President Obama's week-long fundraising swing through the western United States, with stops in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Denver, showed his ability to combine demagogy about raising taxes on the wealthy with direct appeals to the super-rich to finance his reelection campaign. At least $5 million was raised in the California stops alone, according to press reports.
The outpouring of support from the well-heeled, including Hollywood figures and Silicon Valley CEOs, shows that the ruling class understands very well that Obama's calls for the rich to pay their "fair share" of deficit reduction are no threat to their own property and wealth. On the contrary, a sizable section of the financial elite understands that it needs the fig leaf supplied by Obama to stave off the real danger of a movement from below.
The campaign tour began with Obama for America COO Ann Marie Habershaw alerting campaign teams that fundraising figures for the third quarter, which must be reported to the Federal Election Commission by October 15, would be critical. "What we do before midnight on September 30th determines our budget until the end of this year," she wrote in an e-mail published by the Washington congressional daily The Hill.
After raising a record $86 million in the April-June quarter, divided between his reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee, Obama was compelled to cancel most fundraising events in July because of the protracted wrangling with congressional Republicans over the federal budget deficit. August, which is a month-long vacation for many of the super-rich, is traditionally the slowest month for campaign fundraising.
As a result, the month of September was devoted to raising the bulk of the $55 million targeted for the third quarter. Obama has headlined 11 fundraisers, Vice President Joseph Biden 12, and Michelle Obama another four.
Obama raised and spent $745 million during the 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and then the presidency, by far the most of any candidate in history, and his reelection campaign is widely expected to top the $1 billion mark.
Habershaw's e-mail spelled out the financial goals of the campaign. "The scale we're talking about is unparalleled," she wrote, "and any time someone uses the word 'unparalleled,' that means it probably doesn't happen for free."
At each of the five western cities, Obama combined private dinners where wealthy backers paid $35,800 each -- the legal limit -- to rub shoulders with him, and public appearances at campaign-style rallies. In several stops, there was more than one closed-door event, usually with the press barred and no public witnesses to the exchanges between the president and his big contributors.
In the San Francisco Bay area, Obama held fundraisers September 25 in the wealthy Silicon Valley suburbs of Woodside and Atherton -- the latter at the home of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, as well as a dinner at the San Francisco home of Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com. This was followed the next morning by a breakfast at the St. Regis Hotel, and then a town-hall event at the headquarters of the networking site LinkedIn in Mountain View, attended by 300 people.
In Los Angeles, Obama spoke before 800 people at the House of Blues Monday, telling them, "What this election is about is everyone gets a fair share." Television actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson emceed the event, and declared, "The end of 'don't ask don't tell' is the signature achievement of our time."
Apparently permitting gays to serve openly in the military is more important than who the military, under Obama's command, is ordered to bomb and kill. Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, instigated the war in Libya, and continued the US occupation of Iraq, to say nothing of keeping open Guanta'namo Bay, carrying out the Wall Street bailout and continuing the policies of George W. Bush in a myriad of other areas.
At the House of Blues, Obama postured as the advocate of the working man. "If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber is class warfare, then sign me up," he told the audience, urging them to support his proposed American Jobs Act, which would finance a handful of jobs with token increases in taxes on the rich and corporations, while leaving the overwhelming majority of the unemployed to fend for themselves.
Referring to the federal budget deficit, he declared that America cannot "just cut our way out of this problem," adding, "We're laying off teachers in droves right here in California. It doesn't make any sense. It's unfair to our kids." He did not address the fact that most of these layoffs are being carried out under the auspices of a Democratic governor, Democratic mayors and Democratic-controlled local governments.
The House of Blues event was followed by a dinner at the Fig & Olive restaurant, where 100 people paid $17,900 each to eat with Obama and take part in a question-and-answer session. According to The Hollywood Reporter, those attending included actors Jack Black, Danny DeVito, Jamie Foxx, Gina Gershon and Eva Longoria and producers Judd Apatow, Aaron Sorkin and Jon Landau ("Avatar" and "Titanic").
"Hollywood is very positive," Landau told the Reporter. "I think they're very excited about what is going to happen next year."


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Grand-Charmont  es una población y comuna francesa, en la región de Franco Condado, departamento de Doubs, en el distrito de Montbéliard y cantón de Sochaux-Grand-Charmont.

Demografía

Referencias

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AdMob Mediation is a feature that lets you serve ads to your apps from multiple sources, including the AdMob Network, third-party ad networks, and AdMob campaigns. AdMob Mediation helps maximize your fill rate and increase your monetization by sending ad requests to multiple networks to ensure you find the best available network to serve ads.
This guide is your one-stop shop for integrating mediation into your AdMob app.
AdMob UI - Update your ad unit's mediation settings to include the ad network. It is also recommended that you set up ad network optimization for ad networks that support it.
If an adapter is labeled "Open source and versioned" in the above table, it means the adapter source code is open-sourced in Google's GitHub repository, enabling you to debug issues yourself should you choose to do so.
It also means that there are versioned adapter builds in Google's bintray repository, built against a specific version of the third-party ad network SDK. You can also integrate these adapters into your app with a single line change to your app's build.gradle file. Click on a specific ad network's guide for more details.
Ad network optimization (ANO) is a feature that enables you to generate the highest CPM from the ad networks in your mediation chain by automating the process of ordering the mediation chain to maximize revenue.
Click on a specific ad network's guide for details on how to configure ANO for that network.
Note: Only ad networks that are Open source and versioned have specific instructions for setting up ANO on that network.
Note: Custom events do not have ANO support.
In the constructor for a new ad object (for example, AdView), you must pass in an object of type Context. This Context is passed on to other ad networks when using mediation. Some ad networks require a more restrictive Context that is of type Activity and may not be able to serve ads without an Activity instance. Therefore, we recommend passing in an Activity instance when initializing ad objects to ensure a consistent experience with your mediated ad networks.


In the early spring and summer my refrigerator is often filled with big batches of soaked and chilled oats. Simple jars perfect for early-morning munching, like my Cacao Porridge Pots with Blueberry Compote, also allow for grab-and-go convenience while mindfully celebrating locally sourced produce and plant-based nutrition. Top off this creamy-dreamy bowl with a heaping dollop of nut butter and a maple blueberry compote, made with fresh or frozen berries (depending on their seasonal availability), and say hello to your morning's new best friend.
In a large bowl or airtight container, whisk together oats, almond milk, coconut oil, cacao and sea salt until just combined. Cover and refrigerate for at least 6 hours, or overnight—until oats are soft and most liquid has been absorbed.
Meanwhile, in a medium pot, bring blueberries and maple to a simmer over medium heat. Continue to simmer until the liquid has been reduced by half. Transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate.
Evenly distribute the soaked-oats mixture into 4 bowls or containers. Top with equal amounts of blueberry compote, nut butter and coconut flakes, serve and enjoy! Assembled porridge pots will keep for up to 1 week if refrigerated in sealed containers.
This appeared as a recipe feature in the Spring 2017 issue of Edible DC with two other breakfast bowl recipes which can be found here.


