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STORY MANAGEMENT
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STORY Management was founded in September 2017 by Ties Teurlings. After over 5 years of working experience at different positions in the music industry, Ties decided to start for himself and set up a company in management and consultancy.
Ties' passion for music grew in his early years. At the age of 7, he started playing the guitar. Three years later he started to play in a few bands and did his first gigs. Turning 13, he swapped his guitar for a DJ set, and he mastered the wheels of steel to play at clubs and events at a later age. Besides playing at events he organized a lot events himself.
Once graduated in Event Management he decided to start his own artist management company during his second study which was entrepreneurship at the university of applied sciences in 'S-Hertogenbosch. During this study Dutch most famous entrepreneurs helped Ties to set up and organise his own company.
Due to Ties his hard work and enormous network in the music industry because of his DJ career, he had a very quick start and got to work with artists like Flemming & MARF.
In short, Ties & his team are 24/7 busy with building Artists.
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Q: How make jcomponents change its sizes according to the screen resolution I've created an application using jframes and jinternal frames. i wanted to make custom close and minimize buttons so i made the jframe decorated. and made it to fit the screen of a given resolution using the below codes.
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and by this way i managed to make the decorated jframe to fit the screen.
now i want to make all the other components in side the jframe to change its sizes according to the screen resolution.Is there a way to make the components change their sizes, instead of assigning dimensions to each any every components separately.
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i found it difficult to arrange my components according to the way i wanted. so i didnt pay much attention to layouts.

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Q: Sould I .gitignore build output for a WordPress plugin? Our builds are not binary by nature of WordPress PHP/JS, merely combined and minified. But they can be re-created by any developer easily and I feel like they shouldn't be version controlled but I thought I'd ask. What's the best practice? If they were version controlled I assume we'd waste some time with conflicts from the build output.

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There are exceptions, e.g. when a tool generates an initial template that you then edit by hand.


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Donald Joseph Hying (ur. 18 sierpnia 1963 w West Allis, Wisconsin) – amerykański duchowny katolicki, biskup diecezjalny Madison od 2019.

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Święcenia kapłańskie otrzymał z rąk abpa Remberta Weaklanda OSB w dniu 20 maja 1989. Służył duszpastersko na terenie rodzinnej archidiecezji, a w 2007 został rektorem seminarium w Milwaukee.

26 maja 2011 mianowany biskupem pomocniczym Milwaukee ze stolicą tytularną Regiae. Sakry udzielił mu arcybiskup Jerome Listecki.

24 listopada 2014 papież Franciszek mianował go ordynariuszem diecezji Gary w Indianie.

25 kwietnia 2019 został biskupem diecezji Madison.

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We're working through the middle of the Gospel of Luke and digging deeper into these stories than you've ever dug before. This week, we look at the story of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10). This account tells us about natural obstacles to investigating Jesus, the relentless pursuit with which Christ seeks us, and the inevitable transformation of grace that happens when Jesus truly comes into your home.


