If the vintage should be represented by a single object, it would probably be a watch. Whether new or used, classical or atypical, the watchmaking world strives to give shape to time maintaining a timeless character which its own. Thus, over the years, lines have to reinvent itself for our greatest pleasure, each guard watch its uniqueness while respecting the codes that made the glory of the great watchmaking houses.
Watch vintage in all forms.
The vintage watch is not limited to one style, contrary to what might suggest many recent brands taking codes of classic design through a multitude of models fashions. It comes in several forms according to its time of origin. Thus, we can find the style of the 1970s with iconic models like the small Casio Casiotron or the cutting-edge designs of the French House Lip, but also the chic and nature sports such as Omega or Rolex luxury brands and its famous Submariner. As you can see, there are as many as people vintage watches.
But what pleases especially in the vintage watch is without a doubt the option of wearing an antique wristwatch as those of the Swiss houses with quality and who, even after 20, 30, 50 years or even more, are also reliable in the early days through the quality of its components and know-how of this industry. Over time, these models have a unique charm, their patina becomes inimitable and nothing seems to stop them.
How to find the watch that will you fall for?
If she can count many followers, the watch that meets all your requirements and will fill you with happiness can sometimes be hard to find. No miracles, well need to be sure to do good business. Watch the news and go to different salons that also allow you to admire the new models of luxury brands, to meet many collectors and perhaps find your happiness. You can also go through sites specializing in this sector of activity such as Chrono 24, a market place for the sale of luxury watches. For those who prefer to have the opportunity to have the watch in hand, various flea markets and markets flea can be good places to the discovered treasures, but you need to exercise patience and prudence, a minimum of knowledge being necessary in order to verify the authenticity of a model and be sure to have found a real gem.


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Q: Convert tab delimited txt file into csv file comma separated I have this text file and I want to convert it into comma separated file
antecedents    consequents    support    confidence    lift
-------------  -------------  ---------  ------------  ------
  398  frozenset(['LM = 25', 'DIAB = n', 'SMOK = y'])     frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333
  461  frozenset(['Age = 80', 'LM = 15', 'CHOL = 200'])   frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333
  837  frozenset(['RCA = 80', 'Age = 80', 'SMOK = y'])    frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333

I applied pandas and csv but it doesn't separate columns, it only separates raws like this
antecedents    consequents    support    confidence    lift
-------------  -------------  ---------  ------------  ------
"  398  frozenset(['LM = 25', 'DIAB = n', 'SMOK = y'])     frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333"
"  461  frozenset(['Age = 80', 'LM = 15', 'CHOL = 200'])   frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333"
"  837  frozenset(['RCA = 80', 'Age = 80', 'SMOK = y'])    frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333"

This is the code I used
1-
dataframe = pd.read_csv("/Users/user/PycharmProjects/Apriori /Rules.txt",delimiter="\t")
dataframe.to_csv("newDoc.csv", encoding='utf-8', index=False)

2-
txt_file = r"/Users/user/PycharmProjects/Apriori /Rules.txt"
csv_file = r"mycsv.csv"

in_txt = csv.reader(open(txt_file, "rb"), delimiter = '\t')
out_csv = csv.writer(open(csv_file, 'wb'))

out_csv.writerows(in_txt)

Any help please?

A: Given the lines it looks as if you could use a regular expression to grab the five fields.  Something along the lines of:
import csv
import re

# looks like a consistent format given the example text:
line_re = re.compile('^\s*(\d+)\s+(frozenset.*?\))\s*(frozenset.*?\))\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)$')
txt = '''antecedents    consequents    support    confidence    lift
-------------  -------------  ---------  ------------  ------
  398  frozenset(['LM = 25', 'DIAB = n', 'SMOK = y'])     frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333
  461  frozenset(['Age = 80', 'LM = 15', 'CHOL = 200'])   frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333
  837  frozenset(['RCA = 80', 'Age = 80', 'SMOK = y'])    frozenset(['AL = 1'])       0.25             1  1.33333'''

with open('mycsv.csv', 'w') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    for line in txt.splitlines():
        mo = line_re.match(line)
        if mo:
            writer.writerow(mo.groups())

cat mycsv.csv
398,"frozenset(['LM = 25', 'DIAB = n', 'SMOK = y'])",frozenset(['AL = 1']),0.25,1,1.33333
461,"frozenset(['Age = 80', 'LM = 15', 'CHOL = 200'])",frozenset(['AL = 1']),0.25,1,1.33333
837,"frozenset(['RCA = 80', 'Age = 80', 'SMOK = y'])",frozenset(['AL = 1']),0.25,1,1.33333

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How Does HSBC's New Growth Plan Impact Its Key Value Drivers?
HSBC recently unveiled the growth strategy it intends to pursue over the coming years. The growth plan marks the end of the large-scale reorganization the geographically diversified banking giant has been undergoing since 2011 – something that resulted in a reduction in its global footprint through the disposal of many loss-making and non-core units worldwide. While the reorganization plan was essential given the changes in global regulatory requirements since the economic downturn, it led to a steady decline in revenues for HSBC over the years.
The bank is now aiming to grow its top line over the coming years by focusing its efforts on high-growth areas while keeping costs low and reallocating capital more efficiently. We capture the impact of the growth plan on various aspects of HSBC's business model as a part of our interactive dashboard for the bank, parts of which are shown below (and see more about how Trefis technology is used by CFOs, institutional investors and private equity firms).
We maintain our $55 price estimate for HSBC's shares, which is about 10% ahead of the current market price.
Improve Market Share In Its Home Market – U.K.: HSBC is expected to focus on growing mortgage operations in the U.K., and will also drive growth in small business lending by easing application process. This should help the bank reverse the poor loan growth it has witnessed in the country over recent years.
Leverage Leadership Position In Global Transaction Banking Industry To Boost Revenues In The High-Margin Business: Given HSBC's #1 rank in global transaction banking, it makes sense for the banking giant to make the most of its geographical diversification to grow its Trade Finance and Securities Services operations further over coming years. While this will have a positive impact on client balances for the bank's trade finance operation and on assets under custody for its securities services operation going forward, the high profit margins realized in these businesses will also help profit margins for HSBC's Global Banking & Markets division (which also includes its investment banking operations).
Return U.S. Operations To Profit By Focusing On International Clients: HSBC has largely exited the retail banking space in the U.S. following its mortgage debacle in the wake of the economic downturn, and continues to prioritize the ongoing run-off of non-core U.S. loan portfolio. However, the importance of the U.S. in terms of trade finance will mean that the bank will focus its Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Commercial Banking as well as Investment Banking efforts in the U.S. on multi-national clients. This will allow the bank to grow its loan portfolio in the U.S. without incurring heavy costs associated with a full-fledged banking setup.
Improve Returns By Reallocating Capital: HSBC aims to release excess capital from its U.S. operations and from its Securities Trading operations, and to transfer this to high-growth areas like Asia Retail and Wealth Management operations, and Transaction Banking. This will allow the bank to report a steady improvement in return on equity, despite the projected increase in total equity from strong operating performance, as well as the bank's decision to hold dividend payout steady in the near future.
Invest In Technology To Lower Long-Term Costs And Improve Customer Service, And To Simplify Organization Structure: As a part of the overall growth plan, HSBC will invest $15-17 billion over the next three years to improve its presence in focus markets and strengthen its core infrastructure. The bank will also work on reducing business model complexity and simplifying client-facing processes. These changes are expected to result in sustainable gains across operating divisions for the bank in the long run by helping revenue grow at a faster rate than operating expenses.
We forecast HSBC's EPS for full-year 2018 to be $3.44. Taken together with our estimated P/E ratio of 16 (which we believe is appropriate for the banking giant), this works out to a price estimate of $55 for HSBC's shares.


