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Senator Lankford on FoxNews.com: Let Coach Kennedy remain free to pray, as we are in Congress
by Sen. James Lankford and Rep. Randy Forbes
As members of the House and Senate, we open each daily legislative session with prayer-a tradition which dates back to a prayer given before the First Continental Congress on September 7, 1774. Often, these prayers are given by the House or Senate chaplain, but at times members themselves have also offered the prayer. Were these prayers a violation of the Establishment Clause because they were offered by elected representatives? No - they are free expressions of personal faith that are consti… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in The Norman Transcript: NDAA Would Help Strengthen Security
When I'm home, Oklahoma moms tell me over and over that they are worried about our nation's security. They are concerned for their kids; they are concerned about terrorism; they are concerned that the world is spinning out of control. Oklahoma moms are right to be concerned. The world has become a very chaotic place. The challenges need a clear strategy and the commitment to act on the strategy. Each year, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizes the budget authority of the Depa… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in Stillwater News Press: We Must Trust Farmers and Ranchers
It's always surprising to me how often bureaucrats in Washington, DC, who spend most of their life on concrete, want to control everyday Americans thousands of miles away who spend most of their life on dirt. They think they know better than hard-working Americans, and nowhere is this philosophy more evident than in the agricultural industry. Over the last few years, federal government overreach has reached new highs. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Waters of the U.S. rule is a perf… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford on FoxNews.com: We cannot be a nation that does this to our children
by By Senator James Lankford
On Tuesday, an undercover video was posted online and reported on by various news outlets that showed a Planned Parenthood executive talking about the organization's operation of selling body parts of aborted children. After learning about it, I was immediately struck with deep emotion. It is hard to believe this is occurring in the United States of America. I realize that our nation remains divided on the issue of abortion, but surely we are not divided on the procurement and sale of human org… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in National Review: Judicial Deference Enables Agencies to Usurp Congress's Legislative Power
"It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is" declared Chief Justice John Marshall in the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison. For centuries this statement has stood as one of the most famous in American jurisprudence. It was a declaration of the role and duty of the judicial branch within our constitutional structure. The Constitution provides for three separate and distinct branches of government, each having a "check" on the other, thus allowin… Continue Reading
The Oklahoman: No shortage of issues to occupy Oklahoma's newest senator
James Lankford was a quick study in the U.S. House of Representatives, rising to a leadership position after just a few years. Now Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, is boning up on life in the U.S. Senate, having won election last year to replace the retiring Tom Coburn. Coburn was a fiscal hawk who was never bashful about criticizing members of both parties for what he considered unnecessary spending and government waste. He also warned often about the loss of liberty stemming from an expansive centr… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in The Hill: Another Looming Crisis: Social Security Disability Insurance
In May, over a thousand West Virginians and Kentuckians went to their mailbox and found letters telling them their disability checks would soon be cut off. Why? Because a government watchdog group had reason to believe that yet another lawyer and/or doctor was involved in Social Security fraud. This case of alleged disability fraud involves accusations of a small group of doctors with a rotating cookie-cutter diagnosis, attorneys who facilitated false forms and administrative law judges who … Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in The Oklahoman: TPA is good for U.S. and for Oklahoma
When we were 13 Colonies, instead of 50 States, in a document we now call the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson penned a long list of grievances against King George III, including, "cutting off our trade with all parts of the world." Before we were a nation, we were international traders. Trade has always been a pillar of the American economy. The world keeps tariffs high on America, because they fear our workers, our products and our quality. Made in America still means something to… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in Fox News: A second chance to get America's health care right
by Senators John Cornyn and James Lankford
Health care reform has dominated our nation's political and social conversations for the past six years. After the implementation of ObamaCare, it is clear the law brought radical change and real pain to our nation's families, economy, and health care system. The promised "affordable health care fix" made things worse. The pending King v. Burwell case reveals another interesting legal problem with the policy and text of the Affordable Care Act. As written, the federally controlled subsidies an… Continue Reading
The Oklahoman: OSU grads received sound advice from Sen. James Lankford
OKLAHOMA'S newest U.S. senator, James Lankford, is a conservative Republican through and through yet he had no trouble working with an ideological opposite to accomplish something constructive. This shouldn't come as a surprise - since going to Washington as a House member in 2011, Lankford has tried to get things done for the good of the country. We recall Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, telling us he was struck during his first few months in Congress with how much time members spent talking about … Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in The Norman Transcript: My Concern With The Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Amidst the various twists and turns of our nation's negotiation with Iran on a nuclear deal, one thing is clear: the American people are skeptical. Americans know that a nuclear Iran is a threat to every nation. Our concern is not just Iran in possession of a nuclear bomb; we all know that the leadership of Iran continues to threaten its neighbors and the World. Iran is the world's largest state-sponsor of terrorism and there is little doubt that if they had nuclear weapons, they could transfer… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in Tulsa World: On the 20th Anniversary, we remember bombing tragedy by embracing the 'Oklahoma Standard'
It's been 20 years since we experienced the worst act of American home-grown terrorism at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. This solemn day stands as a reminder of the 168 souls that were lost. On a day where anger lashed out, Oklahomans responded with compassion. Every year since April 19, 1995, we stand together and read aloud the names of those who lost their lives. We remember the first responders who acted selflessly in a time of need. We remember the families impac… Continue Reading
Tulsa World: In Sapulpa: U.S. Sen. James Lankford cautious on Iran agreement
by Randy Krehbiel
U.S. Sen. James Lankford said Thursday that he will wait for details before passing judgment on the Obama administration's nuclear arms agreement with Iran but said, "If it's to the left of the U.N., that's probably a problem." Lankford was one of 47 U.S. senators who signed a letter sent last month to Iranian leaders cautioning against putting much faith in a deal with the Obama administration. Thursday evening, speaking to about 20 people at a community forum at Sapulpa City Hall, Lankford… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford on CNBC.com: What Sustainability and Religious Freedom Have in Common
Avid Chipotle customers seeking carnitas burritos for dinner may be disappointed over the coming weeks. The restaurant giant is reportedly no longer serving pork at about a third of its locations after it dropped a pork supplier that failed to live up to the corporation's standards of humane animal care. Despite the possibility that Chipotle's decision to pull pork from almost a third of its restaurants will come at a cost, the corporation's commitment to serving "food with integrity" has outwe… Continue Reading
Breitbart News: Exclusive—Sen. Lankford: Obama's Exec Amnesty Unclear, 'Intolerable Situation' for Immigration Officers
by Matthew Boyle
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol officers-along with their families-are living in fear and uncertainty every day under President Barack Obama's executive amnesty, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Monday night. "What does the average family member of an ICE agent think?" Lankford said when asked what's going through the minds of agents as the president is telling them to ignore the law. They know their spouse, their husband o… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford in Tulsa World: Obama's Budget Ignores Fiscal Realities
A government budget should demonstrate financial priorities, spending and policy to address our nation's biggest challenges. Sadly, President Obama's latest budget proposal demonstrates an attitude of "close enough for government work" rather than excellence and forward thinking. Over the decades, presidential budgets have become more of a campaign document than an actual budget. But, it is the first legal step of the formal budget process. By law, the president's annual budget request must be … Continue Reading
The Edmond Sun: Government hides facts from citizens; Lankford fights back
by James Coburn
U.S. Sen. James Lankford pushed for better information for taxpayers when he was in Congress. Now the Edmond Republican is fighting for Americans right to know about detailed data for agency programs. Lankford introduced the Taxpayers Right to Know Act in the Senate along with a group of bipartisan senators. There remains a lack of transparency regarding the overlapping roles of federal agencies in duplicating services, Lankford said. Agencies would have to provide detailed information and per… Continue Reading
Federal Times: Bill requires agencies to provide detailed program data
by Andy Medici
Agencies would have to provide detailed information and performance data for each of its programs, under legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of senators Jan. 28. The Taxpayers Right to Know Act would require OMB to post detailed financial data for each program as well as the number of employees and contractors who administer each program. OMB would also have to post links to the latest performance reviews and metrics for the program. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who introduced the bi… Continue Reading
The Christian Post: Sen. James Lankford Named New Co-Chair of Congressional Prayer Caucus; Brings 'Staunch Commitment' to Protect Religious Liberties
by Samuel Smith
Oklahoma's newly elected Republican Senator, James Lankford, was appointed the new co-chairman of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, the caucus' co-chair and founding member, Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., announced on Thursday. The caucus, which works to protect individuals' rights to religious freedoms, including the right to freely pray, consists of a bipartisan group of 80 Congress members. The 46-year-old Lankford, who joined the caucus when he first won election as a representative in 2010, beco… Continue Reading
Tulsa World: Send Uncle Sam to the principal's office, but keep him out of the classroom
by World's Editorial Writers
U.S. Sen. James Lankford is co-sponsoring a proposal to halt federal mandates for state academic standards on testing. The Local Leadership in Education Act would amend the federal No Child Left Behind law to prohibit it from providing any direction or control over academic standards or curriculum, incentivizing the adoption of certain standards, or making financial support conditional for standards, curriculum or student test administration. Additionally, the legislation calls for a ban on req… Continue Reading


