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Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi (né en 1971 à Milan en Italie) est un compositeur italien.

Formations, études et diplômes

Jacopo Baboni Schilingi commence les études de piano à l'âge de six ans.
Il commence à composer au même âge, suivi après par Roberto Hazon. À l'âge de 14 ans il rentre la classe de composition d'Ivan Fedele à Milan où il obtient son premier prix de composition en 1994. La même année, il reçoit le prix de composition du Conservatoire National Supérieur G. Martini di Bologna. Il étudie la direction d'orchestre avec . Il obtient le diplôme de composition de musique contemporaine à la Sezione di Musica Contemporanea de la Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano.

À l'âge de 22 ans, il est choisi par un jury constitué par George Benjamin, Emmanuel Nunes, Gérard Grisey et David Robertson pour participer au Cursus de composition et d'informatique musicale à l'IRCAM. En 1996, il suit des cours de perfectionnement dans le cadre de l'Académie de Royaumont avec Brian Ferneyhough et Klaus Huber. En 1998 il obtient le DEA de musicologie du  à l'École de Hautes Études sous la direction de Hugues Dufourt. En 2010 il obtient son doctorat en musicologie avec mention très honorable et félicitations à l'unanimité du jury sous la direction de Georges Molinié. En 2013 la Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication Madame Aurèlie Filippetti nomme Baboni Schilingi Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres sous la proposition du Ministre de l'Économie et des Finances, Monsieur Pierre Moscovici.

Concerts et productions

À l'âge de 15 ans, Jacopo Baboni Schilingi commence sa carrière de compositeur à Milan : Teatro Litta, Teatro delle Erbe, Istituto Gonzaga, Palazzina Liberty, Villa Simonetta, Castello Sforzesco etc. Depuis l'âge de 18 ans il participe à de nombreux festivals internationaux de musique comme Musica, Présences, Agora, Polychrome, Royaumont, Manca, Musique et Mémoire, Novelum, (France) Settembre Musica, Roma Europa, Tempo Reale, Santa Cecilia, Nuova Consonanza, Enzimi, Musica Presente, Spazio Musica (Italie) Gaudeamus (Hollande), Schreyahner Herbst, Musik Im 21 Jahrhundert, Neue Italienische Musikszene, Cottbus (Allemagne), International music week of Shanghai (Chine), Bartok Festival (Hongrie), Lanus (Argentine), Biennale International De Zagreb (Croatie), etc. Il a été lauréat de plusieurs concours internationaux de composition et sa musique est jouée régulièrement en
Allemagne, Argentine, Autriche, Belgique, Brésil, Canada, Chili, Chine, Corée du Sud, Dubaï, Espagne, États-Unis d'Amérique, France, Finlande, Hollande, Italie, Japon, Mexique, Portugal, Suisse, Suède, Ukraine. Il a reçu la Mention spéciale du Prix Italia 2006.

Ses œuvres ont été interprétées par des orchestres ou ensembles comme : Orchestre d'Île-de-France, Orchestre Symphonique de Cottbus, Ensemble Inter-Contemporain, Quatuor Arditti, Ensemble Court Circuit, Klangforum Ensemble, Collegium Novum Ensemble, Dedalo Ensemble, Les Pléiades, Ensemble Dell'Orchestra Sinfonica « Arturo Toscanini », quatuor Leonis, Ensemble Constraste, etc. et il collabore avec des solistes comme Nicholas Isherwood, Claude Delangle, Jean Geoffroy, Anne Delafosse-Quentin, Christian Schmitt, Pascal Contet.

Ses compositions sont éditées par les éditions Suvini Zerboni - Milano.

Il a composé des musiques de films en collaborant avec les réalisateurs comme Henry Colomer, Olivier Mille, Alain Fleischer.

D'autre part il collabore régulièrement avec différents artistes avec qui il a réalisé plusieurs projets interdisciplinaires : avec l'architecte P.L. Copat, il développe un projet d'installation entre musique et architecture (AIMTR) dont la première version a été présenté en 1996 à l'IRCAM et au Festival MUSICA de Strasbourg. Il a également réalisé plusieurs spectacles (Trois mythologies et un poète aveugle, Syntax Error, Odyssée…nographie) basés sur l'interaction entre musique et texte avec le poète Jean-Pierre Balpe.

Avec le plasticien et sculpteur Arman, il a réalisé l'installation Instruments à gonds qui a été présentée en France et en Italie. Avec le plasticien Miguel Chevalier il a réalisé les installations interactives Metapolis (au Mexique) et Crossborder à Metz, Terra Incognita (au Brésil), La vague de pixel (Japon, Chine, États-Unis, Dubaï), L'origine du monde (États-Unis). Il a fait partie du groupe E.S.C. avec qui il réalise l'installation interactive La Lenteur et le spectacle de musique et danse Sostanza Sonora avec la compagnie MK (compagnie de danse Italienne, consacrée à la recherche). Il a conçu le spectacle/installation Hemera, en collaboration avec l'artiste lumière A. Poumarat et la danseuse V. Moutoussamy et il travaille avec la compagnie Acte2 de C. Dreyfus. Il travaille actuellement avec le plasticien Christophe Bergon et le plasticien Elias Crespin.

Enseignement et recherche

Depuis 1990 il s'occupe de musique électroacoustique ainsi que d'informatique musicale et a travaillé activement avec les centres MM&T et AGON de Milan. En 1995, il a développé la théorie de la Composition par Modèles Interactifs et il a significativement contribué à la création des différentes logiciel (Profile, Morphologie, CMI) pour la CAO qui sont distribuées par l'IRCAM depuis 1995.

De 1996 à 2001, il a été compositeur en recherche à l'IRCAM où, parallèlement à ses recherches, il a donné des cours de composition assistée par ordinateur. Il est concepteur et coréalisateur du premier cédérom de l'IRCAM destiné à l'apprentissage de la musique pour les enfants, intitulé « Dix jeux d'écoute ».

Il a publié plus d'une trentaine d'articles sur la composition et la recherche musicale.
En 2007 il a publié La musique Hyper-systémique, son premier livre d'esthétique aux Éditions Mix-Paris, et en 2008 le livre Six modèles d'analyse herméneutique.

Depuis 1999, il est titulaire de la classe de composition du Conservatoire de Musique de Montbéliard et il a été chargé de cours dans le Département de Musicologie Contemporaine de Paris-IV Sorbonne.

Charges institutionnelles

À la demande de Luciano Berio, il a fondé le Département de Pédagogie et Recherche du Centre Tempo Reale de Florence. Il a dirigé ce département pendant six ans, avec la cotutelle artistique de Luciano Berio. Pour ce projet en 2 ans, il a développé plusieurs studios de pédagogie et production, basés à Florence, Milan, Sienne, et Rome. Sa mission était de rassembler les financements nécessaires aux différentes activités et de développer le contact avec les jeunes publics. Il a assuré cette activité pendant six ans, en collaborant avec
les régions de Lombardie, Latium et Toscane, et grâce à des financements privés ainsi que des financements bancaires (CARIPLO, CRF, BNL, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, etc.). Il a été chargé de la recherche des financements européens pour le fonctionnement des équipes, ainsi que de la recherche de fonds afin de produire une activité de recherche fondée sur l'informatique musicale, et une activité d'enseignement visant les plus petits ainsi que les professionnels sortant des conservatoires de musique.

En 2001, il a fondé le groupe de recherche et production appelé PRISMA, qu'il coordonne depuis sa création. À l'intérieur du groupe PRISMA, il est responsable des rencontres internationales, coordinateur de la communication, responsable des publications, coordinateur des rapports internationaux avec les festivals, les universités, les centres de recherche et de production, et les conservatoires de musique. Ce groupe est en même temps un réseau de compositeurs en Europe, aux États-Unis, au Canada, au Chili, en Argentine, et en Chine, mais aussi un réseau d'institutions capable d'accueillir des projets de production. Parmi ces institutions, on peut compter l'IRCAM et le GRM à Paris, l'Orchestra Utopica de Lisbonne (Portugal), le Shanghai International Electroacoustic Music Week (Chine), l'Université de Harvard (États-Unis), le ZiMT de Vienne (Autriche), la Sibelius Academy de Helsinki (Finlande), l'Université de Plymouth (Angleterre), l'Université de Winnipeg (Canada).

En 1998, avec Emanuele Quinz, il a fondé l'association Anomos. Il s'agit d'une structure de recherche, de formation et de direction artistique qui explore les nouvelles configurations de la création contemporaine, liées en particulier à l'impact et aux apports des technologies numériques. En , Anomos s'est associé au Centre Pompidou pour la sixième série des rencontres pluridisciplinaires Face au Présent, dont l'objectif est d'explorer les nouvelles tendances de la création contemporaine influencées par les technologies numériques.
En 2003, 2004 et 2005, il a participé au comité de pilotage d'Ars Numerica dans lequel il a introduit des universitaires, chercheurs et artistes français de réputation internationale.

