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Starbucks 2015 cup sparked an outcry from critics upset that it lacked snowflakes, reindeer or specific symbols of Christmas. Even President Donald Trump, a candidate at the time, suggested boycotting the chain
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This Tuesday, March 14, 2017, file photo show the Starbucks logo on a shop in downtown Pittsburgh. Starbucks Corp. reports earnings, Thursday, July 27, 2017AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File
It'll be a (mostly) white Christmas cup for Starbucks this year. The coffee chain's latest holiday design lets customers color it in themselves.
The company says the cups — which are typically red-themed — will be in stores Wednesday. A cup sleeve to go with the cup will be red.
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A plainer red cup from 2015 spurred an outcry from critics upset that it lacked snowflakes, reindeer or specific symbols of Christmas. Even President Donald Trump, who was a candidate at the time, suggested boycotting the chain.
This Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, photo provided by Starbucks shows the company's 2017 holiday cup on display in SeattleJoshua Trujillo/Starbucks via AP
This year the cups feature splashes of red and green amid illustrations of presents, snowflakes and a Christmas tree with star on top. But the black-and white illustration is mainly blank for customers to personalize.
"We hope they'll color it in to represent what the holidays means to them," said Leanne Fremar, a creative director at the company.
Starbucks said it started working on the design in January and decided to go with a color-in version because it said many customers liked to draw on them. The Seattle-based chain said most of its nearly 5,000 U.S. locations will have colored pencils available for customers to borrow.
Last year, it released about a dozen holiday cups that were designed by its customers. The holiday cups have been released since 1997.
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Discussion in 'SCRYPTmail' started by uioqwe, Feb 8, 2017.
What is SCRYPTmail's policy on records for disposable email addresses upon deletion?
Sorry, I meant the actual email address, not the emails under the address. To be more specific, say I've got the disposable foo@scryptmail.com. If I delete the address because I'm done, is it open to be used by someone else?
Have you considered the idea that this could allow a user to hijack previously-existing communications by registering a "deleted" (previously-used) address? Proton's policy is "We do not recycle usernames, which means the same username will be not available in the future" , which completely eradicates this issue.
Well, I can only praise such approach, however with free signups you will deplete pool of good email addresses very quick, and leave potential paid users with something more encrypted and less user friendly like john123@sc.. I come from the point, if user decided to delete certain address, he either not interested in receiving email from it, which essentially not important to him or its was just come and go account. In any case, 6 month seems like good retention policy for such things, and allow users who decide to stick with us claim a good email address.
Aliases / Disposable Emails Issues?


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Enrile says sorry for controversial martial-law comments; "I was not in my lucid intervals"
Former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile has apologized to victims of atrocities during the dark days of martial law and attributed to "unlucid intervals" his controversial disclaimer of arrests and killings of suspected dissidents in his recent interview with the son and namesake of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. (Philstar.com on Facebook)
The 94-year-old Enrile, who is seeking to return to the Senate in the May 2019 elections, however said that the magnitude of the killings and human rights violations during the Marcos regime was "debatable" and the warrantless arrests at the time were justified.
SOURCE: Enrile apologizes to Martial Law victims, blames 'unlucid intervals'. Paolo Romero (The Philippine Star). October 26, 2018 - 12:00am. Read more at https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/10/26/1863327/enrile-apologizes-martial-law-victims-blames-unlucid-intervals
Juan Furagganan Ponce Enrile, Sr. (born February 14, 1924), abbreviated JPE, is a Filipino politician and lawyer. He was a protégé of President Ferdinand Marcos, and served as Justice Secretary and then Defense Minister under the Marcos regime. He later became one of the leaders (along with General Fidel V. Ramos) of the 1986 People Power Revolution that drove Marcos from power and into exile. Enrile has continued to be a prominent politician since then; he was Senate President from November 2008 until his resignation on June 5, 2013. SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ponce_Enrile

