(Photo by Rashad Milligan for Steed Media Service) YouTubers TyTheGuy and Yung Charc (left and right) sat down for an exclusive interview with rolling out after performing their first rap show on Jan. 19, 2019.
ATLANTA – Tylar Jones and Aden Liban bounced into a room at The Loft in Midtown on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.
The encounter included a lot of handshakes, slang and inside jokes the two have formed over the years. The duo just finished their first rap performance together as Yung Charc and TyTheGuy in the state that they called home in high school.
Yung Charc and TyTheGuy only have two singles out, but the music videos already have over half a million views combined in three months. At The Loft nightclub, they performed the singles, as well as a handful of other unreleased music the two made together.
The artists are opening for DDG, the self-made YouTube celebrity who's making the transition into the music industry himself. They're all a part of a group of content creators who live in Los Angeles.
A year ago, however, this scenario wouldn't have been possible.
"Last year, [Jones] and I was literally signing an application to the Air Force," Liban said.
A couple of months later, the two took a chance and moved to L.A. with Poudii, another YouTuber from Gwinnett County, Georgia. The three content creators lived together for a few months before Jones and Liban moved into an apartment of their own once they could support themselves.
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Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand today announced the arrest of Ronald Gasser for the shooting death of former NFL player Joe McKnight.
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He says Gasser is charged with manslaughter.
"We've done the right thing for the right reasons," Normand insisted in a news conference. "We conducted over 160 interviews in this case."
He says they also conducted multiple crime scene reenactments.
"On Saturday we finally located a witness that was key to this case," the sheriff explained.
Normand says the shooter was very cooperative through the process, ten hours of interviews and a consent to search his home.
"Mr. Gasser never did ask for an attorney," he said.
Normand says that was one reason they did not arrest him imitatively, because as long as he was willing to talk they wanted to let him keep talking.
The sheriff said the road rage incident included both men chasing each other until it came to an end at the intersection where Gasser shot McKnight.
Normand explained that when McKnight got out of his car, Gasser could not drive away.
"Mr. Gasser did not have an avenue for retreat," he said. "Mr. MckNight exits his car and goes to Mr. Gasser's car."
It was at that time investigators say Gasser shot McKnight three times, killing him.
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He did not share details about why they decided to charge Gasser in the case. He did, however, say that the law is very specific in cases like this.
"We have a very forward leaning stand your ground, self defense, justifiable homicide law... that is very much in an affirmative fashion."
Normand also said that both Gasser and McKnight bare some blame for the tragic end in this case.
"Two people engaged in bad behavior that day. Why? I don't know."
The sheriff declined to explain why they charged Gasser, saying the probe was continuing and that he did not want to try the case in the media.
He explained, "We felt that manslaughter was the charge that most appropriately fit the evidence that we have at this time... Independent witnesses have provided information that don't completely square up with Mr. Gasser's statement."

