably do not do much more in bringing the essence of Tolkien's story-telling to the audience.
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Champion Ski "Opening Titles" (2018)
Beginnings are the best. It's the time when your curiosity is aroused and things feel fun, fresh and different. Like the cover of a book or someone's dating profile, title sequences are designed to be just such a beginning, a winning first impression. They say don't judge a book by its cover, but isn't that the whole point?
The lyrics of "Opening Titles", a new song by Toronto band Champion Ski, connect the idea of films and flings. We're all fond of those first few moments, but fear that disinterest may sooner or later set in. As an ode to beginnings – both on screen and off – the "Opening Titles" music video pays homage to one of the band's favourites: the title sequence for the 1970 James Ivory film Bombay Talkie – and it's an impressive impersonation. Songwriters Brian Vendiola and Cosette Schulz discovered the sequence via composer Shankar Jaikishan's "Title Music", which filmmaker Wes Anderson repurposed for The Darjeeling Limited in 2011.
"Out of curiosity, I googled the movie to see how the song was used in the original," Vendiola says. "Sure enough the opening sequence for Bombay Talkie appeared, and I fell in love with it. I love how it's all practical and yet very simple. It gives you a sense of the city these people lived in. Even without the song, I find it to be a very relaxing sequence."
Bombay Talkie (1970) main titles
To recreate the sequence for the music video they used a combination of subtle digital effects – compliments of the video's director of photography Jared Raab, an integral part of the camera team behind Nirvanna the Band the Show – and old fashioned arts and crafts.
"I painted the 'rug' that we run with at the beginning on the floor in a room of my old apartment," Schulz says. "To make the 'paintings' you see in the video, Jared photographed us in our living room and I edited them to match the original oil paintings from Bombay Talkie. We printed them out and posted them onto foam boards. All but three posters are practical but you'll have to guess which ones!"
To match the typography Schulz used What The Font to track down close matches to the type used in the Bombay Talkie posters. "I was honestly surprised a) that a program like that exists and b) that it managed to find something similar to the hand-painted original typography from a 1970s Bollywood film!"
Champion Ski's Cossette Schulz painting the "rug" title card used in the music video.
The video's biggest challenge and happiest accident occurred while capturing the opening shot at Toronto's busiest intersection: Yonge and Dundas.
"The opening shot at Yonge-Dundas Square was probably the most challenging part of this," Vendiola recalls. "A lot of it had to do with coordinating with Jared, who was filming from the Jack Astor's restaurant patio up high, but also having to run through an unexpected Sikh festival that was happening when we arrived. They were incredibly nice about it though and we were able to run shot a few times."
"That was a hilarious coincidence," Schulz says. "Showing up at the Square and seeing them offering turban tying in celebration of Sikh awareness. The Turban Up! festival was so colourful and they were serving incredibly delicious food – for free! Seemed too good to be true, really."
For the video, the song's lyrics cleverly stand in for cast and crew credits, creating a lyric video that couldn't be more different than the lifeless ones that populate YouTube. It's about what you'd expect from a group of musical cinephiles who got their name from the 2014 Swedish film Force Majeure.
"We've always wanted to be in a band and I feel like one of the many things that was holding this back was a name," Vendiola says. "But after a funny French photographer in the movie blurted out the words 'Oh, champion ski!', we for some reason thought that that was it."
Champion Ski are currently in studio working on new music which you can expect later in 2018.
Director: Champion Ski
Title Designer: Cosette Schulz
Director of Photography: Jared Raab
Editor: Cosette Schulz
Producer: Walter Woodman
Photographer: Jerry Pigeon
Music: "Opening Titles" by Champion Ski
Bombay Talkie
Nirvanna the Band the Show
Dan Black 'Symphonies'
FITC Toronto 2016
Four in the Morning
2010s, live action, mixed-media, nostalgic, situational type
Gaëlle Legrand
Cosette Schulz
Brian Vendiola
Noah R. Taylor
Will Perkins


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Q: How to keep focus on a checkbox that you're disabling I have a widget that displays a list of settings that a user can set by (un)ticking a checkbox. The process of enabling/disabling a setting can take some time, so I implemented a visual representation of "in progress" to avoid multiple clicks from user while job hasn't yet finished:
func CheckBoxTransaction(transaction func() error, checkBox *widgets.QCheckBox) {
    checkBox.SetEnabled(false)
    checkBox.Repaint()

