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RochdalePioneers said:
AugustusCarp2 said:
OK, just to be fanciful for a moment - what are the odds on last night's VoNC fiasco for the Tories causing them to come third in both by elections?
Third in both? Lengthy...
And in a way, that's more recoverable for the Conservatives. It looks bad the following morning, but that's all.
The thing that ought to really scare the Conservatives is Libs down to negligible in Wakefield and Lab down to nearly nothing in Tiverton. If the public decide that kicking the Tories is the most important thing, that's what they will do. And there's not a lot that the Conservatives (certainly not these Conservatives) can do about it.
I doubt we will get to "nearly nothing" but I take your point. The public keep showing in poll after poll that they want Forza Boris out of power. Massive tactical voting in both these seats will point the way to a catastrophic drubbing for the former Tory party.
Think about it. They got smashed in 1997, but retained their heartlands. Now we're looking at getting reamed in their heartland, and losing the more interesting chunks of the red wall with it. Retaining seats in Stoke on Trent and shitbox bits of the West Midlands leaves them not only out of office but reliant on idiots like Jonathan Gulles to rebuild.
Its already "Thats not my Conservative Party" like in the kids books, but this temporary shift could become permanent if the Tory since Victorian times seats depart leaving aggressive "giz some money" types in poor places.
This "Forza Boris" stuff is only marginally less tiresome than calling him a fascist. 40% of Conservative MPs just voted against him and many of the others voted with their head rather than their heart.
Just because he has a personality, it doesn't mean there is a personality cult around him.
Yes, and the blue wall as properly defined should mean seats that demographically should have been Lib Dem or at least non-Tory in 2019 but still clung on to Conservative (partly through fear of Corbyn).
An absolutely stupid leaflet by the local Tories who utterly miss the point of this byelection. The local MP had to resign in shame because he was watching two upstanding (fnarr fnarr) people having fun on a tractor. The PM has been found to break the law and is correctly regarded by the majority of people as a liar.
So who cares what the LDs want in government? Who cares who they might side with after the election? This isn't about any of those things. This is a byelection protest vote to show the lickspittle Tories who still have confidence in BJ that they are wrong.
"I can vote LibDem now, get a new Tory leader, then vote Tory again at the general election" is the thinking, as it is with any similar byelection.
What utter prannock wrote that leaflet? A waste of cash during the short campaign and a waste of volunteer legs delivering it.
It's the kind of leaflet that activists enjoy writing and perhaps enjoy delivering. But most voters will see "OMG yet more yellow paper from the Lib Dems."
A great tabloid editor is reputed to have said "Who the hell reads the second paragraph?"
An even greater one said "Who the hell reads any paragraphs at all?"
MattW said:
Sorry to be rude, but the Tory candidate has those mad staring eyes which usually betoken a thyroid disorder.
And the Lib Dem candidate looks like a fraudulent vicar. Something in the teeth.
None of the candidates actually pass muster.
What do you want, Elle McPherson?
A tip for the future - if you're thinking of posting something beginning "Sorry to be rude, but..." which then goes on about the physical attractiveness or otherwise of political candidates, don't do it. It makes you sound like a prick.
I'd say @Gardenwalker sounds middle aged rather than like a prick.
His stereotypical vicar is about 30 years out of date.
These days 40%+ of CofE ordinands are women.
Women can't be fraudulent?
In your example Roger has clarified things, because the case of Brexit does indeed correspond to you losing £5k of your income every year for ever.
GDP=income=flow per unit of time.
National wealth=wealth=stock at a point in time.
Losing £5k in one year is equivalent to GDP being x% lower in one year and then returning to its previous path from next year onwards. Losing £5k every year is equivalent to GDP being x% lower than it would have been this year and next year and every year henceforth. This latter case is the one that Ellwood and Roger were referring to.
RochdalePioneers Posts: 21,855
40% of Tory MPs want no part in it. They are the remaining members of the old Tory Party, with Jeremy Hunt as their leader in waiting.
As for the rest, if its not a personality cult dedicated to the advancement of the Big Dog then where are its principles? Its policies? Its big ideas? Its consistency?
They stand for literally nothing other than Boris Johnson. Which is what Berlusconi built for himself. And he knew about parties as well...
TOPPING said:
The other thing is that people love Boris for his indefatigable optimism, his cheery demeanour and his generally infectious good heart.
Without that his USP is much diminished.
Will the vote strip him of the very thing people are attracted to.
Who are these absolutely cretinous idiots who mistake an arrogant arsehole for your flowery description Topping. Is it any wonder the UK is like a banana republic when we have people like that walking the streets.
I used to think he was like Chorlton in Chorlton and the Wheelies. Now i think he's Chorlton if Chorlton had killed half of the wheelies by banging Fenella the witch so hard it knocked her kettle home over on Wheelie Town whilst they were all gathered to celebrate Mayor Wheel's birthday.
Which is a long winded, but childhood memory rich way of saying he is a c***
bondegezou Posts: 2,644
That BJ strikes back manifesto in full.
I can see Johnson trying all this. The right are, however, deluded if they think this is going to be a vote winner. Look at the polling on the most important issues facing the country: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/the-most-important-issues-facing-the-country It's not "free speech" and it's not opposition to doing something about climate change. Immigration and asylum does come in fourth, but it's way down as a public concern than it used to be.
That is what Ellwood means though!!! He didn't change it, he meant that, what you think Roger has turned Ellwood's expression into is what Ellwood meant. Ellwood didn't mean a one-off hit but then we've recovered our income afterwards, he meant we've reduced our income by 4% annually, not 4% growth annually, but a permanent 4% hit to income, this year, next year, every year.
It is the economic equivalent of your £5k gee-gees every year, not a one-off £5k loss to gee-gees.
I personally think Ellwood's claim is unmitigated and hubristic bullshit, but what you think Roger means and what Ellwood actually meant are exactly the same thing.
Tiverton and Honiton separately have been Tory since 1885. Seats like this are the foundations the wall is built on. You can't have battleground seats without a solid base of seats that will be yours forever.
So there should be no contest here. A quiet by-election where the local association nominates some local rustic with the right breeding who simply shakes hands with the local farmers and tradespeople and walks to a 60% vote share.
Head > Desk > Thump > Picard Facepalm.
Your gee-gees is a one off, its gone forever but it won't be lost again next year.
GDP falls are permanent, what you lose this year you will lose again next year and the year after and the year after that because your flow has been permanently reduced. GDP growth is permanent too, what you gain this year you will gain again next year even with no extra GDP growth because the flow has permanently increased. GDP is every year, what Roger said and what Ellwood said mean exactly the same thing, that is what it means!
No, it doesn't. Because plain English does not work that way: the precise economic definition being used (and definitions of GDP differ significantly) is irrelevant
"A year" is read as "every year"
What Ellwood said originally is quite coherent, but arguable as a stat - "Brexit is reducing our GDP by 4%". When Roger misheard this and turned it into "because of Brexit we are losing 4% GDP a year" he made the statement incoherent, at best, and at worst plain wrong
Its funny, because something very, very similar is the top voted post on Conhome today....
And probably half of the male vicars are gay, certainly the non evangelical ones
The equivalent safety in terms of defence of seats for Labour is in the Slough, Bermondsey, Blaenau Gwent range, down to about 70 seats if you lose it and everything above
Every year is correct though.
That is what Ellwood meant, he did mean we have reduced our GDP by 4% every year.
That does not mean GDP growth is falling by 4% every year, since he didn't say GDP growth, he said GDP and GDP != GDP growth. I think the stat is bullshit personally, but that is what Ellwood meant.
Yes so that is effectively what the Red Wall is ie historically Labour voting Leave seats, as the Blue Wall is Tory Remain seats.
It is certainly not Labour Remain seats just as the Blue Wall is not Tory Leave seats
I don't think the PM will ditch the green stuff (not even axing the stupid green levy which would immediately cut fuel bills).
His wife won't permit it.
If you turn it around and imagine the statement is about growth, I don't think anyone would interpret "4% a year" as a one off gain of 4% that we then benefit from indefinitely but rather a statement about the ongoing rate of growth.
Apparently police have conducted a controlled explosion in Whitehall, by a telephone box near the Treasury:
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1534139820519440387
Non evangelical as in, non evangelical plays the first move in a game of chess?
Cutting fuel duty is the single biggest change the government could make today, to keep a lid on inflation. Not 5p though, needs to be 50p. The price of fuel feeds into everything else.
Isn't that the entrance to the Ministry of Magic?
There are a million smutty jokes to be made about that sentence. I claim dibs on them all
For me the Blue Wall is and will always be that vast swathe of Blue constituencies running across southern Britain.
I really couldn't care a less any more how they voted on the EU, and nor should the tories. I do care about the fact that the tories are losing their core supporters.
When did that ever happen with a government party in midterm?
ClippP Posts: 1,368
Typical Tory smear-campaigning, devoid of any positive reason to vote for them at all.
I guess you have never had a LD Focus if you think they are full of positive reasons to vote for them, over half of LD literature is normally negative about the local Tory or Labour council or the government!
Of course, young HY, because most councils are run by Labour or Conservative people, and they do it very badly. There is a negative impact on people's lives. So there is a lot to criticise.
And the present central government is 100% Conservative, and people are suffering very badly.
For example, Devon receives an unfairly low level of funding for education from Central government, and Devon's Conservative MPs do nothing at all about it. Devon's Conservative County councillors try to pretend that the policy of the Conservative government in Westminster is nothing to do with them. They too need to be held to account. And that means criticism. Good. The Lib Dems are doing a good job.
Only you put it much better than me.
If you want to put out yellow leaflets with a heading of Key things to know about the Liberal Democrats in big bold headline, knock yourself out. You might even get some funding from the LDs.
No wonder the Tories are useless at by elections
Also the idea that a candidates time is best spent canvassing 0.0001% of the electorate or even delivering (what) is bonkers. Get them seen out and about.
They are losing some Remain Tories, not Leave voting traditional Tory voters.
53% of 2016 Leave voters are still voting Conservative but only 15% of 2016 Remain voters are now voting Conservative
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/06/01/voting-intention-con-31-lab-39-24-25-may
We saw the same headlines when pensions went up by 3% rather than 8% this year - something that, according to some newspapers, meant that pensioners 'missed out on £10k' over 25 years. It's technically correct, but still highly misleading.
After all the spine-tingling excitement of yesterday, today feels like a total non-event, doesn't it?
Disappointingly dull (apart from the scintillating GDP debate, of course).
Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election, 2016?
They are losing some Remain Tories, not Leave Tories.
Do you think you will ever, in your lifetime, forget about that vote back in 2016? It's six long years ago now and the country, let alone the world, is no longer defined by it.
(There's also of course a huge fallacy in using Leave/Remain as indicators because you can apply two dozen other characteristics of either 'side' that would be as equally valid ... but you know what? I really can't be bothered.)
Yes. And I wish we had been granted a longer build up. A few days would have ramped things up nicely.
Ah well. There will be another one along shortly
@vonderburchard
Confronted by a reporter with widespread criticism over 🇩🇪 weapon deliveries, Scholz doubles down:
"Germany is one of the most important military supporters of Ukraine. No one else is providing as much as Germany is doing. There are a few that also do a lot, like the U.S."
'Starting'?
It's what you thrive on here @Leon
Gallowgate Posts: 18,684
What percentage leave vote, on current swing, turns "Leave" constituencies into "Remain" constituencies?
Actually there are plenty of models showing hits of 4% to 8% to GDP, which is pretty much the consensus view amongst economists, while there are essentially no credible models that I'm aware of indicating growth or no change because of Brexit.
Which kind of fits in with the common sense point that if introduced trade barriers result in less trade AND ALSO make your economy less interesting to invest in, you will end up being permanently poorer.
I'm not counting as models random people on the internet calling bullshit because none of this fits in with their priors .
Having read it, it would make me vote LD if I lived there.
Keep sending them out
We all come here for an argument. Do we not?
I'm just saying that I can now see the obscure pleasure in wrestling over a pointless bone like a maddened terrier
What that hell? He's on another planet, Germany has been going out of its way to avoid sending anything to Ukraine for months now.
LOL. The man is deluded.
numbertwelve Posts: 4,195
Assuming the growth rate is unchanged by the initial hit, I think that's right, but I had to work through some numbers to grasp it, it feels a little non-intuitive.
Let's say we're in an environment where the medium term GDP growth is 2% pa - over 10 years GDP will grow from 100 to 122.
Now if we apply a one off 4% hit at the start, we're starting from 96 and if the growth rate is the same, GDP ends up at 117 after 10 years, still 4% lower.
That being said, if the one off 4% hit doesn't affect the absolute GDP growth, then it still goes up by 22, just from a lower base, and ends the 10 years at 118, which is now only 3% lower so in time the effect erodes. I have no idea if this concept is economically sound though!
Barnesian Posts: 7,304
Nor his wife's friend.
EDIT who is also Boris's bestie.
Yes it is still defined by it in large part.
Look at the local elections last month, the Tories lost Remain voting Westminster, Wandsworth, Barnet, Woking, West Oxfordshire and Tunbridge Wells.
However the Tories gained seats in Leave voting Newcastle under Lyme and Harlow and held Walsall and Dudley
Seeing others struggling to find a way around a wall of deliberate obtuseness is a perverse way to get your fun.
But you're right that HY seems to thrive upon it.
Barnesian said:
Are we saying that Boris would have got a different reception if he had attended St. Paul's without the missus....??
If GDP falls by 4% and then grows by whatever % per year it was going to then it will still be 4% lower than it would have been at all future points in time. In absolute terms that effect grows because 4% of a bigger number is larger.
But you're legless every year.
Not well written, as it only focusses on the alcoholics. The BBC report yesterday was more balanced. The policy was generally successful in reducing the problems caused by very cheap alcohol. It's the specific alcoholics that have not cut down.
Your leg isn't a flow. The miles per hour you can walk if you lose a leg might be reduced and it will be reduced this hour and every other hour.
As far as I am aware (no doubt someone can correct this on something odd) flows must have a unit of time associated with them, many of these are used by default - eg miles per hour etc, by convention GDP is measured by years, so adding "a year" to a flow measured in years is redundant and doesn't change its meaning whatsoever.
Gallowgate said:
The numbers you want to play with are here:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/brexit-votes-by-constituency/
(Some are estimates, because the votes were reported by local council area in many cases.)
In 2016, there were 408 constituencies voting leave, one tie (to 1 decimal place), 241 voting remain.
The median leave figure was about 54% leave, so you would have needed about a 4% swing on average to get to a bare majority of constituencies voting remain.
I think he just meant stuff that doesn't work.
In that, Germany is streets ahead of anyone else.
I see this has been very much spotted and discussed upthread...
I can't help but think the original statement was that he wanted to change the NHS as it was currently a Blockbuster system in an age of Netflix. It's the only way it makes sense. Duplication of services like thousands of VHS tapes sitting identically in every store, rather than people accessing bespoke care when they wanted it or some such twaddle.
You don't understand. What you have to say, as @OnlyLivingBoy has told us, is "each year", not "a year"
So Tobias Ellwood should have said "Brexit means we lose 4% of GDP each year". And that would be, like, totally true, right? Completely accurate and not at all misleading?
I mean, no one, reading that, would think JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THE BREXIT ECONOMY IS GOING TO SHRINK 4% EVERY YEAR
No. Instead, everyone would shrug and say "that's fine, it's a concept of flow"
I wonder what sort of line would represent Harry Cole>BJ>Zac on a graph? Certainly steady progress on the BMI measure.
Softening us up for the return of ciggy coupon healthcare.
Was the statement not verbal?
MrEd Posts: 5,578
No, they think it is OK to boo you because you are a lying pig. The restaurant is context, not pretext
If you count every other country in the world it's true.
DM_Andy Posts: 220
T&H is one of those strange constituencies that are only there to make the jigsaw puzzle fit*. Practically no-one from Honiton knows or cares what happens in Tiverton and vice-versa. They have different local media, different local councils and different politics (Tiverton is traditional Con/LD with the Greens trying to get traction, Honiton is Conservatives v East Devon Alliance with LD not much in evidence). Helen Hurford is from Honiton, she's a former teacher, got a shop in the town, long standing parish councillor and current Deputy Mayor of the town. It's fair to say that Helen is well known in Honiton but would be surprised if one in a hundred Tivertonians knew who she was before she was picked as the Tory candidate.
*The new boundaries restore a sensible Honiton constituency but at the expense of creating an abomination of a constituency in Tiverton & Minehead.
Which is what you'd expect, that there is an extreme of the spectrum where the policy makes no difference because people would rather be homeless than not drink. Net effect across the spectrum is the test of success