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Taxation (Business Tax, Exchange of Information, and Remedial Matters) Bill
It provides a limited supplement to the original disclosure statement for the Taxation (Business Tax, Exchange of Information, and Remedial Matters) Bill dated 27 July 2016, which can be found at this link:
http://disclosure.legislation.govt.nz/assets/disclosures/bill-government-2016-149.pdf
This supplementary disclosure statement was prepared by Inland Revenue
The Inland Revenue Department certifies that, to the best of its knowledge and understanding, the information provided is complete and accurate at the date of finalisation below.
1(a) The SOP contains two amendments that relate to the new penalty provisions being introduced in the Bill at sections 142H and 142I of the Tax Administration Act 1994 for Automatic Exchange of Information ("AEOI") non-compliance. The amendments do not change the penalties themselves, but make important clarifications that will ensure the penalties can be applied as intended.
The first amendment will (at Clause 13 of the Bill) insert new subsections 142H(6) and 142I(6) of the Tax Administration Act 1994, that expressly authorise the Commissioner of Inland Revenue to set due dates for the penalties. This seems obvious, but will ensure that a taxpayer cannot challenge a penalty on the basis that the Commissioner has no legal basis for requiring payment of the penalty.
The second amendment will clarify the challenge rights of a taxpayer who is assessed with the penalties. Clause 11C of the Bill proposed removing the requirement (at section 89P of the Tax Administration Act 1994) for the Commissioner to issue a particular notice prior to the taxpayer initiating Court proceedings. This was because it was considered unnecessary. However, subsequent legal analysis has revealed that the section 89P notice is an important step because it provides the taxpayer with a clear right to initiate proceedings in the Courts. Accordingly, the SOP now proposes deleting clause 11C from the Bill so as to ensure that a taxpayer's challenge rights are not ambiguous.
Consultation with the Ministry of Justice was not necessary as the amendments do not change the nature of the penalties. They are "mechanical" in nature, and will ensure that the penalty provisions will operate as intended.
The Ministry of Justice were consulted on the AEOI provisions contained in the bill at introduction, and this was noted in the original disclosure statement.
The SOP amends the application date of four amendments from the date of Royal assent to 5 February 2017. Based on the expected Royal assent date of the bill, these amendments will apply retrospectively. The amendments will have the following effects:
Preventing taxpayers from transferring tax credits to prior periods that exceed the amount in debt and/or dispute in that period.
Credits a taxpayer may have will be offset immediately against the taxpayer's liability arising from a new or increased assessment by the Commissioner.
The grace period concept in relation to late payment penalties will be administered in a way that is more taxpayer friendly.
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Jonathan Haidt. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Pantheon Books, 2012
Here it is 2018, and I'm just getting around to reviewing this thought-provoking book from 2012. Waiting this long does have one advantage, however. Recent political events provide additional context for evaluating Haidt's view of moral conflicts between liberals and conservatives. In the age of Trump, some of his ideas are already starting to seem a little dated.
This is in a way two books, one on the evolutionary origins of human morality and the other on contemporary political conflict. As an evolutionary psychologist, Haidt makes a pretty good contribution to the first topic, but I found him much less convincing on the second. I will deal with these two sides of his argument in separate posts.
Intuitions come before reasons
Haidt is fond of animal metaphors, like "the rider on the elephant" and "the intuitive dog and its rational tail." His central metaphor for Part I of the book is that "the mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant." The rider is our conscious reasoning, which serves much deeper and more extensive mental processes most of the time. Moral judgment is mostly a matter of reacting quickly and intuitively to situations. Reasoning is secondary, and consists mainly of giving reasons to justify our intuitions in the eyes of others.
According to Haidt, most Western philosophers have had it wrong, accepting Plato's "rationalist delusion" that reason ought to be the master of the passions. Hume was an exception, saying that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions." Haidt sides with Hume, although he qualifies his position a little later.
Haidt also criticizes developmental psychologists such as Kohlberg for exaggerating how much children can figure out morality for themselves through increasingly advanced reasoning. He sees such views as an expression of a Western liberal tradition of rational individualism. Most of the world's people, including the less educated within Western countries, are more sociocentric. They react to moral dilemmas by simply and unreflectively applying the intuitions that thousands of years of biological evolution and cultural experience have built into them. Haidt likes the acronym WEIRD for the Western, educated, industrial, rich, democracies, indicating how far out of step they are with the world's moral majority.
Is an unreflective conformity to moral tradition a good thing? I don't know that Haidt is entirely clear about that, even in his own mind. Sometimes he claims to be just describing, not prescribing, but social scientists have a way of sliding from is to ought. Haidt seems a little too comfortable with a world in which most people stick to their past adaptations and traditions. He does acknowledge the parochialism of the righteous mind, and he would like different social tribes to respect one another and perhaps learn from one another. But he displays no confidence in an expansion of individual consciousness or critical thinking. He claims that the philosophy he studied in college was no help in figuring out the meaning of life. (For a lover of both science and philosophy like myself, that was a red flag.)
Evolutionary origins of moral intuitions
In accounting for people's powerful moral intuitions, Haidt tries to balance nature and nurture, the innate and the learned. "Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises….'Built-in' does not mean unmalleable; it means 'organized in advance of experience'." Social experience further organizes what evolution has already organized.
The innate part consists of six universal foundations of morality. These are "adaptations to long-standing threats and opportunities in social life. They would draw people's attention to certain kinds of events (such as cruelty or disrespect), and trigger instant intuitive reactions, perhaps even specific emotions (such as sympathy or anger)." The situations that trigger these reactions today can be very different from what may have triggered them earlier in our evolutionary history, allowing for considerable variation in cultural experience and cultural norms. Unlike some earlier evolutionists who fell into the trap of biological determinism, Haidt is sensitive to the need to reconcile evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology.
Perhaps the most obvious of the moral foundations is what Haidt calls "care/harm." The human species is noted for its large-brained but extremely dependent offspring, who require prolonged protection and care. Humans who didn't have a strong impulse for care would be out-reproduced by those who did. Once a foundation was laid for caring behavior in human evolution, the caring impulse could be extended and applied in many different ways, depending on the cultural situation.
Haidt relates each of the moral foundations to the adaptive challenge it evolved to meet in the course of building reproductively-successful human groups. The challenges and corresponding foundations are:
protecting and caring for children (care/harm)
reaping the benefits of two-way partnerships (fairness/cheating)
forming cohesive coalitions (loyalty/betrayal)
forging beneficial relationships within hierarchies (authority/subversion)
avoiding contaminants (sanctity/degradation)
avoiding domination (liberty/oppression)
Rationality and politics
In Haidt's "social intuitionist" model of morality, intuitions come first and reasoning second. When moral reasoning does occur, its function is not primarily to figure out what is right, but rather to "help us pursue socially strategic goals, such as guarding our reputations and convincing other people to support us, or our team, in disputes." In Plato's Republic, Socrates and Glaucon argue over which is more important for happiness, being just (Socrates) or appearing to be just in the eyes of others (Glaucon). Haidt agrees with Glaucon that "people care a great deal more about appearance and reputation than about reality." And he says, "Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth." That description leads to this prescription: "Make sure that everyone's reputation is on the line all the time, so that bad behavior will always bring bad consequences." Thus Haidt pins his hopes for moral improvement on tighter social control, not on moral education.
Haidt does try to avoid taking his disparagement of moral reasoning too far, as he admits that Hume did. He allows that "elephants are sometimes open to reason." People can sometimes question their intuitive moral reactions, especially when people interact with others whose reactions are different from theirs. In fact, better reasoning is very likely under certain conditions:
But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system. This is why it's so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth (such as an intelligence agency or a community of scientists) or to produce good public policy (such as a legislature or advisory board).
Perhaps if Haidt had taken that ball and run with it a little further, he would have had a little more respect for Western liberal rationalism.
A more rational society?
Once one has acknowledged that "good reasoning" can be an emergent property of a social system, contributing to better public policy, then why not also acknowledge that a society can move in that direction in an historical process? Isn't that exactly what one would expect of a modern, pluralistic democracy? Isn't Haidt's own scientific psychology and his critical thinking about prevailing psychological theories a product of such a society? Western societies are in need of reform, to be sure, but rejecting their rationality as WEIRD seems to me to be overkill.
Haidt's position seems implicitly conservative because he is more interested in how morality evolved in the past than how it continues to evolve culturally in the present. What else besides critical thinking can evaluate traditional morality in the light of new experience? For example, trying to restrict sexual activity to heterosexual, reproducing couples made a lot more sense when death rates were high, and high birth rates were needed for group survival. Today, societies with low birth rates but prosperous economies flourish, and they do so less by out-reproducing their competitors as by sharing their culture with them. Innovations like contraception and same-sex marriage are not a threat to such societies.
In his discussion of the "sanctity/degradation" moral foundation, Haidt expresses his appreciation for conservative sexual morality, especially the idea of chastity, while he portrays liberals as individualistic hedonists. He fails to appreciate the emerging morality expressed in such ideas as safe sex, mutual respect and mutual consent. Isn't today's #MeToo movement a moral crusade to hold men accountable for their behavior toward women?
In dismissing Kohlberg's developmental psychology as too rational, he overlooks the significance of Kohlberg's "post-conventional" moral stage. Haidt's conception of morality is so focused on conformity to society that he fails to grasp how a rapidly changing society requires some post-conventional thinking in order to adapt to changing times.
All of this is relevant to Part II of the book, which praises conservatives for being the superior moral politicians. They win a lot of the political arguments by appealing to more of the evolutionary foundations of morality than liberals do. Or so it would seem. That will be the topic of my next post.
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Jaanus Tamkivi, né le  à Kuressaare, est un homme politique estonien qui appartient au Parti de la réforme (ER).

Formation et carrière
Il achève ses études secondaires en 1978. Cinq ans plus tard, il obtient son diplôme d'ingénieur à l'Institut polytechnique de Tallinn.

De 1983 à 1989, il est superviseur au sein de la coopérative de travaux publics des fermes collectives de Saaremaa, puis, entre 1989 et 1992, directeur du département de restauration des églises médiévales du bureau de restauration de Saaremaa.

Par ailleurs, il a dirigé la société AS Tansar durant quatre ans à partir de 1992.

En outre, il parle l'anglais, le russe et finnois.

Vie politique

Élu local puis député
En 1996, il obtient son premier mandat en devenant maire de Kuressaare, sa ville natale.

Neuf ans plus tard, il fait son entrée au Riigikogu, le Parlement d'Estonie. Il siège d'abord à la commission de l'Environnement, puis prend la présidence du groupe du Parti de la réforme.

