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1931-1933 Chrysler Imperial Eight
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The 1931-1933 Chrysler Imperial Eight marked a milestone for Chrysler's flagship automobile. As Walter P. Chrysler's automotive empire quickly grew in the 1920s, it perhaps inevitably expanded into the luxury-car market with the Imperial. Beginning with the Chrysler Imperial Eight in 1931, the Imperial took major steps forward by wrapping its new straight-eight engine in bodywork of classic beauty.
The 1931-1933 Chrysler Imperial Eight models were
classics. Here's a 1933 Imperial Eight CL phaeton.
Those who knew Walter Percy Chrysler all remembered the passion and magnetism of a vivid personality. Raymond H. Dietrich, the noted coachbuilder and Chrysler's first design chief, once said, "There was fire in his talk, his walk, and his sparkling blue eyes .... [I]f only those engineers had let him alone, he'd have lived longer and done even more." (Dietrich refers to the Fred Zeder-Owen Skelton-Carl Breer triumvirate that dominated Chrysler Corporation's early years.)
Said Joseph W. Frazer, the Chrysler sales executive who later helped create the Willys Jeep and cofounded Kaiser-Frazer: "W. P. was always looking for finest hours, and if one wasn't immediately available, his impulse was to manufacture it." Veteran designer Alex Tremulis recalled: "He had as good an eye for line and style as Edsel Ford" -- as the photographs in this article easily prove.
Chrysler's life was the archetypal American success story. Born in 1874 on a Kansas farm, he loved machinery more than crops, and apprenticed himself off as a machinist. He went to work on the railroads -- the Great Western, the Atchison Topeka, and Santa Fe -- while taking correspondence courses to further his engineering knowledge.
In less than a decade, he moved from a 10-cents-an-hour laborer to a $350-a-month plant superintendent for the American Locomotive Company.
An early love was the horseless carriage. In 1908, Walter went out on a limb to buy a $5,000 Locomobile, tore it apart to see how it worked, reassembled it, then promptly crashed it because he had not yet learned to drive.
He took a 50 percent pay cut to join General Motors, where he rose to become president of Buick before slamming the door on GM President Billy Durant ("and slam it he did," as Beverly Kimes wrote). In 1920, W.P. Chrysler struck off on his own.
After bailing out Willys-Overland, where he made a million a year turning the old company around with a new product mix, Chrysler took control of ailing Maxwell-Chalmers. With the help of talented professionals he'd brought over from General Motors and Willys, he stanched the red ink and turned Maxwell into Chrysler Corporation by 1925.
The year before, he built the first car bearing his own name, the Chrysler Six: good looking, fast, priced below the competition (Buick, of course), and equipped with novel four-wheel hydraulic brakes. It was an instant success.
The Chrysler Six helped to build a new automotive empire. In 1928, Chrysler bought Dodge Brothers, another old-line firm in need of new blood. That same year, he announced the low-priced Plymouth and created DeSoto, first to plug the Plymouth-Dodge price gap and later to bridge Dodge and Chrysler.
Almost overnight, Chrysler had a General Motors-like price hierarchy -- "a car for every purse and purpose," as GM president Alfred P. Sloan put it -- the prerequisite of empire. By the time Walter Chrysler died in 1940, the corporation he had built was number two in the industry, a position it would hold until 1952.
Despite his goal to compete in every market sector, it wasn't until 1929 that Chrysler seriously addressed the one market he had not yet fully exploited: the luxury field. At the time, luxury cars accounted for some 10 percent of the U.S. market. No one could know that the coming Depression would reduce that by a factor of 20. Nevertheless, the Imperials built between 1931 and 1933 were the finest Chryslers up to that time -- maybe of all time.
"Imperial" as a designation for upper-end Chryslers had been around since early 1926 and the six-cylinder Series 80. But the 1931-1933 generation stood apart, riding the company's longest wheelbases yet and powered by its first eight-cylinder engines.
Eight cylinders was a clear need if Chrysler wanted a luxury image, and when W.P. Chrysler went for something, he went whole hog. For the 1931 Chrysler line, he launched no fewer than four straight eights, ranging from 240 to 385 cid. The largest, running in nine main bearings and exclusive to Imperial, made 125 bhp with standard 5.2:1 compression. An optional 6.2:1 "Red Head" raised horsepower to 135.
It was a smart move. Cadillac's V-8 aside, straight eights dominated the high-price segment. Although Chrysler was about to improve the smoothness of all its cars with rubber engine mounts (a key element of "Floating Power," premiered by Plymouth in mid 1931), an eight or twelve was what luxury buyers were looking for.
With the Zeder-Skelton-Breer trio's traditional thoroughness, the new eights were painstakingly developed and extensively tested by Toby Couture, chief experimental engineer. Prototypes ran as disguised 1929-1930 models or with badges reading "Eagle Special."
Chrysler historian Don Butler has described how these cars were thrashed for 200,000 miles on all kinds of roads, from deserts to mountains, "open-throttled on lonely highways, thumping the bumps of rough side-roads ... challenged to come apart." By the end of this torture, the new engines were bulletproof.
Some of the most memorable Chrysler Imperials of the time were LeBarons. Continue to the next page to learn more about the creation of the LeBaron.
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Imperials with Body by LeBaron
A Chrysler Imperial with LeBaron coach work was the height of 1930s luxury and style. The 1931 Chrysler Imperial CG model was the first Imperial with a custom body by LeBaron. But that wasn't the only thing that made these Imperials special.
This 1931 Chrysler Imperial Eight CG series Custom
convertible sedan has LeBaron coachwork.
Imperials all came with a four-speed transmission, invented earlier but improved for 1931. Not a four-speed in the modern sense, it was basically a three-speed with an "emergency low" that allowed the normal first-gear ratio to be numerically higher than on most cars. It also boasted synchromesh on the top two gears.
The resulting powertrain delivered remarkable performance. A stock Imperial Eight could do 0-60 mph in 20 seconds, achieve 100 mph, and cruise at 90 -- impressive at a time when most roads were dirt and most cars traveled them at 30 or 40 mph.
At Indianapolis, a racing Eight dubbed the GNH Special (for owner-driver George N. Howie) qualified at nearly 103 mph and finished 11th overall. Imperials even entered two celebrated endurance races in 1931, LeMans in France and Spa in Belgium. They failed to finish the former but won their class in the latter.
At Daytona Beach, an Imperial sedan driven by Harry Hartz set 12 American Automobile Association speed records. Today's owners say these Imperials are not only wonderful to look at but great to drive, which is not always true of big Classics.
If styling makes the car, Chrysler came up trumps, thanks to a young designer named Herb Weissinger and the efforts of coachbuilder LeBaron. What the one created, the other perfected.
Weissinger spent almost his whole career at Chrysler, though he later produced memorable work at Kaiser-Frazer, where Joe Frazer hired him after World War II. In 1928, he was the most promising member of Chrysler's fledgling Art & Colour studio.
"Art & Colour was inspired by the studio of the same name, which Harley Earl established at General Motors," Weissinger said. "Ours was only a branch of the all-powerful Engineering Department, but W. P. Chrysler and K. T. Keller had a high aesthetic sense, and they encouraged us. My chief inspiration -- and that of Mr. Chrysler himself -- was the L-29 Cord. But we couldn't quite get the profile Cord had."
The L-29, radically low with front-wheel drive, had arrived in 1929 to the raves of body engineers. "Fred Zeder ruled out the possibility of a front-drive Chrysler," Don Butler wrote, and "also vetoed Herb's rear-engine suggestion as a means of attaining lowness."
The Cord stood barely five feet tall, a figure Weissinger found impossible to match with a conventional chassis. Still, he got sedan height down below 70 inches, which for those days was remarkable. And he successfully duplicated the Cord's beautiful vee'd radiator and long, sensuous fenders.
Introduced as the Series CG in mid 1931 (Chrysler didn't observe model years until 1933), the straight-eight Imperials started at $2,745 for a five-passenger four-door sedan. All used a stout double-drop girder-truss frame spanning a massive 145-inch wheelbase.
There were four "factory" body styles: standard and close-coupled five-passenger sedans, seven-passenger sedan, and eight-passenger sedan limousine. All were crafted by Briggs Manufacturing Company, Chrysler's mainline body supplier. Six wire wheels were standard; traditional wood "artillery" wheels were optional.
Considering how few people had $3,000 to spend for new cars in 1931, sales were quite good: some 2,100 sedans, almost 700 seven-passengers and sedan limousines. But as worthy as these cars were, they paled next to the LeBarons.
Ray Dietrich had founded LeBaron Carrossiers in 1920 along with Tom Hibbard. Both left within a few years for other pursuits, yet their company thrived. In 1930, at the urging of Walter Briggs, remaining principal Ralph Roberts moved the firm from New York to Detroit to be the custom-body arm for Briggs Manufacturing. When Chrysler purchased Briggs in 1953, it inherited the LeBaron name, which, a quarter century or so later, was debased to a sad degree.
In 1931, however, LeBaron meant a premier custom coachbuilder renowned for its work on chassis from Packard to Pierce-Arrow, Mercedes-Benz to Rolls-Royce. Some of its most stunning bodies were created for CG Imperials.