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Fidel Castro Biography
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, better known as Fidel Castro, was born in Birán, Cuba, on August 13, 1926, and died on November 25, 2016, in Havana, Cuba. He was a revolutionary, political and military Cuban, who ruled Cuba from 1959 to 2008.
Fidel Castro was the son of Ángel Castro Argiz and Lina Ruz González, both of Spanish descent, who enrolled him in one of the Birán schools when he was four years old. Although two years later, they would send him to study in Santiago de Cuba due to his excellent grades. In Santiago de Cuba, he would study in different institutions, starting with the Lasallian School of Santiago, going through the Dolores School, of Jesuit direction, and ending at the Colegio de Belén in Havana, where he would finally obtain his bachelor's degree in 1945. That same year he would enter at the University of Havana, where he would take up to three courses at the same time: Social Sciences, Law and Diplomatic Law. In this institution, he had access to several texts that would redirect his political thinking, and he faced a candidate of the USF, University Student Federation, who received support from the then Cuban president.
In 1947, he was part of the Invasion of Cayo Confites with the aim of overthrowing the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo. The following year, and thanks to the financial support of Juan Domingo Perón, he traveled to Caracas, Panama, and Bogotá as a delegate of the USF. In this last city, he intended to meet with Jorge Eliécer Gaitán just the day he was murdered. Back in Cuba, Fidel Castro married the philosophy student Mirta Díaz-Balart, with whom Fidel would have his son Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart.
"Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me." Fidel Castro
In 1952, General Fulgencio Batista gave a coup to the government of President Carlos Prío Socarrás. For his actions, Fidel Castro would denounce him before an Emergency Court, but he would not be heard. For this reason, he decided to gather a group of young revolutionaries and try to take the Moncada barracks disguising themselves as soldiers. But this attempt failed and Fidel was imprisoned and sentenced to 15 years of captivity. In 1955, he was acquitted by the general amnesty of that year, and Castro went into exile in the United States and later in Mexico.
In 1956, he returned with 82 other men under the name of the 26th of July Movement. His idea was to disembark in surprise and take Santiago de Cuba, but this failed because the Batista Civil Guard was alerted. Several of the fighters of the July 26 Movement were killed in Alegría del Pío, but Raul Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and Juan Almeida survived, who took refuge in the Sierra Maestra. From here they set up a new army and started a war against the government. After several unforeseen victories, a coup occurred on December 30, in which Batista flees the country.
After the coup, the country began to have a transitional government directed by Manuel Urrutia, which was made up of several groups of different types, among which was the 26th of July Movement. On January 8, 1959, Urrutia appointed Fidel Castro as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Country. Then, seeing how difficult it was to coordinate the different ministries that made up Cuba, Urrutia appointed Fidel Castro as prime minister. In this position, he fought against racism on the island, decreed the Agrarian Reform and eradicated the mafia, earning the acceptance of the majority of the population. In the middle of that same year, resigned from his position for the differences he had with Urrutia, before which the people pressured the latter to reincorporate him. Urrutia, on the other hand, resigned. With which came to preside over the country Osvaldo Dorticós, who re-appointed Fidel as prime minister.
After the expropriations made by the Agrarian Reform, the United States, under the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, a sabotage of the Cuban government began, sending planes and decreeing measures of censorship and not trade with the island. Given this, the Cuban government confiscated several refineries and then several US companies.
Later, with the Kennedy government, the tension between the two countries would increase, to the point of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, through which a group of 1,500 soldiers arrived on the island. However, these were stopped and returned to the United States in exchange for food and medicine. In 1962, the Soviet Union positioned several ballistic missiles on the island, which was about to develop a war between the two powers of the moment; but both the United States and the USSR reached an agreement, in which the US government undertook not to invade Cuba. After agreeing on this, the missiles were removed.
"Whoever feels an ideal, does not mind being consumed like an aerolite when it crosses the resistance of the atmosphere." Fidel Castro
Later, in 1976, Castro would go from being prime minister to being president of Cuba, and he would take the reins of the country, proclaiming himself a socialist, until the 21st century, when his health began to get worse. Already on February 24, 2008, he announced that he would be replaced in power by his brother Raul Castro.
Finally, after having at least 638 assassination attempts by the US government, Castro died on November 25, 2016, for reasons not disclosed in Havana.
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Football or Soccer history
Although we want to go back to the History of Soccer, we must bear in mind that its roots and rules were not typical of the sport we know today.
Being Xeng-T emperor, in the 5th century, he forced the soldiers to play a ball game known as Tsú-Shú; meaning Tsú: kick and Shú: ball.
In the 2nd century b.C. in China, a game was held that consisted of disputing the ball vigorously with the rivals, and then, with the use of the feet and hands, passing the ball over a cord held by two posts, which today we know as "goal."
In these times it is when the raw leather is wrapped in several roots; giving birth to the leather ball. Its inventor was FU-HI. It was used in the Chinese dynasty then, as training in the military fields. Even when a soldier violated the code, he was forced to dominate the ball without dropping it, if so, his punishment was dropped.
A century later, in Egypt, the ball game is performed as a fertility ritual. This game is adopted by its neighboring towns India and Persia, obtaining the ball as the object of the game.
We can also find in America how the Aztecs practiced for years the game called Tlachitli, which was a mix between tennis, football and basketball. In the game the use of the hands was prohibited and the losing team captain was sacrificed as part of the game.
In 1855 Charles Goodyear built and patented the first soccer ball which consisted of a rudimentary vulcanized rubber ball.
However, if we want to talk about the History of Soccer per se, we should talk about how the Football Association was founded in England in 1863, thus being the first governing body of that sport. Stipulating from there the rules and style of play of what is today the most famous sport in the world.
In the year of 1900, Soccer is included in the Olympic Games and recognized as such. Later in 1902 Argentina and Uruguay meet in the first International match outside the British Isles.
In 1904, FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) was founded in Paris, France. Who from that moment was dedicated to regulate and organize the meetings worldwide.
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Japanese anime or animation emerged at the beginning of the 20th century influenced by animation and the world of cinema developed in the United States, later it was modified and claimed Japanese culture. The anime-style as we know it began to develop in the late 1950s, when the production company Toei Studios and the different series based on short sleeves or cartoons, such as Tetsuwan Atomu, also known as Astro Boy. From the 1980s and 1990s, the anime became popular, appearing large cult series such as Dragon Ball, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sailor Moon, Detective Conan, Rurouni Kenshin, and Cowboy Bebop, among others. In the new millennium, the Japanese animated industry has been booming, providing new content every season based on successful manga, light novels, video games, and music.
The earliest surviving Japanese animated short made for cinemas, produced in 1917
The first Japanese animations were small short films developed at the end of the 1910s, largely inspired by American animation, in these, folk and comic themes were addressed. The first short film was Namakura Gatana by Junichi Kouchi, it was two minutes long, the story told the story of a man with his katana (Japanese sword or saber). In the following decade, the duration of the short films was extended to ten or fifteen minutes, in which typical oriental tales were represented. Among the pioneer artists of this era are Oten Shimokawa, Junichi Kouchi, Seitaro Kitayama and Sanae Yamamoto; by this time the short film Obasuteyama (The Mountain Where Old Women Are Abandoned) by Yamamoto was published.
During the 30s and 40s, the Japanese animated industry went through a series of changes, the stories were neglected and western stories were taken into account. A short time later the anime Norakuro (1934) of Mituyo Seo, one of the first animations based on a manga. Since then this became a frequent practice. By the end of the 1930s, World War II broke out, a warlike confrontation in which Japan was involved as a member of the Axis powers, at which time the animations became war propaganda. At the end of the war, the country was occupied by the allied powers led by the United States, which seriously affected the country that was going through a deep economic crisis.
Industry development and international boom
In the course of the crisis, the manga and anime industry became popular in the country, thus establishing the basis for the development of the own animated style that occurred around the middle of the 20th century. It was around this time that Toei Studios, an animation film producer, emerged as one of the key figures in the history of anime. This company was a pioneer in the animation of Japan, provided various productions that allowed the advancement of animation in the country. The company's first animation was Koneko no rakugaki, a short thirteen-minute film published in 1957. The following decade the company grew by focusing on the development of feature films. Other companies such as Mushi Pro, a producer that made the animation of Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy) by Osamu Tezuka, mangaka and animator, one of the most relevant artists of the Japanese animated industry of the 20th century.
Between the 1960s and 1970s, the anime of robots (mecha) became popular appearing iconic series such as Tetsujin 28-gō and Mazinger Z or Gundam, for this same period the popular Doraemon series (1973), based on the homonymous anime, began to air Fujiko Fujio, a series that tells the story of a cosmic robot cat that has attached to its body a bag from which it subtracts various artifacts which are used in the adventures of Doraemon and his human friend Nobita. In the 1980s and 1990s, Japanese animation boomed internationally, which led to many series beginning to dub into English and Spanish, in these years cult series such as Dragon Ball, based on the manga of Akira Toriyama. Saint Seiya also known as The Knights of the Zodiac, Captain Tsubasa, exported as Super champions; Rurouni Kenshin, known in the west as Samurai X, Neon Genesis Evangelion of Hideaki Anno; Pokémon, Ranma ½, and Sakura Card Captor, among others.
In 2000, the already booming anime is largely massified by the acceptance and the huge fan base that it had acquired at the time, these followers known as otakus, boosted the Japanese animated industry. Since then there have been numerous animated productions that have been distributed worldwide, among the most prominent series of the new millennium are One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Inuyasha, Yu-Gi-Oh, Rozen Maiden, Kuroshitsuji, and Death Note, all are ace based on sleeves that when becoming successful, allowed the development of the animated series.
At present, any manga that has a large number of followers is very likely to have adapted in an animated series, such as Hunter x Hunter, Pandora Hearts, Ao no Exorcist, Mirai Nikki, Bakuman and Shingeki no Kyojin, among many others, light novels have been adapted that have become popular as Durarara!!, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Sword Art Online, and My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected, among others. In recent years, the Yaoi and Yuri genres have been popularized in which romantic relationships between people of the same sex are addressed, among these series it is possible to rescue Junjō Romantica, Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, No. 6, Aoi Hana, Sasameki Koto and Yagate Kimi ni Naru
At present, the Japanese animated industry produces numerous series, ova, and films per year, becoming one of the strongest industries in the world of animation. Among the most prominent people in this industry is Hayao Miyazaki, founder of Studio Ghibli, a studio where films such as My Neighbor Totoro, The Incredible Vagabond Castle, The Journey of Chihiro, and Ponyo, among others, likewise, stand out in the present, artist Makoto Shinkai, creator of 5 centimeters per second, Hoshi Wo Ou Kodomo, Kotonoha no Niwa and Kimi no Na Wa.
Star Wars History
Star Wars is a series of films by American film director George Lucas and produced and distributed by The Walt Disney Company as of 2012. Director George Lucas was a promising filmmaker who had just finished the American Graffiti movie and began collecting ideas for a new project, which he titled The Star Wars. Thanks to its good name, The Star Wars was full of good omens.
This film contained a beginning, knot, and end, indicating that it was a closed film. But, for the year 1980, the Empire struck back, which indicated that there would be more sequels. In that sense, the first film was assigned the final title of Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope. The plot of the tape focused on a galaxy far away, there was an oppressive empire, hunting interstellar rewards, all this with the drama of a kidnapped princess and a stubborn young man, without parents, called Luke Skywalker.
Lucas made the film because his budget was below 10 million dollars. All these inconveniences affected the cast, although they were always enthusiastic, during filming. The actor Harrison Ford was a great record for the success of this film.
Star Wars reached immediate popularity. It was really surprising since few films contained that level of special effects and it was practically the first film that was characterized by its deliberately sensationalist attitude. There were legendary rows all over the block to enter. Many critics claim that these films have been well received because they knew how to spread the current economic model of the embraced film industry among young men, enthusiastic about the special effects and images of the comics.
Total production has raised some 2.2 billion dollars nationally and 4.5 billion dollars internationally. The phantom menace is a box office leader, has generated almost 1,000 million dollars.
The popularity of the tape has allowed the commercialization of a large number of items, souvenirs, garments, among others and with this, they have earned more than 20,000 million dollars. Lucas has maintained the commercialization of the film and this money has allowed him to expand his Industrial Light and Magic special effects workshop and will create a whole mini-industry in North Carolina. In 2012, Disney bought Lucasfilm.
Luke Skywalker: He is the star of Star Wars. Hero of the trilogy, he is presented as the savior of the universe, a young lonely farmer descended from the galactic nobility.
