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Our Mexican Troubles ARE ONLY BEGINNING?
The Border Crisis Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. In Mexico, A Cartel Crisis Looms
Amid record numbers of illegal border-crossers, a larger crisis looms in Mexico with dire implications for the United States.
This week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that apprehensions of illegal immigrants surpassed 2.1 million for the fiscal year in August, with more than 203,000 apprehensions last month alone, marking six straight months of southwest border arrests exceeding 200,000.
Nothing like this has ever happened before. The 2.1 million figure represents an all-time high, surpassing the previous record of 1.7 million, set in fiscal year 2021. That is to say, every year President Joe Biden has been in office has been a record-breaking year of illegal immigration. Biden's policies are directly responsible for the ongoing border crisis, which will continue unabated until those policies change. Whatever the number ends up being for 2022, the number for 2023 will almost certainly be higher.
But the shocking volume of arrests at the border, and the dramatic footage of illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande or lining up by the hundreds along stretches of the border wall (or scaling it), can blind us to another, less obvious crisis unfolding on the Mexican side of the border that we need to understand if we hope to craft policies that will put an end to mass illegal immigration.
That crisis, put simply, is the gradual takeover of the Mexican state by cartels. I hesitate to call them "drug cartels," because what these criminal organizations do goes far beyond the manufacture and trafficking of narcotics. In addition to drugs, Mexican cartels are now involved in industrial agriculture, port operations, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, and even the control and distribution of water in drought-stricken parts of the country.
These twin crises are connected. Although the border crisis is a direct result of Biden's policies, the cartels are exploiting those policies for profit. One estimate from Homeland Security Investigations puts the figure at $13 billion annually, up from just $500 million in 2018. That is to say, illegal immigration has been industrialized by these cartels and their smuggling networks. It is not too much to say they have turned the southwest border into a vast black market, not just for deadly drugs such as fentanyl, but also for illegal immigration.
A new report from the Texas Public Policy Foundation (where, full disclosure, I once worked and am today a senior fellow) sheds some much-needed light on how the cartels have accomplished this. Their involvement in migrant smuggling — a vast enterprise that involves transportation, surveillance, logistics, accounting, and stash houses on both sides of the border — is a natural extension of their increasing involvement in nearly every facet of Mexico's economic and political life.
The report, whose author has remained anonymous for safety reasons, chronicles the recent history of deep collusion between the Mexican state and the country's most powerful drug cartels: "The unfortunate reality is that criminal cartels have burrowed their way into the government — and vice versa. Well-meaning public servants, of whom Mexico has many, are powerless against a nexus of senior officeholders, societal elites, and criminal cartels."
The rot in the Mexican state, the report makes clear, goes to the very top. In 2018, just before President Enrique Peña Nieto left office, Ivan Reyes Arzate, a high-ranking member in the Mexican Federal Police, was found guilty in U.S. federal court on charges of obstructing a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation of international drug trafficking and money laundering. The case "represented the first time a high-level foreign law enforcement officer was held criminally accountable in a U.S. courtroom for interfering with a transnational organized crime investigation," according to the TPPF report.
But if Peña Nieto's time in office was marked by a curtailment of U.S.-Mexico law enforcement cooperation, Mexico's current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has sought to shut down such cooperation almost entirely. Thanks to a new law pushed by López Obrador's administration aimed at curbing the operations of foreign agents (clearly aimed at the DEA), decades of U.S.-Mexico bilateral cooperation has been effectively ended. In addition to this new law, López Obrador in April shut down an elite anti-narcotic unit that had worked with the DEA for 25 years.
Since taking office, López Obrador has pursued a posture of passivity toward the cartels, especially the Sinaloa Cartel, the country's most powerful. In so doing, Mexico's president has transformed his naïve campaign slogan, abrazos no balazos ("hugs not bullets"), into a policy framework that can only be understood as a rebuke of the United States in favor of the cartels.
What is also different now than in the past, the TPPF report explains, is that the cartels "increasingly supplant the legitimate sovereignty of the Mexican state with their own — often in cooperation with major elements of that state. The qualitative difference since 2018 has been the near-open role of the current Mexican president in allowing, and perhaps even participating in, that cooperation." Indeed, by some estimates cartels now control up to 40 percent of Mexican territory.
If that sounds outlandish, it is not because the facts don't support such a conclusion but because corporate media in the U.S. are for the most part unwilling or unable to cover the issue in depth or accurately convey its implications for America.
The implications are this: As the Mexican state succumbs to the cartels, Mexico's problems will become America's problems. That doesn't just mean a worsening border crisis but a breakdown of law and order all up and down the border, on both sides of the Rio Grande, and a worsening drug crisis in American cities far from the border. It means the corruption of Mexican officialdom will gradually spread to American officialdom, just as the operations of Mexican cartels have spread to every corner of the United States.
What to do about all this? The first step is for the United States to stop treating Mexico like a partner or a peer with whom we can work together to address common challenges. Our entire posture has to shift. We have to begin treating Mexico less like an ally and more like a hostile neighbor. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to his credit, this week took the extraordinary step of issuing an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. While that might not do much on its own, it at least sends a signal to Washington that it is time for the federal government to do the same.
There is of course a historical precedent for this, and indeed the relatively peaceful interregnum of the past 80 years is a departure from the historical norm of U.S.-Mexico relations. We are now returning to the norm, whether policymakers in Washington realize it or not.
"Minnesota's lazy and ineffective Governor Tim Walz", and His Lefty Dems!
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 BY JOHN HINDERAKER at Power Line:
ON FEEDING OUR FUTURE, A BLOCKBUSTER DEVELOPMENT
We have written a number of times about the Feeding Our Future scandal, the worst to emerge from the federal government's feckless distribution of covid dollars. Briefly, Feeding Our Future ("FOF") was a fraudulent nonprofit that accessed an astonishing $240 million in federal money, ostensibly to feed needy children in Minnesota. Under the supervision of Minnesota's Department of Education, FOF distributed that money to a network of Minnesota nonprofits who allegedly delivered the actual meals to children. But it turns out that the money mostly went to luxury purchases, fancy cars, overseas vacations, gold and jewels, new houses, and property in places like Kenya and Turkey. FOF kept a slice of the $240 million and added to it by charging kickbacks. The entire fraud has now unraveled in a series of 48 or more indictments announced last week by the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota.
Throughout, the public officials on whose watch this massive fraud occurred have relied mostly on a single defense: in 2021, the Department of Education, having become suspicious, tried to cut off funding to some of FOF's clients. But a state court judge rejected MDE's arguments and ordered the Department to resume funding what turned out to be one of the biggest frauds on record. That was the story.
Minnesota's lazy and ineffective Governor Tim Walz, whose administration oversaw the FOF fraud, has tried to shift blame to the judge who allegedly ordered the criminality to continue. (There are lots of problems with that argument, but let them go for the moment.) Walz told local press that he wanted the judge investigated:
"I would hope there would be an investigation into that," Walz told reporters Thursday. "I was speechless, unbelievable that this ruling could come down."
Which is not much of a defense, because it means that Walz knew about the fraud in 2021, but kept silent at a time when publicity surely would have brought FOF crashing down.
But that isn't the worst of it. Today, the judge in question–Ramsey County District Court Judge John H. Guthmann–had had enough, and unloaded on Walz and other officials, like Attorney General Keith Ellison, who have tried to shift the blame to him. Judge Guthmann released an official statement through the Minnesota court system that I will quote at length because it is so important:
Due to inaccurate statements by the Governor, the Commissioner of Education, and the media regarding the investigation of Feeding Our Future (FOF) and resulting federal indictments, Ramsey County District Court Judge John H. Guthmann has authorized the issuance of this news release.
Since the investigation of Feeding Our Future (FOF) by law enforcement became public in January 2022, numerous media outlets have reported on the investigation and the events leading to federal criminal indictments. Many of the reports commented on the civil lawsuit filed in Ramsey County District Court by FOF against the MN Department of Education in November 2020. The original lawsuit was based solely on claims that the Department of Education violated federal regulations and laws prohibiting race discrimination, by failing to act on FOF's applications for new food-distribution sites as part of its administration of the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program. Judge Guthmann was initially assigned to the case. The lawsuit included a motion by FOF for an order to require the Department of Education to act on pending site applications. Before the court could rule, the parties reached an agreement in which the Department of Education agreed to handle these federally regulated site applications "reasonably promptly." A consent order approving the settlement was issued on December 22, 2020.
The Department of Education suspended payments to FOF based on a "serious deficiencies" letter it issued to FOF on March 30, 2021. As a result, FOF filed a motion asking Judge Guthmann to order the Department of Education to resume payments and to pay sanctions. Judge Guthmann never ordered the Department of Education to resume payments to FOF in April 2021, or at any other time.
I plead guilty here. Relying on a false news report in the Star Tribune, I have said in several radio interviews that a local state court judge ordered that payments to FOF continue. It is one more reminder that you can't trust Democratic Party newspapers on even the most basic questions of fact.
Thereafter, the Department of Education voluntarily resumed making payments to FOF. The Department of Education was not ordered by the court to do so. After the Department resumed voluntary payments, counsel for the Department of Education wrote the court asking that FOF's motion for sanctions based on non-payment be denied as moot because the Department voluntarily resumed payments. In a later court filing related to FOF's separate motion for sanctions based on the failure to approve or deny 144 applications for new food delivery sites, the Department of Education advised the court that FOF's serious deficiencies were resolved as of June 4, 2021.
So it was Tim Walz's minions who told the court that everything was A-OK with Feeding Our Future, and hundreds of millions continued to flow.
On February 26, 2022, the Star Tribune reported on a federal investigation of FOF. The article included the following false statement: "In April 2021, Ramsey County District Judge John Guthmann told the department it didn't have the authority to stop payments and ordered the department to resume payments." Since February, that Star Tribune quote has been repeated or paraphrased on many occasions by many other media outlets. The same media sources reported that, in her April 4, 2022, testimony to the Minnesota Senate, the Commissioner of the Education stated that the MN Department of Education tried to stop payments to FOF, only to be ordered by Judge Guthmann to resume payments. That is false. Then, when federal indictments were announced this week, many new reports were published. On September 22, 2022, Governor Tim Walz told the media that the Minnesota Department of Education attempted to end payments to FOF because of possible fraud, but that Judge Guthmann ordered payments to continue in April 2021. That is also false.
You might think there are limits to the lies that desperate politicians will tell, or limits to the laziness (or, usually, complicity) of liberal reporters who repeat those lies. But in fact, if there are such limits, we haven't yet found them.
The press release by Minnesota's Judicial Branch concludes:
As the public court record and Judge Guthmann's orders make plain, Judge Guthmann never issued an order requiring the MN Department of Education to resume food reimbursement payments to FOF. The Department of Education voluntarily resumed payments and informed the court that FOF resolved the "serious deficiencies" that prompted it to suspend payments temporarily. All of the MN Department of Education food reimbursement payments to FOF were made voluntarily, without any court order.
So responsibility for the biggest fraud relating to federal covid payments rests with Governor Tim Walz and his administration. The fraud is more than bad enough, but it is made far worse by Tim Walz's attempts to deflect blame to a judge who did not, in fact, order Walz's administration to do anything.
This dodging of responsibility is typical of the notoriously lazy Tim Walz. Minnesota has declined sadly during his four years as governor. Our economy is failing, our population is so stagnant that we barely held on to a Congressional seat in the last census, many of our most productive citizens are deserting Minnesota for more prosperous states, our serious crime rate, historically low, is now above the national average, we have become an international byword for riots and lawlessness, our state government is driving gasoline prices higher through ridiculous "green" mandates at a time when families are struggling to pay their bills, and so on. But Lazy Tim Walz takes responsibility for none of the disasters that have occurred on his watch. Instead, he lies in order to deflect them onto innocent parties.
Maybe the $240 million Feeding Our Future scandal–and the knowledge that Walz lied about it to save his own skin–will be the impetus for voters to usher in a new administration that will sweep out the corruption of the old.


