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On March 27, 56 entrepreneurs of technology-oriented enterprises registered in Jing'an District gathered at the Junengwan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center in the High-tech Service Industry Park in the northern part of the city for "Startup in Shanghai" 2019 in Junengwan Sub-division in Jing'an.
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Brunlanes est une agglomération de la municipalité de Larvik, dans le comté de Vestfold et Telemark, en Norvège..

Description
La municipalité de Brunlanes est une ancienne municipalité de Vestfold. Depuis 1988, Brunlanes fait partie de la nouvelle grande commune de Larvik. La commune de Brunlanes comptait une population d'environ 7.900 habitants et une superficie de 188  km² avant la fusion.

Brunlanes possède les plus longs sentiers de randonnée côtiers de Vestfold. Le sentier principal commence à la baie Ødegårdsbukta à l'ouest et traverse Helgeroa en direction du géoparc de Mølen.

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Village en Norvège
Localité de Vestfold og Telemark
Larvik

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Q: javascript compare strings case sensative I want to implement a case sensitive comparison between 2 string.
Here's what I have done so far, it is not working so well
function compare(x,y){
  for (var i = 0; i < Math.min(x.length, y.length); i++){
  var xc = x[i];
  var yc = y[i];
  if (xc == yc)
     continue;
  var xclow = x.toLowerCase();
  var yclow = y.toLowerCase();
    if (xclow == yclow)
        return xc < yc ? -1 : 1
    else
        return xclow  < yclow ? -1 : 1;

}

}
if im doing console.log(compare("Kk","kk")); I'm getting -1 as expected,but if i'm doing console.log(compare("Kka","kk"));i'm getting 1 and i don't know why.

A: Why not use just "Kk" === "kk"?
function compare(x, y) {
    return x === y;
    // or return x === y ? 1 : -1
}

A: There was two typo, you had written x.toLowerCase(); instead of xc.toLowerCase(); and y.toLowerCase(); instead of yc.toLowerCase();
function compare(x, y) {
    for (var i = 0; i < Math.min(x.length, y.length); i++) {
        var xc = x[i];
        var yc = y[i];
        if (xc == yc)
            continue;
        var xclow = xc.toLowerCase();
        var yclow = yc.toLowerCase();
        if (xclow == yclow)
            return xc < yc ? -1 : 1
        else
            return xclow < yclow ? -1 : 1;
        return x.length.localeCompare(y.length);
    }
}

By the way, last return statement is unnecessary since both if and else contains return statement.

There are more simpler ways to do that but I think you're trying to accomplish that on your own.

A: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/localeCompare
Something like:
 console.log('a'.localeCompare('A', { sensitivity: 'variant' }));

You can add the locale if you need etc.

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Life Of A Sneakerhead: One To Rock, One To Stock
KUOW | By Mohamed Mohamed
Published May 21, 2014 at 12:28 PM AKDT
KUOW Photo/Jason Pagano
Hieu Phan, 18, is a "sneakerhead" – he collects shoes that are rare and have trading value.
Phan remembers watching reruns of the Olympics with his dad when he was very young. When Michael Jordan was on the bench lacing up his sneakers in the second quarter, his shoes caught Phan's eyes. It was a special moment for him, but not as special as when he finally got his own pair of the same shoes Jordan had been wearing: Air Jordan Olympic 7.
But that wasn't his first pair. Phan's mom first bought him a pair of Jordans in kindergarten. "Ever since then I've been in love with them," he said.
Wearing these shoes used to make him feel like Michael Jordan, but now that he's older Phan sees the sneaker game as a competition to see who has the most of the 2,000 different models of Jordan shoes.
Every sneakerhead like him has a quest. "I only have about 60 pairs," Phan said, "so I don't feel like I'm even close to where I want to be."
Like a lot of collectors, Phan sometimes buys two pairs of each shoe – one to rock and one to stock.
He has boxes stacked up to the ceiling in his closet, with a picture of the type of shoe inside on the outside of each. Phan gave an intricate description of a pair as he unwrapped it, "The leather is so creamy, and the elephant print has suede corduroy material with inner lining double stitching."
But there's still one pair that he really wants to get his hands on: the Quai 54 Air Jordan 5, made in Tokyo. On eBay they go for around $1,000 or more.
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A lot of people think it's crazy to spend so much money on shoes, especially Phan's mom. He said at first she didn't like his collecting, but now she sees the benefits of it.
"Whereas other teenagers are wasting their money on other things that might harm their life, she sees it as a hobby that is neither illegal or bad in any way," Phan said.
Phan's friends think his hobby is really cool. But his mom still wishes he'd save money for college. Phan admits Jordan sneakers are expensive. To afford his hobby, he works at his uncle's store. He's helped out there since he was 14; first sweeping floors and now working as a cashier.
Phan sees collecting sneakers as a way to help him in his future career. He wants to go into business. "I feel like it makes me be more responsible with my money," Phan said. "It also gets me into the mindset of how to invest and earn more money in a legal way."
But the sneaker game isn't just expensive, it can be dangerous. There have been riots at the shoe releases. Some people have ended up in the hospital or dead.
Phan had a close call once. It was the day he bought a pair of Jordan 11. He was a sophomore in high school and was riding the bus home at 8:30 a.m. after buying the shoes. When he got off the bus, three males followed him, beat him up and took his shoes.
Right after the attack, Phan said he notified the police. They found the suspects and made them pay restitution. Phan used the money to buy another pair, but didn't press any charges. "I knew they were sneakerheads that didn't have enough money," he explained. "I knew their struggle and I didn't feel like they should face jail time."
Nike has since come out with a solution to the high demand: People follow Nike Seattle on Twitter and message the company their name, size and the hashtag used for a certain shoe. Phan said the service, called Twitter RSVP, is a very good idea because it stops the madness.
Phan sees the day coming when he won't be collecting sneakers anymore. "Actually I was talking to my girlfriend about this a couple days ago," he said, "and I decided that at the age of 22, I would stop for the most part buying retro Jordans. I want to be more representable and more respectable."
Someday, when Phan has a family of his own, he said he wouldn't push his son to collect sneakers. He hopes that his son will see more valuable things in life, and won't get into that habit at a young age.
"I don't necessarily feel like it was a mistake," Phan said. "I just think there's better things for him to do with his money – like buy books."
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Q: 2nd product on cart -50% based on category I need create function in WooCommerce - 50% discount to 2nd product, if 2nd product is from category 'odziez' slug. Can anyone help me? This code not work:

<?php
add_action('woocommerce_cart_calculate_fees', 'ts_add_custom_discount', 10, 1 );
function ts_add_custom_discount( $wc_cart ){
    $discount = 0;
    $product_ids = array();
 $in_cart = false;
 foreach ( $wc_cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $cart_item ) {
  $cart_product = $cart_item['data'];
  if ( has_term( 'get2', 'product_cat', $cart_product->get_id() ) ) {
   $in_cart = true;
  }else {
   $product_ids[] = $cart_product->get_id();
  }
 }
 if( $in_cart ) {
  $count_ids = count($product_ids);
  if( $count_ids >= 1 ) {
     foreach( $product_ids as $id ) {

    $product = wc_get_product( $id );
    $price = $product->get_price();
    $discount -= ($price * 50) /100; //apply 50% discount on the other product
     }
    }
 }
    if( $discount != 0 ){
        $wc_cart->add_fee( 'Discount', $discount, true  );
        # Note: Last argument in add_fee() method is related to applying the tax or not to the discount (true or false)
    }
}

A: Here I apply discount to less than or equal to half the amount of products. Discount only if a product is of category odziez.
add_action('woocommerce_cart_calculate_fees', 'ts_add_custom_discount', 10, 1 );
function ts_add_custom_discount( $wc_cart ){
    $discount = 0;
    $product_ids_with_price = array();
    $product_ids = array();
    $in_cart = false;

    $total_odziez = 0;
    $total_discounted = 0;
    // count nr of odziez
    foreach ( $wc_cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $cart_item ) {
        $cart_product = $cart_item['data'];
        if ( has_term( 'odziez', 'product_cat', $cart_product->get_id() ) ) {
            $total_odziez += $cart_item['quantity'];
        }
    }
    foreach ( $wc_cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $cart_item ) {
        $cart_product = $cart_item['data'];
        $prod_id = $cart_product->get_id();
        $_product = wc_get_product( $prod_id );
        $price = $_product->get_price();
        if ( has_term( 'odziez', 'product_cat', $prod_id ) ) {
            $product_ids_with_price[$cart_product->get_id()] = $price;
        }
    }

    asort($product_ids_with_price); // sort by price, so we get cheapest on top

    foreach ( $product_ids_with_price as $prod_id => $prod_price ) {
        if ($total_discounted < floor($total_odziez / 2)) {  // Starting from the cheapest, add products for discounting until you have done half of all odziez products
            $total_discounted++;
            $product_ids[] = $prod_price;
            $in_cart = true;
        }
    }

    if( $in_cart ) {
        $count_ids = count($product_ids);
        if( $count_ids >= 1 ) {
           foreach( $product_ids as $id => $price ) {

                // $product = wc_get_product( $id );
                // $price = $product->get_price();
                $discount -= ($price * 50) /100; //apply 50% discount on the other product
           }
       }
    }
    if( $discount != 0 ){
        $wc_cart->add_fee( 'Discount', $discount, true  );
        # Note: Last argument in add_fee() method is related to applying the tax or not to the discount (true or false)
    }
}

Update
Changed it so it discounts every 2nd item of category odziez.
Update
I added that the cheapest products get discounted over the more expensive ones.