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JOAQUIN PELLIOENA CAMACHO, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLEE, VS. LEONOIO GONZALEZ LIQUETE, DEFENDANT AND APPELLANT.
The defendant on the 19th day of January, 1904, was the managing editor of "La Democracia" a daily newspaper published in Manila. In the issue for that day there appeared an article addressed to the plaintiff. The plaintiff, considering that the article was libelous, brought this action to recover damages. Judgment was entered in his favor for the sum of $500, money of the United States. The defendant moved for a new trial in the court below, which was denied, and the case has been brought here by bill of exceptions.
It is very clear that the article published was libelous. In fact, the appellant in his brief in this court refers to it as severe and' mortifying to the plaintiff.
The answer in the case was filed on the 21st of March, 1904. The defendant, who had been appointed a member of the Honorary Commission which was sent to the Exposition at St. Louis, left the Islands on the 23d of April, 1904.
The case was brought on for trial in July of that year, while the defendant was absent in the United States. Prior to the hearing the defendant's counsel moved for a continuance on the ground of the defendant's absence from the Islands. This motion was denied. After the plaintiff had terminated his evidence the defendant renewed the motion. Plaintiff's counsel stated that they had no objection to a continuance if the court saw fit to grant it. The court, however, refused to grant a continuance, and entered judgment as above stated. To the refusal of the court to grant the continuance the defendant excepted. This exception can not be sustained. The action of the court falls within the provisions of section 141 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and the ruling of the court upon the motion to postpone the trial was not subject to exception.
The judgment of the court below is modified by changing the recovery from $500, money of the United States, to P250. As so modified it is affirmed. No costs will be allowed to either party in this court. After the expiration of twenty days judgment will be entered in accordance herewith and the case remanded to the lower court for execution. So ordered.
Arellano, C. J., Torres, Mapa, Johnson, and Carson, JJ., concur.


