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The Mountain Between Us Best Quotes – 'We're all we've got, me and you!'
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Starring: Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Beau Bridges, Dermot Mulroney, Waleed Zuaiter
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Action drama directed by Hany Abu-Assad which follows Dr. Ben Bass (Idris Elba) and journalist Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) who after the cancellation of their flight due to stormy weather decide to share a flight on a small charter plane that will get them back to Baltimore in time for Ben's operation and Alex's wedding.
However, their plane unexpectedly crashes and they survive the incident with injuries. Discovering that their pilot (Beau Bridges) didn't make a flight plan they realize help is not coming they decide to embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing one another to endure and igniting an unexpected attraction, discovering strength they never knew possible.
[at the airport]
Ben Bass: I have an emergency surgery to perform in Baltimore. I'll fly wherever I have to tonight to get there for tomorrow morning. Can you help me?
Alex Martin: [to Ben] Sir, I think we may have the same problem. I have an idea.
Pilot: So what's the rush?
Alex Martin: I'm getting married tomorrow.
[thinking she's getting married to Ben]
Pilot: Oh, congratulations.
Alex Martin: No, no. it's, it's… We're not…
Ben Bass: We just met.
Alex Martin: So what took you to Idaho?
Ben Bass: Medical conference. You're a journalist.
Alex Martin: Mm-hmm.
Ben Bass: That would explain the questions.
[after their plane has crashed]
Ben Bass: Hello!! Anybody!! Anyone.
Ben Bass: Alex, can you look at me. You really hurt your leg. Your phone is smashed, my phone has no signal and we're pretty high up on the mountain. We need to get help.
Ben Bass: If we stay here we're safe. If we leave, search and rescue, they're less likely to find us.
Alex Martin: Look, I don't want to die up here because you're too scared to take a risk. We have to do something.
Ben Bass: Someone's looking for us.
Alex Martin: The pilot didn't file a flight plan.
Alex Martin: [to Ben] Nobody knows where we are. We're all we've got, me and you! That's it.
Alex Martin: We're down to the rule of three. We can go three weeks without food, three days without water…
Ben Bass: What?
Alex Martin: …three minutes without air. Let me help. Let me help.
Ben Bass: You want to help? This is how you help. You stay off the leg. That would help you, and it would definitely help me.
Alex Martin: [to Ben] We might die together and I don't even know you.
Ben Bass: I'm a neurosurgeon.
Alex Martin: Oh, yeah?
Ben Bass: Yes. Yeah. Brains.
Alex Martin: Why brains?
Ben Bass: It's an intense responsibility, you know, to cut into someone's brain. It's where their perceptions are, their intelligence, their emotion.
Alex Martin: What about the heart? Huh?
Ben Bass: The heart's nothing but a muscle.
Ben Bass: I want you to take a picture of me.
Alex Martin: What?
Ben Bass: I want you to take a picture of me. If I'm going to die I want this to be my very last picture.
Alex Martin: I was halfway through an assignment, there was this one girl, she, she told me all about this boy she liked, and, you know, then I gave her my red lipstick. But then there was an explosion and she was badly injured. I took her picture, then she died. I can't take your picture, I'm sorry.
Ben Bass: We're not going to die. Not today.
Ben Bass: It was hard enough for me to lose Sarah. I struggled with the idea of losing you, too. And then when you sent those photographs, I, uh, I felt alive. I really did. I… We made it, you and I. And I had to see you.
Alex Martin: I loved you on that mountain. I tried to pretend that I didn't, but I did. I came home and nothing was the same. And then I tried to reach you, and it, it was so, it was just too painful. So I had to make myself accept that maybe it wasn't real, and it would never work, not in real life.
[to the waitress]
Alex Martin: Thank you.
[to Ben]
Alex Martin: There's a moment for these things, and then it, it passes.
Alex Martin: Hey, so, could you, could you give the dog a name? He kind of deserves it.
Ben Bass: I think you're wrong, Alex. I think we survived because we fell in love.
Alex Martin: Up there it was just me and you. The world is bigger than that. And the heart is just a muscle. Right?
Ben Bass: What idiot said that?
[the hug, turn and walk away in opposite directions from each other; after a few moment they both turn and run back into each other's arms]
What are your favorite quotes from the movie? Let us know in the comments below as we'd love to know.
Betty Johnson (Florence, Oregon, USA) on January 24, 2019 at 1:34 pm
Possibly I shouldn't read or listen to any book a movie is based on beforehand but this time I did and was extremely disappointed in what I saw on the big screen. I realize that most movies only follow a portion of the book they are based on but even saying "loosely based upon" is an indecent overstatement. In and of itself the movie wasn't terrible, but it's really just a buildup for an interracial sex scene that never happened between two characters who bear no resemblance to who they are in the book.
It seems obvious that Kate Winslet wasn't going to take second to anyone no matter what the book was actually about. A disservice was done here both to the author and the main character and my guess is Winslet just wanted another notch on her bedpost while claiming all the glory and the director wanted her name on the credits. Winslet/Alex completely emasculated Idris Elba/Dr. Ben Bass (Payne) by hijacking the lead role from what was a lovely male character leaving the audience wondering 1. What was the real point of the movie, and 2. (at least for me) Why bother?
The movie version of The Mountain Between Us was a gross corruption of the book by the same name from the opening scene to the ending. The only commonalities with the original story were the plane crashing, the skin color of the main characters, a dog onboard (though it should have been a Jack Russell Terrier) and the wilderness area. The director changed or deleted entirely the really good bits and the audience is left with a supporting male character that's been reduced to a simpering, second rate doctor whose full name and reason for living we never get to know and who is seemingly bound to survive only by the instincts of an overbearing impulsive female lead… she even swoops in to save the day in the end… a travesty in my mind. In the book Alex (Winslet) is no wimp, not by a long shot; she is beautiful, strong-willed and witty with a deep courageous streak that helps keep Ben focused on their survival, but she was never the lead character.
The original premise of the story was one of deep respect and lasting love, genuine courage, morals and loyalty which may be why Hollywood had to change it. I was truly looking forward to seeing how the director and writers handled Ben's memory scenes, the doctoring of Alex and in general the overall filming. There was no sex in the book and the respect Ben had for his wife as well as Alex and Vince made the whole story worth cheering for, but in the movie that scene along with everything else portrayed was just a desperate, ugly betrayal of the characters in Charles Martin's book.
My suggestion: If you haven't seen the movie and want to, do so prior to reading or listening. When you leave the theater thinking, "Wow, that was okay but I expected so much more," remember, you CAN have so much more. Just listen to or read the book.
Beth on January 24, 2019 at 1:34 pm
Your review of the movie is spot on to how I felt after watching the movie. I was very disappointed in the movie in comparison to the book.
Jacob Mello (Austin) on April 1, 2018 at 9:54 pm
• After their plane crashes into a remote snow-covered mountain, two strangers forge a connection while trying to walk hundreds of miles to safety.
• Starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba
• Directed by Hany Abu-Assad: Paradise Now
Don't get me wrong, I truly love the "plane crash survivors struggle with the harsh limits of their own humanity and will to live" genre. But most filmmakers who embark on a project like this understand instinctively that if you want to pull off a movie like that, you need to meet the audience half way. Toss us a little bit of a gimmick, for lack of a better word. We'll endure your two hours of people walking and complaining about cramps, but in return we damn well expect a 'man-eater' of a bear to be stalking you the whole journey, or for food rations to get so low, so quickly that killing and consuming the weakest member of the group is the only possible recourse. Hell, we'll even settle for an anthropomorphic volleyball with a face made of dried human blood. We're not unreasonable, here.
This film decided to play it straight. Two people and a dead pilots dog, walking down a really cold mountain, dealing with manageable leg injuries and rational cold related health concerns. The kind of stranded in the snow movie where, the second the characters realize they need to make a fire – they find a fully functioning lighter on board, no questions asked. I almost respect it. I can picture the writers room now: Two philosophic artists talking about how they were gonna do for the man vs.. nature genre, what Blue Valentine did for the romance genre. 'none of that Hollywood bullshit man! I'm talkin' about two characters just talking their way down that high-altitude sumbitch!'
Late in the movie, the story takes a much more intimate turn. This comes as an unnerving surprise given the utter lack of chemistry, and what bordered on apathy, coming from the co-stars, and it becomes clear that this possible romance in the making is what we were supposed to be holding onto this whole time. Now I don't know if halfway into production the director realized all the things I've just mentioned for himself and tried to contrive together some chemistry between the leads, hoping against hope that because Winslet already pulled off Romeo and Juliet on a Shipwreck, maybe she could pull it off on a plane wreck as well. Or if it was always written to have the arc it did, but no matter how it happened, the film devolves into a weird romantic scenario that feels like being forced into doubling with a couple on a blind date, in which nobody wants to be there, but everyone's too annoyingly polite to give up the charade.
For better plane crash survival movies: Watch The Edge, Cast Away
For a better – but still bad – version of this movie: Watch Six Days Seven Nights


