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Bangkok Shopping Malls
Bangkok shopping malls range from tiny and crowded to big and luxurious, making the city a great shopping destination.
Siam Paragon at night © KhunBhun
Bangkok is home to a huge range of shopping malls, ranging from inexpensive and crowded to luxury shopping malls. Whether you're visiting on a shoestring budget or here to fill your suitcase, you'll have no trouble finding great places to shop.
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Shopping Malls in Ratchaprasong
Most of Bangkok's shopping malls are found in the Ratchaprasong area – an area of high-end shopping malls stretching from Siam BTS Station to Ploenchit. Most of the biggest shopping malls in Bangkok can be found in this part of the city.
Strolling at Siam Paragon © Jason D' Great
Bangkok's second biggest and most popular shopping mall is Siam Paragon. Located adjacent to Siam BTS Station, Paragon is home to designer brand names, technology and Hi-Fi retailers, a gourmet supermarket and even a luxury car dealership.
Although Paragon's focus is on high-end products, it's a great place to shop for high street fashion. Clothing brands like Uniqlo, H&M and Zara can be found on floor two and three, while a range of restaurants are located on the ground floor.
On the top floor, you'll find one of Bangkok's most popular cinemas. Siam Paragon is a great place to catch a movie, offering a range of experiences from the typical movie outing to luxurious sofas and even a bookable private cinema.
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MBK © Jason D' Great
Like the modern day equivalent of Aladdin's Cave, MBK is six floors of tiny stalls packed cheek-by-jowl with one another, selling everything from mobile phones to sunglasses to tshirts to soap. At a complete contrast to the glitzy likes of Siam Paragon, MBK is where Thais come to find bargains and there is a huge host of no-name brands at cheap prices. For some, it's a shopper's paradise – for others, a claustrophobic nightmare.
Siam Center and Siam Discovery
Next to Siam Paragon, you'll find Siam Center – a smaller shopping mall specialising in fashion for teens and 20-somethings. Siam Center is accessible via BTS Siam or by an underground walkway connecting it with Siam Paragon.
Siam Discovery is located next to Siam Center and is home to a range of technology and clothing brands. It's connected to Siam Center via a sky bridge on floor four, as well as a courtyard on the ground floor connecting the two shopping malls.
Surrounded by the crowded streets of Siam Square, Siam Square One is the newest shopping mall in Ratchaprasong. Equal parts Siam Centre and Siam Discovery, it's a combination of technology, local fashion designers and high street apparel.
Easily accessible via Siam Station, Siam Square One is located directly opposite Siam Paragon. On the top floors, you'll find a wide range of Japanese restaurants and day spas. Floors two through four are home to Bangkok's only official Disney store.
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Fountain at Central World © Adam Lai
Central World is Bangkok's biggest shopping mall. Located between Siam and Chit Lom BTS stations, Central World is Bangkok's most comprehensive shopping mall, with everything from high-end fashion to sportswear, tech and more on offer.
Central World is gigantic (it's the world's sixth-largest shopping mall) and can be divided into several different sections:
ZEN, a lifestyle and fashion department store accessible via the BTS Skywalk
Central World, the main eight-storey shopping complex
Groove @ Central World, an indoor/outdoor dining and fashion complex
Central World competes with nearby rival Siam Paragon to serve as Bangkok's top shopping destination. The mall is easily accessible via the skywalk connecting Chit Lom and Siam BTS stations.
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Gaysorn Shopping Centre
From Louis Vuitton to TAG Heuer, Gaysorn is the place to be in Ratchaprasong for high-end shopping. Bangkok's only mall dedicated exclusively to luxury shopping, Gaysorn is located across from Central World and accessible via the skywalk.
Gaysorn specialises in luxury shopping, so if you're on the hunt for bargains it's not a key destination. From Swiss watches to the latest in high fashion, Gaysorn offers a huge range of brand names that will keep any high-end shopper happy.
Amarin Plaza
Easily accessible via Chit Lom BTS Station, Amarin Plaza is connected to several of the area's luxury hotels. Its tenants include tailors, luxury brand names, jewellery stores and a range of health spas and clinics.
Amarin Plaza attracts locals, expats and tourists alike. Although this mall is less of a star attraction than nearby Central World and Siam Paragon, it's worth a visit, if only for the excellent food court on the fourth floor.
Accessible via skywalk from Chit Lom BTS Station, Central Chidlom is a department store located one block from Gaysorn. Open since 1973 and frequently renovated, it attracts a crowd that's equal parts affluent Thai shoppers and tourists.
Although department stores can be found in almost all of Bangkok's shopping malls, Central Chidlom is the biggest and most popular in Ratchaprasong. Drop by the top-floor food court for a unique dining experience and great views of the city skyline.
The latest mall from Central Group, Central Embassy is an ultra-modern luxury mall connected to BTS Ploenchit Station by sky bridge. It's home to Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada and other luxury brands, offering a similar range of brands to Gaysorn.
In addition to a huge range of designer brands, Central Embassy is home to several cafés and exclusive restaurants. On the top floor, you'll find Embassy Cineplex – the most exclusive (and expensive) cinema complex in Bangkok.
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Shopping Malls in Sukhumvit
Sukhumvit Road is one of Bangkok's main roads and a popular shopping destination for Thais, expats and tourists. Thanks to its perennial traffic jams, most of the malls along Sukhumvit Road are located next to a BTS station.
Terminal 21 Mall © Krista
Located next to Asok BTS Station, Terminal 21 is one of Bangkok's most unique and interesting shopping malls. Instead of the usual brand names and chains, Terminal 21 is dedicated almost entirely to small local retailers and designer stores.
Terminal 21 covers nine floors, with each floor having a unique city theme. Step into the streets of Rome as you enter and travel through Paris, Tokyo, London, Istanbul, San Francisco and Hollywood as you make your way from one floor to the next.
Home to a large cinema complex and a great food court, Terminal 21 is one of the most popular malls in the Sukhumvit area and the easiest to reach if you're staying near Asok or Nana BTS stations.
Located beside Phrom Phong BTS Station, Emporium is an upmarket shopping mall offering everything from fashion to furniture. On the top floor, you'll find one of the most popular cinemas – SFX Emporium – with a large food court one floor lower.
Emporium is the centre of high-end shopping in Sukhumvit, making it a great place to shop if you're staying between Asok and Thong Lor stations. If you've visited Siam Paragon or Central Embassy already, you won't find anything new here.
Bangkok Mediplex
Located at BTS Ekkamai Station, Mediplex is Bangkok's only medical mall. The entire complex is dedicated to health and wellness products and services. Worth visiting if you're interested in health products, Mediplex is otherwise not all that exciting.
A Japanese-themed shopping mall connected to Ekkamai BTS Station, Gateway is a great place to visit if you're searching for Japanese brand name products or Tokyo-style cafés. Otherwise, its location makes it an inconvenient shopping destination.
Shopping Malls in Silom and Bangkok's Riverside
Silom and Bangkok's riverside area aren't known for their shopping, but they're still worth a visit if you're looking for antiques and other products. Icon Siam, a gigantic "community mall" due to open in 2017, could make the area a shopping hotspot.
Accessible by taxi or boat (take the private boat from Saphan Taksin pier) River City is Bangkok's top antique mall. In addition to antiques, the mall is home to a range of jewellery, silk and gemstone stores offering uniquely Thai furnishings and items.
In addition to its retail shops and stands, River City hosts antique auctions and other antique-related events on a frequent basis. It's also home to some of Bangkok's best riverside restaurants and bars, many of which offer great views of the Chao Phraya.
Central Silom
Connected to Sala Daeng BTS Station, Central Silom (also known as Silom Complex) is a small but convenient shopping mall offering fashion, technology, lifestyle goods and more.
Although it's far from a shopping highlight (there are bigger, better malls just a few stations away at Ratchaprasong) Central Silom is a convenient shopping mall if you are staying at one of the many hotels on Silom or Sathorn Road.
Icon Siam
Scheduled for completion in 2017, Icon Siam is currently marketing itself as being Bangkok's "biggest community mall". Located on the Thonburi side of the river, it's made up of two luxury malls, a museum of treasures and a 400-metre light show.
Although it's still under construction, Icon Siam could potentially transform a quiet section of Bangkok's riverside area into a shopping hotspot rivalling Ratchaprasong and Sukhumvit.
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Maine tries to shift the cost of recycling onto companies instead of taxpayers
With mountains of boxes and bubble wrap from online pandemic shopping now going in the trash, Maine is trying to enact what is known as an extended producer responsibility program.
By Frances Stead SellersThe Washington Post
John Maxwell walks cardboard and garbage from his Subaru to a large bin at Eastern Maine Recycling Inc. in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Maxwell and many other residents still sort their recycling out by item, even though the facility stopped recycling all products in recent years. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Gabe Souza For The Washington Post
TRENTON — At the height of tourist season, the recycling bins at this coastal town used to swell with glass and plastic, office paper and piles of cardboard from the local boatyard. But the bins are gone, and their contents now join the trash, destined either for an incinerator to generate electricity or a landfill.
Trenton is one of many Maine towns that had to cut back or close their recycling operations after events both global and local. In 2018 China, which used to take much of America's plastic waste, banned most of those imports. Last year, a plant in Hampden that promised to provide state-of-the-art recycling for more than 100 municipalities shut down.
With mountains of boxes and bubble wrap from online pandemic shopping now going in the trash, lawmakers are trying to make Maine the first state to shift some of the costs of its recycling onto companies – not taxpayers. If the bipartisan bill passes, Maine will join several Canadian provinces, including neighboring Quebec, and all European countries, which have for decades relied on so-called extended producer responsibility programs, or EPR, for packaging.
"It's good that the bottom fell out," said Rep. Nicole Grohoski, D-Ellsworth, the bill's Democratic sponsor, whose district includes Trenton. She doesn't believe the old system of shipping products halfway around the world to China makes sense as countries try to reduce their carbon footprints.
"We have to face this problem and use our own ingenuity to solve it," Grohoski said.
The proposed legislation, which is vehemently opposed by representatives for Maine's retail and food producing industries, would charge large packaging producers for collecting and recycling materials as well as for disposing of non-recyclable packaging. The income generated would be reimbursed to communities like Trenton to support their recycling efforts. EPR programs already exist in many states for a variety of toxic and bulky products including pharmaceuticals, batteries, paint, carpet and mattresses. At least a dozen states, from New York to California and Hawaii, have been working on similar bills for packaging.
"Ten years ago, this would have been unthinkable," said Dylan de Thomas, vice president of external affairs at the Recycling Partnership, who said he is seeing far more openness to EPR bills from such corporate giants as Coca-Cola and Unilever than in the past.
"It's a reflection of the pressure they are seeing from corporate investors," said de Thomas, who anticipates there may be similar shifts in national policies.
"That's the big enchilada," he said.
Steve Wright and Jeff Reynolds at the Unity Area Regional Recycling Center in Thorndike. The duo grew up in the area and are the center's only two employees. Gabe Souza/The Washington Post
EPR programs for packaging, which accounts for about 40 percent of the municipal waste stream, have worked well in other countries, said Scott Cassel, CEO of the Product Stewardship Institute, who said benefits include new jobs as well as reinforcing the circular economy – or continual reuse of resources.
"These are tried-and-true strategies," he said. None of these first bills will be perfect. But this is a path that we need to start down in the U.S."