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WATCH: Girl Receives 3-D Printed Prosthetic Arm & Her Reaction is Incredible
By Joanna C. Valente Sep 1, 2015
Isabella is probably the happiest little girl in the world right now. She recently received a gift: a prosthetic arm. What makes this unusual, however, is the fact that it's 3-D printed.
Her new prosthetic was designed just for her by Team Unlimbited, a project under the volunteer-based, 3-D printed prosthetic collective, e-Nable. Besides the fact that 3-D printing is a cool, relatively new technology, it's an ingenious way of getting better quality prosthetics to more people. Right now, traditional prosthetics cost about $10,ooo or more. An e-Nable limb like Isabell's, however, ranges from $50 to $150, which is dramatically more affordable.
READ: The Jewish Woman Who Invented Barbie…and Prosthetic Breasts
The video below captures Isabella at the moment she received her gift–and her reaction is almost too happy to take in all at once. But we can definitely say that whatever the limb cost, her complete and utter joy is priceless.

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Q: AS3: String to Function || Function to String I have a textField that displays some text, then when a timer goes off, the next piece of text is displayed, and so on. Alternatively, the user can press a key to make the next text appear instead of waiting for the timer.
var dispatchString:String;

function dispatchIt():void {
    dispatchEvent(new Event(dispatchString));
}

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,dispatchIt);

function text1():void {
    dispatchString = "text2";
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}
function text2(evt:Event):void {
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}

I'm trying to simplify the part where I set the dispatchString and the addEventListener by instead calling a function with one parameter that does both. So something like:
function listenFor(s:String):void {
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}

But that won't work with nested functions. I was thinking there might be another way to pass the function instead and set the dispatchString to the name of that function, but I haven't had much luck. Any other ideas?

A: Instead of setting the string of the event, why not set the event handler?
I would try the following:
var eventHandler:Function = text1;

function dispatchIt(evt:Event):void {
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}

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,dispatchIt);

function text1(evt:Event):void {
    eventHandler = text2;
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}
function text2(evt:Event):void {
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    ...
    dispatchIt(evt);
}

function text3(evt:Event):void {
    eventHandler = text1;
    trace("text3");
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}

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ICCS participates in the HiDALGO CoE through two of its member labs: the Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab) and the Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Laboratory (AILS).
CSLab brings to the project its strong expertise in large scale high performance computing, networking and storage as well as in large scale distributed systems (Big Data & Cloud). Leveraging its expertise, CSLab leads the benchmarking activities of HiDALGO as well as the development of advanced HPDA methods.
AISL brings to the project its strong expertise in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Learning Systems, and Applications of AI and ML. Building upon this expertise, AISL will contribute to the integration of suitable AI and Deep Learning methods to the HiDALGO environment.