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LG Optimus G hands-on
Cory Gunther
LG's newest smartphone, the Optimus G is finally official and we've got our hands all over it. LG's been teasing us with videos and talking up this new "next-gen" superphone so we're happy to check it out. They've been in the shadow of their South Korean friends at Samsung as of late but have pulled out all the stops with this latest smartphone so lets take a peek.
LG's odd hardware and bizarre UI changes have been a bit of a hit or miss lately with Android, but with the Optimus G they look to change all that. The hardware certainly is at the top of their game — and the Android world as a whole — but the software sadly is still just Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. While we would love to see Jelly Bean out of the gate here everything else is simply awesome. Here's the rundown on the specs.
With the LG Optimus G, just as we stated in their announcement post, you get a combination of the absolute latest and greatest from LG and Qualcomm packaged neatly into one uber-powerful yet sleek smartphone. We're working with a 4.7-inch TrueHD IPS+ display and it is beautiful and extremely crisp to say the least. The in-cell touchscreen technology leaves graphics floating right beneath your fingertip with less glass between you and the display.
Brightness and colors are spot on — and being IPS the viewing angles are exceptional. This is certainly giving Samsung's AMOLEDs a run for their money. The display is running with a 1280 x 768 resolution, and comes in a 15:9 aspect ratio. This makes it slightly narrower than similarly sized devices. The same can be said about the thickness, coming in at 8.45mm versus the Samsung's Galaxy S III being 8.6mm.
Surprisingly the star of the show here isn't the awesome 4.7-inch IPS+ display, the 2GB of RAM, or the 32GB of internal storage. The stars here are the 13 megapixel camera around back, and the quad-core processor under the hood. Qualcomm and LG teamed up to release this as the first Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 quad-core powered smartphone. Double the power from the Galaxy S III's S4 processor and that is what you get — and it truly flies. Sadly we don't have Android 4.1 Jelly Bean here, and instead are working with Ice Cream Sandwich. We won't get Google's project butter UI speed improvements, or Google Now voice search but ICS is extremely fast here. The Qualcomm 1.5 GHz quad-core certainly doesn't have any issues chugging along with ease. It's safe to say the processor will be able to handle anything and everything tossed its way here.
As far as in the hands, the Optimus G doesn't disappoint. It looks great, feels nice, and is very durable and flex-free. Being quite narrow given the size it feels surprisingly compact and easy to pocket. LG's new Crystal Reflection process covering the rear of the device gives it almost a glassy 3D illusion look that is quite odd and shifts when light hits it. It's unique and might not be everyone's favorite. At least we don't have the same usual black or white cheap plastic with the Optimus G. Then quickly the video below is a demonstration of "QSlide" which is true picture-in-picture mode simultaneously. This isn't a second window or a hovering app, this is two apps both slightly translucent running concurrently on one display. Neat right?
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Overall we're far more impressed with this phone than we initially thought we'd be. LG's looking to step up their game in all areas and has a lot to prove. It'll take more than just a powerhouse smartphone to compete with the best though. We'll need timely updates and consistently awesome hardware. So far LG's certainly delivered on this phone in terms of specs — we'll have to wait for a full review to decide the rest so stay tuned!
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Are you looking to generate more sales-ready leads while lowering the costs per lead? Consider implementing a lead nurturing strategy.
Lead nurturing is the process of further educating and building relationships with non-sales ready leads in order to move them further down the marketing funnel and closer towards becoming an opportunity. A new lead generated from a white paper or other premium content isn't necessarily ready to speak with sales or make a purchase from you. You need to nurture them over time, building trust and credibility between your company and the lead as they grow their knowledge of your products and services.
Let's put it this way, consider the process of dating. You wouldn't take a girl out on a first date and have her meet your parents. Instead, you would ask for a second, third, fourth date, get to know her over time, and when ready, make the introduction to your parents. By the time you know she's ready to meet the parents; you've built a relationship and trust that she and your parents will get along well.
Like dating, nurturing leads over time and building a relationship produces mutually beneficial results. On average, companies that work this process produce 20% more sales opportunities than companies that don't nurture their leads.
A cost-effective marketing tactic to nurture your leads and help keep your business top of mind is email automation. Once a visitor completes a form on your website and becomes a lead, they should hear from you immediately. This is hard to implement and sustain manually, but with automation, you set it up once, and never think about it again. In these automated emails, content offered educates your prospects and entices them with further calls-to-action and reasons to engage further with your company. These content offers should map to different stages of your sales cycle so they match where they are in the buying cycle. It's important to have content for the lead that is just starting their search as well as other content for those leads that are ready to talk to an engineer.
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Step #3: It will take several interactions. Lead nurturing is not a one and done deal. It will take several emails and interactions to guide a lead down the marketing funnel to become a sales qualified lead. Determine the timeframe of your typical sales cycle by looking at past data and talking to your sales team. Then mirror the length of your lead nurturing campaign after this cycle, consistently emailing the lead throughout. Monitor your email performance metrics to find the right number of emails that will not overwhelm or alternatively turn your lead cold.
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Asterios Polyp és una novel·la gràfica del 2009 del dibuixant de còmics estatunidenc David Mazzucchelli.

Argument
El personatge principal, Asterios Polyp, és un professor i arquitecte d'ascendència grega i italiana que ensenya a la Universitat de Cornell a Ithaca, Nova York. Després d'un llamp crema el seu apartament, abandona la ciutat en un autobús. Només tenia diners per arribar a Apogee, una ciutat en algun lloc de nord-amèrica, probablement Arizona. Allà troba una feina com a mecànic d'automòbils. La novel·la intercala la seva vida present amb escenes del seu passat, aparentment narrades pel seu germà bessó mort, Ignazio. Es fa un repàs als fets que han marcat d'alguna manera la seva vida, incloent la seva infància i el seu matrimoni problemàtic, així com somnis i seqüències al·legòriques. Finalment, Asterios no només ha d'enfrontar-se a la seva pròpia naturalesa, sinó als capritxos implacables i amorals dels mateixos déus.

