Discussion in 'Olympus Cameras' started by G.Sal, Dec 11, 2011.
Was tinkering the custom menu option last night and saw that you can use the Super Control Panel on the Art and Scene modes as an option.
But the problem was I could not seem to activate the SCP when I'm about to take pictures. Spent the whole night figuring it out. And I'm super happy I did!
1. Select the art filter or scene mode of your choice.
2. On the live view mode, press Start/OK button and this will bring you back on the selection of art filter or scene mode.
3. Finally, press INFO and voila.
If you have the Live Control and Super Control Panel activate the same time, you can use the INFO button to toggle between the 2 controls.
Not sure if this was very helpful but SCP opens a lot of options such ISO, WB, etc. depends on the mode you are in.
SCP isn't fun to use on iAuto and SCN as the options you can customize are very limited. But I'm excited to use it on the Art filters.
I apologize if I sound like an ignorant fool but I've been with my camera for more than a year and it's just now that I was able to discover this.
I love the SCP, but did not know about the Info Button toggle. Thanks.
Another important application for this feature is with the RC menu. If you turn RC Mode on, then when you hit OK you get the RC menu, of course. To get back to the SCP or Live Control menu, hit INFO and it'll cycle you back.
It took me a while to learn this, but it is one of the most important, less-than-obvious functions of the PEN cameras. I'm glad you're bringing it up, because it needs to be mentioned often for new people to learn, lol. I don't know how I would have figured it out if not for this forum.
I'm interested in the SCP menu. How do we turn it on? And what exactly does it do?
First you need to turn on the Sprockets menu display. Then go to Sprockets => Display => Control Settings. Then for each mode turn off Live Control and turn on SCP.
Another thing I notice on a lot of the new cameras is that they now lock the turn dial by default so it does nothing. Don't ask me why it would default to this, but you might also want to turn it back on by going to Sprockets => Button/Dial => ۞Lock => Off.
What does SCP do by the way?
Live Control is a new menu system developed for Olympus point-and-shoots and was implemented into the first Olympus PENs (bad idea, if you ask me). This is the menu system where you scroll down through all your options. The Super Control Panel is the old menu system used in the E-System DSLRs, which shows all your options in a convenient grid, all together on one screen.
After you've turned off Live Control and turned on SCP, when you hit OK to change your settings, you'll see the new menu layout. It's 100x more efficient than the Live Control. Well okay, I may be exaggerating.. 50x more efficient.
You know you can just go into Art mode in whatever PSAM mode using the SCP. So you don't even have to go to the Art Mode selection. I'm a dramatic tone junkie and always snap a shot in dramatic and then switch back to my default color setting. Way easier!
Yes, and this is exactly where Art Filters should be left, too! It doesn't even need a Mode Dial shortcut, if you ask me... but you know consumers like to see those graphical previews.
You can even customize your Picture Mode selections now, and turn on or off any picture mode or art filter you want or don't want... including a Custom mode.
Another advantage to this: when using the control dial to go into the Art filters, you can't change settings such as the f-stop, only the EV comp. If you use the SCP panel to change to the Art filter, you can then change settings.
What and where are the Sprockets?
You won't see this menu until you first go to the wrench menu and turn on "Menu Display". This will give you two new menu items you can turn on, the sprockets menu and the bluetooth menu.
I think this set of pics may help people out for setting up SCP. Just click on the Menu and then follow the pics in sequence from 1-8.
Does anyone know if this is possible on the E-PL1? I don't see it as an option in the SCP.
I do not see anything resembling a sprockets or bluetooth menu, and following Bhupinder's images, I still don't have the SCP. Pressing the ok button several times, in P S A M just brings me back to the live control menu. Do you have any ideas what I am doing wrong.


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One day at a time: How alcoholics and their families can find hope in Bengaluru
September 2, 2015 Holly Thorpe
The courage to change the things I can,
The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting begins with the Serenity Prayer, recited mostly by the booming voices of men.
Manjunath (name changed on request), a secretary for one of the Alcoholics Anonymous groups in Bengaluru, sits at the head of the borrowed schoolroom. As 11 am edges nearer, the crowd before him grows from 25 to 30 to nearly 40 people. They trickle in one by one, occasionally in pairs.
Manjunath is a recovering alcoholic entering his 33rd year of sobriety. A friend, who would later become his sponsor, once asked Manjunath why he drank. "And I said 'I hate the stuff, but I can't do without it,'" says Manjunath. "So the next day he brought me to my first meeting. That was the first time I ever came to know of this as a disease."
Started in the US in 1935, and present in over 80 countries, AA compares alcoholism to a disease like diabetes. According to AA, the disease works like this: The chronic alcoholic has the first drink of alcohol and experiences a 'physical allergy, which creates a mental obsession and leads to spiritual bankruptcy'. The chronic alcoholic cannot drink like others can, and is characterised by 'vain attempts' to do so. An alcoholic cannot be cured, it says, but the disorder can be stopped from progressing, where the alcoholic must undergo not only physical change, by spiritual and mental change as well.
While Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a well-known support group, many non-alcoholics may not know what goes on in a meeting. The coordinator, in this case Manjunath, sits at the front, behind a small desk. They attendees look exceptionally normal; diverse in age, shape and background, but altogether average.
The meeting then begins with a brief introduction to AA, a call for newcomers — there is one, sitting near the back — and of course, the Serenity Prayer. Manjunath calls for the group to share their stories, and in particular to welcome their new member.
A young man sits in the third row, grinning amiably. He is one of the first to raise his hand. He introduces himself, "Good morning, my name is ____ and I am an alcoholic." Manjunath tells him, "Your smile is infectious!" The young man's companion pats him on the back and says, "He got his 90 day chip yesterday!" The grin widens.
Much like the group at Al-Anon, they're all here for the same reason, but each case is different. The smiling man tells the group how he turned to alcohol to escape his anxiety. When he tells them he received his 90 day chip — a marker for sobriety — he is greeted by boisterous applause.
'No BA or MA after AA!'
Despite the difficult subject matter, the mood is ultimately cheerful. Manjunath tells the group, "After AA, there is no B.A., M.A. or Ph.D." And while the jokes earns him a laugh from his listeners, this reflects one of the hardest parts of AA: there is no finish line.
"All I know is just this one sentence that sticks in my head: I will never be cured of alcoholism," says Manjunath. He calls each day of sobriety a 'daily reprieve' from alcoholism.
When he first joined the programme in Bengaluru in 1982, it consisted of six men in the whole of Bengaluru. Later, as membership surged, more and more weekly meetings began to take place. "I attended eight meetings a week for the first eight and half years of my sobriety," he said. The programme began 51 years ago in Bengaluru, spreading from other Indian cities such as Mumbai. Then too, the group was sparse. They met once a week at different locations around the city.
Now, Manjunath attends around two meetings per week, and there are over 40 groups meetings that happen at least twice a week throughout the city.
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People end up at their first AA meeting through a variety of routes. They may spot one of the advertisements on a bus, or at their school or workplace. The helpline there will direct them to a Bengaluru-based call centre, and arrange for them to meet someone and be taken to a meeting. Others have come from rehabilitation centres after being released. Many centres recommend the programme to alcoholics once they leave. Others, like the newcomer in this meeting, come on their own. Usually, a friend or colleague has recommended the programme.
Most, if not all of them, at any given meeting are men. Manjunath blames this in part on the even harsher social stigma against alcoholism for women. He says that it is improving, considering that AA works to raise awareness at women's colleges and elsewhere.
