We've all cut things from time to time to make ends meet at one point or another. The lesson that most people that don't want to learn is that these things are just things and can be replaced again in the future when you are in a better place. It's so easy to get caught up with trying to keep up with the Jones' of the world and forget our goals. Or, even worse, we get twenty dollar'd to death with subscriptions and little costs that add up big over the long term.
Today, I just wanted to go through a few things that my family has cut back on in order to make sure that we have enough left over at the end of the month to accomplish our bigger goals. These might not be the same as what you would be willing to cut, but they are simple things that have worked for us over the long term. I'm hoping that you might see an item or two that you might be unaware about, or maybe you might have a couple of suggestions for me.
Please click on the page numbers below to see the different ways I've been able to save money by giving up different things.
This was a no-brainer for us a LONG time ago. I remember I was paying upwards of $80 a month for cable for around 250 channels and the only thing I would ever watch for the most part was the History Channel. There just never seemed to be anything on to watch for me. The biggest factor into not needing cable TV for me is that I'm not a sports fan. I see how many sports fans are unwilling to compromise, but have also heard of many people being able to get out to friends' houses or public places to see the games if they really need to. On top of that, you can follow along online quite easily these days.
Basically, now we just use Netflix streaming paired with Google Chromecast/Apple TV to allow us to stream almost everything that we need. The selection is huge and we don't feel like we are missing out. Not to mention, there are many times when TV just doesn't even seem appealing to me anymore. If I remember correctly, we cut the cord way back in 2008 or so. I know it's been a long time.
Our 2001 and 2004 paid for vehicles.
We have been able to cut out car payments for good chunk of time now. The way we did it is just by paying cash for our vehicles. This is one of the reasons it's taken us a bit longer to get our emergency fund fully funded, but now we have decent vehicles that get us from point a to point b relatively comfortably and efficiently. Driving without having to make car payments is a great feeling. Even when I have a car repair, I don't fret because it's much cheaper to just fix the vehicle then just go out and sign up for more payments. After finishing our emergency fund, we might turn our savings towards a car replacement fund before starting to invest, but we have yet to make that decision.
I don't mind driving and older vehicle for now. We drive a 2001 and a 2004 vehicle and both run great, don't take a ton of maintaining other then the normal wear and tear and are still worth a little bit. I'm always on the lookout to purchase a newer vehicle if I can get it for a good deal and then I would sell mine but the opportunity has not presented itself fully yet. I can see these vehicles lasting us another 5-7 years easily before we need to replace them with something newer and that is a lot of saved cash in that time period!
Buy groceries and cook for yourself to save extra money.
Another thing we've done in our family to cut costs is not eat out nearly as much. First, I will say that my wife is an amazing cook and has really made it her passion to make new and different types of recipes each and every month while still doing a great job to save us a lot of money from when we began.
I remember us spending upwards of $800 a month between eating out and buying groceries and toiletries each month just for the two of us. Now, there are four of us, and we get by on just $625 a month and do a decent job at it. There are months when things can get kind of scarce, and we have to fund some additional money into the food budget, but, for the most part, she is there. That's a $175 a month savings from where we were!
Not only do we get to reap the money savings, but our health is better for it too. Actually, just recently I started my weight loss journey and have even helped our meals go further by doing better portion control, allowing us to stretch our meals to include leftovers for the next day's lunch. This has been very helpful in allowing us to save money and allow us both to eat healthy while still being able to bring our lunch.
Every 6-12 months, we get the pleasure of seeing how much we can save over our last year's insurance rates. We actually use an insurance broker that shops all the rates for us and then gives us recommendations that fall within our guidelines that we follow for homeowners and auto policies. We were able to save $350 last year just by switching our auto provider. I really believe that shopping with an insurance broker rather than an insurance agent is the way to go. The broker will do all the shopping around for you, you just pick what's right for you.
One of the things that we still need to do is up our deductible for our different insurances. Because our emergency fund is almost fully funded, we can afford to save a little bit of money in premiums by raising our deductible to the $1,000 or $2,500 level if it makes sense.
For health insurance, we are fortunate to be offered an HSA account with our plan. We make sure to put money away each pay period to make sure we are covering our deductible. We try to put more away each year so that we have money saved up and earning extra interest as well.
As we've increased our savings, we've been able to take advantage of more deals because we have built up margin. Instead of paying monthly for certain items, we opted to pay yearly or every six months to get a deal. This has been great for our auto insurance, vacation fund, and car repair fund through the use of sinking funds.
By looking at the cost of things with a yearly perspective, it allows us to truly see if we want to spend our hard earned money on that product/service. It allows us to get out of that "monthly mindset" of thinking "how much a month". We should instead think, "how much total". This has been huge for allowing us to tell ourselves no to things that deter us from our goals.
We've completely gone the opposite route from the "buy it now on credit, and pay for it over time". This was not a good feeling. I remember coming home from vacation that I really had enjoyed. However, I had to figure out how to pay for it because we spent more than we should have. Now, if we want something, we set up a sinking fund to save up and buy it. If we aren't willing to wait until we have enough saved up, then it's not worth having.
I had to learn this the hard way with an old television that I had bought. It cost me roughly $1,500 for this 32″ Sharp Aquos 720p LCD TV when they had first come out. I just looked it up on Amazon, and saw that I could buy one used for about $400. It took me roughly two years to actually pay this off. I bought it on a credit card and only made minimum payments for the most part!
This disgusts me every time I think about it. Especially since I bought a 50″ LG 1080p LCD TV for $450 cash 2 years ago. Technology is fun, but almost never holds it's value. I do still have the old TV, but it's down in my basement and rarely gets used. I'm sure I could have saved up while the prices were still coming down. I would have gotten a nicer model a little bit later and paid cash for it.
One of the hot topics of today is home efficiency. As soon as we moved into our house back in 2010, we made some changes. We switched out all incandescent light bulbs with CFL lights. These cost a fraction of the power but give off as much light. I installed a programmable thermostat for $26. This makes our heating and cooling needs work for us on autopilot by keeping the same temperature all day. We installed energy efficient filters on our bathroom sinks. This restricts water flow so we don't waste water while washing our hands or brushing our teeth.
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Great ideas for ways to save! It's amazing how several small changes – and sometimes a few big changes too — can really add up. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Christina! Little wins like these do add up over time! Thanks for taking the time to visit and read!
Some great ideas. My family and I actually do a lot these things too (we have basic cable). Good read, Steven. I look forward to reading more.
Thanks Chris! We actually just ditched even Netflix and a service we were using called Sling 2 months ago. That freed up another $45/month for us to put into retirement each month! Plus we get more free time not watching tv. To be fair, we still have Amazon Prime Video for video streaming though.
Great post. It amusing how 'micro' managing finance works like charm. I'm finding that actual measuring and doing some calculations helped a lot. Also it becomes a fun habit eventually.


