dexFreight announced the launch of its early adopters program to its blockchain system for U.S. shippers, carriers, brokers and freight forwarders.
A 960-foot-long freighter crossed the Atlantic Ocean last week running on a mix of biofuels and oil, not the usual super-polluting bunker fuel. Yet that lower-carbon fuel sloshing in Frontier Sky's tanks wasn't the only novelty.


Those Newsletter Subscription Popups? They Work.
This is a classic example of how just because you think you know almost everything about what you're doing, doesn't mean you can tell other people who you think don't know as much as you do, to shut it.
After all, how can they know any better, right?
It's embarrassing but this was me.
See, with all the webinars, white papers, articles, and case studies I've read on email marketing, I seemed to have been so convinced that I was a semi-expert (expert level would be if I charged people to let me talk about it) on this subject.
It's easy to get caught in this state of absurd arrogance knowing that not a lot of people (at least in the Philippines) invest time in doing the same thing.
Oh dear. I was quickly coming up with ridiculous reasons as to why we cannot possibly do that. What have I turned into!
My teammate had the WTF look. "Yeah! WTF?", I asked myself.
It was a humbling experience. More than humbling, it was mortifying.
"Why can't we at least TRY it?" was the next line I heard.
I was so full of myself thinking I've read it all that I didn't even think that those case studies and best practices might not necessarily apply to our company!
I changed my rage face to something more amiable.
Then I went back to my desk and started looking at possible solutions and if they really did work.
I found Padiact, met Claudiu Murariu, their wonderful and very helpful co-founder, and the rest is history.
We installed it on our site and almost a year later, we're now at 10k subscribers. We were and still are, seeing about 2-3% conversion rates each month.
What a waste it would have been if I insisted that I knew everything.
My newsletter popup story might not work for your company or for your website but what I can guarantee you that will always work is this: having team members who are brave enough to call you out, to experiment, and to make sure that it's not just your business that is growing, but also yourselves.
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Thomas Hanley, a performer from the 1954 Academy Award-winning film On the Waterfront, received honorary membership into SAG-AFTRA during a special ceremony at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Robin Williams Center in New York on May 18. Executive Vice President and New York Local President Rebecca Damon emceed the event, which included a screening of the film, Hanley formally being awarded his honorary union card and a Q&A panel with Hanley and National and New York Local Board member Adrian Martinez. Among event attendees were Hanley's family, including his daughter and granddaughter; representatives of the Fort Lee Film Commission/Barrymore Film Center; and members of the New York Local.
On the Waterfront stars Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy a disgraced boxer-turned-dockworker fighting against systematic union violence and corruption among the longshoremen in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hanley, then 14 years old, was discovered by director Elia Kazan on the rooftop of his apartment building where shooting took place. Despite having no acting experience, he was invited to audition and scored the role of Tommy Collins, a young boy who takes care of the rooftop pigeons and befriends Brando's Terry. Hanley worked on set for two weeks, earning a total wage of $500.
Although the film gained great commercial and critical acclaim and earned Brando his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 1955, Hanley did not see the same levels of success in the industry. The payment he received for his work went towards providing for his family, and he was thus unable to pay to join the Screen Actors Guild.
Unable to land more acting roles, Hanley became a longshoreman at age 16, following in the footsteps of his father, who disappeared when Hanley was 4 months old and is believed to have been murdered by a gang that ran the West Side piers. Over his 52 years of work, he became a lifelong advocate of unions and fought to reform the shipping industry. His advocacy included service as the recording secretary for Local 1558 of the International Longshoremen's Association.
SAG-AFTRA is proud and honored to have a steadfast union advocate and performer among its membership. Congratulations to Thomas Hanley!
From left, SAG-AFTRA Executive Vice President and New York Local President Rebecca Damon, honorary SAG-AFTRA member Thomas Hanley, Hanley's granddaughter Reagan Elizabeth Brater, his daughter Mara Hanley Brater, and National and New York Local Board member Adrian Martinez.
Despite the success of 'On the Waterfront,' Hanley left acting two years later and, in a case of life imitating art, took up his father's trade and went to work on the Hoboken docks. Following a string of federal corruption indictments that deposed the leadership of Local 1558 of the International Longshoremen's Association, he was elected recording secretary, and for the next 50 years, fought against the malfeasance that once contaminated the industry. From left, SAG-AFTRA EVP and New York Local President Rebecca Damon, honorary SAG-AFTRA member Thomas Hanley and SAG-AFTRA National and New York Local Board member Adrian Martinez.
EVP and New York Local President Rebecca Damon gives an opening speech to attendees at the special screening of 'On the Waterfront.'
SAG-AFTRA National and New York Local Board member Adrian Martinez, left, engages honorary SAG-AFTRA member Thomas Hanley in a Q&A after a screening of 'On the Waterfront.' A friend of Hanley's father served as the film's technical advisor and hired him to feed the pigeons on the roof of his apartment building. It was there that Hanley was discovered and offered the opportunity to audition for director Elia Kazan.
From left, SAG-AFTRA New York Local Board member Avis Boone, SAG-AFTRA National and New York Local Board member Adrian Martinez, honorary SAG-AFTRA member Thomas Hanley, Hanley's granddaughter Reagan Elizabeth Brater, Hanley's daughter Mara Hanley Brater, SAG-AFTRA New York Local Vice President Maureen Donnelly, SAG-AFTRA EVP and New York Local President Rebecca Damon, and SAG-AFTRA National and New York Local Vice President Liz Zazzi.


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Working from Home – Part 2
by paul.longshaw 23/06/2020
Working from Home – Part 2 – We can offer advice by telephone and we can still process any grant applications electronically.
Business Support, Press Release
Business Still As Usual at the BIC
Business As Usual at the BIC
"Business As Usual at the BIC – we can offer advice by telephone and we can still process any grant applications electronically. You can still ring us on 01782 333798 or e-mail us on enquiries@thebic.co.uk or contact our staff individually. We are also on Linked In, on Twitter @staffsBIC and on Facebook so do find us and follow us – we hope you all stay safe and hope to "see" you again when life returns to normal"
Funding your Innovation – March 2020
What funding is available to help you grow your business? What are the latest schemes? Looking at local, regional and national support To be able to attend the workshop free of charge* you are required to complete the SBIS 3 form to declare eligibility. Download – **SBIS-3-Form.zip * Staffordshire Based SME's (small and medium-sized enterprises) only. ** Zip File contains MS Word & PDF Versions of the form, return signed form at event/workshop. # Half-day workshop is equivalent to £175 (Please note there is no charge to clients). # Full day workshop is equivalent to £350 (Please note there is no charge to clients).
Innovative Thinking To Beat The Competition – Feb 2020
More than 8,000 companies in the UK have Innovation in their company name. Why do they believe in Innovation? Innovate or Stagnate still rings true in business. We can't afford to stand still. But Innovation doesn't just happen – it needs to be managed! How can we bring innovation into our business and use it to grow our business? To be able to attend the workshop free of charge* you are required to complete the SBIS 3 form to declare eligibility. Download – **SBIS-3-Form.zip * Staffordshire Based SME's (small and medium-sized enterprises) only. ** Zip File contains MS Word & PDF Versions of the form, return signed form at event/workshop. # Half-day workshop is equivalent to £175 (Please note there is no charge to clients). # Full day workshop is equivalent to £350 (Please note there is no charge to clients). They may be a charge of £10 if you do not inform us in advance of your non-attendance
Congratulations to DHC Innovations Ltd
We were pleased to hear that one of our clients DHC Innovations Ltd recently won the Medilink WM Medical & Healthcare Business Awards 2019 for "Outstanding Achievement" with their Opti Shield – a flexible optical occluder.
Innovation, Inventors
Innovate UK Launches its latest round of SMART Funding
The latest round of SMART Funding launched on 9 January 2020 is to help research and develop Game-Changing Technologies in any Industry.
Projects can range in size from £25,000 to £2million and last between 6 and 36 months.
Grant Recently Launched by WRAP
WRAP is looking for organisations that are creating new methods of recycling plastics or textiles in England. The project must demonstrate that it goes beyond 'state of the art' current industry norm and must have a measurable impact in terms of quantity in tonnes. Projects could include innovative sorting equipment, smart marker systems, conveyor systems, storage etc… Grants of between £200,000 and £1m for eligible projects.
Funding, Innovation, Inventors
INNOVATE UK LAUNCH THEIR LATEST SMART AWARD
SMART is the new name for Innovate UK's Open Grant Funding programme. £25m is being made available for game-changing, innovative or disruptive ideas that lead to new products, processes or services that can be commercialised for business Applications can come from any area of technology, science or engineering and do not have to be inked to Innovate UK's usual grand challenge areas. Companies can apply for between £25,000 and £500,000 as a single application with a project to last 6 – 18 months. Companies looking for larger funds need to form a collaboration with other organisation. Competition Opens – 25 July 2019 Competition Closes – 16 October 2019
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International notes: Follow-up on multiple-antibiotic-resistant pneumococci - South Africa -- Quarantine measures -- Smallpox surveillance - worldwide -- Influenza - Taiwan, Finland, United States -- Current trends: Enforcement of a state's immunization law for entering school children - Detroit.
Table 1. Prevalence of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in nasopharyngeal cultures, South Africa, 1977 -- Table 2. Immunization status of entering students before and after enforcement of the school enterers law in Detroit, Michigan, March 1977.
Table I. Summary-Cases of specified notifiable diseases: United States -- Table II. Notifiable diseases of low frequency: United States -- Table III. Cases of specified notifiable diseases: United States, weeks ending December 31, 1977, and January 1, 1977 (52nd week) -- Table IV. Deaths in 121 U.S. cities, week ending December 31, 1977 (52nd week).


