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Q: How to retrieve a value from XHTML in my bean using  on primefaces? 2.8 and Primefaces 6.0 And i want to retrieve the value of a date from my xhtml to make specific treatments Before submitting my form.
But the value of the date is always null in the bean Before submitting.
Here is my XHTML
                            <p:outputLabel for="dateDebut" value="Date Debut"/>
                        <p:calendar id="dateDebut" value="#{etpBean.dateDebut}" required="true">
                            <p:ajax listener="#{etpBean.listenerDateDebut}" event="change"/>
                        </p:calendar>

And here is my function in my bean
public Date listenerDateDebut(){
    return dateDebut;
}

A: From the PrimeFaces 6 documentation:

Ajax Behavior Events
Calendar provides a dateSelect ajax behavior event to execute an instant ajax selection whenever a date is selected. If you define a method as a listener, it will be invoked by passing an org.primefaces.event.SelectEvent instance.
<p:calendar value="#{calendarBean.date}">
    <p:ajax event="dateSelect" listener="#{bean.handleDateSelect}" update="msg" />
</p:calendar>
<p:messages id="msg" />

public void handleDateSelect(SelectEvent event) {
    Date date = (Date) event.getObject();
    //Add facesmessage
}


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Russia Today Hires WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange – Will the Kremlin Be Pleased?
Is WikiLeaks biased against the West and the US in particular? This news item would tend to indicate so.
According to Christian Science monitor Moscow correspondent Fred Weir, Kremlin funded media outlet Russia Today, is to hire WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This despite the fact that Assange remains under house arrest in Britain, awaiting a Supreme Court decision on his extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.
According to Weir:
WikiLeaks founder and controversy magnet Julian Assange has been driven off the Internet, deprived of funding and placed under house arrest. Now he will get his chance to strike back, courtesy of the Kremlin.
Starting in March, Mr. Assange will host a 10-part series of interview programs with "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries" on Russia Today (RT), a state-funded English-language satellite news network which claims to reach more than 85 million viewers in the US alone.
According to a statement on his website, the new Assange series will explore the "upheavals and revolutions" that are shaking the Middle East and expose how "the deterioration of the rule of law has demonstrated the bankruptcy of once leading political institutions and ideologies" in the West.
Assange said in a statement published on his website:
"Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it… Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before."
According to Fred Weir the Kremlin should be very pleased with this coup:
The network says the series could reach as many as 600 million viewers worldwide.
The six-year-old Russia Today, which seems far better funded than most media these days, has battled accusations that it is a Kremlin vanity project since its inception.
The station tends to tiptoe gingerly around the controversies of Russian politics, but aggressively applies its own slogan – "Question More" – in its coverage of Western affairs and particularly the global role of the US.
In 2010 it opened a full-time US TV channel, RT America, which produces independent content on US politics and economics from what it calls an alternative – critics say anti-American – point of view.
Hiring Assange would seem a perfect fit for RT. Worries that WikiLeaks might dump a lot of embarrassing material about the Russian government into Internet never panned out.
However, the thousands of US diplomatic cables that it did release proved to be the gift-that-keeps-on-giving for critics and rivals of Washington, including the Kremlin.
"We liked a lot of the WikiLeaks revelations. It was very much in sync with what Russia Today has been reporting about the Arab Spring, and about the duplicitous policies of the US and its allies all along," says Peter Lavelle, a senior journalist with RT and host of its Cross Talk public affairs program.
"I think the Russian government will be pleased [to see Assange working on RT]. It's a soft power coup for Russia," he adds.
Fred Weir
It is interesting that Fred Weir chose, (or was chosen), to break this story in the mainstream media. This is how he profiled himself in a March 2004 article in The Walrus:
I came to Moscow over twenty years ago as a correspondent for the Canadian Tribune, the now defunct weekly newspaper put out by Canada's Communist Party. I was a third-generation red diaper baby from Toronto, and a long-time member of the party. My uncle, trained at the Lenin School in Moscow in the 1920s as an agent of the Communist International, spent many years in the USSR. I'd visited a few times, had studied Russian history up to the graduate level, but never wanted to live there until Gorbachev came to power in 1985…
I grabbed the Tribune job as soon as it was offered to me.
My own dispatches to the Tribune were mostly stories about how well Gorbachev's plan was working out. I travelled in cramped, smoke-filled Aeroflot jets across the Soviet Union, from Leningrad to Vladivostok, and everywhere found people waking up to new possibilities…
Fred Weir is well connected to the new Russian communist/business elite:
Sometime in the spring of 1991… I was invited to a garden party at the country home of Andrei Brezhnev, nephew of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, in Zhukovka, an elite dacha settlement outside Moscow. One of the guests, whom I'd known for years as a functionary of the Komsomol (the Young Communist League) rolled up in a shiny white Volvo and told me he was now president of an import-export firm. Another, whom I'd often dealt with as an official of the Tribune's fraternal newspaper, the Soviet Communist Party organ Pravda, boasted that he'd just been hired at a private bank. A third, even more surprising because he was the son of renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, leaned over the table and handed me a card that announced him as an "international business consultant."
In a "Statement by Konstantin Preobrazhensky, former Soviet KGB officer, on the impact and purpose of Russia Today television," given to America's Survival, Inc. organization, led by journalist Cliff Kincaid, released April 1, 2011, the former KGB officer wrote the following about it.
"Russia Today" was founded in 2005 especially for propaganda abroad. It has been aimed at 'explaining Russia's position on the main international issues and inform foreigners about Russian life'. According to Gzt.ru, it has been financed totally by the Russian government. In 2005-2006, the government has delivered $30 million annually. i
The methods of propaganda are managed by Directorate "A" of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. The specialty of Directorate "A" is deceiving world public opinion and manipulating it. It has got a lot of experience over decades of the Cold War.
"Russia Today" is only a part of the Russian industry misinformation and manipulation created recently in the USA by Putin's KGB. It is including the utilization of some American think-tanks and political scientists, their direct work up by Putin at annual meetings in Russia , putting Russian Americans under Kremlin's control, etc. This industry aims at creating an inadequate, adorned image of Russia, provoking American to make wrong steps in their Russian politics.
Interestingly, Fred Weir is a contributing editor to Chicago based socialist journal In These Times, where he serves alongside Barbara Ehrenreich, a founder of Progressives for Obama and a member of the US' largest Marxist organization Democratic Socialists of America. Ehrenreich's daughter, Rosa Brooks (named after Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg), is a senior adviser to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy.
Barbara Eherenreich also serves as a trustee to the far left Washington DC "think tank" Institute for Policy Studies – once described by Brian Crozier, director of the London-based Institute for the Study of Conflict, as the "perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB."
In These Times, began life as an official project of the Institute for Policy Studies. Its current board of editors includes such leftist luminaries as David Axelrod's mentor Don Rose and long time Obama allies, former Weather Underground terrorist leaders, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Moscow's communist networks spanned the globe and in most cases still exist.
Is WikiLeaks just another chapter in the long running East West propaganda war?
A war the West is losing, because it doesn't even realize it is still being waged.
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Daniel Zederayko Daniels (November 8, 1908 – November 11, 1991) was an educator, merchant, farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Pelly from 1944 to 1948 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member.

Life
He was born near Gorlitz, Saskatchewan, the son of Daniel Daniels and Axana Hanthar, both Ukrainian immigrants to Canada. Daniels was educated in Yorkton and Regina. In 1937, he married Kathleen Franko. Daniels also taught school in Saskatchewan for 8 years. He lived in Canora. Daniels was defeated by John Gray Banks when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1948. He served as mayor of Canora from 1952 to 1958. Daniels later served as president of the Canora Union Hospital and as vice-president of the Saskatchewan seniors' association. He died at the Canora Union Hospital at the age of 83.

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I had no university today so I thought it was time to do something new.
Just tried some old frame by frame animation. I started with a marker and without any concept or scribble and edited it afterwards in photoshop and after effects.
It's nothing special but it was really fun to do and to learn new techniques.


