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Twinkies will live on, the bidding battle has begun
The nation mourned the loss of Twinkies as a battle between Hostess and labor unions led to the company shutting down operations, but as we forecast, a bidding war will keep the sweets alive.
Marti Trewe
Twinkies: let the bidding battle begin
When Hostess Brands filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, then filed for liquidation last month, the internet exploded with rage over potentially being without Twinkies and Ho Hos, and other beloved brands, and at the time, we forecast, "It is not likely that their most popular items such as Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Ding Dong, Ho Ho's, Dolly Madison, and Hostess CupCakes will be gone forever, as the brands will be sold off to new owners."
Enter the roughly 24 bidders for the brands, according to Bloomberg News. The process is done confidentially, so we cannot confirm directly, but Bloomberg says Walmart, Kroger, Alpha Baking Co., and Grupo Bimbo SAB are included in the bidding process.
Some bidders will go for all Hostess Brands, while others will likely bid on specific divisions individually, like the bread division on its own, and cake on its own. Bloomberg asserts that the total sale could be around $1 billion.
How Hostess Brands' ship sank
Last month, unable to reach a deal with a baker's union representing over a quarter of all its employees, Hostess Brands, which includes the Twinkie and Wonder Bread products, filed for liqudation with a bankruptcy court, after the brand filed for bankruptcy in January, but in months following, saw strikes by unions, and while they came to an agreement with the teamsters, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union (BCTGM) continued to strike, and no deal was reached. Hostess permanently stopped production lines under their name brand at all 36 plants, and 18,500 employees will lose their jobs.
The deal rejected by the baker's union as part of the Hostess Brand bankruptcy was an 8.0 percent pay cut in the first year, a 3.0 percent increase in the second year, and a 1.0 percent increase in the third year, leading to an overall decrease of 4.0 percent in take home pay. Although roughly 13,000 of the 18,500 employees were not on strike, their jobs were cut, and there is no guarantee they will be hired back by whomever wins the bid for the brand.
Unions, management, and what's next
Some pointed the small union as the villain, refusing to compromise, even after most employees had come to an agreement with the major brand, while others point the finger squarely at the company which they say had been mismanaged for years, with rumors of $1.8 million in executive bonuses pending approval from the bankruptcy court as their ship was sinking. Regardless of what has happened in the past, Hostess Brand will be no more, but their Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread, and the like will live on, perhaps as a single company, but likely being split up among the highest bidders.
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Marti Trewe reports on business and technology news, chasing his passion for helping entrepreneurs and small businesses to stay well informed in the fast paced 140-character world. Marti rarely sleeps and thrives on reader news tips, especially about startups and big moves in leadership.
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After a long career in the U.S. Army, including four tours in Saudi Arabia, Bryan Zacher was ready to pursue his dream job of working outdoors with salmon and steelhead populations. So he turned to Oregon State University Ecampus.
By Tyler Hansen
There was a pit in Bryan Zacher's stomach as his 22-year Army career came to a close in 2013. He hadn't put much thought into life after the military, so he jotted down a list of his hobbies.
Fishing. Hunting. The great outdoors.
Then he had an idea that changed his life trajectory: Turn what you enjoy doing into what you do for a living.
That's how Bryan came to enroll with Oregon State University Ecampus, pursuing his bachelor's degree online in fisheries, wildlife, and conservation sciences. Now he's on track to graduate from an accredited university with a degree that will give him a leg up in the job market.
"The thing that really drew me to Oregon State is that they have the No. 2 fisheries and wildlife program in the nation. That's kind of the Ivy League of the fish and wildlife sciences," said Bryan, who now works for the U.S. Forest Service in central Oregon.
But before he applied to OSU, Bryan had questions about getting started. He was new to the world of higher education, having spent two decades working on the Patriot missile system, making four tours in Saudi Arabia and serving on recruiting duty.
Thankfully, he found a support system for veterans at Oregon State that makes the application process easy to navigate, from admissions and registration to utilizing his post-9/11 G.I. Bill.
"The folks at the veterans service office at OSU are very knowledgeable, very helpful and very expedient with answering your questions," he said. "That's a good feeling knowing that you've got a support staff like that behind you."
And with an entire university behind him, Bryan is focused on the task at hand: building a new career doing what he loves.
November 3, 2017 Heather Doherty
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Sir George Wigram Allen lived at Toxteth Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.1 He was appointed Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.)1
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Charlotte Anna Dundas1
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Charlotte Anna Dundas was born in 1824 at Carron Hall, Stirlingshire, Scotland.2 She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Thomas Dundas of Fingask and Charlotte Anna Boultbee.1 She married, firstly, Colonel Armine Simcoe Henry Mountain, son of Jacob Mountain and Eliza Mildred Kentish, on 12 February 1845 at Carron Hall, Stirlingshire, Scotland.1,2 She married, secondly, General Sir John Henry Lefroy, son of Reverend John Henry George Lefroy and Sophia Cottrell, on 12 May 1860 at St. George Hanover Square, London, England.1,2 She died on 4 June 1903 at 7 Apsley Road, Clifton, Bristol, England.1,2
From 12 February 1845, her married name became Mountain.1 From 12 May 1860, her married name became Lefroy.1
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He was appointed Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.)1
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Charlotte Dundas Bartolucci2 b. c 1849
Thomas Dundas Bartolucci2 b. c 1852
Candida Louise Bartolucci+2 b. 3 May 1854, d. 14 Feb 1925
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Do you have an irrigation system on your property? If this is the case, you will need to make sure that it is always working as well as it possibly can. Otherwise, you could develop very serious problems. There will eventually come a time when your irrigation system has a problem in the way that it functions. When this happens, you will need to make sure that you call the right company to fix the issue. Here is how you can track down a qualified company for the job.
1. Get in touch with people who have hired companies to repair their irrigation systems in the past.
It would be a good idea to reach out to friends and family members who also have irrigation systems on their property. Some of these people have certainly needed to have their systems fixed at some point. Find out the name of the company they hired for this task. Did the company fix the problem quickly? Did they charge a reasonable fee? Were they courteous and professional? Gather as much info as you can and use it to seek out a good company.
2. The Better Business Bureau should have a few irrigation companies listed on their site.
One place you can always go for reliable info is the site operated by the BBB. They will have profiles of numerous companies that are involved in irrigation repair Melbourne FL. Read all of the info they provide. You will be able to find out a great deal about the history of each company. You should also pay very close attention to the rating that the BBB has given to each of these companies. Never hire a company that has a low rating.
3. Only hire a company that has the proper license and insurance.
You need to be certain that the company you hire to work on your irrigation system has been properly trained to do so. This means you should find out if they are licensed. You also need to see their proof of insurance just in case they cause damage to your property.