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Lungu intelligent enough to take correct action against Bowman – Kaweche
By Mirriam Chabala,
Kaweche Kaunda
FIRST Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda's son, Kaweche says his family does not want to dictate what action should be taken against Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo because they trust President Edgar Lungu will do the right thing.
And Kaweche says those going into public office to enrich themselves should held accountable by having their lives audited before and after leaving office so that those found wanting can be sent to jail.
Speaking when he featured on Capital FM's The Big Issue programme, Monday, lamented that if there was an opposition which took things seriously, Lusambo would not make careless statements like saying First Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda's children should have enriched themselves during his 27-year rule.
"Let me tell you something; if we had an opposition that took these things seriously and took some of these things to task, he would not be making some of the statements he's making against other people. These are things the opposition should be doing, my brother included, Tilyenji. But it's like everybody wants to look the other way or doesn't take seriously and that's why Panji speaks. It's not because he's jealous or he wishes his father was still President, far from it! For the 27 years [our father was in power] if we wanted we would have owned the country, but that's not us. So I don't know why minister Lusambo decided to answer this query from my brother. But when I saw it, I brushed it off and said my brother would deal with it. But the reporter who did the story called and asked for my comment. So I did make a comment and that's when I said we are not thieves, and it's an insult to the family for anybody to imply that because we didn't steal then we are stupid. So I said he needed to apologise to us a family," Kaweche explained.
Kaweche said he and Lusambo had agreed that he would draft an apology for publication but that he went ahead and posted something different on his Facebook page after their meeting.
"…he came with someone whom I am acquainted with as well. So we sat, it was a cordial meeting and I told him that it was not nice what was said and I asked him to clear the air…He basically said 'look, I have greatest respect for the family and for yourself and for Colonel Panji. There is no way I would deliberately say anything that would be an insult or bring the family into disrepute. So if I have said anything that has created that impression, I apologise wholeheartedly, I am very sorry'," Kaweche explained.
"I was happy with those words. So I told him that what you need to do now is to issue a statement which we both can agree on and put this thing to rest. I said 'I would like a statement in which you are stating clearly what you've said here'. He agreed, he said 'yes I will go and draft a statement just now when I leave here and send it to you', I said 'please do because I need to report back to my brothers how this meeting has gone. They know I am meeting you and they are waiting for an answer and I will tell them right now how it went. So have that statement drafted and if we are happy with it, we will indicate to you to go and issue it'. We agreed and after that, he said 'people won't believe me if I say I came, can we please take some pictures?' I said 'sure let's take some pictures'. Then I walked him to his car and just as he was leaving, one of my father's assistants asked me that 'why can't he use Frank's platform to go and clear this'? That's when I called you and said Bowman would call you, he was still there and I called him and said 'Bowman I was supposed to go to Frank's programme, I haven't gone, so can you go and use that platform to announce this apology of yours?' He said 'no problem I will call Frank'. So we agreed that he issued the statement on air and he left."
He said he was shocked when Lusambo posted something completely different from what was agreed.
"But in evening Colonel Panji called me and he upset, he said 'Kay is this what you agreed with Bowman?' I said 'what'? He said 'have you not seen it'? I said 'no', he said 'open Bowman's Facebook page and tell me that this is what you agreed or not'. So I read it and it was not what was agreed; in his post he was saying of how him and I had come to an agreement that it was fake news that was going on and that people are trying to bring conflict between the Lusambos and the Kaundas. But there was no specific apology in there. I tried to call him after I read that thing but I couldn't go through. So as far as the family is concerned, what is on that Facebook is not what agreed, what we agreed to do has not been done. So for us we find that very disrespectful," he said.
Asked if the Kaunda family had raised the issue with President Edgar Lungu, Kaweche said the President was intelligent enough to know what needed to be done about his minister.
"No, we haven't raised this with the President. The President is intelligent enough to know what needs to be done. The last thing I would want is for the President to be in a position where he feels like it's the Kaundas who made him do this or that. So he knows whatever he's going to do and how he's going to handle it. I am not even going to hint at what he should or shouldn't do," he said.
And Kaweche said there was need to conduct lifestyle audits for all those going into public office.
"The best way to do that now is to by ensuring that anybody going into politics to enrich themselves should be held accountable. Here I am, it should be known what I have before going into politics or being appointed minister. I know they have that thing where they declare that this one has got so much and so much, but someone should really look and see if they really have those things and they don't, when they are leaving office again, they should be checked; you were ministers for so long, now you own 20 cars, three farms, how? So there should be personal audits. There is no harm in making money, but make it somewhere else not because you are a minister. If you are a minister, be a minister not because you want to make money being minister. And someone should go to jail for someone of these things, then maybe people will learn," said Kaweche.
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Lusambo's arrogance and remarks are a clear manifestation of what is going on under this Government. Day light stealing and looting. Agreed, the President is Intelligent enough to make decision on Lusambo but he has always failed the Nation when is expected to act intelligently. This President has no capacity to fight corruption at all. God help us…AMEN.

