Many people hear the words "Irrevocable Trust" and think that the irrevocable nature of the instrument requires inflexibility and rigidity, or that they will lose control over their assets. This is a common myth. An irrevocable trust may enable an individual to retain a significant degree of control over assets during life, while providing for protection from creditors and reducing tax liability for the person's heirs following death. Putting assets into an irrevocable trust also may help to reduce the risk that a child's creditor or ex-wife will take the assets while the parent is alive.
One very big concern that has been growing recently is the possibility that a person's hard-earned assets will have to be spent down to cover the costs of necessary long-term medical care, leaving nothing to transfer to the healthy spouse, children, or other loved ones. Long-term care costs have been rising, and the law allows Medicaid to look back up to five years to determine if any assets have already been transferred. For that reason, it is important to come up with a strategy to protect these assets while a person is healthy, before the need for long-term medical care arises. The longer that a person waits to protect assets, the more likely it is that the assets will not be protected. One way for parents to avoid having their remaining assets used to pay for long-term medical care is to place the assets in an irrevocable trust as part of a comprehensive estate plan.
Consider a hypothetical married 70-year-old couple in good health with two children. They own a home worth approximately $500,000 and have approximately $300,000 in other assets. The couple wants to protect their assets from being taken to pay creditors, including long-term care providers, and to avoid the costs associated with probate. One solution for this couple may be to transfer some or all of their assets to an irrevocable trust. The husband and wife would be the grantors to the trust and would choose an independent trustee to manage the trust during their respective lifespans. The trustee, would have the ability to pay necessary expenses from the trust assets. Using an independent trustee can give a person a much greater sense of safety than transferring assets outright to children as gifts.
In this example, when the husband and wife pass away, any assets which were put into the irrevocable trust are not included in the person's estate for the calculation of Medicaid assistance, the estate tax, or probate. The state can only lien assets included in the probate estate to pay for long-term medical care. The probate estate includes assets owned individually at the time of death. Assets owned by an irrevocable trust are not owned in the individual's name and therefore are not part of the probate estate. Therefore, these assets are not subject to Medicaid's estate recovery provision. That means, ultimately, that assets in the trust will be preserved for the person's heirs.
Many couples also consider using a life estate to protect their homes rather than transferring property into a trust. Creating a life estate requires executing a deed that transfers ownership of the property to the grantee, yet gives the owners the legal right to live on the property as long as either of them lives. This approach can ultimately protect homeowners from having the property taken to pay for long-term care, but can also create huge unnecessary problems.
If the children experience financial difficulty during the life of the parents, creditors may be able to put a lien on the residence. They could not force a foreclose on the lien while the parents were alive, but the existence of the lien would still cause problems for the children when the property transfers to them following the death of both parents. If a child gets divorced, the house in a life estate may also be considered a marital asset and the ex-spouse could get half.
If the parents sell after transferring the property to their children, the children would be assessed a capital gains tax. In 2013, the capital gains tax rate on real estate was 25%. The tax is based on the difference between the purchase price of the house and the sales price. Consider the hypothetical couple with two children and a house worth $500,000. Assume the property cost $100,000. If the parents transfer the property to their children, retaining a life estate, and later decide to sell, all four individuals are considered owners. The children would be assigned approximately 50% of the cost basis in the property and approximately half of the sale proceeds. That means that each child would be assumed to have earned income of $100,000 from the sale, minus $25,000 of the cost basis, which leaves a capital gain of $75,000. Each child would then have to pay approximately $18,750 in capital gains taxes on the parents' home.
This unjust outcome becomes even more unfair when the capital gains tax exclusion is factored into the equation. The law allows a capital gains tax exclusion of up to $500,000 for a married couple on a person's primary residence. That means, if the parents lived in the property and used it as their home for at least two years during a five-year period before the sale, they are allowed to exclude up to $500,000 of the sale's proceeds from being taxed. Since each parent's share of the sale proceeds is only $100,000, they pay no taxes - yet their children get a tax bill solely because the parents transferred the property to them before selling it. Also bear in mind that, had the parents not transferred the property to their children, their capital gains would have been $400,000, and no capital gains taxes would have been owed. When looking at these numbers, it is clear that transferring the property to the children and retaining a life estate may not benefit the children. It may also cause strife if the children refuse to sell because of the potential tax liability. Remember that the parents cannot sell without the children's agreement.
If the couple decided instead to transfer the home to an irrevocable trust, they could still retain a joint life estate. However, the remainder interest would belong to the trust. In this scenario, the parents could sell the home without their children's consent and without facing the capital gains tax issues in the prior example. The couple would be considered the owners for income tax purposes and could take the full benefit of the capital gains exclusion following a sale. They would pay no capital gains tax. In addition, creditors of the children would have no access to the property during the parents' lives and the trust would give the couple some protection against their own creditors.
For those who avoid irrevocable trusts because they worry about extra taxes, it is true that if you don't set it up correctly a trust with earned income must file an income tax return. Earned income may include rental income, interest or dividends. However, if it is setup correctly; eg. if the spouses retain a limited power of appointment, they should not incur any increased tax liability as a result of establishing the trust.
The estate inclusion also provides a significant tax benefit known as a step-up in basis for capital gains tax purposes. If a parent transfers an asset that has increased in value, the parent's cost basis carries over to the child. That means, when the asset is eventually sold, the child will be assumed to have taken the asset at the same price as the parents and required to pay capitals gains taxes on the full increase in value. Similar to our previous example, if the parents obtained their stock at $100,000 and transferred it as a gift to the children with a value of $500,000, the children are given a cost basis of $100,000. If they later sell the stock for $500,000, the children will realize and recognize a $400,000 capital gain, which translates to approximately $100,000 in federal capital gains tax liability.
Instead, if the parents transferred the stock to an irrevocable trust, the stock would be includible in the gross estate of the parents and given a step-up in basis. The step-up in basis means the stock is valued as of the date of the parent's death, not at the time of purchase. Similarly, if the parents put their home into an irrevocable trust with a fair market value of $500,000, the children's cost basis will also be $500,000. Therefore, if the children sold the home soon after their parents' deaths, there would be little or no capital gains to be taxed. As far as the children are concerned, this is a much more desirable outcome. This benefit is not available to individuals who transfer assets outright to their children as gifts.
In conclusion, the irrevocable trust is the only type of trust that allows parents to transfer assets in a manner that will provide protection from their creditors, including the costs of long-term care, and their children's creditors (including ex-spouses) while allowing the parents to benefit from the assets comprising the trust during their lives. In addition, this trust provides some estate and income tax benefits for both the parents and their heirs.
Steven M. Adler has over 25 years of experience in the fields of estate planning, probate, real estate, business law and family law. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in March 1989 and is the founding member of the Law Offices of Steven M. Adler, PLLC. Steven can be contacted by email or by phone at (516) 740-1184.


What did Alfred North Whitehead think the world was composed of in reality?
According to Whitehead, the most primitive real unit is an actual occasion, which is not any thing or substance that persists in time, but a process, a process of becoming. This process of becoming is related to every other process of becoming, or as Whitehead's commentators have explained, the basic unit of reality is a Leibnizian monad that has windows on every conceivable "surface." The entire world is organic and "nature is a structure of evolving processes." Reality is process. Moreover, Whitehead believed that his ontology, unlike the scientific ontology of inert objects, allowed for the existence of an evolving God.


This case seeks to determine how much information a government employer who forces an employee to resign under threat of removal must disclose in response to an OPRA request for the "reason" for the employee's separation from employment. "Reason" for separation is one of the categories of information N.J.S.A. 47:1A-10 expressly requires to be disclosed.
After receiving a tip that an employee who worked in the evidence room at the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office (OCPO) was forced to resign after failing a random drug test, Libertarians For Transparent Government (LFTG), a NJ nonprofit corporation, sought the "reason" underlying the employee's separation from employment. LFTG believed that if it could confirm that the evidence room worker, referred to as "John Doe" in the lawsuit, was fired because of failing a drug test, that fact would be of legitimate interest to the public, particularly criminal defendants who were being prosecuted in Ocean County.
Order to show cause, Complaint, briefs filed by Plaintiff.