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Over $15,000 Raised for Wounded Soldiers in Ukraine via Icons on Ammo Boxes Exhibition in the Parishes of the UOC of the USA
Over $15,000 has been raised for the needs of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital from the sale of Icons on Ammo Boxes during exhibitions in the parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. The local parish exhibits were held under the "Buy and Icon – Save a Life" joint project of the PFVMH and artists Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. The amount seems to be not final since several potential buyers are still considering a purchase of icons.
The exhibitions were originally held at several US based academic institutions: Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA; University Bloomington, Valparaiso University, Indiana, etc.
With the blessing of the Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, several parishes of the Church hosted the exhibit in order to raise awareness and to collect financial assistance for the wounded soldiers and their families of the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine.
The Metropolia Center of the UOC of the USA hosted a major exhibit of icons, dedicating the entire event to the memory of the lost heroes of Ukrainian Maydan of 2014 – The Heavenly Hundred. The event was organized by the Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA in cooperation with the Ukrainian History and Education Center, benefitting the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), which is the largest nongovernmental project involving civil health professionals in the provision of medical assistance in the zone of Joint Forces Operation (formerly "Anti-Terrorist Operation"), which is carried out in certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts of the Eastern Ukraine.
His Eminence Archbishop Daniel, in the presence of Metropolitan Antony, opened the Memorial exhibit of the icons, written on ammo boxes, which were brought from the combat zone, and once painted, delivered to the United States of America for the exhibition and charitable sale. This exhibit-sale is set to benefit the Charitable Foundation "Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital" which exists in cooperation with the Health Ministry of Ukraine, the Defense Ministry of Ukraine and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with support from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Archbishop stated that during its operation in the ATO/JFO zone, the PFVMH has provided timely and skilled medical care to over 56,000 patients. The hospital has been stationed in 49 locations of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts – in cities and villages as well as in the field and at checkpoints on the contact line.
Introducing Gennadiy Druzenko, the acting president of the PFVMH, Vladyka Daniel offered the sentiments of gratitude of everyone in attendance for the important charitable work done in providing care for the wounded soldiers and their families.
Mr. Druzenko stated that in the fall of 2015, the PFVMH extended its activities to peaceful regions of Ukraine and performed unprecedented cardio screening in the Khmelnytsky region, which covered 22,433 persons in 565 localities.
Among pother parishes of the UOC of the USA that hosted the exhibit, were Sts Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Palos Park, IL; St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma, OH; St. Andrew the First-Called Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in the Washington, DC suburb of Silver Spring, MD.
According to Oleksandr Klymenko, the exhibitions generated quite an interest and have become the project's most successful so far. Both Americans of Ukrainian origin and those in no way related to Ukraine came to see the icons. This allowed the organizers and the artists to tell the truth about the war in Ukraine to many people beyond the seas.
"There is no doubt now that the PFVMH will not only financially survive until the Day of Medical Worker in June, repair its worn vehicle fleet, and 're-shoe' it with summer tires but will also be able to implement a few important short-term projects in Eastern Ukraine," Gennadiy Druzenko commented.
"Buy an Icon - Save a Life" is an art project of Kyivan artists Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko aimed at supporting the PFVMH in employing civilian medics to provide medical care to both militants and civilians in the Anti-Terrorist Operation / Joint Forces Operation zone in Eastern Ukraine. Earlier, exhibitions of icons on ammo boxes, brought from the combat zone, were held in Antwerp, Berlin, Bonn, Brussels, Catania (on Sicily), Cologne, Edmonton, Frankfurt am Main, The Hague, Hanover, Krynica-Zdrój (in Poland), Leipzig, Los Angeles, Lublin, Milan, Munich, Prague, Rome, Toronto, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, and Winnipeg, as well as many Ukrainian cities.
The exhibit remains in the United Sates of America and will be displayed at the Consistory building of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (135 Davidson Ave; Somerset, NJ 08873) on March 4, 2019.
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1820 Federal Census - Hope
First Census after Provisional Formation of the County
1: Name of Heads of Families
2.10: Free White Males under 10 years
2.16: Free White Males of 10 and under 16
2.18: Free White Males between 16 and 18
2.&c.: Free White Males of 45 and upwardly, including heads of families
3.10: Free White Females under 10 years
3.16: Free White Females of 10 and under 16
3.&c.: Free White Females of 45 and upwardly, including heads of families
4: Foreigners Not Naturalized
5: Number of Persons Engaged in Agriculture.
6: Number of Persons Engaged in Commerce.
7: Number of Persons Engaged in Manufacture.
8: Comments for other columns (Slaves and Free Colored Persons)
Town of Hope, taken November 9th, 1820, by John L. Francisco.
10 16 18 26 45 &c 10 16 26 45 &c
Ziba Kellogg 1 1 1
Daniel Kellogg 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
John Eastwood 3 1 2 1 1 1
Andrew Isdle 1 1 3 1 1
David Isdle 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Benjamin Rodgers 1 1 1 2 1 1
Gardiner Rodgers 2 1 1 1 1 1
Eli Washburn 1 1 1 1
Benoni G. Hammond 3 3 1 1 2 1 1
Jeremiah Newell 2 1 1 1
Reuben Lake 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Lamuel Darrance 1 1 1 1 3 2 1
Josiah Wadsworth 3 1 1 3 2 1 1
Ichobad Palmeter 1 1 1 1
Francis Day 1 1 2 1 1 1
Francis Dowen 1 1 1 1
John Dowen 2 1 1 1
Francis Dowen jr. 1 2 1 1 1
Francis C. Dowen 1 1 1 1
Jacob Dlin? 3 2 1 1 1
Stephen Kent 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1
Simon Walker 1 1 1 1
David W. Dowen 2 1 1 1 1
David W. Williams 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
John Groff 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Overacker Groff 1 1 1 1
Albert Boine 1 1 1 1 1
John P. Groff 5 1 1 1
John Harris 1 1 1 1 1 1
Reuben Thair 2 1 1 1 1
Timothy M. Olmsted 1 1 3 1 1 1
Terins? Williams 1 1 1 1
Peter Eglin 1 1 1 1 1
Zebulon Titus 2 1 1 2 1 1
Jeremiah Olmsted 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Daniel Brownell 1 1 1 1 1 2
Mary Harris 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 2
Robert Sly 1 1 1 2 2 1 2
Henry Manger 3 1 1 1 1
Israel Sly 1 1 1 1
Jasper Kested 2 1 1 1 1
William W. Collins 1 1 1 1 1
Ralph Bicknell 3 1 1 1 1 1
Ezekiel Sloan 2 2 2 1 2
Titus Palmer 1 1 1 1 1 1
James Daman 1 1 1
David Hunter 3 4 1 1 1 2 1 1
Joseph Horton 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2
Levi Benedick 1 2 1 1
Timothy Spear 3 1 1 1 1 1
Joshua Wells 1 1 1 1 1 2
Eleanor Ward 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1
Amanah Crane 1 1 1 1
Amanah Crane jr. 1 1 1 1
John Dodd 1 1 2 1 1
Isaac O[?] 2 1 2 3 1 1
Samuel Annable 3 1 2 1 1 1 2
Benjamin Landell 2 2 1 2 1 1
William Hall 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
Rufus Washburn 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
Isaac Bovee 1 1 1 1
John McKay 1 1 1 1 1 1
Peter Bovee 2 1 1 1 1 1
Amos Flood 1 1 1 1 1 1
Isaac P. Truax 2 2 1 3 1 1 1
Stephen Woolverton 1 1 1
Asher Wolverton 2 1 2 1 1
Jacob VanHoosen 1 1 4 1 1
Reuben Thayer 1 1 1 1
Isaac Conklin 1 2 1
Orra Brownell 1 1 1 1
Isaac Mason 2 2 1 1 1 1 1
David Spalding 2 1 1 1 1
Remington Cornell 2 1 1 1
Abraham Traverse 1 1 1 1 1 1
Frederick VanSteenbergh 1 3 1 1
Amos Cornell 1 1 1 1 1 1
Robert Reynolds 1 1 1 1
Loyd H. Simms 1 1 1
William Cornell 1 1 1 2 1 1
David Gordon 1 2 2 1 1 1
Ira Blundige 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Almon Brundige 1 1 1 1
Nathan Brundige 1 1 1
Samuel Irwin? 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 1
Increase Green 3 2 1 2 1 1
Zadock Bass 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2
Elkanah Mason 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1
Amos Mason 1 1 2 1 1 1
Irah Olmsted 1 1 1 1 1
Leonard Baldwin 1 1 3 1 1
William Carr 1 1 1 1
James Edmonds 1 1 1 1
Andrew Hawley 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 2
Nathaniel G. Bass 1 1 1 1
Arnold Wood 1 1 1 1
Isaac Bennet 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1
Ira Bryant 1 2 1 1
William Conklin 4 1 1 1 1 1
John Conklin 3 1 3 1 1
Lyman Gifford 2 1 3 1 1
Daniel Gifford 1 1 1 1 1
John Williams 1 1 1 1 1 1
Justus Olmsted Jun. 1 1 1
Note at the end of the entire census schedule (for all three towns): "By the above schedule it will __ that I return fifteen Manufactures but they do not come within the construction of the act as they do not pretend to stock themselves, but only work such as is brought to them by their employers and beside are not wholly engaged in that business but could not be distinguished in any other manner - one ashery in operation and that only for a part of the season - John L. Francisco Assisant to the Marshall of the Northern District of Newyork"
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At Home Abroad is a stunning autobiography of Nancy Henderson-James's youth in Africa. Heart-wrenching is her uprooting at age 15 when the war for independence began, from Angola, whose natural world, people, customs, languages she so loved. Nancy bravely and articulately recounts a true saga of personal loss and bereavement. But out of the crucible of conflicts between herself and her parents, the Africa she loved and the America from which she felt estranged, comes crystalline strength, confidence, humor, and self-knowledge. Her journey to wholeness, with its exquisite analysis and detail, enlightens us, so that we, too, see our own lives with new understanding and compassion and recognize better our place in the 21st century as citizens of the world.
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Recently I came across an app on my Android device namely "imediashare" http://www.imediashare.tv/ , It is pretty awesome app. Upon running it simply detects any AV device on the home network and pushes the content towards that device to play on it. , Video, Audio, pictures etc.
Since Lmce core is our main media hub, It would be awesome if the core has such a capacity to recognize any AV playback capable device on the network and simply push the content to play on it.
I don't know. It is out there. It might be possible. The concept on Apple device is called "Airplay".
DLNA support is being worked on by sambuca. Care to help him code it, or test it?


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Q: Variadic templates lambda in c++ I'm trying to implement conversion from ptmf to function pointer. Code below works well in clang and gcc compiler, but not in MSVC.
Am I doing something wrong or it is a MSVC bug?
#include <iostream>

template <auto fn>
inline constexpr auto as_static_function() {
    return []<typename T, typename R, typename... Args>
        (auto(T::*)(Args...) -> R) -> auto(*)(T*, Args...) -> R {
            return [](T* self, Args... args) -> R {
                return (self->*fn)(args...);
            };
        }(fn);
}

struct Test {
    void func() {
        std::cout << 20 << std::endl;
    }
};

int main() {
    Test test{};
    auto fn = as_static_function<&Test::func>();
    fn(&test);
    return 0;
}

MSVC gives errors
main.cpp(10): error C3520: 'Args': parameter pack must be expanded in this context
main.cpp(22): note: see reference to function template instantiation 'auto as_static_function<void Test::func(void)>(void)' being compiled
main.cpp(8): error C2065: 'fn': undeclared identifier