Temàtica
En argument, estructura i disseny, aquest llibre explora la idea de dualitat. Algunes de les falses dicotomies tocades són: apol·lí vs dionisíac; raó vs emoció; destí vs lliure albir; i natura vs nodrir. Al llibre es plantegen preguntes com ara en què es converteix persona o qui és realment. L'herència grega d'Asterios és una de les moltes al·lusions a la història d'Orfeu i Eurídice, un tema recurrent al llarg del llibre. També es pot relacionar amb l'Odissea, en què la història es basa de manera lliure.

Estil
Asterios Polyp és una obra que ocupà molts anys a Mazzucchelli, creant vinyetes amb gran profusió de detalls, profunditats de plànols i jocs cromàtics que donen un color i una sèrie de formes determinades als dos personatges principals. L'obra conté més de quinze tipografies diferents fetes a mà, tintes especials per a crear la sensació d'ambient i tot un ampli ventall d'eines al servei de l'expressivitat i fluïdesa de l'argument.

Recepció
Asterios Polyp havia de ser originalment una història per al quart nombre de Rubber Blanket. Finalment, però, es publicà com a llibre de tapa dura independent. Va guanyar el primer premi de novel·la gràfica del Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Va ser nominat a quatre premis Eisner als 2010, guanyant en les categories de millor novetat de novel·la gràfica, millor escriptor/artista i millor guió. Encara el mateix any 2010, també va ser guardanoat amb tres premis Harvey.

Referències

Còmic a la dècada de 2000
Còmics dels Estats Units
Àlbums de còmic

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Q: Remote MySQL connection works from cmdline, but not with Apache (Webpy, Mod-WSGI)
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*Server OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11

*Apache: 2.2.3

*Python: 2.7.6

*Mod_WSGI 4.5.3, Web.Py, MySQLdb

Hey! I have created a Web.Py site that queries data from a remote Oracle database which works perfectly, but I have now run into a problem when trying to create user authentication from a remote MySQL database.
Following the steps from here: http://webpy.org/cookbook/userauthpgsql
The exact same program works from the python commandline, but for some reason when trying to connect to the remote MySQL database from Apache, I get the following error:
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'> at /login
'module' object has no attribute 'connect'

Things I've tried:

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*List item

*Disabled SELinux

*Added permissions for apache@myserversIP to the MySQL.

*Tried both MySQLdb & web.database for the connection

*Googled a lot.

Here's the code that is being run from my main program:
myDB = MySQLdb.connect(host='ip',user='user',passwd='password',db='db',port=3306 );
cHandler = myDB.cursor()
cHandler.execute("SHOW TABLES;")
results = cHandler.fetchall()
for items in results:
print items

Any help regarding the issue, or ways to diagnose it further would be appreciated a lot! Thanks
Edit1: I checked where the MySQLdb is being searched from: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Which seems to be correct.
Edit2:
    ldd mod_wsgi.so
    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff4b5fd000)
    libpython2.7.so.1.0 => /lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0
    libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2
    libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1
    libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6
    libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

A: As has been commented, check to see if there is a file within the same directory as the file you're trying to run, that has the name MySQLdb.py

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Paul Sabatier, född den 5 november 1854 i Carcassonne,  Frankrike, död den 14 augusti 1941 i Toulouse, var en fransk kemist. År 1912 erhöll Sabatier, tillsammans med Victor Grignard, Nobelpriset i kemi för arbete med att förbättra hydrogeneringen av organiska ämnen i närvaro av metaller. Han invaldes 1928 som utländsk ledamot av Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien. Sabatier tilldelades
Davymedaljen 1915 och Franklinmedaljen 1933.

Biografi
Sabatier började 1874 studera vid École Normale Supérieure och tre år senare tog han examen med toppbetyg av sin klass. År 1880 tog han sin doktorsexamen vid College de France.

År 1883 efterträdde Sabatier Édouard Filhol vid vetenskapsfakulteten och inledde ett långt samarbete med Jean-Baptiste Senderens, så nära att det var omöjligt att särskilja de båda männens verk. De publicerade gemensamt 34 artiklar i Vetenskapsakademiens rapporter, 11 memoarer i Bulletin of the French Chemical Society och två gemensamma memoarer i Annals of Chemistry and Physics. COx metanationsreaktioner upptäcktes först av Sabatier och Senderens 1902. Sabatier och Senderen delade Vetenskapsakademiens Jeckerpris 1905 för deras upptäckt av Sabatier-Senderens-processen.

Efter 1905–1906 publicerade Senderens och Sabatier få gemensamma verk, kanske på grund av det klassiska problemet med erkännandet av meriter genom bidrag till gemensamt arbete. Sabatier undervisade i naturvetenskap större delen av tiden innan han blev dekanus vid fakulteten för vetenskap vid universitetet i Toulouse 1905.

Paul Sabatier University i Toulouse är uppkallad efter Paul Sabatier. Han var en av grundarna av Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse, tillsammans med matematikern Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.

Vetenskapligt arbete
Sabatiers tidigaste forskning gällde termokemin av svavel och metalliska sulfater, ämnet för avhandlingen som ledde till hans doktorsexamen. I Toulouse fortsatte han sina fysiska och kemiska undersökningar till sulfider, klorider, kromater och kopparföreningar. Han studerade också kväveoxider och nitrosodisulfonsyra och dess salter och genomförde grundforskning om skiljemedelskoefficienter och absorptionsspektra. Sabatiers forskning underlättade kraftigt den industriella användningen av hydrogenering. År 1897, med början i den amerikanska kemisten James Boyces senaste biokemiska arbete, upptäckte han att införandet av en spårmängd nickel som katalysator underlättade tillsats av väte till molekyler av de flesta kolföreningar.

Reduceringen av koldioxid med väte vid hög temperatur och tryck är en annan användning av nickelkatalysator för att producera metan. Detta kallas Sabatierreaktionen och används i den internationella rymdstationen för att producera det nödvändiga vattnet utan att förlita sig på lager från jorden.

∆H = −165,0 kJ/mol
( viss initial energi/värme krävs för att starta reaktionen)

Sabatier är mest känd för Sabatierprocessen och hans verk som La Catalyse en Chimie Organique (Katalys i organisk kemi) som publicerades 1913. Han är också känd för Sabatier-principen om katalys.