    // transaction() sets the setting, can take a while
    if err := transaction(); err != nil {
        log.Println(err)
        checkBox.SetChecked(!checkBox.IsChecked())
    }
    checkBox.SetEnabled(true)
}

However, a side-effect I didn't expect started to occur: when you tick any checkbox, the focus jumps to the next checkbox in the settings list because of the checkBox.SetEnabled(false). That causes the app UI to feel jumpy as the focus on the next checkbox is noticable by eye.
How can I keep the focus from jumping from the checkbox I'm about to disable? Or is there a better way to achieve the effect I'm striving for (blocking user input for a time and making it visible that the input is blocked)?

A: I think its better to use binary switch variable (named allowClickCheckBox)  which its default is true.
then have this code in handler of check box:
if (allowClickCheckBox == false)
{
    if(ui->myCheckbox->isChecked() )
        ui->myCheckbox->setCheckState(Qt::unChecked);
    return;
}

allowClickCheckBox = false;
...
//do your job
...
allowClickCheckBox = true;

sorry for my probably syntax mistakes.

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You've made the decision to invest in property and you're keen to get out there and buy.
It's a very exciting time, for sure. But investing is best done with the head, not the heart, so being armed with the best available information will ensure the decision you make will give you the best chance of securing a good return on your property.
A surprising number of people go to the trouble of selecting a property only to discover they don't have the means to buy it. This is a waste of everyone's time and a source of heartbreak. Before you hit the road in search of that great investment, chat with your lender and run through the figures so you know exactly what your borrowing limit is. And don't forget to take into account ancillary costs like stamp duty and agents' fees.
2. What sort of property do you want?
Having a clear idea of your requirements will help you narrow down the search field and save you time. Are you after an apartment or a house? There are advantages and disadvantages of both. Do you want a property that is ready to lease or do you want one you can add value to in a chase for higher rent? How much maintenance are you prepared to do? Draw up a checklist and be rigorous about only considering those properties that fit the bill.
3. Does the property you want to buy have a long-term tenant?
It may be to your advantage to have someone renting your new property for an extended period from the day you take ownership, or it could be a source of immense frustration. Either way you need to know before you sign the contract.
4. Can I see the flood plan?
So many of our major population centres are built on flood plains, and councils should have a comprehensive flood plan which indicates whether your property is susceptible to inundation. It is vital that property investors check this information so they are aware of the risks.
5. What is the likely rental yield?
Buying, for instance, an apartment in an area packed with apartment buildings, or a small house that only has one bathroom and no off-street parking, has implications for your investment strategy. In the case of the former, a large supply of similar housing and nothing to differentiate your property from others, you may struggle to achieve the returns you seek. The latter means you might struggle to find tenants unless you drop the price. Make sure the property you buy will attract the returns you need to service your loan.
6. Are there any future developments planned for the surrounding area?
Any good real estate agent should know the answer to this question. You don't want to buy a property and congratulate yourself over how cheap it was, only to discover there's going to be a new prison built next door. Conversely, many developments can add value to your new property, for instance a transport hub or shopping precinct. You can check with council what development applications have been submitted for your area.
7. How big are the rooms?
It can be easy to overlook the basics if you are dazzled by other factors like price, exterior or location. Are the rooms big enough to fit in a double bed, kitchen table and some decent couches? How about storage space? Get out the tape measure if necessary.