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"Dance of Time" is nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards: Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Engineered Album.
Congratulations to Eliane and her team!
The Chicago Tribune gives Eliane's show a stellar review
The sounds of Brazil swept into Evanston on Friday evening, though imbued with the character of American jazz.
Brazilian singer-pianist Eliane Elias has been intertwining the two, to varying degrees, through most of her career, and during her first set at SPACE she very nearly erased lines separating them. For whether she was playing up-tempo fare (most of the time) or occasional ballads, she combined the rhythmic lilt of Brazilian samba and bossa nova with the robust spirit and harmonic intricacies of contemporary jazz improvisation.
True, Elias worked within mainstream expression, leaving experimentation to others. But perhaps it's best to regard her as a longtime champion of the music of her native country, proselytizing for it around the world, and quite effectively so.
Indeed, the youthful enthusiasm and unabashed ebullience of her show at SPACE ran counter to what one might expect from an artist who has been touring the world for decades. Judging by this night, Elias still brings a sense of discovery to her Brazil-meets-jazz metier.
Elias opened the evening leading her trio in an instrumental version of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "O Morro Nao Tem Vez" ("Somewhere in the Hills"), her pianism reminding listeners of the classical foundation of her technique. Many fine jazz pianists dispatch runs and arpeggios with comparable velocity, but not always with the depth and beauty of tone that defined Elias' playing. Add to this her empathetic collaboration with bassist Marc Johnson, her husband, and the relentlessly pulsing backbeats of drummer Tiago Michelin, and you had a trio with Brazilian music at its heart and American drive in its bones.
Much of the evening's repertoire came from "Dance of Time," Elias' latest album, starting with the joyous "Sambou Sambou" (which Elias translated as "You Dance to the Samba"). Its composer, the prolific Brazilian songwriter-pianist Joao Donato, made a belated Chicago debut as a septuagenarian in 2007, leading a trio in a buoyant performance at the now-long-gone HotHouse; and he returned the following year to participate in singer-guitarist Paulinho Garcia's massive bossa nova concert in Millennium Park.
"Sambou Sambou" captures the puckish, playful facet of those Donato appearances, Elias emphasizing the point with the bright timbre of her vocals, the silvery tone of her pianism and the easy bounce of her rhythms. It was impossible not to smile during this performance.
Elsewhere in the program, Elias answered her throaty vocals with melodic piano commentary in the Gershwins' "Embraceable You," produced an avalanche of keyboard sound in "Coisa Feita" ("Silver Sandal") and provided an all-too-rare moment of quiet in her own "By Hand" ("Em Maos").
The tour de force came toward the end, in Jobim's "Desafinado," reconceived here as a vast fantasia built on multiple sections and several tempo changes. Elias' lush opening piano solo revealed her conversance with the musical vocabularies of two stylistically far-flung masters: Art Tatum and Bill Evans. Once Elias' collaborators joined the instrumental texture, the trio offered rigorous jazz improvisation, with Johnson's cellolike bass solo as surprising as it was poetic.
Asking the audience to sing "ahhh" at the appropriate moments in Jobim's "The Girl From Ipanema," which Elias offered as an encore, may not have been the most original idea of the night. Yet there was something disarming about hearing a packed house deliver that famous sigh in unison, as if to underscore the universality of Brazilian sounds of a certain era.
Ultimately, this music never goes out of date. In Elias' hands, it can seem almost new.
Howard Reich is a Tribune critic.

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Lil Wayne Open Safe Mp3 Download. It's Carter V Season, and we are at the Peak of it all. At the stroke of midnight Lil Wayne came through with his Birthday gift to himself and fans, the official release of Carter V. The album which is 6 years in the making, has been met with so much love from fans. Indeed, Weezy has satisfied our hunger for new music. Each and every song on the album has chart topping potential, especially Monalisa. Another track that stands out is this one titled Open Safe.
Open Safe comes off Lil Wayne's just released album, Carter V. The song is an upbeat bass heavy track that finds Weezy going in over a bell-like chord progression. The song is produced by DJ Mustard and Mike Free. Check out the lyrics below.