Darth Vader: A villain who has a very pronounced physique, of great stature. It succumbs to the dark side and the side of the Emperor seeks to dominate the Galactic Empire. He confronts Luke, who knows after he is his son, after a while, he discovers a little goodness within himself. Before being Vader is Anakin Skywalker, as the Chosen One, his mission was to bring balance to the Force.
Princess Leia Organa: Political leader and supporter of the rebels. She is an Alderaan princess. It is characterized by having an inflexible character. She is captured by the evil Darth Vader and had to see her planet in chaos and destruction. She is romantically involved with Han Solo. It also turns out to be Vader's daughter.
Han Solo: played by actor Harrison Ford. In the film, he plays the adventurous pilot of the Millennium Falcon ship, who is involved in the rebel cause. Thanks to his effort, Luke's life is safe, and therefore he assumes the responsibility of being a military leader. He stays with Princess Leia. A hairy Wookie, Chewbacca, is his co-pilot and right hand.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A wise man who takes care of Lucas. Die at the hands of Vader. In the previous chronology, it is a veteran of the Clone War who is an instructor of Anakin Skywalker before he leans over the dark side.
R2-D2: It is an aeromechanical robot, companion of C-3PO, an android whose function is to serve humans. Both have a presence in all films.
Yoda: A famous Jedi Master who instructs the inexperienced Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Force. He can reverse syntax.
Jar Jar Binks: It's a soft-eared Gungan that has a Caribbean accent and isn't much loved by fans. As a politician in the Galactic Senate, it helps put the galaxy on the road to ruin.
Boba Fett: Warrior and bounty hunter. One of the most important rewards he won was for the capture of Han Solo. It ends in the belly of a beast. Fans have ensured that he is one of the favorite characters of the fans despite not being the main character.
Emperor Palpatine: Follower of the dark side and Senator Naboo who maintains his identity as Darth Sidious, this has been used to build his power.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Phantom Menace (1999)
The Attack of the Clones (2002)
Revenge of the Sith (2005).
We must indicate that the three prequels were not as successful among fans and critics as the original trilogy.
Attack of the clone
A new hope:
The return of the Jedi
THE AWAKENING OF THE FORCE
It was announced on October 2012 when Disney bought Lucasfilm. The script is attributed to J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan and the director was Abrams. The plot takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi. Luke, Han, and Leia were the characters that entered the original trilogy. The Force Awakens will be released in more than 41,000 cinemas in North America, including 392 IMAX screens. It is expected to exceed the current record, set this year by Jurassic World. That movie collected 208.8 million in the first weekend.
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Spotify History
Spotify is a multiplatform application of Swedish origin created in the mid-first decade of 2000 by web designer and entrepreneur Daniel Ek. It began its history as an application for computers in 2008 and a year later presented the mobile and dynamic version for smartphones. After signing a contract with numerous record labels such as Sony BMG, Hollywood Records, Warner Music, and Universal Music, among others, Spotify launched into the conquest of the music world by expanding its business and including services such as access to specialized magazines and other related applications. With the musical field.
Consolidated as one of the most important applications in the music industry, Spotify has managed to connect with its users maintaining the freemium model (free and paid) and facilitating its use through alliances with important social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.)
DANIEL EK AND THE SPOTIFY BEGINNINGS
After starting his career as an entrepreneur at age fourteen, Daniel Ek, creator of Spotify began a new bet in the online marketing business with Advertigo (2005), a company that he successfully managed until its sale to the international giant Tradedoubler in 2006. It was at that time when the Spotify project began to take shape with the support of Martin Lorentzon, founder of Tradedoubler. Ek quickly convinced Lorentzon of the potential of his new project and this without hesitation gave his investment for the application to be created. While discussing the name of the new project, Lorentzon, and Ek, they stayed with Spotify, because their sound and meaning pleased them (spot: place – identify: identity).
Once the name was chosen, Ek and Lorentzon, registered the brand and began working on the project with the support of a group of designers and engineers, including uTorrent developer and creator, Ludvig Strigeus. After a few months of work the application was completed in 2006, however, its launch was postponed due to negotiations with the record companies and the licensing, so it took two years to launch the application.
Spotify was launched on October 7, 2008, as a streaming music playback application for computers, available at that time only in some European countries such as Finland, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Spain, and France. Since then users could access an extensive music library without downloading anything. At that time the application had its well-known free account, however, it could only be accessed if invited, otherwise, a paid subscription would have to be made. By changing times and with the emergence of smartphones, Spotify understood the need to expand and reinvent itself, building its mobile application in 2009, in addition to the Premium and Unlimited modes.
GROWTH AND CONSOLIDATION
After gaining popularity in a few years and becoming one of the most used new applications, Spotify landed in the US market, signing a contract with important record labels, which understood the importance of being in the app and the potential it had to spread to Your artists In 2011, it was established in the United States and began to compete with recognized and important music applications such as iTunes, which it has currently surpassed in number of active users, Amazon Music, Pandora and the newly created Tidal (2014). Shortly after starting his adventure in the United States, Ek announced that the application would change and diversify by becoming a platform that could host various applications related to the world of music, because as he pointed out: Music goes beyond of the music.
Since then the application has become multiplatform in which third-party applications such as TuneWiki (letters), CrowdAlbum (photography) and Billboard (lists and charts) are included, among many others. Also, several extensions and options were created that personalize the use of the app, so that each user can enjoy and explore the world of music in the app in the way they like.
For this same period, the platform surprised users with the integration of specialized channels and magazines such as Rolling Stone, Moi, and others that jumped to the platform pleasing users with a variety of music lists for all tastes. Three years after becoming a platform, Spotify eliminated the limit of hours of listening for free users, including short advertisements that cannot be skipped. That same year, the app opted for marketing, sales and user experience by partnering with Topspin and Starbucks, being the first music app that has space in places like cafes.
After consolidating itself as one of the most-used apps of recent times, Spotify created various alliances with social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, among others, allowing its users to access the app and share its content in various ways, thus improving the user experience.
Since 2016, the app has managed to connect with its users through various lists designed for all kinds of tastes, with which users can discover new artists, new songs, the most listened to songs and others that they had forgotten. Some of the most listened to lists are Discover Weekly, Billboard Hot 100, Hipster International, Digster HIP HOP HITS !, Billboard R & B / Hip-Hop Songs, Top Trap Latino, among others. However, it should be ruled out that the different extensions that the app currently has facilitated and personalize its use, improving the user experience. Some of the most important extensions are Forgotify, The Set Listener and Vidfish.
The success achieved with the renewal of the application led its creator to think about expanding further entering the stock market in 2018 with a market value of $ 26.5 billion. Since then, the app has not stopped growing and innovating, improving the user experience and consolidating itself as one of the most important apps of the moment. Facing tough opponents like Tidal, Pandora, and iTunes, in addition to the voices that announce their downfall. Currently, Spotify has more than 207 million users and it is available in 65 countries in Europe, America, Asia, and Oceania.
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Huawei History
Huawei (1987) Chinese high-tech private multinational company. Ren Zhengfei is its founder. It is headquartered in Shenzhen, Canton Province, People's Republic of China. The company was born with an investment of only $5,600. The company started as a telecommunications operator. Twenty years ago, the first mobile device was launched and from then on they have created several cell phones.
Huawei is the third-largest smartphone company globally in 2016, its revenues reached $ 75.1 billion. Huawei is the only Chinese company in the top 50 that has a high Research and Development rate. Thanks to innovation, Huawei managed to market more than 100 million mobile devices in 12 months.
One of the reasons for success is its continuous change of CEO. The position is managed by three senior executives, who promote collective leadership. Also, employees are owners. Zhenfei owns only 1.4% of the shares, the rest of the shares are distributed among employees. So, Huawei combines a high investment in R&D and decentralized management.
According to Forbes, the Chinese company is one of the most valuable brands of 2017 and occupies the 88th place, with a brand value of 7.3 billion dollars. Another ranking to highlight is the Fortune 500, Huawei is ranked 83 in this ranking. Recently, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro has been chosen as the best cell phone of the year 2017. Huawei Mate 10 Pro managed to overcome several cell phones for its features and functions. It has a Kirin 970 processor, the first chip with artificial intelligence is the exclusive property of the company. This processor seeks to optimize system resources, ensure more efficient battery consumption, recognize images or offer real-time responses.
Thus, Huawei has become a reference in the technological world and the Smartphone. This year there have been several launches of new devices, which aim to meet the high expectations of consumers.
UNITED STATES AGAINST HUAWEI
The panic has spread to millions of Huawei cell phone owners who are going through a moment of uncertainty after the announcement issued by Google that indicates they will not continue providing their software to the Chinese company, on the express orders of the president of the United States. This is part of a so-called Cold War of telecommunications: Huawei was included in the US blacklist considering it as a danger to society.
So, the executive order issued by the president of the United States, Donald Trump is: do not sell component or software to Huawei. At the moment, Google is working on the details and implications of such an act and will continue to offer the Android experience without restrictions, including access to the Google app store. In the short term, Huawei seeks to support users' applications and operating systems.
Huawei said they work on their operating system, based on a public version of Android and is already available in the Chinese market (cell phones use a highly modified Android system and do not have Google applications). The next generation of phones is expected to have this operating system. This could have a great impact because users tend to lean towards the operating system rather than the brand of the phone when buying. It will take an incredible device that surplus the services of Google Maps, Google Mail, Google Chrome and other Google Play apps. But, the challenge can be positive.
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France Begins One-year Commemorations of Charlie Hebdo Attack
By VOA News
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday kicked off a week of commemorations marking Islamic extremist attacks in Paris that began with an assault on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, a kosher market and police a year ago this week, claiming 17 lives.
The January 7, 2015 attacks, dubbed "France's 9/11," marked the start of a string of jihadist strikes in the country that culminated in the November 13 attacks in Paris that left 130 dead.
Victims' families joined Hollande and other dignitaries to unveil a plaque at Charlie Hebdo's former offices where staff last year were holding an editorial meeting when two heavily armed brothers stormed in, killing 11 people.
French President Francois Hollande (C) and Paris M
French President Francois Hollande (C) and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo attend a ceremony to unveil a commemorative plaque to pay tribute to the victims of the last year's January attacks outside the former offices of French weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Jan. 5, 2016.
They then paid homage to a police officer killed as he tried to chase down the fleeing gunmen. Spray painted on the sidewalk was a message of support for the Muslim officer, reading "Je suis Ahmed," or "I am Ahmed," in the red, white and blue of the French flag.
Hollande later commemorated four people killed at a kosher supermarket in an attack that revived concerns about anti-Semitism in the country with Europe's largest Jewish community.
The French president briefly met with some of the survivors of the attack inside the supermarket, including Lassana Bathily, a Mali-born employee of market who hid a group of hostages in the store's underground stockroom.
Bathily, who helped the operation to free the 15 hostages and kill the attacker, has been hailed as a hero and granted French citizenship.
The Charlie Hebdo memorial plaque was quickly covered up after authorities discovered a spelling error in the name of slain cartoonist Georges Wolinski. The black covering was later removed, and a new plaque is being prepared.
Hollande will unveil another plaque on Saturday to honor police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe, who was killed in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge by one of the attackers on January 8.
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H.R. 2633 (113th): Thirteenth Amendment Commemorative Coin Act
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To require the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which officially marked the abolishment of slavery in the United States.
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Sponsor. Representative for Illinois's 7th congressional district. Democrat.
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Q: Pass data from activity to service ? Android How many I can pass data to Service by Intent . I am passing 7 data to Service but the latter two is null .
This code is in MainActivity.class :
    Intent Class = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Class_Service.class);
    Class.putExtra("Url", URL);
    Class.putExtra("Username", Username);
    Class.putExtra("PASSWORD", PASSWORD);
    Class.putExtra("Mobile", Mobile);
    Class.putExtra("HQStudentID", HQStudentID);
    Class.putExtra("_SchoolCode", SchoolCode);
    Class.putExtra("_GroupID", GroupID);