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Q: Triggering a controller action after new/create Rails 3.2.18
Ruby 2.1.5

In my controller, I have new and create methods. I have another method in the controller, let's call it post_create that I would like to automatically trigger after the create method finishes executing. This method has no view associated with it, and it's supposed to update a table.
I tried doing
after_filter :post_create, only:[:create]

But I need the parameters that were passed to the create method, and at this point I no longer have them. Any ideas?

A: It can be done in this way:-
def create
 #code
 redirect_to post_create_path(parameter)
end

def post_create
  #update the table
  redirect_to desired_path
end

Note:- Set the path by knowing the routes by typing in the console as rake routes.

A: You will get params in you after_action. If this is not the case. You can perform such action in observer. If this is something that does not affect your new view. Then you should go for observer instead of creating a after_action. For mor detail check here.

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Derinya and Aplic Crossing to Open on 12 November
President Nicos Anastasiades and President Mustafa Akinci have issued a joint statement following the meeting they held this morning in the UN buffer zone. It said that the two leaders "..had a frank exchange of views on the way forward. They confirmed their readiness to engage constructively with Ms Jane Holl Lute, who will be visiting the island on 31 October 2018."
It was also announced that they had agreed to open the border crossings at Derinya and Aplic-Lefke on November 12.
Anastasiades said his meeting with Akinci was "very creative."
"We reaffirmed that the intended solution is the bi-zonal, bi-communal federation. I explained and we discussed my proposal for a more functional solution through the decentralisation of certain powers," Anastasiades tweeted.
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Kristen Wiig to Return to the Small Screen in Reese Witherspoon Comedy Series
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The New NSFW Trailer for the 'Heathers' Reboot is Angsty and Dark AF
Conflicting Reports From Amazon Studios Highlight the Depth of the Power Vacuum
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After six years focused on her movie career, Saturday Night Live alum Kristen Wiig is returning to television in the starring role of a new comedy series, produced by Reese Witherspoon's production company Hello Sunshine. Since leaving SNL, Wiig has made guest appearances on TV series such as The Last Man on Earth or Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later.
Inspired by a forthcoming short-story collection by Curtis Sittenfeld, the comedy series was created by Colleen McGuinness, a former producer on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. The currently untitled series had multiple outlets bidding on the project, but in the end, Apple landed the 10-episode comedy, where Wiig will serve as an executive producer alongside Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter from Hello Sunshine.
This brings the total number of projects Witherspoon has in the works with Apple to three. The others are drama series, one starring Octavia Spencer and the other helmed by Jennifer Aniston. At this time, there are no release dates slated for these three new series and Apple has yet to announce where viewers can watch them, as they do not currently have their own streaming platform available.
The three projects with Witherspoon number among the many Apple has recently announced. Other ones include a space drama from Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ronald D. Moore, a reboot of Amazing Stories with Steven Spielberg, and a series called See from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Additionally, Apple is in bidding war with HBO over the J.J. Abram's first TV script since Fringe.
Wiig's next project is Where'd You Go, Bernadette, a Richard Linklater film co-starring Cate Blanchett and Billy Crudup. Her most recent project, Downsizing, received high critical praise and is considered an awards season contender.