'Sobriety is like driving uphill…'
The success rate is hard to gauge. In part because what 'success' means is hard to gauge. Manjunath says sobriety is tied to constant spiritual growth, or a 'psychic change' or 'spiritual awakening', as it is described in AA literature. In that sense, he sees hospitals as partially ineffective. "Hospitals can only detox you," he said. "Unless the alcoholic experiences a psychic change, there is no way anything can be guaranteed."
As Manjunath says, there's no graduating from AA. The little successes, like the smiling man's 90 day chip, are only milestones in a constant push forward.
"Sobriety is very fragile. It's like driving uphill, you have to keep your foot on the pedal the whole time or you'll go back into a tailspin and crash back at square one." He adds: "What does sobriety guarantee you? Absolutely nothing! I have to work at it."
Al-Anon: Helping the families of alcoholics
It's not only the alcoholic who seeks help; their loved ones or families often seek respite from the impacts of alcoholism too. That's where the lesser-known Al-Anon group comes in. According to Manjunath, Al-Anon meetings have been around since 1975 or so, when an American woman began hosting them in Bengaluru. Adults can join the anonymous support group to get help in coping with their alcoholic family members, spouses or loved ones. They too meet in the borrowed rooms of schools, hospitals and churches to share stories of life with alcoholism.
The Al-Anon meeting doesn't look too different from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Except the room has less people, and comprises both men and women.
The meeting here too, like AA meetings, begins with the Serenity Prayer, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change…" The small group, no more than eight people, stand in a circle, reciting the prayer aloud. Hands joined, this is how they close their weekly meetings. The past hour has been about the things they cannot change: the past, society, and, most importantly, the alcoholic.
This is one of many Al-Anon meetings that happen weekly in Bengaluru. A support group created by and for the friends and families of alcoholics, it also has a partner organisation, Alateen, which does the same for people 19 years old and younger. Their meetings are about accepting the things they cannot change, but also changing the one thing they say they can: themselves.
A coordinator for the group, Maria (name changed on request), first came to Al-Anon in 2004. She says, "When my son was using, I had been to a rehabilitation centre. There, they told me that there was a support group." At first, she felt out of place. She was embarrassed to attend. "I thought 'These meetings are not meant for me.'"
However, the people in Maria's group were welcoming, they made her feel comfortable and, despite her initial hesitation, she went back for another meeting. "When I returned, it was out of curiosity: how have these people become happy?" she says.
'Detach with love'
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Now, 11 years later, she is the one helping newcomers to find their own peace. Every week, she coordinates a small group, in which people share stories of their life with alcoholism. Women, and some men, of all ages and backgrounds come together to tell stories of bankruptcy, physical abuse, verbal abuse, and the litany of other problems that come with living with or caring for an alcoholic. All in the comfort of complete anonymity.
Walking past the open door of the meeting, they're a perfectly normal looking, albeit diverse, group of people. Dressed in jeans or saris, sometimes sipping coffee. Linger for a moment, and you may see someone dab their eyes with a tissue from their bag. No one stands at the podium at the front of the room, they all share the seats at its centre.
The programme follows the Twelve Steps from Alcoholics Anonymous, with some additions. The three C's, for example: Cause, control, cure. Family members are taught that they did not cause the alcoholism, they cannot control the alcoholic, and they cannot cure them either. Therefore, Maria says, they must 'detach with love'.
"Newcomers come in with just one intention: to stop the alcoholic from drinking," she says. In her experience, the three C's help these people find peace, and accept alcoholism as a disease they cannot control. She adds, "[The alcoholic] will be like that all their lives, until they go to the grave."
Before she joined Al-Anon, she didn't think of alcoholism as a disease, but as a choice her son was making. "I hated him. But today, I realise it's a disease and he's fighting a battle to stay sober."
Often, Al-Anon members come to the gathering even if the alcoholic in their life is not seeking help. However, Maria said it is important that when the alcoholic seeks help, so must his or her family.
Some are able to leave an alcoholic spouse, either thanks to a supportive family or their own financial independence. But many families cannot leave the alcoholic, be it their child, spouse, sibling or parent. By detaching with love, or letting go of the alcoholic, men and women like Maria are able to reclaim their lives. Similarly, alcoholics like Manjunath are able to receive help in stopping a disease that could eventually kill them, surrounded by a group of their peers. For many in their last resort, and in many cases, it's been the only thing that's worked.
As they say at the end of each meeting, as a reassurance to newcomers and to themselves: "Keep coming back! It works!"
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Good article. The writer may consider doing another piece on alcohol in urban culture – on happy hours at bars, drinks menus at restaurants, and in movies and television shows. And for good measure she could throw in the reality that one is considered not only ignorant but downright UNCULTURED if they don't know the difference between a cabernet and a chardonnay, between a pilsner and a stout, or a mojito and a caipirinha.

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Cosmic Rays May Threaten Space-Weather Satellite
DSCOVR's computer may be suffering from radiation-induced glitches, months after it became the primary sentinel for incoming solar storms
By Alexandra Witze, Nature magazine on October 31, 2016
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DSCOVR monitors space weather from a perch about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. Credit: NASA
A US space-weather satellite that is supposed to alert Earth to incoming solar storms has temporarily dropped offline five times in the year since it became operational. Its onboard computer may be experiencing hiccups caused unexpectedly by galactic cosmic rays.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) went out of action most recently on October 11. In each case, it unexpectedly entered a 'safe hold' in which scientific data stopped flowing and engineers had to scramble to try to recover the spacecraft. In total, DSCOVR's space-weather forecasting instruments have been offline for more than 42 hours since 28 October 2015, when the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) took the spacecraft over from NASA, which built and launched it.
Each outage lasts for only a few hours, and the total downtime amounts to 0.48% of its time in space—well below NOAA's requirement that the spacecraft operate at least 96% of the time. The October 11 outage did not significantly affect predictions of a minor geomagnetic storm that arrived a few days later, says Robert Rutledge, head of the forecast office at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
But the outages mean that DSCOVR could be offline when a major solar storm erupts, leaving Earth essentially blind to the incoming onslaught. "Are they problematic? Yes," says Douglas Biesecker, a solar physicist at the Boulder centre.
Other heliophysics spacecraft monitor solar eruptions, but DSCOVR delivers unique information from its location at the gravitationally stable L1 point, about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth in the direction of the Sun. The spacecraft's instruments directly measure the speed, magnetic field and other properties of the charged particles streaming off the Sun. Those data translate into better forecasts of what could happen when a solar storm hits Earth, such as disruptions to satellite electronics or fluctuations in electrical power grids.
DSCOVR is NOAA's main tool for forecasting space weather, but it began life as Triana, a NASA Earth-observing spacecraft built in the late 1990s to gaze constantly at the planet. A pet project of Al Gore, then the US vice-president, Triana was shelved in 2001, then repurposed in 2008 for NOAA's space-weather needs. "It was never designed from the beginning to be a space-weather satellite," says Steven Clarke, head of NASA's heliophysics division in Washington DC.
The satellite launched on February 11, 2015 and experienced its first outage four months later, when its onboard computer spontaneously rebooted. On average, the safe holds happen every 74 days, but two came just eight days apart. They are not correlated with solar storms.
A NASA internal review board convened to study the problem could not definitively pinpoint the cause, but concluded that it was most likely to be galactic cosmic rays randomly striking the spacecraft, causing high-energy ionization that reboots the computer. The computer, which was built by NASA in 2000, contains a processor card that is similar to those flying aboard many other missions and is meant to withstand the radiation hazards of deep space.
NOAA does have a back-up data stream, from the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft that is also orbiting the L1 point. That was the primary source of solar-wind data until NOAA forecasters switched to DSCOVR in July. But ACE is 19 years old, and intense solar storms can swamp its forecasting instruments, causing problems when data are needed the most.