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Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American actor. He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost, Damon Salvatore in The CW's supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries, and Dr. Luther Swann in Netflix's sci-fi horror series V Wars.Wikipedia
Born December 8, 1978
Hometown Covington, Louisiana, United States of America
Height 5'10" (1.77m)
Spouse Nikki Reed (m 2015 - present)
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Book review: Made to stick
Posted byJay Robb February 1, 2010 Posted inUncategorized
Finally got around to reading this book. The latest issue of Fast Company has a preview of the 2nd book about to hit the shelves from Chip and Dean Health.
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
You're losing sleep over the serious lack of buzz about your big project at work.
No one's buying in and you don't know why. You fired off the all-staff memo. Made the rounds with your PowerPoint presentation. Built the case for change with a burning platform and clear path to the promised land. But no one's drinking your Kool-Aid. What gives?
Elizabeth Newton knows why. Newton earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University by studying a simple game.
Newton assigned folks to play the part of tappers or listeners. Tappers got a list of 25 songs that we've all heard and sung since childhood. Newton had tappers secretly pick a song and tap out the rhythm on a table. Listeners had to name that tune.
Of the 120 tapped songs, listeners named only three for a success rate of just 2.5 per cent. Yet tappers went into the game predicting a 50 per cent success rate. When listeners got it wrong, tappers were flabbergasted. How could listeners be so clueless and stupid with songs that were so simple and obvious?
The tappers in Newton's research study had fallen victim to the Curse of Knowledge. When they tapped, the songs were playing in their heads. They couldn't imagine what it was like for listeners to hear only a disconnected series of taps.
"Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it," say authors and brothers Dan and Chip Heath. "Our knowledge has cursed us. And it becomes difficult for us to share our knowledge with others, because we can't readily recreate our listeners' state of mind."
The Heaths say we're forever replaying Newton's research project at work. Chances are you're suffering from it with your project that's on the road to nowhere. You hear the music. The rest of us hear only noise.
"The tappers and listeners are CEOs and frontline employees, teachers and students, politicians and voters, marketers and customers, writers and readers. All of these groups rely on ongoing communication but, like the tappers and listeners, they suffer from enormous information imbalances.
"When a CEO discusses 'unlocking shareholder value', there is a tune playing in her head that the employees can't hear. It's a hard problem to avoid – a CEO might have 30 years of daily immersion in the logic and conventions of business. Reversing the process is as impossible as un-ringing a bell. You can't unlearn what you already know."
But you can make your ideas more powerful and sticky so that you escape the Curse of Knowledge and we have a better shot at understanding, remembering and acting on what you have tell us.
The Heath brothers have come up with the following six principles for making ideas stickier:
Aim for simplicity by stripping your sticky idea down to its essential core. What's the single most important thing we absolutely need to know? Not three things. Only one.
To get and hold our attention, spark our interest and stoke our curiousity. Be counterintuitive and do something unexpected that surprises us.
Make your sticky idea clear and concrete. Steer clear of ambiguity, meaningless abstractions and jargon.
Help us believe in your idea by building credibility through convincing details, accessible statistics and testable credentials. Let us try before we buy in.
Make us care. For us to care, we have to feel something and we're hardwired to feel things for people rather than abstract concepts.
Sell us your idea by telling us a story. Stories provide simulation (knowledge about how to act) and inspiration (motivation to act). If a credible idea makes us believe and an emotional idea makes us care, a great story makes us act.
So if want more buzz and buy-in for your project, serve up a simple, unexpected, concrete, credentialed and emotional story. And beware the Curse of Knowledge.
With a little focused effort, the Heaths say anyone can make almost any idea sticker. "And a sticky idea is an idea that is more likely to make a difference." And get you a good night's sleep.
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Firefighter pleads guilty to setting fires on tribal land
Abigail Margulis
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ASHEVILLE – A Cherokee temporary firefighter pleaded guilty to intentionally setting fires on Indian lands from 2010-14, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
Raymond Neal Swayney, 31, appeared in federal court in Asheville on Monday in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell.
Swayney was hired by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to work as a temporary administratively determined (AD) firefighter, according to court documents. The BIA is able to hire AD firefighters for emergencies in progress within the boundaries of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), including to cope with unexpected emergencies caused by fire or extreme fire potential.
The defendant was compensated for the hours he worked on the fire.
Court documents say that Swayney and others willfully set several wildland fires on the EBCI reservation, and received compensation for fighting the fires. Between March 5, 2010 and Feb. 25, 2014, Swayney and others intentionally set seven fires, which destroyed more than 420 acres of tribal lands and cost more than $106,000 in BIA funds to extinguish.
Swayney pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to set timber afire and to defraud the United States. The charge carries a maximum prison term of five years and a $250,000 fine. Swayney is being held pending sentencing. A sentencing date has not been set yet.
In making Monday's announcement, Rose thanked the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Inspector General, for leading the investigation and the Cherokee Indian Police Department, the Swain County Sheriff's Office, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs for their assistance with the case.
Assistant United States Attorney John Pritchard, of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Asheville, is prosecuting the case.


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Cars Connected To The Cloud: The All-Electric 2012 Nissan Leaf
VentureBeat's GreenBeat January 6, 2011 Comment Now!
In a move that shows off the latest push among automakers to bring cars to the digital age, Airbiquity and Hitachi Automotive Systems showcased a connected services technology system for electric vehicles at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today.
The system, which is debuting in Nissan's all-electric Leaf, allows drivers to search for charging stations and plot routes that will use less of the electric car's battery (avoiding slopes, for instance), and connects drivers through a global cloud that Airbiquity operates for Nissan. The platform comes standard with Nissan's Leaf (console and car pictured), which is currently is all booked up with the car maker's initial run of 20,000 reservations.
Electric vehicles like the Leaf, the partially-electric Chevrolet Volt and Tesla's upcoming all-electric Model S sedan all offer some kind of souped-up display system. Given that electric cars are a relatively new technology and come with an above-average price tag, these extra features add to the cool and luxury factor while providing tools to help consumers understand their car's range and tailor their driving habits to it.
The shift isn't limited to electric cars, though. The information and communication technology (ICT) system for the Leaf is one of several efforts among automakers — not to mention many cleantech startups — towards data-driven efficiency, as well as cloud-enabled entertainment. Ford's Sync computer system is now in 3 million vehicles, enabling voice command-activated entertainment options as well as safety features like automatic 911 operator connection in the event of a crash.
And GM announced it will showcase a Buick at CES that uses GM's Onstar Service with Verizon's 4G LTE network to enables video chatting (erm, anyone see a crash hazard here?), home monitoring and impact detection. Nissan, Ford, and GM have all developed smartphone apps to go with their ICT systems.
The moves also represent more data than ever being exchanged between manufacturers and consumers. The Leaf's system, for example, can send information about battery efficiency back to Nissan, where researchers can use it to improve the next generation of electric vehicles, or alert drivers when their tire pressure is low or repairs are needed.
"There's fewer surprises about breakdowns, parts that need to be replaced," said Leo McCloskey, vice president of marketing for Airbiquity.
Given the backlash over privacy concerns with smart meters broadcasting real-time energy usage data wirelessly, will there be similar hesitation over integrating such functions inside cars, which are arguably just as private a space as a person's home? Customers can opt out of the service, McCloskey said.
But most people probably won't. With most of the cars going to early adopters, it's likely the vast majority will want use the system, which is connected to a designated web portal where Leaf owners can see the data and statistics associated with their driving. What's more, this is the wave of the future when it comes to cars, McCloskey said.
"This is not a dilettante thing to make it look cool, it's not an adornment. This is really quite central to every automaker we talk to right now," he said. "There is a very exacting strategy around ICT [information and communication technology] … The vehicle now starts to conform to the consumer as opposed to the consumer trying to figure out what (car) is right for them."
This story, written by Iris Kuo, was originally posted on VentureBeat's GreenBeat, an editorial partner of GreenCarReports.
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Primorska (također i Slovensko primorje; Primorska Slovenija) zapadni je dio Slovenije. Ovaj se pojam kao naziv krajnje sjeverne obale Jadrana rabi od 19. stoljeća, a danas je to neslužbena pokrajina u Sloveniji koja obuhvaća područje Nove Gorice, te priobalni i unutarnji krški kraj.