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Q: How can I verify a .jar Java applet signature using c# I'm trying to check if a .jar file is properly signed using C#. I researched a bit but couldn't find a way to check it (much like jarsigner does).
I've tried to read the contents of the file and have successfully gotten the *-digest strings from the manifest and the .sf files, but this doesn't really get me anywhere if I can't verify they are the correct signature.
I know this is quite a weird question but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

A: The comment above really does seem to be the best way, that is to call jarsigner as an external process from within C#.  So let me give you some code for that.
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

public class VerifyJar
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Process p = new Process();
        p.StartInfo.FileName = "jarsigner"; // put in full path
        p.StartInfo.Arguments = "-verify liblinear-1.92.jar"; // put in your jar file
        p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        p.Start();

        string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
        p.WaitForExit();

        // Handle the output with a string check probably yourself
        // Here I just display what the result for debugging purposes
        Console.WriteLine("Output:");
        Console.WriteLine(output);

        // For me, the output is "jar is unsigned. (signature missing or not parsable)"
        // which is correct for this particular jar file.
    }
}

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So today, instead of a regular "top 5" article, you will be the one in charge of creating the "top list" for yourself. Down below you can find three cases of field service business and their marketing strategy. After you finished reading them, you will find a couple of questions to answer. Let us see what you come up with!
John's lawn care brand is very easy to recognize. Green vans, green uniform, green badges, and green souvenirs with logo for free – green is the center of the company. He definitely mastered the art of brand awareness – he found the right way to remind people of his service, just like bitten apple reminds us of Apple.
Second, John's customer relations manager are always on the phone ready to address any questions. Clients can reach them even without listening to the long menu of choices. That is pretty much it: the only way to contact GreenForLife is either an email or phone.
Ashley has been running the tutoring service for many years now. The town has about 20,000 students in K-12 grades, the target group for the tutoring service. About 3 years ago, the brand has seen steady growth and turned into a so-called service monopoly, but on the local level.
Right in 2015, this progressive and forward-looking CEO registered Facebook profile for her business. With just few clicks, she established media presence and started her marketing campaign online. You'd be surprised how this decision changed the brand.
Two years down the road, Ashley had all mothers from the town following the page. No phones, no emails, just social media. The tutoring service grew larger and plans to open the online platform to expand their customer segment.
With growing outside-of-town audience, the service experiences decline in their local segment.
Electrical services LightUp has been around for about 4 years. As of now, company provides service to Connecticut and suburbs of NY state. David developed his own branding and communication strategy. Something like a door-to-door sales, but a 21st century version.
David has both the phone and email list of all his customers. And, he always has a story to tell. Every Friday, Facebook followers get LIVE broadcast of Markus, the head electrician, who shares his life hacks and expertise at 9:30pm every week.
LightUp became a successful social media brand. More and more people follow the Facebook and subscribe to newsletter, but the number of customers does not grow as exponentially as number of followers.
His customers are always welcome to share their feedback online, but there is no hotline they could call to.
What are the characteristics of your target audience: size, location, objectives, behavior?
How well do you brand and story relate to the services you provide?
How often do you talk to your customers in-person?
What is unique about your brand?
Your answers should line up to one branding strategy that you should test on your business.
John has got the best customer relations of all: he is quick to reach and quick on solution. But, his business won't grow unless he takes on social media and spread around the message about his brand and story. As of now, he has successful small business that is ready to grow into a mid-size.
Ashley used Facebook as her channel to finding and expanding customers. But, branding is all about connecting with your users, not just finding them. Her customer strategy has gone off the course: the number of interested potential clients grows, yet her business fails to increase the number of loyal customers. The solution is to personalize the brand and stay connected to each user through any platform.
David has revolutionized his brand through Facebook – he created a great social media platform. However, most importantly, he forgot about his service. The Facebook page turned into entertainment and educational platform. Gaining followers, he did not increase the number of actual users because there was no incentive for people to order his service: all the information was given away for free. Rule of thumb with social media is to tell story and not reveal your secrets, let your customers wonder what's next to come. Finally, always talk about your brand and the service, don't go off the route.


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Home » Reviews » DVD Review: Read All About Samuel Fuller's PARK ROW
DVD Review: Read All About Samuel Fuller's PARK ROW
Posted on October 24, 2012 by Niall Browne in Reviews
Samuel Fuller's 1952 film, Park Row is often regarded as one of the great 'Newspaper Movies'. The film, set in the 1880s, sees Gene Evans star as an idealistic journalist who sets up his own newspaper, only to face the wrath of Mary Welch's established rag.
Fuller's film is short (it clocks in at a little over 80 minutes), but it packs a powerful punch, rattling through a lot of information about the free press and newspaper history during its running time. It's also impressively shot by cinematographer Jack Russell, making great use of one (impressive) central set and tracking shots. Paul Dunolp's score is also strong and emotive – the perfect accompaniment to such a tale.
Evans is great in the role of Phineas Mitchell, the journalist turned Editor, who wants to change the face of newspaper journalism, while Herbert Heyes offers strong support as Josiah Davenport, an aging reporter who becomes Mitchell's confidant. If the film has one flaw, it's that the love story between Evans and Welch is never fully developed, coming across as a plot device rather than an organic part of the story. Samuel Fuller may be best known for his war movies, but Park Row deserves to be seen, especially now in a time when the traditional established press is coming under so much scrutiny and falling sales.
This Masters of Cinema release features an effects and music only track, an interesting 20 minute interview with film historian Bill Krohn, a brief chat with Christine Fuller and a trailer. A solid package.
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Discussion in 'Vols Hoops' started by hatvol96, Oct 25, 2011.
From what I'm hearing and the way Cal is "chirping" UK is going to be beastly. Terrance Jones seems to actually care about basketball this year.
If Jones improved any at all, they are going to be downright scary. Does anyone think the SEC as a conference is better this year than they have been in several years?
The top of the league certainly is. From six on down is a bit iffy.


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Fatboy Slim: 'DJing for me is kind of a conversation' – Music News
March 29, 2021 Music
DJ Fatboy Slim joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky to talk about his nationwide tour 'We've Come A Long Long Way Together' in November and getting behind the decks (or counter) and serving ice-cream to help his mental health.
On his current day job at a family community cafe:
"It's at the end of my road and I took it over about seven years ago. It's called The Big Beach Cafe and it's in Hove Lagoon which is literally the end of my road and it's a family community cafe. Both my kids have worked there over the years but then after 10 months of sitting around doing absolutely nothing because I can't do my regular job I got drafted in to help out because we lost two-thirds of our staff as they had to quarantine. So I stepped in and it was really good for my mental health to get out of the house and talk to people. It's very popular with walkers, so all the way through this current lockdown it's a destination for people out on their exercise walks."
"My mental health is a lot better if I get to talk to people all day rather than sit around not doing anything. It's a lovely little community. There is a lot of dog action, there's a lot of kid action and it's just a really friendly place to be rather than sitting around watching daytime TV. It was built in 1910 so it's very much an old school cafe. We do lots of veganism and organic produce, but we have basically a very traditional cafe and have lots of chips and burgers and coffees and ice cream."
On DJing through the pandemic:
"For most DJs our only avenue of expressing ourselves is to do live streams but for me the whole experience of DJing, the whole magic of it, is that communication with the crowd and the conversation you have. It's a two-way street and if you remove the crowd it's just a bloke playing records on the table."
"The streams that we have done, I've tried to put a little twist on it. The one I did with Idris [Elba] and we were Zooming into people's lounges so we could see them on a big screen. We could wave at them, send messages, dance with him and fist bump them through the screen which was quite a laugh."
On his big arena tour in November:
"We did it a couple of years ago and it's an experiment of putting something that normally shouldn't work in arenas – DJing for me is kind of a conversation – but we've worked out if we do it in the round, it stops being an arena and it feels like a really enormous party or a nightclub. So I play on a revolving stage and it just makes it more intimate if you could ever be intimate in an arena. Like every other person in my business, I'm just gagging to get back out there. We've all been just chomping at the bit. I think it's quite important how we connect because so many of us have been disconnected from each other for so long."
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Directions to 3846 E Howe St Tacoma, WA: I-5 to 38th St head East on 38th St, right onto E Howe, land on right.
3846 E Howe St is a single family residential home originally listed on 02-07-2019 by Compass Washington and sold on 03-18-2019 by Best Choice Realty LLC. 3846 E Howe St was on the market for a total of 39 days. 3846 E Howe St is a 3 bedroom, 3 bath with 1,820 total living square footage on 0.11 acres of land. Currently homes in Tacoma have an average list price of $424,884 and an average selling price of $309,544. 3846 E Howe St sold for $191.76 per square foot. Please view our active Tacoma	and Pierce County real estate listings.