Ministre
Réélu député aux élections législatives de 2007, Jaanus Tamkivi est nommé ministre de l'Environnement du second gouvernement d'Andrus Ansip le 5 avril suivant. Il est remplacé par Keit Pentus le

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Naissance en novembre 1959
Naissance à Kuressaare
Naissance en RSS d'Estonie
Personnalité du Parti de la réforme d'Estonie
Ministre estonien de l'Environnement
Député de la douzième législature du Riigikogu
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The US will send 31 powerful battle tanks to Ukraine, joining Germany in sending the vehicles to support the fight against Russia's invasion.
The decision to deliver the M1 Abrams tanks was announced just hours after Germany said it would send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to the battlefield.
Berlin also cleared the way for other European countries to send German-made tanks from their own stocks.
Ukraine has lobbied Western allies to send the military equipment for months.
It hailed the twin announcements as a potential turning point that would allow its military to regain momentum and take back occupied territory. It also said the tanks could help deter a potential Russian offensive in the spring.
"An important step on the path to victory," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said. "Today the free world is united as never before for a common goal – liberation of Ukraine."
Russia, meanwhile, condemned the moves as a "blatant provocation" and said any supplied tanks would be destroyed. "These tanks burn like all the rest. They are just very expensive," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said earlier.
President Joe Biden announced the US decision in brief remarks at the White House on Wednesday. "[Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin] has recommended this step because it enhances Ukraine's capacity to defend its territory and achieve strategic objectives," he said.
"We're also giving Ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to effectively sustain these tanks in battle," Mr Biden said. "This is about helping Ukraine defend and protect Ukrainian land. It is not an offensive threat to Russia."
A Ukrainian tank battalion typically consists of 31 tanks, which is why that number has been agreed upon, Mr Biden said.
The US decision marks a reversal, as the Biden administration had insisted the heavy M1 Abrams tanks would be difficult to deliver and challenging for Ukrainian troops to operate.
The US tank is one of the most modern battle tanks in the world and requires extensive training to operate. The Leopard 2 is also widely seen as one of the most effective battle tanks available.
The $400m (£323m) American package also includes eight recovery vehicles that can tow the tanks if they become stuck.
But it is likely to be many months before the US-made tanks reach the battlefield, experts say, and it is unclear if they will be taken from an existing stockpile or built as new for Ukraine.
The German-made Leopard 2 tanks, however, will be drawn from an existing stock and are expected to arrive in two to three months.
The decision to send the heavy weapons follows weeks of diplomatic wrangling. Germany had faced mounting international pressure to send tanks, but there was speculation that any decision to do so would be conditional on the US doing the same.
Both sides participated in "good diplomatic conversations" that made the difference and contributed to the "extraordinary shift in Germany's security policy", a senior US official said on condition of anonymity earlier on Wednesday.
Ukrainian crews would soon be trained to use the Leopard tanks in Germany, officials in Berlin said. Mr Biden said troops would be trained to use the American-made tanks "as soon as possible" but added delivering them would "take time".
While the acquisition of tanks from the West will be considered a diplomatic coup for President Volodymyr Zelensky, he said on Tuesday that his country required at least 300 of them to defeat Russia.
Several European countries have Leopard 2 tanks in their stocks, and the German decision means some of these can also be sent to Ukraine. Germany hopes around 90 will ultimately be delivered to the battlefield.
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Upon the successful completion of an SCQF Level 5 qualification and with extensive practical knowledge under their belts, the trainees will be guaranteed an interview with CR Smith and have the opportunity to apply for a place on the CR Smith adult apprenticeship programme.
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The Dynamics of the Spectrum Shift to Later Stages
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Presentation: The Dynamics of the Spectrum Shift to Later Stages
Transformative Executive Coaching: The Drivers and Dynamics that Expedite Later Stage Leadership Development. This thesis illuminated key contributing factors in the shift from Achiever to Strategist.
In a multiple-case study (Yin, 2018) 12 senior executives were assessed and selected as participants based on their predominant Achiever stage profiles using a variation of the WUSCT (Loevinger & Wessler, 1970). They undertook a 12-month executive coaching program and were then re-assessed.
Contrary to expectation (Berger & Fitzgerald, 2002; Rooke & Torbert, 2005), all participants shifted a full stage in leadership capacity during the first year and two transformed twice to Strategist with a third very close-by. Their average aggregate postconventional profile (AAPP) increased from 12% to 46% and the AAPP of three of the participants rose to 88% three years later.
It was found that eight drivers balancing the individual and collective, self-awareness and enactment; eight shifts in perception; the dynamics of a spectrum stage shift; and the breadth, depth and height of the transformative coaching approach were key contributing factors.
About Antoinette Braks:
Antoinette Braks is a Master Executive Coach & Transformative Consultant who expedites later stage vertical development for leaders and organisations. She has recently completed a PhD in developmental psychology distilling her understanding of the spectrum stage shift and the dynamics of transformative coaching that effectively expedites that shift. Author of Transformative Executive Coaching in Leadership: The drivers and dynamics in later stage adult development (2020).


A total of 1.4 million applications were received during the Jan. 21-Jan. 27 application period. The program was eventually extended for three years. Congress also agreed to increase the number of available visas from 5,000 to 15,000 each year.
Also known as "Donnelly Visas"
Entries from 1987 were used in NP-5 in 1988 and 1989 as well.
After NP-5, Congress agreed to another temporary visa lottery that was opened to residents of all but 13 of the 170-odd countries in the world. The OP-1 program was to provide 10,000 visas for fiscal years 1990 and 1991. During an application period from March 1 to March 31, 1989, 3.2 million applications were received.
Also known as "Berman visas"
Section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-416) permits the 1,404 AA-1 visa numbers which were unused during the three year (FYs 1992 through 1994) term of that program to be issued in FY-1995; 1,303 of these numbers are reserved for applicants from Ireland (including Northern Ireland). Entitlement to these visas is limited to natives of the countries which had earlier been identified as "adversely affected" for purposes of the "NP-5" immigrant program established under Section 314 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-603). Applicants for these visas are to be selected from among those who had submitted applications for Diversity (DV-1) visas during the June 1994 mail-in period.
For AA-1 countries other than Ireland (and Northern Ireland), visa recipients will be identified from persons who have already been notified of their registration for a Diversity (DV-1) visa; there will be no additional applicants registered. Additional registrations were needed to permit use of all of the AA-1 visas reserved for Ireland (and Northern Ireland), however.
Notification letters for the additional persons registered for those AA-1 numbers were mailed during March 1995.
Also known as Morrison visas.


