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The World is Not Enough
Parties, elections and political ideas across the globe from an Australian perspective
Macron will win, but can he govern?
Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Europe, France, Party matters 1 May 2017 27 January 2022
There's a week to go until the second round of the French presidential election, in which – barring some unimaginable disaster – centrist Emmanuel Macron will beat the National Front's Marine Le Pen. (Read about the first round here.) But that's still really only the half way mark. There are another two rounds after that, on 11 and 18 June.
The third and fourth rounds, of course, are not really part of the presidential election: they are when France will elect its new National Assembly, the lower house of parliament. But they are critical to the fortunes of the presidency. A president with a hostile parliament is, while not quite a powerless figurehead, certainly a much less powerful figure.
This is the peculiarity of the French system, devised by General de Gaulle and not shared by any other major democracy. (Russia has the same system, but it would be misleading to describe it as a democracy.) When there is a sympathetic parliament, which is most of the time, the president is the effective head of government, with a prime minister who acts as his lieutenant. When there isn't, things get interesting.
On one occasion, back in 1962, parliament has voted no confidence in a prime minister. The president dissolved parliament, as is his right, and his party won a majority at the ensuing election.
On another three occasions – in 1986, 1993 and 1997 – voters elected a parliament with a majority hostile to the president's party. In each case the president appointed a prime minister from the opposing party, who then became the real head of government, with the president performing a more ceremonial role, although remaining influential in defence and foreign policy.
In 2000 a constitutional amendment reduced the presidential term from seven years to five (the same as the National Assembly) in order to try to stop this from happening again. Since then, legislative elections have been held regularly just after the presidential election, and every time the president's party has won a majority.
And that may happen next month. But it will be very difficult, because Macron has no party in the conventional sense. He left the Socialist Party in 2015 and last year founded his own movement, En Marche! ("Forward!"). For it to put together from scratch a full slate of candidates for the 577 seats in the National Assembly is a mammoth task.
In fact, the En Marche! website lists only 14 candidates and a promise that the "methodical work" of a selection committee will choose the other 563 – plus a button where you can volunteer yourself. "Be a candidate in your district to engage, you too, in our democratic revolution." Media reports say that the nine-member selection committee is indeed working hard, and that 420 candidates have already been chosen, although sensitive decisions are reserved for Macron in person.
The National Assembly is elected from single-member districts, each by a two-round system. But in addition to the two front-runners, a third or even a fourth candidate can advance to the second round if their vote exceeds 12.5% of the district's enrolment. Since turnout is fairly low, that usually equates to 20% or more of the formal vote.
For the last few elections, most districts have been straight left-right contests – the Socialists and their allies versus the Republicans (formerly the UMP) and theirs. But in a multi-party environment, which France now most certainly has, there is ample scope for tactical voting and for tactical withdrawal (or non-withdrawal) of candidates.
Broadly speaking, each district reproduces the dynamic of the presidential race. Provided a centrist candidate (from En Marche! or elsewhere) can reach the second round, they should be well placed. The Socialists and the Republicans will have a much harder time than in the past – particularly the former, given the deep division in their party. And both the far right and far left are likely to win many fewer seats than their share of the vote would suggest.
Last time around the Socialists won 280 seats, with another 51 for their allies (Greens, Left Radicals and independent leftists), mostly elected due to the Socialists not running against them. The UMP had 194, plus 35 for its allies, now mostly organised into a centrist party, the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI). The remaining 17 seats were spread widely: ten for the Left Front (mostly Communists), two for the centrist Democratic Movement, two regionalists, two National Front and one independent on the far right.
As is usual with single-member districts, the relationship between votes and seats is pretty arbitrary. The Socialists and their allies won a solid majority with just 39.9% of the vote, while the Left Front needed 6.9% to win ten seats and the National Front with 13.6% could only manage two.
The French interior ministry has released figures that break down last week's presidential vote by legislative district (for the 566 districts in France and its territories; the eleven seats for expatriates are not included). According to them, Macron placed first in 230 districts, with more than a third of the vote in 21. Le Pen was first in 216, but had more than a third of the vote in 31 of those. Jean-Luc Mélenchon led in 67, with 17 over a third, and for François Fillon the numbers were 53 and 12.
Remarkably, there were only two districts where a presidential candidate polled more than 50% – Fillon both times. But there were 159 where the third placegetter had more than 20%, meaning a large number of potential three-cornered contests, or triangulaires.
So Macron's task is simple. He needs to maintain the enthusiasm from his presidential win and translate it into votes for his preferred candidates – either those he has recruited for En Marche!, or other centrists (UDI, Left Radicals and MoDem) who might sign up to a new presidential majority. As he said last week, "I will not be asking those who join me where they come from, but whether they're in agreement."
The Republicans are the only other force with the ability to get anywhere close to a majority. If their underlying support is a lot stronger than Fillon's 20% first-round result – perhaps more like the 31.7% that they and their allies got in the regional elections a year and a half ago – they might hope to be the dominant force in the new parliament.
But at this stage that looks unlikely; the Republicans' own internal projections are said to put them at more like 100 seats. And even if they do better than that, they are divided over what strategy to pursue. The centrist wing of Alain Juppé wants to co-operate with Macron, while the right wing associated with Nicolas Sarkozy has ambitions to impose its own prime minister, as it did to François Mitterand back in 1993.
The Socialists, in a state of near civil war between those who backed Macron and those who were loyal to their own nominee, Benoît Hamon, know that they will lose their majority for sure. Their best hope is to maintain a large enough contingent to deny power to the centre-right and to oblige Macron to rely on them. But that may just accelerate the split between the party's centrists and its hard left.
Out on the extremes, the strong support for Le Pen and Mélenchon is bound to lead to more seats for their parties. But the voting system will ensure that it will still be a lot less than their proportion of the vote.
Most of the seats will again be clustered in the mainstream. Exactly how they cluster will go a long way to determining the shape of Macron's presidency.
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michael r james says:
This is the peculiarity of the French system, devised by General de Gaulle and not shared by any other major democracy.
Is this really true? Except for his first two years Obama had to contend with a House of Representatives (who devise and pass budgets–now that is a peculiar system) of the other party. This is functionally equivalent to the French "cohabitation". Though IMO the American system is more bizarre because at least in the French system the majority of the people's house (National Assembly, House of Reps) gets to form the executive arm of government while in the US the executive arm is appointed by the President (from often unelected citizens, thus Trump's billionaires), devises policy yet has to get it all (mostly) approved by the hostile HoR then the Senate. In the past strong US presidents (eg. FDR, LBJ, Reagan) could manage to govern quite well but with the onset of hyper-partisanship it has all fallen over and the American system looks the most broken in the democratic world. Some constitutionalist claim this was all deliberately designed by the founding fathers!
At any rate, I think as John Keane has pointed out in his giant tome on democracy, no one has copied the American system (hmm except perhaps Monrovia? And arguably today Erdogan for Turkey but he is omitting all the other "checks and balances" of the US system).
Charles Richardson says:
1 May 2017 at 10:17 pm
Thanks Michael. You've sort of answered your own question there: the difference is that in America the executive government is all in the president's hands, which makes it quite different from a French cohabitation scenario. A president with a hostile congress can't legislate, but they can do lots of other things; a French president in the same position is much more constrained. I don't know what John Keane was thinking when he said that, but lots of other countries have copied the American system: most of Latin America, Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, etc. It can work, but I don't think its record is as good as parliamentary government. It does seem to make it easier to overthrow the constitution – I wrote a bit about this last year: https://blogs.crikey.com.au/worldisnotenough/2016/03/23/presidential-problems-in-the-americas/
I may be misquoting John Keane. I was speaking from memory and I should always be careful about that! When I get home today I'll have a look in his tome on democracy and hope I have bookmarked it … (hmm, possibly he was talking about the electoral college voting system …).
Ah, that would certainly make sense. Even those who most carefully copied the American system knew better than to imitate the absurdity of the electoral college.
The interesting thing I am reading today is that Le Pen is quietly reversing her stance on leaving the euro and quitting the EU. This is because "polls show that more than 70% of voters oppose leaving the euro. Some of Ms Le Pen's core supporters, such as pensioners, feared they would be ruined by a return to the franc and resulting devaluation and inflation."
This shows that Marine Le Pen is quite serious about winning (her father was all about posturing). Again I don't think it will work because she is really just conceding that Macron is correct on the same issue.
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4 Tips to Increase Your Bookings on Airbnb
Turning your home into a bed and breakfast is a tougher side gig than you might think.
By Carly Okyle • Mar 3, 2016 Originally published Mar 3, 2016
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The sharing economy creates opportunities for people to make money on the side as a part-time driver or hotelier. It's no wonder then that nearly 38 percent of Airbnb hosts describe themselves as self-employed.
While Airbnb itself estimates that its revenue for 2015 hit $900 million, 75 percent of hosts make $10,000 or less per year from their rentals, according to a joint report by Everbooked and LearnAirbnb. To make enough money to justify the time investment, hosts on the Airbnb platform will need to up their game.
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1. Get reviews. The more, the better.
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2. Privacy is paramount.
Of all of the lodgings listed, 97 percent are for an entire house or a private room. While guests are looking to save money by avoiding hotels, they're not willing to give up their personal space.
3. Keep it short.
The average guest will stay an estimated four nights at an Airbnb location, and almost all -- 99 percent -- will stay for less than a month. Knowing this, don't get discouraged by single-night or two-night bookings. The high turnover is probably helpful.
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4. Know your price point.
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Carleton Undergrad Student Criminal Blogs Compilation 2019
Students in my undergraduate law and legal studies criminal law class were invited this term to author blog posts. Here is a compilation of excerpts from their best work this term.
As an aside, thank you, Carleton students, for many great years! Your energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm are an inspiration. As I move back into the legal profession and away from my full time faculty role, I look forward to watching you rise as colleagues and professionals in many fields relating to criminal law.
Student Essay Excerpts:
"All murders committed during a forcible confinement be treated as first-degree murder pursuant to section.231(5)(e) of the Criminal Code. This provision thus covers a wide range of scenarios in which offenders may have varying degrees of moral blameworthiness,51 and yet shoehorns them all into one severe sentence. This same reasoning toppled s.95(1) to a s.12 Charter violation in R v. Nur, [2015] 1 SCR 773, and as such, so too must this provision fail."
-Delany Gilmore
"Anti-stalking legislation should not require subjective fear on the part of the victim for culpability of the accused. There is no consensus on an objective standard of fear within the psychology community which is arguably the community best equipped to define fear, identify the presence of fear and clarify if the emotional response of fear is predictable and could be successfully subjected to an objective test. Rather it seems as though the bench has sought to create a standard for which there is no objective scientific support and as a result, base findings of fault on actus reus which cannot reasonably or objectively be measured. "
-Jennifer Draper
"The infanticide provision should be reformed. Fear or anxiety over social disapproval, or financial stress, is not an excuse for murder, it is a reflection of the persistent continuation of the patronization of women. Stereotypes about women still exist and women's bodies are unjustly over policed. By narrowing the scope of the provision to focus on women that suffer from postpartum psychosis or another medically recognized severe dissociation from reality, we can then emphasize how our feminist efforts to create avenues to help women in need, are there for all women to utilize and benefit from. In essence, I believe that a discussion on the intersectional issues of aiding women in crisis must be had. We must consider that through robust social programming, we can work to mitigate the stress of motherhood and protect both mothers and their children. "
- Danica Nardi-Lamadeleine
"When an individual with a mental illness commits a crime but is not found NCRMD due to the severity of their illness, they are obligated to go through the criminal justice system. However, due to the increasing number of individuals with less serious illnesses such as depression, anxiety, double personality disorder, the psychiatric facilities are exceeding their capacity in the penitentiary system. Additionally, these people often encounter segregation which aggravates the situation and their mental state. Therefore, they are not receiving the adequate care to be reintegrated into society at the end of their sentence, which results in the cycle of recidivism."
- Dagny Connolly
"Scientific research on mental disturbance related to childbirth widely disproves "that all women who murder their infants are suffering from serious mental disorder."15 The image of a vulnerable mother frames the accused as a "victim" deserving of increased leniency over other criminals. Infanticide acts as a partial defence to murder, even in circumstances where the mens rea for murder was established. Current legislation needs reform to reflect the value a human life holds; infanticide law should not allow mothers to get away with murder."
-Olivia Kabelin
"In light of contemporary scientific knowledge on the affects of postpartum depression in both females and males, that the determination of fault under the law of homicide, specifically infanticide, as described in section 233 of the Criminal Code, be reformed.1 This reform is to include both men and women to the current gender-specific provision, an operationalized definition of a mental disturbance that is defined as a mens rea element, and a requisite threshold that is casually connected to both the birth and the killing."
-Taylor Geyer
"If R v Latimer, [2001] 1 SCR 3 was revisited today, new consideration should be given to cognitive distortions in light of what we now know about how, even if legally and practically, a person has options, a parent may have given up and may genuinely believe killing their child is the only option. The notion of necessity distorts the mind, and therefore the fault under the law of homicide should be reformed to incorporate understanding of this cognitive distortion."
-Fatma Alobeid
"Treating homicide of peace officers as first degree murder under Section 231 (4) of the Criminal Code of Canada creates bias and distrust within our society. Police officers are a very important aspect in society and their lives should be protected, however, the provision does not do this. It in turn states that lives of civilians are of less degree of importance than agents of the state."
-Tashera Joseph Mofford
"law enforcement members should not be protected by special laws because of their position in society. For these reasons, it is in Canadians' best interest to change the determination of fault for first-degree murder."
-Brina Underwood
"In reality, the crime of infanticide is usually committed because of a variety of contextual factors, like maternal inadequacy, pre-existing mental illness, prior physical and sexual abuse, mercy killings, and substance abuse.11 These factors are common and may be experienced by anyone in a caretaking position. The image of the family unit is always changing, and Canadian law must change in response. The infanticide provision was created to give a less harsh sentence to new mothers,12 but I believe this must extend to anyone in a caretaking position that may experience the same contextual factors listed above that a biological new mother may face."
-Kelsey Drummond
"The Criminal Code has other provisions that are more effective in addressing a mother who murders her newborn baby. For example, s. 229 of the Criminal Code defines culpable homicide by using general terms.7 This provision does not specify the relationship between the victim and the offender, or the sex of the offender, so it can be more broadly applied to all individuals. This causes the purpose of the infanticide provision to be redundant since there are broader provisions and defences that already deal with a mother murdering her child."
-Taylor Bogle
"It is evident that reform is needed as infanticide is rooted in "unsound and outmoded notions of mental disturbance, reflects an anachronistic view of women, and is arbitrarily restrictive".24 Justice is alleged to be blind however, women are being granted dispensation which ignores the experiences of nonbirth parents."
-Kayla Nardelli
"The mens rea of Canada's infanticide law must be reformed as the current provision provides dangerous leniency, makes unfounded claims that lack modern medical evidence and is sexist in nature."
-Maisie Sturrock
"The blameworthiness that is proportionate to a conviction of murder requires a subjective knowledge of the likelihood of death. For this reason, the stigma applied to such a crime should not be applied in cases where death is accidental."
-Thomas Shaw
"Corporate wrongdoing resulting in death be dealt with under the first-degree murder provision irrespective of the planned and deliberate requirements and this crime should be considered an absolute liability offence to exclude the 'due diligence' defence."
-Calysta Chin
"I do not dispute the fact that the crime of killing a police officer is of utmost severity. However, I would argue that the current provision of said crime outlined in s. 231(4) of the Criminal Code of Canada30 is unjust and requires amendment. The rigidity of s. 231(4) and the disregard for the proof of subjective mens rea can cause offenders to be treated unjustly due to the lack of consideration for mitigating factor."
-Ajitha Nair
"The right to be treated equally and without discrimination should extend to the amount of value placed on individual lives. The enactment of this law implies that certain persons, such as peace officers, have higher value, and therefore any acts which result in the death of these persons are to be punished more severely. In a society wherein the primary duty of the government is to the citizens, it is unconstitutional that this law exists."
-Hannah Dever
" The CCC, S.231(2) declares, "Murder is first degree when it is planned and deliberate".For murder to be planned and deliberate, the actus reus element must be accompanied by the mens rea or "guilty mind". If both these elements are present when a murder has occurred, a charge of first degree murder should be actively enforced. When improving S.231(4) of the CCC, the determination of fault should be reformed so that mens rea is present at all times. This change will eliminate the present inconsistency between S.231(2) and S.231(4) of the CCC, where a first degree murder charge is resultant only if the homicide is planned and deliberate."
-Roshauna Sahadeo
"Under Section 235(1), all murder is punishable by a minimum of life imprisonment.24 The only distinction is made in Section 745(a) and (c) where first degree murder convictions carry a minimum of twenty-five years of parole ineligibility while second degree carry a ten year minimum.25 Rigid sentencing provisions make it difficult to impose fit sentences for crimes with varying facts."
-Andrew Hall