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Q: how to use attr's stroke-dasharray,stroke-linecap,stroke-linejoin in raphaeljs Can anyone give me an example of these attributes in action: stroke-dasharray, stroke-linecap,    stroke-linejoin i tried using them, but i don't quite understand the sentext structure for their values.

A: Phrogz's answer is great for plain SVG, but this question is also tagged Raphael, where things are similar, but slightly different. There aren't many good examples of stroke settings in Raphael, so here's a complete live demonstration.
It has examples documenting how to use stroke-dasharray (dotted lines and dashed lines), stroke-linejoin (stroke corner style) and stroke-linecap (path stroke cap style) in Raphael.js.
Link to jsfiddle live demo

Use .attr({'stroke-dasharray': option}) for dotted / dashed lines in Raphael, with one of these options (no numbers, unlike pure SVG):
["", "-", ".", "-.", "-..", ". ", "- ", "--", "- .", "--.", "--.."]

Use .attr({'stroke-linejoin': option}) for rounded, bevelled or sharp (mitre) corners in Raphael (same as SVG except inherit):
["bevel", "round", "miter"]

You can also set .attr({'stroke-miterlimit': decimal}) which controls the cut-off point based on the stroke width and the angle beyond which miter (sharp) joins are blunted. Same as SVG stroke-miterlimit so SVG docs apply. Cross-browser variation in this can be seen in the jsfiddle above (e.g. between Chrome & Firefox on Windows)

Use .attr({'stroke-linecap': option}) to control the caps on the end of a stroked raphael path:
["butt", "square", "round"]

A: stroke-linecap

*

*Legal Values: butt | round | square | inherit

*Example

stroke-linejoin

*

*Legal Values: miter | round | bevel | inherit

*Example

stroke-dasharray

*

*Legal Values: comma- or space-delimited list of lengths or percentages,
e.g. "100 20 0 20"

*Example (using above values)

A: Please note that this answer covers only stroke-dasharray and is a supplement to answer by Phrogz.Raphael does not provide a lot of freedom to set stroke-dasharray as stated by user568458 and as I needed it to work like other svg creators I did a little tweak in raphael.js to accommodate all possible stroke-dasharray values.
addDashes = function (o, value, params) {
        var nvalue = dasharray[Str(value).toLowerCase()];
        if (nvalue!==undefined) {
            var width = o.attrs["stroke-width"] || "1",
                butt = {round: width, square: width, butt: 0}[o.attrs["stroke-linecap"] || params["stroke-linecap"]] || 0,
                dashes = [],
                i = nvalue.length;
            while (i--) {
                dashes[i] = nvalue[i] * width + ((i % 2) ? 1 : -1) * butt;
            }
            $(o.node, {"stroke-dasharray": dashes.join(",")});
        }else{
            $(o.node, {"stroke-dasharray": Str(value).toLowerCase()});
        }
    }

Replacing the previous code in the file just below where dasharray object is defined.

A: If you want to apply a dashed line in a standard SVG way on a Raphael line object, this worked well for me; whereas I didn't have any luck using period and hyphens as done in the Raphael way.
myLine.attr({stroke:'green'}).node.setAttribute('stroke-dasharray', '10,10');

The parameters (10,10 in this example) are the length,gap and you can iterate that as much as you want. Like 5, 5, 1, 5 would be shorter dashes with dots.
Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/stroke-dasharray