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Dartmouth Hawleys Castle
Clifton; Stoke Fleming
In the civil parish of Dartmouth.
OS Map Grid Reference: SX887502
Dartmouth Hawleys Castle has been described as a certain Masonry Castle.
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*.
The enclosure castle is Listed Grade I and is believed to date from the 14th century when a series of documents indicate that various local gentry were commissioned to construct a fort to defend Dartmouth harbour. The castle is believed to have taken the form of a ring of towers connected by a curtain wall, which was entered through a rectangular stone gate tower. Two lengths of curtain wall standing about 12m high and 2m wide, a circular tower and a substantial rock cut moat are visible, although the other towers and lengths of the curtain wall may survive as buried features. The character of the seaward defences and the buildings erected within the enclosure is not known. Documentary and antiquarian sources, however, confirm that there was a substantial domestic building within the castle enclosure, which at times has been referred to as a manor house and mansion. This building was built by the Carew family who were the lords of the manor of Stoke Fleming. Their building is no longer visible but will survive in the form of buried remains. A flight of steps leading into the remaining curtain wall tower is considered to be contemporary with the mansion and may have been inserted to make it into a garden feature or lookout tower. (Scheduling Report)
Ruined wall. Part of curtain wall from the original fortification on the site. Late C14, some C18 alterations. Local stone rubble. A section of ruined wall stands to south-west of the main castle complex with remains of a circular mural tower. Masonry includes regular series of putlog holes. The stone steps in the tower are thought to be from the C18 when it was adapted as a garden feature. (Listed Building Report)
Oct. 8. 1388 Cambridge. To the mayor and bailiffs of Dertemuth. Order to compel, and if need be to distrain, all men and burgesses of the town who ought so to do, according to the agreement, order and grant by them made, to contribute to the building of a fortalice by the sea at the entrance of that port, unduly sparing none, and from time to time certifying the king and council of the names of any who rebel; as in consideration of the hurt and peril which might happen to the town in this war by assault of the enemy, the mayor and bailiffs and certain good and able burgesses have purposed to build the same for defence of the town and parts adjacent and {of ships} of other parts of the realm which touch there, and by their common assent promised and granted an aid, to be levied for the purpose of the owners, possessors, merchants, masters of ships, barges, balingers, boats etc. to the town pertaining, the seamen and fishers of the town, binding themselves with an oath speedily to accomplish these things, as by their letters patent under the common seal of the town may appear; and now the king is informed that a few individuals, scheming to bring their intent and agreement to nought, refuse to contribute, and are procuring others to refuse, delaying the work, which manifestly concerns the common weal; and writ of aid accordingly to the sheriff of Devon. (Cal. Close R.)
Data > PastScape County HER Scheduling Listing I. O. E.
National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1014610, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number 24234
National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1197566
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 446022; 446057.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 19561.
Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
Devon Perspectives
English Heritage official site
English Heritage Story of England
(For full bibliography of Dartmouth defences see Dartmouth Artillery Castle)
Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 56-7
Edwards, Terry, 1998, Hawley's Fortalice (Dartmouth History Research Group Paper 24)
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 56
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 115
O'Neil, B.H.St.J., 1960, Castles and Cannon: A Study of Early Artillery Fortifications in England (Oxford: Claredon Press)
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1896, Castles of England; their story and structure (New York: Macmillan) Vol. 2 p. 27-9
Lysons, D. and S., 1822, Magna Britannia Vol. 6 Devon p. cccxlv-cccxlviii online transcription
Russell, Percy, 1949, 'The Castle and St. Petrox' Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries Vol. 23 p. 200
O'Neil, B.H.St.J., 1936, 'Dartmouth Castle and other defences of Dartmouth Haven' Archaeologia Vol. 85 p. 129-59
Windeatt, E., 1914, 'The Borough of Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness' Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol. 46 p. 421-2 online copy
Davison, B.K., 2000, Dartmouth Castle Guidebook (London: English Heritage)
Saunders, A.D., 1986, Dartmouth Castle, Devon (London: English Heritage)
Saunders, A.D., 1983 2edn, Dartmouth Castle, Devon (HMSO)
Saunders, A.D., 1965, Dartmouth Castle, Devon (HMSO)
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1921, Calendar of Close Rolls Richard II (1385-89) Vol. 3 p. 537 view online copy (requires subscription but searchable) alternative online copy
*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.


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A sales force automation system is a software that automates and streamlines a business' sales process, including order processing, contact management, information sharing, inventory monitoring and control, order tracking, customer management, sales forecast analysis and employee performance evaluation. Designed for ease-of-use and convenience, our sales force automation system is a system that enables you to manage the entire sales force from pre-sales to post-sales. You would be able to know the location and activity of your sales personnel while empowering them with accurate information and data so that they can seal the deal. Business is always about sales and revenue. The more leads you gather, the more sales you acquire, the bigger the revenue for the business. It is essential to manage your sales force effectively, which is where our sales force automation system comes in. Our sales force automation system helps in various aspects, to increase sales and performance, reduce sales cycle duration, enhances sales representatives' productivity through data efficiency. In fact, studies from research firm The Aberdeen Group concludes that businesses who adopt a sales force automation system saw their sales increase by a staggering 27% with a corresponding decreased sales cycle by 16% in over a quarter. Whether you are a small medium enterprise, or a multinational corporation with thousands of products, a sales force automation system is designed to eliminate many of the tedious back end work, freeing up a salesperson to do what he does best – sell. Below are some worthwhile benefits to interest you to implement a sales force automation system.
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A Sales Force Automation System provides a holistic view of your sales accounts with respective contact points, contracts, company case studies and much more. These tedious tasks is now fully automated, to save costs and time. Your sales team can now focus on what they do best, to keep track of account progress and to close deals.
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As the name suggests, a Sales Force Automation System helps automate time consuming yet important data input and adds coherence to a sales organization. For example, to schedule appointments, to send follow up emails, to track contacts etc. Sales force automation also allows a sales person to quickly draft a quotation, or a proposal based on rough estimates in real time during appointments. In addition to getting all these done quickly, you should also expect minimal error along the automated experience.
Businesses are now growing into seamless channels, where information is accessible through internet from different locations. If your sales team spends most of their time out in the field, then a mobile enabled sales force automation system is the way to go. Your sales people now have instant access to information and leads while being on the road, so they don't have to get back to the office to sort out information. Being quick and accurate is the new winning recipe in the game.


So I didn't mention this initially to prevent causing confusion, but I'm gonna be working on porting Comma AI OpenPilot to my truck (semi-autonomous driving), but by default it is made to leverage LKAS in modern vehicles. Hence, why I need to add the LKAS first. The truck obviously still has the electric power steering, so it might still be possible without LKAS, but would be much much easier with it. I contacted the dealer Techline, and ACDelco TDS and neither are able to offer a VCI number to add the camera module (in other words, the UHX RPO) due to "GM Brand Quality policy", as stated by other people here. So I'm back to the drawing board trying to figure out a way to hack around it somehow.
I have a 2016 Sierra, and have access to all the hardware I need to swap in Lane Keep Assist, etc. (UHX). The hardware is not an issue, but does anyone know if its possible to get the UHX RPO added to the truck? The first dealership I called said its not possible, and that GM wont do it for them because of liability, but I dont know if I believe that. In the old days, we could just fire up the Tech2 and add an RPO. Does GDS2 do this now? Are there some/all RPO codes that need to be 'okayed' by GM?
Does anybody in the aftermarket make a power fold, with led signal in the mirror glass, WITHOUT the LED side bulge that the 1A Auto mirrors have? Essentially, I want DQS factory mirrors, but without the price tag (aftermarket). So far in my searches, the combination of power fold, heated, led in glass seems to be unattainable.
What I'm talking about would use the factory remote. Hit unlock and the bed lights come on (and only when it's dark out). No extra Chinese fob on the keychain needed, no RF module to mount, no fuse holder hidden away from the rest of the fuses. Just one simple relay and diode, already protected by the factory cargo lamp relay fuse in the factory fuse panel.
Nice. BCM makes it even easier, then I for sure can use a relay tied to ignition so that this only comes on with reverse lights when the truck is not running. Ill post instructions once I get it figured out.
So, I love the bed lighting on my new truck, but I find it annoying that you have to run inside and hit the cargo light button. Has anyone had any thoughts of tapping the bed lights (also) into the reverse lights? That way when you hit the unlock button on the FOB, the bed lights will come on for a short duration? Further to that idea, does anyone know if the bed light harness taps plugs into the modular box under the bed that the taillights and hitch plug into? Or are they run elsewhere? *EDIT*: I can confirm that is where they plug in. This might turn out to be pretty simple. Obviously this has the downside of the bed lights coming on when in reverse, but I figure as long as there is an ignition or accessory hot wire in that modular box, I could relay out the bed lights when the truck is actually running, and then the bed lights would only come on with the reverse lights when the truck is off. Any 12V guys here have any thoughts? If not, ill probably volunteer and be the guinea pig......circuit should be relatively simple.
In my new 2016 6.2L, when I accelerate, at certain loads/rpms there is a noise that comes from the passenger side that kind of sounds like an out of balance wheel (its not). The noise is only at certain RPM loads, and is only under acceleration. Im unsure if itsnormal, or something is up. It is not high pitched like an exhaust leak. For lack of a better way of explaining it, It sort of sounds like "WUH WUH WUH WUH WUH" (almost like a flat tire type sound). But like i said, it is not speed dependent, and goes away when the RPMs or the load increases about that certain threshold. Any chance it might be resonance in whatever frequency the active noise cancellation is throwing out? Any way to disable the active noise cancellation temporarily to eliminate that variable? I may go to the dealership and test drive another 6.2L just to see if the sound is normal.
These are keyless entry/remote start frequencies. Not sure why they are mentioned in this thread.
For future readers, this is incorrect. UQA is the Bose system, but NKC is noise cancelling. I have a 6.2 All Terrain with both Bose and Active Noise Cancellation.
Contacting Chris White / GTPPrix ?
Does anyone have a phone number or way of contacting Chris White (GTPPrix) @ White Auto and Media Services? I had a cluster sent to him for programming and haven't been able to reach him by email. I'm sure he's just very busy, but wondering if someone has a better way for contacting him? If you read this Chris, do you mind PMing me your phone number?