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Petrol for Congo
Next time you pull up at the bowser consider the inhabitants of Eastern Rwanda and Congo. Their petrol is shipped overland from Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, though hundreds of kilometres of bush into Rwanda and then over the mountains in the Western part of the country, before being driven over the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC is a bit of a trades description misnomer because corruption there is so rife you pay less for a litre of fuel there than you do in Rwanda, or even on the coast.
These HDR shots were snapped at a truck stop on the road to Parc des Vulcans - we were en route to see the mountain gorillas there but the trucks were going further to Congo. Petrol has to be shipped here because Congo has no roads venturing into the interior from the west coast.
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Rwanda: Walking with Gorillas
The main thing visitors come to Rwanda to see are its mountain gorillas. It's the reason people come to this tiny, landlocked country with a tragic past - but a seemingly bright future. What becomes immediately apparent on arrival is that it's a country on the mend. It's also the cleanest country I've visited in many years. Not a skerrick of rubbish anywhere. Well, nearly everywhere. One of the things I read about Rwanda was that the people have a national clean up day, every month. Everyone gets into it and the result is that the capital, Kigali, and the outlying countryside, all look to be competing in some national tidy town competition. Great.
We arrived at Kigali airport at the un-Godly hour of 3am and were taken to the Milles Collines Hotel - the same one that features as Hotel Rwanda in the Hollywood movie of the same name. Luxurious and comfortable. Next day we were picked up in two Land Cruisers and spent an interesting 4 hours driving north west to the Parc des Vulcans along the border with Uganda and the DRC (Congo). It's here that the remaining 700 or so mountain gorillas live - although they don't take much notice of International boundaries of course. We spent the night at the Gorilla Lodge in Ruahengire, a very cool hotel in a garden of hydrangeas, all surrounded by a pine forest. Next day saw us driving 15 mins into the park HQ where we were split into 2 groups of five - which were padded up to 8, with the addition of a Canadian man and a NY couple on secondment to the UN war crimes commission in Arusha, Tanzania. There are several tourist gorilla family groups in the Parc des Vulcans - groups that have had contact with people, so are familiar with their presence. There are also other groups that are off-limits to all but scientists. You get allocated two guides and a specific gorilla group. Ours were quite close to the HQ.
After sliding left and right up a very rutted, uneven track our 4WD ground to a halt in an axel-deep bog so we walked the last 400 metres to the departure point.
From there you can hire a porter to carry your camera gear (US$10) if you need (a good idea and great value). Walking sticks are handed out (another good idea) and off we went. Ideal clothing is long trousers, walking boots and a long sleeved shirt. Or waterproof jacket. You are only allowed to sit near the gorillas for one hour so, even if it's raining, you'd not be wet for long - although at 8,500 feet altitude, it is a touch chilly. The clothes are more for protection from the stinging nettles encountered in the bush. Stings are quite painful and apparently last for 24 hours in some cases. Because gorillas move a lot in a day looking for food you never know exactly how long the walk to the gorilla location is going to be. We took 30 mins walking through farmland to get to the park boundary, an incongrous dry stone wall and then only 30 mins to the gorilla group. Were were lucky.
The other half of our group had to plough through quite dense jungle for over an hour with the Ak47-armed park rangers machete-ing their way through dense undergrowth and nettles. We found our lot after 30 mins of slipping and sliding through a vast bamboo grove. We spotted two small (baby) gorillas first and were so dumbstruck by their physical closeness that one of the group (no names Janice!) nearly fell over the male silverback, the 'boss' of the small group. The guides make sure that you remain at least 7 metres from the animals at all times. Even so this short distance seems almost frighteningly close. The primates appear to be unconcerneed by the presence of humans. One of the guides 'spoke' to the gorillas, emitting a low grunting noise that was the gorilla equivalent to 'we are friends' and the gorilla responded with the equivalent grunt of 'no worries'. He also grunted to his females to check on them - they had to reply quickly that they were OK too, otherweise the silverback heads in their direction to check. It's amazing to see this actually happening in front of your eyes - and on a couple of occasions, once where a flash accidentally went off (not one of our group) and another when one of us got too close, we had the ranger pacifying this huge 200kg primate with a series of quick grunts.
It also became obvious that these primates were subject to some wicked bouts of flatulance - two of the younger gorillas were hanging about in the upper branches of the bamboo and periodically farted, long and very loud, much to the amusement of the males in OUR group.
We spent an hour shooting from several different positions in light that was next to non-existent: f2.8, 1/30s, using an EF70-200mm f2.8, L USM lens @ ISO 1000 on my 5D MkII.
Top pic by Robin Nichols
Then - Mike CLements
Sue Caldwell and below, close up by Dianne Clements and bottom, Robin Nichols
Zanzibar: Final Slideshow Critique
Here are the final shots from our photo critique sessions. This is the 'best of the best' from the remaining few days spent cruising round Zanzibar. Bearing in mind that few of us have had the time to anything other than skim the thousands of images we have shot over the last 18 days, the results are very encouraging...
Zanzibar: the iconic Dhow
Even if you have never been to the island of Zanzibar you'll probably be little familiar with the photo above. This is a traditional African or Arabic Dhow, a small, light sailing vessel used to ply trade up and down the coast of Zanzibar, and further afield on the mainland of Africa and around Djibouti and into the Arabian Gulf. I have been lucky enough to see them being hand-built in Sur (in Oman) and I`m sure there are places along the coast here in Zanzibar where these classic trading boats are still assembled.
Traditionally these boats are made from teak without the use of any fixing devices such as nails and screws. It`s an art that is probably all but died out - certainly in the Middle East all the boatbuilding is now completed using Pakistani labour.
This was shot off the coast in Stonetown - the boats come in quite closely to the beach so you can get some great pictures using a regular 300mm lens - this was shot using a Canon EF100-400mm lens on my 5D MkII.
Zanzibar: Spice Farm Tour
Zanzibar, lying just off the coast of Tanzania is famous for spices.
As you walk around the cramped streets of this island's capital, Stonetown, you do get a waft of various herbs and spices emanating, for the most part, from tourist shops. On our first full day on the island we took a trip about 25 km north of the capital to check out a spice farm. One thing that struck me immediately is how poor everyone appeared to be. Houses are quite ramshackle, people and literally living in mud huts, even as state schools exist in the most basic form. And for some reason I imagined the people of this exotic, tropical island was somewhat wealthier. The trip into the hinterland to visit the spice farm takes about 30 or 40 minutes depending on how many off-road adventures you have to avoid roadworks and diversions. At some point it felt like we were on safari again! The farm itself is a collection of mud huts and rattan structures hidden from the road among some banana palms and other assorted bushes.
To a city boy these all appeared very similar in size and type. To someone who knows about herbs and spices it was an income. We spent more than two hours in the Plantation, stopping at different plots to sniff the crushed leaves of each different spice plant, taste its fruit and then try to guess its name. all of us in the group were a little bit sceptical when we first started because the operation, such as it was, appeared very flaky. However, having tasted our way through a variety of spices, eaten our way through a pile of tropical fruit, and drunk half a litre of fresh coconut, all done while wearing handmade hats, neckties and frog pendants (all made from palm leaf) we decided that we'd had a thoroughly good time. Not only have we learned a lot about what these almost commonplace spices looked like in natural habitat but we learnt a lot about their commercial value too. It was a thoroughly interesting and value for money afternoon.
Nutmeg peeled
Nutmeg fruit
African 'lipstick' spice
African 'lipstick' spice applied
African 'lipstick' spice applied on one of the farm boys
Vanilla beans on the vine
Ylang Ylang flowers
Peeling ginger root
Peeling local oranges
Green peppercorns
Cardomons at base of tree
And finally, Alan Stern looking distincly native after too many coconut cocktails, your truly shooting someone else with a wacky hat and chewing a bit of sugar cane. Very nice!
(more pics to follow once I get them from the group.)
Great lunch place in Zanzibar
For a long time in its history, has been the centrepiece of the spice trade. You can see it in the advertising at the airport, smell the spices in the streets of Stone town and taste in its food. If you're wandering around the historical part of Stonetown, as we were today, you`ll get hungry! We had spent about three hours wandering into alleyways and markets and ended up at a restaurant called the Silk Route just next to the tunnel on Forodhani - you can`t miss it because there's a uniformed guy standing on the footpath at the front complete with turban.
You have to climb three floors to get to the restaurant but this gives you the right to sit at the table and watch sailing dhows drift past in the afternoon breeze right in front of you. The view is pretty good, the breeze coming onto the terrace even better and the food, we all agreed, was fantastic: described as 'Indian fusion', most of our group tucked into vegetarian dishes that were presented immaculately by very polite staff.
If you like extremely well presented, affordable and tasty Indian food, in attractive surroundings, we couldn't recommend the place more highly...
Walking with a Ranger
National park rangers in Tanzania are usually recruited form the military - apparently having one year's training in the army is quite desirable. Candidates then join the ranger or guide service for further training - this time in animal identification, habits and characteristics. They conduct short walks or longer hikes into the bush if you want a better African experience. You can even hike into pygmy country around Ngorongoro crater and go hunting with a bow and arrow.
The guide's name was Idi and he told me quite a lot about the life of a Ranger. Their job consists of monitoring the impact of humans on the park life as well as monitoring the animal life and its general well-being. He carries a gun chiefly to make a noise and scare off any animals they may encounter, and mostly Cape Buffalo and perhaps lion. I asked him how many times he had used his weapon and he replied ' many many times', mostly I gathered in order to scare off some of the larger predators that he encountered in his walks. I was asked about how many people were killed by predators not expecting a reply. He told me that only last year to Maasi men were mauled to death, presumably by lions while they were trying to get home. He did at that both men had been drinking heavily and had probably fallen asleep somewhere in the bush so represented an easy target and the animals. I got the impression from him that although many of these animals are in fact quite dangerous, if you treat them with respect and avoid any direct encounter you're likely to come off quite safely. Because you're never quite sure of the whereabouts of these animals at any one time the local farmers, the maasai bring their livestock back into the family compound every evening. You can hear the clinking of cowbells always through this area as the boys herd there animals to greener pastures and then bring them back again in the evening. For the entire three hours that we were walking over shadowed by several local Maasai boys asking for the usual school pen or dollar notes. They didn't get any. They were also very curious as to why we were taking pictures of landscape, especially when I set up my tripod to do some HDR shots on the rocky sea in the bottom picture. The lake you see in the background is 50% salt water and 50% freshwater and provides a unique environment that Tanzania's last remaining pygmy tribes. I didn't meet any of course but a trek in that direction to experience their way of life sounded like a cool thing to do if we had more time.
Arusha Best of the Best (so far..).
Here's the best of the best from our third slideshow/critique session held at the luxurious and very relaxing Arusha Coffee Lodge - if you visit Tanzania, I think all of us would recommend it as a cool place to hang for a couple of days.
Sue Caldwell
Kimie Kato
Glyn Patrick
Lucie Loane
Ralph Hilmer
Fraser Burdon
Dianne Clement
Kerrie Stern
Peta Blake
Mike Clements
Fay Burdon
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MISUMI USA, Inc., a subsidiary of MISUMI Corporation, part of MISUMI Group, Inc. (Tokyo: 9962), recently introduced two new, easy to use Web services – the Modular Assembler, and AutomationMaterials.com.
Both online services were developed to speed up and simplify the process of selecting, specifying and ordering a number of components the firm supplies to OEMs of industrial machinery and factory automation equipment and systems. At ATX Canada 2011, product engineers will offer demonstrations of both Web services at MISUMI booth #939.
MISUMI's Modular Assembler Website groups together various functional parts frequently used in machine designs and offers them in conveniently packaged modules. Currently offered are about 46 modules designed for Rotary/Linear Motion, Positioning/Detecting, Retention, and Connection applications.
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FARR Festival returns in July 2013 for more adventures in the woods, with early bird tickets now on sale, via their new website farrfestival.co.uk. Striding into its fourth year, the festival has steadily achieved a good reputation for its music programming in stunning surroundings. Set in a secluded woodland atop a mount just 30 minutes train ride from north London, its impressive string of headliners last year saw Craig Richards, Bicep, Miguel Campbell, Optimo, Jozif, Waifs and Strays and Huxley all venture deep into the woodland.
Whilst the event retains its intimacy with a select crowd of just 2000 friends, extended family and festival goers, 2013 sees an enchanced festival site layout with an all-new outdoor stage, secret cinema, fully equipped camping area, showers with fresh running water and lots more to be revealed over the coming months. A Comedy and Games Tent will this year be an added haven in the daytimes. For those a little shy of leaving creature comforts behind, there'll also be boutique camping supplied by Heatherworks.
The first brands to be involved are Ransom Note, SOCIETY and Troupe. Having stolen the show on the Saturday night this year showcasing the likes of Bicep, Optimo and Terry Farley to a packed tent all night Ransom Note loves SOCIETY return to the grassy knoll. Having carved out a reputation in the capital over the past year with sold shows with the likes of Boddika, Fur Coat, TROUPE join the FARR fold, bringing with them a whole host of goodness. For latest info, check the website link.


