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Moody's to PM Narendra Modi: Rein in members or risk losing credibility
Moody's Analytics today cautioned PM Modi that the country may lose domestic and global credibility if he doesn't rein in the members of his party.
Updated: October 30, 2015, 12:52 IST
NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of controversies like on beef, Moody's Analytics today cautioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the country may lose domestic and global credibility if he doesn't rein in the members of his party.
In a report titled India Outlook: Searching for Potential, Moody's Analytics said for the country to reach its growth potential it has to deliver the promised reforms.
"Undoubtedly, numerous political outcomes will dictate the extent of success," it said.
The ruling BJP does not have a majority in the Rajya Sabha and crucial reforms bills has been met with an obstructionist opposition.
"But in recent times, the government also hasn't helped itself, with controversial comments from various BJP members. While Modi has largely distanced himself from the nationalist gibes, the belligerent provocation of various Indian minorities has raised ethnic tensions.
"Along with a possible increase in violence, the government will face stiffer opposition in the upper house as debate turns away from economic policy. Modi must keep his members in check or risk losing domestic and global credibility," Moody's said.
It projected India's GDP growth for September quarter at 7.3 per cent, while for the full fiscal it would be 7.6 per cent.
"Key economic reforms could deliver greater potential GDP, as they would improve India's productive capacity. These include the land acquisition bill, a national goods and service tax, and revamped labour laws. They are unlikely to pass through Parliament in 2015, but there is an even chance of success in 2016," Moody's said.
As regards interest rates, it said low rates will buttress the economy in the short-term but reforms are needed to reach long-term potential growth.
The Reserve Bank kick-started the recovery by cutting the repo rate by 1.25 per cent this year.
It said positive signs are emerging with the State Bank of India, the nation's largest bank, cut its base lending rate earlier this month.
Moody's Analytics said there are indications that investors have been less optimistic about India's economic prospects. Net financial flows into equity were around $16 billion in 2014
"Capacity utilisation has been low across industries this year. The capital expenditure pipeline is running dry. However, interest rate cuts should encourage investment, as will the softer inflation profile," it added.
Moody's Analytics, the research and analysis arm of Moody's Corporation, projected the RBI to keep rates on hold for the remainder of 2015, with a small chance of another cut early next year.
It, however, cautioned that Indian equities have suffered loss in global and domestic investors.
"The Sensex has fallen around 11 per cent since the euphoria behind the new government propelled the stock market. But consistent failure to deliver key economic reforms has faded the optimism," it added.
Narendra Modi-led government assumed office in May 2014.
As regards the impending US rate hike, it said: "The rupee will likely come out relatively unscathed thanks to the RBI's bulging foreign exchange reserves stockpile."
The slowdown in global growth will prove a major headwind for Indian exporters, Moody's said, adding that the fall in exports from 2015 is expected to continue in 2016.
"The newfound stability in India's current account balance could come under renewed stress if global growth slows more. So far, lower oil prices have buttressed the trade balance. But a rebound in prices if oil supply rebalances could see the trade balance deteriorate," Moody's said.
Moody's Analytics said there are indications that investors have been less optimistic about India's economic prospects. Net financial flows into equity were around $16 billion in 2014.
READ ALSO: India remains less exposed to external risks: Moody's
However, they are unlikely to reach those highs this year. The same can be said about financial flows into India's debt market, it added.
RBI is consistently looking to improve India's banking and financial structures, Moody's said, adding we believe a move towards full capital account liberalisation is inevitable in India.
"This will likely occur in the next two to four years. A freer capital account will give Indian companies greater access to overseas markets, lower borrowing costs, and facilitate credit growth - a key ingredient to increasing investment," it added.


PHUKET: Phuket International Airport has started using its "X-Terminal" to help alleviate long queues of tourists waiting to clear security and check in to board their outbound international flights.
"We are now using the terminal as an extra check-in point to solve long queues for charter flights for the Chinese New Year holidays," Phuket International Airport Director Monrudee Gettuphan told The Phuket News.
The outbound international tourist to benefit from the X-terminal check-in were 336 passengers on board Azur Air Flight ZF7732 from Phuket to Moscow, which took off at 1:45 pm yesterday (Jan 31).
"After the passengers had checked-in at X-Terminal, they and their luggage were transferred to the International Terminal by bus," Ms Monrudee explained.
"We will continue to do this for a while, especially as more large numbers of Chinese tourists are expected to come to Phuket in February," she said.
The move to use the X-Terminal also came in response to Transport Minister Lt Gen Arkhom on Jan 22 ordering urgent action be taken to alleviate the long queues of tourists waiting to be cleared through the airport, Ms Monrudee explained.
hahaha, I guess the Thai Transport Minister ( and the Prime Minister) will be surprised to learn about X-terminal.
X-Terminal? Shouldn't this be the Z-Terminal ...i.e for the zero baht tourists for whose benefit mostly this expensive non-performing international airport was built?
Is the transport minister able to confirm that the correct cleaning materials are being used in the airport toilets?


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Widget are defined, customizable, shareable HTML *widgets* that can be used within [QOR Admin](https://github.com/qor/admin) or your own frontend.

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/qor/widget.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/qor/widget)

## Getting Started

```go
// Initialize widgets container
Widgets := widget.New(&widget.Config{DB: db})

// Define widget's setting struct
type bannerArgument struct {
  Title           string
  Link            string
  BackgroundImage oss.OSS
}

// Register new widget
Widgets.RegisterWidget(&widget.Widget{
  // Widget's Name
  Name:     "Banner",
  // Widget's available templates
  Templates: []string{"banner1", "banner2"},
  // Widget's setting, which is configurable from the place using the widget with inline edit
  Setting:  Admin.NewResource(&bannerArgument{}),
  // InlineEditURL overwrite widget's inline edit's setting URL, usually we don't require do that, Widget will generate setting form based on Widget's setting resource, but in case of you want to fully customize your widget's setting page, you can overwrite it to return setting's URL
  InlineEditURL: func(context *Context) string {
    return "/different-setting-url"
  },
  // Generate a context to render the widget based on the widget's configurations
  Context: func(context *widget.Context, setting interface{}) *widget.Context {
    context.Options["Setting"] = setting
    context.Options["CurrentTime"] = time.Now()
    return context
  },
})

type slideImage struct {
  Title string
  Image oss.OSS
}

type slideShowArgument struct {
  SlideImages []slideImage
}

slideShowResource := Admin.NewResource(&slideShowArgument{})
slideShowResource.AddProcessor(func(value interface{}, metaValues *resource.MetaValues, context *qor.Context) error {
  if slides, ok := value.(*slideShowArgument); ok {
    for _, slide := range slides.SlideImages {
      if slide.Title == "" {
        return errors.New("slide title is blank")
      }
    }
  }
  return nil
})

Widgets.RegisterWidget(&widget.Widget{
  Name:      "SlideShow",
  Templates: []string{"slideshow"},
  Setting:   slideShowResource,
  Context: func(context *widget.Context, setting interface{}) *widget.Context {
    context.Options["Setting"] = setting
    return context
  },
})

// Define Widget Group
Widgets.RegisterWidgetGroup(&widget.WidgetGroup{
  Name: "HomeBanners",
  Widgets: []string{"Banner", "SlideShow"},
})

// Manage widgets from QOR Admin interface
Admin.AddResource(Widgets)
```

### Render Widget From Controller

```go
func Index(request *http.Request, writer http.ResponseWriter) {
  // Generate widget context
  widgetContext := admin.Widgets.NewContext(&widget.Context{
    DB:         DB(request),
    Options:    map[string]interface{}{"Request": request, "CurrentUser": currentUser}, // those options are accessible from widget views
    InlineEdit: true, // enable inline edit mode for widget
  })

  // Render Widget `HomeBanner` based on widget `Banner`'s definition to HTML template
  homeBannerContent := widgetContext.Render("HomeBanner", "Banner")

  // Render Widget `CampaignBanner` based on widget `Banner`'s definition to HTML template
  campaignBannerContent := widgetContext.Render("CampaignBanner", "Banner")

  // Then you could use the banner's HTML content in your templates
}
```

### Templates

Widget's template is Golang HTML template based, and thus quite flexible.

Continuing on the above *widget* example, we configure it to use templates `banner1`, `banner2`. QOR widget will look up templates from path `$APP_ROOT/app/views/widgets` by default, so you need to put your template in the right folder!