Caldera has been incredibly blessed during the 1.13 season. We've had great server population count, decent voting results, and amazing donation rates. All of these are thanks to you, our players! Therefore, the server would like to take an opportunity to help others with some of our prosperity. However, we could use your help to pick a cause to donate towards!
I have selected a few causes that I have either heard about personally or donated towards in the past. These charitable organizations have been written below, with a brief description of what they do and any other relevant information I could find about them. On January 1st, the server will make a guaranteed $100 donation out of our extra donation revenue to whichever cause has the majority of the votes. In addition, throughout the month of December 50% of all incoming donations (including subscriptions) will go to our winning cause! This extra money will be in addition to our $100 guaranteed donation. Therefore, if you were already considering donating to Caldera, now would be an awesome time to do so because half of your donation will go to an amazing cause. Of course, if you prefer, you can donate directly to any of the causes listed below, or any causes that are important to you! This is merely the server trying to find an opportunity to give back.
Thank you to all of you who play on Caldera and make it the special place that it is! Please take a moment to read the list of programs below and select the one that seems the best to you.
Please note, because this is a mostly spontaneous idea with little pre-planning from me (Huxley_ gave me the idea just yesterday), this time these are all American-based organizations since they are organizations that I've worked with or donated towards, but in the future we may do other donation drives for global charities or relief efforts.
The Leprechaun Foundation is a nonprofit organization based out of Cleveland, OH. Their mission is to "grant wishes to terminally and chronically ill children". These wishes can involve material items or toys, trips, meet-and-greets with celebrities, and much more. According to their website, 98 cents of every dollar goes towards their mission of fulfilling wishes for children. All officers, directors, and members of this foundation are volunteers, therefore no donations are used for administrative cost or salaries. While this is a smaller organization, I have had some personal experience with them and the work that they do. If you would like to view their website, you can do so at http://www.leprechaunfoundation.org/01_about.html.
Toys for Tots is a nonprofit organization that aims to "collect new unwrapped toys and distribute those toys to less fortunate children at Christmas". They assist needy families in providing Christmas joy for their young children through at least one special gift at Christmas time. 97% of all incoming donations go directly towards fulfilling the goal of spreading Christmas cheer to less fortunate children. They have a 4-star rating (90%+) for accountability and transparency on Charity Navigator, and a 3-star rating (80%+) for financial spending, with an overall score of 4-stars. You can view their website at https://www.toysfortots.org/Default.aspx.
Voting will be open until December 1st. On December 1st, we will announce the winning charity, and also make a second special announcement regarding donations. If you were considering donating in the next few days, I urge you to wait until December 1st.
Again, thank you to all of you who donate, vote, and play here. You are all truly great.
Please go here to vote!
Calderas thanksgivings themed minigame where Turkeys have to run away from the hunters :) This event is powered by a new custom plugin by @jd so make sure to give a big to him too!
Hi all! It's best owner Kels here with some November news!
Firstly, congratulations to jd4564, b2mauler, and sharonpaik for winning last month's voting contest. Voting rewards will go out soon! The November voting contest is now underway, so make sure to vote vote vote!
Our VIP for the month is Dooot! Check out Dooot's Q & A on the forums, and be sure to give her a congratulations!
Finally, I have the event schedule for the next two weeks!
Keep in mind that we're currently in the process of Daylight Savings Time, and this weekend most of the US will fall back an hour (and I believe most of Europe already has). Therefore, events on Friday will be one hour earlier than usual for you if you live in Europe and already experienced DST, but the event Sunday will be the same as usual.
Come gamble with us in the Casino! Earn some cash cash money.
8pm EST ABBA mining. Come participate in our free-for-all mining event. The person with the highest points at the end of 30 minutes gets the trophy!
Hi all! It's your favorite Kels here with some news to share with all of you!
- Over the next few days, we will be reworking or rewriting some of the rules and policies on Caldera. I also want to start a new 1.13 changelog thread to track these changes.
8:10pm EST - Ore Ball! Come mine in the ore ball, there's lots of ores to be won, but you must stay alive to reach the core!
12pm EST - 12am EST - Traveling Merchant! Check out our merchant guild minievent: the traveling merchant. The merchant has many special deals for you, and will buy some of your items as well!
8:30pm EST: Spooky painting contest! Contestants will have a short amount of time to creative a spooky painting original to this event (cannot be copies from elsewhere, or things you have painted before).
Come attend our brewing tutorial classes led by jb! These classes will review the equipment needed for brewing and teach you how to navigate the world of custom recipes! All materials will be provided. All active participants will receive $500, a FREE brewing kit, and a custom lore item for completing the class. This class is being offered through the brewer's guild, with hopes of introducing brewing to more of our players. Please attend if you can!
Start the partner build competition. Partners (2 people) will get a plot to create a halloween-themed build! Prizes will be handed out for the best builds, sign ups will be posted on the forums.
Double Enderdragon event! Come fight the enderdragon with us, and work for a chance to win that egg!
- Spooky brewery: Compete in pairs in various challenges aimed to help you discover spooky brewing recipes! The pair with the most recipes discovered in the allotted time will win some awesome prizes, include non-vanilla enchanted tools!
- Haunted House/Maze: Do you have what it takes to escape the Caldera haunted house?
- Pumpkin carving: Create the best pumpkin!


The news about veteran homelessness rising in expensive cities might come as a surprise, after years of reported progress.
San Diego was identified for its failure to enact a Section 8 housing discrimination ordinance in a recent American Bar Association article. Poverty law attorney Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi explains the situation.
The Department of Veterans Affairs prompted outcry when it told advocates and its partners at the Department of Housing and Urban Development that it would cut $460 million for long-term housing for homeless veterans.
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) has partnered with veterans group to provide free transit to the city's veterans.
A development on Chicago's Northside faces protests and picketers who don't want new density, height, or low income residents.
In November, the city of Poway, California rejected a veterans' housing project. The story is informative for the way communities rally to obstruct the addition of low-income housing.
A volunteer organization called The Mission Continues connects veterans with volunteer work around the country. The healing power of their efforts goes both ways.
VA home loan guaranties and community land trusts are perfect partners—but not everyone knows that yet.
Federal funding to end veteran homelessness has had a real impact, but a nationwide shortage of affordable housing could make its success temporary.
A look at what HUD-VASH supportive housing vouchers can do, from the perspective of one of the agencies administering them.
Don't Call Them Homeless Veterans!
Surprising insights on messaging from the front lines of NIMBY.
We are so close to this goal. We should not change our focus before we meet it.
New Orleans declares that it is the first U.S. city to virtually end veteran homelessness.
As noted by the Department of Veteran Affairs, even one veteran without safe and stable housing is too many. Ron Littlefield calls for cities to move beyond studies and seek ways to aid returned veterans.
Broadening a system first tested in Los Angeles in 2013, a coalition of local and national government agencies and philanthropic organizations has provided $213 million for the Home for Good program—described as "match.com for homeless people."
On Veterans Day, Kaid Benfield reports on efforts underway to house and serve America's veterans sustainably.
The results are in keeping with a federal goal to eliminate veteran homelessness by 2015 through grants and other measures to ensure permanent housing. Steve Vogel reports.