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Already during Phase I the project was managed jointly by the city of Zurich and by the Kunsthaus Zurich. The extension's partners (the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, the Stiftung Kunsthaus Zürich, and the city of Zurich) issued a joint statement of intent stressing the project's great significance and setting out the details of their collaboration. Their objective: to build an extension to the Kunsthaus.
The importance of the project was further emphasized by the active presence on the steering committee of leading figures representing the partners: Walter B. Kielholz, Christoph Becker, Thomas Wagner, Corine Mauch (replaces Elmar Ledergerber) and Kathrin Martelli.
In addition, the project enjoyed a prominent place on the municipal council's 2006-2010 legislative agenda.
The Steering Committee (SC), the body with ultimate authority, makes strategic decisions, assigns responsibility, and procures and allocates the necessary resources. Its diverse network proved invaluable during the initial phase, and it was the source of the project's ambition and 'drive'.
The active presence on the SC of leading figures representing all three partners serves as a guarantee of the body's effectiveness.
Walter B. Kielholz (President of the ZKG since 2002, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Credit Suisse Group, and Delegate of the Board of Directors of Swiss Re) is the leading representative of the Kunstgesellschaft, and is responsible for raising its membership to over 20,000.
Christoph Becker (Director of the Kunsthaus since July of 2000) increased footfall during the renovation to 300,000 visitors annually and has secured the cooperation of celebrated partners (MoMA, Tate, Royal Academy et al.). On his initiative and under his aegis, the contents of the new Kunsthaus are being defined, and thus providing the foundation for all further development.
Martin Wetter (banker, charged with finances on the Board of the Kunstgesellschaft) lends his experience to the core team and heads the financing/fundraising module.
Thomas Wagner (President of the Stiftung Zürcher Kunsthaus [SZKH], former Municipal Councillor and former Mayor of Zurich) manages the properties in use by the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft and kept the renovation on time and on budget. He contributed significantly to the success of the vote on the renovation loan in 2000.
Elmar Ledergerber (Mayor) oversees the city's political process and personally provides a top-level liaison between city and canton. And of course, he also ensures constructive collaboration on the part of the entire city administration.
Kathrin Martelli (Municipal Councillor, Head of Zurich's Department of Structural Engineering) represents the expertise of the DSE, which is of ultimate significance to the project's high-quality implementation. Franz Eberhard, Martelli's Director of the Town Planning Office, represents his office on the core team. Both Martelli and Eberhard supply the project with experienced professionals from the Department of Structural Engineering (DSE) and coordinate the collaboration of the Town Planning Office (TPO), the Office for Building and Construction (OBC), and the Mayor's Office (MO).
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How do I do a cost/benefit analysis of usability?
Title:   Is Usability Engineering really worth it?
I hope that some people find these of use. They have been useful for me in my MSc project, which is evaluating the "usability" of textual interfaces for British Steel.
I don't have at my fingertips published studies of how much usability saves. I can recommend that you check the publications of the IEEE Human Factors society and the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). They may have the information you want, and if you call their offices they may give you better pointers.
However, that kind of study has not been of much interest to me. That may surprise you, but the reason is because, as in many things associated with good design, "your mileage may vary". How much usability you get out of a given hour of work depends upon how good a designer you use, and how much $$$ value you get is dependent upon costs of development, costs of sales, costs of support, and market preferences and the premiums they can command, and even the ROI to customers. And all that differs from product to product by huge amounts. I don't really care what an industry average is, or some sample test in some laboratory. I want to know what MY value will be.
7) Customer Return on Investment (ROI) from easier, faster or more accurate performance of their business tasks.
Designing for usability is all about identifying what the customer's task is, and finding the easiest, fastest, most accurate way for the customer to do that. This turns out to be remarkably easy to measure in real life. Just set up a head to head test. Give two customer prospects the same set of real life problems. Let one use your tool, the other user the tools they already have and know.
Measure how long it takes to do the real world task in each case. Now you have a concrete number for the time saved (for instance in the last test where I did this, my new product user took 1 hour to do the tasks, the control user took 2 hours). You can convert that to a $$$ amount by multiplying by the cost of that employee (typically salary, benefits, overhead, etc.: the "fully burdened" costs. For a programmer that is about $50/hour). So in my example case we saw that the new product could save about $50/usage. How many times is the product used? In my case we estimated that it would be used about once a week, or 13 times a quarter, for a net savings of $650 per quarter or $2,600 per person year in SPEED improvements alone. (note, it is important to test the time of the TASK, not just how fast the computer works. In my case, the computer time wasn't faster, but the TASK time was dramatically so. That is common in Usability).
Now check both for errors. Does the tool make it less like to make errors? More likely to detect and correct them? In our case, for instance we found 5 undetected errors in our control user's work, none in the new product user's work. To convert to $$$, get a measure for the cost of an undetected defect. For instance in our case, Tom DeMarco estimated that a minimum cost for finding and fixing an undetected defect was $1000/defect. So in our case, we saved $5000 in the one usage, That's $65,000/person-quarter or $360,000/person-year saved in our case using the once per week usage levels given above. Again, adjust based upon your own expected usage patterns.
Next, you can compare you people FEEL about using the tool vs. using the alternatives. These are inherently subjective, but then the purchase decision is totally subjective too! This is still useful information, because it relates to the expected increase in the volume in sales, and in the premium you might expect to command in price. You'll of course use your measured ROIs to help promote the product--and when sales results come in you can see if these benefits accrued or not.
Moving back from the Customer, we focus on our own Sales team. How can we reduce the time and effort it takes to sell the product? Having a DESIRABLE product makes it easier of course, but there is more to designing a more usable product than just customer demand. Because sales is a set of tasks and phases too. There is awareness, acquisition, installation, configuration, pilot test, mass deployment. A usable product is better in each of these activities as well.
First, how are people going to become aware of the product. Will the trades promote it as better than competitors? Will there be word of mouth? Is there a simple compelling story that is easy to understand in a short sales brochure, a trade show demo, press release, etc.? All those things make it easier for the customer to become aware of it.
How can they acquire it? Is it available through the mail? At tradeshows? Can they download it electronically, is it already bundled on their system? or on a CD they get for free? All these things affect the ease of acquisition.
Now, how easy is it to install it? Just press one button? or do you have to answer a lot of questions up front? In fact, do you have to KNOW something about what you want, or how the tool behaves to answer those installation and configuration issues?
How can the user pilot test it? Does it automatically run a demo of how to use it? Does it come packaged with a little test suite that you can use to convince yourself of the proposed savings in performance and accuracy? How long does it take to detect real results?
And once the pilot has results, what is involved in converting a whole organization? Can people learn it piece by piece, some people at a time, or does everyone have to come up to speed at once. Usability design addresses all these questions too.
The net result of this is that you can reduce the costs of sales and the length of the sales cycle. Costs of sales are directly measurable, and you can calculate the benefit of a reduced sales cycle by multiplying the reduction in time times the cost of sales people (again fully burdened).
You can also measure support costs. Easy to install products have less support calls (and expense for support staff) than hard to install ones. Same for configuration. Same for learning/training. Same for on going usage. In fact, users won't pay a premium for little used or hard to use features. But they'll call for support on them. The net result is that these LOW USABILITY features cost you more money, instead of generating money.
Let's keep going, now we leave sales and support and go into the development organization. Those low usability features that don't contribute to a bigger price premium still take time to design, to develop and to test. And they will require ongoing maintenance. All for something that doesn't enhance the product. It would be cheaper to never build those features!! And again you measure it directly, just by the time saved by NOT developing the hard to use features, and the time saved NOT testing them. This results in faster time to market too. For instance our last project went from board approval of a concept prototype to product rollout in 45 days. Most other projects take 9 months to a year! And yet our product got a cover notice in a major trade magazine at introduction.
So that's basically how I measure these sorts of things. My customers do too. I'll include an unsolicited testimonial by one of my customers written as an open letter to the net, commenting on their ROI. You can look at the review for my Merge Ahead product in the May 1992 Sun World as well. You'll note that the reviewer gets quantitative at the end: To paraphrase, "If, like me, you [perform the activities that Merge Ahead addresses]... you can expect to save the purchase price within hours of use." Again, a totally quantitative focus.
Ironically, this is old news in the manufacturing industry. It is only new in our industry. Phil Crosby's book "Quality is Free" is well known in manufacturing circles. He showed how designing for Quality actually made manufacturing cheaper. No end of the line inspection stations, no rework. Less cycle time. Exactly the same kinds of things we are talking about here, but applied to manufacturing. Same kind of reduction in engineering costs. And what do we see in manufacturing as a result, fewer parts, fewer things for people to mis-set, misconfigure, adjust, etc. More automation that just does the right thing. That's analogous to creating products with FEWER features, but just the RIGHT features. QUALITY and USABILITY are the same thing in this respect.
Bias, R.G. and Mayhew, D.J. Cost-Justifying Usability. Academic Press.