But code below works well in MSVC
template<auto fn, typename Self, typename R, typename... Args>
inline constexpr auto as_static_function(auto(Self::*)(Args...) -> R) -> auto(*)(Self*, Args...) -> R {
    return [](Self* self, Args... args) -> R {
        return (self->*fn)(args...);
    };
}

template <auto fn>
inline constexpr auto as_static_function() {
    return as_static_function<fn>(fn);
}

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I Have No Plans To Die Today: A "Thor" Review
What follows are my thoughts on Marvel's Thor, which is out now on DVD. There are many spoilers, so if you haven't seen it, long story short: Buy it. It's good.
OK, here we go…
I was between gigs when Thor hit theaters this past May, with only a Summer Movie Guide at my old job recording my hope that Thor would be good. Now that the film is available on BluRay and DVD, it's a good a time as any to log my full review of the film. Thankfully, it only disappoints a little bit.
It's odd to notice what a difference a couple months can make, but before Marvel's one-two punch of Thor and Captain America this summer, I didn't have much hope that The Avengers would end up being any good. Marvel did well with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, but tripped over themselves hard with Iron Man 2. Shellhead's second flick got bogged down with S.H.I.E.L.D. nonsense and a lot of running in place in order to set up the Marvel world, and I feared Thor and Cap would be equally tripped up.
Luckily, Marvel did a slightly better job integrating S.H.I.E.L.D. into Thor's introduction, and what an introduction it is. Thor was always the wildcard: the very obscure, very out-there hero who is beloved by comic fans because his stories call for grand, larger than life images and bold, Shakespearean dialogue. Would the general public be able to catch on, or would it be just too niche?
Thankfully the movie-going public ate it all up, and Thor is as valuable an asset now to Marvel as Iron Man, and Chris Helmsworth is on his way to superstardom. And he deserves it. Marvel got the right guy for the job in director Kenneth Branagh, and Branagh made a great discovery with Helmsworth. He's got charisma to spare and can handle action and dialogue brilliantly, and he knows how to act with silence just as well.
The best scene in the film is between Thor and Tom Hiddleston as his evil brother Loki, the Joker of the Marvel universe. Loki comes to Earth in order to trick Thor into believing his father, Odin, is dead. And on top of that, due to some bureaucratic silliness, Thor can never return home. It's quiet and painful and kind of devastating, particularly for a comic book movie. And it works.
It helps that Hiddleston treats Loki like a real character rather than a simple, mustache-twirling villain. He brings the same amount of pathos and complexity that Heath Ledger brought to the Joker and Alfred Molina brought to Doc Ock, and I'm glad he did. Hiddleston's Loki will become quite the foe for the Avengers, and it's great to see that the on screen version will match the comics'.
The grand Jack Kirby visuals also match the comics, and in IMAX it is a sight to see. Asgard feels like a real place, but at the same time just out of mortal reach. The Rainbow Bridge and other iconic Asgardian monuments are stunning to behold, and the effects are top notch.
These great elements are what make the mediocre ones look so bad. This film could have been truly great, but the S.H.I.E.L.D. excursions and the fluff involving Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgard are just plain boring. I know we need these things so it can all lead to not just Avengers but also Thor's romance with Jane Foster, but it falls flat more often than not.
Natalie Portman as Jane Foster is fine. She's a step up from Pepper Potts but nowhere near Peggy Carter, and I'll be a bit surprised if she shows up in the Marvel Universe again. She's done her job by showing Thor how important Earth is. Let's not stretch her out beyond her welcome.
There has been definite movement on a sequel, and that's probably the best thing the first can offer us. Now that all the exposition is out of the way and audiences understand the Rainbow Bridge and Asgard's role in the universe, Marvel is free to travel the galaxy and show Thor battling his way around the cosmos in epic struggles that become legendary. I'm usually opposed to sequels that are just cynical money grabs cashing in on previous success but Thor's universe is worth exploring, and after The Avengers, I look forward to checking it out. Before Thor, I was unsure whether Marvel could pull all this massive world building off. Now, I'm certain they can.
Thor is available now on BluRay and DVD.
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John Shannon studied Creative Writing at the University of Maine where he also served as a film critic for the Maine Campus Newspaper. He currently resides in the greater Portland area of Southern Maine where he works by day and watches film by night. He can be reached via email at refocusjohn@gmail.com and followed on Twitter @JohnWShannon


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Carmañola (Carmagnola en italiano y Carmagnòla en piamontés) es una comuna italiana situada en la provincia de Turín, en la región del Piamonte, en el norte del país. Se encuentra a unos 29 kilómetros al sur de Turín.
La población se encuentra en el margen derecho del río Po y su tipo de suelo es fruto de la acumulación de arenas de río con el paso del tiempo.

Historia

El municipio de Carmañola fue fundado en el siglo XI. Su territorio, que pertenecía originariamente a los señores de Arduinici, pasó a manos de los marqueses de Saluzzo, quienes construyeron su castillo. La dinastía de Saluzzo entró en un periodo de decadencia que finalizó en cuarenta años de dominación francesa tras la batalla de Cerisoles en 1544.

En 1588 se convirtió en una posesión de la Casa de Saboya tras el asedio de Carlos Manuel I de Saboya. La ciudad vivió un segundo periodo de dominación francesa en el siglo XVII, durante la guerra civil entre los Madamisti y los Principisti (los primeros apoyaban a Francia, mientras que los segundos apoyaban al Ducado de Saboya). En este periodo, entre 1637 y 1642, las tres subdivisiones principales fueron destruidas debido a problemas con las estructuras defensivas e inmediatamente reconstruidas a una distancia aproximada de un kilómetro y medio de su emplazamiento original. En 1690 la ciudad fue ocupada de nuevo por los franceses a las órdenes del general Nicolas de Catinat. Sin embargo, Víctor Amadeo II de Saboya retomó la ciudad un año más tarde.

Finalmente, conforme su situación estratégica fue perdiendo importancia y sus construcciones defensivas fueron demolidas, la población pudo desarrollar la agricultura y el comercio, principalmente de cáñamo y cuerdas que eran exportadas principalmente a Liguria y el sur de Francia. La agricultura y el comercio característico de la ciudad estuvieron presentes hasta la finalización de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tras la que la llegada masiva de inmigrantes provocó un rápido crecimiento urbanístico.

Economía
La economía de la ciudad está ligada a la producción intensiva de cereales y verduras, de buen rendimiento debido a la naturaleza del suelo. Durante los años 1960 la industria experimentó un notable crecimiento cuando el Grupo Fiat abrió una factoría, atrayendo un buen número de emigrantes provenientes del sur del país. Gracias a la factoría del Grupo Fiat se desarrollaron otras actividades industriales como la metalurgia, la electrónica, óptica, industria química y la industria alimentaria. El sector financiero, de la banca y los seguros, también se ha desarrollado de forma notable.

Personalidades
 Francesco Bussone, más conocido como el Carmagnola o el Conde de Carmagnola (1380-1432), quien estuvo al servicio de Filippo Maria Visconti de Milán, que inspiró la tragedia de Alessandro Manzoni, "El Conde de Carmañola" (Il Conte di Carmagnola).
 Francisca Rubatto, religiosa.
 Gianluigi Lentini, futbolista.
 Guido Martina, historietista de Disney.
 Daniele Savoca, actor.
 El marqués Francesco Ludovico de Saluzzo falleció en Carmagnola.
 Mario Zanello, futbolista, falleció en Carmagnola.
 En Carmagnola estudió el poeta Dino Campana.

Demografía
Evolución demográfica desde 1861

Fiestas y celebraciones
 Sagra del peperone (Feria del pimiento). Se celebra entre la última semana de agosto y la primera de septiembre. Se trata de una feria gastronómica dedicada al producto más típico de la agricultura de Carmañola. La feria suele atraer a más de 250.000 visitantes cada año.
El 5 de septiembre de 2010 Carmagnola ha entrado en el Libro Guinness de los Récords por la mayor pimientos sopa (peperonata) en el mundo, 1.190 kg.