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Rajeev Ramchand is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation where he studies the prevalence, prevention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders in adolescents, service members and veterans, and minority populations. He was lead author of The War Within: Preventing Suicide in the U.S. Military and co-led RAND's 2014 study on military caregivers, Hidden Heroes. He has testified before the United States Congress twice: on suicide prevention among veterans and on military and veteran caregivers. He also conducts research in the US Gulf Coast: he collaborated with the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office to study trends in suicide deaths in New Orleans and is currently working on a study examining the health effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on coastal communities. His current work also addresses the health and well-being of minority subgroups in the U.S. military and he is a study team member on RAND's Gun Policy in America initiative, focusing primarily on the role of firearm availability, storage, and policies on suicide. He is also actively engaged in efforts to adapt the research techniques he uses to study mental health and suicide to conduct research on violent extremism and community resilience. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger claims Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba will reach his prime in the next three years in order to become one of the best players in the world. The 23-year-old joined the Turin club from Manchester United as a free agent in 2012.
Since joining the Serie A outfit, the France international has bagged eight silverware including four league medals. His form has seen him being linked with a move to United and Champions League winners Real Madrid, ESPN FC reports.
"He does not bring all that is expected of him, it's normal for this age. He will be the player we expect at 26 years. I have known no player who carried the France national team at 23 years," The Sun quoted Wenger as saying.
"There he goes through a maturation phase, you begin to question it. It's the mental test in the career of a great player. Either he will lose the will he or will show that he is the player we expected and will improve further. This is the normal phase of a very good player on the way to a great player."
The former Red Devils midfielder's performance in the Euro 2016 opening match against Romania was heavily criticised by the French media. France coach Didier Deschamps dropped Pogba for their second group stage clash against Albania as the host nations went on to win the first two matches, before settling for a goalless draw in the final Group A clash against Switzerland.
After West Ham United midfielder Dimitri Payet scored his second goal of the tournament in France's 2-0 victory over Albania, Pogba was seen celebrating showing a gesture. He rejected reports suggesting the gesture, considered obscene, was pointed towards journalists present at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille.
Wenger has jumped to Pogba's defence after suggesting that "too much is expected" of the France midfielder. The Arsenal manager said: "We forget that he is only 23 and at 23 years old it's hard to be the leader of France. Guys like Platini or Zidane were also questioned at that age."
"Pogba is still learning the trade. They say he made a bad move [against Albania], but it is a process by which players pass.
"They start at 20-21 years in the France squad, everyone says: 'you are the most beautiful and the strongest we've ever had'.
"Gradually this creates expectation and at 22-23 years you are told: 'Hey buddy, you are not bringing what was expected of you. So suddenly you find yourself projected onto the top in an extremely brutal manner."


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Ghaziabad (UP), Jan 3 (PTI) Twenty-three people, most of them attending a funeral, were killed and 15 others injured when the roof of a shelter at a cremation ground in Uttar Pradesh's Muradnagar collapsed on Sunday, police said.
Several people had taken shelter under the recently constructed structure while it rained.
The dead, all of them men, were mostly relatives or neighbours of Jai Ram, who was being cremated at that time, officials said.
Rescue workers sifted through the building's rubble for hours to ensure that more victims were not trapped there.
The local people were the first to arrive at the cremation ground in Muradnagar's Ukhlarsi village in Ghaziabad district, adjoining the national capital.
Police followed by a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) unit then reached the spot, pulling out the dead and the injured from the debris.
Apart from the 23 dead, 15 people were admitted at different hospitals, Ghaziabad (Rural) Superintendent of Police Iraj Raja said. At least 18 of the dead had been identified by the evening.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the loss of lives. He announced Rs 2 lakh as financial relief for the families of each man killed.
The chief minister also directed Meerut's Divisional Commissioner and Additional Director General of the police zone to submit a report on the incident.
Union minister V K Singh, who is a Member of Parliament from Ghaziabad, and several senior police and administration officials visited the accident site.
Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Atul Garg, who is the local BJP MLA, met some of the injured at the government hospital here. PTI CORR NAV TDS ASH ASH


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I think this session was a late Father's Day gift for the oldest member of the tribe. What it turned into was a gift to ME to be able to play with some AWESOME kiddos and the adults they brought along with them!
Sometimes when you ask kids to jump as high as they can, they all don't do it at the same time!!
Until they do! Way to go, young ones!!
Happy Father's Day, sir! This is a wonderful group of people to call "family"!!


Night fell as the Ancient Island Whale started to slowly float away from the lake.
It was just like a giant floating island suspended in mid-air.
Slowly, it flew towards the Rainbow City ahead.
"Don't call yourself grandpa this, grandpa that. You are the leader of a chivalrous bandit group, not a gang leader. This annoying catchphrase of yours really needs to be changed! Furthermore, isn't your group disbanded already? In my opinion, you shouldn't establish your whatever bandit group already, you are not suited to be a leader." Yue Yang was extremely direct in his speech, his words cutting and sharp.
"What?" the female giant immediately glared at Yue Yang furiously.
"Pretend I never said anything." Yue Yang yawned as if he didn't have any care in the world.
"Let that little girl out, this grandpa, ah, this group leader wants to talk to her. It's a waste of my energy talking to you!" the female giant was prepared to enter via the backdoor route. She knew that it would be difficult to change Yue Yang's mind, but she had confidence in convincing Yi Nan.
However, the thing that she completely didn't expect was that not only Yi Nan was not convinced by her, she actually tried to advise against her.
Yi Nan patted Yue Yang a little, trying to hint to him to not reject her too directly, so as to not hurt the female giant's feelings.
She felt that the female giant didn't have it easy.
She had been trying to realise her father's will all by herself and becoming the pillar of the chivalrous bandit group… She was just like Madam Fu Xing last time, who supported the Hundred Flowers Valley all by herself.
The only different thing was that her aunt never asked for anything from her. She only wished for her to grow up well. This was because growing up well was Madam Fu Xing's most important priority. At that time, even without anyone giving her pressure, Yi Nan definitely felt a lot of pressure. Leader Lie Yan who had to inherit her father's will to revive the Raging Flame Chivalrous Bandit Group and led a few thousand people, really had it worse than her!
With regards to Yue Yang rejecting her invitation, the female giant had already expected it.
However, she still felt sad about it.
It was the first time that she felt helpless and alone. No one was willing to help her, no one was willing to support her.
"Are you guys leaving tomorrow?" The female giant was shocked and quickly looked towards Yue Yang.
Yue Yang didn't plan to go back to the Tong Tian Tower initially, but he received a message sent through the Three Colors Map by Hai Ying Wu in the grimoire world: "Thousand Goblin King's substitute body seems to be moving." If it was something else, Yue Yang wouldn't care about it too much. However, this concerned the Thousand Goblin King, so he had to return for a while before coming back to Heaven Realm. As for accompanying Yi Nan to Rainbow City to play, he could only promise to take her next time.
Yi Nan was also not the kind of girl who didn't know which issue was more important. Naturally, she could understand.
Of course, the matter of rejecting Lie Yan's chivalrous bandit group was unrelated to returning to Tong Tian Tower. It was purely because Yue Yang and Yi Nan didn't approve of the female giant's ideals.
They didn't mean that such ideals that upheld justice wasn't good. It was just that if they were to live in the Heaven Realm with such ideals, it would be very difficult. Furthermore, it wasn't easy to nurture people and it would inconvenient to carry extra burden. Not every single men had unyielding characters and not everyone were warriors that would think of dying as going home. Hence, using the female giant's ideals to create a group would only breed more traitors and failures… Yue Yang and Yi Nan also knew that rejecting the female giant would make her sad, but they understand that rejecting her would be better than lying to her and giving her false hope!
"We definitely will, but Sister Lie Yan would probably need to wait a long time." Yi Nan tapped Yue Yang with her hands, gesturing that he should comfort her with a few words.
"It's getting late, everyone should go to rest early!" Yue Yang knew that he wouldn't be able to convince the female giant by being soft. He had to become the bad person until the end. With Xue Wu Xia and Princess Qian Qian's advise and Yi Nan as the mediator, with time, he should be able to make her surrender.
This kind of thing couldn't be rushed.
He should let her try on her own and fail. Without hitting a wall, she would probably not give up.
The female giant's lips trembled a little, as if she wanted to say something. In the end, she didn't say anything, she only raised her hands a little and said goodbye to Yue Yang and Yi Nan.
When Yue Yang and Yi Nan returned into the grimoire world, she strongly patted the Ancient Island Whale, telling it to stop. She whistled to the sky, then, just like lightning flashing through the night sky, her lone figure flew away… She now knew that she was wrong, and she knew that what Yue Yang and Yi Nan said was right. However, she still couldn't convince herself to let go of her ideals currently. After all, that was the will that her father had entrusted to her, and the ideal that she had persevered in all this time.
She wanted Yue Yang to advise her a little more, maybe she would feel better then.
He didn't even said goodbye.
Even if what he said was right, he shouldn't reject her continuously like this. He was really too much.
The female giant who never cried for others before suddenly felt like crying, her eyes felt hot.
Tong Tian Tower, Soaring Dragon Continent.
In Yue Clan Castle, in the Martial Art Training Public Square, Yue Shan, who would usually sit on the chair like a dried leaf, suddenly went out to take a walk. Yue Shan's pale face looked extremely haggard, devoid of any vitality. However, even though his cheeks were sunken, his eyes were still bright, like an undying fire in the dark. With this clear and bright eyes, other than looking sickly, he also looked wise and farsighted, which was not usually seen in him.
He looked more like a student walking under the sun, amidst the morning dew, not like a bed-ridden sickly old man.
Seeing him walking out in the morning, the various family members of the Yue Clan were a little surprised.
A few people quickly came to wait upon him, afraid that Yue Shan's body would collapse with a single gush of wind. However, Yue Shan smiled slightly and waved his hands, telling the others not to pay attention to him, he only like to walk by himself.
Fatty Hai, Ye Kong and the others had already attained the Innate Realm, and were quietly cultivating with the old fox, the Heavenly Royal Guards and the others in the great hall.
Today, only Liu Ye, the golden elf Bao'er and the others were training here.
They knew about Yue Shan's past, but due to his performance during the Underground Base, they all thought that Yue Shan was a good father and forgave him for his past. Furthermore, Yue Shan was also heavily injured because he was protecting Soaring Dragon Continent from the Black Hell Army's invasion. When they saw Yue Shan walking out, they bowed to him in respect as a senior and also gave way to him.
"Good, good. You guys continue to train!" Yue Shan very rarely greeted them normally. Maybe he was in a good mood.
"Do you want me to call Sister Yue Yu to accompany you?" Liu Ye kindheartedly asked.
"Mr. Zhi Ge? I don't think I've heard that name before. Liu Ye's master was Master An Ning." Liu Ye was baffled, why did Yue Shan said that his master was Mr. Zhi Ge?
"Ah, my bad, I must have remembered wrongly. I don't know Master An Ning, but Mr. Zhi Ge's wife seemed to be called Ning Ke Er. Last time, I had fought together with Mr. Zhi Ge and his wife against the demon race. We were both in the same boat, we lived or died together. After that, we forged a deep friendship. Sigh, my memories has become hazy with age!" Yue Shan shook his hands, gesturing that it was nothing and left.
"Great clan master, can you tell us more about the past?" Liu Ye felt that his retreating, lonely back was quite pitiful. She caught up with him and decided to chat with him a while more.
"Sister Yu is really amazing! No wonder she is peaceful by nature, turns out that that kind of miracle happened before!" Liu Ye praised with utmost admiration.
"You are also good, you are a good child!" Yue Shan nodded with a smile.
"Great clan master, tell us another story tomorrow!" Liu Ye listened to Yue Shan because she pitied the lonely Yue Shan, but Bao'er was addicted to his stories. She asked Yue Shan to continue telling them stories tomorrow.
"Yeah, goodbye!" Liu Ye nodded obediently.
A flash of confusement appeared in her thoughts. Could it be that Yue Shan really knew her master? However, this thought shortly disappeared. Forget it, it was not that important!
Can you please pin this "Favorite Videos" of your in one place? I read mostly on tablet and this video player constantly takes my whole right side of the screen hiding half of a chapter.
The "favorite videos" video player is using half the screen in my cellphone and it doesn't have a X button to close it, please fix it.
Time for Yue Yu's sister to enter the story ? A little trip to the demon abyss should come soon.
I am confused though I really don't understand what had happen but from what I understand is that, YY disapproved of the bandit group and let the leader know what's better form of ideals and YY had news about TGK moving around which in turn let the story go to 3rd pov of Yue Shan the previously suspected another body of TGK and some back story which is like lying about the person involved and whatnot, is that all?
Has there been any news on why there's been so few releases the past couple chapters? I just caught up but I was assuming the release schedule was 5 chapters a week.
TDG releases once a month because it is caught up and the authors release schedule is once a month. I believe they will come back to LLS when they can, just a short break is all. Keeping in mine that we may have different definitions of the word short.
I read for 30s then my eyes became bloody.
I am thinking the same, but i want to believe that shironeko wouldn't do that.