In Maine, the bill's opponents raise concerns about the logistics retailers may face policing the new policies and the potential for food costs to rise for consumers who are just emerging from the pandemic. They cite a study from Toronto's York University, which analyzed New York's EPR bill and estimated an additional $36 to $57 per month in grocery costs for the average family of four. EPR advocates contest those findings, saying there is little evidence of significant costs ending up with consumers in other countries.
For many rural Mainers who don't enjoy the benefits of free curbside waste collection, the debate over recycling seems irrelevant. They haul their own trash to transfer stations to avoid the $6 weekly charge for having it collected.
"I've never been one to recycle," said Penny Lyons, a Trenton resident, although her family has a stash of bottles and other beverage containers on a flatbed trailer that can be turned in for cash. Her husband, who works in car sales, is able to dispose of their solid waste at work, she said.
Chocolate maker Kate McAleer, who owns chocolate maker Bixby &. Co, said that to follow federal food safety guidelines her company uses metalized film that is a challenge to recycle but protects against pests, air, sunlight and tampering. Changing that would have an impact on her products' shelf life.
Steve Wright, an employee at the Unity Area Regional Recycling Center in Thorndike, moves a plastic divider while loading bags of plastic containers into a semi truck trailer. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Gabe Souza/The Washington Post
She doesn't believe legislators understand the complexity of food safety. "I think they think there are solutions that there aren't," Bixby said.
Christine Cummings, executive director of the Maine Grocers and Food Producers Association, said her primary concern is "the unknowns" for businesses in a state that sits at the end of distribution routes and relies heavily on incoming goods.
"What is this going to do on our supply chain?" she asked.
Grohoski dismisses such concerns.
"We won't be out on a limb for long," she said, anticipating that if her bill passes, other states will soon follow suit.
In the meantime, some communities are paying a premium to continue recycling programs by shipping materials south to Portland, the state's biggest city. Others are devising ways to process and sell recyclable materials.
In Unity, about 90 miles north of Portland, Steve Wright and Jeff Reynolds are running an eight-town sorting operation, feeding paper and plastics into giant green balers and glass into a machine that grinds bottles into a glistening powder that can be used for insulating boxes around lithium batteries or with aggregate to make driveways.
Each of the surrounding towns pays in according to its population – Unity has 2,000 residents – and individuals from further away can join for an annual fee of $30.
The pandemic has increased the piles of cardboard, particularly from pet owners leery of going inside stores, Wright sad.
The operation is powered by 40 solar panels and has room to expand – particularly if the EPR goes through.
"We have to move now," said Rep Stanley Paige Zeigler, D-Montville, whose district includes Unity and who has worked alongside Grohoski to advance the EPR bill.
Sarah Nichols, Sustainable Maine director at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, sees the bill as the logical next step for a state that has led the way in environmental policies. Maine passed one of the first bottle bills in the 1970s and in 2004 the first laws requiring manufacturers to pay the entire cost of recycling computers and televisions. In 2019, the legislature passed the nation's first statewide ban on Styrofoam food containers that will soon go into effect.
A woman drops a cardboard box into a bin at the Eastern Maine Recycling Inc.'s recycling facility in Southwest Harbor on Saturday. The facility stopped recycling in the past couple of years and now simply collects garbage for the community. Gabe Souza/The Washington Post
"Maine is seen as a national leader in environmental policy," Nichols said. "That's why people move here and visit. It's part of our state's personality."
Nichols points out that Department of Environmental Protection estimates show it can cost 67 percent more to recycle than dispose of packaging. Taxpayers pay at least $16 million annually to manage packaging material through recycling or disposal – costs they have no control over.
Nichols argues the EPR bill would give manufacturers an incentive to reduce packaging and design packaging that is more easily recycled.
Old recycling habits die-hard at the transfer station in Southwest Harbor, with its stunning views toward the forested slopes of Acadia National Park.
Residents drive up to pitch their waste into bays still bearing green signs reminding them of the old days when they sorted their waste: Glass, tin, aluminum and plastic in one; magazines, catalogues and other paper goods in another.
The baler that used to package up paper hasn't been used for a couple of years, according to the site's owner, Mark Worcester. Instead, Worcester is sending out a 25-30 ton container of trash – sometimes two – every day, usually to be incinerated for electricity.
"We get tons and tons of cardboard," Worcester said.
On a busy Saturday morning, car after car pulled up loaded with packaging materials, folded ready for the recycling that would not happen.
"It's a reflex," said Jon Zeitler, as he broke down a box and chucked it into the bay that used to be for paper goods.
"Mentally, I have to," said Jonathan Quebben as he, in turn, pitched his cardboard in.
Susan Raven, a third-grade teacher, said she has made a point of telling her students how to be responsible custodians of the earth. But it's hard for them to put that into practice, she said, as she pulled out of her car's trunk the plastic boxes her family of four always used to sort their recycling and then pitched it all into the trash.
"We can't break the habit," she said.
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Stephen Kruiser • 2018-01-09 20:04:41 chat 0 comments
Yeah, we haven't heard a lot about him for the last couple of #MeToo months.
"Lady Bird" writer-director Greta Gerwig tells @frankbruni that she regrets having worked with Woody Allen and wouldn't do it again https://t.co/RgVLLM6irs
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) January 10, 2018
Rhetorical question, right?
Why Does Google's New 'Fact-Check' Feature Seem to Be Targeting Conservative Sites? https://t.co/LJmG2FxzuL (By @JosephWulfsohn) pic.twitter.com/BY0Jde2UzN
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 10, 2018
More from the original Daily Caller post:
And not only is Google's fact-checking highly partisan — perhaps reflecting the sentiments of its leaders — it is also blatantly wrong, asserting sites made "claims" they demonstrably never made.
When searching for a media outlet that leans right, like The Daily Caller (TheDC), Google gives users details on the sidebar, including what topics the site typically writes about, as well as a section titled "Reviewed Claims."
Vox, and other left-wing outlets and blogs like Gizmodo, are not given the same fact-check treatment. When searching their names, a "Topics they write about" section appears, but there are no "Reviewed Claims."
In fact, a review of mainstream outlets, as well as other outlets associated with liberal and conservative audiences, shows that only conservative sites feature the highly misleading, subjective analysis. Several conservative-leaning outlets like TheDC are "vetted," while equally partisan sites like Vox, ThinkProgress, Slate, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Salon, Vice and Mother Jones are spared.
Media bias takes on many forms and, given Google's ubiquity, this may be one of the more insidious yet. Google isn't just spoon feeding liberal nonsense to people, it's earth-moving it. The tendency to only check conservative sites mirrors exactly what the MSM does to Republicans in the White House. I was just thinking yesterday that I wonder what an exhaustive search of the 2009-2016 media would turn up in the way of President Obama being fact checked. Anything? President Trump can't say "Hello" without "news" outlets fact checking to see if that was, in fact, an appropriate greeting.
It is no secret that Google is a left-leaning corporate monolith, but it is also a for-profit enterprise. Maybe they're rolling the dice that people are so used to using the search engine that this kind of news won't affect them.
Then again, maybe a little more sunshine will shake things up.
Roger L. Simon • 2018-01-09 17:15:05 chat 0 comments
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Rick Moran • 2018-01-09 17:13:13 chat 0 comments
Ivanka Trump praised Oprah Winfrey's anti-harassment speech at the Golden Globes.
Just saw @Oprah's empowering & inspiring speech at last night's #GoldenGlobes. Let's all come together, women & men, & say #TIMESUP! #United https://t.co/vpxUBJnCl7
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) January 9, 2018
Apparently this wasn't enough for the #TIMESUP crowd:
Vox:
Ivanka Trump failed to acknowledge that one of the men for whom time should be up, theoretically, is her father, who has been accused by more than a dozen women of alleged sexual misconduct and was caught on tape bragging about sexual assault. Some of his accusers spoke out as recently as last month, renewing their allegations in light of the #MeToo movement.
Trump herself has been the subject of her father's sexist behavior: In 2004, Donald Trump told radio DJ Howard Stern that it was okay to characterize Ivanka as "a piece of ass" and famously said he would be romantically interested in Ivanka if she weren't his daughter. Last year, then-candidate Trump said he thought his daughter should change jobs or careers if she were sexually harassed at work — not that the harasser should be held accountable.
Sheesh. Some people just can't take "yes" for an answer. Ivanka is not guilty of sexual harassment. But because of her father's questionable past, this somehow discredits her support? Where's the logic in that?
Some have pointed to this statement of "questionable" advice to women who may be sexually harassed.
Ivanka gave women some questionable advice for dealing with sexual harassment in her 2009 book, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Business and in Life: "Learn to figure out when a hoot or a holler is indeed a form of harassment and when it's merely a good-natured tease that you can give back in kind."
Sounds like common sense to me. But then, I'm not a woman and don't get harassed. I'm sure some women are very uncomfortable having their sexiness and good looks commented on like that. I'm also sure that others enjoy the attention. Since most of us aren't mind readers and don't know what the reaction to a wolf whistle or catcall might be, good manners demand that we refrain from doing it.
Unless manners, too, are "sexist" in which case why should we care what women think anyway?
Stepping down, you say?
BREAKING: BANNON STEPPING DOWN FROM BREITBART NEWS. Story to follow.
— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) January 9, 2018
It's probably pointless to speculate about whether he was forced out of chose to walk away, but this move does beg some questions:
How will the MAGAs react? Thus far in the Great Trump-Bannon War of 2018, we've seen them back Trump almost to a person. Their loyalty is to the Big Man, not to his consigliere.
Where does Breitbart go from here? Trump is hinting he'll make a DACA amnesty deal with Chuck Schumer and maybe even bring back EARMARKS of all things. Is the new Bannonless Breitbart going to push policies that are important to their readers (such as they are) or will they continue to prop up Trump no matter what he sells out on?
How will this shake up the conservative(ish) media landscape? Do readers of the second most popular conservative website on the Internet now wander off to other sites? The answer to that question will depend on #2.
What happens with the Drudge-Bannon feud. Will Drudge reward Breitbart sans Bannon with pats on the head in the form of links?
Stay tuned and pop lots of popcorn.
UPDATE: We may have an answer to #4:
UPDATE #2: Breitbart vows to work together with Bannon for an "orderly transition."
Bannon: "I'm proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class news platform."
Breitbart CEO Larry Solov: "Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and we will always be grateful for his contributions, and what he has helped us to accomplish."
UPDATE #3: Allahpundit speculates on the questions above:
In theory Bannon's ouster and the purging of loyalists is a chance for Larry Solov and the Mercers to reboot the site. In practice doing that would be highly risky given the traffic they'd stand to lose from alienating readers who expect a certain product, particularly knowing that Bannon will be out there looking to gobble up any consumers who dislike the new direction. The lesson of his defenestration by Trump is that you don't cross Trump and survive in the populist ecosystem. Whatever Breitbart does now, whether it's more media-oriented a la Andrew Breitbart's vision or more political a la Bannon's, it'll have to be slavishly pro-Trump as well in order to retain its market edge. I'm sure the Mercers, who spent a lot of money helping make Trump president, wouldn't want it any other way.