How I Am Organised For #OOTD. 2018.10.
#OOTD stands for Outfit of the Day.
A few months ago I did something quite out of the ordinary for me.
I joined in the social media sharing of #OOTD.
Via Instagram (@denysewhelan) . I have a private account as I was hacked in 2017 so please request to follow me. I follow back!
I wrote a little about my Daring To Do This Daily here and Jan Wild had me guest post here too. If you are interested in knowing more of the WHY I am doing this #OOTD then reading those will catch you up.
Each day I consider what I may be doing that day and plan my outfit accordingly. I am no longer working nor needing to attend any professional meetings or teach so my wardrobe ranges from beach casual to smart casual.
After breakfast and a slow read of the newspaper it is usually around 10 a.m. (the retired life and recovering from cancer surgeries affords me these luxuries) and I get dressed. It depends on the day and the weather what I will wear and where I am off to. I have made myself leave the house each day at least for a coffee. This has made a big difference to my emotional health and independence and has been hand-in- hand with the #OOTD.
Once I have my outfit selected and I am dressed I choose accessories which I believe go well with the outfit, I apply some tinted sunscreen and some lip gloss to my bottom lip as my mouth is still very shrunken due to cancer surgery. I do my hair, put on my multi-focals and…..
Ask my IG photographer where he wants to take the pics today.
It is most often outside and using the square option on my iphone. If it is inside it is only because outside conditions are not great. I used to have my husband take a range of shots but since 1 January I am only posting one image each day and it is good if he can get me 'all in' and then I can edit.
Editing? What do I mean?
The editing is so my image fits within an app I used to then apply a border and the number of the day's outfit: e.g. 26/365 and date. I do this so I can remember which #OOTD I wore and when. Memory is not as good as it was.
You Say You Are Organised. How?
Pants and Tops which can mix and match on cooler days.
From right to left, each outfit worn so I do not choose from them until I re-group clothes.
Pants and Tops which are more casual for warm or cool days.
Accessories Can Be Hard To Find So….
We are renting this house so I am using drawers and containers within my bedside table for my accessories. It is working well. I probably would like them on display one day but for now this is good and it is next to the mirrored wardrobe where I can check how things look with each outfit.
Cutlery Tray and little dishes for bracelets.
Fishing Tackle Box with compartments removed as needed.
Here are a few outfits from recent weeks.
There you have it. How I do #OOTD.
I will be adding this post to Styling You's Facebook Group #EveryDayStyle and to Carly Findlay's Facebook Group called #ShopYourWardrobe.
On Friday 9 February I linked up here with Kimba Likes.
Do you post an outfit of the day?
Linking this week on Tuesdays with Kylie here for I Blog On Tuesdays and with Leanne here for Lovin' Life Linky.
Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge and celebrate why each 17th October (today!) is a special date for me and my husband. We met that on that day in 1970 and always think of it as "our special anniversary". I wrote about it in depth here about how we met. Yesterday I wrote a letter to me at 20. The same age I am in the top pic. Happy 47 years to me and B. 1970 photos of us both.
In the area where we live in New South Wales, the Central Coast, about 1 hours drive from Sydney's northern suburbs, it has been virtually rain-free for the past 4 months. The gardens are noticing it as we have had to take care to only use the hose to sprinkle water every second day. The grass out the front has lost most of its green. Luckily we are on town water so no problems with water in the house and so on. Many people who live on beautiful acreage up here though have empty tanks and the water carriers can barely keep up with the business of water supply.
So, yesterday and last night looked promising for some wet stuff from the sky and it delivered. Only 4 mm but enough to make the flowers (and us!) happy.
I shot some pics of this via my iphone and had great fun looking at all those droplets.
How is the water situation where you are?
Do you have any special anniversaries like ours?
Joining with Kylie for I Blog on Tuesdays here and with Leanne here for Lovin' Life Linky on Thursdays.
NEWS: Share Your Snaps! Part of 2018 Link-Up. #LifeThisWeek 2018. 2017.114.
In the past few years I have really enjoyed linking up to Photo link ups.
This year, however, saw most of those I linked up with regularly no longer continue for various reasons. Blogging is like that as we all know. I too have changed the frequency of my blog posts in 2017 from almost every day to twice a week. For the chance to see more blogs and to visit them too, I link up to a number of people's regular link-ups.
Mondays: mine! Alicia's here on One Mother Hen called Open Slather and here with Kell on her blog All Mum Said for Mummy Mondays.
Thursdays: Leanne's at Deep Fried Fruit here for Lovin' Life.
That is it! I no longer link to US-based or predominantly US blogs as there is not a lot of connection back to the this blog.
But, here's the thing. I miss my chance to link up photos. I know some link-ups are called Wordless for the fact that they are all photo-based and that's cool. However, I could rarely add mine without some sort of explanation.
Each 5th Week on my Monday Life This Week Link-Up will be titled Share Your Snaps.
Snaps of course being an old-fashioned word for photos!
If you have some photographs to share, then that's your chance OR continue posting that week what ever you planned . As you know Life This Week is prompt-optional!
I chose each week ending in a 5 or a 0 so I could remember….
So, I hope that if you are a blogger who also likes to share your snaps, then the place to do that in link-up form will be every 5th week in the Life This Week Link Up held here in 2018.
The first week for Share Your Snaps will be Monday 29 January 2018.
I would love to know what you all think of this idea. Happy to hear your suggestions too!
On Tuesdays I link here with Kylie for I Blog on Tuesdays.
On Thursdays I link here with Leanne for Lovin' Life.