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Christian school expels girl pictured with a cake of many colours
January 15, 2020 by Barry Duke
Christian school expels girl pictured with a cake of many colours January 15, 2020 Barry Duke
AFTER a picture was posted on social media showing Kayla Kenney celebrating her 15th birthday with a 'rainbow' cake, faith-based Whitefield Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, decided that the photo demonstrated 'a posture of morality and cultural acceptance contrary to that of Whitefield Academy's beliefs' – and last week it expelled the girl.
Images via Wave3 News and Facebook
The girl's mother, Kimberly Alford, above, who posted the picture on her Facebook page, then received an email from the private academy's head, Bruce Jacobson, explaining that her daughter was being expelled:
Immediately due to a post on social media.
Jacobson said the move followed two years of "lifestyle violations" committed by the girl.
But Alford said her daughter is not gay and the cake was simply a fun treat, with the bakery receipt showing that they had provided a cake with "bright color rosettes – assorted."
Wave3News screenshot
Alford added that the Whitefield Academy Parent Teacher Fellowship has even featured a rainbow image on its private Facebook page before later taking it down after the expulsion of her daughter.
In a Wave3News TV report, Alford said her daughter was "devastated" by the school's judgmental stance, and that it jumped to the conclusion that she was gay.
Jacobson wouldn't say whether the photo of the rainbow cake and shirt led to the expulsion but said the girl had faced "a progression of discipline."
All the families of students know that they have expectations they need to (follow). We always try to work with families over a period of time.
Alford said her daughter wears "tomboy-type clothing" from time to time and has always been athletic, but the photo of her with the rainbow cake and outfit:
Meant nothing. She did nothing wrong.
Alford said she and her daughter had met with school officials last October and that a school disciplinary officer found Juul pods, a form of e-cigarettes, in the girl's backpack.
Following the meeting, Alford said everyone agreed that her daughter:
Would be on probation. Any other behavior issues could cause her to be expelled. Since October, there have been no disciplinary issues. There have been no academic issues. There has been nothing.
According to Whitefield Academy's parent/student handbook, high school students may face expulsion "when there is a serious departure from the school's guidelines" for student conduct.
A section on student behaviour says Whitefield's:
Biblical role is to work in conjunction with the home to mold students to be Christ-like. On occasion, the atmosphere or conduct within a particular home may be counter or in opposition to the biblical lifestyle the school teaches. This includes, but is not limited to, sexual immorality, homosexual orientation or the inability to support Biblical standards of right and wrong
… In such cases, the school reserves the right, within its sole discretion, to refuse admission of an applicant or to discontinue enrollment of a student.
Alford said her appeal against the expulsion was denied. She said Jacobson told her the cake and the sweater "just kind of represents gay pride" and that Alford:
Should have refused the cake.
Image via Facebook
Chris Hartman, above, Executive Director of the Fairness Campaign, a Louisville-based LGBTQ advocacy organisation, said if the photo factored into the student's expulsion, then the school's action:
Seems incredibly outrageous.
But he noted that Whitefield Academy, which is affiliated with Highview Baptist Church, has the authority to expel students who may go against its religious beliefs because of exemptions for faith-based schools in Louisville's Fairness Ordinance.
Hartman pointed out that a rainbow does not solely represent LGBTQ movements but is also mentioned in the Bible's Book of Genesis as a symbol of God's covenant with Noah following the flood.
So the idea that they would eject someone for the simple display of a rainbow is ludicrous.
Jacobson said he told the girl's family that the expulsion could instead be classified as a "voluntary withdrawal" on her record if she applies to other schools.
Alford said that, while she believed that Whitefield had a positive impact on her daughter, who is now attending another school, the academy is imposing religious beliefs that are:
Very judgmental. That's not what I wanted for her.
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Jacobson said the move followed follows two years of "lifestyle violations" committed by the girl.
Did he specify what she actually DID in those two years? All I see so far is an e-cig, which has nothing at all to do with gayness. If he can't specify any more than that, then he has no case.
(And I strongly suspect that if he DID specify, he'd have a really b@tsh1t s1lly case.)
DeadBabyJoke
Oh, FFS!
Gussie FinkNottle
It's sad that the mom thinks she has to say "oh but she's not lesb, she's just dresses like a tomboy sometimes." Like that matters! Is she hoping they will let the kid back in? Is she Hphobic herself?
Probably yes to both. I sincerely hope this ignorant action by the Christian madrassa will get the girl's parents to think a little harder about their basic beliefs and prejudices…
Also, kicking a kid out of their madrassa because she wore rainbow colors and rainbows are gay, kinda contradicts the Christian Reich's campaign to RECLAIM God's rainbow so it WOULDN'T be associated only with gayness. That lot really gotta get their bigoted reflexes straight…
"Biblical role is to work in conjunction with the home to mold students to be Christ-like." Like the school administration is providing an example what it's like to be Christ-like? I personally wouldn't attempt to have her reinstated – I'd run away from these creeps as fast as possible.
budm303
Ignorance is the greatest evil. Any religion is "evil in the blood." The mother should be glad her child is well quit from the misdirecting environment. Take care with signing any contract, for the real god in USA worshipped is Mammon, the Lord of theft.
When your idiotic superstitions make you so stupid you don't even know and/or can't even accept that rainbows are a completely natural and common phenomena in this planet. I guess if these people ever read their stupid, false book of lies they'd want all references to Joseph's "coat of many colors" completely erased then?…
Jim Olsson
I don't think the witch hunting experts at Whitefield Academy would know moral imperatives from pea soup.
Rabbi Jacob Milgrom says that, "YES, the Bible prohibits homosexual behavior, however, only in the land of Israel and only for males, and, possibly, only in certain interfamily relationships. The thought was that only man had the ability to make a child, and the woman was the incubator. So the 'spilling of the seed' was forbidden since Jews had the directive to build a nation, and males were to use their seed for that purpose. Homosexual relationships were as common then as they are now."
In an obscure Amazon book review someone even more obscure said, "Homosexual people are not aberrations or deviations from the natural order but are merely natural variations of God's diverse created order. Those who want to believe deeply in their hearts the concept of 'evil homosexual people' are those who fail to comprehend the most basic message of Christ's Gospel- unconditional love, acceptance and inclusion."
Amen, bruthah!
This isn't a scene out of Iron Age or Roman Era Palestine… we live in an overcrowded world where 'be fruitful and multiply' isn't the virtue it once was when the planet was, by comparison, virtually empty. In our current era where everything is seen through the lens of environmental impact and sustainability, you'd think the most populous nations of the world would not only endorse same-sex relationships, but would also encourage them through tax breaks, or other incentives to help mitigate the population explosion naturally, rather than through genocide, war, sterilization, or one-child policies such as the Chinese use to curb human production.
Dr Sarah
In addition to the general ridiculousness of this expulsion, has it struck anyone else as ironic that the school have, in effect, taken a position that students can only make cakes of particular types as approved by the school? Isn't that the same type of position that was leading Christian fundamentalists to scream about persecution when it involved a Christian baker?
'So the idea that they would eject someone for the simple display of a rainbow is ludicrous.'
Good point; I wonder what this school would make of the Bible my family had when I was a child, which had a picture of a rainbow on the front as part of that scene from the Noah's Ark story?
The Apistevist
I wonder how the school would feel about Joseph's coat of many colors.
Broga
"She said Jacobson told her the cake and the sweater "just kind of represents gay pride".
I assume what "represents" gay pride is decided subjectively by some bigot and that leaves aside the repellent bigotry underpinning the decision. What comes across is that the Kayla was too independent minded and questioning and insufficiently slavish in her obedience to their indoctrination. Exactly the kind of pupil that should be valued and encouraged. And, in any half decent school, cut some slack. The effect of this savage act by these "followers of Jesus" will be to cause suffering to a 15 year girl by alienating her from her friends at an age when being part of a group is so important.
That's from the Old Testament, which Jesus fulfilled, so it's no longer applicable unless it suits this or that preacher's agenda at a given time…so shut up, that's why.
What this is about is total mental submission and for that the specifics get in the way. No one can be sure what is right or wrong till he decides. Only he can decide that. That means everyone has to tread very carefully and watch him to try and anticipate what he might want and adjust immediately if they think they are getting out of line.
I really wish that was true — Mammon tends to be a far more rational god than the violent abusive alcoholic the Christians call "The Father, the Almighty."
WMDKitty — Survivor
Just one more point in favor of banning private schools. Especially religious private schools.
When Marilyn Manson was a kid, he was sent to Heritage Christian School in Canton, Ohio. He was known as Brian Warner back then, but he hated going to the school and said they tried to brainwash him with the whole doctrine of the end times. He even stated in his book that many times, he would have nightmares from the teachers pushing End Times and Fire and Brimstone lectures. Another thing that school did was doing the whole backwards masking thing and that is how he got into Metal. When they tried to play songs backwards to find some hidden message, he would go out and buy the album. He wanted out of that school so bad, that he would start selling things that were contraband(such as candy and gum, which students were forbidden from having). Then he made his own Magazine in the same fashion as Mad Magazine and distribute it at school. Another thing he would do was buy albums for kids who weren't allowed to own them, then steal them back while class was in session. He got away with that because no kid is going to go to the teachers about him selling and then stealing albums they asked him to buy. There was one kid that actually turned him in, though. Nothing he did got him expelled because they wanted his parents' money, but they did employ corporal punishment on him. Eventually he refused to go back to that school and demanded to go to public school. To this day, it was going to that school that made him who he is and what he is about.
Bob Jase
Believers tell me Yahweh invented rainbows so clearly god is gay.
See, this is what happens when you libs force Christian bakers to bake gay cakes: they get good Christian girls expelled from lame Christian schools where they were already in trouble for unspecified reasons!
Wait, now I gotta figure out why that's bad…
I'll come in again…
Exactly: loony Christian madrassas BUILD CHARACTER!
KenderJ
She did enroll her daughter in this crazy school in the first place and only has a problem now because she feels she was treated unfairly.
I read an article that said the girl attended a dance with another girl as her plus one. Who knows? Maybe they just went as friends. Maybe the girl is testing the waters. Whatever. Putting your child in a religious school, especially a Baptist school, is guaranteed to mess them up for life.
Back in the 70s, I had a ski jacket with the same kind of rainbow striping. I've noticed that the pattern has begun popping up lately with the return of puffy vests and jackets, and a 70s resurgence in some styles (so much brown and tan and orange).
These people are nuts.
McPaul
The young woman will be much better off in the long run.
The first thing taught in J-school is: "Follow the money." Who's our president? Who rules Arabs? How come Israel? Endemic to all societies. S/he withe gold is most often the winner.
Brianna LaPoint
I hope the girl is having second thoughts about her beliefs, the christian ones her mother forced on her that is.
"Logic, how the fuck69 does it work?"-Every fundie, ever.
Jane Ravenswood
Conservative Christians are thoughtless bigots. They will attack anything that they think is against them, even when it is not.
aka morons