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TOKYO, May 31, 2018 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (Mitsubishi Shipbuilding) and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) have jointly launched the most advanced SOx abatement system, ACTIVE FUNNEL. It is a funnel which contains an optimally shaped exhaust gas scrubbing structure which reduces sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the exhaust gas of 3.5%-sulfur-content fuels to that of 0.1%-sulfur-content fuels, conforming with newly introduced SOx emissions regulations coming into effect globally as of January 1, 2020.
The new and reliable SOx abatement system was developed by combining MHPS' comprehensive exhaust gas treatment technologies cultivated through providing desulfurization systems for thermal power plants with Mitsubishi Shipbuilding's marine engineering expertise which has been developed through its long shipbuilding experience. MHPS' land-based flue gas desulfurization systems have the capacity to treat the equivalent of 7 to 20 times of the emissions from a large size marine diesel engine.
The ACTIVE FUNNEL is most suitable for very large container ships with high exhaust gas emissions and limited installation space for SOx abatement systems. It can desulfurize large amounts of exhaust gas and its flexible design makes it possible to be installed even in narrow spaces between the container holds, while maintaining a vessel's container capacity. The ACTIVE FUNNEL is also suitable for installation on existing ships since it is provided as one module and has a short retrofitting period.
The ACTIVE FUNNEL which is applicable to both open-loop systems and hybrid systems(1) provides a traditional funnel with advanced SOx removal function.
Going forward, the product lineup will be expanded by applying the new ACTIVE FUNNEL technology to very large crude carriers (VLCC: 200,000-310,000 DWT(2)) and very large ore carriers (VLOC).
When new SOx emissions regulations come into effect, the ACTIVE FUNNEL is expected to contribute to the further development of environmentally-friendly and economic global marine transportation .
(1) In an open-loop system, seawater intake is sprayed directly on the exhaust gas and then discharged from the ship. In a closed-loop system, the exhaust gas is scrubbed using circulating water, after which the circulating water is neutralized for reuse. In a hybrid system, it is possible to switch between the open and closed systems.


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AM Best: Ida may help harden reinsurance rates – The Royal Gazette | Bermuda News, Business, Sports, Events, & Community
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AM Best: Ida may help harden reinsurance rates
David Fox, Business Editor
Created: Sep 01, 2021 08:00 AM
Hurricane Ida will be more of an earnings hit as opposed to a capital event for the insurance industry, A.M. Best posits in its latest commentary.
The rating agency said that because a number of Louisiana writers are regional players with lower levels of capital, a sizeable amount of losses is likely to be ceded to reinsurers.
But reinsurers should be able to absorb the magnitude of losses without impacting their capital positions.
Hurricane Ida will add to uncertainty about the growing frequency of weather events, the agency said, and provide momentum to reinsurance pricing.
The report said: "Hurricane Ida could pressure reinsurers, whose natural catastrophe budgets had already been increased following the Texas freeze, as they must contend with potentially high claims activity during the rest of 2021 Atlantic hurricane season."
Hurricane Ida made landfall as a strong Category 4 storm on Sunday along the southeastern coast of Louisiana, near Port Fourchon, similar to Hurricane Laura's path last year, which resulted in about $5 billion in insured losses.
Ida was actually further east with more impact on New Orleans, which will likely result in a larger share of losses for the commercial lines.
Property damage and business interruption losses may contribute more to overall losses than Hurricane Laura did, which had greater impact on personal lines.
Louisiana insurers faced heightened losses, with more than 300,000 claims attributable to Hurricanes Laura, Delta, and Zeta last year. and underwriting losses may continue this year.
Demand surge is likely to increase re(insured) losses, especially with the 5.4 per cent rise in the US consumer price index compared to July 2020.
Ida's storm surge on Sunday -16 years to the day after the devastating Hurricane Katrina – was met by the infrastructure improvements dictated by Katrina and that should help curtail losses – particularly, National Flood Insurance Program losses, as the new levee systems have thus far performed as expected.
Flood waters surround storm damaged homes as residents try to recover from the effects of Hurricane Ida Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Lafourche Parish, La. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Thirty-two women undergo skills training at Gomoa Ankamu
Gomoa Ankamu (C/R), April 11, GNA - Thirty-two members of the Gomoa Ankamu branch of Women and Youth Development Association (WOYODA) NGO have undergone a two-week training in mushroom farming at Ankamu near Apam. Mr. Thomas Dodoo, Central Regional Director of Ghana Regional Appropriate Technology Industrial Service (GRATIS) Foundation who performed the closing ceremony observed that farmers and entrepreneurs could only fit into the global market when they improved upon their products.
He was happy that the majority of the trainees were women and said the nation could not achieve socio-economic development unless women's contributions were recognised and they were encouraged and motivated. Mr Dodoo appealed to district assemblies, the National Board for Small Scale Industries and the Rural Banks to grant loans to the trainees to establish their own businesses.
Mr. S.M. Abu-Bakar, General Manager, Technical, of the GRATIS Foundation said 3,569 men and women nationwide, had been trained in batik, tie and dye making, beekeeping, grass cutter rearing, mushroom cultivation, snail farming food processing, soap, powder and pomade making, since the GRATIS skills training programme started in 2000.
Mr Abu-Bakar said GRATIS in collaboration with the Regional Technology Transfer Centres RTTCs and Rural Technology Service centres RTSCs had manufactured equipment for agriculture and food processing sectors to help eliminate the drudgery involved in traditional production methods and to reduce post harvest losses.
Mrs. Ama Benyiwa-Doe, MP for Gomoa West appealed to the organisers of the training programme to find markets for the produce since the lack of markets discouraged a lot of farmers from going into production.
She urged the trainees to keep proper records of their activities to enable them know whether their businesses were progressing or otherwise.
Mr. Emmanuel Acquah, the resource persons said there was high demand for mushrooms and assured the farmers that their products would be exported. Alhaji Moro Fukuyama, National Coordinator of WOYA expressed gratitude to Canadian International Development Agency CIDA for providing funds for the training workshop.


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Q: Break the line in array mode I have used the array mode to write cases. But sometimes the lines are too closed to each others, I want to add a break line between them, sometimes it works, but sometimes no.
Here is my MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, mathtools, amssymb}
\usepackage{fouriernc, fourier}
\usepackage{esvect}
\begin{document}
\[\left\{\begin{array}{l}
\left[\begin{array}{l}
\vv{BM}\uparrow\uparrow \vv{BC}\\
\vv{BM}\uparrow\downarrow \vv{BC}
\end{array}
\right.
\\
\left[\begin{array}{l}
\vv{B'M'}\uparrow\uparrow \vv{B'C'}\\
\vv{B'M'}\uparrow\downarrow \vv{B'C'}
\end{array}
\right.
\end{array}
\right.
\]
\[\left[\begin{array}{l}
\left\{\begin{array}{l}
A\in \Delta\\
B\not \in \Delta
\end{array}
\right.
\\
\left\{\begin{array}{l}
A\notin \Delta\\
B \in \Delta.
\end{array}
\right.
\end{array}
\right.\]
\end{document}

After compiling, you can see the difference, there is no break line between the second and the third line of the first array, but there is one in the second array.
So how can I do this?

A: For additional space between lines you can use also a stretchable amount, like \bigskipamount. This space will adjust automatically to fit into your page.
If you are concerned with lines getting too close to each other, you can increase space between rows using the command \fontsize{}{} followed by a \selectfont. The first argument indicates characters' size, the second the baseline skip amount. Then \normalsize is used to revert to previous amount:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{mathtools, amssymb}
\usepackage{fouriernc, fourier}
\usepackage{esvect}

\begin{document}

\fontsize{10}{20}\selectfont

\[
  \begin{cases}

    %\begin{cases}

    \left[
    \begin{array}{l}
      \vv{BM}\uparrow\uparrow \vv{BC}\\
      \vv{BM}\uparrow\downarrow \vv{BC}
    \end{array}
    \right.

