There has been a lot of news regarding the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon, and Trump in the past couple of weeks. Today we're breaking down exactly what is going on.
The Postal Service has more than one company that it gives deep discounts to when it comes to shipping prices, but it is true that Amazon has an agreement with the Postal Service. Under this agreement Amazon delivers many packages to the USPS, and the USPS delivers the packages on the last leg of their journey.
These contracts must cover all of the costs of the Postal Service. Regulators have approved the contract with Amazon, which means the Postal Service is not losing money by working with Amazon in this way.
Amazon handles a large portion of the delivery of its packages itself. Packages are sorted by zip code and carrier route before being dropped off, so the USPS is only handling a small portion of the work when it comes to these deliveries, making it more cost efficient than it may at first appear.
Trump's claims that the Postal Service is losing a lot of money are not incorrect. They reported a loss of 1.8 billion in 2017 compared to 2016. This is due to a number of factors, including the decline in First-Class and Marketing mail volumes. The obligation to pre-fund retirement benefits has also had a huge impact in the USPS' revenue.
The Postal Service was losing money before Amazon became such a big contender in the packaging business. While there certainly has to be an overhaul in postal reform, Amazon is far from the only contributing factor in the loss of USPS profits.
Trump claims that the USPS should be making more money off Amazon, and they certainly could. USPS is charging below market rate for parcel delivery, not even accounting for whatever discounts they give to Amazon. With how much business the USPS garners from Amazon, surely they could be making more money with a shallower discount.
But Trump is incorrect in saying that the Postal Service is losing money because of this deal with Amazon, simply because the law states that any contracts with the USPS must at least break even. Beyond that, Amazon brings in a lot of consistent business for the USPS.
Trump has issued an order demanding that the Postal Service's finances be evaluated, following his many tweets regarding the USPS and Amazon. This task force will be used to examine the USPS' finances, including the Postal Service's operations.
Investigations by this task force will include many parts of the USPS business model, including parts of their business plans that involve companies such as Amazon.
Trump insists that there needs to be action to make the USPS profitable again. There have been no details about when this task force will be created or when changes may be implemented.
While all this finger pointing may seem childish, this task force could actually be great for the Post Office. Studying the USPS financial situation can bring about great solutions that can help the USPS.
Technology simply means there is less first-class mail, and with the requirement to pre-fund benefits the USPS is going to struggle to operate in the black. The rise in e-commerce has helped some, but not fully. Hopefully this task force can find problems that can be solved down the line.
In the short term, however, very little, if anything, is likely to change when it comes to day-to-day operations.
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World AIDS Day Panel to Include Obama, Bush and Clinton
By Matthew Cortina, Christian Post Reporter
U.S. President Barack Obama will speak alongside former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and anti-AIDS activists in a World AIDS Day panel on Thursday.
Obama will join the event's hosts at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., to participate in the discussion. Clinton and Bush will appear via satellite. Bush is in Tanzania with President Jakaya Kikwete.
Other guests include Bono, whose ONE and (RED) campaigns have sought to raise awareness of global AIDS and poverty issues. Artist Alicia Keys will also participate on the panel. The singer is the co-founder and global ambassador of Keep A Child Alive – a non-proft organization that helps families in Africa with HIV and AIDS by providing medicine and supplies.
Organizers hope to build awareness of the current state of the disease and continue the momentum already generated toward eradicating the disease.
More than 35 million people are living with HIV and AIDS worldwide, and many carriers are living full lives. With the increased affordability and availability of medicine, people with HIV and AIDS in first-world countries are living deep into their 70s and 80s.
But the outlook for AIDS carriers in the developing world is not as optimistic.
In the world's hardest hit region, southern Africa, life expectancy has dropped as low as 32 in some countries. Sick communities fall victim to a lack of medication, poor prevention education and nonexistent support from some governments.
Removing the stigma of AIDS is a major obstacle for activists. Governments are unlikely to supply sick people with medicine and health care in parts of the world, citing high costs for a disease that ostensibly affects large sections of the ostracized homosexual and sex worker communities.
Activists, however, cite that AIDS affects as many men as women in the developing world. The "overwhelming majority" of AIDS infections are caused by unprotected heterosexual sex, according to the World Health Organization.
World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 is an event organized by activists with the hope of removing the misconception that AIDS only affects certain communities. With proper preventative education, increased availability of contraception methods and affordable medicine, activists hope to curb the pandemic.
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Q: A Typescript interface that allows one of 2 optional keys or none but not both Is there a way to define a Typescript interface which allows one of 2 optional keys in an object or none of them, but not both?
Here is a simplified example of what I'm trying to achieve:
const example1 = { foo: 'some string' }; //should pass - can have only "foo: string"