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{{one other use|the N1ckola character. For the lonelygirl15 character, see [[Daniel]]|other uses|Daniel (disambiguation)}} {{Person | name = Daniel | image = N1-Daniel.jpg | age = 25 | birthday = | n1ckola = http://tivi.pl/237009,uzytkownik,daaniel.html daaniel | youtube = | revver = | myspace = | windowslive = http://cid-03341459ed24ddc6.profile.live.com/ Daniel Daniel | email = danny-daniel-and-i@hotmail.com | forum-posts = | placeoforigin = [[Image:Flag of Poland.gif]] Poland | relationships = [[Ola|Ola Polak]] (Girlfriend) | actor = [[Paweł Parczewski]] | first = [[You Are Not Alone]] | last = [[Landsteiner]] | blogs = [[:Category:Daniel (N1ckola)|List of Daniel's blogs]] | series = N1 }} '''Daniel''' is [[Ola]]'s spontaneous ex-boyfriend. He lived with her in London. Even though he may anger Ola at times, he is amusing and sensitive in such a way that Ola is never angry at him for long. He's intelligent and could hack websites and computers if he wanted to. After Ola leaves for Poland, Daniel is stalked and kidnapped by the Order. They trick him into breaking up with Ola, and they send her footage of him cheating on her with a girl named [[Lucy (N1ckola)|Lucy]]. After they interrogate him and get all the information they need, they wipe his memory and send him back to a normal life. ==Background== Daniel [[You Are Not Alone|surprises]] Ola for her birthday with the help of her co-workers, and gives her a monopoly game. Afterward, he and Ola go out on the town with [[Rafał]] and [[Magda]], and he unintentionally begins to argue with Ola over the subject of her parents. Once they reach their apartment, Ola scolds Daniel for never feeding [[Ramzes]]. In the process of getting the cat food, Ola cuts herself on the can, resulting in a flurry of attention from Daniel. After Ola returns from the Clinic, she discovers that Daniel had left the door open and the cat escaped. Ola scolds Daniel for his careless behavior, and they set out to look for it. When Daniel returns to the apartment, he finds Ramzes back and Ola freaked out by her encounter with the doctor from the clinic. The incident causes Ola to decide to take a vacation, and Daniel promises to take care of Ramzes while she is gone. After Ola departs for the airport, Daniel makes a video showing her that he has everything under control, and that Ramzes misses her. While he's filming, he receives a phone call from the Clinic, and he tells Ola that she should call them back. Sometime later, Daniel returns home to find the apartment ransacked. While he comforts an agitated Ramzes, he fails to notice the culprit leave through the front door. Daniel calls the police, and two officers show up and question him extensively about Ola and her current whereabouts. They speculated that the break-in may have been faked, and that Ola might have been behind it. Daniel becomes freaked out, and sends Ola a video message urging her to contact him, and discovered that the burglar had copied the contents of Ola's address book. Daniel realizes that someone is following him, and he flees his apartment with Ramzes in tow. He stops at a nearby restaurant, and leaves Ola a message telling her that someone is stalking him and that he has to go. Frightened and desperate, he abandons Ramzes in an alley, and attempts to hide from the person chasing him, only to get knocked out and dragged to a cell. After Ola gets Daniel's message regarding the break-in at the apartment, she tries to contact Daniel, and finally manages to get ahold of him via videochat. He is in a dark room, and doesn't respond to Ola when she talks to him. He eventually breaks his silence and tells Ola that he is breaking up with her because of everything that has happened, and is selling the apartment. After Ola signs off, a woman who seems to have been coaching Daniel's speach congratulates him on a job well done. [[Image:N1-0054-DanielLeaves-cropped.jpg |thumb|left|Daniel is released from the Order's prison.]] Daniel becomes frustrated, and demands an explanation as to why he is being held there, and what they want with Ola. To his surprise, Rafał, sporting a nasty bruise, comes to his cell and explains that there are people that want Ola because of her unique [[Trait positive|blood]]. In the process, Daniel inadvertantly reveals details about Ola's upbringing that she had previously kept hidden. Weeks later, Ola is sent footage of Daniel having sex with [[Lucy (N1ckola)|another girl]] and calling her Nickola. A few days after, Daniel is released from his cell with seemingly no memory of what happened. He returns to Ola's former restaurant, and the manager gives him his apartment key back. He introduces Daniel to his new bar manager, Lucy, whom Daniel clearly remembers as the girl he had cheated on Ola with. Daniel hasn't been seen since, though he is consistantly present in archival footage and is depicted in the opening credits of the Season One Finale. ==Notes== *During the first half of the first season, Daniel was billed as a main character and featured as one of the six main profiles on [[n1ckola.pl]]. However, he was removed shortly before his character's final appearance. A couple of months after the season one finale, during the week of September 7th, he was restored to the front page as a featured character. ==Etymology== Daniel is a Biblical name from Hebrew (דניאל) meaning "God is my judge." This is the name of the prophet whose story is told in the [[Bible|Book of Daniel]]. He lived during the Jewish captivity in Babylon, where he served in the court of the king, rising to prominence by interpreting the king's dreams. 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Gibson, Gail M., and William A. Hunter. James Buchanan. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1992.
How to Cite This Page: "James Buchanan," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/26042.


Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has provided injury updates on Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Xherdan Shaqiri ahead of their meeting with Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
The Reds have fallen back to second in the Premier League, but can move ahead of Manchester City once again with three points against Mauricio Pochettino's men.
Fortunately for Klopp, he may be able to call on Gomez to help earn a win on Sunday, as he told the club's official website that the defender has recovered from the leg fracture which he suffered in December.
Klopp said: "It is nice – Joe is not injured anymore and nearly fit. He will not be in the afternoon training session because he has to do something else – he has to work on his endurance, that's how it is and how the boys always have to do it, like Ox [Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain] had to do it when he was finally back in training.
In a separate post on Liverpool's website, Klopp discussed the fitness of Alexander-Arnold, who was forced to sit out England's European qualifiers against both the Czech Republic and Montenegro with a back injury.
He said: "Trent still feels his back. We are not 100 per cent sure, so we have to watch him. Trent wants to [be] 100 per cent, but we have to see. It is a strange one, it's not an obvious injury that you can say something is broke or whatever, it's just a bit annoying actually that he cannot feel really free.
"For him, it was really important that he could do the rehab and not being in normal training all the time."
Finally, Klopp offered an update on Shaqiri, who also missed international duty with a groin injury. He added: "[He is] good, much better. Shaq, since a couple of weeks [ago], has had some problems with the groin.