Notes et références

Source secondaire
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 Molfino P., Amadeus, Mensuel de la Grande Musique, 2010
 Baboni-Schiling, La musique hyper-systemique, édition Mixte, Paris, 2007
 Six modèles d'analyse herméneutique, édition Mixte Paris, 2008
 Quinz E., Il cerchio invisibile, E.Quinz, in Collana Filosofie, Mimesis Editore, 2014
 Marsella F. & Guindani & G.Salvadori (a cura di), Chaos Fractals Models, Italian University Press di Giovanni Iuculano, 1988.
 Carta d'Italia - rivista di cultura italiana contemporanea, Italienska Kulturinstitutet C.M. Lerici, Anno 4.  Ottobre 2012.
 Aesthetic decisions in computer - aided composition - Contemporary music review, vol. 28 part 2, Peter Nelson Editor, 2009.
 A-part festival international d'art contemporain alpilles provence - éditions 2010-2014, Organisateur Associations A3-art
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 Turbulences II, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, 2013.
 La poste inspire des artistes, Snoeck éditions, 2008.
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 Bacon F., Dossier Informatique et creation, , Centre Georges Pompidou, .
 Nouveau Regards, Institut de recherches historiques, économiques, sociales, et culturelles  été 2002
 Bentivoglio L., Metto la musica in gioco, in Repubblica, 28 Marzo 1999
 Cappelletto S., Musica contemporanea, Torino Sette,  7-13 Aprile 2000
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 Roy A, Montbeillard - Future par Nature, Outrement, Paris, 2007,

Liens externes
 http://www.baboni-schilingi.com
 http://brahms.ircam.fr/jacopo-baboni-schilingi

 http://www.r-diffusion.org/index.php?ouvrage=MIX-22 [archive]
 http://www.cirm-manca.org/fiche-artiste.php?ar=174
 http://www.ambafrance-cn.org/Crossings-Performance-sonore-et-visuelle-de-Jacopo-Baboni

Naissance en 1971
Naissance à Milan
Musicien italien


Another of President Barack Obama's visions for the future is about to have a head-on collision with reality—just as the Affordable Care Act did.
In his 2011 State of the Union address, Obama predicted the U.S. "would have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015." Um, no.
Even though his administration pulled every string it could to push its green energy agenda, there were only 286,390 electric plug-in vehicles (EVs), according to the Electric Drive Transportation Association.
Last October, Scientific American announced the country had finally reached Obama's prediction. Since then, EV proponents have shifted into overdrive predicting how many EVs will be in use in the near future.
Edison Electric Institute projects 18.7 million EVs on the road in the U.S. by 2020. And CNBC reported last year that the International Energy Agency forecasts that 125 million EVs will be on the road worldwide.
The problem with these predictions is the taxpayer-provided honeypot of subsidies may be about to dry up.
The U.S. provides a tax credit of up to $7,500 for the purchase of a new electric vehicle. However, that tax credit begins phasing out after a carmaker produces more than 200,000 EVs, which Tesla and GM have.
In addition, President Trump's 2020 budget calls for phasing out the tax credit completely. While Democrats and some Republicans are likely to resist that change, it raises the possibility that EV tax credits may soon be in the rearview mirror.
Will U.S. consumers buy EVs without the tax credit?
Actually, they don't buy many now. According to Greentech Media, a Wood Mackenzie business, 26,440 EVs were sold in March of 2018.
By contrast, car manufacturers sold 556,000 cars and more than 1 million light trucks that month.
Tesla may not be that affected because it makes a beautiful electric car that appeals to high-income earners, who probably don't need the tax break but get it anyway.
In addition, China, the largest market for EVs, may be cutting its subsidies. According to the Wall Street Journal, EV subsidies are being cut by more than half, from $9,830 to $4,100. And local governments may cut their subsidies by up to 50 percent.
Electric cars are at the cutting edge of technology, and the day may come when consumers, not just governments, are demanding carmakers produce more. But we won't know for sure until consumers, not taxpayers, pay the full price for their EVs.


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Philly neighborhoods soccer tournament brings Kensington and East Kensington teams to the field
byAshif Sunny
Participants in CASA's Neighborhood Cup play in separate matches. (Photos courtesy of Casa Soccer League; Photo illustration by Jillian Bauer-Reese)
This story was written by a Philadelphia high school student as part of the Philadelphia Youth Network's summer WorkReady program. The WorkReady program places youth ages 12-24 with employers across the city.
Several Philly neighborhoods are battling it out this summer for the title of the "best neighborhood soccer team."
From Kensington to South Philly, 20 teams are participating in Casa Soccer League's (CASA) new tournament, The Neighborhood Cup. The 7v7 tournament, which started on July 18, has now entered the playoffs. The tournament ends on Aug. 22.
Casa Soccer League, a nonprofit organization created in 2005, aims to give back to its communities and provide people with the opportunity to enjoy soccer. The league, which has over 16,000 members between Boston, South Jersey, and Philadelphia, partners up with local organizations as part of its mission to give back. CASA also gives out scholarships to graduating seniors in the Philadelphia area.
Jarrad Bradt, the vice president of CASA, said the idea for the tournament was kicked around for a long time within the organization, but getting it off the ground was a matter of getting enough support and resources. The tournament is modeled after the Philadelphia International Unity Cup, a celebration of the city's immigrant communities through soccer.
"We are basically doing our version, but it's a Philly style because Philadelphia is so neighborhood driven," Bradt said. "Every neighborhood has its own unique qualities, unique people, unique food, unique music, culture, and aesthetic. And we wanted to bring that in as much as possible."
East Kensington plays against Upper Darby at Temple University's Sports Complex during CASA's Neighborhood Cup on July 25, 2022. (Photo by Khysir Carter)
In the tournament's open division, the Kensington area is represented by two teams: Kensington and East Kensington. Each team was given jerseys designed by Philadelphia-based Icarus Football, a design-focused brand for football kits. East Kensington's jersey design is an ode to Sunderland A.F.C, an English soccer club whose nickname is "The Black Cats." Kensington's jerseys reference the neighborhood's former soccer team in the 1950s, "The Kensington Blue Bells."
Although soccer is still less popular in the United States compared to other countries, it has a long history in Kensington. By 1893, Philadelphia was overflowing with immigrants from Northern England with a love for soccer. That year, Philadelphian Esther Kelly established the Kensington-based community organization, The Lighthouse. The Lighthouse soccer program was "the largest single soccer organization in the world" by 1940. Years later, the neighborhood is still embracing the sport through the Kensington Soccer Club and CASA's Neighborhood Cup tournament.
Both teams' captains said the players enjoy being part of the tournament and have been performing well.
James Breslin, a Kensington Soccer Club coach and former Visitation BVM School teacher, is the captain of the Kensington team. As a longtime resident, he feels honored to represent the neighborhood in the tournament.
"For me, Kensington represents the people," Breslin said. "Of course, there are connotations to Kensington; when people think about Kensington, they think of drugs. We think it's great that in tournaments like the Neighborhood Cup, that Kensington can be represented in a different light."
So far, the East Kensington team has won four games and advanced to the playoffs, while the Kensington team won one game during the group stage.
Robert Smukler, captain of the East Kensington team and founder of Icarus Football, said the players are passionate and love the game.
"I'm meeting a lot of my neighbors, and we've done very well, which is extra cool for me," Smukler said. "But it's been great meeting guys in the neighborhood and creating friendships that hopefully will be lasting."
According to Smukler, it's also been a great experience playing for CASA Soccer League during the regular season.
"[It's] such a massive network, and it's super close-knit," Smukler said. "You just end up knowing everyone, and it's incredibly friendly."
"It's really kind of been a special place in my heart," he added.
Community members can go cheer on the East Kensington team at their playoff game against Point Breeze on Monday, Aug. 15 at 8:00 pm. The match will take place at the South Philadelphia Supersite (Field 3, near the Phillies Stadium) at 1166 Bigler St.
Editors: Siani Colón, Zari Tarazona / Designer: Siani Colón
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The Bedford Municipal Court handles cases from 14 different, diverse municipalities. Elected by the Court's constituencies, Judge Brian Melling and Judge Michelle Paris effectuates the prompt and impartial administration of justice for criminal and civil cases arising within the Court's jurisdiction.
Cases from the Glenwillow Mayor's Court may be transferred to Bedford Municipal Court. The Bedford Municipal Court is located at 165 Center Road in Bedford, Ohio (click here for Google Maps link). They can be reach at 440-232-3420. Their regular business hours at Monday - Friday from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm.


One story home with 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, a formal dining room, casual breakfast area, and a Game Room, all on one level! The kitchen is truly impressive with plenty of cabinet storage space and a oversize island. The kitchen overlooks a spacious family room which has a vaulted ceiling and large windows that bring in plenty of natural light. The master bath features his and hers vanity spaces and a grand walk-in-closet. A truly unique feature of this home is the game room that is multi-functional. Use it as a game room for the kids, a media room for mom and dad, or a craft room. If you're in need of a 4th bedroom and 3rd bathroom, the space can also accommodate you. From the moment you walk in the door you will be impressed with this gorgeous home designed for ultimate flare AND functionality.


After having visited this area I wanted to share the area and recommend it. This provence is particularly beautiful and filled with gorgeous tranquil gardens and a wealth of history. If you enjoy gliding along in a boat then you will love this area that is filled with lakes and rivers.
Enjoy the gallery of my recent visit and some of the videos of the local areas.
Fly to Nanjing or Shanghai for connection with the tour.