Zemljopisne značajke
Premda se pokrajina naziva Primorska, najveći dio njezina današnjeg područja nalazi se u unutrašnjosti, odvojen od mora talijanskom granicom. Priobalni dio smješten je na 46 km obale Istre. U unutrašnjosti se smjestila Vipavska dolina, a između nje i Tršćanskog zaljeva započinje krški kraj koji se proteže prema sjeverozapadu, sve do doline Soče. Krško područje obuhvaća oko 500 km2, od čega tek manji dio u Italiji. Područje oko Nove Gorice obično se naziva sjeverna Primorska, a proteže se uz dolinu Soče, sve do Tolmina. U tom dijelu uzdiže se već i visoko gorje s planinama Krn i Kanin. Prijevoj Vršič (1618 m) označava ujedno i granicu između Primorske i Gorenjske.

Primorska graniči na jugoistoku s Notranjskom, na sjeveroistoku s Gorenjskom, na zapadu s Italijom, a na jugu s Hrvatskom.

Od gospodarskih grana, osobito je razvijen turizam, a Kopar, uz Trst i Rijeku, pripada među najveće luke ovog dijela Jadrana. Usto, razvijena je proizvodnja prehrambenih proizvoda i bezalkoholnih pića (Fructal), te vinogradarstvo.

Stanovništvo je miješano, a u brojnim mjestima, uz slovenski jezik, u službenoj je u porabi i talijanski. U istarskom dijelu Primorske živi i malobrojna hrvatska manjina.

Važniji gradov Primorske su Nova Gorica, Kopar, Izola, Ajdovščina, Tolmin, Sežana, Bovec, Piran.

Povijest
Primorsku, koja se u Austro-ugarskoj Monarhiji službeno nazivala Austrijsko primorje (njem. Österreichisches Küstenland), činila je Kneževska grofovija Gorica i Gradišče, potom Markgrofovija Istra, te grad Trst. U Prvom svjetskom ratu ovdje je uspostavljeno bojište na Soči, poznata po iscrpljujućem rovovskom ratu i teškom talijanskom porazu kod Kobarida. U 20. stoljeću taj se naziv često širio i na dijelove Kranjske, to jest Notranjske koji su bili pod Talijanskom vlašću. Nakon Drugog svjetskog rata SR Sloveniji unutar SFRJ pripadaju dijelovi Goriške i Istre, koji zajedno čine neformalnu pokrajinu Primorsku. Takvo je stanje i u neovisnoj Sloveniji.

Ponekad se dijelom Primorske drže i oni dijelovi Furlanije-Julijska krajina koje pretežito naseljavaju Slovenci.

Literatura
Enciklopedija Slovenije IX, Ljubljana 1995, 342-343.