With all the sex abuse/ pedophiles being caught/found now days in churches and the cover ups, it seems that fundamentalists could find better things to worry about.
John Grove
I'd be all to happy to get away getting that school !
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Really, really weird. Disqus just dumped your posts to me from the last few days all at once. I didn't even know you'd responded to my last post. Guess it's probably related to the other Disqus problems of late.
So how's this FreeThinker site? Any others you've recently found that you also like? And have you learned what the "as if there's any such thing as a 'bad' word" rules are here, and on some of the other blogs you've been on these past few weeks?
I'd already eaten tonight, so hubby just grabbed some Chipotle on the way home. Of course, I had to tease him about it (I have never and will never eat there): While he was sitting on the couch next to me, I sent this meme I threw together to his phone. That earned me a dirty look. LOL
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I was wondering why you hadn't responded. I've had problems with Disqus as well. On the plus side, I heard on FA that you can now see who downvotes your posts.
I've been on the FreeThinker, A Tippling Philosopher, Laughing in Disbelief, Dispatches From the Culture Wars, Daylight Atheism, and Love, Joy, Feminism. And as for the language, I've had posts go into moderation for minor language, but I've gotten around it a few times.
I haven't eaten anything today, and I have no idea what I'm going to eat. I've heard of Chipotle's, but I've never seen a Chipotle's, much less eaten there. Also, LOL @ your meme.
"I would be kicked out of there because I don't have the proper plumbing".
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Responded, but shows "pending"—I have no idea why, unless someone's gotta problem with aitch.ee.double-hockey-sticks. **eyeroll**
My last post to you is waiting to be approved, even though there was nothing REMOTELY objectionable in it.
And goddess forbid the okays/not-okays would be listed somewhere. I can't find such a listing anywhere here or at ATP. Bet you can still be shown the door for violating something on it anyway, huh? Ugh.
Big doody poopy head! I wonder if this will pass the filter?
LOL Shall we test the filter one boo-boo word at a time? Ugh.
Been exposing holes in Luke Breuer's drivel on Tippling. Fish in a barrel, my friend…fish in a barrel. LOL
That guy needs to be smacked with the logic stick a few times.
Ha! Never heard that expression. That's meme-worthy!
Done! LOL
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HA! And with THAT picture too.
realthog
To be honest, if the I'm sure appropriately named Whitefield Academy is run by bigoted judgmental shitbags like Bruce Jacobson, I'd say young Kimberley should count herself as having had a lucky escape.
The odd thing is that Jacobson's attitude isn't even Christian.
It was the facial expression I imagined might be on my face if I were to say that to someone. Then, all of the sudden, BAM! Tobey Maguire popped into my head. LOL
Yes, in the same way that the Ten Commandments are irrelevant and passe when it's Trump breaking them.
It's about an hour and a half…
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Essentially, it's about the Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints, a team of blasphemous ministers who live in a constant state of debauchery, so as to remain spiritually corrupted. They can then force demons into their bodies and commit suicide (a ticket straight to hell), and thus drag the worst of the demons back to hell with them.
Quite blasphemous and transgressive. ;-P
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I should also mention it was written and directed by the author of the graphic novel.
There's a running joke in it about this character named Clint, an Opus Dei stiff. Ever wonder why there aren't any superheros named CLINT? Because of how the 'L' and the 'I' bleed together on the cheap pulped paper of comic books. ;-P
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blotonthelandscape
I think it's pretty normal as humans to try to salvage things that have seen a lot of investment rather than just cut ties and try something different. Moving schools can be traumatic for a child, even in cases like this (friendship groups, anxieties over change), and it can be difficult to see greener grass (this goes for any abusive relationships I guess).
As has already been said, it's probably an event that will trigger some introspection; while they likely do have homophobic views (it's Kentucky for Christ's sake), they may now have cause to reconsider them based on how their daughter was treated.
Except for the trauma to the girl, this is something of a win-win. The school is exposed for its bigotry and the girl gets out.
morgan k Wyatt
How do they know that her shirt wasn't her mimicking Wesley Crusher on Star Trek the Next Generation? This is ridiculous. I recently heard an Indiana pastor warning parents against buying their children rainbows and unicorn themed clothing because it was part of a secret agenda. I believe the agenda must be fun.
And then some. If the UK criteria for sectioning them under the Mental Health Act were applied they would fall within it. But then so would many devout believers in the UK. Only religion escapes your accurate description of "nuts" and people who believe they are eating Jesus' flesh and drinking his blood are regarded as sane. Not only sane but admirable and so the destructive attitudes and behaviour are protected and their victims continue to suffer.
The word "symbolic" is now used regarding the cannibalism but that is a whole different debate.
I wonder how she was treated when she was in the "school," by adults and fellow students…
With all the sex abuse/pedophiles being caught/found now days in churches and the cover ups, it seems churches are FORCED to find distractions and scapegoats wherever they can.
Hello, it seems I'm now able to see who downvoted me. Hello, "Liberty2Day," wanna tell us why you're keeping your past comments hidden?
Sounds pretty wasteful. Couldn't the demons just come back, like they came before, and possess someone else?
Mimicking Wesley Crusher? That's a SERIOUS lifestyle violation!
I hope she's able safely to let others know about said second thoughts, if she has any.
Screenwriters hate people like you.
Ha! j/k Yeah, I tend to be a nitpicker, too. My hubby hits me when I start to nitpick while we're watching movies. LOL
I feel badly for the girl, in no small part because of her feckless parents, but this is about the funniest thing I've read all week. Christians are now afraid of …the color spectrum?!
Zeldacat
At least Wil seems to have a bit of a sense of humor about some of those outfits these days.
Carla Gifford
According to the scriptures of these same people, who invented the rainbow. This is foolishness gone to seed. I wouldn't want my child in a school that acted like this and had such phobia of other people, left-right, up-down, gay-sad!!!!!!!!!! oh, I meant straight.
StevoR
Which she clearly was. Expelled for eating a rainbow cake and wearing a sweater with a rainbow on it? Seriously?
Ironically (?) a traditional reading of the character of Christ could well be that he was a rebel who defied authority, opposed tyranny, supported the social outcasts of his day including those heretical Samaritans and cared more about actual kindness than the precise letter of the law. Thus it seems the expelled student here was arguably more "Christ-like" than the "Christian" school authoritiy here. Of course, other interpretations and ideas abound and even the existence of the precise Judean Jesus character himself is questionable but still.
"YES, the Bible prohibits homosexual behavior, however, only in the land of Israel and only for males, ..
Meanwhile in modern Israel :
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If gawd ain't happy with that & objects then he sure isn't showing it or showing up.
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What the .. ?
"Follow the money." (1) Who's our president? (2) Who rules Arabs? (3) How come Israel? (4) Endemic to all societies. S/he withe gold is most often the winner. (5)
1. Ok. Cliche but often good advice.
2. Depends which country you live in. I presume you mean Trump. Which doesn't quite entirely tie in with the "follow the money" thing because he was elected for a range of reasons some not mainly financial like the Murdoch's and Rapeublicans decades of smears against Hillary Clinton and the actions of then FBI chief Comey and Julian Assange among other things plus BernieBros, third party voting fools and the non-voters by choice or suppression.
3. Depends where those Arabs are living. Mostly Arabs are ruled by other Arabs e.g. the Saudi tyranny, Yemeni civil war warlords, Assad, various rich and nasty Sheiks, Libyan warlords, the Egyptian military dictator, etc .. Also huh? Relevance here?
4. Israel how come? Well, its a very long and contentious story. It goes back to a whole range of things starting with centuries of Southwest Asian, Russian and European anti-Semitic persecution and pogroms culminating in the Shoah (Holocaust) plus existing Jewish people living in the modern day Israel during and after the collapse of the Ottoman Turkish empire; all following the complex, often tragic regional history of several ancient Jewish nations and provinces in the relevant parts of the Levant including the Roman province of Judea, the Hasmonean kingdom, the Davidic kingdoms of Judah and Israel, etc .. How long have you got and again, why is this relevant? Why "how come Israel" instead of how come Argentina or how come Italy or how come Tonga or how come anywhere else on Earth huh?
5. With a few exceptions notably some Indigenous societies and cultures. Not every culture knows about or values gold FWIW.
Oh & again, where is the connection of this – and all of that – to anything here and what point if any do you think you are making by raising these quite separate and irrelevant things?
Probly and hopefully.
Natural spectroscopes terrify them. Wonder ewhat they make of parhelia. ("Sundogs".)
Fun terrifies them it leads to dancing .. Or is that vice-versa?
How very puritan ..
I thought they were a natural result of basic physics.. and on the second part of that agreed. Fundamentalist brain-washing and bigotry combined with deliberate ignorance and religious intolerance I think.
Yes, but you are not her and I'd expect she would have quite a lot of friends and maybe family attending that matter to her and she'd like to be with.
Judy Thompson
now this is silly. You go to a dance with your best friend so you'll have someone to sit with and talk to when you're trying to get someone to dance with,. No one wants to sit by themselves, that's dorky and difficult. It doesn't mean you're gay. Neither does the rainbow. We have one here every time it rains in the afternoon. Does that make RAIN gay? Are they going to ban rainbow watchers?
it must be exhausting for kids to have to double think every piece of clothing, every move, every sentence, in case the godalmighty school police decide they have 'transgressed".
All this nonsense reminds me of Johnny Cash song "Man in Black" which ends thus:
"Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black"
Bet that's song's banned at the school!
The point being that there is no right answer. They can't get it right. What they have to do is try to please the tyrant in charge. This is enormously exhausting and creates zombies who will not think independently. The Popes are expert at this. Who knows what is the "right" answer? The Vatican has shifted its "certainty" on so many occasions. The existence of purgatory caused so much distress to RC mothers whose baby died before the priest sprinkled some magic water on the baby.
Dana W
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You should be able to test this by telnetting from a remote computer. If you receive a connection, your good to go.
Here you have not specified any line number!!!
whereas INPUT -I INPUT will place the rule at the top.
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Changes in the nature of work will impact future lab design, according to a new Arup report, as science labs and research facilities become technology enabled, with flexible spaces allowing for collaborative, data-centric research.
As the creative and technical heart of science, research facilities will undergo a shift to become more adaptable, interdisciplinary environments that align with changes in the workplace. The report identifies a move towards greater work-life balance, the changing demographics of the workforce, and increasing competition among institutions and companies to attract and retain talent as some of the key drivers behind this shift.
Placemaking will become increasingly important as part of this transition, with research facilities forming part of a wider community designed to enrich and enable the lives of the researchers.
Labs will encompass a variety of work spaces from co-working facilities to incubator hubs and DIY labs, reaching beyond the conventional framework of scientific research towards a more accessible, public realm of scientific enquiry.
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Q: Concatenate two json object is there any way to Aggregation two json object together and assign the result to the first object
i have tow Json object and i want to Aggregation  them into one object
               <script type="text/javascript">
               $(document).ready(function () {