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Q: React Router Nested Routes? So I have a React application which has the main routes of
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/projects
/gallery
/about

I want to have a nested route that looks like
/projects/skout

I am not sure why, but this route is not rendering the proper HTML from the respective component file. It is just empty.
App Component
class App extends Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.child = React.createRef();
  }

  render() {

    let routes = (
      <Switch>
        <Route exact path="/projects/skout" Component={Skout} />
        <Route exact path="/about" component={About} />
        <Route exact path="/projects" component={Projects} />
        <Route exact path="/gallery" component={Gallery} />
        <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
        <Redirect exact to="/" />
      </Switch>
    )

    return (
      <BrowserRouter>

          <Layout>
              {routes}
          </Layout>

      </BrowserRouter>

    );
  }
}

export default CSSModules(App, styles);

Skout Component
import React from 'react';

const skout = (props) => (

                    Gallery

                    Storage for Photos, Ideas, and Thoughts

)

export default skout;

Do I have to put a route inside the /projects component?

A: You need to render matched route component inside Layout as they are nested routes:
  export const Layout = ({ children }) => (
     <React.Fragment>
            {children}
     </React.Fragment>
   )

But in react router v4, nested routes needs to render separately. You need put routes inside Layout components.

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Places to visit in Jaipur Rajasthan
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Places to visit in Jaipur RajasthanTeam Chetram2020-10-21T15:11:17+00:00
India's very own desert capital, Jaipur is a prime tourism destination because of its pink-walled city, ancient forts and palaces, the stunning remnants of a bygone era and elaborate architecture. The vibrant Pink City brings you closer to the royal heritage and the typical Rajasthani culture and traditions. Here we bring to you some of the must-visit attractions in the city.
Perched on a hill top overlooking the Maota Lake, the Amber Fort is around half an hour's drive from the main Jaipur city. It comprises of several spectacular palaces, halls, gardens and temples. What attracts the tourists the most is the fine mirror work that has been elaborately intricate over its walls so as to add to its grandeur. You can take up a swaying elephant ride or can walk over the hill to reach the entrance of the fort. You can also wait till night to enjoy an evening sound and light show performance.
Jal Mahal
The Water Palace, Jal Mahal appears to be floating in the center of the Sagar Lake. It is one of the most serene sights to witness amidst the bustling city life. Known for its amazing architecture and beauty, Jal Mahal is one of the most photographed monuments in the city. Its light sand coloured stone walls contrast the deep blue waters of the Sagar Lake that makes it pretty photogenic. Although the palace appears to be a single story monument but, it actually owns four submerged levels under the water. You cannot explore the actual palace any more since it is to be transformed into a classy restaurant.
Jaigarh Fort holds to be one of the best preserved military structures from the medieval times. Built in the year 1726 by Sawai Maan Singh III, this fort is also known as the victory tower since it has never been captured. This fort also holds the world's largest cannon on wheels and is a place of great significance for military lovers. The fort is edged by towering gateways and watchtowers. It remains intact and well-preserved till date. The fort is open for visitors from 9a.m. to 4:30p.m. every day. You will be mesmerized by the panoramic view of the city from the top of the fort. A sunset is worth witnessing!
Also known as the Palace of Winds, Hawa Mahal was built in the year 1799 so that the royal women could see the street activities, without being observed. The fascinating frontage structure of this palace with multiple rows of small windows and screens is one of the most recognized buildings in Jaipur. This palace overlooks the lively streets of Jaipur's main old city area. It is considered as a piece of architect and smart thinking since the palace has been built in such a way that it allows the blowing winds to keep the palace's temperature to its coolest and does not allow hot winds to blow in.
City Palace Jaipur
The magnificent City Palace is a huge complex comprising of several courtyards, gardens and buildings that reflect a blend of Rajasthani and Mughal architecture. The royal family still lives in Chandra Mahal, also known as the Moon Palace. You can also see a museum, art gallery and displays of ancient royal costumes and old Indian weapons within the City Palace complex. The palace complex is open for tourists from 9:30a.m. to 5p.m. daily. The entry ticket costs Rs.300 for foreigners and Rs.75 for Indian tourists.
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Jantar Mantar was built by King Jai Singh II between 1727 and 1734. It is an observatory of astronomical instruments that help in certain astronomical measurement. There are 14 structures in total that are used to measure time, predict eclipses and track stars. This amazing observatory is open from 9a.m. to 4:30p.m. every day and the entry cost is Rs.100 for foreigners and Rs.20 for Indians.
Jaipur is an excellent place for shoppers as well. One of the most prominent shopping areas of the city is the Mirza Ismial Road that is better known as the MI Road. The shops here have a large variety of goods to impress tourists ranging from jewellery to brass work to textiles, wood work, blue pottery, etc. MI Road is a happening hangout place for tourists and is often being compared to the Connaught Place of Delhi. This curvy road also holds ancient architectural shops along with bringing to you the best jewellery and shops for branded readymade garments. When you get tired while exploring shops and shopping, you can relax in the most sought-after restaurants in this place that include the Niros, Mc Donalds, Suryamahal and Pizza Hut. Also, the Raj Mandir cinema hall is just a few steps away from the main circle on MI Road.
Johari Bazar
The Johari Bazar market in the old, pink-walled city is famous for bangles, traditional tie and dye fabrics, inexpensive costume jewellery, gold and silver, blue pottery, textiles, etc. You can find a variety of enticing goods while exploring the market on foot. Special Jaipuriya quilts are also a pretty famous item of sale in this area. However, you must note that many shops remain closed on Sunday.
Choki Dhani
Choki Dhani is an ethnic village resort in Jaipur that gives you an insight into the traditional Rajasthani village life. It is a fun place to visit for both adults as well as kids. You will get to enjoy a delicious Rajasthani thali along with a variety of entertainment options that include dance performances, puppet shows, acrobats, camel and elephant rides, snack stalls and much more. A visit to this mock Rajasthani village is a total refreshing and overwhelming experience.
Explore the beautiful Pink City during your vacation and make the most out of all its fascinations.
And also have a look at our Jaipur tour packages.


I decided this weekend to participate in the 31 Days of Yoga Challenge over at Carrots n Cake and I have to say that this was one of the smartest things I've done in awhile.
Yoga has always been something I've done "when I have time". In my life, that time doesn't come often and I've never made it a priority. Inspired by the challenge, I downloaded some free 20 minute classes over at yogadownload.com . They have been wonderful! So far I've done the detox class, morning flow and lunar flow. Tonight I did the lunar flow following my belly dancing class and it really reminded me that yoga is not just an exercise of the body, but also of the mind.
A few years back when I was a member of a gym, I used to take yoga almost weekly. There were two instructors I really liked. There was one class I really enjoyed because the teacher was lovely and I always felt great physically coming out of her class. The other class I enjoyed because of the way I felt emotionally, especially during savasana. At the end of every class she would tell us "right now, in this moment, you are everything you need to be". She would repeat it a few times and more often than not I would cry (quietly and silently of course) Tonight's practice really reminded me that yoga makes me feel connected to my body and my emotions in a way that running or exercising can't.
As human beings we are so hard on ourselves and we are constantly pushing and striving to be the best that we can be. This principle is especially applicable in our weight loss journeys. We work so hard to only see a .2 loss on the scale or even worse, a gain. Sometimes it is really hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. We often feel that we cannot succeed, which is not true. You are capable of so much. You have within you the power to reach your goals and do amazing things. I believe in you. I would like all of you to take a moment right now and think of all the things you've accomplished today.
Right now, in this moment, you are everything you need to be.
This moment you're in right now is a beautiful one, so enjoy it.
I loved this posted on WW and I love this posted here.
I'm taking that quote and posting it everywhere I need to see it.
Ash...loved this post!I need to get back into yoga, I used to really enjoyed it. I hope you are having a great weekend!