Vanjske poveznice
Primorska

Pokrajine Slovenije

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Series: 1944-2019, 75 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 5)
Why the Marshall Plan ?
25 March 2019 by Eric Toussaint
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the interests of the world's populations.
The WB and the IMF have systematically made loans to States as a means of influencing their policies. Foreign indebtedness has been and continues to be used as an instrument for subordinating the borrowers. Since their creation, the IMF and the WB have violated international pacts on human rights and have no qualms about supporting dictatorships.
A new form of decolonization is urgently required to get out of the predicament in which the IFI and their main shareholders have entrapped the world in general. New international institutions must be established. This new series of articles by Éric Toussaint retraces the development of the World Bank and the IMF since they were founded in 1944. The articles are taken from the book The World Bank: a never-ending coup d'état. The hidden agenda of the Washington Consensus, Mumbai: Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, 2007, or The World Bank : A critical Primer Pluto, 2007.
The US government had learned from the mistakes made in the 1920s and 1930s
At the end of the first World War, the Treaty of Versailles, imposed on Germany the payment of huge compensations for war debt and reparation [1]. Germany soon found it difficult to pay and this led to social discontent. The Wall Street crash that occurred in 1929 brought on a global economic crisis. The US drastically reduced capital outflow. Germany stopped paying its debt to France, Belgium and Britain, and these countries in turn stopped paying their debts to the United States. The more industrialized world sank into recession and massive unemployment, and international trade plummeted.
To prepare for a different outcome after WWII, Washington decided on policies that would be completely different from those implemented after WWI and until the early 1930s. It set up the Bretton Woods institutions and the United Nations. This was the international institutions approach.
We now analyse this bilateral economic policy developed by the United States.
Give rather than lend money
The US government's major concern at the end of the Second World War was to maintain the full employment that it had achieved thanks to the tremendous war effort. It also wanted to guarantee that there would be a trade surplus in relations between the US and the rest of the world. [2] But the major industrialized countries that could import US commodities Commodities The goods exchanged on the commodities market, traditionally raw materials such as metals and fuels, and cereals. were literally penniless. For European countries to be able to buy US goods they had to be provided with lots of dollars. But how? Through grants or through loans?
To put it simply, the US reasoned as follows: if we lend to our European allies the money they need to rebuild their economy, how are they going to pay us back? They will no longer have the dollars we lent them since they used them to buy from us. In all, there were three possibilities.
First possibility, Europe pays back in kind. If this happens European goods will compete with ours on our home market, full employment will be jeopardized and profits will fall. This is not a good solution.
Second possibility, Europe pays back with dollars. They cannot use the dollars they received on loan to pay us back since they have used them to buy our goods. Consequently, if they are to pay us back, we have to lend them the same amount again, plus interest Interest An amount paid in remuneration of an investment or received by a lender. Interest is calculated on the amount of the capital invested or borrowed, the duration of the operation and the rate that has been set. . The risk of being caught in an infernal cycle of indebtedness (which puts a stop to or slows down the smooth running of business) is added to the risk attached to the first possibility. To reduce their debts towards us the Europeans they will try to sell their goods on our home market. They will thus get some of the dollars they need to pay us back, but this will not be enough to rid them of their debts and it will endanger employment in the US. [3]
We are left with the third possibility: we give Europe the money with which to recover. "rather than lend to Europeans (through the World Bank World Bank
WB The World Bank was founded as part of the new international monetary system set up at Bretton Woods in 1944. Its capital is provided by member states' contributions and loans on the international money markets. It financed public and private projects in Third World and East European countries.
It consists of several closely associated institutions, among which :
1. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, 189 members in 2017), which provides loans in productive sectors such as farming or energy ;
2. The International Development Association (IDA, 159 members in 1997), which provides less advanced countries with long-term loans (35-40 years) at very low interest (1%) ;
3. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), which provides both loan and equity finance for business ventures in developing countries.
As Third World Debt gets worse, the World Bank (along with the IMF) tends to adopt a macro-economic perspective. For instance, it enforces adjustment policies that are intended to balance heavily indebted countries' payments. The World Bank advises those countries that have to undergo the IMF's therapy on such matters as how to reduce budget deficits, round up savings, enduce foreign investors to settle within their borders, or free prices and exchange rates.
or otherwise) it seems appropriate to give them the dollars they need to build up their economy within a fairly short time. Europeans will use these dollars to buy goods and services from the US. This will guarantee an outlet for US exports which will help to maintain full employment. Once economic reconstruction is achieved Europeans will not be riddled with debts and will be able to pay for what they buy from us".
The US authorities thus concluded that it would be better to proceed by grants, and therefore launched the Marshall Plan Marshall Plan A programme of economic reconstruction proposed in 1947 by the US State Secretary, George C. Marshall. With a budget of 12.5 billion dollars (more than 80 billion dollars in current terms) composed of donations and long-term loans, the Marshall Plan enabled 16 countries (notably France, the UK, Italy and the Scandinavian countries) to finance their reconstruction after the Second World War. .
The Marshall Plan [4]
The Marshall plan, officially known as The European Recovery program, was named after George Marshall the US Secretary of State who first announced the plan.
Between 1948 and 1951 the United States devoted over thirteen billion US dollars (eleven of which were grants) to restore the economy of seventeen European countries in the context of the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC, today OECD OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, created in 1960. It includes the major industrialized countries and has 34 members as of January 2016.
http://www.oecd.org/about/membersandpartners/ ). The total of US aid amounted to approximately 120 billion of today's US dollars. The United States demanded a number of commitments in exchange for their aid: first, European countries had to coordinate reconstruction expenses within the OEEC. The United States thus contributed to European cooperation, a prelude to the construction of Europe in order to reinforce the Western bloc against the Soviet bloc. Then they demanded that the money received be used to buy US produced goods .
Table of expenses involved in the Marshall plan
Economic assistance from 3 April 1948 to 30 June 1952 (in millions of USD of the time)
Total for all countries $13,325.8 $11,820.7 $1,505.1
Austria 677.8 677.8 —
Belgium-Luxembourg 559.3 491.3 68.0 a
Denmark 273.0 239.7 33.3
France 2,713.6 2,488.0 225.6
Germany (FR) 1,390.6 1,173.7 216.9
Greece 706.7 706.7 —
Iceland 29.3 24.0 5.3
Ireland 147.5 19.3 128.2
Italy (including Trieste) 1,508.8 1,413.2 95.6
Netherlands (*Indonesia) b 1,083.5 916.8 166.7
Norway 255.3 216.1 39.2
Portugal 51.2 15.1 36.1
Sweden 107.3 86.9 20.4
Turkey 225.1 140.1 85.0
United Kingdom 3,189.8 2,805 384.8
Regions c 407.0 407.0 —
a. The loan included 65 million for Belgium and 3 million for Luxembourg.
b. Marshall plan support to the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) was transferred to the Netherlands after the former became independent on 30 December 1949.
c. Included the US contribution to the European Payments Union (EPU), a European social fund: $361.4 million.
Such financial bounty was primarily intended to support those trade unions that resisted the communist influence.
To those grants in the framework of the Marshall Plan we must add the partial cancellation of France's debt to the US in 1946 (2 bn USD were written off). Similarly Belgium benefited from a reduction of its debt to the US as compensation for the uranium provided to make the first two atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki causing the first nuclear holocaust. The uranium had been extracted from the mine of Shinkolobwé (near Likasi, then Jadotville) located in the province of Katanga in the Belgian Congo. In the first instance: Belgium was granted debt cancellation thanks to the natural resources from its colony, which it lavishly exploited. Then: some fifteen years later, Belgium transferred, to the newly independent Congo, the debts it had incurred in order to exploit those natural resources as well as its population (see "Odious loans to colonial powers" http://cadtm.org/The-World-Bank-assists-the ).
From the end of the second World War until today major powers have refused to implement a Marshall plan for developing countries (with two exceptions, South Korea and Taiwan, see below). Loans with interest have been the main instrument used to allegedly finance the Third World's development. Such refusal shows that creditors do not really want these countries to develop and be rid of their debts. Creditors consider that it is in their better interest to maintain developing countries in a permanent state of indebtedness so as to draw maximum revenues in the form of debt reimbursement, but also to enforce policies that serve their interests and to make sure that they remain loyal partners within the international institutions.
What the United States had done through the Marshall Plan for industrialized countries that had been ravaged by war they exceptionally repeated towards South Korea and Taiwan, two allied developing countries at strategic locations on the outskirts of the Soviet Union and China. As from the 1950s these two countries received significant aid, that largely contributed to their economic success.
From 1954 to 1961, for example, South Korea received more grants from the United States than the WB lent to all independent Third World countries (India, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Nigeria included), put together, over $2,500 millions against $2,323 millions. Because it was strategically located in relation to China and the USSR, a small farming country like South Korea benefited from US largesse. During the same period Taiwan received about $800 million. [5] The WB and the United States were tolerant towards economic policies in Korea and Taiwan that they deemed unacceptable in Brazil or Mexico. This was developed in a study on South Korea between 1945 and the 1990s (see Eric Toussaint, "South Korea : the miracle unmasked", published in 2006, http://cadtm.org/South-Korea-the-miracle-unmasked).
Part 1 Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods' Institutions
Part 2 The WB assists those in power in a witch-hunting context
Part 3 Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem
Part 4 SUNFED versus World Bank
Part 5 Why the Marshall Plan ?
Part 6 Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won't be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
Part 7 Domination of the United States on the World Bank
Part 8 World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
Part 9 The World Bank and the Philippines
Part 10 The World Bank's support of the dictatorship in Turkey (1980-1983)
Part 11 The World Bank and the IMF in Indonesia: an emblematic interference
Part 12 Theoretical lies of the World Bank
Part 13 The South Korean miracle is exposed
Part 14 The debt trap
Part 15 The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming
Part 16 The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank
Part 17 The World Bank and the IMF: the creditors' bailiffs
Part 18 Presidents Barber Conable and Lewis Preston (1986-1995)
[1] John Maynard Keynes, who worked for the British Treasury, had participated in the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the peace settlement that was signed after World War One ended. As he was against demanding such heavy compensations from Germany, he resigned from the British delegation and subsequently published The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Keynes, 1919). See: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15776/15776-h/15776-h.htm
[2] This is indeed what happened: the US trade balance, which used to be in deficit, showed surpluses until 1971. In other words the US exported more than they imported.
[3] "Repayment in the form of imports has been traditionally opposed in this country on the ground that it causes competition for domestic producers and contributes to unemployment" Randolph E. Paul. 1947. Taxation for Prosperity, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, quoted by PAYER, Cheryl. 1991, Lent and Lost, Foreign Credit and Third World Development, Zed Books, London, p.20.
[4] Information and table taken from the French page of Wikipedia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Marshall
[5] The author's computation. Sources: 1) WB's annual reports 1954-1961, 2) US Overseas Loans and Grants (Greenbook) http://qesdb.cdie.org/gbk/index.html
Enron and Co. - the fiasco of the new USA-style economy
The Debt Scam
16 February 2004, by Eric Toussaint , Damien Millet
Ideas for alternative
Transfers from the Periphery to the Centre, from Labour to Capital
8 January 2004, by Eric Toussaint
Another World is Possible. After All!
26 December 2003, by Eric Toussaint
The odious iraqui debt
25 September 2003, by Eric Toussaint
Iraq, War, Debt and the G8
26 April 2003, by Eric Toussaint
The World Bank and the Third World Debt Crisis in historical Perspective
About the Campaign for the cancellation of the Third World debt
13 March 2002, by Arnaud Zacharie , Eric Toussaint
Comments on mobilisations in Genoa, with an eye to the future
19 July 2001, by Eric Toussaint
Finance against people
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) on private debt and human rights
13 January - Chiara Filoni, Eva Betavatzi, Mats Lucia Bayer
The accomplices to austerity are also responsible for human rights violations
21 November 2019 - Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Alert on the sophistication of illegitimate debt techniques via mobile telephony
8 November 2019 - Eric Toussaint
The top 1% own 45% of all global personal wealth; 10% own 82%; the bottom 50% own less than 1%
6 November 2019 - Michael Roberts
Can't Pay, Won't Pay
24 October 2019 - Jerome Roos, George Souvlis
After the Argentina debacle, the IMF endorses weakening capital controls in Ecuador
20 December 2019 - Lara Merling
Argentina: facing another debt crisis
18 December 2019 - Eric Toussaint
Does BRICS Banking offer an Alternative to the IMF and World Bank? Pessimistic Signals from South Africa
21 October 2019 - Patrick Bond
Illegal projects: How World Bank Arbitrators Mugged Pakistan
9 December 2019 - Jeffrey D. Sachs
Bretton Woods Institutions' neoliberal over-reach leaves global governance in the gutter
Weapons of Legal Destruction: ISDS lawsuits and Lydian International's Assault on Armenian Sovereignty
23 September 2019 - Armen Abagyan
The World Bank's accounts