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Hellkey's New Single Is "Forged In Hellfire"
July 1, 2020 By Kaelyn Gray
If you're a fan of the heavier side of electronic, we have the perfect track for you. Recently, producer HellKey released his well-rounded energy-infused and anthemic metal dubstep single, "Forged In Hellfire."
The single features a unique sound design, pulling from elements within dubstep, melodic, and metal genres. When listening to the track, be prepared for a speaker-rattling bassline, and dark, powerful vocals. "Forged In Hellfire" contains an insurmountable amount of energy that will have any live audience breaking their necks at the rail, making it an absolute must listen for any dubstep enthusiast.
HellKey highlights the message of the song to be "addressed to those who are living similar difficulties and know they don't want to quit; those who have a difficult challenge to overcome; those who have an inner wrath that can be canalized to break out of a nightmare."
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The Limiñanas, a Perpignan, France-based duo consisting of Multi-instrumentalist and Vocalist Lionel and Drummer/Vocalist Marie have been making music since 2009. In that time, they have released four studio albums to great acclaim in their native France, and elsewhere in Europe. Though they have failed to establish much of a following in the US, American audiences should pay attention, lest they miss a truly distinctive musical experience.
The Limiñanas' sound, best described as eclectic, traces its roots to Serge Gainsbourg's yè yè movement in French Pop from the 1960s, to Ennio Morricone's film scores, to The Cult's iconic driving guitar riffs. In between, one can hear Shoegaze, Psychedelia, and even a bit of Motown. On their fifth studio album, Shadow People, the duo distills these diverse influences into a genuinely unique and surprisingly listenable record that is sure to be a classic.
Set to be released on Friday, January 19, 2018 via Because Music, in order to understand this uniquely French creation, it is necessary to break the album into three parts. First, there are a number of Instrumental tracks on the record. Further, there are several English language tracks. Finally, there are multiple tracks in French. Shadow People does not segregate the parts, the instrumental tracks are sprinkled throughout the album, and the English and French tracks as similarly distributed.
Ten tracks in total, the album opens with a fascinating instrumental track, fittingly entitled "Ouverture." If listening to Shadow People feels like being inside Quentin Tarantino's mind, and it does, then "Ouverture" provides a fine introduction. With a driving rhythm section and what appears to be a sitar providing a brilliant lead, Lionel introduces the listener to a world of his creating where the rules of popular music do not apply.
Throughout the rest of Shadow People, The Limiñanas revert from English to French to instrumental tracks. Without language to distract from the atmosphere, the instrumental tracks highlight the rest of the album. "Motorizatti Marie," an instrumental track toward the end of the record, feels like an open-air ride at full tilt through the French countryside with tinkling keys, a choppy drum line, and a bit of jangly guitar for full effect.
The album closes with "De la part des copains," a title appropriated from the original French title of the 1970 Charles Bronson film Cold Sweat. "Copains" is an instrumental track that channels, without plagiarizing or rote copying, the musical feeling from Ennio Morricone's iconic scores from the Man Without a Name trilogy. With a haunting trumpet and driving rhythm, "Copains" evokes Blondie riding off into the sunset after the confrontation at the end of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966).
The Limiñanas, though a band that hails from the extreme south of France, just a few miles from the Spanish border, have found a way, similarly to Sergio Leone, to channel an atmosphere and mystique that Americans would like to believe is unique to themselves. In the process, they have made an album that is stunning and original. Though there are a few minor issues with nonsense lyrics and the language barrier of several of the songs being in French, Shadow People is fascinating and should be acknowledged, if not cherished, here in The States. For this reason, Cryptic Rock give the album 5 out of 5 stars.


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Opposition mounts against proposed gas-fired power plant in the Meadowlands
BRENDA FLANAGAN / NJTV NEWS – If you follow Bellman's Creek upstream, past the white egret, you'll find a 15-acre site for the proposed North Bergen Liberty Generating project. It'll be an enormous, gas-fired power plant that would churn out 1,200 megawatts of power. It's energy destined solely for New York City, via an underground cable, to help replace power lost when the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant closes in 2021.
"We regard it as an affront to the protection of the Meadowlands," said Capt. Hugh Carola, program director at the Hackensack Riverkeeper.
That's 7,000 acres of protected wetlands. The Riverkeeper acknowledges that the power plant's sited at the edge of the Meadowlands, in an industrial zone. New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection just issued six initial permits recognizing it's a conforming use …
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Premature ventricular complexes and development of heart failure in a community-based population
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6171-9906Worawan B Limpitikul1,
Thomas A Dewland2,
Eric Vittinghoff3,
Elsayed Soliman4,
Gregory Nah2,
Christina Fang2,
David S Siscovick5,
Bruce M Psaty6,
Nona Sotoodehnia7,
Susan Heckbert6,
Phyllis K Stein8,
John Gottdiener9,
Xiao Hu10,
Ralf Hempfling11,
Gregory M Marcus2
1 Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
2 Division of Cardiology, Electrophysiology Section, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
4 Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
5 New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
6 Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
7 Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
8 Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA
9 Cardiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
10 Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina, USA
11 Vivonetics, Newport Coast, California, USA
Correspondence to Dr Gregory M Marcus, Division of Cardiology, Electrophysiology Section, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Greg.Marcus{at}ucsf.edu
Objective A higher premature ventricular complex (PVC) frequency is associated with incident congestive heart failure (CHF) and death. While certain PVC characteristics may contribute to that risk, the current literature stems from patients in medical settings and is therefore prone to referral bias. This study aims to identify PVC characteristics associated with incident CHF in a community-based setting.
Methods The Cardiovascular Health Study is a cohort of community-dwelling individuals who underwent prospective evaluation and follow-up. We analysed 24-hour Holter data to assess PVC characteristics and used multivariable logistic and Cox proportional hazards models to identify predictors of a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) decline and incident CHF, respectively.
Results Of 871 analysed participants, 316 participants exhibited at least 10 PVCs during the 24-hour recording. For participants with PVCs, the average age was 72±5 years, 41% were women and 93% were white. Over a median follow-up of 11 years, 34% developed CHF. After adjusting for demographics, cardiovascular comorbidities, antiarrhythmic drug use and PVC frequency, a greater heterogeneity of the PVC coupling interval was associated with an increased risk of LVEF decline and incident CHF. Of note, neither PVC duration nor coupling interval duration exhibited a statistically significant relationship with either outcome.
Conclusions In this first community-based study to identify Holter-based features of PVCs that are associated with LVEF reduction and incident CHF, the fact that coupling interval heterogeneity was an independent risk factor suggests that the mechanism of PVC generation may influence the risk of heart failure.
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Data may be obtained from a third party and are not publicly available.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2021-319473
Presented at Part of the data and the abstract included in this manuscript were electronically presented at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in San Diego, May 2020.
Contributors WBL and GMM conceived of the analysis plan. ES, CF, DSS, BMP, NS, SH, PKS and JG assisted with data collection and material support. WBL performed primary Holter data analysis with assistance of XH and RH. TAD, EV and GN performed the statistical analyses. WBL and GMM prepared the manuscript. All authors contributed to reviewing or revising the manuscript and approved the final version.
Funding In addition to a Resident Clinical and Translational Research Funding (RRF) and a Cardiology Innovation Award from the University of California, San Francisco, this research was supported by contracts HHSN268201200036C, HHSN268200800007C, HHSN268201800001C, N01HC55222, N01HC85079, N01HC85080, N01HC85081, N01HC85082, N01HC85083, N01HC85086, 75N92021D00006, and grants U01HL080295 and U01HL130114 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), with additional contribution from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Additional support was provided by R01AG023629 from the National Institute on Ageing (NIA). A full list of principal CHS investigators and institutions can be found at CHS-NHLBI.org.
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Odd couple: premature ventricular contractions and heart failure
Marc W. Deyell Nathaniel M Hawkins
Heart 2021; 108 86-87 Published Online First: 19 Oct 2021. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2021-319986