const example2 = { bar: 42 }; // should pass - can have only "bar: number"

const example3 = {}; // should pass - both foo and bar are optional

const example4 = { foo: 'some string', bar: 42 }; // should throw a Typescript error - can't have both foo and bar simultaneously;

PS. solution should be an interface and not a type since in my use-case it extends another interface

A: type is isomorphic to interface and you can join these two constructs. Below implementation by type union and intersection, also added example interface to show it works well, & is equivalent to extends. Consider:
interface OtherInterface {
    field?: string
}
type Example = ({
    foo: string
    bar?: never
} | {
    foo?: never
    bar: number
} | {
    [K in any]: never
}) & OtherInterface

const example1: Example = { foo: 'some string' }; // ok

const example2: Example = { bar: 42 }; // ok

const example3: Example = {}; // ok

const example4: Example = { foo: 'some string', bar: 42 }; // error

The solution is verbose, but match your need. Some explanations:

*

*bar?: never is used in order to block possibility to have a value which has such field

*& OtherInterface has exactly the same result as extends OtherInterface

*{[K in any]: never} - represents empty object {}
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Sweetly B Squared: Never Too Many Shoes!
But tonight when she received a doll with clothes and shoes, the shoes were the first items to be examined and tried on by the doll repeatedly (with assistance from all grown-ups in the area...).
I can't wait til she finds out how many shoes there really are in the world! Right now she thinks of school shoes, tennis shoes, flip flops, galoshes, and boots. Most specifically for her lately are her cowboy boots. She's probably already moved on and forgotten about her old squeeker shoes!
Just imagine once she sees and recognizes pumps, stilettos, Doc Martens, narrow shoes for women, loafers, kitten heels, biker boots, and peep-toes.
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Q: How to make an 1,0 mapping file between the unique values of two columns in Excel? Hi I have a table like the following:
Ortho   Path
L20795  ABbiosynthesis
L43787  ABbiosynthesis
L43789  ABbiosynthesis
L20795  CDbiosynthesis
L43787  CDbiosynthesis
L20632  CDbiosynthesis
L43789  CDbiosynthesis
L20074  XYZpentaABC
L20232  XYZpentaABC
L20508  XYZpentaABC
L20626  XYZpentaABC
L20632  XYZpentaABC
L21692  XYZpentaABC
L21715  XYZpentaABC
L21782  XYZpentaABC
L21825  XYZpentaABC
L25605  XYZpentaABC
L27823  XYZpentaABC
L43767  XYZpentaABC
L45016  XYZpentaABC
L43821  ABCDEFbiosynthesis
L20632  ABCDEFbiosynthesis
L20019  MNOPbiosynthesis
L20059  MNOPbiosynthesis
L20065  MNOPbiosynthesis
L20208  MNOPbiosynthesis
L20209  MNOPbiosynthesis
L20647  MNOPbiosynthesis
L21716  MNOPbiosynthesis
L22371  MNOPbiosynthesis
L22372  MNOPbiosynthesis
L27535  MNOPbiosynthesis
L41610  MNOPbiosynthesis
L46363  MNOPbiosynthesis
L48474  MNOPbiosynthesis

I want to make a 0,1 mapping between the unique elements of the first and the second column of the table. The unique values from the second column will be the column names in the output file and the unique names in the first column will be the row names. If a unique value in the first column  (e.g. L48474 and MNOPbiosynthesis) is associated with one of the unique values from the second column then their corresponding value will be 1, if there is no association (L20232    and MNOPbiosynthesis), their corresponding value will be 0. I am expecting an output like the following:
    ABbiosynthesis  CDbiosynthesis  XYZpentaABC ABCDEFbiosynthesis  MNOPbiosynthesis
L20795  1   1   0   0   1
L43787  1   1   0   0   0
L43789  1   1   0   1   0
L20795  1   1   0   0   0
L43787  1   1   0   0   1
L20632  0   1   1   1   0
L43789  1   1   0   0   0
L20074  0   0   1   0   0
L20232  0   0   1   0   1