NOAA has requested an extra US$1.5 million from Congress to improve how it handles DSCOVR data, including its responses to the outages. The satellite is supposed to last until 2022, when a follow-up mission is slated for launch. Historically, NOAA has cobbled together its space-weather observations where and when it could, but the US government is starting to demand a more coherent approach. On 13 October, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that, among other things, requires NOAA to "ensure the continuous improvement of operational space weather services".
This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on October 28, 2016.
Alexandra Witze works for Nature magazine.
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A big "thank you" to all those who died in the Chicago rail yards so that we might have the day off to grill hot dogs… Happy Labor Day
By Mark | September 2, 2018
I know it's probably cheating, but here's something that I posted more than half a decade ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it's even more appropriate today, seeing as how Michigan has since become a so-called "right to work" state, and we now how have an unquestionably anti-worker administration running our country.
As some of you probably know, Labor Day was first celebrated here in the United States in 1882. It wasn't, however, made a national holiday until 1894, in the wake of a bloody strike by employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company, an Illinois-based manufacturer of luxury rail cars. It all began when the company, after having cut the wages of workers across the board by as much as 25%, refused to reduce the rent charged to these same workers, who lived and worked in the company town of Pullman, Illinois. And, from there, the strike spread throughout the railroad industry… The following extended clip comes from the Kansas Heritage Group:
…The strike went peacefully, but after several weeks the Pullman management had not changed its position and the strikers were desperate for aid. During the strike, the American Railway Union had convened in Chicago because it was the rail center of the United States. The recently formed American Railway Union had 465 local unions and claimed the memberships of 150,000 workers. Since, the Pullman workers were an affiliated union on strike in Chicago the ARU offered to send arbitrators for the Pullman cause. The Pullman workers refused this aid, even so the ARU under the leadership of Eugene Debs decided to stop handling Pullman cars on June 26 if the Pullman Union would not agree to arbitration. The stage was set for the largest strike in the nation's history.
On June 26, the ARU switchmen started to refuse to switch trains with Pullman cars. In response, the General Managers Association began to fire the switchmen for not handling the cars. The strike and boycott rapidly expanded, paralyzing the Chicago rail yards and most of the twenty-four rail lines in the city.
On July 2 a federal injunction was issued against the leaders of the ARU. This Omnibus Indictment prevented ARU leaders from "…compelling or inducing by threats, intimidation, persuasion, force or violence, railway employees to refuse or fail to perform duties…" This injunction was based on the Sherman anti-trust act and the Interstate commerce act and was issued by federal judges Peter S. Grosscup and William A. Woods under the direction of, Attorney General, Richard Olney. The injunction prevented the ARU leadership from communicating with their subordinates and chaos began to reign.
Governor Altgeld of Illinois had been hesitant to employ the state militia to put down the strike instead relying on the local authorities to handle the situation. However, he said he would use the National Guard to protect property. Above all Governor Altgeld did not want federal troops to intervene. However, the issuing of this federal injunction and the fact that mail-trains might be delayed caused President Grover Cleveland to send in federal troops from Fort Sheridan. On July 3, Federal troops entered Chicago against Governor Altgeld's repeated protests. Governor Altgeld protested by writing President Cleveland on July 5, saying, "…surely the facts have not been correctly presented to you in this case, or you would not have taken the step, for it seems to me, unjustifiable. Waiving all questions of courtesy I will say that the State of Illinois is not only able to take care of itself, but it stands ready to furnish the Federal Government any assistance it may need else where…" Despite these repeated protests by Governor Altgeld, President Cleveland continued to send in federal troops.
The reaction of the strikers to the appearance of the troops was that of outrage. What had been a basically peaceful strike turned into complete mayhem. The mayhem began on July 4, with mobs of people setting off fireworks and tipping over rail cars. The workers started to tip railcars and build blockades in reaction to the presence of the federal troops. In addition to this, there was additional level of chaos caused by the ARU leaders' inability to communicate with the strikers because of the federal indictments. The rioting grew and spread then on July 7, a large fire consumed seven buildings at the World's Colombian Exposition in Jackson Park. This burning and rioting came to a zenith on July 6, when fires caused by some 6,000 rioters destroyed 700 railcars and caused $340,000 of damages in the South Chicago Panhandle yards.
At this time in the Chicago vicinity, there were 6,000 federal and state troops, 3,100 police, and 5,000 deputy marshals. However, all this manpower could not prevent the violence from peaking when on July 7, national guardsmen after being assaulted, fired into the crowd killing at least four (possibly up to thirty) and wounding at least twenty. The killing continued when two more people were killed by troops in Spring Valley, Illinois. All this violence started to cause the strike to ebb and on that same day Eugene Debs and four other ARU leaders were arrested for violating the indictment. These officers were later realized on $10,000 bond. The strike was failing rapidly, so the ARU tried to enlist the aid of the AFL in the form of sympathetic strikes. When this was refused the ARU attempted to abandon the strike, on the grounds that workers would be rehired without prejudice except were convicted of crimes however, this offer was refused by the General Managers' Association. The strike continued to dwindle, and trains began to move with increased frequency. The strike became untenable for the workers and on August 2 the Pullman works reopened.
This strike was truly monumental if some of the figures for lost revenues are looked at. The railroads alone lost an estimated $685,308 in expenses incurred during the strike. However, the railroads lost even more in revenue an estimated $4,672,916. In addition, 100,000 striking employees lost wages of an estimated $1,389,143. These costs are just the localized effects of the paralyzation of the nation's rail center and do not include the far ranging financial effects. The manpower used to break the strike was also immense. The total forces of the strikebreakers both government and private were: 1,936 federal troops, 4,000 national guardsmen, about 5,000 extra deputy marshals, 250 extra deputy sheriffs, and the 3,000 policemen in Chicago for a total of 14,186 strikebreakers. In addition to these figures there were also twelve people shot and killed, and 71 people who were arrested and sentenced on the federal indictment. This strike had other far ranging consequences. The federal government took an unprecedented step in using indictments to make any form of a strike essentially illegal and supported this action by deploying federal troops against the will of the states.
The results of the Pullman Strike were both enormous and inconsequential. They were enormous because the strike showed the power of unified national unions. At the same time the strike showed the willingness of the federal government to intervene and support the capitalists against unified labor. The results were inconsequential because for all of the unified effort of the unions the workers did not get their rents lowered.
So, several men in Chicago lost their lives, labor had been struck a tremendous blow, and President Grover Cleveland, fearing an even greater worker revolt, pushed the national holiday through Congress in order to appease the masses. And, now, we celebrate the day by grilling out and taking one last dip in the pool.
Here's to all the men and women who died so that we might enjoy the 40 hour work week, safe working conditions, and all the rest of it… Let's enjoy the fruits of their labor while we can, because God knows we'll see kids working in coal mines again in our lifetimes. To do otherwise, after all, would be Socialism.
update: A link to the following graph was just left in the comments section. I thought that it deserved to be up here, where it had a greater likelihood of catching your attention.
[note: I posted the above update in 2011. If you have access to a more recent graph showing how both middle class income and union membership have fared over these last half dozen years, let me know.]
update: I was going to write something, here at the end of this post, about the people Trump has tapped to push forward his labor agenda, but, as luck would have it, I just happened across a new post at The Cap Times of Madison that said it better than I ever could. Here's a clip.
…(Trump) has made that plain by assembling an administration that is packed with political grifters who have made it their business to defend sweatshops, depress wages and tip every balance toward multinational corporations.