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With a healthy roster for the first time this season, Mercury climbing to the top of the Western Conference
By David Siegel
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 27, 2013) – Diana Taurasi. Phoenix beats Washington, 101-97 at the Verizon Center. Photo © Mark W. Sutton, all rights reserved.
Temperature-wise, it has been a record-setting summer in Phoenix, and it is only the beginning of July.
As the calendar turned from May to June, and now on to July, the Phoenix Mercury have also climbed; from a dismal 0-3 start, the team has won seven of eight games to pull into second place, one game behind the Minnesota Lynx.
Expectations were extremely high as the season began for the Mercury, with top draft pick Brittney Griner joining Diana Taurasi, Penny Taylor and Candice Dupree, all returning from injuries, and the returning DeWanna Bonner, Charde Houston and Samantha Prahalis. Even the league's general managers picked the Mercury to win the WNBA championship in the annual WNBA.com poll.
With Taylor not playing while still recovering from last year's ACL injury, the Mercury started with three straight losses, two of them by at least twenty points. The team that in 2010 and 2011 averaged around 90 points per game when everyone was healthy, averaged less than 80 points. Rumblings about team chemistry and questions about if coach Corey Gaines' running style would work with Griner surfaced. When Griner sprained her knee and needed to sit out a game and play reduced minutes, Gaines changed the style of his team, back to that of the "old Mercury."
"We started off slow, which was my fault," said Gaines after their recent victory over the Connecticut Sun, their fourth in a row and third straight on the road. "I was trying to figure out how to play with Brittney. I never had a big player of this caliber before, so everybody took a back seat while we tried to figure out who gets the ball."
"We weren't running, we were slowing it down," he continued. "After the third game we had a team meeting, and I said forget all that we're going back to running. Shoot the ball, jack it up, let's take 25 threes; in the first three games we hit like six threes (actually thirteen). That's not us. I got a phone call from [Paul] Westhead (former Phoenix coach and Gaines' mentor), he said 'what are you doing, you're out of your style.' I said 'you're right,' so we said forget all that [stuff] and go back to playing. That's all we're doing, we haven't changed one thing except we're going back to playing the way we used to play."
While Gaines may say the team is not doing anything different, there has been one change that has been the biggest factor in the Mercury success. Prahalis, a member of the All-Rookie team last season started the first two games, playing 25.5 minutes. She came off the bench in game three and only played eleven minutes, and since then has only played more than ten minutes once, and has not played in the last four games.
In her place, Gaines has put the ball in Taurasi's hands, letting her run the offense, and she has not disappointed, racking up numbers that earned her Player of the Month for June for the Western Conference.
In the season opening losses, Taurasi averaged 16.3 points, 1.3 rebounds, and 2.3 assists, and the team averaged 77 points per game. In the games since Gaines turned things over to the veteran beginning in game four, Taurasi's numbers have improved to 26.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 6.3 assists, and the Mercury averaged 89 points per game.
When asked about the drastic reduction in minutes for Prahalis, Gaines explained.
"That slow start we were having, I changed Dee to the point guard, because I wanted Dee to be more aggressive and the best way to make someone more aggressive is put the ball in their hands, and she's coming close to triple-doubles, and playing great. I just have decided to stay with Dee and Buck."
Taurasi has been more than just leading the team statistically, she has grown into a team leadership role, helping young players like Griner and Briana Gilbreath feel comfortable in their roles, as well as taking the pressure off the remaining starters.
"We play well as a team," said Bonner. "That's where veteran leadership comes in; we've got enough players who have been around that if we fall behind we know to get it back at any time in the game. We just get the ball back in the scorer's hands."
The presence of players like Taurasi, Bonner and Dupree enabled the Mercury to succeed with Taylor being out until she made her debut this past weekend, and also allowed Griner to work her way into the flow slowly, averaging only 26 minutes per game.
Taurasi, herself a former top draft choice that joined the league with high expectations, is pleased with Griner's adjustment to the WNBA.
"I think she's done a great job concentrating on the things she can control," said Taurasi, "working hard, making sure she's doing the things that help us all, she's been great so far. She has some veterans, she has some people that are well established. All the pressure isn't on her, and it shouldn't be. That's why you have 11 people on a team, and they are all pretty successful in their own right. Everyone deserves to be here, and we're just trying to help her along little by little."
Taylor may have only played 13 minutes in her return to the court, but that was enough to really excite Gaines about her return.
"I know Diana's a star, don't get me wrong, but Penny, she's the rock," said Gaines. "I can depend on her, I know what I'm going to get, I know what she's going to do. Hit the three, inside, steal, rebound, post up, hit free throws, that's Penny, steady, rock."
Taylor was just as excited about getting some game action, saying it felt "really good."
"I felt confident I was ready to go and just happy to be out there" She laughed about how winded she was after her first few minute stint.
"You can practice all you want, but nothing is equivalent to being in a game. I felt good, I'm on limited minutes, that's obviously a positive thing until I get going, but I felt fine, and the team has been playing so well, that's it's nice to try to just help with the flow of a positive game for us."
The Mercury will need Taylor to give them significant minutes this month, as the Mercury schedule has seven games during the month, five with the top two Western Conference rivals, Minnesota and Los Angeles. Still, there is no denying that Taurasi is having an incredible season, playing at a caliber worthy of Most Valuable Player discussion. She appreciated it when the fact she has been much more aggressively attacking the basket than in the last couple of seasons, was mentioned to her.
"I got back in the gym [after sitting out most of last season] and tried to work on some things that were helping me in '09 and 2010. With the rule change [defensive three seconds], there's a little more room to maneuver in the lane, so that's helped too."
In a season that has seen a significant number of "wear and tear" injuries throughout the WNBA, Taurasi explained that the strength of her Russian team is a big factor in her WNBA success.
"I was on an overseas team where I didn't have to play 35 minutes," she explained. "I was on a team with Candace Parker, Sue Bird, Tweety Nolan, and some of the best Europeans at each of their positions, so I was playing 20-22 minutes. In the last eight years I've been going to Russia and playing 35 minutes per game, and that wears on you, you see it with Connecticut and with Indiana, you see it with Seattle, it's a grind. It makes a huge difference, especially when you put season on top of season. We're human, we break down physically mentally, so it's something you have to think about as you get older."
As the Mercury continue to win, Taurasi's sense of humor comes out more and more frequently. After teasing Griner that the Mercury victory over Connecticut would have been easier "if BG showed up," Taurasi was asked about her early season "issues" with the league's referees and the fact the game had 57 fouls called, leading to 24 foul shot attempts by the Sun's Tina Charles.
"I think they've been great," she said about the referees with a sly smile. "It was a great free throw-a-thon tonight. I would have donated a dollar for each free throw Tina made to the UConn Alumni fund for the new practice court if I would have known."
The Mercury hope they can laugh all the way to a championship.
Tags: Brittney Griner, Candice Dupree, Corey Gaines, DeWanna Bonner, Diana Taurasi, Penny Taylor, Samantha Prahalis