    %\end{cases}

  \\[1.8\bigskipamount]       % that means 1.8*\bigskipamount

    %\left[
    %\begin{array}{l}

    \begin{cases}
      \vv{B^\prime M^\prime }\uparrow\uparrow \vv{B^\prime C^\prime }\\
      \vv{B^\prime M^\prime }\uparrow\downarrow \vv{B^\prime C^\prime }
    \end{cases}

    %\end{array}
    %\right.

  \end{cases}
\]

\normalsize

\[
  \begin{cases}

    %\begin{cases}

    \left[
    \begin{array}{l}
      \vv{BM}\uparrow\uparrow \vv{BC}\\
      \vv{BM}\uparrow\downarrow \vv{BC}
    \end{array}
    \right.

    %\end{cases}

  \\[1.8\bigskipamount]       % that means 1.8*\bigskipamount

    %\left[
    %\begin{array}{l}

    \begin{cases}
      \vv{B^\prime M^\prime }\uparrow\uparrow \vv{B^\prime C^\prime }\\
      \vv{B^\prime M^\prime }\uparrow\downarrow \vv{B^\prime C^\prime }
    \end{cases}

    %\end{array}
    %\right.

  \end{cases}
\]

\end{document}

Some other suggestions:

*

*if you are doing cases, just use cases environment, it's easier and better looking than array

*amsmath is already loaded by mathtools, you don't need it

*I personally prefer to put a ^\prime instead of an apostrophe ', even if they give the same output: they are conceptually different and it can be useful in case of mass replacement

*since there are people reading your code, it's best if it's written in a more readable way. That stimulates users to answer you. See Writing readable LaTeX

A: \[\left\{\begin{array}{l}
\left[\begin{array}{l}
\vv{BM}\uparrow\uparrow \vv{BC}\\
\vv{BM}\uparrow\downarrow \vv{BC}
\end{array}
\right.
\\[2.5ex]%--------------------------------------------adding a length here
\left[\begin{array}{l}
\vv{B'M'}\uparrow\uparrow \vv{B'C'}\\
\vv{B'M'}\uparrow\downarrow \vv{B'C'}
\end{array}
\right.
\end{array}
\right.
\]


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Death penalty opponents dishonest in their arguments
The debate over the death penalty can be infuriatingly dishonest.
Death penalty opponents dishonest in their arguments The debate over the death penalty can be infuriatingly dishonest. Check out this story on gosanangelo.com: http://www.gosanangelo.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/04/25/death-penalty-opponents-dishonest-their-arguments/100825602/
San Angelo Published 6:20 p.m. CT April 25, 2017
Jonah Goldberg(Photo: File photo)
Consider the April 17 broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Bret Baier" (a show on which I am an occasional commentator).
Casey Stegall reported on the legal battle in Arkansas, where officials want to execute eight death row inmates in 11 days before their supply of midazolam expires. This is one of the drugs used to carry out lethal injections.
Stegall did his legwork. He talked to Susan Khani, the daughter of the woman murdered, execution-style, by Don Davis in 1990. She told Stegall the last quarter century has been agony for her, adding, "He is just a very cruel person. He needs to be put to death."
Stegall then talked to the usual death penalty opponents. First was Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center, who said, "There is a myth that family members of murder victims will get closure out of executions. In fact, for many of the family members, that does not happen."
So let's start there. To say that something is a "myth" is to suggest that it is untrue. The Loch Ness Monster is a myth. Bigfoot is a myth. But on Dunham's own terms, some family members do get closure. He didn't say, "No family members of murder victims get closure." He said "many," a subjective term that could mean pretty much any number short of "most."
Stegall then talked to Stacy Anderson of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is concerned that we might execute the wrong person. "We know that 156 innocent people have been found on death row in the last 20 years," she said.
Added Stegall: "The ACLU says cost is another driving force of the decline. Litigating death penalty cases is expensive since the condemned often spend years filing appeals and lawsuits."
This is also true. But you know what group is arguably most responsible for raising the cost of the death penalty? The American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU is well within its rights to clog the courts with lawsuits. But there's something remarkably cynical about barraging the courts with often frivolous complaints that raise the costs of the death penalty, then pretending that your objection is the cost.
Indeed, Arkansas is racing to use its drugs before they expire because death penalty opponents have worked tirelessly to make such drugs extremely difficult to obtain.
The same cynicism applies to concerns about innocent people being wrongly executed. I'm in favor of the death penalty. You know what? I'm also passionately opposed to executing the wrong person.
But Don Davis eventually admitted to murdering Jane Daniels in cold blood after breaking into her home, so objections that some other death row inmate might be innocent have no bearing on his case.
Ironically, immediately after Stegall's report, anchor Bret Baier announced: "A massive manhunt is underway at this hour for a suspect who police say engaged in a heinous public crime that can truly be called a sign of the times."
The suspect was Steve Stephens, the so-called "Facebook Killer," who video-recorded himself admitting that he was about to murder someone randomly. He then got out of his car, walked up to 74-year-old Robert Godwin, a father of 10 and grandfather of 14, and casually executed him. Stephens then posted the video on Facebook.
Stephens killed himself two days later. But say he hadn't. Obviously, he would have gotten a trial. Let's suppose he was found guilty and got the death penalty. We would still be subjected to all of the sleight-of-hand rhetoric about the risk of executing innocent people, the costs, etc., even though there would be zero doubt in this instance.
We'd probably also hear that the death penalty is "racist" — Stevens was black — despite the fact that Stevens' victim was black as well. Meanwhile, Don Davis is white.
It is entirely legitimate and honorable to oppose the death penalty on principle. The problem is that this is a constitutionally ridiculous position given that the plain text of the Constitution itself allows for the death penalty in several places.
Acolytes of the "living Constitution" want to believe that nothing bad (as defined by them) can be constitutional. I don't think the death penalty is bad, but if you want to get rid of it, amend the Constitution. Otherwise, opponents should stop pretending their real objection is something else.
Jonah Goldberg is an editor-at-large of National Review Online and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Contact him at JonahsColumn@aol.com.
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Rekka overdoses on action, feels S Saraswathi.
Hero-intro songs, gravity-defying stunts or romantic numbers picturized in exotic locations in a Vijay Sethupathi movie seem almost impossible to believe, given the kind of films we usually see him in.
Director Rathinasiva's Rekka sees the talented actor in an all-new avatar revelling in the gimmicks of a commercial hero.
The actor plays a lawyer named Shiva. Strangely, there's not a single scene where he fights a case or even wears the black coat.
What he does instead is help lovers get married against the wishes of their family or save young girls from forced marriages by kidnapping them.
There is, of course, a valid reason behind this strange behavior, which is explained in a lame flashback.
Shiva ends up making a lot of enemies but when he stops the wedding of David (Harish Uthaman), a notorious thug, by carrying away his reluctant bride, things begin to get messy.
Shiva's sister is to get married and David, who is waiting for the right opportunity, strikes back.
Shiva is now blackmailed into kidnapping Bharathi (Lakshmi Menon), daughter of a powerful and corrupt politician.
There are no prizes for guessing Vijay Sethupathi can walk away with his pretty heroine without breaking into a sweat. It matters little that hundreds of evil-looking goons are chasing him with their gleaming swords.
Harish Uthaman and Kabir Duhan Singh (who made his debut in Ajith's Vedalam), as antagonists appear quite menacing but are no match for the one-man army that is Vijay Sethupathi.
Vijay Sethupathi is not the only one playing an unusual role. The down-to-earth Lakshmi Menon has an equally weird character: she makes herself look like a fool and her non-stop nonsensical chatter gives you a headache.
Others like director KS Ravikumar, who plays Vijay Sethupathi's doting father and comedy actor Sathish are adequate. Kishore is wasted on an insignificant role as the mentally unstable village doctor.
The plot is non-existent and the screenplay lacks pace barely moving forward. Family sentiments play an important role in the film but the romance and comedy does not work. The film also overdoses on action and unnecessary build-up of the villain.
Music by D Imman is too loud and dramatic highly exaggerating even ordinary scenes.
Vijay Sethupathi may not make a flashy commercial hero, but when he is not sending villains flying through the air, he does give a pretty good performance.
This is Vijay's sixth film this year and after a series of excellent films like Sethupathi, Dharmadurai and Aandavan Kattalai, director Rathinasiva's Rekka comes as a definite letdown.