Trump's National Labor Relations Board picks — Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel — have been greeted with scorn by advocates for a living wage and workplace fairness. As Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Emanuel during his confirmation hearing: "You have spent your career at one of the most ruthless, union-busting law firms in the country. How can Americans trust you will protect workers' rights when you've spent 40 years fighting against them?"
Trump's Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, has a miserable history of aligning with right-wing and corporate interests. After law school, Acosta clerked for Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Samuel Alito. Alito is now the U.S. Supreme Court's aggressive foe of worker rights. Acosta, who served briefly as a George W. Bush appointee to the National Labor Relations Board, went on to face harsh criticism for the partisanship he displayed on voting rights cases while leading the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.
As labor secretary, Acosta has remained on the wrong side. Just weeks ago, he appeared before the annual gathering of the militantly anti-labor American Legislative Exchange Council — along with anti-union zealot Betsy DeVos, Trump's secretary of education.
Trump's pick to serve as deputy secretary of labor, Patrick Pizzella, has an even more troubling record than Acosta. A former campaign staffer for Ronald Reagan who has served in Republican and Democratic administrations, Pizzella was once employed by the viscerally anti-union National Right to Work Committee and later joined the firm that scandal-plagued lobbyist Jack Abramoff was associated with before his 2006 conviction on federal charges that included attempted bribery.
When Alaska Republican Sen. Frank Murkowski proposed legislation to raise wages for workers in the Northern Marianas Islands, a U.S. territory that corporations used to get a "Made in the USA" label on sweatshop products, Pizzella lobbied for the sweatshop owners…
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update: OK, it's present day again, and Donald Trump has said that he'll be blocking pay raises for all federal employees. It would appear that, in his opinion, there's just not enough money to make cost-of-living increases possible. [Trump said that austerity, at least with regard to this issue, is necessary in order to "put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course."] I know what you're thinking… How is it possible that we don't have any money, as we were told that the GOP's $1 trillion corporate tax cut would essentially pay for itself, as the economy would grow, and offset any short term losses with regard to federal revenue? Well, that never happened. The Republicans slashed corporate taxes, telling us that we'd all see big pay raises, and assuring us that we wouldn't see cuts to federal programs. And pretty much the opposite happened. According to the most recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the federal deficit is going to grow by another $804 billion in fiscal 2018. And worker pay didn't rise – it fell, as companies, for the most part, decided not to invest their newfound wealth by investing in their people and their facilities, but instead used it to buy back stock, increasing shareholder wealth. Here's just one of many charts from Bloomberg about the screwing of the American worker post-Trump. The blue line represents the hourly wage of the American worker.
Now that the American workers are beginning to wake to the lie of Trumpism, and the fact that it was never really about lifting up "the forgotten Americans," but further enriching the members of the American oligarchy, there seems to be something of a correction underway, with momentum building on the left. And all the Republicans seem capable of saying in response is, "Socialism!", as though the negative connotation of that single word might in itself be enough to make those losing their jobs and their healthcare say to their hungry kids, "Well, at least we aren't evil socialists." But, really, that's all the Republicans now have. They've got fear of Socialism, and overt racism. Their bag of tricks is otherwise empty.
Here, if you don't want to take my word for it, is Congressman Adam Schiff telling it like it is.
Republicans fell all over themselves to give trillions of dollars of tax cuts to the wealthy and to big businesses, and they want to give them even more.
But when it comes to working people, retirees, and the disabled, suddenly deficits matter again. https://t.co/C00WG4sOZV
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) September 2, 2018
So, yeah, every little thing we fought for back in the late 1800s, is going to have to be fought for again, against adversaries with more to lose, and more weapons at their disposal.. Good luck, friends.
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Instead of complaining, the American workers should be thankful that Trump and the Republicans are taking their insurance. It's one hell of a motivator to know that, if you don't work harder and improve your lot in life, your loved ones will die.
Git Mob
Workers get what they deserve. If they didn't stand up for unions, they deserve what's coming their way.
wobblie
As your graph demonstrates the assault on organized labor has been a bi-partisan affair. Your graph ends in 2007. Despite control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency in 2009, Obama would not pursue a pro-worker agenda and as a result private sector union density has fallen to about 6%, quit likely the lowest in history. With the recent Supreme Court decisions turning public sector workers into "right to work" workers, union density in the public sector will probably follow the same trajectory.
It has not just been the failure of Liberals at the national level. Many "liberals" thought that Rick, the killer, Synder was preferable over Bernero–and along with lead posioing of Flint he brought us right to work. But remember it is those 50,000 Jill Stein voters who are at the root of all the evil befalling us.
Jean Henry
No one here has ever claimed independents were the root of all evil, Wobblie.
They have no power beyond the vote, so how could they be?
They do however own a share of the blame for our current political circumstance which is oh so much worse than Obama. The little power they had they used as a demonstration of their supposed personal moral superiority rather than in support of the needs of the people they claim to care most about.
You are an unreliable narrator of many things, but above all of the positions of other progressives.
Sorry— should read third party voters not independents.
Ypsidoodledandy
Thanks for posting on the topic of Labor Day! It will not make you an internet star though, few topics are less beloved….
I would love to join the scrum above in comments about who caused Trump, but I don't have time just now. If I recall, the Libertarian candidate in Michigan got about 150,000 votes, and more than 10,000 (the margin of Trump's Michigan win) 2012 Obama voters stayed home in 2016, but I'll have to leave this topic for another day.
Carl Sagan in 1995 and Noam Chomsky in 2010 both seem to have predicted Trump, interestingly enough:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/u-s-scientists-turn-north-for-help-making-tomatoes-great-again-and-more-1.3954868/carl-sagan-predicted-our-trump-era-future-1.3954900
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/noam-chomsky-predicted-trumps-presidency/
Also, not sure Adam Schiff should be your source of wisdom…..
A few weeks ago, Congress passed a spending bill that took away the remaining congressional oversight of the intelligence community. Before that, they voted to continue giving Trump unlimited surveillance abilities. According to The Intercept, "Leading the charge against reforms of the FBI's domestic spying powers was Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/six-ways-resistance-gave-trump-dictators-toolkit/
I wrote a letter to friends and family for Labor Day 2018–I won't burden you with the whole thing, but you might find this piece of it interesting:
More interesting, however, is a little book I have started to read, by Oscar Ameringer, who you have never heard of, but who was quite well known at the beginning of the 1900s in the US–writing in the style of Mark Twain and friends apparently with the poet Carl Sandburg. He seems to have led a long, wild life of speaking, writing, traveling, agitating. I read his autobiography ("If You Don't Weaken" it is titled) in graduate school.
The little book is called Life and Deeds of Uncle Sam (a forerunner of Howard Zinn, it seems….). The book sold over half a million copies between 1909 and 1917 and was translated into 15 languages, according to the introduction (written by a Paul Buhle). I have not read the book yet, and I'm not a fan of Twain (so if it is in that style I won't like it) but from the Buhle introduction much that is appropos to today (since humans, they are still the same….):
"By the 1870s-90s, they faced an official America at its self-congratulatory apex, bloated with moral vindication…yet curiously indifferent to the degredation of the working classes under the spreading industrial-financial empire–and purblind to….America's international role…. Business and its apologists flatly aimed to keep the impoverished minions in check through star-spangled rhetoric and outright appeals to xenophobia, racism and patriarchy. On the surface, they appeared to suceed. Radicalism disappeared from two-party politics after 1870. Radical Reconstruction drowned in blood and cynicism, reform-minded labor found itself betrayed by its leaders or crushed by unprecedented use of military force, and even Populism was swallowed up by the Democratic Party. Public credulity seemed at times boundless in depth and endless in duration."