And here is in my Service :
public class Class_Service extends Service{
    String Webresponse;
    String URL ;
    String Username;
    String PASSWORD;
    String Mobile;
    String HQStudentID;
    String SchoolCode;
    String GroupID;

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
        handleStart(intent, startId);
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        handleStart(intent, startId);
        return START_NOT_STICKY;
    }

    void handleStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
        URL = intent.getStringExtra("Url");
        Username = intent.getStringExtra("Username");
        PASSWORD = intent.getStringExtra("PASSWORD");
        Mobile = intent.getStringExtra("Mobile");
        HQStudentID = intent.getStringExtra("HQStudentID");
        GroupID = intent.getStringExtra("_GroupID");
        SchoolCode = intent.getStringExtra("_SchoolCode");

        Log.i("test", "HERE : : :" + GroupID + "::" + SchoolCode);
    }
}

All of parameter have value but GroupID and SchoolCode are null !!!
When I pass GroupID and SchoolCode from MainActivity have value.

A: There are 2 things that may cause the issue :
1 : You are trying to send an integer and trying to get it as String on Service. Check the data types and fix if there is anything wrong.
2 : The data may be null. Check all datas before putExtra on Logcat to see all of them has some values.
Hope it helps.
Best,
Mack.

A: If you`re passing an integer use intent.getIntExtras("tag") and for string intent.getStringExtra("tag").