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Clinton has recently compared his sexual sin with Monica with King David's sexual sin with Bathsheba. A comparison of their acknowledgement speeches shows us Clinton's heart is far different before God than was King David.
Radio news, August 27, 1998. President Clinton was reportedly spending much time while on his vacation on Martha's Vineyard studying the Old Testament account of the sexual relationship King David had with Bathsheba. Clinton was reported to be seeking "guidance" from this Biblical account, in his troubles with Monica Lewinsky.
Anyone with half a brain can realize the hypocrisy of this trial balloon. In no way, shape, or form can Clinton's affair with Lewinsky be compared with the affair, and later, marriage, between King David and Bathsheba. The best way in which to see this difference would be to compare the "speech" David gave to Nathan, God's prophet, after he was confronted with his sin, to the speech Clinton gave to the nation on August 17, 1998. When comparing the two speeches, notice the difference in the condition of the heart, soul, and mind of David compared to Clinton.
"Good evening. This afternoon, in this room, from this chair, I testified before the Office of Independent Counsel and the grand jury. I answered their questions truthfully, including questions about my private life, questions no American citizen would ever want to answer."
"Still, I must take complete responsibility for all my actions, both public and private. And that is why I am speaking to you tonight. As you know, in a deposition in January, I was asked questions about my relationship with Monica Lewinsky. While my answers were legally accurate, I did not volunteer information."
"Indeed, I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible."
"But I told the grand jury today and I say to you now that, at no time, did I ask anyone to lie, to hide, or destroy evidence or to take any other unlawful action. I know that my public comments and my silence about this matter gave a false impression. I misled people, including even my wife. I deeply regret that."
"I can only tell you, I was motivated by many factors. First, by a desire to protect myself from the embarrassment of my own conduct. I was also very concerned about protecting my family. The fact that these questions were being asked in a politically inspired lawsuit, which has since been dismissed, was a consideration, also."
"In addition, I had real and serious concerns about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings 20 years ago, dealings, I might add, about which an independent federal agency found no evidence of any wrongdoing by me or my wife over two years ago. The independent counsel investigation moved on to my staff and friends, then into my private life. And now the investigation itself is under investigation."
"This has gone on too long, cost too much and hurt too many innocent people. Now, this matter is between me, the two people I love most -- my wife and our daughter -- and our God. I must put it right, and I am prepared to do whatever it takes to do so."
Nothing is more important to me personally. But it is private and I intend to reclaim my family life for my family. It's nobody's business but ours."
"Even presidents have private lives. It is time to stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life. Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do."
"Now it is time -- in fact, it is past time -- to move on. We have important work to do -- real opportunities to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face."
"And so tonight, I ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past seven months, to repair the fabric of our national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of the next American century."
"Thank you for watching. And good night."
How arrogant can a man get, when he tells the people who elected him twice, and all the Americans whom he is supposed to lead, "it's nobody's business"! Since the TV camera was on his bust, we could not see his hands. Was he flipping us all off with his middle finger as he told us it was none of our business? His arrogance knows no bounds.
Further, while he said he "deeply regretted" his actions, he immediately turned around to tell us to get lost, because it was none of our business. At no time did Clinton ask for unconditional forgiveness because he had unconditionally asked Jesus Christ for forgiveness.
Even after Clinton realized the enormity of his sin, he did not ask forgiveness from God or his fellow countrymen.
Now, let us examine King David's speech when he had been confronted by Nathan, the prophet, and the enormity of his sin hit him full force. Notice the difference in the attitude of David's heart, mind, and soul, and that of Clinton, above.
" Psalm 51 -- "A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bathsheba".
"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your steadfast love; according to the multitude of Your tender mercy and lovingkindness blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly and repeatedly from my iniquity and guilt and cleanse me, and make me wholly pure from my sin! For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them; my sin is ever before me."
"Against You, You only, have I sinned and done that which is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified in Your sentence and faultless in Your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in a state of iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me, and I, too, am sinful."
"Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me, therefore, to know wisdom in my inmost heart. Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be ceremonially clean; wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Make to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my guilt and iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering and steadfast spirit within me."
"Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then, will I teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You."
"Deliver me from bloodguiltiness and death, O God, the God of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. O, Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it. You find no pleasure in burnt offering."
"My sacrifice, the sacrifice acceptable to God, is a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent. Such, O God, You will not despise."
As you can see, King David was so broken hearted once he was confronted with his sin, his whole body ached, even his bones felt like they were broken. He repented, vowed never to do it again, and asked God for forgiveness. Then, David promised that he would teach God's Law and Mercy to his people, and many sinners would learn from his mistakes and be converted from their sins, as well.
The comparison between this brokenhearted condition and Clinton's arrogance of telling us it was "none of your business" is obvious. I got the feeling when I watched Clinton that he was secretly flipping the American people his finger. Remember, the first thing a person has to do to set the record straight with his loved ones is to repent before Jesus Christ God, asking His forgiveness. Then, once he has received Jesus' forgiveness, he has to come before his people, and contritely ask them for their forgiveness.
Clearly, Clinton did none of these things. Rather, while he paid lip service to family and God, he immediately slipped into the arrogant action of pointing the finger of blame to Independent Counsel Starr and flipping the finger to the American people.
But, why should we be surprised? The Bible clearly states that the End of the Age would be characterized by a terrible change in the attitudes and values of both common people and their leaders. We encourage you to read 2 Timothy 3:1-6 to see that the attitudes of Clinton and the people, who support him, so plainly parallel this prophecy. We encourage you also to read NEWS1205, "Clinton In Prophecy?" for full details.