Mild spoiler warnings for the series.
"It's been such a long time, Yuu."
His old teacher, certainly not old in age, turns to him and smiles (he almost wants to tell her, there's a strange premonition telling him to tell her, to keep her eyes on the road, to please keep her eyes on the road).
"You still look the same, Miss Yukie."
"We're cramped back here, Yuu!"
"It's a shame Miho didn't get to come, though."
There are so many turns on this road, Yuu thinks. Not that it should really matter, because they've been down this road hundreds of times, thousands of times, an infinite amount of times, over and over. They've done this a thousand times. They've been doing this forever.
"Yeah, well, she has to go to a relative's--"
They've done this a million times, Yuu thinks, and the one eye that's watching the road sees the oncoming truck, swerving towards them, appearing from behind the blind spot of the curb (Miss Yukie, Miss Yukie, keep your eyes on the goddamn road).
They've been doing this forever.
The impact throws Yuu out of the car (only him, Miss Yukie crushed by the front bumper of the truck, everyone else wedged between the front and back seats), and his vision blurs, blood dripping down the side of his face.
The fingers scratch at the window, and Yuu knows that he's trapped. Yuu has seen this before. All of it. All of it, in excruciating detail, every step fresher than the one before, the blood and the smoke and the eventual fire that will envelop the crumpled car more brilliant with each passing second.
And in a million, in a billion other dimensions, she calls to him, smiles at him, screams at him and cries out to him for help. In every pattern of time, she calls his name, and is wrenched from him, slips through his fingers like passing water.
This has happened before an infinite amount of times, and it will keep on happening.
The car bursts into flames.
The force of the explosion knocks Yuu back, and he remembers the heat, the searing pain.
He's screaming, and he's hurting, but somehow Yuu is smiling, is crying and screaming and smiling at the same time. The asphalt under his fingers crumble into ash, and Yuu hears his own screaming spanning every dimension in the fabric of time, reverberating, filling the void with his sorrow, his pain, his desire.
The screaming becomes a low chuckle, and Yuu curls up into a fetal position, cradling his own body, rocking back and forth, feeling flames and feeling Haruka's smile and the soft voice that whispers, that cries Yuu, Yuu.
"Haruka. Haruka. Haruka. Haruka. Haruka."
This is going to happen over and over, Yuu thinks. Forever. The sorrow and the love and the sorrow will go on forever, endlessly, but it all leads to her, and Yuu will love her and lose her forever, as long as she exists somewhere, somewhere, always being loved and lost.
And there's darkness, a dull period of nothing (it feels like Shangri-la), and Yuu closes his eyes.


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In the Girl Account(s) tab, for each of your Girl Scouts you can see if you've registered her for Digital Cookie, her name, her date of birth, her GSUSA ID, her troop number, her preferred first name, and her email address (if she's 13 or older). You can click on the Edit link to modify her preferred first name, and her email address if she's 13 or older.
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Michael S. Mitchell, "Oak Hill: Civil War Skirmish," braddockheritage.org/, accessed April 24, 2019, http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/256.
On the night of November 5, 1861, a shootout occurred between three Union scouts and four Confederate cavalrymen at Oak Hill. It was seven months after the start of the Civil War and four months after the Confederate victory in the First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas. Confederate forces occupied Fairfax Courthouse (today's City of Fairfax) and Union Army camps were within 10 miles near Alexandria. Located between the lines of the two armies, Oak Hill was in an area where they tested each other and probed with frequent patrols.
In "Oak Hill Kitchen Skirmish" (access the article in the File(s) list) Michael Mitchell reconstructs the brief firefight from several sources. The sources range from official reports and personal letters written within days of the event to correspondence and newspaper and book articles written decades later.
Private Edward S. E. Newbury of the Third Regiment New Jersey Infantry was a principal figure in the event and probably the most reliable source of what occurred. Photographs of Newbury, who later advanced to the rank of Captain, show him in his Union Army uniform and as a much older man after 1900.
Researcher and author Michael Mitchell was born and raised in Annandale and enjoys pursuing his interest in local Civil War history.
--- News item from Trenton State Gazette newspaper erroneously reporting death of Newbury and T. P. Edwards.


Traditional Moroccan Cooking is the perfect introduction to a mouth-watering culinary heritage. It offers a taste of the delights to be found in one of the world's great gastronomic centers.
Tangier Arrival to the port of Tangier city, reception by the team of Gazelles Destination, transfer to the hotel lunch , after trasfert to hight international institut of turisme in tangier, first course of moroccan cuisne coaching by a Professional Moroccan chief, after 4hours of moroccan gastronomy course return to the hotel 4* by bus, dinner and overnight stay.
Dinner at the restaurant of the hotel and overnight stay.
After the breakfast, transfer by bus to Hight international instintut of Turism courses of moroccan cuisne,lunch, continuation of the workshop in the afternon free time Dinner (Show) balley dancing and overnightstay at the hotel 4*.


We study a $Z G$-module $A$ in the case where the group $G$ is locally solvable and satisfies the condition min–naz and its cocentralizer in A is not an Artinian $Z$-module. We prove that the group G is solvable under the conditions indicated above. The structure of the group $G$ is studied in detail in the case where this group is not a Chernikov group.
English version (Springer): Ukrainian Mathematical Journal 61 (2009), no. 1, pp 50-56.
Citation Example: Dashkova O. Yu. On one class of modules over integer group rings of locally solvable groups // Ukr. Mat. Zh. - 2009. - 61, № 1. - pp. 44-51.


I left a voicemail for him. I hope it was reasonably coherent, but with the sorta-here-and-not-here brain I've been having I have no idea if coherent is even on the table. Since I tend to tangent (look - tangent as a verb! All the teachers are now shuddering) I tried to be brief, but complete. And I did say he could call me back since I figure the number comes up as a missed call. Hhhmmm .... maybe it does not come up as a missed call if your phone is off? If not, then again - poor Bill. He'll feel stalked. Plus he sounded elderly so .... I hope to have not done harm. Had I been able to speak with him I feel certain I could have reassured him with my voice.
Ah well. Let us hope this was my first good deed of the day and not my first bad one.
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When business leaders talk IT security, they are usually referring to two things: security technology itself and the IT workers who implement it. That's not the whole story, however.
On the one hand, there's the software and hardware (firewalls, anti-virus programs, appliances and the like) deployed at the office and on the network to protect company data and technology. On the other hand, there's the staff tasked with supporting these tools. But technology and the IT team encompass just two components of a much larger security puzzle.
The important piece that is missing: the employee. Without effective security policies, awareness and skills development programs in place, all the technology in the world won't fully protect a business.
Educating workers to companywide security initiatives and helping them to acquire the skills necessary to proactively take part in protecting business data is a critically important step. The move to highly virtualized and cloud-friendly computing environments perhaps makes it seem as if all the important security work is going on elsewhere. It's not. The workforce still plays a central role in keeping IT assets safe and sound.
According to the SANS Institute, a leading provider of IT security training and certifications, employee security training should include classroom-style education, the creation of an in-house security awareness website, the consistent sharing of helpful hints and reminders, the use of visual aids such as posters to promote proven security strategies at work, and the distribution of flyers and other types of promotional materials that stress the reality of data breaches and offer tips to prevent them.
"These methods can help ensure employees have a solid understanding of company security policy, procedure and best practices," writes the SANS Institute in its report on security awareness training.
Natives Causing Restlessness
As so-called digital natives take over the workplace, it has become increasingly easy to overlook the need for these types of security awareness and training initiatives. After all, these are people who have always been connected and often regularly share personal information digitally. Shouldn't they intuitively care about security and know to take appropriate precautions with company data assets and systems? Unfortunately, that's not always the case.
Always being able to store personal data electronically has made many of the youngest individuals in the workforce less likely to be concerned with data protection. They take security for granted, as a given, expecting technology and organizations to adequately protect their private information. What should be even more concerning to business is that for many millennials, the line between public and private is far more porous than for those born before the digital age.
The Raw Numbers
Symantec notes in its "2013 Cost of Data Breach Study" that more than a third of worldwide data breaches result from the "human factor" — employees or contractors who simply made mistakes. Many of those errors could have been avoided with adequate security awareness and training.
The number of breached records averaged 23,647 per organization in 2012, according to Symantec. At an average cost of $130 to $136 per breach worldwide, that is a steep price for any business to pay.
If more companies implemented comprehensive security awareness and training programs, those numbers would almost certainly come down. These types of initiatives matter as much as ever in the workplace — maybe even more so.
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Q: SQL Server schema names to CLR namespaces in EF code generation I have the following tables in my database:
Business.Profiles
User.Profiles

where 'Business' and 'User' are schema.
When generating the DbContext via Ado.Net DbContext Generator(Add code generation item) I get two classes in code:
Profile
Profile1

Ideally I would have liked the the Schema names get converted to clr namespaces but that did not happen. Is there some way of forcing something like this? How do I deal with this?

