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Obama's Middle East Legacy: "A Complicated Disaster" Interview with Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince. KGNU Boulder. "Hemispheres Program – Middle East Dialogues." October 25, 2016: Part One
tags: Andrew Cockburn's "Kill Chain", Ibrahim Kazerooni, Obama's 2009 Cairo Speech
Fallujah, Iraq, before the U.S. invasion known as the "city of mosques" for the more than 200 mosques found there and the surrounding villages; today look at it – U.S contribution to Iraqi "nation building." In 2003, early on in the U.S.invasion of Iraq, it was bombed to smithereens so that when it was finally taken, there were only four buildings standing. Among the bombs the U.S. forces dropped on the city were white phosphorous and Mark 77 bombs. It has changed hands several times since.
Given the statements and record of the two main presidential contenders, Clinton and Trump, regardless of who wins the presidential contest in the next few weeks, it is highly doubtful there will be any major shifts in the overall goals and activities of U.S. Middle East policy. Many signs are suggesting that the pattern of unending war and military intervention will continue if not intensify giving those of us who have worked for peace in the Middle East a plate full in the period ahead
KGNU – October 25, 2016 Part One
Jim Nelson: Good evening, I'm your host for this evening and once again thanks for tuning in to KGNU community sponsored radio at KGNU Boulder-Denver and beyond at www.kgnu.org. This is "Hemispheres" and we continue our "Middle East Dialogues" and as always joining us in these dialogues is Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince.
As many of you know Ibrahim Kazerooni is a regular contributor to KGNU's "International Press Round Table." Ibrahim has a phd from the joint Iliff School of Theology – University of Denver Korbel School of International Studies in Religion and Social Change. Joining me in the studio is Rob Prince. Rob is a retired Senior Lecturer of International Studies at the University of Denver's Korbel School of International Studies. Rob is published on-line. He is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus and writes regularly for the award-winning Tunisian website "Nawaat.com" as well as for "Algeria Watch," an Algerian human rights website published out of Berlin, Germany.
Welcome to you as well, Rob.
Rob Prince: Thank you Jim and hello Ibrahim.
Ibrahim Kazerooni: Good evening Jim and Rob
Jim Nelson: Let's get right into it gentlemen. Later in the program we'll be discussion the latest developments in Iraq and Syria; but first we're going to take a look at the past eight years of Obama's Middle East policy, his legacy so to speak.
I would just like to interject that these past eight years have been very "complicated."
Ibrahim Kazerooni: A disaster
Jim Nelson: "a complicated disaster!" Specifically, what has stood out concerning his policy has been the use of drones. Drone technology has really exploded under Obama's leadership – and that's no pun intended. For the people in the region, these extra-judicial killings have not helped to decrease the jihadist threat; if anything it has increased the numbers of people who want to join.
Ibrahim Kazerooni: Jim, with due respect, they were intended to support the jihadis, not to reduce them.
Jim Nelson: Before getting into the material I just wanted to mention Rob, that you brought in a book if you want to look at the rise of the use of drones: Andrew Cockburn's Kill Chain: The Rise of the High Tech Assassins.
Part One: Obama's Main Legacy: Unending Middle East War
Rob Prince: OK, let's talk about this "complicated disaster" – Obama's Middle East legacy over the past eight years. In so doing we intend to cover several related topics today…two in particular. One is looking at Obama's Middle East legacy – whatever that might be. The other, related, is the current situation unfolding in Syria and Iraq with great speed at the moment. As the news has shifted back to Iraq with the current military offensive to push ISIS out of Mosul, Iraq, we'll look at Iraq in some detail.In finishing up, we want to give a few thoughts on what the current U.S. presidential contest offers in terms of the future of U.S. Middle East policy.
As Jim noted, I'll start out, outlining the general framework, Ibrahim will zero in on developments in Iraq and Syria
It might surprise some of our listeners that the more we "scratched the surface" of U.S. policy in the Middle East – as we have tried to do over the past six years, the more we understood that at a fundamental level, the Obama policies are consist with, in line with, those of the Bush years. These consistencies far outweigh policy differences between the two administrations. Even where these exist they are more about what amount to as minor tactical differences rather than a fundamental shifts.
Given the statements and record of the two main presidential contenders, Clinton and Trump, regardless of who wins the presidential contest in the next few weeks, it is highly doubtful there will be any major shifts in the overall goals of U.S. Middle East policy. Many signs are suggesting that the pattern of unending war and military intervention will continue if not intensify giving those of us who have worked for peace in the Middle East a plate full in the period ahead.