Once the template is found, QOR Widget will use the widget's generated context and use it to render the template like how Golang template works.

```go
// app/views/widgets/banner1.tmpl
<div class="banner" style="background:url('{{.Setting.BackgroundImage}}') no-repeat center center">
  <div class="container">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="column column-12">
        <a href="{{.Setting.Link}}" class="button button__primary">{{.Setting.Title}}</a>
        {{.CurrentTime}}
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

// app/views/widgets/banner2.tmpl
<div class="banner">
  <div class="column column-9">
    <img src="{{.Setting.BackgroundImage}}" class="banner__logo" />
  </div>

  <div class="column column-3" style="margin-top: 2em;">
    <div><a href="{{.Setting.Link}}" class="button button__primary">{{.Setting.Title}}</a></div>
  </div>
</div>
```

You could also register other paths like:

```go
Widgets.RegisterViewPath("app/views/widgets")
```

### Register Scopes

In some cases, you might want to show a different page according to UTM source/medium/campaign or for A/B testing to increase the conversion rate. Using a Widget's Scope you can register some *scopes*, configure your *widget* for each of them, and when a *scope*'s `Visible` condition is matched the *widget* will use its configuration to render the *widget*.

```go
Widgets.RegisterScope(&widget.Scope{
  Name: "From Google",
  Visible: func(context *widget.Context) bool {
    if request, ok := context.Get("Request"); ok {
      return strings.Contains(request.(*http.Request).Referer(), "google.com")
    }
    return false
  },
})

Widgets.RegisterScope(&widget.Scope{
  Name: "VIP User",
  Visible: func(context *widget.Context) bool {
    if user, ok := context.Get("CurrentUser"); ok {
      return user.(*User).Role == "vip"
    }
    return false
  },
})
```

## Live Widget Demo

[Widget Demo](http://demo.getqor.com)

