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How to Transfer Funds or Money Through NEFT or RTGS Online?
Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) are payments facilities offered by banks for transfer of funds or money from one bank to another.
In RTGS the funds are processed on instructions at the time they are received rather than at some later time. Means money is transferred as and when instructions are received.
Also read: What is the Difference between RTGS and NEFT?
For large value transactions one needs to transfer through RTGS. The minimum amount to be remitted through RTGS is Rs 2 lakh. There is no upper ceiling for RTGS transactions.
The RTGS service window for customer's transactions is available to banks from 9 AM - 4 .30 PM on week days and from 9 AM to 2 PM on Saturdays.
Individuals, firms or corporates having accounts with a bank branch can transfer funds using NEFT. While, there is no limit either minimum or maximum on the amount of funds that could be transferred using NEFT.
Presently, NEFT operates in hourly batches - there are twelve settlements from 8 am to 7 pm on week days (Monday through Friday) and six settlements from 8 am to 1 pm on Saturdays.
There are two ways in which we can transfer funds from one account to another. Let us understand how to transfer funds by online method.
Read more: How RTGS and NEFT fund transfer services can be availed offline?
How to transfer funds through RTGS and NEFT?
To avail this service one needs to have net banking facility from its bank.
Beneficiary needs to be added, before transferring the funds. One should make note of beneficiary account number, IFSC number, bank and branch name and name as per bank details.
Proceeding will take 12-24 hours to authenticate given details of beneficiary. You will receive a message that beneficiary is been added and one can transfer funds easily.
How to transfer funds through RTGS and NEFT from SBI?
In Profile tab and Go to Manage Beneficiary link.
Select Inter Bank Payee from the options provided.
Select 'Add' option and provide the Beneficiary Name, Beneficiary Account Number, Address and Inter Bank Transfer Limit in the relevant fields.
Selecting the Location option and then the Beneficiary Bank, State and Branch form the drop down menus provided.
Click the 'accept Terms of Service (Terms & Conditions)' button followed by 'confirm'.
A high security password is sent to the mobile number as an additional security measure. Enter this password to authorize the beneficiary.
The beneficiary added is activated in a maximum of 16 hrs. time. Once activated you can transfer funds to the beneficiary.
To remit funds to the Inter Bank Payee through RTGS / NEFT select the 'Inter Bank Transfer' link in the 'Payments/Transfers' tab.
Select the Transaction Type - RTGS or NEFT.
The list of beneficiary accounts added is displayed.
Enter the Amount and select the beneficiary to be credited from the list.
Click on 'accept Terms of Service (Terms & Conditions)' and confirm.
The process of online method will be more or less same and may vary depending on the bank.
There are various benefts of using this mechanism to send and receive money. Among the few include that it is quick, though there is some amount of money that is involved, unlike cheques which are free from remittance charges. The other advantage is that the transfer through NEFT and RTGS is rather quick. Also, the chances of cheating through cheque fraud is eliminated. This is one reason why these methods of transfer are one of the favorite ways to send and receive money within India and also abroad.


Michael Montgomery covered the Balkans for the London Daily Telegraph. A graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was a Fullbright Scholar in Yugoslavia before the war. He is fluent in Serbo-Croat and considered to be one of the best-informed western journalists covering the Balkans.
Stephen Smith is senior reporter/producer for national projects at Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul. He reported on the siege of Sarajevo for National Public Radio in 1994, and is the winner of numerous national awards for his radio documentaries. His reports air on National Public Radio and Public Radio International programs. Smith holds a Bachelor's degree in English from Macalester College in St. Paul. He was a 1991-92 William Benton Fellow at the University of Chicago where he earned a Master's degree in the Humanities. He lives in St. Paul with his wife and son.
Jeanne C. Finley is a filmmaker who works in documentary and experimental forms. Her videotapes have been exhibited in festivals and museums around the world and broadcast on PBS and on television throughout Europe, Canada, and Japan. She has been the recipient of grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the Phelan Award in Video. In 1990 Finley received a Fullbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia where she directed programs for Radio/TV Belgrade. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Michael Montgomery, and their daughter.


AMMAN: American-backed forces encircled the last Islamic State-held positions along the Euphrates River in eastern Syria this week after capturing a key town near the border with Iraq, military sources told Syria Direct.
"Islamic State [IS] fighters are now trapped" within a roughly 15-kilometer stretch of territory along the Euphrates River in eastern Syria, a commander with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told Syria Direct on Tuesday from the frontlines with IS near the Iraqi border.
"Their areas are shrinking and their choices are very limited," he added via WhatsApp.
The commander leads a brigade of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), a leading component of the SDF. He asked not to be referred to by name because he is not authorized to speak with the press.
The SDF—a multi-ethnic coalition comprised primarily of Kurdish and Arab fighters—penned in IS fighters along the Euphrates River in eastern Deir e-Zor this past Sunday after capturing the town of Baghouz Tahtani.
A convoy of SDF fighters near al-Baghouz on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Operation Jazirah Storm.
The Syrian Arab Army and allied pro-government militias control the opposite bank of the river to the south.
Baghouz Tahtani is "the main gateway to the Hajin district," read a statement published on the social media page for the SDF offensive. Hajin is one of three major towns along the Euphrates River over which IS maintains control in addition to roughly a dozen Deir e-Zor countryside villages.
Abu Ali al-Basri, the director of intelligence and counter-terrorism for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, claimed earlier this month in conversation with a mainstream US media outlet that Hajin was the last known whereabouts of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The SDF-affiliated Deir e-Zor Military Council announced the launch of the operation in September 2017, Syria Direct reported at the time. But operations ground to a halt in early March with the announcement that SDF fighters would withdraw from frontlines with IS to defend Kurdish-held Afrin canton from a Turkish-backed military operation.
Offensive operations against the remaining IS positions in eastern Syria resumed at the beginning of this month with air and tactical support from the US-led coalition.
SDF fighters on the outskirts of the Deir e-Zor town of al-Baghouz on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Operation Jazirah Storm.
The campaign is being "organized by a joint operations room with the Iraqi military in order to prevent the Islamic State from re-infiltrating Iraq, and to get rid of them once and for all," Leilawa Abdullah, a spokeswoman for the Deir e-Zor Military Council, told Syria Direct via WhatsApp on Tuesday.
The spokeswoman added that French forces were providing support to the SDF as part of the US-led coalition. In addition to air support, French artillery units have participated in the anti-IS operations that resumed at the beginning of the month, according to social media posts by the US-led coalition's Operation Inherent Resolve.
The US-backed SDF continued offensive operations on Wednesday, launching artillery fire on IS-held town of a-Sousah, southeast of Hajin, on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
In addition to the string of towns along the Euphrates River that are the current focus of SDF operations, IS fighters control a swathe of sparsely populated, desert territory immediately to the north, along Syria's northeastern border with Iraq.


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In 2001 Paul Robertson was awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts [NESTA] to explore the musical, mathematical and spiritual foundations of Bach's work for unaccompanied violin. In the Bach Project Workshops the source of inspiration, musical harmony and the authentic dances on which the music are based will provide a new perspective and insight into the nature and structure of Bach. Participants will experience the complex inner voices of Bach through a variety of disciplines.
Paul Robertson has been leader of the internationally renowned Medici String Quartet since its inception thirty years ago. For more than twenty years Paul Robertson has collaborated with leading scientists to explore the neurological and scientific basis of music, which reached a wide public with his highly acclaimed Channel 4 series Music and the Mind. At the 2002 World Economic Forum Summit Paul Robertson presented a World Peace Orchestra of young musicians selected from conflict-torn zones.
Maren Stott has taught eurythmy in England for over twenty years. She has performed as a soloist and with Ashdown Eurythmy, the London Eurythmy Stage Group, and Anderida Ensemble. She directed and performed the eurythmy in Rudolf Steiner?s mystery dramas which toured the UK, Europe and USA. She is artistic director of Eurythmy West Midlands. (www.eurythmywm.org.uk).
Alan Stott (piano) trained at Dartington College of Arts. He has accompanied several eurythmy stage groups and founded Anderida Ensemble. He divides his time between performing, lecturing and playing for eurythmy and is known for his research and translation work on music and eurythmy.
Robin Stokoe has studied all forms of historical dance and specialises in the baroque period. He has studied and worked with Lucy Graham on baroque opera. With his own dance group, which includes his partner Christine, he has performed at festivals in York, Norwich and Salisbury and at the Galway early music festival. Most recently he performed in Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at Emmanuel College Cambridge.