 Fiera di primavera (Feria de la primavera). Celebrada habitualmente en marzo, está dedicada al comercio agrícola, celebrándose muchas actividades paralelas.

Ciudades hermanadas
  Opatija, Croacia
  Ciudad de Río Tercero - Córdoba - República Argentina a partir del Domingo 16 de noviembre de 2008 desde las 21 P.M. hora de Córdoba R.A.

Enlaces externos
 Ecomuseo della Cultura della Lavorazione della Canapa (en italiano)
 Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola (en italiano)
 Società Filarmonica di Carmagnola (en italiano)

Localidades de la provincia de Turín
Localidades a orillas del río Po

Carmañola (Italia)

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ART OPENING: Neil Stokoe 'Paintings from the 60s on' Tuesday 16th June 2015
By Staff • 16 June 2015
Neil Stokoe was born in County Durham 1935. Following National Service with the RAF he gained a place at the Royal College of Art in 1959. There, along with his contemporaries R.B. Kitaj, David Hockney, Pauline Boty, Frank Bowling, Derek Boshier, Peter Phillips, Patrick Caulfield and Allen Jones, these students would herald a golden age for the College. The creative force and vitality of these artists would cause a sea change in British Art and its international reputation.
It was during this time that Stokoe became friends with Francis Bacon. Bacon's influence has prevailed but Stokoe's interest in Velazquez, Rembrandt and Titian have nourished his own continued development as a painter. Although his work is held in many public and private collections he has remained reluctant through his life to exhibit. The forthcoming exhibition offers a chance to see a group of paintings beginning with his Royal College canvases spanning the first 20 years of his work. Most of these paintings have never been seen by the public before.
'Paintings from the 60s on' 16th June – 5th July Redfern Gallery 20 Cork Street London W1S 3HL
www.meganpiper.co.uk www.redfern-gallery.com
Neil Stokoe
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Ferrari have to choose who's going to be his #1 Driver for next season
We go through the events that have led Ferrari to have its two drivers left out in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Fuente imagen: Jerry Andre / Motorlat
For sure in Maranello today the environment should not be calm. What happened last Sunday in Interlagos must have made a dent sound in all workers and suporters of the oldest and most popular team in Formula One and is not for less. Mattia Binotto has (according to thinking) the obligation that a fact like that of Brazil does not happen again, much less next 2020 if Ferrari wants to get to win the title of drivers and manufacturers championships.
On Saturday at FP2, watching from the paddock roof, on an non speed lap they passed very close at the entrance of curve 2, Seb and Charles and I commented, "These two guys are fighting even when they go to the bathroom" That is the atmosphere that the team lives with its two drivers. And on Sunday it was confirmed. That was just a matter of time.
Formula One is not a Disney Movie and we cannot expect it to be appropriate for two drivers of the same team to dispute the position on track as it happened on Sunday when Ferrari gets his first DNF of both cars of the season. It would obviously be the best show for us, but it is not gain for the team. It doesn't happen at Red Bull, it doesn't happen at Mercedes, and it shouldn't be happening at Ferrari. The Italian team should decide which driver is the one to get priority for fight for the races and chamionship, if Sebastian Vettel, the experienced driver with 4 titles in his carear, or rookie Charles Leclerc with only two seasons as a F1 driver and his first year at Ferrari.
With this introduction, try to say what I know was going to happen, and I agree with Binotto "this should not happen."
Since Sebastian Vettel made the mistake in the 2018 German Grand Prix, he was not the same driver than we known form Red Bull years again and his mistakes increased this season, Charles Leclerc with better performances perhaps than expected for being his second year at F1 and hisirst year at Ferrari, he began to threaten the German driver with taking his place of number 1 within the Italian team. despite that Binotto has always maintained (at least in words) that Sebastian was the # 1 driver of the team.
At the second race of the year, Leclerc had already won from the pole, but the Ferrari # 16 was without power leaving the race, but until then he had made an excellent race and clearly surpassed Vettel. After that race, t Ferrari decrease their performance and were specifically overtaken by Mercedes Benz with their two cars. But Leclerc from the French GP at Paul Ricard, started beating Vettel and did so for 9 consecutive races in qualy. Vettel continued making mistakes.
Leclerc won two races, Spa and Monza. The latter since the Pole, achieved on a controversial Saturday, as Leclerc made the fastest lap at Vettel´s slipstream and them Leclerc doesn't done his part as prearranged by the team. Vettel doesn't been happy at all.
Vettel won in Singapore. after going in third position in an "unintentional strategy" by trying to make an "undercut" to Hamiton who was running in second. The play went well, so well that he overcame in the same pit stop to Leclerc who asked to attack his partner, but team denied it from pit wall. Vettel won the race. Tension Ferrari was growing at that moment.
Russia came, Grand Prix than which the two Ferrari´s drivers had a supposed agreement that Vettel who was third, can use Leclerc´s slipstream who went first to overtake Hamilton who was second. He overtaken both cars and then refused to return the position to Leclerc despite the team order. A subsequent break in Vettel's engine denies him the race, and a bad strategy (like so many others) denies the race to Leclerc.
And so we come to the most recent history of the Brazilian Grand Prix. Slight touch fighting for positions blowing both tires, both Ferraris out of the race.
"Is not a big drama, is an opportunity to clarify things for the future." Binotto said at final race press conference at Ferraris hospitality
The Team Principal are in a very difficult position they must take a risk and decide between their two drivers. Who will be the #1 team driver for the next season.
Mattia Binotto must choose between Sebastian Vettel, who is making mistakes or Charles Leclerc who got better results at the current season. I respect Seb very much to his 4 titles reached, it is an achievement that few can be awarded, obviously with the best car of the grid but the truth is that today he is not focused on team racing and his performance is not so good like everybody expected, and on the other hand, Ferrari has a very promising young driver that can achieve the tittle near future
Author: Mat Ferreyra @mfrrreyra
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Q: Парсинг сайта, подгружаемого js на python Сайт: "https://pkk.rosreestr.ru/#/search/55.01529354875843,83.00210978072299/15/@d98mbov9/8804912561-1-3?text=55.012395%2083.004747&type=2&inPoint=true&opened=54%3A35%3A72255"
Контент сайта, подгружается javascript. Как получить полный код страницы. Объясните подробно. Заранее спасибо.

A: Если Вы хотите парсить динамически загружаемые на JavaScript сайты, следует использовать selenium вместо requests. При этом в вашем случае следует обратить внимание сразу на следующие моменты:

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*Использовать WebDriverWait для ожидание окончания загрузки ресурса. Например, последним загружается ссылка с текстом "Print this article", в этом случае:

    ...
    driver.get(url)
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT , 'Print this article')))
    # url - адрес целевой страницы сайта, driver - Selenium WebDriver

*Важно также после загрузки страницы прокрутить её до конца. Например, посредством следующего кода:

    content = ''
    while True:
        driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")
        time.sleep(1)
        if content != driver.page_source:
            content = driver.page_source
            continue
        else:
            break

    # content - содержимое, driver - Selenium WebDriver

Далее уже применяете к content для парсинга страницы lxml или beatifulsoup по вкусу.
Подробная документация:
https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/


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What has politics to do with human rights?
Chee Siok Chin
Many people have associated the SDP with democracy, human rights and civil rights. Some have denigrated us for promoting these values, others have lauded us. Regardless – that's what we will continue to do. We're proud that we are bringing the language, the discourse into the political arena in Singapore.
However, it's also important to understand why we do so. Many think that politics and human rights are separate issues. They are not. They are inherently linked. Human rights is good social policy. Policies are made to better the lives of people. They are made to benefit the citizenry.
Human rights is about the right to enjoy these sound policies when they are enacted. For anyone to say that politics does not mix with civil and human rights is to say that politics is only about power and self-preservation. That is not what the SDP is about.
Because human rights have always been at the heart of what our party stands for, and are reflected in all that we do and propose to Singaporeans, we believe that time will show that we have set the country on its proper course. It certainly hasn't been easy, but nothing good achieved ever is. And that's okay, because we're content to know that as pioneers of social justice, our reward is to know that we have given of ourselves to improve the lot of our fellow Singaporeans.
Rewards of power and prestige mean little compared with a healthy society, where the poor and elderly are properly taken care of, where children grow up in a society that nurtures creativity, where one's whole life is not in service of re-paying huge mortgage and absurdly high COE, where the quality of a happy life, a good life is the true objective.
So when people look at our social policies, policies that cry out for a better health care system, more creative schools, lower housing costs, a better transportation system, workers' rights, and civil liberties for all – in short – a higher quality of life that reaffirms the basic rights of everyone living in Singapore, it is about human rights.
Our words are consistent with our deeds. Our deeds are consistent with our policies. Our policies are consistent with our commitment to enriching the lives of those who call themselves Singaporeans.
And that's what the SDP has always been and will always be about – a party that stands up for the rights of our fellow Singaporeans.
Chee Siok Chin is a member of SDP's Central Executive Committee and head of its Training and Development Unit.