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Q: How to launch Javascript on each page ( jQuery Mobile ) i am new to this place but already searched for answers on google and here, but i do not find a single answer that helped me (even though this question was asked alot of times!).
So my problem is, i have been making a jquery mobile page that i want to use as an app later on. I use 3 different pages (index.html, page2.html, page3.html) and i want to fire some javascripts each time these pages are clicked in the navigation.
i found alot of posts regarding this problem but most of them were kinda old (~2011) and the solutions i found didnt work.
here is what i already tried:

is the head of every page i use. in the doc of jquery mobile is written, that you have do insert your script between jquery and jquery mobile to be executed (js.js is my custom js). this script will only work on the first page, but i need it to run on every single page, because i exchange text on each page when some events happen.
after that i tried to put my code in the div data-role="page" so it will be executed every time, but this also didnt work. when i just put some console.log() in it (between $(document).bind("pageinit", function(){ ), the postings wont fire on every pagechange, but will fire in a ² way when i travel back to the original page (after 5 pagechanges, the log message will be put like 60 times in the console).
function packungSpeichern() {

var formPackung = new Object;

formPackung.inhalt = document.getElementById("inhalt").value;
formPackung.date  = moment().format("DD-MM-YYYY");

localStorage.setItem( "formPackung", JSON.stringify(formPackung) );

}
here is an example out of my custom js file. i can only use this script on the first page i launch, but not on ALL pages :/
i hope you understand what i want, my english isnt the best at all :)

A: In HEAD of the first page in JQM:

In BODY (page DIV) of each of the JQM pages (anywhere at the bottom, like in footer etc.):

Alternatively, if you put this into your HEAD, you will tell jQuery to execute this script once per page change:
$(document).bind("pageshow", function( event, ui ){
    console.log('A page has changed!');
}


Video may well have killed the radio star, but Shake 108 FM is bringing that music back to life one killer track at a time. The nonprofit radio station launched last year thanks to the 2010 Local Community Radio Act, which gives small-time radio operators a shot at starting their own community-based station. Local music junkie Peter Stebbins had plotted everything from going pirate radio to opening a station in Bimini with a giant antenna before the new law gave him a legal — and more realistic — shot at radio glory. With only three available frequencies in the Magic City at the time, the chances for a newbie like Stebbins launching his own radio station were slim. But the man shakin' things up in Miami got lucky. And now the rest of the city finally has a musically tasteful radio station that not only leaves the Taylor Swifts, Sam Smiths, and Meghan Trainors of the world to Y-100 but that supports the local community. More so, local music. With tunes that range from Miami's Suénalo to Jack Johnson to Daft Punk, Shake 108 lives up to its mission: "to provide a wide variety of music that makes you wanna shake your booty!"


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**DEPRECATED - Please use [WorkManager extension][] or [PlatformScheduler][]
instead.**

This extension provides a Scheduler implementation which uses [Firebase JobDispatcher][].

[WorkManager extension]: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/release-v2/extensions/workmanager/README.md
[PlatformScheduler]: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/release-v2/library/core/src/main/java/com/google/android/exoplayer2/scheduler/PlatformScheduler.java
[Firebase JobDispatcher]: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-jobdispatcher-android

## Getting the extension ##

The easiest way to use the extension is to add it as a gradle dependency:

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implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:extension-jobdispatcher:2.X.X'
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where `2.X.X` is the version, which must match the version of the ExoPlayer
library being used.

Alternatively, you can clone the ExoPlayer repository and depend on the module
locally. Instructions for doing this can be found in ExoPlayer's
[top level README][].

[top level README]: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/release-v2/README.md

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Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and baking powder. Add cheddar and toss to coat. Add sausage, onion, and butter. With your hands, mix until well combined and roll mixture into 1-inch balls. Place balls, ½ inch apart, on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until balls are golden and cooked through, 25 minutes. Serve warm.


These are excellent ads, that not only sell pretty popular policies, but also showcase Ignatieff well (even if I don't personally believe he was ever worried about his lack of a pension). In 2008, Dion lost because he relied on an exclusively negative message (I counted 11 negative ads and 1 positive one on the Liberal site at one point), without also offering a compelling vision of his own (he stopped talking about the Green shift fairly early on).
Incidentally, have you seen the latest Nanos poll? Harper is at 39%, but Ignatieff has closed the gap to under 7 points, while also surpassing Layton's leadership numbers for the first time in ages.
By hosertohoosier, at 11:16 a.m.
I like these ads as well.
They remind of me Apple's various Mac campaigns (Jeff Goldblum, switch, "Hi, I'm a Mac..."): just a guy talking in front of a white background. The campaign seems like a more refined version of those "Narnia" ads. And I think Ignatieff's image problem is less of a personality issue, and more that people don't know him (whereas Harper, Layton, and Duceppe have been running elections for the past million years). If Ignatieff is going to strike a chord with voters, I think it's going to be through cultivating this kind of image: a calm, thoughtful communicator, not the guy in the House of Commons yelling for Bev Oda's resignation.
I actually think the slideshow detracts from ad no. 1, but in fairness, it's a 60-second ad. That can be a lot of time to stare at one person.
I like number two a lot. It's my favourite. Frankly, it's a better anti-attack ad than the Green Party's TV one.
Number three is actually my least favourite, but I still like it overall. The message is too complicated for a 30-second ad, I think. For example, I missed "paid" in the "paid time off" part, so my first thought was, "Yeah, sure I can take care off my ill relatives too, by quitting my job!"
By Daniel, at 11:45 a.m.
I disagree with Daniel on number 3. I think anyone who is in the situation of having to care for a loved one knows exactly what they're talking about. I have high hopes for that one.
By Anonymous, at 11:49 a.m.
So their policy is to end sentences with prepositions?
By Robert Vollman, at 12:05 p.m.
By rockfish, at 2:17 p.m.
I think the third ad is the best of the bunch.
He opens himself up as an "ordinary Canadian" (and I loathe using that term) with something people can easily relate to by providing his own personal experience.
It's geunine and people can immediately see that.
By Deputy Dan, at 2:35 p.m.
They should have run the secone one as soon as the Tories attacked him. They waited too long to respond.
By CJS, at 4:35 p.m.
By Anonymous, at 6:18 p.m.
A random thought... how much of a low blow would it be to point out that Ignatieff wasn't in Canada when his mother was dying from alzheimer's, or that it was his brother Andrew that cared for her?
By hosertohoosier, at 8:38 p.m.
That's not really a random thought.
A random thought would be "I wonder how many prime ministers had a last name that started with a vowel" or maybe "Gee his eyebrows are hairy."
By Robert Vollman, at 9:55 p.m.
In seriousness, the theme of #1 and #3 seems to be "the government should be there when you need them."
The real question is "should the government be there when you don't?"
All Canadian agree on the first question, but not the second.
Unfortunately all parties currently agree on both questions - Yes to both.
By Robert Vollman, at 12:06 a.m.
RV... I don't think all Canadians agree on the first question.
This isn't because they think the government shouldn't be there, but because they disagree on what it should be there for.
If you think, for example, your government should be there for you with a state-run daycare program, it isn't hard to find people who disagree.
By saphorr, at 11:26 a.m.
I still think the Liberals are missing the boat by not taking the position that they are the strongest party on the economy.
They have Harper and Flaherty on video in multiple occasions completely wrong about the recession and the deficit. All they have to do is show Flaherty's figures compared to Kevin Pages. Then show who was right.
They can also point out the banking regulations which kept our economy in good shape came from the previous Liberal government.
People say they'll vote Conservative because they think they can better handle the economy which when you look at the numbers is a total myth. The Liberals have to address this.
By Big Tuna, at 12:51 p.m.
I believe Big Tuna has a really valid point.
The part about Ignatieff bemoaning his "lack of pension" is pretty nauseas.
My biggest surprise so far... Harper's so pissed off and angry in his campaign. I generally hold to the idea that "the candidate in the best mood wins"; so far, surprisingly, that's Ignatieff. I remember clearly 5 years ago Paul Wells predicting that Harper's anger would be his downfall. We'll see in 4 weeks.
By Jacques Beau Vert, at 4:57 p.m.
I like all three ads as they help to change the picture on Ignatieff and two address important key issues.
However I agree with the previous two comments that the Liberals need to attack the idea that the Conservatives are the better economic managers. I was throwing something at the TV(yes I watched it in those days) when Martin didn't run on his economic record in his last election.