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True Overview
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The staff at True come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 39.0% female and 39.4% ethnic minorities. True employees are more likely to be members of the Republican Party than the Democratic Party, with 58.0% of employees identifying as members of the Republican Party. But those numbers could change quickly because the turnover rate at True is relatively high. Employees at True stay with the company for an average of 2.1 years before leaving. The average employee at True makes $37,107 per year. In comparison, some of its highest paying competitors, like BOLD, Open, and BBF, pay $43,061, $42,878, and $42,194, respectively.
Based in the United States, True is a small energy company with only 110 employees and an annual revenue of $30.0M.
Oil, Gas and Consumable Fuels
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The Team At True
Richard Adler (Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Terri Rogers (Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
What do people say about True
Work at True? Share your experience anonymously.
What do you like about working for True?
True Rankings
True is ranked #6 on the Best Companies to Work For in Wyoming list. Zippia's Best Places to Work lists provide unbiased, data-based evaluations of companies. Rankings are based on government and proprietary data on salaries, company financial health, and employee diversity.
#6 in Best Companies to Work For in Wyoming
#1 in Best Energy Companies to Work For in Wyoming
#1 in Best Companies to Work For in Casper, WY
True Salaries
How much does True pay?
The national average salary for a True employee in the United States is $37,107 per year. Employees in the top 10 percent can make over $71,000 per year, while employees at the bottom 10 percent earn less than $19,000 per year.
Salary Score
Director Of Business Systems, Senior Business Analyst
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Average Employee Earnings
True Salaries By Job Title
While the average employee salary at True is $37,107, there is a big variation in pay depending on the role. Some of the job titles with high salaries at True are director of business systems, senior business analyst, controller, and software engineer. A typical director of business systems salary at True is $126,113. Other roles at True include crew member and housekeeper. A crew member at True earns an average yearly salary of $21,764.
Director Of Business Systems
Salary Range118k - 134k$126k$126,113
Account Planner
Interactive Developer
True Careers
On average, employees at True stay with the company for 2.1 years. Employees most commonly join True after leaving McDonald's. When they leave True, they most frequently get their next job at Walmart.
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Top Employers Before True
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True Employee Demographics
True Employees Education
Of the 110 employees at True, 8.2% attended University of Missouri - Columbia. Employees at True most frequently majored in Business, and most employees' highest level of education is a Bachelors.
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True Competitors
Some of the competitors of True are BOLD, Open, and BBF. Employees at BOLD earn more than most of the competition, with an average yearly salary of $43,061. The employees at Open earn an average yearly salary of $42,878 per year, and the salaries at BBF average $42,194 per year.
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Frequently Asked Questions about True
How many Employees does True have?
True has 110 employees.
How much money does True make?
True generates $30.0M in revenue.
What industry is True in?
True is in the oil, gas and consumable fuels industry.
What type of company is True?
True is a private company.
Who are True's competitors?
True competitors include PWI ENERGY, BOLD, Blue Mountain Energy, Truly Nolen, Blue Flame Energy Co, Total S.A., TSC Holdings, CRSS, BBF, CELEBRITY SPORTS NETWORK, APC, Blackwood Holding Co, The Sinclair Companies, Living Earth, Sunworks, Open, Standard Oil, Allied Equipment, Dickman Supply, PARKERSBURG UTILITY BOARD.
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True's headquarters is in Casper, WY.
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SEC chair likens crypto to dot-com bubble because Superbowl ads
6:00 PM • Apr 08, 2022
—Crypto, SEC
Listen to this article.
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler said that most crypto exchanges are subject to securities laws during his recent speech at the University of Pennsylvania.
During his speech on the Ivy League campus, Gensler reiterated that crypto exchanges and custodians that list securities and non-securities for trading are subject to clear regulations that have existed for nearly a century.
According to Law360, he affirmed that old rules apply even to non-standard securities based on innovative technologies like blockchain.
Congress approved a suite of rules to protect investors after the Great Depression. During the 1930s, Congress passed the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
Gensler acknowledged that crypto exchanges' support for security tokens and commodity tokens can cause confusion regarding registration requirements.
However, he clarified that listing a mix of blockchain-powered commodities and securities does not exempt an exchange from SEC registration.
Gensler added the SEC is working with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to create a framework that will work for both security and commodity tokens.
Gensler made his remarks as part of the University of Pennsylvania's Conference on the Future of Digital Assets earlier this week.
SEC chair wants better consumer protection at most crypto exchanges
Gensler called for exchanges to separate user crypto from company assets to provide protection against theft.
The SEC has pursued several enforcement actions against token issuers and exchanges that it believes are subject to securities regulations.
Several of its open cases are still in investigative phases or working through the judicial system.
In February, crypto lending startup BlockFi agreed to pay $100 million in fines and register BlockFi Yield products with the SEC as part of its settlement over alleged securities violations.
The SEC in the same month opened an investigation into allegations that two companies with close ties to Binance, Merit Peak and Sigma Chain, improperly acted as market makers on Binance.US.
Not to mention, the regulator is still pursuing a legal case against Ripple involving allegations that Ripple Labs raised $1.3 billion worth of unregistered security sales via its XRP token.
Gensler did acknowledge the challenges involved in regulating crypto exchanges, especially ones with offshore headquarters like Binance and FTX's flagship platforms.
Major exchanges, including these two, now block US IP addresses on their main exchanges and have created separate platforms and entities to serve US investors.
Others, like ShapeShift, became decentralized exchanges to avoid adhering to standard regulations like know-your-customer and anti-money laundering procedures.
Transitioning to a decentralized exchange made it difficult to pin down a single individual who can take responsibility for transactions.
These perceived issues, among others, led Gensler to compare using crypto exchanges to the lawless Wild West.
Gensler sees similarities between crypto and dot-com companies
Gensler mentioned stablecoins as a stand-in for fiat currency like the US dollar when moving money between exchanges.
He noted 80-85% of crypto trading involves stablecoins, which (by design) avoids sending money to and from the traditional banking system. This generally makes it possible to fund and defund exchange accounts easily.
It's this feature of stablecoins that facilitates trade on exchanges, like Bitfinex, which have historically found it difficult to maintain a bank account.
Gensler told his audience that the crypto industry still has some similarities to the dot-com bubble. Several promising online businesses went under and took investors' funds with them as that bubble popped at the turn of the millennium.
He mentioned that many dot-com businesses bought expensive Super Bowl ads shortly before their collapse, comparing them with crypto businesses that recently aired commercials during 2022's Super Bowl LVI.
Gensler didn't really elaborate on whether he thought the failed businesses violated securities regulations or misrepresented their viability to investors.
Still, he did express warnings that the American entrepreneurial industry includes many failed projects in addition to a few successes.
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It has been months since I've post my blog here... Apple released MacOS 10.14 Mojave. I upgraded my MacBook Pro 9.1 (Mid-2011) laptop to MacOS 10.14 Mojave. Mojave started to slow down on my Mac. Since I cannot afford a new laptop I've decided to move on to Linux. I've chosen Fedora 29 KDE operating system as stand-alone on my MacBook Pro. Which mean my laptop has no long have MacOS operating system on it. I completely erased the hard drive and install Fedora 29 KDE.
As I checked out Fedora Project, and Project Magazine I found out that IBM is buying Red Hat. I was like "Oh. How would that effect Fedora?" I love Red Hat and Fedora that I must use RPM-Based Linuxes.
I did tried Ubuntu which is Debian-based with modification to simplicity Ubuntu. I like Ubuntu and use it lot. But My feeling of attachment to RPM-Based which what Fedora is. I do like OpenSuse and that what I would use but my MacBook Pro 9.1 (Mid-2011) refused to accept OpenSuse. I also tried Fedora Workstation which use Gnome as default but my MacBook Pro 91. (Mid-2011) refused to accept accept Workstation either. I only can use Fedora Spans.
I tried Fedora LXDE but it has buggy that the "Copy & Paste" isn't working really well. So I choose Fedora KDE. So far, so good.
I also like Fedora Cinnamon. But I choose Fedora KDE. I guess it is because I can customize my desktop. Sure Cinnamon can be customize the desktop, but KDE seem to has more offer to customize like set desktop icons to the right side of the screen like MacOS' icon set on right than the usual icon on left side of the screen like Windows' Desktop Icon set to the left side of the screen.
Now, let's talk about my thoughts on IBM buying Red Hat and how it would effect Fedora?
I use Fedora for my personal daily use like social media, browsing the Internet, and playing games.
Historically, any companies that buy another companies that I really loves tend to be ended, shutdown fast, changing or alternative stuff that I love.
What if IBM decided that Fedora are going to shut down and only focus to Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Sure I could use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, right? Wrong. This operating system is design for business that uses server. And, you have to pay subscription. Since I don't use server, there is no need for me to use and pay subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
I really love Fedora and RPM-based and I can't use OpenSuse as MacBook Pro 9.1 (Mid-2011) refused to accept this. If Fedora is gone. There is no another RPM-based Linuxes that design for home users like me….
I might really have to save money HARD to get a new laptop to be able to run OpenSuse.
I have been read both articles at The Downside of Social Media and Mom Speaks Out After Girl, 12, Sets Herself on Fire While Attempting Viral 'Fire Challenge'.
I am a Generation X (Early to Mid 1960s to Early 1980s). Which mean I was born in 1979. There is no Internet until 1994. But I haven't gotten my hands on the Internet until 1998. I haven't got a smartphone (Internet supported) until 2011. As for basic smartphone (No Internet supported), I had it in about 2005 but my parents couldn't afford it. So I lost my basic smartphone.
So I am glad that the world wasn't a bad influence on me… Yet. When I was a teenager and a child, only locally bad influence was upon me. By locally I mean the people around me and in my life.
In 2000 as I explored the internet, I was shocked by the unknown in the world. "People do this?" and "People do that?" and all stupid stuff in the world. I've learned how people can be. There is something I didn't realize what could happen to the people in the world could happen to me, too.
I was about 35 or 36. I like to watch prank and stupid videos. I am now tired of that type of videos so I don't watch them anymore. One thing I want to do this to myself. Oh hey! I am an adult! (And don't try this at home! SERIOUSLY).
I put the salt on my palm hand and put the ice cube on my hand for a few seconds to see how long I can suffer. But I stopped when it getting worse. No, it DOESN'T sticks to my skin! And I am 99% safe. The only 1% safe is I got itchy palm hand for a few days. It's was annoying.
But it CAN burn your skin and end up in an emergency room at the hospital. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! SERIOUSLY!
I don't do any stupid stuff much. The only stupid I did was the ice cube with the salt on my palm hand.
Bullying. This only happened to me at school because of course there are no social media back then.
Hopeful… What am I hoping for? Well, I hope I'll make it through my health issues (kidney, diabetes, and blood pressures). I'll be able to find a job that willing to hire me. Be able to buy a nice house for myself so I can live on my own. Find me a wife. A family? Not sure. I don't like kids. I don't know if I want my own kids or not.
Hopeful for the world. I hope there will be world peace soon. Middle East stop the war for once. The 46th US president will be 100x better than Donald Trump. No more sexism, no more racists, and no more rapes. North Korea finally stop making bombs and change to normal government. A good government for North Korea. Africa becomes peace with much better government.