The Compiler Warnings plugin has an option that can be checked to resolve relative paths. It warns that it can be an expensive operation.
Currently, if a relative path in the cppcheck XML file is in the workspace, but the location specified is relative to a sub-directory of the workspace, its ability to be displayed is disabled. There should be an option similar to the compiler warnings plugin to resolve the files within the context of the workspace.
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No response for a long time, rejecting the issue. "Report in a sub-directory of the workspace (advanced)" section added to wiki, there are two possible workarounds.
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Doctors, Pair Programming, and Macs vs. PCs
All have something in common: xenophobia. We've spent billions of years reinforcing the behavior of fearing that with which we're not familiar.
This results in conservatism in doctors, unwillingness to accept radical new theories in physics, the mistrust of pair programming, and the comfort we feel with Word/Wordperfect, Windows/Linux, PC/Mac, etc, etc, etc.
Note that this isn't related to the anger we feel in trying to learn a new language - that's disappointment and injured pride that while yesterday you could code a recursive simple sort blindfolded, today you've spent four hours figuring out how to show a file open dialog in the new language...
Other wild suppositions available on request. :-D
Anybody that doesn't agree with me is afraid of the truth.
This kind of conservatism makes some sense. Crackpot theories and methodologies are a dime a dozen. Physical theories get accepted when there is experimental evidence to support them. SW methodologies get accepted when they're trendy. If we didn't take some care in evaluating them there would not be any progress in science. As the saying goes, you need to keep an open mind, but you need to be careful about what falls in.
BTW, that a look at: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=xenophobia you've streched the definition of xenophobia beyond usefullness.
"A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign" ?
Seems to be *exactly* what I was saying. Note that "foreign" doesn't necessarily mean "from another country"
The problem is that people always want to sell you something. "Our consultants teach XP and UML!" So we need to filter. Filtering and openmindedness conflict. In practice, most people probably say "Yeah right" until enough people have been successful and someone very good at explaining things makes it.
Remember, loud people like us tend to create the illusion of numbers. So zealotry is magnified.
> Remember, loud people like us tend to create the illusion
> of numbers. So zealotry is magnified.
This is true. Only a small percentage of any given population will participate, make their voices heard. They're already exceptional (in that they participate) in one way, odds are they're exceptional in other ways as well.
www.MarkTAW.com
ps. i like how we come up with theories of the universe from a couple of threads from the JOS forum.
Mark, I'll suggest that more went into my theory than a few minutes' perusal of JoS. Rumor has it that despite my heavy posting, I have a life offline too. ;-)
so whatcha gonna do about it?
On the other hand, xenophobia has it's evolutionary role -
if we were all such great experimentors and ardent travelers we would be all dead by now.
Xenophobia is like a buffer- it shields the 'general population' from potentially dangerous situations.
... now with the 'future shock', where everything around you is changing in a very fast pace, you get the opposite.
- the things that were once beneficial (like xenophobia) are now turning against you.
Ironic.
(Ups, i have probably had too much beer by now)
I don't think the problem is xenephobia.
I think it is better described as healthy scepticism.
Many folk make their money by appearing to be the authority on a topic. However, there are only so many ideas to go around, hence the re-hash, re-packaging of old lamps as new stuff. As Mark Twain put it, Adam was the only man who on saying something could be sure that no one else had said it before him.
Many more folk accept whatever they are told by someone in authority. That is just plain silly. The pope says that the sun moves around the earth, and we take it as gospel? That the govt says that doctors are good(tm) should not by itself make you think they are.
Just see how many middle managers swear by the latest mgmt guru! How many programers swear by the latest method! How many doctors swear by the latest drug!
tapiwa
What I find interesting about all this is that XP is NOT something cooked up by a bunch of eggheads with no practical experience. It's also not a heavy, overall software development process like CMM. It's an execution process specifically design for developers BY developers.
Pair programming is an interesting point. It's not like someone came out and said "Solo programming is the best thing since the twist off beer cap and thou shalt not program as pairs". There is no scientific justification for solo programming. And yet, when presented with a practice which MAY (and I emphasize may) solve some of our common problems what do many of us do? We don't explore it. We don't try it. We mock it.
Michael; yep too much beer! That probably explains the insight :)
There are many examples of behaviour appropriate for one set of circumstances being quite innapropriate for another. On a biological level we are genetically programmed to accumulate fat; this works fine when there are periodic shortages of food, and as fat acts as an insulator, is beneficail in cool climates too. Anybody who followed a "healthy" Mediterranean diet (let alone a vegan one) in Finland or Northern Canada until a few decades ago would have died of starvation or hypo-thermia. The problem now is that most of the developed world lives in a virtual Mediterranean climate with an abundance of food, then old behaviour brings new problems.
This also happens with social problems. In his book on the Bedouins of the Empty Quarter, Wilfred Thiesinger remarks that the greatest vice in the desert is impatieince. As anybody who has ever had to deal with Arab bureaucracy will tell you a healthy dose of impatience is precisely what advanced organizations need.
I do think however that Philio's extension of the meaning of xenophobia to mean neophobia is unhelpful and that the list of things he put at the top have little in common.
---"The pope says that the sun moves around the earth, and we take it as gospel?"---
Rather a strange mixture of Catholic and Protestant theology there.
This perpetuates the myth, accepted even by the present Pope, that Galileo was persecuted for saying the earth went round the sun. He wasn't. He was persecuted (and prosecuted) for claiming this was a scientific fact as opposed to a postulation, when he had no evidence for the fact.
The problem was to do with the stellar parallex, and there were no telescopes powerful enough to provide the convincing proof until some years after his death.
You will find this excellently described in a book by Arthur Koestler called "The Sleepwalkers". You could no doubt apply parallels to such things as the Bush administrations claim that those who argue for global warming have not produced enougn evidence.
Stepen:: "He was persecuted (and prosecuted) for claiming this was a scientific fact as opposed to a postulation, when he had no evidence for the fact."
my point exactly. in the absence of compelling evidence we have no way of stating whether one or the other is true. By extension therefore, we should not therefore impose our view of what is true on the rest of the world.
The question that arises though, is what is compelling evidence.
Do we go for the proof by observation method ala physics and medicine?
Do we go for the strictly mathematical proof. Derive the truths from first principles?
Do we go for the hearsay method, ala religions?
The amount of proof required by individuals is different. Different on different subjects. Different depending on where the proof has come from.
For most scientific studies, (proof via observation) one can find another that claims to have been equally rigorous, and contradicts it. Which is why I think it is healthy to have some level of scepticism regarding these findings or theories. This is particularly so where some theory is then extrapolated to a larger set of problems, or into the future.
Um, tapiwa, religion is *not* hearsay. The point of religion is that it's a personal, life-changing experience.
Back on-topic, I think Philo makes a good point. Not that everyone who dislikes pair programming is xenophobic, and I don't think Philo is suggesting that, but it's a good explanation for why, for example, people protest that PP *can't* work. (Clearly, it can work; many people have succesfully done it in the past and do it today.)
tapiwa writes that this is "healthy scepticism" (sic). That's a fair point, but is it really healthy to deny something's effectiveness simply because it's new?
Brent P. Newhall
> tapiwa writes that this is "healthy scepticism" (sic). That's
> a fair point, but is it really healthy to deny something's
> effectiveness simply because it's new?
Being new means it hasn't been subject to the same amount of testing as something that has been around for a longer time.
E.g., that's where the version x.0 phobia comes from. Or the "version 1" phobia. People basically say "I don't want to be an early adopter. Let someone else go through the initial ordeal, and then I can catch up later, and avoid a whole lot of expensive mistakes".
You're not really denying effectiveness, you're just acknowledging that it requires further scrutiny.
"Suravye ninto manshima taishite (Peace favor your sword)" (Shienaran salute)
"Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again" (Amys, Aiel Wise One)
Paulo Caetano
Why do believe in God?? Because it says so in the bible. All based on hearsay, or the writings of the apostles and others. All third hand accounts. No scientific proof.
I am not suggesting that we "deny something's effectiveness just because it is new". That is indeed unhealthy.
On the other hand, it is just as unhealthy to accept or adopt something just because it is new.
Again, your tolerance for risk is what determines when in the adoption cycle you jump. Like they say, today's revolutionary is tomorrow's conservative.
"The point of religion is that it's a personal, life-changing experience."
Brent's point is that it's *personal*, I don't believe he said anything about scientific.
I don't believe in God because it says so in the Bible, I believe in God because I have a personal relationship with Him.
However, this is getting pretty off-topic, but I'd love to discuss more with you off-line (or in another topic) if you like.
tapiwa writes, "Why do believe in God?? Because it says so in the bible."
