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Q: Delete 5 messages if two users have sent 6 messages to each other I want to delete 5 messages in Ascending order from the table if any user has sent 6 messages to other user and show the 6th message. For example if Tapy has sent 6 messages to Nomi than first 5 messages will be deleted in ascending order and 6th message will be shown.
I have counted number of messages sent but can't find out the way to delete first 5 messages.
Table name :

*

*t_chat_msg
The fields in the database are:

*

*chat_msg_id

*message

*from_user_email

*to_user_email

*timestamp

Here is the model
function deletemessages($data)
{
 $this->db->select('message as receiver,timestamp');
    $this->db->from('t_chat_msg');
    $this->db->where('from_user_email', $data['fromuser']);
    $this->db->where('to_user_email', $data['touser']);
    $this->db->order_by("timestamp", "asc");
    $num=$this->db->count_all_results();
    return $num;
}

Here is the controller
 public function deletemessage()
{
    $data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'));

    $touser = $data->{'touser'};
    $fromuser = $data->{'fromuser'};
    $data = array('touser' => $touser,
                  'fromuser' =>$fromuser);
    $status=$this->um->deletemessage($data);
    echo json_encode($status);
}

A: To get how much messages in total one user have sent to another use query
 SELECT COUNT(*) AS K FROM t_chat_msg WHERE touser='$touser' AND fromuser='$fromuser'

Then you have a total number of messages, you can delete old one leaving desired amount of messages using query
DELETE FROM t_chat_msg ORDER BY timestamp ASC LIMIT $limit

IF PUT EVERYTHING TO FUNCTION
// $amt - amount of messages to keep
// $fromuser - message sender
// $touser - message recipient
function delete_old($amt,$fromuser,$touser)
{
   $ma=mysqli_fetch_assoc(mysqli_query($db,"SELECT COUNT(*) AS K FROM t_chat_msg WHERE touser='$touser' AND fromuser='$fromuser'"));
   $limit=$ma['K']-$amt;
   mysqli_query($db,"DELETE FROM t_chat_msg ORDER BY timestamp ASC LIMIT $limit");
}

For codeigniter should work something like this
// $amt - amount of messages to keep
// $fromuser - message sender
// $touser - message recipient
function delete_old($amt,$fromuser,$touser)
{
    $limit=$this->db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t_chat_msg WHERE touser='$touser' AND fromuser='$fromuser'")->row()-$amt;
    $this->db->query("DELETE FROM t_chat_msg ORDER BY timestamp ASC LIMIT $limit");
}

I don't use it, but based on this it should work properly.


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Teen motorcyclist collides with AVTA Bus
by The AV Times Staff • November 13, 2012
LANCASTER – An 18-year-old motorcycle rider sustained serious injury Tuesday (Nov. 13) after hitting the rear left side of a stationary Antelope Valley Transit Authority bus, AVTA officials said.
The collision happened around 1:30 p.m. on Rancho Vista Boulevard, near 15th Street West in Palmdale.
The AVTA bus was pulled over to the curb and passengers were disembarking when the collision occurred. Twelve passengers were on board the bus, but none sustained injury, AVTA officials said.
Sheriff's deputies report the motorcycle rider, whose name was not released, sustained serious injury to his leg. He was taken by ambulance to Antelope Valley Hospital for treatment
"Our prayers go out to the family of this young man who was seriously injured today," said AVTA Executive Director Julie Austin in a statement. "We are very sad that such a traumatic incident has befallen this young person and we hope for a quick recovery."
The collision remains under investigation by the Sheriff's Department.
9 comments for "Teen motorcyclist collides with AVTA Bus"
tyler says
i was driving west on ave p ( rancho vista) when this occured, heard the pop, looked over and saw all this happening. blocked the turning lane to go south, on 15th ran to his side and waited for police or help of any kind to get there. wish i could of done more, i did kneel down and pray with him while he was layin there. my prayers will continue to be with him and his family
Saw this right after they took him away..I'm a long tome rider and still can't figure how he hit that thing…
Concered says
Wasn't paying attention!!
dumbandblind says
Always the truth gets down voted. Cheers.
That question is best answered by the one hospitalized.
[Removed] motorcyclist they drive very recklessly and they have no respect.
First lumping all motorcyclists into one mold is wrong! Not every rider has no respect for the road or others. Furthermore I was under the understanding that attacking any one type of person on this site was not permitted. Some drivers (of cars) have no respect either!! I can no count how man times I have been cut off or beliggerantly yelled at by drivers with no concern for anyone but themselves and how quickly they et to their destination.
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Only a person with an IQ on the low end of the scale would make an uninformed, ignorant statement like that. You no doubt refer to motorcycles as 'murdercycles', and think all riders are hell's angels; TSK, TSK.
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I could say the same thing about people who use the handle "Valerie" with equal validity.