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Travel Destinations That You Should Totally Visit! They Are Unbelievably Stunning And Fantastic!
Just look at these colorful scenes, they are so gorgeous! Some of them might even make you wonder whether they are real or just some photoshopped pictures.
You would definitely be amazed. Check this out!
1. Fly Geyser:
The only access is a dirt road, but it is large enough to be seen from the highway. Water is constantly released, reaching 5 feet (1.5 m) in the air. The geyser, in Washoe County, Nevada, contains several terraces discharging water into 30 to 40 pools over an area of 74 acres
2. Colourful:
With its rolling hills, rocky peaks and multitude of colours, this otherwordly visage looks like no place on Earth. However, the spectacular lunar landscape can actually be found at the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, China
3. That shrinking feeling:
Rock enthusiasts will feel the world is closing in on them when they visit the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska, Juneau. The roof and walls of the spectacular site resemble bubble-wrap, yet retain a real beauty
4. The Red beach scenic area in Panjin, northeast China's Liaoning province.
The beach gets its name from its appearance, which is caused by a type of seaweed that flourishes in the saline-alkali soil
5. Twin use:
A train runs through the 'Tunnel Of Love' private railway line in Klevan, Ukraine; the tunnel is actually a 3km section of private railway that serves a nearby fibreboard factory. A train runs around thrice daily through the ethereal 'tunnel' – delivering wood to the factory. At other times the beautiful avenue of trees is witness to a very different journey – into love. For it is a favoured spot for young romantics to stroll with that special someone
6. Blooming marvellous:
The flower and tulip fields of The Netherlands. The bright red, pink and yellow coloUrs are overwhelmingly beautiful and are a must see, or more fittingly, a must experience
7. High in the sky:
The Tianzi Mountains are located in Zhangjiajie in the Hunan Province of China, close to the Suoxi Valley.They are named after the farmer Xiang Dakun of the Tujia ethnic group, who led a successful local farmers' revolt and called himself 'tianzi'. Pictured right is the magnificent Mount Roraima, towering above the forest landscape of the Gran Sabana in Venezuela
8. Breathtaking:
The El Salar de Uyuni salt flat, Bolivia; these stunning photographs reflect a perfectly still landscape are like an image captured in a dream
9. Amazing view:
The magnificent Mount Roraima towers above the clouds hanging over the Gran Sabana in Venezuela
10. Mustard fields at Niujie, in Yunnan, Luoping, known as the snail farms due to the unique snail shell like terracing
11.Pretty in pink:
Takinoue Park, in Hokkaido, Japan, is famous for Shibazakura or pink moss, attracting thousands of visitors every year between May and June when the flowers are in full bloom
12. Dreamworld:
The Bolivian salt flat shots were taken by photographer and lawyer Michael Kittell, who believes the world's largest salt plain is one of the most beautiful places on Earth
13. Chew on that:
From above, Pink Lake Hillier of Middle Island 150km east of Esperance, Western Australia looks like a solid bubble gum pink. The lake is about 600 metres long, and is surrounded by a rim of sand and dense woodland of paperbark and eucalyptus trees
14. Stunning:
The Sagano Bamboo Grove, located in the Sagano Arashiyama area of Kyoto, is a beautiful forest with a path through its heart
15. A caver explores the Hang En and Hang Son Doong caves at the Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam.
The limestone caves – the biggest in the world – almost swallow up the adventurers daring to step inside
16. Colour explosion:
Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan boasts its a wide variety of seasonal flower gardens such as narcissus and tulip in spring , nemophila and rose in early summer , zinnia in summer and kochia and cosmos in autumn
17. Hard at work:
Tea fields in Jiangbang Village of Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, northwest China. Look at it long enough, and you might start to feel dizzy
18. The breathtaking Mount Roraima,
the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateau in South America, peaks above the clouds. Its 31sqkm summit area consists on all sides of cliffs rising 400 metres
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Q: I keep getting a box when printing a variable I'm trying to print variable c but whenever I do I get "Cost of electricity: $□". But if I print the variable c with print(c) I get "6.122448979591836". So it must be something about substituting the variable in with the % right? I'm using Python 3.5.2 btw. Also I need the number displayed to be 6.12 and using round(c, 2) does nothing. Is it because it's not an int?
# print #100 Cost of Electricity
print("#100 Cost of Electricity")
# get wattage
w = int(input("Enter wattage: "))
# get hours used
h = int(input("Enter number of hours used: "))
# get price per/kWh
p = float(input("Enter price per kWh in cents: "))
# calculate cost
c = w*h/(1000*p)
# print price
print("Cost of electricity: $%c" % int(c))

Not that it matters anymore but I figured why I was so confused. I wasn't using %c because it displayed based on the ASCII values. I thought I had to put %c because I thought I had to put %(variable name). I forgot that what you normally use is %s or %r and that the variable name goes in later. An old book I have for Python 2 says %r is for displaying raw data and %s is for displaying to users.

A: Use:
print("Cost of electricity: $%.2f" % c)

The 'f' flag is for floating point format.  The '.2' says print 2 digits after the decimal.

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Q: Process.getErrorStream doesn't capture all errors I use ProcessBuilder to create a Process that runs a script on Linux. I need to check if there were errors while executing this script.
public static String contentInStream(InputStream stream) throws IOException
{
    return contentInReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
}

public static String contentInReader(Reader reader) throws IOException
{
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(reader);
    String line;
    String content = "";
    while ((line = br.readLine())!=null)
    {
        content += line+"\n";
    }
    return content;
}

public static void execScript(String script)
{
    ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("sh", script);
    Process process = pb.start();
    process.waitFor();
    String errors = contentInStream(process.getErrorStream());
    if (!errors.isEmpty())
    {
        throw new RuntimeException(errors);
    }
}

In a test script I produce two errors, one by explicitly writing to the error channel, and one by trying to write to a file where the script doesn't have write rights.
echo Warning
date > in
>&2 echo Error

The problem is that the string errors only contains "Error", not the error from the command "date > in". The file "in" is not created, as expected. If I try "./testScript.sh > /tmp/std 2> /tmp/err", both errors are in /tmp/err, as expected.
String errors contains: Error
Output when script is run by itself:
/apps/testScript.sh: line 2: in: Permission denied
Error
PS: I also tested with the order of the two last lines in the test script reversed. I got the same result, so the error is probably not in contentInReader.

A: I solved it. Apparently the script was executing in a different directory when it was started from the Java process, where the script has write permissions. So there was no error, and getErrorStream did capture all error output, in this case just "Error".


I did something horrible. About a year ago I was talking about Islam, and a Christian girl showed great interest in the religion. I judged her inside, and thought that this was just a phase and she wasn't serious about it, so I played up how hard and demanding the religion is. I know it was horrible, it was probably one of the worst things I've ever done.
It gets worse. She asked how she could read the Quran and I didn't give her the app she could've used! Needless to say she gave up on the whole thing. Feeling horrendously guilty, I talked to her, apologized, and said that Islam is worth it in the end.
She accepted my apology, but never further studied it sense. Could I have taken away her chance of entering Jannah? Should I talk to her again, or should I let it be with the apology? I'm just so scared that I took away her salvation, and in my eyes that is worse than death.
Browse other questions tagged jannah christianity or ask your own question.
Will it possible to have in Jannah your own galaxy or universe?
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The Trouble in Tune Town
by Maura Pierlot
Tune Town Wins International Award
10/04/2018 27/05/2018 Maura Pierlot
Wow, I wasn't expecting this! The Trouble in Tune Town has just been named Joint Winner, Best Children's Illustrated E-Book, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2018. Great timing for the book launch on 6 May at 2pm at the National Library of Australia. The book, my first, was a labour of love in so many ways, and I'm thrilled that it has received this international recognition.
Published by Maura Pierlot
Maura Pierlot is an award-winning author and playwright based in Canberra, Australia. Her debut picture book, 'The Trouble in Tune Town,' won the 2018 ACT Writing and Publishing Award (Children's category). Maura's play, Fragments, recently enjoyed a sell-out season at The Street Theatre, Canberra. Her debut young adult novel is due out in 2020/21. Click on 'About' to read more.	View all posts by Maura Pierlot
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3 Reasons Why Small Businesses Rock!
Here are 3 Reasons Why Small Businesses ROCK!
2/3 of the American economy is fueled by small businesses. We are the economic engine of this economy. As a small business owner (economics major and former Small Business Administration employee), I am so stoked to be among the ranks!
Transparency is essential for so many people. Americans are sophisticated buyers. When you buy from a small business, you know where your money is going. When you shop at Target, Nordstrom or Wal-Mart, you truly don't know where your money is going. With small business, every dollar is traceable.
When you buy from a small business, you get more customizable service. In my own business, if my client needs something extra, I go create it for him or her.
Small business has positively transformed my life both personally and professionally. Personally, I have learned so much about myself and what I can do as a person. Professionally, I have acquired so many new skills that allow me to help my clients become better.


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Java library for generation and validation of software licenses (forked from OddSource/java-license-manager).

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Жозе Педро де Фрейтас, более известный как Жозе Ариго, (18 октября 1921 года — 11 января 1971 года) — бразильский экстрасенс, хилер и хирург-самоучка. Ариго совершал свои операции простыми кухонными ножами, находясь в трансе, за что получил прозвище «Хирург ржавого ножа». Ариго утверждал, что в операциях ему помогал дух немецкого врача Адольфа Фрица (чьё существование до сих пор является неустановленным). При жизни Ариго считали «чудотворцем», однако современные исследователи называют его лишь умелым самоучкой, который вводил в заблуждение благодаря ловкости рук и умелыми манипуляциями эффекта плацебо.

