If you're a worker you're an importer. Nothing could be more basic than the previous truth. Your "imports" could come from across the street, or from the other side of the world, but your work is an expression of a desire to get things, to import.
Much the same, if you're a consumer you're a worker first; that or you've been handed the consumptive fruits of work by some other worker. Work is just demand for goods and services in disguise. Without supplying a market good first, you can't buy things.
The only way to understand "demand" in the marketplace is to understand the supply that precedes it. Supply is the expression of demand without which there's no means to buy anything. In Cairo, IL workers aren't supplying much, and as a result they have very few supplying them. In New York City, its hyperfocused workers supply in abundance, which explains why they're showered with the world's plenty. Where there's lots of production there are lots of "imports" to meet the needs of the productive. Say's Law is very basic.
Which brings us to recent commentary from Max Boot and Oren Cass. Until recently, Boot was a very prominent member of the right, only for him to "come out" as it were on the left. Cass is the policy theorist du jour on the right, but this is not your father's right. While conservatives used to be for limited government, Cass has fans at the most established outlets of conservative commentary precisely because he's promoting government compassion as the path to rising wages and happiness. He can also claim fandom at the New York Times editorial page. Wage subsidies for workers allegedly left behind by globalization are very popular on the right and left at the moment, plus Cass checks the boxes of a right wing that developed extraordinary paranoia about China seemingly overnight. Both Boot and Cass would profit from an introduction to Say's Law, but for different reasons.
In Boot's case, his rebranding as a lefty sadly includes all the baseless disdain for capitalism that we've long come to expect from the crowd he's joining. In other words, Boot is communicating to his doubtless fawning Washington Post readers that he actually disliked capitalism all along. As he put it in a recent column about the apparently lamentable Industrial Revolution, it transformed "society beyond all recognition" since it "created immense fortunes for the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Goulds and other 'robber barons'" in concert with "great misery for millions of ordinary people who had to leave the countryside to live in grimy cities and work in backbreaking factories." Oh dear….
Implicit in what the historically wise Boot can't possibly believe is that life was grand and Mayberry-like in the countryside before the so-called "robber barons" began mass producing life's former luxuries. Which is exactly what they did. While John D. Rockefeller didn't invent the kerosene lamp, he did mass produce kerosene at prices that kept falling such that he quite literally lit up the night for the common man. Just the same, Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile the existence of which was once rarer than incredibly rare millionaires in the early 20th century; rather he mass-produced this former luxury. Notable there is that gasoline refined by Rockefeller powered many of the autos driven by the average American.
Boot contends that "millions of ordinary people had to leave the countryside" for "grimy cities" in order to work in "backbreaking factories," but that's not serious. In truth, they moved as Americans "restless amid abundance" (de Tocqueville) always have because opportunity in the cities was much greater. Market signals are pregnant with information, and none more pregnant than the flow of people. You see, enterprising Americans wanted the goods and services that were increasingly on offer thanks to the entrepreneurial genius of the capitalists whom Boot newly despises. Their move to the cities was an expression of demand, and as evidenced by how rich the "robber barons" became meeting the needs of the masses, it's apparent that wages in the cities were much greater than the prevailing wages in a countryside that Boot laughably suggests was idyllic.
The main thing is that early 20th century fortunes were an effect of rising wages such that increasingly productive workers could be served by Rockefeller et al. Workers supplied with great gusto, and because they did, entrepreneurs became extraordinarily rich supplying them.
That's what's so funny and sad about Boot's assertion that the modern "Information Revolution" is "creating vast fortunes for the Gateses, Bezoses, Jobses and Zuckerbergs while impoverishing millions of blue collar workers." No, that's incorrect. Missed by Boot is that the larger and more valuable the business is, the greater the odds that its sales and service model is focused on the masses. If readers doubt this, just look at any ranking of the most valuable companies in the world.
It's not that one can't get rich serving a small sliver of society (the rich), but the odds of amassing billionaire style wealth are much greater the more that capitalists meet the needs of everyone. What the previous truth tells us is that Boot's zero-sum whine about the wealth of the billionaire class "impoverishing millions of blue collar workers" is a total falsehood. If the common man were impoverished by the billionaires, there would be no billionaires. Better yet, the shares of Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook would be in freefall to reflect the rising impoverishment of their customers and users. That those four companies have largely led a multi-year stock-market rally is the surest sign that the common man is not only not impoverished, but is actually doing very well.
In Cass's case, he acknowledges that working-class Americans "can buy even more cheap stuff," but remarkably dismisses the extraordinary import of the previous truth. This isn't nothing. That the average American has a supercomputer in his pocket is certain sign that the rewards from work (supply) stretch further and further. Members of the right want to believe that the American worker is hurting, Cass fans their overdone worry, but his dismissal of the iPhones in our pockets is a certain sign that hurt is a relative term. To the extent that Americans are allegedly "forgotten," they are amid immense abundance. Their frustration plainly isn't born of starvation or lack of comforts that would have blown away the richest of the rich long ago, rather it's born of how much plenty that's on offer at the moment. Crucial about all this is the fact that there's so much plenty within the grasp of seemingly every American. That so much is within their grasp, that a new billionaire is seemingly minted every day, is a certain sign that the outlook for the typical American worker is getting better and better with each passing day.
If readers doubt any of the above, they need only consider yet again why so many Americans have the word "billionaire" attached to their name. The latter is the surest sign that the economic chances of the typical American are growing by leaps and bounds. We supply in order to get things, but we're also supplied to precisely because we're already supplying a great deal to the marketplace. There are more and more billionaires in our midst precisely because there are more and more well-compensated average workers for the talented to serve.
Rather than celebrate the productivity of American workers such that they're plainly courted by businesses and entrepreneurs offering them all manner of comforts, Cass and his many fans oddly search for enemies. Goaded on by noted policy theorists Donald Trump and Peter Navarro, conservatives have developed an overnight dislike of the Chinese. While the division of labor and open lanes to trade have driven immense specialization and wealth creation in the U.S. since its founding, Cass seems to say it's different this time now that the Chinese want to live as we do. Apparently the American worker suffers competition from "key industries" subsidized by Chinese government officials. Funny there is that conservatives used to properly recoil at government subsidization of business for the strings that are always attached to the subsidies logically weakening the business. Furthermore, conservatives have long noted (properly) that governments can't "pick winners" as is. Implicit in their overnight paranoia about the Chinese is that they're different, that government support of their businesses somehow strengthens the Chinese despite harming those who aren't. Also, the Chinese (presumably for being Chinese) are apparently a thieving people too. One wonders what they would steal when we remember how many of Jeff Bezos's ideas fail, but Trump and Navarro say the Chinese are "ripping us off." And conservatives remarkably nod along to something that coincidentally never crossed their minds before Trump and Navarro entered the picture. In fairness to Cass, he no doubt influenced Mitt Romney's embarrassing "get tough on China" rhetoric in 2012. His paranoia is longstanding, thus calling his economic theories into question even more.
And theories Cass has. Eager to make it possible for the typical worker to "participate meaningfully in the labor market," Cass wants worker subsidies. And members of the right are swooning. Not only does their excitement ignore the obvious correlation between surging billionaire wealth and rising wages, it ignores something conservatives used to understand very clearly: short of reaching into someone else's pocket (what Cass seemingly prefers), wages cannot be decreed. They're an effect of investment. Always. Investment is what's left over after life's necessities have been purchased, which is why the rich are particularly crucial when it comes to higher wages. To be blunt, you can't have higher wages without reducing the burdens foisted on those most capable of saving: the rich. This all rates comment simply because Cass makes no mention of reducing the taxation burden on those with the most. Neither do his fellow conservatives as they continue to cheer on the passage of a blatantly Keynesian tax bill from 2017 that, by their own admission, was aimed at reducing the already low tax burden faced by the middle. Cass also doesn't talk about a stable dollar that would further reduce the risks that come with putting money to work in the form of investment. In short, Cass's expressed desire to improve the lot of the typical worker has no policy basis. Cass wants redistribution of wealth. Nothing more. Conservatives are cheering. The world is upside down.
Back to reality, the somewhat interchangeable Boot and Cass can't have it both ways. They can't lament great wealth and the living standards that come with it while moaning to their flocks about the downtrodden worker. Sorry, but great wealth is an effect of meeting the needs of the typical worker. That billionaires are increasingly common is a certain sign that the lot of the American worker has never been better. Boot and Cass will understand this truth once they acquaint themselves with Say's Law, as will conservatives once they re-learn what used to so wisely animate their policy mix.