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Reset and Restore Our Relationship with Nature
2022-12-21 Source: newsgd.com Editor: Eastbrook
By Wu Changhua
Chinese presidency of COP15 for Biodiversity delivered a landmark deal – Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for 2030. Ambitious and historic, the Framework is expected to help recover and reset our relationship with nature, rebuild the integrity, connectivity and resilience of ecosystems and biodiversity, and reform current policies and subsidies that harm lives in nature. And all those targets, when delivered, shall ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities are respected and protected.
Huang Runqiu (C), COP15 president and China's minister of ecology and environment, speaks during a press conference in Montreal, Canada, on Dec. 17, 2022. (Xinhua/Ren Pengfei)
As an observer and current affairs commentator of the whole process, I want to highlight four of my key takeaways.
Four Takeaways
The first is that we now have the global consensus of drawing the planetary boundary and shrinking our footprints for long-term human survival. Collectively, the 190 nations to the Convention of Biological Conservation (CBD) have enshrined the popularly known 30*30 target, by committing to protect at least 30% of land, inland water, and coastal and marine areas of important biodiversity and ecosystems by 2030.
Also regarded as the "Paris moment for biodiversity", when the 1.5C° warming goal became the lighthouse to guide the global community to organize and accelerate the clean energy transition, the biodiversity target provides the biggest lever for the implementation of the new Framework when national governments can set steps and mobilize resources towards delivering a shared target.
The second is that we have learned many lessons from the previous decade's experience under the Aichi Targets (2010) which had been mostly coined as failures, and the new Framework has embraced right-based, integrated, and systemic approaches, with ambitious targets to be aligned with corresponding means of implementation, especially finance, to be mobilized to support the delivery of the committed targets.
Though never adequate and with gaps remaining, the current financial commitments showcase a pathway of doubling by 2025 and tripling by 2030 for developed nations to pay biodiversity-rich developing nations to protect and restore nature; and in a broader financing nature agenda, globally, nations are committed to address the $700 billion per year, including raising $200 billion from all possible sources every year and turning $500 billion environmentally-harmful subsidies into nature positive solutions.
The third is deepening knowledge, especially the indigenous knowledge that safeguards 80% of global biodiversity today, data and information of not only the health of nature, but also the root causes for the unprecedented acceleration of the loss of nature. Such knowledge has been well-built into the global governance for biodiversity and has supported successful outcomes. The five identified culprits – change of use in land and ocean, overexploitation, climate change, pollution and waste, as well as invasive alien species – are literally "guiding" the what's and the how's of actions and solutions in the Framework.
Those targets will substantially and significantly impact how we farm and what we eat, how we will fish and harvest wildlife for food, how we plan and develop our cities and infrastructure, as well as how to ensure just, fairness and equity in not only utilizing genetic resources but generally when deploying biotechnology that benefits human wellbeing.
And the fourth is the leadership role and contribution of China in global environmental governance. Chinese President Xi Jinping's video remarks to the opening of the second week's high-level sessions is regarded as a "booster shot" for the final race of the journey and assured representatives from all countries of the strongest political will and solidarity. China's leadership is well-recognized by all parties in brokering the deal and ensuring its success.
Now humanity stands at the juncture of a new trajectory that will halt and reverse loss of nature, ensure sustainable use of biological resources plus a fair and equitable share of the benefits arising from utilization of genetic resources, and will transform how we produce and consume.
Embedding conservation everywhere at national level:
Not surprisingly, China has also been recognized for its ambitious actions and outcomes in protecting nature. Signing up to the CBD in 1992 has led to a transformative journey of three decades in protecting, conserving, and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity. A case was made "on the spot" when the Shan-Shui Initiative of China became one of the ten inaugural UN Ecosystems Restoration Flagships announced during the COP15 Summit.
A typical nature restoration endeavor in an integrated and systemic manner to scale, the Initiative, started in 2016, showcases a nation-wide ambition and effort to restore 10 million ha of nature spaces, including forests, grasslands, wetlands and waterways. Between 2021 and 2030, China aims to complete 50 such projects stretching 700 counties to achieve large-scale projection and restoration of entire ecosystems, to benefit an estimated 70 million households, or 200 million people.
Like many other countries around the world, China's pathway to protect nature "matches" and "manifests" the global governance process. And the country has demonstrated an impressive track record in delivering globally committed biodiversity targets. One example is expanding protected land areas. China is one of the very few countries that has achieved protection of more than 17% of its land area in the last decade. And another is bringing back some species gravely endangered and on extinction list, such as the Giant Panda, Asian Elephants, Tibetan Antilopes, Hainan Gibbons, and ibis among others through habitat protection, as well as investing in R&D and biotechnological solutions.
Very importantly, through CBD's implementation, the government and its people have developed a national integrated strategy of combining the in-situ and ex-situ conservation, setting goals and targets, providing legal and regulatory foundation, offering incentives, developing and implementing plans and actions that embed protection of nature across all policy making and development planning that cover all imaginable sectors and corners.
Three China Highlights
First, ecological civilization has been solidly enshrined in both the Constitution of the CPC and the Chinese Constitution. It's a fundamental shift in the worldview of relationship between man and nature. Just as President Xi said last year at the Climate Leadership Summit, "we need to follow the innate laws of the ecosystems and properly balance all elements and aspects of nature. This is a way that may take us where we want to be, an ecosystem in sound circulation and overall balance."
There are three core, but integrated, elements in the framework of ecological civilization – ecological boundaries or redlines (first proposed in 2011); pricing natural capital; and ecological compensation, or payment transfer from developed regions to less developed regions. Sounds familiar? They are well built in the new global Framework now.
Second, addressing root causes, just like those five identified as major threats globally, has become focus on national strategy. For example, "shrinking" ecological footprints has been a major agenda in the last decade. Today, a third of the country's land is off-limits to development under the redline protection. And the establishment of national parks and the restoration of ecosystems have now helped bring its total area under protection to more than 30% of its territory.
Another example is the 10-year Fishing Ban along the Yangtze River 2021-2030. The purpose is clear and simple – to recover and restore biodiversity along the country's longest river and healthy functions and services of the watershed ecosystems. In 2020, Chinese law makers adopted the country's first law specifically designated to protect one river and its watershed – the Yangtze River Protection Law.
And third, China champions to align nature protection with other UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Not only an emphasis on the nexus of nature-food-water-climate change, but also poverty alleviation, elimination of hunger and sanitation, the policy makers are also using them as a key vehicle to transition and transform production and consumption. China has been recognized as a global champion to achieve the 2030 SDG of extreme poverty alleviation 10 years ahead of target.
China's learning is increasingly shared with the global community, particularly through the COP14 presidency in the last few years. But China's task and dedications do not end at Montreal, rather it marshals a beginning of a new journey of implementation. The financial commitments of $233 million to set up the Kunming Biodiversity Fund represents how China is taking on, voluntarily, more obligation to working with other developing countries and collectively achieve substantial outcomes this decade to reverse the decline of nature for the sake of our own existence on the Mother Earth, collectively.
Wu Changhua is a specialist and policy analyst of China's sustainability. She is Asia Director of Office of Jeremy Rifkin and non-resident senior fellow of Center for China and Globalization (CCG).
(If you want to contribute and have specific expertise, please contact us at newsguangdong@sina.com.)


dcolpitts September 7, 2012 Doing Something that Matters2015-10-14T15:16:05+00:00 Did You Know?
Sometimes an experience happens that truly reinforces the value of what one does. This week I had such an experience in Middle School.
Several years ago, our eighth-grade off-campus trip received an overhaul! Our much-loved "School in the Mountains" was replaced with a trip to a Global Village in Maryland and Washington, D.C. The reasons were several, but paramount was to provide an experience that better aligns with our mission of preparing students to thrive in a complex and inter-dependent world. At about the same time, the eighth-grade project evolved into our current "Ravens in Action" effort, in which students research contemporary issues.
This Wednesday, Zoe Johnson '16 shared the story of the work she and her brother, Jake '17, began this summer to create Food4KidsNC, which grew to Food4 KidsUSA, an effort that seeks to help eradicate hunger in North Carolina and the United States. Zoe shared a compelling story of how her experiences in eighth grade, on the trip, engaging in research about world hunger, and how hearing alumni speaker Krissi Fajgenbaum '11 speak of her work with Teens2Teens, prompted her to do something that matters. And she did! Food4KidsNC has earned over $11,000 for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. Zoe inspired our current eighth graders to make the most of their experience next week, something we can be confident they will do.
We remind ourselves as educators that the journey counts as much as the outcome. Having the fortune to see both coming to fruition in two of our young charges is a powerful experience.
View Zoe's PowerPoint presentation. (This file make take a few moments to load).