How did the little book get so popular?
"Much of….(it)…..can be found in the spontaneous political enthusiasm Life and Deeds generated. No other…book…was likely so often to be given away by friend to friend or friend to acquaintance in hopes of breaking through politically on some emotional/intellectual level. …it threw a flashlight upon a different America uncomfortably vivid to any but the willfully blind."
Ypsidoodledandy be careful what you read. That Armeringer character was another 3rd party zealot, no corporate Democrat or Republican for him. He is practically a Jill Stein or Ralph Nader kinda person .
Labor better get it's ass ready to assert itself now! This criminal usurper presents a great opportunity for a hard pendulum swing.


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Henrietta "Nettie" Bromwell
"Hillside With Purple Flowers"
A landscape watercolor painting by Henrietta Bromwell. A road passes over a hill covered with shrubbery, grass and trees; a red house is in the background. The colors are purple, apricot and green watercolors.
"In Denver Bottoms, Colorado"
A landscape watercolor painting of a shed in a meadow with shrubbery, electric and telephone lines are nearby; a road leads up to the shed. Mountains are in the background. The colors are pale brown, blue, pink and white.
Henrietta "Nettie" Bromwell (1859–1946) was a prominent artist and author active in Denver's social scene during the early to mid-1900s. In addition to her artistic success, she was a Denver socialite. Today, Bromwell's legacy is her writings and artwork, especially landscape paintings.
Henrietta Elizabeth Bromwell was born July 13, 1859, in Charleston, Illinois, the first child of Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell and Elizabeth Payne Bromwell. In 1862 Henrietta became a big sister to baby Henry. Elizabeth died in January 1865, and five years later, when Henrietta was eleven, her family moved to the Colorado Territory, where Henry became a respected jurist and member of the territorial legislature. Young Henrietta was educated at home by private tutors, attaining a fine education. Her brother, meanwhile, studied to become a lawyer but died in 1881 at age nineteen. Henrietta later recorded that her father, whom she cared for and lived with for the remainder of his life, "never recovered from the loss and was never the same."
Neither did she, it appears. Father and daughter became involved in tasks to help fill the void left by Henry's death. Her father was a dedicated member of the Masonic Order and commenced work on a lengthy manuscript titled Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry. Later, he worked with the state legislature on behalf of women's suffrage, enacted in Colorado in 1893. Meanwhile, Henrietta, or "Nettie" as she was known, prepared for a career as an artist, enrolling in 1885 at the University of Denver, a few blocks from the Bromwell home at 1117 Eighth Street. The curriculum consisted of charcoal and color work, with indoor and outdoor sketching exercises and the study of composition. It appears that she remained in the program for a year before earning a diploma.
The Bromwell residence stood near the bottoms of the South Platte River, where various industrial and wooded sites offered many opportunities for landscape studies. As her abilities sharpened, Nettie established a reputation as a fine local artist. The Rocky Mountain News noted, "Miss Bromwell sticks faithfully to her old hunting ground, West Denver, Arlington [Auraria], and the Cherry Creek Bottoms." She spent her summer in the mountains, particularly Mt. Manitou, where she sketched red rocks and cedar trees.
Bromwell was part of a growing community of artists in late nineteenth-century Denver. In 1893 she and Anne Evans, daughter of Colorado's second territorial governor, John Evans, helped to organize the Artists' Club of Denver, which later became the Denver Art Museum. Bromwell played an important role during the group's formative years. As club secretary, a position she held until 1897, she attended to clerical matters, acted as a jurist, and helped organize catalogs and shows.
Bromwell's art career, though interrupted at times, spanned some fifty years—from 1885 to 1930. Unfortunately, she neglected to date many of her works and left several unsigned, making it difficult today to analyze her growth as an artist. Her paintings believed to be from 1885–93 include wooded mountain trails and farmhouses by streams—complete with clothes flapping from clotheslines and sometimes with women and children feeding chickens and doing chores. Bromwell also painted industrial landscapes. Some of these earlier works appear static and shadowless. Later, her color palette lightened, her brushstroke loosened, and shadows of blue and purple appeared in her works.
She used oils, watercolors, and pen and ink and was influenced by European landscape artists who were early proponents of "painting out in the open air." Inspiration could also have come from American artists such as George Henry Durrie and Jasper Francis Cropsey, who focused on farmhouses, barns, haystacks, and farmers' chores.
In 1897 Bromwell exhibited her work in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. The next year, she and fellow Artists' Club member Charles Partridge Adams represented Colorado at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska. She also taught art in a downtown studio in Denver's Majestic Building and wrote a brief essay titled "Sketching and Painting from Nature" for the January 1899 publication The Western Club Woman. In the article, she wrote that the French impressionist Claude Monet had an important influence on landscape painting. Her art career was secure, but personal tragedies were to interrupt her life for years to come.
On January 3, 1903, Bromwell's father died in the home they shared. She had cared for him during his final years, and the death was a shock from which she never recovered. She is last mentioned as entering the Artists' Club of Denver annual exhibits in 1903. Six months after her father's death, Bromwell founded the Henry Bromwell Masonic Publishing Company to publish the book that her father had worked on for so long. In this she exhibited considerable business ability. From 1905 through 1907, she traveled widely in Colorado and elsewhere by train, visiting Masonic lodges and selling her father's book. Bromwell's travels were chronicled in several sketchbooks and her diary of 1905–7, with descriptions often as vivid as her paintings. The Masonic book was followed by a volume of poetry her father wrote, after which she prepared and published three genealogy-based books. Though unmarried and childless, she seemed determined to keep her family's name alive, even at the expense of her art career.
Whatever affinity Bromwell had for the Denver art scene apparently diminished by 1917. After a private viewing of the twenty-third annual exhibit of the Artists' Club of Denver, she exclaimed, "I shall never go to another of these! These hellish artists! How I wish I had never known any of them!" Two weeks later, however, she accepted an invitation to an artists' get-together in a fancy home at 305 Gilpin Street in the Country Club District. She invited two members of the art club to visit her and see her sketches. She waited for days, but they failed to show up.
In 1922, at age sixty-three, Bromwell appears to have briefly revived her artistic activities, sketching twenty-two pencil drawings of Colorado scenes in a small, green leather-bound book. But she soon returned to writing, preparing the five-volume reference work Colorado Portrait and Biographical Index. Her father's entry took up seven pages; perhaps she wished to ensure yet again that his name and accomplishments would not be forgotten.
During her final decade, without family and with only a handful of close friends, Bromwell donated her belongings to the Colorado Historical Society (now History Colorado) and the Denver Public Library. The Society received ninety-six artworks, plus personal mementos such as family picture albums and scrapbooks, a diary, 232 books, Haviland chinaware, musical instruments, Indian artifacts, clothing, a parasol, and a voluminous amount of genealogical notes. On January 8, 1946, Nettie Bromwell died after a lingering illness, the nature of which she never disclosed. She lies buried next to her father at Riverside Cemetery in Denver.
Adapted from Maria Matthews, "The Art of 'Nettie' Bromwell," Colorado Heritage Magazine 17, no. 2 (1997).
Henrietta E. Bromwell, The Bromwell Genealogy, Including Descendants of William Bromwell and Beulah Hall, with Data Relating to Others of the Bromwell Name in America; Also Genealogical Records of Branches of the Allied Families of Holmes, Payne, Rice and Leffler (Denver: Henrietta E. Bromwell, 1910).
John William Leonard, Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914–1915 (New York: American Commonwealth, 1914).