This evening I decided to take a chance and grill steak in between forecasted rainstorms and I lucked out! I planned to grill them last night but the weather didn't cooperate. I also made a half-recipe of my Yellow Cheddar Squash Casserole. I cooked it in a quiche dish that is about 1-inch deep. It turned out great and only took about 25 minutes to cook since it was so shallow. I sautéed some red peppers and Vidalia onions to go with my steak and also made my Easy Coleslaw. It was an easy meal to put together and a perfect Sunday summer meal. I snapped a few photos below. The recipes for my squash casserole and coleslaw can be found by clicking the bolded name of the dish in this paragraph above.
This evening we enjoyed a delicious "Greek style" meal. I made Greek Style Chicken w/ Roasted Tomatoes and Feta Cheese and served the chicken over top of Mashed Creamy Cauliflower. It was full of fresh flavors; roasted multi-colored baby tomatoes (tossed w/ olive oil, salt and pepper), chicken breasts pounded and marinated in fresh lemon juice and olive oil (seasoned with Penzey's Greek Style Seasoning) and then grilled. I served the chicken over a bed of mashed fresh cauliflower and scattered the roasted tomatoes and some crumbled feta cheese on top. We had a small piece of Spinach Feta Pie that I made last night for dinner.
Last night I made a large (9 x 13") rectangular version of my Greek Style Spinach Feta Pie. It turned out amazing. It had crust on the bottom and about 1/2 inch up the sides of the pan. I made 1-1/2 times the crust (using 3 cups of almond flour and an additional 1 tablespoon butter), 1 pound of baby spinach and 1-1/2 to 2 cups of crumbled feta, doubled the fresh dill and lemon zest, and used 15 eggs (which triples the eggs used in the standard sized version to make a nice thick piece of spinach feta pie). It turned out amazing. I wanted to make a large one that we could enjoy for lunch and other meals throughout the week (bake once; eat several times). I had it for lunch today and also served a small piece alongside tonight's Greek Style Chicken w/ Roasted Tomatoes & Feta Cheese. This was an absolutely amazing meal. Check it out the photos below. Enjoy!
This evening I made my pizza with my Cheese Head Pizza Crust. I had a large container of multicolored grape and cherry tomatoes that I picked up at Costco this past weekend (by Mucci Farms). I also had that large jar of Costco's Kirkland brand fresh basil pesto that I opened last night to brush on my wild salmon before roasting. So, those two ingredients were what I based my pizza off of this evening and it turned out AMAZING! I sliced and halved about one to two cups of cherry/grape tomatoes and tossed them in olive oil and placed them on a parchment lined baking pan, cut side up. I roasted them for about 30 to 35 minutes at 375 degrees and then turned up the temperature to 425 degrees to bake my pizza crust. I removed the tomatoes as soon as my oven hit 425 degrees and then set them aside to cool off.
I made my pizza crust without seasoning (omitting the salt, garlic powder and Italian seasoning) since I was going to use pesto on my pizza which is infused with loads of herbaceous flavor. I spread the dough out on a large parchment lined baking sheet and baked it for about 12 minutes until lightly golden. I removed the crust from the oven and then brushed and spread it with a few heaping tablespoons of the pesto; scattered it with shredded mozzarella cheese, topped it with Boars Head sandwich pepperoni (that I quartered) and then scattered with the roasted tomatoes. I reduced the oven temperature to 375 and popped the pizza back in the oven and baked for about 8 to 10 minutes, then turned my broiler on low and ran it under it for about 2 to 3 minutes until the cheese began to bubble, but not burn. I removed it from the oven and let it sit for about 5 to 7 minutes to cool and allow the crust to crisp up, which it does VERY nicely, making it easy to pick up and eat by the slice (no forks required). The pesto mellows out so nicely when baked on the crust and is so delicious. Like I've said before I'm not a big pesto fan but if you can find a way to cook it for a bit on whatever you are using it in, it has such a delicate and flavorful herb flavor in a not-in-your-face kind of way. I snapped some photos below. You can find the recipe for my crust here: Cheese Head Pizza Crust. Enjoy!
This evening I made one of my favorite meals because each of the 3 items I prepared are my faves (Pesto Roasted Salmon, Cauliflower Mash, and Roasted Brussels Sprouts). I picked up a couple of large wild sockeye salmon fillets at Costco this weekend ($9.99/lb). Each was a little over 1-1/2 lbs. I cut one fillet up into portions, wrapped them and froze. The other one I prepared and roasted as a large fillet that I coated first with pesto. I usually use Mezzetta's pesto that comes in a small jar, but Costco had a large jar of their fresh pesto on sale so I decided to pick up a jar to try. It was really good and I would definitely purchase it again. Now, to be honest, I have never really been a big pesto fan. I find the taste to be too intense most of the time, but when you baste the salmon with it before roasting, the pesto cooks and goes from brilliant green to a more muted color and a delicate milder flavor. I do think that the pesto in its fresh state would overpower the mild salmon flavor but it mellows out perfectly when roasted atop the salmon. I typically roast smaller individual portions of salmon for 12 minutes but since I roasted the large fillet intact, I added 3 minutes for a total of 15 minutes which was perfect. You simply brush the salmon fillet with pesto (as much or as little as you like), place it on a foil covered sheet pan and into a preheated 450 degree oven that you immediately reduce to 425 degrees after placing the salmon inside. I roasted it at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, removed it from the oven and then immediately covered it with heavy duty foil and allowed it to sit for 5 to 10 minutes. It turned out tender, moist and so delicately flavored by the pesto that roasted along with the fillet.
I roasted quartered brussels sprouts tossed with olive oil, salt and pepper on another sheet pan at the same time and they were done at about the same time. I had a large head of fresh cauliflower that I cut up into florets and cooked in 1 cup of water with about 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon salt. I cooked it until tender and then uncovered the pan and turned up the heat and cooked until all the water evaporated. I then added a couple tablespoons half-and-half, 2 tablespoons of butter and 2 to 3 ounces of brick style cream cheese and then pureed it with my immersion stick blender in the pan. I absolutely love my stick blender for things like this. I seasoned the mashed cauliflower with salt and pepper to taste. Hubby couldn't stop oohing and awing over how delicious tonight's meal was. It was so good to cook again. Our a/c has been giving us problems over the last 2 weeks (4 service calls and 9 days without a/c in a 2 week period). That is part of the reason I haven't posted much because I haven't wanted to turn the oven on and we've had so much rain that we didn't get to grill other than maybe once I believe! I snapped a few photos our tonight's meal and included the link to the Pesto Roasted Salmon. Enjoy!
This weekend we found fresh Wild Alaskan Salmon on our Costco trip. I was so excited to see it again. I picked up a single large 2-pound fillet. This time it was priced at $9.99/lb which is a GREAT price, considering several weeks ago I paid $16.99/lb at Costco. I decided to cook it on the grill since it was so hot here today. It helped to keep the house cool without having to turn the oven on (although you can also roast this salmon in the oven). I whisked together a quick and easy Orange Tamari Butter to brush the salmon with. It was so delicious and mild and did not detract from the delicate flavor of the salmon. I served it with steamed fresh broccoli.
Since we've got quite a bit of rain in our forecast this week, I pounded some boneless chicken breasts and whisked together a quick herby marinade and marinated the chicken all afternoon and went ahead and grilled that alongside tonight's salmon to get a head start on a few meals for the week. I like to cut grilled marinated chicken into chunks and add it on top of a big fresh green salad for a quick and cool weeknight meal. I snapped several photos of tonight's beautiful, fresh and easy meal below. Enjoy!
Preheat grill (or oven) to 425-450 degrees. In a small saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Remove from heat and whisk in orange juice, orange zest, and Tamari sauce. Allow to set for a few minutes until the butter cools a bit and begins to thicken slightly so when you brush it on your salmon fillet, it doesn't roll off.
Place salmon fillets in center of large sheet of foil. Gently crimp and form foil into a packet around salmon fillet to hold butter and juices as it grills (keep packet open on top while roasting). Brush salmon fillets with orange Tamari butter. Carefully place foil packet of salmon on hot grill and close lid. Try and maintain grill temperature between 425 and 450 degrees F. Cook for 10 to 12 minutes, depending on thickness of fillets. Carefully remove and transfer foil packet to a platter or baking sheet. Crimp and close packet tightly to allow salmon to continue cooking gently off the heat for about 5 to 10 minutes. Spoon and drizzle salmon with orange butter juices when serving.