1861 census: living at Burnside Cottage, 'Abbey Landward', Renfrewshire with parents and siblings. Age is 18, occupation is 'Cotton Mill Sharper', and place of birth is Paisley.
Not present in the 1851 census, but there is an Andrew, aged 8, in the 1851 household�could Andrew and David be the same?


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Dendrodoa carnea (Agassiz, 1850)
Ascidiacea
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Styelidae
Dendrodoa
Dendrodoa carnea
Ascidia carnea Agassiz, 1850
Cynthia carnea (Agassiz, 1850)
Cynthia gutta Stimpson, 1852
Styelopsis carnea (Agassiz, 1850)
blood drop sea squirt in English
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Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
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Miner, R. W. (1950). Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. 1-888.
Monniot, C. (2001). Ascidiacea & Sorberacea. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: pp. 352-355.
Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306.
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A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra agreed today to hear next week a plea seeking a stay on controversial Rafale deal between India and France.
Advocate M L Sharma had moved a plea seeking an urgent hearing and was mentioned before the bench which also comprises Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud today. He alleged major discrepancies in the deal.
"The inter-government agreement to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets must be quashed as it was an outcome of corruption and not ratified by Parliament under Article 253 (Parliament has the power to make any law for implementing any inter-government agreement) of the Constitution", the plea said.
It also sought FIR and prosecution of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former defence Minister and present Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, business tycoon Anil Ambani and French armament firm Dassault with the recovery of the amount.
A similar plea was filed in the apex court in March this year seeking an independent probe into the Rafale deal and disclosure of the cost involved in the deal before Parliament. The plea, filed by Congress leader Tehseen S Poonawalla, had sought issuance of a direction against the Centre as to why the Union Cabinet's approval was not sought as part of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) before signing the procurement deal with France on September 23, 2016. Rafale deal is a defence agreement signed between the governments of India and France for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft in a fly-away condition as a part of the upgrading process of Indian Air Force equipment. The Rafale fighter is a twin-engine Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) manufactured by French aerospace company Dassault Aviation. Indian Air Force had advanced a proposal to buy 126 fighter aircraft in August 2007 and floated a tender.