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$9. 99 $ 9 99 Prime. Marzipan Tree Cake Decorations DIY. November 26, 2014; chiara;. I was able to get about 9 trees out of one box of marzipan. Insert into cake and enjoy! PS: These could also be used for cute little cupcake toppers.
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Does Popularity Matter? A Diary of a Wimpy Kid Answer
Terry Donald Edwards
Has watched Diary of A Wimpy Kid the Movie multiple times and has also read the DOAWK books as well going onto 10 out of 16 books made.
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Don't Judge a Decent Movie Based on a Great Book
The entertainment industry rules the world. It changes people's perspective on life like a piece of art. like any other piece of art, that motivates and changes your perspective on different subjects. Because of that, I would like to look at an old childhood art of mine that I will openly admit was inspired from this art. It's a movie rated 54% on Rotten Tomatoes, it's about 2 hours long, it's for kids and it is based on a book.
If you guessed Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life you're wrong. The real answer is based on the book by Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Kinney decide to make a movie about his book in 2010. Since then, I watch that movie about twenty times so I have a real good idea of how the movie goes. The movie is about a kid named Greg Heffley in middle school facing all the challenges that a wimpy kid would have to face; teachers, bullies, girls, family, lunch, popularity, devil worshipers, etc. He would have to face his challenges all year until he realizes he wants his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, back and it all goes well in the end.
With that being said, based upon the movie, I, along with everyone with a childhood during that time, had gotten some inspiration from the movie. The cheese touch? Come on, tell me you didn't pull that off years ago in middle or elementary school. But there's one thing that I'd done based on the movie is the popularity scale that Greg made. In the scene, Greg and Rowley are outside near the playground and Greg brings up a scenario about if Rowley would put himself on a popularity scale in the school around 200, where would he have placed himself. Greg put his friend at 154 and himself at 19 which doesn't make sense but it's Greg, so it's understandable.
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I saw this scene and I saw the movie a couple of times and I wanted to try that out so I did. I made a popularity scale in my own school around 100 for simplicity. Not only did I plan to use this scale, but just in case anyone would have found this list, I put my little twist on it. I ranked everybody not by their names, but how they are based upon, meaning if this kid was usually the teacher's pet I would put him/her like that at around 30 through 40, and if you were the cool, sporty kid and you probably get top 10 or 20. Basically, you are whatever your character is that makes you popular or not popular. I made my list and I put myself on the list at around 70. Legend has it that only one person besides me has seen that list and that was my 7th grade English teacher. I was kind of embarrassed because her son was on that list as "teacher's son" but I'm pretty sure she got the target. So I decided today was the day the list should make a return. I'll be making a new list, but this one is to realistically project who would be at the top and who would be at the bottom. I'll make a scale of 1 to 200 based on the movie, explain the reason for their placing, and give you details on how to view this list.
The Original Scene
The Popularity Scale
1 through 10
This is the top of the mountain. You don't near this by picking boogers and wearing mom's pick for picture day, you get here with little to no care. All you do is entertain and excel at it. Almost every kid who entertains is at the top of the school by now. This includes athletes, class clowns and the rebels; the ones who always gets in trouble. The most respected and feared are the top 10. So if you want to be here, just try and make people have an good day at school.
11 through 30
Next is the people who just aim for popularity and grades. This is not really aiming for entertainment, but for satisfaction of themselves and their peers. These students may start a party, trend, rumor, anything that gets their name out there. However, I would like to applaud for the academically successful students. This group has been getting their respect over the last few years and it's about time.
This category, 31 through 50, is the students who are pretty consistent with appearance. While being academically successful and socially active, they also can show their talents. To all my Fine Arts students, the chorus members may be the most popular out of that section. They aren't as annoying as the rest and can still be entertaining to many as a beautiful attraction.
51 through 100
Then, you got the group who is a bit underrated than the rest. If it makes sense, these students may be cool to hang with outside out school, but inside school is a different subject. This category host the good students, the teacher's kid, and anime watchers. Now there's nothing wrong with good students, all they do is not get in trouble and do what's right. Teacher's kid didn't do anything wrong and they may have the most personality if you gave them a chance. Anime watchers, with most respect, are highly weird and speaking from experience, don't have much to do expect debate about anime. This group is a sleeper in school and highly recommended to join if you like a smaller yet large group to hang out with.
101 through 150
Now here we are halfway down the scale and now this is officially the unpopular part of the scale. Let's break down why these groups are unpopular. Remember when I said in the top 10 that "Almost every kid who entertains is at the top of the school by now."? Well, this is the almost group, where you try to entertain but it just doesn't work out and now you're just annoying. These are the band and theater members. Now I wouldn't feel trigger myself from being a theater kid in school but it's true from the respect and attention we got from teachers and students. Band members are just weird and there's nothing bad to say about them except for that. There's still hope for this group and they're not too far away from 99 and being considered popular.
This group on the other hand might as well be really shy or a good gamer because they're are stuck here for life. The category 150 through 200 even has a name, "Weirdos". These are surely the oddest people to meet and can never 100% grasp onto their friendship if not in this category in particular. They are going to need some Red Bull to get out of this drought.
Popular Scale
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Socially Active
Anime Watchers
Class Clowns
Academic Successes
Teacher's KID
Theatre Kids
Chorus Members
Good for Nothing Kid
Straight-Up Weirdos
We all start to judge ourselves based on how everyone else sees us. I bet you did the same while reading this article. Although this is what I came up with while researching and realizing how true this seems, only we can determine if those facts affect us. I could see this scale as a target to me and who I am, or I could focus on what's important to me and what is keeping me from losing to the social wars at schools all around. For me personally, it's been easy to quiet the noise because of the friends I had. Even if I wasn't the most popular, I was like butter to my friends, rich and guilty to slip on air. I felt popular and isn't that enough at the end of the day? I will still encourage you to make a popular scale and be brutally honest with yourself so you can see where you place on the scale, but don't let it get to you especially when you have people who want to be around you all the time. Yes, even when they're online. Take the scale that you got today for requisite and another free life lesson for anyone still in the public school (ie. elementary, middle, and high schools) because everyone knows that it doesn't matter in the real world. Stay tuned.
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When packet prioritization is your priority, why not go with one of the originals? That appears to have been MSI's thought when implementing a Qualcomm/Atheros Killer E2205 into its latest Gaming-series board. The associated application occupies five screen shots, though I found default settings adequate.
The Z87-GD65 includes SoundBlaster Cinema software, complete with a sound mixer, Crystalizer fidelity enhancement, Smart Volume sound level equalization (the opposite of Crystalizer), and Dialog Plus vocal audio volume enhancement. Users who don't want any of those features will also find an MSI-skinned version of Realtek's control panel.
MSI Super Charger increases the available current through specified USB ports for decreased charging times on portable devices.
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Welcome, New Board Members!
2020-11-20 by Juliane Orlandini
A special message from Board President, Annell Williams:
I am very excited about the mission of CMI and happy to announce the addition of our two newest Board members!
Dr. Tim Sharp (left), most recently the Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association, joined the Board in September. Tim is also Vice-President of the International Federation for Choral Music. In this role he represents choral activity in the United States to the International Federation for Choral Music. Prior to his leadership of ACDA, Sharp was Dean of Fine Arts at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, and earlier, Director of Choral Activities at Belmont University, Nashville, TN. He holds degrees from Belmont University (BM) and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (MCM, DMA), and has pursued additional studies through Harvard University, Cambridge University, Aspen School of Music, and a Rotary Study Fellowship at schools throughout Belgium.
Dr. Michael Conrady (right), pastoral musician and educator, was elected to the Board in July. He serves as Organist and Choirmaster at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Dallas, TX, where he oversees an active and varied music ministry. He holds degrees from Baylor (BBA) and SMU Meadows School of The Arts and Perkins School of Theology (MM, MSM, MTS, and DMin). In 2019, Dr. Conrady joined the faculty at the University of North Texas as an instructor in Sacred Music, where he oversees the Sacred Music curriculum and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Sacred Music. In addition to parish ministry and teaching, Dr. Conrady also concertizes, composes liturgical music, and serves on a number of area boards and commissions related to music, liturgy, and theology.
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The History of "Bayer" Sports Clubs
That Bayer Leverkusen would become a byword for sporting achievement, and Leverkusen a "citadel of sport" was actually never the company's original intention. The idea of establishing a company sports club came from the employees themselves at the beginning of the 20th century and arose simply from the desire to use their leisure time constructively.
The First Club
Women and girls doing gymnastics.
The management readily agreed to the request for a sports club to be set up, because Bayer's plant was isolated in a "no-man's land" between the Cologne suburb of Mülheim and the village of Wiesdorf, with no infrastructure and no facilities for the creative use of leisure time. Thus, it was on July 1, 1904 that the "Turn- und Spielverein der Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co." was founded - the first Bayer sports club of any kind to be established in Germany.
As the company grew, sports became increasingly important: the initial commitment to purely recreational sport almost inevitably led to participation in sport at the championship level, as Bayer athletes naturally strove to improve their performances. The company readily responded to its employees' demands for an ever wider range of sporting activities, and eventually developed into one of the biggest funders of sport in Germany.
The first Bayer
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Amateurs Become Professionals
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The initial commitment to purely recreational sport almost inevitably led to participation in sport at the elite level, as Bayer athletes naturally strove to improve their performances.
Today, "Bayer's" sports clubs in Leverkusen alone have a membership of about 15,000.
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How overcomplicating an MVP killed Snaptier
If you followed me on Twitter last summer, you've probably heard about Snaptier. After finally launching UnMarkDocs on my own, I wanted to try something new. All my projects had been solo until then, so I contacted Dominic (friend and fellow teen coder) and we started brainstorming ideas for a new project.
We initially wanted to build a marketplace for Composer packages (the same idea as what Packagist just launched) but we decided to pivot after I got notice of the development of the aforementioned project.
After brainstorming other ideas, we decided to go for a service that'd automate common programming tasks. The idea was to make certain tasks as simple as connecting your GitHub account and merging a PR (kinda what Laravel Shift does, but with an architecture that'd allow for much more extensibility).
While building the app, it became evident that our design skills weren't as good as we'd have liked, and we decided to bring in Niklas, who I'd met earlier and is an awesome designer.
While Niklas worked on the UI and frontend and Dominic managed servers, I started creating a backend framework that abstracted all the GitHub logic into a pleasant-to-use fluent interface. This turned out to be a horrible idea because it slowed down the whole development of the product (I'll talk more about that later).
We continued building Snaptier through the summer, and we had a great time. I usually live-coded on Twitch, we had weekly meetings, we developed inside jokes with the community in our Discord insiders channel, and even recorded some podcast episodes (although we never got to release them).
Remember that fluent interface I talked about earlier? I spent most of the summer working on it, making it async and improving it, but still didn't manage to get everything working. It got to a point where exceptions weren't thrown and it was almost impossible to debug anything. At this point, I had to force myself to work on it (instead of passion-powered development). I burned myself out completely and started working on other things.