Why would you expect them to be the solution in the first place?
I don't, but because THEY themselves broke onto the scene with claims of being the champions of internet freedom that would be that.
As conceived by a community of tech-savvy hackers with a horn in the side of formal authority, government in general, while in fact being dangerously politically naive for the most part.
Tomar, sometimes it's useful to fact check the fact checkers.
I looked a bit around on the three mentioned (The New York Times' Adam Goldman, NBC's Noreen O'Donnell and AP's Deb Riechmann) and I didn't found them stating that Gina Haspel would have had waterboarded anyone.
And Your quotes, are coming from?
In several countries for example there are hotlines allowing to ANONYMOUSLY denounce certain things... Do you consider these to be wrong ?
So you are admitting that Wikileaks cannot be impartial ... why should we trust it?
The matter of fact that Wikileaks cannot be impartial [and so credible] is the reason why governments are not doing that much to close that site.
For example, there are environments where Wikileaks is considered aligned with government: Ufology. Wikileaks seems to sustain that UFOs are an invention of US military commands to cover the development of new planes [stealth planes].
[I know this since I'm a former investigative Ufologist still in contact with that environment].
P.S. if you add that the documents on Wikileaks don't seem to support the "reality" of the flat earth ... it's clear that Wikileaks in an invention of NSA!
Not exactly, tomar,.and You didn't answered the question.
Your quote said: "Haspel, had waterboarded a particular Islamic extremist terrorist dozens of time at a secret prison"
Times said she was in charge, running, the facility, or how You name it.
Doing something or something being done by others is not the same thing.
did You fact checked the fact checker?
But a bit of circumspection never hurts: "78 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List". ... "Definitive list" ?!? Sorry, but for me, such a title makes "tilt-tilt" in my head and triggers an urge to check. And ofcourse, the definitive list is a bit doctored.
But besides that, thank You for the link.


