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from __future__ import absolute_import

import logging
import os

from pip._vendor.six.moves import configparser

from pip._internal.utils.misc import display_path
from pip._internal.utils.subprocess import make_command
from pip._internal.utils.temp_dir import TempDirectory
from pip._internal.utils.typing import MYPY_CHECK_RUNNING
from pip._internal.utils.urls import path_to_url
from pip._internal.vcs.versioncontrol import VersionControl, vcs

if MYPY_CHECK_RUNNING:
    from pip._internal.utils.misc import HiddenText
    from pip._internal.vcs.versioncontrol import RevOptions

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class Mercurial(VersionControl):
    name = 'hg'
    dirname = '.hg'
    repo_name = 'clone'
    schemes = (
        'hg', 'hg+file', 'hg+http', 'hg+https', 'hg+ssh', 'hg+static-http',
    )

    @staticmethod
    def get_base_rev_args(rev):
        return [rev]

    def export(self, location, url):
        # type: (str, HiddenText) -> None
        """Export the Hg repository at the url to the destination location"""
        with TempDirectory(kind="export") as temp_dir:
            self.unpack(temp_dir.path, url=url)

            self.run_command(
                ['archive', location], show_stdout=False, cwd=temp_dir.path
            )

    def fetch_new(self, dest, url, rev_options):
        # type: (str, HiddenText, RevOptions) -> None
        rev_display = rev_options.to_display()
        logger.info(
            'Cloning hg %s%s to %s',
            url,
            rev_display,
            display_path(dest),
        )
        self.run_command(make_command('clone', '--noupdate', '-q', url, dest))
        self.run_command(
            make_command('update', '-q', rev_options.to_args()),
            cwd=dest,
        )

    def switch(self, dest, url, rev_options):
        # type: (str, HiddenText, RevOptions) -> None
        repo_config = os.path.join(dest, self.dirname, 'hgrc')
        config = configparser.RawConfigParser()
        try:
            config.read(repo_config)
            config.set('paths', 'default', url.secret)
            with open(repo_config, 'w') as config_file:
                config.write(config_file)
        except (OSError, configparser.NoSectionError) as exc:
            logger.warning(
                'Could not switch Mercurial repository to %s: %s', url, exc,
            )
        else:
            cmd_args = make_command('update', '-q', rev_options.to_args())
            self.run_command(cmd_args, cwd=dest)

    def update(self, dest, url, rev_options):
        # type: (str, HiddenText, RevOptions) -> None
        self.run_command(['pull', '-q'], cwd=dest)
        cmd_args = make_command('update', '-q', rev_options.to_args())
        self.run_command(cmd_args, cwd=dest)

    @classmethod
    def get_remote_url(cls, location):
        url = cls.run_command(
            ['showconfig', 'paths.default'],
            show_stdout=False, cwd=location).strip()
        if cls._is_local_repository(url):
            url = path_to_url(url)
        return url.strip()

    @classmethod
    def get_revision(cls, location):
        """
        Return the repository-local changeset revision number, as an integer.
        """
        current_revision = cls.run_command(
            ['parents', '--template={rev}'],
            show_stdout=False, cwd=location).strip()
        return current_revision

    @classmethod
    def get_requirement_revision(cls, location):
        """
        Return the changeset identification hash, as a 40-character
        hexadecimal string
        """
        current_rev_hash = cls.run_command(
            ['parents', '--template={node}'],
            show_stdout=False, cwd=location).strip()
        return current_rev_hash

    @classmethod
    def is_commit_id_equal(cls, dest, name):
        """Always assume the versions don't match"""
        return False

vcs.register(Mercurial)