Dunkin' has a new Peeps Donut and Peeps Marshmallow-flavored coffee coming April 1. The candy brand also a slew of new flavors and a contest.
Dunkin' announced Wednesday that it will release a new Peeps doughnut and marshmallow-flavored coffee April 1.
The Peeps Donut features the brand's iconic yellow marshmallow chick on top of a green and egg-shaped sprinkle doughnut. The chain also had a Peeps Donut in 2014, however it was flower-shaped.
But this is the first time Dunkin' is offering a Peeps coffee, which "brings the delightful, creamy taste of classic Peeps Marshmallow to Dunkin's hot and iced coffee, espresso drinks, frozen coffee and frozen chocolate," the company said in a statement.
As part of the Peeps and Dunkin' collaboration, the two brands are taking a road trip to surprise fans with free coffee and doughnuts April 2-4.
Dunkin's custom-sculpted coffee car will travel alongside the PeepsMobile, starting from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Peeps' hometown, and heading toward Dunkin's birthplace of Quincy, Massachusetts, Dunkin' said in a statement.
The vehicles will stop at six Dunkin' restaurants and the first 250 guests will be offered a free small Peeps Marshmallow Flavored Iced Coffee, Peeps Donut and other giveaways, while supplies last. Clues on where the vehicles will show up will be posted on Dunkin's Instagram account.
Along with the Peeps items – available for a limited time and while supplies last – Dunkin' announced a few other new menu items, including Chocolate Cherry Cold Brew, Iced Tea Lemonade and Frozen Lemonade, and Sweet Sriracha Bacon Breakfast Sandwich.
In April, a medium-sized Cold Brew will be $2 from 2 to 6 p.m. daily.
This year, the Peeps brand and parent company Just Born Quality Confections are opening the candy factory to consumers while also giving back through a partnership with the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley and a contest.
The Peeps Helping Peeps Sweepstakes grand prize includes a trip for four to experience a behind the scenes tour at the company's factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Enter through April 8 at www.unitedwayglv.org/peeps or text "PeepsUnited" to 40403. A $5 or more donation is encouraged.
"We couldn't think of a better reason to open our doors for the first time ever than by teaming up with our local United Way to help give back to the community that Peeps calls home," said Matt Pye, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Just Born Quality Confections, in a statement.
There are several new Peeps' flavors available at participating stores nationwide, including Pancakes & Syrup Flavored Marshmallow Chicks, Cotton Candy Flavored Marshmallow Chicks, and Orange Sherbet Flavored Marshmallow Chicks Dipped in Crème Flavored Fudge.
Peeps Root Beer Float Flavored Marshmallow Chicks at the Kroger family of stores.
Delights Vanilla Crème and Peeps Delights Chocolate Caramel Swirl Flavored Marshmallow Chicks at Target.
Blue Raspberry Flavored Marshmallow Chicks at Walmart.
There also are Peeps-flavored jelly beans and a Peeps solid milk chocolate bunny and, through partnerships, Peeps has a flavored coffee creamer with International Delight and a Peeps cereal with Kellogg's.


July 9 2015, 2:00 p.m.
RAMZAN ALKHANASHVILI WAS was just 18 years old when he disappeared from the small Georgian village of Dumasturi in April of this year. His mother, Tina Alkhanashvili, dropped him off at school in the morning, as she normally did. A few hours later, around noon, he left and never returned. The only trace of him left at the school was his backpack. His mother waited until evening, and then she and relatives began to search for him, asking friends and acquaintances if they knew what had happened. No one knew anything. That night they went to the local police station, located in the center of one of the larger villages in the region. The brightly lit station looks like a UFO amid the typical small, poor Georgian houses, built from stone and covered with circular asbestos tiles.
The police checked their computer database, a product of Western assistance aimed at helping Georgia secure its borders. It turned out that Ramzan, along with a friend who was barely 16 years old, had gone to the airport in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, and had flown out of the country at 3 in the afternoon, just a few hours after cutting out from school. The police officers didn't have any more information. The teenagers were gone.
It wasn't until the next evening that the boys sent their families brief audio messages through the Internet instant messaging service WhatsApp, saying that everything was OK. They were in Turkey. They didn't say what they were doing there, or why they had left so suddenly. They said, however, that they were going to Syria and that it was their own decision. The families didn't hear anything more directly from them.
A few days later, the Islamic State published the boys' photographs online. They were sitting in a featureless room painted white. They were dressed in field uniforms, holding rifles on their knees. They did not, as many fighters do, obscure their faces. They looked proudly into the camera, fingers pointing to the sky, signaling that they were sacrificing themselves to Allah. Behind them was the black flag of the Islamic State.
The Islamic State has proven adept at recruiting young Muslims around the world — it's currently estimated that over 20,000 foreign fighters have joined ISIS. And Georgia, a small country whose population is just 10 percent Muslim, has been particularly hard hit. Georgia's Muslims are not traditionally devout, and yet the community here has suddenly become a boon for Islamic State recruiting. One of the most famous commanders of the Islamic State, Abu Omar al Shishani, came from a small village in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge.
DUMASTURI, AN IMPOVERISHED village on the left bank of the Alazani River, which cuts through the Pankisi Gorge, is typical of the region. Its residents are mostly shepherds who graze cows, sheep and even buffalo. Dumasturi used to be populated by Ossetians, Orthodox Christians, but they left the region about 15 years ago. The village now consists of families, like Tina's, who are ethnic Kists — Muslims who fled from Chechnya five generations ago and adopted Georgian surnames.
The dozen or so houses feature the old architecture characteristic of the region: stone and wood multi-story family homes surrounded by gardens. Today, however, it's a village near ruin: some of the houses are abandoned, with roofs and walls collapsing and small trees, ivy and even grape vines overtaking the empty structures. Tina's husband left her and moved to Grozny, the Chechen capital, where he started a new family. She and her children live in poverty, seemingly with no chance for a better future. Ramzan, for reasons Tina can't understand, saw his future in Syria.
In the Pankisi Gorge, the one-way trip to jihad has become more and more fashionable, even among women. There's nothing for young people in the valley do to, except go to school and then return home. It's a life of boredom, with no prospects for a different future. Fortunately, there is the Internet, a virtual world where youth can connect through social media, see through the lens of YouTube, and find a community of people, like those joining the Islamic State.
A local journalist, Gela Mtivlishvili, claimed he had information about how and who was organizing recruits from Pankisi to travel to Syria. He said the group was operating in Jokolo, a small picturesque village in the valley. Mtivlishvili presented his recordings and other evidence to the Counterterrorism Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the capital, Tbilisi. It came to nothing, and recruitment to the Islamic State in the valley appears to continue.
The authorities in Tbilisi admit that at least 50 people from the region have gone to Syria, although those in Pankisi believe the number of volunteers is much greater. In November 2013, Umar Idigov of the Georgian nongovernmental organization Integration Foundation of Caucasus People, told Kavkazskiy Uzel, a local press agency, that nearly 200 Chechens from Georgia were fighting in Syria.
Seventeen months later, in late April 2015, the Georgian deputy minister of internal affairs, Levan Izoria, confirmed that ISIS recruitment of Georgians was taking place — not in the Pankisi itself, but abroad. He denied that any representatives of the Islamic State were operating inside Georgia.
"Nazy is my name and it doesn't have anything in common with Nazis," laughs a young woman in her mid-twenties. She speaks perfect English. Nazy's Guest House is her family house in Jokolo.
Next to Nazy's house is a Georgian Orthodox church built from stone. It's closed down tight, and no one has been inside in years. In Pankisi almost no one sings hymns or liturgical songs, even though Georgia is home to one of the oldest Christian churches, the so-called Georgian Apostolic Orthodox Church, founded in the first century A.D. by Saint Andrew, one of the 12 apostles.
Instead of church bells, now in the valley you hear the muezzin calling to prayer five times a day. Islam has supplanted Christianity. The shift started in the mid-19th century, when, through war and deportation, the Russian empire reduced the population of Chechens in the northern Caucasus by more than half. The Chechens who fled to Pankisi are the Kists.
Muslims and Christians once lived here side by side: Muslim Kists, Orthodox Christian Georgians and Ossetians, but that began to shift in the 1990s. In 1991, when Chechnya declared its independence, Russia launched a new war, and one-fifth of the Chechen population was killed, according to some estimates. As the Chechen Republic's attempt at independence collapsed in 1999 and 2000, Chechen refugees arrived in Pankisi along with Chechen militants, who over the next few years regularly organized armed raids to Chechnya and other Caucasus republics belonging to the Russian Federation. The Christian Ossetians largely abandoned their homes in 1999 as the Muslim refugees from Chechnya appeared in the valley.
The wars also changed the nature of Islam in the valley. When Islamic scholars declared a holy jihad in Chechnya, fighters, or "brothers," came from the Caucasus and around the world. Arabs, Turks, Azeris, Kurds and even a few Afghan Taliban arrived in the Georgian valley as a jumping-off point to Chechnya. Soon the Pankisi Gorge had entirely new mosques, and Wahhabism, a strict form of Islam, gained popularity among the local Kists.
The mosque in Jokolo was built in the center of the village on the only asphalt road that connects to other villages in the valley. Next to the mosque are some small shops, market stalls and even a restaurant, though it's open only for special occasions. In front of the mosque is group of men. Most have beards: black and red, but no traces of gray. The unnaturally long and well-kempt facial hair looks out of place on the young men.
They stand and talk, shell and eat sunflower seeds. Only the cars passing occasionally interrupt their boredom. The muffled sound of songs can be heard coming from the vicinity of the men. The songs are in Arabic, and refer to Allah, war, jihad and martyrs.
There's not much traffic on the road. A few kilometers away, in the next village, the asphalt ends and a road of potholes, mud and stones climbs north toward the border with Chechnya. What is most striking is the lack of people: Pankisi is slowly depopulating itself. Most Chechens left in 2004 and 2005, chased away by the former president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, out of fear that Russia might use the presence of Chechen fighters to encroach on Georgian territory, but also on the advice of the U.S. government, which was in the midst of its global war on terrorism. Calm reigned in Pankisi, but not for long.
In 2008, fighting escalated at the border with South Ossetia, a separatist region of Georgia. Russia got involved, and Georgian leaders feared Russian forces might take the war all the way to Tbilisi. The Georgian government, which had long had a conflicted history of helping the Chechens, turned to Doku Umarov, the Chechen leader of the self-declared Caucasus Emirate, a jihadi group trying to establish an Islamic state in the Caucasus, a former colleague of Umarov told me.
Umarov, who is on a United Nations sanctions list for his alleged association with al Qaeda, agreed to strike the Russians with his fighters from the north. From the south of Georgia, another branch of jihadis would be secretly allowed into the country by the Georgian secret service, and even given weapons. The volunteers from Azerbaijan, Dagestan and Chechnya never got to take part in the fighting, however. After just five days, it was all over. Georgia lost the war with Russia, and that was the end of the Mujahideen war, at least at the time.
Georgia may not want jihadi organizations to recruit in Georgia, but neither is it necessarily in the country's interests to stop it. If another war with Russia breaks out, a large number of Syrian jihadis who originated from the former Soviet Union — the Kists, Chechens, Azerbaijanis and Dagestanis — would likely return to the Caucasus to fight for their homeland against the common enemy, Russia.
The Georgian government did not respond to queries on the record, but provided written information about its efforts to combat recruitment, which includes supporting local sports for Muslim youth. The material cites, for example, building a modern Judo facility.
SUSPICION RELATED TO the Islamic State's recruitment here has fallen on Ayub Borchashvili, the self-proclaimed official representative of the so-called Islamic State of Georgia. Some people call him imam. He rides around in his dark green Honda CR-V that seems to be always on the move, traversing the valley day and night. Driving on the asphalt road in Pankisi, he passed us many times. Hoping to meet him, my Georgian driver flashed his lights to get him to stop on one of his passes. He halted the car, and behind the wheel of the compact SUV sat a well-built man with a long graying beard. When he heard the word journalist after a brief exchange, he pressed on the gas without saying goodbye; tires disappeared squealing around the bend.
My contacts from the region — Muslims who fought in Chechnya — believe Borchashvili is actually still cooperating with the Georgian Intelligence Service, which wants to keep its contact with Islamic fighters alive. Why else, they reasoned, would the security service, so vigilant of activities in the region, not arrest Ayub? In the Pankisi Gorge, "people are more afraid of the Georgian security forces than they are of the Islamic State," said one of the former fighters.
A few weeks after my thwarted interview with the imam, in late May, two young women from Karajala, an ethnic Azeri village in Georgia, left their homes and joined the Islamic State. That same weekend, a resident of the valley was killed in Syria. He was 32 years old. He had disappeared three months earlier. Nobody noticed because he was a shepherd; everyone thought he went into the mountains to graze sheep and that he would return in the autumn, when the leaves fall off the trees, but he never came back. It turns out he was a close relative of the imam.
The departure of the two teenagers from Dumasturi to Syria received wide coverage in the Georgian media, however, perhaps promoting the Georgian government to finally take action. In June, the imam was arrested, accused of helping the boys join the Islamic State. He is currently being held for two months as part of pre-trial detention.
Whatever the degree of official ambivalence, one fact is clear: recruiters from the Islamic State are at work in Georgia, leading away the children of the Pankisi Gorge.
JUST OVER THE river in Jokolo, "Marina," who does not want to reveal her real name, lost two sons in Syria. One day, she got a Skype message from Syria, from the wife of one of her sons. It was a song that her son had written, sung and dedicated to his mother. He wanted it sent to his mother when he left this world to meet Allah, explained her son's wife — now widow.
The only visible remainder of Ramzan today in Dumasturi is graffiti written on the wall surrounding his childhood home: It's his name inscribed next to the word "Ichkeria," a reference to the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which nominally existed until 2000, when the Russian military took back the capital of Grozny, although the unofficial republic's government continued operating from exile for several more years.
"Nobody famous comes from here," a Chechen friend, who has lived in Pankisi for the past several years, once told me. With recruits from Georgia now earning fame in the Islamic State, that statement is no longer entirely true. After years of being a member of an obscure ethnic group, in a valley forgotten by most of the world, Ramzan has his shot at fame.
I spoke with Tina Alkhanashvili just a week after her son disappeared. She believes the teenagers will come back, but in Pankisi, nobody else believes that. The brothers of the caliphate likely took their passports. By posting their pictures on the Internet, they made any return impossible. From that day, the teenagers from Pankisi became wanted men, terrorists whose faces the whole world knew, particularly the police and security services. Even if they aren't sent on suicide missions, and somehow manage to survive the fighting, they can't ever return home: they would be detained and sent to prison.
Ramzan is Tina's oldest son, and now she is worried that her younger children may also leave for jihad. "They say that the Islamists could convince even grown women to go to Syria," Tina says.
She was still struggling to understand what happened. Before he left, Ramzan had clearly lost himself in the Internet, but so do many other teenagers who don't run away to joint the Islamic State. He had never been more religious than his brothers or friends. He only started to regularly visit the mosque a couple of weeks before his disappearance. Everything happened too fast, and she didn't have time to intervene.
"It was only two weeks," she cried.