The silver variant of the upcoming Black Shark 2 is set come with the top end specs.
Xiaomi entered the gaming smartphone race last year with the launch of its Black Shark gaming smartphone and later today the company is set to launch the next edition. Black Shark 2 is perhaps the most anticipated and undoubtedly high-end device set to succeed the company's first ever gaming phone. There has been very limited official info with regards to the handset, however, we have come across some hands-on images suggesting that the upcoming Xiaomi gaming smartphone will have a silver variant.
Two of the images that have been leaked, show the front and the top view of the silver variant of the smartphone. The front view is not too different from the black variant that we have seen in the official render that leaked on Weibo earlier today. But we get a look at what seems to be a silver matte finish of the smartphone from the top. The silver variant is expected to be available with the top end specs. As for the design of the smartphone, we have already seen that its thin bezel design is finished off with what looks like stainless steel edges making the phone look premium and elegant. The rear design still remains in the dark though despite the renders. The official images also show us the new detachable gamepad which looks redesigned as compared to the previous version.
From what we know of the specifications, the Black Shark 2 is expected to feature the latest Snapdragon 855 SoC, which will make it one of the few smartphones to feature the flagship Qualcomm chip this year. Even though this is a gaming smartphone it has been confirmed to come with a 48-megapixel rear camera, which has been inferred from the latest samples released by the official channel. This means that the company wants to make the Black Shark 2 more than just a gaming smartphone with top of the line performance along with powerful shooting options.
Black Shark 2 is expected to come with the new Liquid Cooling 3.0 tech, which the company will reveal more about at the launch event later today. The company has apparently devised a custom eSports battery that optimizes the discharge time by 60 percent. Furthermore, according to rumors, Black Shark 2 could come with 27W fast charging system which ought to charge the gaming smartphone in a jiffy. We will be bringing you more official info regarding the Black Shark 2 after it launches today at its event which is scheduled for 9.00PM tonight.