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 Nobelprize.org, Nobelpriset i kemi 1912
 Nobelprize.org, Paul Sabatier – biografi
 Paul Sabatiers nobelföreläsning The Method of Direct Hydrogenation by Catalysis

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The rise of India in the context of the changing world order
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CEDA welcomes Greater Pacific Capital Founder and CEO, Ketan Patel, to address CEDA Trustees on the rise of India. Ketan will outline how this may create a more peaceful world order where the US-China superpower rivalry is balanced by a long standing multi-lateral democracy.
Ketan Patel, CEO & Founder, Greater Pacific Capital
India's economy is in the midst of a rapid transition and is expected to overtake the US in size by 2030. With its GDP projected to cross US$3tn this year and US$8tn within the next decade, this transformation is extraordinary in both scale and speed. The key underlying drivers of India's transformation – its favourable demographics resulting in mass-scale urbanisation, technology adoption, consumerism and financial inclusion – hold the promise of a new democratic partner in the world order.
In absolute terms, India's growth is comparable only to China's, which underwent a similar transition from 2006-2014 as its GDP expanded from US$2.7tn to US$8.1tn. China's growth transformed its industries, its capital markets, its society and its politics and also drove seismic geostrategic shifts. India's rise is likely to be similarly transformative and create a three-way power structure between the US, China and India for the rest of the world to work with.
As Founder and CEO of Greater Pacific Capital, Ketan Patel will share with CEDA Trustees his insights on the growth of India and how this impacts the rest of the world across the realms of geo-politics, economics and investment.
This briefing is by invitation only to CEDA Trustees. Trustees are senior leaders nominated by CEDA member organisations. At CEDA boardroom briefings Trustees hear from an informed, expert guest speaker in a private, small group setting. Invitations to boardroom briefings are a valued benefit of CEDA membership. Chatham House Rule applies.
Meet the speaker
Ketan Patel
CEO & Founder, Greater Pacific Capital
Ketan is the CEO and the founder of Greater Pacific Capital, an investment firm focused on India and its links to international markets, that invests in technology, healthcare and financials and services. Previously a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs. Ketan founded and led the Strategic Group at Goldman Sachs. Based in London and New York, he also covered Asia, including India and China, developing and providing strategic advice to the firm's corporate, investing and government clients internationally across multiple industries. Ketan's work included focus on geopolitics and the nature of world power and security and also on the transformational impact of new technologies, media and communications on industry order and value and the impact on major corporations. Formerly, Ketan was a partner at KPMG, where he founded and led their Strategy Consulting and Business Transformation Practice. This unit developed strategies to transform the value of companies and then leveraged the firm's international capabilities to implement large scale projects. He is the author of 'The Master Strategist' (Random House, 2005). He has written and spoken extensively on the rise and fall of civilisations and in particular on the intersection of geopolitics, conflict, economics and social change.
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Michael has held numerous leadership roles in Deloitte including leadership of the Australian Major Capital Projects initiative, the Perth Consulting Practice and the Australian Products Industry team (including mining, oil and gas, utilities, infrastructure, consumer products and retail clients). Michael was also the Asia Pacific Energy & Resources Leader and a member of the National Consulting Executive.
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Capitalizing on Artists' TV Performances
A televised performance is an important moment for any artist, since it's a chance for a national audience to see and hear an artist's new music, potentially for the first time. Key TV performances lead to spikes in organic interest in an artist immediately following an appearance, as shown by Google Trends for Lady Gaga and Selena Gomez.
Furthermore, these Google Trends show that interest generated from TV performances is often greater than interest triggered by album releases. So how can marketers promptly reach this newly interested audience to drive music sales following a TV performance?
The unique targeting capabilities of search, remarketing and social advertising allow music marketers to capture users who are just discovering or becoming fans of an artist after seeing them perform on TV.
Run a search campaign during and immediately following a performance to reach anyone looking for more information about the artist and then steer them to purchase the artist's music. In addition to targeting core keywords around the artist and songs performed, campaigns should include keywords around the TV show they were on, such as "musical guest on the Today Show," "Today Show performance," "song performed on the Today Show," etc. This allows advertisers to tap into a brand-new audience of people who are just discovering the artist, having seen the performance.
Short-term Remarketing
Following a TV performance, increased interest in an artist often leads to more traffic to the artist's online properties, such as their website, VEVO channel, and official YouTube channel. Isolate these recently engaged users with a Google Display Network remarketing campaign that focuses on users who have interacted with the artist's content within the 24 hours following the TV performance.
Twitter and TV have a complementary relationship, as many people simultaneously use Twitter while watching TV. Capitalize on this by running a keyword-targeted Twitter campaign to reach users who have recently searched for or tweeted about an artist following a performance. In addition, reach viewers of the TV show who may not be actively searching for or tweeting about the artist through Twitter's TV targeting. TV targeting allows advertisers to capture users who are engaged with a specific TV show in real-time. When using TV targeting, call out the show in the ad copy to make the promoted tweet more relevant to this audience, ensuring that users are tying the artist back to the performance.
On Facebook and Instagram, target users who are interested in the TV show on which an artist appeared to find people who likely watched the performance. Interest targeting for a popular TV show often has a potential reach in the millions, so make the target audience more selective by overlaying additional interests like affinity artists and the retailer to which the ads are driving. This results in a more qualified audience comprised of users who are interested in the TV show on which the artist performed AND like the artist's style of music AND likely consume music at the retailer of choice.
Through search, short-term remarketing and social advertising, music marketers can successfully capture heightened interest in an artist during and immediately after a TV performance. By using these tactics to find users who likely watched the artist perform, as well as users who are actively talking about the artist following the performance, the artist's TV performance will be leveraged effectively to drive music sales.
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Welcome Katherine Rhodes
Thank you for having me, Ginger! I'm just getting going in this wonderful publishing world, and I really hope that your readers will enjoy "Consensual."
Armed with my Bachelors of English, Literature from Montclair State University and a pen name, I've set my mind to writing erotic romances which are kinky, dirty, and fun. A lackadaisical laundry goddess, expert in the profundities of bad movies and awful literature, I live in Philadelphia with my hubs, three cats and a betta named Fishtian Grey. Yes, Fishtian Grey. He likes the filter intake just a *little* too much.
Blurb for "Consensual" – Book 1 in the Club Imperial Series
From the moment Nathaniel laid eyes on Emmy Westerly, he wanted her in his life. He would do anything to get her there and keep her there. To his surprise, Nathaniel found himself quickly pulled into Emmy's dark world of whips and blindfolds, kink and submission. He was intrigued not only by the thrill of it, but by the enigma which led Emmy there as well.
Emmy could not resist Nathaniel Walsh. She couldn't deny the electricity between them, the utter animal magnetism she felt for him. Emmy was mystified by someone as honest and uncomplicated as Nathaniel allowing her to lead him into the dark. She adored having him at the tip of her lash.
But Emmy had secrets – deep, cruel truths which led her to Club Imperial, and staying with Nathaniel would mean telling him everything. He wasn't ready for that. Neither was she.
** Content Warning: Contains explicit content with BDSM, Erotica, and strong language. Not intended for all audiences. 18+ Audience
~Explaining the Mistress~ "Why do you write such strong female characters?" "Because you're still asking me that question." ~Joss Whedon
I love that man.
So, anyway. I had a little explanation down further about how the whole Club Imperial universe came about. And I have had a lot of people tell me that they won't read a female Domme because they like Alpha males.
What on God's Green Earth make you all think that a man isn't an Alpha if he's being a sub?
I am not a fan of humiliation. I don't like it, I don't think that anyone should be subjected to it. Not even when they are playing a scene. I know, I know. It's what some people want, and that's how some people enjoy their lifestyle. Fine. That doesn't mean I have to approve, but I will not tell you that you can't. Live and let live, your bedroom not mine, and all that jizz. Jazz.
But that statement should give you a clue as how I treat my characters. There is never any question that Nathaniel is an Alpha male. You'll see even more of that when we get to book 2. In fact, at one point, he actually says that he cannot be a sub to her because he's running a huge business. He simply cannot have her snap at him in the office.
I have no desire to emasculate the male characters. There are strengths that they possess that my female characters need, be it a devil's advocate, a shoulder to cry on, a warm body in the bed, the rock when everything is unsteady. That they are sexual submissive in the bedroom has NO baring on their actual Alpha status.
Now imagine the strength it takes for man to have an Alpha female by his side. He knows she's strong, independent, and there because she wants to be there. There is NO doubt that she could walk away and find someone else to submit to her– but she doesn't.
Sexual submission in the bedroom does not emasculate a man, nor does it remove his Alpha status. Because there is always the safe word. He can tell her it's over in a moment simply by uttering it. And doesn't. Sexual submission takes a man who truly knows himself, inside and out.
Now, why doesn't my Domme find someone more likely to submit to her, someone more likely to not resist, to never question? Because like attracts like, my friends. I handsome man, clearly the master of his domain appeals to a woman who knows what she wants as well. He will challenge her, keep her life interesting, keep her on her toes. He will seek permission to return her pleasures. Her life with an alpha male will never be boring or repetitive.