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by Nanni Balestrini Translated by Liz Heron Preface by Antonio Negri
254 pages / January 2012 / 9781844677672
254 pages / February 2012 / 9781844678372
An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion.
For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy's cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its "politics of refusal" united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war.
Nanni Balestrini, the poet of youth rebellion, himself a victim of that repression, has invented a remarkable fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose, The Unseen follows Autonomy's trajectory through the eyes of a single working-class protagonist—from high-school rebellion, squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.
"Lucid, poetic, unforgettable."
– La Stampa
"The Unseen isn't documentary writing, but it tells us far more than any documentary about a troubled phase in our history; how it was experienced, and most of all how it was lived in the imagination."
– Corriere della Sera
"Not just a beautiful novel...it is the story of part of a generation in our country, who dreamed a different future and believed in it, believed in the possibility of making it real."
– Linus
"What [Balestrini] narrates is not a fairy tale, but a terrifying experience. Not just his own, but also that of a lost generation who thought possible another world beside the world, who dreamt of workers' power, of autonomy, who revolted against everything, school, family, clergy, political parties, "historical compromise," State, police, boredom . . . The Unseen is, perhaps, the first true novel of the European Left."
– Libération
"Balestrini offers a very lucid document, which is both the memory and the assessment of a disoriented generation. The Left now has its novel."
– L'Événement du jeudi
"We should be grateful to Nanni Balestrini for having engaged his writing with this cruel sentimental education of a young man living in the seventies."
– Rossana Rossanda, il manifesto
"The political passion of the rebel Balestrini is equalled by his literary vocation...the finale is not unworthy of Bontempelli or Calvino."
– Il Giornale
"A work of high literary quality. Among many novels and elegantly crafted pieces of fiction...The Unseen has the courage to face an incandescent matter of reality, rich in implications that involve not only the literati but also a wider public."
– L'Unità
May Day reading: We Want Everything
"It's not fair, living this shitty life, the workers said in meetings, in groups at the gates. All the stuff, all the wealth that we make is ours. Enough. We can't stand it any more, we can't just be stuff too, goods to be sold. Vogliamo tutto — We want everything."
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My Husband is Mad About Jill Stein…and Gary Johnson
He met me last night at our local watering hole and said, "I can't stop thinking about what you said about that doctor and the other guy not being in the debates. Who decides these things?"
"Some group called the Commission on Presidential Debates which was formed in 1987 by the Republicans and Democrats. Before that the League of Women Voters tried to corral the pesky candidates and make them debate, " I replied and reached for my trusty I Pad for more info.
"This page in Wikipedia is disputed but let's just see what it says. Ah, Nixon didn't even debate in 1972, but most of the candidates do. As far as third parties are concerned, looks like the two parties try to set percentages of popular support over 5 polls for participation in a debate. I think Perot had around 7%. Then they upped it to 15% in 2000 so that Nader couldn't participate in the debates. Nader sued and Gary Johnson has sued this year. Wow, it looks like Jill Stein debated Mitt Romney back in 2002 for the governorship of Massachusetts and the Boston Globe declare her "the only adult in the room".
"That's what I thought when you made me watch that first debate on Democracy Now where they let the doctor answer the same questions as Obama and Romney. (Husband didn't mention Rocky Anderson who was also on the Democracy Now show). It's not right. It really pisses me off. Makes me angry."
A little background here. My husband doesn't get angry. My husband especially doesn't get angry about politics. My husband doesn't usually even want to talk about it when we go out for dinner. He resignedly listens to me at home talk about Wal-Mart employee actions, union solidarity in Europe and none here, how Obama and Romney are Baritt O'Bomney, the U.S. being sovereign in its own currency and it is not like Greece… He patiently listens to me talk about the latest book I'm reading. (Now it's "Stayin' Alive" by Jefferson Cowie) before he gets up and announces he has to "go fix some fence."
When I met him 20 years ago, he had never even voted. "What's the use?" I was appalled. I had dutifully voted in every primary and election since college and dutifully voted Democrat. I got him thinking and voting. I got heavily involved in party politics 12 years after arriving in Montana. Worked like heck for Democrats. Ha! Now I'm thinking he had the right idea. Very little has changed nationally since I first voted in 1972. No, that's not true. It's gotten progressively, yes progressively worse. Locally it has been a mixed bag. Got some conservative Democrats elected which doesn't work out so well at the national level, but at the state level it kept some of the darker forces at bay. Ballot initiatives have been worthwhile activist endeavors like getting more kids covered for health, keeping arsenic out of rivers, and passing legalizing medical marijuana. But forming a local Democratic central committee kicked open a sleeping hornet's nest of nasty far right militia types. So we quietly closed that down, but that's another whole saga.
So, you see, it's important to tell people that there are other candidates running for president and vice president. All week long I've asked people in town if they know about the women who were arrested for trying to get into the presidential debate this past Tuesday. Not one person knew about Jill Stein running in the Green Party or former Governor Gary Johnson running as a Libertarian. Not one. And this is a libertarian kind of county and the people I asked were all conservatives. Where's their vaunted "freedom" in not allowing other voices and arresting candidates who try to call attention to this outrage?
If my husband who doesn't like to talk politics and doesn't get angry is angry, then I just bet there are a whole lot of other people out there who are pissed too and don't know that there are candidates out there that won't even get a hearing. It's not really a debate if other ideas are not allowed, is it?
Someone once said "If voting meant something, then they would make it illegal." So voting might not matter, but shutting people out of the process isn't right. Roger Hodge in "The Mendacity of Hope" said,"A basic premise of republican form of government is our agreement to submit to law that we have arrived at publicly, through a legitimate deliberative process. " Hodge was talking about the secretive illegitimate bargains that the Obama administration made behind the scenes for Obamacare. He said those bargains failed the basic test of "a legitimate deliberative process". And so does all this shadowy group of people behind this bogus commission.
Whether you agree with their ideas or not, it's not right to shut third parties out of the debates. It's not right to shut down discussions of alternative ideas. It's just not right, as my husband would say.
Link to Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala being arrested at the Presidential debates.
Link to more on Presidential debate shenanigans.
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2 responses to "My Husband is Mad About Jill Stein…and Gary Johnson"
Alcuin | October 21, 2012 at 11:35 am | Reply
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." – Emma Goldman
The charge is largely correct and I often wonder why I vote. I voted for McGovern in my first election and voted straight D until now. I've never voted for a third party candidate, but I am this year. I hope the results surprise everyone – Jill Stein is getting more coverage than ever before and she has a lot of contributors on her donate site. What I find so interesting is how many people are voting their fears instead of their values. But that is exactly what the PTB intended to do when they nominated Romney. Obama has been a gift to the ruling class in this country. A Democratic president destroying Social Security and Medicare? Wow!!!
feralcatoffreedom | October 21, 2012 at 12:03 pm | Reply
Me too. I was in line in Michigan when they called the election for Nixon. That was early. We all quietly waited in our long college line until I cast my first vote for McGovern. Voted straight ever since until now. I will cast my vote for Jill and Cheri. I encourage my conservative friends to vote for Gary Johnson. Thanks for the link to the donate page.


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Q&A: ALLISON MOORER
Posted on February 7, 2010 by medleyville in Features // 0 Comments
As the follow-up to 2008's Mockingbird, a collection of mostly cover songs, singer/songwriter Allison Moorer is set to release Crows, her first album for the Rykodisc label, on Feb. 9.
Moorer recently talked about how her craft has changed since recording Mockingbird, her working relationship with longtime collaborator R.S. Field (who produced the 13-track Crows) and the influence her husband, Steve Earle, has had on her guitar playing.
Medleyville.us: What big lessons about songwriting, performing and recording did you learn by making Mockingbird?
Allison Moorer: "I can't put into words exactly what I learned from making Mockingbird, but I made that record because I wanted to send myself back to school, in a way. When you're learning how to play and sing and write songs, you generally learn to do that by learning other people's songs and playing them.
I definitely learned something because I've never been freer or more confident in my art than I am now."
Recording your new album, Crows, took only four days. Was getting it done that fast the original plan, or did the sessions go so smoothly that you were able to finish sooner than anticipated?
Moorer: "I was very careful about how I cast all the roles, from the producer to the players to the engineer and second engineer, to the studio I recorded it in. I wanted to make myself as comfortable as I could be and, at the same time, make sure I had the people that I knew would 'get it' around me. I'm happy to say that it worked out the way I thought it would. We were able to get my vision down very quickly. Plus, no one has the budget to stay in the studio for very long these days."
Is there something behind the naming of your most recent albums after birds, or is it just a coincidence?
Moorer: "Coincidence. Although I love birds, am fascinated by them and think they are very smart and mysterious."
Talk about your longtime working relationship with R.S. Field. Given that he produced Crows and also played drums on the album, was special attention given to the rhythm and groove of each song?
Moorer: "R.S. and I have a way of communicating that works. I didn't want any guesswork to do on this one, which is one of the reasons why I hired him — I knew I wouldn't have to explain myself. Plus, he's just really great at what he does. He did pay special attention to the grooves and rhythms; he spent a while working on the songs before I even got to Nashville."
In a 2006 interview, you described your guitar playing in one word — terrible. Do you still feel that way? And since then, how has your husband Steve helped you to improve your guitar chops?
Moorer: "I still don't consider myself to be a very good guitar player, but I work hard at it and have improved over the years. You have to be very dedicated to it to even come close to figuring it out. I have definitely picked up a few things from Steve, but mostly he's helped me by telling me that I am, in fact, a good player — and confidence counts."
Allison Moorer on tour and TV (schedule subject to change):
* Feb. 8: Joe's Pub – New York
* Feb. 9: Barnes & Noble (Lincoln Triangle location) – New York
* Feb. 10: CBS' Late Show With David Letterman
* Feb. 13: Midnight Ramble – Woodstock, N.Y.