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I missed out on a lot of great Nintendo games since I never owned a SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii or Wii U. I want to go back and be able to play some of the classics that came out on those systems. Such as Secret of Mana, Star Fox, Mario RPG's, among many others. What are other games on those systems that I should play? What are some video games that you didn't play and want to try?
I relay on emulators and roms for all my classic gaming needs! But just a short list of snes games is as follows.
Just to name a few... I could be bias but I believe snes had the clear cut best rpgs out of any gaming system to date.
I have a table top miss pacman, and centipede. but roms can be fun. Old commadore 64 games!
spy vs spy is the only commodore 64 game I remember, but remember loving it.
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Metroid for game cube, also a funy party game for that is monkey ball.
Snes I can't recommend Final Fantasy 3 enough, same with Breath of Fire 2. Sim City was also pretty fun.
Defnitely agree about Zelda games. Zelda: A Link to the Past for Super Nintendo is one of my favorite games ever and arguably the best in the series (although Breath of the Wild was incredible).
Also I think Wii Sports is one of the most fun multiplayer games I've played.
Thanks to this thread, I just wasted a good portion of my afternoon playing oregon trail.
that and little computer people, although I think that could run on a few other platforms. odd but fascinating game. Thank goodness I had a double cassette deck and could "borrow" games from friends.
I just built a RetroPie gaming system and have been focusing on MAME games. Here are my favorites so far.
There are probably 4700 I've never heard of. I'm going to try a few from this conversation.
I'm debating whether to build a cabinet and put in real arcade buttons, joysticks, trackballs, etc. Trying to see how much I actually play it first.