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Jacque, Charles Emile (1813-1894)
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Charles Emile Jacque.
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Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904 (Collector)
Jacque, Charles Emile (1813-1894) (Etcher)
Date Created: 1845 - 1846
Date Created: 1845
Shelf locator: MEZAC
Content: Title and dates from L'Oeuvre de Ch. Jacque catalogue de ses eaux-fortes et pointes sèches / dressé par J.J. Guiffrey.
Content: Holdings checked in departmental copy of L'Oeuvre de Ch. Jacque catalogue de ses eaux-fortes et pointes sèches / dressé par J.J. Guiffrey.
Content: Forms part of Etchings and drypoints by Charles Jacque in Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.
Ownership: Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900. G65 & G75 bear the collector's mark of F. Masson (Lugt 1031); G69 & G70 bear the collector's mark of A. Moreau (Lugt 1900).
Content: "A. Ribera, 1621" at lower right.
Citation/reference: G55(II/[III], counterproof)
Extent: Counterproof ; state noted with standard reference number.
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Luke Gartlan is the Director of the History of Photography programme in the School of Art History. He is the author of A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography (Brill, 2016), which received the Josef Kreiner Award for International Japanese Studies from Hosei University, Tokyo, and has co-edited two books: with Ali Behdad, Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation (Getty Research Institute, 2013) and, with Roberta Wue, Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan (Routledge, 2017). Since 2013, he has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed international quarterly History of Photography.
Luke teaches nineteenth-century visual culture, with an emphasis on photography, cultural exchange, and empire in nineteenth-century art, especially with reference to the camera's role in colonial-era visual culture, histories of travel and exploration, and non-Western responses to photography. He is also engaged in research on Japanese modern visual culture and Japanese-European artistic interactions, as well as the visual cultures of the Habsburg and British empires.
Luke received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2004. He subsequently taught at the University of Sydney and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Vienna and Nihon University, Tokyo, before arriving at St Andrews in 2007. He has held fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Australian National University, the National Library of Australia, and the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, among others, and is regularly invited to speak at international research centres around the world.
At present, Luke offers the modules 'Orientalism and Visual Culture' (AH4148), 'Histories of Photography, 1835-1905' (AH4166), 'St Andrews Photography Collections' (AH5140), 'Imperial Lens: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Asian Photography' (AH5141), and 'Issues in Photographic Criticism' (AH5146). He welcomes enquiries from potential students interested in pursuing postgraduate research related to his fields of expertise to contact him directly at the above email address.
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India on 11 October 2015 won the four-match Men's Hockey Test series against New Zealand 2-1. In the final test played at Christchurch, India through its brilliant play held the hosts to a 1-1 draw.
After witnessing no goals in the first half, one each goal was scored from both the sides. From New Zealand, Nick Ross scored the first goal in the 41st minute which was matched by SV Sunil of India in the 43rd minute of the match.
After losing the first match of the series in Nelson against the hosts, India came back strongly to register back-to-back wins in the last two games.


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Q: Retrieve XML files, parse the data and print it off I am new to python and have been struggling with this task for quite a while. I have an input file with three URL's listed inside. I am wanting to fetch the XML document at the URL using requests and log an INFO message as I attempt to retrieve the URL and include the value as part of the message.
Here is the input file URL's
http://kitty.ninja/file1.xml
http://kitty.ninja/badurl.xml
http://kitty.ninja/file3.xml

And here is my code so far, I keep finishing with exit code:
import logging
import requests
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
r = requests.get('http://kitty.ninja/file1.xml')
print("Now attempting to get data at:", ('http://kitty.ninja/file1.xml'))
if r.status_code == 200:
  print("200 - Successfully retrieved:", ('http://kitty.ninja/file1.xml'))
  tree = ET.fromstring("hw8-input")
  root = tree.getroot()
  for customer in root.findall('customer'):
      name = customer.find('name').text
      checking_account = customer.find("checking_account").text
      try:
          savings_account = customer.find('savings_account').text
      except AttributeError:
          savings_account = "None"
      print(name, "Checking Account:", checking_account, "Savings Account:", savings_account)
elif r.status_code == 404:
  print("Resource not found")

A: You should use a different, more effective (IMHO) library. I simplified the code a bit:
from lxml import etree
root = etree.fromstring(r.content)

From there the code is the same as in your question.
However, since this is an xml file, you are better off (again, IMHO) using xpath methods instead. It may not look like it makes much of a difference in this case, but where the xml gets seriously complicated (and it frequently does), xpath is far superior. The xpath methods would look like this (I replaced the try/except block with an if/else block, but it's just a personal preference):
for customer in root.xpath('//customer'):
    checking_account = customer.xpath("./checking_account")[0].text
    if len(customer.xpath('./savings_account'))>0:
        savings_account = customer.xpath('./savings_account')[0].text
    else:
        savings_account = "None"
    name = customer.xpath('./name')[0].text
    print(name, "Checking Account:", checking_account, "Savings Account:", savings_account)

In either case, the output is the same:
Susan Stone Checking Account: 465498435 Savings Account: None
Roger Roman Checking Account: 165498165 Savings Account: 64565435
Gary Grooman Checking Account: 654846546 Savings Account: None
Janet Jones Checking Account: 954387383 Savings Account: None
Nancy Noons Checking Account: 684981651 Savings Account: 5645648465

A: @Jack Fleeting is right. Here is another solution for your reference.
from simplified_scrapy import SimplifiedDoc,req,utils
url = 'http://kitty.ninja/file1.xml'
html = req.get(url)
doc = SimplifiedDoc(html)
for customer in doc.customers:
  print(customer.id.text,customer.name.text,customer.savings_account.text,customer.checking_accounts.text)

Result:
12 Susan Stone None ['465498435']
34 Roger Roman 64565435 ['165498165', '654684321']
56 Gary Grooman None ['654846546']
78 Janet Jones None ['954387383']
91 Nancy Noons 5645648465 ['684981651']

Here are more examples. https://github.com/yiyedata/simplified-scrapy-demo/blob/master/doc_examples