What's new in the New Republic, etc.
New Republic, March 25 The cover story says that the battle in Gardez shows an Army once again willing to risk its troops in ground operations. "The evolution of the Army's involvement in Afghanistan … has closely mirrored the evolution of Army thinking over the past five years—from excessive caution, to embarrassment, to a more robust stance."… Does Bush believe in religious freedom? "TRB"notes that Bush's and Ashcroft's religious statements uniformly embrace people of all faiths while ignoring nonbelievers—thus "implicitly writing atheists and agnostics out of America's moral community."… A piece says we should stop poking fun at plastic surgery. Looking younger and more attractive gives a person an edge in competitive professions—a fact even men are starting to notice. The author wonders whether "the more guys have plastic surgery, the more society will view it as a rational response to the culture in which we live. Which, for better or worse, it is."—K.T.
The cover article calls for a more active American hand in the Middle East. Bush needs to strongly affirm the right to a Palestinian state and continue to push the peace plan laid out by Clinton. … An article claims that the Bush administration's controversial review of nuclear weapons policy marks no serious departure from the philosophy of previous presidents. In 1991, Bush Sr. threatened nuclear retaliation against Iraq in the event of a chemical or biological weapons attack. And five years ago Clinton began shifting America's nuclear preparedness to deal better with threats from China. … An opinion piece argues that software ought to be held to the same product-liability standards as other goods. If a Windows security bug allows hackers to mutilate your system, you should have the right to sue. Making the software industry accountable for its products will increase competition and lead to better programs.—J.F.
The annual auto issue.… A selection of the finest picks: best family car, the VW Passat; best hybrid, the Toyota Prius; best minivan, the Honda Odyssey, and best car out there, the BMW 530i. … CR asks how to get the best price on a car and finds it depends on the shopper's personality: If you're assertive and willing to gather price quotes, shopping the showrooms is the most likely way to land a bargain. Those who hate haggling do better shopping online or at discount clubs like Costco.— K.T.
Both cover stories report on the same deadly battle in Afghanistan (Newsweek calls it Operation Anaconda; Time favors the Battle of Shah-i-Kot), stressing the bravery of six U.S. troops who died trying to recover the body of a fellow soldier who had been ejected from a helicopter. Both argue that the war is entering a new phase in which Afghan mercenaries, who get a large share of the blame for letting Taliban and al-Qaida fighters escape Tora Bora, will take a more limited role. Operation Anaconda so far has resulted in 11 allied deaths (eight Americans), 88 allied casualties (70 Americans), and 700-800 Taliban/al-Qaida deaths. Newsweek suggests that spies may have tipped Afghan forces off about the American battle plan. Time claims that Americans have accepted the recent deaths with an even stronger sense of resolve about the mission against terrorism.
A Newsweek piece by Steven Brill applauds Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and chides the media for reporting that his office has no power. Though he has a small staff of around 80 and no budget of his own, Ridge has President Bush's support and a desire—unique in Washington—to get things done without much fanfare. He comes up with fantastic ideas and then lets Cabinet departments handle the implementation and management, ensuring that administrative jealousy and jockeying don't get in the way of real progress. … A Time article reveals the cynical calculations behind the rhetorical détente in the Middle East (after a week that left 113 Palestinians and 49 Israelis dead). The United States is sending a special envoy to the region because it wants regional leaders to focus on upcoming American efforts to oust Saddam Hussein. Yasser Arafat has castigated terrorist leaders because he wants to be relevant at the next Arab summit. Ariel Sharon has toned down because he is trying to fight off a political challenge from fellow Likkud leader Benjamin Netanyahu.— J.D.
U.S. News & World Report, March 18"In the tradition of U.S. News's Best Colleges and Best Graduate Schools issues," the cover story names an honor roll of the 20 best college athletic programs (based not just on wins or losses but on how they play the game—graduation rates, gender equity, variety of sports offered, etc.). Five of the eight Ivies, which don't give athletic scholarships, made the list, as did real powerhouses such as Duke, Maryland, Michigan, and Penn State.… A piece congratulates Harvard for maintaining a record 41 varsity teams without resorting to corporate sponsorships and the sale of naming rights. It mentions the university's $18 billion endowment only in passing. … An article deplores the way colleges have implemented Title IX, which guarantees gender equity in higher education. Instead of simply adding women's teams to comply, many athletic departments have cut men's teams, including 171 wrestling teams and 84 tennis squads.— J.D.
The New Yorker, March 18 The style special.… A great piece reports on fashion designer Yeohlee's futile efforts to design chic uniforms for the nursing staff at New Jersey's Valley Hospital. Theorizing that nicer clothes would contribute to the authoritative aura of the hospital, executives hired Yeohlee to replace scrubs with traditional all-white gear. Yeohlee believed her outfits would revitalize the struggling vocation of nursing by engendering professional pride ("there's a moral need for this"), but it turns out the nurses liked the old scrubs much better.… An article calls for the United States to give out more foreign aid. The Bush administration argues that many countries that get money don't get any richer, but research shows that when coupled with serious economic reform, aid helps a lot. America currently spends 0.1 percent of its GDP on foreign aid, and most of that is disbursed according to political exigencies (Egypt, Israel), not on the basis of real need.— J.D.
Weekly Standard, March 18 The cover story tries to make heads or tails of Bill Simon's surprising upset of Richard Riordan in the California Republican gubernatorial primary. Aided by Gray Davis ads attacking Riordan, Simon came from more than 30 points down a month ago to beat Riordan by 18 points. Davis thinks his opponent is a right-wing fringe candidate out of step with average Californians, but if Simon can stay focused on Davis' mediocre record, he might actually stand a chance to win in November—just as another conservative outsider, Ronald Reagan, did in 1966. … An article describes the fascinating story that Daniel Pearl was pursuing at the time of his kidnapping. Pearl seems to have been tracking links between alleged shoe-bomber Richard Reid and radical Pakistani group Jamaat al-Fuqra, which has set up shop all over North America. During the 1980s, al-Fuqra was connected to several terrorist plots, but there is not yet any hard evidence linking the group to Sept. 11.— J.F.
The Nation, March 25 The cover story pays tribute to liberal bulldog Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., on his 70th birthday. When he arrived in Washington 40 years ago as silver-spooned dynast, his fellow senators were slow to take him seriously. Today, he's evolved into "a joyous Job" and is "the best and most effective senator of the past hundred years." His success rests on his ability to form real friendships across the aisle with even the most rabid conservatives. … A piece says that Enterprise, the latest incarnation of the Star Trek franchise, has turned reactionary in its politics. The intergalactic politics of the old Star Trek used to be subversively socialistic, anti-imperialistic, and progressive on race and gender issues. Enterprise, however, is "a frank vehicle for white male suprematism and resentment." Women are objectified, there's racism at every turn, and the Vulcans—poor Vulcans—just can't get a fair shake.— J.F.