Our elected officials in Albany missed a big opportunity to fully enact a small donor matching program in this year's state budget. The Governor, the Senate, and the Assembly all included small donor matching in their budget priorities, yet instead of passing a strong program, they left critical details up to a commission.
We got this far because of a surge of grassroots activism across the state that made campaign finance reform a top budget issue, and we're not letting our leaders off the hook. They have the power to appoint experts and strong advocates for fair elections to the commission and to pass a strong 6-to-1 small donor matching system that gives everyday New Yorkers a voice to push back against big donors.
Your call can make the difference! Use the form to connect with your State Senator, Assembly Member or Governor Cuomo.


This talk was delivered at the Future of Freedom Foundation's conference on "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties," on June 6, 2008, in Reston, Virginia.
The U.S. central bank, called the Federal Reserve, was created in 1913. No one promoted this institution with the slogan that it would make wars more likely and guarantee that nearly half a million Americans would die in battle in foreign lands, along with millions of foreign soldiers and civilians. No one pointed out that this institution would permit Americans to fund, without taxes, the destruction of cities abroad and overthrow governments at will. No one said that the central bank would make it possible for the U.S. to be at large-scale war in one of every four years for a full century. It was never pointed out that this institution would make it possible for the U.S. government to establish a global empire that would make Imperial Rome and Britain look benign by comparison.
You can line up 100 professional war historians and political scientists and talk about the twentieth century, and not one is likely to mention the role of the Fed in funding U.S. militarism. And yet it is true: the Fed is the institution that has created the money to fund the wars. In this role, it has solved a major problem that the state has confronted for all of human history. A state without money or a state that must tax its citizens to raise money for its wars is necessarily limited in its imperial ambitions. Keep in mind that this is only a problem for the state. It is not a problem for the people. The inability of the state to fund its unlimited ambitions is worth more for the people than every kind of legal check and balance. It is more valuable than all the constitutions ever devised.
The state has no wealth that is its own. It is not a profitable enterprise. Everything it possesses it must take from society in a zero-sum game. That usually means taxes, but taxes annoy people. They can destabilize the state and threaten its legitimacy. They inspire anger, revolt, and even revolution. Rather than risk that result, the state from the Middle Ages to the dawn of the central banking age was somewhat cautious in its global ambitions simply because it was cautious in its need to steal openly and directly from the people in order to pay its bills.
To be sure, it doesn't require a central bank for a state to choose inflation over taxes as a means of funding itself. All it really requires is a monopoly on the production of money. Once acquired, the monopoly on money production leads to a systematic process of depreciating the currency, whether by coin clipping or debasement or the introduction of paper money, which can then be printed without limit. The central bank assists in this process in a critical sense: it cartelizes the banking system as the essential conduit by which money is lent to the public and to the government itself. The banking system thereby becomes a primary funding agency to the state, and, in exchange for its services, the banking system is guaranteed against insolvency and business failure as it profits from inflation. If the goal of the state is the complete monopolization of money under an infinitely flexible paper-money system, there is no better path for the state than the creation of a central bank. This is the greatest achievement for the victory of power over liberty.
The connection between war and inflation, then, dates long before the creation of the Federal Reserve. In fact, in America, it dates to the colonial era, and to the founding itself. The fate of the Continental currency, printed massively during and after the Revolutionary war, for example, was a very bad omen for our future, and the whole country paid a very serious price. It was this experience that later led to the gold clause in the U.S. Constitution. Except for the Hamiltonians, that entire generation of political activists saw the unity of freedom and sound money, and regarded paper money as the fuel of tyranny.
But the wisdom of this generation, subverted by Lincoln, was finally thrown out during the Progressive Era. It was believed that an age of scientific public policy needed a scientific money machinery that could be controlled by powerful elites. The dawn of the age of central banking was also the dawn of the age of central planning, for there can be no government control over the nation's commercial life without first controlling the money. And once the state has the money and the banking system, its ambitions can be realized.
Before the creation of the Federal Reserve, the idea of American entry into the conflict that became World War I would have been inconceivable. In fact, it was a highly unpopular idea, and Woodrow Wilson himself campaigned on a platform that promised to keep us out of war. But with a money monopoly, all things seem possible. It was a mere four years after the Fed was invented under the guise of scientific policy planning that the real agenda became obvious. The Fed would fund the U.S. entry into World War I.
It was not only entry alone that was made possible. World War I was the first total war. It involved nearly the whole of the civilized world, and not only their governments but also the civilian populations, both as combatants and as targets. It has been described as the war that ended civilization in the 19th-century sense in which we understand that term. That is to say, it was the war that ended liberty as we knew it. What made it possible was the Federal Reserve. And not only the U.S. central bank; it was also its European counterparts. This was a war funded under the guise of scientific monetary policy.
There is always a price to be paid for funding war through the central bank. The postwar situation in America was a classic case. There was inflation. There were massive dislocations. There was recession or what was then called depression, a direct result of capital dislocation that masked itself as an economic boom, but which was then followed by a bust. The depression hit in 1920, but it is not a famous event in United States economic history. Why is that? Because the Federal Reserve had not yet acquired the tools to manufacture an attempt to save the economy. Instead, neither the Fed nor Congress nor the President did much of anything about it — a wholly praiseworthy response! As a result, the depression was brief and became a footnote to history. The same would have happened in 1930 had Hoover not attempted to use the government as the means of resuscitation.
Sadly, the easy recovery of 1920—1922 tempted the central bank to get back into the business of inflation, with the eventual result of a stock market boom that led to bust, then depression, and finally the destruction of the gold standard itself. FDR found that even fascist-style economic planning and inflation could not restore prosperity, so he turned to the ancient method of looking for a war to enter. Here is where the history of the United States and the Fed intersects with the tragic role of the German central bank.
The German government also funded its Great War through inflation. By war's end, money in circulation has risen fourfold. Prices were up 140%. Yet, on international exchange, the German mark had not suffered as much as one might expect. The German government looked at this with encouragement and promptly attempted to manufacture a complete economic recovery through inflation. Incredibly, by 1923, the mark had fallen to one-trillionth of its 1914 gold value. The U.S. dollar was then equal to 4.2 trillion marks. It was an example of currency destruction that remains legendary in the history of the world — all made possible by a central bank that obliged the government and monetized its war debt.
Turning to Russia, the untold truth about the Bolshevik revolution is that Lenin's greatest propaganda tool involved the sufferings by the Russian people during World War I. Men were drafted and killed at a horrific level. Lenin called this capitalist exploitation, based on his view that the war resulted from capitalist motives. In fact, it was a foreshadowing of the world that socialism would bring about, a world in which all people and all property are treated as means to statist ends. And what made the prolongation of the Russian role in World War I possible was an institution called the State Bank of the Russian Empire, the Russian version of the Fed.
The Russian war itself was funded through money creation, which also led to massive price increases and controls and shortages during the war. I'm not of the opinion, unlike the neocons, that the Russian monarchy was a particularly evil regime, but the temptation that the money machine provided the regime proved too inviting. It turned a relatively benign monarchy into a war machine. A country that had long been integrated into the worldwide division of labor and was under a gold standard became a killing machine. And as horrific and catastrophic as the war dead were for Russian morale, the inflation affected every last person and inspired massive unrest that led to the triumph of Communism.
At this juncture in history, we can see what central-banking had brought to us. It was not an end to the business cycle. It was not merely more liquidity for the banking system. It was not an end to bank runs and bank panics. It certainly wasn't scientific public policy. The world's major economies were being lorded over by money monopolies and the front men had become some of the worst despots in the history of the world. Now they were preparing to fight each other with all the resources they had at their disposal. The resources they did not have at their disposal they would pay for with their beloved machinery of central banking.