## License

Released under the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

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Home > Short Story > Constitutional Crisis
Published June 15, 2016 by Dean Booth
"Name of the deceased." The small, stout woman squinted through coaster-sized glasses at her computer screen.
"Uh, blank," said the man.
"Mr. or Mrs. Blank's first name," said the woman.
"Uh, no, I'm sorry, I meant a 'blank' certificate. I'll fill it in."
Her shoulders dropped as she closed her eyes and sighed. She spoke in simple, terse words that any troublemaker could understand.
"We—don't—issue—blank—death—certificates—sir. Why do you want a blank death certificate?"
"Well, actually, it's for me," he said. "I died about three months ago. I didn't know until last week."
Esso stepped into the pub and stopped. The smell hit him first. As a connoisseur would identify fragrances in a wine, he inhaled the bouquet of the room and picked up hints of Buffalo wings, alcohol, perfume, and human armpits. I'm back, he thought. He paused once more to savor the joy of the moment. The joy in my heart, he thought.
Somewhere to his left in the throng surrounding the bar was his friend Jerry. And at one of the tables to his right were three hot young ladies looking at their phones. Esso decided to find Jerry the easy way.
He walked toward the smoking table and positioned himself in the line of sight between it and the bar. Then he turned to face the bar.
"ESSO!" thundered through the room.
Esso spotted Jerry's shiny hairless head floating above the fray and weaving toward him. The former high school tight end could still bust through the pile. Indignant bodies stumbled left and right.
"Esso!" he yelled again as he popped out of the crowd. They pressed chests while clubbing each other in the back, simulating a hug. "Esso, my God, look a'choo, man, you're friggin' Beautiful! And I've never said that to a guy before. ARK-ARK-ARK! But really, you look great! Last time I saw you, you were like, jeez, like I don't even want to think about it. Almost cried, dude, no shit. But goddamn! Look a'choo, you skinny dog! How much did you lose? What are you, like ten years old?"
Familiar faces all around the bar were calling to Esso, shaking his hand and hugging him. He and Jerry had been coming here for over ten years, starting right after they got fake id's. Everyone knew Esso as the calm, thoughtful one, where Jerry was as subtle as a moose during mating season.
Esso shook his head and smiled. "Dude, this is frigging awesome. I'm the happiest guy in the building. Yeah, I lost thirty pounds. I weighed more than this when we graduated."
"Hey, you drinking?"
"No no. I'm doing shit nice and slow. I'm going to wait another few months before I even try."
"OK, that's what I thought. So I'm drinking for both of us tonight. So… so far you've had one Scotch, and I've had two Scotches. I got your back, dude. ARK-ARK-ARK!"
Ark-Arks after only three Scotches? Esso thought. He must have lost count.
They found a small table near the bar. Jerry got another Scotch and Esso got a ginger ale.
"Here you are, man," Jerry said, shaking his head. "Here you are. I'm tellin' you, you friggin' scared the shit outta me. Son of a bitch, a heart transplant? All I could picture was you hooked up to machines and shit the rest of your life."
"It's hard for me to believe, too," said Esso.
"Well, lemme ask ya. What if I wanted a big porn star dick? Can they transplant one on me? ARKARK-ARK!" Jerry swayed with laughter and grabbed the edge of the table to stay on the stool. "Or, you know what? I'll do what my ex did with her hair. I'll get 'extensions'! ARK-ARK-ARK!"
Esso laughed, and looked around the room. He was having a drink and checking out the ladies while his knucklehead friend talked about his pecker. Maybe—just maybe—the previous year of doctors and hospitals and surgery was coming to a close. Maybe things might even be back to… 'normal'. Don't say it, he thought, you'll jinx it. "Hey!" Jerry said. "Hey! I saw something today made me think of you. I'm at this seminar for lawyers and it's boring as shit, OK? So during some presentation, for the hell of it, I'm reading the U.S. Constitution on my phone. And somewhere in there it says who it applies to, and for how long. Get this, it says it's binding on every man until such day as, and get this, until such day as his heart no longer beats. Hear that? That's how the U.S. Goddamn Government defines death – the day your heart stops. Get it? You're dead! Your heart isn't beating anymore, right? It's in a friggin' Mason jar someplace so med students can look at it, right?"
"Uhh, yeah, actually I don't know where it is. I think they just chucked it. I know they didn't ask me if I wanted it. Limit one per customer, I guess. But you know, they don't take it out all at once. I saw a video of how they do it. It's really interesting. First they clamp off the arteries on one side, I forget which one, then they cut—"
"Hey, hey, Surgeon General, Dr. Pepper, did you hear me? You're dead! Uncle Sam says you're dead."
"Yeah, that's pretty funny. Too bad I didn't have any life insurance last year. Hell, if I knew about this Constitution stuff I would have bought millions of dollars worth just before surgery."
Esso paused as the gears started turning. "OK. So what are you saying—is my surgeon a murderer? Ummm, what else? All right, do I have to pay taxes? Does your driver's license expire same time you expire? There's a question nobody ever asked before – are the dead allowed to drive? Can I be sued? Hell, can I be arrested? Is someone guilty of murder if they kill me… again? What do you think, counselor?"
"Whoa, horsey! Shit, I've created a monster! A legal zombie! Hey, wait. You can't be dead unless you have a death certificate, right? How would you do that? Walk into Town Hall and, what, apply for one?"
"I got a better idea," Esso said. "Let's live and let live. I already came close enough to dying. I like living better."
Jerry stared at his Scotch glass. He might have been thinking hard about something, or he might have been counting how many glasses he saw.
"Wait a minute," Jerry said.
"Oh shit. I've seen this look before. E equals MC what?" Esso said.
"No, listen, I'm serious. You know what? You could do this. You could be a c'lebbity. You could be the living dead guy! You could go on TV and give interviews and write books. You could be like the new 'Twilight Tales' guy. You'd clean up at Halloween."
"No, really! Whadda you got to lose? You almost friggin' died, what the hell! Get a death certificate—I'll do the legal shit, then we'll make up some corny reason why you did it, then you start doing TV interviews. And if people don't buy it then you go back to work. So you lose a few more months—it might pay off big!"
Maybe I got brain damage during surgery, Esso thought. This sounds like a not-terrible idea.
"Jerry, OK, I promise I'll think about it."
"What's to think about? You're sober, for Chrissake! You got all that blood pumping in your brain from that new heart! If I can see it's a great idea you should be all over it!"
"Look, counselor, save it for the jury."
"Esso… what are you gonna do, say 'no'? You know you're in."
Esso closed his eyes and exhaled hard. Jerry was right. He really didn't have anything to lose.
"I swear…you bastard…you could sell condoms to the Pope."
"YES!" Jerry slammed his fist on the table. "Man, this is gonna be awesome. So you be the dead dude and I'll be your agent, and maybe I'll even sue people for stuff. Like how about discrimination—against the dead. How come there's no dead people on corporate boards? And, and, the airlines! How come dead people have to fly in cargo? Why can't they fly up top and get peanuts and drinks? ARK-ARK-ARK!"
"Yeah, yeah, first things first. I'll bet there's a medical record stating the exact time they shut down my heart. Maybe that's all I need, along with the Constitution, to get a death certificate."
"God Damn. You're dead. Hey, so what's it like in the afterlife? Are you in Heaven? What about angels—are you allowed to, you know…" Jerry moved his fist forward and backward.
"Really? Sex with angels? That's… You know, lightning's gonna toast your dumb ass the minute you step out that door. Remind me to stay like fifty feet behind you."
"But it wouldn't be Heaven if you couldn't get—"
"You gonna fry, boy."
"ARK-ARK-ARK!"
Esso and Jerry were at Town Hall in the office of a man who looked desperate to be somewhere else.
"OK, gentlemen, let's get this over with, please. I am Thomas Gill, Administrator for the town of Carter, Massachusetts. For the record please state your name."
"Steven Luck, but I go by the nickname 'Esso'."
"And I'm Jerry Platt, Attorney at Law, representing Mr. Luck."
"And your age, Mr. Luck?"
"I was thirty-one at the time of my demise."
Gill slammed his pen on the desk. "OK, Esso, can we cut the bullshit? What are you trying to pull with this cute little stunt? If you want to die there are plenty of ways to do it without making a mockery of the law. What do you want, a settlement? Forget it, over MY dead body. You want to go to trial? I got a dozen ways to blast this idiot case of yours apart." He shook his finger at Esso. "You've already scared the shit out of Edna at the front desk, asking to fill out your own death certificate. Is this your plan, to walk around like frigging Frankenstein scaring people? Well, this town and this office will NOT BE A PARTY TO IT!!"
Gill's hands were shaking, he was hyperventilating, and his head was the color of a ten pound plum. Jerry calmly leaned next to Esso's ear and whispered, "I got this."
"Mr. Gill," Jerry said, "you're upset. I can tell."
Gill's eyes bulged again as he took a deep breath, loading wind for another outburst.
"But wait!" Jerry said. "Please! There's a very simple solution to this issue. You know about the definition in the Constitution. We have with us a document from the hospital stating the exact time Mr. Luck's heart—his heart, the one he was born with and, thereby, the one that defines his participation among the living—stopped beating. The Constitution plus the document make it a done deal for you. You issue the death certificate, you're legally covered, and we're on our way."
"Bring it to court, you fraud, and I'll bury you!" Gill said.
"Maybe if you told us about these counter-arguments now we might drop the issue. After all, you'll need to reveal them to us before court anyway."
Gill pressed a button on his desk phone. "DOTTIE! BRING IN THAT LIST!" He released the button. "All my department heads sent me their ideas. This is a non-issue. You're just wasting time."
A frightened looking woman stepped into the office, put a sheet on the desk and dashed back out, closing the door.
"See? HERE it is! All the legal precedents. You're screwed, Blatt."
"Platt. Please read them to us?"
"OK. Adoption law. Ownership, or custody, of human flesh can be legally transferred between people. And they stay alive! Hah! Gotcha!"
"I think we can defend against that pretty easily. Is that your best?"
"HELL no, I got PLENTY more! Let's see. Federal laws written for the witness relocation program! The Feds fake deaths all the time, but the people keep living! Choke on that one, you bastard!"
"Once again, I don't think—"
"I got 'transfer of property'! Deeds! Title law! You own that new heart, asshole! You're STILL ALIVE!"
"I've had a lot of experience with title law and this case isn't—"
"Resuscitation after heart attacks! People go for HOURS with no heart beat and then they come back!"
"I'd have to see the evidence about going 'hours'—"
"Separation of conjoined twins! Tree grafting! Regeneration of cut-in-half earthworms! What the…" He hit the button again. "GODDAMN IT WHO CAME UP WITH THIS SHIT?!"
Gill fell silent. He took a moment to catch his breath.
"OK, Luck, what do you want? A parade? A monument on the common? A handicapped license plate? There you go! Front row parking spots! No more walking across the lots! Think about Christmas shopping—front row parking!"
Esso and Jerry sat quietly.
"All right, but you gotta promise you'll never repeat this. I can get you—hell, I'll get both of you— thirty-three plates."
"Thirty-three license plates? Why would we want—"
"No, a plate with double threes in the number. If a plate number has two threes in it you'll never get a ticket. It's a code for the cops—local and State—they never pull over or give parking tickets to a thirty-three plate. Look at my car when you leave. Speeding, drunk driving, parking in front of hydrants, whatever, no problem. What do you say?"
Esso said, "Mr. Gill, I think we have a deal—"
"NO, thank you, Mr. Gill," said Jerry, "we aren't here to cut a deal. We'll come back at one o'clock Monday to pick up the death certificate."
"Tell you what: drop dead and I'll give it to you right now."
"Thank you again, good bye now."
When they were outside Esso turned and said "C'mon—forget the dead guy thing and let's get those plates! Did you hear? Hydrants…speeding…unbelievable! Let's go!"
"Dude, no," Jerry said, "That's just a taste of what's coming. We do this thing and we'll be getting offers for stuff all day long. Stay focused. Think big."
Monday afternoon at Town Hall Esso looked out the window and saw the cluster of media people waiting on the front steps. Every TV station from Boston had sent a crew after seeing Jerry's press release telling Esso's story. Jerry was waiting in his car in the middle of the satellite trucks.
Inside the Town Hall lobby, Gill was finalizing the death certificate. "Rest in peace, Mr. Luck," he said to Esso as he stamped the town seal onto the document. Then his gaze went out of focus and drifted away from Esso's face. He left the certificate on the front counter and went outside. Esso picked it up and read it. But when he looked up he found Gill and the other town employees had gone outside, leaving him alone in the lobby. He hurried out the door.
Outside, Gill walked down a few steps into a mass of microphones.
"My name is Thomas Gill and I'm Carter's Town Administrator. About two minutes ago I applied the town seal giving final authorization to a death certificate issued in the name of one Steven Otis luck. This certificate was issued in accordance with the dictates of the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Luck appeared before me last week with evidence that his heart no longer functioned, and he insisted that we take appropriate measures. I was reluctant to perform this action, and I extend sympathies to Mr. Luck's family and friends, but it is my obligation as a town executive and also an American citizen to uphold the Constitution. Does anyone have any questions?"
While Gill fielded a few questions from the reporters, Esso waited a few steps behind. He was ready. The night before, he and Jerry had rehearsed what he was going to say to the reporters. If Gill could be that cool with cameras up his nose then so could he. Gill thanked everyone and walked down to the street.
As Esso started down the steps the reporters and cameramen began heading back to their trucks. He stopped on the same step where Gill had spoken, but all the microphones were gone.
"Hey, I'm Luck!" he called to the people walking down the stairs. "I'm Steven Luck… I'm the guy… I'm Luck!"
A reporter stopped and said, "You're who?"
"Luck! I'm Steven Luck!"
"Yeah, right. Luck's the dead guy, funny man. Didn't you hear?"
"But that was me! I asked for the death certificate! Ask Gill, he'll tell you!"
"Tell you what. We'll film you while I ask some questions. Maybe the station will run it later. That OK with you?"
"Yes! Yes! Please!"
"OK," said the reporter to his cameraman, "Eddie, point it right at him—you don't need me in the shot. Go ahead, start."
The cameraman began shooting and the reporter spoke.
"After the press conference we were approached by this man claiming to be Steven Luck, the deceased named in the death certificate. Mr. Luck, what arrangements have you made for your funeral? Are you planning a burial or a cremation?"
"What?" said Esso. "Look, look at me. I'm not dead. I applied for a death certificate in order to, uh, promote awareness of the dangers of literal interpretation of the Constitution. I had a heart trans—".
"Mr. Luck, are you aware that Massachusetts state law requires the disposition of a deceased's remains within five days of issuance of the death certificate?"
"Wait, just relax, I'm not 'disposing my remains'. I'm here, right? And doesn't that prove the Constitution is wrong? A person can exist after their heart no longer beats, see?" Esso patted himself on the chest.
"Mr. Luck, or whatever your name is, did you say the Constitution is wrong? Are you questioning the wisdom of the Founding Fathers?" "I'm saying Thomas Jefferson didn't know a whole lot about heart transplants, so the Constitution has to adapt to technology in order to—".
"Eddie, kill it. They're not going to run this crap." The cameraman stopped filming. He and the reporter walked down the steps.
"This is Massachusetts, goddamn it!" Esso yelled. "You're supposed to be liberals!"
He walked down the steps alone. When he got to Jerry's car he opened the door and lowered himself into the seat.
"YAAAAH!" Jerry yelled.
"What's wrong with you?" said Esso. "And what the hell's wrong with all of them? They all ignored me! Nobody wanted to interview me!"
Jerry started the car and drove in silence. His jaw trembled as he stared straight ahead.
"Did you hear me? You know what that guy was saying? 'Disposition of remains'! He wants me to get cremated! Are they all goddamn insane?"
Jerry turned to look at Esso, then he turned to face forward.
"What?!! Why are you looking at me like that? What happened to our plan? We practiced the questions last night and then nobody said anything. What?!"
Jerry looked straight ahead and whispered, "It's like that kid in the movie that sees dead people."
"Wha…OK, you got me. Ha friggin' ha. Now let's cut the shit because I am seriously not in the mood."