A: DbContext Generator only uses names specified in EDMX file so I guess you have Profile and Profile1 entity defined in EDMX.
Classes must have exactly the same name as entities in EDMX and you cannot map two classes with the same name to the same EDMX model. EF doesn't support it because POCO classes are mapped by convention which uses just the name of class (EF don't use CLR namespace in mapping). Because of that you cannot achieve what you want. The simples workaround is simply naming your entities in EDMX UserProfile and BusinessProfile.


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World War II Research Paper Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 1750 words
World War II - Research Paper Example History has recorded and proved time and over again that such aggressive act of violence against any nation has resulted in changing the face of the earth and has produced profound effects on any involved country's global and political standing. It is not the matter of who wins or loses the war because despite the fact, every nation gets affected by its negativity in one way or the other. Our world history has detailed accounts of many important wars which has changed the world map accordingly but two wars have always considered as of having greater affect globally and much violent that any other war. This essay compiles the details about World War II. It is an attempt to provide authentic research material for understanding what caused this war, how it was started and how it ended. If we look at it in a statistical manner then World War II started in 1939 and ended in 1945 but this essay is not about when it started. To have an in depth and comprehensive analysis of second wo rld war, we will have to look back a decade or more to understand the reasons for which a war of such a magnitude became unavoidable and inevitable. Covering a span of over 26 years of pre-war state, during and post-war from 1919 to 1945 it will incorporate all the major events that defined and shaped the future. Its foundation was laid soon after the World War I which raged in Europe from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between the central powers including Germany, Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian and the allied forces which included United States, Italy, Britain and France. It can be termed as the aftermath of the World War I. The great first war saw the allied forces as victors while the central powers were on the losing side. Naturally the winners wanted the losers to pay and so a peace agreement namely the Treaty of Versailles was formed which contained enough substance to punish and humiliate the nations who lost. (Goldstein) As the latter two sides ceased to exist, only Ge rmany was left to bear the victor's brunt. There were the territorial losses as the part of the agreement for peace with which new nations were formed taking parts from Germany and the Soviet Union. Also the Austro-Hungarian regime was divided into newer states namely Poland, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Those Germans who were parted and divided due to the formation of new states were called Ausland Deutsch (German Outsiders). So a grudge started building against the central powers in Germans and European nations. Then another reason which proved decisive in paving way for a second world war was the great depression which started in 1929. This changed the economic stature of many nations and global economy literally crashed. This produced devastated effects on the economy of Germany and European nations because they were already shaken due to the war debt. The European nations were so weakened by the war that the newer global economic downfall caused their economy to utterl y collapse. This brought an end to the perception that capitalist and democratic political environment prevailing so far has failed to secure the boundaries of European nations especially Germany. These aftereffects of World War I produced a negative yet indispensible urge in the Germans and they started developing a strategy for revenge. Soon after this after math of World War I and the great depression which followed, world saw the unexpected emergence and popularity of two dictators the Italian Benito Mussolini and the German Adolf Hitler. Germans who were helpless and starving to death needed a dictatorial regime that could provide an instant solution to their problems. They instantly accepted Hitler as their leader and soon the national socialist Nazi


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Drama (35) Thriller (17) Biography (13) Romance (12) Crime (10) Comedy (6) History (5) Mystery (3) Action (2) Fantasy (2) Music (2) War (2) Adventure (1) Horror (1) Sport (1)
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1. Monster (2003)
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen
2. Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell
3. Flight (I) (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller
An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
5. The Social Network (2010)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
6. The Next Three Days (2010)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Michael Buie
7. Third Person (2013)
Three interlocking love stories involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilde
8. Gone Girl (2014)
R | 149 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
9. The Countess (2009)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.
Director: Julie Delpy | Stars: Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, William Hurt, Anamaria Marinca
10. Clueless (1995)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil's popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way.
Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd
11. Hancock (2008)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Fantasy
Hancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Jae Head
12. Pay It Forward (2000)
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, Jay Mohr
13. Shattered Glass (2003)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, History
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Director: Billy Ray | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Peter Sarsgaard
14. The Beach (I) (2000)
R | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Vicenarian Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss. Excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel York, Patcharawan Patarakijjanon, Virginie Ledoyen
15. Concussion (2015)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
Director: Peter Landesman | Stars: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, David Morse
16. Side Effects (I) (2013)
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
17. The Soloist (2009)
PG-13 | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A newspaper journalist discovers a homeless musical genius and tries to improve his situation.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander
18. Original Sin (2001)
R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman, along with her lover, plans to con a rich man by marrying him, earning his trust, and then running away with all his money. Everything goes as planned until she falls in love with him.
Director: Michael Cristofer | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson
19. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson
20. Iris (I) (2001)
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville
21. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
Director: David Frankel | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Adrian Grenier, Emily Blunt
22. Uptown Girls (2003)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A grown-up woman, who kept her childish instincts and behavior, starts working as a nanny of a 8-year-old girl, who actually acts like an adult. But in the end everything turns to its right places.
Director: Boaz Yakin | Stars: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear, Jesse Spencer
23. P.S. I Love You (2007)
PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Director: Richard LaGravenese | Stars: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Harry Connick Jr., Lisa Kudrow
24. The Pianist (2002)
R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
26. The Fifth Estate (2013)
A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander
27. American Psycho (2000)
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
28. The Duchess (2008)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling
29. Unfaithful (2002)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan
30. The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington
31. The Founder (2016)
The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini
32. Room (I) (2015)
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
Director: Lenny Abrahamson | Stars: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson
33. Gold (I) (2016)
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll
34. The Book of Henry (2017)
PG-13 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
With instructions from her genius son's carefully crafted notebook, a single mother sets out to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather.
Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jaeden Martell, Jacob Tremblay, Sarah Silverman
35. Megan Leavey (2017)
PG-13 | 116 min | Biography, Drama, War
Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Stars: Kate Mara, Ramon Rodriguez, Tom Felton, Bradley Whitford
36. The Hummingbird Project (2018)
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
Director: Kim Nguyen | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando
37. Hustlers (2019)
Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Director: Lorene Scafaria | Stars: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles, Mette Towley
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We have stopped all farming in California. Its sad, we were born and raised in California and we love the state and farming. The legal and regulatory and taxation climate in California as well as the political climate has caused us to close our business in California.


Everyone loves the mouth-watering watermelon fruit. Usually they are red in color, but quite often we found yellow and even orange in color too. The watermelon also frequently served in special dinner and wedding event. And for those occasions, we will find quite interesting watermelon carving arts and here are my top picks of 12 incredible watermelons carvings arts. I hope you will like it as I do.