US mayors have pledged to meet the US goals set in the Paris climate agreement, despite President Donald Trump's pledge to pull out.
In the Chicago Climate Charter, mayors have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the targets set by the Paris agreement, as well as promote investment in clean energy, public transit, and other climate-friendly initiatives.
The initiative is led by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and supported by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and former President Barack Obama.
US mayors are stepping up on the two-year anniversary of the Paris climate agreement, despite President Trump's vow to pull the US out.
More than 50 mayors from across the US and Canada participated in the North American Climate Summit in Chicago earlier this month, signing an official agreement — the Chicago Climate Charter — in which they pledged to meet the emissions-reduction goals set out by the Paris agreement.
The agreement, which former President Barack Obama signed exactly two years ago, pushed member nations to curb greenhouse gas emissions, like carbon dioxide and methane, to keep the global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Trump has claimed the agreement would harm US businesses and pledged to pull the US out — a process that will take several years. If the US does remove itself, it will be the only country in the world not signed on. Trump has left the door open to "renegotiate and rejoin" the agreement, though world leaders have said that is not an option.
The Chicago Climate Charter, led by Chicago's mayor Rahm Emmanuel, outlined concrete plans that municipal governments will take to meet the goals of the Paris agreement.
The charter lays out plans for all signatory cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the targets set out by the Paris agreement, as well as a mechanism for cities to track and report their progress.
Since the majority of the US population lives in cities, the mayors' agreement recognizes that municipal governments can lead on the issue by promoting clean energy, investing in public transit, and working to reduce the carbon footprint of existing infrastructure.
The charter also outlines a process for mayors to develop policies and local laws that empower cities to take greater action on climate change. The document also pledges to include voices that have generally been left out of the climate change conversation, including people with disabilities and marginalized communities.
"The Chicago Climate Charter represents tens of million residents who are committed to confronting climate change head-on," Emmanuel said in a press release. "Even as Washington fails to act, cities have the power and will to take decisive action to protect our planet and the health and safety of our residents."
Obama briefly spoke at the event in support of the mayors' initiative. And though he didn't mention Trump by name, his intent was clear.
"Obviously, we're in an unusual time when the United States is now the only nation on Earth that does not belong to the Paris Agreement," Obama said at the event, per The Chicago Tribune. "And that's a difficult position to defend. But the good news is that the Paris Agreement was never going to solve climate crisis on its own."
The Chicago Climate Charter builds on a pledge that former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg made last year — cities and businesses will lead on climate change, he said, with or without the federal government's support.
The Global Covenant of Mayors,a group chaired by Bloomberg, was in part responsible for organizing the Chicago event.
Bloomberg is in Paris this week attending French President Emmanuel Macron's One Planet Summit, a gathering of 50 world leaders and corporate executives to discuss solutions to the climate change problem.
Trump was not invited to the summit.