Sexual submission is what my Domme wants, what she's trained to demand and give pleasures for. She does not wish to emasculate you; she wants your pleasure. She wants to see you there. And by doing that without taking away the essential male, she is just as strong and erotic as any male Dom.
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Welcome Mike Faricy/ Last Shot: Case 6
Today I am welcoming a neighbor to my West, Mike Faricy. He has a great new book out! Leave a comment, ask a question, or tell us your favorite detective either in books or TV, and be entered to win one of 2 ecopies of Last Shot: Case 6 that Mike is giving away. Don't forget to put your email in your comment. Contest ends December 8 at midnight Central time.
Hi Ginger, Thanks for letting me go on, and on, and on about my books. I write books of no redeeming social value. My books are in the crime fiction genre, theoretically written with a sense of humor and even some romance. I just released my thirteenth book, Last Shot: Case 6. It's the sixth book in my Dev Haskell series. Dev Haskell is an army vet and a private investigator with an eye for the ladies. He's also a back slapping, well intentioned, wrong guessing guy who on more than one occasion makes a bad choice. Whether it's his latest love interest or trailing a suspect, he's known to not always make the proper decision.
I've always been a voracious reader, ever since I was a little boy and my folks would take us to the library every week to pick out books. From that early point I began to write, although I think the first thing I wrote was probably on the wall and no doubt I was sent to my room. I still read a lot and I seem to inhale everything available from a specific author before I move on to the next one. Although I enjoy all the books I noticed a lot of the work dealt with an ex-special forces type who just wanted to be left alone, but some bad guy pushed too hard and now the hero is coming back with a vengeance and taking no prisoners.
My work isn't quite like that. If you're looking for a tale where international terrorists are stopped in their tracks, a government coup is discovered or bankers are conspiring to destroy the economy that's not the sort of thing I deal with. No one is parachuting onto the roof of the flaming White House to save the nation. The situations my characters find themselves in are usually due to their own bad decisions. But then, bad decisions make for interesting tales. In the broad social pool my characters inhabit a level somewhere below polite society. We all know people like this, we just wisely like to keep them at arms length still, we are curious.
All my books are set in Minnesota, the Dev Haskell series is set in St. Paul. The places Dev goes to, the streets he drives on, the operating hours of establishments are all the real deal. He frequents a local establishment called The Spot bar. The place is a real local bar, a neighborhood tavern if you will. Someone once described it as a biker bar which surprised me because I've never seen a motorcycle there. The guy explained it was a biker bar because everyone had lost their drivers license and they all have to ride bicycles. That might be a little far fetched, maybe, but it's the sort of place that attends to the business at hand and the business is drinking.
Dev hangs out at The Spot, actually it's more like a second home. More than once he's had to take the back streets in an effort to avoid the police. A few times he's left his car there and maybe hopped a ride from some misguided damsel. He often makes the mistake of drinking and dialing then gets a variety of recorded messages that says his number has been blocked or some woman ignores her caller id and ends up telling him to never, ever call her again.
I try not to dwell on the local scene too much, but I always hear from people who've been in town and they recognize a street or a building I describe. Dev meets with various individuals at a local coffee shop, Nina's. He's usually late by the way, morning isn't his best time of day. Various restaurants, our court house, of course the Mississippi river all play a part in my writing. I also take to heart the comments I receive from fans. My fifth book in the Dev Haskell series is entitled Tutti Frutti. I had received a number of comments from fans, and one woman summed up all the comments nicely. She emailed me and said that she really liked the series, but that Dev always seems to end up with 'a young, beautiful, well endowed woman and well, that's not me anymore'. That got me thinking and in Tutti Frutti Dev ends up with a woman about twelve years older than he is. She maybe doesn't quite have the figure she used to have and as a friend once told me, 'What was the pride of my youth is now just a feat of engineering'. But, she wears him out, without going into detail let's just say he finds it impossible to keep up with her and he has difficulty fulfilling her needs.
My latest release in the series is entitled Last Shot; Case 6. I should stop here and mention that I had a couple of book signings recently and I was amazed at how many people wanted to know first if I had a series and then, what was the order in the series. I have a standard response and tell folks the books are all stand alone, they can be read in any order. That didn't seem to really matter. They wanted to read the series and they wanted to start with the first book in the series. Based on that, we've just redone or are in the process of redoing all the covers for the Dev Haskell series. So, the most recent release, Last Shot; Case 6 is identified as the sixth in the series. Yeah, I know, it sounds so basic and I was clueless…no surprise.
I'm currently working on a new series, I can't really say a lot about it except that it is set in St. Paul. The first book is entitled Corridor Man. I plan to release the first two books in the series around June of 2014. These tales are going to be a bit darker than the Dev Haskell work, but I think you'll enjoy them. Once they're released I'm back to writing the next book in the Dev Haskell series. I'm also putting together a trilogy of three of my stand alone titles, Chow for Now, Merlot and End of the Line. The trilogy will be available in e-format in February 2014.
On a more personal note I should mention that my wife and I have a long distance relationship. I live in St. Paul and she lives in Dublin, Ireland. We travel back and forth so I'm in Dublin maybe six months out of the year, over the course of the year. It's actually great for me because all our social life in Dublin is through her contacts. That translates to 'no one ever phones me' which means I get up in the morning and start tapping on the keyboard. I don't work off an outline so at the end of the day no one is more surprised than me as to what has occurred. Then, about the time I've finished the chores on my 'Honey Do' list I suddenly find myself in the Dublin airport with my luggage. Actually it works out very well, she has always been a hundred percent supportive and a hundred and ten percent patient.
Thanks so much for slogging this far through my rambling on and on. Please check out my latest book, Last Shot: Case 6 on Amazon; http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Last+shot+by+mike+faricy
You can email me at Mikefaricyauthor@gmail.com or connect with me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mikefaricyauthor
Many thanks, enjoy the holiday season and hoping we all have a great 2014.
Welcome Isobelle Cate
Hi Ginger,
Thank you so much for having me guest on your blog.
I'd like to tell your readers a little bit about the Cynn Cruor Bloodline, my paranormal romance series under with Beau Coup Publishing.
There's an on-going war between two breeds of immortal warriors who carry human, vampire, and werewolf blood, the Cynn Cruor and the Scatha Cruor.
The Cynn Cruor want to live in harmony with the human race.
The Scatha Cruor want to enslave them.
Rapture at Midnight is the story of how Finn met Eirene and how he vows to keep her safe when the Cynn Cruors' nemesis, Dac Valerian has Eirene in his crosshairs.
Finn's chest constricted with an unfamiliar emotion. The desire to please Eirene and see her happy replaced the need to simply slake his lust. There was a fissure on the wall he had built around his heart, allowing a ray of tenderness for the woman beneath him to shine through. He intensified the kiss and at the same time thrust hard into her. She cried out against his mouth, her breath harsh and staccato like. Finn moved, in and out, swiveling his pelvis against hers. Eirene lifted her hips, her head falling back in ecstasy. She made small sounds every time Finn's pelvis moved against hers with quick thrusts.
Finn looked down at Eirene's body, from her breasts and puckered nipples down to her stomach and her trimmed mound. Her entire body was flushed with the aura of intense arousal. He groaned when her channel clamped around his cock. Eirene's breasts quivered faster and faster as Finn thrust harder and deeper, eliciting deeper moans and cries from her. He leaned over to latch onto Eirene's exposed neck. He kissed and licked until he gently sucked the skin over her pulse, bringing the vein into sharp relief. He sucked hard without using his fangs.
"Yes!" Eirene turned her head giving him her neck.
The taste of her blood filled Finn's mind, exploding through his neurons.
Along with her taste came an astounding piece of knowledge.
Eirene was a Cynn Cruor mate.
The question now was whether she was his. His scent needed to be on her when a Cynn Cruor brethren smelled her. It was a scent undetectable by a purely human nose. If he marked her, then whether she accepted it or not, she belonged to him. She was his mate.
The taste of her salty, sweet skin drove him wilder. He knelt on both knees as he covered Eirene's body with his. Finn held on to her hips, thrusting harder, deeper, and faster. He groaned as his balls tightened, slapping against her backside. Eirene's cries came in puffs of ecstasy until she screamed her climax. Her weeping sex throbbed and gripped Finn's manhood in a snug vice, milking him as he went in and out until he growled and finally shouted his release against Eirene's neck, calling out her name. His seed spurted into her womb, bathing and warming it. His heartbeat pounded inside his ribcage, the warmth of their coupling spreading through him like the fire in a forge. He held himself up over Eirene with both his arms braced beside her head. He was about to withdraw from her when she placed her hands on his hips.
"Please don't go," she said softly. "Not yet."
Finn let his forehead dip against Eirene's even as she lifted her mouth for a long and sensual kiss. Eirene's arms crept under his arms and over his back. By the Ancients, he loved the way her hands smoothed over his sweat-slicked skin. He felt her racing heart slowly turn to a semblance of normalcy as his own heartbeat thrummed back to a slower pace.
Forever at Midnight, continues where Rapture at Midnight left off. For Roarke Hamilton, burying his mate Deanna five hundred years before almost undid him. Now after the assault on Dac's club, he can't believe that she's alive. Forever at Midnight is Roarke and Deanna's story, their heartbreak, their coming together, and the danger they have to face to be one again for all eternity.
Soon, Roarke ended the kiss. Deanna gloried at the pleasure she felt when gold flecks materialized against his pupils. She touched the sides of his eyes.