Биография
Родился на ферме, в бедной, многодетной семье. После третьего класса, он был вынужден оставить школу. В возрасте 14 лет он начал работать на шахте, где проработал 6 лет. Ничто из сказанного Ариго не было как-то документально зафиксировано в тот момент, и единственным источником тех событий остаются лишь его слова.

По его собственным словам, около 1950 года он начал страдать от сильных головных болей, бессонницы и галлюцинаций. Именно в это время к нему явился дух таинственного  — немецкого врача, который умер в 1918 году в Эстонии. Он якобы вошёл в незримый контакт с Жозе, и помог тому сделать несколько успешных хирургических операций. После этого Жозе взял себе псевдоним Жозе Ариго и начал ежедневно делать операции всем нуждающимся людям. Люди выстраивались к нему с самого утра, подолгу стоя в длинных очередях.

Однако он не имел медицинского образования и работал без лицензии. Это привело к тому, что в 1956 году он был осуждён за незаконную медицинскую практику. В поддержку Ариго выступали десятки его бывших пациентов, однако «чудотворец» был приговорён к тюремному заключению. Но в очень скором времени он был амнистирован президентом Бразилии Жуселину Кубичеком. Однако в 1964 году он был снова приговорён к тюремному заключению, и провёл за решёткой 8 месяцев. Он принимал больных прямо в тюрьме. Иногда его вывозили из тюрьмы, чтобы он сделал операцию какому-нибудь богатому человеку.

В 1968 году Ариго исследовал известный американский парапсихолог . Операции Ариго были тщательно изучены и даже сняты на киноплёнку. Ариго прооперировал и самого Пухарича.

Незадолго до своей смерти Ариго заявил некоторым своим знакомым, что у него были видения, означающие, что он скоро умрёт. 11 января 1971 года погиб в автомобильной катастрофе по дороге на работу. После его смерти некоторые бразильские хилеры утверждали, что входили в контакт с доктором Фрицем.

Критика
Роберт Тодд Кэрролл был убеждён, что Жозе Ариго был обманщиком.

Джеймс Рэнди обвинял Ариго в мошенничестве и отмечал вторичность его методов:

Научный скептик  придерживается схожего мнения насчёт Ариго.

См. также
 Жерар Круазе

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FROM ruby:2.4.1-alpine

RUN apk update && apk upgrade && \
    apk add --update nodejs git build-base libxml2 libxml2-dev libxml2-utils libxslt-dev tzdata && \
    rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*

ENV HOME /webmock
ENV RAILS_ENV production
# TODO move this to static file server, e.g. nginx
ENV RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES true
ENV SECRET_KEY_BASE abcdefgh12345678
ENV DB_HOST mongo:27017
ENV GA_TRACKER_ID UA-11111111-1
ENV RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY 6Lc6BAAAAAAAAChqRbQZcn_yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
ENV RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY 6Lc6BAAAAAAAAKN3DRm6VA_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

WORKDIR $HOME

# Install gems
ADD Gemfile* $HOME/
RUN gem update bundler
RUN bundle install --deployment --without development test

# Add the app code
ADD . $HOME
RUN bundle exec rake assets:precompile

# Default command
CMD ["bundle", "exec", "rails", "server"]


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I read The Iron Wyrm Affair back in 2012 and adored it, and so when I saw that Lilith Saintcrow had written a sequel, I was excited to read it.
The Red Plague Affair is set several years after the first book. Once again, Sorceress Prime Emma Bannon is called upon to serve Brittania. With the help of her associate, the Mentath Archibald Clare, she investigates a mad scientist who has resurrected a virulent plague and threatens to unleash it on London's populace.
What's a mentath, you might ask? In Saintcrow's world, a mentath is a person whose superpower is logic. Mr. Clare becomes a Sherlock Holmes type figure, and in this book, he confronts his rival and nemesis Dr. Vance, who can be seen as the steampunk version of Dr. Moriarty.
While the premise of the series is intriguing, The Red Plague Affair was disjointed and confusing. It took more than a third of the book for me to even have a vague idea what was going on, and what Bannon and Clare were doing aside from having tea with a cast of colorful characters. I do love a good cup of tea, but I expected a more cohesive story.There wasn't any point that I felt gripped by the story, but I kept reading hoping that it would get better. Sadly, it didn't. It was so jumbled that it was difficult to enjoy. The little romantic threads from the first book completely died. There was a hint about Emma's bodyguard having some sort of mysterious past, but it wasn't explained enough to make me care, and the subject was brushed over very quickly despite having been alluded to through the entire book. Overall, I was disappointed, especially after enjoying the first book so much.
My advice is to read The Iron Wyrm Affair, but to stop there.


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Schafweiher heißen Seen:

 Schafweiher (Effeltrich) oder Altmannsweiher, See bei Effeltrich, Landkreis Forchheim, Bayern
 Schafweiher (Gräfenbuch), See am Lauf des Vogelbachs (zur Fränkischen Rezat) bei Gräfenbuch, Markt Lehrberg, Landkreis Ansbach, Bayern
 Schafweiher (Igelsbach), See im Lauf des Schafweihergrabens bei Igelsbach, Markt Absberg, Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Bayern
 Schafweiher (Stödtlen), See im Lauf des Schafweihergrabens bei Stödtlen, Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg
 Schafweiher (St. Ingbert), See im Lauf des Mausbachs bei St. Ingbert, Saarpfalz-Kreis, Saarland
 Schafweiher (Thumsenreuth), See bei Thumsenreuth, Gemeinde Krummennaab, Landkreis Tirschenreuth, Bayern
 Schafweiher (Wackersdorf), See bei Wackersdorf, Landkreis Schwandorf, Bayern

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where is the marshall islands located
Where Is The Marshall Islands Located On The Map. Marshall Islands - Location, size, and extent The Marshall Islands is located in the central Pacific Ocean, just north of the equator. The country's currency is U.S. dollars. The capital of the country is the city of majuro located on the island. The main and biggest island of the Marshall Islands is called Kwajalein. Isolated from major population centers, Majuro, the capital, lies 3,438 km (2,136 mi) W of Honolulu, 3,701 km (2,300 mi) SE of Tokyo, and 3,241 km (2,014 mi) SE of Saipan, the former trust territory capital. Yet research published Monday suggests that parts of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific where Naen and Bikini are located, until certain areas have been more thoroughly cleaned. All of the Marshall islands are located not far but southwest of Hawaii. The main and biggest island of the Marshall Islands is called Kwajalein. In 1986, the U.S. and the RMI signed the Compact of Free Association , which granted the RMI political independence and allows Marshallese citizens to work and go to school in the U.S. The Marshall Islands consists of 29 atolls and 5 individual islands totaling about 1,225 islands and 870 reef systems scattered over 750,000 square miles of the Central Pacific. Marshall Islands Tourism: Tripadvisor has 548 reviews of Marshall Islands Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Marshall Islands resource. For your convenience, the map below shows the location of Marshall Islands highlighted on a … It is served by four passenger airlines: United Airlines, Nauru Airlines, Air Marshall Islands, and Asia Pacific Airlines. Marshall Islands International Airport, offering domestic and international services, is on Majuro Atoll.
Marshall country is governed by the Republic system. The Marshall Islands became the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) in 1979. After almost four decades under US administration as the easternmost part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Marshall Islands attained independence in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association. Marshall Islands is located in Oceania, two archipelagic island chains of 29 atolls, each made up of many small islets, and five single islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia. Marshall Islands is a place where tourists visit the beaches of the blue sea and nature is wonderful. Marshall country has three official languages: Japanese, English, and Marshall. The country consists of 33 municipalities. All of the Marshall islands are located not far but southwest of Hawaii. Air Marshall Islands flies to most of the Marshalls' inhabited atolls once a week.
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the biases that may affect each of the stage.
So assuming all went well, are we done?
Not really, typically, you will have to go over the entire process again.
For example, a large inheritance, or the purchase of a house.
It might be that you will have to to rethink the entire investment process.
You need a way to assess not only the performance, but also the methodology.
The first and typical one is what we called the Hindsight bias.
You look at the performance of your portfolio after, let's say, two years.
I knew it all along I just knew what's going to go up.
maybe you were lucky, and the realization was the average.
then maybe, and only maybe, you can say, I knew it all along.
assess the performance and to correctly assess the associated methodology.
but I think I have this under control.