"Esso!" Jerry yelled, looking up. "If you can hear me, look, I'm sorry, but you died. It's true. You're stuck in limbo in this world. If you let go then you'll be free to, uh, go beyond or whatever!"
"Stuck? STUCK? You bet I'm stuck. I'm stuck in this frigging car with a moron!" Esso smacked Jerry in the head with his open palm.
"Oh, Esso! Your presence in this world is very strong! Accept your fate and let it go!" Tears rolled down Jerry's face.
"Jerry," Esso said, slowly, "remember when we were at the bar? The PLAN? I was going to write books and be on TV as the dead guy? It was your idea! Remember?"
"Forget the plans of this world, Esso! Leave it all behind and go to your reward in the next world!" Jerry sobbed.
"Let me out!" Esso fumbled for the door handle. "Right here—pull over. You're just as crazy as the reporters. Stop. Right here."
Jerry stopped the car and Esso opened the door. As he stepped out he heard Jerry cry, "You were my best friend! I loved—" and he slammed the door.
He stood on the sidewalk watching Jerry drive away. Son of a bitch, he thought. It was about a 45 minute walk to his condo. If he didn't come up with a new plan, the only other option was to dispose of his remains.
Two little old ladies walked toward him with their heads bowed, staring at the sidewalk, muttering and crossing themselves. A young boy, shoved forward by his friends, was reaching out when Esso said, "Boo!" and sent them all running away crying. A woman with a stroller stopped, spun the stroller around and ran, screaming bloody murder.
Two blocks from his unit he sat on a bench and checked his phone. There were four emails advertising funeral homes, a message saying his job wasn't being held for him anymore, and legal notices saying: his car was repossessed, his condo was locked out by the mortgage holder, his health insurance had been dropped, and his bank accounts were frozen pending probate. Then the internet connection dropped. He tossed the phone into a storm drain next to the bench.
His only remaining possessions were the clothes he wore and the death certificate he held in his hand. He read his name. He read the date of death—the date he received his transplant. What an amazing day that had been. He had been given new health and new life and a ticket back to the real world. Now it was all gone. He'd thrown it all away.
He slumped on the bench and closed his eyes. He was very tired. A faint breeze plucked the death certificate out of his hand and carried it into the storm drain.
"Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!"
The trio of tiny voices hit Esso like defibrillator paddles. His eyes snapped open to see three children piling out of a minivan and racing toward him. He stood up and they grabbed his legs and hollered and cried. A very pregnant woman waddled around the front of the van and into Esso's surprised arms, shaking and crying.
Esso said, "Uh, hello?"
"Oh, Bill," she sobbed, "I missed you so much."
Esso pondered his next move. He wasn't altogether sure this was better than dying on the bench. He said, "But my name isn't—".
"Oh Bill," she sputtered, "Hon, I saw you on TV at Town Hall. You were standing behind Mr. Gill. I came as fast as I could. You know about the Constitution thing, right?"
Do I ever, Esso thought. "Yeah, but—".
"Well, everyone thought you died in that car accident."
"I died?" Esso said.
"Yeah, but you didn't, because of the Constitution."
"Because of—".
"See, when you died, you donated your heart to… to you. The Constitution says you're still you, know what I mean?"
"This," she said as she poked Esso's chest, her voice rising in frustration, "is Bill's heart, so if Bill's heart is still beating then the Constitution says Bill is still alive…right, Bill?"
If four strangers hadn't been hugging him Esso would have fallen over.
The woman gently patted him on the back and said, "It's OK, baby. Your name is Bill Tynell and I'm Karen and these are our children." She kissed him on the cheek and said, "I love you, remember?"
Esso didn't remember.
"Just be patient," she said. "It'll all come back and we'll be one big," she patted her enormous stomach, "huge, ha ha, family again. Just like you always wanted."
Esso moved into the house with Karen and the kids. He drove the kids to soccer games and dance lessons; he fixed the toilet and helped with the laundry; and he even got Bill's old job selling appliances at the mall. Because the house was only one story high, he figured he'd need to jump out the window at least a dozen times before he managed to kill himself.
But help was on the way from an unexpected ally—the life insurance industry. A Federal Court had ruled that life insurance policies held by heart transplant recipients had to be paid, because, of course, their hearts no longer beat. Payments were to go back seven years. Estimates put the onetime cash payment due from insurance companies in excess of eighty billion dollars. Insurance industry lobbyists set up a tent city on the Capitol Lawn after all the D.C. hotel rooms filled.
The Supreme Court convened in an emergency session to consider overruling the 'heart no longer beats' definition of death, but they ended in a four-four tie. The death of Chief Justice Rebello in a bicycle accident three weeks earlier meant the Town of Carter's Constitutional ruling would remain unchanged.
Esso couldn't accept the news of the tie vote. As soon as he got home from work that night he got onto the internet desperately searching for ideas. Then at two in the morning the last piece of a plan fell into place. He got dressed and drove the minivan to Jerry's condo.
Jerry's spare key was strategically hidden under the blue fake rock next to the doormat. Esso went inside and sat in the corner of Jerry's bedroom. He played a recording of a waterfall from his cell phone. Jerry got up to pee after three minutes.
When Jerry came back into the bedroom the cell phone was illuminating Esso's face.
"YAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Hello, Jerry," said Esso.
"ESSO? What the… Jesus Christ, you trying to kill me?"
"Hell, no. I barely know who's dead now."
"What are you doing here? You're dead, right?"
"Of course I'm dead. The Supreme Court's tied four-four."
"So you're a… ghost?"
"Yeah, whatever. Except when I'm alive. Then I'm this guy named Bill with a knocked-up wife and three kids and a mortgage and a job selling washing machines. He was my heart donor, so since I got his heart, I'm him. Thanks to you and your dead-guy plan."
"That was a good idea, man. We could have made a lot of money if you hadn't died."
"Don't start. Anyway, I know how to break this Supreme Court tie. And you're going to help. Tomorrow night I'll pick—no, Bill will pick you up here at seven. You'll know who he is. He's about my height, about my weight, same hairdo, same fingerprints: it's uncanny."
"What are we going to do?"
"You don't want to know. Just remember I'd still be alive if it wasn't for you. So work with Bill or I'll come back every night to haunt you."
"Even when I've brought someone back and we're…"
"Especially when you've brought someone back and you're… So be ready tomorrow."
Esso rang Jerry's doorbell the next night. Jerry did a double take at the door.
"Esso?"
"Bill," said Esso. "Get with the program, dude. Call me 'Esso' and you're violating the Constitution."
As they walked to the minivan Esso said, "This is the plan. We—"
"Hey, 'Bill'," Jerry said, "Don't tell me. The less I know, the fewer charges they'll hit me with later."
They rode in silence 45 minutes to a rural town near the New Hampshire line. Esso parked in front of a small house with a big front lawn.
"Be ready and do whatever I tell you," he said.
A middle-aged woman answered the door.
"Ms. Chase? Hello, my name is Bill Tynell and this is my friend Jerry Platt. We're volunteers with the Massachusetts Heart Support Group. I was told your daughter Kiki recently got a heart transplant. Would it be OK if we visited with her for just a little while?"
"Well, sure, I guess. We were just watching TV. Kiki! There's some people here to see you!"
The woman brought Esso and Jerry into the living room and pointed them to a couch. A twenty year old, heavily tattooed, heavily pierced girl sat across from them glued to the TV.
"Kiki, these men have come to see you. Can you turn that off, please?"
"Maaah! I'm watchin' this, ha-kay? It's almost o-vah. Can't ya just, like, wait?"
"That's fine, Ms. Chase," said Esso. He and Jerry watched Kiki's reality show with her. When it was o-vah Kiki turned off the TV and greeted the men with a sneer.
"Hi, Kiki, my name's Bill, and I got a heart transplant about four months ago. I want to talk with you about the change of law regarding transplants."
"What law? You gonna arrest me or somethin'?"
"No, nothing like that. But you'll probably be surprised by what I tell you." He explained the Constitutional interpretation. "So legally you aren't Kiki Chase anymore."
"Whaaaat? Whadda ya mean? I'm not Kiki? OK, smarty-law-man, who am I?"
"You're actually Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Rebello."
"Aaaaah!" said Kiki, her mother, and Jerry, in harmony.
"I saw it!" said Kiki's mother. "He died! I saw it on the TV in the waiting room when she was in surgery."
"He was her donor," said Esso.
"Maaaah!"
"I'm sorry, baby, I mean your honor, but I'm not your mother anymore."
"Maaaah! Maaaah!" Kiki beat her chair with her fists and cried.
"Look what you've done. Look how upset he is. He's still recovering from surgery, you know. Maybe you'd better leave us alone!"
"But I haven't told you," said Esso. "We can fix this. The Court had a tie vote yesterday because he wasn't there. But the law says a tie vote isn't official until two days after the vote. That was established when a Justice in the early 1800's got caught in a blizzard in Virginia—"
"Uh, Bill," said Jerry. "Skip ahead."
"Right. If Justice Rebello appears at a Federal courthouse within two days of the tied vote then he can vote to break the tie. And there's a Federal courthouse five minutes from here."
"Dude," said Jerry. "It's night. There's nobody there."
"The law doesn't say you have to be inside the courthouse. We can do it in the parking lot. Let's go. Justice Rebello—you can vote to make yourself Kiki Chase again, and we can be back here in fifteen minutes."
"You're not taking him anywhere," said Ms. Chase. "I don't care who he is, he's not leaving this house in his condition. You two get out of here before I call the police!"
Esso looked at the woman's expression and decided she wasn't going to budge. It was time for muscle.
"Jerry," said Esso, "grab Mom, put her in that bedroom and don't let her out. Now!"
Jerry wrapped his arms around Ms. Chase and walked her, kicking and screaming, into the back room, slammed the door and leaned against it.
"Now, Kiki," said Esso as he put his hand around her upper arm, "we aren't going to hurt you, and we'll be back here before you know it. Please don't struggle. Remember how the doctors told you that your rib cage won't fully heal for another month. Come with me, gently, out to the car and we're going to take a ride. You'll answer one simple question, then I'll bring you back here. Don't struggle. Let's go."
They heard the mother yelling in the back room. "Yes, it's a kidnapping! Yes, right now! Two men, and they're kidnapping a Supreme Court Justice! Yes! Justice Rebello! No he isn't dead, he was a heart donor! He lives here with me now! 48 Clover Street! They're taking him away in their car right now! Hurry!"
Esso walked Kiki to the door and turned to Jerry. "OK, come here. Take her to the minivan and sit in the back with her." They got in and Esso drove toward the courthouse.
He handed Jerry a document and a flashlight. "Read this to her, I mean him. It's all crap but he has to hear it before he can vote."
"Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, the Supreme Court of the United States of America will now convene for purposes of hearing…" Jerry read while Esso drove. They pulled into the Federal court parking lot as Jerry finished.
"So," Esso said, twisting around to face Kiki, "It's simple. You can vote yes or no. 'Yes' means you agree with the recent ruling, and you will stay Justice Rebello, and Kiki Chase is dead. But if you vote 'no' then you are agreeing that doctors will use their knowledge and skills to define death, like it used to be, and you become Kiki Chase again. Yes—Justice Rebello. No—Kiki Chase. What do you say?"
"I don't wanna be no old man judge! No! Hell, no! Shit, no!"
"Counselor, the vote is 'hell no, shit no'. Kiki, welcome back. May the Justice rest in peace. And, may Bill Tynell rest in peace. too. Dude, I'm back."
"What?" said Jerry. "That's it? How can that be it? What makes it official?"
"You do. You're a notary, dude."
"Now let's get her back before the cops find us."
They drove back to the house, got Kiki inside, and were just about to leave when they saw a blue light shining out in the street.
Jerry stood at a window looking at the spectacle. "Esso, come look. There's probably fifty SWAT guys; a dozen cruisers; there's snipers in windows; everyone's got big friggin' guns; and look at those things! They look like tanks! Wow! This is like Butch Cassidy!"
"Dude—get away from the window. They might decide to pick you off."
"Don't worry. They can't see me. But they did set up a lot of spotlights—"
Then, as if the sun itself slammed into the front lawn, all of outside and everything inside glowed with blinding white light. Esso and Jerry dived flat onto the floor.
"Shit, I can't see a thing," said Jerry. "Well, Esso my man, let's see if you can stay dead this time."
Then, just as suddenly, the spotlights shut off. Esso and Jerry lay on the floor waiting for their eyes to readjust.
"What, they blow a fuse?" said Jerry.
They moved slowly, wary of any activity outside. Esso crawled to a window and peered out. The SWAT tanks and police vehicles were driving away.
"Everyone's leaving. They're all leaving. What the—".
"They're what?" Jerry said.
Esso stood at the window. "See for yourself." All the police had disappeared and all the vehicles were rumbling down the street away from the house.
They went outside and wandered around the front yard. A chipmunk ran along the sidewalk.
"Why—" said Esso.
"Dude, come here," said Jerry, standing in the driveway. "Look at this."
He pointed at the license plate on the back of the minivan. It read "108-233".
Esso was sipping a ginger ale while watching baseball at the pub. He had a feeling that Jerry, sitting at the next stool, was talking to him, but he didn't care enough to find out.
"Esso! Listen to this!"
Now he had to look. Jerry would start punching his arm if he didn't.
"I was reading something the other day. You know about crimes of passion, like when a guy kills someone that's in bed with his wife? The state calls that, get this, 'crimes of the heart'. So I thought what if you, with a transplanted heart, killed someone? You could say yeah, you did it and it was a crime of the heart, but the heart isn't yours! It's a transplant, so your donor is guilty, not you!"
Esso stared at Jerry in silence. Then he said, "Absolutely, sign me up. That's your best idea ever. You can be my agent. We'll hire me out to kill people."
"I don't know," said Jerry. "It's just Massachusetts. Maybe if the federal law was the same."
Esso turned back to the TV. He said, "Dude, you're like the plague. Whenever you read stuff people start dying. I got some advice for you. When you get real clients, like at your job? Make them pay in advance. Or make them put you in their will."
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Condé Nast Entertainment, Indigenous Media unveil six Project HER shorts
By Jeremy Kay2018-03-29T21:56:00+01:00
Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) and Indigenous Media have released six short films by female filmmakers under the auspices of the digital video incubator series Project HER.
Rodrigo Garcia (In Treatment), Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland), Kasi Lemmons (Eves Bayou), Betty Thomas (Private Parts), and Sarah Treem (The Affair) served as mentors.
The Project HER selections are: 1930s-set mystery drama Beauty; supernatural thriller Black Night (pictured) by Jordan Trippeer; relationship drama Good Eggs by Maria Burton; prison drama The Row by Philiane Phang; quirky drama Snugglr by Georgia Bernstein and Cemre Paksoy; and friendship drama Watch Party by Blythe Haaga Parker.
Each film is available to view on Condé Nast's digital video website, The Scene, and the Project HER Facebook Show Page.
CNE and Indigenous Media collaborated with Josh Hutcherson and Michelle Hutcherson's Turkeyfoot Productions on The Big Script, another incubator series in which the screenplays of five up-and-coming writers and directors were chosen from more than 2,000 scripts from The Black List and developed into 15-minute shorts.
"We strongly believe that the future is female and Project HER is a platform to make women's voices heard, so Condé Nast Entertainment and Indigenous Media are proud to foster a community of up-and-coming creators and established Hollywood talent working together to accomplish that," said Teal Newland, senior vice-president of marketing and new platforms at CNE. "The incubator is a step towards creating an environment where women can explore new forms of storytelling and emerge to go on and navigate and disrupt the current Hollywood system."
"As evidenced by the amazing work that each of Project HER mentors have done, women's voices are indisputably valuable, and the industry has a responsibility to help resolve gender disparity in the business by providing them the opportunities they deserve," Garcia, co-founder of Indigenous Media and Project HER mentor, said.
"We are privileged to work with Condé Nast Entertainment and be able to give these seven talented women an avenue to share their stories," Avnet, co-founder of Indigenous Media, added.