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30 days of filth blog tour, Articles, Author Articles, Blog Tour, Victorian London October 7, 2014
Dirty Old London: 30 Days of Filth: Day 29
'Many myths and 'factoids' appear on the web and in print. They are often incorrect…'
Throughout this month, Lee Jackson reveals the background to Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth. The Victorians invented 'sanitary science' – the study of public health, dirt and disease – and were obsessed with sewers, sanitation and cleanliness. Why, then, did Victorian London remain so notoriously filthy?
Day 29: The Great Exhibition Toilet Myths
The history of the introduction of the public toilet in the nineteenth century is often misrepresented. Many myths and 'factoids' appear on the web and in print. They often relate to the Great Exhibition and the sanitary engineer George Jennings (who designed and supplied the Crystal Palace's toilet facilities).
Below are the principal offenders:
1. "the public toilet was invented by the plumber George Jennings, for the Great Exhibition of 1851"
False. Flushing water closets were increasingly common in middle-class homes (or, more typically, just outside the house) from the late eighteenth century. The respected botanist J.C.Loudon published elegant classical designs for public water closets in his Gardeners Magazine in 1832. Likewise, Joseph Bazalgette proposed his own plan for public toilets in 1849. The presence of toilet facilities at the exhibition was at the urging of the Royal Society of Arts.
2. "the toilets at the Great Exhibition were humorously dubbed 'monkey closets'"
False. The 'monkey closet' was a slangy trade name for the design that Jennings pioneered at the Exhibition, relating to the shape of the toilet's plumbing. There is no evidence that visitors to the exhibition were aware of the term, nor that it reflected anxiety about being 'caged' in unfamiliar cubicles. Rather, the toilets at the exhibition were actually situated in well-appointed spacious 'retiring rooms'.
3. "popular amazement and enthusiasm for Jennings' toilets at the Exhibition led to the creation of public toilets throughout London"
False. The toilet facilities were used extensively by the public at the Exhibition; but there was no rush to place similar necessaries on London streets. In 1852, the Royal Society of Arts, still keen on public water closets, set up trial male and female facilities in the Old Bell Tavern, Fleet Street, and a shop in Bedford Street, respectively. The scheme was a complete disaster – there were hardly any customers – and persuaded local authorities that there was no demand.
4. "the first underground public toilet was opened in 1855 at the Royal Exchange by George Jennings"
False. This widely-cited date is derived entirely from Jonathan Routh's 1960s humourous pamphlet The Good Loo Guide and quite mistaken. In fact, the first underground toilets opened – true, at the Royal Exchange – in 1885, as numerous records in the City of London archives attest. George Jennings was the first to suggest such a scheme in the mid-1850s – but he was rebuffed by the City authorities, who only came round to the idea thirty years later, after his death. Jennings' company, which survived him, was not involved in the Royal Exchange toilets – but they would provide urinals and water closets for many of the public facilities built in London in subsequent decades.
5. "the phrase 'spend a penny' originates from the penny charge for toilets at the Great Exhibition"
Highly unlikely. Certainly, the experience of using the toilets at the Exhibition would have been novel for many of the working-class visitors; but it seems unlikely the phrase slipped into common parlance on this basis. The price of admission to late-Victorian toilet cubicles was a penny – a much more likely origin. Besides, only the most central facilities in the Great Exhibition cost a penny; those attached to the refreshment rooms in the building's wings cost a happenny (this was to discourage queues in the central transept).
You can find out more about Lee Jackson's Victorian London from his website: Victorian London or read more about the new book at Dirty Old London. You can also find Lee Jackson on twitter @VictorianLondon.
Lee blogs at The Cats Meat Shop.
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FROM THE WASHINGTON CO. INSIDER, HARTFORD, WI – Groundbreaking in Hartford on September 13 as Cobblestone Hotel celebrated its newest addition. The 60-room hotel on Highway 60/ 110 E. Sumner Street will be built along with Wissota Chop House restaurant on the ground floor. The redevelopment site is in the heart of downtown Hartford. Positioned across from the Jack Russell Memorial Library and walkable to a range of other downtown amenities, the location makes it an easy choice for tourists and other visitors.
Hartford Chamber executive director Scott Hanke said the development is a "shot in the arm" for the community. "This especially helps with tourism as we now have places to stay and play as well as another dining option and 60 more rooms," he said. A number of local business leaders attended the groundbreaking, along with Hartford mayor Tim Michalak, city administrator Steve Volkert, representatives of Cobblestone Builders, and Vandewalle & Associates.
The city of Hartford will give Cobblestone Builders an incentive of $650,000 when hotel occupancy is approved. Cobblestone basically purchased the property for $1. The hotel is expected to generate at least $110,000 in property taxes a year for the next 10 years.