Can anyone please tell me how to do that?
Thanks a lot

A: As mentioned by @SolarMike, use MATCH function:
=IFERROR((MATCH($D2 & "-" & E$1,$A:$A & "-" & $B:$B,0))^0,0)


Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler, and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate?
In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and re-crossed in every room in Blandings Castle.
It's the usual romp at Blandings Castle, and by "usual" I mean unusual--a small universe that runs on it's own slightly off-balance dynamics. There's the continuing struggle for porcine supremacy between the ninth earl and his neighbor, Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Bart. Sir Gregory's struggle to lose a few pounds, and thus allay his future wife's fears that she will be accused of bigamy before she leaves the sacred edifice. There's Jerry Vale, a writer of detective fiction and temporary secretary to Lord Emsworth who wants enough cash to open a health establishment. And there's his betrothed, Penny Donadlson, who's also betrothed to Orlo, Lord Vosper. Add a former barmaid who now runs a detective agency and who once almost married "Tubby" Parsloe, a pig man who has been denied the beer that is so much a part of his daily routine and might do anything to get a pint, and a third pig--which is to say another pig altogether, neither Lord Emsworth's Empress of Blandings nor Sir Gregory's Pride of Matchingham--and you have enough to be getting by with.
But most importantly, there are six large, economy-size bottles of Slimmo.
Jeremy Sinden does it all more than justice. In fact, he is superb--as good as his stellar performance on Full Moon. From the quality of his voice to the way he inflects it for comic effect or bends it to portray a lord, a pig man or a young daughter of an American manufacturer of dog biscuits, he is flawless. It's a book and a performance you will be able to enjoy again and again.
This is a sequel to Blue Moon and like that wonderful work, it is delicious. Jeremy Sinden's performance actually enhances both books. I don't think he should be allowed to do anything else but read brilliant, idiotic comic literature aloud. I will spend my credits on anything he reads.
Here is delightful Wodehouse story. All the Blandings stories are fun, and this is one of the middle ones (Better to start with Something Fresh or Leave it to PSmith) but wow, knowing the characters and the lay of the land round Blandings, this story is such fun! And Jeremy Sinden is (sadly, was) my favorite narrator for these stories.
A fun, fast listen following the Wodehouse method. A recommended road trip or beach listen.
OK, but doesn't seem to really go anywhere.
Maybe. Only if they really love the more rambling style of British literature. I liked the initial character introduction, but then the story seemed to go nowhere.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Jeremy Sinden?
Jeremy Sinden is easy to understand, and he brought out the characters' personalities in his reading.
Could you see Pigs Have Wings being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
I think it would make a great series. The characters are perfect for that.


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Marietta Barovier var en venetiansk glaskonstnär.

Hon tillhörde en familj med många medlemmar verksamma som glasmålare. Hon var dotter till Angelo Barovier och ärvde hans verkstad tillsammans med sin bror Giovanni Barovier 1460. Hon anges ha varit uppfinnaren av en pärla kallad venetiansk rosette eller chevronpärla (1480).

Av fjorton glasmålare som finns dokumenterade bland det berömda glasmålarskrået i Murano mellan 1443 och 1517, är Elena de Laudo och Marietta Barovier de enda kvinnorna.   Ingen produkt som säkert kan identifieras som hennes har återfunnits.