Sometimes described as "Custom Eight" models, they included a dramatic sport phaeton, a roadster, a rumble-seat coupe, a convertible sedan, and convertible coupe. Though technically semicustom cars, they were quite rare. Only 320 were built. The convertible coupe, looking as long as a freight train on that huge wheelbase, saw a mere 10 copies. The coupe was most numerous at 135.
Chrysler also supplied 95 CG running chassis for full-custom bodywork, domestic and foreign. A few received town car bodies by LeBaron and Waterhouse. The latter also produced six convertible victorias, majestic cars with blind top quarters and a built-in trunk.
Perhaps the most beautiful of these made-to-order Imperials was a special LeBaron speedster, basically the regular roadster style with the running boards lopped off, the windshield raked, and the top hidden beneath a flush-fitting panel. Its design opposite may have been a cabriolet by Drauz, of Germany, which clumsily piled the entire fabric top behind the rear seats.
Of course, by the mid-1930s, economic trouble was brewing across the country that would have a great impact on the auto industry. For more on the effects of the Depression, see the next page.
The Effects of the Depression
The Chrysler Imperial Eight was not immune to the effects of the Great Depression, which were felt far and wide across America, especially in the automotive industry. Since cars were luxury items, they were the first things to be cut out of budgets. The Chrysler Imperial, including those with bodies by LeBaron, felt the pinch.
A 1932 Chrysler Imperial CL model like this was a
relative bargain during the Great Depression.
It was a shame that economic conditions allowed so few buyers, because the LeBarons, priced from $3,150 to $3,995, had to be the bargains of their field. Hugo Pfau, who worked for LeBaron and wrote about the company, thought so: "It was not that the bodies were any less expensive than any others we were building at the same time, but rather a policy decision on Chrysler's part. I'm sure they took a substantial loss on each of those cars they sold."
Losing money on a few grand luxe cars probably didn't bother Walter Chrysler. Losing money in general, so soon after going all-out to build a full-line empire, was something else again. But lose it he did, along with every other auto manufacturer, as the Depression deepened. Production of Chrysler Corporation's flagship make bottomed out at around 25,000 in 1932.
As a man of humble origin, Walter Chrysler thought first of his employees. "He loved to be down on the floor with the men," Ray Dietrich recalled, "and he felt their pain as much as any man." When the government began closing banks, Chrysler hired out-of-work tellers to man a Detroit facility stocked with money drawn from reserve accounts, enabling his workers to cash their paychecks.
By the end of 1931, the luxury market for which the Imperial Eight had been so carefully planned was decimated. Cheap cars sold modestly, expensive ones barely at all. Cadillac's Sixteen and Twelve, and Packard's Twelve, after impressive debuts, likewise fell off precipitously.
The 1932-model Series CL Imperial Custom, which replaced the CG on a one-inch-longer wheelbase, accounted for only 220 sales, most of them LeBarons, against 3228 CGs. The "high-volume" CL was the close-coupled sedan -- at 57 units.
See the next page for more on the 1932 Chrysler.
1932 Chrysler
For the Chrysler corporation as a whole, 1932 was the year of "Floating Power," Chrysler's newest idea: engines cradled on strategically placed rubber-lined mounts. W.P. Chrysler himself modestly called it the industry's "fourth milestone," after the electric starter, enclosed body, and four-wheel brakes.
The 1932 Chrysler Imperial Eight CH series was
smaller, lighter, and sportier than the CL models.
Also new in 1932 were "silent" gear shifting through a free-wheeling transmission, activated by a dashboard button; squeak-proof springs with the leaves separated by discs of Oilite, an oil-impregnated sintered metal; and "Centrifuse" brake drums, which gave a longer lining life.
Floating Power was not necessary for an engine as smooth as the 385, but it gave Chrysler's finest just a little more advantage to compete with rival twelves and sixteens.
On the styling front, the Chrysler Imperial Eight CL models introduced for 1932 were even more attractive than the CG model they replaced. Hoods now swept almost to the windshield and louvers were replaced by cleaner vent doors. Convertible windshields were newly vee'd, and the massive bumper with its central "dip" identified the car at a glance. Weight went up, with all but the convertible coupe tipping the scales at more than 5,000 pounds.
The CL's paltry sales were leavened slightly by a new, smaller Imperial, the Series CH, mounted on a 135-inch chassis and priced from just under $2,000. A coupe, sedan, and convertible sedan were offered, and Chrysler built 1,400 of them, mainly the sedan.
All shared the CL's huge front bumper and some body-design features, plus the 385 engine. But being up to 500 pounds lighter made CHs more vigorous performers. It was another smart move. Chrysler avoided being left high and dry with a separate make, like some of its rivals, while not significantly compromising the big CL's prestige.
The 1932 racing scene was less noteworthy. George Howie went back to Indianapolis with another GNH Special, qualifying at more than 103 mph, but this time it wasn't enough to make the starting field.
An Imperial driven by Argentine Juan Guadino, the Golden Seal Special, qualified at 107.47 and started 36th, but dropped out after 71 laps with a burned clutch. Still, it was amazing that a racer derived from a car this big and luxurious could compete at all at Indy.
To learn about the 1933 Chrysler, see the next page.
For 1933, the Chrysler Imperial Custom CL models returned with an unchanged chassis and drivetrain, but the Chrysler Imperial Eight CHs were replaced by even smaller models designated CQ. The Chrysler Imperial Eight CQ models used a 299-cid eight of 108 bhp (with 100 bhp as an option) and rode a nine-inch-shorter wheelbase -- really a glorified version of the previous year's Series CP Chrysler Eight.
The elegant 1933 Chrysler Imperial Eight CL
continued atop the Imperial line.
The CL retained its stalwart prices and managed only 151 sales. The CQ offered five different models starting at just $1,275, a record low price for an Imperial. It wasn't really a grand Classic in the now-accepted sense, but it did sell, picking up 3,800 buyers.
Like that year's mainline Chrysler models, CQs boasted a new, three-speed, "all-silent" transmission, but also vacuum power brakes like the Customs. Both Imperial lines added an automatic choke and manifold heat control to improve cold starting, plus high-tungsten-content exhaust-valve seats to reduce the frequency of valve grinding.
A semi-custom LeBaron roadster paced the 1933 Indy 500. In the race itself, a new Gold Seal Special, shared by Guadino and fellow countryman Raoul Riganti, qualified 27th at 108.08 mph and finished 14th with an average of 93.24 mph. It would be Chrysler's last racing appearance at the Brickyard.
Just six bare Imperial chassis were built in 1933. The fate of four is known: a close-coupled four-door landau by LeBaron for Walter P. Chrysler; two convertibles bodied in Switzerland by Jean Gygax and by Langenthal; and a dual-cowl phaeton for Marjorie Merriweather Post, a noted collector of the decorative arts.
And decorative arts is surely what they were. In 1934 they vanished as quickly as they had arrived, eclipsed by another new idea of Walter Chrysler's, predictive but less magnificent: the Air-flow.
The Classic Car Club of America, arbiter of true Classics, includes the CG, CL, and CH (but not the CQ) on its list of the finest cars built during the Golden Age of the automobile. And, in a very real sense, they were. Nobody should ever forget that.
To find more information, including the models, prices, and production of the 1931-1933 Chrysler, see the next page.
1931-1933 Chrysler Imperial Models, Prices, Production
The 1931-1933 Chrysler Imperial Eight models helped Chrysler establish itself as a true member of the luxury automobile market. Unfortunately for Chrysler, their introduction coincided with the depths of the Great Depression, so sales were always tough to come by. Here are specifications for the 1931-1933 Chrysler Imperial Eight:
The 1933 Chrysler Imperial Eight CL is a true classic
car. This is a LeBaron-bodied phaeton.
1931 Chrysler Imperial CG Vehicle Specifications
Wheelbase, inches
1931 Chrysler Imperial CG Models, Prices, and Production
Model Weight, pounds
Custom roadster, 2/4-passenger 4,530 $3,220 100
Custom phaeton 4,645 3,575 85
Custom coupe, 2/4-passenger 4,605 3,150 135
Custom convertible coupe 4,570 3,320 10
Custom convertible sedan 4,825 3,995 25
4-door sedan
4,705 2,745 909
close-coupled 4-door sedan
4-door sedan, 7-passenger
limousine, 8-passenger
-- -- 95
Total 1931 Chrysler Imperial
1932 Chrysler Imperial CH Vehicle Specifications
1932 Chrysler Imperial CH Models, Prices, and Production
coupe, 2/4-passenger 4,480 1,925 239
4-door sedan 4,645 1,945 1,002
convertible sedan 4,890 2,195 152
-- -- 9
Total 1932 Series CH Imperial
1932 Chrysler Imperial CL Vehicle Specifications
1932 Chrysler Imperial CL Models, Prices, and Production
convertible coupe 4,930 3,295 28
phaeton 5,065 3,395 14
close-coupled 4-door sedan 5,150 2,895 57
convertible sedan 5,125 3,595 49
4-door sedan, 7-passenger 5,295 2,995 35
5,330 3,295 32
Total 1932 Series CL Imperial
1933 Chrysler Imperial CQ Vehicle Specifications
1933 Chrysler Imperial CQ Models, Prices, and Production
convertible coupe 3,754 1,325 243
coupe, 5-passenger 3,754 1,295 267
Total 1933 Series CQ Imperial
convertible coupe 4,910 3,295 9
convertible sedan
coupe, 5-passenger
*Includes production of CGs from July 1, 1931, which Chrysler considered to be 1932 models. Sources: Encylopedia of American Cars, by the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide®, Publications International, Ltd., 2002; 70 Years of Chrysler, by George H. Damman, Crestline Publishing Co., 1974.