In wartime, the printing presses ran overtime, but with a totalitarian level of rationing, price controls, and all-round socialization of resources in the whole of the Western world, the result of inflation was not merely rising prices. It was vast suffering and shortages in Britain, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Austria-Hungary, the US, and pretty much the entire planet.
So we can see here the amazing irony of central banking at work. The institution that was promoted by economists working with bankers, in the name of bringing rationality and science to bear on monetary matters, had given birth to the most evil political trends in the history of the world: Communism, socialism, fascism, Nazism, and the despotism of economic planning in the capitalist West. The story of central banking is one step removed from the story of atom bombs and death camps. There is a reason the state has been unrestrained in the last 100 years and that reason is the precise one that many people think of as a purely technical issue that is too complicated for mere mortals.
Fast-forward to the Iraq War, which has all the features of a conflict born of the power to print money. There was a time when the decision to go to war involved real debate in the U.S. House of Representatives. And what was this debate about? It was about resources, and the power to tax. But once the executive state was unhinged from the need to rely on tax dollars, and did not have to worry about finding willing buyers for its unbacked debt instruments, the political debate about war was silenced.
In the entire run-up to war, George Bush just assumed as a matter of policy that it was his decision alone whether to invade Iraq. The objections by Ron Paul and some other members of Congress and vast numbers of the American population, was reduced to little more than white noise in the background. Imagine if he had to raise the money for the war through taxes. It never would have happened. But he didn't have to. He knew the money would be there. So despite a $200 billion deficit, a $9 trillion debt, $5 trillion in outstanding debt instruments held by the public, a federal budget of $3 trillion, and falling tax receipts in 2001, Bush contemplated a war that has cost $525 billion dollars, or $4,681 per household. Imagine if he had gone to the American people to request that. What would have happened? I think we know the answer to that question. And those are government figures; the actual cost of this war will be far higheru2014perhaps $20,000 per household.
Now, when left-liberals talk about these figures, they like to compare them with what the state might have done with these resources in terms of funding health care, public schools, head-start centers, or food stamps. This is a mistake because it demonstrates that the left isn't really providing an alternative to the right. It merely has a different set of priorities in how it would use the resources raised by the inflation machine. It's true that public schools are less costly in terms of lives and property than war itself. But the inflation-funded welfare state also has a corrosive effect on society. The pipe dream that the inflation monster can be used to promote good instead of evil illustrates a certain naïveté about the nature of the state itself. If the state has the power and is asked to choose between doing good and waging war, what will it choose? Certainly in the American context the choice has always been for war.
It is equally naïve for the right to talk about restraining the government while wishing for global war. So long as the state has unlimited access to the printing press, it can ignore the pleas of ideological groups concerning how the money will be raised. It is also very silly for the right to believe that it can have its wars, its militarism, its nationalism and belligerence, without depending on the power of the Federal Reserve. This institution is the very mechanism by which the dreams of both the fanatical right and the fanatical left come true.
I wouldn't entirely rule out the possibility that price controls are around the corner. When Nixon imposed them in 1971, neither he nor his advisors believed that they would actually result in controlling inflation. Rather, the purpose was to redirect the target of public anger from the government and its bank over to retailers, who would become scapegoats. In this sense, price controls do work. They make people believe that the government is trying to lower prices while the private sector is attempting to raise them. This is the real political dynamic at work with price controls.
The question is whether you will be taken in by these tactics. It is long past time for us to take note that the cause of the real trouble here is not the manufacturers or even the war as such but the agency that has been granted a legal right to counterfeit at will and lower the value of the currency while fueling every manner of statist scheme, whether welfare or warfare. We need to look at the Fed and say: this is the enemy.
Note that the Federal Reserve is not a political party. It is not a recognized interest group. It is not a famed lobby in Washington. It is not really even a sector of public opinion. It seems completely shielded off from vigorous public debate. If we truly believe in liberty and decry the leviathan state, this situation cannot be tolerated.
I say to the sincere left, if you really want to stop war and stop the spying state, and put an end to the persecution of political dissidents and the Guantnamo camps for foreign peoples, and put a stop to the culture of nationalism and militarism, you must join us in turning attention to the role of monetary policy. The printing presses must be unplugged. It's true that this will also hit programs that are beloved by the left, such as socialized health care and federalized education programs. But so long as you expect the state to fund your dreams, you cannot expect that the state will not also fund the dreams of people you hate.
And let me say a few words to libertarians, who dream of a world with limited government under the rule of law, a world in which free enterprise reigns and where the state has no power to interfere in our lives so long as we behave peacefully. It is completely absurd to believe that this can be achieved without fundamental monetary reform. And yet, until the most recent Ron Paul campaign, and aside from Murray Rothbard and the 26-year-long work of the Mises Institute, I don't recall that libertarians themselves have cared much about this issue at all.
Of course the Austrian tradition fought paper money and central banking from the beginning. Menger was an advocate of the gold standard. Bhm-Bawerk actually established it as finance minister to the Habsburg monarchy. Mises's book on the topic from 1912 was the first to show the role of money in the business cycle, and he issued dire warnings about central banking. Hayek wrote powerfully against the abandonment of gold in the 1930s. Hazlitt warned of the inevitable breakdown of Bretton Woods, and advocated a real gold standard instead. And Rothbard was a champion of sound money and the greatest enemy the Fed has ever had. But generally, I've long detected a tendency in libertarian circles to ignore this issue, in part for precisely the reasons cited above: it is not respectable.
Monetary economist Joseph Salerno was called the other day by C-Span, which wanted to interview him on television on the need to restore gold as the basis of our currency. As I watched this excellent interview, I was struck by what a great triumph it truly is for liberty that this topic is again part of the national debate. In the 19th century, this was a topic on everybody's minds. It can be again today, provided we do not eschew the truth in the formation of our message.
It might be said that advocating privatization is politically unrealistic, and therefore a waste of time. What's more, we might say that by continuing to harp on the issue, we only marginalize ourselves, proving that we are on the fringe. I submit that there is no better way to ensure that an issue will always be off the table than to stop talking about it.
Far from being an arcane and anachronistic issue, then, the gold standard and the issues it raises gets right to the heart of the current debate concerning the future of war and the world economy. Why do the government and its partisans dislike the gold standard? It removes the discretionary power of the Fed by placing severe limits on the ability of the central bank to inflate the money supply. Without that discretionary power, the government has far fewer tools of central planning at its disposal. Government can regulate, which is a function of the police power. It can tax, which involves taking people's property. And it can spend, which means redistributing other people's property. But its activities in the financial area are radically curbed.
Think of your local and state governments. They tax and spend. They manipulate and intervene. As with all governments from the beginning of time, they generally retard social progress and muck things up as much as possible. What they do not do, however, is wage massive global wars, run huge deficits, accumulate trillions in debt, reduce the value of money, bail out foreign governments, provide endless credits to failing enterprises, administer hugely expensive and destructive social insurance schemes, or bring about immense swings in business activity.
It is the central bank, and only the central bank, that works as the government's money machine, and this makes all the difference. Now, it is not impossible that a central bank can exist alongside a gold standard, a lender of last resort that avoids the temptation to destroy that which restrains it. In the same way, it is possible for someone with an insatiable appetite for wine to sit at a banquet table of delicious vintages and not take a sip.
This is the free-market system of monetary management, which means turning over the institution of money entirely to the market economy. As with any institution in a free society, it is not imposed from above, and dictated by a group of experts, but is the de facto result that comes about in a society that consistently respects private-property rights, encourages enterprise, and promotes peace.