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The Key West Quail-Dove is evaluated as Least Concern at the current time. The prior rating for the Key West Quail-Dove was Lower Risk, which was downgraded to Least Concern in 2004. The range of the Key West Quail-Dove is estimated at more than 200,000 square kilometers. The population of this bird species has not been quantified at this time, but the Key West Quail-Dove is considered to be frequent within its native range. The Key West Quail-Dove is native to the United States as well as Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Bahamas.
Key West Quail-Dove: Medium dove with red-brown upperparts glossed with purple and green, gray-red nape and crown, white throat and streak below eye, and buff-gray underparts. Upperparts are iridescent. Red bill has black tip. Forages on ground for fruits, seeds and insects. Legs and feet are pink. Low direct flight on rapidly beating wings.
Key West Quail-Dove: This bird has a very limited range. They occur very rarely in southern Florida, but their primary range extends from the Florida Keys and into the West Indies and east as far as Puerto Rico. This bird's preferred habitats include semi-arid and humid woodlands, scrub, and forests.
Key West Quail-Dove SONGS AND CALLS
Key West Quail-Dove WW1
Call is a low-pitched "whooo", similar to blowing across the top of a bottle.
Key West Quail-Dove NNN1
Typical deep cooing sounds.
"whoe-whoe-oh-oh-oh", "oooooooooou"
Named for where it was originally discovered, the Key West Quail-dove no longer breeds in Florida. Today it is only rarely found in the Keys and southernmost mainland Florida.
A group of doves has many collective nouns, including a "bevy", "cote", "dole", "dule", and "flight" of doves.
Ruddy Quail-Dove
The taxonomic order COLUMBIFORMES (pronounced koh-LUM-bih-FOR-meez) is composed of just one family, the pigeons and doves.
A large family with a nearly worldwide distribution, there are three hundred and twenty species of pigeons and doves in the Columbidae (pronounced koh-LUM-bih-dee) in forty-one genera.
North America has forty-nine species of pigeons and doves in eleven genera that have occurred (including the extinct Passenger Pigeon). Included in the Columbidae family are the tiny ground-doves, the hefty Band-tailed Pigeon, and the familiar, highly urbanized Rock Pigeon.
Pigeons and doves are known for their swift flight and distinctive cooing calls. Several species have also become adapted to living with people, the most well known of these being the Rock Pigeon.
In North America, pigeons are bulky, medium-sized birds, while doves are smaller and more delicate in appearance. Most members of this family have rather long tails and long, pointed wings that can give then a falcon-like appearance in flight. They have short legs, thick, longish necks, and a small head with a dainty bill and prominent cere.
North American members of this family tend to be plumaged in dark gray, various shades of brown, and white (morphs of the Rock Pigeon showing all of these colors). Some species have rufous in the wings and tail, and several have black and white markings on the face, wings, tail or body. Brighter colors such as red and yellow are seen in the legs and bills of several species, while hues of green, violet and other colors are found in the iridescent plumage of some species.
Except for the far northern tundra, members of the Columbidae are distributed throughout North America and occupy both forested and open habitats. The most forest based species is the large Band-tailed Pigeon of the west, other species more or less dependent upon forest being the Red-billed Pigeon of southern Texas, and the White-crowned Pigeon of the tropical hammocks in southern Florida. Other members of the Columbidae found in the United States and Canada are adapted to edge and non-forest habitats.
Pigeons and doves are mostly resident birds with migration limited to short distance movements by some populations of the Band-tailed Pigeon.
Extant North American pigeons and doves do not nest in colonies, but most flock together while foraging. While the Band-tailed, White-crowned, and Red-billed Pigeons pick fruits and nuts from high up in the trees, the Rock Pigeon and various doves forage for seed and grain on the ground.
No living North American pigeons or doves are threatened although populations of White-crowned and Red-billed Pigeons have declined because of deforestation.
The Passenger Pigeon was once one of the most abundant species of North American birds. The historical descriptions of this species are legendary; flocks of more than a billion birds that darkened the skies, nesting colonies of tens of thousands of birds, and mass hunts that slaughtered pigeons by the thousands. This latter description gives the main reason why this formerly prolific bird went extinct in 1914 and is sad testament to the impact people can have upon any species no matter how abundant they may appear to be.
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Cere X
Also called the operculum, it is a smooth and featherless patch of skin located where the beak attaches to the forehead.
Face X
The front part of the head consisting of the bill, eyes, cheeks and chin.


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Q: Modeling a Salesforce Design BACKGROUND
I'm on a committee for a non-profit that is currently using SalesForce, where the setup was fairly ad hoc. As is to be expected, that situation has resulted in reporting errors. I have listed and analyzed the fields and their semanitic meaning in a document, but I would like to produce a model of the relationships that can be shown to decision makers.
QUESTION
I have a subscription to an online tool for modeling, and I was wondering whether a Salesforce setup would fit into an ER diagram?
Specifically, an Account has one visible field: Type. After you choose a Type, the available fields show. For clarity, I am considering modeling each Type in it's own table with its unique fields. Where I get stuck is that each Type is mutually exclusive, and I'm not sure how to express that in an ER diagram.

A: You can see the relationships using the schema builder that is built into Salesforce.
In order to do that go to Setup -> Build -> Schema Builder, once there a map of all the fields and their relationships becomes visible.
If you want to model your own setup, you can subscribe a developer edition, create your fields and the use the schema builder to visualize the relationships between them.