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Gaspar Noe tries to shove us into the void (a movie review)
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Cowdefender Here, Enter the Void is at times masterful, at times kinda bad, daring, draggy,...
Cult Film, "Birdemic: Shock and Terror" Will Be Released on Bluray With Tons of Extras!!!
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Volunteers Make 'Heroic Effort' to Fill Sleds and Grant Wishes
The presents were layed under the Y tree with care.
STORY BY KAREN BOSSICK
COVID GRAPH BY PAUL RIES
They could have bagged it, deciding it was too difficult to come together to select and wrap Christmas presents for families in need given the COVID pandemic.
But the need was too great—in fact, greater than ever because of the COVID pandemic.
Blaine County reported no new cases of coronavirus today—the first time that has happened since Dec. 6, according to Paul Ries. It has lost two more residents to COVID, however, for a total of 12. Idaho, meanwhile, reported just 917 new cases for a total of 130,877. The state has lost 26 more souls since Saturday for a total of 1,301 deaths. So far, 4,348 Idaho health care workers have been vaccinated.
And, so, 95 volunteers came together in socially distanced fashion to purchase and wrap presents to fill gift sleds for 20 Wood River Valley families.
Other volunteers stepped up to answer 200 wishes requested by children in The Advocates' program and hung on the Wood River YMCA's Giving Tree. And children from the Y's educational programs wrote and decorated holiday cards for those in hospice and palliative care, who have been shut off from others because of COVID.
"That's a new program for us," said the YMCA's Executive Director Jason Shearer. "We had the kids write Christmas cards to those in hospice and palliative care after hearing how hard it's been for them because they can't have visitors during the pandemic. They told us they would be so happy just to have anyone communicate with them."
Normally, the Y has no problem getting people to take one or more tags asking for ski pants, boots, gloves and toys on the Y Christmas tree.
"But this year it was a challenge because, while people are coming into the Y, we have nowhere as many as we usually do," said Shearer. "Fortunately, some people stepped up and took more than one tag and all of the tags were spoken for."
And, while the Y has filled sleds for families in need before, this year the needs were more significant than ever, Shearer said.
"These families would have done Christmas without anything had it not been for this," said Shearer.
Some sled teams assigned a father, mother or child to each team member, who purchased and wrapped gifts individually at home, bringing them to the Y to be incorporated onto the gift sled.
One of the sled teams managed to secure a large community room so members could wrap gifts in far-flung corners. They filled their sled with Vans shoes for the entire family, Pokemon cards, skateboards, Legos, a 45-pound sack of dog food, winter clothes, a bicycle and more.
"It was a heroic effort this year," Shearer said.
Adrienne Leugers echoed his sentiments: "Many of the Y's volunteers and supporters worked together to provide a bountiful Christmas for families living through extraordinary challenges, including loss and suffering. The families who receive the sleds are hard working, family-oriented, resilient and facing tough challenges. The surprise of the sled for their whole family gives them a deep sense of community, joy and hope."