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Showcases of Self-Expression
Michael Candelaria March 22, 2019
Cynde Puckett, a digital arts major, poses beside some of the elements of "Oak: Choosing Survival," her senior project. It's one of the 14 student projects that are part of Senior Exhibition 1: Digital Arts, March 18-April 5 at the Hand Art Center.
Stetson digital arts major Cynde Puckett feels a kinship with oak trees, so much so that she says, "There were times when I wanted to get to the top of the oak trees and just be there where I could get away from anyone who would ever hurt me again."
Now her poems — yes, her poems — have found a home "in" the oaks of Stetson's Palm Court.
Puckett's affinity for oak trees can be seen, heard, read and even directly experienced through her senior digital arts project, "Oak: Choosing Survival." It's one of the 14 student projects that are part of Senior Exhibition 1: Digital Arts, March 18-April 5, at the Hand Art Center on the Stetson campus. An opening reception will be 6-8 p.m. Friday, March 22.
Also, the Digital Arts Senior Audio/Visual Showcase is 7-8 p.m. March 21 in the Rinker Welcome Center, and will feature the audio and video projects of seven students.
Both events are free and open to the public.
High tech: Puckett's "Oak: Choosing Survival" includes an iPad that allows viewers to activate audio-visual versions of her poems.
Puckett's tech-enhanced, multimedia installation includes photographs of oaks printed on metal, booklets of her poetry, an iPad where viewers can access audio-visual versions of her poems and a video, and a brochure with a map of the trees just outside the Hand Center that "hold" her poems. Use the free ROAR app on a mobile device to scan the signs Puckett has planted by various oaks, and one will hear and see such poems as "Oh, That I Had Wings Like a Dove," "Rant One" and "Speak Up."
An artist statement posted on the Hand Center wall beside Puckett's installation gets to the heart of the 53-year-old senior's project: "'Oak: Choosing Survival' is close to my heart. As a survivor of domestic violence, sexual abuse and sexual assault, I am on a journey of continual healing. It is through my faith and connection to nature and art that I've been able to venture toward healing. Oak trees are symbolic of strength and resilience — spending time with them helped me find my own and reminds me that there is still beauty in the world."
Jennifer Algieri's "Fact Arr Fiction"
The exhibition's other tech-augmented, multimedia projects embrace a panoply of themes, with some of them including tangible, physical artistic creations on display.
Jennifer Algieri's "Fact Arr Fiction" is, she writes in her artist statement, an "interactive kiosk game which seeks to entertain users while educating them on the true history of pirates."
Alex Ramirez's "Jacksenvale" is "a virtual reality video game experience where the player defends their castle against a horde of ravenous zombies placed in the medieval era."
Senior Matt Garrett combines ceramics and photography in "Structure and Form," his senior digital arts project.
Senior Matt Garrett's "Structure and Form" — shown here is "Cr2O3 (Chrome)."
Taylor Hamilton's "Personal Patterns" features four actual skirts whose designs were "inspired by how women identify themselves." Hamilton interviewed "four different types of women: a woman of color, a girl-boss, a female athlete and a transwoman. I took inspiration from each interview — favorite color, hobbies and interests, biggest accomplishment, etc. — and incorporated them into each design. The designs are then digitally printed and sewn into skirts to focus on expression through fashion."
Taylor Hamilton's "Personal Patterns" features designs that were digitally printed and sewn into skirts.
The Digital Arts Senior Audio/Visual Showcase includes the podcast "Deserted," featuring audio by Kevin "Drips" Reynolds, performance by Cooper Hendrix and score by Gordon "Desk Fern" Silva.
The podcast, Reynolds says in his artist statement, is a "found-audio radio drama that explores the human psyche when pushed to the brink. The story follows Daniel, an air-traffic controller who could no longer stand his dead-end job. He resorts to stealing an airplane only to crash it in the Chihuahua Desert. We have the opportunity to listen to some of Daniel's first post-disaster audio records, giving us an inside look on his psychological development as he is exposed to absolute isolation and the elements."
The audio/visual showcase also includes Larissa Hanson's "Sad Songs Vol. 1," an "indie pop EP of a collection of the thoughts and feelings that I have about love and the hurt that can come with it." And it includes Marvin Dobson's "Memento Mori," a hip-hop EP he so titled to "pay my respect to the late rapper Mac Miller," and to "bring awareness to the fact that we do not live forever."
Jessenia Dae's "Contemporary Dream Tarot for the Modern Mystic"
Jessenia Dae created "Contemporary Dream Tarot for the Modern Mystic," her take on the centuries-old tarot card tradition.
Stetson's Digital Arts program was founded in 1995. Tonya Curran, director of the Hand Center, says digital arts students aren't just raising the bar from past senior exhibitions. "I feel like the students have broken the bar every year," Curran says. "The shows are getting more and more professional."
Tonya Curran, director of the Hand Art Center: "Artists have always been innovators, so I feel like digital art is a natural extension of the creative process. Exciting innovations are happening with it."
Puckett believes art can bring an engagement with social issues — in her case domestic violence and sexual abuse — beyond what lectures or speaker events may offer.
"I think that when people begin to interact with the exhibit or see an image, that can have an impact on them that might be more powerful than just hearing someone say something," Puckett says. "Images can be powerful. The images I show are not images of the violence because we've already experienced that. The images I'm showing are of hope. That you can be broken but healing is possible. I want to make other women and girls know that there is hope."
Puckett was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, but grew up in Ormond Beach. She and her husband ran a souvenir shop near the beach for 23 years before hurricanes forced them to shutter it in 2006. Eventually, she says, "I ended up being guided by God to go back to college."
Puckett earned an A.S. degree in interactive media at Daytona State College, where she also served as editor of the campus newspaper. She currently does graphic design work for Tomoka Christian Church. She says post-graduation possibilities include expanding her duties with the church or pursuing Stetson's M.F.A. of the Americas, a creative writing program.
"I was very broken, but I made a choice to get out of that brokenness," Puckett says. She achieved that, she notes, through her Christian faith, biblical-based counseling at Tomoka Christian Church "and with the help of a lot of other people. It was not just me suddenly going, 'Oh, I'm better. Oh, I'm well, this is behind me.' It still comes up in my thoughts, but I've learned to replace that ugliness with something very beautiful."
One way she does that is by taking photographs.
"My camera became very important to me, to take pictures of things that are beautiful," Puckett says. "If I started having a flashback, I would get my phone out and take a picture, or I would go back to a picture I had taken previously and just stare at it. I began manipulating and editing photos, and that would speak to me inside: 'If I can change this picture, I can work on changing me.'
"I started looking at oak trees as I was out in nature, walking around with my camera. They just seem so very big and strong, but I knew they had weathered a lot of storms. There were places where their branches were chopped off, and right where they were chopped off another branch would start growing from that spot. It just said to me that there can be healing, there can be newness, there can be life even though it feels like something is chopped down and gone and broken. There can be beauty that would come from it."
Curran, the Hand Art Center director, knows that some people may perceive some of the digital arts projects as "technology and not art. But we are entering a time in the world where art is changing."
"Artists have always been innovators," she adds, "so I feel like digital art is a natural extension of the creative process. Exciting innovations are happening with it.
"It does take a while for some of the community to accept that this is a legitimate but very different type of artwork. This is a natural progression. This is the 21st century, so now you have artists using these things that were not available to them before. It's a new way for them to be creative."
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Max Homa "could be Tiger Woods" with big fan support at Tour Championship
Max Homa shot his career-low score in the second round of the Tour Championship and he felt the love from the crowd despite hearing some weird comments.
Max Homa claimed he could be the next Tiger Woods if popularity was decided by "being yelled at in the weirdest ways possible" as he experienced at the Tour Championship.
Homa shot his best ever score on the PGA Tour on Friday at the Tour Championship, making six birdies and an eagle on his way to a 62 to reach tied eighth in the season-ending PGA Tour leaderboard.
He may be 10 shots behind World No.1 Scottie Scheffler, who is currently two shots clear of Xander Schauffele on 19-under-par, but Homa was happy with the reception he has received from the crowd at East Lake.
Since winning his fourth PGA Tour title at the Wells Fargo Championship in May, Homa has developed a large and passionate fanbase. Although he hears some peculiar comments toward him on the course, the 31-year-old intends to grow the game through his popularity.
After his record-breaking round which produced the lowest score at East Lake for 15 years, Homa spoke of his popularity and the huge changes that have been made to the PGA Tour schedule in 2023 involving 20 no-cut events, $20 million purses and the PIP.
"I trusted that I am good at golf."
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"The Tour is doing their best to be creative and provide a different stream of income to the 20 guys now who are driving the revenue for the Tour. Part of it's silly in my opinion, but also part of it's not," Homa said in Atlanta.
"It makes a ton of sense if someone is out here and there's the reason - I always use this example. I tied Tiger Woods two years ago, three years ago at Torrey Pines, and I realize we got paid the exact same amount of money and I provided zero dollars to that event and he provided I can't even come up with a number. So you would think, man, Tiger should get a bit more.
"So I like what they're doing with that. It's a tricky thing. It's ambiguous, but the Tour is just trying to make the Tour better and benefit the guys who are helping drive everything for the rest of us. So I think that's good.
"I would win this PIP if it was about who gets yelled at in the weirdest ways possible. I could be Tiger, I think. I don't know, people seem more and more aware. I am aware that I'm getting a bit more popular, but I don't know.
"It would be cool for the money if I could be in the top 20, but I have always wanted to grow the game of golf whether I got paid for it or not. I love this game. I would love more kids to get involved. I'd like it to be more diversified.
"I think the game is in a good place, and I hope to be a part of just making it continue to go that way. I'm just going to try to use my PGA Tour status as kind of the catalyst for that."
The Player Impact Program is being expanded to include the top 20 players who supposedly "move the needle" on the Tour in 2023. This could give Homa the chance to take a chunk of the new $100 million prize purse which has been increased to secure the futures of the Tour's best players.
Homa will be staying put as far as the LIV Golf Tour is concerned. He is playing the best golf of his career and the majority of players in the peak have decided against a switch to the Saudi-backed series.
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Q&A: Jaclyn Willis
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Junior Jaclyn Willis was named High School Softball Player of the Week by The Dallas Morning News.
Nearly halfway through the District 10-5A season, the Leopard softball team is in first place at 6-0. One of the reasons for the team's success is the bat of junior Jaclyn Willis. Hitting .512 with a team-leading 24 RBIs in 14 games, Willis is this week's Dallas Morning News softball player of the week.
The Red Ledger's Michelle Leddon caught up with Willis to talk about her success.
The Red Ledger: How does it feel to be named Dallas Morning news' player of the week? Were you surprised?
Jaclyn Willis: "It's really such an honor. I really didn't expect it at all. I think it shows that all my hard work is just paying off and I really appreciate that."
RL: You are off to a hot start; what's the secret of your success thus far?
JW: "I think that over the past 3 years I've really just been practicing. I practice every day over the summer; I get up in the morning and I go out and I go hit, and all the hard work that I put in is finally all coming together."
RL: Four home runs this year, but none last year. Where did this power surge come from?
JW: "I actually started hitting with a new hitting coach and he taught me to start generating power in my legs by having a more open stance instead of just going for the ball, so I can really credit that to him."
RL: 24 RBI's in 14 games is impressive. Does the team look to you to carry the offensive load?
JW: "I think that I am part of the offense I guess that brings in the runs, but I think that so many other people of the team have been working just as hard as I have and have also been scoring quite a few RBIs so I think that the success is across the team."
RL: The team is scoring lots of runs, is that something that is naturally happening or are you guys doing something different this year?
JW: "I think that the difference between this year and last year is that we're more of a team this year and we kind of bonded so when I get on base and I have someone behind me, I know that they will score me and I know they will move me so it's just kind of a trust thing and just believing in each other."
RL: Is it reasonable to expect you to continue this offensive streak?
JW: "I know you can definitely say that I will keep working and I will keep producing for the team, but I'm just really excited to see what the rest of the year has in store."