The training session is presented in two videos (Part 1 – 48 minutes and Part 2 – 37 minutes) suitable for viewing on larger screens for group viewing. Wherever possible, audience questions and answers have been included.
The videos are available in English, with both English and French captioning options. As well, each video features ASL translation.


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The Social housing NOW! movement started with a civic-activist campaign of Desire Foundation. In 2016, we revealed the need to politicize the question of social housing in the city of Cluj in the context of a stark decrease of public housing stock and of commodification of housing throughout the past decades, and as well as the limitation of the access to social homes of the most deprived. In 2017 Social housing NOW! carried on its activity by supporting ethnic Roma people belonging to the impoverished working class, in gaining a voice in the struggle for an anti-racist and just public housing policy. We define this policy as an instrument to assure the right to the city, in a broader sense, not only as a right to housing but also of participating in the decision-making process over its development. In the same year, members of the movement (together with FCDL, Dreptul la Oraș and E-Romnja Association) has been among the initiators of the Blocul pentru Locuire (Block for Housing) national platform.
The aim to change this initial campaign into a main engine of the local movement for public housing and fair housing policies was upheld by several actions of ours organized between October 2017 and June 2018. In order to create a city for people and not for profit, as a political activist movement we propose a development model for the city of Cluj, which: targets the extension of public housing stock, including social housing; allocates an adequate budget for related public interventions; ensures the access to social housing for low income people who live under deprived housing conditions; supports from the public budget alternative housing models, such as different forms of collectives living or cooperative housing.
The Social housing NOW! movement is based on the documentation and analysis of the manifestations of housing injustice in the context of contemporary capitalist political economy, such as: the creation of underdeveloped residential areas in the city; evictions that transform people into homeless; the criteria of the distribution of social homes in Cluj; the dramatic effects of inadequate and precarious living conditions, including their placement into a highly polluted environment; the modifications suffered by the Romanian law of housing; the politics of social and public housing after 1990, shaped by the massive privatization process (through the right to buy state owned apartments and through restitution) and by the support of the real estate market; commodification and financialization of housing. Our studies are action/activist researches, which - on the one hand – use documentation and analysis for articulating and sustaining activist/political demands, and on the other hand transform the actions into a research topic with the aim of improving its responsiveness to the issues addressed by us in the public space. The knowledge we produce and the political actions we practice assume social responsibilities, and value both the direct experiences of everyday life and the conceptual reflections over them.
We practice advocacy as an ensemble of different types of actions through which we support the cause of public housing and housing justice by aiming to influence the political decisions around and as well as a common understanding of housing crisis that reveals its structural causes. Our advocacy actions proceed through three different strategies: 1) through campaigns that aim to raise consciousness among a larger public; 2) through actions directed towards the local and national public administrations, and as well as towards law-makers; 3) through direct actions.
Consciousness raising
We contribute to gain knowledge and raise consciousness about the fact that housing is a primordial need and a fundamental right; we reveal the effects of ghettoization and environmental racism on people; we uncover the administrative processes which lead to the dispossession from adequate homes of the most impoverished categories (through evictions, through discriminatory measures of social housing policies, through underinvestment in particular urban areas); we demonstrate the connections between labor and housing rights, and between precarious working and living conditions, revealing that impoverishment deepens both due to low incomes and to high housing costs; we reflect on the effects of the commodification of housing and of its transformation into a source of capital accumulation for big property owners, over the housing dispossession of the pauperized working class, including the precarious middle class.
Administrative-legal actions
Based on the recognition that law is a political construction embodying particular interests, we urge a change of housing-related legislation in order to be put into the service of public good. We demand measures that prohibit evictions without relocation to adequate housing; that assure social housing as part of a public housing stock for the most deprived social categories; that at least rebalances housing policies from a politics dedicated to the big property owners and real estate developers, towards one that serves the interests of the laborers lacking the resources for buying or renting a home from the market; that invests in a local development, which reduces and eliminates the territorial disparities between the developed and underdeveloped areas of the country/ regions/counties/localities.
Court actions
Nonetheless, we practice advocacy through court actions and through actions oriented towards the anti-discrimination related institutions. This way we aim to legally reinforce people's social-economic rights, particularly that of the right to adequate housing, of having real access to public social housing and of de factoenjoying the right to live in a healthy environment. Generally speaking, we use legal actions as a tool of fighting for an anti-racist and just housing politics that is not discriminatory against the dispossessed social categories.
Street actions
Through our street actions we go on with the struggles started by different civil society groups in Cluj in 2010 (most importantly with the team of Desire Foundation). These raised their voices against evictions and against the ghettoization of the impoverished Roma, and they exposed the responsibility of the local government for the formation of marginal and semi-formal deprived housing areas in Pata Rât. Last, but not least, they demanded politically assumed local administrative measures of desegregation through offering alternatives of adequate housing in the city for those who are enforced to live nearby the city's landfill.
On the other hand, we undertake actions which call for solidarity against evictions and racism from all over the world, but also against a gentrifying urban regeneration that systematically pushes the impoverished population to the margins or even outside the city. At the same time, we raise awareness about the necessity to find alternative ways to expand the public social housing stock, besides of building new realties.
Public debates
Through public debates open for a large public, including people directly affected by the different effects of unjust housing policies (over-crowdedness of homes, high living costs, inadequate housing conditions, evictions, homelessness, informal housing, expulsion to the polluted and deprived urban periphery, limited access to the very few social housing units), we bring the subject of housing rights on top of the public agenda, and we build 'social housing' as a political subject and a matter of public interest.
"Cărămida. Ziarul dreptății locative" (The brick. The newspaper for housing rights) is the medium through which we contribute to the growth of the movement for housing and the right to the city in Cluj, but also beyond the locality. Brick by brick we build mutual knowledge, trust in our own power and solidarity that unites us. We raise awareness about the real causes of the housing crisis, of whose effects have to be supported by the pauperized working class as well as by the precarious middle class. With the 'Cărămida' we fight for a just and anti-racist housing politics, and against the transformation of the city into a source of capital accumulation by big property owners and real-estate developers.
Initiative of the "Căși sociale ACUM!/ Social housing NOW!" movement
Redaction team: Ana Adam, Ioana Bălănescu, Cătălin Mihai Chirilă (editor), Alexandru Greta, Péter Máthé, Claudiu
Lorand Maxim, Szilárd Miklós (graphics), Dénes Miklósi (graphics), Alexandru Mureșan, Maria Stoica,
Lorena Vălean (editor), Enikő Vincze, George Zamfir.
Produced by Desire Foundation with the support of Human Rights Initiative/OSF
Website: www.desire-ro.eu
Email: desire_cluj ( at ) yahoo.com
Facebook: Căși sociale ACUM/ Social housing NOW
THE BRICK (CĂRĂMIDA) English Fragments 1-4.THE BRICK (CĂRĂMIDA) English Fragments 5-8.