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<?php
	/*
		pulldown.php
		Authored by Benji Schwartz-Gilbert

		Breaks up a clean.php results file into a csv file of product fields and then downloads the associated images for each title. Images
		are saved to the given directory with an MD5 hash of the title in the product fields.

		Usage: php pulldown.php [Input File] [Output File] [Image Directory]

		Arguments In:
			Input File -> The resulting file from a successful run of clean.php
			Output File -> The file to write the CSV descriptor files to
				Results will be formatted in alternation CSV or fields and URL to the 98 pixel image for the title
			Image Directory -> The directory to save downloaded images to (make sure you have enough space)

	*/

	$inputFile = (isset($argv[1])) ? $argv[1] : null;
	$outputFile = (isset($argv[2])) ? $argv[2] : null;
	$imageDirectory = (isset($argv[3])) ? $argv[3] : null;

	if(!empty($inputFile)) {
		if(!empty($outputFile)) {
			if(file_exists($outputFile)) {
				echo "Found and deleting old output file\n";
				unlink($outputFile);
			}
			if(!empty($imageDirectory)) {
				try {
					if(file_exists($inputFile)) {
						$fileContents = file($inputFile, FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
						if(!empty($fileContents)) {
							$downloaded = 0;
							$ch = curl_init();
							$fc_value = "";
							for($i =0; $i < count($fileContents); $i++) {
								// Check if we are assuming we're processing a CSV line
								if(($i % 2) == 0) {
									$fc_value = $fileContents[$i];
								} else {
									$parts = explode("]", $fileContents[$i]);
									$title = substr($parts[0], 1);
									$filename = md5($title);
									/* Only download images we don't have */
									if(!file_exists($imageDirectory . "/" . $filename . ".jpg")) {
										$fh = fopen($imageDirectory . "/" . $filename . ".jpg", "w");
										if($fh != false) {
											curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $parts[1]);
											curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, TRUE);
											curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE);
											curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, FALSE);
											curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
											curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
											curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fh);
											curl_exec($ch);
										} else {
											echo "Image file could not be created successfully, check directory permissions; exiting";
											echo "\n\n";
										}
										@fclose($fh);
										$downloaded++;
									}
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									if(filesize($outputFile) == 0) {
										echo "Failed to pulldown image for " . $title;
									}
								}
							}
							curl_close($ch);
							echo "Finished, downloaded " . $downloaded . " images\n";
						} else {
							echo "\n";
							trigger_error("Problem encountered opening the input file; exiting");
							echo "\n\n";
						}
					} else {

					}
				} catch(Exception $e) {
					echo "\n";
					echo $e->getMessage();
					echo "\n\n";
				}
			} else {
				echo "No image directory specified; exiting";
				echo "\n\n";
			}
		} else {
			echo "\n";
			echo "No output file name given; exiting";
			echo "\n\n";
		}
	} else {
		echo "\n";
		echo "No input file given for processing; exiting";
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Paul Graham Albert Way (born 12 March 1963) is an English professional golfer.

Way was born in Kingsbury, Middlesex. He went to the Hugh Christie School in Tonbridge, Kent. He won the Brabazon Trophy in 1981.

Way turned professional in 1982 and quickly found success on the European Tour, winning that year's KLM Dutch Open.

For a few years, Way was one of Europe's most promising young golfers, and he represented Europe in the Ryder Cup in 1983, when he became the second youngest Ryder Cup player up to that time after Nick Faldo, and again in 1985, when Europe captured the trophy which had been in American hands for twenty-eight years. He had an outstanding Ryder Cup record of six wins, two losses and one halved match.

Way did not sustain his early success. His last top 100 finish on the Order of Merit was in 1993 and after 1997 he played little tournament golf. He began playing on the European Senior Tour after turning 50 in March 2013.

Amateur wins
1981 Brabazon Trophy

Professional wins (4)

European Tour wins (3)

European Tour playoff record (1–1)

Sunshine Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

Note: Way never played in the Masters Tournament nor the U.S. Open.

CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1983 and 1985 Open Championships)
"T" = tied

Team appearances
Amateur
Jacques Léglise Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1980 (winners)
European Amateur Team Championship (representing England): 1981 (winners)
Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1981

Professional
Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1983, 1985
Dunhill Cup (representing England): 1985
World Cup (representing England): 1985

External links

English male golfers
European Tour golfers
European Senior Tour golfers
Ryder Cup competitors for Europe
People from Kingsbury, London
People from Tonbridge
1963 births
Living people


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Q: How to design this using OOP I have an object called User, with properties like Username, Age, Password email etc.
I initialize this object in my ado.net code like:
private User LoadUser(SqlDataReader reader)
{
      User user = new User();

      user.ID = (int)reader["userID"];
      // etc
}

Now say I create a new object that inherits from User, like:
public class UserProfile : User
{
     public string Url {get;set;}
}

Now I need to create a method that will load the userprofile, so currently I am doing:
public UserProfile LoadUserProfile(SqlDataReader reader)
{
         UserProfile profile = new UserProfile();

         profile.ID = (int)reader["userID"];
         // etc. copying the same code from LoadUser(..)
         profile.Url = (string) reader["url"];
}

Is there a more OOP approach to this so I don't have to mirror my code in LoadUserProfile() from LoadUser()?
I wish I could do this:
UserProfile profile = new UserProfile();

profile = LoadUser(reader);

// and then init my profile related properties

Can something like this be done?