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package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;
import junit.framework.TestCase;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.Block;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.CorruptReplicasMap;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.DatanodeDescriptor;

/**
 * This test makes sure that
 *   CorruptReplicasMap::numBlocksWithCorruptReplicas and
 *   CorruptReplicasMap::getCorruptReplicaBlockIds
 *   return the correct values
 */
public class TestCorruptReplicaInfo extends TestCase {

  private static final Log LOG =
                           LogFactory.getLog(TestCorruptReplicaInfo.class);

  private Map<Long, Block> block_map =
    new HashMap<Long, Block>();

  // Allow easy block creation by block id
  // Return existing block if one with same block id already exists
  private Block getBlock(Long block_id) {
    if (!block_map.containsKey(block_id)) {
      block_map.put(block_id, new Block(block_id,0,0));
    }

    return block_map.get(block_id);
  }

  private Block getBlock(int block_id) {
    return getBlock((long)block_id);
  }

  public void testCorruptReplicaInfo() throws IOException,
                                       InterruptedException {

      CorruptReplicasMap crm = new CorruptReplicasMap();

      // Make sure initial values are returned correctly
      assertEquals("Number of corrupt blocks must initially be 0", 0, crm.size());
      assertNull("Param n cannot be less than 0", crm.getCorruptReplicaBlockIds(-1, null));
      assertNull("Param n cannot be greater than 100", crm.getCorruptReplicaBlockIds(101, null));
      long[] l = crm.getCorruptReplicaBlockIds(0, null);
      assertNotNull("n = 0 must return non-null", l);
      assertEquals("n = 0 must return an empty list", 0, l.length);

      // create a list of block_ids. A list is used to allow easy validation of the
      // output of getCorruptReplicaBlockIds
      int NUM_BLOCK_IDS = 140;
      List<Long> block_ids = new LinkedList<Long>();
      for (int i=0;i<NUM_BLOCK_IDS;i++) {
        block_ids.add((long)i);
      }

      DatanodeDescriptor dn1 = new DatanodeDescriptor();
      DatanodeDescriptor dn2 = new DatanodeDescriptor();
      DatanodeDescriptor dn3 = new DatanodeDescriptor();

      crm.addToCorruptReplicasMap(getBlock(0), dn1);
      assertEquals("Number of corrupt blocks not returning correctly",
                   1, crm.size());
      crm.addToCorruptReplicasMap(getBlock(1), dn1);
      assertEquals("Number of corrupt blocks not returning correctly",
                   2, crm.size());

      crm.addToCorruptReplicasMap(getBlock(1), dn2);
      assertEquals("Number of corrupt blocks not returning correctly",
                   2, crm.size());

      crm.removeFromCorruptReplicasMap(getBlock(1));
      assertEquals("Number of corrupt blocks not returning correctly",
                   1, crm.size());

      crm.removeFromCorruptReplicasMap(getBlock(0));
      assertEquals("Number of corrupt blocks not returning correctly",
                   0, crm.size());

      for (Long block_id: block_ids) {
        crm.addToCorruptReplicasMap(getBlock(block_id), dn1);
      }

      assertEquals("Number of corrupt blocks not returning correctly",
                   NUM_BLOCK_IDS, crm.size());

      assertTrue("First five block ids not returned correctly ",
                Arrays.equals(new long[]{0,1,2,3,4},
                              crm.getCorruptReplicaBlockIds(5, null)));

      LOG.info(crm.getCorruptReplicaBlockIds(10, 7L));
      LOG.info(block_ids.subList(7, 18));

      assertTrue("10 blocks after 7 not returned correctly ",
                Arrays.equals(new long[]{8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17},
                              crm.getCorruptReplicaBlockIds(10, 7L)));