JOSE CALLEJON has told Napoli teammates that he is ready to snub interest from the Premier League to join Atletico Madrid, according to reports.
The 28-year-old has impressed in Serie A since leaving Real Madrid in 2013.
The winger's goalscoring record has reportedly attracted interest from Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City in recent times.
But the former Espanyol flier has told teammates that he is on his way back to Madrid to join Atletico in the summer, according to Cadena SER.
Mourinho? I owe him a lot.
The news is sure to spark a fresh round of speculation over which player could be on his way out at the Vicente Calderón Stadium.
Callejon's ability to play in any of the forward positions could mean that the likes of Antoine Griezmann - previously linked with Arsenal - or Mario Mandzukic - also a target for the Gunners could be surplus to requirements next term.
Last year Callejon spoke of his gratitude towards Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, saying: "Mourinho? I owe him a lot. With him I spent some good years, I won titles and I grew as a player.
"I did not expect him to bring me back to Real Madrid. He was demanding but also very nice to me. I sent him a message when I became a father."


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Q: how to compare only date from a model's datetimefield with current date? I want to use Model.objects.filter(datetime_lte=datetime.datetime.now.date())
How exactly can I achieve this? I am using django 1.6.5. I want only records of current date. This will give all previous day's records also

A: You can use the __range field lookup:
start = datetime.date.today()
end = start + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
Model.objects.filter(datetime__range=(start, end))

A: Try this
Model.objects.filter(created_at__date=today)

A: Try this
Model.objects.filter(created_at__year = timezone.now().year,
                    created_at__month=timezone.now().month,
                    created_at__day=timezone.now().day)

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Anti-Israel bigotry and bias
DUTCH PM MARK RUTTE: WE HAVEN'T THE CONTROL OVER ANTI-ISRAEL REPORT……..
Anti-Israel bigotry and bias Anti-Semitism in the Netherlands Manfred Gerstenfeld
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Refusal to act.
The Dutch government is stonewalling, just like they do in Finland over the Pertti Salolainen case, where an acting government official cannot be removed from his office in spite of making a highly antisemitic remark about "Jews in the US controlling the money and the media to a large extent". There's just the lack of will to do the right thing.
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, who has published extensively on Dutch anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism, commented on Rutte's response.
"This reply of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center is like an earlier one polite and saying very little," he told Arutz Sheva.
"It doesn't address major issues raised by SWC concerning Dutch anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism. Rabbi Cooper had asked in his letter to the Prime Minister that the Dutch government disbands the AIV Advisory Council, a statutory body which is financed by the Dutch Government. Its scandalous report on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, written at the demand of the Dutch Senate, has been taken apart in a detailed analysis by former Dutch parliamentarian Wim Kortenoeven. He has shown that the report has structurally falsified major facts and omitted essential data. These include the religious aspects many Muslims give to the conflict, the genocidal character of the Hamas charter and many others. The SWC was right in claiming that such a biased organization has no right of existence in a democracy such as the Netherlands. Mr. Rutte doesn't refer to this at all.
"Rabbi Cooper also mentioned in his letter that 38% of Dutch adults believe the extremely evil lie that Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians. He also mentioned that he had broached this issue already in an earlier face-to-face meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher. Also on this issue Mr. Rutte remains silent. Avoiding these issues means that, most likely, additional incidents will occur soon which will justify further complaints against the Dutch Government."
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Nothing in Islam exists apart from anything else. While liberals view culture and religion as a buffet that they can pick and choose from, it is a single integrated system. If you accept one part, you must accept the whole. Once you accept any aspect of Islam, you must accept its legal system and once you accept that, you must accept its governance and once you accept that, you lose your rights.''
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We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.
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Daniel Prince and his family have traveled the world via home swapping, and he explains how it works in this Epic Education Interview. Sure, his vacation home in Koh Samui, Thailand gives him an exceptional advantage in the vacation exchange and holiday swap game, but Daniel makes a great case for how nearly anyone with a house or apartment somewhere can use home swapping to their advantage. Hear him out, especially the part where he won a bet against a reporter who doubted him during an earlier interview.
A few places they've been: Thailand, Cambodia, France, Croatia, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Dubai and many more.


To be recognized for everything they do for the students, the School of Nutrition Sciences of the University of Ottawa and the Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS) – Volet Université d'Ottawa organized an event in honour of the Honours Bachelor of Nutrition Sciences preceptors. With its forty participants, the Appreciation Day for the Nutrition Program Preceptors, included continuing education sessions and took place on May 31st at the University of Ottawa. The event was a real success!
The theme of the day was "The human intestinal microbiota: a microbial organ serving our health". It was the perfect opportunity to network and to learn more about the effects of prebiotic and probiotic foods on the intestinal microbiota. Dr. Riadh Hammami and Dr. Krista Power, two professors at the School of Nutrition Sciences of the University of Ottawa, gave the education sessions on this topic. Thank you to all nutrition practicum supervisors and we look forward to see you again next year for another celebration with on-going education session!


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Washington est une ville située dans le comté de Litchfield, dans l'État du Connecticut (États-Unis). Lors du recensement de 2010, sa population s'élevait à .

Géographie
Selon le Bureau du recensement des États-Unis, la superficie de la municipalité est de , dont  de terres et  de plans d'eau (soit 1,48 %).

Histoire
Washington devient une municipalité en 1779. Elle est nommée en l'honneur du président George Washington.