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Streaming during a pandemic
Published on September 24, 2020 in Entertainment by Emily Anderson
After airing its final season this past May, "She-ra and the Princesses of Power" fans have took to Twitter to create #Sheramovie, in hopes of a movie sequel. (Photo/Netflix)
With COVID-19 causing many individuals to spend more time in their houses, pastimes like movies and TV shows are becoming more popular than they once were. As quarantine continues, more streaming platforms have either released content in replacement of movie theater versions or just simply released content earlier. Here are some of the most popular shows and movies that have been released on streaming platforms.
Queer Eye Season 5 (Netflix)
Over a decade after the original series aired, Netflix launched its original series, Queer Eye. In the series, the new "Fab Five" set out to meet people who usually have contrasting beliefs to their own and give them a lifestyle makeover. In the show's fifth season, the group gives makeovers to ten people, including a dog groomer, young mother, and priest.
She-ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix)
This reboot of the 1980's series released its fifth and final season of the show this past May. In the show, previous Horde soldier and superheroine, She-ra, rebels against the evil empire she was born into and creates a rebellion along with her friends Glimmer and Bow.
Hamilton (Disney +)
This past July, Disney+ released a live recorded version of the award-winning Broadway musical, Hamilton. The musical focuses on the life of founding father, Alexander Hamilton, while blending music styles of hip hip, jazz and R&B.
The 1990's classic, Buffy the Vampire, features teenager Buffy Summers who finds out she's a vampire slayer. The show features Buffy's adventures in saving her home town from Vampires and accepting her destiny as a vampire slayer while pushing aside her dream of high school popularity.
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Bright light therapy which often used to fight seasonal affective disorder (SAD) may also help reduce major depression symptoms in elderly patients, a clinical trial suggests.
The study, which was published January 3 in the prestigious Archives of General Psychiatry, was conducted by researchers from VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In this study, 89 people aged 60 or older with a major depression were given a light box to take home and instructed to sit beside it for an hour each morning over three weeks.
The participants were randomly divided into two groups: 42 patients got a bright blue light and 47 got a dim red light.
After three weeks of treatment, the study showed bright light therapy improved depression symptoms by 43 percent, compared with the 36 percent improvement found with the placebo group.
Three weeks after the treatment ended, the researchers get back to observe the development of the participants and they found symptoms of depression continued to improve among the bright light therapy group which is 54 percent improvement versus 33 percent in the placebo group.
The bright light treatment group also showed lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol and got out of bed earlier than the patients who received dim light.
Researchers say the improvements found with bright light therapy in treating depressed elderly people in this study is similar to the improvements found with antidepressant drug treatment.
"I think bright light therapy definitely now deserves a place in the treatment of major depression in older adults," said lead researcher Dr. Ritsaert Lieverse, a psychiatrist at GGZ in Geest and the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam.
It is not clear why bright light therapy may work for people with major depression, but study has shown it often used in the treatment of people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD). One idea is that in people with SAD, the light may correct a problem with their inner biological clock called the circadian rhythm, study author Dr. Raymond W. Lam said.