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2016 Annual Report for FNE14-797
FNE14-797 (project overview)
Project Type: Farmer
Bill Errickson
Singing Nettle Farm
Evaluation of hardy fig varieties in a northern New England high tunnel
This research is exploring the potential for organic fig (Ficus carica) fruit production in a northern New England high tunnel (Zone 5b). Building on the success of fig producers who have utilized high tunnels in the mid-Atlantic states and on variety trials of fig enthusiasts in New England, this project is the first to quantify the survivability, productivity, and economics of four hardy fig cultivars grown in a high tunnel in coastal Maine. The study was conducted over the course of two growing seasons (2014-2015) and included on-farm and off-site outreach in 2015. While this study was originally scheduled to run through the 2016 growing season, the researchers sold their farm at the conclusion of the 2015 season and therefore were unable to continue data collection through 2016.
In 2014, Bill Errickson (owner) and Mark Fulford (technical advisor) amended the soil in the high tunnel and planted eight figs each of the four varieties (Gino's Black, Marsailles Black VS, Ronde de Bordeaux, and Sal's GS) for a total of 32 plants. Wood chip mulch and landscape fabric were applied after planting and water was supplied throughout the season using drip irrigation. After leaf drop, four trees of each cultivar were wrapped with fabric row cover to evaluate the necessity of additional winter protection. The row covers were removed in the spring of 2015, at which time winter dieback was measured. During the 2014 and 2015 growing seasons, data was also collected to measure the following parameters: flowering dates, harvest dates, total yield of fruits, yield of marketable fruits, yield of unripe fruits, fruit size (average weight per fruit), plant height, Brix levels, taste, and economics.
The objective of this research is to identify one or more varieties of fig tree that can be successfully grown to produce marketable fruit in USDA Zone 5b with the protection of a high tunnel. In addition to showing varietal differences, the results suggest how variation in winter protection practices influences fruit production and survivability.
In the spring of 2014, four varieties of the hardiest available fig trees (Gino's Black, Marsailles Black VS (MBVS), Ronde de Bordeaux (RDB), and Sal's GS) were planted in a 26×48 foot high tunnel in mid-coast Maine, Zone 5b. Eight trees of each variety (a total of 32 trees) were planted on five foot centers into soil that had been amended for optimum fig tree nutrition with a mineral and worm castings blend, which included granite meal, colloidal phosphate, bone char, and kelp meal, based on a soil test taken prior to planting. All trees were mulched with wood chips and landscape fabric and were watered with drip irrigation at regular intervals throughout the growing season. In the fall of 2014, four trees (half the total number) of each variety were wrapped with fabric row cover for the winter to assess whether there is a benefit to providing extra protection from freezing temperatures.
In 2014 and 2015, data was collected for the following parameters: flowering dates, harvest dates, total yield of fruits, yield of marketable fruits, yield of unripe fruits, fruit size (average weight per fruit), peak plant height, Brix levels, taste, and economics. Winter survival data was collected in the spring of 2015 by measuring the percentage of winter injury/die back on each tree. The effects of wrapping trees in the winter are quantified by comparing wrapped vs. un-wrapped trees on the basis of the above parameters.
The winter of 2014-2015 saw temperatures of -15 degrees F, and resulted in all the fig trees dying back to the ground, regardless of whether they were wrapped for additional winter protection or not. In the spring, all tress began growing again from the base, with the single exception of the uncovered GB trees, which experienced winter mortality in two out of four plants.
Figs produce an inflorescence, called a syconium, which contains numerous unisexual flowers that are not outwardly visible; thus, flowering dates were recorded as the first observance of syconium formation. In 2015, the first syconiums were observed on SGS on June 19th, followed by MBVS on June 26th, and RDB and GB on July 3rd.
Graphs-Table(1)
Vegetative growth was calculated for each variety by measuring stem length for covered and uncovered trees (Figure 1). Vegetative growth was greater in covered varieties of GB, MBVS, and RDB, while winter protection did not result in greater vegetative growth for SGS. RDB displayed the greatest amount of vegetative growth of the four varieties. Fruit set for each variety is displayed in Figure 2, with covered GB and MBVS trees showing greater fruit set when compared to uncovered trees. Fruit set in RDB and SGS does not appear to have increased with winter protection with row cover. Uncovered RDB set the most fruit per plant, closely followed by covered MBVS.
For covered trees, each variety did successfully produce ripe fruits, which were weighed, and evaluated for Brix levels. From the covered GB trees, 3 fruits were harvested, with an average weight of 0.33 oz, and an average Brix of 16. Covered MBVS trees yielded 17 fruits, with an average weight of 0.57, and an average Brix of 19. Covered RDB trees produced 12 fruits, with an average weight of 0.56 oz, and an average Brix of 16.5. Covered SGS trees were the first to bear, and produced 23 fruits, with an average weight of 0.52 oz, and an average Brix of 17.7. RDB was the only variety to ripen fruit on trees that were not covered through the winter, yielding 2 fruits, with an average weight of 0.55oz and an average Brix of 16.
Independent blind taste tests were also conducted for each variety in 2015. Taste test participants were given one variety at a time, with a scorecard to rank the qualities of each variety ranging from one to five for texture, sweetness, floral/aromatic, and overall flavor, with five being the highest score. An open ended "comments" section was also included on the cards for additional feedback. Participants were unaware of which variety they were sampling during each phase of the taste test. MBVS scored highest overall, followed by SGS, GB, and RDB. Descriptive comments during the taste test suggest banana flavors for GB; sweet melon flavors for MBVS, a subtle spicy sweetness for RDB, and a very good, complex flavor for SGS. It is also worth noting that the RDB figs may not have ripened to their full potential, affecting their scores in the taste test (Table 1).
In 2015, Singing Nettle Farm hosted an on-farm field day in which 20 participants visited the farm to observe the figs growing in the high tunnel and to learn about the research underway. Each participant received a handout summarizing the variety trials. Attendees were able to tour the high tunnel, ask questions, and even sample ripe figs on this day.
The outreach component of this study also extended to the MOFGA Common Ground Fair, where Errickson delivered a presentation to 75 participants. Attendees received handouts summarizing the study, while viewing a slideshow summarizing the research. A question and answer session followed the presentation, and participants were invited to continue the conversation at the Singing Nettle Farm booth in the Farmers Market.
In 2016, an article was written and published in the Maine Organic Farmer and Gardener. Additional data analysis was also conducted in preparation for the submission of the final report. Errickson will also be presenting a case study of Singing Nettle Farm at the NOFA-NJ winter conference in January 2017 that will include a discussion of this study.
Lauren Errickson
singingnettlefarm@gmail.com
Farmer, Researcher
138 Woodsong Drive
Brooks , ME 04921
mark@lookfar.org
151 Stovepipe Alley
Monroe, ME 04951