Démographie
D'après le recensement de 2000, il y avait  habitants,  ménages, et 951 familles dans la ville. La densité de population était de . Il y avait  maisons avec une densité de . La décomposition ethnique de la population était : 95,66 % blancs ; 0,16 % noirs ; 0,11 % amérindiens ; 1,56 % asiatiques ; 0,00 % natifs des îles du Pacifique ; 0,78 % des autres races ; 1,25 % de deux ou plus races. 2,14 % de la population était hispanique ou Latino de n'importe quelle race.

Il y avait  ménages, dont 28,0 % avaient des enfants de moins de 18 ans, 57,6 % étaient des couples mariés, 6,8 % avaient une femme qui était parent isolé, et 32,8 % étaient des ménages non-familiaux. 26,4 % des ménages étaient constitués de personnes seules et 10,9 % de personnes seules de 65 ans ou plus. Le ménage moyen comportait 2,42 personnes et la famille moyenne avait 2,94 personnes.

Dans la ville la pyramide des âges était 24,4 % en dessous de 18 ans, 6,0 % de 18 à 24, 23,9 % de 25 à 44, 29,9 % de 45 à 64, et 15,8 % qui avaient 65 ans ou plus. L'âge médian était 43 ans. Pour 100 femmes, il y avait 100,2 hommes. Pour 100 femmes de 18 ans ou plus, il y avait 92,9 hommes.

Le revenu médian par ménage de la ville était  dollars US, et le revenu médian par famille était . Les hommes avaient un revenu médian de  contre  pour les femmes. Le revenu par habitant de la ville était . 3,3 % des habitants et 2,7 % des familles vivaient sous le seuil de pauvreté. 1,5 % des personnes de moins de 18 ans et 9,3 % des personnes de plus de 65 ans vivaient sous le seuil de pauvreté.

Personnalités
 Troy Scribner (1991-), joueur américain de baseball, né à Washington.

Notes et références

Localité dans le comté de Litchfield
Town au Connecticut

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Q: How to calculate information included in R's confusion matrix I want know the formulas for the information highlighted in the confusion matrix in the picture below:

A: library(caret)

mat = matrix(c(55,34,56,255), ncol=2, byrow=TRUE)
mat  # output omitted
confusionMatrix(as.table(mat), positive="B")
# Confusion Matrix and Statistics
#
#     A   B
# A  55  34
# B  56 255
#
#                Accuracy : 0.775
#                  95% CI : (0.7309, 0.815)
#     No Information Rate : 0.7225
#     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.00994
#
#                   Kappa : 0.4024
#  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.02686
#
#             Sensitivity : 0.8824
#             Specificity : 0.4955
#          Pos Pred Value : 0.8199
#          Neg Pred Value : 0.6180
#              Prevalence : 0.7225
#          Detection Rate : 0.6375
#    Detection Prevalence : 0.7775
#       Balanced Accuracy : 0.6889
#
#        'Positive' Class : B

This comes from the caret package in R.  It presents a confusion matrix, which is a contingency table of the predicted and actual classes from some classifier, with some information about the confusion matrix that can help you interpret different aspects of the quality of the classifier.
The Accuracy is the proportion of the cases that were classified correctly.  You can see that there were 400 cases, and the classifier correctly said A and B (in your case 0 and 1) 55 and 255 times, respectively.  Thus, there were 310 correct classifications out of 400 for 77.5% correct.  Because each classification is either correct or incorrect, that value is a binomial and we can form a confidence interval for it, just as we can for any other binomial.  There are lots of ways to calculate confidence intervals for a binomial.
Because 289 of the 400 cases were in the 'positive' class, you could just say "B" for every cases without fitting any classifier and still get 72.25% correct.  That doesn't sound so bad, but in fact, it means you don't know anything relevant to the situation at all, so we want to take that into account.  That is called the "no information rate".  Before you think your model is accurate, or provides valuable information, you want your accuracy to be greater than that.  You might further want to know if your accuracy doesn't just happen to be above that level, but if it is significantly greater than the no information rate.  A test of whether an observed proportion is greater than some specified value is a simple one-tailed binomial test.  The p-value from which is what the P-Value [Acc > NIR] displays.
That p-value only tells you that your accuracy is better, you may also want to know if your model is biased.  That is, does your classifier tend to say B / 1 more often than is really the case?  You could test the proportion the model says B against the observed proportion B, but that wouldn't really take the structure of the confusion matrix into account, however.  It wouldn't recognize that the underlying data are non-independent, and therefore doesn't deal with the non-independence appropriately (from a statistical point of view).  The test that does recognize these things is McNemar's test.  I discuss McNemar's test here and here, which you may want to read to get a fuller overview.  Your last highlighted line is the p-value from McNemar's test of the confusion matrix.

A: Wonderful answers given above up to McNemar's test. In the below is to add notes for the rest of the calculations.
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Sensitivity : 0.8824
Specificity : 0.4955
Pos Pred Value : 0.8199
Neg Pred Value : 0.6180
Prevalence : 0.7225
Detection Rate : 0.6375
Detection Prevalence : 0.7775
Balanced Accuracy : 0.6889
'Positive' Class : B
====================
Caret's ConfusionMatrix function prints the above type of output. The predicted classes are rows and actual cases are columns.
So the ACTUAL Negative cases are (55+56) 111, and ACTUAL Positive cases are (34+255) 289. The PREDICTED Negative cases are (55+34) 89, and PREDICTED Positive cases are (56+255) 311.
Sensitivity = Rate of True Positives captured by the algorithm (255/289) is 0.882353 (0.8824)
Specificity = Rate of True Negatives captured by the algorithm (55/111) is 0.495495 (0.4955)
In the above we used actual marginal totals for calculating the rates. In the below we will use predicted marginal totals for calculating the rates, for Positive Predictive Value (Pos Pred Value) and Negative Predictive Value(Neg Pred Value).
Pos Pred Value = Rate of Positives captured among the total Pos Predicted, is 255/311 = 0.8199
Neg Pred Value = 55/89 = 0.6180
Prevalence is the the rate of "All ACTUAL Postives" in the whole population = 289/GrandTotal, 289/400 = 0.7225
Detection rate is among total population, how much is detected = 255/400 = 0.6375
Detection prevalence is rate of "All PREDICTED Positives" in the whole population = 311/400 = 0.7775
Balanced Accuracy is the average of Sensitivity and Specificity = (0.882352+0.495495)/2 = 0.6889
Additional notes which are not printed by the Caret's ConfusionMatrix function, but are commonly used are:
Precision is useful in actual targeting plan; we can only act on predicted and so this is useful:  Same as Pos Predicted Value = 0.8199
Recall is useful to make judgements about the model and we want to see how much the model is able to recall correctly:   Same as Sensitivity = 0.8824
F1: Equally weighted average of Precision and Recall; because these are rates, we have to use harmonic mean.  Harmonic mean of Precision and Recall, 2*[Precision+Recall)/(Precision*Recall)] = 2[(0.8199 x 0.8824)/(0.8199 + 0.8824)] = 0.8500