  }
}

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David Harbour Confirms Relationship with Lily Allen by Posting First Instagram Pic Together
When it comes to celebrity couples, in our eyes, the odder the better. When two worlds collide and give us a brand new romance, it's truly a fantastic feeling. But the latest offbeat couple who have gone official might be the cutest yet.
Ever since Stranger Things 3 finished, the world has developed an unlikely crush on Chief Hopper - played by actor David Harbour. And another person who can't resist his charms? Strangely enough, it's British pop star Lily Allen. After weeks of speculation, the two have confirmed their relationship, and the internet is here for it.
Lily Allen comes from a showbiz family.
Born in 1985, her dad is a famous British actor, Keith Allen. She left school at fifteen with one dream in mind - to make music.
She first rose to fame on social media platform MySpace.
Allen hosted her own music gaining a huge online following. This led to a record deal, and eventual fame.
She's known for something else, too.
Allen has a very outspoken online presence and is not afraid to share a controversial opinion online.
Allen has had a few fairly public relationships.
In 2011, she married long-term partner Sam Cooper in Gloucestershire, England. She even changed her name! The pair didn't last, though, and announced their divorce in 2018.
Cooper and Allen also share two kids.
Ethel Mary was born in 2011, and Marnie Rose in 2013. The two now happily co-parent their daughters.
Born in 1975, David Harbour is an American actor.
He's been working in the biz since 1999, but gained recognition for one role in particular.
Harbour played beloved Chief Hopper in Stranger Things.
And although Hopper's current fate is up in the air, he'll always be known for this role.
Until recently, Harbour was taken.
Since January of 2018, he'd been dating singer-songwriter Alison Sudol.
But things didn't last here, either.
The pair reportedly split during the summer of 2019, with their last public appearance being at the Hellboy premiere in April.
But it seems new love was on the horizon.
Because in August of 2019, Harbour was spotted out and about with another famous face - Lily Allen. The two attended a performance in London's West End, ate dinner, and reportedly went home in the same taxi.
That same month, the pair attended a boxing match together.
@DavidKHarbour When on earth did this happen!? 🤔 I'm baffled! Hahaaa 🤣 #LilyAllen Thought I knew all the gossip! https://t.co/DxDndVPo1M
— EmmaGee (@EmmaGee)1567283594.0
They were spotted in the crowd by an eagle-eyed fan - who expressed surprise at the unlikely coupling.
Then things got even more intimate.
When Harbour hosted Saturday Night Live, Allen took to Instagram to show off her new boo's muscly arms.
Then a PDA was captured.
In October, the new pair strolled through New York City and ate brunch, all while looking very cuddly.
Things seemed to be heating up.
Earlier this month, the pair were spotted canoodling at the New York Knicks vs. New Orleans Pelicans game. They were being very affectionate and uber cute.
And now it seems the pair have taken things to the next level.
They're Instagram official! Harbour posted this cute pic of the pair, confirming their relationship once and for all. Want more celebrity couples? Keep scrolling for twenty-five you have definitely forgotten about.


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Healthcare // Clinical Information Systems
Ken Terry
MedAllies Goes National With Health Data Direct Messaging
Direct secure messaging service lets healthcare providers exchange information about patients, regardless of what EHR software sends the message.
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MedAllies, a provider of Direct secure messaging services and one of the founders of the Direct Project, has received accreditation from DirectTrust/EHNAC and is now a national health information services provider (HISP), according to company CEO John Blair III, MD.
The only state in which MedAllies does not provide Direct services, ironically, is New York, where it's based. That's because the New York eHealth Collaborative, which operates the statewide health information exchange, has purchased MedAllies' technology platform and is using it to form its own Direct network, Blair told InformationWeek Healthcare.
MedAllies's claim to be a national HISP, like that of e-prescribing connectivity firm Surescripts, rests on its affiliations with electronic health record (EHR) vendors. According to Blair, MedAllies is Allscripts's exclusive HISP and also provides non-exclusive Direct services to Epic, Meditech, NextGen, GE, and Siemens.
"All of those vendors connect to our network," Blair explained. "So sites that choose our network on those vendor products run on our network. Since those EHR vendors are nationwide, we're de facto nationwide."
[Learn what's ahead for health IT. See 3 Trends Are Reshaping Healthcare IT.]
The other component enabling the formation of nationwide Direct networks is DirectTrust/EHNAC accreditation, which enables HISPs to exchange messages without having to make separate trust and security agreements with each other. Last fall, DirectTrust president and CEO David Kibbe predicted that by the end of 2013 vendors comprising 80% of the EHR market would be aboard. Blair said that five major EHR companies are in the process of having their own HISPs accredited. Half a dozen other HISPs that work with, but are not owned by, the EHR firms already have accreditation, he said.
What this means is that physicians and other providers that use different EHRs will be able to send and receive Direct messages between their systems. That will enable them to meet an important criterion of Meaningful Use Stage 2, which began Jan. 1. The government EHR incentive program requires them to exchange clinical summaries with other providers at transitions of care, such as hospital discharges and referrals to specialists.
To attest to Meaningful Use, providers must use EHR technology that has been certified as conforming to the 2014 edition of the government's certification standards. These standards include the ability to exchange Direct messages. As a result of that mandate, Blair noted, the majority of physicians will soon have Direct-capable EHRs. It will take hospitals a couple of years to switch over, but he expects at least half of them to be Direct-capable this year.
All of this activity will greatly accelerate Direct adoption. MedAllies anticipates it will bring up 100,000 providers on its network this year, Blair said, adding that Direct usage will increase as the technology achieves critical mass. "I think you'll see the industry moving to this over the next 24 months. And as the penetration increases, there will be more usage."
Meanwhile, the standards for searching HISP directories for Direct providers' addresses are still being worked out. The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) has developed a specification called HPD Plus for this purpose, Blair said, and that should be finalized by spring. But there's still disagreement among experts about whether EHRs themselves should search the directories or whether EHR users should do that through their own HISPs.
In either case, Blair said, the Direct addresses of the intended recipients of Direct messages must be identified within subseconds so that physicians can send those messages within their EHR workflow. In fact, the reason why Direct is desirable to doctors is that they don't have to leave their workflow to exchange messages with other physicians or hospitals, he said.
In contrast, the secure clinical messaging that has long been available to members of health information exchanges (HIEs) requires users to switch out of their EHR and go to a web portal to send or pick messages. In MedAllies's work in helping 1,500 doctors in the Hudson Valley, N.Y., implement EHRs, "we were never able to get more than 18% of the doctors in the community to use clinical messaging," he said, because it wasn't part of their daily workflow.
In the Direct pilots that MedAllies has been involved in, Blair said, physicians have been much more willing to use clinical messaging because they can see their messages and respond to them as they're moving around their offices and seeing patients. That means they can respond to urgent requests as they emerge and can deal with all their messages before the end of the work day.
Direct only allows physicians to push messages to one another or to other providers. HIEs, in contrast, enable them to search for medical information on a patient. But in the experience of MedAllies, which has provided the infrastructure for an HIE for 14 years, the biggest users of the exchange are ER doctors and on-call doctors who have no information on certain patients.
While HIEs are needed for some purposes, Blair noted that HISP services are much less expensive than HIE membership fees. Typically, he said, HISPs charge $5 to $20 per provider per month or a similar amount in transaction fees.
With the emergence of a national Direct network, he added, no HISP has any greater reach than any other HISP, because they're all connected to the national network. The real distinguishing feature of an HISP will be the service it provides, including "the efficiency of onboarding providers, and its ability to get adoption and usage across communities. That's MedAllies' strength."
Ken Terry is a freelance healthcare writer, specializing in health IT. A former technology editor of Medical Economics Magazine, he is also the author of the book Rx For Healthcare Reform.
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Ken Terry,
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1/17/2014 | 9:58:17 AM
Re: Portable health data for vacation?
If Blair is correct, the use of Direct will be widespread within two years. Sometime this year, it's likely that HISPs will have the capability to search directories of other HISPs anywhere in the country. And as HISPs get accredited, they should all be able to communicate with each other. So this scenario will probably become reality by 2015.
David F. Carr,
User Rank: Author
Portable health data for vacation?
One of the scenarios where the national exchange of health data is particularly useful would be where you go on vacation to the other side of the country and need to visit a hospital or physican and would like your health data to follow you.
How soon will this become commonplace?