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Domingo Demetrio García Rada (Lima, 20 de diciembre de 1912 - 6 de septiembre de 1994) fue un magistrado, jurista y catedrático peruano. Fue presidente de la Corte Suprema (1967-1968) y el Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (1980-1985).

Biografía

Nacido en Lima, sus padres fueron Lizandro E. García Corrochano y María Rada Paz-Soldán y Paz-Soldán. Su madre era nieta del político Pedro Paz Soldán y Ureta y bisnieta del prócer José Hipólito Unanue.

Realizó sus estudios escolares en el Colegio de la Inmaculada. En 1930 ingresó a la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, pero al ser esta clausurada en 1932 se trasladó a la Universidad Católica del Perú, por la que obtuvo el título de abogado (1942) con una tesis sobre la propiedad horizontal. Obtuvo el grado de doctor en Derecho en 1943 en la Universidad Católica. Su tesis doctoral fue publicada en 1944 con el título de El Poder Judicial.

En 1942 contrajo matrimonio con Mercedes Sofía Belaúnde Yrigoyen, hija del diplomático Víctor Andrés Belaúnde. Entre sus hijos estuvieron el constitucionalista Domingo García Belaúnde, el diplomático José Antonio García Belaúnde y el político Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde.

Carrera judicial
Desde 1940 fue sucesivamente secretario de la Corte Suprema, juez instructor de Lima (1944), vocal de la Corte Superior de Lima (1949).

En 1957, el Congreso de la República lo eligió vocal titular de la Corte Suprema, nombramiento publicado en la Resolución Legislativa 12853. En 1967 fue elegido presidente de la Corte Suprema, cargo que ocupó hasta 1968, cuando el recién instaurado Gobierno militar lo separó del Poder Judicial.

En 1979 una disposición de la Constitución de ese año lo reincorporó al Poder Judicial y al año siguiente la Corte Suprema lo nombró su delegado en el Jurado Nacional de Elecciones, del que fue elegido presidente.

El 24 de abril de 1985, fue víctima de un atentado terrorista por Sendero Luminoso cuando su auto fue interceptado en San Isidro, Lima, recibiendo dos balas en la cabeza y una en el brazo izquierdo. Poco tiempo después renunció a su cargo de presidente del JNE.

Labor académica
Fue profesor principal de Historia del Derecho en San Marcos (1952-1982) y decano de las facultades de Derecho en la Pontificia Universidad Católica (1956-1958) y la Universidad San Martín de Porres (1976).

Publicaciones
 Poder Judicial. 1944
 Instituciones de Derecho Procesal Penal. 1965
 El inculpado. 1967
 La Instrucción I. 1967
 La Instrucción II. 1968
 La prueba. 1968
 Manual de Derecho Procesal Penal. 1970
 Sociedad anónima y delito. 1973
 El delito tributario. 1975
 Memorias de un juez. 1978

Véase también
 Corte Suprema de Justicia de la República del Perú

Nacidos en Lima
Fallecidos en Lima
Domingo
Abogados de Perú
Alumnado de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Juristas de Perú
Presidentes de la Corte Suprema de Perú
Alumnado de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Sanmarquinos (siglo XX)
Catedráticos de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Grandes cruces de la Orden al Mérito por Servicios Distinguidos
Víctimas de Sendero Luminoso


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Home Politics Transcript: Ron Klain on "Face the Nation"
Transcript: Ron Klain on "Face the Nation"
The following is a transcript of an interview with Ron Klain, incoming White House chief of staff for President-elect Joe Biden, that aired Sunday, December 13, 2020, on "Face the Nation."
MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the incoming White House chief of staff for President elect Joe Biden, and that is Ron Klain. Good morning to you.
INCOMING WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF RON KLAIN: Good morning, MARGARET, thanks for having me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you intend to keep Operation Warp Speed intact when you take office? What changes will you make to vaccine distribution?
KLAIN: You know, we are reviewing the progress of Operation Warp Speed and the ways in which we can structure the vaccine distribution most effectively. We'll have something to say about that shortly after the first of the year. We're going to- certainly going to build on the good things about Operation Warp Speed, but also try to be more effective in managing this vaccine distribution program. I agree with something Dr. Adams just said. The program that's before the country to try to vaccinate hundreds of millions of Americans in a few months is one of unprecedented complexity, unprecedented expense, unprecedented technical challenges. We're going to put in place the right people and the right process to do that. It's great that about 200,000 Americans have been vaccinated in this first week, but 200,000 is a long, long way from hundreds of millions of people. That's where we need to get to, MARGARET.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And we will- we will follow up with you on those details when you make those calls. I want to ask you about the near term, and that is Christmas. The president elect says he will have a small family gathering because of COVID. He still attends mass indoors in-person. What is his guidance to Americans who want to worship that way?
KLAIN: MARGARET, I'm sorry I have lost you. I can't hear you anymore.
MARGARET BRENNAN: All right.
KLAIN: I'm very sorry.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It sounds like we are having some audio problems there.
KLAIN: I just- I can't hear what you're saying. I'm sorry.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We'll take a commercial break and continue the conversation on the other side.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We want to pick up where we left off with incoming White House Chief of staff Ron Klain, and thank you for sticking us- sticking with us there. I hope–
KLAIN: Of course.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –in the new year, we can have a conversation in person. But- but–
KLAIN: Indeed.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –in- in the- in the COVID world, I want to ask you to finish your thought. And that was about Christmas. And the vice- the president-elect still attends mass indoors in-person. What is his guidance to Americans who want to worship that way?
KLAIN: Look, I think the guidance is to do it very carefully. I think that the mass he attends is sparsely attended. They control the number of people who go. He wears a mask. I think it's important for people to be careful. I mean, look, the most important thing he can say to everyone right now, while we're waiting for this vaccine to be available, is for people to mask up, to practice social distancing, to be careful, to wash their hands, to do all the things Dr. Adams was talking about. People need to celebrate the holiday. They need to mark these important events, but we need to do it in the most careful way possible, as responsibly as possible. That's what he's been doing and that's what he encourages others to do.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Have you been briefed yet on this new strain of COVID?
KLAIN: We have not yet been briefed on it. We're supposed to get briefed next- early next week on this. Obviously, we're going to respond to this with expertise–
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.
KLAIN: –from science and medicine. We're going to take whatever changes we need to take in the- in the approach if there need to be changes based on what the experts, the medical experts advise us.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK, we're going to take a very quick break and continue our conversation on the other side of it.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to FACE THE NATION. We're continuing our conversation with Ron Klain. I want to switch gears to talk about this massive hacking of the federal government and private entities. The transition team has had some level of briefing on this. Is there any doubt that Russia was behind it?
KLAIN: (audio glitch) –to disclose this information in terms of who gets the blame. We should be hearing a clear and unambiguous allocation of responsibility from the White House, from the intelligence community. They're the people in charge. They're the ones who should be making those messages and delivering the ascertainment of responsibility. Instead, what we've heard is one message from the secretary of state, a different message from the White House, a different message from the president's Twitter feed. We have been briefed on this. But again, I think in terms of publicly communicating the position of our government that has to come from the current government and it should be coming in a clear and unambiguous voice.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, the president-elect was pretty clear when he spoke to my colleague Stephen Colbert on CBS earlier this week, and he was asked about Russia and he said they'll be held accountable. He said they'll face financial re- repercussions for what they did. Is that no longer the case? He no longer believes it's Russia.
KLAIN: No, what I'm saying is that the official statements about who's responsible for this particular attack needs to come from–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Gotcha.
KLAIN: –the administration in a clear and unambiguous way.
KLAIN: What the president elect has also said clearly, MARGARET, is that those who are responsible are going to face consequences for it. And he's going to take steps as president to degrade the capacity of foreign actors to launch these kinds of attacks on our country.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So Senator Mitt Romney said this morning the Russians potentially have the ability to target U.S. utilities and cripple the US economy. Is that your understanding of what these hackers have the ability to do right now and are sanctions as far as the president-elect is willing to go?
KLAIN: Well, so I think there's a lot of uncertainty still about what the purpose of these attacks were. Were they espionage oriented? Were they designed to inflict damage on us? I agree with Senator Romney about the capacity of foreign actors. I think there's still a lot of unanswered questions about the purpose, nature and extent of these specific attacks. And we're looking- looking forward to learning more about them. I think in terms of the measures that a Biden administration would take in response to an attack like this, I think- I want to be very clear. It's not just sanctions. It's also steps and things we could do to degrade the capacity of foreign actors to repeat this sort of attack or we're still engaged in even more dangerous attacks.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK. Have the two- I'm hoping you can still–
KLAIN: And now, MARGARET, I've lost you again. I'm sorry, but the connection has been–
MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. All right.
KLAIN: –severed once again.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Just when we were- I was going to ask you a follow up there. But Ron Klain, thank you very much for joining us.
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Fans' dragging Sania Mirza into controversy after Pakistan loss irks Shoaib Akhtar
Sania was even presented with parenting advice amidst the criticism.
Shoaib Akhtar. (Photo Source: Twitter)
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Updated - Feb 08, 2020, 20:00 IST
Ever since Pakistan lost their high-voltage clash against arch-rivals India at Old Trafford on Sunday, strong reactions have not stopped pouring in. One of the members of Pakistan playing XI, Shoaib Malik, has been particularly targeted for his golden duck. The 37-year-old batting all-rounder scored two consecutive ducks against Australia and India and his dismissals at a crucial time hurt Pakistan badly. The chorus has now grown bigger that Malik might have already played his last match.
However, it is not just Malik who has found himself in the controversy but also his family. He is married to ace Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and she has also faced the flak after Pakistan's defeat. Sania was seen with her husband and some other Pakistani cricketers at a sheesha place late in the night and some fan filmed it and posted on the social media saying the Pakistani players were busy partying late into the night even when they had a World Cup match against India the next day.
It was later clarified both by the Pakistan Cricket Board and Malik that the video was from June 13 and not June 15 (the match was on June 16) but the fans were little convinced. Sania later lashed back at the fans for taking a picture violating their privacy and had a spat with Pakistani actress Veena Malik who advised her against taking her infant son to a sheesha place and also consuming junk.
Sania was upset with the advice on parenting and hit back. Later, her husband broke his silence and appealed against dragging the family into the controversy.
If Malik hasn't performed well, drop him, why drag Sania, Akhtar
Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar stood by Sania saying it was not right to drag her into the controversy. Speaking on his YouTube channel, she called Sania a "badkismat khatoon" (unfortunate woman) who was made to face a bad experience just because Pakistan have lost a cricket match. "If Shoaib Malik hasn't performed, drop him. But why bring Sania into this," an upset Akhtar said.
Also read- World Cup 2019: Sarfaraz Ahmed is an accidental captain, says Aaqib Javed
Pakistan lost to India by 89 runs in DLS Method are now in danger of crashing out of the World Cup early. Sarfaraz Ahmed's side next take on South Africa at Lord's on June 23.