A: Move the LodUser method to the User Base class and make it virtual. Then, in the UserProfile method, you override this method.
public class User
{
   public virtual void Load(SqlDataReader reader)
   {
      this.Id = reader["Id"];
      //.. whatever else
   }
}

public class UserProfile : User
{
   public string ExtraProp {get;set;}
   public override void Load(SqlDataReader reader)
   {
      base.Load(reader);
      this.ExtraProp = reader["ExtraProp"];
   }
}

Then you can just do something like:
UserProfile up = new UserProfile();
up.Load(myReader);

A: i dont really understand why user profile inherits from User, logically to me it doesnt make much sense.
what makes sense to me is
public class UserProfile
{
     User user;
     public string Url {get;set;}
}

then you could have something like
public UserProfile LoadUserProfile(SqlDataReader reader)
{
         User user = LoadUser(reader);
         UserProfile profile = new UserProfile(user);

          //load profile stuff from reader...
         return profile;
}

A: First of all why is your userprofile inheriting from user. UserProfile is not User. Convinence inheritance at its worst.

A: If you don't want your User and UserProfile objects to know about SQL (persistence ignorance = good), you could use static/extension methods that operate on an existing object:
private static User LoadFromReader(this User user, SqlDataReader reader)
{
      user.ID = (int)reader["userID"];
      // etc

      return user;
}

public UserProfile LoadFromReader(this UserProfile profile, SqlDataReader reader)
{
     ((User)profile).LoadFromReader(reader);

     profile.Url = (string) reader["url"];
     // etc

     return profile;
}

Then the calling code could look like this:
UserProfile profile = new UserProfile().LoadFromReader(reader);

A: I would change it to:
 class User
 {
      public User(SqlDataReader reader)
      {
          Initialize(reader);
      }

      protected virtual void Initialize(SqlDataReader reader)
      {
           this.ID = (int)reader["userID"];
       // etc
      }
 }

 class UserProfile : User
 {
      public UserProfile(SqlDataReader reader) : base(reader) {}

      protected override void Initialize(SqlDataReader reader)
      {
           base.Initialize(reader); // Initialize "user" variables
           this.MyProperty = (int)reader["myProperty"];
      }
 }

This way, each class initializes its own values (handled from the constructor), and you only have the code in one place.

A: I would go with a Factory class here. It would keep things separated to address Single Responsibility Principle:. I'm also basing my answer in that the building properties of User are all accessible from UserProfile. A constructor of UserProfile could accept a User and fetch all it's properties.
    public static class UserFactory
    {
        public static User LoadUser(SqlDataReader reader)
        {
            int id = (int)reader["userID"];
            return new User(id);
        }

        public static UserProfile LoadUserProfile(SqlDataReader reader)
        {
            User user = LoadUser(reader);
            // extra properties
            string url = (string)reader["url"];
            return new UserProfile(user, url);
        }
    }

A: Make LoadUser virtual and public. In UserProfile override it.

A: The simple answer is to override the LoadUser function and call base.LoadUser(reader) at the top of the override function definition in UserProfile class then grab the rest of the data as needed for the UserProfile class.
As a general rule, this setup should not use inheritance, but aggregation.  However for the purpose of illustrating the point, it will do.

A: Make a constructor that takes a reader:
public User(DbDataReader reader) {
   ID = reader.GetInt32(reader.GetOrdinal("userID"));
   // etc
}

Usage:
User adam = new User(reader);

Then you can just make the constructor in UserProfile call the base constructor:
public UserProfile(DbDataReader reader) : base(reader) {
   Url = reader.GetString(reader.GetOrdinal("url"));
}

A: I would have user profile be a member of the user class
public class User
{
//...all current members of the user class...

     UserProfile profile;
}

public class UserProfile
{

     public string Url {get;set;}

}

Other than that, I would do something along the lines of Reed Copsey's answer

A: It kind-of sounds like you want to do something like the following:
public class User { public Guid Id { get; set; } }
public class UserProfile : User { public string Url { get; set; } }