Niklas and Dominic ended up doing the same and development paused without anyone except us knowing. Everyone moved on to work on new projects, but we totally forgot (or procrastinated on) telling this to the people who had been following the product since the start.
We finally decided to kill the project in March, but we kind of resisted saying it publicly for some reason. I guess it's the emotional component of pronouncing dead something you've poured so many hours of your life into.
We internally decided to announce Snaptier was dead, but still no one said anything publicly
Then, in May of this year, I started working on the backend again. There was no reason for me to do this other than to prove to myself I could finish the abstraction I had taken so much time to build. I finally managed to get it working and produce our first PR (probably also the last one).
Internal message I sent when I pushed the code that made everything work
Still, we were reluctant to restart the project. We'd also let our original domain (snaptier.co) expire and someone had grabbed it and redirected it to some gossip website. With all this in mind, Niklas wrote and posted a post-mortem in the public channel.
Snaptier post-mortem
Niklas already summarises all the lessons we learned, but the most important one, in my opinion, is that MVPs should be short and small versions you can later iterate on. I applied this mindset to my next product, Blogcast, and got an initial, shippable version in around a week.
How building products should work. Stage 1 is the MVP and the next stages represent iterations. The benefit of building like this is that people can use your product since the MVP and don't have to wait until the full-fledged version is ready.
Even though it didn't exactly end well, I consider Snaptier a success. I had fun and learned a lot, both about code and about how to build products. I hope that I can go back and finish Snaptier someday but for now, it stands as an important lesson.
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The queer spirit of Valentine's Day love
Homophobia has never stopped us from publicly revealing our affection for one another.
Commentary by Reverend Irene Monroe Sunday, February 14, 2016
Valentine's Day is for lovers — including LGBTQ people.
'The love that dare not speak its name' – a phrase coined by Lord Alfred Douglas and used against his lover, Oscar Wilde, in his gross indecency trial in 1895 – is finally and forever out of the closet.
In the US, last June's historic Supreme Court ruling – Obergefell v. Hodges – that legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states saw to that.
But homophobia has never stopped us entirely from revealing our affection for one another.
For example, during the repressive 1950s McCarthy era, Gladys Bentley (1907 to 1960) – a talented pianist and blues singer, and one of the most notorious and successful African American lesbians in the US during the Harlem Renaissance – sang raunchy and salacious lyrics to popular tunes.
Bentley not only openly sang about heterosexual and homosexual sex but she also lived openly and celebrated her sexual orientation as an out lesbian.
Known to perform in her infamous white tuxedo and top hat, Bentley by today's terms would be considered a gender-fluid lesbian, if not more. Back then, she was just know by the by lesbian parlance as a 'butch'.
As troubling as that was for society, especially given her public lesbianism, Bentley's most disturbing behavior was her active participation in this country's racial and gender obsession: interracial marriage.
Had her 'woman-friend' been African American or another woman of color their coupling would have clearly been subjected to condemnation and jeering, but it would not have conjured up the wrath, fear and disgust that interracial marriage did.
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What does terroir mean in Paris? This liqueur was manufactured by French chemist François Raspail a few streets away from our apartment, on the "Boulevard Raspail," named after him. Alice B. Toklas includes a recipe using Raspail in her 1954 cookbook. No longer available for purchase, Benedectine is apparently a reasonable substitute.
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Erasmus and Rotterdam
Backroom politics in Rotterdam's city hall: from toilet break to campaign budget
Inspired by the book The Shadow of Erasmus, journalist Lucette Mascini spoke two professors about backroom politics in Rotterdam.
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In the novel De Schaduw van Erasmus (The Shadow of Erasmus), Erasmus uses all kinds of underhanded methods to survive in the political and religious minefield of his time. Inspired by this book, journalist Lucette Mascini spoke with Paul Frissen (professor of Public Administration) and Rinus van Schendelen (professor of Political Science) about backroom politics in Rotterdam.
The great philosopher Erasmus of Rotterdam was by no means always a paragon of virtue who invariably handled his affairs in an open and transparent manner. To have his translation and interpretation of the New Testament printed without ending up at the stake for the publication, he bribed a printer, for example. Erasmus did so to ensure that his opponents would not have the opportunity to publish and circulate a critical pamphlet that could have brought his work into disrepute.
We would now refer to such action as backroom politics; arranging something behind closed doors so that the public remains unaware of the interests being decided on and the manner in which deals are struck in this regard.
"Nothing to be worried about," according to Paul Frissen, dean and chairman of the board of the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB) in The Hague and professor of Public Administration at Tilburg University. "Politics would not be possible without backroom wheeling and dealing. Those in power must be able to negotiate with each other without being under the microscope every step of the way."
Coalition negotiations
It is no different in Rotterdam. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the city hall at Coolsingel has been the bastion of the politicians who call the shots. The shots are currently called by the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA), Democrats 66 (D66) and Leefbaar Rotterdam (Liveable Rotterdam), the last of which is the largest party.
Following the elections of 2014, forming a coalition was not a smooth process.
In the final phase of negotiations, for example, D66 insisted that the largest party, Leefbaar Rotterdam, choose between CDA and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), both of which held three seats. D66 insisted on the choice because it did not wish to join a coalition that consisted of three right-wing parties.
Leefbaar Rotterdam acquiesced and opted for CDA because it needed D66's six seats to secure a municipal council majority.
CDA, however, had earlier made a deal with VVD that both parties would act in concert in the coalition negotiations. Nevertheless, CDA jettisoned VVD as soon as it became clear that D66 had opted for CDA as a partner in municipal government.
Toilet break
'The toilet break made it possible for both parties to save face.'
Paul Frissen
Reports suggest that negotiator and current CDA alderman Hugo de Jonge went on a toilet break when the disappointing message was delivered to VVD negotiators Jeannette Baljeu and Antoinette Laan.
Was that a polite thing to do? According to Frissen, the CDA negotiator was of course aware that the message was coming. "The toilet break made it possible for both parties to save face."
It was therefore a form of backroom politics. Is that a bad thing? Frissen believes that it is not. "While backroom politics has a negative connotation, seeing such politics in a negative light is not justified in cases of this kind. Politicians need space to reach an agreement. How they do so does not matter that much. They must later account for the substance of their agreement. A comprehensive set of democratic mechanisms is in place to ensure that they do so."
The municipal council can ask questions and journalists can investigate money flows, for example. According to Frissen, it is of vital importance that questions are asked, because the way in which public resources are used
Agreements of companies with civil servants and politicians
What about the funding of political campaigns during municipal council elections? Until this year, political parties on the municipal council were not required by law to disclose the financial contributions made by companies. There was also no law that prohibited sponsors from demanding things from parties in exchange for support. It could therefore have been the case that, entirely below the public radar, construction companies sponsored a political party and expected to be awarded a construction project in return if the party won.
"The situation is more favourable at national level because parties can obtain funding from the state. "It is strange that arrangements of the kind referred to could be made at municipal level," Frissen agreed.
According to Professor Rinus van Schendelen, whose research at Erasmus University Rotterdam focuses on political lobbying, it has become increasingly normal in recent years for political parties to conclude agreements with companies, care organisations and educational institutions prior to elections regarding the investments that they will make if they come to power. The civil servants of municipal and national agencies are also involved in these agreements.
Kept under wraps
In exchange, the political parties receive support during election campaigns. No one kicks up a fuss as long as it is all kept under wraps. Van Schendelen added that the parties involved often jointly decide in advance on what they will disclose about their agreement.
Again, is that a bad thing? Is it a bad thing, for example, that a construction company, without voters being aware of the matter, could invest one hundred thousand euros in the election campaign of the largest political party on the Rotterdam council, regardless of which party this was, because the company foresaw that the party in question would win and the company would be awarded a construction contract in return?
Van Schendelen stated that action of the kind referred to is allowed as long as such action remains within the parameters of the law. "If this is not the case, the politicians responsible for the breach must bear the consequences. A deal that is unlawful should not be made. It's that simple. We are living in a time in which everyone has internet access. For politicians, there is therefore always the risk of details leaking out. In this sense, it would be imprudent in the extreme, downright foolish even, for politicians to make deals that break the law. They could end up making headlines for all the wrong reasons or could even end up in prison. If they made a deal that is illegal they would only have themselves to blame."
Totalitarian state
'Politicians must have the opportunity to make compromises and concessions. Doing so is only possible behind closed doors.'
In Frissen's opinion, the whole idea that every step and facet of a negotiation process must be transparent is misguided. "You would insist on knowing absolutely everything about those in power. Such a demand would be misguided because it would mean insisting on exercising total control over what our politicians do. It would resemble what rulers in totalitarian states do in relation to the citizens of such states. Such a situation is undesirable. Citizens have a right to transparency regarding decision-making processes and the outcomes of decisions. At the same time, however, politicians must have the opportunity to make compromises and concessions. Doing so is only possible behind closed doors."
The Calypso tower block opposite Rotterdam's central station is worth considering as an example. The municipality paid property developer De Wilgen Vastgoed thirty million euros for the land that the future owners of the apartments would pay back in the form of ground rent. Questions were subsequently asked about the wisdom of the move because the property developer's business was on the verge of collapse. It was therefore possible that the money would be used to pay off debts rather than build the tower block, for example. Why did the municipality take that risk? Were there deals with political parties that were in power in Rotterdam? If so, who benefited? And was the land actually worth thirty million euros?
Such questions were never answered. Frissen explained that although he was not aware of the details of the Calypso case, it would be fair to say that land value estimates tend to vary considerably, not only in Rotterdam.
Frissen added that private individuals also manipulate values. The value of a house is a good example in this regard. "In the context of property tax, many people specify the lowest possible value in order to pay less tax, whereas they specify a higher value when obtaining a mortgage from a bank."
During construction, it emerged that the property developer had a deficit of sixty million euros relative to the total building cost originally calculated. The property developer therefore saved on the kitchens and bathrooms, as a result of which the apartments were finished to a lower standard and generated less income. In addition, because of the collapse of the housing market, the yield of the development as a whole was thirty percent less than had originally been estimated.
The construction company went bankrupt and suppliers advanced a total of fifty million euros.
If the housing market had recovered
Frissen does not get excited about the case. "If the housing market had recovered before the sale of the apartments and they had been sold for the original price, no one would have noticed the property developer's financial problems."
The problems only came to light during the lawsuits brought by the creditors. Similarly, had the housing market recovered, no one would have closely examined the municipality's loan in the form of ground rent. "Chances are that no one would have cared."
A co-operation between Erasmus Magazine and Vers Beton.
In 2016 Rotterdam celebrates the 550th birth date of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. In this series, Vers Beton explores the meaning of Erasmus' thinking for the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Vers Beton is a journal for people in Rotterdam who like to reflect on their city.
This series has been made possible by a financial contribution by the city of Rotterdam.
This piece was published earlier in Dutch in the online magazine Vers Beton.
Translation: Melissa van Amerongen.