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The Easy, Ugly Impulse to Ban Books and Punish Librarians and Teachers
The Founders would recognize it—and be ashamed by it.
by Paul Rosenzweig
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Efforts to ban books from libraries and to control the public expression of dissent—the subject of a House subcommittee hearing today—would dismay and disturb our nation's founders. Having fought a revolution provoked, at least in part, by Britain's denial of freedom of expression in its American colonies, they would be shocked at this illiberal tendency.
Here's how the Continental Congress, in its "Appeal to the Inhabitants of Quebec" written in 1774 seeking support against England, described freedom of the press and of speech:
The importance of this consists, besides the advancement of truth, science, morality, and arts in general, in its diffusion of liberal sentiments on the administration of Government, its ready communication of thoughts between subjects, and its consequential promotion of union among them, whereby oppressive officers are shamed or intimidated into more honorable and just modes of conducting affairs.
In 1787, the Framers of the Constitution saw important values inherent in the principle of freedom of inquiry: the search for truth, scientific progress, cultural development, increased virtue among citizens, holding governmental officials to account, strengthening the community, and serving as a check on politicians. Today, as we rush to ban books and limit the freedom of inquiry, we are tossing aside those values.
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In doing so, we risk becoming that which our forebears rebelled against. Instead of exalting the liberty of free inquiry some now seek to restrict thought and channel it into "accepted" ideas. Consider these troubling indicators:
In a handful locations around the country, individuals have filed criminal complaints against librarians or educators—as if by bringing criminal charges, one could limit disagreements. One such proposed charge was sought against a public library in Wyoming; another was advanced in a school district in Florida. To date, law enforcement and prosecutors have (thankfully) declined to pursue any charges, yet the push continues.
Meanwhile, a group called Moms for Liberty in Williamson County, Tennessee, objected to a number of children's books in the local elementary school, including a picture book about seahorses that they alleged to be "social conditioning" because it explains that male seahorses "are the only male fish to get 'pregnant' . . . growing their young inside their own bodies"—as if banning the books would change the science.
Pages from the 2006 book 'Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea.'
While it is easy to dismiss these efforts as those of a vocal minority (and they really are a minority of Americans), the truth is that the impulse to censor increasingly finds purchase among elected officials.
The essential fact is that public schools and public libraries are community institutions. They support our society by enabling everyone in the community to share in the search for truth. To be sure, parents ought to be able to judge what is best for their own children. But that doesn't mean that they should be able to dictate what is right and proper for everyone else to read.
It is particularly disturbing that the efforts to ban or restrict books very often involve books about people who are different—whether because of their sexuality or their race or for some other reason.
Perhaps the campaign is a noble effort to shield children from some of the world's difficult realities. But it is also, sometimes, the expression of a baser instinct, one that the Founders would be familiar with, to suppress dissent and erase differences.
Books have great power. That is why authoritarians restrict them. And that is why, soon after the government was formed in 1789 under the new Constitution, Congress and the states moved quickly to protect the freedom of speech and expression via what became the First Amendment. As James Madison put it, in opposing earlier efforts to restrict the spread of ideas that the government opposed, even speech that creates "a contempt, a disrepute, or hatred [of the government] among the people" should be tolerated because the only way of determining whether such contempt is justified is "by a free examination [of the government's actions], and a free communication among the people thereon."
When Americans today look to limit the freedom of inquiry, they reject an important lesson of our Founders—that free inquiry is the engine of liberty. They do so at their own peril.
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Paul Rosenzweig is the principal at Red Branch Consulting and a former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security. The views expressed here are his own.
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I have a question to "how to solve that?"
Because I am also facing a similar issue while integrating.
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There was an error while integrating your Klaviyo account with Magento 2. Below are the details about your error
Klaviyo is unable to connect to Magento Server for OAuth Handshake.
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are accessible
So if you can help me, it will be very much useful.

A: Getting same above issue on Magento 2.4.2 with Klaviyo Integration.
Solution:

/vendor/magento/module-integration/Controller/Adminhtml/Integration/TokensExchange.php
use Magento\Framework\App\Action\HttpGetActionInterface;
class TokensExchange extends Integration implements
HttpPostActionInterface,HttpGetActionInterface
Added additional interface HttpGetActionInterface

Please override this file to local
https://github.com/magento/magento2/commit/68d20230ca9d6198fa3093eb174e24aff47b1646#comments

A: Actually there was no issues in the code or the module.
The problem was, I was using magento in localhost, so klaviyo was not able to connect it.
I moved to a public IP and removed the sub folder format in url, i.e., localhost/magento2 was my url. Changed it to work with localhost/
So now klaviyo is working.