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Q: Use cases for threading and asyncio in python I've read quite a few articles on threading and asyncio modules in python and the major difference I can seem to draw (correct me if I'm wrong) is that in,
threading: multiple threads can be used to execute the python program and these threads are juggled by the OS itself. Further only when non blocking I/O is happening on a thread the GIL lock can be released to allow another thread to use it (since GIL makes python interpreter single threaded). This is also more resource intensive than asyncio io, since multiple threads will be utilising multiple resources.
asyncio: one single thread can have multiple tasks/coroutines that multitask cooperatively to achieve concurrency. Here, the issue of GIL doesn't arise since it is on a single thread anyway and whenever one non blocking I/O bound task is happening, python interpreter can be used by another coroutine - and all of this is managed by asyncio's event loop.
Also, one article: http://masnun.rocks/2016/10/06/async-python-the-different-forms-of-concurrency/
says,
if io_bound:
    if io_very_slow:
        print("Use Asyncio")
    else:
       print("Use Threads")
else:
    print("Multi Processing")

I'd like to understand, just for better clarity, why exactly we can't use asyncio and threading as substitutes for each other, given we have sufficient resources available. Use cases of when to use what would help understand better. Further, since this topic is very new for me, there might be gaps in my understanding, so any kind of resources, explanations and corrections would be really appreciated.

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WATCH: "The Golden Girls" On Marriage Equality
Sophia Petrillo puts the need and desire for marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples in a very astute yet simple way.
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Gay in City: Entrepreneur Finds Success in Lube
After hitting the market in 2003 Boy Butter lubricants have been top rated as some of the best for men, especially play. If you haven't tried it, here are plenty of reasons.
Boy Butter is still a young company. Its founder, New York-based Eyal Feldman, studied history and had hopes of becoming a history teacher. Feldman was previously working for gay clothing company Nasty Pig Inc. in order to save money for his product. At age 24, Feldman wanted to provide the world with a lubricant that would last even longer than silicone-based formulas and clean up easier than water-based. That is exactly what he did. The most impressive part: Feldman does everything from design to business matters himself (he's the CEO). He is even the official spokesperson (yes, that's him in the picture). Click here to read the rest of the article on Gay in City.
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Obama to break bread with 1st Black Miss Israel
First the Miss Israel tiara, then a meal with the leader of the free world. After receiving an exclusive invite to next week's gala dinner celebrating President Obama's trip to Israel, newly-crowned Ethiopian-born beauty queen Yityish Aynaw is well on her way to becoming an Israeli diplomat. As of now, the guest list for the event includes Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Army Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, and Aynaw has reportedly sparked no small bit of envy among other high-powered politicos.
Despite the fact that Obama's Israel policy has been staunchly debated, almost everyone seems to be bidding to see the president during his three-day trip to the Holy Land. At one point, the U.S. Embassy in Israel even thought that a Facebook contest would be the fairest way to give away tickets to his keynote speech in Jerusalem.
Aynaw scored an invite to the dinner when White House officials heard that she was the first black immigrant to be crowned Miss Israel. She has also said that she looks to Obama as an influential role model.
Read the original Tablet Magazine article
PLUS: Check out this Hebrew language interview, if you can understand, she is super spunky and cool.
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The hilariously green tinged drag queen, Hedda Lettuce gave out some Boy Butter Gold Label, the 10th Anniversary Edition to a very lucky winner last night at the screening of The Women (1939), at Thursday night Chelsea Classics at Chelsea's Clearview Cinemas. It is a great film and someone was made happy with some great lube. I LOVE HEDDA LETTUCE!
Undressing Israel: Gay Men In The Promised Land,
I wanted to share a great new gay documentary film that my friend, Michael Lucas, has produced, Undressing Israel: Gay Men In The Promised Land. When many people think of Israel, it is often in terms of modern war or ancient religion. But there is much more to the Jewish state than missiles and prayers. In his debut as a documentary filmmaker, adult-film entrepreneur and political columnist Michael Lucas examines a side of Israel that is too often overlooked: its thriving gay community. Undressing Israel features interviews with a diverse range of local men, including a gay member of Israel's parliament, a trainer who served openly in the army, a young Arab-Israeli journalist, and a pair of dads raising their kids. Lucas also visits Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife scene—and even attends a same-sex wedding—in this guided tour of a country that has emerged as a pioneer for gay integration and equality.
Now available for purchase on Amazon.com.
The Official Trailer for Undressing Israel: Gay Men In The Promised Land
from Michael Lucas on Vimeo.
All proceeds from the sale of this movie will go towards the production of my next documentary, which will focus on the terrible mistreatment of gay people in today's Russia. Filming is set to start in mid-April.
Pro-Jihad and Anti-Jihad Ads compete in US metros
Pam Geller and her Freedom Defense Initiative have won their battle to run these anti-Jihad ads in the Washington, D.C., metro subway system. One ad features Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, and the words, "Reloading, firing again, reloading, firing again, while screaming Allahu Akbar — that's his Jihad. What's yours?"
They are a response to a campaign by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which ran a series of ads that said things like, "#MyJihad is to build bridges through friendships." currently running in the Chicago metro.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-anti-jihad-ad-just-went-up-in-the-dc-subway-system-2013-3#ixzz2My0hurS8
Venezuela's Hugo Chávez Dies at 58
Original post by Adam Chandler on Tablet Magazine:
Venezuela's mercurial, prickish, defiant, and brutal leader Hugo Chávez shuffled off the mortal coil this afternoon at age 58, following a long struggle with cancer. The 9/11 truther, strongman, and moon landing denier led Venezuela since 1999, suppressing free speech and remaining surprisingly successful at minimizing his country's extreme poverty.
He was not popular with Jewish communities at home or abroad. Writing in Tablet last year, Matthew Fishbane covered Chávez's reign, during which roughly half of the Jewish population of Venezuela fled the country.
In 2004, Chávez made his first official visit to Tehran and struck up a personal friendship and diplomatic alliance with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, whom he welcomed to Venezuela this month. This came after decades of political tutelage from another Holocaust denier, the Argentine ultra-nationalist Norberto Ceresole, who died in 2003 but who managed to instill a conspiratorial, amalgamated view of Jews in his pupil. Chávez has seemed to find in anti-Zionism, and later anti-Semitism, a valuable political tool, one that enhances, or makes more precise, his love of straw-man rhetoric and open hostility toward the United States, first against the bellicosity of George W. Bush and then against President Barack Obama, who remains an avatar of "imperialismo yanqui," which has abetted "las oligarquias" in Latin America.
Taking over for Chávez will be Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro, who doesn't sound like a very nice guy either.
In his December profile of Maduro for FP, Peter Wilson quotes a professor of Latin American history arguing that it's "impossible to expect Maduro to be another Chávez." Instead, the professor explained, "he represents continuity with the policies and programs that the president has promoted." …Maduro is planning to cloak himself in the more conspiratorial dimensions of Chavismo as well. What'll be interesting to watch is whether he succeeds — or comes across as an inferior imitation of the Bolivarian Revolution's original steward.
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Q: How to verify a PowerShell script is running using c# I Have launched a PowerShell script using C# asynchronously. At some point of time I want to verify is script is still running using C#. Please suggest how could I verify if script is running I have tried using Process.GetProcessesByName("scriptname") by seems not working.