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Charlie (Chawtoma) Davis's New Book "Frozen Passion: Death by the Moment" is an Intriguing Story of Two Colliding Perspectives in Love and Romance
EAST ORANGE, N.J. August 30, 2018
Charlie (Chawtoma) Davis, a philanthropist; a Sunday school teacher; and an awardee for countless times due to his unmatched service in his former bus company, NJ Transit, has completed his new book "Frozen Passion: Death by the Moment": a gripping narrative of Randango, a passionate warrior, and Josie, a respectable lass, in a tale filled with clashing, hot-and-cold morals and behaviors.
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Incorporate the sea in your next wire jewelry design. As inspiration try recreating this shell and sea glass pendant for your next wire jewelry project.
I picked up my shell and the beach glass on our last vacation to Maui. I love it when I can use my "treasures" for something that I can enjoy in other ways.
First, I drilled a hole in the top of the sea glass. Then, I drilled three holes in the shell - one through the tip, one on the inside near the top and one to exit out the other end.
I used a 26 gauge wire to string beads through the body of the shell. It seemed to bend more easily for the shell beads that I strung up through the inside curve of the sea shell.
Next, I made a wire wrapped loop over the to of the sea glass, added two crystal beads to match, a flat fluted bead to hide the drill hole.
Then, I threaded the into a drilled hole on the end and out the other drilled hole on the bottom inside. I wound matching seed beads up the inside. Then carefully threaded the wire back out. I topped the wire unit off with another crystal bead and added a small wrapped loop to act as a pendant bail.
This from the sea jewelry pendant is beautiful! What a wonderful way to remember your vacation.
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Home > Spotlights > Geopolitics > CPEC: An Economic Blunder or Part of China's Expansion Plans
CPEC: An Economic Blunder or Part of China's Expansion Plans
By Ivaylo Valchev
Issue Net Edition | Date : 25 Jul , 2020
Growth of its economy is the ultimate goal of any policymaker across the world. Growth makes the economy stronger, creates more efficient and content society producing more, which in turn allows for a larger military. The military, on the other hand, is used to produce something hardly measurable – security. That, in turn, has various aspects – access to necessary strategic resources or securing land, free from foreign or local shocks, where the population, not worrying about basic survival threats, can thrive and produce.
There is only one problem here – the military does not produce anything tangible. It is only a cost incurring part of the society and larger spending as percent of the GDP slow the economy, because less resources are used for reinvestment and improvement of production capabilities. The economy can theoretically exist without the military, but realistically, in the long run it cannot withstand the internal and external shocks. The military, understandably, cannot survive alone as the people in it have to live somehow. Because of all this, both sides are interconnected and need each other.
As a result, any strategic plan of a nation would require strategic steps in both directions- such paving the road for economic growth and such securing the growth by appropriate military backing. Ironically, wealth production of the nation comes at the cost of its trading partners or neighbors as it is something man made, not God granted.
Meet China in late 2012. The party has to elect a new General Secretary and later a new President of the country. A low key, quiet and determined character is chosen – Xi Jinping. Over the course of the next couple of years, a new foreign policy is crafted – harder line on security issues and foreign affairs, a more nationalistic and assertive China and one that is united and confident of its value system and political structure.
The building of a stronger and more confident China, however, would require something that would secure the growth of the nation, the production of the resources and possibly the expansion of the country. The later might sound outrageous to many, but considering the communist roots, it would be foolish to ignore it as the whole communist idea is based on the premises of expansion. "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and "Das Kapital" by the former, talk about a society, which aside from everything else, has to expand until there is only one republic left in the world – the communist republic. Because of the fact that it is such a central concept to the whole ideology, one cannot rule it out without ruling out the ideology itself. As such, this concept has to be included in the Chinese doctrine for the upcoming decades and Xi Jinping would be just part of that path trying to pave it and push the country in that direction.
In order to achieve this, the Belt and Road Initiative was established – an elaborate plan, fundamental to the new foreign policy, which would develop several huge infrastructure networks aiming to give China better access to the world. Those included roads, highways, electricity grid, maritime lines and similar, together with forming the appropriate trading partnerships in the countries in the region, as well as the development banks needed to finance the projects that form it and link them with the corresponding businesses. The main part of it is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – a massive project, viewed extremely positively from China and Pakistan, but also one creating very questionable risks for local ethnic groups, India and even international partners and allies.
What is CPEC and what is its importance to the stakeholders?
CPEC is currently a $62 billion collection of projects connecting western province of Xinjang of China with the newly built deep water Gwadar port in Pakistan. It includes a number of transportation networks (highways, roads, railways, etc), numerous energy projects and special economic zones. The unique feature about it is that it goes through some of most unfriendly mountainous terrains on the planet, such as the Khunjerlab Pass at nearly 5,000 m altitude (4,693m to be exact), which have acted as a natural separation zones for thousands of years.
The main idea is to offer an alternative for the transportation of China's energy imports. Energy – oil or LNG – is vital to the growth of any economy and it is even more important in case of a war. Oil is often referred to as the "blood" of war as it makes all equipment operational and lets it be transported to desired locations. This is why, establishing access to energy supplies has always been number one priority of any growing economy or expanding nation.
Currently, the majority of the energy imports for China are done via tankers, which have to pass through the Malacca Strait – a long and narrow stretch between Indonesia and Malaysia. China's implied risk in this situation is that, in case of international disagreement, this strait could easily be closed, a crisis event known as the "Malacca Dilemma". This scenario would put China's economy and population in a serious situation without many options and prone to influence. Bypassing would require rerouting through Java Sea or Timor Sea, which would increase prohibitively delivery times and most importantly – risks for tankers capture and cargo loss.
Discussing the possible risks and their mitigation is natural. However, in order to implement any project, the opportunities have to come to focus. The main selling points of CPEC is that it is similar to the Marshall Plan in Europe after WW2 or the Eisenhower's Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 in the US. Those networks played a paramount role in laying the foundations to long term growth in both European states (to rebuild them after being ravished in WW2) and the US (for bearing the largest portion of the economic cost of the war for the allies).
It is true that the plans look similar. Both the Marshall Plan and the Highway System in the US created the opportunities for business development – decreasing transportation cost for local and inter-state businesses, opening new markets, etc. CPEC, however, does none of that. It is claimed that it will be a natural boost for the economies of Pakistan and the Xinjiang province of China, but a closer look at the facts only raises eyebrows.
Xinjiang province is the largest by territory administrative division of China occupying over 17% of its territory. Its population, however of ca. 25 million is around 1.7%, of China's (resulting in one of the lowest population densities of the country) and produces less than 1.2% of China's GDP. Even though this is a very beautiful region, it does not produce anything economically significant compared to the other parts of the country. The sheer lack of population also makes future growth unimaginable. This is why, arguments that growth in this region is sought lack substance.
Oil transportation could also be a costly business. Even though the distance between Gwadar and China looks significantly shorter on the map than the marine route, it costs subtantially more to transport oil via pipeline through it, rather than loading it on a tanker and ferrying it to Chinese ports. The marine routes from the Persian Gulf cost China between $2 and $3 per barrel, while the cost of transportation via CPEC would easily reach or surpass even $8 per barrel. At the time of writing, this difference of $5 between both routes amounts to 12% of the price of a barrel from the Persian Gulf. Needless to say, price differentials of this magnitude are more than substantial and do not justify financial logic.
What is worse – the higher cost is associated with the terrain and this is something that nobody can change. The oil has to go from sea level to nearly 5,000 m altitude. This alone is a serious engineering challenge because the pressure cannot be avoided.
Another factor, which cannot be bypassed is the temperature. Temperature greatly affects viscosity and that is the measure that represents oil's resistance to flow. For this reason, thermal methods are used in oil transportation. They, however, have their limitations as there are temperature losses along the length of every system. The lower the outside temperature, the higher the losses. Thermal solutions are used even in the hottest areas of the planet, while the Himalayas offer exactly the opposite environment – the high altitudes have evening temperatures ranging between minus -2C in the hottest summer months, while in winter periods they drop all the way to -40C. The solution to that are many heating stations. In ideal conditions they work for up to 30km. This distance, however, has to be significantly lower in the unfriendly cold environment of the highest mountain range on the planet.
We should not forget that CPEC is still far from finalization. Budgets for mid and long term projects tend to differentiate from actual costs, especially in negative direction, because various unpredictable and hard to quantify obstacles usually appear. CPEC itself was initially valued at $46B, but was later increased with whopping 35% to $62B. Considering that a pipeline there will be pushing the engineering boundaries of human knowledge, it is safe to assume that the current budget estimation might turn out to be conservative in the future.
As mentioned earlier, CPEC is supposed to provide economic boost to Pakistan by providing jobs and stimulating the local economies. Number of factors, however, are against it. First, many of the promised jobs are simply not there. As these are viewed as Chinese projects lead by Chinese companies and management, local engineers seem to not be in favor. Chinese companies have simply employed Chinese workers in their companies. This has resulted in negative opinions and even minor clashes.
Second, the macroeconomic situation of Pakistan is far from perfect. The initial stages of CPEC increased demand for inert materials, small machinery and other construction related materials and equipment. Later stages required various machinery, which had to be imported and that put a huge stress on the Pakistani rupee (PKR). As per data from The World Bank, Pakistan's imports are more than 2.5x the exports. Naturally, any decrease of the PKR resulting from the increased imports would have adverse effect and lead to a slowdown. The World Bank also predicts a negative growth (the economy is shrinking) of 1% for 2020 – 2021. The problems inevitably will become bigger by the decreased ability of Pakistan to pay and the refusal from the Chinese side to renegotiate the terms of the financing. The political dependency on China, the economic woes and the severely increased risk of moral hazard on the side of Pakistan would additionally put a halt on any opportunities for financing by international organisations, such as the IMF or the World Bank.
Third, the project has generated significant resistance from local ethnic groups in the two provinces giving Pakistan sea access – Balochistan and Sindh. While they are minorities in the big picture of Pakistan, for these provinces they are a majority – Baloch, Pashtuns and Sindh represent nearly 90% of the population of Balostichan and 70% of Sindh. The disagreements have grown in terms of events occurrence and intensity in recent years so much so that organisations consisting of insurgents, such as the Balochistan Liberation Army, have sufficient local support to organise and claim responsibility for various large scale attacks, including such on the Chinese Consulate in Karachi, targets around Gwadar and even the Pakistan Stock Exchange. The increased tensions and insecurity have created negative response from higher Chinese representatives, such as Beijing's Consulate General in Karachi Li Bijan, that Pakistan does not provide the necessary security for developments of such magnitude and that it is, in fact, a "sensitive issue" for the Chinese government. The poor handling of the events by the Pakistan government, has multiplied the security tab more than 3 times since the creation of the task force, which currently has 9,000 Pakistan Army soldiers and 6,000 para-military hired to deal exclusively with threats to CPEC.