West of Easter Island, towards the South Pacific middle is another paradise flower, a group of 118 exotic islands and atolls that form what is called the French Polynesia. Coral reefs, turquoise-blue lagoons, white sand beaches, coast lined palm trees and high mountain peaks.
Tahiti, Bora Bora, Moorea, Raiatea, Tikehau, Fakarrava and Manihi are some of the tropical heavens. Tahiti, in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, is the largest island of the French Polynesia archipelago. It lies south of equator, half way from California and Australia. It is located 4400 km south of Hawaii, 7900 km from Chile and 5700 km from Australia.
Papeete is the capital of Tahiti. It's a vibrant and multicultural city with busy boulevards and a bustling port. The visit to French Polynesia begin and end in Papeete. Tourists jet off to other islands, where they spend a day or two.
Tahiti is a scenic island with lush landscapes, pleasant beaches and calm waters. Tourists also explore the interior peaks and valleys on guided hike or jeep tours. Other popular activities include scuba diving, snorkeling, jet skiing and surfing. With all those fantastic resorts available in Tahiti, you will never regret staying.
Tahiti is in the same time zone as Hawaii, and is two hours behind the West Cost during Pacific Standard Time.
Because Tahiti and her islands are below the Equator, the seasons are the reverse of those in the Northern Hemisphere.
Electricity in Tahiti and French Polynesia in general, is 220V, alternating at 60Hz.


Assetz Capital, a UK based peer-to-peer lending platform, has announced another milestone. Today the platform has shared that investors in aggregate have earned gross returns of more than £25 million on their investments in approximately four years. Assetz Capital says lenders earned an average of 8% gross interest across all Assetz Capital loans since platform launch, before allowances for tax or any losses not covered by a provision fund.
Currently, Assetz Capital has about 20,000 registered and active investors. The returns since the launch of the platform were generated from over £309 million lent to UK businesses from a range of industries looking to raise funds, including SME, bridging and development sectors.
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The British royals have nothing on the Vanderbilts and the Astors.
By Mehera Bonner
What America is lacking in royals we have in spades when it comes to wealthy society families. We're talking monikers like the Vanderbilts, the Astors, and—yes—the Rockefellers. When these families tied the knot, it was a major occasion that had simply stunning wedding gowns. Royal brides have nothing on society brides, apparently.
Gloria Vanderbilt's First Wedding Dress
Gloria Vanderbilt (AKA Anderson Cooper's mother) married her first husband Pat DiCicco in 1941, when she was just 17 (and yep, she wore an iconic set of Vanderbilt pearls, because as the saying goes, "All Vanderbilt Women Have Pearls"). They divorced just four years later.
Couple of fun facts: The train on Gloria's dress was 30-feet long, and that little cake topper is wearing a replica of her outfit.
Gloria Vanderbilt's Third Wedding Dress
Gloria Vanderbilt's third husband was director Sidney Lumet. They married in 1956 and divorced in 1963, so the relationship was admittedly pretty short-lived.
Even so, Gloria looked absolutely stunning on her wedding day, wearing a beige gown rather than the traditional white, which was made out of French linen that dates from 1830. Note: She ditched the pearls.
Cornelia Vanderbilt's Wedding Dress
Heiress Cornelia Venderbilt's 1924 wedding to British diplomat John Cecil was the party of the century, and took place at the family's famous Biltmore estate in Asheville. A whopping 2,500 people attended the reception.
"The bride was lovely in a gown of white satin, very straight, with long sleeves," wrote the Asheville Citizen. "Her bridal veil of tulle and lace, which she wore over her face when entering the church, was four yards long. It was caught with orange blossoms from Florida...Her bridal bouquet was of orchids and lilies of the valley, made in Asheville by the Middlemount Gardens. Each of her satin slippers was ornamented with a single orange blossom."
Sarah Norton's Wedding Dress
William Waldorf Astor married socialite Sarah Norton in 1945. Despite getting divorced in 1953, the pair had a whirlwind romance and apparently got engaged just a few days after they met. Not much is publicly known about Sarah's dress, but we can all agree that her starburst tiara is fit for royalty.
(Side note: This wedding took place in London, but the Astors are a cross-continental fixture, as anyone who's walked into New York's Waldorf Astoria knows).
Elizabeth Taylor's First Wedding Dress
American hotelier Conrad Hilton's son Nicky Hilton married Elizabeth Taylor when she was just 18 during a Beverly Hills wedding.
MGM organized the fabulous event, and Elizabeth's dress was designed by famed costume maker Helen Rose. Her team of 15 people took an entire three months to create the gown out of satin and seed pearls, and the train is a whopping 15 yards. FYI, the couple divorced eight months later.
Abby Rockefeller's Wedding Dress
Abby was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family, and married banker David Milton in 1925. The wedding was a *huge* news-making affair, with 1,200 guests at the reception in NYC. And you'll love this: The bride broke with tradition and insisted that the word "obey" be removed from her marriage vows. Pretty cool.
Miss Blanchette Hooker's Wedding Dress
John D. Rockefeller III married prominent philanthropist Blanchette Hooker in 1932 when she was in her early 20s. The pair had their *extremely* fancy reception at the Colony Club on Park Avenue. Her dress is a surprisingly modern silhouette given the era, no?
Margaret McGrath's Wedding Dress
Almost ten years later in Bedford, New York in 1940, David Rockefeller (AKA the former chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank and the Metropolitan Museum of Art) married Margaret McGrath and she wore a very similar gown—with slightly puffier sleeves.
Anne McDonnell's Wedding Dress
This 1940 wedding was a HUGE deal—in fact, a hilariously old-time-y video about it can be found on YouTube.
Henry Ford II and Anne McDonnell were married in Long Island, and the church was swarming with hundreds of uninvited guests hoping for a glimpse of the bride and groom. Anne's dress is ever-so lovely, with sheer cap sleeves and a giant skirt.
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The secondary field in ESPP offers students in other concentrations an opportunity to complement their studies with courses that will provide an environmental science and policy perspective.
During each semester there are several opportunities for secondary field students to come together to explore various environmental science and policy topics through facilitated discussions. These discussions require preparatory readings and/or prior attendance at a public lecture on campus, and students are required to attend at least one session per semester once they have been accepted into the program.
Students must declare their engagement in this secondary field no later than study card day of their sixth term. They will then be assigned an advisor, following their submission of an anticipated course of study.
One junior ESPP tutorial may be used in substitution for one of the social science and public policy requirements.