A: You are probably using the Pipeline.InvokeAsync method:

After it is called, it changes the state of the pipeline to Running.
  When the method is completed, it changes the state of pipeline to one
  of following: Completed: The pipeline state is Completed if the
  pipeline invocation completed successfully. Failed: The pipeline state
  is Failed if the pipeline invocation failed or one of the commands in
  the pipeline threw a terminating error. Stopped: The pipeline state is
  Stopped if the pipeline was stopped by calling Stop or StopAsync.

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John Carver, (born c. 1576, Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire, England—died April 15, 1621, Plymouth, Mass.), first governor of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth in New England.
Originally a prosperous businessman when the English Separatists in Leiden decided to emigrate to North America, Carver obtained financial backing for the trip and chartered the Mayflower. He was elected governor on Nov. 21, 1620, after the signing of the Mayflower Compact. His major accomplishment was the establishment of a treaty of alliance between the Indian chief Massasoit and James I of England.


For almost 30 years, Philippe Jousse has had a deep interest in the aesthetics of 20th century furniture, ceaselessly contributing to the recognition of designers and artists such as Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Mathieu Matégot, Le Corbusier… He has played an essential role in the development of French and foreign collectors' tastes, by developing two parallel activities, in architect-designed furniture and in contemporary art. In 2001, Philippe Jousse separated his activities and opened a gallery dedicated to promoting contemporary art. The artistic line adopted aims to support emerging artists at the same time as renowned figures. The artists represented by the Jousse Entreprise gallery are mostly French, and enjoy an international standing.