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Big B sports a quirky old man avatar in Gulabo Sitabo first look- Cinema express
Big B sports a quirky old man avatar in Gulabo Sitabo first look
The actor, who plays a landlord in the film, has earlier done roles that involve prosthetics in films like 102 not out and Paa
Published: 21st June 2019
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan's first look from the upcoming film Gulabo Sitabo is out, and he is sporting a grumpy old man's look. The 76-year-old thespian is seen sporting a long beard, spectacles, a headscarf and a prosthetic nose making him look almost unrecognisable.
The actor, who plays a landlord in the film is currently shooting in Lucknow. Having done roles that involve prosthetics in films such as 102 not out and Paa, Amitabh will be donning a prosthetic make-up again for this film.
The film, directed by Shoojit Sircar, will be shot on locations mostly in the old parts Lucknow. The film has been written by Juhi Chaturvedi of Piku fame.
"When Shoojit showed him the look sketch, he was excited to work on the film, taking it on as a new challenge. He is required to sit down with the make-up team for hours before starting the shoot. An international crew has come on board to work on the appearance," a source quoted.
Gulabo Sitabo, which also stars Ayushmann Khurrana, will be released on April 24, 2020.
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Here's How the National Guard Is Combating the Labor Crisis
By Brad Howard, CNBC • Published November 22, 2021 • Updated on November 22, 2021 at 12:11 pm
Andrew Kelly | Reuters
Employers in the U.S. are experiencing an unprecedented labor shortage. Supply chains are facing slowdowns. Politicians are looking at every opportunity to keep the economy moving, and one option is the U.S. military.
The National Guard has filled in the gaps to help with Covid testing, health care and distribution of personal protective equipment. Some states, such as Massachusetts, have also used the guard to help with bus driving for schools, and states such as Texas have been deploying soldiers to the border to help with immigration enforcement.
"We also do see other senior guard leaders pushing back on some of these second-order pandemic-linked missions that are coming up," said Davis Winkie, a reporter for Army Times. "Like school bus driving, or, you know, filing unemployment claims or filling in for poll workers, the food bank support — the list of second-order Covid-effects missions keeps growing."
One mission the guard could be asked to take on is supporting port operations and general logistics to try to ease the supply chain issues facing the nation.
"They might do a little bit around the edges, but it's not gonna solve the issue," said Scott Lincicome, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Cato Institute. "You're talking about a drop in the bucket in what's a tidal wave of import volumes and associated logistics and supply chain pressures. It's just not going to be the change that the system really needs — although it might, you know, maybe get a few extra Christmas presents here in time."
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PHISH FANS DONATE ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO CHARITY
By mbird
Two organizations founded and operated by fans of the rock band Phish announced today that they have raised and distributed a combined $1,000,000 for charity. The joint announcement was made by The Mimi Fishman Foundation, which raises funds through online auctions, and The Mockingbird Foundation, which publishes historical information about Phish in print and online. Both organizations are operated on an all-volunteer basis, with no salaries, paid staff, or offices. (Formal release)
The Mockingbird Foundation was organized in 1996, by Craig DeLucia and a dozen other fans, to raise funds for music education for children through the publication of an encyclopedic book about Phish and its music. Expanding its efforts to include the cultivation and distribution of Phish-related intellectual property more generally, the Foundation has published two editions of a 900-page book, released a double-disc tribute album, produced a variety of tour-friendly merchandise, and re-launched the Phish.net website as a comprehensive database with a dozen mobile extensions. As a result of these efforts, as well as direct donations, the Mockingbird Foundation has been able to fund 193 grants (in 42 states) totaling over $613,000.
The Mimi Fishman Foundation was organized in 1998, by Mimi Fishman (mother of Phish drummer Jon Fishman) and family friend David Shulman, to raise funds for vision-related charities through online auctions of Phish-donated memorabilia. While expanding its focus of charitable giving to include women, children, and animal-related charities, the Foundation also expanded its musical reach by receiving donated auction items from other bands, including The String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Umphrey's McGee. The Mimi Fishman Foundation has administered over 30 online auctions resulting in grants being made to 38 organizations totaling over $390,000.
Communal efforts by Phish fans reflect the history of the band itself. Phish earned commercial success during the 1990s stealthily, with little radio play and a video that primarily aired as joke fodder on Beavis and Butthead. They evolved from a rumored bar band to an idolized arena organization, benefitting from ingenuity and courage as much as from talent. Ingenuity and courage also drove fans of the same period to begin orchestrating charitable works at shows: the Green Crew collected trash from venue surroundings, the Karma Crew and Clifford Care Bears discouraged hard drug use, the Phellowship provided camaraderie for sober fans, and the Phunky Bitches provided support to female fans. While several of those nascent elements continue, the charitable ambitions of volunteer fans expanded alongside Phish's success. Groups incorporated, boards of directors were formed, and Phish fan philanthropy was born.
The Mockingbird and Mimi Fishman Foundations look forward to many more years of serving Phish fans and grantees alike. Each has already raised the funds for additional grants to be announced this fall, and each is underway with new plans to continue their success.
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The entrance to Hotel Savoy in Mussoorie.
"...and suddenly the chandelier started swaying. The windows were all shut and it was pitch dark outside." Arjun paused for breath then started as soon as he could. "The mists floating in the corridor made me feel romantic. But the chandelier jerked me out of my sweet reverie. It swayed violently, as if propelled by some force unknown. It was close to midnight and I was all alone."
Bemused I drift near the group held spellbound by Arjun. "I was passing this room to fetch for Director-shaab a glass of water and was transfixed to the spot, exactly where you stand shaabji." He said pointing at me. What an ideal location to shoot our suspense telefilm! I think.
It is afternoon of the next day. The room appears as if it were inside the oyster — painted all white with wooden colonnades and wooden floor bereft of any furniture — a mute witness to the fox trots, fun and gaiety of a bygone era. A huge ballroom with a lone piano in one corner stands adjacent to it. Another door opens to a corridor that leads down the stairs to the kitchen and the cellar. Glass windows rolling gently open to the outside through which occasional clouds waft in. It's raining and as the raindrops fall on the corrugated tin roof, it make a pleasant pitter-patter sound. Supported by beams again in white, it is slanted for the snow to slope down. The chandelier hangs from it. It lay still.
"But weren't you afraid?" I ask Arjun with feigned seriousness.
"No shaabji!" Pat came the reply. He was a Nepali lad and had come with us from Delhi. We had put up in Hotel Savoy, which was also the main location for the film.
The scenario is chilling. According to the story, the husband buys this property from his wife's money and they come to stay here for rest of their lives. The spouse, who is a serial killer, plans to eliminate her. But by the twists and turns of events is himself killed.
The story of this hotel could as well have been the story of Mussoorie — over 150 years old and amongst the most popular hill destinations in India.
Ever since the English had come to India, they sought ways and means to escape its dust and heat. After the 1815 Gurkha war, vast hill tracts of lower Himalayas fell into their hands. Captain Kennedy started the first settlements in Shimla. Captain Young pioneered Mussoorie now in Uttaranchal. Shimla became the summer capital of British India. Mussoorie became the pleasure capital.
It was in this backdrop that Lincoln acquired the estate of one Maddock's Mussoorie School with the intention of constructing a large luxury hotel. Motorcars were yet in the realm of future. "Everything heavy, including the building materials, came uphill by bullock carts. Massive Victorian or Edwardian furniture, grand pianos, billiards tables, barrels of cider and crates of champagne — all the appurtenances of a hotel that was to become well known as the Raffles in Singapore or the Imperial in Tokyo came up in these lumbering Mr Buckle's Bullock Cart Train," writes Ruskin Bond.
The hotel was opened to the public in the summer of 1902 and was named after Savoy in London. Though not much of the former glory remains but it is still the largest hill-station hotel in India in terms of acreage.
And god what a character to have in this lovely place! A compelling chatterbox, short muscular built, he was a spot boy — an all-purpose fellow in his late teens. It was sometime before the next shot was to commence. So here I was whiling away my time with a real time-pass. "I was taken aback for a while, then thumped my foot and shouted, 'Hey ghost! You move on!' And the chandelier stopped."
"As if it were waiting for your command." I say. But his face looked intent. He could not be lying. Moments later he broke the silence and added with an air of confidence. "Such incidents are very common back home in Nepal."
I could only chuckle to myself.
I run fast as I could. Past the ballroom, the smoking room and the billiards room. The twin wooden stairs in the hallway creaked with a flurry of activities. Someone called my name. I ignore the voice. Shoot past the main entrance. Its Victorian facade is enveloped partially by the mist. It is drizzling. A vast open space in the backdrop of majestic mountains comes before me. There are two lawn tennis grass courts with spectators' gallery on one side. The sight of over 300-year-old two giant deodars, probably the oldest trees in Mussoorie, a little on the right, are overwhelming. A perfect picture. But my mind is elsewhere.
The gravel-filled pathway makes it difficult for me to run. The path is flanked by two neat rows of double-storeyed rooms. My room is on the upper floor. As I negotiate the turn, shoes clank against the wooden floor. Frantically I search for the keys and open the door as fast as I can.
The room as usual is damp. The furnishing and the furniture are old. Savoy is a bit too much steeped in its past. I toss my head looking around. And there it lay. In the far corner of the wide spring bed. It is a booklet on Savoy by Ruskin Bond. I had picked it up from the reception the other day. "Savoy had catered to virtual who's who of its time — Her Highness Princess of Wales (later Queen Mary), Motilal Nehru, Indian Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie, His Majesty the King of Nepal, His Majesty the Crown Prince of Laos, Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck, a host of Maharajas and many others."
But this is not what I am looking for. I turn a few leaves backwards. "When Jawaharlal came to Mussoorie in 1920, he had not yet entered politics. But as a result of an incident here he was soon to find himself in the thick of freedom struggle."
Some more flipping back and forth. And here it was, a paragraph above. "It is said that the halls and the corridors of the historic Savoy Hotel are haunted by the ghost of Lady Garnet Orme, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances many years ago. Apparently strychnine had been place in her medicine bottle. But how it got there no one could tell. Agatha Christie used the circumstances of the crime in her first novel The Mysterious Affairs at Styles (1920). The case was quite a sensation in its time as it involved crystal gazing and table-rapping seances. The victim was the practitioner of occult."
Maybe Arjun was not imagining things! Perhaps he was not wrong. Perhaps.
It further read, "A famous mind reader claimed to have found the murderer but nothing could be proved. The writer Rudyard Kipling wrote to his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, urging him to use the case, as a new adventure for Sherlock Holmes; but Holmes never made his trip to India. The case remained unsolved. In fact, it came to a dead end when Lady Garnet Orme's doctor was also found dead (of strychnine poisoning) a few months later. But not at Savoy!"
Was it the Lady's ghost that Arjun had encountered? It is difficult to believe. But there are no grounds for disbelief either. Could he have picked up the story from the retainers? Endless mental debate...!
That night as I sleep I do not bolt the door. I fervently wish the ghost would pay me a visit. The early next morning, while it is still dark all around and dense clouds blanket the mountains and the vales, I wake up to a gentle knocking on the door. As I open my eyes a strong waft of mist sweeps past me. He stood at one corner of the bed. Sleepily. His lips contorted in a naughty smile. "Chai shaabji!"