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"Privilege, Pathology And Power": What Happens To A Nation That Gives Ever-Growing Political Power To The Super Rich?
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That's not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it's a conclusion from serious social science, confirmed by statistical analysis and experiment. The affluent are, on average, less likely to exhibit empathy, less likely to respect norms and even laws, more likely to cheat, than those occupying lower rungs on the economic ladder.
And it's obvious, even if we don't have statistical confirmation, that extreme wealth can do extreme spiritual damage. Take someone whose personality might have been merely disagreeable under normal circumstances, and give him the kind of wealth that lets him surround himself with sycophants and usually get whatever he wants. It's not hard to see how he could become almost pathologically self-regarding and unconcerned with others.
So what happens to a nation that gives ever-growing political power to the superrich?
Modern America is a society in which a growing share of income and wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, and these people have huge political influence — in the early stages of the 2016 presidential campaign, around half the contributions came from fewer than 200 wealthy families. The usual concern about this march toward oligarchy is that the interests and policy preferences of the very rich are quite different from those of the population at large, and that is surely the biggest problem.
But it's also true that those empowered by money-driven politics include a disproportionate number of spoiled egomaniacs. Which brings me to the current election cycle.
The most obvious illustration of the point I've been making is the man now leading the Republican field. Donald Trump would probably have been a blowhard and a bully whatever his social station. But his billions have insulated him from the external checks that limit most people's ability to act out their narcissistic tendencies; nobody has ever been in a position to tell him, "You're fired!" And the result is the face you keep seeing on your TV.
But Mr. Trump isn't the only awesomely self-centered billionaire playing an outsized role in the 2016 campaign.
There have been some interesting news reports lately about Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas gambling magnate. Mr. Adelson has been involved in some fairly complex court proceedings, which revolve around claims of misconduct in his operations in Macau, including links to organized crime and prostitution. Given his business, this may not be all that surprising. What was surprising was his behavior in court, where he refused to answer routine questions and argued with the judge, Elizabeth Gonzales. That, as she rightly pointed out, isn't something witnesses get to do.
Then Mr. Adelson bought Nevada's largest newspaper. As the sale was being finalized, reporters at the paper were told to drop everything and start monitoring all activity of three judges, including Ms. Gonzales. And while the paper never published any results from that investigation, an attack on Judge Gonzales, with what looks like a fictitious byline, did appear in a small Connecticut newspaper owned by one of Mr. Adelson's associates.
O.K., but why do we care? Because Mr. Adelson's political spending has made him a huge player in Republican politics — so much so that reporters routinely talk about the "Adelson primary," in which candidates trek to Las Vegas to pay obeisance.
Are there other cases? Yes indeed, even if the egomania doesn't rise to Adelson levels. I find myself thinking, for example, of the hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer, another big power in the G.O.P., who published an investor's letter declaring that inflation was running rampant — he could tell from the prices of Hamptons real estate and high-end art. Economists got some laughs out of the incident, but think of the self-absorption required to write something like that without realizing how it would sound to non-billionaires.
Or think of the various billionaires who, a few years ago, were declaring with straight faces, and no sign of self-awareness, that President Obama was holding back the economy by suggesting that some businesspeople had misbehaved. You see, he was hurting their feelings.
Just to be clear, the biggest reason to oppose the power of money in politics is the way it lets the wealthy rig the system and distort policy priorities. And the biggest reason billionaires hate Mr. Obama is what he did to their taxes, not their feelings. The fact that some of those buying influence are also horrible people is secondary.
But it's not trivial. Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered. Narcisstocracy? Jerkigarchy? Anyway, it's an ugly spectacle, and it's probably going to get even uglier over the course of the year ahead.
By: Paul Krugman, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times, January 1, 2016
January 2, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Donald Trump, Economic Inequality, Money in Politics	| Elizabeth Gonzales, GOP, Oligarchy, Organized Crime, Paul Singer, Plutocrats, Political Influence, Prostitution, Sheldon Adelson | Leave a comment
"Why Do Political Reporters Refuse To Show Us The Money?": American Politics Revolves Around Two Mutually Reinforcing Truths
A profound sense of cognitive dissonance lies at the center of American politics: one that even our most elite journalists and pundits refuse to recognize. In virtually all of our political debate and news coverage, the competition between the two parties is treated as one of personalities and ideas. As with any democracy, the guys who are the most popular, whether for reasons of charisma or appealing policy proposals, emerge as the winners. The job of journalists and pundits is to illuminate the candidates' character and beliefs and track their respective successes, dividing themselves between "substance" and "horse-race" coverage however they see fit.
But this is nonsense. In fact, American political life revolves around two mutually reinforcing truths. The first is that our democracy has been severely corrupted by money; the second is that the conservative movement, and hence the Republican Party, is dominated by ideological extremists who demonstrate zero interest in the problems of actual governance. Taken together, these truths not only define our political debate; they ensure that virtually nothing is decided on its merits — up to and including our national elections.
Catch a bigfoot journalist or pundit at a social event or private gathering, and he or she will likely admit these truths. Scan the editorials and opinion pages of most major newspapers, and you'll see the power of money decried on a fairly regular basis. But in the news stories, where it matters most, even our best reporters feel the need to put forth a fairy-tale narrative in which the United States enjoys a fully functioning democracy and our elections and laws accurately represent the genuine will of the people.
Media discomfort with reporting the truth about Republican extremism has often been (and will undoubtedly remain) a focus of this column. But today, let's just look at the money. Take, for example, a recent story by Neil Irwin that appeared in The New York Times's "Upshot" section, purported to be the paper's most thoughtful and knowledgeable organ of political analysis. Irwin argues that Americans' alleged disinclination to "soak the rich" is reflected in "the actual policies espoused by candidates for office and enacted by Congress." When he notes that taxes on the wealthy have fallen in the past decade, he offers both a "liberal" and a "conservative" explanation for why this happened. Irwin and his editors don't appear to think it worth mentioning that fewer than 1 percent of Americans contribute more than 80 percent of the campaign funding for the politicians who write these laws. These are, without exception, the wealthiest people in the country: According to statistics compiled by Americans for Campaign Reform, the top five zip codes of Manhattan's Upper East Side — home to countless Wall Street tycoons — contribute more money than the residents of 39 states combined. And when you consider that far-right billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and Charles and David Koch have the power to demand that presidential aspirants pledge fealty to their ideological preferences and financial interests, the notion that our laws represent the collective will of the American people appears comical at best. Neil Irwin knows this, yet he writes his "Upshot" analysis from the point of view of a naive child who has never heard the words Citizens United or seen an episode of The Daily Show.
A similar game of "Where's Waldo?" can be played with a recent Times story about the House vote to repeal the estate tax. At this year's annual White House correspondents' dinner, the Times's Peter Baker was honored with the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, which recognizes repeated excellence in White House coverage. Yet Baker's reporting on the April 16 vote was miles from excellent.
Baker went on for nine paragraphs of "he said, she said" bickering before mentioning that, for all the crocodile tears spilled by House Speaker John Boehner over forfeited family farms and small businesses, "the federal tax currently applies to estates worth more than $5.43 million for an individual or $10.86 million for a couple. Assets above those levels are taxed at rates up to 40 percent." In paragraph 11, we learn that the tax applies to just "0.2 percent of the deaths anticipated in the United States." Additional facts that find no place in Baker's coverage (but can be found on the website of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities): In general, taxable estates pay less than a sixth of their value in tax, and a significant number of loopholes already enable many of them to avoid all taxes. Also, roughly 20 (!) small businesses and small farms owed any estate taxes in 2013; these were taxed at a level averaging less than 5 percent (most large estates have never been taxed for capital gains, which are also taxed well below the level of workers' wages).
It should come as no surprise that the beneficiaries of an estate-tax repeal would be the wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans, whose estates will generate nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in revenue between 2016 and 2025, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Baker quotes Boehner calling this amount "nothing more than a drop in the bucket to the federal government," but he fails to note how frequently the Republicans attempt to slash far smaller expenditures when the poor and working class are likely to benefit. Nor does he note that the folks who would benefit most from the estate tax's repeal are the very same people whose massive donations to the Republican Party, its candidates, its political-action committees, and its alleged educational arms determine its agenda. This is an agenda, one might add, that is exclusively dominated by the interests of the super-wealthy — science, economics and often even reality be damned.
It's a cliché to note that in politics, "money talks and bulls*** walks." But too often, thanks to the frequent failures of our media establishment, the walk and the talk are one and the same.
By: Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, and a Professor of Journalism at the City University of New York; Moyers and Company, May 1, 2015
May 3, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Democracy, Journalism, Money in Politics	| Conservatives, Estate Taxes, John Boehner, Journalists, Koch Brothers, Neil Irwin, Pundits, Republicans, Sheldon Adelson, Wall St. | 1 Comment