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The US President Mr. Barack Obama, after his meeting with the Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, called on Greece to balance austerity with growth as it seeks to recover from financial crisis. He said that Mr. Samaras agreed that Greece must also pursue ways to grow its economy and create jobs and he commended Mr. Samaras for taking bold steps to reduce his country's debt. Mr. Obama said that he will have a press conference today.
The unemployment rose to another record high in May to 27.6% from 27% in April and 23.8% a year earlier (ELSTAT).
ΟΤΕ:The net income for Q2'13 stood at €57.2mn from €94.6mn million in the same period last year, as it continues to suffer from tough regulation, sharp competition and severe austerity in its two main markets, Greece and Romania. The sales dropped at an annual pace of 8.6% to €1.003bn, weighed by lower call prices imposed by regulators.
COCA COLA:The company announced net profits of €111mn (+3%) for H1'13, while the net sales amounted to €3.38bn (-1%). Volume declined by 2% in Q2'13. A 2% volume increase in emerging markets was more than offset by a 6% volume decline in established markets and a 3% decline in developing markets. The Board of Coca-Cola has decided on new progressive dividend policy effective from 2014 onwards. The company's targeted payout ratio on comparable net profit will be in the range of 35-45% over time.


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Q: Single piece of content, multiple URLs? I have a use case that I could use some advice on.
We publish multiple products, each of which has it's own subtree on the site. Generally, a piece of content gets published to just a single product, e.g. a news article gets published to product A and can be accessed at one URL.
However, sometimes we have content that we want to publish to multiple products, e.g. a single news article gets published to products A, B, and C and will be available at 3 different URLs.
With our current CMS we end up doing this by copying and pasting the content, which is a hassle for editors, especially if the content needs to be updated.
An ideal scenario would be where and editor edits the content in one place, specifies the products to publish to, and the content is served by more than one URL and with a template that is product-specific.
It seems that RoutablePageMixin could be useful here, but I'm not sure how to handle letting the editor specify the destination products and making the routing aware of that choice.
Has anyone solved a similar problem using Wagtail?

A: I have solved a similar problem in Wagtail, the RoutablePageMixin is the key to solving this problem.
If you have /blog/A/slug-product/, /blog/B/slug-product/, /blog/C/slug-product/ , then you can get the slug value slug-product here, then use this value to search the distinct content in your db.
class BlogPage(RoutablePageMixin, Page):
    def get_posts(self):
        return PostPage.objects.descendant_of(self).live()
    @route(r'^(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(.+)/$')
    def post_by_date_slug(self, request, year, month, day, slug, *args, **kwargs):
        post_page = self.get_posts().filter(slug=slug).first()
        return Page.serve(post_page, request, *args, **kwargs)

As you can see, I did not use the date info of the url but the slug value to get the blog post object, you can follow the pattern here to use regex to match the url you want.
If the slug values in urls are also different, this solution might not work very well, but in most cases, this solution can work fine.
I have written a blog post talking about how to use RoutablePageMixin to make the page routable, you can check this link if you wang to get more about RoutablePageMixin.
Routable Page

A: Rather than thinking of your news articles as being child objects of one or more products, it might help to think of them as one big pool of news articles which are categorised by product. Your product page will then effectively be a filtered index page of news articles.
Here's how I'd model it:

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*If you want your news articles to exist at a canonical URL that's independent of any particular category, or you want to make use of page moderation and/or previewing, then define NewsArticle as a page model; otherwise, define it as a snippet or a ModelAdmin-managed model.

*On the NewsArticle model, have an InlinePanel where editors can associate as many related products as required:
class NewsArticle(Page):
    body = RichTextField()
    date = models.DateField()

    content_panels = Page.content_panels + [
        FieldPanel('body'),
        FieldPanel('date'),
        InlinePanel('related_products', label="Related products"),
    ]

class NewsArticleRelatedProduct(Orderable):
    news_article = ParentalKey(NewsArticle, related_name='related_products')
    product = models.ForeignKey(ProductPage, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='news_articles')

    panels = [
        PageChooserPanel('product'),
    ]

*On your ProductPage model, add a method that returns a queryset of news items, filtered and sorted appropriately:
class ProductPage(Page):
    # ...
    def get_news_articles(self):
        return self.news_articles.live().order_by('-date')

You can then loop over the news articles in your product page template, using a tag like {% for news_article in page.get_news_articles %}.

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Modern living in the heart of downtown.
Located in downtown Meriden steps from the new commuter train station, 24 Colony Street is in the heart of the revitalized Historic District. The building features luxury one and two bedroom residences in a variety of styles, along with first floor commercial space. Amenities like off street-secured-private parking, washer-dryer hookups, geo-thermal heating and cooling (reduced utility costs) and community space are located on premises.
24 Colony is more than just a housing complex – it's the heart of a neighborhood, and any good neighborhood comes with amenities for the locals. When we built 24 Colony we did so thinking of you. The building is directly across the street from the new Train Station, soon to be the New Haven/Hartford Line providing access to both cities within 20 minutes. Also across the street is the new downtown park, a 22 acre modern space with outdoor amphitheater, walking paths and ample green space. Within walking distance are cafe's, restaurants, grocery stores and other daily necessities. Meriden lies in the middle of Connecticut and is just off of Interstate 91, 691 and the Merit Parkway (route 15) making access throughout the state quick and easy.
At 24 Colony Street, we believe a true community shouldn't be gated or fenced in – it should contribute and complement its surroundings. That's why we chose the Historic neighborhood of Meriden for our location.