"I missed seeing those," she whispered before cupping his face. He turned to kiss her palm. She sighed. "If only for tonight, make love to me again, Roarke. Make love to me so I can forget."
She saw emotion flit through his eyes before it was gone. Her heart was in her throat, afraid he would refuse. Then his head bent down.
He kissed her again, but this time it was soft and tender, even while his hand was wreaking havoc with her body. Her clit throbbed when he rolled her hardened nipples with his thumb and forefinger before palming her globes lovingly. She closed her eyes, giving in to the moment, her breath coming out in moans and gasps. Then her mouth opened in a silent cry, feeling his tongue flick and suck on her breasts again. She lost all coherent thought, holding on to his shoulders. Lust thundered through her, lighting her up like a fireball.
Roarke scooped her up and walked through the French doors and into the warmth of the loft. With her face against his neck, she inhaled deeply before flicking her tongue and sucking on the pulse at the base of his throat.
"Where?" he growled, his desire unsuppressed.
Mutely, Deanna pointed to the stairs which led to her bedroom. Instead of using the stairs, Roarke catapulted them to the open room's landing with one jump.
There wouldn't be any recriminations tonight. This moment would be for knowing each other's bodies again. To make up for all the lost time.
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Isobelle Cate is a woman who wears different masks. Mother-writer, wife-professional, scholar-novelist. Currently living in Manchester, she has been drawn to the little known, the secret stories, about the people and the nations: the English, the Irish, the Scots, the Welsh, and those who are now part of these nations whatever their origins. Her vision and passion are fuelled by her interest and background in history and paradoxically, shaped by growing up in a clan steeped in lore, loyalty, and legend.
Isobelle is intrigued by forces that simmer beneath the surface of these cultures, the hidden passions, unsaid desires, and yearnings unfulfilled.
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b. 11/07/1910 Newcastle upon Tyne. d. 28/02/1984 Norwich, Norfolk.
DATE AND PLACE OF GC ACTION: 31/05/1935 Quetta, India.
Robert Spoors (1910-1984) was born on 11th July 1910 in Benwell, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the son of Robert and Agnes Spoors (nee Blackwood). His father was a coal miner. Nothing is known about his early life prior to enlisting with the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1926 at the age of 16. He would serve with them until 1942 when he was medically discharged as a Sergeant. He married Jane Clements, and they had a son and a daughter.
On the morning of 31st May 1935, shortly after the Quetta Earthquake struck, Spoors entered Major O'Hanlon's house. It was in a very dangerous condition, but he cleared a path for Mrs O'Hanlon and was responsible for saving her life. He then re-entered the house to save the nurse and baby, but he himself was trapped by the debris and was later rescued by two men.
He then volunteered to help out at the British Military Hospital and worked very long hours helping the victims of the quake. He was awarded the Albert Medal, and it was announced on the same day as Florence Allen's on 19th November 1935. Spoors was then posted to Palestine prior to the Second World War and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery (LG, 22nd December 1939).
After leaving the Army, he became a foreman engineer, a job he held from 1943 to his retirement in 1972. Spoors chose to exchange his Albert Medal for a George Cross in 1971, and donated his AM to the West Yorkshire Regimental Museum in York. In later life, he moved to Norwich, Norfolk, where he passed away, aged 73, on 28th February 1984. He was cremated at St Faiths Crematorium, but there is no plaque to him. His medals including his GC, MM, General Service Medal 1918-1962 with clasp "Palestine", 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal 1939-45, War Medal 1939-45, and QEII Silver Jubilee Medal 1977 are privately held.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: PRIVATELY HELD.
BURIAL PLACE: ST FAITHS CREMATORIUM, NORWICH, NORFOLK.
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American involvement, nor did they support the subsequent draft. In response to the dissent, Congress passed the Sedition Act (actually, amended the Espionage Act). It was important in relation to the Red Scare because it allowed for censoring of radical literature as well as regulation of the mail. It was directed against subversives and, therefore, cast a very broad net. Because of the Sedition act, many individuals were arrested for distributing media that criticized the American military (Eugene Debs, head of the Socialist Party, was one of them).
It was in response to this act that Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes set forth the " clear and present danger" doctrine and marked the beginning of modern First Amendment jurisprudence. Therefore, the Sedition Act of 191 8 was important in the imposition of censorship after World War I. " Reds" were seen as a danger to the American system of government, economic stability, and way of life. In this sense, the war produced an era of intolerance for subversives, and it was this attitude that provided a ripe setting for the Red Scare of 1 919 to take place.
The Sedition Act was the legal excuse people used to regulate, censor, prosecute, and deport Americans thought to be radicals. Intolerance during the war would cause Americans to fear immigrants and radicals afterward, and it would only take a little spark to cause full blown hysteria. The Bolshevik revolution in Russia only deepened American's fears because they felt the same thing could happen on their soil. The labor unrest following the end of World War I would prove to be instrumental in igniting the fire that was the Red Scare of 1919.
The years after the war were marked by economic turmoil and labor unrest. At first, laborers expected the good working conditions, a staple Of the wartime economy, to continue after the war was over. The economy was in good shape because war time contracts had cased industry to boom. Labor was supported by the government during the war in order to keep production levels high. After the war ended, however, contracts were canceled, which caused rising unemployment, and managers stopped cooperating with labor. Also, the cost of living had risen 99% by 1919 because of inflation.
Without government support, labor unions began to strike in order to recapture the anis they had made during the war. One such strike took place in Seattle and involved sixty thousand workers (Painter, 346). Soon, this strike and others were labeled as a communist effort to undermine the American economy. The cycle of hysteria had begun. Labor unions were seen as Bolshevik sponsored organizations, and union members were labeled as communists. America began to become afraid because they saw there way of life slipping away. This fear would soon turn into action.
The fear of radicalism stemmed, as stated earlier, from the era of intolerance during World War l. Propaganda techniques that once united the American public against Germany and hyphenated Americans during the war were easily converted into an instrument to cast a negative light on Bolsheviks. After all, America was not happy with Russia leaving the war and instituting a form of economy that was directly opposite of capitalism. Bolsheviks, therefore, were seen as a threat to democracy. Likewise, the forming of the Communist International was seen as an attempt to spread communism throughout the world.
People felt insecure after the war, and this feeling was only bolstered by the idea that communists were working to overthrow the American economy and government. When a series of mail bombs were discovered, one of which exploding at Attorney General Palmers home, they were labeled as a communist effort to undermine America. The Red Scare of 191 9 had begun. Labor unions were hardest hit. However, anyone seen as radical was persecuted and labeled a red. Elected officials who were members of the socialist party were dismissed from office.
In fact, the New York State Assembly dismissed five elected socialists. However, the most vivid example of the extent of the scare is illustrated by the Palmer raids, in which six thousand people were arrested and five hundred were deported. There were very few Communists in the United States in 191 9, yet Palmer viewed them as a huge threat. Encouraged by Congress, Palmer began a series of showy and well publicized raids against radicals and leftists. Striking without warning and without warrants, Palmers men smashed union offices and the headquarters' of Communist and Socialist organizations.
They concentrated, whenever Seibel, on aliens rather than citizens, because aliens had fewer rights. As quickly as it had began, the Red Scare of 191 9 ended. Although the hysteria had subsided, consequences still arose. The scare, as well as the raids, was seen as unproductive. Of the numerous arrests made in association with the scare, only a small percent of the suspected communists were deported. Therefore, government persecution of subversives only stopped because it was not working as well as hoped, yet the fear and hatred of radicals was still looming in the distance.
It would again resurface in the ass's during the McCarthy era when another Red Scare, more organized and brutal, would take place. America had learned how to deal with reds, and these lessons would be effectively applied in the next crusade against communism in America. Finally, a more visible and immediate consequence of the Red Scare of 1 919 was the mass fear of immigration that took place afterwards. The highly visual raids by Palmer had a deep effect on Americans because the raids exposed the " enemy. " Restrictions and quotas were placed on immigration, especially on those people coming from Eastern Europe.
Fear of communists urine into hatred of immigrants, and American citizens would have a hard time excepting new arrivals. In many cases, immigrants were automatically labeled as subversives, anarchists, and communists. The association between immigrants and social upheaval would have a negative effect on American immigrants in the years to come, a fact most vividly portrayed through the trial of Cacao and Vendetta. Also, for many years to come, unions were seen in a negative light. The association of communism with unions would continue to be a hindrance for labor and the advancement of labor reforms.
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A lot of the time, when we think about air conditioning, we think of the hotter countries with air-con in their homes and shops. We think of air-con almost instantly as a cooling tool, even though conditioning is in the name. But, in most cases, air con is typically used as a cooler, for example, in vehicles, the A/C will come out cold.
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Q: More efficient to have one string, replace and then perform a split or have an array of strings and create a new one changing it? I am undecided what I should do when it comes to prepare the argument for the ProcessBuilder.command method.
The method 1 is definitely faster but I am looking for the best efficiency here.
Method 1:
String test = "ls | grep $name -option";
test = test.replace("$name",textField.getText());
new ProcessBuilder.command(test.split(" "));