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Trustees endorse $6.2M project
DeForest village trustees last week approved a resolution to contact with Vogel Brothers Building Co. for a renovation and expansion of both Village Hall and the adjacent Public Safety Building.
The nearly $6.2 million bid from Vogel Brothers was the lowest of four received in early April and garnered unanimous support from the board on April 19. Bray Architects has guided village officials and staff through project planning in the last year.
The formal action is the culmination of years spent in the discussion and planning stages with regards to getting DeForest's civic campus better suited to serve staff and the growing community.
"I'm supportive of the resolution tonight and getting to the next chapter in the community and getting the facilities we need for our staff," Trustee Jeff Miller said prior to the board's endorsement.
Village Hall's history goes back to when it was purchased in 1974. A remodel was performed in the last decade (2006), but increases in staff and services has left the facility, according to Village Clerk LuAnn Leggett and others who work there each day, operating in close quarters with no adequate meeting or storage space.
"We just have no more office space or cubicle space," Leggett previously noted. "So if we were ever needing to hire somebody, there is no place for that person to actually sit."
A quick tour of the Public Safety Building (PSB)—home to the police force, fire and EMS departments, Village Board, municipal court and local elections—yields similar issues seen at Village Hall.
Constructed in 1997, village officials say the PSB almost immediately began facing space issues, especially with the police department.
In the nearly two decades since, DeForest has seen it's population swell by more than 2,000 and the force has risen from 10 to 17 officers. DeForest's total square mileage has also risen 130 percent since the PSB first opened it's doors and support staff has grown.
Police chief Robert Henze and Lt. Daniel Furseth have both been vocal about the need for additional offices, evidence and vehicle storage, locker rooms, and private areas for officers to meet with suspects and/or victims.
Asked about the project one day after the board's blessing, Furseth, who will take over as police chief in 2017, called it "exciting."
The approved project contract, according to Leggett, who has been the village's point person throughout the planning process, will alleviate the issues at both buildings and allow staff to more comfortably operate day-to-date and serve residents.
Project funding will be covered through a 20-year borrowing that Village Administrator Steve Fahlgren said he's "comfortable" with. Fahlgren said helping matters is the looming retirement of public library debt, that DeForest projects to grow, and Tax Increment District 1 is closing.
"Obviously there will be additional costs on top of the soft costs like furnishings, lockers for the [police department], technology … which will be part of the borrowing," Leggett told trustees.
Leggett also cautioned that "with any building project, we do have contingencies" and unknowns may arise.
"We will keep [the board] up to date when we have changes," she added.
Village officials say the average taxpayer will not experience an increase in their tax bills as a result of the facilities project.
As posted by DeForest Times-Tribune, April 29, 2016
Rendering courtesy of Bray Architects