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Physical Description Two-sided painted fan in gray, blues, and white. Bone sticks inset with silver leaf. Side one: five vignettes of pastoral scenes, each describing the stages of a man's life. Floral embellishment. Side two: three additional courtship vignettes.
Curatorial Statement The silent 'language of the fan' gave women a means to flirt in a time when the culture of women was strictly choreographed and monitored. Touching the tip of her finger to her fan, for example, meant a woman wanted to speak to a gentleman; and placing her fan by her left ear meant she wanted the gentleman to leave. With such a visible role in courtship, fans often featured romantic scenes.


Nice piece from CIO magazine about how we're going to make all these third-party app guys super rich by letting them sell apps through iTunes. See here. Developers, along with the SDK we'll be issuing a photo of me that you can hang over your workspace as a reminder. Okay? Five minutes of prayer and meditation three times a day is the recommended routine. Much love to Lida for the link.


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Q: relationship between View-model and Model and View I was reading about MVVM and it seems there is a one to many relationship between view-model and the model classes.

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*Is it OK to say one model-view must be used for different Model classes in a project?

*How about View to View-Model relationship? would it make sense to use one View-Model to handle more than one View?
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A: The Model in "Model -View -ViewModel" is your data structure where you create the objects you will be working with both in the view and the viewModel. Models can be used everywhere. You will use many models on many different viewModels.
The View uses one ViewModel. The View is responsible for the appearance. The view references its one viewModel through the DataContext property. It can be set in the XAML or in the constructor of the code behind of the view.
The ViewModel encapsulates the presentation logic and has no direct reference to the view.

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import org.eclipse.swt.events.ModifyEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.ModifyListener;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridData;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text;
import org.eclipse.ui.IEditorInput;
import org.eclipse.ui.IEditorSite;
import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.ExpandableComposite;
import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormToolkit;
import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.Section;
import org.eclipse.wst.server.ui.editor.ServerEditorSection;
import org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.carbonserver.base.interfaces.ICredentials;
import org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.carbonserver.base.manager.CarbonServerManager;
import org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.carbonserver30.Activator;
import org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.carbonserver30.util.CarbonServer30Utils;
import org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.logging.core.IDeveloperStudioLog;
import org.wso2.developerstudio.eclipse.logging.core.Logger;

public class ConfigurationCredentialsEditorSection extends ServerEditorSection{
	Text usernameText;
	Text passwordText;
	private static IDeveloperStudioLog log=Logger.getLog(Activator.PLUGIN_ID);

	private boolean updatePassword=true;
	/**
	 * ConfigurationPortEditorSection constructor comment.
	 */
	public ConfigurationCredentialsEditorSection() {
		super();
	}

	/**
	 * Creates the SWT controls for this workbench part.
	 *
	 * @param parent the parent control
	 */
	public void createSection(Composite parent) {
		super.createSection(parent);
		FormToolkit toolkit = getFormToolkit(parent.getDisplay());

		Section section = toolkit.createSection(parent, ExpandableComposite.TWISTIE | ExpandableComposite.EXPANDED
			| ExpandableComposite.TITLE_BAR | Section.DESCRIPTION | ExpandableComposite.FOCUS_TITLE);
		section.setText("Credentials");
		section.setDescription("Credentials to authenticate with the ESB admin services");
		section.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_HORIZONTAL | GridData.VERTICAL_ALIGN_FILL));

		// ports
		Composite composite = toolkit.createComposite(section);
		GridLayout layout = new GridLayout(2,true);
		layout.marginHeight = 8;
		layout.marginWidth = 8;
		composite.setLayout(layout);
		composite.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.VERTICAL_ALIGN_FILL | GridData.FILL_HORIZONTAL));
		toolkit.paintBordersFor(composite);
		section.setClient(composite);
		toolkit.createLabel(composite, "Username");
		usernameText = toolkit.createText(composite, "");
		usernameText.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_HORIZONTAL));
		toolkit.createLabel(composite, "Password");
		passwordText = toolkit.createText(composite, "");
		passwordText.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_HORIZONTAL));

		passwordText.addFocusListener(new FocusListener(){
			public void focusGained(FocusEvent arg0) {
				setPasswordTextBoxOnFocus();
			}
			public void focusLost(FocusEvent arg0) {
				setPasswordTextBoxOnLostFocus();
			}
		});

		usernameText.addModifyListener(new ModifyListener(){
			public void modifyText(ModifyEvent arg0) {
				CarbonServer30Utils.setServerUsername(server.getOriginal(), usernameText.getText());
			}

		});
		passwordText.addModifyListener(new ModifyListener(){
			public void modifyText(ModifyEvent arg0) {
				if (updatePassword)
					CarbonServer30Utils.setServerPassword(server.getOriginal(), passwordText.getText());
			}

		});
		initialize();
	}

	public void dispose() {
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * Initializes the editor part with a site and input.
	 */
	public void init(IEditorSite site, IEditorInput input) {
		super.init(site, input);
		initialize();
	}