SPR is the latest addition to Interflow's product range. This product allows non-circular culverts, such as box sections, to be renewed. Developed in Japan and used extensively in the Asian market, SPR will provide road and rail authorities in Australia a product that will for the first time enable non-circular culverts to be structurally renewed without the need for excavation.
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A real tortoise and hare match up here: Cannibal Corpse have been doing their thing for a quarter century now, with little flair and hardly any drama, and "their thing" happens to be death metal in its purest form, with very little crossover appeal with any other [more popular] rock sub-genre. Despite all that, they may be the most visible representatives of death metal to the outside world. Their heightened visibility is acceptable though, because if a non-metalhead needs an explanation of what this music is, who better to represent us than Cannibal Corpse?
The success of their previous album made it seem like Behemoth exploded out of nowhere, but they've been diligently working their way up from the underground for over two decades. They were ubiquitous on old tape trading lists and distros in the pages of Metal Maniacs when I was a teenager, esoteric works like Grom offering glimpses of a clandestine world far beyond what I was privy to at the time. Despite being Mayhemfest and Hot Topic staples, it's hard to attribute Behemoth's success to anything other than their own talent and hard work. Truth is, Behemoth were becoming too large for snobby metal curmudgeons to keep to ourselves. Much like Cannibal Corpse, they have become commendable ambassadors to the mainstream for a world below. And honestly, the idea of clueless suburban teenagers coming back from the mall with a "Youth Against Christ" shirt makes me smile.
THE MATCH UP: On one hand, Cannibal Corpse can always be relied on to deliver a Cannibal Corpse album, with no "Radikult" shifts in style to worry about. On the other hand, that familiarity can sometimes lead to...well, over familiarity. Behemoth's evolution from album to album has been exciting, and even when their reach exceeds their grasp, the attempts are at least interesting.


I've been thinking about African American discourse and African American rhetoric (along with other indigenous rhetorics) since 1973, when members of CCCC were debating what would become the resolution known as "Students' Right to Their Own Language," eventually passed in 1974. That debate helped me think long and hard about the hegemonic status of "standard" English, about the home dialects and languages of my students, and about my own home dialect of the Appalachian mountain south, a language I grew up with, inhabited with ease, and loved, but which I seldom used as an adult in speaking, and never in writing.
At the time, I hoped that most other teachers of writing and reading would welcome this resolution, take its message to heart, and adjust their attitudes toward what counts as "proper" language use. Alas. Twenty-five years after the resolution, the debate still goes on, though "standard edited American English" has been challenged, seriously and serially, for decades now, from those who advocated during the Ebonics controversy to those who advocated for code switching and now to those who argue for code meshing and for "translingual" dispositions to language use.
As I travel around the country, visit schools, and go to conferences, I don't see agreement across these lines of argument. Far from it. But I do see movement toward more progressive attitudes toward language variety and language use. And I also see very encouraging scholarly work addressing these issues, from Jerry Won Lee's wonderfully insightful The Politics of Translingualism: After Englishes (Routledge, 2017) to Bonnie J. Williams-Farrier's "'Talkin' Bout Good & Bad' Pedagogies: Code-Switching vs. Comparative Rhetorical Approaches" (a must-read essay in the December 2017 issue of College Composition and Communication), to the hot-off-the-presses On African-American Rhetoric by Keith Gilyard and Adam J. Banks (Routledge, 2018). I could name a number of others, but let's stick with these three for a start: if you have not read them, you are in for a treat. I've learned so much from each of these texts, and as a result feel I can understand and embrace what Lee calls "translingual dispositions," and I am becoming more familiar with the moves and strategies of African-American rhetoric, thanks to Gilyard and Banks, as well as with the tropes, schemes, and syntactic moves of what Williams-Farrier calls African American Vernacular Tradition. I will write more, and more specifically, about what I'm learning soon, but in the meantime, if you've read any or all of these texts, I'd love to hear what you have learned!
Thank you so much for sharing these, Andrea. Adding to my summer reading list!
Thank you, Renee! Hope to see you this summer.
I'd also love to know of research on the use of Spanglish in academic writing. I've written, as have many others, about Gloria Anzaldúa, but I know there is a lot more to say!