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It's very hard to imagine not being able to see what we think of as the "full spectrum" of colour but it's only a relatively recent development - and of course it's still very partial indeed. We only see what we can see.
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The search is on. A national competition to find the nation's church with the brightest idea to help its local community has this week been launched by specialist insurer Ecclesiastical. The 'Reaching out, inviting in – churches helping communities' competition aims to uncover inspirational projects and campaigns making a difference to communities across the country.
The competition is open to Anglican churches in the UK, and sets out to find ideas and initiatives that have really made a difference to local communities. The good news is that churches can enter any activity they have organised in the past 12 months, so the project doesn't have to be currently active. Which means it can be an ongoing campaign or a one-off community outreach project.
The entries must be clearly aimed at supporting, helping or reaching out to local communities and must be managed by the Parochial Church Council, or the church council entering the competition. Ideas can be as wide-ranging as collecting clothes for the homeless, or running a lunch club that enables older people to get out of the house, make friends, and enjoy a nourishing meal.
The winning project will scoop a top prize of £10,000, with five runner-up prizes taking £2,000 for each church.
Applications for the competition are available online at www.ecclesiastical.com/churchcomp where you can also read the full terms and conditions.
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M, #172051, b. 1 July 1989
Charles Duff Carnegie, Earl of Southesk was born on 1 July 1989.1 He is the son of David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife and Caroline Anne Bunting.1
He was styled as Lord Carnegie between 1989 and 2015.1 He was styled as Earl of Southesk in 2015.
Lord George William Carnegie1
Lord George William Carnegie was born on 23 March 1992.1 He is the son of David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife and Caroline Anne Bunting.1
Lord Hugh Alexander Carnegie1
Lord Hugh Alexander Carnegie was born on 10 June 1993.1 He is the son of David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife and Caroline Anne Bunting.1
Michael Cosmo Bonsor1
M, #172054, b. 10 May 1926, d. 20 August 2005
Last Edited=2 Nov 2005
Michael Cosmo Bonsor was born on 10 May 1926.1 He was the son of Robert Cecil Bonsor and Eugenia Constance Frances Pattinson Lawrence.1 He married Ann Marie Wallenberg, daughter of Dr. Marcus Wallenberg and Dorothy Helen Mackay, on 17 July 1951.1 He died on 20 August 2005 at age 79.2
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, EnglandG.1 He gained the rank of Lieutenant in 1944 in the Grenadier Guards.1 He was chairman of St. Helen's Securities in 1973.1 He was a director of Allied Investments between 1974 and 1975.1
Children of Michael Cosmo Bonsor and Ann Marie Wallenberg
Celia Jane Bonsor+1 b. 9 Feb 1954
Charlotte Serena Bonsor+1 b. 7 Oct 1956
Camilla Ann Bonsor1 b. 2 Apr 1961
Robert Angus Cosmo Bonsor+1 b. 14 Feb 1963, d. 12 Dec 2010
[S466] Notices, The Telegraph, London, UK, 23 August 2005. Hereinafter cited as The Telegraph.
Ann Marie Wallenberg1
Ann Marie Wallenberg is the daughter of Dr. Marcus Wallenberg and Dorothy Helen Mackay.1,2 She married Michael Cosmo Bonsor, son of Robert Cecil Bonsor and Eugenia Constance Frances Pattinson Lawrence, on 17 July 1951.1
From 17 July 1951, her married name became Bonsor.1
Children of Ann Marie Wallenberg and Michael Cosmo Bonsor
Alexander Mackay1
M, #172056, b. circa 1855, d. 1935
Alexander Mackay was born circa 1855.2 He died in 1935.2
He was a financier at Glencruitten, Oban, Scotland.2
Child of Alexander Mackay
Dorothy Helen Mackay+1 b. 6 Apr 1900
[S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."
Dorothy Helen Mackay1
F, #172057, b. 6 April 1900
Dorothy Helen Mackay was born on 6 April 1900.2 She was the daughter of Alexander Mackay.1 She married, firstly, Dr. Marcus Wallenberg in 1923.1,2 She and Dr. Marcus Wallenberg were divorced.2 She married, secondly, Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro, son of Sir Charles Eric Hambro and Sybil Mary Martin Ridley-Smith, on 15 February 1936.1
From 1923, her married name became Wallenberg.1 From 15 February 1936, her married name became Hambro.1
Child of Dorothy Helen Mackay and Dr. Marcus Wallenberg
Ann Marie Wallenberg+1
Child of Dorothy Helen Mackay and Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro
Sally Hambro+
Lt.-Cdr. Thomas Henry Morrogh Chillingworth1
Lt.-Cdr. Thomas Henry Morrogh Chillingworth married Vida Agnes Lancefield, daughter of Captain William Lancefield, before 1957.1
He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy.1
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M, #172059, b. 14 February 1963, d. 12 December 2010
Robert Angus Cosmo Bonsor was born on 14 February 1963 at London, England.1 He was the son of Michael Cosmo Bonsor and Ann Marie Wallenberg.1 He married Kasandra Noel Patton, daughter of Dr. Joseph Patton, in 1989.1 He died on 12 December 2010 at age 47 at Kalispell, Montana, U.S.A.2
He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England. He graduated from School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Children of Robert Angus Cosmo Bonsor and Kasandra Noel Patton
Arabella Nicole Bonsor3 b. 11 Mar 1994
Sabrina Marie Bonsor3 b. 14 May 1997
Alexandra Paige Bonsor3 b. 25 Feb 1999
Annika Serena Bonsor3 b. 28 Jul 2001
[S7584] Alexandra Bonsor, "re: Bonsor Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 24 May 2015. Hereinafter cited as "re: Bonsor Family."
[S1963] Robert Bonsor, "re: Bonsor Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 19 October 2006. Hereinafter cited as "re: Bonsor Family."
Kasandra Noel Patton1
Kasandra Noel Patton is the daughter of Dr. Joseph Patton.1 She married Robert Angus Cosmo Bonsor, son of Michael Cosmo Bonsor and Ann Marie Wallenberg, in 1989.1
From 1989, her married name became Bonsor.1
Children of Kasandra Noel Patton and Robert Angus Cosmo Bonsor


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Things Women Need To Stop Worrying About To Impress Men
The short answer is you shouldn't be worrying about anything. You shouldn't need to go out of your way to impress men. Rather they should be impressed with the person that you already are or they're not worthy of you.
But that doesn't mean that we're not all guilty of doing some of these things sometimes, hoping it'll accelerate the process.
Acting Less Smart Than You Really Are
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Some women feel the need to dumb themselves down in order not to intimidate the men around them. There's a notion that men love a clumsy damsel in distress. Be the strong, independent woman that you are, and they can take it or leave it! It's not your job to feed their ego by making them feel needed.
Pretending You'd Rather Order Salad Than Pizza
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I remember watching an Olsen twins movie when I was little where, in preparation for a date, one of the twins advises her sister to only order a salad because then she wouldn't get bloated, stain her shirt, or get something stuck in her teeth.
Eat what you want—who cares?! There's actually something attractive about a woman who isn't afraid to look messy.
Agreeing With Him Just To Move On
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Nobody likes to be wrong—man or woman—but you've earned your right to disagree and prove them wrong, and they need to grow up and take it rather than expect you to just brush it off and agree with them so they feel better.
Looking Like A Model
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Men know that the standard is unattainable. As Reddit user Matthew0275 says: "We are inundated with ads filled with sexy girls. Real life, video games, cartoons, literally everything aimed at male audiences has some 'golden ratio' female character plastered all over it. The most attractive people I've ever met fell far outside of the ideal look crafted for us."