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Сидья Туре (; род. в 1945, Димбокро, Кот-д'Ивуар) — гвинейский государственный и политический деятель, премьер-министр Гвинеи в 1996—1999 годах.

Президентские выборы
Сидья Туре был одним из основных кандидатов на президентских выборах в июне 2010 года, но в конечном итоге занял третье место, получив 13,62 % голосов. Сначала он оспорил результаты, но после того, как они были подтверждены Верховным судом, он публично признал итоги первого тура 22 июля 2010 года: «Являемся ли мы жертвой или нет, я думаю, мы должны начать с уважения институтов и двигаться дальше». Несмотря на то, что ему не удалось выиграть место во втором туре, Туре имел достаточную поддержку, чтобы его воспринимали как потенциального «делателя королей», который мог повлиять на исход второго тура, поддержав кандидата. «Мы представим наши предложения по правительству обоим кандидатам», — сказал Туре, добавив, что «нам нужен союз, и мы подождём и увидим результаты переговоров с двумя лидерами».

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Travel to the world's first Hello Kitty dim sum restaurant
For decades Hello Kitty has been an icon throughout Japan, where the idea of the cartoon kitten began. Since then, however, she's grown in popularity everywhere, from surrounding Asian countries to the U.S. Time magazine pointed out that Hello Kitty is now even more well-known in Hong Kong than she is anywhere in Japan. Nothing proves this to be more true than the new Hello Kitty dim sum restaurant opened in the heart of Hong Kong.
Hello Kitty fanatics rejoice at opening of Hong Kong's new restaurant
The dim sum eatery, Hello Kitty Chinese Cuisine, is the first Hello-Kitty themed Chinese restaurant to open in the world. In addition to the stuffed versions of the familiar cat seated at most of the tables, everything from the decor to the mouthwatering dishes feature the feline's face and whiskers to satisfy fans of the beloved character and good food.
You'll also see her face on all of the plates, bowls, utensils, walls, wine bottles, lanterns and nearly every other object in the restaurant. In fact, she's even engraved into each dining table so diners get the true Hello Kitty experience. The interior of the building is primarily decked out in shades of gold and red, which are known to be lucky colors in the Chinese tradition.
Hello Kitty dim sum-shaped platters are available for hungry guests. How does the owner of the eatery, Man Kwong, create these delicious and creative meals? Kwong told Time that he creates Hello Kitty's skin with high-quality flour, her eyes with squid ink and decorates her bow with beetroot so that every part of her is made with natural ingredients. Kwong's commitment to healthy cooking is reflected in every meal offered on the menu.
Some of the finest dim sum in China
Oddly enough, Kwong didn't know much about Hello Kitty before starting his restaurant. He got the idea to open the uniquely-themed eatery more than a year ago, but ran into trouble getting the creator of Hello Kitty to approve. When Sanrio, the creator, gave permission to start the restaurant, she provided courses for the chefs on how to create the character. She even told Kwong and his staff about Hello Kitty's family tree and how she likes to look to ensure that the chefs get it just right.
According to CNN, Kwong experimented with hundreds of popular dim sum meals, trying to figure out how he could best incorporate the famous cat character into each dish. There are now 37 to choose from, including noodles, dumplings and shrimp buns. The menu is affordable, depending on what you're craving - visitors will find meals ranging from $5 to $30.
"The hardest part was getting the proportion of Hello Kitty's features right," Chan Kwok-Tung, an expert dim sum chef who cooks for Hello Kitty Chinese Cuisine, told CNN. "Otherwise, it'll easily look like a knockoff."
There are 17 steps involved in making the buns, which are among the easiest of the foods to cook. As a result, it generally takes double the time to make the Hello Kitty dim sum compared to traditional dim sum meals. Kwong also ensured that his staff had measuring tools that were specially made to keep the quality of the food to his standards.
The restaurant was opened part-time in April and will officially open in June. The eatery has already attracted a lot of attention and is expected to welcome travelers from all over the world. Whether you're looking to try some fine dim sum in Hong Kong or are an avid Hello Kitty fan, consider adding the Hello Kitty Chinese Cuisine eatery to your list of must-try restaurants as you travel.
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Right-Wing Radicals a Higher Threat to US than Undocumented Immigrants Ever Were
by Daniel Sipes
Donald Trump. Photo: AFP
Ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, President Donald Trump ramped up his anti-immigration rhetoric. His fixation on the non-existent threat of migrant crime has shifted the focus from the actual growing threat of far-right extremism.
In tweets, Trump referred to the migrant caravan approaching the U.S. southern border – comprised of individuals from Central American countries fleeing persecution and violence – as an invading force "made up of some very bad thugs and gang-members," and claimed that open borders bring "massive crime."
A 2018 study by the Cato Institute, however, found that undocumented immigrants committed about 50 percent less crime than native-born Americans.
Caitlin Patler, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis told The Globe Post that undocumented immigrants are not only less likely to commit crimes, a greater concentration of them actually reduces crime rates.
"There are many reasons people migrate, but the most common are due to economic instability, fear of persecution, and sometimes both," she said.
The focus of the Trump administration on the non-existent threat has exposed its failure to address the growing threat far right-wing extremists pose to public safety.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, far right-wing extremists are those with racist, anti-Muslim, homophobic, anti-Semitic, fascist, anti-government, or xenophobic motivations.
In the 2018 federal budget, Trump cut funding to organizations aimed at fighting far-right radical groups such as white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. One group in particular, Life After Hate, which helps members of these groups get out, lost $400,000 in funds.
Director of the intelligence project for SPLC, Heidi Beirich, told The Hill, "I find the pattern of cutting this money to be typical for the Trump administration's unwillingness to take seriously the threat posed by these people, whether they're doing it intentionally or not."
The announcement of these cuts came just before the "Unite the Right" rally that happened between August 11 and 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, where right-wing extremists clashed with counter-protestors. One man, James Alex Fields Jr., drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring several and killing one, Heather Hayer.
Trump eventually condemned the rally but refused to call the right-wing extremist neo-Nazis and blamed both sides for the violence that day. "You had some very bad people [on the right] but you also had very fine people on both sides," he said.
He frequently downplays the threat of far right-wing extremists, a dangerous prospect in 2018, since the number of terrorist attacks perpetrated by far right-wing extremists doubled between 2016 and 2017, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Recent events such as the sending of pipe-bombs to prominent Democrats by Cesar Sayoc and the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Robert Bowers highlight the growing trend of far right-wing extremism.
Cesar Sayoc was charged on October 29 with mailing at least 14 pipe-bombs to prominent Democratic politicians and media figures.
Sayoc – a hardcore Trump supporter – was a prolific social media poster, sharing sensationalized articles demonizing the left, pictures of himself at Trump rallies, racial epithets directed toward Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama, and had his van decked-out with decals supporting Trump, bashing liberal politicians, and a "CNN Sucks" sticker.
Robert Bowers gunned down 11 Jewish worshippers on October 27. Bowers, also an avid social media user, spread anti-Semitic hate on the site, Gab, often reposting memes and statements targeting Jewish people. He held white-supremacist views and echoed Trump's anti-immigration stance, referring to the caravan as invaders.
There are many routes to American radicalization, but Remy Cross, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sociology and Criminology at Webster University, points to two main ones: a perceived loss in status by the radicalized and online communities that hear and bolster their radical views.
"Active recruitment by groups who capitalize on grievances by teen to middle-aged white men offer them potential solutions … They seek to reframe economic or life anxieties as arising from outsiders, foreigners, immigrants, and women-and-minority-friendly policies," he told The Globe Post.
"In this case, we're talking about a constellation of groups, many of which have ties to older, more established white/European supremacy groups."
According to Cross, these groups are hard to identify and stop because most of the recruitment happens in online spaces – like Gab – that are difficult to find or are completely hidden from standard surveillance and monitoring techniques.
But, the influence of right-wing extremist groups extends beyond online.
"These are groups that have made a concerted effort to infiltrate military and law enforcement over the past decade plus and have seen at least some success in these efforts," Cross said. "This means that they often have insider information on efforts to counter them or arrest their members and that many have training and knowledge of law enforcement or military operating practices which means they know how to avoid detection in many instances."
Of the 65 terror attacks in the U.S. in 2017, two-thirds – 37 incidents – were carried out by far right-wing extremists, according to a Quartz analysis of data from the Global Terrorism Database. Far right-wing extremism is on the rise and costing more lives each year.
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<?php

namespace Symfony\Component\Form\Tests\Extension\DataCollector;

use Symfony\Component\Form\CallbackTransformer;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Exception\TransformationFailedException;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\DataCollector\FormDataExtractor;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormError;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormView;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Tests\Fixtures\FixedDataTransformer;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\DataCollector\Util\ValueExporter;

class FormDataExtractorTest_SimpleValueExporter extends ValueExporter
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function exportValue($value, $depth = 1, $deep = false)
    {
        return is_object($value) ? sprintf('object(%s)', get_class($value)) : var_export($value, true);
    }
}