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Q: Problems parsing a file in C I'm trying to parse a set of files that all have the same format. Here's an example instance:
NAME:  br17
TYPE: ATSP
COMMENT: 17 city problem (Repetto)
DIMENSION:  17
EDGE_WEIGHT_TYPE: EXPLICIT
EDGE_WEIGHT_FORMAT: FULL_MATRIX
EDGE_WEIGHT_SECTION
 9999    3    5   48   48    8    8    5    5    3    3    0    3    5    8    8
    5
    3 9999    3   48   48    8    8    5    5    0    0    3    0    3    8    8
    5
    5    3 9999   72   72   48   48   24   24    3    3    5    3    0   48   48
   24
   48   48   74 9999    0    6    6   12   12   48   48   48   48   74    6    6
   12
   48   48   74    0 9999    6    6   12   12   48   48   48   48   74    6    6
   12
    8    8   50    6    6 9999    0    8    8    8    8    8    8   50    0    0
    8
    8    8   50    6    6    0 9999    8    8    8    8    8    8   50    0    0
    8
    5    5   26   12   12    8    8 9999    0    5    5    5    5   26    8    8
    0
    5    5   26   12   12    8    8    0 9999    5    5    5    5   26    8    8
    0
    3    0    3   48   48    8    8    5    5 9999    0    3    0    3    8    8
    5
    3    0    3   48   48    8    8    5    5    0 9999    3    0    3    8    8
    5
    0    3    5   48   48    8    8    5    5    3    3 9999    3    5    8    8
    5
    3    0    3   48   48    8    8    5    5    0    0    3 9999    3    8    8
    5
    5    3    0   72   72   48   48   24   24    3    3    5    3 9999   48   48
   24
    8    8   50    6    6    0    0    8    8    8    8    8    8   50 9999    0
    8
    8    8   50    6    6    0    0    8    8    8    8    8    8   50    0 9999
    8
    5    5   26   12   12    8    8    0    0    5    5    5    5   26    8    8
 9999
EOF

I'm wanting to lift out the dimension of the matrix and the matrix itself, everything else can be discarded. This is the code I'm currently using to try and parse it:
fp = fopen(argv[1] , "r");

for (i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
{
    fscanf(fp, "\n");
}
fscanf(fp, "%d", &size);
for (i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
{
    fscanf(fp, "\n");
}
cost = (double**) calloc(size, sizeof(double*));
for(i = 0 ; i < size; ++i){
    cost[i] = (double*) calloc(size, sizeof(double));
}

for(i = 0 ; i < size; ++i)
{
    for(j = 0 ; j < size; ++j)
    {
        fscanf(fp, "%lf", &(cost[i][j]));
    }
    cost[i][i] = 0;
}

fclose(fp);

(The file does seem to have newlines when I open it in a text editor - though not in Notepad - I don't know why they've vanished here. NAME, TYPE, COMMENT, DIMENSION, EDGE_WEIGHT_TYPE, EDGE_WEIGHT_FORMAT, and EDGE_WEIGHT_SECTION all appear starting new lines. EDIT: Ah, thanks, Yossarian. I'm a Stack Overflow newbie!)
Anyway, my code isn't working. Specifically, I've noticed through using a debugger that it isn't lifting the dimension of the matrix, which means that the attempt to read the matrix properly is doomed from the start. All variables are declared, that's not the problem. It's just not reading the number after dimension and assigning it to size. What am I doing wrong?
EDIT: I've tried Vicky's suggestion of fscanf(fp, "%s\n", buf); - which also has the advantage of letting me see where it is in the file by watching the value of buf - and discovered that it's taking one word at a time, not one line. Trouble with that approach is that the COMMENT: line isn't consistent in the number of words it has. Using "%*s" and "%*s\n" didn't write anything at all to buf.
EDIT 2: while((c = getchar()) != '\n' && c != 'EOF') ; just hangs the program. No idea what it's doing.
EDIT 3: while((c = getc(fp)) != '\n' && c != 'EOF') ; is going through the file line by line, but fscanf(fp, "%d", &size); still isn't picking up the number.
EDIT 4: Aha! Got it working with
char c;
for (i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
{
    while((c = getc(fp)) != '\n' && c != 'EOF') ;
}
fscanf(fp, "%*s");
fscanf(fp, "%i", &size);

for (i = 0; i < 4; ++i)
{
    while((c = getc(fp)) != '\n' && c != 'EOF') ;
}

Thanks for the help, all!

A: I've always found that the  scanf functions introduce more problems than they solve.
Personally, I prefer to use fgets:-
char buffer [1024];
file = fopen (filename);

while (fgets (buffer, 1024, file))
{
  ParseState state = FindingLineType;

  for (char *token = strtok (buffer, " ") ; token ; token = strtok (0, " "))
  {
    // parse the token!
    switch (state)
    {
    case FindingLineType:
      if (stricmp (token, "DIMENSION:") == 0)
      {
        state = GettingDimension;
      }
      else
      {
        if (isdigit (*token))
        {
          if matrix has been created
          {
            state = ParsingMatrix;
          }
          else
          {
            error - got matrix row before dimension
          }
        }
      }
      break;

    case GettingDimension:
      dimension = atoi (token);
      create matrix
      break;
    }
  }
}

That should give you some ideas, you can certainly add more error checking.

A: Counting on \n only to determine line ending is not reliable, what if your file has \r  as line terminating character? In fact you need to consider \n, \r and \r\n as line ending sequences.
Windows notepad is a kind of "Hello World"-editor. It is very basic and limited and can only deal with \r\n as line ending, this is why it shows one single row if lines are ending with \r or \n.
Line reading in C is not a trivial task, you could use fgets for that if you know how long at maximum a line can be, so you can pass an appropriately allocated buffer. Otherwise you'll have have to deal with unknown line lengths, witch is you case with the COMMENT line. I personally prefer to have witch can deal with all that and just returns a line from the file in one call, see an example of such a read_line function.
In the file format you have presented the size of the matrix come at line 4. So will have to escape to first three line for that just do the following three time
read_line(pf);

On the 4th read_line you have the line containing the size. You need to extract and save it for later.
// DIMENSION:  17
line = read_line(pf);
printf("%s\n", line);
// extact the size of the matrix
tmp = strtok(line, " ");
tmp = strtok(NULL, " ");
size = atoi(tmp);
printf("Parsed size = %d\n", size);
free(line);
line_number++;

Now you have three other lines left to come to your matrix. Escape them just like the first  ones.
Now your matrix starts, here you can use fscanf, you could start reading from the file right after you allocate a matrix row, this way you would save some unnecessary iterations.
Here is how you could build your loops:
if(size > 0) {
    printf("Start reaading matrix of size %dx%d\n\n", size, size);
    matrix = malloc(sizeof(double*) * size);
    for(i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        matrix[i] = malloc(sizeof(double) * size);

        n_read = 0;
        for(j = 0; j < size; j++) {
            n_read += fscanf(pf, "%lf", &matrix[i][j]);
            printf("%.2lf\t", matrix[i][j]);
        }
        printf("\n");
        line_number++;
        if(n_read != size) {
            printf("invalid data at line %d, expected to read %d but got %d\n", line_number, size, n_read);
        }
    }
}


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Beauty | News
These three movements will help lift and firm your skin
Text: Renée Batchelor
Is the secret to youthful skin a combination of both good products and massage techniques? Probably so
You know what they say about losing weight. It's always a combination of diet and exercise. You can't really do one without the other. Sure there are shortcuts to getting trim, but if you have the time and discipline, doing it the hard way does reap rewards. It's the same with taking care of your skin. Most experts — from skincare brand creators to doctors — agree that establishing a good routine and taking care of your skin consistently trumps many quick fix solutions. Even Coco Chanel herself said, "Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life sculpts your face at thirty. But it's up to you to earn the face you have at fifty."
Chanel has updated its Le Lift range that has three different cream textures with a new ingredient, an alfalfa botanical concentrate that enables better cellular renewal at the epidermal (top layer of the skin) level. At the deeper, dermal level, it also increases collagen synthesis. And we all know that collagen is the secret to taut and bouncy skin. But it's not just the skincare ingredients that make a difference. It's the application techniques and massages that can really extend and improve the life of your skincare. The first is a smoothing movement that helps reduce the look of lines and plumps up the skin. To do this, use the thumb and index finger, and gently pinch along the nasolabial folds (by the sides of your nose) and the frown lines on the forehead, then smooth. Repeat this thrice. The second is a firming movement to stimulate the skin's supportive tissues. This time, use the thumb and the four other fingers to pinch deeply along the jawline and the cheeks and repeat three times. The final movement is a resurfacing one that activates your skin's microcirculation. Use your middle finger to rub along the areas that tend to sag — the nasolabial folds, frown lines, cheeks and forehead — and once again repeat this three times. Diligence pays off and over a course of four weeks you'll see firmer, more luminous and elastic skin and smoothed wrinkles.
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A dermatologist talks: Breaking down anti-ageing treatments
Clé de Peau Beauté's first dedicated, anti-ageing serum has a 4D, firming effect


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Q: Notification API pointer mouseover For an intranet web app, I'm using the notification Api, working great on Chrome and Firefox.
All my notifications are clickable, and redirect to specific urls.
When hovering the notification, i would like to have a pointer cursor, to ensure the user he can click on the notification.
Google search were unsuccessful :'(
Is there a way to do it?