The U.S. approach to the Middle East is bipartisan and has been for a long time, since the end of World War II in fact. This will continue. The point here is that it is useless to try to separate the Democratic and Republican Party presidents and their Middle East policies is not an accurate or useful way of viewing the situation.
In looking at Obama's Middle East legacy over these past eight years, giving all the promises made concerning the Middle East, it's useful to separate out the rhetoric from the reality. Its rhetoric was quite fine, great rhetoric (verbal support for the Arab Spring. Unfortunately, with a few minor exceptions, the reality is nothing less than a disaster, a systematically insidious policy, different from the Bush policy only in minor tactical details.
If we just go back to the first election of Barack Obama in 2008 and compare the situation in the Middle East today, the contrast is striking.
a. the war in Iraq was still raging.
b. the sociopolitical movement – a yearning for region-wide change, an end to abusive government, corruption, repression and lack of economic and social progress – would explode region wide, starting in Tunisia a year later (late 2010, early 2011) – called the Arab Spring.
We would add here that elsewhere in the region:
– Iraq was still a royal mess with several hundred thousand U.S. troops there along with many – tens of thousands of paid private security operatives and mercenaries.
– There was no war yet in Syria
– Libya had not yet collapsed
– The Saudis had not yet invaded Yemen
– At the time of Obama's election, that was the moment of the Israeli assault on Gaza, which Noam Chomsky referred to as "a hideous atrocity" was underway, leaving 1500 dead and 10,000 homeless.
Yet today, in the Middle East and Central Asia, the United States is militarily involved in at least seven countries (Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan and Yemen. This does not include worldwide secret operations of the Joint Special Operations Corps – U.S. Special Forces operations). Just from that brief description we get an idea of the degree to which the situation in the Middle East has deteriorated over this period. It is a picture of unending war into the foreseeable future. The region has not experienced improvement, but to the contrary, more war and human suffering has been the order of the day.
Unfortunately, that has been the major legacy of the Obama Administration in the Middle East.
Furthermore, we do not see that there is much change in the offing after January of 2017. Regardless of who wins the presidential contest in the next few weeks, we seriously doubt that there will be any major shifts in the overall goals of American Middle Eastern policy. If anything, the signs are the pattern of unending war will continue and will intensify giving those of us who have worked for peace in the region, a full plate, once again, in the period ahead.
Fallujah before the United States "liberated" it
2. Obama's Promise: Peace and Democracy
I went back to the beginning of his presidency to recall one of the "foundation speeches" of Obama's Middle East policies. It was Obama's June, 2009 Cairo speech which raised hopes both in the Middle East and Africa that the American policy of global domination might change from the aggressive interventionism of the Bush years.
Jim Nelson: I would assume that you would start with that speech because that is clearly given only a few months into his presidency. He also gave a speech calling for a reduction in nuclear weapons arsenals around the same time. Back to you.
Rob Prince: At Cairo President Obama called for "a new beginning"
"I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles — principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."
Ibrahim Kazerooni: But Rob, forgive me for the interjection but there is what I would call the more rational interpretation of these statements which would say, well this is "pragmatic," "liberal," "creating space for Moslems and others; we should work for the benefit of all to create a place for everyone." But once you remove this from this context and put it into the context of a colonial mind-set, the systemic demand for controlling the world and dictating to the rest of the world, the meaning would be different. That means American policy will neutralize Muslims, neutralize Islam, neutralize X, Y and Z and only Washington would rule the world, give the orders and the rest of the world reduced to obeying the dictates.
Rob Prince: Ibrahim, I remember reading responses to the Cairo speech from different areas of the Middle East. At the time the responses went in two opposite directions. Some responded suspiciously, "what's really going on here" – with Obama's words. But others genuinely clung to the hope that U.S. Middle East policy would change.
Jim Nelson: Of course Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize all within a few weeks, months of the Cairo speech
Rob Prince: Yes. Concerning Cairo, last week I attended a meeting of the Ethiopian Community in the Denver metro area. They are concerned about the presidential elections given Obama's support for the Ethiopian dictatorship. It's a side issue for what we are discussing this evening but there's terrible repression taking place in that country; recently there were sham elections (which Obama declared democratic) and at U.S. insistence, Ethiopian troops in Somalia, an increasingly unpopular use of those troops by growing numbers of Ethiopians.
By the way, the Ethiopian Community is the second largest immigrant community in Colorado, somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 people in all, second only to that of Mexicans. They are in the process of meeting with the two main congressional hopefuls in their district (which includes Aurora), Mike Coffman, the incumbent Republican Congressman and the Democratic Party challenger, Morgan Carroll. I was surprised, at a meeting with Morgan Carroll at the Nile Ethiopian Restaurant, the number of times that several of the participants referred to Obama's Cairo speech, of the hopes it stimulated followed by a generalized disillusionment after seeing how his Africa policy has played out. Colorado's Ethiopian immigrants repeatedly mentioned not only how the Cairo Statement given hope for positive change in the Middle East, but that Obama's words were also taken seriously in sub-Saharan Africa.