Enjoy some of my favorite shots of Southern Idaho, Winter 2013. All taken with my iPhone 4S, some with an Instagram twist. Find me on Instagram at @angelabdesign.
It's funny now… at the beginning of this winter I didn't think I'd have any good photos for a blog post. Winters in our part of Idaho can be dry, cold, and dull. But this year the snow, fog, freezing fog, and art-filled skies made for a gorgeous winter.
We got quite a bit of snow this year. This day was especially picturesque.
And can I just say that I love my neighbors with snowplows?
It was hard to capture with the camera, but the flakes were ginormous.
A sad day, felt all the way across the country. I cried watching the news about the shootings in Newton, CT. Emotional day for me, picking up my girl from kindergarten. I'm not telling her about the evil in this world just yet.
We saw our fair share of fog in Meridian, Idaho. Here are some fog shots from around our neighborhood.
And then the fog froze. Fog + zero degrees = beautiful. Here are some pics from our yard.
Earlier this winter we traveled to Twin Falls so our son could go pheasant hunting with Granddad. I love the part of the drive when we see the windfarm near Bliss.
Then in Twin Falls we got to see one of the most gorgeous sunsets I have ever seen. This one is from my parents' backyard.
And the obligatory wagon wheel arch picture out front. No filter, folks.
Ok, now back at my place in Meridian. A lone clematis bloom in my backyard. I found this so inspiring. Beauty can survive in the harshest of places.
Taken before we got any snow, this pic shows the Boise foothills getting a light dusting. Love the clouds.