Last, but not least, it is telling how the people in command react to changing circumstances. In the beginning of July, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan declared that the government would complete the project at any cost. This brazen statement shows clear determination, but maybe also that all other ways are exhausted and perhaps signs of desperation. It is clear that the financial logic is nowhere to be found and that CPEC will be leading Pakistan and its people to longer and tougher indebtedness. Any financial project, which has to be completed at "any cost" will surely get into the red very rapidly and will become a disaster soon. If it does not make sense economically, then what is its purpose other than an alternative for a Plan B scenario in dire circumstances?
So what is the push for? Local hubris or part of a Chinese grand expansionary plan? We should not forget that, while for the last 15 years the world has looked at the growing China appetite overseas with interest, now it takes specific and hard steps to counter it. US started relocating major parts of its personnel from one of its largest military bases in Europe to the South China Sea region. It also banned equipment produced by one of the largest Chinese manufacturers, Huawei, based on its infrastructure, citing major security breaches and cooperation with PLA. The security agencies of number of other countries, including India, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, some in EU and Japan did the same. The argument that this is a massive world conspiracy to limit the growing financial prowess of China does not hold ground, because there were no limitations for the other computer and networking manufactures from China, which shows that there are specific technical issues associated with Huawei products, which pose risks for the western markets. A number of software products and apps were banned as well in various countries.
CPEC is a massive project, which surely has the potential to bring benefits to the local population. However, it also paves the ground for certain risks, which are hard to ignore. Its projected economic benefit seems harder to be found in recent years and the reactions of the leaders on both sides – China and Pakistan – leave more questions than answers. The other world powers should also look into this cooperation as the consequences can have significant impact way beyond the borders of Pakistan and China.
"The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor of the Belt and Road Initiative", Ch. 8 – "Afghanistan Within the BRI Vision and the Feasibility of Enlarging the CPEC", p. 261- 280, S. O. Wolf.
"Chinese Assessments of the International Situation", Jayadeva Ranade, 2020
"CPEC: A Game Changer in the Balance of Power in South Asia", Zahid Khan, Guo Ghanggang, Riaz Ahmad, Fang Wenhao, 2018
"Protecting the Belt and Road Initiative: China's Cooperation with Pakistan to secure CPEC", Filippo Boni, 2019
"Features of Heavy Oil Transportation", A. O. Mamonova, O. A. Plugatyreva, E. M. Khusnudtinova, A. N. Khusnudtinov, 2019
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1254093/xi-jinping-nationalist-and-reformer
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1586307/xi-jinping-rules-out-western-style-political-reform-china?page=all
https://idsa.in/idsacomments/pakistan-cpec-obsession
https://web.archive.org/web/20151222133742/http://www.xizang.gov.cn/zrdl/51648.jhtml#
http://www.tjcn.org/tjgb/31xj/35514.html
https://www.gatewayhouse.in/cpec-gwadar-trade-or-military/
https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=18157
https://www.intechopen.com/books/processing-of-heavy-crude-oils-challenges-and-opportunities/flow-of-heavy-oils-at-low-temperatures-potential-challenges-and-solutions
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.0c00097
https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/historyclimate/climatemodelled/khunjerab-pass_china_1114953
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/PAK
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/cpec-to-be-completed-at-all-costs-imran-khan/articleshow/76783727.cms?from=mdr
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/china-pakistan-economic-corridor-will-be-trillion-dollar-blunder-experts-120062200392_1.html
http://www.spsmai.com/experts-speak/?id=311&issue=125&q=Why-India-should-never-join-CPEC
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/cpec-china-expresses-concern-over-bla-s-militancy-in-pakistan-624075
http://www.spsmai.com/experts-speak/?id=865&q=Chinas-FATF-Shield-for-Pakistan
https://thediplomat.com/2020/07/the-us-china-cold-war-has-already-started/
https://www.dawn.com/news/708123
Ivaylo Valchev
is a strategic affairs and geopolitics analyst. He holds master's degrees in economics from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and MBA from Cass Business School, London.
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Dinesh C Srivastava on July 26, 2020 at 2:41 pm said:
An outstanding article with in-depth analysis of CPEC. Cost over-run has already taken place. some more cost and time overrun will take place that will make it further cost-ineffective. I foresee a lot of cultural clash between Chinese and Pakistani especially Pashunsif this project come in full-fledged operations. By economic sanctions by many developed countries its export led economy will get another jolt making its infrastructure non-performing. China will crumble down due to its own huge non-performing assets and infrastructure.
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Finding a rental home in the off season can be a little more difficult than during the typical PCS months, especially if you have a pet to consider. We love'em, but those furry family members can make moving even more stressful. First, you have to find a home that will consider renting to family with a pet. Next is the decision as to whether or not you need, or can live without, a fence.
Pet friendly rentals near Eglin Air Force Base are showcased today as MilitaryByOwner's Homes of the Week. For those looking for homes in Freeport, Mary Ester, and other cities near the base and have pets in tow, you can reach out to these owners and discuss the potential to move your extended fur (or scale) family in.
To have a dog park in the neighborhood is a pet owner's dream. Wake up! Because this rental comes with access to Canine Commons Dog Park. There will be lots of dog friends and new neighbors to meet, but if you don't make your next best friend mingling there, head over to two different pools, fitness center, ball courts, and walking trails. All are accessible with your signed lease.
The human family members are going to fall in love with the long list of amenities of the home, starting with the ample space. Over 2,000 square feet supplies 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, in addition to a bonus room that doubles as a second living area.
The master bedroom has two walk-in closets to avoid any spouse traffic in the morning while getting ready for work. All of the bedrooms stay cozy due to the carpet. The rest of the house wears easy to clean hardwoods or tile as flooring. The kitchen has updated appliances and the sight line from the screened in porch gives way to the lake view.
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You know what your pets hate? A long day spent alone while their parents work. Avoid extra hours spent in traffic by moving into this rental with the perfect location. Emerald Pointe in Okaloosa County is less than 10 minutes to Hulbert Field and about 20 minutes to Eglin and is surrounded by all of the shopping and restaurant options that Pensacola and Destin have to offer.
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Past Migrations
The next set of books are nearly all about journeys in the past, in one way or another.
41. Richard the Lionheart by David West & Jackie Gaff, illustrated by John Cooper
This is a consecutive art depiction of the life of King Richard the Lionheart, from his childhood as a younger son of Eleanor of Aquitaine (I own a biography of her, and really must read it, once my books arrive) and Henry II. Both men were kings of England, but certainly wouldn't have recognised that as an adequate description of their rank. Richard, particularly, was not especially interested in England, and preferred to crusade. (More on that below.)
42. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
This was part of the same reread I mentioned yesterday. I am torn. I love Gabaldon's writing and characters, but her skill at expressing characters and what they experience can be more graphic than I felt comfortable with this time through. I'd like to say that's less of an issue in this volume than some of the rest, but seeing as this is the one with the '45, that just wouldn't be true!
43. The Travelling People by Anthea Wormington, Sian Newman & Chris Lilly
As the title suggests, this is about the Travelling people(s) of Great Britain, and to an extent of Ireland. It is a thin glossy book produced for children about the various groups of nomadic communities. There is a focus on Irish Travellers and on Roma/Gypsy Travellers, as the most numerous such groups, but there is also information on several other groups. The title link includes PDF files of many or all of the pages of the book, and it is well worth reading, for adults as well. There are links to other related resources as well.
44. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
This one isn't about war so much as its aftermath of suffering, death and separation, and how ultimately love can overcome them. But being Gabaldon, that doesn't mean everything ends up sugar and roses…
45. Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Now though, we're in the prelude stages to another war, on another continent…
46. The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
The next audiobook was my second read of Scott (I have a print copy of Ivanhoe, which I could probably stand to reread), and takes us back to King Richard and the Crusades. The former seems a favourite of Scott, and here is definitely portrayed as the absolute flower of chivalry. Richard (and to an extent Sir Kenneth, narrator and protagonist of the tale) far prefers an honourable enemy (as he considers Saladin) to a dishonourable ally (all those who feel it's time to give up the crusade), but can he really fight on honour alone?
47. Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker
The last 'travel book' tells of two young girls raised in slavery in 19th century America, who upon being 'sold South' choose to flee North along the Underground Railway. It isn't a long book, and gets across the horrors of slavery without being too graphic for even a sheltered adolescent. It's well written, and includes both adventure and emotion.
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I didn't read as much over Rosh Hashana as I thought I might, but I did the other things I expected to: praying (and hearing the shofar) at the synagogue, enjoying sociable and very tasty meals, and a bit of self-reflection; so that's okay.
262. Blue Star over Red Square by Carmela Raiz
I think I'd heard of Refuseniks when I was younger, but the whole era of the USSR ended when I was hardly even a teenager, so I appreciated getting a better insight into the phenomenon in general (of Soviet Jews applying for and being repeatedly refused permission to emigrate, especially to Israel, and also being harassed as traitorous for their wish both to leave and to live Jewishly in the meantime) and into one family who went through it in particular. Raiz published this book in 1994 (the Russian language edition came out in 1992), very shortly after the family's eventual aliya in 1990, which took place almost two decades after Raiz and her husband had first applied. It's an informative and inspiring book, which seems to be out of print but available second hand.
263. The Jewish Kingdom of Kuzar by Rabbi Zelig Shachnowitz
This is an even older tale, but it's a new translation, so should be available new for awhile. Rabbi Shachnowitz wrote for Jewish youngsters in Germany, with this book being first published in the 1920s. It is a retelling of what facts are/were known about the Jewish history of Kuzar, and fairly gripping as a novel. Well worth reading.
264. The Jacobite Wars: Scotland and the Military Campaigns of 1715-1745 by John L. Roberts
I'd read enough novels on the topic of the '45 to want a more specifically historical overview, and this book well fulfilled the purpose. The context of the '15 (which I hadn't read so much about previously) was useful, although it takes up far less than half of the book. Interestingly, Roberts never seems to say that things had to go one way or the other. He points out where (with hindsight, of course) certain campaigns and battles could have gone differently for both sides (as so often in such things, more unity and less bickering and taking of offence by generals, officers and princes would have helped!) and gives sometimes day by day recountings of who did what, and knew what, when and where. My main difficulty with the book was sometimes remembering which side a particular name was on, as they might have been introduced chapters before. A couple of charts of the main players on both sides would have been good to refer back to, as would a few maps, although I actually missed those less.
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Q: How can I disable a link in HTML at beginning and enable it afterwards? I have a HTML web page. The left side bar has come links for navigation.
The logic is that at the very beginning, most of those links (<a> tags) are supposed to be disabled.
Only after user finishes some operations inside the web page, those links are enabled.
So how can I achieve that? How can I disable <a>s first, then re-enable them later?