When it comes to starting a business, there are a lot of issues no one talks about. Sure, everyone will tell you that you need to have an idea, that you need to make a business plan and that you need to have enough money but these three tips alone aren't enough. On the other hand, there are some other factors that could undo your business in a matter of weeks or months, yet which no one even dares to mention. Here are five of them.
The first thing you need to know is that just because something sounds like a million-dollar idea, it doesn't mean that it actually is one. For instance, the Uber idea was an outstanding one, seeing as how it solved the situation of urban commute in a new and more convenient way. On the other hand, the app was supposed to act as a GPS-based chat and Tinder for dogs were both doomed to fail from the very start. While one of the above-mentioned eventually grew into a major corporation and the other failed, to their creators all three probably seemed equally brilliant.
In an ideal world, you would have enough money to launch a company but you will then keep it running by using your profits. Unfortunately, what a lot of people won't tell you is that it takes form 6 months to 2 years for a startup to become self-sustainable. In the meantime, you will have to find a way to obtain enough means to keep your company afloat. Here, most people opt for taking another loan.
The greatest problem with taking a new loan lies in the fact that most people ruin their credit score in order to launch their company in the first place. While improving your credit score may seem as the only way out of this situation, you might also want to explore the option of looking for a bad credit personal loan, which some lenders are more than happy to provide.
Another thing that nobody mentions is that even if you have a common interest with a person, it doesn't mean that you have to share the same vision. Sure, both of you want to get rich and dominate your industry but how do you get there? Having a partner whose short-term goals different from yours can turn every single decision-making process into a ruthless battle. Needless to say, this rarely ends well.
As a person in charge, you might fall into the trap of taking on more responsibilities than you can actually handle. This might cause burnout, get estrangement from your friends and family and it might even ruin your life in the long-run. Keep in mind that if your business sets off, this is something you will be doing for years and decades to come. Therefore, make sure that you set a professional pace you know you can keep up with.
At the end of the day, with 9 out of 10 startups failing within the first five years, it seems like no one prepares for success anymore. However, what about a scenario in which everything goes according to plan? What if your business ends up being a one-in-a-million success story? Where do you go from there? The way in which you solve the issue of scalability, the increase in workload and rapid capacity expansion are all extremely important. Failing to respond accordingly to these tasks can, therefore, be incredibly dangerous.
In the last section, we mentioned the fact that most startups never make it. Well, knowing why this happens might just be the first step in being able to avoid this kind of future. In order to get there, however, you need to start listening to all the unpleasant truths that most future entrepreneurs optimistically dismiss. While some may call this kind of an approach pessimistic, others just name it for what it is – being prepared for the worst-case scenario. At the end of the day, being ready for what lies ahead is always good.


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Ten Questions About the Gulf War Monument Planned for Washington
Yes, they're planning a monument to the Gulf War. I have some questions about the design.
Really? Seriously? WTAF? Were there just not enough war monuments yet?
There's no monument to the arming of Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War, without which there could have been no Gulf War, and no monument (yet) to the deadly sanctions and bombings that followed or to the 2003-begun war on Iraq, which couldn't have happened without the Gulf War. Why pick out the Gulf War segment of the endless war on Iraq to memorialize?
The Gulf War resulted in the basing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, which resulted in September 11, 2001. Will that accomplishment be part of what's glorified in this monument?
Will some other accomplishment be noted? What will it be?
Will the monument include any depictions of fictional infants taken out of imaginary incubators?
How will the overwhelmingly Iraqi victims of the Gulf War be memorialized?
The United States killed 30,000 retreating Iraqi soldiers. Will they perhaps be depicted mooning the U.S. Institute of "Peace" across the street?
Will victims of Gulf War Syndrome be remembered with an eternal open burn pit?
Gulf War veteran and terrorist (if that's not redundant) Timothy McVeigh blew up a government building in 1995 and claimed that the deaths that resulted were merely "collateral damage" because killing those people had not been his purpose. He learned that from Gulf War propaganda; will credit be given?
Prior to the Gulf War, Iraq proposed to withdraw from Kuwait if Israel withdrew from the Palestinian territories. Iraq proposed a WMD-free Middle East, including itself and every other Middle Eastern nation. Many nations around the world encouraged pursuing those negotiations with Iraq. The United States preferred war. Was that a wise choice? What do we have to show for it beyond death, destruction, bitter animosity, illness, homeless veterans, environmental devastation, bigotry and racism run amok, eroded civil liberties, militarized police, a violent culture, and one more disgusting monument to mass-murder with which to edify our children?
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A University of Missouri researcher hopes her work to sort out four species of primates will help to save them.
The slow loris has large, brown eyes like its relative the lemur, a second, serrated tongue and an extra vertebrae that makes it very limber.
On the Indonesian island of Borneo, doctoral student Rachel Munds and her colleagues determined that what was thought to be one species of slow loris is actually four different species. The team observed differences in body size, fur thickness, habitat and facial marking among the island's loris population.
Munds says all four species are threatened by humans through deforestation, trade as pets and uses in traditional medicine by the native population.
She says lorises do not make good pets.
In one example of lorises being endangered by traditional Asian medicines, study co-author Anna Nekaris says the tears of the big-eyed loris are thought to be useful to treat eye diseases in humans. In some cases the way those tears are extracted involve skewering the animal and burning it alive.
Nekaris says popular internet videos of lorises doing things like holding umbrellas or eating with forks are also misleading in their innocence. She says lorises in these videos are desperate to hold something, as they would normally spend their whole lives in trees clutching to branches.
Munds hopes the distinction between the four species will earn each one endangered status.
Munds says she will follow-up her work with a genetic study at the University of Missouri.