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Residents gather for Christmas carols in the Abu Dhabi desert
The event first started in 2006 and has become a successful annual affair
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Volunteers of St. Andrews Church are ever ready to help for the event. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Family set up their spots before the carol singing in the desert. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - People enjoy during the singing of Christmas carols by candlelight in the desert. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Young children participate in singing Christmas carols by candlelight in the desert. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - The volunteers play their instruments for the Christmas carols. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - St. Andrews hosted Carols by Candlelight with a barbecue in the desert. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Families use the barbecues provided to cook the food items they brought. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - The stage is set up for the band to begin. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - The singing of Christmas carols by candlelight started after dark in the desert. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Young children participate in singing Christmas carols by candlelight in the desert. Khushnum Bhandari for The National
Hundreds came together yesterday for Carols by Candlelight in the Desert, an annual event where people sing Christmas carols in the Abu Dhabi desert. The free event, which started with South African expats John and Hanneke Wilson in 2006, is supported by St Andrew's Church and its members in Abu Dhabi.
People also enjoyed a communal barbecue. "The main focus is bringing families together to experience not only the Christmas spirit, but also to introduce people to the beauty of the desert," the Wilsons have said of the event.
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After cold start on 3-pointers, No. 7 Maryland basketball won't stop shooting from beyond new line
By Don Markus
| College Park
If there was one concern Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon might have had coming out of his team's season-opening 95-71 win over Holy Cross on Tuesday night at Xfinity Center, it was his Terps' shot selection on some of their 27 3-point attempts. They missed 22 of them.
"I thought three of them were bad shots, four of them I think I went through with the team, maybe five — that's too many," Turgeon said Friday after practice. "If we have one or two bad shots a game, that's understandable, especially this early in the season."
Turgeon still has confidence in players such as sophomores Aaron Wiggins (0-for-6 from 3-point range Tuesday) and Eric Ayala (1-for-6), who led Maryland's regulars in 3-point shooting last season at 41.3% and 40.6%, respectively.
And Turgeon knows, as least based on what he saw in preseason practice, that senior guard Anthony Cowan Jr. and sophomore forward Jalen Smith (Mount Saint Joseph), who were both 0-for-3 on Tuesday, are capable of shooting better from deep than they did last season, when Cowan made 33.7% and Smith 26.8%.
This isn't new territory for the Terps. A year ago, Maryland was 2 of 19 against Delaware in its season opener and only 24 of 94 (25.5 percent) on 3-pointers in its first four games.
"I think we're a good 3-point shooting team," said Turgeon, whose Terps finished fifth in the Big Ten at 35.3% last season after the slow start. "We chart every shot we've taken since practice started. We're about 39% as a team. If we can carry that over into the games, we'll be a pretty tough team to guard."
Still, going into Saturday's home game against Rhode Island, Turgeon hopes that what he considers some of the best 3-point shooters he's had in his nine seasons at Maryland can find their touch — and maybe their legs — behind a line that's been moved nearly a foot and a half deeper from last season.
If there's any consolation for the No. 7 Terps, it's that some other highly ranked teams, as well as most of their Big Ten counterparts, struggled as much if not more than they did.
No. 1 Michigan State shot nearly as miserably as Maryland from 3-point range. In a 79-72 loss to No. 2 Kentucky in the Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden, the Spartans were 5-for-26. No. 4 Duke beat No. 2 Kansas in New York, 68-64, despite shooting 8-for-24 from deep. No. 6 Florida was 3-for-15 in a 74-54 win over North Florida.
Among Big Ten teams, Michigan went 9-for-25 on 3-pointers in a 79-71 win over Appalachian State in coach Juwan Howard's debut. Wisconsin and Illinois both shot 5-for-19 in their respective openers, with the Badgers losing at home, 65-63, to No. 20 Saint Mary's and the Fighting Illini winning 78-70 over Nicholls State. Purdue was only a little better, shooting 6-for-19 in a 79-57 win over Wisconsin-Green Bay. Nebraska was worse in coach Fred Hoiberg's debut, shooting 6-for-23 in a 66-47 loss at home to Cal-Riverside. Rutgers snuck past Bryant, 73-71, despite missing 18 of 21 from long range.
Asked if the poor shooting is because of the new 3-point line being pushed out 16¾ inches to the international distance of 22 feet, 1¾ inches, Turgeon said: "I think it's early. I do think the line is going to make a difference. It's a [more than a] foot further back.
"There's a lot of average shooters that [can't make them with consistency]. The old line, I thought a lot of guys could make it. I thought it was a layup for good shooters. It makes a difference as the game goes on. I think we'll adjust. But I do think the percentages will go down."
Former longtime Maryland coach and Naismith Hall of Famer Gary Williams has seen this happen before, first when the 3-point line was introduced throughout college basketball at 19 feet, 9 inches for the 1986-87 season and then pushed out a foot in 2008-09.
"This year it looks like a tougher shot so far," Williams said in a telephone interview Friday. "Whether that's a mental thing, a physical thing. Obviously, the further out you go, the harder it is to shoot the ball. I like that it's [the same as] the international line. It shouldn't be like a 2-pointer."
Early on, it was coaches like Williams playing a more traditional inside-out game offensively who were hesitant to let their teams take 3-pointers. But the growth of analytics, as well as the reliance on 3-point shooting in the NBA, has changed the way the college game is played.
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"A lot of coaches had come in basketball playing and coaching where the idea was to get the ball as close to the basket as possible," Williams said. "Somebody a little younger like [Rick] Pitino, saw the analytics shooting 3s better than most people.
"Back then, referees were still calling quite a few fouls, and if you could get the ball inside, you were concerned with getting the other team in foul trouble. If you shoot a lot of 3s, you basically don't get the other team in foul trouble. When you push the line back, the better shooters are going to show up."
Ayala, who surprised even Turgeon last season with his ability to hit 3-pointers on a consistent basis, said Friday that when he's in the game, he doesn't "even think about the line" being more than a foot further out."
Having missed five of six against Holy Cross — he missed his first five in Maryland's first three games as a freshman last season before heating up — Ayala attributed his early struggles to something that everything from athletes to actors go through when the lights come on.
"I think it was just first game jitters," he said. "Our sophomores we still get those [nerves] playing in a [season's first] live game. I think we'll be better next game."
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NOTES: Turgeon said that junior guard Darryl Morsell (Mount Saint Joseph), who came off the bench to give his slow-starting team a spark in a 15-point, four-assist, three-steal performance in the opener, will start against Rhode Island. Turgeon said that one other player who started on the bench Tuesday will also be in the starting lineup Friday, presumably either one of two freshmen, forward Donta Scott or center Makhi Mitchell.
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African Water Facility Supports the Development of Irrigated Agriculture to Increase Food Security and Economic Growth in Malawi
The African Water Facility (AWF) has offered a €1.8 million grant to the Government of Malawi to help prepare a project designed to expand irrigated agriculture in the Lower Shire Valley. The project will help overcome the adverse effect of prolonged dry spells and frequent flooding to improve and spread agricultural production.
It will also create opportunity for employment through the establishment of smallholder farming ventures and professionally operated irrigation services. Over 272,000 people are expected to benefit from this project.
Malawi depends largely on rain-fed agriculture to achieve food security and socio-economic growth. Agricultural productivity and production under rain-fed conditions are low and uncertain, however, in particular owing to unreliable rainfall and natural disasters such as erratic rains, dry spells, pest and diseases, droughts and floods. Since Malawi is endowed with underutilized water and irrigable land, the Government places a high priority on irrigation development to increase crop productivity and production, for food security for both domestic and export markets.
The Lower Shire Valley is one of the most fertile areas of Malawi, boasting rich deep soils with important irrigation potential. The Government's plan is to develop this potential within the administrative districts of Chikwawa and Nsanje in various phases to cover a total of 42,500 hectares, by extracting water from the river and conveying it by gravity to the irrigable area mainly through open canals.
"The Government of Malawi has long wanted to develop irrigated agriculture in the Lower Shire Valley, but a number of challenges have stood in the way of project implementation," noted Akissa Bahri, Coordinator of the African Water Facility. "In coordination with the World Bank, we are bringing our support to address these issues namely by assessing outstanding technical issues and supporting the Government in mobilizing financing. These studies will also help defining win-win ventures between smallholders and the private sector, so that this project can be economically sustainable and provide more benefits and jobs to local populations."
The estimated total cost of the project preparation activities is €5.3 million, of which €1.8 million is covered by the AWF, €3.4 million by the World Bank, and €73,000 by the Government. The grant will be specifically used to finance a feasibility study and preparatory activities to mobilize financing for the first phase of the irrigation plan which will cover 21,000 ha of land area, which could cost up to €231 million.
The overall project will also explore a public-private partnership arrangement to mobilize private financing to cover part of the investment costs involved for the inlet and feeder canals.
Katia Theriault
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Q: Documentation for Matter Standard? ... Github project exists, but no overview The Matter standard will important for the connected home.  So, I want to understand the technical details.
A relatively active Github project is here: https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip but where is the summary document/standard to help explain the code?  It seems like the code must be written to some specification.

A: Matter is still new and many onboarding materials are still under active development. The best place you can start from will be the example projects under connectedhomeip. For example, you can take a look at lighting app.
Once you get the right development board from one of those manufacturers, click on the corresponding project from the list and follow the instructions.

A: Check this guide: https://developers.home.google.com/matter
Or maybe even better this one: https://developers.home.google.com/samples/matter-app
Regarding the specification itself, I think you must be a CSA member to access it.


Specimen records from the Harvard University Herbaria. The Harvard University Herbaria, with over 5 million specimens form the world's largest University Herbaria. Included in the Herbaria are what were once six separate herbarium collections: * Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum (A) * Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames (ECON) * Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium (AMES) * Farlow Herbarium (FH) * Gray Herbarium (GH) * New England Botanical Club Herbarium (NEBC). DarwinCore data follows the AppleCore guidance https://code.google.com/p/applecore/.


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Q: How does wolfram alpha compute this integral? Wolfram alpha can find that
$\int_1^\infty\frac{x^8-8x^7+24x^6-32x^5+19x^4-12x^3+17x^2-10x+2}{x^{12}-12x^{11}+56x^{10}-120x^9+82x^8+112x^7-182x^6-92x^5+381x^4-356x^3+170x^2-44x+5}dx=\frac{\pi}{2}$
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=int_1%5Einf%28%28x%5E8-8x%5E7%2B24x%5E6-32x%5E5%2B19x%5E4-12x%5E3%2B17x%5E2-10x%2B2%29%2F%28x%5E12-12x%5E11%2B56x%5E10-120x%5E9%2B82x%5E8%2B112x%5E7-182x%5E6-92x%5E5%2B381x%5E4-356x%5E3%2B170x%5E2-44x%2B5%29%29
Is it possible to compute it by manual?
Thanks in advance.