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Tulum whale shark season 2017
Whale shark snorkeling tour departs from tulum the fascinating whale shark rhincodon typus is a slowmoving filter feeding shark and the largest known living fish species. This tour is great to do with family, friends or with your lover. The whale shark is very docile and gentle, and does not panic when approaching divers or swimmers. Gran bahia principe tulum 2017 whale shark daddy excursions duration. The manta rays that join the hundreds of whale sharks only add to the breathtaking experience, as they all circle one another as they feast upon the fish eggs and plankton in. Enjoy the experience snorkeling tour swimming with whale sharks in mexico, the biggest fish in the ocean. Each year from late may to early september whale sharks migrate from around the world to the warm, tropical waters of the mexicancaribbean sea.
Book our whale sharks tour and swim with the biggest fish in the world. There are only a few months each year when they make their visit, so make sure you see them while you can. From june through august, whale shark tours have almost 100% chance of locating. Island all inclusive tours, we move, we moved thousands of people only in 2017 and. Diving with bull sharks in tulum, mexico koox diving medium.
Alongside the whale sharks, this onceinalifetime tour enables you to swim with dolphins, manta rays and sea turtles. Swimming with whale sharks is a booming tourism industry in mexico. However, the greatest concentration of whale sharks that you can find in riviera maya is between the months of july and august. Mexico mayan tours offers private tours in the mayan riviera in mexico, an area which comprehends playa del carmen, tulum, puerto morelos, cancun, chetumal, and many others. Unlike most tours in other parts of the world, the density of whale sharks in the area nearly guarantees that youll experience an encounter.
The official whale shark season is from may 15 to september 15 of each year. Private whale shark snorkeling tour departs from tulum the fascinating whale shark rhincodon typus is a slowmoving filter feeding shark and the largest known living fish species. Researchers recorded the largest known shark at 12. As a unique, once in a life time experience, mexico offers one of the biggest concentration of whale sharks in the world. We were without a doubt the first ones to take a visitor out on this wonderful adventure, without knowing it was going to become such a big event every year. In the case of not coming the day of the excursion. Join whale shark tour cancun for the ultimate adventure swimming with whale sharks in mexico. The whale shark has a longevity of 100 years of age. Tulum in 5 days, beaches and suggested paths april 20. Mexico mayan tours swim with whale sharks cancun, playa. If you want a more luxurious experience choose this tour. Swim with these beautiful creatures as long as you want, and then relax at a beautiful beach or snorkel at a nearby reef.
This has been a bucket list item for a while, and there arent too many places in the world where you can to do this. Bull shark diving is the extreme scuba diving experience for certified. Did you know whale sharks have a throat the size of a quarter. Paradoxically enough, the largest fish feeds on the smallest microorganisms, like pl.
Whale shark is a slowmoving filter feeding shark and the largest extant fish species, this fish is ovoviviparous born from an egg and gestated in the womb of the mother, being born alive, the shark can filter 60,000 liters of water per minute, is an eating machine and nothing phytoplankton at a speed of 35 km h, can dive to 700m. Best time to visit tulum updated for 2020 santorini dave. This is an activity that is controlled and regulated by federal environmental authorities. Whale sharks are among the largest fish species on the planet.
Whale shark season kicks off again in may 2020 until september 2020. Now you may see other dates advertised, but these are dates set by tour companies. You can snorkel and swim with them any day, except for days with bad weather. Whale sharks your riviera maya and tulum travelling guide. When is whale shark season in cancun many tour operator will say that you can book a whale shark tour starting 15th of may 2016, but the truth is that none of the tour operators from cancun, isla mujeres, and holbox cant confirm that the mexican government will release the permissions that exact day. This animal is completely harmless since it feeds on plankton and it does not represent a danger for our travelers. Whale shark season in mexico brings the chance to enjoy a bucketlistworthy experience. Learn more the whale shark is the largest fish that exists in the world today, it can grow up to 15 meters in length. The official opening date for the whale shark tour season as set beginning may 5, 2017 and the closing date of the season is september 17, 2017. Whale shark tour cancun first started operating a snorkel tour that lets you swim with whale sharks in holbox island in 2001.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time i comment. Welcome to the whale shark experience, this is a unique activity in the world and is the most enigmatic activity in mexico. The cancun swim with whale sharks are very weather dependent, and while the port is generally open for most of the whale shark season in cancun it is good if you. During peak season its usual to see 3050 whale sharks at a. The season begins june 1st and continues till around september 14th so the time is now to jump in the warm caribbean sea and snorkel with. Cenote diving playa del carmen riviera maya destination wedding photography cancun mexico custom private excursions in. Swim with the whale sharks in quintana roo inmobiliaria. The average weight is arround 15 tons the name whale shark comes from its size, being as large as some species of whales. We offer private tours to akumal, chichenitza, coba, cenotes, and much more. Whale shark facts the whale shark is the largest fish on the planet, reaching lengths of arround 18 to 40 feet 5.
The whale sharks are about one hour by boat 15 miles from cancun, ones we find them we will swim with them as much as you can. The whale shark season in mexico officially runs from the 15th of may until the 15th of september and runs every day except in bad weather and the 30th of every month to give the animals a break and in celebration of international whale shark day on the 30th aug. Can anyone recommend a good company that does the trips to snorkel with whale sharks. Tours available from cozumel, cancun, playa del carmen and tulum. Whale shark season in mexico officially runs during summer time, from. Whale shark tour playa del carmen, whale shark encounter in cancun, private tours cancun, custom tours playa del carmen, sailfish encounter and ecotourism in mexico. About mexico whale shark we first started operating the snorkeling tour swimming with the whale sharks in holbox island in 2001. The sharks gather in large swaths between the months of may and september, which is the best time to see them. Its whale shark season again in the riviera maya and whether you are living in tulum, puerto aventuras or playa del carmen whale shark tours are just getting started. Cancun, isla mujeres, playa del carmen, riviera maya and tulum. In addition, since 2000, august the 30th was established as the international whale shark day, in order to promote knowledge and conservation of this species. Learn this and other amazing facts to prepare you for swimming with whale. If you enjoyed our story on swimming with whale sharks in cancun, you might also like.
It is important for travelers to be educated and focus on traveling responsibly before heading out on their whale shark excursions. Headed to cancun from sept 24 30 is this to late for whalesharks. It is important to note that swimming with whale sharks from tulum, or actually with all of the whale shark tours in mexico, is not like diving the cenotes or visiting mayan ruins. The whale sharks will soon be back on their seasonal migration again. Snorkeling is encouraged, especially if its whale shark seasonmidjune to mid. The official whale shark season dates are set by mrmp biosphere reserve management program and this year the dates of whale shark season are 15th of may untill 17th of september 2019.
During the season, expect to see at least 2030 boats in the area. The whale shark is the largest fish in our oceans and one of the most sought after by divers, who are attracted not only to their size but also their docile and curious nature. Other tour operators may accept tours outside these dates, but only take tours inside official tour dates and when we are confident in our ability to provide a memoriable tour without distressing. In august 2017, we took a trip to riviera maya, on the east coast of mexico. The name refers specifically to their size, as actual whales breathe air, these sharks have gills. Jul 11, 2019 the best of our swimming with whale shark tours from cancun and playa del carmen. Cancun whale shark season 2017 swim with whale sharks. The dates we take reservations for the whale shark tour season as set beginning june1, 2020 and the closing date of the season is september15, 2020. Whale shark season in mexico off the coast of the yucatan peninsula is in full swing. Swimming with whale sharks is a once in a lifetime experience. Each summer from june to midseptember, the swim with whale sharks tour should not be missed if you love the ocean, and snorkeling.
The largest confirmed individual had a length of 41. When the summer season arrives, whale sharks congregate by the hundreds, forming one of the largest whale shark groups on the planet. There are a lot of references to that start of the whale shark occupation in june, but then some tour companies state from midmay. Whale sharksare huge, harmless and gentle creatures that grow to be around 50 feet long and weigh around 15 tons.
Sign up for our newsletter to receive news and offers for the upcoming whale shark season snorkel with whale sharks on a 34 day group snorkeling tour of the yucatan coast, from cancun or isla mujeres under the direction of. They eat plankton and small fish, swim slowly through the water and are not a threat to humans. But in reality there are not related to whales, they belong to the shark. This makes it the perfect time to swim with these incredible fish in their natural environments. Depending on the season, they may gather near tulum, or further out in isla mujeres or isla contoy, but tour services abound. Every year on the 15th of may, the whale shark season in mexico officially kicks off in the. Its also very possible to take a whale shark tour if youre based in tulum, playa del. So many travelers miss the point when they have opportunities to interact with wildlife and they make simple and honest mistakes that harm. Flamingos, whale sharks, and the magic of mexicos isla holbox. Our range of whale shark trips take you to the worlds finest locations for diving or snorkelling with whale sharks. Tulum ruins, reef snorkeling plus cenote and caves. At the top of our wish list was to swim with whale sharks. Daily cancun swim with whale sharks guided tour total snorkel cancun.
Whale sharks are the largest type of fish currently existing on earth. Whale sharks in the riviera maya tourism in the yucatan area. Whale shark season in mexico officially runs during summer time, from the 15th of may until the 17th of september, when they migrate to this area to feed before heading south toward the warmer waters of central and south america until the following year. Across the way, on the west, the whale shark season off the baja peninsula runs slightly later from october to february. Take our tours from june to september to swim with these magnificent animals around the tip of the yucatan peninsula, about 75 miles 120 km from cozumel. Imagine swimming next to an immense animal like the whale shark.
With the presentation of a medical certificate that proves unavailability 100% refund. Leave early in the morning to arrive first at the whale shark area. The whale sharks are commonly located off the coast of isla holbox and isla contoy. Swimming with whale sharks in cancun divergent travelers. Across in the west, the whale shark season off the baja peninsula runs slightly later from october to february. We now offer whale shark tours in cancun, playa del carmen, isla mujeres, cozumel, tulum, and riviera maya as well. Daily cancun swim with whale sharks guided tour youtube. Whale shark tour cancun swim with whale sharks in mexico.
There seems to be some discrepancy for when the whale sharks are actually there. This is the deluxe tour option hosted by the top rated whale shark tour company in the riviera maya. Whale shark tours playa del carmen everything you need. The season of the whale sharks in the yucatan peninsula begins from midmay and ends close to the mid of september.
Whale sharks tours on isla mujeres mexico frequently. An amazing whale shark season in mexico is upon us. Imagine what its like to swim side by side with a fish 10 times as big as you its thrilling and totally safe. Deluxe whale shark tour from tulum wonderous world. My partner and i are thinking of doing a whale shark tour from tulum. Whale sharks look for warm waters where the caribbean sea meets the gulf of mexico. Guide to swimming with whale sharks in mexico indiana jo. When is the best time to go to tulum for good weather, surfing, sunbathing, things to. Published on aug 2, 2017 this is a little something i made to remember our amazing adventures in the peninsula of yucatan, mexico.
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DRAKE LEONARDS Chef-partner Drake Leonards moved to Houston from New Orleans just before Hurricane Harvey swept through town. He served red beans and rice to more than 6,000 flood victims at NRG Stadium. Now, he's serving modern Cajun-Creole at his booked restaurant, Eunice.
Find out about your favorite chefs in our Chef's Corner column. This month, restaurant writer Dai Huynh interviews Eunice executive chef-partner Drake Leonards.
Last October, Eunice quietly opened in Greenway Plaza, and through word-of-mouth, the Cajun-Creole brasserie has become one of the most sought-after reservations in town.
This comes despite hurdles that Eunice (3737 Buffalo Speedway) had faced up until opening day, which originally had been scheduled for 2017. Now, looking around at his bustling 7,000-square-foot restaurant, executive chef-partner Drake Leonards, 33, beams with pride. After all, Eunice is his brainchild, despite riding on star chef John Besh's coattails, until the native New Orleanian became embroiled in harassment allegations.
Besh since has stepped down and was replaced by CEO Shannon White, and Besh Restaurant Group was rechristened BRG Hospitality. The New Orleans restaurant group owns eight concepts, including the iconic August and the popular bakery café Willa Jean. Leonards was helming the kitchen at BRG's Luke when he and wife Maggie hatched the idea of a Houston restaurant in 2016.
How did you approach BRG with your idea for Eunice?
My wife and I wanted to be in a place where the food can translate, and Houstonians understand this food. It was serendipity that we met a guy, and this building was his project. We drove out to see the place, and I'll never forget seeing the live oak trees and falling in love. We went back and pitched the idea.
When did your connection with food start?
Mom and dad were really good cooks. And there are still stories about my grandfather cooking. He had a truck that ran off propane in the '50s, and he would hook a burner to his truck. He would cook for school functions and fundraisers, anything like that. Agriculture and food were always a part of growing up. We like to say that there was always something warm to eat and cold to drink.
You come from a line of rice farmers. When did you tell your folks that you wanted to cook?
My parents said, "If you want to go to culinary school, you have to work in a restaurant first." So, at 16, I was hired at this small, country restaurant as a dishwasher. But like many kitchen jobs, a cook didn't show up until two days later, and I was thrust into making salads and working the frying station.
You've had amazing mentors. You've worked at Café Boulud for the revered Daniel Boulud and talented James Beard Award-winning chef Gavin Kaysen. What was your takeaway from these guys?
All these guys I've worked for, they've taken things that they grew up with and translated them for their diners, like Daniel, with his peasant foods of Lyonnaise, right? He turned the food he grew up with into this historic Daniel restaurant on the Upper East Side of New York. Café Boulud was based on humble, classic French recipes that he elevated in a way that makes sense at 76th and Madison. And John [Besh] did this as well, cooking the foods of old New Orleans and serving it in a nice setting.
We do try to do the same here, but we do our best to not lose the soul and essence of the food. We opened with a crab and shrimp etouffee with herb noodles. People were thrown off by the noodles, but it's been popular. So, it's not traditional, but it's a play on something extremely traditional.
Tell us about Eunice and your gumbo.
Eunice is named after my hometown, a farming community near Lake Charles. And here, at Eunice, we serve our chicken-and-andouille gumbo with potato salad. That's the German influence where I'm from. I love my gumbo with a spoon of potato salad and rice. We would float the salad right on top, but here, we serve it on the side just because people aren't used to it, right?
You've been here long enough to try a few places. What are some favorite places at which to eat?
We love Tex-Mex. My little boy loves tortillas, whether it's Pappasito's (2536 Richmond Ave.) or El Tiempo (3130 Richmond). I sneak away for Feges BBQ (3 Greenway Plaza, Suite C-210). I also love Pinkerton's Barbecue (1504 Airline Drive). For something fast, I'll head to the Pit Room (1201 Richmond).
What about in New Orleans?
Pascal's Manale (1838 Napoleon Ave.) for oysters. Get a dozen or two. I love the po' boys at Guy's Po-Boys (5259 Magazine). And I love Bon Ton Café (401 Magazine), a hidden gem for gumbo and etouffee.
Usually, we don't get up that early.