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I was wondering if any of you use whey protein powder and if it is safe/gluten free?
Whey is ok, I think that is corn or potato based.
I use a combination of egg and whey protein -- supposedly, it's gluten-free. So far, haven't had a problem with it. I had asked someone about casein sensitivity -- dont' think I got an answer -- I think that would be the only difficulty you would have with whey protein.
Would it be wise to call the manufacturer to see if the whey i use contains gluten?
Lemonade--I have no experience with whey, but anytime you are not sure about any product, it is wise to call and check it out yourself.
thankyou both for your replies!
Whey protein is dairy based.
Whey protein does not contain gluten. However whey protein products often have other ingredients added so you do need to check with the manuacturer.
I use Reflex Nutrtion instant whey protein which they have confirmed is gluten free.
Whey protein does contain small amounts of lactose.
"Whey Protein Isolate" is pure whey --- not a blend with other proteins. It's more expensive than other protein powders. I use "Hammer Whey --- 100% Whey Protein Isolate" from Hammer Nutrition. The label claims that "Hammer Whey does not contain: artificial flavors, colors or sweetners; wheat, gluten, dairy components, added simple sugars, stimulants, fad ingredients, or anything unhealthy". All of the Hammer products I've seen are labeled like this (ie, gluten free).
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How many parties in uk
On August 2, 2019, the Election Commission showed the number of registered political parties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland as 408.
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Who are the current political leaders of UK?
Which country has a two party system?
Is there a Constitutionalist party?
Which government is in power in the UK?
What is multi partism?
What are the small political parties called?
Are there only 2 political parties in the US?
When was the 2 party system created?
The government is led by the prime minister (currently Boris Johnson, as of July 24, 2019) who selects all other ministers. To see also : How to join xbox parties on phone. The country has had a Conservative-led government since 2010, with successive prime ministers being the then leader of the Conservative Party.
Which party is currently in power in the UK?
Who are the current UK leaders? cabinet ministers
The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP. …
The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP. …
The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP. …
The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP. …
The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP. …
The Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP. …
The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP. …
The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP.
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For example, in the United States, Bahamas, Jamaica, Malta, and Zimbabwe, the sense of a two-party system describes an arrangement in which all or nearly all elected officials belong to one of the two main parties, and third parties rarely win any seats in the legislature. On the same subject : How to change parties.
Is the Philippines a two-party system? Philippine politics takes place within a three-branch government system. The country is a democracy, led by a directly elected president who serves as head of state and government. … After independence in 1946, national politics took place within a two-party system.
Is Germany a two-party system? The Federal Republic of Germany has a plural multiparty system. … From 1966 to 1969, from 2005 to 2009 and again since 2013, the federal government consisted of a coalition of the two main parties, called the Grand Coalition. Coalitions in the Bundestag and state legislatures are often described by party colors.
Is India a two-party system? India has a multi-party system, where there are several national and regional parties. … In 1998, the BJP formed the National Democratic Alliance with smaller regional parties and became the first non-INC coalition government to complete a five-year term.
How political parties are formed
What is behind the formation of political parties? Certain individuals want to…
The Constitution Party, formerly the U.S. Taxpayers' Party until 1999, is a political party in the United States that promotes a conservative religious view of the principles and intentions of the United States Constitution. On the same subject : How do political parties nominate candidates. … The Constitution parties of Minnesota and Colorado achieved major party status once.
Who is the Constitution Party's 2020 candidate? On May 2, 2020, the Constitution Party named Don Blankenship for president and William Mohr for vice president. Several state parties split from the National Constitution Party to nominate their own candidates.
What is an English constitutionalist? Constitutionalist was a label used by some British politicians who ran for Parliament in the 1920s instead of the more traditional party labels. The label was used mainly by former supporters of the coalition government led by David-Lloyd-George and mainly by Winston Churchill.
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The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy in which the reigning monarch (ie the king or queen who is the head of state at any given time) makes no overt political decisions. This may interest you : How much are birthday parties at chuck e cheese. All political decisions are taken by the government and Parliament.
When did the monarchy lose power in England? From 1603, the English and Scottish kingdoms were ruled by a single sovereign. From 1649 to 1660, the tradition of monarchy was broken by the Republican Commonwealth of England, which followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Does Queen Elizabeth have any power? Her formal title is Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and she also has the power to appoint bishops and archbishops. As with many of its other powers, however, this one is exercised only under the advice of the prime minister, who consults with a Church Committee.
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In political science, a multiparty system is a political system in which multiple political parties from across the political spectrum compete in national elections and all have the ability to gain control of government offices, either separately or in coalition. On the same subject : How to dance for parties.
What do you mean by coalition? A coalition is a group formed when two or more people, factions, states, political parties, military or other parties agree to work together, often temporarily, in partnership to achieve a common goal. … The word coalition denotes a union to achieve a goal.
What is Accenture's primary domain for practicing multiparty systems? Accenture Blockchain and Multiparty Systems specializes in supply chain, digital identity and financial services. In each of these domains, we build incredible foundational capabilities, confirm proof of value, and help business ecosystems implement the first wave of multiparty systems.
What does the term partisan mean? A partisan is a committed member of a political party or army. In multiparty systems, the term is used for people who strongly support their party's policies and are reluctant to commit to political opponents.
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How are political parties organized at the federal, state and local levels?…
In the United States, they are often described as third parties. See the article : How to join parties on ps5. Smaller parties in the US include the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the Constitution Party, and others that have less influence than the major parties.
What are the names of the two small political parties? The modern two-party system consists of the "Democratic" Party and the "Republican" Party.
What is a single political party called? A one-party state, one-party state, one-party system, or one-party system is a type of sovereign state in which only one political party has the right to form government, usually based on the existing constitution.
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What do political parties do? Recruit candidates for public office, organize and…
The modern two-party system consists of the "Democratic" Party and the "Republican" Party. Read also : How to dj parties. … These two parties have won every presidential election in the United States since 1852 and have controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856.
Does the US have 3 parties? Current Third Party United States Currently, the Libertarian and Green Parties are the largest in the United States after the Republican and Democratic Parties. Here are the signs of their 2016 campaigns respectively.
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Although the founders of the United States did not originally intend American politics to be partisan, the first political controversies in the 1790s saw the emergence of a two-party political system, the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party, centered on differing opinions about government federal… Read also : How to join parties on xbox app.
Why did the second part system end? As late as 1850, the two-party system looked healthy. Democrats and Whigs gained strength in all parts of the country. Then, in the early 1850s, the two-party system began to disintegrate in response to mass foreign immigration.
Why did the two-party system return with the 1824 election? In the presidential election of 1824, regionalism and regional issues predominated. The choice of president in the Chamber became a matter of political negotiation. One important result was the eventual development of a new two-party system.
What were the 2 new political parties in the 1830s? The Whig Party was an active political party in the mid-19th century in the United States. Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two largest parties in the United States between the late 1830s and early 1850s, as part of the Second Party System.
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Mix the almond or rice milk with the vinegar and allow them to stand for 5 minutes until curdles form. Mix dry ingredients together and set aside. In large mixing bowl, beat apple butter, oil, egg, and milk. Add dry mixture and stir gently. Be careful not to overmix. Serve with Sautéed Apples** (Refer below for recipe).
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Malcolm Butler saved the Patriots from Malcolm Butler
By Tom E. Curran November 07, 2018 4:10 PM
"When you play man coverage, you have to look at your man. … When you look back at the quarterback, your man has a tendency to move in another direction."
Mike Vrabel said that on Tuesday. He said it in an effort to explain what Malcolm Butler's particular cornerbacking malfunction is.
Butler signed a five-year, $61 million free agent contract with Vrabel's Titans in the offseason.
It's fair to say neither Vrabel nor Titans GM Jon Robinson – a former Patriots executive – envisioned an explanation of baseline principals of man-to-man coverage being necessary to help people understand why their $61M corner was giving up touchdowns at an alarming rate.
But, there they are.
And here are the Patriots, Butler's former employers, flying to Nashville Sunday to further prove they got it right with Butler. On that plane will be Stephon Gilmore, the corner the Patriots paid instead of Butler. Gilmore is playing as well as any defensive back in the NFL over the first half of the season.
But Bill Belichick and Nick Caserio won't be smug about not making the same mistake the Titans did.
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Mike Vrabel remembers challenging Bill Belichick and Tom Brady during playing days
Because the Patriots tried to make the exact same mistake.
The Patriots' best and final offer to Butler prior to the 2017 season was a six-year, $66M contract with $25.5M guaranteed, according to ESPN's Field Yates.
Some context on Malcolm Butler's reported 5-year $61M deal with Titans: the Patriots' final offer before last season was for 6-years, $66M, with $25.5M guaranteed (five years on top of his restricted free agent tender of $3.91M). Same neighborhood.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) March 14, 2018
But Butler balked. Instead of taking that offer in the summer of 2016, Butler and his agents eyed the deal Josh Norman got from the Redskins in April of 2016 – a five-year, $75M deal with $50M guaranteed.
Surely, Butler would do better than that, they believed. So Butler played out the final year of his contract in 2016 making $600,000.
By the end of the 2016 season, the Patriots had a change of heart on Butler. And they decided they'd prefer Gilmore. Having faced Gilmore 10 times since he came into the league as the 10th overall pick in the 2012 draft, the Patriots loved Gilmore's length and natural ability.
The stubbier Butler played at a more continually aggressive pitch than Gilmore but there were times he'd be physically outgunned because of his height. So Gilmore got the five-year, $65M contract with $31M guaranteed.
The Patriots put the first-round tender tag on Butler as a restricted free agent and hoped someone would bite. The New Orleans Saints nearly did. After the two teams talked about swapping Butler and wide receiver Brandin Cooks, the Patriots traded a first-rounder for Cooks.