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Q: Is there a function with this Taylor series?
Is there a function with a power series like this?
  $$S(x)=\sum_{k=1}^\infty(-1)^k\left(x^{\frac{k(3k-1)}2}+x^{\frac{k(3k+1)}2}\right)$$

I tried differentiating and hoping it simplifies into a know sum with a closed form, but it doesn't.

A: There is a function Jacobi Theta:
$$ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}(-1)^k x^{k^2}=\frac{1}{2}(\theta_4(x)-1), x<1 $$
Make a substitution $y=\sqrt{x}$
$$S(y)=\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}(-1)^k (y^{k(3k-1)}+y^{k(3k+1)}) = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}(-1)^k y^{3k^2} (\frac{1}{y}+y)=\frac{1}{2}(\theta_4(y^3)-1)(\frac{1}{y}+y)$$
$$S(x)=\frac{1}{2}(\theta_4(x^{\frac{3}{2}})-1)(\frac{1+x}{\sqrt{x}}), x^3<1$$

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Last week, my environmental studies class went on a field trip to the water intake plant, near Lake McCarrons in Roseville. Last year, we toured the wastewater treatment plant so it was interesting to see the opposite end of the spectrum. The plant serves all of Saint Paul and a few surrounding cities including Roseville.
I expected that the water intake plant would be close to the river, but it's actually several miles away. Water is pumped from upstream of the Twin Cities and then carried by pipes into several lakes and then to the plant. The path is designed in this way so that after the water is pumped out of the river, it flows downhill the whole way to the intake plant. Genius!
A scale model of Saint Paul's water.
The water purification process is relatively simple; our water is not very polluted. The only wastewater treatment plant upstream of the Twin Cities is in Saint Cloud. But there is a lot of solid organic matter in the water. It is settled out in large pools, and the byproduct is applied to farm fields as fertilizer. A lot of the damp chalky stuff is shipped off every day: 8-12 semi-trucks full.
A piece of organic sludge on its way to a farm field.
The water is filtered and then sanitized with chlorine and chloramines. And that's about it.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this terrifying concrete dome is, but it struck the fear of God into me. It was cold and humid and deafeningly loud from water crashing down around the sides of the tank like some kind of dystopian infinity pool.
My photo doesn't really do it justice. It changed me.
It would also be a really cool location to film a movie. Maybe a future Star Wars installment.
Anyway, it was great to learn in detail where the water I drink and use every day comes from.


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Tsvetanov and Ramadani: Euro-Atlantic values bring countries closer in the Western Balkans
By Clive Leviev-Sawyer/ Published on: 04/10/2019
Euro-Atlantic values are the element that brings countries in the region closer and facilitate the process of bringing down "Balkan walls" related to the contradictions and conflicts of the past, it was agreed at a meeting between the president of the management board of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center (EASC) Tsvetan Tsvetanov and Ismet Ramadani, president of the Euro-Atlantic Council of North Macedonia.
What is important is to solve in dialogue the issues, where we lack clarity or agreement, but this would happen much more easily and productively when placed within the framework of one community of states with common values and views, whose basic aim is to guarantee the security and prosperity of their citizens, Tsvetanov said.
Ramadani underlined that North Macedonia relies on Bulgaria's support and assistance on its Euro-Atlantic path. The two agreed to develop the cooperation between their respective organizations and discussed possibilities for joint future initiatives, an EASC media statement said.
Earlier this week, in a position statement, the EASC said that the "ultimatum tone" with which the Bulgarian political elite speaks to North Macedonia poses serious risks to the interest of both Sofia and Skopje, as well as its allies and partners from the EU and Nato.
The position said that "such rhetoric" (as used in the last few days) "is weakening Bulgaria's role as a factor of stability and as a leader in the region."
Such ultimatum positions "are logical in an election environment, but remain incomprehensible and dangerous in terms of Bulgarian national interest," the EASC said, in an apparent reference to the upcoming local elections. At the same time, "the people of North Macedonia expect a constructive attitude from Bulgaria, not a hostile waving of the finger."/ibna
Zaev: I don't expect Bulgaria or Greece to block our Euro-Atlantic integration ambitions
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Lavrov: The US make efforts to revise the Kosovo-Serbia Agreement on Association of Serb Municipalities
Mitsotakis slams "striking minority"; opposition reacts strongly to PM views
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"The reason we are inundated by culturally alien [kulturfremden] peoples such as Arabs, Sinti and Roma etc. is the systematic destruction of civil society as a possible counterweight to the enemies-of-the-constitution by whom we are ruled. These pigs are nothing other than puppets of the victor powers of the Second World War…." Thus begins a 2013 personal e-mail from Alice Weidel, who in this autumn's pivotal German election was one of two designated "leading candidates" of the Alternative für Deutschland (hereafter AfD or the Alternative). The chief "pig" and "puppet" was, of course, Angela Merkel. Despite the publication of this leaked e-mail two weeks before election day, adding to other widely publicized evidence of AfD leaders' xenophobic, right-wing nationalist views, one in eight German voters gave the Alternative their support. It is now the second-largest opposition party in the Bundestag, with ninety-two MPs.
Like all contemporary populisms, the German version exhibits both generic and specific features. In common with other populisms, it denounces the current elites (Alteliten in AfD-speak) and established parties (Altparteien) while speaking in the name of the Volk, a word that, with its double meaning of people and ethno-culturally defined nation, actually best captures what Trump and Le Pen mean when they say "the people." In Angst für Deutschland, her vividly reported book about the party, Melanie Amann, a journalist at the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, notes how some of its activists have appropriated the slogan of the East German protests against Communist rule in 1989: Wir sind das Volk—We are the people. Like other populists, Germany's attack the mainstream media (Lügenpresse, the "lying press") while making effective use of social media. On the eve of the election, the Alternative had some 362,000 Facebook followers, compared with the Social Democrats' 169,000 and just 154,000 for Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU).