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Quantification of the Individual Characteristics of the Human Dentition
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Thomas S. Wirtz, Marquette University
Nicholas M. Pajewski, Medical College of Wisconsin
David E. Cadle
James Brozek, Marquette University
Daniel D. Blinka, Marquette University
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The considerations for admissibility suggested by the Daubert trilogy challenge forensic experts to provide scientific support for opinion testimony. The defense bar has questioned the reliability of bitemark analysis. Under an award from the U. S. Department of Justice, via the Midwest Forensic Resource Center, a two-year feasibility study was undertaken to quantify six dental characteristics. Using two computer programs, the exemplars of 419 volunteers were digitally scanned, characteristics were measured, and frequency was calculated. The study demonstrates that there were outliers or rare dental characteristics in measurements. An analysis of the intra-observer and inter-observer consistency demonstrated a high degree of agreement. Expansion of the sample size through collaboration with other academic researchers will be necessary to be able to quantify the occurrence of these characteristics in the general population. The automated software application, Tom's Toolbox, developed specifically for this research project, could also provide a template for precisely quantifying other pattern evidence.
Published Version. Journal of Forensic Identification, Vol. 59, No. 6 (2009):609-625. Publisher Link. © 2010 International Association for Identification.
Johnson, L Thomas; Radmer, Thomas W.; Wirtz, Thomas S.; Pajewski, Nicholas M.; Cadle, David E.; Brozek, James; and Blinka, Daniel D., "Quantification of the Individual Characteristics of the Human Dentition" (2009). School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications. 12.
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Top 10 moments of Keith Hernandez's career
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NEW YORK -- Few baseball players have managed not only to maintain their popularity over the decades, but to grow it the way Keith Hernandez has. Multiple generations have come to adore Hernandez, from the Cardinals and Mets fans that watched him in his prime to the millions who knew him first as a broadcaster.
• Mets to retire Keith's No. 17 on July 9
Over more than a half-century as a baseball man of multiple stripes, Hernandez has enjoyed his share of memorable moments and successes. Here are the Top 10:
1. World Series dramatics
By 1982, Hernandez was already an MVP and a well-established star in St. Louis, but he had never appeared in the postseason. That changed when the Cardinals swept the Braves in the National League Championship Series, setting up a World Series clash with the Brewers.
Over seven games, Hernandez drove home a Series-high eight runs, including some of the Fall Classic's most significant on a two-run, game-tying single off Bob McClure in the sixth inning of Game 7. Moments after Hernandez's hit, the Cardinals took the lead on a George Hendrick single, putting St. Louis' star first baseman on the cusp of his first ring.
2. …and another October moment
Hernandez wasn't immediately as impactful in his return to the World Series, batting .227 with one RBI over the first six games in 1986. He was 0-for-2 in Game 7 when he stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and changed that narrative, lacing a two-run single into left-center to provide the first runs off Red Sox starter Bruce Hurst. Much like in 1982, the next batter tied the game, putting Hernandez on track for his second championship in five years.
3. A tie atop the ballot
By any measure, the 1979 season was Hernandez's finest at the plate. Following a few successful but less-than-transcendent campaigns as St. Louis' first baseman, Hernandez broke out with a league-leading .344 average and a career-high 105 RBIs. He also led the NL with 48 doubles and 116 runs scored, while producing nine homers and a .930 OPS.
Although Hernandez clearly outproduced Pirates slugger Willie Stargell by most of today's widely accepted metrics, including a bWAR total that more than tripled that of his rival, the Baseball Writers' Association of America awarded both men the same number of points in MVP voting. The result was the first and only tie in the award's history, resulting in co-MVP honors for Hernandez and Stargell.
4. "I'm Keith Hernandez"
As he accumulated successes on the field, Hernandez became a celebrity off it -- particularly upon moving to New York in a 1983 trade. Two years after his 1990 retirement from baseball, Hernandez played himself on a multi-episode "Seinfeld" feature titled "The Boyfriend." In the show's plot, Hernandez began dating Elaine Benes (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus), resulting in a famous scene in which he debated leaning in for a kiss.
"Who does this guy think he is?" Elaine thought out loud as Hernandez went through with the act.
"I'm Keith Hernandez," came the unspoken reply -- a famous line that later became the title of his autobiography.
5. Broadcaster extraordinaire
Hernandez's post-retirement life entered a new arena in 1999, when he began serving as a guest analyst for Mets broadcasts. He soon became a regular on MSG and, when the Mets founded their own television network in 2006, Hernandez joined Gary Cohen and Ron Darling to form one of the most popular booths in baseball.
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Known both for his sharp critiques as well as for his wandering thoughts -- "Keith-isms," as they came to be known -- Hernandez rapidly grew as popular to younger fans as he was to a previous generation during his playing days. Catchphrases such as "good fundies" and "ribeye steaks" became the norm on SNY, where Hernandez won Emmys for his work in 2009, 2012 and 2015.
6. "They'll remember this trade years from now"
If Hernandez is better-known these days as a Met than a Cardinal, that wasn't always the case. The first baseman was admittedly upset when St. Louis sent him to New York in a 1983 trade; he had spent the first nine and a half years of his career in Missouri, establishing roots there while winning both an MVP and a World Series. The thought of leaving the reigning champions for a team that hadn't produced a winning record since 1976 was initially unappealing.
But pitcher Neil Allen, who uttered the above quotation upon joining Rick Ownbey in the return package for the Cardinals, proved clairvoyant. The trade wound up being a coup for the Mets, as Hernandez helped gel a core that came to include Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Carter and others. The Mets quickly established themselves as contenders and, less than a year after the trade, Hernandez signed a five-year, $8.4 million contract -- considered quite rich at the time -- to remain in New York long-term.
7. Simply the best
On July 22, 1986, in a wild game against the Reds, Hernandez completed an ultra-rare 3-5-4 double play, pouncing on a Carl Willis bunt and firing to third base to begin the twin killing. That sort of thing seemed routine for Hernandez, who retired with 11 Gold Gloves -- the most by a first baseman in MLB history.
Often, Hernandez's mere presence at first base discouraged teams from bunting, given both his quickness and strong throwing arm. He retired with a .994 career fielding percentage, while advanced metrics that can be applied retroactively, such as defensive WAR, also thought highly of him.
8. Breaking new ground
Shortly after Hernandez led the Mets to a title in 1986, general manager Frank Cashen named him the first captain in franchise history. Credited with much of the culture transformation that the Mets underwent throughout the 1980s, Hernandez served alone in the role for one season before Gary Carter became his co-captain in 1988. The two then led together for two years before both left the organization.
9. Hitting for the cycle
Hernandez's cycle -- the fourth in Mets history -- was almost an afterthought on a wild July 4, 1985, evening that saw the Mets and Braves endure a lengthy rain delay and play a 19-inning game that lasted until 3:55 a.m. For his personal contributions, Hernandez doubled in the first, tripled in the fourth, homered in the eighth and singled in the 12th. His other six (!) at-bats were fruitless as Hernandez finished 4-for-10 in a game the Mets won, 16-13.
10. No play for Mr. Gray
Nearly as much as for his accomplishments on and off the field, Hernandez earned longstanding fame for his mustache. Wearing it proudly for the better part of four decades, he even became a longtime spokesman for the company Just For Men, showcasing his jet-black mustache alongside that of basketball legend Walt Frazier.
Hernandez's 'stache had gone white by 2012, when he shaved it to raise money for a Brooklyn health center named in honor of his mother, Jacquelyn, who died of Alzheimer's in 1989. At the time, Hernandez had only shaved the mustache a handful of times over the course of his adult life, and not at all since 1988 -- a span of nearly a quarter century. After a few clean-shaven years following the fundraiser, Hernandez eventually grew it back.


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Q: Why is fastJSON deserialisation complete in unit test but one property and its properties not populated when live? I have a very weird situation which I am finding impossible to resolve, so any guidance would be much appreciated.
I am retrieving the results of a VAT Number Search from HMRC via their API, and it is being returned as valid JSON. However, one of the properties and its own properties are not being set when I do it in the live application but if I debug the application and copy the returned JSON value over to a unit test, it deserialises fully - yet the code and the value are identical in both scenarios. I have been doing this sort of thing for ages with other parts of the API, it is only this result that has the issue.
I am using fastJSON to deserialise the returned JSON to a simple POCO object:
public class VatNumberValidationResult
{

    #region Properties

    // ReSharper disable InconsistentNaming
    public string consultationNumber { get; set; }
    public DateTime? processingDate { get; set; }
    public string requester { get; set; }
    public VatTarget target { get; set; }
    // ReSharper restore InconsistentNaming

    #endregion

    #region Constructors

    public VatNumberValidationResult()
    {
        Initialise();
    }

    #endregion

    #region Methods

    private void Initialise()
    {
        consultationNumber = string.Empty;
        processingDate = null;
        requester = string.Empty;
        target = new VatTarget();
    }

    #endregion

}

public class VatTarget
{

    #region Properties

    // ReSharper disable InconsistentNaming
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string vatNumber { get; set; }
    public VatValidationAddress address  { get; set; }
    // ReSharper restore InconsistentNaming

    #endregion

    #region Constructors

    public VatTarget()
    {
        Initialise();
    }

    #endregion

    #region Methods

    private void Initialise()
    {
        name = string.Empty;
        vatNumber = string.Empty;
        address = new VatValidationAddress();
    }