Method 2:
String[] test = { "ls", "|", "grep", "$name", "-option" };
String[] newTest = { test[0], test[1], test[2], textField.getText(), test[4] };
new ProcessBuilder.command(newTest);

A: The second method will be more efficient in overall performance (because of replace method implementation and split method call).
But in this case there will be no significant difference in execution time.


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import contextlib
import functools

from mock import Mock, patch
from twitter.common.contextutil import temporary_file

from apache.aurora.client.api.health_check import Retriable, StatusHealthCheck
from apache.aurora.client.commands.core import restart
from apache.aurora.client.commands.util import AuroraClientCommandTest

from gen.apache.aurora.api.ttypes import (
    AssignedTask,
    JobKey,
    PopulateJobResult,
    ScheduledTask,
    ScheduleStatusResult,
    TaskConfig
)

class TestRestartCommand(AuroraClientCommandTest):

  @classmethod
  def setup_mock_options(cls):
    """set up to get a mock options object."""
    mock_options = Mock(
        spec=['json', 'bindings', 'open_browser', 'shards', 'cluster',
              'health_check_interval_seconds', 'batch_size', 'max_per_shard_failures',
              'max_total_failures', 'restart_threshold', 'watch_secs'])
    mock_options.json = False
    mock_options.bindings = {}
    mock_options.open_browser = False
    mock_options.shards = None
    mock_options.cluster = None
    mock_options.health_check_interval_seconds = 3
    mock_options.batch_size = 5
    mock_options.max_per_shard_failures = 0
    mock_options.max_total_failures = 0
    mock_options.restart_threshold = 30
    mock_options.watch_secs = 30
    mock_options.disable_all_hooks_reason = None
    return mock_options

  @classmethod
  def setup_mock_scheduler_for_simple_restart(cls, api):
    """Set up all of the API mocks for scheduler calls during a simple restart"""
    sched_proxy = api.scheduler_proxy
    cls.setup_get_tasks_status_calls(sched_proxy)
    cls.setup_populate_job_config(sched_proxy)
    sched_proxy.restartShards.return_value = cls.create_simple_success_response()

  @classmethod
  def setup_populate_job_config(cls, api):
    populate = cls.create_simple_success_response()
    populate.result.populateJobResult = Mock(spec=PopulateJobResult)
    api.populateJobConfig.return_value = populate
    configs = []
    for i in range(20):
      task_config = Mock(spec=TaskConfig)
      configs.append(task_config)
    populate.result.populateJobResult.populated = set(configs)
    return populate