A: disable the functionality be replacing the href with some no-op like href="javascript:;" and  adding the real stuff later.
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In this Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, the YouTube logo appears on screen before a keynote address by Vice President of Global Content Partnerships at YouTube Robert Kyncl at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.
YouTube's business model relies on tracking IP addresses, search history, device identifiers, location and other personal data about its users so that it can gauge their interests and tailor advertising to them. But that model isn't supposed to work for U.S. children, who are protected by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. That's a 20-year-old law that prohibits internet companies from knowingly collecting personal data from kids under 13 without their parents' consent.
That toddler-oriented YouTube Kids app, launched in 2015, offers more parental controls but is not widely used — and uses the same videos and channels that kids can also find on the regular YouTube service.
Although it's not known if the FTC will take action, the complaint comes at a time of increased public scrutiny over the tech industry's mining of personal data and after the FTC opened an investigation last month into Facebook's privacy practices.
"It seems like (the FTC) may be more reinvigorated and ready to take these issues seriously," said Josh Golin, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which drafted the complaint along with the Center for Digital Democracy and a Georgetown University law clinic. Several other groups have signed on, including Common Sense Media, which runs a popular website for families, and the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.
"I think the day of reckoning has arrived," said U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who co-authored COPPA in the 1990s and says he wants the FTC to look into the YouTube complaint. "Americans want to know the answers as to whether or not the privacy of their children is being compromised in the online world."
FTC spokeswoman Juliana Gruenwald Henderson said in an email that the agency hasn't yet received the letter but looks forward to reviewing it. The complaint was originally scheduled to be filed last week but was delayed after the shooting on Tuesday at YouTube's California headquarters.
"We take enforcement of COPPA very seriously and have brought more than two dozen COPPA cases since the COPPA rule was enacted," she said. The FTC's investigations aren't usually public, but it has previously settled child privacy cases with Yelp, mobile advertising network inMobi and electronic toy-maker VTech.
None of those platforms are as popular for kids as YouTube, which has toddler-themed channels with names like ChuChuTV nursery rhymes, which as of last week counted more than 16 million subscribers and 13.4 billion views. It also has more personality-driven programs that cater to preteens.
A former FTC attorney who now advises companies on COPPA compliance said a case against YouTube would not be straightforward because it's a general-audience service, making it hard to tell if parents are curating content for their kids to watch or letting them use it on their own. Kandi Parsons said the FTC hasn't yet set its targets on kid-directed channels within broader media websites, though that doesn't mean it won't.
"If the FTC thought that a service was directed to children and it was delivering online targeted advertising without consent, that could be a violation," Parsons said. She said the FTC could send Google a civil subpoena seeking more information, and also use other techniques to find out how the service is tracking its users.
Advocates say Google knows what it is doing. They point to its "Google Preferred" program that allows advertisers on YouTube to pay a premium to get their ads on the most popular videos. The program includes a "Parenting & Family Lineup" that has featured channels such as ChuChu TV, Fox's BabyTV and Seven Super Girls, whose topics include "fluffy unicorn slime."
YouTube does "age-gate" to block children who identify themselves as under 13 from starting an account that allows users to post videos, but an account isn't needed to watch videos on the platform.
"It's laughable if Google execs claim that they think the parent is in charge of the online viewing behaviors of tens of millions of children," Chester said. "Children are watching this content by themselves. Google is trying to look the other way."
Chester, who helped create COPPA in the 1990s, said he's confident that the FTC will take a serious look after years of letting Google off the hook for pretending that kids weren't using YouTube.
"They created a successful model monetizing kids' data on YouTube and really did not want to think about the consequences," he said. "Google is one of those companies that has failed to address its ethical dilemmas in a serious way."