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The 100 Greatest Songs Of 1978 #1. Werewolves of London (1 Viewer)
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Continuing my highly objective, completely narcissistic attempt to rank the music of the 1970s…
1978: disco at its height. Post punk and New Wave just beginning to take off. Hard rock still going strong. And, most of all, a whole lot of cheesy music. It's a good thing I love cheesy music.
100. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand
99. "Old Time Rock n Roll" Bob Seger
98. "Thank You For Being a Friend" Andrew Gold
97. "Copacabana" Barry Manilow
96. "Good Times Roll" The Cars
95. "Johnny Strikes Up the Band" Warren Zevon
94. "Love Is Like Oxygen" Sweet
93. "Y.M.C.A." Village People
92. "Hold the Line" Toto
91. "Shattered" The Rolling Stones
90. "I Need to Know" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
89. "Misfits" The Kinks
88. "Still the Same" Bob Seger
87. "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" Rod Stewart
86. "Right Down the Line" Gerry Rafferty
85. "With a Little Luck" Wings
84. "Prove It All Night" Bruce Springsteen
83. "I Need a Lover" Johnny Cougar
82. "Roll With the Changes" REO Speedwagon
81. "Hot Child in the City" Nick Gilder
80. "Double Vision" Foreigner
79. "Big Shot" Billy Joel
78. "A Rock 'n Roll Fantasy" The Kinks
77. "The Promised Land" Bruce Springsteen
76. "You're the One That I Want" John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
75. "Jamie's Cryin'" Van Halen
74. "Hanging On the Telephone" Blondie
73. "Hong Kong Garden" Siouxsie and the Banshees
72. "Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)" Styx
71. "Wheel In the Sky" Journey
70. "Excitable Boy" Warren Zevon
69. "The Gambler" Kenny Rogers
68. "Imaginary Lover" Atlanta Rhythm Section
67. "Eruption" Van Halen
66. "Hollywood Nights" Bob Seger
65. "Can't Stand Losing You" The Police
64. "Racing In the Street" Bruce Springsteen
63. "Sunday Girl" Blondie
62. "Three Times A Lady" Commodores
61. "MacArthur Park" Donna Summer
60. "Radio Radio" Elvis Costello & The Attractions
59. "Count On Me" Jefferson Starship
58. "Follow You, Follow Me" Genesis
57. "Fire" The Pointer Sisters
56. "Time for Me to Fly" REO Speedwagon
55. "Crazy Love" Poco
54. "Tenderness On the Block" Warren Zevon
53. "One Nation Under A Groove" Funkadelic
52. "Badlands" Bruce Springsteen
51. "Rat Trap" The Boomtown Rats
50. "Beast of Burden" The Rolling Stones
49. "Summer Nights" John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
48. "Straight On" Heart
47. "Listen to Her Heart" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
46. "Darkness On the Edge of Town" Bruce Springsteen
45. "Ready Steady Go" Generation X
44. "Killing An Arab" The Cure
43. "So Lonely" The Police
42. "Tommy Gun" The Clash
41. "Promises" Eric Clapton
40. "My Life" Billy Joel
39. "Runnin' With the Devil" Van Halen
38. "Baker Street" Gerry Rafferty
37. "Hot Blooded" Foreigner
36. "Fat Bottomed Girls" Queen
35. "Lotta Love" Nicolette Larson
34. "Take Me to the River" Talking Heads
33. "Renegade" Styx
32. "Dog & Butterfly" Heart
31. "Kiss You All Over" Exile
30. "Don't Look Back" Boston
29. "Bye Bye Love" The Cars
28. "Who Are You" The Who
27. "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding" Elvis Costello
26. "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" The Clash
25. "My Best Friend's Girl" The Cars
24. "Dreams I'll Never See" Molly Hatchet
23. "One Way Or Another" Blondie
22. "Roxanne" The Police
21. "Is She Really Going Out With Him" Joe Jackson
20. "Pump It Up" Elvis Costello
19. "Life's Been Good" Joe Walsh
18. "Because the Night" Patti Smith Group
17. "Miss You" The Rolling Stones
16. "Le Freak" Chic
15. "I Wanna Be Sedated" The Ramones
14. "Rock Lobster" The B-52s
13. "Teenage Kicks" The Undertones
12. "Lights" Journey
11. "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor
10. "Surrender" Cheap Trick
9. "This Year's Girl" Elvis Costello
8. "Sultans of Swing" Dire Straits
7. "Don't Stop Me Now" Queen
6. "Just What I Needed" The Cars
5. "Ever Fallen In Love" Buzzcocks
4. "What A Fool Believes" The Doobie Brothers
3. "September" Earth, Wind & Fire
2. "Heart of Glass" Blondie
1. "Werewolves of London" Warren Zevon
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100. Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (from You Don't Bring Me Flowers)
https://youtu.be/nXZ6o8GHKE4
Did I mention narcissism in the OP? These two can't get enough of themselves, especially her, and the result is quite possibly the hammiest duet of all time. The lyrics, by Alan and Marilyn Bergman (who also wrote "The Way We Were" and "It Might Be You" from Tootsie) are delightfully insipid: I learned how to laugh and I learned how to cry. Somehow it all works for me though. The guiltiest of pleasures.
wikkidpissah
timschochet said:
good thing I love cheesy music.
gouda4u
ETA: We're living in a society!
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I've got otb_lifer on pager for this one. 1978? You done stepped in it...
99. Bob Seger "Old Time Rock n Roll" (from A Stranger In Town)
https://youtu.be/W1LsRShUPtY
So a lot of folks consider this an all time classic: after all it was written by the legendary George Jackson, it uses the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, it's featured in one of the most iconic movie scenes ever, and it's reportedly Seger's favorite song.
But despite all that I find it kind of boring. I don't hate it (I don't hate any song on this list, obviously). It's fine, it's a good rock song, the piano playing is excellent…but it doesn't really do anything or go anywhere.
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falguy
Inconceivable!
Instant skip for me. I like lots of Seger songs but this is not one of them. I get it being on the list though. It's still played (far too often)
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falguy said:
Agreed. Big fan of most of Seger's work but this song is like nails on the chalkboard for me. I understand it's popular and deserves to be on this list but love that Tim put it at the bottom.
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Uruk-Hai
Oh, Lord
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Nobody still likes that old time rock n' roll, huh?
Doesn't soothe your soul? Make you reminisce about the days of old?
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Gr00vus
It's a clunker.
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whoknew
Like the others who responded, I love Bob Seger but don't like that song. I mean - that's too harsh. I just think its eh.
Tom Hagen
It's my least favorite Seger song and I always thought that was a really unpopular opinion until today.
98. Andrew Gold "Thank You For Being a Friend" (from All This and Heaven Too")
https://youtu.be/voNEgCKzves
Like the last song, here is a tune that became more famous when it was used in another medium- in this case as the theme song for a long running TV show. But the original version by Andrew Gold is a pretty catchy, though not spectacular, AM radio pop song.
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Parrothead
Love Bob Seger, but this song to me is overplayed, bad wedding reception music.. i picture fat bridesmaids and drunkles on the fake wood dance floor at the Holiday Inn ballroom..
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Parrothead said:
It's all Tom Cruise's fault. Most things are when you think about it.
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97. Barry Manilow "Copacabana" (from Even Now)
https://youtu.be/toV8Lb9h0Vs
Did I mention that this list was going to have some very cheesy songs on it? This one might be top of that class. The melody is an earwig; once heard it can't be unheard. And yet it's a great melody. And the story is so dramatic: At the Copa…don't fall in love!
1. Kudos to any of you who watches the entire video I linked. It's a special kind of horrifying.
2. Special shout-out to the punk rock band The Vandals, who a few years later performed one of the most utterly tasteless, yet totally hilarious parodies of all time, "Dachau Cabana":
His name was Helmut, he wore a Brown Shirt, but that was 40 years ago, when the Nazis ran the show!
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Mr. Mojo
I liked a lot of Manilow's first hits - Mandy, Weekend In New England, etc.
Then Copacabana came out and it all seemed to turn to cheese. :X
Bracie Smathers
I still haven't gotten around to the next-100 from 1969 because I'm having computer issues.
Ordered a new one and it should be in next week so...
Joe Schmo
Bracie Smathers said:
Please make this year a priority...
No longer care enough to count the number of Peter Gabriel, PFunk, Tom Waits & Television songs will sit on the sidelines so Lola can be a showgirl and Golden Girls can have a theme song.
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wikkidpissah said:
A strumpet from the frozen tundra better pay her holiday greetings or there will be riots in here!
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Joe Schmo said:
that might actually make it in now that we've reminded him
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please let there be a god
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more war on Christmas
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96. The Cars "Good Times Roll" (from The Cars)
https://youtu.be/Zj-b3fWrY3w
Love the intro on the video: "Ladies and gentlemen, recording artists from Boston…THE CAHHS!"
This is one of the few songs Ric Ocasik chose to sing on the debut album. He wrote all of them, but didn't take the vocals. Great sound quality on all of this music.
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Leroy Hoard
But on the bright side we are getting a sneak peak at what is playing in the waiting room in Hell.
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Binky The Doormat
reaction.
Binky The Doormat said:
frozen strumpet reaction to Bink
ETA: does Sara Lee still make frozen strumpets? useta love them backinday, donchaknow
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Seems like you've fallen in love with some songs you shouldn't have fallen in love with.
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You could actually do an all-Clinton countdown for 1978. Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy, and several spin-offs all put out their best LPs in 1978.
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Dr. Octopus
Yeah no offense tim but this list is dreadful.
Gr00vus said:
thank you for being a friend...
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Dr. Octopus said:
Thank you for being a friend!
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95. Warren Zevon "Johnny Strikes Up the Band" (from Excitable Boy)
https://youtu.be/kr0zWFKz4QE
Warren Zevon's second album Excitable Boy was one the great masterpieces of 1978 (or any other year for that matter), filled with one classic tune after another. "Johnny Strikes Up the Band" is one of Zevon's best ever rockers.
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Odd, that song popped into my head a few days ago and I can't get it out.
Love this tune.
Sorry for the harsh "tone" and I'm sure the list gets better but let's face it - if that song didn't end up being covered for the Golden Girls, I'm not sure anyone ever hears it again, thankfully.
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worrierking
I was hoping you'd include some Zevon. My favorite of all-time.
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Sure. It's going to take a lot of love to make it through this list.
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HellToupee
there are 9 songs on the album and Ocasek sings lead on 5 of them
Side 2 is one of my favorite album sides of any album
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HellToupee said:
Your facts are correct, my bad. I was focusing on the hits.
Only reason I knew that is I'm a big fan of Ben Orr
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I never understood why this was a staple at wedding receptions. It usually cleared the dance floor except that one older couple that acted like this song was the only reason they attended the wedding.
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I enjoy these threads, Tim. But you should be permanently banned for this start.
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FairWarning
shuke said:
Played this at weddings for years. It had to be played early in the reception.
Let him finish the list first.
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94. Sweet "Love Is Like Oxygen" (from Level Headed)
https://youtu.be/zRgWvvkSvfk
Throughout the 1970s, Sweet had one great single after another, including this one, but none of their albums are anything special. I've tried. Since I'm a fan of their singles I figured that surely there are some hidden gems out there, forgotten catchy tunes that I would enjoy as well and could add to one of my playlists: There aren't. At least I haven't heard it: Each of the albums I've sampled, including this one, contains that one memorable song- and then blah.
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I remember when…you couldn't wait to love me, used to hate to leave me.
The 100 Greatest Songs of 1977 #1. Come Sail Away
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In the late 1970s, married couple David and Susan Fleck, vacationing in a hotel near New York City, adopt two kittens. The kittens, which seem similar to domestic cats, are also capable of speech. At first, the kittens talk a bit about food, play, and a litter box. Susan and David's three children, three-year-old twins David and Beth and seven-year-old John Paul, all seem to dislike the kittens, and as a result David and Susan get rid of the kittens. When Beth asks David why he killed them, he replies "I don't like them."
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Think-tanks, conferences and more hot air
By Omar R Quraishi Published: December 21, 2010
Are academics and thinkers too far removed from actual people?
As a reporter for Dawn in the mid-to-late 1990s, one of the first beats assigned to me was to cover seminars on various issues in the city of Karachi.
At first this seemed like an interesting proposition but over time it became a drag – not least because on ended up seeing the same people all the time, discussing the same things over and over again, and giving the same solutions over and over again.
Surely, they didn't need to hold yet another conference on this issue, one would say to oneself, given that the issue had already been done to death and the recommendations were known to all and sundry. Eventually it all came down to an exchange – and quite boring at that – of hot air.
This week as I attend a reasonably high-powered three-day conference in Islamabad on a grand-sounding topic like "Peace and Sustainable Development: The way forward" (organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute), I thought about this issue again.
Learning about the forgotten few
There were three sessions today and the yardstick of one of these events (or reading a new paper or listening to a lecture) is whether one learnt anything new. To that effect, I could safely say that the one person from whom I did learn something was founder and co-director of Kali for Women (India's first feminist publishing house) Urvashi Butalia who told the audience of the neglected world of oral histories of those living on the margins. In this regard she gave the instructive example of a Dalit sweeper in a village in Indian Punjab who said that her family escaped the ravages of Partition violence becuase it was against Sikhs and Hindus and Muslims and since she was a Harijan she and her family were not affected by it. Ms Butalia said that this was an example of how historiography tended to ignore the voices of those living on the margins, such as this Dalit sweeper.
Producing prejudice through the media
The other notable speaker — as measured by what he said — during the day was Ahmed Salim of the SDPI who said that the print media, especially the Urdu press, was one of the chief makers of bias against the minorities in Pakistan. He cited several examples of how Urdu newspapers still used derogatory terms like 'choora' against the minorities and suggested a useful set of recommendations for the print and electronic media to follow. Important among these was a suggestion that they give at least equal coverage to issues of minorities and give them — as a group or community — a voice equal to that of the majority in Pakistani society.
Think-tanks lack thought
The last session was supposed to be for brain-storming on how to make think-tanks more effective — and was by invitation only (many thanks to SDPI head Abid Qayyum Suleri for inviting a non-think-tanker to this) — but it turned out to be more of brain-deadening one. I suspect that since some of the donors were sitting in the room, the discussion was quite staid and boring and to an outsider it seemed as if they could have done with some outside/external views.
For instance, the quite obvious issue of the general public (and in turn potentially the government) not see recommendations by these think-tanks as indigenous enough because they are too too donor-driven was hardly addressed.
One of the donors, who had come from a Canadian-funded organisation based in New Delhi did say quite unequivocally that his organisation did not take into account the aims and objectives or agenda of the organisation to whom funds would be given, but then again what would one expect a donor to say at such a forum?
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Considering the number of these affairs that take place and the costs involved I think you have made a fair argument.
One aspect left out is that these events give an opportunity for people to meet and exchange business cards and a lot just come for the lunch.Recommend