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What's your favorite cache type?
Cache type can be interpreted in different ways, but i assume you mean in the form of which icon, and to be honest I don't have a preferred type (such as multi, letterbox trad etc.), I enjoy "that geocache" which shows me a place I otherwise would've missed – Give me an nice nature experience, tell a good story, an cool custom made container, or that helps me to qualify for an challenge. But I would recommend multies. We've logged many of the national series (church micro, "a fine pair" (phone boot and post box next to each other ), village signs etc in England. These are usually short and easy, but have taken us to many great places.
A little bit of this and that. ME5 is almost a team, we are a family of 4 where she is hooked, he helps, and the kids aren't quite into it. It's not that often that I (she) leaves for dedicated geocaching trips, but it happens.
For large parts of the year I seize the opportunities that present themselves, such as when I've been ona cource, while on vacation, visiting frends and so on.
– a water, a viewpoint, a cultural historical place – there is so much nice to experience that geocaching helps to identify. I have also gradually cached more with more long-term statistics goals and qualifyed for interesting challenges. Sometimes I get sick and tired, but i also find that it helps to find caches with a "meaning" in places that's "bombarded" by caches. Geocacghing also contributed to that I tried paddeling, which I've wanted to try for several years, and that was fun right from the start, so now I'm paddeling for exercise training at the local club. Paddle caching is a favorite form of caching, so there have been some of these (and more to come). A few years back I also tried climbing, but climbing requires that you do it regularly to be able to do it safly, so we'll see if ME5 picks the ropes back up in the future.
Mystery solving is also fun, but I don't have the time to prioritize it. But sometimes I find the time, and it's fun when you solve it. Learned a lot about chipers, languages etc that I didn't even know existed – there's plenty ways to hide coordinates!
In the end I enjoy just about anything as long as the opertunity presents intelf.
It was a round trip to Haugesund to visit the family. We usually go away for a week every year, and I always have (to)many geocaches on my list, mostly solved mysteries that i didn't get to log this year either… On the roundtrip I had added missing sectors for the 360-degrees of Norway challenge along the route – just enough stops to keep the trip from taking to much time. And I managed to get my family to come along for an event on Himakånå – Nedstrand's version of Trolltunga, and it was an great experience.
The last big trip I planned was for the May 1st weekend. The last couple of years there's been a mega event in Kent, England, but not this year. But we had arranged for an "adult" trip anyways and organized babysitters, and brought my husband on something that by our standards was cache madness. In Cornwall there's a geoart with 360 mysterys – Compass. We made a goal of completing it in two days, and that's when cachetur.no was indispensable by helping us with the route planning. It was an incredible feeling to complete the goal with the last cache, scratched, sweaty and muddy after countless meetings with hawthorn, stinging nettles and other growths stabbing and swirling. I almost miss finding petlings in spruces ….
How do you use the Trip templates?
I've peaked at them, but haven't used them – mostly as an inspirational source for how to build a trip, and maybe find some nice tips for where I'm going. I wish the search- and sorting-function of trip templates was a little better, think that may be a reason for why I don't use it that much.
I'm probably not amongst the most advanced geocachers or cachetur.no users, but I like that we are able to sort caches in our order, write comments, import corrected coordinates and display the route on a map. And that it's easy to display the same list on cachetur.no, project-GC and geocaching.com.
What functionality do you emphasise when talking about cachetur.no to people who do not use cachetur.no?
There's not that many active cachers where I live, but I use to brag about cachetur.no whenever i can. I tell them about how you can create a driving route with caches, that can easily be adjusted, you get the route in a map, and that several people can work on the same list.
Why do you use cachetur.no?
Cachetur.no gives me the option to create a route for both short (4-5 caches) and long trips.
Because I understand how much time is behind everything, and that it isn't free.
What is the most important thing cachetur.no does for you?
Makes everything easier with a good driving route.
How has cachetur.no helped you plan trips with others?
I haven't planned any trips with others, since I don't know any other cachetur.no users.
How did the cachetur.no app help you on your trip?
I've barely tried the Iphone version, but the app dosn't have enough options to replace paper prints/offline-lists in the app.
What do you think about the cachetur.no user support?
I've asked a little on facebook and read in the helpcenter – always gotten quick replyes, and it's easy to navigate in the helpcenter.