Inferno picks: what actually is XRP?
XRP has recently overtaken ETH as the #2 digital currency by market cap. But is XRP a good investment? What will the future hold and where will the demand come from?
Ripple was one of the first digital money platforms besides Bitcoin. Like Bitcoin, the Ripple protocol comes with its own token, XRP. But unlike Bitcoin – and most other cryptos – you don't have to use XRP in order to use Ripple.
Over the past couple of years, XRP has soared in value. While there has been a narrative around Ripple being used by banks for inter-bank and cross-border payments, few people understand how XRP is used in that process, and why XRP might – or might not – be a good investment.
In short, Ripple is the company behind the Ripple network, which is based on an open source distributed ledger (the code was closed source until 2013, which occasioned much suspicion from the crypto faithful). XRP, meanwhile, is that network's native digital asset. However, it's not like Bitcoin and BTC, because XRP isn't always required to send value on the Ripple network.
That might be a cause of some dismay to anyone who bought XRP thinking that a flood of new banking partners might drive the price higher.
Ripple was conceived less as a peer-to-peer payments system, like Bitcoin, and more as a replacement for the outdated and inefficient banking infrastructure. There are two key elements to Ripple for this use case, one of which does not use XRP at all.
XRP is not required for this at all, only fiat currencies. A number of banks are now using this system or actively exploring it.
xRapid is for payment providers and other financial institutions who want to minimize liquidity costs while improving their customer experience. Because payments into emerging markets often require pre-funded local currency accounts around the world, liquidity costs are high. xRapid dramatically lowers the capital requirements for liquidity… xRapid uniquely uses a digital asset, XRP, to offer on-demand liquidity, which dramatically lowers costs while enabling real-time payments in emerging markets. Built for enterprise use, XRP offers banks and payment providers a highly efficient, scalable, reliable liquidity option to service cross-border payments.
So the demand for XRP will be dependent on demand for that xRapid system, from emerging economies. Put simply, big-name partnerships with European and US banks aren't going to make much of an organic difference to your XRP holdings (though they might spike the price thanks to confusion from speculators).
There are one or two other issues that have made the crypto community wary about Ripple, both of which amount to a lack of decentralisation. This criticism might be a little unfair; Ripple is a company, and it's serving the legacy banking system, so it's not the same as claiming to be digital cash for the people. Nonetheless, it may factor into questions about value and risk.
Firstly, Ripple the company runs almost half of the validator nodes on the network – something that would be unacceptable for a peer-to-peer currency. The proportion is slowly decreasing. The other factor is that Ripple also holds the majority of XRP – over 50 billion of the total supply of 100 billion. That's quite a pre-mine.
Ripple – and probably XRP – likely have a bright future. But it's not like traditional crypto, for several reasons. For more information, take a look at Brave New Coin's rundown of Ripple and XRP.


Unwanted hair is a problem for many men and women. Advances in laser technology have resulted in the development of Lasers as a safe, fast, gentle and effective method of hair removal. At the Cosmetic & Laser Medical Centre we have a range of hair removal lasers, allowing us to optimise laser hair removal treatment by selecting the most appropriate laser for your hair type, skin colour and skin sensitivity.
Some women have excess facial or body hair which is difficult to manage, whilst others simply find waxing or shaving can be unsatisfactory because of rashes or ingrown hairs..
Facial hair has been the commonest area treated but we now find women are treating ALL parts of the body. Extended bikini line and Brazilians are now possible. Laser hair removal is a often very attractive and economical option compared to a lifetime of waxing or shaving.
If you're the sort of guy who's already removing your hair, you're probably tired of shaving or using depilatory cream. Or worse, waxing! Waxing hurts like hell, and both shaving and waxing leave an angry, itchy rash or pimples for days. Not a good look! Fortunately, laser is a better alternative and will last months instead of days. Popular areas for men is shoulders, back, chest, stomach and groin regions.
For more information on hair removal in men go to Mens Laser Hair Removal.
What are the most popular areas to get treated?
How old do you have to be to get laser hair removal?
Can all skin types and areas be treated?
Is laser hair removal permanent or how long does it last?
Does the skill of the operator affect the result?
Can you get laser hair removal if you're pregnant?
A LASER is a machine that can produce a concentrated beam of light of a very specific wavelength (colour). The Lasers that are most effective for hair removal produce light that is absorbed by the pigment in the hair follicles. If enough light is concentrated in the root of the hair follicle ,where the pigment is made, it results in heating of the hair. If enough heat is produced in the hair root the hair follicle can be damaged or destroyed.
Hair follicles have a cycle of growth with some hairs being in resting, active and transition phases at any point in time. Hair follicles are most vulnerable to laser heating when they are in an active growth phase, and hence a series of laser treatments are needed to progressively target different hairs when they are most susceptible.


text:
from __future__ import annotations

import uuid
from collections import OrderedDict
from functools import lru_cache, partial
from html import escape
from importlib.resources import read_binary

from .formatting import inline_index_repr, inline_variable_array_repr, short_data_repr
from .options import _get_boolean_with_default

STATIC_FILES = (
    ("xarray.static.html", "icons-svg-inline.html"),
    ("xarray.static.css", "style.css"),
)

@lru_cache(None)
def _load_static_files():
    """Lazily load the resource files into memory the first time they are needed"""
    return [
        read_binary(package, resource).decode("utf-8")
        for package, resource in STATIC_FILES
    ]

def short_data_repr_html(array):
    """Format "data" for DataArray and Variable."""
    internal_data = getattr(array, "variable", array)._data
    if hasattr(internal_data, "_repr_html_"):
        return internal_data._repr_html_()
    text = escape(short_data_repr(array))
    return f"
{text}
"

def format_dims(dims, dims_with_index):
    if not dims:
        return ""

    dim_css_map = {
        dim: " class='xr-has-index'" if dim in dims_with_index else "" for dim in dims
    }

    dims_li = "".join(
        f"
" f"{escape(str(dim))}: {size}
"
        for dim, size in dims.items()
    )

    return f"
{dims_li}
"

def summarize_attrs(attrs):
    attrs_dl = "".join(
        f"
{escape(str(k))} :
" f"
{escape(str(v))}
"
        for k, v in attrs.items()
    )

    return f"
{attrs_dl}
"

def _icon(icon_name):
    # icon_name should be defined in xarray/static/html/icon-svg-inline.html
    return (
        "<svg class='icon xr-{0}'>"
        "<use xlink:href='#{0}'>"
        "</use>"
        "</svg>".format(icon_name)
    )

def summarize_variable(name, var, is_index=False, dtype=None):
    variable = var.variable if hasattr(var, "variable") else var

    cssclass_idx = " class='xr-has-index'" if is_index else ""
    dims_str = f"({', '.join(escape(dim) for dim in var.dims)})"
    name = escape(str(name))
    dtype = dtype or escape(str(var.dtype))

    # "unique" ids required to expand/collapse subsections
    attrs_id = "attrs-" + str(uuid.uuid4())
    data_id = "data-" + str(uuid.uuid4())
    disabled = "" if len(var.attrs) else "disabled"

    preview = escape(inline_variable_array_repr(variable, 35))
    attrs_ul = summarize_attrs(var.attrs)
    data_repr = short_data_repr_html(variable)

    attrs_icon = _icon("icon-file-text2")
    data_icon = _icon("icon-database")

    return (
        f"
{name}
"
        f"
{dims_str}
"
        f"
{dtype}
"
        f"
{preview}
"
        f"<input id='{attrs_id}' class='xr-var-attrs-in' "
        f"type='checkbox' {disabled}>"
        f""
        f"{attrs_icon}"
        f"<input id='{data_id}' class='xr-var-data-in' type='checkbox'>"
        f""
        f"{data_icon}"
        f"
{attrs_ul}
"
        f"
{data_repr}
"
    )

def summarize_coords(variables):
    li_items = []
    for k, v in variables.items():
        li_content = summarize_variable(k, v, is_index=k in variables.xindexes)
        li_items.append(f"
{li_content}
")

    vars_li = "".join(li_items)

    return f"
{vars_li}
"

def summarize_vars(variables):
    vars_li = "".join(
        f"
{summarize_variable(k, v)}
"
        for k, v in variables.items()
    )

    return f"
{vars_li}
"

def short_index_repr_html(index):
    if hasattr(index, "_repr_html_"):
        return index._repr_html_()

    return f"
{escape(repr(index))}
"

def summarize_index(coord_names, index):
    name = "
".join([escape(str(n)) for n in coord_names])

    index_id = f"index-{uuid.uuid4()}"
    preview = escape(inline_index_repr(index))
    details = short_index_repr_html(index)

    data_icon = _icon("icon-database")

    return (
        f"

{name}

"
        f"
{preview}
"
        f"