Butler then visited with the Saints. If the Saints could sign him to an offer sheet and the Patriots didn't match, New England would get a first-round pick back.
But it would be New Orleans' pick – the 10th overall – not the 32nd overall pick the Patriots sent for Gilmore.
The Saints cooled. Butler stayed, played extensively but somewhat inconsistently then was inexplicably benched from the regular defense in Super Bowl 52 after playing virtually every defensive snap all season long.
You may recall.
Imagine how different things might be if Butler just took the deal the Patriots put in front of him in the first half of 2016. Butler was one of the Big-Four defensive players the team needed to find a way to retain or be compensated for.
Chess match with Rodgers helped Patriots defense grow
They'd already sent Chandler Jones to Arizona. They were still slow-playing Donta Hightower. Nothing was moving with Jamie Collins. Butler was the one they'd keyed on.
Had he signed, would the team have had the dough to retain Hightower? It certainly wouldn't have had the dough for Gilmore. And there would have been no dalliance with the Saints for Brandin Cooks who, even though he had his limitations, was indispensable in 2017 after the injury to Julian Edelman.
How would Butler have performed after getting paid? Judging by the way things are going in Tennessee, perhaps not too well.
But maybe he would have become a different player, more stable and dependable as opposed to a boom-or-bust defender. And he surely wouldn't have felt jilted and wronged to the point where – leading into Super Bowl 52 – he'd had enough and just wanted to get to the finish line.
Even if benching Butler in the Super Bowl remains a bastardization of the "do what's best for the football team" mantra, Butler put himself in position to be benched. And all of it traces back to the contract the Patriots offered him – one pretty similar to the one he got from Tennessee – that Butler turned his nose up to.
So when the Patriots see Vrabel struggle to explain why Butler is directly responsible for seven touchdowns this season, they probably won't be congratulating themselves but thinking, "There but for the grace of God go I …"
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Defiant Gym Raises $1,000 Per Hour in Legal Defense GoFundMe
Plus: Philly health commissioner Tom Farley tells Philadelphians, "Don't go to the beach."
By Victor Fiorillo· 5/19/2020, 9:43 a.m.
Atilis Gym owner Ian Smith in Bellmawr, New Jersey after police cited him for reopening the gym against shutdown orders. Since then, a GoFundMe has raised over $1,000 per hour for legal defense. (Image courtesy 6 ABC)
A roundup of Philly coronavirus news.
Defiant Atilis Gym in Bellmawr Raises $1,000 Per Hour in Legal Defense GoFundMe
The eyes of the anti-shutdown movement were on Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey on Monday. (It's ten minutes from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, for those of you who never leave the city.) Atilis Gym owner Ian Smith and the gym's other owners said that they would reopen at 8 a.m. on Monday, against New Jersey's shutdown orders. And they did.
There were far more reporters and anti-shutdown activists on the scene than Atilis Gym members. The rally, if you want to call it that, was peaceful. Police showed up but then left. Then law enforcement returned, citing the owners for reopening. And Atilis Gym members have been told that they could be cited or even arrested should they decide to work out there.
The gym has no plans to close, and further law enforcement action seems inevitable. And so, there's a GoFundMe that was set up late on Monday afternoon to cover the citations (up to $1,000 each) or other court costs associated with the Atilis Gym reopening. In the first 17 hours of the campaign, 455-plus donors have put up more than $17,000.
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Here's a 6 ABC report from the gym:
Meanwhile, Giovanni's Barber Shop in Media still plans to reopen on Wednesday against Pennsylvania's shutdown orders. We'll let you know how that works out.
Farley to Philly: "Don't Go to the Beach"
You've probably seen plenty of photos and videos from folks who took to the Jersey Shore last weekend. In some cases, it was downright crowded.
So with the long Memorial Day Weekend ahead of us, Philadelphia health commissioner Tom Farley has issued some instructions for "what not to do this weekend," as he put it at a Monday press conference.
"Don't go to the beach," Farley said. "It is true that being outdoors is probably less risk than being close to people indoors, but if you go into crowds anywhere, there's risk. We understand the draw. It's very tempting. You may have gone to the beach every Memorial Day for years. But this is not the time to do that."
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has seemed puzzled over New Jersey's decision to open the beaches this early.
"I'm certainly not going to the beach," Wolf told reporters last Friday. "You go anywhere where you're going to be in close contact with other people, for whatever reason, you're taking your life into your own hands. You're jeopardizing your neighbor. You're jeopardizing yourself, maybe your family. I think you ought to be concerned about that. So personally, I'm not going to the beach."
That was before crowds gathered over the weekend. And then on Monday, Wolf had more to say.
"There are people there who aren't wearing masks and you're putting yourself at risk," Wolf said. "I wouldn't do that. I haven't done that. And I'm not sure why the governors of Maryland and New Jersey have opened their beaches. But they have."
Back on May 7th, which seems like a lot longer ago than it actually was, Pennsylvania health commissioner Rachel Levine weighed in on trips to the Jersey Shore.
"I know it's tempting, given the warm weather that hopefully will be coming soon," Levine said. "But going to New Jersey can have risks. Because New Jersey has had a very high incidence of COVID-19. And if you go to the shore, I bet you other people will go to the shore. It will be almost impossible to practice social distancing… And so, my recommendation is for people to stay home."
The Philly Restaurant Obituaries Have Begun
Depending on which expert you believe, anywhere from one fifth to one third of all restaurants in Philadelphia will close due to the coronavirus. And those closings have begun.
Over the weekend, we learned that Old City standby Farmicia would not reopen.
"It is with a sad heart and with deepest regrets that we must inform you that Farmicia Restaurant will be permanently closing its doors due to the coronavirus pandemic," reads a message on the Farmicia Facebook page. "We thank you for your constant support and patronage over the last 15 years, it means the world to us. We could not have done anything without the constant love and support from our loyal guests."
Another restaurant victim? (Well, bar, really.) Mad River in Manayunk.
Here's what the general manager wrote on Facebook:
Welp. With a heavy heart, it's time to announce the ol' Riv won't make it thru this mess (I truly hope this doesn't start a string of these announcements 🙏🏻).
There are so many rumors out there but the biggest truth of all is that Manayunk is just a different town anymore as far as nightlife goes. We decided as a squad it was just time to cash em in. No one should hang their head, a place like ours had no business making it ELEVEN YEARS. It's wild and honestly impressive.
I planned on being a lot more long winded but that's about all I have to say for now, it's all just a lot. Thanks to anyone and everyone over the years that made this place such a true monster! I'm sure the rest of the crew will have somethin to say. Pm me with any questions.
Personally I plan on being a Jersey shore beach bum and figure out the rest come Sept/Oct. Stay safe y'all!
Guess he didn't see what Farley, Wolf and Levine had to say about going to the Jersey Shore.
Popular South Philly restaurant Saté Kampar is also closing, though the owners aren't exactly blaming the coronavirus.
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Johnson & Johnson, Berkshire Hathaway lose standing in annual reputation poll.
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Apple Inc., burnished by the iPhone's success and memorials to Steve Jobs, displaced Google Inc. as top company in Harris Interactive's poll of corporate images. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Johnson & Johnson dropped.
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V. Lenoirre's Review of Project Guernia at LEA6
On November 13th at 2pm SLT, Project Guernica, a full sim build by Lizzie Gudkov and London Junkers, opened. http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA6/67/126/30
Project Guernica is dedicated to Pablo Picasso's famous painting, Guernica. The painting portrayed the bombing of the Basque town, Guernica, during the Spanish Civil War. He created this huge mural in 1937 at the request of the Spanish Republican government.
The landing point to this full sim gallery is on a circular platform, surrounded by a railing. Lizzie and London stayed for a few hours to welcome friends and guests to their opening.
The platform location and its design is really quite clever. You feel like you're in the middle--at the very core of the art installation. And above and in front of you is the great mural....Guernica. It is like a grand presentation for your senses. You're in the midst of a great piece of art, kind of like being in the midst of war. It's awesome in its effect on your mind and your eyes. The images, the news, the people, the casualties...it is so real, yet at times you find it so surreal.
Landing platform at Project Guernica Nov. 13th, 2012
Closeup of Project Guernica, the red circle is SaveMe Oh. :-)
You can click either of the signs in the first picture for a Project Guernica gift and for a notecard describing the Project.
The rendering of this scene is great. Lizzie and London constructed it with prims. The 3-dimensional aspect is absolutely wonderful. One guest was thrilled at being able to sit on a section of this enormous build.
I even got a close up of the center of this image, the fallen horse and the fallen knight.
Center of Project Guernica
The timing for this work is relevant. The world is involved in the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan. There's just so much bloodshed and suffering. This mural has light that symbolizes hope. So my first question to Lizzie and London is: Where do you see hope in the wars we're facing right now?
*Where do you see hope in the wars we're facing right now?
London: Hope is a quality that we have. As the human kind progresses, culture changes and more of us understand that war is a futile effort. We shall never give up hope that peace will prevail some day.
Lizzie: Art is often an expression of reality, feelings and it may even anticipate solutions. Hopefully, art will have its share of contribution in finding a resolution for wars in the world.
*Is this your favorite work by Picasso?
Lizzie: Picasso is such an amazing artist, that it is difficult to choose one single piece!
London: I agree with Lizzie! It is definitely one of his best pieces but too difficult to compare to other epochs and styles of his work.
*What fascinates you about it?
London: Its dimension and what it represents.
Lizzie: I think that it is an impressive piece. It's incredibly rich and it allows for a diverse interpretation, in many ways reflecting our individual experiences and backgrounds.
*What was the hardest part about building this masterpiece in 3d for LEA6?
Lizzie: *points to London* :)
London: Building this piece was a joy and a challenge. In terms of the pieces the original painting has, the translation to a 3D environment of the horse was the biggest challenge.
*Where else do you have art showing in SL?
London: We had artwork in the UWA where we have participated in several of their contests. Plus we have also taken part recently in The Art of Protest exhibit.
Lizzie: We would like to thank LEA for giving us this chance and we are happy that the Second Life community is enjoying it. The comments have been very positive. Thank you, Victoria, for this opportunity to share a few thoughts about "Project Guernica"!
To Lizzie and London, you are most welcome. I enjoy seeing your art and I love being able to ask you and other artists about your work. Building can take awhile and it is always wonderful to see the result. A lot of time and love really goes into it. Your time and effort is very much appreciated!
If you haven't seen it yet, you should visit LEA6 to see Project Guernica! It is up for your pleasure until the end of this month!
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American fellows in SL!
Have fun and enjoy the art!
-Victoria Lenoirre
The UWA Artists' Choice Challenge for this month is on the theme: "EARTH". This is the last of the elemental themes the began with AIR, followed by WATER and FIRE.
Runs through Dec. 9. SLURL
Mother Earth, nurtures and sustains us all, a small orb among many orbiting an insignificant star. She is the origin of life and is destined to receive life back again as dust. A delicate balance. Tectonic plates shifting. Species, including us, evolving and facing extinction. (A metaphor for every individual life?) The planet is so strong and so delicate. It's astounding that life is resilient enough to survive here. And yet here we are. Our artists were asked to show us what Earth means to them.