This evening I was in the mood to grill a few of the frozen turkey burgers that I had in the freezer (I buy these frozen from Costco). You grill them frozen for about 6 to 7 minutes per side (I spritz them with olive oil before grilling). Since these are made with turkey breast, you need to be careful not to overcook them because they will be dry. These turned out great. Of course you don't need to use turkey you could use ground beef or chicken as well. I also grilled a thick slice of Vidalia onion to go with my burger. We topped our burgers with a small scoop of Pimento Cheese w/ Jalapenos which added a lot of flavor using only a small amount. I had a few of my grain free sesame seed buns left from this past weekend so I put my burger on a bun. I started by placing the grilled Vidalia onion on the bottom of my bun, then topped it with the burger and then the pimento cheese and a few Bubbie's pickles. If this doesn't qualify as a "Southern Turkey Burger" with both Vidalia Onion and pimento cheese, I don't know what does!
We enjoyed our burgers with a side of Bubbie's sauerkraut. It was a delicious, quick and easy meal. I grilled an extra burger to have for tomorrow's lunch. I want to share my excitement with you this evening because I feel like I won the Bubbie's lottery. Wait until you hear the deal I got! Unfortunately, a couple of our local "The Fresh Market" stores are closing and everything in the stores were on sale for an additional 30% off. I headed there straight from work and was so excited that they still had Bubbie's on the shelf. I picked up 2 big jars of their pickles and 2 big jars of their sauerkraut for only $3.48 each (normally $9 to $10/jar depending on where you buy them). I couldn't wait to incorporate them into our dinner tonight. The only regret I have is that I didn't buy all they had left. I snapped a few photos of the easy "Southern Turkey Burgers" below. Enjoy!
Tonight I am finally sharing my bagel recipe. I began working on it last summer...1 year ago (June 2017). I have been tweaking it and have made at least half a dozen different recipes, tweaking each one. I didn't just want it to taste good, because honestly, all the versions I made actually tasted good.
I kept tweaking it, not only for texture but just as important for me was to make a recipe that wouldn't be so frustrating to make for the average person that wasn't a "baker" or who maybe wasn't used to handling regular dough. In the first 4 versions I made, I rolled the dough into ropes with my hands and formed each bagel. I found it to be messy because this dough doesn't have the same elasticity that dough made with wheat and yeast has. I feared it would make some of you break out all of your bad words (not that I know anything about that) both at me and at the dough. And you certainly wouldn't be excited to make them again. With each of my 6+ versions, I not only tweaked the ingredients but used different pans to see how they baked. Also, when you look at the recipe...just so you know, the teaspoon of apple cider vinegar that is added can not be tasted at all. It is there to react with the baking soda to help lighten the dough. You can make plain bagels, or top with grated Parmesan or Asiago cheese for cheesy bagels or my favorite, add sesame seeds. You could make "everything bagels" or even poppy seed.
One more thing. I have made this recipe 3 times, to use different pans/methods to bake. I made them on a parchment lined baking sheet and they are good but they spread more and are thinner (but just as delicious). I made them in my deeper USA Pan 6-well mini-cake pan and they are good but it contains them so much that they are thicker, and closer to hamburger buns. My favorite result was using my Chicago Metallic Professional 6-well muffin top pan. The reason I preferred this pan was it has the shallow wells that help contain the spread, but since it doesn't have deeper wells, it allows them to spread a bit and brown and it produced a not too thick/not too thin bagel that could be sliced in half more easily. These bagels are not the 1-1/2" to 2" thick bagels of your wheat eating days. But you will find them very satisfying and delicious. I hope you give them a try and let me know what you think. Check out the recipe and photos below. Enjoy!
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly spray a 6-cup nonstick muffin top pan with olive oil. Alternatively you can line a large baking sheet with parchment paper (bagels will spread out more and be thinner).
Place mozzarella and cream cheese in a medium bowl. Heat cheese in microwave on high for 45 seconds; stir and heat an additional 45 seconds or until a hot melted mass of cheese is formed; blend well, folding with a rubber spatula.
While cheese is melting in microwave, in a separate medium bowl, combine almond flour, ground flax, salt, baking powder and baking soda; whisk until blended. In a separate small bowl, beat egg and vinegar together; set aside. Add flour mixture to bowl of hot melted cheese (make sure cheese is hot before adding flour mixture; return to microwave for 10 to 15 seconds or till hot). Working quickly, fold dry mixture into melted cheese using a rubber spatula until dough begins to come together and cheese and dry ingredients are combined; add egg/vinegar mixture and continue folding into dough until combined. The texture of the dough will begin to become light and airy. Continue folding mixture until thoroughly combined.
Divide into 6 even pieces (I cut it into wedges in the bowl with a knife). Very lightly oil or wet hands to prevent dough from sticking. Scoop each section of dough with a spoon; using your hands, form dough into a large meatball shape, then pat to flatten into a burger shape approximately 1-inch thick in the palm of your hand (if desired lightly press dough patty into a shallow bowl lined with sesame seeds). Using your index finger of your other hand, poke a hole in the center of the dough patty, wiggling finger in a circular motion until a smooth hole forms in the center. Place in muffin top well and repeat until all six are formed. (If using a parchment lined baking sheet, space bagels about 2 inches apart; sprinkle with sesame seeds or grated cheese, if desired).
Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from oven to reopen bagel holes by using the tip of a handle from a wooden spoon, dipped in olive oil, using a circular motion to reopen the holes. Reduce oven temp to 375 degrees and return bagels to oven and bake for an additional 5 to 6 minutes or until golden brown. Allow to cool in pan 5 minutes; carefully remove to a wire cooling rack to cool. Use a sharp serrated knife to slice in half; spread with butter or cream cheese as desired.
*Note: If blended dough is too soft to handle, allow to cool for a minute or two to firm up a bit before shaping into bagels. If bagels begin to brown unevenly, rotate pan half way through for more even browning.
This evening I made the most delicious roasted salmon (yeah, I know I've said that many times before), but it really was! We went to Costco again this past Friday evening and low and behold they had another shipment of Wild Alaskan Salmon! This time they only put 1 fillet per package which I actually prefer. It was $14.99/lb this week, down from the $16.99 last week! I could eat salmon simply roasted with some salt and butter every day, but to keep my hubby and visiting grown salmon loving son from rolling their "salmon again" eyes, I like to keep changing it up a bit. Not enough to overpower the fresh salmon, but rather enhance it. This dish worked like a charm! And it was so very simple to make. I love to take advantage of having fresh wild salmon available since the season is so short. Even though I like using the salmon I've frozen...I prefer it fresh. I have a confession to make...even though I usually do not add any type of sugar to anything, I am going to confess that I did add 1 slightly rounded tablespoon of brown sugar to this glaze. I've made a sugar-free brown sugar substitute in the past using Swerve and a tiny bit of molasses but since I was only using 1 tablespoon to add to glaze for about 2-1/4 pounds of salmon, I decided not to bother and just use the real deal. I hoped it would be enough to help it brown and be "glazey" and it was. You could easily add your favorite sugar substitute in place of the brown sugar or a tiny bit of stevia. You can make it as sweet or as mustardy as you like. Just taste it as you go. Also, this recipe can be easily halved (I used 2 large salmon fillets, but if you only use 1 fillet, simply cut the glaze in half). It turned out AMAZING! I served mine alongside a salad, but for hubby and son, I baked potatoes and made peas to go with theirs. They LOVED it! I snapped a few photos below and included the easy peasy glaze recipe. Enjoy!
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Rinse salmon fillets and pat dry with paper towels. Place fillets skin side down on a foil lined baking sheet.
In a small bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Taste and make any necessary adjustments to your own taste; if desired add more or less sweetener. Brush or spoon glaze over salmon, spreading and smoothing with back of spoon. Roast at 425 degrees F for 12 minutes. Turn oven to broil and move closer to broiler. Broil 3 to 5 minutes or until glaze is hot and bubbly and just begins to brown. Let salmon sit for a few minutes before serving to allow glaze to set.
*Note: If using only 1 salmon fillet, halve the glaze ingredients.