I really don't understand why this Spanish edition needed to cut the book in two (I hope it's just two and not more). The 'ending' (if it can be called that way) is incredibly anticlimactic and gives no clue that the book has reached its end. Thankfully, I have a digital copy of Assassins' Apprentice so I don't have to wait to read the actual ending of this book.


This month's been rather busy in terms of uni stress – I properly started my dissertation – so I haven't read as much as normal, but these books are what I enjoyed on my down time.
This book was so inspirational, and instantly made me want to get up and chase my dreams!
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State — and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humour, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
This book was definitely not what I expected, but at the same time it was a heartwarming story about family, love and loss that got me right in the feels.
Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
Blogger Lizzy's life is buzzing, happy, normal. Two gorgeous children, a handsome husband, destiny under control. For her real-life alter-ego Beth, things are unravelling. Tensions are simmering with her husband, mother-in-law and even her own mother. Her teenage daughters, once the objects of her existence, have moved beyond her grasp and one of them has shown signs of, well, thoughtlessness … Then a classmate of one daughter is callously bullied and the finger of blame is pointed at Beth's clever, beautiful child. Shattered, shamed and frightened, two families must negotiate worlds of cruelty they are totally ill-equipped for. This is a novel that grapples with modern-day spectres of selfies, selfishness and cyberbullying. It plays with our fears of parenting, social media and Queen Bees, and it asks the question: just how well do you know your child?
I couldn't put this down, I devoured it in a day – such an inspiring easy read!
Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan… But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to. Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words… And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.


As a long-term reader of SEN and a CCTV installer, I get the feeling you're not in favour of wide angle lenses because of their negative characteristics. Are there conditions in which wide angle lenses are ideal?
A CAMERA lens is ideal if it gives court admissible evidence such as face recognition, from the front to the rear of its assigned target area. Every lens is a double-edged sword. Long focal lengths concentrate pixels and give lovely compression at huge distances but you can rob some poor soul under the camera's nose and it will not see you.
A wide lens has a tiny hyperfocal distance and for half the distance on the lens side of hyperfocal and all the way past hyperfocal to infinity, everything in the scene will be more or less in focus. However, the wide lens will spread pixels and this means that from a relatively close depth of field – say 12 metres – you may lose fine detail like faces, tattoos, shoe designs and other details investigators love. This is the anguish of lensing but you can manage your way around this.
Scentre Group, the manager of Westfield shopping centres, spends serious money on cameras for the entrances of its stores and then economises a little in other areas. It does so because once you can associate faces and clothing in high resolution, it's possible to do it elsewhere in lower res to create an investigative trail that is thoroughly court admissible.


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Review | Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
Colin Wilson reviews Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk's book looking on the relationship between anti-gender politics and populist right parties.
'Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists' (TERFs) not welcome! Photo: Steve Eason
Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk, Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, (London: Routledge, 2021) 212 pp, open-access.
On September 26th 2021, a Swiss referendum produced an overwhelming decision in favour of same-sex marriage, while German voters elected two trans women to the country's parliament – the first openly trans people to take their seats there. But there's a stark difference between these advances for LGBT people and developments in some Eastern European countries. In Poland, local government bodies covering about a third of the country have declared themselves to be 'LGBT-free zones'. The hard right Fidesz government in Hungary have abolished legal recognition of trans people, effectively forbidden same-sex couples from adopting children and banned the depiction of homosexual relationships in materials targeted at or accessible to children, conflating homosexuality and paedophilia. Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment helps us understand these developments in the former Warsaw Pact countries, their links with the far-right internationally, and gives an inspiring example of people fighting back.
The grim truth, however, is that millions of people have been mobilised across Europe – West to East – by a movement which opposes 'gender', seeks to defend 'the family' and claims that children are in danger and must be protected. Throughout Europe, this movement is part of the populist right – in France, the 2013 'Manif pour Tous' brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets against marriage equality and was supported by the French far right, while a 2019 'World Congress of Families' took place in Verona and featured hard-right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini as its star speaker. So, as Graff and Korolczuk make clear, growing homophobia and transphobia in Eastern Europe don't have their origin in the 'backwardness' of a region supposedly still blighted by decades of 'communism' and so unable to advance into 'enlightened modernity'. These ideas originate from, and are promoted by, networks of powerful people in the West. The Catholic church has consistently opposed equality for women and LGBT people, and Pope Francis – despite his undeserved reputation as a liberal – continues to do so. In Poland, the 'anti-gender' movement has the additional function for the Catholic church of shifting public discussion away from child sexual abuse by priests, widespread in that country as elsewhere. Homophobic and transphobic claims are supported by the hard right internationally – as in the cases of Trump and Bolsonaro – which spreads its ideas through a well-funded and coordinated network of campaign groups and think tanks. These are the people, incidentally, with whom some British so-called leftists and feminists are aligning themselves.
What exactly are those hard right ideas, and why do many people find them credible? As Graff and Korolczuk make clear, a key factor in Eastern Europe is the experience of neoliberalism since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. As they put it, 'what most Poles and Hungarians hoped for in 1989 was [a] system akin to the Swedish welfare state of the seventies… What they got, however, was closer to the American model in the eighties' and the slogan 'every man for himself'. Rather than Polish people experiencing the living standards of workers in Hamburg, Paris or London, over 2 million Poles emigrated in search of work. Multinationals set up factories in Poland, staffed by workers who were as educated as Western Europeans but paid less. Accession to the EU was part of this same picture. Countries such as Poland and Hungary were presented with the accumulated body of EU laws and told to enact them in their own states, including laws about LGBT equality. The European Commission didn't consult with LGBT people in those countries about what they wanted and needed – these reforms happened over their heads.
It's in this context, which the populist right describe as a kind of 'colonisation', that hard right ideologues make the claim in Eastern Europe that 'gender' is being promoted by a corrupt international capitalist elite, who impose their ideas on innocent and authentic 'ordinary' people, including the poor and the helpless. There is a remarkable cynicism in the way that such leaders, part of well-funded international networks, can claim to represent the disadvantaged. It's much easier to understand why Polish or Hungarian workers might find these claims attractive. They have seen communities eroded and everyday lives become more unstable. Social forces they identify with stability – the nation and the 'traditional family' where parents both control and protect their children – seem under attack. As Nicolas Bay, an MEP of the far right Front National, has put it, neoliberals 'support fragmented individualist "nomadic man" [as] only [an] economic actor who produces and consumes. We support a different vision of a man, not consumer but embedded in family… It is family that protects the weakest and old people.'
As Graff and Korolczuk explain, 'the current attack on "gender" would not be such a success if right-wing populism did not address the real needs and grievances of many families in Europe'. The other striking point here is that this is a populist politics, or claims to be such – anti-capitalist, for the many and against the few. It's a right-wing populism – it favours only those 'ordinary people' who come from 'our' country and live in 'traditional' families. But for those people, it provides a sense of legitimation. What's more, in Poland the hard-right Law and Justice Party provides families with not just legitimation but hard cash. Since 2015, families are paid 500 złoty (about £93) each month for each child, government spending on childcare tripled between 2015 and 2018, and public spending on pro-family policies rose as a share of GDP by over two-thirds between 2015 and 2017. In Hungary, every married couple gets an interest-free €30,000 loan if the woman is aged 18 to 40 and pregnant, as well as subsidised loans to buy or build a house, and grants to buy a bigger family car.
This can seem an alarming prospect. We're used to right-wingers like the Johnson government, who espouse pro-family and transphobic rhetoric but then attack actual working-class families, for example by removing the £20 Universal Credit uplift. The obvious response from the left is to point out they are hypocrites who don't deliver – and that's a harder case to make if a far-right government gives families monthly cash or an interest-free loan. But Graff and Korolczuk highlight that even in these situations, resistance is possible. In October 2016, for example, in response to a proposed ban on abortion, over 150,000 people took part in protests in 200 cities and towns across Poland. Protesters ostentatiously walked out of church services, challenging not only the government but also the Catholic church – previously identified with democracy and Polish national identity, but in the eyes of many protesters now with the abuse of women and children. This movement involved many working-class women and other 'ordinary' people who had not been activists before, increasing their confidence to speak and campaign. Such protests mobilised righteous anger against distant political elites – but this was a genuine, grassroots, left populism as opposed to the fake right-wing variety with its concealed international links and financing.
Protests in defence of abortion rights took place on a similar or even larger scale in the autumn of 2020, after a major attack, so far successful, in the form of a legal ruling that the Polish constitution protected the life of a foetus. As Graff and Korolczuk comment, the 2016 protests formed part of the wave of women's struggles that inspired the book Feminism for the 99 Percent by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser – and they exemplify one of its key ideas, that rather than defending the 'diversity' espoused by neoliberal corporations, we need a feminism integrated with struggles for economic justice and against racism, homophobia and transphobia. Likewise, the more campaigners for LGBT freedom in Eastern Europe seek help from their 'powerful friend' in the EU, the more they inadvertently endorse right-wing claims, which a left populist approach could undermine.
Graff and Korolczuk's book, all in all, is a valuable contribution to helping us understand our enemy as we struggle to build the movement we need. It can be downloaded for free here.