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Jonathan Ames on His Bored to Death Nude Scene: 'I'm So Small'
By Mike Vilensky
Spoiler alert: Jonathan Ames, the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, goes full-frontal in the new season's second episode (the show returns this Sunday night at ten). "I think I'm the first creator of a TV show to do full-frontal nudity," he told us at the after-event for last night's Bored premiere party, adding that the nude scene was his idea. "Fortunately it was very meager, because I'm so small." (BTD star Jason Schwartzman, who plays a version of Ames on the show, told us that he, too, would do nudity, but has no current plans to.) So was it, um, liberating, for Ames? "It was more terrifying. I'm not proud of what was onscreen. I'm humiliated by what was onscreen. There was nothing onscreen. It was like full-frontal non-nudity." We suggested that by exposing himself on television, he was showing a confidence that could compensate for humble genitalia. "Um, I don't know about that," he told us.
In other news, Schwartzman is shaving off his porn-star-like mustache in exactly eight days. The facial hair made its debut on a red carpet outside of NYU's Skirball Theatre last night, where the first two episodes of his show's second season were screened. At the after-party at Capitale, the actor informed us he "just decided" to shave the 'stache after receiving mixed reviews: "Reception to the mustache has been really warm and cold. Not really hot. Just, warm, and then some cold. I've been surprised by who doesn't like it. I can't remember offhand, but I've been really surprised. It has eight more days. Exactly."
Schwartzman, who's currently reading the Syd Barrett biography A Very Irregular Head, also informed us that he's writing a new Coconut Records album, with help from Woody Jackson. "Hopefully it'll be good," he said. "But it might be kind of slow, musically. Maybe it'll be really slow. Slower than usual. Painfully slow. But maybe not?" Will it be sadder, then? "No, it's never been happier, actually!"
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Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: Do video games have a liberal bias?
"A garden world with heavy populations of humans and batarians [an alien race], Anhur was home to one of the ugliest violations of sapient rights in modern human history. A consortium of corporations and corrupt politicians, fearing batarian economic competition due to their custom of legal slavery, passed a resolution that abolished the minimum wage - effectively relegalizing slavery on a human-dominated world."
I understand that when an artist creates a world, that world runs exactly the way the artist believes it would. In American Beauty, a gay basher is secretly gay. The 18th century painting The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man shows ugly, cruel Americans abusing a British customs official. Likewise, the Mass Effect universe is filled with evil corporations.
In the first Mass Effect game, every time you encounter a corporate researcher, they are covering up some unethical experiment. The planet Noveria is populated with scrupulousness corporate laboratories performing illegal experiments where the government can't see and the mission to planet Feros reveals a corporation is running an evil experiment on their own colonists. You can't bump into a single private company in this universe without finding a closet full of skeletons. No opportunity to wallow in the inhumanity of capitalism was skipped.
"Sea levels have risen two meters in the last 200 years, and violent weather is common due to environmental damage inflicted during the late 21st century."
I will give the Mass Effect writers credit for the capitalist character Ratch, who demonstrating the Beckerian idea that merchants are harmed if they act on racial prejudices. Ratch is the only character who is kind to you on a hostile world, simply because he wants you to buy from his store.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Mass Effect games and I plan to keep playing them. I just have to tolerate a lot of eye rolling, such as when the privatized space prison is lead by a brutal, corrupt warden. I feel comfortable concluding that this individual game has a liberal bias, but what about the stories of most video games?
Most video games are politically neutral - Tetris had nothing to say about the abortion debate and Mario only weighed in on the death penalty when it dealt with marauding turtles. I freely admit that I don't have a study, my sample size is limited to the games I encounter and all my observations are vulnerable to recall bias. Despite these limitations, I feel it's reasonable to believe video games have a liberal slant when they do introduce politics.
Other examples include the opening scene to Mirror's Edge and the corrupt right-wing Enclave in Fallout 3.
"In old America, the America I fell in love with, we dealt with stupid people very discreetly, OK? Now, now I don't know if it's - if it's something in the water, or - or the lack of separate water fountains, uh, but it's like a plague has taken over."
"What we've been given from our forefathers - the freedom from thought. That, for my money, is real freedom. Knowing you're always right - that's real freedom!"
These parodies of conservatives are pretty harsh. Bastion calls the ideal conservative world a "limited-access paradise." These writers were not kind to the right.
"I play to win, if you don't play to win, you play to lose - like a liberal."
Grand Theft Auto is hard on conservatives because it's hard on everyone. The jokes can be pretty harsh, but the writers made sure to give everyone a healthy dose of ridicule.
As for the claim from Mass Effect 2 that eliminating the minimum wage is an evil act akin to slavery, economic science doesn't agree. Most economists believe that one consequence of the minimum wage is an increase in unemployment. There was a contrary study released in 1994 by David Card and Alan Krueger that got a lot of attention, but it was criticized for using a small sample size and unreliable data collection.
The basic argument is that unskilled workers are shut out of employment because it's not worth hiring them at a high wage. If there is a $10 minimum hourly wage, a teenager with little experience or skill who is expected to only produce $9 of value an hour will not be hired. Thus, most economists argue that minimum wages hurt the people they are supposed to help.
I don't mean say this ends the minimum wage debate. Card and Krueger's study was approved by people like Paul Krugman, and as a result the opposition to minimum wages from economists no longer enjoys an overwhelming majority. The general public, however, doesn't seem to know very much about this issue, and the simplistic story the writers of Mass Effect presented is painfully ignorant.
Update: Visitors to the city of Nos Astra in Mass Effect 2 are cautioned not to sign anything because the city has "free trade." They clearly mean "a free market" because the city is awash in drugs, slavery, prostitution, and greed - but no word on punitive tariffs or trade barriers.
Interesting article but I think you are a bit too harsh on Mass Effect's evil corporations. There are plenty of corporations you don't hear anything about, but the ones Shepard does encounter happen to be corrupt. I don't think it's necessarily a blanket argument that in the Mass Effect universe all corporations are corrupt. I think the writers actually tend to balance things. For example, for every selfish politician like Udina you have a Captain Anderson.
Still, you do raise some good points but I feel like Mass Effect isn't as slanted as you imply. The Council, if anything, is a major slam against the liberal wait and see attitude and their reluctance to get involved in anything nearly destroys the galaxy...twice. There are also some interesting decisions you can make in some quests where the game doesn't preech, it simply lets you decide (like the Racchni Queen, and quite a few quests in 2).
This might very well be the case, but why is an increase in unemployment bad? There are never going to be an exactly even number of jobs vs. able-bodied workers. It is thus one of the jobs of the government to aid those unemployed who are actively seeking employment until they do find work.
I went through the Mass Effect wiki to find the list of all the corporations in the first game. Here's what I came up with. There may be more as it's poorly organized.
Binary Helix was breeding the dangerous rachni, which almost destroyed the universe last time.
Conatix Industries performed ghastly experiments on humans.
Elanus Risk Control Services and Synthetic Insights, Ltd have labs on Noveria to perform illegal experiments.
ExoGeni experimented on unsuspecting people in atleast two missions, and covered up the deaths of it's researchers in a third.
Nashan Stellar Dynamics executives were found giving kickbacks to politicians.
The only positive detail of a corporation is the Sirta Foundation, which uses some of its profits to fighting genetic diseases.
While I agree that the Citadel Council shows the dangers of red tape, it does not have corruption scandals, unlike the United Nations. The solution it gives the consumer is to entrust massive power to agents - such as the main character Commander Shepard. Yes, it also shows the folly when another agent is corrupted, but it implies the problem wasn't entrusting that much power in a single person - but simply giving it to the wrong person.
Jen, this isn't the best place to debate the minimum wage. Your answer sounds like you're not familiar with the arguments of both sides of the issue.


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Eugene J. McCarthy papers (SCRB Collection Number 14)
Identifier: SCRB 0014
Special Collections and Rare Books
The collection consists of manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, audio-visual materials and memorabilia relating to the presidential campaigns of 1968, 1972, and 1976 as well as other literary and personal papers.
McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005 (Person)
Materials do not circulate, but may be used in the Special Collections reading room. Materials will be retrieved from and returned to storage areas by staff members.
This collection is protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials.
Eugene Joseph McCarthy was a State Representative and a Senator from Minnesota. Born in Watkins, Meeker County, Minnesota, March 29, 1916. He attended public schools in Watkins, Minn.; graduated from St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn., in 1935, and from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1939; taught in the public high schools of Minnesota and North Dakota 1935-1940; professor of economics and education at St. John's University 1940-1943; civilian technical assistant in the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in 1944; instructor in sociology and economics at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn., 1946-1949; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1971; was not a candidate for reelection to the Senate in 1970; candidate for election to the Senate in 1982; candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1968, 1972, and 1992; was a resident of Woodville, Va., until his death on December 10, 2005; interment in Woodville, Va.
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Collection contains materials regarding Senator McCarthy's United States Presidential Campaigns for 1968, 1972, and 1976 and other personal papers.
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Inge Verbruggen is a Belgian freediver athlete.

She broke several times Belgian National records in four different freediving disciplines. Inge has the rare ability to dive "handsfree", which means that she doesn't need her hands to equalize her ears.

Career
Inge Verbruggen has worked for 8 years in a transportation company before deciding to change career.

Inge now has her own jewellery studio and shop in Temse. In parallel she trains freediving 3 times per week. Inge trains once per week in Nemo33, a swimming pool that is 33 meters deep. Whenever possible Inge goes to Dahab to train and participate to competitions.

She is also a SSI Freediving instructor and an AIDA (Association Internationale pour le Développement de l'Apnée - International Association for the Development of Apnea)  freediving instructor.

She is part of the AIDA Belgium board since July 18, 2018.

Awards
She broke the following records:

 Inge broke the Belgian National Record in freediving constant weight  (CWT) discipline in Dahab with a performance of -48m. On October 24 she broke her own national record and reached -53m.
 On April 28, 2017, Inge broke the Belgian National record in Free Immersion (FIM) in Dahab with a performance of -46m. On November 13, 2018 she broke her own national record and reached -55m.
 On April 28, 2017, Inge broke the Belgian National record in Variable Weight (VWT) with a performance of -56m.
 On May 1, 2017, Inge broke the Belgian National record in No Limits (NLT) with a performance of -61m.