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In 2014, the Texas Longhorns offensive line was so bad at times that head coach Charlie Strong noted recently that even Louisville Cardinals star Teddy Bridgewater wouldn't have played well behind them.
"I don't care if you had Teddy Bridgewater standing back there last year, people wouldn't have thought he was very good either."
With a year under offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Joe Wickline and four early enrollees providing more competitions, things are starting to change for the better.
In fact, according to senior offensive guard Sedrick Flowers -- the most experienced player along the line with 31 appearances and 14 starts -- Texas is not just improving steadily, the group is 10 times better now than in 2014. By the second game last season, the five starters featured five combined starts after losing senior center Dominic Espinosa to an ankle injury (40 starts) and junior offensive tackle Kennedy Estelle to eventual suspensions and dismissal (nine starts).
In a lot of ways, the improvement is simple mathematics since there are now 66 returning starts, more than 10 times the number Wickline could feature in that embarrassing loss to the Cougars. Along the offensive line, that experience is extremely critical -- it's all about strength and maturity and continuity, five extremely large men moving and working in unison, a coordinated ballet of bears.
Last fall, however, there simply wasn't enough depth to effectively make it through practices or games as injuries sidelined occasional starter Darius James and right guard Kent Perkins got banged up and Estelle's dismissal, along with Desmond Harrison's suspension, further limited the number of options available to Wickline.
"It's like night and day," Flowers said on Wednesday. "We had a good like six last year. We'd go through practice with people dying, and then somebody would get hurt during the game and it was like who is going in. We almost have like three lines, and having that is a big blessing. If somebody is not tired or somebody is not doing well, the coaches call them out. We just have somebody that can roll in and give somebody a breather."
So add accountability and competition to experience as the major changes from early last season.
But part of the problem was that the offensive line wasn't playing particularly well at the end of the year, regressing from the highs of the late-season winning streak and exacerbating the self-sacking tendencies of quarterback Tyrone Swoopes, who became a turnover machine in blowouts at the hands of TCU and Arkansas.
Flowers took absolute responsibility for the quarterback's poor play last season.
"I put that on the o-line completely because if we would have been able to do the job that we had to our fullest, then he would've had an easier time back there," he said. "There were times when he had to sit there. He was having to scramble here, scramble there, look here, look there, and he wasn't able to focus on the receivers going downfield or focus on nobody was open so running. He had to focus on the o-line doing well. I put that all on us."
So one of the best ways to get improved quarterback play in 2015 is by getting improved play from an offensive line that added those four early enrollees and returned all of the players who started from the BYU game forward. In order to get better play in the trenches, Wickline actually has options now with much improved depth providing competition and accountability to the proceedings.
According to Flowers that needed progress is happening, but does the notoriously hard to please Wickline feel the same way?
"Coach [Joe] Wickline, he actually gave us a compliment and that's rare," Flowers said. "He gave us a compliment. He normally doesn't give anybody compliments, but he said, "Y'all are doing good but y'all still suck." [laughs] We're getting better every day."