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New England Yachting: 7-Day Itinerary
Lisa Larsen
Americas, Yachting Itineraries
Newport, Sag Harbor, Block Island, Cuttyhunk, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard
New England Yachting: Glorious Americana
New England has an old soul. If only you could compress 400 years of history, hundreds of islands, miles of pristine beaches and postcard perfect harbors into seven days. You can't. But, in a 7-day yachting itinerary, you can capture the spirit of New England; the crispness in the ocean air, the ascots at cocktail hour, the clambakes and sassafras fields, wailing gulls and whaling museums and children laughing in tide pools.
Newport Mansion
On this suggested itinerary, embark from Newport, RI, a bustling seaport town. Here historical wonders and inspirational modern achievements are often pressed shoulder to shoulder. Yachting enthusiasts will feel at home. There are yacht races and sports clubs, lovely beaches, trails for hiking and biking and a delightful downtown area to poke around in. We suggest you plan a day or two before or after your yacht charter to enjoy Newport. You'll find that it's barely enough time to see and do everything.
Newport – Sag Harbor 53 NM
Sag Harbor, New York, is a protected hamlet with a dramatic maritime history. Whether or not you call it a "Hampton", this Long Island superyacht haven, positioned on the South Fork's north coast, is entirely unique.
Due to preservation efforts, centuries-old buildings that convey the lifestyle of early white settlers, whaling captains and wealthy industrialists remain delightfully intact. Main Street is the quintessential New England Main Street, where period buildings house fine boutiques, galleries and restaurants.
Dock at the Sag Harbor Yacht Club and you're steps from Sag Harbor Village shopping, dining and the Bay Street Theater. Pull in among head-turning megayachts and sailing yachts. You can see in your mind's eye the rugged whalers and tall ships that once crowded the harbor.
History buffs can visit three museums. Of particular interest to yachtsmen is the Whaling and Historical Museum. Art collectors will want to browse the Kramoris Gallery. Refreshments and people watching are superb at The American Hotel.
Sag Harbor – Block Island 35 NM
This quirky, windswept island is like no other destination on your New England yachting itinerary. Summertime ocean enthusiasts swarm Block Island in great numbers for the yacht races and fishing tourneys. Yet vast expanses of protected land are empty of crowds. Crisscrossed by trails, the parks and preserves are excellent for cycling and hiking.
Drop anchor off remote beaches, picnic at lighthouse beaches, let kids wade in the gentler surf of protected beaches, or take your board to surfing beaches.
The Great Salt Pond and Old Harbor, just a mile apart, have shops and galleries to explore, pubs to crawl and restaurants to savor New England seafood.
Block Island – Cuttyhunk, MA 32 NM
Cuttyhunk is the outermost of the Elizabeth Islands. It is just a mile and a half long and less than a mile wide. Deer and rabbits cavort fearlessly in rolling hills of sea grass, sassafras and bayberry, and occasionally pop into the small village for a visit. Follow their lead, explore by hiking or biking the trails and small, winding dirt roads.
The area is a sportfishing mecca, with plentiful striped bass and bluefish. Chat with local fishermen. They have plenty of stories to tell. Located between Buzzards Bay to the north and Vineyard Sound to the south, the treacherous fishing grounds around the island have claimed many ships. These include Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2, which suffered $13.2 million in damage. But other than that, it's quite safe.
Visitors cannot bring cars onto the island, and only a few of the 85 or so permanent residents drive one. This is not a place for fine dining or boutique shopping. Go ashore to relax, enjoy nature and serenity. In the evening your crew can prepare a delicious beach barbecue. Build a bonfire and dance around the flames. Have sunset cocktails in the sand. Watch a zillion stars appear in the night sky.
Cuttyhunk – Nantucket 35 NM
Nantucket is the beloved summer refuge of high-profile New Englanders and New Yorkers. Despite its popularity, it offers privacy, anonymity, great boating and fishing, rolling dunes and beautiful beaches. Straddling the Town's cobbled alleyways, the shops, restaurants and galleries measure up to the highest expectations.
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Herman Melville wrote dramatic tales of Nantucket's whaling heritage in "Moby Dick". The Whaling Museum on Broad Street houses the proof. The Nantucket Historical Society is your best resource for current exhibitions, walking tours and events at Nantucket's historic sites. Other great museums include: Maria Mitchell Natural Science Museum (great for kids), and the Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum.
Many of Nantucket's Art Galleries are located near the harbor. Take a stroll. Collectors will find classic landscape and coastal subjects as well as contemporary works by local and regional artists.
Surfside and Nobadeer are favorite beaches for swimming and surfing. Head toward the Nantucket Wildlife Refuge, a skinny peninsula on the island's northernmost tip. The Atlantic side has great surfing waves while the bayside calm is great for waterskiing and shell collecting. Whether you work up a breakfast, lunch or dinner appetite, award-winning Topper's Restaurant at the Wauwinet Hotel is a fine dining experience in an historic setting. Tender to their private dock.
Overnight dockage in Nantucket needs to be booked weeks in advance for July and August, and three years in advance for July 4th weekend. However, moorings are available from Nantucket Moorings or you can anchor north of the mooring field.
Nantucket – Martha's Vineyard 25 NM
They say that in this preppy chic town, where whale belts are ubiquitous, you will be serenaded in the street by acapella singers from Yale and other New England universities. One fine reason to visit.
For some, this 87-square-mile island is an exclusive summertime playground with amenities befitting the ultra-wealthy and famous. For others, it is a low-key island of bicycles and beaches, hiking trails and rolling hills, fishing villages and stonewall-hemmed farms.
If you have time restrictions, the three historic towns on the island's east end, Vineyard Haven, Oak Bluffs and Edgartown, can be explored in a day.
The island's main port is on a picturesque harbor bedecked with tall ships and private yachts. Stroll the length of Main Street for collectables, dining and historic sites. Mount a wooden horse for a ride on the Flying Horses Carousel, a National Historic Landmark built in 1876.
A typical broadwalk town. There are pizza places, ice cream parlors, kitschy souvenir shops, family restaurants and a happening night scene for the 20-something crowd. Oak Bluffs has also become a thriving artists community.
For architecture and history buffs, Wesleyan Grove is especially enjoyable. The 400 colorfully painted Gothic Victorian cottages originally comprised a Methodist campground for the followers of John Wesley. In 1874, visiting President Ulysses S. Grant was supposedly locked out of the campground for violating the Methodist rule of sobriety. Conceal your flask when visiting the Tabernacle.
The preferred locale for high-profile vacationers. The historic town is beautiful, peaceful and luxurious. Walk the streets to admire the Greek revival homes of ship captains. Visit the museums. Dine and shop at upscale businesses housed in historic buildings. From Memorial Day to Columbus Day the Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust offers guided tours of the Dr. Daniel Fisher House, the Old Whaling Church, and the Vincent House.
Martha's Vineyard – Newport 45 NM
Relax on deck keeping your camera close. The New England shore transitions from painterly landscapes to grandiose waterfront villas to quaint fishing enclaves. The ever-changing scenery is inspirational. Anchor off the beach at Quicks Hole on Nashawena Island for a picnic lunch and a swim. Savor the beauty of Narragansett Bay one last time before disembarking in Newport.
More of our favorite places…
Sag Harbor:
The Beacon Restaurant, above the Sag Harbor Cove Yacht Club, features fine American dining with stunning views across Sag Harbor Bay to neighboring Shelter Island. 8 West Water Street. 631-725-7088.
Bay Street Theater, 2016 summer performances include world premiers, a-list comedians and musicals.
Nantucket:
Wauwinet Hotel, an historic, award-winning hotel that is home to Topper's Restaurant and Spa by the Sea. Indulge.
Vineyard Haven:
Mink Meadows Golf Club, built in 1936 by renowned golf course architect Wayne Stiles, a challenging course on rolling terrain with ocean views. Non-members welcome. 320 Golf Club Road, 508-693-0600
The Vineyard Haven Band of musicians aged 14 to 80 plays alternate summer Sundays. March around the gazebo with the locals.
Edgartown:
L'Etoile Restaurant, located in a Victorian whaling captain's home, owned and operated by award-winning Chef Michael Brisson. Upscale dining using native ingredients. Small plate bar menu and signature cocktails. Dinner only. 22 North Water Street, 508 627-5187
Sea Spa Salon, divine spa menu for women and men. Luxuriate in the Sea Maiden's Delight treatment. 17 Winter Street, 508 627-8953
Contact Select Yachts to plan your New England yachting charter vacation. We work with you to book the perfect motor or sailing yacht and customize your itinerary according to your preferences. We've been there. We know the ropes.
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If you are one of my Facebook friends or if you've liked our Facebook page, then you know we have a huge love for animals. We work with shelters and rescues, photographing dogs who need homes. We've also taken photos for the HSUS Lobby Day for the last two years. We've even rescued a few dogs and helped them find their forever homes. And we have three dogs and a cat of our own that keep us very busy!
When Ed and I brought our Basset Hound Jack in to our lives, we knew it was a miracle. He was our first pet together and life wouldn't be the same with out him. After our first year with Jack we found out that he has an illness that will never be cured: Encephalitis, a lesion on his brain that causes seizures that rarely stop on their own. He takes lots of medicine and is monitored all the time; if he has a seizure that we can't stop, we will lose him! We've had a few scares, but he is a fighter! To say it is a miracle that he has been with us as long as he has is an understatement. We are grateful for every day we have with him. He has been the perfect addition to our family!
Our other two dogs, Jill and Zipper were both adopted - one from an animal shelter and another we fostered (and I am proud to say failed!). We know we are truly blessed and these wonderful, beautiful creatures have enriched our lives in so many ways.
Because our house is full and our lives hectic, we made the decision that we couldn't foster any more. We knew we still wanted to help animals find their forever homes, so our way of giving back is to help shelters and rescues by photographing the dogs (or cats) who need homes and help spread the word. This year is our fourth year photographing animals in need, and while we don't do it as often as we would like; we do it as often as we can!
This year I decided that our work with the shelters and rescues needed to go a step further and that is what lead to this very exciting personal project. As a former journalist, I still love to write from time to time, and I thought why not put those talents to use a little and showcase some of the amazing rescues we work with through stories and photos!
This project is going to be a behind the scenes look at what goes into helping dogs find their forever homes. This is the story of what you don't see; when a dog is first taken in, the work done to make a dog adoptable and the hope of a forever family waiting on the sidelines.
Animals are brought to shelters and rescues for so many reasons. Many times, the dogs have been abandoned by their owners, many have been mistreated, starved, used for fighting. The list goes on and on and the stories just seem to get sadder and sadder.
The people at these rescues give their all every day to help animals. There are often times tears of sorrow when a sad, scared dog is brought into their care. There are tears of frustration when justice isn't done. But then there are also tears of laughter from wet, sloppy kisses or from watching the dog run free, playing. And there are also tears of happiness when they say farewell as the dog goes to their forever home, feeling accepted and loved.
I couldn't be more grateful for the people who give their time for the animals in need. It is like their heart and soul is invested in every animal they rescue. They don't get paid for it and rarely get recognized for it, but they do it anyway. Even on the days when it would be easier to give up, they don't. Their hearts are big and their love is strong. I wish there were more people like them in the world.
So here is my way of thanking them for all they do - by telling their stories!
This project is going to have many parts and many stories featuring more than one rescue group; please follow along and read the stories! Some of the photos you'll see may be sad, some will break your heart, so be prepared. And while not every animal has the happy ending they deserve, these rescues do their best to make sure as many as possible get it.
One of my favorite quotes: "Be the person your dog thinks you are!" by J.W. Stephens. I try to every day. These people don't try, they just do it. I can't wait to tell you their stories!
So here is my first series feature: The Suzie Project, Part 1.
Suzie was brought to Regional Animal Shelter as a stray. It was said she had been passed from owner to owner, but no one ever came forward claiming ownership. She came in weighing only 39 pounds (she should have been at least 55!), with worms and a skin disease* called Malassezia. Treatment for the skin disorder requires baths every other day with medicated shampoo, oral medication, shots, vitamins and a grain free diet. Her muscles were also so weak that she couldn't even run and play! While she came in looking very sad, she still showed unconditional love, affection and trust. Even after being put in harms way, her desire to love is still there in her eyes.
*It is easy to cringe or recoil when the word "disease" is used, but this is a very misunderstood term. The term disease literally means "an abnormal condition that affects the body of an organism" (thanks Wikipedia). In this case, Suzie was not well taken care of and her skin and fur began to succumb to the disease's side effects (lost fur and brutally dry, painfully sensitive skin). In a later blog you will see this sad dogs features change tremendously after only a few weeks of proper care and feeding.
Meet Suzie... Such a beautiful dog!
These next few photographs speak for themselves, but you'll see where she is missing fur, her front teeth, her thin body and very dry skin.
Here Suzie sits with her friend Renee, a very hardworking, dedicated member of the Regional Animal Shelter team. You'll hear a lot more about Renee in another blog, but let's just say for now she is one amazing person! Suzie agrees! She has become Renee's shadow; it is very sweet! I love watching Renee work with her animals at the shelter. She is truly an insipration.
Some words I wanted to share that Renee said recently about Suzie: "These are the dogs that fill my heart. The ones that get overlooked ... "
Every other day Suzie is off to get her ears cleaned and take a bath with medicated shampoos at Harvey's Home, Garden and Pet Center. These guys not only donated all of the food and medical supplies needed for Suzie, but they also donated her bathing services while she undergoes her treatments. AND gave her the beautiful collar she has been wearing in all her photos. How amazing is that!?
I'll let the photos speak for themselves; I love all of Suzie's expressions!
Love this one too! Renee is so comforting for Suzie!
I'm going to end Part 1 of this series with this photo, which I love... One more well deserved treat.
Our next blog on Suzie will feature her progress and maybe even her happy ending; stay tuned!
Adrienne Allen - I love these photos, and I love Suzie. I am so happy that she has all of these beyond wonderful people taking such good care of her. God Bless them all.
Judy Marcoux - What a wonderful story....thank you ! Cannot wait for her happy ending !!
this is awesome! The photos are beautiful and so is the story. You are right, and I know first hand, the people who help these pets are so selfless, they inspire me every day. Keep up the great work! I will be waiting for a happy ending (beginning) on Suzie!
Renee Earl - Beautiful job Jessica and Ed! It is an honor to be a part of your project. I am done crying now!
Joy - Wonderful photos of a very adorable dog! It's always heartwarming to see how dogs are so forgiving of abuse and neglect and just keep on loving through it all.