A: This is equivalent to American Mathematical Monthly Problem 11148 published in April 2005. Let $u=x-1$. Then rewrite the integral as $$\int_{0}^{\infty}{\frac{u^8-4u^6+9u^4-5u^2+1}{u^{12}-10u^{10}+37u^8-42u^6+26u^4-8u^2+1}}du.$$
The value of this integral is equal to the value of the original integral. The method to solve this equivalent integral can be found in the link below.
http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~tauraso/AMM/AMM11148.pdf


Good news for insurers and independent insurance agents in the area of flood insurance. PIA National sent out a news release last week that said a final rule regarding private flood insurance will soon be coming.
The association anticipates it will be good news.
Putting it in layman's terms, the rule — if agreed upon by all five agencies involved — says mortgage lenders will be required to accept private flood insurance as an alternative to insurance sold by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and backed by the federal government.
The promulgation of the rule — along with notification to borrowers of the availability of flood insurance policies issued by private insurers — is required by a provision in the Biggert-Waters Act of 2012. It reauthorized and reformed the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
It's just not official yet.
PIA National said private flood insurance now accounts for less than 5% of the residential market, and most private flood insurance policies cover commercial properties or residential properties that need coverage above the $250,000 limit.
Five agencies have oversight in relation to mortgage lenders. Two of them, The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) have approved the rule. The other three, the Federal Reserve, the Farm Credit Administration and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) still have it under consideration.


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However, to sustain such a sentiment and to turn it into a progressive movement we need the community infrastructure to be an ongoing source of inspiration. By supporting inspiring campaigns at a local level through issues that resonate with the local voter we can aggregate this work into something significant on a state by state basis. This is critical to preparing our work for the 2020 census battles that will determine the outcomes of dozens if not hundreds of races nationally. It will also take smart tactics and strategies in campaign execution and in targeting our work in each state.
To get this started we will be focusing on 12 states for the 2015/2016 cycle. These states, for the most part, will be places where the New American Majority can play a significant role. There are at least 24 states where this can happen. I will not go into the math but you can reach out to me if you have that fascination. Our goal in these states will be to work with existing grassroots groups to help focus and strengthen their work in order to have greater impact at the local and state level. The aggregate of this local work will then reach significant numbers at a state level and create greater gains. This ultimately means gaining liberal to progressive majorities in state houses and winning a few more governor and state office races. It could also mean winning a few more Congressional races to get us back in the game at the federal level.
We think our work will be unique because it will be people of color led fueled by the investment of the most visionary donors. I have asked the Center for Community Change Action and the Southern Elections Fund to join us in this 12 state national effort. I am confident that their experience and in-state ties will add assets that can ensure our success as a collaboration of national leadership. I will continue to outline our work in these pages as we launch and execute our programs. I am starting with some case studies on successes in establishing our cornerstone infrastructure and in increasing voter turnout. We will follow with releasing state by state plans as we figure those out. We hope you will join us as we go through this journey to strengthen the democratic functioning of our electoral system. We will also provide more information about the issues that we care about the most and help define us as a progressive movement. Let us know what you think and we hope to inspire you and recruit you to be an activist in our movement.


Santa is keeping busy this holiday by attending Christmas festivals and parades across Florida. He'll be making his appearance in Hawthorne on December 8 at 11am.
Along with Santa there'll be vendors displaying their holiday gift ideas, a parade celebrating the holiday, and a tree lighting at City Hall.
There will also be live music and delicious food.
Other events may include a donut eating contest, which last year the Mayor of Hawthorne went belly to belly with the Alachua County Sheriff Department. This year's Christmas festival should be loads of fun and surprises.
Learn more about parade here.


In the video installation fallen imperial images through doors of the Viennese Hotel Imperial alternate with those of the no longer used corridors of the Flak tower (Viennese anti aircraft tower built in the second world war) the fast cutting is accompanied by female punk singers which interact with the image like in a game bay console. In this way the singers are the connection between the fictive and mutating spaces. The aim is to break up the playful pompousness of the electric, juvenile punk culture with the conservatory gaze of baroque high culture, and bring these seizures in the rhythm of the video game culture, back to common styles of fashion and emblems.


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WACO, Texas (June 12, 2014) – With Father's Day approaching, Mr. Rooter® Plumbing takes time to reflect on some of the wise words that father's the world over have shared through the ages. These insightful life tips have helped prepare sons and daughters for future endeavors of success and happiness due, in part, to their timelessness, making them just as relevant today as they were fifty years ago.
Below are five pieces of fatherly advice that Mr. Rooter Plumbing has found withstand the test of time:
1. Money in hand is money easily spent. Create a budget and stick to it. Remember that money does not define a person but, rather, should be used to help one live well.
2. Learn from both the good and the bad. Every moment in life is an opportunity to learn and grow. A life story is never over because of one mistake. You are never as good as you think you are after you win and you are never as bad as you think you are after you lose.
3. Find joy and happiness in life. Instead of rushing through the day-to-day, slow down and enjoy all of the little moments life has to offer. Each of these moments is precious - find a way to appreciate each of them.
4. Experience is enhanced when shared with others. Take opportunities presented to help create a life full of love, laughter and happiness.
5. Hard work has never killed anyone. A life of honest work that had blood, sweat and tears poured into it, is a life that one can look back on and be proud of.


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Q: Python Regex not returning phone numbers Given the following code:
import re

file_object = open("all-OANC.txt", "r")
file_text = file_object.read()

pattern = "(\+?1-)?(\()?[0-9]{3}(\))?(-|.)[0-9]{3}(-|.)[0-9]{4}"

for match in re.findall(pattern, file_text):
    print match

I get output that stretches like this:
('', '', '', '-', '-')
('', '', '', '-', '-')
('', '', '', '-', '-')
('', '', '', '-', '-')
('', '', '', '-', '-')
('', '', '', '-', '-')
('', '', '', '-', '-')
('', '', '', '-', '-')
('', '', '', '-', '-')

I'm trying to find phone numbers, and I am one hundred percent sure there are numbers in the file. When I search for numbers in an online applet for example, with the same expression, I get matches.
Here is a snippet where the expression is found outside of python:
"Slate on Paper," our
specially formatted print-out version of Slate, is e-mailed to readers
Friday around midday. It also can be downloaded from our
site. Those services are free. An actual paper edition of "Slate on Paper"
can be mailed to you (call 800-555-4995), but that costs money and can take a
few days to arrive."
I want output that at least recognizes the presence of a number