As the immigration debate rages on in Congress this week, a recent story has come to light about a British woman's objection to a largely ignored, age-old clause contained in U.S. naturalization protocol.
Unbeknownst to many Americans, a staple element of U.S. Department of Homeland Security immigration procedure is to require applicants to pledge to "take up arms to defend the U.S," unless prospective immigrants claim a religious exemption. This case is a reminder that naturalization procedures requires increased scrutiny.
UK woman Margaret Doughty, 64, allegedly declined to support this clause due to her deeply-held moral opposition to violence, although she does not belong to a church. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers then requested that she submit an official religious objection by June 21, or else she would be denied citizenship, raising some question about this clause and requests to expand exemptions for people holding similar beliefs. This longstanding element of U.S. naturalization process is now gaining an onslaught of scrutiny.
Before 1946, the U.S. did not accept any form of objection to the clause. Only after Supreme Court case Girouard v. United States (328 U.S. 61 (1946)) did the court overturn this procedure by voting in favor of an applicant for naturalization who refused to support the clause due to his Seventh-day Adventist beliefs, leading to an official religious exemption. Religious exemptions are required to be filed on official church letterhead. Now some are demanding this exemption criterion be expanded beyond formal religious organizations to include personal objections to violence.
The current oath for naturalization, available here, has stood for over 220 years and does not allow for exemption from any other clause. Since America's first naturalization law of 1790, all applications for naturalization must take the Oath of Allegiance, requiring them to uphold allegiance, support, and defense of the Constitution and U.S. laws, "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." The last change to the oath took place in 1952.
Expanding room for exemption, of course, would be a difficult and controversial task. But the case is a meaningful reminder that pacifist sentiment expands beyond church lines, and may be a legitimate concern for otherwise deserving applicants seeking citizenship. As the oath has stood untouched for over 50 years, the case is a reminder that it would be worthwhile to reconsider some of the elements of the pledge so many applicants face every day. If possible to fairly and systematically expand the clause to relate to individuals with similar deeply held concerns with violence, this could be a meaningful way to more fairly address the issue.