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Graham Hancock on recent archaeological breakthroughs. Graham Hancock is a British writer and journalist who specialises in theories involving ancient civilisations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical/astrological data from the past.
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My favorites are mysteries with dogs. . Another book ticked off my Kindle Unlimited membership, and if they maintain this quality they've got me sold to keep the paid side of membership after all. The sense of humor made me laugh out loud and was so good! Where are the proofreader and beta readers? There was a murder and somehow it was so light hearted. Unfortunately his books might then loose some of their naive schoolboy dope addict charms, which might or might not be a shame.
United they run a sanctuary for animals. Suzy and Josie are attending a rehearsal dinner for Sammy and Jill when one of the guest dies while giving the toast. There was a murder and somehow it was so light hearted. Looking forward to the next one! Suzy soon finds herself working with two Canadian detectives she met the last time she was in town and right in the middle of a bizarre case that includes some rather scandalous photographs, blackmail, and, quite possibly, a case of mistaken identity. At one point they dress up to attract, then tear a young man a new one for daring to mention how good Josie looks.
Somehow, I can't imagine the St. In addition to dealing with a broken leg and the onset of hypothermia, the Otterhound is also pregnant, and Suzy and Josie decide to postpone their departure to the Cayman Islands and do everything they can to save the mom and her unborn puppies. They also find Chloe, an Australian Shepherd puppy, swimming nearby and frantically trying to survive the trauma of being thrown overboard in the middle of the night. But Suzy t Thousand islands doggy inn mystery book 1 This is a new author for me. Instead of flip I've decided that the characters are pretty funny. Suzy is also seeing her boyfriend, Max, and finds herself getting involved with the mystery of who the murderer is. Some of the rescue dogs, end up staying forever, I love that Suzy takes such amazing care of the dogs, she loves everyone of them.
But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Had a very hard time putting my Kindle down to do other things. But when one of the local banks is robbed, and a mysterious man is found dead in the bank vault, a series of events unfold that brings Suzy face to face with the bizarre Winters family.
Of course, true life is often stranger than most fiction, so it can be pleasant to read fiction that is actually as strange as true life. Looking forward to the next one! It's too poor the author isn't talented enough to provide more varied and realistic reactions to the things people say. I love all the facets involved and have fallen in love with all main n't wait to hear about that Jaded Jack Russell! One morning while fishing, they hook a really big one; the dead body of a rich candy magnate who owns an island in the area. Instead I decided to skip a couple of chapters. In fact, write faster…and please do a really smashingly suspenseful and successful read about the Flat-Coated Retrievers! A few of the characters are actually believable, but not the there that I see as the main characters, Suzy, Josie, and Suzy's mother. And as the list of suspects grows, and the victims pile up, they find themselves dealing with a unique cast of characters and wondering if they just might be the next target.
These are fabulous stories with some of the best recurring characters that I have read. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. I was a bit disturbed about how each dog seemed to have its own condo, even though dogs are package animals and love company. Every hero in the stories has a significant part and you need to hear from them all. And when Suzy and Josie find themselves in her direct line of fire, they are forced to fight back in an attempt to protect their reputations as well as remind the reporter that they are two women not to be messed with.
When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. The plot was fast paced and the dialogue was hilarious. The only reason it gets two stars instead of one is because I did manage to finish it, hoping it would get better. They also find Chloe, an Australian Shepherd puppy, swimming nearby and frantically trying to survive the trauma of being thrown overboard in the middle of the night. The two main female characters are strong and very independent women.
Or maybe something was not good enough and would you like to express your sadness? I liked the story for a series mystery, but if she mentioned one more time how beautiful Josie was, I was going to throw the book across the room, but then I'd break my Kindle and it wasn't worth doing that. As always, Suzy and Josie keep up the same banter that inundated books one and two, with the same long running jokes. I think the idea of a doggy hotel is perfect, such amazing treatment while boarding dogs. C are fairly well developed and all very easy to like and I love the never mean but good-hearted snarky banter. Snow's light, witty touch, and skill with a 'keep-'em-guessing' story arc, would carry me through. A bank robbery occurs and we are drawn into the very dysfunctional Winters clan. I am sure that Suzy will be looking for some concrete answers to what she witnessed on the river.


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Q: Unix script not working I have a script where I am checking for file name in the error folder then exit with 1. It is working in testing but not in production. What could have caused the difference:
if [ $exit_code -ne 0 ] || [ -s $error_path ]; then
    echo "Batch Job $1 aborted for file $(basename $i)"
    exit_val=1
else
    echo "Batch job $1 successfully completed for file $(basename $i)"
fi

Even though the file exists in the error path, it is moving to else statement. But it is working in testing.