Turning Into A Female Version Of Chef Ramsey In The Kitchen
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You don't have to know how to cook to be wife material. It doesn't hurt to know how to make the basics for survival purposes, but it's not up to you to make sure they're fed. They're just as capable of turning the stove on as you are.
Pretending To Be "Cool" With Everything
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We know you want to be the "cool" girl so badly, but the cool girl just ends up letting him get away with everything and gets stepped all over. You have the right to set boundaries and to have feelings.
Having A Large Social Media Following
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"If your life depends on receiving praise from strangers online and you can't put your phone down, it's annoying. Don't pretend to be interesting online, it's pointless in real life." —[deleted] / Reddit
They want to date you, not your phone, or your followers.
Wearing High Heels
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Sure, they make your butt look great and give you legs for days, but unless you're going to a strictly sit-down-only event, it's just really not worth not being able to walk the next day and the throbbing pain that comes along with every step you take 20 minutes in.
Acting Like One Of The Guys
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You might think this makes you relatable and cool, but if he wanted to date "one of the guys," he surely would have by now. Clearly, he's looking for something more that only your womanhood can bring. Embrace it and show it off!
Playing Hard To Get
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"Hard to get makes them hard to want" —ChickenNoodleSloop / Reddit.
Mr. NoodleSloup is right. The chase just gets tiring and confusing. It stops being exciting real fast, and instead, people move on to the next person assuming that you're not interested.
Turning Into A Relationship Chameleon
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Naturally, when you date someone for a while, you subconsciously pick up some of their habits and routines, and you might even start to dress similarly.
It's okay for it to happen accidentally, but you should never feel the need to align your style, interests, hobbies, lifestyle, and personality to match theirs.
Having Your Skin Tanned Like You Just Spent A Week In Mexico
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"Fake tans and tan lines can be weird in my personal preference. Just be you." —Madlibsluver / Reddit.
Although, if you love tanning, then go for it, just make sure you're doing it for you and not because Jersey Shore set some unrealistic tanning expectations.
Pretending To Know Anything About Sports
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If your love for football is genuine, then more power to you, but the rest of us just attend the playoff screening for the snacks. There's no harm in having him encourage you to throw a ball around every once in a while and teaching you the basics of the game, but you don't have to become a fan to impress him.
Spending Half A Paycheck On Lingerie
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You should feel no pressure to have to dress a certain way to appear more appealing. If you want to surprise him every once in a while, go for it, but don't spend hundreds on a bra you'll only wear once. He should think you're just as sexy when you're wearing sweatpants and have your hair in a bun.
Feeling A Need To Prove Yourself
"I've dated a lot of girls who constantly felt a need to prove to me that they were enough. Smart enough, attractive enough, whatever. It's like, dude, I asked you out. Obviously, I already think you're enough. If I didn't, I would have dipped by now." —ShlomoKenyatta / Reddit.
Do you know what you need to prove to yourself? That you don't need a man to validate you.
Doing 100 Crunches A Day To Appear Toned
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How come we allowed men to make "dad bods" cool, but no one made beer bellies cool for women? We like beers and pizza just as much as the men, we shouldn't have to restrict ourselves because they can laugh it off as having a body like Seth Rogan's.
Being Down For Bedroom Fun Whenever
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You should only agree to be intimate with a man because you truly feel ready, comfortable, and excited.
Don't do it just to appease them or because you feel pressured. If you go into it hoping that it won't last long and you can just get back to what you were doing, it'll ruin intimacy for you altogether.
Being The Woman Who Can Do It All
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You're human. You don't need to need to prove you're a super-woman every day. Life gets in the way, and it's okay to have days where you skip your workout, turn your phone off, order junk food, and take a break from all responsibilities.
A man who deserves you will give you the time and space to recharge and take some weight off of you.
Getting Along With Their Friends Or Family
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You're dating them, not their friends and family. Everyone loves to have an opinion, so don't worry too much if his mom didn't like you because you didn't know she needed help with the dishes after dinner.
You only have to see her on holidays, it's him you're stuck with every day.
Cleaning Up After Them
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Some men are just looking for a nanny/second mother/maid all in one. If they can't be bothered to do their own laundry, then you shouldn't bother to give them your time.
There's no harm in helping each other out with chores every once in a while as long as they put in their equal share, though.


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Q: How can I get data from a website when everything is loaded? I've created a quiz that creates a link when you press buttons. This link leads to a shop and the number of products available depends on the link. I need to be able to see in my quiz how many products are available. I have this right now:
(function () {
            require(["jquery"], function ($) {
                $(document).ready(function () {
                    $(btn).click(function () {
                        async function makeRequest() {
                            let response = await fetch('https://myshop.test.nl/shoe.html#' + navi.Link.getLink());
                            // console.log(response.status)
                            if (response.status === 200){
                                console.log('werkt')
                                $("#ProductNumber").load('https://myshop.test.nl/shoe.html#' + navi.Link.getLink() + " span.number-of-items") // the class of the span in which number of products is displayed on the official site
                            }
                        }
                        makeRequest()
                    });
                })
            });
        })();

navi.Link.getLink are all the values of my buttons. So when i put this link in the browser there is always another number of products available. The problem is that the number of problems without the getLink is 350 and it checks the number of products when the site is loaded so it always shows 350 in my quiz. I tried doing this by checking whether th http status is 200, but this doesn't work. I do get the console.log, but the numbeer of products is still 350. How can I change this?

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Russian Elections: No Surprises Amid Intensifying Crackdown on Dissent
By Ian Hill
In Russia's managed democracy, election outcomes are seldom in doubt. And so it proved with Russia's parliamentary elections on 17-19 September.
Despite sub-30 percent polling ahead of the election, the ruling United Russia party won about two thirds of the 450 seats in the Duma, thereby retaining its "super-majority." Nationwide, voter turnout was around 50 percent, much the same as in 2016.
The Communist party gained ground, coming in second with 57 seats, followed by the nationalist LPDR with 21 seats. Along with the smaller minor parties, however, they constitute the approved "systemic opposition,", and can usually be relied on not to rock the boat.
The election outcome was, then, much as expected. But this was hardly surprising for, as the US, EU, and UK all observed, the election could hardly be described as free and fair.
The Kremlin left nothing to chance. The lead up to the polls saw a harsh crackdown on "non-systemic" (unapproved) opposition. This included outlawing jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny's organisation as "extremist," driving his supporters underground or abroad, accompanied by moves to muzzle independent media outlets and civil society, including election monitors, by branding them "foreign agents." The authorities succeeded in bullying internet providers into undermining Navalny-inspired online efforts to promote tactical voting, designed to encourage voters to support whatever parties and candidates were best placed to defeat United Russia. This climbdown may come back to haunt the tech giants in future.
While making life as difficult as possible for independent voices, the Kremlin used blandishments to incentivise its support base to vote. The Kremlin doled out special one-off payments to key constituencies: US$200 each to soldiers and policemen, $135 to pensioners, and $130 to families. State employees and the military were strongly encouraged to vote.
There were numerous allegations of fraud around the election itself, especially in Moscow – all denied by the authorities. Critics claimed the extended three-day voting period and promotion of online voting (ostensibly to minimise pandemic risk) abetted vote manipulation and made the job of election monitors (exacerbated anyway by the absence of OSCE and other credible foreign observers) more difficult.
If the election outcome was a foregone conclusion, what was the point? Curiously enough, elections do actually matter for the Kremlin.
Symbolically, the Kremlin, like all authoritarian regimes, values the formal legitimacy and veneer of democracy that elections confer. And in practical terms, securing the two-thirds supermajority of seats for United Russia is necessary to ensure the Duma remains essentially a rubber-stamp body. This underscores how Russia's institutions have been hollowed out, as power is centralised in the Kremlin.