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People Are Flushing Contact Lenses Down the Toilet … And It's a Huge Problem for the Environment
They may harm aquatic life.
Contact lens wearers often dispose of the products by washing them down the drain or flushing them down the toilet — and that's bad news for the environment, new research suggests.
Contact lenses recovered from treated sewage sludge could harm the environment. Credit: Charles Rolsky
Lenses that are washed down the drain ultimately end up in wastewater treatment plants, according to a team that presented its findings at the 256th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. The scientists estimate that anywhere from six to 10 metric tons of plastic lenses end up in wastewater in the U.S. alone each year.
Contacts tend to be denser than water, which means they sink, and this could ultimately pose a threat to aquatic life, especially bottom feeders that may ingest the contacts, according to a press release from the American Chemical Society.
"We found that 15 to 20 percent of contact wearers are flushing the lenses down the sink or toilet," said Charlie Rolsky, a Ph.D. student who presented the work. "This is a pretty large number, considering roughly 45 million people in the U.S. alone wear contact lenses."
Rolsky, Rolf Halden and Varun Kelkar are at the Biodesign Institute's Center for Environmental Health Engineering at Arizona State University.
To help address the fate of contact lenses during treatment, the researchers exposed five polymers found in many manufacturers' contact lenses to anaerobic and aerobic microorganisms present at wastewater treatment plants for varying times and performed Raman spectroscopy to analyze them.
"We found that there were noticeable changes in the bonds of the contact lenses after long-term treatment with the plant's microbes," Kelkar said.
The team concluded that microbes in the wastewater treatment facility actually altered the surface of the contact lenses, weakening the bonds in the plastic polymers.
"When the plastic loses some of its structural strength, it will break down physically," Kelkar said. "This leads to smaller plastic particles which would ultimately lead to the formation of microplastics."
Aquatic organisms can mistake microplastics for food and since plastics are indigestible, this dramatically affects the marine animals' digestive system. The animals are part of a long food chain. Some eventually find their way to the human food supply, which could lead to unwanted human exposures to plastic contaminants and pollutants that stick to the surfaces of the plastics.
The team hopes industry will take note of the research and, at minimum, provide a label on the packaging describing how to properly dispose of contact lenses, which is by placing them with other solid waste.
"Ultimately, we hope that manufacturers will conduct more research on how the lenses impact aquatic life and how fast the lenses degrade in a marine environment," Halden.
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Extremely productive college career. In 46 games had 56 TFL and 29.5 sacks. Plays the run extremely well. Does a great job of turning RB's inside. Quick first step and plays with a non-stop motor. Wide array of pass rushing moves. Questions about him playing in a 3-4 and dropping into coverage. Lacks ideal height. Ran a 4.72 at the combine with 31 reps on the bench (225 lbs).
Gets off the ball well, good job at getting under the pads, fluid in coverage, undersized but plays big, explodes to the ball. Can get overpowered by bigger tackles, needs to improve finishing tackles, lacks elite speed.


This statistic presents the frequency of breakfast cereal usage in the United Kingdom (UK) between 2013 and 2017, by number of users. In 2017, an estimated 15.6 million people in the UK were heavy breakfast cereal users.
- Heavy users consumed breakfast cereals either "once a day or more" or "two to three times a week."
- Medium users consumed breakfast cereals "once a week."
- Light users consumed breakfast cereals "two or three times a month", "once a month" or "less than once a month"