  @classmethod
  def setup_get_tasks_status_calls(cls, scheduler):
    status_response = cls.create_simple_success_response()
    scheduler.getTasksWithoutConfigs.return_value = status_response
    schedule_status = Mock(spec=ScheduleStatusResult)
    status_response.result.scheduleStatusResult = schedule_status
    mock_task_config = Mock()
    # This should be a list of ScheduledTask's.
    schedule_status.tasks = []
    for i in range(20):
      task_status = Mock(spec=ScheduledTask)
      task_status.assignedTask = Mock(spec=AssignedTask)
      task_status.assignedTask.instanceId = i
      task_status.assignedTask.taskId = "Task%s" % i
      task_status.assignedTask.slaveId = "Slave%s" % i
      task_status.slaveHost = "Slave%s" % i
      task_status.assignedTask.task = mock_task_config
      schedule_status.tasks.append(task_status)

  @classmethod
  def setup_health_checks(cls, mock_api):
    mock_health_check = Mock(spec=StatusHealthCheck)
    mock_health_check.health.return_value = Retriable.alive()
    return mock_health_check

  def test_restart_simple(self):
    # Test the client-side restart logic in its simplest case: everything succeeds
    mock_options = self.setup_mock_options()
    (mock_api, mock_scheduler_proxy) = self.create_mock_api()
    mock_health_check = self.setup_health_checks(mock_api)
    self.setup_mock_scheduler_for_simple_restart(mock_api)
    with contextlib.nested(
        patch('twitter.common.app.get_options', return_value=mock_options),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.api.SchedulerProxy', return_value=mock_scheduler_proxy),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.factory.CLUSTERS', new=self.TEST_CLUSTERS),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.api.instance_watcher.StatusHealthCheck',
            return_value=mock_health_check),
        patch('time.time', side_effect=functools.partial(self.fake_time, self)),
        patch('threading._Event.wait')
    ) as (options, scheduler_proxy_class, test_clusters, mock_health_check_factory,
        time_patch, sleep_patch):

      with temporary_file() as fp:
        fp.write(self.get_valid_config())
        fp.flush()
        restart(['west/mchucarroll/test/hello'], mock_options)

        # Like the update test, the exact number of calls here doesn't matter.
        # what matters is that it must have been called once before batching, plus
        # at least once per batch, and there are 4 batches.
        assert mock_scheduler_proxy.getTasksWithoutConfigs.call_count >= 4
        # called once per batch
        assert mock_scheduler_proxy.restartShards.call_count == 4
        # parameters for all calls are generated by the same code, so we just check one
        mock_scheduler_proxy.restartShards.assert_called_with(JobKey(environment=self.TEST_ENV,
            role=self.TEST_ROLE, name=self.TEST_JOB), [15, 16, 17, 18, 19], None)

  def test_restart_simple_invalid_max_failures(self):
    # Test the client-side restart logic in its simplest case: everything succeeds
    mock_options = self.setup_mock_options()
    mock_options.max_total_failures = -1
    (mock_api, mock_scheduler_proxy) = self.create_mock_api()
    mock_health_check = self.setup_health_checks(mock_api)
    self.setup_mock_scheduler_for_simple_restart(mock_api)
    with contextlib.nested(
        patch('twitter.common.app.get_options', return_value=mock_options),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.api.SchedulerProxy', return_value=mock_scheduler_proxy),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.factory.CLUSTERS', new=self.TEST_CLUSTERS),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.api.instance_watcher.StatusHealthCheck',
            return_value=mock_health_check),
        patch('time.time', side_effect=functools.partial(self.fake_time, self)),
        patch('threading._Event.wait')
    ) as (options, scheduler_proxy_class, test_clusters, mock_health_check_factory,
        time_patch, sleep_patch):

      with temporary_file() as fp:
        fp.write(self.get_valid_config())
        fp.flush()
        self.assertRaises(SystemExit, restart, ['west/mchucarroll/test/hello'], mock_options)

        # Like the update test, the exact number of calls here doesn't matter.
        # what matters is that it must have been called once before batching, plus
        # at least once per batch, and there are 4 batches.
        assert mock_scheduler_proxy.getTasksWithoutConfigs.call_count == 0
        # called once per batch
        assert mock_scheduler_proxy.restartShards.call_count == 0

  def test_restart_failed_status(self):
    mock_options = self.setup_mock_options()
    (mock_api, mock_scheduler_proxy) = self.create_mock_api()
    mock_health_check = self.setup_health_checks(mock_api)
    self.setup_mock_scheduler_for_simple_restart(mock_api)
    mock_scheduler_proxy.getTasksWithoutConfigs.return_value = self.create_error_response()
    with contextlib.nested(
        patch('twitter.common.app.get_options', return_value=mock_options),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.api.SchedulerProxy', return_value=mock_scheduler_proxy),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.factory.CLUSTERS', new=self.TEST_CLUSTERS),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.api.instance_watcher.StatusHealthCheck',
            return_value=mock_health_check),
        patch('time.time', side_effect=functools.partial(self.fake_time, self)),
        patch('threading._Event.wait')
    ) as (options, scheduler_proxy_class, test_clusters, mock_health_check_factory,
        time_patch, sleep_patch):

      with temporary_file() as fp:
        fp.write(self.get_valid_config())
        fp.flush()
        self.assertRaises(SystemExit, restart, ['west/mchucarroll/test/hello'], mock_options)
        assert mock_scheduler_proxy.getTasksWithoutConfigs.call_count == 1
        assert mock_scheduler_proxy.restartShards.call_count == 0

  def test_restart_failed_restart(self):
    # Test the client-side updater logic in its simplest case: everything succeeds, and no rolling
    # updates.
    mock_options = self.setup_mock_options()
    (mock_api, mock_scheduler_proxy) = self.create_mock_api()
    mock_health_check = self.setup_health_checks(mock_api)
    self.setup_mock_scheduler_for_simple_restart(mock_api)
    mock_scheduler_proxy.restartShards.return_value = self.create_error_response()
    with contextlib.nested(
        patch('twitter.common.app.get_options', return_value=mock_options),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.api.SchedulerProxy', return_value=mock_scheduler_proxy),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.factory.CLUSTERS', new=self.TEST_CLUSTERS),
        patch('apache.aurora.client.api.instance_watcher.StatusHealthCheck',
            return_value=mock_health_check),
        patch('time.time', side_effect=functools.partial(self.fake_time, self)),
        patch('threading._Event.wait')
    ) as (options, scheduler_proxy_class, test_clusters, mock_health_check_factory,
        time_patch, sleep_patch):

      with temporary_file() as fp:
        fp.write(self.get_valid_config())
        fp.flush()
        self.assertRaises(SystemExit, restart, ['west/mchucarroll/test/hello'], mock_options)
        assert mock_scheduler_proxy.getTasksWithoutConfigs.call_count == 1
        assert mock_scheduler_proxy.restartShards.call_count == 1
        mock_scheduler_proxy.restartShards.assert_called_with(JobKey(environment=self.TEST_ENV,
            role=self.TEST_ROLE, name=self.TEST_JOB), [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], None)

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The show is based on a true story of a man trying to discover the meaning of life by following his instincts rather than popular conventions. Its purpose is to create a satirical and ironic mirror of human existence for those that believe that life is at its best 'outside the box'.
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SHIFT runs until tonight at the Theatre Centre. Created by Stuart Knight.