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Q: Issue with Multiple Intersects My query is as follows -
I have a table with 2 columns  Name and Mobile Number.
Eg.
    [Name]: A, A, B, C, A, D, D, E, and so on
    [Mobile Number]: 1,1,2,2,4,3 and so on

One Name can have many mobile numbers.
I need to find all the mobile numbers which are in common with all the names in my query.
As of now I am using an array of Intersect statements using for-loops.
Eg. Find_Common of A, B, C, D, E (where Find_Common is a function I wrote to generate the relevant SQL query)
{DISTINCT INTERSECT A+B+C+D+E}

This returns NULL as ALL of the above don't have anything in common.
Eg. Find_Common of A, B
{DISTINCT INTERSECT A+B}

This returns 1,2
But ideally, I want even Find_Common of A,B,C,D,E
should give me 1,2 (i.e. SQL should check the inner combinations of AB, ABC, ABD, etc.)
I can get the desired result if I find the combinations of my name array elements and then generate the SQL query. But I wanted to know if there is a more efficient method?
Is this possible in SQL? To be clear is it possible to have intersect on multiple queries and SQL automatically tries for intersection of combinations of sub-sets of the multiple queries?
Can anyone please guide me about this (Eg. can we do this through intersection, inner join, etc.?) or guide me to some link with the specific example so that I can study.
I have looked everywhere but not found any solution!
Best Regards,
Jogi
(sorry about the formatting. still trying to get the hang of this :) )
Hi cHao and mehdi lotfi, Thank you for your quick responses. I will try out mehdi's solution and revert asap. In the meantime, please find the additional details requested. Table columns look like this -
Name    King Pin    King Pin    Blackbeard  Blackbeard  Blackbeard  Blackbeard  Jackal  Jackal  Jackal  Jackal  Jackal  Jackal
MobileNumber    +919844705231   +919844702018   +919844705103   +919844701273   +919844701273   +919844704063   +919844700415   +919844705841   +919844700596   +919844705231   +919844706955   +919844706402

so to answer cHao's question - Each row consists of 1 name and 1 mobile number

A: I suggest that use table type, and have a stored procedure with this type parameter.
you can execute your stored procedure with name list and get mobile number in coma separated format.
CREATE TYPE NameList AS TABLE (Name NVARCHAR(100))
GO

CREATE PROCEDURE spMobileResult
    @names dbo.NameList READONLY
AS BEGIN
    SELECT STUFF(
                (SELECT DISTINCT ','+[Mobile Number]
                FROM YourTable
                WHERE Name IN (SELECT Name FROM @Names)
                FOR XML PATH('')),1,1,'') AS [Mobile Numbers]
END
GO

DECLARE @A dbo.NameList
INSERT INTO @A(name)VALUES('A'),('B')

EXEC spMobileResult @A

A: Thank you for all your help.
After trying the different ways, finally I went ahead with the following methodology:

*

*If given an array of Names of n elements, I made an array of all the possible combination pairs using Facet.Combinatorics in C# as below:
int lowerIndex = 2;
var combinations = new Facet.Combinatorics.Combinations<String>(
    BASEstrArrNames,
    lowerIndex,
    Facet.Combinatorics.GenerateOption.WithoutRepetition
);

*Above pairs were generated on nC2 basis where n is the number of total name elements and 2 indicates pair combinations (i.e. nCr)

*All the above generated pairs (without repetition) were stored in a holding array.

*I found the INTERSECT on each pair and then combined all the INTERSECTS to generate a Network Graph using Arbor.js
I can't seem to post the example image of the graph as I don't have enough reputation but feel free to contact me for any assistance.


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Q: How can the session state still be available when the AppFabric is crashed? I'm using AppFabric as the session state provider for ASP.NET, and I'm thinking of a solution of HA. I find when the AppFabric is crashed, the entire web application will be affected.
    Can I have a solution to let ASP.NET routes to use in-proc session to make more HA when the AppFabric is crashed?
    Thanks in advance.

A: If you have just one server then switching to inproc sessions might make sense but if you have multiple servers and you're not using sticky routing (which doesn't make sense if your sessions were distributed) then only its going to benefit you.
Although I don't think there is any out of the box way of doing this but in principle it should be possible for you to write a session provider that switches from appfabric to inproc session and somehow signals your load balancer to resort to sticky sessions.
However you should note that if you have multiple servers in your app fabric cache then likelihood of all of them going down at once is very low so I would not even implement any over engineered solution.


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describe('Src', function () {
  var Src = cssvalue.Src;

  describe('parse', function () {
    it('parses source urls', function () {
      expect(Src.parse('url(font.woff)'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff', format: undefined }]);
      expect(Src.parse('url(\'font.woff\')'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff', format: undefined }]);
      expect(Src.parse('url("font.woff")'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff', format: undefined }]);
    });

    it('parses source urls with formats', function () {
      expect(Src.parse('url(font.woff) format(woff)'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff', format: 'woff' }]);
      expect(Src.parse('url(font.woff) format(\'woff\')'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff', format: 'woff' }]);
      expect(Src.parse('url(font.woff) format("woff")'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff', format: 'woff' }]);
    });

    it('parses multiple urls', function () {
      expect(Src.parse('url(font.woff), url(font.ttf)'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff', format: undefined }, { url: 'font.ttf', format: undefined }]);
      expect(Src.parse('url(font.woff), url(font.otf), url(font.ttf)'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff',  format: undefined }, { url: 'font.otf', format: undefined }, { url: 'font.ttf', format: undefined }]);
    });

    it('parses multiple urls with formats', function () {
      expect(Src.parse('url(font.woff) format(woff), url(font.ttf) format(truetype)'), 'to equal', [{ url: 'font.woff', format: 'woff' }, { url: 'font.ttf', format: 'truetype' }]);
    });
  });

  describe('stringify', function () {
    it('creates an empty string', function () {
      expect(Src.stringify([]), 'to equal', '');
    });

    it('creates a single url without format', function () {
      expect(Src.stringify([{ url: 'font.woff' }]), 'to equal', 'url(font.woff)');
    });

    it('creates a single url with format', function () {
      expect(Src.stringify([{ url: 'font.woff', format: 'woff' }]), 'to equal', 'url(font.woff) format("woff")');
    });

    it('creates multiple urls with and without formats', function () {
      expect(Src.stringify([{ url: 'font.woff' }, { url: 'font.ttf', format: 'opentype' }]), 'to equal', 'url(font.woff),url(font.ttf) format("opentype")');
    });
  });
});