                    var FirstObject= [
                    { "label": "salem", "actor": "" },
                { "label": "Aragorn", "actor": "Viggo Mortensen" },
                { "label": "Arwen", "actor": "Liv Tyler" },
                { "label": "Bilbo Baggins", "actor": "Ian Holm" },
                { "label": "Boromir", "actor": "Sean Bean" },
                { "label": "Frodo Baggins", "actor": "Elijah Wood" },
            { "label": "Gandalf", "actor": "Ian McKellen" },
                { "label": "Gimli", "actor": "John Rhys-Davies" },
                { "label": "Gollum", "actor": "Andy Serkis" },
            { "label": "Legolas", "actor": "Orlando Bloom" },
                { "label": "Meriadoc Merry Brandybuck", "actor": "Dominic Monaghan" },
                { "label": "Peregrin Pippin Took", "actor": "Billy Boyd" },
         { "label": "Samwise Gamgee", "actor": "Sean Astin" }
                ];
        $("#search").keyup(function () {

            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                dataType: "json",
                contentType: "application/json",
                url: "WebService1.asmx/GetDocumentNames",
                data: '{ }',
                success: function (data) {
                     **FirstObject =data.d**

                },
                error: function () { aler("Salem Error"); }
            }

   );
        });

    });

</script>

so on the statement   FirstObject =data.d   i want the  Aggregation

A: Use jQuery extend like this:
// first argument tells jQuery's extend to deep copy the properties
$.extend( true, FirstObject, data.d );

quote from jQuery documentation:

Merge two objects recursively, modifying the first.

A: Your variable FirstObject is actually an array, and assuming what you receive is not an Array but a JSON Object to append or aggregate it to the array, you just need to call the Array's method push.
FirstObject.push(data.d);

If what you're receiving is a JSON Array rather that a JSON Object, you could use the concat method in the array.
FirstObject.concat(data.d);

A: Take a look in below example:
var jsonArray1 = [{'name': "doug", 'id':5}, {'name': "dofug", 'id':23}];
var jsonArray2 = [{'name': "goud", 'id':1}, {'name': "doaaug", 'id':52}];
jsonArray1 = jsonArray1.concat(jsonArray2);

A: If you want to merge the JSON objects and maintain the common keys.

var object1 = {
  'key1': 10,
  'key2': 'Hello ',
  'key3': [
    'I',
    'am'
  ],
  'key4': {
    'key5': 'Hi',
    'key6': 11
  }
};
var object2 = {
  'key1': 11,
  'key2': 'World',
  'key3': [
    'an',
    'Array'
  ],
  'key4': {
    'key5': ' there',
    'key6': '#SomeRandomString'
  }
};

function isArray(value) {
  return Object.prototype.toString.call(value) === '[object Array]';
}

function isObject(value) {
  return Object.prototype.toString.call(value) === '[object Object]';
}

var result = {};
for (var key in object1) {
  if (object1.hasOwnProperty(key) && object2.hasOwnProperty(key)) {

  //check if the value is of type array (works for key 3)
    if (isArray(object1[key]) && isArray(object2[key])) {
      result[key] = [];
      for (var i in object1[key]) {
        result[key].push(object1[key][i])
      }
      for (var i in object2[key]) {
        result[key].push(object2[key][i])
      }
    }

  //check if the value is of type object (works for key 4)
    else if (isObject(object1[key])) {
      result[key] = {};
      for (var key_inner in object1[key]) {
        if (object1[key].hasOwnProperty(key_inner) && object2[key].hasOwnProperty(key_inner)) {
          result[key][key_inner] = object1[key][key_inner] + object2[key][key_inner];
        }
      }
    } else {
      result[key] = object1[key] + object2[key];
    }
  }
}
//console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
console.log(result);

A: You can use Object.assign() method to concatenate a json object. The Object.assign() method is used to copy the values of all enumerable own properties from one or more source objects to a target object.[1]
var o1 = { a: 1 }, o2 = { b: 2 }, o3 = { c: 3 };
var obj = Object.assign(o1, o2, o3);
console.log(obj); // { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }

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Two congressmen have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to halt all primate research at an Arkansas laboratory until a "pattern of negligence and abuse can be thoroughly investigated and corrected."
U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., sent the letter to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Thursday after they learned of the Aug. 3 death of a 5-year-old rhesus monkey at the National Center for Toxicological Research near Pine Bluff.
"Enough is enough," Gaetz said Tuesday. "Taxpayers are sick and tired of the government's multimillion-dollar monkey business, and I'm proud to lead bipartisan efforts to cut wasteful and abusive primate research at the FDA."
Gottlieb permanently ended a nicotine study at the Arkansas lab in January 2018 after four squirrel monkeys died there from 2015-17.
At the time, Gottlieb said he had called for an independent, third-party investigation of all the agency's animal-research programs, starting with those conducted at the Arkansas lab. He also established a new Animal Welfare Council to provide centralized oversight of all animal-research activities and facilities under the agency's purview.
The remaining monkeys from the Arkansas nicotine-addiction study were retired to a sanctuary in Florida. But monkeys are used in other experiments at the Jefferson County center.
One of 26 monkeys that were moved from a lab in Arkansas to Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary in Florida is shown in this photo submitted by the sanctuary.
The August monkey death was from "accidental strangulation," according to a final report that William Slikker Jr., director of the research center, sent Sept. 7 to Brent Morse, director of the the Compliance Oversight Division in the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare in Bethesda, Md.
The monkey was left in a "restraint chair" in the Operant Test Battery chamber to play a game on a computer screen, according to the report.
The monkey was found with the "yoke of the restraint chair pushed all the way up touching the top of the chamber causing obstruction of the airways," Slikker wrote. The monkey had to be euthanized, according to the report.
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee was informed of the death Aug. 6 and initiated an investigation.
As a result, the committee recommended, and the lab "initiated" several changes, including installing live-feed cameras so the monkeys in the Operant Test Battery chambers can be monitored in real time, according to the report.
Gaetz and Boyle had written Gottlieb on Oct. 26 "applauding" his decision to end the nicotine testing on monkeys at the Arkansas lab. They also asked that the Animal Welfare Council review all FDA primate testing and make recommendations where it can be reduced and replaced so more of the lab monkeys can be retired.
Then they found out another monkey had died at the facility in August.
"Such a preventable animal death suggests a persistent lack of proper oversight, animal care and training at [the research center]," the congressmen wrote in their March 21 letter to Gottlieb. "These are similar to the problems you identified at the facility when you rightfully shut down its primate nicotine testing lab.
"We are confident that you share our concern that seven months after FDA pledged to address these serious problems, with a review of all agency animal research programs and the creation of an Animal Welfare Council, the abuses continued and caused the preventable death of yet another primate."
The congressmen also requested more information about the monkey death in August.
"I'm alarmed that one year after the FDA promised to clean up its controversial animal testing program following four other monkey deaths, and six months after I specifically asked Commissioner Gottlieb to implement primate testing reforms, monkeys are still dying horrible, avoidable deaths in the agency's labs," Boyle said. "Painful primate testing has no place in the 21st century, and I will continue fighting in Congress to end this inhumane, ineffective and outdated practice."
The Jefferson County lab is in U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman's district.
"Animal deaths in testing facilities are unfortunate, and all practical precautions should be in place so animal deaths and injuries can be avoided," said Westerman, a Republican. "By all accounts, [the National Center for Toxicological Research] followed proper protocol in reviewing and implementing changes to ensure accidental deaths like this don't happen again. Any other investigations into conduct should be allowed to run their course without interfering in [the research center's] daily, standard operations."
Gottlieb couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday. The Washington Post reported that Gottlieb has resigned effective next month and Norman "Ned" Sharpless will serve as acting commissioner.
The death of the monkey in August was made public earlier this month after the group Stop Animal Exploitation Now got the information through an open-records request and furnished it to the White Coat Waste Project, a coalition that wants to stop "wasteful" government spending on unnecessary animal experiments.
"Over 1 million of our supporters have asked Congress and the FDA to stop wasteful primate testing and retire the animals to sanctuaries, and we're grateful to Reps. Boyle and Gaetz for continuing to hold the FDA accountable for its taxpayer-funded animal abuse," said Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project.
According to documents posted on www.fda.gov, the nicotine-addiction study began in 2014 with 24 male monkeys -- 12 adults and 12 adolescents. Research needed to be done on adolescent monkeys because tobacco use by humans often begins in adolescence, according to one of the documents.
• August 2015: A 1-year-old monkey died from anesthetic complications during a brain scan.
• March 2016: A monkey died during surgery to address "acute gastric dilation."
• May 2017: A monkey was euthanized after being found near death.
• July 2017: A monkey died from "laryngeal and tracheal obstruction."
March 27, 2019 at 12:16 p.m.
THESE WEENIES IN THE LEG. HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS. BESIDES: THEY ARE INFRINGING ON FEDERAL DOMAIN WHEN THEY TRY TO DICTATE TO FEDERAL ENTITIES. GET A LIFE GUYS. GO PLAY GOLF. WE USED TO HAVE LEG. MEET EVERY OTHER YEAR. WORKED GREAT. HOW BOUT EVERY 10 YEARS. WILL WORK BETTER!!!
March 27, 2019 at 1:20 p.m.
This is members of congress in the US house of representatives improving oversight on a program that uses federal tax dollars.
March 27, 2019 at 3:17 p.m.
MY GOOF!THESE WEENIES WERE IN CONGRESS NOT AR LEG. EVEN SO, THEY SHOULD HAVE MORE IMPORTANT FISH TO FRY THAN THE MONKEYS. THESE CREATURES ARE CARED FOR QUITE WELL AND HAVE A BETTER LIFE EXPECTANCY THAN IN THE WILD.
March 27, 2019 at 6:37 p.m.
I doubt the two knucklehead senators have ever been to NCTR. Primate research IS, in fact, very important.
March 28, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.
It would be interesting to know the view of these gentlemen on abortion. It is very common among animal rights activists to decry any harm to the least of the animals, while fully supporting abortion rights.
They justify this by calling an unborn child a fetus and claiming that a fetus is not a live human. Does anyone know when the soul of a human being is put into the unborn child, but even scientific research as shown that the unborn child has attributes that clearly indicate the presence of a soul. The unborn child is certainly a sentient being. Who can say at what point in the gestation process the soul enters? I cannot. It is certainly well before birth and could easily could be at the moment of conception.
If abortion is done on a child with a soul, whether born or unborn, it is murder. If we are going to avoid even the chance of murdering a child, then abortion should absolutely be forbidden.
Following this same logic, if a human being dies directly because primate research is forbidden, then is that not also murder?


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Q: Alter a Redshift View to point to a new table I've created a simple view in Redshift that is select * from source_a with no schema binding. Now I have a new table, source_b, that I would like the view to point to instead that has no new columns or datatypes.
How can I repoint the view without dropping permissions?

A: You run the CREATE again but include the OR REPLACE syntax.
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW my_view AS …
WITH NO SCHEMA BINDING ;

You can retrieve the existing view definition with pg_get_viewdef.
SELECT pg_get_viewdef('my_view', true);

A: First off take a look at the create view documentation page - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_CREATE_VIEW.html
You have made a late-binding view which checks permissions on the tables when executed so you need to make sure you have the correct permissions on that new table - "source_b".  These late-binding views are a the lookup / reference to the tables rather than a predefined link in the database.  You also cannot grant column lever access to a late binding view.  Otherwise permissions work the same as regular views.
To change the view without having to change the permissions on it you will want to use "create or replace view ..." (see link above) to update the definition.  Just remember that the permissions of the new table will matter.