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Facebook netizen Krizette Laureta Chu, took to the popular social media site recently to correct a statement released by Bloomberg.
Chu said how this is not true because Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte does not even have his own Facebook account.
She added that there is no way that Facebok could be Duterte's weapon because even Duterte supporters in Facebook are also fighting amongst each other.
She also went on to list other reasons, like the President's Communications officer being incompetent, and the President not having a command center for Facebook trolls.
Ending her post, Chu calls on Bloomberg to fact check their statement and release the truth.
"Duterte turned Facebook into a weapon." Says Bloomberg, upon interviewing Ressa.
Duterte, who doesn't have a personal Facebook account. Unlike the VP, who habitually blocks dissenters.
Duterte, whose own followers are infighting and even more vicious to each other than they are to the opposition.
Duterte, whose Secretary of Communications, is not very communicative nor effective and is not even followed by a large number of people.
Duterte, who has no command center for Facebook trolls. How easy would it be for LP to outbid a poor Facebook "troll" and get him to admit he works for Duterte or Andanar, the Secretary of Communications? No witnesses, because everything is a figment of Ressa's imagination.
Duterte, who controls Facebook so much his own supporters get blocked, reported, and kicked out of Facebook.
Bloomberg, MSNBC, fact check, anyone?
Meanwhile, your resource person is one of the most discredited, most unbelievable, most biased sources of news in the Philippines.
Mark Zuckerberg, FB has helped those who otherwise have no access to a platform spread the truth, fundraise for calamities and tragedies, helped find missing people, unite families, inspire and motivate those who need it.
Maria Ressa, not so much.


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Politics U.S. Wire
Watch the exact moment climate-obsessed Warren realizes she's been caught exiting private jet
By Jared Harris, The Western Journal
Published February 9, 2020 at 9:28am
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be campaigning for the White House on a platform that includes environmental justice, but all it takes to undo that carefully crafted image is one look at her travel habits.
Judging by how Warren responds to cameras capturing her environmentally destructive ways, it appears as though she's completely aware of this fact.
Warren, fresh from a third-place showing in the Iowa Democratic Caucus, appeared to hide after she noticed a camera filming her disembarking a private jet.
After spying the camera, the Massachusetts senator quickly ducked behind an aide, avoiding the camera lens for the rest of the long walk off the tarmac.
Watch the video below to see Warren's reaction.
The best part of this video is that after Elizabeth Warren realizes she's been caught on camera exiting a private jet.
She attempts to hide behind her staffer. As if that would work. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/WVtCOaVphK
— Francis Brennan (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@FrancisBrennan) February 4, 2020
This video completely destroys Warren's climate-conscious image.
The presidential candidate is so eager to gobble up the environmental-justice vote that she actually proposed a ban on new buildings that are not carbon-neutral.
There's nothing that screams "2020 elitist" more than a presidential candidate threatening the construction industry because of climate change, yet refusing to take a bus to save the planet.
It looks like Warren knows this, too.
Of course, this isn't Warren's first brush with environmental hypocrisy.
Despite being a vocal opponent of gas and energy companies, the Massachusetts senator was found to be receiving royalties from one of the largest natural-gas producers in the world.
Anyone with a bit of knowledge about Warren surely realizes these hypocritical positions and half-truths are a staple of the presidential hopeful.
After all, wasn't it Warren who went through most of her adult life attempting to convince people (and employers) that she was a Native American?
We shouldn't be shocked by Warren's use of a private jet.
Presidential candidates need to be in many places in a short span of time, something that is exceedingly difficult with land transportation alone.
However, Warren's embarrassing attempt to hide behind one of her own aides shows that not only is she still trying to pull the wool over Americans' eyes, she actually believes she's succeeding at it.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Jared Harris, The Western Journal
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Do-It-Yourself Visa: You don't need to pay someone to obtain your eVisa on your behalf. It is a relatively straight-forward process with an online application form, but make sure you go through the official Indian Government website.
Beware of Fake Websites: As mentioned above, there are a large number of fake "Indian Government" websites out there who will charge you an exorbitant amount of money for your 'visa' which may not be valid. Plus, you have revealed a fair amount of personal and important data to a complete stranger and a full-time scammer. Not a good idea.
Be dazzled by the colour of India.
Allow some time to complete the application: While the online application process is pretty straight forward, it is detailed. They even want to know where your parents were born etc. and if you are in an older age bracket, that may take some research! You can partially complete the form, save it and then go back later once you have gathered all the relevant information.
Cost: A standard 60-day eVisa for tourists with a double entry should cost around $AUD120. That is what I paid back in October 2018. Again, beware of scammers charging much more or much less. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Timing: When you complete the online application form and pay the fee, they state that authorisation could take at least three days. Each time I have applied for an eVisa, I have received authorisation the same day or the next day. While this is fabulous service and I was suitably impressed, you have to be careful that you don't apply too far in advance. The authorisation to enter starts from the authorisation date and you are only given four months from that date for your first arrival. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be too organised!
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Classification (SAARC): Prior to completing this application, I had never head of SAARC and this question had me stumped. The question wants to know if you have visited SAARC countries in the last three years. SAARC is "the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of nations in South Asia. Its member states include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The organization promotes development of economic and regional integration". (Source: Wikipedia).
Entry to India: Tourist eVisas are accepted at 28 eVisa designated airports throughout India, but still allow plenty of time to be processed through Immigration. Even though your eVisa is bar-coded and includes your photograph, it is still processed manually. At Delhi airport this is an incredibly slow process and involved queuing for around 40 minutes, more photographs, finger-printing scans and stamping of passports.
Allow plenty of time to connect to other flights or transport. Even though we moved quickly through the airport, we still got caught in a long, slow queue and by the time we got to collect our luggage, the area was deserted and our suitcases waited forlornly on their lonesome.
Read the Fine Print: From the time of applying for an eVisa in mid-2017 and then again in late-2018, the rules had changed. Initially you only had to print the confirmation email and present that on check in at Sydney airport and on arrival in India. Now, once you receive the confirmation email you must log back into the eVisa website, enter the authorisation number and print out a whole new eVisa document that includes your photo, barcode and QR code.
I wasn't aware of these changes and it did cause a bit of stress on our recent departure from Sydney. The Singapore Airlines staff were lovely and incredibly patient as I ran around like a mad thing to find somewhere in Sydney International Airport (the Post Office shop) that had access to a computer, the internet and a printer! Phew!
I'm sorry if I have made this sound bit more complicated and dramatic than it actually is, but I just wanted to give you a heads up about a few of the hoops you need to jump through.
Enjoy India. It is the most stunning, colourful, overwhelming and loud country!
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The Thumb control can be included in another control, such as a ScrollBar or Slider control, to let the user change the control's value. The Thumb can also be used to resize controls. For example, a Thumb control in the corner of a window can provide a location for the user to click with the mouse to start a resize operation.
Thumb provides DragStarted, DragCompleted and DragDelta events to manage drag operations associated with the mouse pointer. When the user presses the left mouse button, the Thumb control receives logical focus and mouse capture, and the DragStarted event is raised. While the Thumb control has focus and mouse capture, the DragDelta event can be raised multiple times without limit. When the user releases the left mouse button, the Thumb control loses mouse capture and the DragCompleted event is raised.
The event information provides a change in position, but does not reposition the Thumb. You must manually change or reposition the Thumb or any other elements that you want to resize or change as a result of the drag operation. The Thumb control does not provide drag-and-drop functionality.
A Thumb control can receive mouse capture, but cannot receive keyboard focus. Therefore, the IsKeyboardFocused property that corresponds to keyboard focus is set to false. This value overrides the parent class Control that sets this property to true.
To provide drag capability, class handling is provided for the MouseLeftButtonDown, MouseLeftButtonUp and MouseMove events. For more information, see the OnMouseLeftButtonDown, OnMouseLeftButtonUp and OnMouseMove methods.
When a Thumb is part of a Track control that scrolls content in a viewable area, or viewport, the size of the Thumb reflects the size of the viewport. For more information, see the Track class. The following illustration shows a Thumb control that is part of a ScrollBar control.
To apply the same property settings to multiple Thumb controls, use the Style property. You can modify the default ControlTemplate to give the control a unique appearance. For more information about creating a ControlTemplate, see Customizing the Appearance of an Existing Control by Creating a ControlTemplate. To see the parts and states that are specific to the Thumb, see Thumb Styles and Templates.
Initializes a new instance of the Thumb class.
Identifies the DragCompleted routed event.
Identifies the DragDelta routed event.
Identifies the DragStarted routed event.
Identifies the IsDragging dependency property.
Gets whether the Thumb control has logical focus and mouse capture and the left mouse button is pressed.
Cancels a drag operation for the Thumb.
Creates an AutomationPeer for the Thumb control.
Responds to a change in the value of the IsDragging property.
Provides class handling for the MouseLeftButtonDown event.
Occurs when the Thumb control loses mouse capture.
Occurs one or more times as the mouse changes position when a Thumb control has logical focus and mouse capture.
Occurs when a Thumb control receives logical focus and mouse capture.