The place where various kinds of scientific apparatus and equipments are arranged in systematic manner is our science laboratory.
Our science labs are used for various kinds of practical works which are carry out by the students. Students learn to handle various apparatus and to think independently in the laboratory, because of which it is considered to be one of an important place. This place is considered to be main part of practical work of science teaching. There is an assistant to assist teachers and students in preparing the lab materials.
In ours science laboratory, there are various scientific instruments and chemicals to be kept in safe and secure conditions. With the help of well-equipped and organised laboratory, science teacher will get help in developing the scientific attitudes among the students to considerable extent.


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The entire Burger Barn Racing team and Team Turner Racing crew celebrated Cory Turner's win at Brighton Speedway on Saturday night in honour of Bob Deswiage Photo by Karen Mahoney
Cory Turner Races To Career-Best Weekend With Back-to-Back Wins
Written by Clayton Johns Media on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 13:20
CAISTOR CENTRE, Ont. (June 17, 2019) – Like any racecar driver, Cory Turner set out to win the two races he had on his schedule this past weekend.
And for the first time in his career, the driver of the Burger Barn/Ace 1 Construction/Mobil 1 No.13 360 Sprint Car did just that with a victory Friday, June 14 at Ohsweken Speedway before beginning his Southern Ontario Sprints championship defense with a win on Saturday, June 15 at Brighton Speedway.
"That's the first time I've ever won back-to-back nights in the same weekend in any form of racing, so that was really cool," Turner said. "We had a little bit of luck on our side."
On Friday night at Ohsweken, Turner recorded a perfect night. He claimed a heat race win before the Feature victory. The main event win was one he had to earn. He started seventh and raced into second by the time of a lap 11 red flag when the leader wrecked. From there, Turner outran Mack DeMan to secure his first win of the season and first triumph for his Burger Barn team.
"Jay has got us some really good bullets under the hood. I knew Mack was going to be all over me so when we got to lapped traffic we had to make quick time of them," Turner said. I got a little lucky that the top was where our car was fastest and the lapped cars were mostly down on the bottom. That kind of covered me up for a slider."
Turner added, "Any time you can get a win for the team is great. Everybody gets a little more fired up and guys are a little more keen. It's just as much work when you're running 15th as when you're winning, so everybody's spirits are raised when you can have some success."
On Saturday night at Brighton, a good draw put Turner near the front of the field for his heat race on a lightning-fast racetrack. A second-place finish put him in the redraw for the 25-lap main event where he pulled the outside pole. When the green flag dropped, Turner immediately jumped into the lead and never looked back on his way to victory.
"The car was just awesome. I could put it anywhere I wanted," Turner said of his car at Brighton. "It drove like a Cadillac and was by far the best car I've ever had there."
Again, Turner had to work for the win by battling through some thick lapped traffic late in the race. He ultimately prevailed but not before some tense moments knowing he had Holly Porter looking to track him down for the top spot.
"The track was still a little a narrow from the rain," Turner said. "The lapped cars got two-wide and I didn't know whether to really force it. You never know how big a lead you have and you don't want to wreck yourself. I tried to let them sort out and I was lucky enough to take my time with them and get by them. As a racecar driver, you get a lot of fear when you're off the gas behind lapped cars because you know whoever is behind you is salivating as they run you down."
Turner dedicated the victory to his crew member Bob Deswiage, who passed away suddenly during the off-season. Lovingly referred to as "Bobby the Pilot", Bob was often the team's truck driver and loved each trip to Brighton.
"The first time he ever drove our truck was when I got my first win at Brighton four years ago," Turne recalled. "He passed away over the off-season which was sudden and we didn't really see it coming. He absolutely loved going to Brighton. Any road trip, he was the first guy at the shop and the last guy to leave when we got home. It meant a lot to me to get one for him there."
Turner will return to action this weekend for another doubleheader, beginning at Ohsweken on Friday, June 21, a race that will air live on MavTV Canada at 9:00pm EST. If all goes well, the team will visit Merrittville Speedway on Saturday, June 22 for the second race of the Southern Ontario Sprints season. But don't expect Turner and his Burger Barn Racing team to sit on their victories from this past weekend for long.
"With two wins, you can't get complacent," Turner said. "Everybody else is working on their stuff and the level of competition right now is probably the highest it's ever been at Ohsweken with how many good full-time regulars there are. We have to keep trying to get the most out of our equipment and prepare it right. We're excited to try and have another good run on Friday on MavTV."
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The secret to becoming more productive at work may be this simple: clean up
By Reed Alexander
Published: Feb 3, 2018 11:57 a.m. ET
Experts tell Moneyish how to banish the clutter and get your workspace in order once and for all
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Less mess means more productivity.
Desktop chaos can take a toll on our productivity -- and even lead to our making unhealthy choices. More than four in 10 workers say that having a tidy and organized space helps them behave more productively, and about one in three say it's helped them advance their careers, according to a survey of employees by workplace tech firm Brother.
And another study published in the journal Psychological Science found that those who spent their time in an orderly office made healthier eating choices. (Though, to be fair, their are advantages of a messy desk, like enhanced creativity, according to a 2017 study from the University of Minnesota).
Still, many of us dream of cleaning up once and for all, though seeing those piles of paper, knickknacks and laptop screens littered with icons is daunting. So Moneyish asked organization experts for tips to get our desks in order and maximize at productivity at work; here's what they suggested.
1. Empty your desk: "Completely empty the space as it currently is, [so you have a] clear palate to work with" says organization specialist Jacquie Denny, co-founder of Everything But The House, a site designed to help people declutter their homes. Then, place the crucial items back on the desk in a way that emulates an effective workflow. Start by placing your computer, followed by file cabinets and any other crucial materials which should move from left to right, like we read. On the left, you'll form collections of work you have to do, you'll deal with them in the middle, and you'll move them to the right when they're complete, Denny suggests.
2. Throw out junk: Next, "[grab] the garbage can," says professional organizer Felice Cohen, famed for living in a spotless 90-square-foot apartment in New York City. Cohen says it's difficult to quantify how long workers should keep documents — "everyone's job is different, so obviously it makes a difference what you do" — but tchotchkes, old photos, piles of post-it notes, or documents that you have backed up on a computer should be the first to go.
A messy desk can be a productivity killer at work — and send a poor signal to other colleagues. (Credit: CasarsaGuru, iStock Photo)
3. Know what you really need: Cohen is a big believer that you only need a computer, phone, an "inbox" which can gather the work you have to do in one organized pile, and a to-do list to help you navigate through the day. Everything else is excess, but if you choose to display pictures or other personal affects, keep them limited to a simple bulletin board where they can all be contained.
4. Organize your digital files: Digitizing old papers should be your friend — that means scanning and saving pictures and papers whose physical counterparts you can discard. Next up is clearing off your desktop, culling collections of computer files. "I think of it as, 'What are my areas of responsibility at the 30,000 foot level?'" asks professional organizer Casey Hazlett, founder of Sustainably Organized in Portland, Ore. Hazlett suggests collecting files by the type of project they concern — for instance, you could have a file for paying bills, a file for drafts of next quarter's budget, a file for marketing materials, and the like — and then segmenting them into more particular files from there.
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5. Keep items contained: Get rid of all those random scraps of paper and post-it notes and replace them with a clean, stylish desk blotter where you can scribble notes and appointment details, Denny says. And Cohen recommends having a few drawers where you can house your go-to items, like a personal drawer for everything you need on hand — a snack, your stapler, pens — without keeping them piled on the desk itself.
6. Do maintenance: Now that your desk is organized, the trick is not to slip back to old ways. So build in a few minutes, these organizers say, to keep your desk tidy on a daily basis. "The last 10 or 15 minutes of the day is critical," Cohen concludes. "That's your preparation for the next day, so spend 10 minutes filing [and doing things like] rewriting your to-do list... If you start with a mess [the next day], you're not going to get very far."