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Narrow bid spreads for Thimble Shoals Tunnel	25 May 2016
Peter Kenyon, TunnelTalk
Final technical and price proposals are received for the Parallel Thimble Shoals Tunnel in Virginia, USA.
Table 1. Thimble Shoals Tunnel Bids
Bidder JV Partners Bid (US$)
BTM JV Buoygues TP
Traylor
Manson 1,016,046,800
AWVC Archer Western
Construction 1,071,683,000
Team Dragados USA
Schiavone 1,092,000,000
Earlier this month (May), three of the four joint venture teams shortlisted last year by the project owner Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel District (CBBTD) submitted design-build bids (Table 1).
Despite the low bid spread of US$76 million (7.5%), the price proposals have come in approximately US$292 million more than the US$724 million that had been estimated. CBBTD Executive Director Jeff Holland said work would now begin to "descope" the project to bring the cost more into line with the Engineer's Estimate.
Interestingly, all the contractor teams opted to submit TBM bored tunnel solutions, despite being given the opportunity to submit technical proposals for an immersed tunnel as an alternative.
The Skanska/Kiewit/Weeks Marine JV (SKW Tunnel Builders), which had indicated earlier in the bidding process that it would submit an immersed tunnel solution, chose not to submit a bid. The same joint venture team is in the final stages of construction of the Midtown immersed tunnel undercrossing of the Elizabeth River between Norfolk and Portsmouth, also in the State of Virginia.
The project is being financed 34% through bonds raised by CBBTD against future toll income; plus additional TIFIA loans (33%), a US$50 million loan from the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (5%), and existing CBBTD capital receipts. Owner design is by Jacobs, Cowi and HNTB. Conceptual design of the TBM alternative specifies a machine of 13.9m diameter and a concrete segmental lining of 450mm thickness. Construction is scheduled to start in 2017.
Thimble Shoals contract award imminent 27 Apr 2016
TunnelTalk reporting
Award of the design-build contract to construct the US$850 million Parallel Thimble Shoals Tunnel in Virginia, USA, is expected next month (May) following submission by the four shortlisted joint venture contractors of their final technical and price proposals.
Alignment of Parallel Thimble Shoals Tunnel
Concept design of TBM excavation
The project involves construction by a choice of either immersed tube tunnel (ITT) or TBM of a 1,760m parallel two-lane traffic tube to increase capacity at one of the two tunnelled sections along the iconic 38km Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel connection between Virginia's eastern shore and the Norfolk and South Hampton Roads region.
The four prequalified consortia bidding for the job – which were shortlisted from an original list that also included the Salini-Impregilo/Healy/GLF JV, are:
AWVC TunnelBuilders (Archer Western/Vinci Construction), who are successfully prequalified to present either an immersed tube (ITT) or bored tunnel technical and pricing proposal
BTM JV (Bouygues/Traylor/Manson), ITT and bored tunnel
Dragados/Schiavione JV, bored tunnel only
SKW Tunnel Builders (Skanska/Kiewit/Weeks Marine), ITT tunnel only
The project is being financed 34% through bonds raised by the private owner – the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District (CBBTD) – against future toll income; plus additional TIFIA loans (33%), a US$50 million loan from the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (5%), and existing CBBTD capital receipts. Owner design is by Jacobs, Cowi and HNTB. Conceptual design of the TBM alternative specifies a machine of 13.9m diameter and a concrete segmental lining of 450mm thickness.
All the shortlisted companies have substantial experience of constructing similar infrastructure, with the SKW Tunnel Builders team (Skanska/Kiewit/Weeks Marine) currently nearing completion of the immersed tube Midtown Tunnel crossing of the Elizabeth River between Norfolk and Portsmouth, also in Virginia.
Once the winning bidder is selected a period of design-build final design will be entered into, with Notice to Proceed expected to be granted in July (2016). The project already has the necessary regulatory approvals, having been issued in July 2015 with a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) by the Federal Highways Administration.
Closing in on a Midtown connection – TunnelTalk, October 2015
RFQs for USA Bay Bridge Tunnel expansion 23 Apr 2015
RFQs will be issued in less than two weeks time for construction of the USA's latest mega-project – the mile-long billion-dollar Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia.
37km Bridge Bay Tunnel features two tunnels
The new 5,710ft (1,740m) tunnel, which is already on a list of 45 major transportation projects that can expect to receive at least partial Federal funding, will double capacity at one of two tunnel choke points along the 37km-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel connecting Virginia's eastern shore and the Norfolk and South Hampton Roads region.
Additional funding is to come from the issuing of corporate bonds by the owner, Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District (CBBT), which will be levied against future toll income. Currently 10,000 vehicles a day pay approximately $15 a time to use the crossing, a usage level that is expected to increase significantly in the coming years.
Procurement by CBBT for construction of the design-build project will allow successfully prequalified contractors/joint ventures to present either bored or immersed tunnel solutions. CBBT has already issued a Notice of Intent to Issue a Request for Qualifiers on 12 May. The deadline for submissions is 6 July. Up to four contractors or joint venture contractors will be shortlisted on 11 August 2015 to present full proposals and move to the final bidding stage. Contract award is expected in mid-2016.
Thimble Shoal Tunnel southern (Hampton) approach
Project scope will include:
5,710 ft (1,740m) of two-lane tunnel with a channel depth of 67ft (20m) plus 3ft (1m) of over-dredge and 10ft (3m) of cover over the tunnel
widening of Portal Islands Nos. 1 and 2 to accommodate the new tunnel and associated ventilation buildings
trestle extension spans from the existing wye-areas to the expanded portal islands with approximately 1,800 ft (549m) of 2-lane spans and approximately 400ft (122m) of 3-lane spans
1,300 ft (396m) of two 12-ft lanes of at-grade and depressed southbound roadway on both Portal Island Nos. 1 and 2 providing connection between the trestle extension spans and the tunnel portals
tunnel finish, ventilation, lighting, emergency egress, approach lighting, electric primary and secondary power distribution system, emergency generators, tunnel drainage system, fire alarm and detection system, fire protection system, lightning protection, communication systems, intrusion detection and alarm system, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA), Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), traffic monitoring and control devices, and island maintenance roadways.
Jacobs Engineering is appointed in a lead role as the owner's Design Manager, with preliminary tunnel design being undertaken as part of the same contract by COWI and HNTB. Since these companies are all contracted to the owner team, they will not be allowed to play a part in any of the construction bids.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel was originally built between 1960-64 as a two-lane highway, mostly on raised trellises in the shallower stretches of the Bay, but featuring four bridges and a pair of mile-long immersed tube tunnels anchored between four man-made islands at the Bay's two deep channel locations – to facilitate the passage of heavy shipping.
Original steel elements, manufactured in Texas, feature a 24ft wide two-lane road deck with 13ft 6in clearance
The trellis sections of the structure were dualled at a cost of $200 million between 1995-99, enabling repairs to the original road deck and the ability to divert traffic to the other deck in the event of accidents. However, the 51-year-old tunnels continue to act as a choke point where traffic must move from two lanes in each direction down to just a single lane, in bidirectional flow, a situation that has prompted CBBT to fast-track the installation of a parallel tunnel under the (southern) Thimble Shoal channel.
In addition, regular maintenance work results in 1,400 hours of tunnel lane closures every year, and no alternative route exists in the event of an accident inside the tunnel.
One of the likely bidders is the Parallel Crossing Consortium (PCC) of Skanska USA/Kiewit/Weeks Marine/Parsons Brinckerhoff, which last year (2014) submitted an unsolicited proposal to CBBT, valued at $800 million, for an immersed tube solution.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel cross section
The same consortium is currently midway through construction of the nearby Midtown immersed tunnel linking Portsmouth and Norfolk under the Elizabeth River. In its proposal PCC stated: "No other team of companies and individuals can match PC2's recent and proven experience in designing and constructing immersed tunnels, and can be prepared to immediately begin production of tunnel segments in 2016." The 11 tunnel segments for the Elizabeth River Crossing project were manufactured in dry dock in Baltimore, from where they were barged to the jobsite along a route that passed over the Thimble Shoal tunnel.
CBBT examined the proposal, and opened a 90-day window for other joint ventures to submit rival bids, but after none were forthcoming a resolution was passed in April 2014 by the Board to terminate further consideration of PCC's proposal.
The resolution was taken after both the CBBT's financial adviser and its strategic adviser (infrastructure and engineering firm Moffat and Nichol) identified the project as "an ideal candidate for a design-build project delivery method," rather than the equity financing arrangement as offered by PCC. CBBT was also concerned that the financial proposal as offered would have meant passing responsibility for maintenance for the new tunnel to the joint venture, rather than keeping the whole of the Bay Bridge Tunnel as a single entity. It was also felt that a competitive design-build procurement would ensure financial competition and the potential for finding extra value through innovative solutions.
The slightly shorter Chesapeake Channel Tunnel, to the north of Thimble Shoal, is considered to be of lesser priority because the shipping lane above it is not as frequently used and therefore it is less at risk of being damaged. In the medium term, however, there are plans to build a parallel tunnel at this location also.
Sinking the concrete elements at Midtown – TunnelTalk, Dec 2013
Hong Kong awards major undersea highway – TunnelTalk, Sep 2013