/**
 * @author Bernhard Schussek <bschussek@gmail.com>
 */
class FormDataExtractorTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @var FormDataExtractorTest_SimpleValueExporter
     */
    private $valueExporter;

    /**
     * @var FormDataExtractor
     */
    private $dataExtractor;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    private $dispatcher;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    private $factory;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->valueExporter = new FormDataExtractorTest_SimpleValueExporter();
        $this->dataExtractor = new FormDataExtractor($this->valueExporter);
        $this->dispatcher = $this->getMockBuilder('Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcherInterface')->getMock();
        $this->factory = $this->getMockBuilder('Symfony\Component\Form\FormFactoryInterface')->getMock();
    }

    public function testExtractConfiguration()
    {
        $type = $this->getMockBuilder('Symfony\Component\Form\ResolvedFormTypeInterface')->getMock();
        $type->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getName')
            ->will($this->returnValue('type_name'));
        $type->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getInnerType')
            ->will($this->returnValue(new \stdClass()));

        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')
            ->setType($type)
            ->getForm();

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'id' => 'name',
            'name' => 'name',
            'type' => 'type_name',
            'type_class' => 'stdClass',
            'synchronized' => 'true',
            'passed_options' => array(),
            'resolved_options' => array(),
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractConfiguration($form));
    }

    public function testExtractConfigurationSortsPassedOptions()
    {
        $type = $this->getMockBuilder('Symfony\Component\Form\ResolvedFormTypeInterface')->getMock();
        $type->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getName')
            ->will($this->returnValue('type_name'));
        $type->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getInnerType')
            ->will($this->returnValue(new \stdClass()));

        $options = array(
            'b' => 'foo',
            'a' => 'bar',
            'c' => 'baz',
        );

        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')
            ->setType($type)
            // passed options are stored in an attribute by
            // ResolvedTypeDataCollectorProxy
            ->setAttribute('data_collector/passed_options', $options)
            ->getForm();

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'id' => 'name',
            'name' => 'name',
            'type' => 'type_name',
            'type_class' => 'stdClass',
            'synchronized' => 'true',
            'passed_options' => array(
                'a' => "'bar'",
                'b' => "'foo'",
                'c' => "'baz'",
            ),
            'resolved_options' => array(),
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractConfiguration($form));
    }

    public function testExtractConfigurationSortsResolvedOptions()
    {
        $type = $this->getMockBuilder('Symfony\Component\Form\ResolvedFormTypeInterface')->getMock();
        $type->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getName')
            ->will($this->returnValue('type_name'));
        $type->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getInnerType')
            ->will($this->returnValue(new \stdClass()));

        $options = array(
            'b' => 'foo',
            'a' => 'bar',
            'c' => 'baz',
        );

        $form = $this->createBuilder('name', $options)
            ->setType($type)
            ->getForm();

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'id' => 'name',
            'name' => 'name',
            'type' => 'type_name',
            'type_class' => 'stdClass',
            'synchronized' => 'true',
            'passed_options' => array(),
            'resolved_options' => array(
                'a' => "'bar'",
                'b' => "'foo'",
                'c' => "'baz'",
            ),
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractConfiguration($form));
    }

    public function testExtractConfigurationBuildsIdRecursively()
    {
        $type = $this->getMockBuilder('Symfony\Component\Form\ResolvedFormTypeInterface')->getMock();
        $type->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getName')
            ->will($this->returnValue('type_name'));
        $type->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getInnerType')
            ->will($this->returnValue(new \stdClass()));

        $grandParent = $this->createBuilder('grandParent')
            ->setCompound(true)
            ->setDataMapper($this->getMockBuilder('Symfony\Component\Form\DataMapperInterface')->getMock())
            ->getForm();
        $parent = $this->createBuilder('parent')
            ->setCompound(true)
            ->setDataMapper($this->getMockBuilder('Symfony\Component\Form\DataMapperInterface')->getMock())
            ->getForm();
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')
            ->setType($type)
            ->getForm();

        $grandParent->add($parent);
        $parent->add($form);

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'id' => 'grandParent_parent_name',
            'name' => 'name',
            'type' => 'type_name',
            'type_class' => 'stdClass',
            'synchronized' => 'true',
            'passed_options' => array(),
            'resolved_options' => array(),
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractConfiguration($form));
    }

    public function testExtractDefaultData()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')->getForm();

        $form->setData('Foobar');

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'default_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Foobar'",
            ),
            'submitted_data' => array(),
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractDefaultData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractDefaultDataStoresModelDataIfDifferent()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')
            ->addModelTransformer(new FixedDataTransformer(array(
                'Foo' => 'Bar',
            )))
            ->getForm();

        $form->setData('Foo');

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'default_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Bar'",
                'model' => "'Foo'",
            ),
            'submitted_data' => array(),
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractDefaultData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractDefaultDataStoresViewDataIfDifferent()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')
            ->addViewTransformer(new FixedDataTransformer(array(
                'Foo' => 'Bar',
            )))
            ->getForm();

        $form->setData('Foo');

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'default_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Foo'",
                'view' => "'Bar'",
            ),
            'submitted_data' => array(),
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractDefaultData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractSubmittedData()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')->getForm();

        $form->submit('Foobar');

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'submitted_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Foobar'",
            ),
            'errors' => array(),
            'synchronized' => 'true',
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractSubmittedData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractSubmittedDataStoresModelDataIfDifferent()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')
            ->addModelTransformer(new FixedDataTransformer(array(
                'Foo' => 'Bar',
                '' => '',
            )))
            ->getForm();

        $form->submit('Bar');

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'submitted_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Bar'",
                'model' => "'Foo'",
            ),
            'errors' => array(),
            'synchronized' => 'true',
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractSubmittedData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractSubmittedDataStoresViewDataIfDifferent()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')
            ->addViewTransformer(new FixedDataTransformer(array(
                'Foo' => 'Bar',
                '' => '',
            )))
            ->getForm();

        $form->submit('Bar');

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'submitted_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Foo'",
                'view' => "'Bar'",
            ),
            'errors' => array(),
            'synchronized' => 'true',
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractSubmittedData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractSubmittedDataStoresErrors()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')->getForm();

        $form->submit('Foobar');
        $form->addError(new FormError('Invalid!'));

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'submitted_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Foobar'",
            ),
            'errors' => array(
                array('message' => 'Invalid!', 'origin' => spl_object_hash($form), 'trace' => array()),
            ),
            'synchronized' => 'true',
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractSubmittedData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractSubmittedDataStoresErrorOrigin()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')->getForm();

        $error = new FormError('Invalid!');
        $error->setOrigin($form);

        $form->submit('Foobar');
        $form->addError($error);

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'submitted_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Foobar'",
            ),
            'errors' => array(
                array('message' => 'Invalid!', 'origin' => spl_object_hash($form), 'trace' => array()),
            ),
            'synchronized' => 'true',
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractSubmittedData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractSubmittedDataStoresErrorCause()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')->getForm();

        $exception = new \Exception();

        $form->submit('Foobar');
        $form->addError(new FormError('Invalid!', null, array(), null, $exception));

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'submitted_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Foobar'",
            ),
            'errors' => array(
                array('message' => 'Invalid!', 'origin' => spl_object_hash($form), 'trace' => array(
                    array(
                        'class' => "'Exception'",
                        'message' => "''",
                    ),
                )),
            ),
            'synchronized' => 'true',
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractSubmittedData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractSubmittedDataRemembersIfNonSynchronized()
    {
        $form = $this->createBuilder('name')
            ->addModelTransformer(new CallbackTransformer(
                function () {},
                function () {
                    throw new TransformationFailedException('Fail!');
                }
            ))
            ->getForm();