We received 27 entries from 26 artists (including one collaborative work and three artists with dual entries). People's Choice voting is now active for you to go explore and rate your favorites. The entries include:
Aquaglo, MellyDee Macfanatic, Dinny Voom Earth, without her?... We would NOT exist!
Barbara Wardell Protect Our Planet Earth
Brune BB Crash Queen Madre Tierra
Carmsie Melodie Cherish and Renew
Corcosman Voom Harvest Dance
Dragon Lord Pachamama
Dragon Lord Please Recycle
Finn Lanzius The Formation of the Earth
FreeWee Ling Persistent Effects
FreeWee Ling It's the End of the World As We Know It
GeeJAnn Blackadder Microcosm
Haveit Neox Road Kill
Herbie Haven Earth (The Big Squeeze)
Jeneve Felwitch Earth Priestess
Johnas Merlin The desert in bloom
Kandinsky Beaumont EAT DIRT OR BE DIRT
Krystali Rabeni What a Wonderful World
Lilia Artis Earthen Patterns
Lucignolo (coddax) Universe Tao Ming
Misprint Thursday Earth Signal
Nexuno Thespian Earth Passion
Secret Rage Earth Child
Secret Rage Earth to Earth
Silene Christen Conceptual Earth
Sir Real (vgtar.carlberg) Goodbye Galileo, We are Redesigning the Earth to be Flat!
Talia Sunsong Abundant Earth Gaia Statue
Talia Sunsong I Will Shelter You
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LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES (NOV): LONDON & LIZZIE'S GUERNICA
London Junkers & Lizzie Gudkov take over at LEA 6 for the NOVEMBER ROUND of the LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES (here for full year schedule), bringing back yesteryear with "PROJECT GUERNICA".
GRAND OPENING:
2PM SLT, TUESDAY 13th NOVEMBER
IN LONDON'S WORDS:
In 1937 Spanish painter Pablo Picasso created one of the most important icons of the 20th century when he made the Guernica.
Painted in black and white, depicting the horrors of war, it is today as solid and modern as it was when it was first shown in the 1937 International Fair in Paris. T
he intention of re-creating this masterpiece in Second Life comes from the love for the original mural itself and what it represents. After a lot of thought and experimenting with external 3d software,a decision was made, this installation would be built primarily in prims, as an exercise of the possibilities that LEA has given us. With this piece, we would like to pay homage to Picasso and let visitors learn more from it.
A Ziki Questi image from the Grand Opening of Project Guernica
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Extinguishing the Fire
Saturday morning brought the latest in the UWA Artists' Choice Challenge awards presentation and the official closing of the "FIRE" show. Taralyn Gravois emceed the event.
By an overwhelming consensus, Nexuno Thespian won the First Place award for the October challenge, which featured the theme "FIRE".Nexuno's entry titled "Fireflower" seemed to have everything one could want -- exquisite use of form, color, figures, animation, and music to express a surreal vision of passion and heat and beauty.
In Second Place was Krystali Rabenow's "Tragedy", a poignant diorama showing a puppet theater on fire, the collapsed marionette resigning to his fate of impending doom as the result of an unrequited love .
In third place was Secret Rage's cryptic, surrealistic vision titled "When Lightning Strikes."
While we had no unscripted entries in last month's "Water" themed show, this month we had five to choose from. There was a separate balloting for this award, and the participating artists chose Corcosman Voom's "Fire Birds."
The FIRE show was featured on the SL login screen for the last few days of the show, resulting in a flurry of voting for the People's Choice award. With over 700 votes cast overall, the decisive favorite was Barry Richez's "Douce Colombe" ("Sweet Dove") inspired by poem of Mlle. NGEUFEU KENNE Alvine of Cameroon.
The full transcript of the awards presentation follows:
Welcome to the sixth edition of the UWA Artists' Choice Awards!
As is tradition at the University of Western Australia, we would like to acknowledge that the University is situated on Nyoongar land and that the Nyoongar people remain the spiritual and cultural custodians of their land and continue to uphold their values, languages, beliefs and knowledge.
Before we announce the winners, FreeWee would like me to remind you that this amazing FIRE show is officially closing today, though it may remain up for another few days while the EARTH show gets installed. Do please take a last tour ASAP.
The exhibition catalogues for each of the Artsts' Choice challenges are being published in the online journal "UWA Studies in Virtual Arts." The current "FIRE" show will be added to the previous five editions that covered the "3D Self Portraits," "Perfume," "Music", "Air," and "Water" shows earlier this year. The catalogues for WATER and FIRE should be published very soon. They and the earlier editions can be found at this link: http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/p/uwa-siva.html
FreeWee has published the complete photo archive (166 images) of "FIRE" at this URL: http://goo.gl/Sqs7S
FreeWee also urges you to submit your work for the next show on the theme: "EARTH". Deadline for submissions is TOMORROW, SUNDAY at NOON SLT. The gallery for EARTH is under construction and the show should be open within a couple of days.
Looking ahead, start working on your submissions for the show to follow EARTH as we finish out the series of Artists Choice theme shows in December with a theme called "TRIPTYCH." Deadline for TRIPTYCH will be announced very soon. Full details on the Artist's Choice Challenges are on the website at this URL: http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/p/artists-choice-challenge.html
The UWA Artists' Choice challenges are designed to inspire and support the work of artists. The key difference from earlier challenges is that the main awards are determined entirely by the votes of the participating artists and sponsors themselves. It's a special honor to be acknowledged by our colleagues.
We received 26 amazing entries for the FIRE theme by 20 artists.
L$15,000 was donated by our sponsors this month. Clearly, none of this would have been possible without the tremendous support of UWA in SL, and most especially the imagination and vision of JayJay Zifanwe.
We also express our deepest gratitude to the other sponsors for this event, including:
Armany Thursday and Dyce Underwood for DNA Art and Music Fusion
Flora Nordenskiold and NordanArt
Ginger Alsop and Phi Clothing Designs
and special donations by anonymous donors
Anyone wishing to support future challenges, please contact FreeWee Ling.
Now to the awards. Choosing "FIRE" for the October theme was inspired by the idea of having four related shows based on the alchemical "elements" of air, water, fire, and earth. The interpretations of "FIRE" have been diverse as usual. From fiery passion to nuclear fission to hot peppers and fried eggs. This has been one of the most engaging shows in the series.
The FIRE show was a featured site on the SL Login screen for a day or two this week. We have hosted over 300 unique visitors who cast a total of 725 votes for the People's Choice award.
The voting was clear, with just over 20 points separating the winner from its closest competitor.
The People's Choice Award (L$2000) for UWA Artists' Choice FIRE goes to:
DOUCE COLOMBE by Barry Richez
Rounding out the top five were: both entries by Nexuno Thespian, Krystali Rabeni's "Tragedy", and Talia Sunsong's "Ignite Passion".
Next we go to the Non-scripted Award. This was determined by a separate vote by the artists. Last month there were no non-scripted entries. This time there are five to choose from.
The Non-Scripted Award for FIRE (L$3000) goes to:
FIREBIRDS by Corcosman Voom
Corcosman's entry was followed closely by Chic Aeon's "Global Warming", with Dividni Shostakovich's "Fire Is a Verb", Dragon Lord's "Man on fire an eternal flame", and Hypatia Pickens's "Fire Elemental: Salamander" rounding out the top five (with only one point separating the last three).
We go now to the overall awards.
The voting was diverse as always, with only one point separating each of the 4th-through 2nd places. But the First Place winner got more than double the score of the next highest competitor.
The Third Place Award (L$3000) goes to:
WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES by Secret Rage
Secret's piece has so much going on, it takes close examination to take it all in. Her work always reflects a unique, often surrealistic, vision.
The Second Place Award (L$5000) goes to:
TRAGEDY by Krystali Rabeni
The aptly titled story of a marionette with a love that could never be touched many viewers. A work finely executed with a strong emotional impact.
Which brings us to the First Place award.
There seemed to be no question at all as to the winner of this round. By an overwhelming vote, the First Place Award (L$7000) for FIRE goes to:
FIREFLOWER by Nexuno Thespian
Our congratulations to Nexuno! Other artists who ranked strongly in the overall voting, in no particular order, included Nexuno's other entry LEAVES DON'T FALL, RUST MAN by Herbie Haven, DOUCE COLOMBE by Barry Richez, PHOENIX RISING by Silene Christen, and FIERY FLAMES OF PASSION by Aquaglo and MellyDee Macfanatic.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all who participated in a great show! Please take a final look around before you leave today. The FIRE show will all be gone soon to make room for the EARTH, opening soon. Thank you all for coming! Have a great day!
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"Let's go to Switzerland!" is something people usually say after a particularly satisfying meal at The Melting Pot™ (which is never). But alas, Christine and I decided to follow the footsteps of friends Corbin and Susannah and Robert and Patricia, who all honeymooned in the country (but not as a foursome, that would be crazy!).
Christine and my honeymoon to Italy is the subject of the newest episode of the ongoing Travel Series. After you were thoroughly teased with my 30-second taste of espresso, I bring you this full-blown three-minute adventure-flick. Hot on the heels of our wedding day, Christine and I sailed through the canals of Venice. We wrapped ourselves in the leathers of Florence. And we defeated the selfie stick salesmen of Rome, while pioneering our own far more obnoxious form of self-portrait photography: the selfie-spin.
Just over a month from our triumphant honeymoon return, I began editing the latest installment of the James + Christine Travel Series. Our trip through Venice, Florence and Rome has yielded over six hours of raw video bits -- and every moment is pure gold! From creeper shots of tourists abusing selfie-sticks to our personal quest to find a single dairy-free Italian dessert, I may be in over my head summarizing this two-week stint into a meaningful compilation. Because once the final video is produced, all memories left on the cutting room floor will be forgotten. Forever. But before that masterpiece manifests, enjoy this 30 second teaser that features my first of many espressos on our Italian holiday.
Christine and I continued to city-hop using the county's impressively smooth Trenitalia train system. We arrived in Rome, the dramatic climax to a wonderful Italian romp. Despite being the oldest city on our trip, this was by far the most lively. At times, its hustle and bustle traffic was reminiscent of New York. But with its ancient wonders peppered throughout modern architecture, Rome contains a bizarre landscape of a city smeared across 3,000 years of time. To experience Rome in only four nights was ambitious, especially while maintaining our carefree honeymoon rhythm.
For the second stop of our Italian adventure, Christine and I found ourselves in Florence. The capital of Tuscany and former capital of Italy, Florence surprised us for its quaint, small-town charm and beautiful tribute to the Renaissance movement. Coming from the road-less Venice, it was refreshing to be in a city that people live in. The historic district is entirely walkable, as you zig-zag through the boutique-filled streets and beautiful piazzas. The Florence Cathedral will eventually emerge overtop the surrounding buildings, surprisingly dwarfing everything in the immediate vicinity. Grab the museum day-pass and climb up the top of the massive Duomo. This church-hike is worth the wait in line and will yield a one-of-a-kind view of the city.
Right on the heels of our wedding, Christine and I escaped to Venice as the first destination on our Italian honeymoon. A city like no other, Venice is made up entirely of canals, alleys and bridges. There are no roads. There are no cars. In fact, navigating through the city is utterly impractical. It is impossible to walk in a straight line, but if you allow yourself to get lost, it becomes a city of discovery. No two blocks look the same and around every corner is yet another breathtaking photo opportunity. It almost starts to get old!
As part of the traditional morning-of gift-exchange, I presented Christine with a video tribute of our lives leading up to the big day. From the venue and hotel selection to registering and the pre-rehearsal dinner cookout, this video also celebrates the little moments, inside jokes and personal traditions over the last year and a half. Using a When Harry Met Sally-inspired approach, the video is also bookended with clips of my Papou and Yiayia sharing stories of their first encounter over sixty years ago.