Sustainability continued to be at the forefront of business in 2017 despite the changing global political landscape.
2017 saw increasing pressure on businesses to consider the environmental implications of their operations whether these be disposal of plastic waste, air quality or the new reporting requirements set out by the Task Force on Climate Risk Financial Disclosures requiring businesses to disclose the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.
Tackling environmental issues requires a collective approach. That's why Wates continues to be proud supporters of the industry Supply Chain Sustainability School. In 2017 we delivered 10 supplier days with over 650 attendees. From our sustained commitment to the School, 84% of our top spend suppliers (those with which we trade over £500k per annum) are members of the school exceeding our target of 80%.
We continue to drive new environmental standards across our projects. For example our Junior Board have put forward a series of recommendations to improve the sustainability of our site accommodation. As a benchmark, we use the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS), of which we are an Associate member. Our average score in 2017 was 40.98 exceeding the industry average of 36.12.
Of our sites, 81% recorded scores above 40 – a 20% improvement since 2016 and 41 of our sites were recognised with a CCS awards raising the bar for considerate construction.
Our award-winning Wates Sustainable Technology Services initiative continued to evolve. The team supports customers and partners to achieve their sustainability goals by helping identify, select and implement cost-effective technologies that comply with regulations, lower carbon emissions, improve building performance, and reduce costs. Five customer 'Dragons Dens' were held during the year to promote the 30 technologies identified. Installing some of these technologies at our Head Office in Leatherhead resulted in a 7% energy reduction and over £7,000 of savings.