Technology is transforming money, investing, and Wall Street like no other time in modern history, and the pace of change is accelerating. How can investors and financial managers stay current—and more importantly, gain an edge over competitors? As the boundaries between time zones, date lines, and continents dissolve, what tools most effectively address the challenges of real time money management?
While the financial industry has always been tightly intertwined with technology, that relationship has never been more filled with challenges and opportunities, as recent headlines about exploding "quant" funds demonstrate. Hedge funds, unbeknownst to most people, are actually now havens for geeks and software sorts, with all the consequences you might expect, from Moore's Law's power, to the potential for catastrophic system failures.
And what does that make hedge fund managers? It makes them Wall Street's hackers — technology-fueled usurpers of the financial status quo.
Money:Tech brings Web 2.0 entrepreneurs to Wall Street, so that the Street can learn from these companies — and help teach them about new ways to leverage the data they are gathering. Web 2.0 is ultimately about "collective intelligence." So too, of course, are financial markets. But the breakthroughs in Web 2.0, as in financial markets, have often come when a company realizes the overlooked potential in a source of data that was available all along.
Unlike Wall Street firms, which keep their techniques and sources of proprietary advantage close to the vest, many firms focused on consumer internet opportunities have nothing to lose by sharing their insights and their data with those in a position to exploit it.
The drumbeat of new—and better—data sources coming on stream is only just beginning. The technology for extracting meaning from that data is maturing. What other kinds of data are being exposed in today's increasingly networked world that can be the foundation for insight and value creation? That's what this conference intends to showcase.
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Most traditional financial data sources are plumbed into uselessness. New companies are emerging around freely-available web-based data. Can they fill the void?
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Q: Start SSH daemon in Laravel sail I'm using Laravel Sail and have published the Dockerfile (so I can edit it manually). The reason being that I need to use an OpenSSH server on the container itself for a program I'm using.
I am able to install OpenSSH by adding && apt-get install -y openssh-server to the packages section and configure it with the following:
RUN mkdir /var/run/sshd
RUN sed -i 's/PermitRootLogin prohibit-password/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
RUN sed 's@session\s*required\s*pam_loginuid.so@session optional pam_loginuid.so@g' -i /etc/pam.d/sshd
EXPOSE 22

The issue though is that it does not start when the container starts.
According to this answer you can add an ENTRYPOINT as follows:
ENTRYPOINT service ssh restart && bash

However you can only have one ENTRYPOINT and Laravel Sail has this by default:
ENTRYPOINT ["start-container"]

I have tried the following:

*

*add /usr/sbin/sshd to the start-container script - it didn't start

*add CMD ["/usr/sbin/sshd", "-D"] into the Dockerfile as per this answer - it gave a permission denied error when starting the container

A: As the php container uses supervisor you can add another application to the config. Reference for the config can be found here.
Example
ssh.ini:
[program:sshd]
command=/usr/sbin/sshd -D


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Visigothic art and architecture
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The Visigoths entered Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) in 415 and they rose to be the dominant people there until the Umayyad conquest of Hispania of 711 brought their kingdom to an end.
Chapel of São Frutuoso in Braga, Portugal
Church of San Juan Bautista in Baños de Cerrato, Spain
Visigoths remains in the Crypt of San Antolín of the cathedral of Palencia, Spain
Ruins of Basilica of Santa María de Batres in Carranque, Spain
This period in Iberian art is dominated by their style. Visigothic art is generally considered in the English-speaking world to be a strain of Migration art, while the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking worlds generally classify it as Pre-Romanesque.
Branches of Visigothic art include their architecture, crafts (especially jewellery), and their script.
1 Visigothic architecture
Visigothic architectureEdit
The only remaining examples of Visigothic architecture from the 6th century are the church of San Cugat del Vallés in Barcelona, the hermitage and church of Santa Maria de Lara in Burgos, Saint Frutuoso Chapel in Braga, the church of São Gião in Nazaré and the few remnants of the church at Cabeza de Griego in Cuenca. However, their style developed over the next centuries, though the prime remaining examples of it are mostly rural and often run-down. Some of the characteristics of their architecture are:
Generally basilican in layout, sometimes a Greek cross plan or, more rarely, a combination of the two. The spaces are highly compartmentalised.
Horseshoe arches without keystones.
A rectangular, exterior apse.
Use of columns and pillars with Corinthian capitals of unique design.
Barrel vaults with cupolas at the crosses.
Walls of ashlar blocks, occasionally alternating with Roman brickwork.
Decoration commonly of animal or plant motifs.
Crypt of San Antolín in the cathedral of Palencia, province of Palencia, Spain
Church of Santa Comba in Bande, province of Ourense, Spain
Chapel of San Xes (or San Ginés) de Francelos in Ribadavia, province of Ourense, Spain
Church of San Pedro de la Mata (in ruins) in Sonseca, province of Toledo, Spain
Church of Santa María de Melque in San Martín de Montalbán, province of Toledo, Spain
Suso monastery at San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja, Spain
Basilica of Santa María de Batres in Carranque, province of Toledo, Spain
Hermitage of Santa María in Quintanilla de las Viñas, province of Burgos, Spain
Church of Santa Lucía del Trampal near Alcuéscarprovince of Cáceres, Spain
Crypt of the Monastery of San Salvador de Leyre, Navarre
Church of San Miguel de los Fresnos (in ruins) in Fregenal de la Sierra, province of Badajoz, Spain
Saint Frutuoso Chapel in Braga, Portugal
Church of São Gião in Nazaré, Portugal
The Pre-Romanesque church of San Pedro de la Nave in San Pedro de la Nave-Almendra, province of Zamora, Spain was formerly regarded as an exemplar of Visigothic architecture, but current thinking as to the date of the building suggests that it is better described as Mozarabic or Repoblación. A similar redating has been suggested for the Church of San Juan Bautista in Baños de Cerrato, province of Palencia, Spain.[1]
Treasure of Guarrazar
Verona Orational
Visigoths
^ "Group of Mozarabic buildings on the Iberian Peninsula". Retrieved 2019-06-15.
"Visigothic art". In Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Visigothic art.
Age of spirituality : late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
El portal del Arte Románico; Visigothic, Mozarabic and Romanesque art in Spain.
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"Grade School Confidential" is the nineteenth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 6, 1997. It was written by Rachel Pulido and directed by Susie Dietter. The episode establishes the long-term relationship between Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel. Bart witnesses a romantic moment between Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel and acts as a snitch for them. However, they later embarrass him and he exposes their romance to the public.

Plot
Martin Prince invites his classmates to his birthday party, but it ends badly after most of the partygoers get food poisoning and end up leaving by ambulance due to diseased oysters being served instead of cake. After the party, Bart, who fed his oysters to the Prince family cat, sees Principal Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel kissing in Martin's pink playhouse. After failing to provide Bart with a convincing cover story, Edna and Seymour, fearing that they will be fired if anyone discovers their romance, swear him to secrecy in exchange for putting Milhouse's name on his permanent record.

Edna and Seymour use Bart as their gofer. When Edna and Skinner accidentally run into Superintendent Chalmers whilst on a date at the cinema, Seymour fetches Bart, who had been sleeping, so that Edna and Skinner could claim that they were supervising a field trip. Bart is humiliated in front of his classmates after Skinner forces him to say "I love you, Edna Krabappel" aloud as if the message were his own. Fed up, Bart gathers the entire school in front of a janitor's closet and opens the door to reveal that Skinner and Edna are making out.