	/**
	 * Initialize the fields in this editor.
	 */
	protected void initialize() {
		if (usernameText!=null && passwordText!=null){
			try {
				ICredentials serverCredentials = CarbonServerManager.getServerCredentials(server.getOriginal());
				usernameText.setText(serverCredentials.getUsername());
				setPasswordTextBoxOnLostFocus();
			} catch (Exception e) {
				log.error(e);
			}

		}
	}

	private void setPasswordTextBoxOnFocus(){
		updatePassword=false;
		passwordText.setText("");
		passwordText.setEchoChar('*');
		passwordText.setForeground(getShell().getDisplay().getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLACK));
		updatePassword=true;
	}

	private void setPasswordTextBoxOnLostFocus(){
		updatePassword=false;
		passwordText.setEchoChar('\0');
		passwordText.setText("[Click to change the password]");
		passwordText.setForeground(getShell().getDisplay().getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_DARK_GRAY));
		updatePassword=true;
	}

}

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The Magnificence of Iranian Mosques!
By Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji
Nasir al, Mulk Mosque
IAnD brings you a spectacular study of Iran's mosques and monuments via the self-taught lens of budding photographer and Physics student Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji…
With a keen interest in Panoramic and Architectural Photography, Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji has been painstakingly touring places in northern Iran and photographing its rich heritage – a rare sight that is so breathtakingly beautiful but completely overshadowed by stories of war and bitter strife from the region.
Working with a wide-angle lens and always focusing on light as the prime element while taking pictures, Ganji has showcased his latest collection "Historic Persian Islamic monuments and Temples" to audiences worldwide.
Here, he shares his 10 best photographs with IAnD readers and also tells us why he considers them the best-of-the-best!
Best-of-the-best: Nasir al, Mulk Mosque: From the start of dawn, the mosque is filled with colour and light. Sun shines through the glass and fills the inside, the Persian rugs, the ceiling and wall tiles with patterns and colours. Usage of stained glass in the mosque is exceptional; coloured light rays that come inside make this mosque outstandingly aesthetical among other mosques of Iran. The tiling and paintings of the bed chambers are of exceptional beauty as well.
I am so amazed at how the architect was able to combine so many things to build such an exquisite mosque. And this is my best photograph because I was able to show all of these special elements together in one frame.
Vakil Mosque
Vakil mosque: This mosque has many pillars inside. As you enter, the repetition of these pillars makes the place grand, beautiful and gives the impression of many separate spaces. Also colourful and fine ceramics used in façades and dome of this mosque are eye-catching and awe-inspiring!
Carpet repair workshop
Carpet repair workshop: Persian Carpets are famous all over the world because of their high quality and accuracy in details and for their unique designs and maps; in this photograph, you can see the spirit of life existing in this old workshop.
Jameh Mosque of Yazd
Jameh Mosque of Yazd: The mosque's dome is made of two layers of covers and its altar has fascinating mosaic tiling. The dome of the mosque has amazing arabesque patterns and four skylights, which showcases geometric shapes. Verses from The Quran are written all around the dome.
Emam(Shah) Mosque
Emam(Shah) Mosque: This building has an enormous dome with a height of nearly 57m. Additionally, exemplary tiling with a unique symmetrical design under the dome and on most of the inner walls mesmerises the visitors.
St. Thaddeus Monastery
St. Thaddeus Monastery: It is also known as Black Monastery due to the application of black stones for the building. This monument dates back to the early years of Christianity, and is built over the tomb of St. Thaddeus - one of the early messengers of Christianity. This place is recognized as the first cathedral of Christianity.
Kordasht Bath
Kordasht Bath: This bath has the architecture that comes back to Qajar Era, 1785 and had been primarily used by Safavi royal family; however, it has been opened for public use later on. This historical monument consists of various sections such as a "Bineh", a "Sarbineh", a vestibule, a spring house, and a greenhouse.
Azadi Tower
Azadi Tower: This tower was designed and built in 1971 in commemoration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire. The architecture of Azadi combines elements of the ancient Persian architecture of Sassanid and Achaemenid eras, and Post-Islamic Iranian architecture (especially Sheikh Lotfollah mosque).
Private Palace of Cyrus in Pasargadae
Private palace of Cyrus in Pasargadae: Royal palace of Cyrus with an area of 3427 km2 is one of the largest palaces of Pasargadae. Cyrus the Great ordered its construction (529–550 BC) after his victory over Astyages the last king of the Median Empire, you can see see the remnants of the Audience Hall of the palace with 30 white columns. Plenty of black and white stones were used in this building structure.
Vakil Bath
Vakil Bath: The amazing symmetry in the architecture and use of limestone for its embellishments make this bath one-of-a-kind. The most liked feature of this structure is the paintings of Persian mythological characters on the walls and ceilings.
For more of Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganj's works, do visit gravity.ir
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Labels: Heritage