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Anti-Corbyn propaganda on full blast as UK election nears
The Conservative party is actively undermining Jeremy Corbyn through a campaign steeped in deception…
by InfoBrics November 21, 2019 355 Views 10 Comments
Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Johanna Ross, journalist…
With less than a month to go before the UK general election, all efforts are being made by political parties to further their agendas. Naturally each side is launching attacks on the other, but perhaps the most virulent campaign is that of the Conservatives towards Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party. Their malicious accusations, particularly regarding allegations of widespread anti-semitism in the Labour party, which are without any proper foundation, have been propagated more or less since Corbyn came to power.
The anti-Corbyn propaganda reached its peak last week with an article in The Guardian entitled: "Concerns about anti-semitism mean we cannot vote Labour". Signed by 24 'celebrities', the piece stated that Jeremy Corbyn was 'steeped in association with anti-semitism' and that the opposition leader had 'a long history of embracing antisemites as colleagues'. And yet a Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into antisemitism in the UK in 2016 found "no reliable, empirical evidence to support the notion that there is a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party". Furthermore, Labour's own investigation the same year ruled that the party was not "overrun by anti-Semitism or other forms of racism". Some party members did resign over matter – but this equated to as little as 0.08% of the membership – hardly a widespread issue it seems.
We therefore have to ask ourselves, why is it that we, the British people, are constantly being bombarded with information that the Labour party, and leader Jeremy Corbyn himself is anti-semitic? One can only deduce that it is pure propaganda being promoted by the Conservative party, because the fact is, there is very little to attack the Labour leader on. His policies genuinely have the potential to become extremely popular with the electorate, some of which are truly revolutionary and would nourish what is a nation starved of welfare provision after years of Tory austerity. Free broadband internet for all, raising the minimum wage to £10 an hour, nationalising public services – including rail, bus and Royal Mail – and creating a state-run pharmaceutical organisation: what is not to like? Britain is now a society steeped in injustice, with record levels of poverty and homelessness and despite Johnson's attempt to compete with Corbyn on welfare with talk of also raising the minimum wage, he simply can't undo the years of Tory austerity and the damage it has done to the lives of millions of ordinary working Brits.
Yet the Tory propaganda machine is on full blast. On Wednesday, after the ITV leaders' debate where Corbyn and Johnson went head to head, it emerged that the Conservative press office twitter account was changed to the title 'factcheckUK' during the course of their exchange. The fact that it was temporarily changed during the one-hour programme was clearly an attempt to mislead the public into thinking that this was an unbiased, impartial media outlet offering commentary on the Labour leader's performance. It's video entitled: 'factcheckUK verdict: Boris Johnson is winner of the leader's debate' demonstrates a clear aim to deceive the public.
But we should not be surprised that a Johnson government is prepared to go to such lengths to mislead and dupe the electorate. Under the current Prime Minister's leadership, such deception is an everyday occurrence it seems, to the extent that one of the questions put to Johnson at the debate on Tuesday night was about 'trust' and whether indeed he could be trusted. The PM has been caught out lying, whether consciously or not, on so many occasions, and was engaged in this even before he took office. In the run up to the EU referendum he was one of many claiming that the UK would save around £350 million a year by leaving the EU.
It is easy to lose count of the number of times he has lied since becoming PM. He said the Conservatives were building 40 new hospitals – this has been shown to be untrue. He keeps repeating that there will be 20,000 new police officers to tackle crime; misleading considering his party have taken 21,000 police officers off the streets in recent years. His propensity to be untruthful does not go unnoticed, and frequently makes headlines: 'For nine extraordinary minutes, Boris Johnson stood next to his bus and lied and lied and lied without stopping' and 'PM Makes String of False Claims in BBC Interview'. And it's a sad state of affairs when you almost except the Prime Minister not to tell the truth: 'Johnson's Brexit would devastate business; the CBI must be hoping he is lying', Simon Jenkins writes in The Guardian.
And yet propaganda, it seems, works. For despite the woes of ordinary working Brits, they are still prepared to vote Conservative, for one reason or another at the ballot box. Personally, I find it difficult to work out why. One candidate is offering real solutions to the everyday strife facing working people, and another is promoting further uncertainty under Brexit and a continuation of the status quo when it comes to social provision. And yet people seem to be taken in by the glossy, slick packaging of the Conservative manifesto and Johnson's buffoonish, amiable personality. 'He's one of the boys, isn't he?' one Leave voter told Sky News recently. I shuddered in disbelief. One of the boys? How many average blokes in Britain have attended Eton and the Bullingdon Club? And yet people speak about him as if he joins the locals for a pint after work at the pub.
It's time for people to waken up and smell the coffee come December 12th. For people's livelihoods are at stake.
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The term anti-Semitism has now expanded to include criticism of the Jewish State. Given that most Jews are Zionists this conflation of Jews with Israel is readily accepted by them. Unfortunately this also means that Jews are assuming responsibility for the actions of the Jewish State in its oppression of the Palestinians. Corbyn is a perennial critic of Israel's policies and actions so the label of anti-Semite is attached to him and by extension to his supporters. On the question of Labour promises, it seems to me that Corbyn is essentially repeating the promises of Clement Attlee in 1945 which… Read more »
MookiePooks
I likev and agree with your response more than the article 😂
Unfortunately I have to vote for the Tories in this election as the brexit party have stepped their candidate down, but I truly believe we need political reformation in this country, now that things are as they are I suspect we'll have to experience more pain before this has a chance of happening again.
Philip Dutton
So, you have helped the Tory party hurt the poor even more! 14m people and 4m kids in poverty. Half a million on the streets and 1.5 million foodbank users last year alone. Not to mention the threat of increasing the retirement age and selling off the NHS threat. I cannot help but think of all of you as traitors to the sick, vulnerable and poor. They needed you this election more than ever and you and millions of other let them down and let the most right wing Tory party EVER do whatever they like… Sad days indeed. I… Read more »
terryindorset
It may be very nice to have a good bitch but in the long run at least Corbyn's manifesto shows some signs of trying to give voters some hope that the ghastly state UKania is in is capable of being rescued from more decline & sliding to the bottom. The Tories will only carry on as before.
Corbyns manifesto includes full term abortions, not sure you can get more ghastly than that 😕 the costs of his proposals sound equally ghastly. Tbh I don't want to vote for either of them but the ratio of horror has to be considered!
Jim Reed
Every time I see Corbyn on the TV I want to vomit. He seems to always be angry, and he hates everything, especially Brexit. He is the tyrant responsible for giving the middle finger to the voters – the ones who made a legitimate referendum choice. Corbyn thinks he can do as he wishes and can tell the referendum voters to go to hell.
I guess the Chief Rabbi is also just spouting "propaganda" then?
Yes. Read about the guy and his connections. Don't just believe everything being printed in the right wing trash.
British people love their subjugation by the establishment they have endured 1000 years of it and will always except their lot under the jack boot of the elite.. they except the lies and propaganda against Corbyn as truth they know no better the miners in 1984 were defeated due to not understanding they were a hated enemy of the elite just as the Roman slaves were a threat to the Roman elite, they had to be subjugated and destroyed by closing their pits..making sure they would never be a threat as Spartacus was for the Roman elite.. Corbyn wants to… Read more »
The UK people have been hoodwinked and the Tory party never even hid the fact! The Russian files being held back should have rang alarm bells, the false sites should have rang them too both the margarit beckett one and the factcheck one. The Goebbels way of saying the name Jeremy Corbyn in a negative light over the last 4 years has been massively damaging and of course the Antisemitism stuff. I read the interests of those Jewish politicians and they made interesting reading with a LOT of free visits to Israel over the last few years etc. This was… Read more »
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Q: Table component in rails I'm looking for a simple table component to use in my rails application. I'll need filters & page navigation on that.
To explain more, I've quite a few table views in my app for various models, instead of coming up with markup separately, I would like to have a table_for similar to form_for. Also the table_for should be capable of rendering data from associations too.
Will be great if there is anything out there. There is something like what I want here - http://www.shaneharvie.com/2007/03/tablefor-erb-template.html. It has to be improvised to suit my needs.