Here's a step by step guide on how to setup Galera Cluster on a new CentOS 7 server.
After a few hours of research I've came to the conclusion that there are more Ubuntu guides on how to set install and configure a Galera Cluster, so I've decided to write a step by step guide on how to do that on a CentOS 7 server.
Here's a step by step guide on how to setup Galera Cluster on a new CentOS 7 server.
Alright, now we are ready to begin!
Make sure to change the IP addresses to the IP addresses of your machines.
As a side note, according to many sources, a good practice and also to keep a healthy Quorum, it's very important to always keep an odd numbers of Galera nodes.
For completing the cluster configuration on server2 and server3 do not forget to adjust the wsrep_node_address and wsrep_node_name variables. Before doing that you need to stop the MySQL service on both servers.
Once all the nodes are configured, you can start first cluster server.
On a side note if you need to add a new server to the pool, please keep the following in mind. If you're using rsync or mysqldump for SST transfer, bringing up the new nodes will lock the databases on the donor nodes. This could bring down heavily used setups. It would be strongly recommended to add those nodes when the setup is less solicited. Additionally, you may want to set the load balancer to only redirect requests on 2 nodes instead of 3. You would now be able to set the third node as a donor, which means it would be the only node with its DB getting locked and providing the new nodes with the data.


Human resources is an expansive field, including recruiting, training, benefits administration, performance management and more, offering opportunities for employment at all degree levels.
From an entry-level career with an associate's degree to an advanced career in leadership or academia with a MBA or Ph.D., degree-seekers will find the field full of options for a successful career.
Human resources is a growing career, particularly in the analysis and people management sectors. According to SHRM, 35 percent of organizations are adding to their HR analysis wheelhouse, with that number only expected to grow.
There are a variety of degrees available in the human resources field, ranging from a two-year associate's degree to a more advanced Master of Business Administration in Human Resource Management. Depending on how far you want to go in your career, there are education options at every level.
An associate's degree in human resource management will qualify you for an entry-level position as an HR generalist. Generalists usually operate as a jack-of-all-trades, and assist the rest of the HR staff with benefit coordination, training and development, and payroll. In a public or private company, the job title might be HR assistant or assistant recruiter.
A bachelor's degree in human resource management is the most common degree for newly hired HR professionals. This degree takes about four years to complete, and graduates find themselves in roles such as HR generalists, HR manager, benefits manager or other leadership role. Depending on the size of the organization, newly graduated HR professionals may still need to 'work their way up' into higher positions.
During your bachelor's degree coursework, you will learn things like behavioral science, performance management, employee training and development, assessment, training and more. Since this is usually a management degree, there will also be business coursework such as accounting, economics, finance and marketing, along with other general studies coursework.
Organizational Development and Change: Study the fundamentals and theories behind organization development. Learn diagnosis, design, development and analysis of various organizational development issues. Examine what drives change, how organizations change, and how to manage change. Learn the difference between Human Resource Development and Organization Development.
Recruitment Selection and Onboarding: Learn the basics of sourcing new employees, creating training programs and benefits packages in this course designed to help you build an organizational culture that is perfect for your organization.
Strategic Compensation Systems: Learn about the fundamentals of employee compensation and benefits programs. Examine all aspects of compensation plans from initial strategy to setup and ensuring equity and competitiveness as well as rollout plans.
The human resources function has evolved past being known as a support function in the business to a part of the business that has decision-making power. With the new responsibility comes a need for more qualified candidates, and earning a Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a way to set yourself apart as a leader. With a specialization in Human Resource Management, you can use your MBA to really make an impact on your organization.
You will find typical MBA courses like Ethics, Marketing and Strategy, Organizational Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Accounting, Economics, Financial Reporting and more, along with specific human resource management curriculum. These courses may include: Human Behavior, Leading Change, Strategic HR Management and others.
Many of the master's degree programs you can attend 100 percent online, which is great news for the working professional, since you can then balance work, school and any other commitments such as family and health with your education.
Many schools now offer doctoral and Ph.D. programs in Human Resources. These programs are highly regarded and prepare you for an academic career at top institutions. Most major universities have extensive human resource research functions, and you will get the opportunity to partner with and learn from some of the world's best and brightest organizations as you conduct research and surveys both as a student and later, as a professor.
There are a variety of HR certifications out there that will make you more appealing to prospective employers, and some employers are even requiring their HR professionals to hold certain certifications.
The two main certifying bodies are SHRM and HRCI, and they both offer a wealth of certifications for HR professionals. While certification is not often required, it is looking for career advancement in your current role.
A human resources degree differs from a basic business degree in that the emphasis in learning is on the management and engagement of people within an organization. You'll learn about organizational culture, strategic change, forecasting and goal setting and all kinds of forward thinking, people-centric topics, as well as the traditional human resources focused curriculum around benefits, training, recruiting, etc.
Getting started with your degree in human resources is easier than you think. Congratulations – because often the hardest part in getting started with any degree program is knowing which field you want to enter. Since you have already decided on a career in human resources, the rest is easy. Simply choose a degree level and get started in your new career.


Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Thrillers all in one set!
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It is such a pleasure meeting you all! I hope to see some new friends on my Facebook page as well as my Book Bub account where you can get updates when I publish my next books!
Drawing in a breath, I turned the corner at the intersection I had mapped in my head earlier. Really, this was a new beginning for me. I wasn't lying about that.
But find my prince charming? Now that was a tall order. I didn't want the perfect man. I wanted a stable, caring man who knew he was no longer a teenager. I wanted a man who could see the value in me and chase my nightmares away.
I just wanted to feel safe in a man's arms, to trust him so completely that I lost myself and my past in him. I wanted to be happy. Didn't I deserve it? Hadn't I suffered enough?
A sound behind me shook me out of my thoughts and I turned around quickly, my hands on the mace key chain in my pocket. I never went anywhere without it, even when I went running.
There was nothing there, an empty stretch of street behind me.
"You're being ridiculous," I said to myself, scolding myself for even reaching for the mace. There was no one that was going to get me. I was safe here, safe.
I forced my feet to move and soldiered on down the sidewalk, shaking off the goosebumps that had scattered across my skin. My heart pounded against my chest wall, my steps a bit quicker. One more turn and I would be home free.
As I rounded the next corner, a solid wall of muscle smacked against me.
He reached up and brushed a strand of hair away from my face, stealing my breath as he did so.
"Good," he said, his hand drifting down my cheek.
I closed my eyes against the softness of his touch, my entire body shivering from the inside out. Oh, how easy it would be to invite him up to my apartment, to bask in his soft touch all night long. But I knew regret would be between us in the morning, regret that we rushed something special and I didn't want that to happen.
My breath halted at his tender expression, his simple question.
His expression changed, and his hands slid up my arms, leaving goosebumps in their wake. I shivered under his touch and closed my eyes in anticipation, my lips parted softly. I wanted him to kiss me. His lips were soft on mine, so light that I could barely feel them. Even so, my body reacted anyway, the flush spreading from the roots of my hair to my toes.
I felt wonderful— I felt alive.
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L.A. Dealer Sues Over $1.7 Million Blown Benz
Our only-in-L.A. file got a little fatter in June when a Los Angeles exotic-car dealer sued DaimlerChrysler, Mercedes-Benz USA, tuner AMG, and AMG's race shop, HWA GmbH, over a $1.7 million CLK-GTR roadster the dealer says traveled just 10 blocks — hey, nothing lasts forever — before losing oil pressure and expiring. No word on why Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy weren't included in the lawsuit.
One of just five CLK-GTR roadsters ever built, the 612-hp, 6.9-liter V-12 two-seater was purchased in 2003 by Mark Johnston of Grand Prix Motors in Los Angeles and imported into this country under the federal show-and-display waiver that allows low-production special-interest cars into the U.S. for limited street use. Johnston says the car had just eight kilometers on the odo when he received it and only 12 when the oil-pressure light flickered on and the hydraulically shifted gearbox quit working while Johnston was demonstrating the car to a potential buyer. He shut it off, and the car remained parked for more than two years while he began wrangling with the factory over liability.
Johnston says a technician came from HWA, the division of AMG that built 20 CLK-GTR coupes and, later, five roadsters as part of a homologation program for the 1997-98 FIA GT racing season. The techie inspected the car, removed some parts, returned to Germany, and reputedly was never heard from again, Johnston says. Calling the CLK-GTR "the mother of all lemons," Johnston called a press conference to announce his lawsuit.
Mercedes-Benz USA says it had nothing to do with the sale and isn't involved. HWA says it offered to fix the car, which it claims was monkeyed with by a third party in an effort to federalize it for full street use, and that Johnston refused the help. Johnson denies the claim. The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.


Hi ladies~ The last time I visited Bangkok Beauty for the grand opening, I had the chance to explored Me-Nail store too. Me-nail is one of nail art service in Surabaya. I did my nails there before, read my post about Me-Nail Service~ here.
Bangkok Beauty shared the same store with Me-nail. The first floor is for Bangkok Beauty while the second flooe is Me-Nail Training Center and Supplier. I did my nail at their salon at Tunjungan Plaza. But this time I visit their training center.
Me-Nail offers training and nail art supplies for nail art junkies outside there. Here are some pictures from their store.


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using Microsoft.Azure.Management.StreamAnalytics.Models;
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Jace Clayton Revives A Forgotten Voice From New York's Vanguard
Rocio Rodriguez Salceda
Musician Jace Clayton, who also performs under the name DJ /rupture, says he fell in love with the work of little-known composer Julius Eastman.
The experimental music hotbed that was New York in the 1960s and '70s is a tough one to rival. Think of all the famous names: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Albert Ayler, Patti Smith. A name you probably haven't heard? Singer, writer, dancer and minimalist composer Julius Eastman.
"When I first heard his music, I was actually floored," musician Jace Clayton says. "It was beautiful, it was muscular and hypnotic. [I thought,] 'Wow, this was being made back then — what other things have I missed?' "
But even for classical music devotees, Eastman was easy to miss — never as famous as the likes of Reich and Glass. As for reasons why, there are a lot of good guesses. He was black. He was gay. And the titles of his pieces were often provocative — darkly funny on one hand, Clayton says, but also deeply angry.
"Titles like 'Evil N - - - - -,' 'Gay Guerilla,' " Clayton says. "Another title that I love so much is, 'If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?' ... He's bringing in ideas of class and of race and of sex, and it's all there in what is traditionally this sort of, like, white-cube blank-space of classical music."
Clayton makes a lot of music himself, usually under the name DJ /rupture. But he'd been looking for something different to work on: a piece of classical music — pianos preferable — not just to perform, but to make his own. When he heard Eastman's music, he says, everything clicked.
"The music itself, I loved," Clayton says. "And then there's the whole fact of, it's been painfully underperformed. And on top of that, his whole approach had this whole irreverence to it. His scores were often very hastily written and a bit open for artistic interpretation."
So Clayton took two Eastman pieces and recorded them as written: two pianos, onstage, playing together. Then came Step 2.
"What I did was then take those recordings, bring them back to my studio and start passing those piano sounds through all sorts of different patches and algorithms and effects boxes and whatnot," Clayton says.
Thus was born his album, The Julius Eastman Memory Depot. As for Eastman himself, Clayton says, there isn't a happy ending.
"His life kind of disappears a bit into rumor at the end," Clayton says. "There are rumors of him having problems with drugs and alcohol. He was definitely evicted at one point and allegedly living in Tompkins Square Park. But he ended up back in upstate New York, and then in 1990 that was where he died at the age of 49 — so, really young. His close friends were completely out of touch with him at that point. By the end of this life, it's just a bit of a mystery."