The Kremlin also hopes the election outcome will reinforce popular perceptions of the regime's strength and stability – and demoralise domestic opponents. And while elections don't determine who gets to rule Russia, they do provide the rulers with a useful barometer of public sentiment. And represent a test of the authorities' ability to control the political system.
Against that performance indicator, the political technologists in the presidential administration will count this election a success. It will give the Kremlin some confidence in their ability to manage the political process through to the next nationwide poll – the presidential elections in 2024.
But for opposition activists, the outlook is pretty bleak. In the current repressive climate – which the security hardliners (siloviki) in the Kremlin will have no intention of relaxing ahead of 2024 – it will be difficult for dissenting voices to retain significant public profile or relevance within Russia.
As for the wider Russian populace, the Kremlin will not be unhappy if the prevailing mood of cynical political apathy and disengagement remains. Long accustomed to a paternalistic society, many ordinary Russians have very little expectation of being able to have much real influence over how or by whom they are governed.
Yet Russia's problems won't go away. Inflation, especially food and utilities, is making it more difficult for Russians to make ends meet. Real incomes are now eleven percent lower than they were in 2013. Public services are in a sorry state, with schools and hospitals under-funded – it's telling that more of the state budget is spent on internal security than on education and healthcare combined.
This feeds popular dissatisfaction. Failure by Moscow to address these concerns risks such discontent festering – especially with economic growth forecast to remain sluggish. Yet it may be too much to expect fresh thinking from a stale regime.
Is any of this likely to affect how Russia interacts with the rest of the world? Probably not. Russia's latest National Security Strategy suggests the Kremlin is doubling down on its hardline approach. The strategy identifies threats everywhere and in everything.
If Putin feels he has cowed domestic opposition, that may further embolden him in his dealings with outsiders. And the international community should not delude itself that international criticism will change how the Kremlin acts domestically.
Better get used to it. This, then, is Russia's "new normal."
Ian Hill was a senior career diplomat in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In the course of his 41 year career, Ian was posted three times to Moscow, serving twice as Ambassador (2009-12 and 2016 -20). He also served as New Zealand's Deputy Ambassador in Washington DC for five years (2004 – 2009), and as High Commissioner to Tonga (1995-98). Earlier postings included London and Suva. Among a range of senior roles in the Ministry in Wellington, Ian was Divisional Manager responsible for Europe in 2012 – 2016, and earlier served as Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Adviser for three years (1993-1995).
Eurasianism Debates in Post-Soviet Russia
By Dr Dorothy Horsfield
One commonplace conception often found among Western analysts is that Russia's contemporary "pivot to the east" foreign policy embodies a reconstruction of Eurasianist ideology.
Could the US Lose Access to the Arctic?
By Shaun Cameron
Climate change has allowed for new energy resources and trade routes to be exploited in the Arctic. This has resulted in growing great power competition between the US, Russia, and China in the region.
Syria: Tough Negotiations Amongst External Stakeholders
By Ian Dudgeon
As the likely outcome of Syria's civil war increasingly favours Assad, Russia is positioning itself to be the major beneficiary. But in this turbulent region, external factors could still disrupt this trend.


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As the cloud landscape continues to grow, a new report from GigaOm asserts that hybrid clouds may be the most likely use case over the next few years.
A gargantuan new GigaOm Pro report titled "A field guide to the cloud: current trends and future opportunities" (subscription only) was released today as part of the Structure 2011 conference in San Francisco.
The report examines the cloud-computing landscape with a focus on five specific areas: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), cloud storage, and private/internal clouds. And despite the relative newness of the cloud market, there is quite a bit going on.
According to the report, IaaS is driving the cloud-computing discussion but has yet to reach its peak in either adoption or technological maturity. PaaS is the next wave in cloud computing and is attracting major financial investment, though it's largely still the realm of individual developers and Web start-ups. And private clouds are here to stay as enterprises start to adopt a roll-your-own approach.
For those who follow cloud trends, none of the above is surprising, but the report makes some interesting notes, including the assertion that hybrid clouds (those that cross public/private borders) may be the most likely use case over the next few years.
Additionally, we should expect two major trends from private cloud vendors: advanced hybrid cloud capabilities, and a wave of innovation around higher-level features and specialized functions. The higher-level features span a broad range of possibilities, but particularly intriguing options would be around integrated big data capabilities (e.g,. parallel processing with Hadoop), application-level features (e.g., PaaS-like automation or performance monitoring), and support for multiple storage and database options.
Commodity IaaS providers will ramp up their enterprise push, and we will see large, well-known companies publicly hosting important applications with providers like AWS and Rackspace.
Big data and cloud computing will continue down their converging paths.
PaaS acquisitions and launches will heat up again among large vendors realizing they need to stake their claims in what will eventually be a very lucrative market.
Contraction will occur in the private cloud space, as large-vendor presence and more OpenStack-based products drive less-successful start-ups to seek acquisitions.
Start-ups addressing data-center-to-cloud latency will raise big money.
As the cloud market continues to mature and grow, we've seen tectonic shifts not just in how computing power and storage are consumed, but in the business models enabled by new services. And while cloud services may have some effect on corporate data centers, the cloud is proving to provide a ton of new jobs for developers and systems administrators with relevant skills in the new world.


Businesses that emit hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) during the manufacturing process are regulated by the U.S. Clean Air Act (CAA). The CAA sets limits on certain air pollutants to ensure basic health and environmental protection from air pollution coming from sources like chemical plants, utilities, and steel mills. The EPA has set some specific requirements regarding Title V Air Permit conditions. A Title V operating permit consolidates all your air quality regulatory requirements and establishes a way for your business to demonstrate your compliance including recordkeeping and reporting practices.
This permit of the CAA is called a Title V because it refers to the section of the CAA that covers permits – Title V (CAA § 501-507; USC § 7661-7661f). A Title V permit must be renewed every five years once it has been initially approved. When renewing or applying for a Title V operating permit, it is your responsibility to write the specific parameters that will be monitored and the reporting methods that will be utilized to demonstrate compliance.
Writing conditions into your permit if oftentimes more complex than applying for the permit. Therefore, you will need to know which regulations apply to your operations and how you are required to show compliance with multiple overlapping codes. Keep in mind that if you write a complex set of monitoring standards into your permit, you will be forced to keep up with that work until the permit is rewritten and renewed.
If Title V permit conditions are written incorrectly, they are more likely to reject your permit and send heavy revisions. Creating the best permit is important, because it sets the tone for how easy your environmental management and compliance reporting will be for the next five years.
Writing a streamlined and enforceable permit and getting approval by the EPA is just the beginning of Title V obligations. For the next five years, you will have to comply with all the limits, standards, and best practices outlined in your Title V.
Title V compliance reports need to be completed every year (although some facilities have a 3-year reporting cycle in states like Indiana). These reports need to demonstrate your compliance with each of the permit's conditions. Your business needs to keep detailed records of regulated emissions (quantity and type) and operating records of any control technology. Deviation reports are submitted every 6 months. These deviation reports contain the start and end date & time of any deviations. Failing to report on time or accurately will cause your business to pay some hefty noncompliance fines and harm reputation.
Facilities that properly manage and monitor their emissions data have little trouble staying compliant. Using spreadsheets and handwritten records are often cumbersome, inefficient, and prone to calculation errors.
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With substantial expertise in reporting, ERA will help your business achieve full compliance and total regulatory satisfaction. We have provided Title V help for hundreds of individual companies.
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