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The sad truth is, some used pianos are better off like this…
A bar owner celebrates the Summer Solstice each year with the burning of an older upright piano. While sad that a musical instrument of this complexity and craftsmanship is departing in such an incendiary way, the truth is that many older pianos that not been properly cared for are no longer capable of providing the beauty of tone and touch that make a piano such a joy to play. That's why you should always rely on a respected dealer or technician from which to acquire a used piano, vs. Grandma's or the neighbor's old Kimball, which may, depending on many factors, be better off this fundraiser burning party. See Jordan Kitt's current selection of Certified Used Pianos here…
Here is the story via the Journal Sentinal:
Julie and Dale Bladow looked on with even more interest than the rest of us. It was their piano that was about to be cremated.
Respectfully, of course. With all the dignity you can muster in the backyard of a saloon. And — this is the dangerously delicious part — while being played amid the smoke and flames. A final song or two, and then great balls of fire.
A crowd of maybe 75 assembled Sunday afternoon on lawn chairs and picnic tables outside the Roxbury Tavern, which is northwest of Madison near Sauk City. It was time for the 11th annual burning of a piano to mark the summer solstice.
Julie and three of her four children played this Kimball spinet, purchased used by the family about 1982. But the kids grew up and lost interest, and the piano was pulled from the living room during remodeling of their home in Mazomanie.
"We put it in the garage for what we thought would be a couple of months. It ended up being 13 years," Julie said.
It's a common story, said Tom Gresser, 72-year-old owner of Roxbury Tavern. Lots of people have pianos they don't play anymore, though admittedly not all want them incinerated as a spectacle.
"Usually, we have more offers than we can accommodate. We could burn a half-dozen pianos a year," he said.
The tradition began with Tom's worn-out piano. He didn't want to pay someone to haul it away. Someone suggested burning it, so they did.
You may be getting the sense that Roxbury is not your typical bar. Its motto is "Cognitive dissonance since 1989." Early on, Tom took out the televisions, pool table and jukebox. He wanted this to be a place of conversation. He banned smoking before Wisconsin passed the law, and he doesn't allow cursing.
But, damn, I just had to witness this piano burning party. It's actually a fundraiser for Northwest Dane Senior Services to help older people maintain well-being and independence. Executive Director Paulette Glunn told me not everybody is crazy about the idea of torching rather than tickling the ivories, so they just say "hot piano" in their promotions.
Last year, they burned dueling pianos. They've never done a grand piano, but there's always next year. Tom put a cheap Radio Shack microphone inside the piano one year to amplify the crackling until the heat got to it.
Music for Sunday's event was presented by The Dang-Its. At 5 p.m. they packed up their instruments before anyone got any ideas about diversifying the musical fire. The band joked that attendance for the party would be even higher if the bar burned a banjo.
It was time for the main event. Larry Collins, a retired Presbyterian minister and jazz musician, took the microphone and delivered a brief eulogy of sorts. He said there's a tradition in France of burning worn-out pianos as an honorable send-off, which may or may not be true. Wikipedia says something about the Royal Air Force doing it.
Larry also explained why a turkey wrapped in foil was placed atop the piano. There's a burning ordinance banning bonfires. "So we put a turkey on top and call it a cookout."
A few logs doused with an accelerant were placed against the back of the piano and ignited with a flaming section from The New York Times. Larry sat down on the bench and began to play, starting with "On Top of Old Smokey," a bit of "Fire and Rain" and the beginning of "Summertime" until the keys stopped working.
"I think it's about time to get out of the kitchen," he said, backing away from the growing fire. "It's not the heat that I worry about so much. It's when those strings snap. When they get hot they can be almost like whips."
This entry was posted in Piano Reviews on June 24, 2015 by PJ Ottenritter.
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Let's face it, most of us don't compost. And most of us don't use a mulching lawn mower, either.
That means, especially during the spring and summer, our green waste barrels are overstuffed and really heavy as we wheel them out to the curb for trash-collection day.
As we struggle to keep from crushing our toes, to keep the dog from getting out the gate and to keep from wrenching our backs, we remind ourselves that we are doing a good thing.
After all, the green waste is being "recycled," isn't it?
But what does that really mean? Is someone turning our soggy, sweating, stinky lawn clippings into new plants?
Bill Camarillo is the CEO of Agromin, the green materials recycler for communities throughout Ventura County (and the SCV) and a manufacturer of premium soil products.
"We've been managing the city of Santa Clarita's green waste since 1995," he said.
And, through composting, that green waste ends up as mulch and soil amendments for farmers, landscapers and individual consumers.
"Everybody wants to make sure their barrel gets picked up. We want to be sure it gets processed responsibly," Camarillo said.
He explained that both Burrtec and Waste Management (the major trash haulers in the SCV) take their green waste to Agromin.
The waste used to be hauled to facilities in Ventura County, but is now processed locally.
"We process it all on a ranch on The Newhall Land and Farming Company's land," he said. This facility is just off Highway 126 but out of sight from the highway.
Camarillo said he was very proud of "making that urban to agriculture connection and managing it locally."
The local processing benefits the environment because far less diesel fuel is used by the haulers to get the green waste to the facility--and less fuel burned means less air pollution.
1. "We receive the material from the collectors and we clean it."
2. "Then we chip it. We have to shred it down to three-inch material."
3. "Then we compost it. It heats up to 131 to 161 degrees. We do that for 15 days. It kills the pathogens, such as Salmonella and E. coli. It also kills weed seeds."
4. "We cure it for 30 days, and bring the temperature back down."
5. "After curing, we screen it into different particle sizes — two-inch for mulch and 'fine,' three-eighths-inch or less, for soil amendments."
Camarillo said that much of the resulting material is used for agriculture right there on the ranch land.
"The orchards use the mulch and the row crops use the fine material."
There are many benefits for putting it back in the ground, according to Camarillo.
"It's pretty tremendous," he said. "It reduces water usage, it reduces the need for pesticides and herbicides, and it reduces the need for commercial fertilizers. Beyond that the mulch blocks weeds from growing and it reduces soil erosion.
"We provide the material to the ranch as part of closing the loop for the valley," he said, and he explained that the process is paid for by the trash haulers.
Camarillo said that Agromin provides soil materials free to the local Earth Day celebration each year and to schools.
The company also provides it for landscape projects in the SCV and Ventura County.
"We call it an urban to ag solution. It's a win-win for the community," he said.
He added that it creates a sustainable yield process for the agriculture side. "It's a pretty good program."
While most people would understand the logic of using green waste for agriculture instead of filling up landfills with it, many don't realize there is a far more important benefit.
"Green waste going into landfills produces methane gas," Camarillo said.
And he explained that methane gas produced in landfills is actually two to three times more concentrated than carbon dioxide, as far as being a greenhouse gas.
"I think the Santa Clarita green waste stream is some 40,000 to 50,000 tons a year. It's equivalent to about 5,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide," he said.
Finally, Camarillo said the community should be very proud of how its green waste is being managed.
"With us, and themselves, we have created a great, sustainable, organic recycling program. It's one to be modeled across the country, actually," he said. "It's created locally and managed locally."
He added that Agromin is the eighth-largest composter in the country, and, in 2008, was named the U.S. Composter of the Year.
Agromin recently moved its headquarters, maintenance facility and wholesale operations to Oxnard.
Previously housed in sites throughout the county, its consolidation into a centrally located, 6,000 square foot facility will cut down on employee driving.
"With less employees on the road, we will reduce our carbon footprint," Camarillo said. "And, because everything is under one roof, we can better coordinate our production and business services."
Agromin's new location is at 201 Kinetic Drive, Oxnard, CA 93030. The telephone number is 1-800-247-6646. Commercial wholesale bulk soil products (no retail) are available at the facility.
There is a wealth of information available at the Agromin Web site, www.agromin.com, including how-to guides for things such as putting down sod, container gardening, mulching your garden, planting bulb and bare root fruit trees, and more.