Diamond quilting elevates the sporty vibe of this women's padded jacket. An exposed front zip and a cargo pocket on the sleeve are details borrowed from vintage bomber jackets. The ribbed collar echoes the iconic Adidas SST track top.


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All the things you definitely shouldn't do if you want your deposit back
Please give us our money back. Please.
Tom Bedworth & Tom Hankin
Guide, Life
Now that the end of the academic year has finally rolled around after what feels like an eternity, the time has come to start thinking about moving out of our student halls, flats, houses, and hovels.
Though many of us have effectively been moved out since Lancaster University announced that Summer Term would be online, most students have still been forced to pay for accommodation that they simply haven't been able to use during lockdown.
Clearly, this feels like money down the drain for us. But there's no use crying over spilt milk – "we move," as the young people say. We move indeed. But we won't be moving without getting our deposits back, thank you very much. So, in order to save everyone some heartache, and a little bit of cash, here's our guide to the things you SHOULDN'T do if you want your deposit back.
Make a mess of the bathroom
Okay so in first year, we lost some of our deposit because someone in our shared accommodation decided that they were going to create a faecal Jackson Pollock-esque artwork in the communal bathroom cubicles. Without going into too much graphic detail, it happened after St. Patrick's Day, so the anonymous flatmate had got royally hammered, sauntered home, and thought they'd open fire at the walls.
Our cleaners, who were absolute angels, were not happy at all. Nor was our college's accommodation manager. That knocked off part of our deposits – it was charged to all of us, might we add, because the culprit didn't come forward. Selfish sod.
Punch a hole in the wall
It goes without saying that punching a hole in your wall is not covered by your tenancy agreement's "reasonable wear and tear" policy.
"Honestly mate, it was here when we moved in," will not cut it when the landlord sends an inspector round. You could go Shawshank Redemption and attempt to cover it with a poster, but at the end of the day you'll just end up having to pay for the damage anyway. There's no redemption.
Though credit to you for possessing the sheer strength of will to give your wall a good Haymaker – we're sure the wall had it coming.
Serenade the porters when they come and give you a noise warning
For clarity: this won't stop you getting your deposit back, but you probably shouldn't do it anyway.
In first year, one worry is that someone will call the porters on your flat, and then you'll get a nice telling off, and a warning. You don't want to piss off the porters, because at the end of the day, they're the ones handling your mail, aren't they? I don't want my Amazon deliveries being tampered with.
"We move."
Anyway, when the porters come to call (at some time around 4am) to ask you to quieten down, then we urge you not to dedicate the 1978 Grease hit "Summer Nights" to the porter. No, he will not be impressed, as these writers found out.
Block your sink
We won't go into too much detail, but if you decide to follow in the footsteps of one of our first year flatmates, then you should probably sort it out before you leave your flat.
We're not saying that our flatmate threw up so bad in his sink that it blocked up and then he flooded his room whilst trying to clear out the sink that he'd vomited in, but…
Yeah, that's what he did. And then he proceeded to use our trusty Henry the Hoover to vacuum up some of the sick. To quote Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: oh, what a night.
But seriously, make sure your sink is unblocked before you leave your flat. Don't be a goblin. Have a bit of respect for yourself.
Tape things to the ceiling
You know that part in the second Inbetweeners film, when Will gets his stuff taped to his ceiling? Yeah, it's like that, except in Lancaster.
One student told us: "In first year's boredom, me and my housemate got fed up of our friend leaving us for his girlfriend. He had a habit of leaving his door unlocked, so we sneaked into his townhouse and did a 'prank.'
"Basically taping all his belongings to the ceiling. It went really well. It's not as easy as it looks, but it only took about 15 minutes. He grilled us for about two months after because when he removed everything, the paint came with it."
Was it justifiable? Loosely. Was it moral? No. Will it lose money from someone's deposit? Most likely. Hotel? Trivago.
Leave food in the fridge
Firstly, we'll apologise for that image. Secondly, why were apples in the fridge?
But yes. If you're a dirty little fiend who leaves things to rot then you will indeed go to Hell, we've been assured.
It's dirty, it's grim, and even Satan wouldn't have done that.
Burn your hob
The people who can burn their hob are the type of students who would find a way to drown a fish. We've all lived with them. Very little common sense, and with the personality that only a mother could love. They're probably loud, a bit oafish, and at first you thought they were alright. They aren't. They're dirty, dirty, dirty.
There's a difference between "just a few crumbs" and this monstrosity. Behold: the burnt hob
Whatever this guy did
Another student told the Tab Lancaster: "Basically, it was my mate's birthday so we went on a night out and got REALLY drunk, when the nightclub closed, we decided to go back up to his flat and drink more so it took him 20 mins to unlock the door and as soon as it opened, he fell in with his mate piling on top.
"Anyways, he wasn't feeling well so he went to the bathroom, I went in to check he was alright and gave him some Pringles and then we left him for two minutes, in which time he managed to shit EVERYWHERE so we told him to shower… When he finished showering, he forgot to put clothes on and ran through his flat bollock naked so then we went to assess the damage…
"His clothes were in the toilet and the shit had been pushed into a corner, so I went to wash my hands and the sink kept backing up… the Pringles were in the plug! It took three of us four hours to clean and disinfect that bathroom."
Generic hooliganism
Another Lancs student reeled off the ways in which she and her flatmates had endeavoured to ensure their flat was uninhabitable for their successors: "when we came back from glitter night at sugar then did gymnastics in the corridor and got glitter buried too deep in the fibres for Henry hoover to suck up."
"We nearly set fire to the kitchen because nobody cleaned the fat out the oven.
"The fairy lights leaked battery acid all over the window sill. Plus, someone's boyfriend spilt Pot Noodle on the wall. And some marks on the wall because we played real life Fruit Ninja. It's not looking good, basically."
Let's be honest, regardless of whether you've done any of these things or not, your landlord is probably going to try and keep hold of your deposit, so for any actual advice on getting that money back, click here.
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For example, did you know that a commercial broker (or brokerage firm) may make double the commission amount if a Tenant signs a lease in a building where its broker / brokerage firm also has a listing with the Landord? Will a broker negotiate aggressively on behalf of a Tenant if this broker also has a listing agreement with a building's Landlord or is soliciting a Landlord's listing business?
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How Chicago Fire Remember their Greats
in British
It is so important to remember the past. Following Chicago Fire in the MLS isn't all about the next game you have to play. 'Ring of Fire' has nothing whatsoever to do with a Johnny Cash record. Set up in 2003, 'Ring of Fire' has the task of paying tribute to those who have made the club successful in the past.
It was set up not just by the football club itself, but also the Chicago Fire Alumni Association. First to be inducted was Piotr Nowak in 2003. Nowak had a successful career in European soccer before heading to Chicago in 1998.
114 games for Chicago Fire saw the Polish midfielder score 26 goals. His presence in the team was important as it was Chicago's first season in the MLS. During his time with the club, he helped Fire win the MLS Cup in 1998 and two US Open triumphs in 1998 and 2000. With him being voted three times as the Chicago Fire MVP, it was inevitable perhaps that he'd be the first member of the 'Ring of Fire' after retiring in 2003.
The following year saw Nowak joined in the 'Ring of Fire' by Frank Klopas. The Greek enjoyed great success playing indoor for Chicago Sting with 62 goals in 140 games. He returned home to play soccer for AEK Athens but came back to the US and had two successful seasons with Chicago Fire. He'll be forever known for scoring the two goals in Chicago Fire's first ever home game at Soldier Field.
According to illinoisgambler.com, betting on the MLS is possible now with online bookies. You can bet your dollars on Chicago Fire games in a growing number of US states and that includes Illinois with plenty of markets available.
Chicago Fire are struggling this year and unlikely to make the play-offs. You can place bets at sites such as PointsBet and DraftKings on all their games as well as other soccer leagues such as the English Premier League.
Lubos Kubik was the 2005 inductee He was another member of the Chicago Fire squad that was so successful between 1998 and 2000. Kublik is probably also the only man who will ever be able to say they've been an assistant coach for the US national team and coached English lower league side Torquay United though he only won one game with them.
More successful as a coach has been the 2006 inductee Peter Wilt. He was the first President and General Manager of the club when they entered the MLS. He enjoyed massive success in his seven seasons he was in charge. An MLS Cup, three US Open Cup triumphs and one Supporter's Shield. No wonder the fans complained so much when fired in 2005.
Other notable members of the 'Ring of Fire' are former US head coach Bob Bradley. He managed the club to their early successes in the MLS. Midfielder Chris Armas played 214 games for the club, while Center Back C J Brown was inducted after playing for Chicago Fire 296 times.
2015 saw Ante Razov become a member of the Ring of Fire. The American striker scored a club record 94 goals in all competitions for the club. That's 39 goals more than any other player, so it was no surprise to see him inducted. Who'll be the next inductee? Nemanja Nikolic who scored 51 goals for them must be a possibility.
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The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has rejected plans by the Federal Government to retrench 1,050 civil servants on the spurious ground that they are serving in the Service illegally.
In a statement in Lagos yesterday by its Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, the union said given the penchant of Nigerian authorities to pervert the course of justice, the decision by the government to weed out those it alleged were working in the service unlawfully might be a smokescreen to sack innocent civil servants, who had served the nation meritoriously for decades.
"We demand that no retirement in whatever form should take place until stakeholders including ASCSN verify the claim of the government.
"We want to make it clear that if the government embarks on such anti-labour exercise without allowing the trade unions to participate in establishing the authenticity of its claim, we cannot guarantee industrial peace and harmony in the civil service if innocent employees are victimised in the process," the statement said.
Lawal noted that if government's decision was not a ploy to retire innocent civil servants, it should have no difficulty in setting up a government/labour panel to fish out the purported illegal civil servants.