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By Barron YoungSmith
Missouri is "a relentlessly average state"--according to University of Missouri professor David Robertson--with an economy that mimics the national economy, and demographics similar to the nation as a whole. "Missouri is a natural laboratory" of American politics, Robertson says--if it's happening there, there's a good bet it's happening countrywide. The primaries also echo national trends: Obama and Clinton are tied, pitting the Democratic establishment against the party's "mavericks" and Obama's strong local organization (which benefits from volunteers out of nearby Illinois). McCain has a solid lead over Romney and Huckabee, who are splitting the conservative vote.
Delegates: Democrats, 88; Republicans, 58.
Format: Proportional, open primary for Democrats. Winner-take-all, open primary for Republicans.
Recent Polls: The most recent polls were taken February 1-3, showing Obama leading Clinton 47-42 with 12 percent undecided, and McCain leading Huckabee and Romney 35-27-24.
Democratic In-State Fundraising: Barack Obama $790,822; Hillary Clinton $738,507.
Republican In-State Fundraising: Mitt Romney $842,240; John McCain $239,690; Ron Paul $173,616; Mike Huckabee $124,269.
Endorsements: Clinton has the support of the Democratic establishment, including figures like Dick Gephardt, whose influential aide Joyce Aboussie is a solid Clinton backer. Obama is riding on support from political figures "who have succeeded despite the party;" insurgent politicians like Senator Claire McCaskill--who ousted incumbent Democratic Governor Bob Holden in a 2004 primary--are taping ads for Obama, lending him much-needed legitimacy. The St. Louis papers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the St. Louis American (an important African-American weekly) endorsed Obama, underscoring the recent national shift of blacks to Obama. The Kansas City establishment, including the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, is backing Clinton.
Demographics: St. Louis, in the east, is a heavily unionized industrial city with a large African-American population now sympathetic to Obama. Kansas City, in the west, is America's "easternmost Western town," with attendant cattle-oriented history. The north mimics rural Iowa, while the rapidly-growing exurbs in the southwest and center of the state are an important source of votes for both parties. According to University of Missouri professor Terry Jones, the state's Democratic electorate is based in the St. Louis area (split between African-American voters to the north, and suburban whites--who largely support Clinton--to the south, west, and in nearby St. Charles county); in the Kansas City area, where the establishment backs Clinton; and in Boone county, where large numbers of university students may turn out for Obama. One trend to watch is the movement of Democratic men in the suburbs and rural areas towards Obama. Missouri has an open primary, so the Democratic race could be influenced if McCain peels off independent votes from Obama.
The conservative southwest is a rapidly growing Republican stronghold with many evangelical families, as are exurban communities like St. Charles County, across the river from St. Louis--areas that should be a bonanza for Huckabee even as Romney struggles to gain the conservative vote.
Get a rundown of other states at play at TNR's Super Tuesday Primer, updated with new states every day leading up to February 5.


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Q: Problem in creating HyperlinkOrPicture columns in SharePoint using the Graph API I am building an application consisting of Azure functions, working with the Graph API. A part of the code is creating columns in a SharePoint document library, just like described in the sample here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/list-post-columns?view=graph-rest-1.0
It works completely fine if I am creating text, datetime, boolean or number types of columns, but when I try to create a HyperlinkOrPicture column, I get the following error:
Code: invalidRequest
Message: Invalid request
Inner error:
AdditionalData:
date: 2022-05-10T12:37:54
request-id: xxx
client-request-id: xxx
ClientRequestId: xxx
Here is a sample of the code I am using:
                ColumnDefinition clLink = new ColumnDefinition
                {
                    Name = "testLink",
                    DisplayName = "testLink",
                    HyperlinkOrPicture = new HyperlinkOrPictureColumn { IsPicture = false }
                };

                if (columns.Any(cl => String.Compare(cl.Name, clLink.Name, true) == 0) == false)
                {
                    await graphClient.Sites[_siteID].Lists[_listID].Columns
                        .Request()
                        .AddAsync(clLink);
                }

The Graph package I am using has the version 4.27.0.
What am I doing incorrectly? Any help would be appreciated.