A: Unfortunately, there's no way to do it.
You can not use CSS or any styling in a notification element: It's not part of the page.
The only thing you can do is to detect clicks, add images, title & a body.


Edward L. Morgan, a former White House lawyer who in 1974 pleaded guilty to participating in a plan to create a fraudulent $576,000 tax deduction for President Richard M. Nixon, died on Aug. 6 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 61.
The cause was heart failure after a long illness, The Associated Press reported.
Mr. Morgan had been a resident for a time at a convalescent center in Los Angeles, but had returned to his home in Santa Monica a couple of years ago, a staff member of the center said yesterday.
Mr. Morgan pleaded guilty to tax fraud in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Nov. 8, 1974, three months after Mr. Nixon resigned as President. Mr. Morgan had been charged with one count of conspiracy to impair, impede, defeat and obstruct the proper and lawful governmental functions of the Internal Revenue Service.
Judge Hart sentenced Mr. Morgan to 4 months in prison and 20 months' probation. He served the sentence at a Federal detention center at Lompoc, Calif.
Mr. Morgan testified in 1975 at the trial of another defendant in the case that he had never been asked by any White House official to use the donation of the President's papers to obtain a tax deduction for Mr. Nixon.
Mr. Morgan, a native of Lorain, Ohio, graduated from the University of Arizona and its law school. He served as a captain in the Army before becoming a trial lawyer in Phoenix.
He worked on Mr. Nixon's 1968 Presidential campaign, and then early in the Nixon Administration became the deputy to the Presidential aide John D. Ehrlichman. Mr. Morgan later served as an Assistant Treasury Secretary until January 1974, when he was forced to resign because of the furor over his role in creating the fraudulent tax deduction.
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The question of the validity of the deduction for the papers turned on timing. In 1969 Congress passed a law prohibiting tax deductions for such gifts after July 25, 1969.
The information filed in district court said Mr. Morgan and other conspirators had known that the papers were not actually given to the Archives until a year later, and that the documents were fraudulently backdated to make it seem otherwise.
In pleading guilty, Mr. Morgan acknowledged he had knowingly backdated documents involved in the gift of Nixon papers to the Government. He also cooperated with the prosecution of other associates of Mr. Nixon.


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Analysis: Can Egypt have a president without a constitution?
Egypt's next president will begin his tenure in the absence of a national charter specifying his responsibilities and powers
Hani al-Aasar, Political science researcher, Tuesday 22 May 2012
File photo: Head of the Presidential Election Committee Farouk Sultan (seated at table on stage, 2nd R) gives a news conference to announce the final list of candidates for the elections (Photo: Reuters)
Everyone is awaiting the outcome of Egypt's first post-Mubarak presidential election with baited breath. For many, the election of a new president will restore the stability Egyptians have been longing for since Mubarak's ouster early last year. For others, a new president means the end of the military's involvement in politics. For others still, the victory of their favourite candidate will usher in a new age of freedom and social justice.
All of this is wishful thinking, of course. Most Egyptians don't seem worried by the fact that the new president will begin his tenure in the absence of a constitution determining his responsibilities and powers.
It is hard to assess post-election scenarios without a careful examination of the constitutional declaration that will define the powers of the incoming president in the first few months of his tenure. If we look carefully at the declaration, we will notice two points of immense relevance. One has to do with the president's status; the other with the declaration's articles that set him on a collision course with parliament.
The president's status
The new president will take office under a constitutional declaration that doesn't grant him adequate powers. According to articles 25, 35 and 56 of the declaration, the president is entitled to appoint some members of the People's Assembly and Shura Council. He can appoint or dismiss the cabinet. He represents the country at home and abroad. And he appoints some civilian and military officials.
The same constitutional declaration, however, robs the president of the power to ratify state policy. And he will not be the one ratifying the public budget. Consequently, the president will not be able to increase salaries, introduce unemployment allowances, raise the health and education budgets, or do the rest of the things candidates promised to do. The real power in such matters resides, according to the constitutional declaration, with parliament.
Contentious articles
The writers of the constitutional declaration, inadvertently perhaps, have created several contentious articles certain to take the next president and the People's Assembly down a collision course. Neither will be able to avoid this collision, except through serious political concessions – which could end up being a tough pill to swallow.
The most obvious of these contentious articles is Article 25, which grants the president the powers mentioned in Article 56 of the earlier constitution, with the exception of clauses 1 and 2. Clause 5 of Article 56 allows the president to pass laws and object to them. However, the president has no right to introduce legislation. This right, mentioned in clause 1 of the same article, belongs instead to parliament. In other words, there will be no laws passed without some agreement between the president and parliament – not always an easy matter.
Crisis and solution
Assuming that Egypt's next president will not be affiliated with the Islamist majority in parliament, one can expect one of the following scenarios to unfold:
A subservient president: In this scenario, the president will be little more than an honorary official bending to the wishes of the parliamentary majority. The president will be inclined to avoid any differences with parliament, because he will need parliament's help in matters related to his popularity and the fulfilment of his electoral promises. The president will also be inclined to placate parliament if the assembly is to play a major role in drafting the new constitution.
Collision course: Conflict is unavoidable if the president finds himself caught between the anvil of public discontent and the hammer of parliamentary pressure. The parliamentary majority may force the president into a corner unless he gives in to its wishes. If the president challenges parliament, he must have considerable public support behind him. To get this type of support, the president will be tempted to denounce parliamentary policy, which could lead to endless trouble with the legislature.
Having a sitting president who is not backed by a constitution giving him sufficient powers to do his job is a risky affair. Therefore, all true Egyptian patriots must exert every effort to have a permanent constitution written – one that can offer proper safeguards for the country. Those who attempt to achieve political hegemony by stalling the constitution-drafting process, meanwhile, are simply harming their own cause.


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Q: What would disable a foreign key constraints? I have a database and all the foreign key constraints are disabled. No one went in as disabled them manually. Can SQL Server disable them automatically for any reason? Would a backup or restore turn them off?
How do I go about turning them back on?
We're using SQL Server 2008.

A: SQL Server do not disable constraints automatically. Even Backup and restore can not turn them off on its own.
Only way to disable constraint is by running Alter Table command like this one:
ALTER TABLE table_Name NOCHECK CONSTRAINT all

To turn on all constraint on one table:
ALTER TABLE table_Name CHECK CONSTRAINT all

To turn constrains for all table in database, you can use this command:
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="ALTER TABLE ? CHECK CONSTRAINT ALL"
GO