"
        f"<input id='{index_id}' class='xr-index-data-in' type='checkbox'/>"
        f"{data_icon}"
        f"
{details}
"
    )

def summarize_indexes(indexes):
    indexes_li = "".join(
        f"
{summarize_index(v, i)}
"
        for v, i in indexes.items()
    )
    return f"
{indexes_li}
"

def collapsible_section(
    name, inline_details="", details="", n_items=None, enabled=True, collapsed=False
):
    # "unique" id to expand/collapse the section
    data_id = "section-" + str(uuid.uuid4())

    has_items = n_items is not None and n_items
    n_items_span = "" if n_items is None else f" ({n_items})"
    enabled = "" if enabled and has_items else "disabled"
    collapsed = "" if collapsed or not has_items else "checked"
    tip = " title='Expand/collapse section'" if enabled else ""

    return (
        f"<input id='{data_id}' class='xr-section-summary-in' "
        f"type='checkbox' {enabled} {collapsed}>"
        f""
        f"{name}:{n_items_span}"
        f"
{inline_details}
"
        f"
{details}
"
    )

def _mapping_section(
    mapping, name, details_func, max_items_collapse, expand_option_name, enabled=True
):
    n_items = len(mapping)
    expanded = _get_boolean_with_default(
        expand_option_name, n_items < max_items_collapse
    )
    collapsed = not expanded

    return collapsible_section(
        name,
        details=details_func(mapping),
        n_items=n_items,
        enabled=enabled,
        collapsed=collapsed,
    )

def dim_section(obj):
    dim_list = format_dims(obj.dims, obj.xindexes.dims)

    return collapsible_section(
        "Dimensions", inline_details=dim_list, enabled=False, collapsed=True
    )

def array_section(obj):
    # "unique" id to expand/collapse the section
    data_id = "section-" + str(uuid.uuid4())
    collapsed = (
        "checked"
        if _get_boolean_with_default("display_expand_data", default=True)
        else ""
    )
    variable = getattr(obj, "variable", obj)
    preview = escape(inline_variable_array_repr(variable, max_width=70))
    data_repr = short_data_repr_html(obj)
    data_icon = _icon("icon-database")

    return (
        "
"
        f"<input id='{data_id}' class='xr-array-in' type='checkbox' {collapsed}>"
        f"{data_icon}"
        f"
{preview}
"
        f"
{data_repr}
"
        "
"
    )

coord_section = partial(
    _mapping_section,
    name="Coordinates",
    details_func=summarize_coords,
    max_items_collapse=25,
    expand_option_name="display_expand_coords",
)

datavar_section = partial(
    _mapping_section,
    name="Data variables",
    details_func=summarize_vars,
    max_items_collapse=15,
    expand_option_name="display_expand_data_vars",
)

index_section = partial(
    _mapping_section,
    name="Indexes",
    details_func=summarize_indexes,
    max_items_collapse=0,
    expand_option_name="display_expand_indexes",
)

attr_section = partial(
    _mapping_section,
    name="Attributes",
    details_func=summarize_attrs,
    max_items_collapse=10,
    expand_option_name="display_expand_attrs",
)

def _get_indexes_dict(indexes):
    return {
        tuple(index_vars.keys()): idx for idx, index_vars in indexes.group_by_index()
    }

def _obj_repr(obj, header_components, sections):
    """Return HTML repr of an xarray object.

    If CSS is not injected (untrusted notebook), fallback to the plain text repr.

    """
    header = f"
{''.join(h for h in header_components)}
"
    sections = "".join(f"
{s}
" for s in sections)

    icons_svg, css_style = _load_static_files()
    return (
        "
"
        f"{icons_svg}"
        f"
{escape(repr(obj))}
"
        "
"
        f"{header}"
        f"
{sections}
"
        "
"
        "
"
    )

def array_repr(arr):
    dims = OrderedDict((k, v) for k, v in zip(arr.dims, arr.shape))
    if hasattr(arr, "xindexes"):
        indexed_dims = arr.xindexes.dims
    else:
        indexed_dims = {}

    obj_type = f"xarray.{type(arr).__name__}"
    arr_name = f"'{arr.name}'" if getattr(arr, "name", None) else ""

    header_components = [
        f"
{obj_type}
",
        f"
{arr_name}
",
        format_dims(dims, indexed_dims),
    ]

    sections = [array_section(arr)]

    if hasattr(arr, "coords"):
        sections.append(coord_section(arr.coords))

    if hasattr(arr, "xindexes"):
        indexes = _get_indexes_dict(arr.xindexes)
        sections.append(index_section(indexes))

    sections.append(attr_section(arr.attrs))

    return _obj_repr(arr, header_components, sections)

def dataset_repr(ds):
    obj_type = f"xarray.{type(ds).__name__}"

    header_components = [f"
{escape(obj_type)}
"]

    sections = [
        dim_section(ds),
        coord_section(ds.coords),
        datavar_section(ds.data_vars),
        index_section(_get_indexes_dict(ds.xindexes)),
        attr_section(ds.attrs),
    ]

    return _obj_repr(ds, header_components, sections)

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The Issue: Whether taxpayer dollars should be used to fund a Jewish civilian security group in Brooklyn.
I am outraged to learn that at a time of large municipal-budget deficits, service cutbacks and property-tax increases, New York City is funneling taxpayer dollars to various Orthodox Jewish community patrols, even though public safety is the responsibility of the NYPD ("Orthodox Cops," Michael Lesher, PostOpinion, Aug. 1).
It is inconceivable that any other religious or ethnic group could expect to receive such largess from the public trough.
How many police, firemen and teachers could we have hired with these funds?
The apparent withholding of crucial video evidence from the NYPD is disgusting, and now it's obvious that the Orthodox Jewish children of Brooklyn are not protected by these patrols.
The fact that they seem to think that family name and standing in the community are more important than reporting crimes against children is truly horrifying, and the fact that the patrols are funded using my tax dollars is an outrage.
I would give any evidence to an NYPD officer. They truly are the best, smartest and finest in the world.
Kudos to Michael Lesher for his exposé of this insane practice, which must end now.


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Here Are 3 Ways People Are Reacting to the Coronavirus
May 3, 2020 Topic: Public Health Region: Europe Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: CoronavirusCOVID-19PandemicPublic OpinionUK
Through statistical analysis, we've identified three main clusters within the population, which we've called the "Accepting", the "Suffering" and the "Resisting".
by Bobby Duffy Daniel Allington
There remains near-universal backing for the coronavirus lockdown among the UK public. In our study, nine out of ten people support the measures, including seven out of ten who strongly support them. In 25 years of studying public opinion in the UK, I've hardly ever seen seven in ten Brits strongly support anything. The major exception is the nation's longstanding and deep love for the NHS – which points to one key reason behind the level of compliance.
But while support for the extraordinary measures appears incredibly uniform, their impact and our underlying attitudes are not, as a new segmentation analysis from King's College London shows.
You can get an idea of the incredible variety of experiences of the lockdown among these different groups through their responses to just a few questions. For example, nearly all of the Suffering group say they have been more anxious or depressed since the measures were announced, compared with just 8% of the Accepting. A third of the Suffering say they think about coronavirus all the time, compared with 11% of the Accepting.
Not sleeping: the Suffering group. KCL, Author provided
The Accepting, on the other hand, are much less likely to have experienced some of the key negative impacts identified in the survey. Only 12% have slept less or less well than before the lockdown, compared with an incredible 64% of the Suffering. The Resisting are particularly likely to have argued with their family or housemates, and both drank more alcohol than they normally would or used non-prescription drugs.
Profile of the 'Accepting' group. KCL, Author provided
This Resisting group is a smaller proportion of the population than the other two groups, at 9% of UK adults, but this still means they make up around 5 million people. This is important, because they have very different views from the rest of the population on some key aspects of the crisis and very different behaviours.
The Resistors are a small group but their views matter. KCL, Author provided
Most notably, three in five of them think that "too much fuss" is being made about the risk of coronavirus. Reflecting this mindset that reactions have been overblown, a third of them expect life to return to normal within three months, which is three times as high as the rest of the UK public. Only a quarter of Resistors strongly support the current lockdown measures, compared with three-quarters of the other two groups.
The Resisting group are also much more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and highly unlikely assessments of how far the virus has spread. For example, half of them believe that the virus was probably created in a lab, and 60% believe that most people in the UK have already had the virus without realising it.
These attitudes and beliefs are reflected in much less compliance with official guidance, with four in ten of the Resistor group saying they've met up with friends outside their home, compared with hardly anyone in the other two groups.
Other findings in the survey suggest that this Resisting group are also particularly fearful about the future impact of the lockdown on them personally. An incredible two-thirds of this group think that they're at least fairly likely to lose their job and face financial difficulties as a result of the lockdown. Their more rebellious response may, therefore, be related to a type of wishful thinking: some may be downplaying the risks and measures because they see them as a very direct the threat to their own livelihood.
This Resistor group is also heavily concentrated in some sections of the population, with half of them being aged 16-24. At the other end of the spectrum, the Accepting are overwhelmingly in older groups, with 41% aged 55%.
The three groups by age. KCL, Author provided
The Suffering, in contrast, are spread across the age range, but are significantly more likely to be women, while men make up the majority of the other two groups. This pattern is reflected across the survey more generally, with women much more likely to report higher stress levels, difficulty sleeping and concern about the impact of continuing lockdown measures.
The three groups by gender. KCL, Author provided
There are also differences in political support, with the Accepting significantly more likely to be Conservative supporters, the Resisting more likely to support Labour, while the Suffering are most likely of the three groups to be Remain supporters. Each of these patterns will partly reflect the different age and gender profiles of party and Brexit support.
How the groups divide up by party and referendum vote. KCL, Author provided
Public opinion has appeared incredibly unified on the way into these extraordinary measures. But it's vital to look beneath this overall sentiment. Understanding how different groups are reacting is crucial to both maintaining compliance and planning our best route out.
Given the very different experiences within the population already, it seems unlikely that we'll see the same unity on the long road to exiting as we had with the sudden lockdown. Instead, growing poles of opinion seem more likely. The government is not going to please everyone, or be able to point to a blindingly clear "public will" that justifies its response.
Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London and Daniel Allington, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence, King's College London
Image: Reuters