        $form->submit('Foobar');

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'submitted_data' => array(
                'norm' => "'Foobar'",
                'model' => 'NULL',
            ),
            'errors' => array(),
            'synchronized' => 'false',
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractSubmittedData($form));
    }

    public function testExtractViewVariables()
    {
        $view = new FormView();

        $view->vars = array(
            'b' => 'foo',
            'a' => 'bar',
            'c' => 'baz',
            'id' => 'foo_bar',
            'name' => 'bar',
        );

        $this->assertSame(array(
            'id' => 'foo_bar',
            'name' => 'bar',
            'view_vars' => array(
                'a' => "'bar'",
                'b' => "'foo'",
                'c' => "'baz'",
                'id' => "'foo_bar'",
                'name' => "'bar'",
            ),
        ), $this->dataExtractor->extractViewVariables($view));
    }

    /**
     * @param string $name
     * @param array  $options
     *
     * @return FormBuilder
     */
    private function createBuilder($name, array $options = array())
    {
        return new FormBuilder($name, null, $this->dispatcher, $this->factory, $options);
    }
}


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Sen. Jeff Klein, the head of the Independent Democratic Conference, said today that the...
Sen. Jeff Klein, the head of the Independent Democratic Conference, said today that the new coalition with Senate...
Sen. Jeff Klein, the head of the Independent Democratic Conference, said today that the... Sen. Jeff Klein, the head of the Independent Democratic Conference, said today that the new coalition with Senate... Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/17UFVzq
Joseph Spector, ROC Published 8:11 p.m. ET May 16, 2013 | Updated 10:04 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2012
Sen. Jeff Klein, the head of the Independent Democratic Conference, said today that the new coalition with Senate Republicans will be able to move a progressive agenda that otherwise might be stalled in Albany.
Issues like a minimum-wage increase, campaign-finance reform and tougher stop-and-frisk policies have not moved under either Republican and Democratic control of the Senate over the past four years, Klein said in an interview with Gannett's Albany Bureau.
"The new coalition government, the IDC and the Republicans, are committed to seeing major pieces of progressive legislation pass the Senate chamber when we return to Albany in January," Klein said. "Working with the governor and our colleagues, I know that we will be able to pass some major progressive reforms, such an increase in the minimum wage, our reform of stop-and-frisk and serious campaign-finance reform."
Klein said "passing minimum wage is not only a moral necessity; it's an economic necessity for our state's economy."
Klein, D-Bronx, who represents parts of lower Westchester County, dismissed critics who said the IDC handed the Senate majority to the Democrats. Issues that unions and Democrats care about would only get passed in a coalition government, he said.
"If they are really serious about a progressive agenda, this is the only way it's going to happen," he said.
And the IDC is open to new members. It already grew by one member today, adding former Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, D-Queens.
"What we want are members interested in governing," Klein said. "So if there are other Democrats that I've worked with in the past that I respect immensely that have a legislative agenda they want to accomplish, we're all ears. We want to work with you."
And Klein said he hasn't discussed the new deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "I have not spoken to the governor or anybody who works with the governor about forming a coalition government."
But Klein said that the Democratic governor has shown an ability to succeed in a bi-partisan way.
"I believe Governor Cuomo has shown that he's probably one of the most effective progressive elected officials of our time," Klein said. "And he's accomplished all these things by working in a bi-partisan way. That is precisely how this governing coalition will work."
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If there is one person whose personage in national polity offers a study case, it is no other than General Olusegun Obasanjo. Whether in his career in the military or his debut into Nigerian politics, he is so far the luckiest person in Nigerian public life.
To some, he is seen as the symbol of Nigerian unity. Some will not even mind giving him the cognomen of one that can lay down his life for the Nigerian cause. What such people may not remember however is that whether in the military or in government, his so-called courage is shielded by mortal cowardice. Various accounts of the war showed him as somebody gifted in hiding himself away from trouble zone only to emerge from nowhere to take credit that he did not deserve.
But even if we do not have details of his military career, the incident of February 3, 1976 when even as number two man, he had to disappear upon hearing the news of the assassination of his principal, General Murtala Muhammed, is a case in point. He was later to be located under the bed, hiding in the room of the late Chief S.B. Bakare in Ikoyi.
Even after surfacing, he could not on his own muster the courage to take the leadership position until the necessary courage was instilled in him by the likes of Theophilus Danjuma, Shehu Yar'adua and others. At that critical stage in his life, Nigeria was not worth dying for. It turned out to be a peculiar idiosyncrasy to him that the first thing he usually did with sword of authority was to turn that sword against those who risked their life to give it to him. Just as it was with the likes of Alani Akinrinade, Alabi-Isama in the war front, so also was it with Danjuma, Ibrahim Babangida, etc, at the Dodan Barracks. The story is not different with those who equipped his wardrobe for presidential garment in 1999. Atiku Abubakar, Danjuma and business moguls like S.O. Bakare, Oyewole Fasawe, Orji Uzor Kalu among others have different stories to tell on the 1999 episode.
One may wonder, why in spite of all these, he is still being seen as the symbol of unity in the country. The reason for this is not far-fetched for those who care. The case of Obasanjo is the myth or paradox of the man who loves his distant cousin better than his direct sibling. The paradox is the passion of sacrificing the blood of his sibling brother to save the life of his cousin.
The political narrative of that analogy is that in selling himself to other federating units of the country, he always sees his own race, the Yoruba race as the pawn or tool to ignite the lamp of Nigeria. Mention any Yoruba man, living or dead aspiring to the leadership of the country, Obasanjo would be quick to portray him to the other zones either as a tribalist or a Yoruba irredentist.
Going down memory lane, it was Obasanjo who as military Head of State coined the slogan 'the best candidate does not have to win at all costs in a democracy'. He deliberately coined that to quench the flame of the rising profile of Obafemi Awolowo's four cardinal programmes of the Unity Party of Nigeria.
As if that was not enough, he arranged an official state visit to the eastern part of the country where he held clandestine meetings with the Igbo leadership regarding Awolowo's role as Federal Commissioner for Finance which changed the face of the currency that finally led to the collapse of the Biafra dream.
That for the East, for the North on the other hand, he would never miss the opportunity to remind their leaders that for him, one of them, Shagari could not have emerged as President in 1979 when he used his executive prowess to foil Awolowo's aspiration.
As it that was not enough, Obasanjo did not change his colour in 1993 during Abiola's presidential bid. He did not hide his endorsement of the 1993 election annulment in 'national interest'. His response to the Abacha clampdown on Yoruba leaders was a tacit endorsement of the anti-Yoruba Abacha agenda until nemesis caught up with him. In a nutshell, anything anti-Yoruba is to him in the country's national interest. Needless going through the intrigues that brought him to power in 1999, it suffices however to state that all those who contributed in one way or the other for his emergence were to be paid back with the tag of either being a thief or crook.
Although, ostensibly, the presidency was zoned to the South West in 1999 at northern initiative, to assuage the pain of the Yoruba for the annulment, the period turned to be the worst for the South West in the political history of the country. All sensitive positions that should ordinarily go to the South West were given as bonuses to other zones with a view to portraying himself as a nationalist, in fact, as the only nationalist in Yoruba land; as against tribalists, which he had branded all other Yoruba leaders.
Even his Vice President, Atiku Abubakar drew his ire in his bid to revive the SDP confraternity of the Babangida era. Atiku started by initiating a regular progressive meeting with the AD Governors who were his political soul mates in the SDP days. Obasanjo tacitly queried him for undue interference in his political zone.
He found a way of admonishing the AD governors for fraternising with a Fulani man at his own expense. He thereafter initiated his own rapport with his 'brother governors'. We all saw the end of that rapport. He made sure all the governors, except Tinubu lost their second term bid. Only Tinubu can tell the story of what he went through in the hands of Obasanjo before he could secure his second term.
Where other leaders used the opportunity of their incumbency to raise their people, the reverse is the case with Obasanjo. The Awujale had just narrated how he dealt the Mike Adenuga. Maybe one day, somebody will also tell the story of Chief Bakare of the Oluwalogbon fame in the hands of Obasanjo.
. Sanni sent this piece from Ibadan, Oyo State.


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