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Success or Failure
What world the world be like if we lost the psychological imprint imparted early on of the necessity to 'succeed,' and the horrors of 'failure.' Right here, I'm writing to you about a new idea that may be successfully transmitted to you. What if I don't care if it turns out to be an utter failure, and the message is lost?
You may be sitting there, consciously or not, wondering whether reading further on is a "waste of your time" (a failure). In fact, I know this is the case. Time is limited after all. It's necessary to assess such things in this way. I also know that it's possible you have decided to keep reading because you think there might be something I'm getting at, some punchline that might bring you some new perspective in life or some ability to transcend suffering (a success).
If we begin to see how ingrained 'wanting to succeed' really is, (geeze I'll admit how present it is in me even now) as well as its opposite drive 'to avoid failure', then we will have to inevitably ask, are these things in us to our benefit, and is it possible to experience life partially or fully free of them?
First of all, this is a tricky subject. If freedom from "success and failure" were taken to be some kind of transcendent "success" then I'm afraid we will have committed a transcendent failure in our attempt to escape this paradox. How can we do anything without calling it a success or a failure?
Let's take a break from this paradox for a moment by looking at something else that will tie in to our discussion a little bit later. It's something we all take for granted as parents, but it is quite familiar: Our tendency/need to "reward" and "punish" behavior.
Let's look at rewards for a moment. You may think a typical reward is something tangible, like permission to use the iPad after completing a math quiz. But in fact, rewards can be literally anything, and we use them more often than you realize. A smile, pat on the back, encouraging words, a deliberate nod of applause, all these and countless more nuanced expressions can constitute directed rewards designed to support behaviors we deem appropriate.
We like to believe that we "educate morality" in this straightforward manner, but just think of the difference between a directed, calculated smile showing your moral approval, and the feeling evoked when you witness your child do something you know deep down to be beautiful. The beauty of authentic appreciation is how it can live in a glowing silence where on a soul level you know nothing was lost by it. And if the child sees you're affection and feels it, she will know what words cannot convey by their own power.
Let's look at punishment. Banned from video games as a result of misbehavior–a clear punishment. A glaring stare of disapproval combined with a somatic, bodily declaration that says, "I don't like what you did" such as a tilt of the head, or splaying of the hands and arms, also punishment. Your facial demeanor and body expression that goes from outright rejection, to bewilderment, then to partial acceptance as the child modifies his actions may appear like a tool of moral education, but it's undeniable that this tool comes with a cost, registered in each parent on a deep level. We don't like having to do it, but we accept it as a "necessary" evil.
What if it were unnecessary? And what if the cost it enacts is perniciously unseen? Imagine the following:
You're busy with something important, and your child asks for your attention and your time, but you tell him "I'm sorry, but no, I can't right now." For you, no intention to 'punish' was present, but if you're methodology of punishment included facial expressions, tones of voice, words like "no" and "can't," and the withdrawal of attention in the past, then what's the child left but to think he's being punished here for what amounts to wanting your attention at a bad time.
The thing about rewards and punishments is that they're mostly unconscious in origin. Deliberate rewards and deliberate punishments are far outweighed by the unconscious ones that occur all the time under the radar. I believe if these unconscious impulses were wiped out of a parent child relationship from the beginning, then the conscious ones would be wiped out as well. That is to say, the parent would never think to employ "rewards" or "punishments" as modification tools, or if he or she did choose to employ it at an age where it might be warranted such as 9 months or older, the very first use would elicit such a disheartening response from the child that the parent would immediately shudder and realize how wanton a use of power it was and that the desired effect in behavior modification was not worth the emotional damage.
Of course such a hypothetical is hard to stretch, because to think of such a parent child relationship is to think outside the construct of social life of all-known history. The reality is we've been using punishment (and reward) to such a degree and for such an extended period of time, both unconsciously and consciously, that they've been normalized. The child's response, even by the young age of self-awareness, has been fully incubated in our unconscious impulses of approval and disapproval. An alternative kind of co-existence is unknown, the model relationship of healthy moral education (whatever that might look like) has been lost to countless generations of habituation to a different, and familiar method.
We don't know how life could exist without reward and punishment. In a single stroke, we can exonerate ourselves and our methods. Nature, we say, is dangerous. Nature punishes. We as parents remind our young and naive infants and children of this reality, before reality itself harms them beyond repair. What hand, if not our own, could guide our child to morality and safety, unless it adequately mimics the harshness of this world? Was the world so harsh as to warrant physical abuse (the widely normalized form of punishing children in most of Western history)? If no, surely the world is harsh enough to warrant slighter methods, such as psychological detachment, words of condemnation, withdrawal of privileges, scornful visages, and the rest of our so called punishments in disguise. Hopefully we have measured the world accurately enough that our reflective mirroring of harshness on our children is justified. Otherwise we must admit: we are slaves to a habit of reward where we know deep down rewards are cheep, and punishment where we know on a soul level, punishments are soulless. Have we led ourselves into complicity? Have we rationalized away our most beloved relationships?
But the more we ponder this question the more we blame ourselves for what we feel is amiss. A self punishment that no reward can undue. For in the paradox of our ways, we are bound to fall back in to the label whose depth is quietly waiting for us wherever our grief is near, a label that's all to familiar and comforting even while it's disheartening and disdained; "failure."
And here we are again, back to the layer of our subconscious operating system whose currency is called "success," and whose companion is "failure." That system of control that's impossible to escape should we ever dare to overcome its paradox.
Are you a failure, parent? And what does it even mean to succeed?
Uh oh, I can see it happening already… my desire to succeed. To reach that glorified place. And what a bright idea, I could say to myself, to proffer this unique and cunning advice; to drop at the door when you leave in the morning and at that same door when you arrive back home, all your successes and all your failures, so that the 3-D world outside and in, is not tainted by a 2-D virus of the mind, that liken to an annoying squeak of an old rusty hinge. And to ask yourself, with these ills so confined and without much care for an answer: Is there not a better way to grow a garden, than to deprive it of water one day, only to flood it the next?
leave your success at the door when you leave in the morning, and to leave your failures at that same door when you come home. To let them both stay there in 2-d, confined to door on a hinge that's as easy to open as it is to close.