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Hong Kong government defends gay marriage ban in court
Despite growing public support for gay marriage, campaigners have made little headway against staunch opposition from Hong Kong's successive pro-Beijing governments and religious conservatives. PHOTO: AFP
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HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong's government is defending the city's ban on same-sex unions at a landmark court challenge days after neighbouring Taiwan legalised gay marriage in an unprecedented first for Asia.
Despite growing public support for gay marriage in the international financial hub, campaigners have made little headway against staunch opposition from the city's successive pro-Beijing governments and religious conservatives.
A Hong Kong woman, known only as MK, is suing the government for denying her right to enter into a civil partnership with her female partner, arguing the ban is unconstitutional.
The case is currently being heard by the Court of First Instance.
Defending the current ban, government lawyer Stewart Wong told the court on Wednesday (May 29) that marriage would be "diluted and diminished" and "no longer special" if that right was granted to same-sex couples.
"Not all differences in treatment are unlawful. You are not supposed to treat unequal cases alike," Wong said, adding that Hong Kong's definition of marriage was already defined by law and "cannot be trumped".
He also argued against same-sex civil unions.
"To recognise an alternative form of same-sex relationships which we say is tantamount to a (marriage) is to undermine the traditional institution of marriage and the family constituted by such a marriage," Wong said.
The Hong Kong government's view stands in stark contrast to nearby Taiwan where lawmakers made history approving Asia's first gay marriage law earlier this month, despite a conservative backlash.
Taiwan legalises same-sex marriage in first for Asia
Two gay men challenge Hong Kong ban on same-sex marriage
In Hong Kong, a property heiress becomes accidental LGBT champion
There were jubilant scenes in Taipei as the first same-sex couples were wed with government officials saying they hoped the move would also draw more international business.
A poll last year by Hong Kong University found public support for gay marriage had risen to 50 per cent, a 12 per cent increase in four years.
City authorities last week belatedly approved a Cathay Pacific advert featuring two men holding hands, after its reported ban sparked an outcry.
But the city's government remains unmoved.
In a recent radio interview, even the head of Hong Kong's equality watchdog said it was "impractical" and a "waste of resources" to push for marriage equality, Hong Kong Free Press reported.
On Tuesday, MK's lawyer Gladys Li argued that it is "now or never" for Hong Kong's LGBT couples to secure civil partnership and marriage rights.
Li likened marriage to a "private members' club" when limited only to heterosexual couples.
Hong Kong does not recognise same-sex marriage or civil unions and only decriminalised homosexuality in 1991.
But a British lesbian won the right to live and work in Hong Kong with her partner in a landmark ruling last year hailed by rights groups.
A separate case has been lodged by two Hong Kong men directly challenging the same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional.
And a transgender pastor from a church that welcomes gay congregants has sought permission to launch his own legal challenge, arguing his inability to perform same-sex ceremonies breaches his community's religious freedoms.
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Goldman Sachs Masters the Obvious with Microsoft Rant
It's one of those head-slapping moments. Some guru from Goldman Sachs comes out and makes a bunch of suggestions about how Microsoft should run its business, and we at RCPU sit here and slap our heads saying, "Why didn't we think of that?" Except we did...and we weren't the only ones.
Goldman downgraded Microsoft's stock at some point over the weekend, and, in doing so, a Goldman analyst went off on a rant about what Microsoft needs to do to get itself out of the decade-long stock-price slump it's in. As Todd Bishop's always excellent blog reports, Goldman had three suggestions for Redmond. And we quote, from the Goldman report as quoted on Bishop's blog:
"(1) A materially increased dividend beyond the recent 23% increase, moving Microsoft into the top 20 dividend-paying companies in the S&P 500 in terms of dividend yield. We believe this would open the door to a larger investor base and keep the company more diligent from a spending perspective. (2) A coherent consumer strategy that could involve paring back investments and/or divesting more peripheral assets such as gaming. (3) Market leadership in Cloud. Microsoft has a strong portfolio of enterprise data center assets and could become a leader in Cloud deployments, but the competitive environment remains highly in flux, with Microsoft still not a clear 'winner,' in our view."
We'll toss out the first suggestion as being sensible enough but a little too insider-Wall Street for our purposes. It's the last two that have caused the self-inflicted red marks on our collective RCPU forehead. Basically, No. 2 is talking about Microsoft focusing on core products and either spinning off or paring down its flailing consumer businesses, including the money-losing entertainment division.
What a radical concept! We've only been banging on about that topic here in this newsletter for, oh, four years or so. If you've read RCPU at all over the years, you've noted our warnings to Microsoft that that the company should stop trying to be cool, stop trying to be everything to everybody and start honing in again on operating systems, servers and other long-time moneymakers as well as on cloud technologies (more on that in a minute).
To be fair, Microsoft has taken that tack to some extent—Windows 7 and SharePoint are good examples of enterprise technologies that are both useful and successful (or, at least, Windows 7 will be successful given time). But Redmond remains entrenched in trying to be an entertainment titan, a mobile developer and possibly still some sort of advertising agency. And all of that stuff is either a brain drag or a financial drag on the company -- or both. Microsoft should spin off, wind down or just ditch a lot of its consumer-focused efforts. But haven't we all known this for a while? And by "we," we mean most industry observers, not just RCPU? For heaven's sake, how long has Mini-Microsoft been around, anyway?
The mobile space, in particular, has been tricky for Microsoft -- as evidenced by the company's desperate Android patent lawsuit and its repeated failure to regain mobile momentum. Here again, Goldman states the obvious in observing Microsoft's place in that market. The Financial Post quotes Goldman's Sarah Friar thusly:
"'We believe that top-line momentum and hence investor sentiment on Microsoft's core Windows and Office franchises is unlikely to improve until the company gains a firmer [read: any] foothold in the growing migration to mobile devices – both smartphones and tablets,' said Ms. Friar. 'We don't see this happening this year, as Apple's iPad and iPhone plus Google's Android operating system are well established,' she said."
My goodness! What an eye-opener! We do wonder, actually, why Microsoft absolutely has to have its own mobile operating system. Is there no room for some partnership here with a more established developer? Don't Windows and, in particular, Office, still carry some weight in the marketplace?
It seems as though Microsoft would be better served to scrap plans to rely on Windows Phone 7, a mobile OS that will be obsolete the minute it comes out next week, as its candidate for entry back into the mobile market and instead maybe find a way to get other Microsoft technologies licensed onto somebody else's platform.
Sure, that's not the Microsoft way -- the company would have to (gasp!) actually cede ownership of a market. But Microsoft isn't a serious mobile competitor now, and its path toward becoming one seems quixotic at best. Maybe Microsoft has hacked away at mobile windmills for long enough.
Back to Goldman's revelations, though -- and they only get better. Dig suggestion No. 3. Here it is again: "(3) Market leadership in Cloud. Microsoft has a strong portfolio of enterprise data center assets and could become a leader in Cloud deployments, but the competitive environment remains highly in flux, with Microsoft still not a clear 'winner,' in our view."
What? Microsoft needs to be in the cloud? And nobody has claimed the cloud space yet? Geez, even Microsoft gets this one. Azure and the constant "all-in-for-the-cloud" messaging coming out of Redmond are a pretty good indication that Microsoft wants to position itself as a leader in the cloud and is making positive moves toward doing so. But, hey, Goldman, thanks for the heads up.
As expected, Goldman's rant has led to another nice wave of articles talking about how Microsoft is finished...and basically saying the same thing that Goldman said this week and that we've been saying for years. Again, it's not that we disagree with Ms. Friar or with Goldman Sachs. We actually agree, for the most part -- and maybe these words coming from Goldman will actually get somebody's attention in Redmond.
Please forgive us, though, if we say that we've heard all of this before -- because we've written it, over and over again, in this newsletter over the last few years. Then again, on second thought, Goldman might have some credibility here that we don't have.
After all, the firm is warning Microsoft about potential failures -- and nobody knows failure like Goldman Sachs, a company that likely wouldn't exist today had the U.S. government not covered it with a big TARP. So, keep preaching, Goldman. We'll be sitting behind you in the choir, which apparently either isn't singing loudly enough or is reaching the wrong members of the congregation.
What's your take on Goldman's suggestions for Microsoft? What should Microsoft do to get itself back on track? Send your thoughts to [email protected]
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Today many information sources—including sensor networks, financial markets, social networks, and healthcare monitoring—are so-called data streams, arriving sequentially and at high speed. Analysis must take place in real time, with partial data and without the capacity to store the entire data set. This book presents algorithms and techniques used in data stream mining and real-time analytics. Taking a hands-on approach, the book demonstrates the techniques using MOA (Massive Online Analysis), a popular, freely available open-source software framework, allowing readers to try out the techniques after reading the explanations.
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The United States has a long history of lottery play. The first official state-wide lottery was established in 1964 in New Hampshire. Several states operate state-wide lottery, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, and New Jersey. In addition to state-wide lottery, other states operate local lottery games. Some of these states are also part of a multi-state lottery association. A few of these states have offered online lottery sales as recently as 2015.
New Hampshire lottery began in 1964. Today, the state offers several draw games, including Mega Millions, Fantasy 5, and e-Instant games. In addition, the state offers Powerball, a national lottery game. The jackpot of Mega Millions grew to a record $1.537 billion in 2018. In 2018, three lucky winners shared the jackpot. In addition to lottery, New Hampshire offers e-Instant games, which are played from a computer or mobile device.
The Connecticut Lottery is one of the oldest lottery organizations in the US. It is a quasi-public state agency. The corporation generates revenue for the state by selling lottery tickets. The proceeds are distributed to the state's general fund, debt services, and education. In fiscal year 2021, the corporation paid $925 million in prize money. In addition, the corporation provided $418 million to support the state's General Fund.
In Illinois, lottery players must provide their personal information including a date of birth and address. They also must undergo a Know-Your-Customer check. This check will ensure that players are of legal age to play. If players are found to be underage, they will be required to pay a fine. In addition, the Illinois lottery will not create an account for underage players.
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Oblique projection is a simple type of technical drawing of graphical projection used for producing two-dimensional (2D) images of three-dimensional (3D) objects.

The objects are not in perspective and so do not correspond to any view of an object that can be obtained in practice, but the technique yields somewhat convincing and useful.