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Blurred Lines by Hannah Begbie – Book Review
Hannah Begbie
She spoke out.
I stayed silent.
A compulsive, literary domestic suspense set to spark debate.
When Becky accidently sees her boss with a woman who isn't his wife,
she's horrified but keeps her counsel – she owes Matthew so much for
all he's done for her career. But when the same woman accuses him of
rape and asks for the witness to come forward, Becky doesn't know
Was what she saw rape? Or is this a young actress looking to get
ahead? And can Becky separate her own traumatic past from the
present?
As Becky attempts to untangle these blurred lines, she must risk
everything to find the truth…
Blurred Lines is a brilliantly written novel that explores the effects
of #metoo, and questions identity, womanhood, and how trauma is
dealt with
The book begins with main character Becky walking into a room where her boss Matthew is in a compromising position with a woman who is not his wife. Becky quietly retreats from the room. Unaware if she was seen, she tries to assess the situation which she saw so fleetingly. Can she rely on her instincts about what she witnessed? Has a memory from her own past muddied her perspective and should she divulge to anyone what she saw?
The matter is complicated further when an actress accuses Matthew of rape and asks for a witness to come forward. Becky is torn, she knows her version of events will have a massive impact on the lives of everyone involved….but can she trust what she saw?
Blurred Lines is cleverly written with two timescales that intertwine with equal relevance to the plot. I found the first part of the story a little slow but became gripped during the later chapters. Huge credit should be given to the author for tackling such a complex yet delicate subject and handling it so sensitively.
This book makes you think…really think..about boundaries and loyalties, bravery, cowardice, implications and intentions..the list is endless!
The moral and emotional debates which arise from the storyline would make an excellent book club addition.
Hannah Begbie was born in London. She studied Art History at Cambridge University before working as a talent agent, representing writers and comedians for more than a decade.
In 2016 she took part in City University's Novel Studio, where she developed her debut novel, 'Mother', and won that year's prize for new writing. Published by HarperCollins in 2018, 'Mother' went on to win the Romantic Novelists' Association Joan Hessayon Award for new writing and was made Book of the Month on Mumsnet and a pick for Fern Britton's inaugural Book Club for Tesco.
Described as 'simply brilliant' by The Irish Examiner and 'Human and true,' by The Financial Times, 'Mother' has been optioned by the BAFTA-winning Clerkenwell Films for adaptation into a television drama.
Published in August 2020, Hannah's second novel, 'Blurred Lines' is a timely and compelling portrayal of what it costs to speak out. Praise for Blurred Lines:
Hannah lives in London with her husband, a screenwriter, and their two sons.
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The characters here convey nuances that slowly hint at who they really are. Mildred spends most of her scenes blasting away at anyone she comes across but her brief reaction at a nemesis coughing blood in her face conveys volumes, so does the reaction by Dixon's bizarre mother to his beat-up face or even his own insistence in protecting the case file at all costs in the middle of a blaze. I can't recall another film, perhaps since "LA Confidential," where the nature of the characters and their relationships seem set on stone from the beginning but are progressively revealed to be something entirely different, in a convincing manner.