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Enfield NO 1 MK 3 Cal. 303 British Original.
Product Code: ENFIELD0003
We just received a small shipment of the Enfield No1 MK3 rifles. These beautiful rifles come straight out of Ethiopia. The condition of the rifles is NRA good to very good. Many of the rifles have its original finish. Some rifles may have a cracked hand guards behind or in front of the rear sight. But not all of them do. The guns do have dents and dings in the stock as can clearly be seen in the pictures and videos. All guns have been tested and are safe to shoot. We have seen rifles as early as 1913 and late as 1943.
We do have a hand select option available for an additional $100.00. We will select the best rifle out of 20 for you.
If you have any questions please call us and we will be more than happy to answer any of your questions or concerns.
History taken from Wikipedia.
The Lee–Enfield is a bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle that served as the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century. It was the British Army's standard rifle from its official adoption in 1895 until 1957.[10][11] The WWI versions are often referred to as the "SMLE", which is short for the common "Short, Magazine, Lee–Enfield" variant.
A redesign of the Lee–Metford (adopted by the British Army in 1888), the Lee–Enfield superseded the earlier Martini–Henry, Martini–Enfield, and Lee–Metford rifles. It featured a ten-round box magazine which was loaded with the .303 British cartridge manually from the top, either one round at a time or by means of five-round chargers. The Lee–Enfield was the standard issue weapon to rifle companies of the British Army and other Commonwealth nations in both the First and Second World Wars (these Commonwealth nations included Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and South Africa, among others).[12] Although officially replaced in the UK with the L1A1 SLR in 1957, it remained in widespread British service until the early/mid-1960s and the 7.62 mm L42A1 sniper variant remained in service until the 1990s. As a standard-issue infantry rifle, it is still found in service in the armed forces of some Commonwealth nations,[13] notably with the Bangladesh Police, which makes it the second longest-serving military bolt-action rifle still in official service, after the Mosin–Nagant (Mosin-Nagant receivers are used in the Finnish 7.62 Tkiv 85).[14] The Canadian Rangers unit still use Enfield rifles, with plans to replace the weapons sometime in 2017–2018 with the new Sako-designed Colt Canada C19.[15] Total production of all Lee–Enfields is estimated at over 17 million rifles.[8]
The Lee–Enfield takes its name from the designer of the rifle's bolt system—James Paris Lee—and the factory in which it was designed—the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield.
Design and history
The Lee–Enfield rifle was derived from the earlier Lee–Metford, a mechanically similar black-powder rifle, which combined James Paris Lee's rear-locking bolt system that had a barrel featuring rifling designed by William Ellis Metford. The Lee action cocked the striker on the closing stroke of the bolt, making the initial opening much faster and easier compared to the "cock on opening" (i.e., the firing pin cocks upon opening the bolt) of the Mauser Gewehr 98 design. The bolt has a relatively short bolt throw and features rear-mounted lugs and the bolt operating handle places the bolt knob just rearwards of the trigger at a favourable ergonomic position close to the operator's hand. The action features helical locking surfaces (the technical term is interrupted threading). This means that final head space is not achieved until the bolt handle is turned down all the way. The British probably used helical locking lugs to allow for chambering imperfect or dirty ammunition and that the closing cam action is distributed over the entire mating faces of both bolt and receiver lugs. This is one reason the bolt closure feels smooth. The rifle was also equipped with a detachable sheet-steel, 10-round, double-column magazine, a very modern development in its day. Originally, the concept of a detachable magazine was opposed in some British Army circles, as some feared that the private soldier might be likely to lose the magazine during field campaigns. Early models of the Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield even used a short length of chain to secure the magazine to the rifle.[16] To further facilitate rapid aimed fire the rifle can be cycled by most riflemen without loss of sight picture.
These design features facilitate rapid cycling and fire compared to other bolt-action designs like the Mauser.[11] The Lee bolt-action and 10-round magazine capacity enabled a well-trained rifleman to perform the "mad minute" firing 20 to 30 aimed rounds in 60 seconds, making the Lee–Enfield the fastest military bolt-action rifle of the day. The current world record for aimed bolt-action fire was set in 1914 by a musketry instructor in the British Army—Sergeant Instructor Snoxall—who placed 38 rounds into a 12-inch-wide (300 mm) target at 300 yards (270 m) in one minute.[17] Some straight-pull bolt-action rifles were thought faster, but lacked the simplicity, reliability, and generous magazine capacity of the Lee–Enfield. Several First World War accounts tell of British troops repelling German attackers who subsequently reported that they had encountered machine guns, when in fact it was simply a group of well-trained riflemen armed with SMLE Mk III rifles.[18][19]
Standard Mk VII .303-inch cartridge for Lee–Enfield rifle
The Lee–Enfield was adapted to fire the .303 British service cartridge, a rimmed, high-powered rifle round. Experiments with smokeless powder in the existing Lee–Metford cartridge seemed at first to be a simple upgrade, but the greater heat and pressure generated by the new smokeless powder wore away the shallow, rounded, Metford rifling after approximately 6000 rounds.[10] Replacing this with a new square-shaped rifling system designed at the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) Enfield solved the problem, and the Lee–Enfield was born.[10]
Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk I
A shorter and lighter version of the original MLE—the Rifle, Short, Magazine, Lee–Enfield or SMLE (sometimes spoken as "Smelly", rather than S, M, L, E)[14]—was introduced on 1 January 1904. The barrel was now halfway in length between the original long rifle and the carbine, at 25.2 inches (640 mm).[23] The SMLE's visual trademark was its blunt nose, with only the bayonet boss protruding a small fraction of an inch beyond the nosecap, being modelled on the Swedish Model 1894 Cavalry Carbine. The new rifle also incorporated a charger loading system,[24] another innovation borrowed from the Mauser rifle and is notably different from the fixed "bridge" that later became the standard, being a charger clip (stripper clip) guide on the face of the bolt head.[25] The shorter length was controversial at the time; many Rifle Association members and gunsmiths were concerned that the shorter barrel would not be as accurate as the longer MLE barrels, that the recoil would be much greater and the sighting radius would be too short.[26]
Standard Mauser Model 1934 Ethiopian Contract - Super Rare! Original German WWII K. 98 Mausers Modified Mannlicher Model 1888 Carbine Lee Speed/LEE-METFORD ENFIELD RIFLE FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION
French Berthier Mle 1907/15 Rifle Yugo Mauser M24/47 Cal. 8mm fair to good condition. Yugoslavian Refurbished German K.98 Historically Correct Restored Early M1 Carbine W/ Flip Sights & No Bayonet Lug
Nice "Big Bang" relic December 12, 2020
Reviewer: John Adam from Arkansas
This is a welcome addition to a collection. Was very happy to get a 1918 in decent condition. The stock was fine and complete with the repair necessary to the wood around the sight that is common. The firing pin retaining "screw" was missing. If you find it in Ethiopia, let me know; in the mean time a replacement is easily found. Rifling is visible down the barrel. Am adding the reproduction accessories of: sling, case, oiler and pull through. Also, found a bayonet and scabbard for a complete kit. What fun! .303 ammo and blanks are easy to come by. It is used to ward off Coyotes with its "Big Bang!" when not being admired on the wall.
Great buy December 9, 2020
Reviewer: J. from TX
Solid interwar production rifle. Barrel is not perfect, but can see strong rifling even before cleaning. Bolt runs beautifully. Should clean up to a 'Good'. Will likely buy another sooner or later.
Enfield No.1 Mk III November 25, 2020
Reviewer: chris from lawrenceville, GA United States
About as much rifling as a smooth bore musket. Eats the bullet all the way to the case, zero rifling left and pitting as well in the barrel. Besides that it matched the description. It was 1936 and had some dings and dents. That barrel condition should warrant a B grade.
Nice! November 8, 2020
Reviewer: A.D. from California
Just received a rifle made by SSA in 1917. It is filthy, but it's all there. Bore's in great shape with strong rifling. The bolt doesn't match, but the spring feels strong and it cycles dummy rounds just fine. Safety and sights work perfectly. The wood doesn't have any major cracks and should clean up nice. The magazine sticks, but I think it'll work fine once the decades of gunk are cleaned off. Overall I'm very happy with it, and can't wait to clean it up and take it to the range.
SURPRISED August 27, 2020
Reviewer: JOHN S from MISSISSIPPI
After reading some reviews i was worried about what condition i would get. I got a 1918 with no company name, no missing parts, dirty as expected but the bore had alot of thick black fouling that must have coated the bore to keep it from rusting. Stock was crack free. I placed the order on 20 july and just recieved it yesterday 26 august. Doesn't look like i have to spend any extra money just elbow grease to bring back to life. So i guess i got lucky on this rifle.


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Where possible try and use JPG images. JPGs tend to load faster, which is great for your visitors and for SEO.
The Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT) is a free image optimizer that will let you adjust your image's compression parameters while keeping the minimum file size.
Here are a few more image editors you may want to consider if you plan to compress images before uploading them to your website or blog.
WordPress is extremely functional and many people choose to edit their images once they have uploaded them. One of the easiest methods is choosing one of the presets Large, Medium or Thumbnail when inserting an image into your page or post.
You also have a fourth option "Custom" which allows you to specify the width and height of the image.
Its important to remember that with this option, the image is still pulling the large image, it is just "squeezing" it into the sizeyou specify, thus this does not reduce load time.
WP Smush.it. This plugin will compress all images you upload automatically. It will aslo compress any existing images, making it very useful if you have a lot of old posts with large images.
Lazy Load. This plugin helps reduce image loading time by showing images as you scroll through the page.
EWW Image Optimizer. This plugin compresses your images as you upload them.
Thanks Max. Very nice and simple to use.