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More rows at Ottery Town Council over Persimmon meeting
6th January 2014 | News | Claire
Around 20 members of the public were at the meeting, as well as two press reporters – some people had to sit in the room next door as there wasn't enough space for everyone.
Cllr Giles told the meeting that the term "Cllr X" was not correct to be used in the minutes because the allegations against him for breaching confidentiality had been made in the public domain.
Cllr Giles read out some proposed changes to the draft minute, including that he had said at the meeting that he had not divulged confidential information… because a meeting taking place with Persimmon was not confidential information. He also pointed out that his proposal to allow me to speak was seconded by Cllr Jess Bailey.
He read out an alternative paragraph, which he said was a fair and accurate account of the meeting.
Town clerk, Judith Reynolds, said that she had taken advice from EDDC's monitoring officer who said she should "depersonalise" the minutes and allegations.
Cllr Paul Lewis agreed that the term "Cllr X" was not appropriate. He asked that a further sentence be added to the minutes, that Cllr Giles had phoned me the night of the meeting of 18 November, to inform me that a meeting was to take place between Ottery Town Council and Persimmon. This was the part of the breach of confidentiality, Cllr Lewis said, and should be recorded in the minutes.
Cllr Jessica Bailey said what had happened at the town council meeting on 2 December was wrong, but she thought the term "Cllr X" was appropriate. The minutes should state that the councillor had been named in the meeting, she added.
Cllr Paul Carter said the matter was a breach of confidentiality and the discussion was in "part b." He said it was an "open and shut case."
Cllr Giles interjected that this was "total nonsense" and repeated his defence that there was nothing on the agenda that state that the press and public were going to be excluded. This was not proper procedure.
"I did not reveal confidential information – no way in the world was it confidential information," Cllr Giles emphasised, to the sound of chortling from some members of the council.
Cllr Bailey said: "The fact that a developer had approached EDDC for pre-application advice is a matter of public record. It could not have been confidential information."
Mayor, Cllr Glyn Dobson said that a meeting with EDDC's monitoring officer on Wednesday would settle the issue, adding: "I did say twice in the meeting that the information was confidential."
Cllr Dobson added that people were "getting emotional" about the fact that the council had met with a developer and complaints received had virtually all started off with saying the town council shouldn't meet developers in private.
Someone asked how many complaints had been received but the mayor said he didn't know and referred the question to the clerk. The clerk said she wasn't sure either.
The mayor added that there were formal complaints against the town council and also against Cllr Giles.
Cllr Dobson then told the meeting that Cllr Giles had met with developers privately himself.
Cllr Giles angrily demanded Cllr Dobson retract the statement as it was damaging and untrue. He said he had never met a developer privately, ever, in 20 years of him being a councillor.
Cllr Dobson refused to withdraw the remark, adding: "And he didn't update the town council, the other EDDC ward member did," (presumably referring to Cllr David Cox, the other Ottery town ward member).
Cllr Giles looked confused and asked whether he was referring to a meeting with an officer present (which is a formal meeting and an entirely different matter). (Very occasionally, EDDC councillors are asked to attend meetings with planning officers and developers, if for example an application is very large or very complicated).
This is not the same thing as having a developer ring a council and asking for a private meeting with councillors only present. I loudly said that this was not the same thing at all.
Cllr Giles pointed out that a smirking Cllr Paul Carter seemed to think the "whole thing is a big joke."
A very angry Cllr Giles suggested that Mayor Dobson might like to resign. Mayor Dobson replied that if there was anyone who should resign it should be Cllr Giles.
Again, incredulous that yet more unfounded allegations were being levelled at Cllr Giles, I couldn't help butting in (no longer a member of Ottery Town Council) I asked why Cllr Giles kept being attacked for being a good councillor and simply pointing out things that he thought was wrong.
Mayor Dobson replied that I was not entitled to speak because I was "not part of the meeting."
During public questions Ottery resident, Chris Wakefield asked whether notes would be taken of the meeting between the town council and EDDC's monitoring officer on Wednesday (8 January).
The reply was that there probably would be notes taken, but it wasn't the town council's meeting.
I hope that the notes will be made public. They certainly should be, given that the allegations were made very much in public.


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Xbox Streaming: People Can Play Xbox Games on Multiple Devices in…
People may be able to play their favorite games on more devices in the future thanks to Xbox Streaming. At least, this is the vision Microsoft folks have for gamers.
Days before E3 2021, Xbox corporate vice president Liz Hamren said that cloud gaming is going to be the key to their hardware moving forward. This reinforces the notion that the company is heavily invested in making cloud gaming a thing.
This isn't to say that the company will no longer focus on their consoles, but rather, want to provide multiple avenues for people to play their favorite titles, anytime and anywhere.
The company is also working with multiple TV manufacturers to integrate the Xbox Game Pass experience directly into TVs. If everything pushes through, people would only need a controller to start playing.
How Xbox Game Pass is Changing Moving Forward
Xbox Head Phil Spencer and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have shared some details about how Xbox Game Pass would change in the coming months.
First of all, the company is exploring new subscription offerings so that people from all over the world can enjoy what they have to offer. This could mean that you could get the Game Pass for a cheaper price depending on your country.
Next, they are going to build their own streaming devices specifically for cloud gaming to make their games even more accessible. This will alleviate the need to buy a dedicated console since people can just use their monitors or TVs.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan will soon enjoy cloud gaming as the service will officially launch later this year in these territories.
In addition, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate PC users will be able to do cloud gaming on popular web browsers like Safari, Chrome, and Edge. The feature will be coming in the next few weeks.
To ensure that cloud gaming will push through with as few problems as possible, Microsoft has employed the use of data centers with the latest generation hardware in the Xbox Series X. Expect faster load times, improved frame rates, and highly optimized experience.
If everything falls into place, the future of gaming will be bright indeed. What do you think of Microsoft and Xbox really banking on cloud gaming?
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Wharton Venture Award, Early Supporter of Past Recipients InviteMedia, Milo, Warby Parker, Selects Wharton School Entrepreneurs to Receive $50,000 for Summer Venturing
Since 2007, the Wharton School has granted over $300,000 for 28 awards to entrepreneurially-minded students to launch businesses
In the last five years, we've seen two awardees make highly lucrative exits, one to Google and one to eBay, and 70% of past recipients are still pursuing their venture.
Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) March 29, 2012
Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce recipients of the 2012 Wharton Venture Award (WVA). The $10,000 award supports students financially over the summer so that they can concentrate on developing their own entrepreneurial ventures instead of pursuing traditional full-time internships. Since 2007, the Wharton School has granted over $300,000 for 28 awards to entrepreneurially-minded students to launch businesses including such successes as Invite Media, Milo and Warby Parker.
The Wharton Venture Award recipients for Summer, 2012 are:
Samir Malik (MBA, Class of 2013) – 1DocWay
A marketplace connecting hospitals with underserved care facilities. They bring the doctor's office online.
Rajiv Mahale (MBA, Class of 2013) – accessMD.com and Catalogue.com – (In a WVA first, Rajiv made the finals with two different ventures. He has been offered one award to allocate across both businesses.)
accessMD.com: Offers patients and physicians across the globe a certified second opinion from one of the nation's top 20 specialty hospitals.
Catalogue.com: An online marketplace for professionally-curated interior design inspiration. For video see: http://vimeo.com/38673477
Steve Lau and Jon Dussel (both MBA, Class of 2013) – Cloudable.me
An intuitive online application focused on enabling simple social organization and sharing of everything on the Internet.
Deepa Gandhi (MBA, Class of 2013) – Gold & Twine
Monogrammed, luxury and quality handbags and accessories at mid-market price points.
Su Que "Kristy" Leong (MBA, Class of 2013) – Grand Round Table
Empowers medical practitioners to connect seamlessly with the expertise, experiences, and shared resources of their own medical communities on one simple-to-use platform.
"It's an honor to receive the same award that several successful Wharton entrepreneurs have received. The Wharton Venture Award is a huge boost—it gives another stamp of credibility to 1DocWay, and it provides some financial relief so we can focus full time on growing the company this summer. We've already had success recruiting hospitals and clinics and it will be great having more time to focus on improving our product and scaling our company," said Samir Malik, WG'13 and 2012 Wharton Venture Award recipient.
The Award is open to Wharton undergraduate juniors and first-year MBA students who are developing a venture. This year's recipients were chosen from a pool of 45 applicants. Ten finalists made formal presentations to an eminent alumni selection committee who made the final decision.
In just six years, the Wharton Venture Award has established an impressive track record of recognizing and supporting entrepreneurial talent. Past recipients, such as Nat Turner, have now come back to participate as judges for the award. Past recipients include:
Invite Media - Nat Turner (Wharton undergraduate alumnus) – created the first universal buying platform for display media; acquired by Google for $81 million in June, 2010.
Milo.com - Jack Abraham (Wharton undergraduate alumnus) – merged the online and off-line shopping worlds by aggregating information about what products are currently in-stock at local stores; acquired by eBay for $70 million in December 2010.
Warby Parker - Jeff Raider (Wharton MBA alumnus) – challenged the eyewear giants by providing boutique-quality classically crafted eyewear at a revolutionary price point, while providing a free pair of glasses to someone in need for every pair sold.
"We are very excited about this year's recipients of the Wharton Venture Award. The Wharton School is deeply committed to supporting student entrepreneurs as they develop their venture ideas. We're particularly proud of this Award's record. In the last five years, we've seen two awardees make highly lucrative exits, one to Google and one to eBay, and 70% of past recipients are still pursuing their venture." Said Raffi Amit, the Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director for Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs.
"I've been a Wharton Venture Award judge for the past five years, and it's been an amazing journey. Students and their ventures keep getting more sophisticated. The award is meant to change a student's life by supporting them at a key moment in their entrepreneurial journey—this gives them the freedom to focus on worthy ideas full time, and to make leaps forward over the summer in their concept development," said WVA judge Rob Coneybeer, Managing Director of Shasta Ventures.
In addition to each receiving a $10,000 grant, students will also be accepted into the Wharton Venture Initiation Program (VIP). VIP supports serious student entrepreneurs across the University of Pennsylvania by providing office space, access to a community of student and alumni entrepreneurs, educational programming, business advising, and networking opportunities.
About the Wharton School and Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs
In 1973, The Wharton School became the first school to develop a fully integrated curriculum of entrepreneurial studies. Today Wharton, through Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs, supports and seeds innovation and entrepreneurship globally through teaching, research and co-curricular activities. At the same time, Wharton students and alumni are helping to build entrepreneurial enterprises around the world and impacting virtually every industry.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school — is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world, Wharton bridges research and practice through its broad engagement with the global business community. The School has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 9,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and an alumni network of 88,000 graduates.
Peter Winicov
The Wharton School