Will this include, excluding folders inside the virtual machines hard drives?
Fixed it already a other way, I created a Windows USB 10 installation disk and replaced the boot.wim file.
Cloudberry image based back-ups can be used on Hyper-V clients, but you will get some small problems. One of them is that I wasn't always able to restore the server, the Cloudberry recovery disk was very slow in lab environment.
But the most important part is that if you have a image based back-up you're HAL will have a other ID, then the new server where you will restore it. One of the most simple examples is that you get a new network card inside you're server and it's called #2. So also you're ID's will be changed, what can be very annoying when you try to restore a domain controller.
Beside the performance issues, it's always better to back-up from the host. It will send a snapshot message to the client, what will make a volume shadow copy and then create the back-up.
I'm also waiting a long time for Cloudberry to support at least synthetic full, but even better CBT and they are already supporting that for VMWare. CBT is the most efficient way and for MSP's it will be perfect if it is possible in Microsoft Azure, because as a CSP partner you can make just a little more money and let you're client host there back-up in their own Azure space.
Hi David, thanks and I understand all of them. But maybe my question was wrong, what I want to know.
- Will this new block level backup have all changes from the first full or do it still needs the 10 missing blocks?
This is just for a test case scenario.
Here are our plans. What else do you want to be added?
No problem, good to know that it is in the planning.
CBT for Hyper-V and when possible other types of backups, it will save you to do a new full back-up.
I also tested a image back-up inside the VM, but it really takes a lot more to time to backup then backup on Hyper-V level. And at the moment there is no Syntatic Full Backup option for Hyper-V and there is no Synthetic Full for Azure.
I like Azure more, because I provide almost only Microsoft products to my clients, and as a CSP I also get a percentage back from Microsoft and I can create unlimited containers (buckets) in one account. The last nice thing on Microsoft is that when you buy Action Pack you get $ 100 Azure monthly credits, thats like around 6 TB of back-up.
Ah thats sounds promosing, so I need to setup chaining for 2,3 an 4?
The backup will skip the chain if it's not finished by the time the chained run is triggered.
Maybe it's my English :-) But I understand here that it will not run if the backup is still running and the next scheduled needs to be started.
So for me that looks like I need to schedule the plans to run when i'm sure they are finished.
Sorry I didn't ask the question right. Can I remove a single VM from backup and the storage when multiple VM's are backing up in this backup plan, or are they part of the total backup plans block levels?
I'm happy that I read this, because yesterday night I was almost going to install a Minio server on Windows in the night. So good to know that it is not compatible at the moment, but I hope it will be in the feature.
I will like to know if it's possible, also I can also setup a test server for it and share logs and help with it. Minio looks good, I also did some reading about Minio multi tenant. Will nice if Minio will be supported for Windows, or do you know some other S3 compatible software. I did some research but didn't find that much.
A suggestion for you, if you need to exclude drives now. The workaround i'm using now, is a lot far from ideal but it works. Some clients from me don't want to upload some shares to the cloud to save in the costs.
I know it's long workaround, but sometimes clients don't want to pay for a lot of cloud back-up. And when using image back-up inside the virtual machine is a lot slower (and I mean a lot) then backing up the virtual machines on Hyper-V host level.
I also see and tested "Backup Virtual Machine Edition (5.9.0.313)" and can't see any of this options.
But what do you advise? Enryption is now set to AES 256, NTFS permissions are backed-up and compression is enabled. NTFS and encryption is needed and maybe no compression, but that will make the data be a lot more.
But that sounds very good and will help to make this product more powerful, good job!
Image based back-up will speed this up, but then it will be perfect to have the possibility to restore file level from the image (whats already possible), with an option to restore NTFS permissions from the image based back-up. So we can only restore some effected data.
Doing a full disk restore and replacement will lose files from point 7, so we only want to restore files from point 5 "WITH" NTFS permissions.
So having the possibility to restore NTFS permissions from image based back-up will be awesome and make the product perfect for simulair scenario's.
3. Maybe not compression, but most clients like to pay less. Does compression take that much from the speed, also when CPU is almost doing nothing?
If possible on file level restore also a option to restore NTFS permissions, that will be the most perfect option. To backup Hyper-V, and when needed restore on file level inside the VM with Cloudberry client, and have a option to restore NTFS permissions. Like here, but I don't know if it's technicaly possible.


There's nothing quite like the bond between two teammates.
NFL quarterback Drew Brees has shown unceasing and endearing support for his friend and former New Orleans Saints teammate, Steve Gleason, who has been battling ALS since 2011.
Although Gleason can no longer talk because of the debilitating disease, he "speaks" publically about his condition through an eye-gaze technology tablet that conveys his words to audiences.
Brees says he is completely "inspired" by the work his friend has done to create a global conversation about ALS.
Gleason, unable to talk, explained to PEOPLE via email how the tablet works – and shared his hope that others with ALS will consider giving the technology a chance.
Gleason and his wife, Michel, welcomed their child, Rivers, into the world the same year the former footballer was diagnosed.
Today, Gleason says his tech piece allows him to be the best husband and father he can be.
Team Gleason, a group that supports Steve and his family, was recently selected by Windows 10 to participate in the year-long initiative Upgrade Your World to raise public awareness of ALS.
Gleason hopes that by sharing his story he can inspire others in similar situations to remain strong.
Steve and his family are the subjects of the upcoming documentary, Gleason, that premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 23.
Brees, a producer of the film, says viewers will be "moved to tears," after watching.