Today John and Sarah were joined by Wayne, Carla, and Rachelle of Veggie Toastmasters. They meet every Tuesday at Metro Hall at 6:15 p.m. For details check their Facebook page. In other news, Winterlicious begins January 30th and there are a few vegetarian and vegan options this year… including Grasslands. Also, you can now register to compete in the Totally Fabulous Vegan Bake-off.
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Minnesota's White Earth Nation stated in A wednesday statement that its latest shooting star casino, hotel and entertainment will be found in the town of bagley. Construction on the home is to start in September and is anticipated to be finished sometime next springtime.
Minneapolis-based architecture and design that is interior Cuningham Group was in cost for the project's design. Once finished, the casino is always to create about 40 new jobs for people regarding the White Earth Nation and residents for the areas that are surrounding.
Bill Marsh, General Manager associated with the Shooting celebrity home in Mahnomen, stated within the Wednesday statement they are extremely excited about their venue that is new in.
The executive pointed out that they have performed a extensive research and have discovered out that a sizable part of the Mahnomen visitors really originated from the Bagley area. In addition, the Northwest Minnesota region has sometime ago indicated interest in hosting a first-class gambling facility.
Bagley will gain not merely from the newly produced jobs but also through the income that the casino is to contribute to the city and its own wellness, educational, and operations that are environmental. Mr. Marsh additionally noted that the venue can be likely to 'improve company growth' in the area.
In line with the Wednesday release, the White Earth country would be to provide more details on its project that is latest on Friday, August 7.
Mr. Marsh additionally noted them to turn Bagley into a 'true destination' and to benefit the city and the surrounding area in any possible way that it will be of the utmost importance to.
As mentioned above, the White Earth Nation presently runs the Shooting Star Casino, Hotel and Event Center in Mahnomen. The luxury gambling and entertainment location enjoys great appeal among Minnesota residents.
The complex had its launch that is official in 1992. In 2001, an expansion that is 145,300-square-foot launched. The amount that is total of30 million had been allocated to it. The facility now features a casino floor, a 386-room resort, a concert location spreading over 15,000 square feet and a gathering hall spreading over 30,000 square foot.
Based on the latest information, the Mahnomen home employs 1,000 people and annually distributes a lot more than $27 million in wages as well as other benefits.
Echo Entertainment Considers the Addition of More Pokies at Queen's Wharf Casino
Australian gambling operator Echo Entertainment is reviewing its arrange for a A$3-billion casino that is integrated at Brisbane's Queen's Wharf precinct and perhaps the company could install all 2,500 poker machines it was permitted to upon the state launch regarding the property.
Fourteen days ago, the Queensland federal government decided to go with Echo Entertainment and its particular proposition for the gambling location within the one submitted by rival Crown. The operator that is winning entered the initial bidding procedure because of the plan to relocate the 1,632 pokies it has been running at its Treasury Casino in Brisbane.
Nevertheless, later on, officials allowed the addition of 2,500 poker machines included in the gambling permit, no matter which one of this two bidders would be to win it.
The gaming company is now considering its plan and how many of the devices it could include upon opening with Echo Entertainment being awarded the license in question.
Geoff Hogg, Managing Director of the operator's Queensland division, remarked that through the entire putting in a bid procedure, Echo Entertainment did not demand the addition of more pokies, aside from those 1,632 it already went. Yet, it proved that the state government ended up being ready to supply the winning bidder the opportunity to feature up to 2,500 devices.
Mr. Hogg also noted that the organization is to review that is further plan for its integrated resort to be able to decide how lots of the allowable products it might offer upon opening. The professional said which they presently run 1,632 pokies and can be required to probably spend the huge difference as much as the permitted 2,500 machines.
In accordance with Mr. Hogg, the latest built-in resort would maybe not add each of them upon starting. But, afterwards, even more machines can be added, depending on populace development, interest in those, etc.
Presently, Queensland clubs and bars feature a bit more than 45,000 pokies. In addition, the four running casinos inside the state's edges run 5,000 more. And Echo Entertainment would not be necessary to https://casino-bonus-free-money.com/lucky-nugget-casino/ purchase licenses from groups and bars since the state has permitted the operator those extra 868 products.
Yet, neighborhood media reported that Echo Entertainment would probably need to pay A$100,000 per each machine. Commenting on the price, Mr. Hogg said that fundamentally it became clear that the pokies will be an element of the permit and that the business would buy those and decide whether it might install them all.
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Balrampur-Ramanujganj district is a district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. It came into existence on 17 January 2012 and was formerly part of Surguja district. Balrampur-Ramanujganj district is the northernmost district of Chhattisgarh. It's seat is Balrampur.