References

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What Ingredients in Nail Polish Are Harmful to Pregnant Women?
Types of Environmental Pollutants
Pregnancy & Bean Sprouts
List of Pathological Diseases
Things to Do With Children in Westminster, Maryland
List of Air Borne Diseases
Written by Lisabetta DiVita
Airborne diseases, caused by microorganisms called pathogens, are primarily dispersed through moist air droplets or dust. Using air as transportation, pathogens use your respiratory tract as a channel for both entrance and exit via breathing, coughing or sneezing. Respiratory pathogens fall into three major disease-causing groups: viruses, bacteria and fungi. The spread of an airborne disease depends on the number of pathogens, the strength of the pathogen and your resistance to the disease.
Viral Diseases
Diseases such as the common cold, the flu, measles, mumps, rubella, fifth disease and chickenpox are airborne diseases caused by virus. Measles, mumps and chicken pox are usually considered childhood diseases, although they can affect adults. Cold and flu virus are transmitted in a similar fashion, although influenza viruses are stronger pathogens and can cause potentially deadly global epidemics. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu tied with pneumonia as the ninth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2010 13. (See Reference 5)
Tuberculosis, pneumonia, whooping cough, diptheria, meningitis and anthrax are examples of bacterial airborne diseases. (See Reference 1) Tuberculosis and bacterial pneumonia, despite the availability of vaccines, are still considered strong threats to mortality in the United States and the rest of the world. ( See Reference 2) Bacterial pneumonia tied with influenza as the ninth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2010. (See Reference 5) According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis remained in the top 15 causes of death in the entire world in 2011. (See Reference 6)
Fungal airborne diseases are primarily spread through the inhalation of spores. Unlike viral and bacterial airborne diseases, fungal airborne disease are almost entirely noncommunicable. Carpet and floor dusts, latex paint, moist building materials, molds, and mildews are all sources of fungal spores. Common fungal airborne diseases are EEA and HP which are usually associated with Sick Building Syndrome. Outdoor spores vary between climates and seasons tend to be inhaled in agricultural areas such as barns or work sheds resulting in a disease called Farmer's Lung. (See Reference 1)
As overcrowded spaces and poor sanitation are strong predictors of contracting an airborne disease, you can take precautionary measures to avoid becoming ill. Proper hand-washing is crucial. Most importantly, many airborne diseases are vaccine-preventable specifically, mumps, measles, rubella, and the flu. Vaccinations have enabled monumental gains towards the prevention of airborne diseases. (See Reference 4) Talk with your healthcare provider about what vaccinations you are eligible for, especially if you think you are at risk for contracting a disease.
Centers for Disease Control and Infection: Basic Infection Control and Prevention Plan for Outpatient Oncology Settings
World Health Organization: Control Of Communicable Diseases And Prevention Of Epidemics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Leading Causes of Death
Lisabetta Divita is a physician whose love for writing flourished while she was exposed to all facets of the medical field during her training. Her writings are currently featured in prominent medical magazines and various online publications. She holds a doctorate in medicine, a master's in biomedicine, and a Bachelor of Science in biology from Boston College.
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A cylinder is a 3-dimensional geometric figure which consists of circular bases, and these circles are located at the opposite ends of the cylinder. The circular bases are congruent circles and they are joined to form the curved surface of the cylinder. The height of the cylinder is the line joining the centers of the circular bases. Volume of a cylinder is the amount of space contained inside the cylinder and it depends upon the height of the cylinder and the radius of the circular base.
Example 1: Calculate the volume of the cylinder where radius of the base is 6m and the height is 9m.
Example 2: Calculatethe volume of the cylinder where radius of the base is 3m and the height is 10m.


I have just created 2 sales videos for horses and was thinking about what makes a good sales video. First, I would like to say that I am NOT an expert in the field of making/creating sales videos for horses. But what I can say is that I think I am as good as an expert as can be for "watching" sales videos.
Another thing I can tell you is that a video is absolutely necessary to sell a horse these days. Everyone is connected, YouTube is easy and making a little movie of your horse is not as hard as it used to be. Now, the hard part of the sales video is getting someone to shoot the video and doing it in the right light.
First – getting someone to shoot the video.
Of course, friends and family are great. In fact, I usually suggest to people to do a "trade-sy" kind of thing. Plan a day where your friend can video you and then you can return the favour. Even if she isn't selling, videoing a lesson or tests at a show are great to have too. Have a tripod or a very steady hand, a lot of cameras have steady shot options as well. The other option is to pay someone.
Next, Where are you going to do it? Inside? This can be tricky since the lighting can make it difficult to see with glare from the outside. If this is the only option, try it at night so there is no glare through the windows or a dark, rainy day (not a difficult thing in winter). Outside? Sunny days can have issues as well with shadows. Some cameras have no problems. Remember "sun to your back", so you avoid it glinting in the camera lense. Higher sun is better than early or evening – the lower the sun, the more glare.
Turnout. Neat, tidy and clean. You are trying to sell it, look pretty. I always like white polos and white saddle pad, with the rider in dark clothing. You are trying to highlight the horse, not the rider. However, sometimes white saddle pad can glare too much depending on where you are videoing. To braid or not to braid, you choose – what makes your horse look the best? I usually don't braid (too much work) but will elastic over the mane onto one side, so it looks neat and tidy even if it is a wild mess of a mane.
What are you videoing? Have a plan. What you do know is that you have to show all three gaits. Next, show the movements that the horse does best in a place that the video will get the best view. Usually videoing from C is a good place. I personally don't like the person in the middle swivelling around. If they are at C, the viewer can see the inside, the outside and a decent angle from front and back. If you are selling a third level horse, show the flying changes. I hate it when I watch a video and there are none. What is the essence of the level and make sure you show it. If you are schooling third level, then at least show some attempts at changes – even if they are not that great.
The Editing. Try to keep your video to approx 5 mins. I can tell you that I will fast forward most of it anyway, so don't make it 10 mins with 5 or 6 20m circles each way. Show the best gait or the best movement the horse has first. Get your buyers attention. I would put the flying changes front and centre in a video for a third level horse. Please don't start with walk or slow motion or pictures. Boring. I want the three gaits and a few movements.
To add music or not? Doesn't matter to me. We are not likely to have music that fits all the gaits, so put something in there. But I, personally, turn it off anyway. Same goes for if it is a lesson – no one wants to hear your instructor telling you want to do. Or more often – yelling at you.
What makes a poor or down right bad video? In my humble opinion, someone who watches, on average, 10-20 a week?
Bad lighting – too much glare that you see a dark blob in the video.
Video from too far away, so the horse is miniature on the screen.
Here is an example of a video that is not that great. This is the first sales video for my horse Steddy, filmed indoors with poor lighting and a bad glare.
Here is another video of the same horse as above – much better huh?!
What makes a good sales video in my mind?
Putting the movements in a way you can see them – please don't make me search to find the flying changes if you are selling a third level horse. Or have to watch the clip 5 times to figure out if it was clean or any good. Try to put the good stuff at the beginning – get my attention and keep it. Sorry to say, I am probably going to fast forward most of your video anyway – but if you can get me to watch more than the first minute that is pretty good. I am usually fast forwarding within the first minute and if I can't find anything good quickly, I don't even get to the end.
Lighting is so important, you got that right and did a fine job. Sunshine on a shiny coat provides the truer coat color. Music of any kind is off-putting and distracting .. might just be me. Also, rather the horse has some 'zing' to it and not look sluggish, so morning videos might be better. Great example of dos and don't s though.


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import { int, internal, json } from 'neo4j-driver-core'

const {
  constants: { ACCESS_MODE_READ, FETCH_ALL },
  util: { assertString }
} = internal

/* eslint-disable no-unused-vars */
// Signature bytes for each request message type
const INIT = 0x01 // 0000 0001 // INIT <user_agent> <authentication_token>
const ACK_FAILURE = 0x0e // 0000 1110 // ACK_FAILURE - unused
const RESET = 0x0f // 0000 1111 // RESET
const RUN = 0x10 // 0001 0000 // RUN <query> <parameters>
const DISCARD_ALL = 0x2f // 0010 1111 // DISCARD_ALL - unused
const PULL_ALL = 0x3f // 0011 1111 // PULL_ALL

const HELLO = 0x01 // 0000 0001 // HELLO <metadata>
const GOODBYE = 0x02 // 0000 0010 // GOODBYE
const BEGIN = 0x11 // 0001 0001 // BEGIN <metadata>
const COMMIT = 0x12 // 0001 0010 // COMMIT
const ROLLBACK = 0x13 // 0001 0011 // ROLLBACK
const ROUTE = 0x66 // 0110 0110 // ROUTE

const DISCARD = 0x2f // 0010 1111 // DISCARD
const PULL = 0x3f // 0011 1111 // PULL

const READ_MODE = 'r'
/* eslint-enable no-unused-vars */

const NO_STATEMENT_ID = -1

export default class RequestMessage {
  constructor (signature, fields, toString) {
    this.signature = signature
    this.fields = fields
    this.toString = toString
  }