ELME Spreader Model 817 INNOVATION is the New Generation telescopic top lift spreader for handling of laden ISO containers weighing up to 45 tonnes. 817 INNOVATION is designed for mounting on reach stackers.
INNOVATION's new and improved design implies a New Generation 817 INNOVATION Spreader with the unique combination of increased structural strength and 16% reduced weight.
The New Generation 817 INNOVATION Spreader is estimated to have an increased life expectancy of 30 % related to fatigue resistance and standard load case conditions.
The state of the art design implies a lighter spreader with enhanced durability, increased life expectancy for structural parts, optimized hydraulic system and numerous other improvements for an outstanding functionality. The reduced weight also enables improvements on the reach stacker design.
817 INNOVATION's improved design on end beam and main frame.
a reinforced spreader with incresed life expectancy.
The since previous generations well-proven Twistlock system, manufactured in a rugged design, carries all its benefits into the New Generation of spreaders. 817 INNOVATION has hardened ISO quick exchange pendular twistlocks that are hydraulically activated with mechanical interlocking against faulty locking and unlocking.
with work light positioned on the end beam.
Telescoping is powered by one hydraulic cylinder for each end beam and sideshift is executed by one hydraulic cylinder. The cylinders are positioned on top of the mainframe which makes them easily accessible during maintenance. Rotation is done by a slewing ring with double transmissions for turning and brakes for holding.
The ELME Neuron CAN bus system, designed for maximum robustness, monitors the state of the spreader at all times. Indicator lights advise the operator when the spreader is correctly seated, locked or not locked. Each signal is a precondition for the important protection functions of the spreader such as lift interrupt.
Neuron uses J1939 protocol which provides fault code messaging to alert driver and maintenance personnel of possible component failures.


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What are ports 445 and 139 used for?
Is there an official port 465 for SMTP?
Is the SMB port the same as port 445?
What does port 445 do on a computer?
Is there port 25 for client receive connector?
How to check open ports with Port Checker?
Is there a tool to check port forwarding?
Why does SMB still use port 445 and 139?
Which is better port 587 or 2525 for SMTP?
Ports 445 and 139 Explained The Server Message Block Protocol (SMB Protocol) is a client-server communication protocol used for sharing access to files, printers, serial ports, and data on a network. It can also carry transaction protocols for authenticated inter-process communication.
Interestingly, port 465 was never published as an official SMTP transmission or submission channel by the IETF. Instead, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), who maintains much of the core internet infrastructure, registered port 465 for SMTPS.
By Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft had changed SMB to operate over port 445. SMB still uses port 445. This proved to be problematic as CIFS was a notoriously chatty protocol that could ruin network performance due to latency and numerous acknowledgments.
It's a transport layer protocol designed to use in Windows operating systems over a network. Port 445 is used by newer versions of SMB (after Windows 2000) on top of a TCP stack, allowing SMB to communicate over the Internet. This also means you can use IP addresses in order to use SMB like file sharing. Are open ports dangerous?
Note: If you have email clients that are only able to submit authenticated SMTP email on port 25, you can modify the network adapter bindings of the client Receive connector to also listen for authenticated SMTP email submissions on port 25. How mail is delivered to and from your Exchange organization depends on your Exchange topology.
1 0-1023 – Well known ports (HTTP, SMTP, DHCP, FTP etc) 2 1024-49151 – Reserved Ports 3 49152-65535 – Dynamic/Private Ports
The open port checker is a tool you can use to check your external IP address and detect open ports on your connection. This tool is useful for finding out if your port forwarding is setup correctly or if your server applications are being blocked by a firewall. This tool may also be used as a port scanner…
SMB still uses port 445. This proved to be problematic as CIFS was a notoriously chatty protocol that could ruin network performance due to latency and numerous acknowledgments. While Microsoft estimates that SMB/CIFS compromised less than 10% of network traffic in the average Enterprise network, that is still a significant amount of traffic.
Port 2525 is not an official SMTP port (as recognized by the IETF or IANA). However, it's still popularly used as an alternative to port 587 for SMTP submission and most ISPs and cloud hosting providers do support port 2525 for SMTP. If port 587 is blocked, port 2525 makes a good alternative.
What are ports 445 and 139 used for? Ports 445 and 139 Explained The Server Message Block Protocol (SMB Protocol) is a client-server communication protocol used for sharing access to files, printers, serial ports, and data on a network. It can also carry transaction protocols for authenticated inter-process communication. Is there an official port 465…
What IPs does Dropbox use?
How much is a bale of recycled cardboard worth?


Vivian French is currently best known among the little girls of La Crosse Public Library's Children's Room as the author of the incredibly popular Tiara Club series. These are short chapter books about a boarding school for princesses, with a dose of manners and friendship and mean girls tossed in. I recommend them to parents moving out of the Disney princess phase because, occasionally too insipid for words or not, good manners are a focus. Also, at the end of the day the friends are friends again…though one always hopes the more passive of the bad twins will shake off the more active of the pair and turn into a decent person.
Anyway, Tiara Club aside (apologies–I've read about a half dozen of those books), French's new book came out recently and I was torn. The reviews were pretty positive–the cover I found a turn off. (Madame Director and I do not agree on the cover.) So it followed me home and landed in the wicker basket that houses library books at Chez Hedgehog (if they go anywhere else they get lost among my books).
The tale is a lightly romping fractured fairy tale. An "evil" but aging sorceress, who seems to mostly be permanently bad-tempered, desires a stunning new dress. But how will she pay for it? At the same time a young girl is trying to escape an evil step-father and step-sister and the younger of twin boy princes is trying to determine his own independence. It's a toss up of "because a, then b" and "then x happened, which was good–well yes, but it's also bad." There's a troll servant but he's a pathetic comic creature that one pities and chuckles at rather than fears.
Overall it's a light amusing read that I put on hold for Patron Age 9 who just came by and told me she's reading magic books now (magic being chapter books with a light sprinkling of fairy godmothers and kittens that transform into princes). It was a little too cute for me, but may just appeal to the alternative princess readers.