Word quickly spreads throughout Springfield, with the story the students tell growing more illicit and exaggerated. After hearing his son Ralph's risqué version involving the two "making babies", Chief Wiggum reports it to Chalmers, who gives Skinner an ultimatum: either he ends his relationship with Edna or they both will be fired. Skinner decides that love trumps his professional goals, so Chalmers fires them and demands they leave the building by day's end.

Feeling guilty for costing Edna and Skinner their jobs, Bart encourages them to stand up for themselves. With Bart's help, Skinner and Edna barricade themselves inside the school, contact the media and make their demands: they want their jobs back and the townspeople to stop interfering with their relationship. When several parents protest that their children saw them having sex in the janitor's closet, Skinner insists that is untrue because he is a 44-year-old virgin. The mob is left speechless at the revelation. Chalmers brusquely concedes that it must be true, because nobody in their right mind would lie about something so embarrassing. Realizing that they have overreacted, the residents leave peacefully.

Chalmers agrees to reinstate Skinner and Edna, but asks them to "keep the lewdness at a minimum" during school hours. They thank Bart for helping them, but tell him they are breaking up, fearing the entire town judging their relationship publicly. When a disappointed Bart leaves, they observe grade-school children will believe anything they are told before entering the janitor's closet for another tryst.

Production
The idea of Skinner and Krabappel becoming a couple had been around since the days when Mike Reiss and Al Jean were show runners. The episode's writer Rachel Pulido took some of the inspiration for this episode from "Bart the Lover", specifically Mrs. Krabappel's line to Bart about refusing to date Principal Skinner because, "his mommy won't let him out to play". The Mathmagician is based on Bill Gates. The cakes in Agnes Skinner's cake book were designed to accurately resemble the real life versions of them. Homer using his megaphone to talk to Marge and Lisa, who were standing next to him, was ad-libbed by Dan Castellaneta. A deleted scene featured an awkward moment at Martin's party, between Bart, Milhouse and Martin, when the latter introduces the two to his parents.

Cultural references
Mrs. Krabappel has a candle that resembles Charlie Brown, a character from Peanuts. At the Aztec theater, a movie by Tom Berenger was played. It is implied by Superintendent Chalmers' comment "You think they actually filmed this in Atlanta?" and from the commentary that the movie is The Big Chill. In trying to force Edna and Seymour out of the school, the Springfield police attempts to flood the area with music. This is similar to a tactic that the US troops used during Operation Just Cause in an attempt to force Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican embassy in Panama City. However, in this case, romance-themed music was played, which was "Embraceable You" by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Edna and Seymour's dance poses were taken from Orlando Baeza, who was the assistant director for this episode.

Reception
In its original broadcast, "Grade School Confidential" finished 57th in ratings for the week of March 31 - April 6, 1997, with a Nielsen rating of 7.7, equivalent to approximately 7.5 million viewing households. It was the fifth highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following The X-Files, Party of Five, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called it "A delightful episode that finally brings to fruition one of the series' longest running gags: Edna and Seymour's mutual attraction. What is doubly refreshing is that it remains a constant in the subsequent episodes." The scene in which Agnes Skinner shows Bart her cake book is one of Matt Groening's all-time favorite scenes.

References

External links

The Simpsons (season 8) episodes
1997 American television episodes
Virginity in television
Television episodes about academic scandals
Television episodes about birthdays
Television episodes about educators


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There is a quiet rate war raging among insurers that has brought down the cost of Rs 1 crore cover to Rs 15,000 from over Rs 50,000 per annum a decade ago. A big chunk of the reduction has happened in recent months. Without much publicity life insurance companies have drastically reduced premium rates on high-value term insurance policies of Rs 1cr and above.
As against a premium of over Rs 50,000 for a Rs 1 cr cover for a 30-year old woman charged by Life Insurance Corporation a decade ago, private life insurer Birla Sun Life are offering a similar cover for an annual premium of around Rs 15,000.
Other private life insurers, such as ICICI Prudential life and HDFC Standard Life, have also reduced their term insurance rates. The term rates for LIC policies, too, have come down drastically as compared to 10 years ago.
Today, one can avail of a LIC term policy with a sum assured of Rs 1cr for an annual premium of nearly Rs 25,700-32 ,000. But unlike LIC whose rates are available to most buyers, Birla Sun Life has stringent underwriting norms and the rates are available to only those in the best of health.
Term insurance is a cover where the only benefit is a payment if the insured dies during the term of the policy is the most basic form of life insurance. The cover is now almost a commodity with web-based aggregators offering quotes from all insurance for term protection.
ICICI Prudential Life appointed actuary Avijit Chatterjee said the decline can be attributed to better mortality experience in the recent past.
This is another factor, industry-watchers feel, that has worked in favour of the rich. Since such policyholders have access to quality healthcare and lead a relatively superior lifestyle, their life expectancy is high, and this translates into lower rates.
"Term insurance premium rates have started seeing a downward trend since the last three years. Over the last couple of years, they have dropped by nearly 30%," said Rahul Aggarwal, CEO, Optima Insurance Brokers. One of the reasons for this, he explained, is the increasing demand, mainly from the high net worth segment, which has inflated the volumes. "Increasing volumes are driving the rates down and lower rates, in turn, are stimulating the demand for term insurance," he added
"Over the last six months, some insurers have reduced the term insurance rates. The price reduction is limited mainly to high value policies targeted at the HNI segment, that is, people earning over Rs 1 lakh per month, who seek policies entailing a sum assured of more than Rs 25 lakh," said a senior executive with a private life insurance company.
HDFC Standard Life Insurance, for instance, has reduced the premium rates of its term plan by around 25% across different premium and age bands.


Make these delicious Fourth of July Rice Krispie Treats for your next Patriotic gathering.
I live for Rice Krispie Treats and I love to personalize them any way I can. These are the perfect addition to any patriotic get-together and combine the Red, White and Blue seasonal Rice Krispies with the patriotic M&M's. They're not too sweet and that's why I love them. Begin with melting your stick of salted butter and a 10 oz. bag of marshmallows in a deep pan. Once they are melted together, turn off the heat and add your cereal. Stir well to combine it all. On a sheet pan, spray it with some non-stick spray and pour your package of red, white and blue M&M's and spread them out evenly. Once your cereal is combined with the marshmallows and butter, pour it over the top of your M&M's. I like to take either wet hands to press it down or place a piece of parchment paper over the mixture and use a measuring cup to press it down. Allow our mixture to set until it is cool. Turn it over onto a sheet of parchment paper and cut it up into squares and serve. They're so fun, especially for the Fourth of July. Leave a comment and let me know if you've tried this recipe yourself and what other combinations you'd like to see. Thanks so much for following along and have an awesome Summer season. Have fun making these Patriotic Fourth of July Rice Krispie Treats!
Make these patriotic party snacks a hit! It's so easy to make this Fourth of July Recipe and the kids and adults will love how festive they are.
Spray your sheet pan with non-stick cooking spray and pour the bag of M&M's evenly over the pan. Set aside.
In a large pot, add butter and marshmallows and heat over medium until they are melted and combined. Turn off the heat and add your cereal. Mix until it is well combined.
Pour your cereal mixture over the M&M's and allow it to set completely. Turn over onto parchment when they've cooled and cut into serving squares.
Great combination and so colorful and perfect for the holiday celebrations! Thanks so much for sharing with us this week at Brag About It!


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When a blow is incurred, the target is continuously removed, and skills and magic cannot be used.
This ancient undead monster awoke through the magic power of the Seed of Infinity. Once it was a powerful Gracian warrior, but now it lacks any vestige of its former self.
Temporarily inflicts Hold on the enemy. Additional Hold is not available while effects last.


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