  /**
   * Create a new INIT message.
   * @param {string} clientName the client name.
   * @param {Object} authToken the authentication token.
   * @return {RequestMessage} new INIT message.
   */
  static init (clientName, authToken) {
    return new RequestMessage(
      INIT,
      [clientName, authToken],
      () => `INIT ${clientName} {...}`
    )
  }

  /**
   * Create a new RUN message.
   * @param {string} query the cypher query.
   * @param {Object} parameters the query parameters.
   * @return {RequestMessage} new RUN message.
   */
  static run (query, parameters) {
    return new RequestMessage(
      RUN,
      [query, parameters],
      () => `RUN ${query} ${json.stringify(parameters)}`
    )
  }

  /**
   * Get a PULL_ALL message.
   * @return {RequestMessage} the PULL_ALL message.
   */
  static pullAll () {
    return PULL_ALL_MESSAGE
  }

  /**
   * Get a RESET message.
   * @return {RequestMessage} the RESET message.
   */
  static reset () {
    return RESET_MESSAGE
  }

  /**
   * Create a new HELLO message.
   * @param {string} userAgent the user agent.
   * @param {Object} authToken the authentication token.
   * @param {Object} optional server side routing, set to routing context to turn on server side routing (> 4.1)
   * @return {RequestMessage} new HELLO message.
   */
  static hello (userAgent, authToken, routing = null, patchs = null) {
    const metadata = Object.assign({ user_agent: userAgent }, authToken)
    if (routing) {
      metadata.routing = routing
    }
    if (patchs) {
      metadata.patch_bolt = patchs
    }
    return new RequestMessage(
      HELLO,
      [metadata],
      () => `HELLO {user_agent: '${userAgent}', ...}`
    )
  }

  /**
   * Create a new BEGIN message.
   * @param {Bookmarks} bookmarks the bookmarks.
   * @param {TxConfig} txConfig the configuration.
   * @param {string} database the database name.
   * @param {string} mode the access mode.
   * @param {string} impersonatedUser the impersonated user.
   * @return {RequestMessage} new BEGIN message.
   */
  static begin ({ bookmarks, txConfig, database, mode, impersonatedUser } = {}) {
    const metadata = buildTxMetadata(bookmarks, txConfig, database, mode, impersonatedUser)
    return new RequestMessage(
      BEGIN,
      [metadata],
      () => `BEGIN ${json.stringify(metadata)}`
    )
  }

  /**
   * Get a COMMIT message.
   * @return {RequestMessage} the COMMIT message.
   */
  static commit () {
    return COMMIT_MESSAGE
  }

  /**
   * Get a ROLLBACK message.
   * @return {RequestMessage} the ROLLBACK message.
   */
  static rollback () {
    return ROLLBACK_MESSAGE
  }

  /**
   * Create a new RUN message with additional metadata.
   * @param {string} query the cypher query.
   * @param {Object} parameters the query parameters.
   * @param {Bookmarks} bookmarks the bookmarks.
   * @param {TxConfig} txConfig the configuration.
   * @param {string} database the database name.
   * @param {string} mode the access mode.
   * @param {string} impersonatedUser the impersonated user.
   * @return {RequestMessage} new RUN message with additional metadata.
   */
  static runWithMetadata (
    query,
    parameters,
    { bookmarks, txConfig, database, mode, impersonatedUser } = {}
  ) {
    const metadata = buildTxMetadata(bookmarks, txConfig, database, mode, impersonatedUser)
    return new RequestMessage(
      RUN,
      [query, parameters, metadata],
      () =>
        `RUN ${query} ${json.stringify(parameters)} ${json.stringify(metadata)}`
    )
  }

  /**
   * Get a GOODBYE message.
   * @return {RequestMessage} the GOODBYE message.
   */
  static goodbye () {
    return GOODBYE_MESSAGE
  }

  /**
   * Generates a new PULL message with additional metadata.
   * @param {Integer|number} stmtId
   * @param {Integer|number} n
   * @return {RequestMessage} the PULL message.
   */
  static pull ({ stmtId = NO_STATEMENT_ID, n = FETCH_ALL } = {}) {
    const metadata = buildStreamMetadata(
      stmtId === null || stmtId === undefined ? NO_STATEMENT_ID : stmtId,
      n || FETCH_ALL
    )
    return new RequestMessage(
      PULL,
      [metadata],
      () => `PULL ${json.stringify(metadata)}`
    )
  }

  /**
   * Generates a new DISCARD message with additional metadata.
   * @param {Integer|number} stmtId
   * @param {Integer|number} n
   * @return {RequestMessage} the PULL message.
   */
  static discard ({ stmtId = NO_STATEMENT_ID, n = FETCH_ALL } = {}) {
    const metadata = buildStreamMetadata(
      stmtId === null || stmtId === undefined ? NO_STATEMENT_ID : stmtId,
      n || FETCH_ALL
    )
    return new RequestMessage(
      DISCARD,
      [metadata],
      () => `DISCARD ${json.stringify(metadata)}`
    )
  }

  /**
   * Generate the ROUTE message, this message is used to fetch the routing table from the server
   *
   * @param {object} routingContext The routing context used to define the routing table. Multi-datacenter deployments is one of its use cases
   * @param {string[]} bookmarks The list of the bookmarks should be used
   * @param {string} databaseName The name of the database to get the routing table for.
   * @return {RequestMessage} the ROUTE message.
   */
  static route (routingContext = {}, bookmarks = [], databaseName = null) {
    return new RequestMessage(
      ROUTE,
      [routingContext, bookmarks, databaseName],
      () =>
        `ROUTE ${json.stringify(routingContext)} ${json.stringify(
          bookmarks
        )} ${databaseName}`
    )
  }

  /**
   * Generate the ROUTE message, this message is used to fetch the routing table from the server
   *
   * @param {object} routingContext The routing context used to define the routing table. Multi-datacenter deployments is one of its use cases
   * @param {string[]} bookmarks The list of the bookmarks should be used
   * @param {object} databaseContext The context inforamtion of the database to get the routing table for.
   * @param {string} databaseContext.databaseName The name of the database to get the routing table.
   * @param {string} databaseContext.impersonatedUser The name of the user to impersonation when getting the routing table.
   * @return {RequestMessage} the ROUTE message.
   */
  static routeV4x4 (routingContext = {}, bookmarks = [], databaseContext = {}) {
    const dbContext = {}

    if (databaseContext.databaseName) {
      dbContext.db = databaseContext.databaseName
    }

    if (databaseContext.impersonatedUser) {
      dbContext.imp_user = databaseContext.impersonatedUser
    }

    return new RequestMessage(
      ROUTE,
      [routingContext, bookmarks, dbContext],
      () =>
        `ROUTE ${json.stringify(routingContext)} ${json.stringify(
          bookmarks
        )} ${json.stringify(dbContext)}`
    )
  }
}

/**
 * Create an object that represent transaction metadata.
 * @param {Bookmarks} bookmarks the bookmarks.
 * @param {TxConfig} txConfig the configuration.
 * @param {string} database the database name.
 * @param {string} mode the access mode.
 * @param {string} impersonatedUser the impersonated user mode.
 * @return {Object} a metadata object.
 */
function buildTxMetadata (bookmarks, txConfig, database, mode, impersonatedUser) {
  const metadata = {}
  if (!bookmarks.isEmpty()) {
    metadata.bookmarks = bookmarks.values()
  }
  if (txConfig.timeout !== null) {
    metadata.tx_timeout = txConfig.timeout
  }
  if (txConfig.metadata) {
    metadata.tx_metadata = txConfig.metadata
  }
  if (database) {
    metadata.db = assertString(database, 'database')
  }
  if (impersonatedUser) {
    metadata.imp_user = assertString(impersonatedUser, 'impersonatedUser')
  }
  if (mode === ACCESS_MODE_READ) {
    metadata.mode = READ_MODE
  }
  return metadata
}

/**
 * Create an object that represents streaming metadata.
 * @param {Integer|number} stmtId The query id to stream its results.
 * @param {Integer|number} n The number of records to stream.
 * @returns {Object} a metadata object.
 */
function buildStreamMetadata (stmtId, n) {
  const metadata = { n: int(n) }
  if (stmtId !== NO_STATEMENT_ID) {
    metadata.qid = int(stmtId)
  }
  return metadata
}

// constants for messages that never change
const PULL_ALL_MESSAGE = new RequestMessage(PULL_ALL, [], () => 'PULL_ALL')
const RESET_MESSAGE = new RequestMessage(RESET, [], () => 'RESET')
const COMMIT_MESSAGE = new RequestMessage(COMMIT, [], () => 'COMMIT')
const ROLLBACK_MESSAGE = new RequestMessage(ROLLBACK, [], () => 'ROLLBACK')
const GOODBYE_MESSAGE = new RequestMessage(GOODBYE, [], () => 'GOODBYE')