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Gender, Law and Social Transformation in India
A book titled Gender, Law and Social Transformation in India edited by Prof. Ajailiu Niumai and Prof. Abha Chauhan has been published by Springer Nature, Singapore and Germany.
This book provides deep insights into the wide-ranging issues linked to gender and law, and the social transformation they engender. The chapters look critically at the complicated relationship that law shares with women, as a mechanism of providing gender equality and justice, but often reinforcing discrimination. The significance of these contributions lies in bringing forth the role of the women's movement in pointing out the necessity of having women-centered laws as well as those dealing with the violence of unequal social order questioning the gender-neutrality of laws. By focusing on the laws and their implementation in the domestic and the public spheres, the essays challenge the stereotypical notions and uncritical acceptance of women's subordination in society. They collate the need for state intervention even in the private sphere considered so far sacrosanct and untouched, yet highly unequal and gendered where women face worse forms of discrimination and violence.
The chapters on human trafficking, sexual violence against girl children and domestic violence against women bring out the vulnerabilities in the places considered safest – the homes, and raise pertinent questions about changing gender and familial relations. They also point out the deprivations of some of the basic needs of health, nutrition, and shelter within the domestic sphere that lead to other kinds of violence seen in the areas of early marriages, dowry harassment, and lack of choices and control of women over their bodies. The chapters on dowry and Section 498 of the IPC, property rights, reproductive health, and education bring out succinctly the lacunae in the legal provisions and their implementation in these areas of concern. Since women are seen as the repository of honour and prestige of the family and community, any violation of norms embedded in the patriarchal structure of society leads to violence in the public domain. Hence, we see cases of honour killings, rapes, sexual harassment at workplaces, the impact of prostitution and human trafficking and the like which have been covered in the different chapters of the book.
The essays in the Volume make the most glaring statement regarding the exigency of having laws related to the violence against women in 21st century India. Besides presenting a critical understanding of the laws and legal barriers about several aspects of women's lives, they offer insightful suggestions and recommendations. The chapters are written from a legal, feminist and sociological understanding of the issues by various scholars from different parts of the country. The book will be useful for the researchers in the disciplines of Sociology, Public Administration, Law, and Gender Studies, and to the Government Officials, Policy-Makers, Legal Practitioners, Activists, and those related to women's groups, social movements, and the Non-Governmental Organizations.
Prof. Ajailiu Niumai is the head, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, University of Hyderabad and Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Prof. Abha Chauhan is the former head, Department of Sociology, University of Jammu. Currently, she is the President of the Indian Sociological Society (ISS).
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-8020-6
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