After coming across yet another blog about renting versus buying, I decided to explain how we chose to buy a house.
First of all, I was extremely frustrated that our rent was increased by 5-10% at the end of every lease. We were clean, quiet, and paid early every month. I was always able to cut down on the increase, but I could never stop it completely.
Secondly, having to ask permission to change absolutely everything meant we never changed anything at all. Our apartments didn't feel like homes…they felt like temporary bases. We did everything that we do now in a house, but now I'm surrounded by the colors we picked out and art we made and that we finally allowed ourselves to buy since we felt stable.
Rent was costing us $8760 a year and was increasing 5-10% a year.
Our home was going to cost us $24,000 up front (20% down and closing costs) and cost an additional $15,000 a year including taxes, insurance, and maintenance for 11 years. After the end of 2017, we'd only need about $4500 a year for taxes, insurance, and maintenance, and we were budgeting for that to increase 3% each year (our taxes have actually decreased since 2007, but these are the numbers we used).
That meant that with a 5% increase every year on rent and a 3% increase every year on property taxes, we would be breaking even with home ownership in less than 20 years plus we would own a home outright in about 11 years. In less than 20 years of renting, we would have paid just as much and have no physical thing to show for it. That alone would have convinced me to buy a house in our area.
Lastly, by putting 20% down on a foreclosure that was already heavily discounted since it was on the market for more than a year, we had instant equity. This didn't effect our decision much, but it was nice to know that we could have taken out a home equity loan if necessary. I like having lots of options when it comes to finances.
Over the past 3 years, our taxes have decreased but our equity has increased. We are still on track to pay off the mortgage by the end of 2017…maybe earlier if I get my way. We had a very cheap first year of home ownership. We've spent less than $300 a year on home maintenance since it was built very well and barely lived in at all before we snatched it up. To be honest, we have spent almost $3000 on new floors downstairs and paint, but that was a choice and makes us very happy.
No, home ownership is not for everybody. It's not even a good financial choice in many areas. I also know that I don't enjoy having to fix my own problems. Yet, I wouldn't change a thing.
How about you? Why did you or will you buy a house? Do you enjoy renting instead?