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MarTech » Performance marketing » Twitter adds keyword, hashtag, emoji blocking to curb abusive tweets
Twitter adds keyword, hashtag, emoji blocking to curb abusive tweets
People will be able to block tweets containing certain keywords, hashtags, phrases and emojis from appearing in their notifications tab.
Tim Peterson on November 15, 2016 at 11:07 am | Reading time: 2 minutes
For years, Twitter has had a harassment problem. While that doesn't seem to have affected marketers' opinions of Twitter, it could turn off regular users who don't want to spend time on a social network where people are free to fire slurs and other hateful words at them. So Twitter is giving people new options to police the tweets they see.
People will be able to block tweets containing keywords, phrases, hashtags, usernames and emojis, as well as entire conversations from appearing in the push notifications Twitter sends when someone is mentioned in a tweet, Twitter announced in a blog post published on Tuesday. The change will be available to everyone who uses Twitter "in the coming days," according to the company.
Also on Tuesday, Twitter streamlined the reporting and processing of tweets that violate its Hateful Conduct Policy. Now, when people click to report a tweet and opt to report it for being "abusive or harmful," they will be presented with a menu asking how it is abusive or harmful, such as "It directs hate against a race, religion, gender or orientation," and whether the target of the harassment is the person reporting the tweet or someone else. These new options are supposed to give the Twitter employee reviewing the report more information as to why a tweet is being reported in order to help them decide how to handle it, which isn't something Twitter has been great at in the past.
While the new blocking options mean that someone won't be exposed to violating tweets in Twitter's notifications tab, a person may still be exposed to them elsewhere on Twitter, depending on the type of text they're blocking. If a person is blocking keywords or hashtags, tweets containing those keywords or hashtags — so long as those tweets aren't directed at the person or include the person's username — will still show up in that person's timeline and in search results.
People will be able to set which text to block via the settings option on the notification tab in Twitter's mobile apps or via the notifications option in the settings tab on Twitter's site. To block an entire conversation, a person can pull up an individual, expanded tweet from that conversation, click the downward-facing arrow and select to mute the conversation.
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Tim Peterson, Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat's ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar's attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon's ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube's programming strategy, Facebook's ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking's rise; and documented digital video's biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed's branded video production process and Snapchat Discover's ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands' early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo's and Google's search designs and examine the NFL's YouTube and Facebook video strategies.


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Q: Проблема с функциями В ссылках у меня назначен запуск функции onClick="getTaskStatus(передаю переменные);return false;
$(document).ready(function(){
    getTaskStatus=function(переменные){
        $("#filters-successfully").bind("click", function(){
            console.log('a');
        });

        $("#filters-not-successfully").bind("click", function(){
            console.log('b');
        });
        $.ajax ({
          ...
        });
    }
});

Если один раз нажать на ссылку и начать выбирать input'ы, то в консоль будет выводиться "a" или "b". Если нажать на вторую ссылку, то будет выводиться уже по два "a" или "b". Если нажать на третью ссылку, то будет выводиться уже по 3 буквы, и так далее. Вот я и не пойму, в чем особенность.