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Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya sink in Bangladesh; 26 dead
Tofayel Ahmed and Julhas Alam, Associated Press
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar have capsized in Bangladesh and 26 bodies of women and children have been recovered, officials said Thursday.
Bangladesh border guard commander Lt. Col. S.M. Ariful Islam said at least three boats carrying an unknown number of Rohingya Muslims sank in the Naf River at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday. He said the bodies of 15 children and 11 women were recovered, and it was unclear whether anyone was still missing.
The top government official in Cox's Bazar, Mohammad Ali Hossain, said the bodies would be buried because no one had claimed them.
Last week, a group of ethnic minority Rohingya insurgents attacked at least two dozen police posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state, triggering fighting with security forces that left more than 100 people dead and forced at least 18,000 Rohingya to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.
Hundreds of people have been stranded in a no man's land at the countries' border, the International Organization for Migration said. Satellite imagery analyzed by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch indicated that many homes in northern Rakhine state were set ablaze.
Most of Myanmar's estimated 1 million Rohingya Muslims live in northern Rakhine state. They face severe persecution in the Buddhist-majority country, which refuses to recognize them as a legitimate native ethnic minority, leaving them without citizenship and basic rights.
Longstanding tension between the Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists erupted in bloody rioting in 2012. That set off a surge of anti-Muslim feeling throughout the country.
Some Buddhists and Hindus have also fled the violence.
More than 400 Hindu residents of Rakhine state crossed into Bangladesh after being attacked by armed men, officials and survivors said.
Main Uddin, a government official in Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar, said the survivors reported that about 86 Hindus had been killed by armed groups in three villages since last Friday.
Survivors said Myanmar soldiers were everywhere and "armed people" were also burning houses and killing people.
Nirajan Rudro, a Hindu who fled to Bangladesh, told The Associated Press that masked men armed with guns, sticks and knives had attacked them and set fire to their houses.
Uddin said 412 Hindus are staying in a Hindu neighborhood near Rohingya camps in Ukhiya.
"They have been sheltered in an abandoned poultry farm there. Bangladeshi Hindus are helping them," he said.


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Le rite carmélitain est un rite liturgique catholique spécifique à l'Ordre du Carmel. Le Rite du Saint-Sépulcre, communément appelé Rite des Carmes, est le rite liturgique latin utilisé par les Ordres des chanoines réguliers du Saint-Sépulcre, des Hospitaliers, des Templiers, des Carmes et des autres ordres fondés dans le Patriarcat latin de Jérusalem.

Historique

Le rite en usage parmi les Carmes commençant vers le milieu du  est connu sous le nom du Rite du Saint-Sépulcre, la Règle des Carmes, qui fut écrite vers l'an 1210, ordonna aux ermites du mont Carmel de suivre la coutume approuvée de l'Église patriarcale de Jérusalem: "Hi qui litteras noverunt et legere psalmos, par singulas horas eos dicant qui ex institutione sanctorum patrum et ecclesiæ approbata consuetudine ad horas singulas sunt deputati".

Caractéristiques
L'Ordre des Carmes Déchaussés a été formellement érigé le  par la Constitution apostolique Pastoralis officii du Pape Clément VIII sous son propre Praepositus Général. En tant que tel, il n'avait pas de relation formelle avec le rite des Carmes. Bien que bon nombre de ses premiers membres aient précédemment été des frères de la province de Castille, en dépit des recommandations de saint Jean de la Croix qui se sont prononcées (vote) pour conserver le rite, la nouvelle ordonnance a abandonné le rite et a adopté le rite romain en remplacement.

Après avoir examiné la question dans ses chapitres généraux de 1965, 1968 et 1971, l'Ordre des Carmes de l'Ancienne Observance (anciennement dénommé "chaussé") a décidé en 1972 d'abandonner son rite traditionnel en faveur de la messe de Paul VI. Au cours de la dernière décennie, un groupe de Carmes vivant en Amérique du Nord (Lake Elmo, Minnesota et Christoval, Texas) a adopté la vie érémique et expérimenté les nouvelles formes du rite des Carmes selon les normes conciliaires. Les ermites voient un retour à quelque chose de l'ancien usage, un modèle liturgique plus adapté au style et à la forme aux besoins d'une communauté contemplative qui passe beaucoup plus longtemps en chœur que les frères. Il s'agit d'un projet en cours à ce jour (2017).

Les moines carmes au sein du diocèse de Cheyenne (Wyoming) est un institut religieux contemplatif d'hommes de droit diocésain dédié aux traditions carmélitaines qui utilise le Rite carmélitain tel qu'il était utilisé en 1962 (i.e. en latin exclusivement et avec chants Grégoriens spécifiquement écrits par les Carmes au long de l'histoire).

Un certain nombre de messes ont été célébrées selon le Rite des Carmes en  à l'église St Joseph, Troy (New York) par Fr. Romaeus Cooney O.Carm. Ce fut la première fois que le Rite Carmélitain fut célébré publiquement depuis plus de quarante ans.

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Voir aussi

Liens externes

 Le portail des Grands Carmes de France
 Adresses des Carmels en France
 Présentation des Carmels en France

Bibliographie en langue anglaise

Ordre du Carmel
Carmélite

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Alfred Chester Beatty, född 1875, död 19 januari 1968, var en amerikansk industriman och samlare, han blev naturaliserad britt 1933.

Beatty innehade ledningen av flera stora gruvföretag i Sydafrika och samlade därigenom ihop en stor förmögenhet. Han var ägare till världens största samling av illuminerade orientaliska manuskript. Han är särskilt känd för förvärven av Chester Beatty papyri. Hans samlingar finns i Chester Beatty Library i Dublin.

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Jane Jones introduces another two hours of live music favourites performed by the world's greatest orchestras. This week's feast for the ears includes a Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performing Mendelssohn
Other highlights from tonight's Full Works Concert include Le Cercle de l'Harmonie performing Beethoven's The Creatures of Prometheus – Overture and pianist Stephen Hough rendition of Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No.3 in Eb major accompanied by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the guidance of Sakari Oramo. You'll also hear from the London Philharmonic Orchestra with a fantastic recording of Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.2 in D major.
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Q: Is providing a private constructor for initializer_list conforming? This draft standard shows the synopsis for initializer_list. It has no private constructor.

But two standard library implementations I have looked at, libstdc++ and libc++, both provide private constructors:
  // The compiler can call a private constructor.
  constexpr initializer_list(const_iterator __a, size_type __l)
  : _M_array(__a), _M_len(__l) { }

_LIBCPP_ALWAYS_INLINE
_LIBCPP_CONSTEXPR_AFTER_CXX11
initializer_list(const _Ep* __b, size_t __s) _NOEXCEPT
    : __begin_(__b),
      __size_(__s)
    {}

I believe the part where this private constructor is "implied" stems from §8.5.4/5:

An object of type std::initializer_list<E> is constructed from an
  initializer list as if the implementation allocated a temporary array
  of N elements of type const E, where N is the number of elements
  in the initializer list. Each element of that array is
  copy-initialized with the corresponding element of the initializer
  list, and the std::initializer_list<E> object is constructed to
  refer to that array.

So my questions are:

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*Is the synopsis under-specified?

*Does the library need a private constructor? What does it do that the compiler can't?

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Is the synopsis under-specified?

No, it documents the user-facing bits of the initializer_list class template, the parts you're actually allowed to make use of in your code. According to the synopsis the template only contains a default constructor, allowing you to create empty initializer_lists, which is clearly not very useful. However, initializer_list<T> is a type that depends on some magic being done by the compiler. By magic, I'm referring to §8.5.4/5 that you've quoted. This allows the following statement to be legal and compile.
std::initializer_list<int> numbers{1, 2, 3, 4}; // no such constructor in the synopsis

Here, as explained in §8.5.4/5, the compiler will create an array containing the four integers, and then initialize the initializer_list<int> instance with either a pair of pointers (first element and one past the end element) or a pointer and length (which is what both libstdc++ and libc++ seem to do).
Once the instance has been created, your code is allowed to access all the member functions listed in the synopsis.

Does the library need a private constructor? What does it do that the compiler can't?

As the comment above the libstdc++ private constructor definition implies, the compiler is capable of emitting code that bypasses normal access control, so no, I'd say it's not essential to have that constructor. The compiler could use the default constructor to construct an empty initializer_list instance, and then assign appropriate values to the private data members (these aren't listed in the synopsis either, but are necessary).
But why bother with that clumsiness when a private constructor provides a clean interface that the compiler can call?

A: The question boils down to whether an implementation may define something beyond what the standard dictated. Yes, that is possible.
Indeed §17.6.5.5 (draft n° 3797) states:

A call to a member function signature described in the C ++ standard
  library behaves as if the implementation declares no additional member
  function signatures.

Footnote 189:

189) A valid C++ program always calls the expected library member
  function, or one with equivalent behavior. An implementation may
  also define additional member functions that would otherwise not be
  called by a valid C++ program.

You are not allowed to call to call those additional member functions, even if they were accessible.
Regarding std::initializer_list

Does the library need a private constructor? What does it do that the compiler can't?

The standard defines what you'd expect when constructing a std::initializer_list<T> from an initializer list. The way it's done is implementation-defined and, for what said above, it may therefore call a private constructor.