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$963K Road Repair Project Starts Sept. 8 in Kahikinui, Maui
September 4, 2020, 11:24 AM HST
Kahikinui. PC: DHHL
The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands through its contractor Goodfellow Bros. LLC, will begin roadway repairs in Kahikinui, Maui on Sept. 8, 2020.
The project involves the construction of approximately 2,200 linear feet of new reinforced concrete roadway, concrete swale, and concrete spillways. It will include the clearing, grubbing, and removal of vegetation and debris, along with the excavation, demolition, and removal of existing concrete pavement.
Work will be conducted Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. Residents can expect construction noise, dust, and slow traffic in the area during work hours.
DHHL anticipates the project to be completed in March 2021, pending weather and construction conditions. The project utilizes $963,836, part of which are State Legislative General Obligation Bonds funds.
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Update: Kahekili Highway slope repair project postponed January 30, 2022
Preliminary work announced for Kahekili Highway… February 16, 2022
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Preliminary work for Kahekili Highway slope repair… October 8, 2022


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Introduced back in 1998, the iMac is one of Apple's longest running, and most successful desktop lines to date. Over the years its all-in-one form factor has evolved through a number of iconic designs, with the current, and arguably best looking featuring anodized aluminum and glass.
Starting at £1,099.00, the iMac isn't the cheapest Mac available, but for many it offers the best overall value for money. The all-in-one design means you don't need to invest in an external display (choose between 21 or 27-inch models), and in terms of performance it's only beaten by Apple's Mac Pro line, which starts at around £2000 and doesn't include a display!
Although traditionally considered to be a consumer desktop, the gap between the iMac and Apple's pro systems has actually narrowed considerably in recent years, making it a popular choice for both home users and professionals. The current generation all include quad-core Intel Core i5 processors as standard, though Apple does also offer an Intel Core i7 as a configurable option. 8GB of RAM is supplied as standard, though the 21-inch can be configured with a maximum of 16GB, and the 27-inch 32GB. One important thing to note is that RAM in the latest 21-inch model is not user replaceable.
If you can't decide whether an iMac is right for you, maybe consider a MacBook Pro if you need to travel with your computer, or a Mac Mini if you want to spend less and already have accessories, such as a monitor, you want to keep and use.
Depending on the age and condition, you can expect to pay between £500 – £1500 for a used iMac.


Pierre Hardy is an architect of the shoe. He's distinguished himself by his sophisticated appearance and his singular career path. With a degree in fine arts from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he practiced dance assiduously before discovering his passion for the shoe in 1990, which subsequently led him to becoming the creative shoe director for Hermès. In 1999, Pierre Hardy launches with brio his eponymous brand, in which he applies his outright radical visions and creativity. His models are architectural, graphic, with a real interest in volumes, shapes and colors. The Pierre Hardy collections benefit from a strong marked identity and artistic touch much like the Cube Perspective, his cult motif that we continuously see on different models through each new season.
What was your first aesthetic crush?
Sensually : a stone statue of a "resting athlete " in the stadium we use to go for the gym at school, I was 8/9 .
For fashion : my Italian teacher when I was 14 , in the late 70's : she was dressed in Yves Saint Laurent at high-school , head to toes . A dream !
I rarely find inspiration from travels . " Exotism" is not my thing . But , Japan is alway's a big aesthetic crush .
In the magazines , I think. During my youth , fashion shoots were very strong, avant -garde, daring , inventive . The woman they showed was a pure creation , not exactly the ones I could cross in the street.
Not one in particular . But the type I love the most is the late 60´s neo realism italian actresses . Very feminin, modern, nervous, sort of a "twisted classic 60' style" like : Monica Vitti, Silvana Mangano,in France Anouk Aimée... this type of girl always in a hurry and desperate to be loved .
Le Mepris , Jean -Luc Godard.
She is confident , daring but conscious of her own body , and "modern" in oposition with nostalgic .
Why, in your opinion, fashion and art are intrinsically linked?
Like mother and son . Fashion is the child of art. Fashion is the easiest way to access to an other aesthetic dimension .


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Inmate under investigation for murder at Santa Rosa Correctional gets death in separate case
An inmate under investigation in a 2017 murder at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution was sentenced to death for killing another inmate in 2012.
Inmate under investigation for murder at Santa Rosa Correctional gets death in separate case An inmate under investigation in a 2017 murder at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution was sentenced to death for killing another inmate in 2012. Check out this story on pnj.com: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/2019/01/29/rocky-ali-beamon-gets-death-2012-murder-jackson-county-inmate/2712855002/
Jacob Newby, Pensacola News Journal Published 3:21 p.m. CT Jan. 29, 2019
Rocky Ali Beamon (Photo: Courtesy of Florida Department of Corrections)
An inmate who is under investigation in connection to a January 2017 murder at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution was sentenced to death Monday for killing another inmate in Jackson County in 2012.
The State Attorney's Office announced that Rocky Ali Beamon, 41, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder for the July 2012 murder of an inmate at the Apalachee Correctional Institution in Sneads.
Beamon said he killed that inmate, Bruce Hunsicker, mostly because of Hunsicker's status as a sex offender, according to a press release from the State Attorney's Office.
Beamon also stated during his confession that Hunsicker owed him money.
After watching the victim for several days to learn his schedule, Beamon killed Hunsicker by choking him and stabbing him 80 times in the shower area of the prison dormitory with a homemade shank.
Beamon then rinsed himself off and flushed the shank, a towel and a pair of boxers before proceeding to dinner, according to the press release.
Beamon pleaded guilty to first-degree premeditated murder and waived his right to a jury trial and sentencing. His penalty phase judge trial was held Dec. 17.
The state presented evidence on the nature of the killing, as well as details regarding Beamon's prior criminal history, which included 2005 convictions for murder, kidnapping and robbery in Hillsborough County.
Beamon was sentenced to life in prison for those convictions.
The state also intends to seek an indictment for first-degree murder for Beamon's alleged involvement in the 2017 murder of the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution inmate and plans to also seek a death sentence in that case.
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Eckart Ehlers (* 6. Juli 1939 in Kiel-Ellerbek) ist ein deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pastor und niederdeutscher Autor.