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Q: My Laravel project don't conect to XAMPP DataBase I've followed good tutorials on the web and I do make, I've made step by step its advices and I don't achive to conect my laravel framework to XAMPP.. I don't have idea what's going on.. I've written down the .env and config/database.php with the same data configurations (DB_DATABASE= styde_curso, DB_USERNAME= root, and DB_PASSWORD= ).
.env
APP_NAME=Prueba
APP_ENV=local
APP_KEY=base64:MWU6YadaT17Ga1m3hrtOQqYq6pIwOgrNWQe+mJazyw0=
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=homestead.test
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=styde_curso
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

config/database.php
'mysql' => [

            'driver' => 'mysql',
            'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
            'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
            'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'styde_curso'),
            'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
            'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
            'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
            'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
            'prefix' => '',
            'strict' => true,
            'engine' => null,
        ],

Although I'd applied "php artisan config:clear" I'm getting the same result "ERROR" I've copied the error that git hub notices me:

vagrant@homestead:~/code/Prueba$ php artisan config:clear
  Configuration cache cleared! vagrant@homestead:~/code/Prueba$ php
  artisan migrate
Illuminate\Database\QueryException  : SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access
  denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) (SQL: select *
  from information_schema.tables where table_schema = styde_curso and
  table_name = migrations)
at
/home/vagrant/code/Prueba/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php:
  664

660|         // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we'll format the error
661|         // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make this exception a
662|         // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the database's errors.

663|         catch (Exception $e) {
664|             throw new QueryException(
665|                 $query, $this->prepareBindings($bindings), $e
666|             );
667|         }
668|

Exception trace:

1   PDOException::("SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user
  'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)")
  /home/vagrant/code/Prueba/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connectors/Connector.php
  : 68
2
  PDO::__construct("mysql:host=localhost;port=3306;dbname=styde_curso",
  "root", "", [])
        /home/vagrant/code/Prueba/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connectors/Connector.php
  : 68

I'll wait your help or whomever can help me..
    Thanx.

A: *

*Sometimes this problem comes when you make changes to your .env file and not restarting the server. I would suggest you change  'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'), to localhost

*Restart your server, since the config/database is also written localhost

A: I would suggest setting your DB_HOST to 127.0.0.1
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

I would also suggest setting a password for the database root user if you have not already, this is just good practice. Be sure to update the .env file with the new password if you choose to do so.
The error is telling you the login failed:
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

The error is most likely either as a result of incorrect credentials (missing or wrong username/password). Or incorrect access, in other words, your user (in this case root) may have privileges as root@127.0.0.1 but not as root@localhost.


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Iran FM warns US over Strait of Hormuz
Date created : 24/04/2019 - 18:09
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned the United States against sealing off the Strait of Hormuz AFP/File
New York (AFP)
Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday warned the United States of unspecified "consequences" if it tried to seal off to Tehran the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic passage into the oil-rich Gulf.
President Donald Trump's administration has been ramping up pressure on the clerical state, this week vowing to stop all oil exports from Iran by sanctioning any countries that defy its order.
"We believe Iran will continue to sell its oil, we will continue to find buyers for our oil and we will continue to use the Strait of Hormuz as a safe transit passage for the sale of our oil," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said at the Asia Society in New York, where he was participating in a UN session.
"But if the United States takes the crazy measure of trying to prevent us from doing that, then it should be prepared for the consequences," he said.
The United States, which is closely allied with Arab states in the Gulf, has had years of small-scale naval confrontations with Iran, which has occasionally threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which 20 percent of the world's oil flows.
"It is in our vital national security interest to keep the Persian Gulf open, to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. We have done that in the past and we will continue to do that in the future," Zarif said.
"But the United States should know that when they enter the Strait of Hormuz, they have to talk to those protecting the Strait of Hormuz -- and that is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards," he said.
The Trump administration recently branded the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group, the first time the United States has made the far-reaching designation against a unit of a foreign government, as it demands that Iran curtail support for militant movements in the region.
The elite force, whose mission is to protect the regime, is in charge of the naval defense of the Strait of Hormuz and also has an array of other interests, including businesses.
Zarif said Trump was being pushed by what he mockingly called "the B Team" -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and John Bolton, the US leader's hawkish national security advisor.
"The B Team wants the United States to take crazy measures, and it won't be the first time the US has taken adventurous measures plotted for it by others," he said.
? 2019 AFP


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Q: Bootstrap 3 Glyphicon errors I realize there are similar questions that have been answered here, but many of those answers are using gems or modifying Bootstrap's files directly. While those are valid configurations, I want to increase my knowledge set in this area (Sprockets, Rails Pipeline, front-end development in general) and want to understand why this isn't working, what the underlying problem is.
Ruby 2.0.0-p353, Rails 4.0.2, Bootstrap 3.0.3, Nginx 1.4.4, Passenger 4.0.33
I downloaded the latest Bootstrap zip from their site, performed all of the operations found here to included those files directly into my application, and am able to get the glyphicons to show up exactly as expected in my development environment. However, when I deploy to production, the glyphicons show up as squares in Chrome. I added the individual file extensions for the glyphicons files to the production precompile and verified they're showing up in my public/assets folder. The only difference between the js/css files and the glyphicon files is that there's no gzipped file alongside the glyphicon files.
production.rb:
config.assets.precompile = ['*.js', '*.css', '*.eot', '*.svg', '*.ttf', '*.woff']

I know that Rails loads assets differently between development and production, but why isn't it seeing or understanding the glyphicon assets in production? Is there a way to fix this with my current configuration, or do I need to change the way I'm including these assets in a way to allow me to fix this error?
Also, in both development and production I get the following errors every time I render a page that uses a glyphicon, but the icons still show up. Is this related?

*

*ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET]
"/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff")

*ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET]
"/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf")

*ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET]
"/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg")

A: You should manually download the glyphicons fonts manually from the site
and put it inside your app/assets/stylesheets/fonts folder.
There is some problem which is not yet fixed by bootstrap gem
You can refer the following link
Bootstrap 3 Glyphicons are not working

A: *

*In config/application.rb, add the following after class Application < Rails::Application. It should look like this:
class Application < Rails::Application
    config.assets.paths << "#{Rails}/vendor/assets/fonts"

*In the terminal, compile your assets by running:
rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=development

*Edit the bootstrap.css file by changing @font-face resource locations from ../fonts/ to /assets/. It should look like this:
@font-face {
    font-family: 'Glyphicons Halflings';
    src: url('/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot');
    src: url('/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff') format('woff'), url('/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf') format('truetype'), url('/assets/glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg#glyphicons-halflingsregular') format('svg');
}

You're done. Just restart with rails s and the glyphicons should appear.