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Flood alert renewed as river levels remain high and roads shut
The area has already seen flooding over the past few days as heavy rain fell across the region
Tom BurnettSenior Live Reporter
Flooding near Aldi in Stafford (Image: Leah Cassady)
A flood alert has been renewed for two rivers in Staffordshire - with further rainfall expected over the coming days and a number of roads remain shut in South Cheshire.
Heavy rain has led to flooding in areas of Stafford Borough in areas including Victoria Park.
Today, Saturday June 15, the Environment Agency renewed a flood alert, for the River Sow and River Penk in the area.
At 11.34am today, the Environment Agency said: "River levels remain high in the River Sow and Penk catchment as a result of heavy rainfall over the past few days.
"Flooding is affecting low-lying land and roads along the Rivers Sow and Penk and their tributaries.
"Further showers are forecast over the next 24 hours. Please take care near watercourses. We are closely monitoring the situation. Our incident response staff are actively checking river levels and the weather forecast."
Thieves steal milk from 'considerable amount' of houses
Flooding around Stafford - in pictures
A number of flood alerts in Staffordshire are also in force in East Staffordshire and the south east of the county, including Burton and Rugeley.
Several events in Staffordshire have been cancelled or postponed due to expected bad weather including the Party in the Park in Leek and the Fun Dog Show at Wedgwood Cricket Club in Barlaston.
Man cut free from van following accident on M6
The latest weekend Met Office weather forecast for the West Midlands region, which includes Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, states: "A rather cloudy day today, with outbreaks of showery rain at times, some of which could be heavy. Some sunny spells may develop from the southwest later on.
"Becoming mostly dry for a time this evening and into the start of the night, but further bursts of showery rain are possible through the early hours.
"Sunday will be breezy with sunshine and showers. Some of the showers will be heavy."
Across the border in Cheshire police are also advising motorists to take extra care on the roads.
A Cheshire Police spokesman said: "Once again we have adverse and changing weather conditions on the roads. If you are travelling please be mindful of your route and consider your stopping distance and speed."
Music lovers leave festival EARLY as rain wrecks their tents and clothes
The River Weaver in Nantwich today (Image: Cheshire Police)
Police in Nantwich are also urging people to be careful near the River Weaver.
A spokesman said: "Though the weather seems to be OK at the moment. It is still unsafe down by the River Weaver. Be careful when approaching this area."
A number of roads in Cheshire were closed due to flooding.
Shortly after 6pm this evening Cheshire East Council confirmed Gresty Lane in Shavington, which had been flooded, had now reopened - although Nursery Road in Alsager is now reported shut.
A Cheshire East Council spokesman said: "Nursery Road in Alsager is currently closed until further notice due to excessive flooding. Please avoid the area where possible and follow suitable diversion where appropriate."


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Home for the Holidays: Members of NJ Army National Guard Return From Deployment
By ROBERT RAMIREZ
People lined Broad Street in Downtown Westfield Thursday to welcome home members of the 1st Squadron, 102nd Cavalry Regiment, New Jersey Army National Guard, Dec. 12, 2019. People lined Broad Street in Downtown Westfield Thursday to welcome home members of the 1st ... Credits: Nicki McAuliffe
Westfield welcomes home members of the 1st Squadron, 102nd Cavalry Regiment, New Jersey Army National Guard, Dec. 12, 2019. Westfield welcomes home members of the 1st Squadron, 102nd Cavalry Regiment, New Jersey Army ... Credits: Robert Ramirez
WESTFIELD, NJ — Better late than never, right?
Members of the 1st Squadron, 102nd Cavalry Regiment, New Jersey Army National Guard made their return home from Jordan with a police escort to the Westfield National Guard Armory Thursday night, led by Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro and Mayor Shelley Brindle.
After spending nearly a year away from home, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends waited eagerly at the Armory as the anticipated return at 4:30 p.m. spilled past 8 p.m. due to a flight delay. As they waited, loved ones of the deployed happily shared their personal stories of what it was like to be separated and how they planned to celebrate their return.
"Their deployment was nine months, but they left a month earlier to go to Texas, so they've been gone for about 10 months," said Francesca Wilson, wife of Thomas Wilson, of Union. "It was a transition. It was different. I'm pretty independent, so I would say I was fine, but luckily I had my family who live very close to me."
"I waited 10 months, so what's a little longer?" said Wilson as she waited. "I am a little anxious to have him back, though."
According to Francesca, while her husband couldn't wait to get back home to his friends and family, Thomas had another worry that plagued his mind.
"Our first, first thing is he's afraid our dog forgot who he is, so we're going to go surprise the dog and make a video of him surprising the dog," she said.
Melissa Velazquez, wife of Rodolfo Velazquez, of Mayville, waited patiently with her 15-month-old son in a stroller with a poster that read, "I'm walking to my daddy for the first time."
"It was hard. We have a house. We have a two-year-old dog. Plus, a newborn who started crawling, then walking, now running, all while he was away. So yeah, it was hard," said Velazquez.
Alone with just her son, Melissa explained that neither her nor Rodolfo's parents knew of Rodolfo's imminent return and planned to surprise them.
"We're going to dinner reservations," said Velazquez. "His parents and my family don't know he's here. They think my sister is coming from California, so they'll be waiting for us at the restaurant, and we're going to surprise them."
The Westfield Police Department shared their homecoming via Facebook:
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MATAWAN, NJ — An off-duty Roselle Park police officer fatally shot himself in the head after being involved in a crash in Matawan Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
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Eine Preisagentur ist ein Dienstleister für Privatpersonen, Unternehmen, Behörden und Vereine. Der Auftraggeber kommt dabei mit einem vorliegenden Angebot für ein bestimmtes Produkt/Dienstleistung zur Preisagentur. Diese sucht dann einen günstigeren Anbieter für eben jenes Produkt. Das Honorar der Preisagentur wird von der Preisdifferenz, also der Ersparnis des Kunden, abgeleitet (meistens 10 bis 30 %).

Mit Preisrecherchen als Geschäftsmodell traten bereits Anfang der 1990er Jahre die ersten Unternehmen an. Die enorme Verbreitung des Internets führte jedoch dazu, dass sich das System der Preisagentur dem schnellen Tempo der Informationsverbreitung anpassen musste. Heute bietet das Internet jedem Nutzer die Möglichkeit, schnell und effizient Anbieter und Preise (zum Beispiel von hochwertigen technischen Geräten) selbst zu recherchieren (siehe Internet-Preisvergleich). Durch neue Informationsmedien, vor allem durch das Internet, ist die Markttransparenz enorm gestiegen. Die Dienstleistung von Preisagenturen bestehen insbesondere darin, dass sie für ihre Kunden den Markt transparenter machen und ihm so Preisvorteile verschaffen.

Eine weitere gesellschaftliche Veränderung wirkte sich unmittelbar auf die Geschäftsfelder der Preisagenturen aus. Der Wegfall des Rabattgesetzes am 25. Juli 2001 schuf auch für private Konsumenten die Möglichkeit, beim Kauf direkt mit dem Anbieter zu handeln und dabei gegebenenfalls einen über den bei Barzahlung früher auf 3 % des Warenwertes gedeckelten Rabatt auszuhandeln.

Preisagenturen, die sich heute am Markt behaupten können, setzen deshalb eher auf Vermittlung und Einkaufs-Kooperationen als auf Recherche. Sie verdienen ihr Geld also nicht mehr über anteilige Provisionen an den eingesparten Kosten der Käufer, sondern vielmehr mit der Vermittlung von Kunden an die Anbieter. Manche Preisagenturen spezialisieren sich auf eine bestimmte Branche oder Nische wie etwa auf die Recherche von preisgünstigen Neuwagen, den regionalen Heizölmarkt oder auf Produkte im Bereich der Telekommunikation und umgehen so dem hohen Konkurrenzdruck der Internetsuchmaschinen.

Weblinks
 Historie und Geschäftsmodell einer Preisagentur

Literatur
 Sabine Ottinger: Preisagenturen im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Wettbewerb und Neutralität. Verlag Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-89649-933-5 (zugl. Dissertation, Universität Konstanz 2003).

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