Leben
Nach der Schulzeit machte Ehlers zunächst eine kaufmännische Lehre bei der Großhandelsfirma Franz Ritter in der Kieler Hafenstraße, wo er anschließend als Angestellter und später, bis 1970, als Prokurist arbeitete.

Schon zu dieser Zeit besuchte er als Gasthörer Theologielehrveranstaltungen der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Nach dem Theologiestudium wurde er Vikar an der  Nikolaikirche zu Kiel, von 1972 bis zu seinem Ruhestand wirkte er 31 Jahre lang als Pastor an der Marienkirche in Schönkirchen, wo er regelmäßig plattdeutsch predigte und Publikationen für die Kieler Nachrichten verfasste. Überregional bekannt wurde er ab 1972 durch seine plattdeutschen Morgenandachten im NDR und durch Buchveröffentlichungen.

Die Liebe zum Plattdeutschen übernahm er von seinen Großeltern, erklärte in seinen Beiträgen aber auch die feinen mundartlichen Unterschiede, die in der Probstei, Ostholstein, Lübeck und Dithmarschen gesprochen werden. In seinen Predigten verband Ehlers diese zu einem sogenannten Mittelholsteinischen Platt, einer Sprache, in der er auch elf im Verlag Michael Jung erschienene Büchlein abfasste. Ehlers' Beiträge weisen Lokalkolorit und Bezüge zu historischen Geschehnissen und Personen auf, sie sind oft von einem warmherzigen, humorvollen Ton gekennzeichnet.

Eckart Ehlers lebt als Pastor im Ruhestand mit seiner Frau in Schönkirchen, sie haben zwei Kinder.

Schriften
 Urlaub un Reisen, mit Gott: En paar Wöörd för de Urlaubsreis, Breklumer Verlag, Breklum 1974
 Allerhand Slag Hüüs un wat se uns to vertellen hebbt, Breklumer Verlag, Breklum 1975
 Söß plattdüütsche Preesters un een Evangelium, Breklumer Verlag, Breklum 1979
 Mit Talar un Hart: Wat Paster Eckart Ehlers to vertelln weet,  Kreissparkasse Plön 1981
 Vör de Karkendör, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 1982
 Höhnergloben un Dübelsdreck, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 1984
 Plietsch, snaaksch un snutig!,  Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 1986
 Arm as'n Karkenmuus!, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 1988
 Op'n falschen Damper, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 1990
 Lüüd, höört mal to!, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 1993
 Laat de Kark in't Dörp!, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 1998
 Hest al'n Wiehnachtsboom?, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 1999
 Dreih di de Sünn to!, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 2001
 Dor smustert de Paster!, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 2004
 Dat Hart op'n rechten Placken, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 2006

Weblinks
 Kiel TV: Lass mal schnacken! Folge 6, Eckart Ehlers im Gespräch mit Moderator Gerd Hausotto

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Lutherischer Geistlicher (20. Jahrhundert)
Person des Christentums (Schleswig-Holstein)
Autor
Literatur (Niederdeutsch)
Person (Kiel)
Deutscher
Geboren 1939
Mann

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As April draws to a close, the 2005 Bishop's Appeal has topped the $4 million dollar mark and continues to push toward the $4.8 million dollar target, said Josh Diedrich, Appeal director.
More than 34,251 donors have given $4,043,502 to Bishop's Appeal 2005 for an average gift of $118.05.
Gifts to the Appeal will be used to reach out and help parishes and thousands of people in the diocese with programs and services provided by the diocese through its offices in Green Bay and other cities.


During May I was lucky enough for my sister and her family to come over to the US to visit. To give them a little taste of what we do on 20th May 2006, Dave and Andy took Dave's Jeep and I took my sister, her husband and Andy's brother-in-law in "The Ho" to Coal Creek. We'd had a couple of days of heavy rain but that was followed by some very warm days and the area was nearly dry. Unfortunately the low lying areas weren't and "The Ho" got bogged down a couple of times in soft soil. I also managed to wreck the headlight and taillight I'd only replaced on 1st May. I really have to find a way to protect these lights as I'm smashing at least one of them every time I go out. Everyone enjoyed themselves though.
"The Ho" and the Jeep hill climbing. Video taken by Jeff.
"The Ho" coming back down again. Video taken by Jeff.