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La Catedral de Santa Teresa  (en chino: 长春圣德肋撒教堂) es una catedral católica en Changchun, provincia de Jilin, en el país asiático de China. También se le llama simplemente "Iglesia católica de la ciudad de Changchun" o la Catedral Diocesana de Santa Teresa (en chino: 圣德肋撒主教座堂) en Changchun, porque el obispo de la Diócesis de Jilin se trasladó aquí en 1994, desde la Catedral del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús en la ciudad de Jilin.

En 1895 un padre francés llegó a la zona de Changchun, con el fin de difudir el cristianismo, para 1898 una iglesia fue construida en el actual sitio. Durante la Revolución Cultural, todas las actividades religiosas se detuvieron. La catedral fue utilizada como centro de almacenamiento de libros, y un incendio en 1979 la dañó, excepto la parte frontal (entrada) En 2008 se completó su reconstrucción. Las ceremonias de Renovación se llevaron a cabo en diciembre.

Véase también
 Catedral de San Ignacio (Shanghái)
 Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción (Pekín)

Referencias

Santa Teresa (Changchun)
Arquitectura de China del siglo XIX
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The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2016 has been passed by the Lok Sabha todayJuly 27, 2017 as Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2017 & would be referred to Rajya Sabha for consideration and passing.
The Bill to further amend the Companies Act, 2013 was introduced in Lok Sabha on 16th March, 2016 whereafter it was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance for examination and report.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance had presented its report on the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2016 to Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on 7th December, 2016.
The Amendment Bill as passed by Lok Sabha would be soon available at the website of Lok Sabha.


Fantastic 1 bedroom condo in 55+ building. Top floor unit with south facing balcony. Open concept kitchen and living room, in suite laundry and storage room. Unit was repainted and new carpet installed 3 years ago and all appliances are included. The building has an elevator for convenience and wheelchair access, a 'gathering' room available for owners and is close to a North end amenities Added bonus is the secured underground (heated parking), that has a hose for washing cars, and a storage room with shelves for addition storage space.


Exterior of Madison Square Garden with police lining the street. The marquee reads: "To Night: Pro American Rally." The German narrator notes that the German-Americans are celebrating the memory of George Washington but that Jewish and Bolshevist elements tried to disrupt the celebration. Shots of protesters holding signs and being pushed by police. Interior of Madison Square Garden showing a huge crowd. Fritz Kuhn, head of the German-American Bund, which organized the event, speaks from a stage in front of a huge poster of George Washington. Kuhn pledges allegiance to the US flag, in English. A close-up view of the stage as a man identified by the narrator as "the Jew Gruenbaum" attempts to attack Kuhn. Gruenbaum is brought down and beaten by several Bund members. They are in turn pulled off of Gruenbaum by police. The narrator notes that although the attacker carried a pistol, he was let off with a trifling punishment and immediately released.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in 2004.


The project brief called for the re-design of an inner city warehouse conversion in Camperdown, for a couple seeking a minimalist lifestyle with an interior to match. Conceived of as a "concrete bunker", the shell of the apartment has been informed by the designer's penchant for Brutalist architecture. The principal intent was the creation of a pared back, geometric interior.
The west-facing open plan apartment features a custom kitchen and a mezzanine bedroom, which overlooks the living room space and a small terrace. The loft is flooded with light from a full height, glazed wall, counterbalancing the interior mood, which is intentionally dark and brooding. All interior elements have been created as "raw and extruded concrete monoliths", as seen in the fluted kitchen joinery, curved ceiling forms, and the cement-rendered bathroom. The furniture selection features geometric forms and a muted palette, underscoring the overall concept.
This interior eschews the cliched "industrial" warehouse aesthetic and ubiquitous "Sydney" design approach, offering a fresh, yet site-specific take on the warehouse conversion category. Great lengths were taken to synthesize client direction and the specificity of the brief with a bold design approach. resulting in a utilitarian, cave-like sanctuary that is also intimate, light-filled and homely.
Design innovation is evident in the skillful reduction of the functional components into simple geometric forms that are evocative. In addition, although the brief was a concrete box – remarkably very little cement has been used in its creation. The "solid" concrete elements are Glass Reinforced Cement (GRC) – which has far less weight and cement than traditional concrete techniques.


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Topps Wacky Packages
Wonder Bread Premiums
Between 1973 and 1975 Topps issued three runs of stickers that were given away in bags of Wonder Bread. All stickers had plain tan backs.
The first release had 24 titles, all from original series 1-3.
These are easily distinguishable from the originals by the fact that they have different copyrights. Wonderbread stickers all say "Topps Chewing Gum Inc" spelled out, while original 1-3 series stickers have copyright "T.C.G.".
The second release had 32 titles, all from original series 1-7.
The titles in this release are harder to distinguish from the originals because they have the same copyright. Here are some examples: Lavirus, Boo-Hoo, My Sink, Shot Wheels, Blunder Bread, and Sugar Daffy. There are more, see the second series Wonderbread page for comparisons of all titles.
The Boo-Hoo and Blunder Bread variations: Boo-Hoo and Blunder Bread appeared in both the 1st and 2nd Wonderbread issue. The first and Second Wonder Bread issues of these titles are distinguishable from each other by their copyrights. And the second series ones are distinguishable from the originals since they both have the die-cut variation (see the Boo-Hoo and Blunder die-cut variations).
The third release had 16 titles, all from original series 7-10.
As in the 2nd release, all titles have the same copyrights as the originals. It is also harder to tell the difference from the die-cuts. The third series Wonderbread page has side-by-side comparisons to the originals.
True count: Combining the three releases, there were 70 different titles, if you count the two Boo-Hoo and Blunder Bread variations then there are 72 total. Many of the 2nd and 3rd Wonderbreads are not distinguishable from the originals, so in order to get a true set you usually have to know where it came from. Since many sets were taken home by employees of the factory, quite a few pedigreed sets do exist in the hobby.
The uncut sheets are unique among all Wacky sheets in that they have 16 rows by 10 columns, and issue 2 and 3 are the only Wacky Pack sheets known that have upside-down titles.
A promo poster for the Wonderbread Wackys has been found. It seems likely there was also some indication of Wackys on the bags the bread came in, but to date nobody has turned one of those up.
For those titles that are indistinguishable from the originals by their die-cuts, there are several theories that have bandied around as to how to tell the difference.
One sure fire way to know an original is if it has two asterisks, Wonder Bread stickers always have one asterisk.
If the sticker is greasy then it is likely a Wonderbread.