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Creating laws is the U.S. House of Representatives' most important job. All laws in the United States begin as bills. Before a bill can become a law, it must be approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the President. Let's follow a bill's journey to become law.
The Bill Begins
Laws begin as ideas. These ideas may come from a Representative—or from a citizen like you. Citizens who have ideas for laws can contact their Representatives to discuss their ideas. If the Representatives agree, they research the ideas and write them into bills.
The Bill Is Proposed
When a Representative has written a bill, the bill needs a sponsor. The Representative talks with other Representatives about the bill in hopes of getting their support for it. Once a bill has a sponsor and the support of some of the Representatives, it is ready to be introduced.
The Bill Is Introduced
The Hopper
In the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill is introduced when it is placed in the hopper—a special box on the side of the clerk's desk. Only Representatives can introduce bills in the U.S. House of Representatives.
When a bill is introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill clerk assigns it a number that begins with H.R. A reading clerk then reads the bill to all the Representatives, and the Speaker of the House sends the bill to one of the House standing committees.
The Bill Goes to Committee
When the bill reaches committee, the committee members—groups of Representatives who are experts on topics such as agriculture, education, or international relations—review, research, and revise the bill before voting on whether or not to send the bill back to the House floor.
If the committee members would like more information before deciding if the bill should be sent to the House floor, the bill is sent to a subcommittee. While in subcommittee, the bill is closely examined and expert opinions are gathered before it is sent back to the committee for approval.
The Bill Is Reported
When the committee has approved a bill, it is sent—or reported—to the House floor. Once reported, a bill is ready to be debated by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Bill Is Debated
When a bill is debated, Representatives discuss the bill and explain why they agree or disagree with it. Then, a reading clerk reads the bill section by section and the Representatives recommend changes. When all changes have been made, the bill is ready to be voted on.
The Bill Is Voted On
Electronic Voting Machine
There are three methods for voting on a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives:
Viva Voce (voice vote): The Speaker of the House asks the Representatives who support the bill to say "aye" and those that oppose it say "no."
Division: The Speaker of the House asks those Representatives who support the bill to stand up and be counted, and then those who oppose the bill to stand up and be counted.
Recorded: Representatives record their vote using the electronic voting system. Representatives can vote yes, no, or present (if they don't want to vote on the bill).
If a majority of the Representatives say or select yes, the bill passes in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill is then certified by the Clerk of the House and delivered to the U.S. Senate.
The Bill Is Referred to the Senate
When a bill reaches the U.S. Senate, it goes through many of the same steps it went through in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill is discussed in a Senate committee and then reported to the Senate floor to be voted on.
Senators vote by voice. Those who support the bill say "yea," and those who oppose it say "nay." If a majority of the Senators say "yea," the bill passes in the U.S. Senate and is ready to go to the President.
The Bill Is Sent to the President
When a bill reaches the President, he has three choices. He can:
Sign and pass the bill—the bill becomes a law.
Refuse to sign, or veto, the bill—the bill is sent back to the U.S. House of Representatives, along with the President's reasons for the veto. If the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate still believe the bill should become a law, they can hold another vote on the bill. If two-thirds of the Representatives and Senators support the bill, the President's veto is overridden and the bill becomes a law.
Do nothing (pocket veto)—if Congress is in session, the bill automatically becomes law after 10 days. If Congress is not in session, the bill does not become a law.
The Bill Is a Law
If a bill has passed in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has been approved by the President, or if a presidential veto has been overridden, the bill becomes a law and is enforced by the government.
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Genetically Engineered Crops
What the Farm Aid Organization has to say about GMO food:
With a new mission to squash "burdensome" regulation and play nice with U.S. businesses, the Obama Administration has been in a frenzy green-lighting genetically engineered (GE) crops.
Just weeks into the new year, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced the full deregulation of Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa—a genetically engineered crop variety designed to withstand Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. The move gave the OK for commercial planting to take place this spring without restrictions. A week later, USDA announced the deregulation of Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beets, followed by the deregulation of Syngenta's Enogen corn, a variety genetically engineered for biofuel production. Meanwhile, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is now considering the commercial release of genetically modified salmon.
With a new onslaught of GE products hitting the market it's no wonder the public has some questions, as you do, Jerry. So, what's the big deal about genetic engineering?
The short and not-so-sweet of it is this: GE crops present real risks, fewer choices for both farmers and eaters and offer unclear benefits except to the companies that develop and market them, and thus pocket major profits.
Risky Business for Farmers
One of the biggest problems GE crops have presented in the real world is the contamination of non-GE crops. The newest wave of deregulated GE crops presents a very real risk that such contamination will happen again.
Take alfalfa, which is pollinated by bees. Bees can generally cover a five-mile range as they buzz from plant to plant, collecting and spreading pollen. Since bees don't tend to observe property lines or fences, GE alfalfa pollen could, for example, be spread to and pollinate a non-GE alfalfa plant, in turn contaminating a neighboring field with GE genes.
This cross-fertilization would be especially disastrous for organic farmers. If organic fields are contaminated, an organic farmer's certification is at risk, since the use of GE crops is prohibited under the organic label. Losing organic certification would mean his or her goods can no longer be sold for the premium price that helps cover the higher costs of growing organically. Organic livestock farmers would face similar consequences if their cattle consumed contaminated alfalfa, and the organic industry as a whole could suffer from severe supply problems if organic alfalfa can't be maintained with integrity. Canada's organic canola industry suffered this fate, and is virtually extinct due to contamination from GE canola.[1]
GE contamination hurts conventional farmers too. A prime example occurred in 2000, when genes from Aventis' StarLink GE corn showed up unexpectedly in the nation's food supply and U.S. export markets. While StarLink corn only represented 1% of planted corn acreage, it ultimately contaminated at least 25% of the harvest that year.[2] Traces of StarLink corn also showed up in taco shells, even though the variety wasn't approved for human consumption. The fiasco led to a massive recall of over 300 food products. Export markets started rejecting American corn and corn prices plummeted.[3] Corn farmers ultimately filed a class-action lawsuit against Aventis, who forked over $112 million in settlement. Three years later, StarLink genetics were still detected in the U.S. corn supply, well after the crop was pulled from the market.[4] Millers and food manufacturers are concerned the same thing will happen with Syngenta's Enogen corn intended for biofuel production, which could contaminate corn for human consumption and seriously threaten foods processed with corn–based ingredients.
USDA recognized such risks when it conducted an environmental impact statement (EIS) for GE alfalfa. This past December, Secretary Vilsack acknowledged "the potential of cross-fertilization to non-GE alfalfa from GE alfalfa — a significant concern for farmers who produce for non-GE markets at home and abroad."[5] Despite such concern, USDA approved the planting of GE alfalfa for this spring without any indication of how it will prevent the type of costly contamination that threatens to occur.
Into the Wild: "Superweeds" and other environmental hazards
In addition to the very real risks of GE-contamination, there are numerous accounts of superweeds developing from the overuse of Roundup herbicide on Roundup Ready crops. Fifteen years after Roundup Ready corn and soy first debuted, there are now at least 10 species of Roundup-resistant weeds identified in more than 22 states, as well as superweeds sprouting up in Australia, China and Brazil.[6]
Superweeds undermine the environmental benefits that GE crops are claimed to offer by reducing soil tillage, pesticide applications and soil and water contamination.[7] Affected farmers must now resort to more toxic chemicals, increased labor or more intense tillage of their fields to address superweeds on their farms. The newly approved Roundup Ready alfalfa and sugar beets will only exacerbate that problem. And as companies like Bayer, Syngenta and Dow Chemical work on their own pesticide-resistant crops (including one designed to resist 2,4-D, a component of Agent Orange!),[8] even nastier superweeds may be on the horizon, with even nastier pesticides being used to control them in the ever-escalating arms race against weeds and pests.
GE crops pose additional environment risks, such as threats to biodiversity or unintentional harm to other insects and animals in the ecosystem, many of which are beneficial to crop production. But remember, there's absolutely no recall on GE genetics. Once they're out there, they're out there for good. What's more, once a crop is fully deregulated, USDA currently conducts no monitoring of any kind to see if a GE crop has harmed the environment.[9] To date, we are completely unequipped to deal with all of these consequences. (For more on how GE crops are regulated, see this Ask Farm Aid column from 2009).
Do I eat GE foods?
What does all this mean for eaters? Do we eat GE foods? The quick answer is: almost certainly.
Remember that the vast majority of our corn and soy come from GE seed, and that these crops are generally used as feed for cattle, hogs and poultry, or otherwise used in the many processed foods found in grocery store aisles. Alfalfa is the fourth largest crop grown in the U.S. and is most commonly used to feed dairy cows and beef cattle.
So, if you drink milk, eat beef, enjoy the occasional slice of bacon with your breakfast, order chicken in your Caesar salad or ever indulge in processed foods, cereals and desserts with ingredients like high fructose corn syrup and soy lecithin, GE crops are part of your food chain. Unfortunately, you can't be sure when you eat them or in what form, because there is no requirement to label foods with GE ingredients. As discussed above, the release of GE alfalfa also puts several organic foods at risk for contamination—further eroding our choice as consumers to avoid GE foods if we wish.
Little research has been conducted to examine whether GE foods present risks to human health—such as allergens or toxins—but it seems prudent that this be investigated rigorously before GE foods hit the market. Many countries, including countries of the European Union, Japan, Australia and Brazil, have banned the cultivation of GE crops or require labeling of GE foods as precautions.
Feeding the World? The Silver Bullet That Misses the Target
Defenders of GE crops argue they are desperately needed to feed the world's ever-growing population and address world hunger. Some have accused critics of GE technology as being shortsighted Luddites at best, and irresponsible at worst.
But to date, GE crops have done little to address hunger worldwide—yield results have been mixed globally, and are nominal for America's family farmers. A recent study of historical yield data in the U.S. found that herbicide-resistant genetics in GE corn and soy didn't increase yield any more than conventional methods.[10] Perhaps more importantly, the GE varieties hitting the market aren't focused on yield in the first place. Developing a crop for herbicide resistance or biofuel production is quite different than selecting for plant traits that encourage plant growth, drought resistance or other traits that would actually help address food security worldwide. Moreover, companies haven't invested their dollars in the staple crops of food insecure populations worldwide, such as millet, quinoa or cassava. We will need much more than Roundup Ready alfalfa to solve world hunger.
The Seedier Side of GE: Who Benefits
So if farmers, eaters, the environment and the world's undernourished won't appreciably benefit from the government's recent GE green-lighting parade, who will?
Most GE crops hitting the market are developed by multinational companies such as Monsanto, Syngenta, Dupont and Dow Chemical to increase their sales and push their related pesticides. For example, Roundup Ready crops are all engineered to withstand Monsanto's toxic herbicide Roundup. With Roundup Ready alfalfa and sugar beets on the market, Monsanto can expect increased profits from its new seeds, as well as increased sales of Roundup herbicide to douse all those new seeds.
GE crops are also patented, which grants several privileges to corporate seed giants. For example, companies have repeatedly restricted independent research on the risks and benefits of GE products, which is perfectly legal under patent law, but severely limits objective examination of the efficacy and safety of GE crops.[11] If that weren't bad enough, patents have given companies the power to pursue lawsuits against farmers for illegally "possessing" patented GE plants without a license. Monsanto has famously sued thousands of individual farmers for patent infringement when their fields were contaminated with GE genes.[12]
With the power to own and patent genetics, seed companies can demand even more control over the market as a whole. The seed industry has suffered enormous concentration of power in the past few decades, with at least 200 independent seed companies exiting the market in the last fifteen years and four companies now controlling over 50% of the market. This consolidation means farmers have far fewer options for seed varieties. Meanwhile, farmers have seen the sharpest rise in seed prices during the period in which GE crops rose in prominence.[13]
In this sense, the deregulation of new GE varieties comes as a slap in the face to the farmers and eaters who put their trust in the USDA and Department of Justice as they examined antitrust abuses in our food system this past year, including specific investigations into Monsanto and the seed industry. The newest wave of GE products will only further corporate control over our food supply, putting the interests of corporations far before the needs of farmers and eaters.
The bottom line?
Surely, this is a lot to take in. Genetic engineering is a complicated topic, with a broad set of consequences for our society. There are many questions left unanswered about how GE will impact farmers and eaters, and even less clarity about how these impacts will be managed.
Until our regulatory system and the biotech companies themselves properly address the risks inherent in GE crops, farmers and eaters have a right to reject them. Releasing GE crops into the fields without mitigating their risks is gambling with our health, our environment and livelihoods of family farmers.
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<?php

namespace Symbiote\Notifications\Helper;

use SilverStripe\Control\Controller;
use SilverStripe\Control\Director;
use SilverStripe\ORM\DataObject;
use SilverStripe\ORM\DataObjectInterface;