A: It's your capture groups that are being displayed.  Display the whole match:
text = '''"Slate on Paper," our specially formatted print-out version of Slate, is e-mailed to readers Friday around midday. It also can be downloaded from our site. Those services are free. An actual paper edition of "Slate on Paper" can be mailed to you (call 800-555-4995), but that costs money and can take a few days to arrive."'''

pattern = "(\+?1-)?(\()?[0-9]{3}(\))?(-|.)[0-9]{3}(-|.)[0-9]{4}"

for match in re.finditer(pattern,text):
    print(match.group())

Output:
800-555-4995


(IPS) WASHINGTON -- Daunted by setbacks in Iraq and the looming difficulties in achieving "regime change" in Iran and North Korea, neo-conservative hawks have joined the U.S. extreme right in training their sights on a much weaker target, the United Nations, beginning with its secretary-general, Kofi Annan.
Jumping on reports that Annan's son remained on the payroll of a Swiss auditing firm hired by the world body to monitor the implementation of the "oil-for-food" program in Iraq for four years after he left the firm, two prominent neo-conservative voices -- 'New York Times' columnist William Safire and the editorial page of the 'Wall Street Journal' -- called Monday for the secretary-general's resignation.
The two columns were immediately seized on by the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News television channel, presumably to draw more attention to the issue. It noted that the 'New York Sun,' another Murdoch-owned media outlet, had broken the story about the 2,500-dollar monthly payments by Cotecna Inspections to Kojo Annan that followed his departure from the firm five years ago.
Safire, who has been writing for months about alleged UN complicity in the skimming by ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of billions of dollars from Iraqi oil sales under the program, declared that the latest disclosures marked "the end of the beginning of the scandal."
"Its end will not begin until Kofi Annan, even if personally innocent, resigns -- having through initial ineptitude and final obstructionism brought dishonour on the Secretariat of the United Nations," wrote Safire.
At the same time, the Journal's editorial page, which, like Safire, has been playing up the oil-for-food scandal for months, ran a column by right-wing blogger Glenn Harlan Reynolds, publisher of InstaPundit.com, calling for Annan's replacement with the former president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel.
Conveniently, Havel now serves as co-chairman of the international wing of the new Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), a neo-conservative-dominated group that believes the Bush administration's "war on terrorism" is the equivalent of "World War IV."
"The UN is losing what shreds of moral legitimacy remain, even among those who were once sympathetic, as the extent of its corruption becomes too obvious to ignore," wrote Reynolds, noting growing discussion about replacing or supplementing the world body with a "community of democracies" "that would draw its support from legitimate governments, not thugs and kleptocrats."
The two columns appear to be the latest in a campaign to discredit the United Nations that has been building steadily in neo-conservative and far-right circles here since the United States and Britain invaded Iraq in March 2003 without the Security Council's blessing.
Indeed, on the day of the invasion Richard Perle, a leading neo-conservative and former chairman of the Pentagon Defense Policy Board (DPB), wrote a column in London's 'The Guardian' that celebrated the death of "the fantasy of the UN as the foundation of a new world order."
Relying on the Security Council to ensure world order and international law, Perle wrote, was a "dangerously wrong idea that leads inexorably to handing great moral and even existential politico-military decisions, to the likes of Syria, Cameroon, Angola, Russia, China and France."
On just the second day of the invasion, the Journal, which has long espoused the idea of what it calls a "league of democratic nations" to replace the UN, wrote a column entitled "Au Revoir, Security Council" that called for the U.S. to leave the body in order to "strip (it) of the pretence of legality and seriousness and remove it as an obstacle to genuine collective security."
In the same vein, neo-conservatives and the extreme right continued to warn against giving the UN any responsibility for running Iraq during and after the occupation, even as it became clear that without greater international participation, the burden on the U.S. military and treasury was fast becoming too much.
It was during George W Bush's re-election campaign in September, however, when Annan said in reply to a reporter's question that the invasion had been "illegal" under the UN Charter, that the anti-UN campaign became both more personalised and fiercer.
'Kofi Votes Kerry,' ran one column in the Journal by former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, while another, by the editorial staff, suggested the secretary-general might have been trying to divert attention from the U.S. Congress' probes of the oil-for-food program.
Since then, the op-eds and essays in right wing and neo-conservative media, such as the Murdoch-owned 'Weekly Standard' and the 'National Review,' have been coming fast and furious.
In addition to the alleged corruption of UN officials in the oil-for-food program, and the refusal to comply with demands to hand over documents on the program to congressional investigators -- the UN is conducting its own investigation headed by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker -- these articles have made much of various issues.
They include the world body's failure to intervene forcefully to stop what the U.S. government has called "genocide" in Darfur, Sudan; Libya's chairmanship of the UN Commission on Human Rights; continuing Security Council resolutions censuring Israel's behaviour in the Palestinian territories as evidence of its moral bankruptcy; and Annan's caution against a major military offensive in Fallujah.
The suggested remedies have been varied -- from leaving the UN altogether, to creating a community of democracies body as an alternative, to withholding or reducing the U.S. contribution to the UN budget -- as Washington did beginning in the late 1980s through much of the 1990s -- in order to impose certain changes to its liking. Washington currently is obliged to contribute 22 percent of UN financing.
"President Bush has a mandate to rethink American relations with the United Nations," wrote Anne Bayefsky, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, another neo-conservative think tank, in the 'National Review' Online just after the election.
"The campaign," she went on, "smoked out something more sinister than impotence or ineptitude at Turtle Bay; namely, a UN secretariat dedicated to undermining the president's success."
Of course, right-wing hostility to the UN is not new. The extreme right in the United States has sought Washington's withdrawal from the world body -- and the UN's departure from U.S. territory -- from its very birth, believing it to have been a plot by communists, socialists, and, in some versions, Jews and Freemasons, to create a world government that would destroy U.S. sovereignty and the freedom of its citizens, beginning with their right to bear arms.
Neo-conservatives began moving against the United Nations after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and accelerated that after the 1973 October war, when Israel found itself repeatedly isolated and assailed in the General Assembly and the Security Council by the Soviet bloc and the Third World countries in the Non-Aligned Movement. Only the United States and a few minor statelets backed the Zionist nation.
In reaction, UN-bashing became a staple of 'Commentary magazine,' a monthly that has been the major exponent of neo-conservative thought, in the late 1960s.
The article, which castigates the organization above all for its "overweening animus toward Israel" and "the UN's complicity in legitimising terrorism," concluded that the threat or use of U.S. military power over the past 60 years has been far more effective at safeguarding "international peace and security" than the Security Council.


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There is no better temptation than chocolate smell ! A fantastic journey through chocolate traditions with a tasting of one of the most famous swiss delicacies.Admire breathtaking landscapes of Gruyères. At the top of the hill, take a deep breath of pure mountain air and listen to the cowbells in the pasturelands. A memorable day full of tasting and nice feelings.
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