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Comedy Pack 4 is a bundle of four of my pizzicato comedy underscores.
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Main instruments are marimba, pizzicato and staccato strings (viola, cello and bass), clarinet, tuba, glockenspiel and some light drums and percussion for a nice cinematic effect.
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Q: Delight-im advanced webview send custom headers with every GET & POST request I am using delight-im/Android-AdvancedWebView for loading a url with extra headers (user auth token), but the headers are sending only with the initial request, that is the first url the webview is loading. But when I click another link in that url and try to POST some value the header is not passed along. How it can be extended to all GET and POST requests with the url's associated with base url ?
Please mention a way to do this.
Here is my code sample for loading the url with webview.
public class TableViewTest extends AppCompatActivity implements AdvancedWebView.Listener {

        SharedPreferences pref;
        boolean preventCaching = true;

        private static final String URL = "my-url";
        private AdvancedWebView mWebView;

        @SuppressLint("SetJavaScriptEnabled")
        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_table_view_test);

            pref = getSharedPreferences("LoginActivity", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
            final String acToken = pref.getString("token", "DEFAULT");

           //used this method to add headers with every request, not working
            Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<String, String>();
            headers.put("Authorization", "Bearer " + acToken);
            //mWebView.loadUrl(your url, headers);

            //webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1Id);

            mWebView = (AdvancedWebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
            mWebView.setListener(this, this);
            mWebView.setGeolocationEnabled(false);
            mWebView.setMixedContentAllowed(true);
            mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
            //mWebView.setCookiesEnabled(true);
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
            mWebView.getSettings().setLayoutAlgorithm(WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm.NORMAL);
            mWebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

            mWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(false);
            mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
            mWebView.getSettings().setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_NO_CACHE);
            mWebView.clearCache(true);
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
            //mWebView.setThirdPartyCookiesEnabled(true);

            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
                if (0 != (getApplicationInfo().flags & ApplicationInfo.FLAG_DEBUGGABLE))
                { WebView.setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled(true); }
            }

            mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

                @Override
                public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
                    Toast.makeText(TableViewTest.this, "Finished loading", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
                    mWebView.getSettings().setLayoutAlgorithm(WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm.NORMAL);
                    mWebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

                    mWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(false);
                    mWebView.getSettings().setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_NO_CACHE);
                    mWebView.clearCache(true);
                    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
                }

            });
            mWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {

                @Override
                public void onReceivedTitle(WebView view, String title) {
                    super.onReceivedTitle(view, title);
                    Toast.makeText(TableViewTest.this, title, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }

            });
           //default method for adding header for initial method in AdvancedWebview
            mWebView.addHttpHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + acToken);
            mWebView.loadUrl(URL, headers);

    //        webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    //        webView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    //        webView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
    //        webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

        }

        @SuppressLint("NewApi")
        @Override
        protected void onResume() {
            super.onResume();
            mWebView.onResume();
            // ...
        }

        @SuppressLint("NewApi")
        @Override
        protected void onPause() {
            mWebView.onPause();
            // ...
            super.onPause();
        }

        @Override
        protected void onDestroy() {
            mWebView.onDestroy();
            // ...
            super.onDestroy();
        }

        @Override
        protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent) {
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, intent);
            mWebView.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, intent);
            // ...
        }

        @Override
        public void onBackPressed() {
            if (!mWebView.onBackPressed()) { return; }
            // ...
            super.onBackPressed();
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            mWebView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(String url) {
            mWebView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            mWebView.clearCache(true);
            mWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(false);
            mWebView.getSettings().setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_NO_CACHE);
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageError(int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
            Toast.makeText(TableViewTest.this, "onPageError(errorCode = "+errorCode+",  description = "+description+",  failingUrl = "+failingUrl+")", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }

        @Override
        public void onDownloadRequested(String url, String suggestedFilename, String mimeType, long contentLength, String contentDisposition, String userAgent) {
            Toast.makeText(TableViewTest.this, "onDownloadRequested(url = "+url+",  suggestedFilename = "+suggestedFilename+",  mimeType = "+mimeType+",  contentLength = "+contentLength+",  contentDisposition = "+contentDisposition+",  userAgent = "+userAgent+")", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

            /*if (AdvancedWebView.handleDownload(this, url, suggestedFilename)) {
                // download successfully handled
            }
            else {
                // download couldn't be handled because user has disabled download manager app on the device
            }*/
        }

        @Override
        public void onExternalPageRequest(String url) {
            Toast.makeText(TableViewTest.this, "onExternalPageRequest(url = "+url+")", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }

        @Override
        protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
            super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
            webView.saveState(outState);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
            webView.restoreState(savedInstanceState);
        }
    }

A: You can add the following code:
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        view.loadUrl(url, getExtraHeaders());
        return true;
    }
});

where getExtraHeaders() returns a Map<String, String> containing the additional headers to be used in the HTTP request for this URL.
Also, please note that addHttpHeader has been fixed now and sends custom headers with every GET request.


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Slottet i Chantilly (franska Château de Chantilly) ligger 38 kilometer nordost om Paris, fågelvägen.

Slottet består av två byggnader, Grand Château som förstördes under franska revolutionen och Petit Château som byggdes omkring 1560 för Anne de Montmorency. Det ägs idag av Institut de France, som håller det öppet för allmänheten.

Historia
1484 kom egendomen i familjen Montmorencys ägo. Det första huset, som senare ersattes av Grand Château, byggdes av Pierre Chambiges mellan 1528 och 1531 för ståthållaren Anne de Montmorency. Petit Château byggdes också för honom, omkring 1560, förmodligen av Jean Bullant. 1632, efter att Henrik II hade avlidit, ärvde Louis II Condé egendomen efter sin mor, som kom från Montmorencyfamiljen.

Flera historiska föremål associeras med slottet under 1600-talet. År 1659 framfördes Molières Les Précieuses ridicules första gången på slottet. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal skrev i sina memoarer att när Ludvig XIV besökte slottet 1671, begick köksmästaren Vatel självmord då han befarade att fisken skulle serveras för sent.

Den ursprungliga byggnaden totalförstördes under franska revolutionen. Den renoverades i ett anspråkslöst skick av den sista hertigen, men byggdes helt om 1875-1881 av Henri av Orléans, hertig av Aumale (1822-1897) efter ritningar av Honoré Daumet. Slottet möttes därefter av skiftande omdömen. Boniface de Castellane sade: Vad som idag väcker förundran är ett av de sämsta exemplen på arkitektur i vår tid - att komma in på andra våningen och gå nedåt till salongerna. Mellan 1853 och 1872 konfiskerades slottet från hertigen av Orléans och det ägdes då av den engelska banken Coutts. Hertigen av Aumale testamenterade egendomen till Institut de France vid sin död 1897.

Under första världskriget var Chantilly den yttersta gränsen för de tyska trupperna i regionen. Slottet var högkvarter för Joseph Joffre, där flera möten mellan de allierade ägde rum.

Egenskaper
Slottets konstgalleri, Musée Condé, har efter Louvren en av de förnämsta samlingarna av historiska målningar och gamla böcker i Frankrike, speciellt från 1400- och 1500-talet. Biblioteket i Petit Château inrymmer över 700 manuskript och 12 000 volymer, däribland Gutenbergs Bibel och Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry av hertig Jean de Berry.