    #endregion

}

public class VatValidationAddress
{

    #region Properties

    // ReSharper disable InconsistentNaming
    public string countryCode { get; set; }
    public string line1 { get; set; }
    public string line2{ get; set; }
    public string line3{ get; set; }
    public string postcode { get; set; }
    // ReSharper restore InconsistentNaming

    #endregion

    #region Constructors

    public VatValidationAddress()
    {
        Initialise();
    }

    #endregion

    #region Methods

    private void Initialise()
    {
        countryCode = string.Empty;
        line1 = string.Empty;
        line2 = string.Empty;
        line3 = string.Empty;
        postcode = string.Empty;
    }

    #endregion

}

Here is an example of the Unit Test code:
    [TestMethod]
    public void ToObject_ValidHmrcJson2_ReturnsValidObject()
    {
        var payload = "{\"target\":{\"name\":\"EVERGREEN LIMITED\",\"vatNumber\":\"123926622\",\"address\":{\"line1\":\"BIG HOUSE\",\"line2\":\"160 EVERGREEN ROAD\",\"line3\":\"LONDON\",\"postcode\":\"NW1 2XX\",\"countryCode\":\"GB\"}},\"requester\":\"806970609\",\"consultationNumber\":\"VMn-pts-mWB\",\"processingDate\":\"2020-12-08T08:18:36.546Z[Europe/London]\"}";
        var result = fastJSON.JSON.ToObject<VatNumberValidationResult>(payload);
        Assert.IsNotNull(result);
    }

This passes every time, regardless of the data being passed i.e. I have tried with a huge number of different companies and the correct information is returned every time.
Here is the live code, which is effectively identical:
    .....

    var payLoad = postResult.Payload;
    var fastJsonResult = fastJSON.JSON.ToObject<VatNumberValidationResult>(payLoad);

    .....

The value of the payload is the JSON copied and transferred to the Unit Test.  The result of running this effectively identical code is that the target property is left empty:
    result = {Synergy.MtdVatModule.Model.VatNumberValidationResult}
        consultationNumber = "VMn-pts-mWB"
        processingDate = {08/12/2020 08:18:36}
        requester = "806970609"
        target = {Synergy.MtdVatModule.Model.VatTarget}
            address = {Synergy.MtdVatModule.Model.VatValidationAddress}
                countryCode = ""
                line1 = ""
                line2 = ""
                line3 = ""
                postcode = ""
            name = ""
            vatNumber = ""

whereas when it is done as part of a unit test it works perfectly every time:
    result = {Synergy.MtdVatModule.Model.VatNumberValidationResult}
        consultationNumber = "VMn-pts-mWB"
        processingDate = {08/12/2020 08:18:36}
        requester = "806970609"
        target = {Synergy.MtdVatModule.Model.VatTarget}
            address = {Synergy.MtdVatModule.Model.VatValidationAddress}
                countryCode = "GB"
                line1 = "BIG HOUSE"
                line2 = "160 EVERGREEN ROAD"
                line3 = "LONDON"
                postcode = "NW1 2XX"
            name = "EVERGREEN LIMITED"
            vatNumber = "123926622"

The only thing I can think of is that the saving of the JSON to text before processing is what is making the difference, but since it is already a valid JSON string I cannot see how that can be it. Copying the string to the payload variable as above makes no difference when compared to making the same call and passing postResult.Payload...
Can anyone provide any insight into this at all?

A: @Fildor pointed me in the right direction with one of his comments where he said that if identical inputs produce different results the lib must be broken. In fact, the problem was with the Nuget packages in use - although they had been automatically updated they were at different versions.  I updated both to the latest version, and that resolved the problem in the main application.
It would seem that there was a bug introduced in a more recent version of the lib which was fixed in the latest version.  When both were updated to the newest version both returned the correct result.


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Harley Baldwin White-Wiedow Design Director, Nihilistic Software
It's here! March 22nd, aka the day we've been working so hard towards. I am pleased and proud to be able to say that PlayStation Move Heroes is complete and available today!
You can pick up your copy of this fresh new mash-up for $39.99, either from your favorite video game retailer or by simply downloading it from the PlayStation Store. If you don't yet have a PlayStation Move, be sure to check out the exclusive bundle from Toys R Us. Retailing at $99.99, you'll get the game, the PlayStation Eye camera, and the PlayStation Move motion controller – so basically, you're good to go.
Our team at Nihilistic Software did a phenomenal job of putting this game together. They had a ton of fun working with the PlayStation Move, discovering new opportunities, discarding old habits, and always pushing on the possibilities that the PlayStation Move gave us for a new way of interacting with the game. Like bringing the user interface off the screen and into the player's hand by showing the Combuster overheat on the motion controller sphere, or basing the whip on real-world whip moves. The development team took our first goal to heart: build a game from the ground up for the PlayStation Move.
No launch day would be complete without a little nostalgia for the best days we had working on the game. Here are some of our fondest memories:
In early playtesting, one of our playtesters was a young lady who was also a dancer. She discovered that when playing a melee challenge, she could spin in a circle and get the system to recognize attacks; she played an entire challenge by spinning to attack.
The first time we got the visuals, sound, and explosions working on the whip Super Strike, we turned up the speakers and tried it out. The big bass sound of the explosion was so… big… that it attracted people from all over the building. So we spent an hour or so just passing around the motion controller and Super Striking with the whip. Whoo, fun!
Joe, one of our gameplay programmers, had an idea about incorporating some of the more technical features of the motion controller into the flight model of the disc. His first try took flying the disc from "Okay, this is interesting, what are we going to do with it?" to "Ho! Can you fly through that crack? Flip over and do a barrel roll? Watch out!"
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Diamond Challenges: Complete all the story challenges with a gold medal, and you'll unlock a bunch of new versions of our favorite challenges – but each one's got a twist to make it extra hard…
The Long Shot: Timer running out in a disc or ball challenge? Go ahead and throw – you'll get to keep playing until your projectile is destroyed, even if you run out of time.
We have enjoyed making this game so much, and we hope that you will enjoy playing it just as much. We'd love to hear about your favorite features and moments, so drop us a comment!
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"The meeting with Secretary Briones would be an opportunity to discuss common concerns of Filipino teachers," said the Philippine Embassy in a press release.
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It's Monday, and that means it's time to find-out who's knocking-on-the-door to enter the High School Football America National Top 25 with the release of our The Other 25.
Byrnes from South Carolina, leaped from #29 to #25 on Sunday, which shuffles the teams closest to the Top 25. Mallard Creek from North Carolina, which started #7 in our Preseason Top 25, is closing-in on returning to the national party. The Mavericks climb three spots to #27 this week. MC's only loss was a last second loss to Byrnes.
There are only new teams in The Other 25 — Westfield from Texas enters at #49, while Cherry Creek in Colorado is #50.