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Lapo Elkann
Published on: 22 July 2018 Published in: Portraits
In the early 1950s, ENI chairman Enrico Mattei commissioned architect Mario Bacciocchi to design an Agip service station that would embody the incredible wave of dynamism sweeping Italy at the time. Sixty years later, that same station has been given a new lease of life by Lapo Elkann who called in another architect, Michele De Lucchi, to restore it after years of neglect.
Two very different eras but also two entrepreneurial stories that share the same vision of turning Italy into a truly great country. Thanks to Elkann's efforts, Garage Italia once again brings together the very best of Made in Italy under the same roof. The building's exterior retains the aerodynamic sleekness inspired by the glorious Streamline Moderne style movement of the first half of the 20th century.
Garage Italia
Depending on the angle it is viewed from, the shape of the former service station seems to mimic the deck of ship, the wings of an aeroplane or the flowing lines of a sports car. Earth, sky and sea are recurring themes and actively inspired the vision behind Elkann's project. The result is that past is in constant, lively dialogue with the present in Garage Italia. "It's not about rhetoric and it's not a nostalgia trip either," he says emphatically. "Garage Italia celebrates the best our nation has to offer using a language that references the Dolce Vita concept." In other words, it is not a museum but an actual workshop: a laboratory of ideas in which creative talent pays a central role.
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The term "Garage" was a very deliberate choice. The high tech likes of Apple, Amazon and Google also started out as dreams of young men working from their garages.
Then, of course, there is the garage band phenomenon that produced some of the best of modern rock music. But Lapo Elkann personally is following a very different tune. "My garage is designed to be the new home of Italian creativity. A place lit up by the desire to coin an entirely new style that may look to the past but mostly aims to create a better present and future," he declares.
Hence the decision to call this new movement Dolce Vita 4.0. An intermingling of past and future, tradition and innovation – the core values and keys to the success of the great Made in Italy brands of the likes of Kartell, Cassina, Poltrona Frau, Brembo, Pirelli, Uno Più, Viabizzuno, Richard Ginori and Riva, now flanking Garage Italia in its endeavours. To get an idea of the true breath of Lapo Elkann's vision, just take a stroll around the spaces themselves.
Terms such as "personalisation" and "tailor-made" take on new meanings and are energised by cross-contamination between seemingly unconnected worlds. Nine Ferrari Daytona and two Ferrari 599 seats have been turned into actual armchairs, for instance, while the legendary 298 De Lucchi director's chair for Cassina has been personalised with exclusive motorsport-inspired graphics designed by Elkann and the Garage Italia creative team. But that is far from the end of the story. The two-tone leather Frau sofa in the restaurant area, where the menu is in the capable hands of chef Carlo Cracco, is inspired by a Ferrari that once belonged to Gianni Agnelli. The car theme continues with the bodyshell of a Ferrari 250 GTO which has been kitted out as a cocktail station.
Ferrari 250 GTO cocktail station.
The Riva Privé space also melds the automotive and maritime worlds as its styling, materials, décor and colours all clearly hark back to the Aquarama, one of the great iconic models produced by the Bergamo yard which is now part of the Ferretti Group.
Garage Italia Riva privé
"With Garage Italia, we set ourselves the goal of creating and turning into reality the personalisation dreams and desires of a business to business and business to consumer client base. We also work in the industrial design sector," explains Elkann. Sky, land and sea set the coordinates and scope of Garage Italia's work.
But that is no coincidence."hey were the central elements in an advertising campaign my great-great-grandfather (Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli Senior, ed.'s note) commissioned for Fiat and which, in my own small way, I wanted to pick up on in getting this project off the ground," continues Elkann, adding: "This is a style centre, not a fashion centre. Equally I don't look on myself as a fashion entrepreneur but as one that works with style." We might also add that Elkann is an exporter of creativity which brings us neatly to his work with Hublot and Italia Independent, a partnership that has produced timepiece collections that shine a bright light on his talent for innovation finding unusual, cutting-edge materials and putting them to new uses. One example is Texalium which was used to produce a version of Hublot's iconic Big Bang watch.
At the other end of the spectrum is the 2018 Classic Fusion Chronograph Italia Independent, collection spanning three very elegant limited edition watch models featuring 1960s and 70s fabrics on their dials which Elkann himself selected from the archives of the celebrated Italian tailor Rubinacci.
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But what about the maritime world? "There is still a lot of work to be done there," says the entrepreneur. "Very few have had the courage to instigate change in the sector. But Luca Bassani is one. I have great respect and admiration for what he has managed to achieve in both the sailing and motor arenas."
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New Delhi: Limited over captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be eager to regain his golden touch even as Virat Kohli eyes another smashing knock at his home ground when favourites India lock horns with New Zealand in the second ODI here tomorrow.
At the face of it, there is apparently no danger to Dhoni's captaincy since the team is still winning matches. But if one digs deeper, Virat has slowly and surely been the man everyone is looking forward to as a leader.
For Dhoni, it's now about showing the world that he is far from being dubbed as a spent force in limited overs after earning sobriquet of 'Best Finisher" some years back.
While Kane Williamson's 'Black Caps' is struggling to stay afloat in the series, India's 'Captain Cool' is fighting a different battle to remain the 'supreme' commander' of 'Men In Blue'.
Dhoni is still supremely fit and agile behind the stumps.
His captaincy acumen cannot be questioned. Testimony to that is Hardik Pandya opening the bowling and Kedar Jadhav filling in the role of a part time off-spinner.
But then runs aren't exactly coming from his bat. The big hits aren't being executed with perfection that used to be his hallmark a few years ago.
He was run out for 21 in the last game and although that didn't affect the outcome of the match in any way, but the skipper knows only too well that he has to play a few impact innings in coming weeks.
No wonder Dhoni's intensity while batting at Kotla nets during an optional session was there to be seen. For the record, he needs another 61 runs to complete 9000 ODI runs.
But there must be a lingering shadow of Virat standing right behind him.