That's not why I believe in God. I don't personally know any adults who believe in God simply because it says so in the Bible.
tapiwa writes, "it is just as unhealthy to accept or adopt something just because it is new."
But it is healthy to *try* something new. Philo is discussing people who refuse to try pair programming (or Macs, or what-have-you).
Who has suggested that people should pair program because it's new?
This try to time shift this argument and see what happens.
Consider this hypothetical scenario: We (some group of developers) get assigned a development project and decide to use pair programming. After a year or two we deliver the software on time and with few bugs. Everyone thinks PP is great.
Now the next project comes along. Management says there is this new methodology called PQ. We're not going to bother with PP.
So what do you think? If some of the team members say that PP worked so well they want to keep the practice do you just tell them they are xenophobes (or neophobes) for not wanting to give it up and try the new PQ?
Do you learn from past experience in selecting the methodology for your next project, or just ignore past experience and just select the latest trendy methodology?
mackinac
Good point, Mackinac.
There is nothing wrong with healthy skepticism - that's why it's "healthy" [grin]
The problem is fighting different things tooth and nail without a firm foundation for doing so. I cited doctors because of the professional refusal to address holistic and herbal medicine. Sure, a lot of it is snake oil, but there are also valuable things in those fields.
Macs vs. PCs - Macs aren't new, but they're foreign. They're different. If your workplace said "TCO of Macs is cheaper, so we're going to shift your project to Java on G4's" would your approach be "well, it's gonna be slow - there are learning curve issues, new interfaces, and so on, but if you say so, we'll try it" and give it your best shot? Or would you spend every free minute working to convince everyone concerned this was going to break the company and you were looking for new work and macs are stupid and look at this new bug list and and and... etc?
As for pair programming - go read some of the previous threads and look at how many people seem to have the opinion that Pair Programming simply cannot work. Won't work. It's impossible. It's stupid. You're an idiot if you think it will work. Never mind the people posting that they've done it and they loved it.
It's different, and must be mistrusted and feared, mostly because it's different and I Don't Work That Way.
To me, *that* is xenophobia.
As for trying every new thing that comes along - of course not. You try things that promise to solve a problem. In my mind, one of the biggest problems our industry has is bug-ridden software. Pair Programming promises to address that. In other words, it's a solution for a current problem, not just the latest fad. ;-)
Exactly, Philo. Well put.
A healthy approach is not black-and-white. It's not a choice between "trying everything new" and "trying nothing new." Foreign, strange ideas *may* work.
The unhealthy attitude is to assume that something can't work, when one has insufficient knowledge of the problem domain. For example, saying "Pair Programming won't work because I once wrote a function with a hairy, smelly Unix guru" doesn't speak to the specific practice of Pair Programming.
For example, saying "Drunk Programming won't work because I once wrote a function with after coming back from a pub lunch with a few too many lagers" doesn't speak to the specific practice of Drunk Programming. Obviously they should have been drinking guiness.
It's a new approach. Similar to pair programming it's something most developers have experienced and found ineffective.
Personally I love it.
Now don't just start with all this Drunk Programming simply cannot work. Won't work. It's impossible. It's stupid. You're an idiot if you think it will work. Never mind the people posting that they've done it and they loved it.
And remember, you can't possibly comment unless you've tried it for at least a month.
why a month?
What happened to love at first sight?
You've never had love at first sight later go sour?
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Library Garden: Librarian 2.0- The new professional or the responsible one?
Librarian 2.0- The new professional or the responsible one?
Reading the Librairan 2.0 Manifesto was both an inspiring and frustrating read. Inspiring because it iterates goals that make me love my profession. I love outreach, I love working online and I love sharing new web 2.0 finds with peers and patrons.
*I will not fear Google or related services, but rather will take advantage of these services to benefit users while also providing excellent library services that users need.
*I will let go of previous practices if there is a better way to do things now, even if these practices once seemed so great.
*I will recognize that the universe of information culture is changing fast and that libraries need to respond positively to these changes to provide resources and services that users need and want.
These are new goals for our profession!? We actually had to put in goals that state we need to be open to efficiency, convenience and we need to provide resources our patrons need and want? As public servants in information resources, it would almost seem as if these goals were a mandatory. And yet, I can also see why we needed to specify these goals; there are quite a few among our profession that need to be reminded.
But how did we get to this stage? Why do we have professional librarians who refuse to keep up with the professional and technological requirements? How did we reach a point where the patrons' needs were less important than the traditional way of doing things?
All along, the job of a reference librarian has been to find the information patrons need. We are in the business of connecting people to the information they require... so why care about the format that information is found in?
Although traditionalists' argue the Internet is 90% junk, it was originally built as a means to convey information and expedite the communication process between people. Even among the copious amounts of junk found on the web, legitimate information has rooted itself firmly in cyberspace as well. For some reason or another some in our profession dismissed this technology as non-important, despite the visibly growing applications and use among our patrons. And because of this lackadaisical and rejective approach we are left with professionals so far behind the curve that waiting for retirement is as an easier path than training.
And so I grow frustrated when I read the goals and responsibilities of the 2.0 Librarian, it should've been part of our profession all along.
I couldn't have said it better. I feel the same excitement and frustration when I look at our profession.
Well put. I'm a new librarian and have often wondered why any librarian needs convincing to keep up with their profession.
It is very easy to dismiss disagreement as an unwillingness to change. As my wife said to me once " Let me get this right, if I did everything you said I'd be fine". Often unwillingness to change is a symptom of something much deeper. Perhaps some people appear reluctent to change because, their understanding of libraries and librarianship is at odds with "Librarian 2.0"
Love your post, Ty, and agree but have come to realize that we need a PRE-step here - I believe it is "CHANGE" itself, and not what we want them/us to change to that is the problem - all change is uncomfy and I think everyone needs to start at a previous step and deal with the issues of "change" in general, and THEN move onto the specific changes we are talking about.
I have become aware that a certain amount of gentle hand-holding is necessary here.
I am of the opinion that this unwillingness to change, to invest in keeping up with the profession, stems from job stress and overloaded-ness. When people don't have time to the work they already have, some of them will resist like heck anything new you try to introduce...technology-related or others. Obviously every single person has his or her own psychology affecting attitude and willingness to adapt, but this is a general trend I've seen.
Librarian in Black has it exactly right. Shrinking staff budgets and increased workload are taking their toll. I have to convince some of my co-workers that it's OK to use work time to learn new stuff and that it's OK to fail when trying something new. Some staff would love to take on new projects or find new ways to do things, but they "don't have time." We in libraries need to find the courage to evaluate everything we do in terms of its opportunity cost. Then we can stop doing things that are less valuable than what we could be doing with the same time and energy.
There seems to be a general feeling among other librarians (not me!) where I work (an inner city community college) that it is not only our responsibility to put patrons in touch with information, but also to teach them basic person to person interaction skills so that they might go out after graduation and be able to find jobs and/or live better lives. We also have a lot of books on manners >cringe<.
I think these librarians think that the more often students have to come personally ask us for help because our website is too confusing or the IM Reference is disabled or we have cryptic signage like "Databases", the better off they will be in the long run because We Will Have Taught Them Valuable Lessons.
Maybe this is part of the resitence to new technology and to using new types of reference methods and the like? Has anyone else run into this type of argument?
anonymous - are you talking about a sort-of "job security" fear?
I'm not sure I have seen/experienced what you are describing but I can believe it for sure.
You - and the Manifesto - makes a huge jump in logic. Librarians need to be able to find the best information for their patrons, whether in books or online. But they don't need to enthusiastically embrace every 2.0 trend (Flickr, Twitter, Second Life) that comes along. One can easily be up-to-date on 2.0, but not actually using 2.0 in everyday life. I think the 2.0 Manifesto doesn't allow for that.
Regarding this part of the statement: " We actually had to put in goals that state we need to be open to efficiency, ... And yet, I can also see why we needed to specify these goals; there are quite a few among our profession that need to be reminded."
I don't by the premise. Sure, you'll find folks in ANY profession who fall out-of-date. Also, though, you'll find some who stay up-to-date but perhaps not in what is considered the cutting edge. Those are different issue. (My up-to-date might not fit your defintiion.) And if you look at librarianship, I don't see this as a comprehensive problem in the least. Librarianship is a very forward looking profession.