A: A component I am very happy with, is wice_grid. It builds the query, pagination, .. for you, allows to filter on columns very easily.
A simple example (from the documentation) : suppose you have a model Task, and you want the build the index/table. Then in the controller you write the following:
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... and in the View:
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A Mandala of Space Bullets
By Levi Rubeck • June 27th, 2018
One of my oldest friends, a longtime activist and regular inspiration to me, once invited a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks to his university in Las Vegas. A few of these groups have travelled the world for some time, to raise awareness of their struggles and persecution through cultural and musical performances as well as constructing sand mandalas. This collaborative visual art is assembled grain by colored grain, typically over a period of days, in meticulous geometric detail. After the mandala is complete, it is destroyed, swept up and returned to nature to rejoin the world.
This particular group of monks, after completing their dances, debates, throat singing, and mandala, had some time to whittle away in the festering oasis of the American Southwest. So of course they were shuttled off to a casino roller coaster, the first almost all of them had ever seen. Many of the monks were still young men, boys by our culture's estimation, and quite thrilled to risk their earthly appendages on a few loops and g-forces. But one monk held back, shaking his head but with a sheepish smile. When asked why he didn't want to hop on for the tooth-rattling ride, he said in simple, halting English: "Sometimes… sometimes, you die."
I have thought about this monk a lot, as might be expected in times as turbulently bewildering as these. The memory also floats to the surface of my mind when getting wrapped up in videogames that trade in a kind of chaos built specifically to overload the senses. This experience is the salted buttery base of so-called "bullet-hell" shooters, a genre that's evolved from the basic roots of games like Centipede, Galaga, and 1942 through the iconic Ikaruga and further cross-pollinated through the rightfully acclaimed genre multi-hyphenate Nier: Automata. Bullet-hell games are crafted to throw the player into a tightly orchestrated maelstrom, an inscrutable dance to a first-time player or spectator. They are about developing rhythms and automatic reactions rather than overthinking every step or possible decision and outcome.
It takes time to work up these rhythms, that's part of the fun—cracking each level's elaborate code, the webs of intricate danger that you must weave your way through until time melts away and you become one with the game, calculus equations swirling around your head. But the experience is daunting, and in order to keep yourself from living in the salty tilt of cyclical destruction, once must accept that "sometimes you die."
Next Jump: Shmup Tactics lays out its thesis in the subtitle: shoot-em-up ("shmup") tactics. Can you strip the bullet-hell shooter from active time and retain a sense of the sublime ballet? Yes, for the most part—filtered through the CRT scanlined glasses of history, Next Jump excises the need for highly articulated finger reflexes while subsisting on the top-down, ship vs. shooting ships madness originally designed to consume quarters and yen. Space still bursts with enemy ammunition, but the player can breathe and work the grid in their own time. For the most part they control a single vessel, gathering scrap to pay for upgrades, but each encounter is brief, not necessarily meant to be an exercise in total oblivion.
For all the tactical elements pulled from early Fire Emblem and the like, Next Jump biggest strength is that maintains the on-screen visual clusterfuck of bullet-hell shooters. Most of the game is spent jumping through skirmishes collecting resources, but the end finds you faced against a dragon-ship that you must engage with and survive against for a comparatively long time. The screen blooms with bulbous and deadly color, and it can be difficult to accurately anticipate when and where every dangerous element will shift and collide against you. As such it can be nearly impossible at points to anticipate every threat around you, leaving some calls to the gut. The chaos does not relent, but at least you can sip rather than shotgun the stream.
In bullet-hell, tactics, and life, man plans and god/nature/the universe laughs. You can drill those fingers or try to anticipate every possible outcome, but in the end we are flawed beings living at the whims of the cosmos. Next Jump successfully merges two seemingly incongruous genres into a videogame that freezes chaos without dismantling the succulent incomprehension. Because in every flavor of bullet-hell, sometimes you die, without explanation, despite your meticulous planning or well-honed reflexes. But sometimes you live, and that life can be so sweet, even if it also is inevitably swept back into space dust.
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About 90 percent of the cuts, or $753 million, would come from Medicare, the major health insurance program for the elderly. But the senior OMB official said the administration wouldn't execute the cuts right away, as the relevant documentation is "on hold" during the shutdown. "Once the lapse is over, we will reassess timing for releasing these documents," the official said.
Under the 2010 law establishing the statutory pay-as-you-go requirement, if there is a positive scorecard balance at the end of a congressional session, the OMB has "not later than 14 days," not counting weekends and holidays, to issue a "sequestration order" specifying cuts for the ongoing fiscal year.
The OMB's latest scorecard balance for last year was $482 million as of Dec. 14, and would rise to $839 million after accounting for enactment of the 2018 farm bill on Dec. 20, based on calculations by CQ.
Independent analysts at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said they'd reached similar conclusions. The senior OMB official, however, said the farm bill estimate was produced by the Congressional Budget Office, which can differ from the White House interpretation. The official also said there were some other minor bills enacted before the end of last year that will have budgetary effects that are part of the calculation.
The stopgap funding bills lawmakers were considering in December to avert the partial shutdown would have delayed the sequestration order until 15 days after the continuing resolution's Feb. 8 expiration.
The idea was to buy time to enact broader appropriations legislation for the full fiscal year ending Sept. 30 that would wipe the pay-as-you-go scorecard clean, thereby eliminating potential automatic cuts in mandatory programs. House Democrats included such a provision in their six-bill omnibus measure they sent to the Senate last week to reopen eight Cabinet departments and numerous other agencies.
But Senate Republicans have shown no interest in that bill, which President Donald Trump said he would veto. Without either the stopgap bill's delayed sequester start date or the pay-as-you-go waiver in the larger spending bill, it would place the date of an OMB sequestration order around Jan. 24.
Congress routinely exempts spending increases and tax cuts from pay-as-you-go enforcement, or wipes out the pay-as-you-go scorecard at the end of the year. If the cuts eventually are triggered, it would be the first time since the 2010 law was enacted.
The White House will update its estimates in putting together the next sequestration order. But based on the OMB's report for a separate fiscal 2019 sequester of mandatory programs required under a 2011 deficit reduction law, Medicare would bear the brunt of the cuts.
The programs targeted by a pay-as-you-go sequester would be similar to those that are cut each year under the mandatory sequester from the 2011 law. In addition to Medicare, those programs include risk adjustment payments to insurers with sicker enrollees under the 2010 health care law, student loan administration, payments to the fund for military retirees, and vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities, among others.
It would also hit Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, which are central to the broader standoff between Democrats and Trump on reopening the government. And it would curb payments to farmers, who are already having trouble as a result of the shutdown getting assistance to cope with lost export markets due to Trump's tariffs.
Many programs are exempt from sequester, including Medicaid, Social Security, veterans programs, food stamps, federal retiree benefits and unemployment compensation, among others.
But Medicare, which is not exempt, would see the lion's share of the new cuts because it is so massive. The OMB's February 2018 sequestration order estimated the program would cost $697.9 billion in fiscal 2019, versus just $80.2 billion for all other nonexempt programs combined. The OMB official said those figures likely would change somewhat as part of the official calculation after the shutdown ends, however.
The $839 million left on the pay-as-you go scorecard for the second session of the 115th Congress would represent about 0.11 percent of the total spending in nonexempt programs for fiscal 2019, based on the OMB's estimates last February. Applying that percentage reduction to Medicare would produce cuts of roughly $753 million starting in late January, with the remainder spread across the other nonexempt programs.
That's not much in the context of such a huge benefit program, which is already subject to $14 billion in cuts this year under the 2011 law's sequester. But it's likely to come as a surprise to hospitals, doctors and other stakeholders who would see their Medicare reimbursements cut as part of an unrelated fight over funding a wall along the southwest border.
Kellie Mejdrich contributed to this report.