/**
 * A helper for retrieving keywords etc
 *
 * @author  marcus@symbiote.com.au
 * @license BSD License http://silverstripe.org/bsd-license/
 */
class NotificationHelper
{
    /**
     * @var \SilverStripe\ORM\DataObject
     */
    private $owner;

    /**
     * @var array
     */
    protected $availableKeywords;

    public function __construct(DataObject $owner)
    {
        $this->owner = $owner;
    }

    /**
     * Return a list of all available keywords in the format
     * eg. array(
     *    'keyword' => 'A description'
     * )
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getAvailableKeywords()
    {
        if (!$this->availableKeywords) {
            $objectFields = DataObject::getSchema()->databaseFields(get_class($this->owner));

            $objectFields['Created'] = 'Created';
            $objectFields['LastEdited'] = 'LastEdited';
            $objectFields['Link'] = 'Link';

            $this->availableKeywords = [];

            foreach ($objectFields as $key => $value) {
                $this->availableKeywords[$key] = $key;
            }
        }

        return $this->availableKeywords;
    }

    /**
     * Gets a replacement for a keyword
     *
     * @param  $keyword
     * @return string
     */
    public function getKeyword($keyword)
    {
        $k = $this->getAvailableKeywords();

        if ($keyword == 'Link') {
            $link = Director::makeRelative($this->owner->Link());

            return Controller::join_links(Director::absoluteBaseURL(), $link);
        }

        if (isset($k[$keyword])) {
            return $this->owner->$keyword;
        }

        return;
    }
}

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The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the breathtaking Badlands National Park in South Dakota. However, not far from the otherworldly beauty of the park is the harsh reality of life on the reservation. The estimated 29,000 to 40,000 residents of the Reservation hold on to a rich cultural history, but live amidst poverty that rivals many countries in the developing world. Pine Ridge is recognized as one of the top five poorest counties in the United States.
Per capita income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is $6286 per year—which is lower than Egypt, and nearly equal to Paraguay. The unemployment rate fluctuates between 85% and 90%, with more than 90% of the population now living below the federal poverty line.
As a result of a poor economy, the housing office is unable to build new structures, and existing structures are beginning to fall apart. Many people are homeless, and often those with homes are packed into rotting buildings with an average of seventeen people, as many as five families, per household. 39% of houses on the reservation have no electricity, 33% percent lack running water, and at least 60% are infested with black mold.
The tuberculosis rate on Pine Ridge is approximately eight times higher than national rate, and the infant mortality rate is the highest in this continent—at about three times higher than U.S. national average. Cervical cancer is five times higher than the national average.
Fifty percent of the population over the age of forty suffers from diabetes. The life expectancy for men is between the ages of 46 and 48 years old, roughly the same as Afghanistan and Somalia. Similarly, the life expectancy for women is approximately 52 years old. The average life expectancy in the rest of the United States is age 77.
One of the most heartbreaking statistics of Pine Ridge is the prevalence of teen suicide, at 1.5 times higher than the national average. Addiction and disease consume 50% of the population, with alcoholism alone affecting eighty percent of families (and one in every four infants born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome).
The educational system in Pine Ridge is in stark contrast with that of the state's more affluent communities. Schooling on the Reservation is currently modeled after an archaic system, where children are sitting in a classroom six hours a day and are expected to learn according to "healthy child" standards. However, the reality is that most children do not reflect those standards; they come from broken homes, in which single parents, grandparents, or the foster care system are often raising them.
The school dropout rate is over 70%, and teacher turnover is eight times higher than the U.S. average.


When Google first released App Engine as a "Preview Release" last April, developers had relatively little computing power. Only a few apps got Google's permission to grow beyond the free computing quotas, including BuddyPoke, Lingospot, Mentalfloss and Giftag.com. Now, the company's going to start charging for its App Engine cloud platform. That's welcome news for early adopters of the cloud computing platform, because even if they have to pay, they'll now have access to the company's vast computing resources.
Since the launch of App Engine, Google's been collecting feedback from developers. It's added SSL support, a status dashboard, and a memcache API, and is working on other features, such as a task queue and additional programming languages.
Google's taken a lot of flak over the question of cloud lock-in, and Pete Koomen, the Product Manager for App Engine, says the company is trying to be as open as possible. "We want to encourage openness," said Koomen, pointing out that there are no special hooks between App Engine and other Google services. "The more proprietary the APIs, the easier it is for developers to lock themselves in," he said.
Making App Engine a paid service is another step toward establishing the developer ecosystem we described in December. While Google wouldn't confirm our suspicions, Koomen did point out that it's possible to write an App Engine application restricted to only those within your own domain. If that ecosystem prediction comes true, Google will have a platform for writing, running, and selling software to millions of Google Apps users. Think AppExchange for small and medium-sized businesses.
Google will continue to offer free accounts, although their capacity will be reduced from where it is today. Koomen said the goal is to make a "well-written" web application — that handles about 5 million page views a month — free, and for developers to pay beyond this amount.
Hear Microsoft, IBM, Dell and Cisco execs at GigaOM's Green:Net.


I'd like to give you a couple of updates on Elm 0.19 in this post.
But first, an announcement about my book, Practical Elm for a Busy Developer: I'm going to publish the final release on 18 September.
If nothing else, this will force me to finish the last round of proofreading and tweaks!
I would have liked to finish the book earlier, but I also wanted to make it maximally useful to you, so it took a bit longer. I ended up adding extra content, and the latest draft is over 200 pages. I've added a section showing how to integrate the Ace editor into an Elm application using custom elements. The section on testing now includes an introduction to testing the update function and views. I've also reorganised the content related to types for a better flow.
Please note: on 18 September, the price of the book will go up to $39. Until then, the early release price is in effect, so if you want to get the book for $34, get it now (and you'll receive the final version in two weeks anyway).
What about updating the book to Elm 0.19? That's what I will be working on after 18 September, and anyone who's purchased the book will get these updates free.
Now, on to the Elm 0.19 news.
I've been updating my Elm 0.19 post as I learned more, adding a section about runtime performance improvements and expanding other sections - check it out if you haven't seen it yet.
Various installers have been updated to the new Elm release.
A new release of elm-upgrade is out, so you can get automated help with making the necessary changes to your code base.
Additionally, Tomáš Látal created a handy tool that checks whether your dependencies have been updated for Elm 0.19.
There's been a steady stream of package releases happening, with packages like elm-css and - style-elements (just renamed to elm-ui) now updated for the new Elm release.


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Rev. Col. John Hancock Jr. (June 1, 1702 – May 7, 1744) was a colonial American clergyman, soldier, planter, politician, and father of politician John Hancock III. Hancock was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, He was the son of Col. John Hancock Sr. and Elizabeth Clark.

Biography
Hancock graduated from Harvard College in 1719 and served as a librarian there from 1723 to 1726. He was ordained on November 2, 1726, and settled in Quincy, Massachusetts, as pastor of United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts until his death. He also owned one household slave.

He died when his son John was seven years old, Soon after, John's mother sent him to live with his father's brother, Thomas Hancock. Hancock Cemetery in Quincy is named in his honor.

References

External links

1702 births
1744 deaths
American slave owners
Burials in Massachusetts
Harvard College alumni
Hancock family of Massachusetts
Harvard University librarians
Massachusetts colonial-era clergy
People from Lexington, Massachusetts

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Sleep Cycle alarm clock. iPhone and Android app. Also see How does it work?
The Secrets of Sleep. National Geographic.
How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body. Seth Maxon. The Atlantic. December 30, 2013.


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'Patriots Day' Film Premieres in Boston
The film premiered at the Wang Theater in Boston
By Rachel McKnight and Caitlin Fichtel	• Published at 12:22 pm on December 14, 2016
"Patriots Day," the film based on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, premiered in Boston on Wednesday night.
The stars of the film, including Boston-native Mark Wahlberg, appeared on the red carpet at the Wang Theatre in Boston as people got their first look at the new movie.
"Initially signing on, I know there was an overwhelming amount of responsibility in this," Wahlberg said on the red carpet. "I wanted to share that with the world."
The red carpet began at 6 p.m. followed by a screening of the film at 7:30 p.m.
The film, in which Wahlberg portrays a fictional composite representing the actions of several police officers in the aftermath of the bombing, was directed by "Friday Night Lights" director Peter Berg.
Three people were killed and 260 others injured in the April 2013 bombing.
Besides Wahlberg, other guests who appeared at Wednesday's premiere were former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, marathon bombing survivors Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky, and former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz.
Davis said he thought the actors did a great job.
"I thought they nailed it. The emotion of that week and they squeezed an enormous amount of detail into the process so I was very happy with it," Davis said.
"Patriots Day" also stars Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons and Michelle Monaghan. It opens in select cities on Dec. 21, and in theaters around the country on Jan. 13.