From first year return issues to disposition of a partnership interest, this program provides information about the basics of partnership taxation. Learn to identify separately stated items for Form K-1 and to calculate partnership income. You will learn basic principles of partnership taxation that will be your foundation of your tax knowledge. Anyone who prepares partnership returns will benefit from this course.
Accountants who will prepare partnership and tax returns. May also be suitable for public practice.


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import jo.vecmath.Matrix3i;
import jo.vecmath.Matrix4d;
import jo.vecmath.Matrix4i;
import jo.vecmath.Point3i;
import jo.vecmath.Point4i;
import jo.vecmath.Tuple3f;
import jo.vecmath.Tuple3i;

public class TransformInteger extends Matrix4i
{
    /**
     *
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -6216638219578138997L;

    public TransformInteger()
    {
        super();
    }

    public TransformInteger(int m00, int m01, int m02, int m03, int m10,
            int m11, int m12, int m13, int m20, int m21, int m22,
            int m23, int m30, int m31, int m32, int m33)
    {
        super(m00, m01, m02, m03, m10, m11, m12, m13, m20, m21, m22, m23, m30, m31,
                m32, m33);
    }

    public TransformInteger(int[] v)
    {
        super(v);
    }

    public TransformInteger(Matrix3i m1, Point3i t1, int s)
    {
        super(m1, t1, s);
    }

    public TransformInteger(Matrix4d m1)
    {
        super(m1);
    }

    public TransformInteger(Matrix4i m1)
    {
        super(m1);
    }

    public TransformInteger(Point4i q1, Point3i t1, int s)
    {
        super(q1, t1, s);
    }

    public void prepend(Matrix4i m)
    {
        mul(m, this);
    }

    public void append(Matrix4i m)
    {
        mul(this, m);
    }

    public void rotate(Tuple3f angles)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeRotateMatrix(angles));
    }

    public void rotate(float xRadians, float yRadians, float zRadians)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeRotateMatrix(xRadians, yRadians, zRadians));
    }

    public void rotateX(float aRadians)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeRotXMatrix(aRadians));
    }

    public void rotateY(float aRadians)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeRotYMatrix(aRadians));
    }

    public void rotateZ(float aRadians)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeRotZMatrix(aRadians));
    }

    public void rotateEuler(float xEuler, float yEuler, float zEuler)
    {
        rotate(xEuler*MathUtils.DEG_TO_RAD, yEuler*MathUtils.DEG_TO_RAD, zEuler*MathUtils.DEG_TO_RAD);
    }

    public void rotateXEuler(float aEuler)
    {
        rotateX(aEuler*MathUtils.DEG_TO_RAD);
    }

    public void rotateYEuler(float aEuler)
    {
        rotateY(aEuler*MathUtils.DEG_TO_RAD);
    }

    public void rotateZEuler(float aEuler)
    {
        rotateZ(aEuler*MathUtils.DEG_TO_RAD);
    }

    public void rotate(Matrix3i rot)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeRotateMatrix(rot));
    }

    public void scale(Tuple3i scale)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeScaleMatrix(scale.x, scale.y, scale.z));
    }

    public void scale(int s)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeScaleMatrix(s, s, s));
    }

    public void scale(int x, int y, int z)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeScaleMatrix(x, y, z));
    }

    public void translate(int x, int y, int z)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeTranslateMatrix(new Point3i(x, y, z)));
    }

    public void translate(Tuple3i scale)
    {
        prepend(Matrix4iLogic.makeTranslateMatrix(scale));
    }

    public Point3i getForward()
    {
        Point3i fwd = new Point3i(0, 0, 1);
        Matrix3i rot = new Matrix3i();
        get(rot);
        rot.transform(fwd);
        return fwd;
    }

    public Point3i getUp()
    {
        Point3i up = new Point3i(0, 1, 0);
        Matrix3i rot = new Matrix3i();
        get(rot);
        rot.transform(up);
        return up;
    }

    public Point3i getRight()
    {
        Point3i right = new Point3i(1, 0, 0);
        Matrix3i rot = new Matrix3i();
        get(rot);
        rot.transform(right);
        return right;
    }

    public void advance(int dist)
    {
        Point3i fwd = getForward();
        fwd.scale(dist);
        translate(fwd);
    }

    public void rotateAround(Tuple3i around, Tuple3f rot)
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Dit artikel beschrijft de prestaties van de Belgische voetbalclub Antwerp FC in het seizoen 2009-10. De club trad in dit seizoen aan in de tweede klasse van het Belgisch voetbal.

Ratko Svilar stapte eind november op na de slechte resultaten, de hulptrainer Colin Andrews die al eerder overnam deed dit weer.

Op 11 januari heeft Antwerp de schulden aangezuiverd bij de Belgische voetbalbond, ze werden bedreigd met uitsluiting van competitie, de schuld zou een 100.000 euro bevatten.

Kern 2009-10

Technische staf

Ratko Svilar stapte eind november op na de slechte resultaten.

Bijkomende (match-)informatie

Topschutters competitie 2009-2010
 Geoffry Hairemans scoorde 1× en is in januari vertrokken.
 Sebastián Setti scoorde 1× en is in maart vertrokken.</small>

Man van de Match (incl. bekerwedstrijden)
Bijgewerkt t.e.m. de wedstrijd Antwerp - Eupen.
 Geoffry Hairemans werd 5× Man van de Match en is in januari vertrokken.