Ramanujganj is one of the historical places in Balrampur district. It is the most populous town of the Balrampur district. Ramanujganj is the border town of Chhattishgarh-Jharkhand State. The nearest airports are Ranchi and Raipur. The nearest railway stations are Garhwa and Ambikapur. Balrampur district borders Jharkhand in the east, Uttar Pradesh in the north, Madhya Pradesh in the west. 63% population are from Scheduled Tribes.

Geography
Balrampur district is mainly mountainous. In the south-west of the district is part of the Surguja Plateau. In the north of the district there are a set of parallel ranges. To the south of these ranges are several of the pats that make Surguja unique, which are some of the highest points in Chhattisgarh. On the border with Jharkhand are several more pats.

There are several rivers in Balrampur district. The Kanhar river, a tributary of the Son, has its source near Kusmi in the south of the district and forms much of its border with Jharkhand.

Tourism

Major tourist attractions include:
 Dipadih (Ancient Sculptors)
 Rakasganda,
 Tatapani (hot spring)

Education
The only university in Balrampur-Ramanujganj district is Sarguja University created on 2 September 2008.

Administration

Blocks/Mandals
Balrampur-Ramanujganj district consists of 6 Tehsils. The following are the list of the Tehsils of Balrampur district:
Balrampur
Rajpur
Shankargarh
Kusmi
Ramanujganj
Wadrafnagar

Demographics

As of the 2011 census, the population of Balrampur district was 730,491, of which 34,683 (4.75%) live in urban areas. Balrampur district has a sex ratio of 973 females per 1000 males. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 4.48% and 62.83% of the population respectively.

According to the 2011 census, 32.92% of the population spoke Surgujia, 26.43% Sadri, 12.32% Hindi, 8.76% Bhojpuri, 7.35% Kurukh, 1.84% Korwa, 1.58% Gondi, 1.37% Bengali and 0.93% Pandwani as their first language.

References

External links

Districts of Chhattisgarh

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