Oblique projection is commonly used in technical drawing. The cavalier projection was used by French military artists in the 18th century to depict fortifications.

Oblique projection was used almost universally by Chinese artists from the 1st or 2nd centuries to the 18th century, especially to depict rectilinear objects such as houses.

Various graphical projection techniques can be used in computer graphics, including in Computer Aided Design (CAD), computer games, computer generated animations, and special effects used in movies.

Overview

Oblique projection is a type of parallel projection:
 it projects an image by intersecting parallel rays (projectors)
 from the three-dimensional source object with the drawing surface (projection plane).
In both oblique projection and orthographic projection, parallel lines of the source object produce parallel lines in the projected image. The projectors in oblique projection intersect the projection plane at an oblique angle to produce the projected image, as opposed to the perpendicular angle used in orthographic projection.

Mathematically, the parallel projection of the point  on the -plane gives . The constants  and  uniquely specify a parallel projection. When , the projection is said to be "orthographic" or "orthogonal". Otherwise, it is "oblique". The constants  and  are not necessarily less than 1, and as a consequence lengths measured on an oblique projection may be either larger or shorter than they were in space. In a general oblique projection, spheres of the space are projected as ellipses on the drawing plane, and not as circles as they would appear from an orthogonal projection.

Oblique drawing is also the crudest "3D" drawing method but the easiest to master. One way to draw using an oblique view is to draw the side of the object you are looking at in two dimensions, i.e. flat, and then draw the other sides at an angle of 45°, but instead of drawing the sides full size they are only drawn with half the depth creating 'forced depth' – adding an element of realism to the object. Even with this 'forced depth', oblique drawings look very unconvincing to the eye. For this reason oblique is rarely used by professional designers or engineers.

Oblique pictorial
In an oblique pictorial drawing, the angles displayed among the axis, as well as the foreshortening factors (scale) are arbitrary.
More precisely, any given set of three coplanar segments originating from the same point may be construed as forming some oblique perspective of three sides of a cube. This result is known as Pohlke's theorem, from the German mathematician Pohlke, who published it in the early 19th century.

The resulting distortions make the technique unsuitable for formal, working drawings. Nevertheless, the distortions are partially overcome by aligning one plane of the image parallel to the plane of projection. Doing so creates a true shape image of the chosen plane.
This specific category of oblique projections, whereby lengths along the directions  and  are preserved, but lengths along direction  are drawn at angle using a reduction factor is very much in use for industrial drawings.
 Cavalier projection is the name of such a projection, where the length along the  axis remains unscaled.
 Cabinet projection, popular in furniture illustrations, is an example of such a technique, where in the receding axis is scaled to half-size (sometimes instead two-thirds the original).

Cavalier projection

In cavalier projection (sometimes cavalier perspective or high view point) a point of the object is represented by three coordinates, x, y and z. On the drawing, it is represented by only two coordinates, x″ and y″. On the flat drawing, two axes, x and z on the figure, are perpendicular and the length on these axes are drawn with a 1:1 scale; it is thus similar to the dimetric projections, although it is not an axonometric projection, as the third axis, here y, is drawn in diagonal, making an arbitrary angle with the x″ axis, usually 30 or 45°. The length of the third axis is not scaled.

It is very easy to draw, especially with pen and paper. It is thus often used when a figure must be drawn by hand, e.g. on a black board (lesson, oral examination).

The representation was initially used for military fortifications. In French, the "cavalier" (literally rider, horseman, see Cavalry) is an artificial hill behind the walls that allows sighting of the enemy above the walls. The cavalier perspective was the way the things were seen from this high point. Some also explain the name by the fact that it was the way a rider could see a small object on the ground from his horseback.

Cabinet projection
The term cabinet projection stems from its use in illustrations by the furniture industry. Like cavalier perspective, one face of the projected object is parallel to the viewing plane, and the third axis is projected as going off at an angle (typically  or about ~63.4°). Unlike cavalier projection, where the third axis keeps its length, with cabinet projection the length of the receding lines is cut in half.

Mathematical formula
As a formula, if the plane facing the viewer is xy, and the receding axis is z, then a point P is projected like this:

Where  is the mentioned angle.

The transformation matrix is:

Alternatively one could remove one third from the leading arm projected off the starting face, thus giving the same result.

Military projection
In the military projection, the angles of the x and z-axis and y and z -axis are at 45°, meaning that the angle between the x-axis and the y-axis is 90°. That is, the xy-plane is not skewed. It is rotated over 45°, though.

Examples
Besides technical drawing and illustrations, video games (especially those preceding the advent of 3D games) also often use a form of oblique projection. Examples include SimCity, Ultima VII, Ultima Online, EarthBound, Paperboy and, more recently, Tibia.

See also
 Space-oblique Mercator projection
 Oblique Mercator projection
 Hatsusaburō Yoshida
 List of art techniques

References

Further reading

 Ingrid Carlbom, Joseph Paciorek, Planar Geometric Projections and Viewing Transformations, ACM Computing Surveys, v.10 n.4, p. 465–502, Dec. 1978
 Alpha et al. 1988, Atlas of Oblique Maps, A Collection of Landform Portrayals of Selected Areas of the World (US Geological Survey)

External links
 Illustrator Draftsman 3 & 2 – Volume 2 Standard Practices and Theory, page 68 from https://web.archive.org/web/20100822152816/http://www.tpub.com:80/

Graphical projections

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Did you know why people love Birju Maharaj ji's Choreography?
Kathak is the art of dancing. It is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. The origin of Kathak is traditionally attributed to the travelling bards in of ancient northern India known as Kathakars or storytellers. Kathak performances include Urdu Ghazals and commonly used instruments brought during the Mughal period.
One of the most famous gurus of Kathak is Birju Maharaj Ji. He is really multi-talented. He has the art of singing, dancing and composing. He belongs to the Maharaj family of Kathak dancers. Even though dancing was his first love, he practices Hindustani classical music and is a vocalist. After his retirement in 1998, he opened his own school dancing 'Kalashram' in Delhi.
His talent of kathak is famous in the public. Many well-known celebrities have learned kathak from him. He is the ideal of many individuals because of this extreme knowledge in this dance form. He has choreographed the song ' Mohe rang do laal' for the movie Baji Rao Mastani.
He always wanted to impart his knowledge to others, so he opened many dancing schools, to spread the beauty of Kathak. In the year 1986, he received Padma Bhushan awards. He has worked will all the age groups. Many celebrities follow his steps of dancing. They really idealize his beauty and smoothness in dancing. His video is available all over the internet and one can easily learn from them. Birju ji also has a youtube channel & website where he posts various elegant steps of kathak daily, one can easily access that and learn the art of dancing from him
When Maharaj was thirteen years old, he started teaching dance form at the Sangeet Bharti in Delhi. He uses to teach at Bharatiya Kala Kendra in Delhi and at Kathak Kendra. His students use to love him and treat him as God. In Kathak Kendra he was head of faculty and director, he retired in1998 after which opened his very own school name 'Kalashram' in Delhi itself. Being a great dancer, he was also a beautiful singer, so he composed the music and sang for two sequences in the Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari and Choreographed the song Kaahe cheed mohe from the film Devdas in 2002,.
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Mansan – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Oksytania, w departamencie Pireneje Wysokie.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 37 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 18 osób/km² (wśród 3020 gmin regionu Midi-Pyrénées Mansan plasuje się na 1026. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 1713.).

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