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This project is a means to maintain a collection in a centralized location
and allow client components to fetch the items in the collection.


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Q: How can I perform a fetch call in a Node.js app with a Java/Spring Boot function as the url? I'm completely new to Node and Spring Boot and am having a difficult time performing a fetch call in my Node.js app. The overall structure of the project is a React front-end with a Java/Spring Boot back-end and Gradle. I'm trying to create a service that automatically runs in the background that the user will never interact with or even know of its existence.
I'm using Google BigQuery for this task and am running some simple SQL queries using the Node.js client library that Google provides. My issue is that after pulling in my data from BigQuery, I want to take that information and perform a POST call using fetch. However, this requires a Java function to make use of this external service I'm trying to trigger with my POST call and when I try running node GetBigQuery.mjs in my terminal I get an error message:
TypeError: Failed to parse URL from /api/delayorders
[cause]: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_URL]: Invalid URL
input: '/api/delayorders', code: 'ERR_INVALID_URL'
I'm not using node-fetch, axios, or any external library to make the POST request as I'm running node 18.8.0 that comes built-in with fetch.
Three main files in total:
BigQuery.js
Includes boilerplate code copied and pasted from Google's documentation.

GetBigQuery.mjs
// There is more code above and below but it's not
// necessary in order to understand my question

value.forEach(element => {
    fetch("/api/delayorders", {
        method: "POST",
        body: JSON.stringify({
            "orderIds": element.OrderReferenceId,
            "date": tomorrow,
            "time": "12:00",
            "minutesFromUTC": new Date().getTimezoneOffset(),
            "buCode": element.StoreNo,
        }),
        headers: {
            "Content-Type": "application/json",
        }
    }).then(response => {
        console.log(response);
    })
})

Delay.java
import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.extern.log4j.Log4j2;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;

@Log4j2
@RestController
@AllArgsConstructor
@RequestMapping("api")

public class Delay {

    @Getter
    private final OrderDelayService orderDelayService;

    @PostMapping("/delayorders")
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.OK)
    public String delayOrders(@RequestBody OrderDelayDto orderDelayDto) throws Exception {
        orderDelayService.delayOrders(orderDelayDto.getOrderIds(), orderDelayDto.getDate(), orderDelayDto.getTime(), orderDelayDto.getMinutesFromUTC(), orderDelayDto.getBuCode());
    return "OK";
    }
}

A: When you make an HTTP request in a browser, you can use a relative URL. The absolute URL will be computed using the URL of the HTML document as the base URL.
So if you had an HTML document at http://example.com/ and make an HTTP request to /foo then the request would go to http://example.com/foo.
When your code is running in Node.js, there is no HTML document. There is no base URL. There is no automatic conversion of a relative URL to an absolute one.
You need to use an absolute URL. (Or a mechanism that supports relative URLs and lets you specify the base URL).


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Charlie pushes the bar door open and crosses the threshold, her eyes scan the room. A run down place in an even more rundown part of town.
The bar doesn't suddenly go quiet, this aint some two bit western, they're used to strangers here, and used to people going missing too.
The bartender beckons Charlie over. "Whaddya drinkin?"
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Gunton var en civil parish fram till 1935 när den uppgick i civil parish Hanworth, i grevskapet Norfolk i England. Civil parish var belägen 8 km från Cromer och hade  invånare år 1931. Byn nämndes i Domedagsboken (Domesday Book) år 1086, och kallades då Gunetune.

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Tidigare civil parishes i Norfolk
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