A: Проблема в том, что .bind подписывает на событие, в твоем случае элемент #filters-not-successfully, каждый раз когда вызывается метод getTaskStatus. Это не правильно. Ты можешь вынести подпись на событие за метод getTaskStatus и вызывать в ручную внутри метода событие .click.
Примерно так:
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#filters-successfully").bind("click", function(){
       console.log('a');
    });

    $("#filters-not-successfully").bind("click", function(){
       console.log('b');
    });
    getTaskStatus=function(переменные){
        $.ajax ({
          ...
        });
    }
});


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Homemade Ketchup in Just 5 Minutes!
Homemade ketchup in just 3 steps – Easy, rich in flavor and definitely healthier than store-bought versions.
Probably the most famous sauce in the world, ketchup is super versatile and can be used in a lot of different recipes, or simply with french fries together with some good homemade mayonnaise.
An all-time-favorite among kids and grown-ups, ketchup is a staple for so many dishes, just think about chunky hot chips, hot dogs or burgers. They just wouldn't taste the same without a good dose of ketchup. But have you ever tried making your own homemade version?
Store-bought ketchup contains some nasty ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup and a list of preservatives. Homemade ketchup on the other hand is cheaper, contains only a bunch of natural ingredients and spices, takes very little effort to make, tastes so much better and it's healthier for you. Some pretty good reasons to choose to make your own ketchup over buying it.
There are a lot of variations on the original ketchup recipe, which involve the use of various spices or different kinds of vinegar. I try to keep it as simple as possible, with fewer ingredients and just the basic spices.
Once you master the basics, it's easy to get carried away and try new ingredient combinations, or add some fresh herbs like I did in this spicy basil ketchup.
Over the years I've tried both the slow-cooked version, which remains a little bit more thick and grainy, and the quick no-cooking version, where all you need to do is throw the ingredients in a blender and mix until smooth. Although the latter is quick and effortlessly easy, the slow-cooked homemade ketchup uses canned tomatoes instead of paste, and delivers much more flavour, so it's hands-down my favorite choice.
Heat a large saucepan with extra virgin olive oil on med-low heat, add chopped onion and sautée until translucent. Then pour in the creamy plum tomatoes.
Add brown sugar, tomato paste, vinegar, cinnamon, black pepper and salt to taste, and mix well. Cook for about 40 mins on very-low heat, stirring often, until the sauce thickens.
Once ketchup is ready, you can add nutmeg and chili powder according to your taste, to give your sauce a little bit of heat. Then, simply blend all ingredients in a food processor or blender.
Pour your homemade ketchup into sterilized bottles, then seal tightly and place in the fridge until needed – it should keep for about six months, but it tends to disappear within a week from my fridge.
To make a super quick homemade ketchup, go for the no-cook route, which calls for tomato paste and a little water instead of canned tomatoes. I use this method everytime I'm in a rush, it's a bit mild in flavour but still delicious and still better than store-bought version.
This ketchup takes zero efforts. I throw all ingredients in my Vitamix and blend until combined into a smooth texture. I like to add a pinch of nutmeg and chilli powder at the end for a spicy kick, like I do for the slow-cooking version.
Store in an airtight container and place in the fridge until needed, up to 1 week.
And while you're here, why not check out how to make homemade mayonnaise?
How To Make Homemade Ketchup in Just 5 Minutes!
Homemade ketchup in just 3 steps - Easy, rich in flavor and definitely healthier than store-bought versions.
Place all ingredients in powerful blender.
Add a pinch of nutmeg and chilli powder at the end for a spicy kick, or leave the ketchup plain.
How much vinegar and maple syrup should be used in the no cook version? It says ? Cup.
Wonder if the slow-cooked version could be made with FRESH peeled and seeded plum tomatoes?
Hi Pat, I never actually tried with raw tomatoes, but I feel the taste would be a bit on the acid side, much more similar to "salsa fresca" rather than ketchup.
Why not share the yield with us? Does this recipe make 2 cups or 2 gallons?