Bron: RAFC.be

Transfers

Voorbereidingswedstrijden 2009-10

Exqi League 2009-10

Beker van België 2009-10

Eindstand

2009
Belgische voetbalclub 2009/10


Don't forget to request "No Parking" signs for your moving truck when preparing for your move.
Last week I picked up and posted "No Parking" signs on behalf of my home selling client. She was out of town and needed to post signs for her moving truck several days in advance of her move today. You may request courtesy "No Parking" through your Alderman's office for your moving truck. These signs usually do the trick for residential streets. They should be posted 48-72 hours ahead of your move.
You may also apply for official, enforceable no parking signs with CDOT. Here's an example of instructions from the 47th Ward office. In this case I was able to post the no parking signs in front of a friend's house and troll him as a bonus.


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Bulldogs' playoff hopes on the line against Hartsville
Author: Dan McNiel
Over the last two decades, when Marlboro County and Hartsville got together, the region title and the top seed in the playoffs would be hanging in the balance.
That is not the case this year but the contest is of grave importance to both teams. For Marlboro County, their best hope of making the playoffs may rest on the outcome.
"This is an important game for us. We have been showing improvement in a lot of areas but haven't put it all together," said MCHS head coach Bobby Collins.
Although there are at-large bids to the playoffs for some fifth-place teams in the lower state, those go to teams with the best overall record. Currently the Bulldogs have a 1-5 record, so anything they can do to improve the resume would be huge.
The Bulldogs will be big underdogs against number one ranked Myrtle Beach and number three ranked Wilson. While not impossible, Marlboro County will have to elevate their play significantly to upset either of those opponents.
STEM U iNoVaTe lab unveiled at BIS
Students at Bennettsville Intermediate School will soon learn skills that some college students haven't been exposed to yet.
It will be in the school's new STEM U iNoVaTe lab, which was unveiled Tuesday during a ribbon-cutting.
Various district, Board of Education and community members had a chance to see students demonstrate how the lab will connect the dots with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Christopher Williams, director of partnership development at STEM U, said STEM is all of those elements merged.
"We are problem-solving," he said. "We are teaching our scholars (students) how to problem solve, how to think critically, how to go into the real world, into different challenges and to be innovative."
The lab will be used by students with robotics, drones, and programming.
Williams noted very few schools in the state have a non-traditional learning environment like the one at BIS.
County approves expanding MARTi bus service to Wallace area
County council members unanimously approved a funding request to expand the MARTi service to the Wallace area at their meeting on Tuesday.
Council member Willie Gladden was absent from the meeting.
County Administrator Ron Munnerlyn said there has been a fair amount of success with the MARTi bus route.
"There is a need for it in the Wallace area," he said.
To move in that direction, a proposal was made to expand there with the on-demand or the requested service so someone can call to schedule an appointment.
Munnerlyn said it will be a full bus but a smaller one.
"We hope this is a start of another route and maybe a connection to Chesterfield County," he said.
Celebrating Bennettsville's Bicentennial
McArthur Farms on Highway 38 is celebrating Bennettsville's bicentennial by creating a corn maze featuring the city's event logo. The maze is spread out over 12 acres and has three different pathways to explore. "We use GPS coordinates and cut out the design when the corn is 12 to 18 inches tall," explains business owner Rebecca McArthur. The maze will be open beginning this Saturday and remain in operation through the second weekend in November. McArthur Farms will be hosting its annual Fall Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 19.
Photo submitted.
Edwards recognized for 42 years with BFD during retirement dinner
After 42 years of service to the Bennettsville Fire Department, Van Edwards retired on June 30.
"It's a sad time in my life," he said during his retirement dinner on Sept. 28. "I can't remember a time when I wasn't on the fire department. I can't remember when I didn't have a pager attached to my side everywhere I went.
In addition to Edwards and his family, various past and present firefighters were there along with District 2 Bennettsville City Council member Wilhelmina Pegues Gladden and County Council member Willie Gladden.
Edwards became interested in being a fireman in 1973 when the Hotel Powers burned and later when Gold Kist burned.
He knew when he graduated from high school that he was going to join the fire department as a volunteer.
He joined at the age of 20 in February of 1977. Months later, he became a volunteer lieutenant.
Copyright 2018 by Marlboro Publishing Company


Staying in the bustling city of Hong Kong without taking that hectic experience back to your room with you - a relaxing stay right in one of the busiest cities in the world.
This is a great trip with the whole family. The Four Seasons go out of their way to make your children feel welcome - chocolate chip cookies and milk before bed! Every kid will love that, even the grown up ones.
Eating at the Michelin starred restaurant Caprice where they have a separate menu dedicated to black truffle!
Between September and December when the weather is cooler but still warm enough to enjoy walking around the city.
With two Michelin starred restaurants, you may have a hard time deciding which is best.


Next Level Entertainment are based in Hull, East Yorkshire working around the local area and the UK providing quality superhero and other film characters for children's parties (and grown ups!) and corporate events. The wide range of characters available include Daisy the Dinosaur (a life size 'walking' dinosaur), The Hulk, Raphael the Ninja Turtle, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee from the Transformers, Poppy the Troll, Minions, Peppa Pig, Sully from Monsters Inc, Rainbow the Unicorn, Ultron from the Avengers, Groot from GOTG, and even the Easter Bunny!
At Christmas Santa can even come and make a personalised home visit, and we're regularly adding new characters and services to make your event something to remember.
It's not just about costume characters though, as we also provide other party services such as our Magic Mirror which is perfect for weddings and parties, our Candy Cart, Ferris Wheel and LOVE letters, Backdrops and Glitter tattoos for the children.
We offer a wide range of packages and options so give us a call today on 07510 834504 to discuss your needs.
Next Level Entertainment is at The Lancastrian Suite.
Next Level Entertainment is at Next Level Entertainment.


The identities of the two final Seven Ghosts - revealed. The identity of the Warmonger - revealed. The twisted web of romance and blood relations that drew the Barsburg and Raggs empires into a tragic war - revealed. With all the cards laid on the table, the world of 07-Ghost stands poised for the final battle of good versus evil!


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Q: Can I delete a file on the Desktop from a sandboxed Mac app? I can get my Mac app to read the contents of the Desktop, but whenever I try and delete a file it says I don't have permission to do so. If the user has authorized access to the Desktop, shouldn't I be able to delete a file?

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*Sandbox is turned on

*File access is set to read/write for User Selected File.

*The security scoped bookmarks are working because I have read access to the files, and it only comes up with the authorize prompt once.

This is the code I am using to delete:
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] performFileOperation:NSWorkspaceRecycleOperation
                                                     source:desktopPath
                                                destination:@""
                                                      files:self.filesToDelete
                                                        tag:nil];

I also tried using the fileManager trash method with no success.
Here is the error that returns from the fileManager trash method:
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 ""file.png" couldn't be moved to the trash because you don't have permission to access it." UserInfo=0x60000026a980 {NSURL=file:///Users/me/Desktop/file.png, NSUserStringVariant=(
Trash
), NSUnderlyingError=0x600000257ca0 "The operation couldn't be completed. (OSStatus error -5000.)"}

And the actual trash method call:
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] trashItemAtURL:url resultingItemURL:nil error:&error];

A: Unless the user has selected the file through an open dialog, or you saved the file through your app using a save dialog, you won't be able to delete it in a sandboxed app.
There are a few directories where you can do what you want, mostly /tmp and the directories in your sandbox container.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/security/conceptual/AppSandboxDesignGuide/AppSandboxInDepth/AppSandboxInDepth.html

A: FWIW - I've run into the same issue. I'm trying to use trashItemAtURL to trash a specific application in my /Applications folder in a Sandboxed App. However, even if I display a NSOpenPanel and get the user to specifically pick the Application I want to send to trash (with the help of [panel setTreatsFilePackagesAsDirectories:YES];), I still get a permission error. It seems even if you have write access to a folder/bundle in the /Applications folder, you still can't send it to trash.