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Q: How to use regex in java I am integrating with hyperpay payment gateway,
they have this regex to check payment status
The regular expression pattern for filtering out this group is:
/^(000.000.|000.100.1|000.[36]|000.400.[1][12]0)/
I have tried to consume it as follow:
1- Pattern.matches("/^(000.000.|000.100.1|000.[36]|000.400.[1][12]0)/",responseCode);
did not work as I have received 000.100.110 but the value was false.
2- Pattern.matches("000.000.|000.100.1|000.[36]|000.400.[1][12]0",responseCode);
did not work as well the result was false.
please what is the correct way to use the regex.
Thanks in advance

A: Appreciate that the String#matches() method applies the regex to the entire string input by default.  So you may think of the ^ and $ operators as being implicitly added around your regex pattern.  Here is a correct usage of your pattern:
String input = "000.100.1";
String pattern = "(?:000.000.|000.100.1|000.[36]|000.400.[1][12]0).*";
if (input.matches(pattern)) {
    System.out.println("MATCH");
}

Note that the pattern I used above in the Java code is really equivalent to this:
^(?:000.000.|000.100.1|000.[36]|000.400.[1][12]0).*$

A: The regular expression
/^(000.000.|000.100.1|000.[36]|000.400.[1][12]0)/

will never match with 000.100.110
To match 000.100.110 the below changes can be done
/^(000.000.|000.100.1[0-9][0-9]|000.[36]|000.400.[1][12]0)/

// create a REGEX String
String REGEX = "^(000.000.|000.100.1[0-9][0-9]|000.[36]|000.400.[1][12]0)";

// creare the string
// in which you want to search
String actualString
    = "000.100.110";

// compile the regex to create pattern
// using compile() method
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(REGEX);

// get a matcher object from pattern
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(actualString);

// check whether Regex string is
// found in actualString or not
boolean matches = matcher.matches();


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The Voice Season 6 Finale Recap: Did the Right Artist Win? Plus: Top 5 Moments! [Updated]
By Michael Slezak / May 20 2014, 8:13 PM PDT
The human brain only has so much room. If, for example, I'm going to fondly remember Tess Boyer's performance of "Human" on Season 6 of The Voice, then something from high-school trigonometry's got to go. The personal storage space used for the lyrics to Shakira's "Empire" (half of which, admittedly, are "and I'm like…"), meanwhile, means that it'll probably take a text from my mom to remember my wedding anniversary this year. (#IAmTheWorst)
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What I'm really trying to say, though, is that while modern science has yet to measure the effect of reality-competition obsession on our species*, I've got a pretty good inkling that it can cause CTRL+ALT+DEL-type situations. (*I'm making a huge assumption here that extraterrestrials have yet to discover TVLine.com)
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I mean, last night, after watching The Voice's Top 3 performance episode, I was convinced Josh Kaufman would (and should) inherit Tessanne Chin's crown and sash. Fifteen minutes later, I'd convinced myself that Christina Grimmie's Twitter army would prove unstoppable. By early morning, though, with the knowledge that all three of Jake Worthington's Monday-night performances had cracked the Top 10 on the iTunes charts, I began to fret that perhaps I'd underestimated the humble country crooner.
(Side note: Thankfully, Carson Daly kicked off the show by noting that iTunes downloads were removed from the voting totals for the finale — due to an iTunes glitch on Monday night that made it difficult for fans to find and download Josh Kaufman's "Set Fire to the Rain." #FairnessPrevails)
My prognostication navigation clearly broken, I sat down for tonight's Season 6 finale with a knot of worry in my gut, and a spirit of musical celebration in my heart. Heck, is there any reality show that would dare to pack so much good music into a 120-minute space?
In the spirit of stalling on the results for another moment, let's hat-tip the five most memorable moments:
BEST PERFORMANCE THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE VOICE
OneRepublic's "Love Runs Out" | Yes, Josh Kaufman absolutely nailed this ditty last week, but Ryan Tedder & Co. — along with two backup singers who really need to audition for Season 7, plus a group of ferocious, tambourine-wielding dancers — convinced me I was listening to 2014's Song of Summer. (And I'm not usually that big a OneRepublic fan!)
BEST ESTABLISHED ACT/CONTESTANT COLLABORATION
Ed Sheeran & Christina Grimmie: "All of the Stars" | Contained by a song with a delicate, acoustic structure, Christina's delicate upper register was put to perfect use, while the English superstar (who also rocked it solo on "Sing") proved a generous, harmonious partner.
BEST "BRING-BACK" PERFORMANCE
Josh Kaufman (with Sisaundra Lewis, Stevie Jo and T.J. Wilkins): Nico and Vinz's "Am I Wrong" | I could've lived without the gyrating dancers, but this super current song choice was exactly the kind of song Sisaundra, Stevie Jo and T.J.'s coaches should've been assigning 'em all season. (Oh, what could've been.) There wasn't a weak vocal link in the group, but Sisaundra's diva strut and holleration pleased me most of all.
SECRET MVP
Tess Boyer | Team Shakira's eliminated-too-soon diva carried the hit-or-miss female-contestant quintet on "Umbrella" and matched her pal Christina Grimmie on the latter's "Bring-Back" rendition of Lorde's "Team." Could she wind up being the Jennifer Hudson of The Voice? Time — and access to stellar songwriters and producers — will tell.
SWEETEST MOMENT
Jake Worthington promptly promising his new Kia (each member of the Top 3 scored one) to his grandmother — the woman who'd kindly paid for the teenage finalist's first vehicle.
With that, let's get to what really matters…voting results!
Christina Grimmie #IDidNotSeeThatComing (The good news for Christina, though, was Adam Levine saying at the top of the show that win or lose, he planned to sign her to his label. Gotta love how The Voice manages to kill the suspense — even in its season finale.)
Jake Worthington
Josh Kaufman
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Whoa. Maybe my power of prediction isn't as damaged as I thought. As the confetti fell and the credits rolled, Josh declared himself overwhelmed, surprised, happy and relieved. Would've been nice if they'd let him sing one more time, though, no?
Your turn. How did you feel about the Season 6 finale? Take our polls below, then expand on your thoughts in the comments!
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OMGB: Why Great Britain is the place to be in 2017
Newsdesk 13th February 2017 13th February 2017 Travel
There's nothing better than when the sun shines over the rolling hills of the Great British countryside.
Especially when you're chilling in a beer garden with a cold cider in hand!
As one of the most welcoming and accepting places in the world for LGBT travellers, Great Britain is definitely somewhere to add to your travel hot list in 2017. With 12 Pride Festivals and countless gay-friendly places to stay and play, you'll feel right at home in no time here.
If you're keen to discover more of what makes Great Britain great, then you're in luck. There are so many things to see and do. Rain or shine, this small isle will keep you entertained…you just need know where to look.
Here are just a few of the highlights…
Most people, for obvious reasons (including a 24-hour flight from Australia!), start in the nation's capital London Town.
The capital city has it all. London is literally everything you could ever want in an LGBT friendly travel destination, including a few of the coolest Pride events on the calendar each year.
Jump from tube to tube on the London Underground and in no time you can be browsing the market stalls on Portobello Road, wandering around the Tate Modern, partying in some of the best gay clubs in Vauxhall or sampling the best coffee in the whole of Great Britain, which from experience can be found in the rainbow suburb of Soho!
But it's not just the coffee that makes Soho great. Soho is also home to world famous gay club G-A-Y and lesbian hot spot, SheSOHO where you can find live music, comedy and DJs every weekend. Mid week it's a great place to hang out being the only women-priority venue in London.
Just like Kim in Sugar Rush, no trip to Blighty would be complete without making the move from London to Brighton.
Hailed as the gay capital of the UK, Brighton is where it's at for LGBT visitors to Great Britain. Thousands flock to this seaside town each year for Brighton Pride which is now a full weekend event.
Spend some time wandering around the laneways of hipster North Laines where you can pick up some unique gifts and vintage threads. The Piers and Queers walking tour is also a great way to see the city and learn about Brighton's LGBT past.
'The friendliest city in the world' according to Rough Guides mean Glasgow is definitely a place you need to visit.
With LGBTQI events like PRIDE and GlasGay drawing huge crowds to experience the festival vibes, comedy, film, arts and of course a bit of partying thrown in for good measure, you'll be guaranteed a good time! Hit up Virginia Street for bars and clubs where you'll find open mics nights, drag acts and DJ's.
A four and a half hour train ride will take you direct from London, across the border into Scotland to Glasgow. Alternatively you can hop on a quick flight from most major European airports.
For more information on what to see and do in Great Britain click here and follow the hashtag #OMGB.
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