"Our customers are holding on to their older iPhones a bit longer than in the past," he added during the company's earnings call.
"Our active installed base of devices reached an all-time high of 1.4 billion in the first quarter, growing in each of our geographic segments," informed Cook.
Apple's total sales of $84.3 billion was the first annual revenue decline during a holiday season quarter since 2001.
"We generated very strong operating cash flow of $26.7 billion during the December quarter and set an all-time EPS record of $4.18," said Luca Maestri, Apple's CFO.
"We returned over $13 billion to our investors during the quarter through dividends and share repurchases. Our net cash balance was $130 billion at the end of the quarter, and we continue to target a net cash neutral position over time," Maestri added.


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Igor & Alexandra — Saint-Petersburg (Russia)
Eddy & Lilly — Bari (Italy)
Alexander & Vika — Sintra (Portugal)
Kan & Regina - Prague (Czech Rep.)
Alexey & Dayana — Koper (Slovenia)
Oleg & Marina — Sicily (Italy)
Tobias & Maria — Düsseldorf (Germany)
David & Lidia — Budapest (Hungary)
Stefan & Valeria — Bratislava (Slovakia)
Copyright © Richard & Irene


SecondWrite launches Free Evasive Malware Sandbox Service!!
We are proud to announce that SecondWrite's sandbox product is launching in general availability today! SecondWrite's sandbox is enterprise software for automated malware analysis. By employing patented binary-rewriting technologies, it can detect and analyze zero-day malware without signatures, including sophisticated evasive and anti-analysis malware undetectable by other means.
Customers can start using our cloud sandbox for free in minutes by signing up at www.secondwrite.com/sandbox-pricing. Paid versions allow a higher quota of file submissions per day, added features, training and support.
SecondWrite's sandbox enables Security Operation Centers (SOCs) and Incidence Response (IR) teams to comprehensively analyze alerts inside the security stack. A wide variety of MSSPs, network security, threat intelligence, and security operations vendors have also incorporated SecondWrite's tool into their systems to analyze files at scale.
SecondWrite's sandbox designates customer-submitted files as malicious or benign, and produces a comprehensive behavioral report for each file, listing its suspicious actions, using static and dynamic analysis.
We started SecondWrite to alleviate the inaccuracy and expense associated with today's enterprise security processes. Security professionals are frustrated by today's automated malware analysis solutions which generate a high number of false positives, often miss malware, and do not capture all the behavior of the file.
SecondWrite's innovative approach combines program analysis with sophisticated machine learning and big data to deliver high malware detection rates, low false positive rates, and a comprehensive set of analytics based on observed malicious behavior. This means clients spend less time combing through non-threats and more time focusing on high-level threats to security.
Initially funded by US federal government SBIR grants, SecondWrite is backed by Gula Tech Adventures, KBB Capital LLC, TEDCO, Madhav Sonthalia, former VP at iSight Partners, and Sudhakar Mamillapalli, a facebook engineer. Advisors include cybersecurity and business luminaries such as Ron Gula, founder of Tenable, Scott Sanders, CEO of 5-nine, Madhav Sonthalia, mentioned above, Vatsal Sonecha, SVP of business development at several leading cybersecurity companies, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, enterprise software executive, and Srinivas Mantripragada, CTO of Watson and Cloud Platform at IBM.
The result of nearly a decade of industry and university research, SecondWrite's sandbox introduces patented binary-rewriting technology that enables the detection of advanced evasive and anti-analysis malware. Evasive malware has lately emerged as a fundamental threat to existing sandbox based enterprise security solutions. It hides from detection using novel zero-day strategies such as launching an attack only on intended victim computers or on specific dates. SecondWrite's binary-rewriting technology bypasses all such techniques and exposes complete malware behavior by identifying and executing all hidden code paths in a malware.
Sign-up to use our free software at www.secondwrite.com/sandbox-pricing!
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controlled length of the River Severn at Shelton from June 2018.
together with large chub, pike and perch.
only, no bedchairs are allowed, no sleeping overnight is allowed.
Before visiting please read the SAC venue rules below.
then there is a small parking area on the right side as you enter Shelton lane.


The factional fights between President Emmerson and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga are far from being over with revelations that some ZANU PF Youth aligned to President Mnangagwa have been targets of beatings and arrest by the military and the police during the ongoing crackdown.
Posting on Twitter Former Deputy Finance Minister Terence Mukupe urged ZANU PF to be resolute and wait for President Mnangagwa to come back.
Mukupe further promised that ZANU PF will be taking a strategic move in the next 72 hours.
"I'm worried with what's going on. The citizens are blind to what's really going on." Mukupe said. "The next 72hrs are going to be crucial regarding the path we are going to take as a nation. Chokwadi chichabuda President Mnangagwa is not the issue.
Vice President Chiwenga is alleged to be leading a faction of ZANU PF strongmen mostly who were loyal to President Robert Mugabe. He was seen at a prayer rally in Hwedza last year surrounded by dethroned ZANU PF leaders like Sydney Sekeramayi and David Parirenyatwa.


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Q: How to avoid weird nesting of forms objects using react-redux-forms and custom reducer I'm attemtping to use react-redux-form to manage my forms but am having issues working out how to inject it into the store when I setup my other reducers.
My store is created as follows
import { createStore, applyMiddleware, compose } from 'redux'

import { browserHistory }   from 'react-router'
import { routerMiddleware } from 'react-router-redux'

import { makeRootReducer }  from '../reducer'

const makeStore = (initialState = {}) => {
  const middleware = [
    routerMiddleware(browserHistory)
    // other middlewares
  ]

  const store = createStore(
    makeRootReducer(),
    initialState,
    compose(
      applyMiddleware(...middleware)
    )
  )
  store.asyncReducers = {}

  return store
}

module.exports = makeStore

My root reducer is as follows
import { combineReducers } from 'redux'
import { routerReducer }   from 'react-router-redux'
import { combineForms }    from 'react-redux-form'

import { initialLoginState } from './components/forms/login'

const makeRootReducer = (asyncReducers) => {
  const customReducers = {
    // other of my own imported reducers
  }

  const forms = {
    login: initialLoginState
  }

  const allReducers = {
    ...customReducers,
    forms: combineForms(forms, 'forms'),
    routing: routerReducer,
    ...asyncReducers
  }

  return combineReducers(allReducers)
}

// mutate the store just this once.
const injectReducer = (store, { key, reducer }) => {
  store.asyncReducers[key] = reducer // eslint-disable-line no-param-reassign
  store.replaceReducer(makeRootReducer(store.asyncReducers))
}

module.exports = {
  makeRootReducer,
  injectReducer
}

and my form is like this
  <Form model='forms.login' onSubmit={login => console.debug(login)}>
    Email
    <Control.text model='.username' />
    Password
    <Control type='password' model='.password' />
    <button type="submit">Login</button>
  </Form>

When I fire up my app and inspect the state I see the forms sitting in the state as follows:

state:
  forms:
    login:
      username: ''
      password: ''
    forms:
      $form:
        focus: false
        # ... etc
      login:
        $form:
          focus: false
          # ... etc
        username: ''
        password: ''

And the form behaves as expected.
If I change allreducers remove the second 'forms' param, so it looks like this:
  const allReducers = {
    ...customReducers,
    forms: combineForms(forms),
    routing: routerReducer,
    ...asyncReducers
  }

My state looks the same

state:
  forms:
    login:
      username: ''
      password: ''
    forms:
      $form:
        focus: false
        # ... etc
      login:
        $form:
          focus: false
          # ... etc
        username: ''
        password: ''

but the form itself no longer works.
What I actually want is a state that looks like
state:
  forms:
    login:
      $form:
        focus: false
        # ... etc
      username: ''
      password: ''

without all the weird nested duplication.
Ultimately in my form Component I need to be able to access the form's errors object and I'd rather not have to dig into state.forms.forms.login.$form.errors as that just seems broken to me when I ought to be able to look in state.forms.login.$form.errors.
How ought I inject combinedForms into my combinedReducer along with the other reducers?

A: In the example you have given, state.forms.login will contain the model values.
state.forms.forms.login will contain the react-redux-form specific information about the form/field state.
This is the expected functionality of react-redux-form. Your confusion may have stemmed from using 'forms' as the model name for your combined forms.


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O Campeonato Africano de Futebol Sub-20 de 2019 foi a 21ª edição da competição organizada pela Confederação Africana de Futebol (CAF) para jogadores com até 20 anos de idade. O evento foi realizado em Níger entre os dias 2 e 17 de fevereiro.

Equipes participantes

 (país sede)

Sorteio
O sorteio da fase final do torneio foi realizado em 13 de dezembro de 2018, às 21:00 no horário local, no Centro Técnico de La Fenifoot, em Niamey.As oito equipes foram divididas em dois grupos de quatro equipes. Os anfitriões do Níger foram semeados no Grupo A e alocados para a posição A1, enquanto o Senegal vice-campeão de 2017 foi semeado no Grupo B e atribuído ao posto B1 (campeões em 2017 que a Zâmbia não qualificou). Os seis times restantes foram semeados com base em seus resultados na Copa das Nações Africanas Sub-20 de 2017 (torneio final e eliminatórias ), e atraídos para qualquer uma das três posições restantes em cada grupo.

Fase de grupos

Todas as partidas seguem o fuso horário de Níger (UTC+1)

Grupo A

Grupo B

Fase final

Semifinais

Disputa pelo terceiro lugar

Final

Premiação

2017
Desporto na Zâmbia em 2019
2019 no futebol