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By Susan Sherren, Founder Couture Trips
If you have been longing for a Grecian holiday, it might be just around the corner. May 14th, 2021 is the magical date when Greece opens up its borders to tourists longing for some amazing views of the Aegean. Gloria Guevara, President, and CEO of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) stated, "the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and its Members praise the Greek government for its tremendous efforts and strategic steps taken to restart international travel from 14 May." It is quite a bold step in the right direction to revive Greece's tourism industry that has been devastated by the pandemic. This move could be duplicated in other countries longing to ramp up their tourism economy.
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The second national Strategic Workshop of the SIGGS EU funded project on Good Governance was organised in Lisbon (Portugal) on 4th of May 2016. The event was hosted by the National Olympic Committee of Portugal (COP) and gathered a total of 30 participants from 22 national sport federations, the Portuguese Olympic Academy and the National Olympic Committee.
The Workshop was officially opened by Joao Paulo Almeida, General Director of the National Olympic Committee of Portugal, who welcomed the participants and expressed his gratitude for the number of federations that participated in the first evaluation and that registered for the Workshop. In his opening message, he underlined the importance of implementing good governance principles by referring to the words of IOC President Thomas Bach: "change or be changed".
Following this opening message, Matthias Van Baelen from the EOC EU Office provided an introduction of the topic "good governance" focusing on the relevance of for national sport federations. He also introduced the objectives, methodology and activities of the SIGGS Project with a particular emphasis on the innovative self-evaluation tool and particularly the Roadmaps and Action Plans which have been developed over recent months.
Then, Aurélien Favre from EOSE and member of the Steering Group of the SIGGS project presented the analysis of the results of the first evaluation round which took place in October – November 2015. He made a focus on the European results of the consultation to highlight the strengths and areas of improvement towards each good governance principle and then focus on the Portuguese results and specificities to open the discussion. He insisted on the fact that all these results should be carefully taken into consideration as they are self-declarative.
- Joana Gonçalves, President of the Portuguese Hockey Federation since 2012, referred to some recent changes to improve the governance that had a positive effect on the number of members as well as the number of official games despite the decrease of public subsidies and the general budget. Furthermore, she presented how the results of the SIGGS evaluation helped the federation to identify some weaknesses and areas of improvement for the organisation.
- Marcos Oliviera, Secretary General of the Portuguese Canoe Federation, presented a similar process. He explained how the federation has used the SIGGS evaluation tool as an opportunity to evaluate the organisation and underline areas that should be improved. This evaluation was followed by some direct actions such as a redefinition of their mid-term and long-term goals, investment in integrity, use of technology and a restructuring of the functioning of the federation. Especially in terms of internal and external communication, considerable progress was made to increase transparency and interaction with members and stakeholders.
Both testimonies stressed the impact of the crisis on the financial subsidies and they both mentioned the need to increase efficiency and to "do more with less".
During the afternoon session, Joao Paulo Almeida shared the SIGGS results of the Portuguese NOC and the concrete actions taken forward, for instance related to the fight against match-fixing. He then chaired a Workshop to discuss with participants concrete issues and challenges to implement good governance principles in Portuguese sport. Furthermore, Joao Paulo Almeida presented an Action Plan on the fight against match-fixing and invited sport federations to join forces in this Action Plan, which builds on the IOC Code on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions as well as the Convention of the Council of Europe.
To close the event, Matthias Van Baelen presented the second version of the self-evaluation tool and launched the second consultation phase with the option to download different Roadmaps and to obtain a customised Action Plan.


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