Parken med omfattande parterrer och vattenkonstruktioner, planerades av den berömde landskapsarkitekten André Le Nôtre för Grand Condé. Där finns även en engelsk trädgård med vattenfall och flera paviljonger.

På egendomen finns även Grandes Écuries (de stora stallen). Enligt en berättelse trodde prinsen av Condé, Louis Henri I av Bourbon, att han skulle reinkarneras som häst efter sin död. År 1719 bad han sin arkitekt, Jean Aubert, att bygga stallar som passade hans status. De 186 meter långa stallarna anses vara de vackraste i världen.

Övrigt
Slottet och stallarna var med i James Bond-filmen Levande måltavla. Fotbollsspelaren Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima hade bröllopsfesten i slottet då han gifte sig med Daniella Cicarelli. Vartannat år i juni hålls Nuits de Feu (Eldnätterna) i slottsparken då deltagare från hela världen uppträder i en fyrverkeritävling.

Referenser

Externa länkar
Översatt version från engelska Wikipedia
Officiell webbplats
De stora stallarna

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One of my collectors loves wrens. I don't blame her, they are sweet little birds and one of my favorites too. She has commissioned paintings of wrens for each of the four seasons. This one is the final one of that collection - she likes birches and asked for a wren in a birch tree.
I start with a drawing on sketch paper and then transfer the drawing to watercolor paper when I'm happy with the composition. This allows me to make revisions and change my mind about placement without disturbing the surface of the watercolor paper with erasures. A fresh surface means sharper, cleaner edges.
With this scene, I changed the position of the bird three times before I was satisfied.
Next, I added blue washes to the background to denote the sky.
Later, I may darken the upper sky areas with more washes of blue, but for now, it's enough of a background to judge the other colors against.
The branches and leaves are done next. The client mentioned how much she likes the sawtoothed leaves of birch trees and the catkins that hang down, so I make sure to include them.
Next I paint the wren.
Since this is fairly close up, I can add in plenty of detail to the bird.
You can click any of the images to see them larger.
Here I'm adding background trees to the bottom of the painting.
I use more blue, muted colors to make the background recede and the foreground leaves come forward. Blue is a cooler color than green. Cool colors recede and warmer colors advance. This is called "Aerial Perspective" which has to do with atmospheric properties.
Next, I work on the birch trunks. I've determined that the light is coming from the right, so I paint shadows on the left, let that dry, then paint in the details of the birch bark.
After making a few more adjustments, the painting is finished. Way up high in a white birch tree, a little Carolina Wren enjoys a beautiful summery day.
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Caught in Cabo: Mayor Steve Adler and the Austin City Council Extend Mask Penalty for a YEAR Just a Day After He's Busted Violating His Own 'Stay Home' Suggestion
By Bryan Preston Dec 03, 2020 3:34 PM ET
Austin, TX Mayor Steve Adler issues instructions to stay home while he vacations in Mexico. Image from social media.
Austin's mayor and city council on Thursday approved extending its controversial mask mandate for an entire year.
The mandate fines anyone over the age of 10 caught without wearing a mask in public up to $2,000 per violation.
Mayor Steve Adler and the city council, Democrats all, passed the extension without discussion. It was item #43 on their lengthy agenda, according to the Tyler Morning Telegraph.
It cites Sections 122.006 and 121.003 of the Texas Health and Safety Code and the Austin City Charter, Article I, Section 3 as its authority to extend an ordinance it adopted on July 9 (Ordinance No. 20200709-003) that authorized "rules reasonably necessary to protect the public health."
Because "COVID-19 remains a public health threat," the sponsors argue it is necessary to extend the ordinance for one year, create an offense for violating it, and impose monetary penalties.
"A person who knowingly violates a health authority rule commits an offense," the ordinance states. "Each day that a violation occurs is a separate offense. Each offense is punishable by a fine not to exceed $2,000."
The ordinance would expire Dec. 31, 2021, and take effect Dec.15, 2020.
The move comes just one day after Mayor Steve Adler was busted issuing directives to Austin residents to stay home to stay safe, while he was vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Adler has apologized for getting caught.
EXCLUSIVE: Austin Mayor Steve Adler told the public to "stay home if you can…this is not the time to relax" in a Nov. 9 Facebook video. He did not disclose that he was at a timeshare in Cabo San Lucas after flying on a private jet with eight family members and guests. pic.twitter.com/w1uZahGfpM
— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) December 2, 2020
The Todd and Don Show on local KLBJ-AM radio has called for Adler to resign his office, and stepped up criticism of him with this graphic, which it posted to Facebook before Thursday's vote.
Graphic from social media.
Adler and the city council's actions have created and now extended a mask requirement that most residents are living by anyway, for the simple reason that they don't want to get the coronavirus and donning a mask might make contracting the virus a bit less likely. At the same time, they're creating a leadership crisis in the city. Adler and the city council voted unanimously to defund the police, yet they must have police to enforce this ordinance. Police do not appear to be zealously enforcing the mandate, which has reportedly resulted in just one enforcement action since it was first enacted months ago. Police and the mayor and city council have been at odds through the year, escalating after the city council sharply criticized police, tried to fire Police Chief Brian Manley, and then gutted the police budget by about one-third. The city's action also faces skepticism from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and should a resident or especially a non-resident find themselves subjected to enforcement, it is very likely to be taken to court. If it ends up in the Texas Supreme Court, its chances of holding up are not good.
Against this backdrop, a pair of Austin's city council members who voted for the mask penalty and to defund the Austin Police Department, which requires a police force to enforce, face runoff elections on December 15. Jimmy Flannigan, incumbent and an outspoken proponent of defunding the police, faces Mackenzie Kelly in District 6. In District 10, incumbent Alison Alter, also a proponent of defunding the police, faces challenger Jennifer Virden. Early voting began this week and runs through December 11. Both challengers oppose defunding the police and want its pre-defund budget restored. Kelly has won the endorsement of the Austin Police Association, as has Virden. Former Mayor Lee Leffingwell, who remains popular in the city, has endorsed both challengers.
The November 3 results should encourage both challengers. In both districts, the vote to oust the incumbent strongly outpaced the vote to retain them. Kelly and Virden both have maintained energetic presences on social media and have conducted block walks around their districts ever since the Election Day result made it clear they had made the runoff.
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