I mention this because when an American president as articulate and poised as Barack Obama give people hope, it raises their expectations for change as well. If in the aftermath, that hope is not turned into concrete actions, ie, the president failed to deliver on his promises, what results is even greater cynicism than before. That is what has happened among Ethiopians in Colorado and it very well will have repercussions here, especially in the Congressional race mentioned above.
Summing up on these points. Obama's Cairo Speech were "nice words" to the Islamic world, that raised hopes, hopes that soon their after came crashing down, be it in Egypt or Ethiopia.
3. Obama: No Messiah
Ibrahim Kazerooni: Remember Rob in August 2008 when we had a panel discussion at the United Methodist Church on Ogden St. (in Denver). What was the name of the minister? God bless her soul – Tony Cook. The panel consisted of myself, Vincent Harding and a few others. At the time Vincent Harding was celebrating the fact that now we have an African-American president coming forward. At the time I said, "Look, it's not the color that matters; it's substantive concrete change in American foreign policy which I doubted either Obama or anyone else is prepared to deliver. Unfortunately, again, after eight years, we have come back in the circle to the same point; nothing was done.
Remember Rob in August 2008 when we had a panel discussion at the United Methodist Church on Ogden St. (in Denver). What was the name of the minister? God bless her soul – Tony Cook. The panel consisted of myself, Vincent Harding and a few others. At the time Vincent Harding was celebrating the fact that now we have an African-American president coming forward. At the time I said, "Look, it's not the color that matters; it's substantive concrete change in American foreign policy which I doubted either Obama or anyone else is prepared to deliver. Unfortunately, again, after eight years, we have come back in the circle to the same point; nothing was done
Rob Prince: Not only that. At that time, Ibrahim, we were also already talking together frequently on Middle East subjects, we suggested that people should be careful not to treat Obama as a kind of political messiah who was going to save America – and the world – from the excesses and recklessness of the George W. Bush years, that he was going to solve the problems. We emphasized that Obama was simply the manager of a system. Given the problems of the Bush years, people were quite excited about the prospect of an Obama election. In a way though, they lost track of the issues, as is happening in this election where so much gravitates around the personalities and ethical make up of the candidates (or lack there of).
Ibrahim Kazerooni: At the time (2008) the narrative was – it's the messiah (Obama), the anointed one that has come!
Rob Prince: That was one side of it, the hopeful speech at Cairo. Unfortunately the hope of Cairo morphed into the invasion of Libya and Syria with all the human suffering and damage that they entail.
But if one probes more closely…all the nice words are a little more than what I would call "razzle-dazzle" – the same goals, here and there slightly different tactics and vocabulary – like the so-called for humanitarian intervention – that cloud a policy in place since the end of World War II to control and dominate the region's resources – and as such, as these are oil and natural gas – control America's economic and political partners worldwide by controlling oil and gas supplies.
The policies pursued by the Obama Administration are indicative of not a new beginning but only new tactical shifts in achieving long-held U.S. goals. If the rhetoric was hopeful – it did raise hopes throughout the Middle East and Africa for a shift in U.S. policy (I heard as much from local Ethiopians in Denver a week ago), it proved to be little more than a public relations cover for new forms of aggression
If we look at what actually happened – or in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, what didn't happen – in terms of it being resolved – Obama's record is one of continued war and subterfuge against the legitimate aspirations of the Arab people of the region as expressed in the goals of the Arab Spring for a new beginning.
Indeed, the whole of the Obama policy has been to freeze, roll back and control the social forces released by the Arab Spring, nothing less.
Granted this required certain tactical shifts.
What have been these tactical shifts?
Most KGNU listeners are well aware of them:
a. a reduction of U.S. troop concentration on the ground, greater reliance on private security firms
– otherwise known as mercenaries; greater reliance on U.S. special forces operations – mostly secret – to do the dirty work, assassinations, kidnapping
b. greater reliance on drones for political assassinations, – otherwise known as murder "targeted intervention"
c. greater reliance on regional allies to carry out military operations – two recent glaring examples: Libya and Syria. Such operations give the United States "plausible deniability" – while Washington is orchestrating and controlling the process that proxies are carrying out.
d. new pretexts for going to war, shallow rationalizations in the name of "humanitarian intervention" – which sound innocuous, going in to help civilians in the midst of war – but it is really little more than a new cover for aggression, only credible to those ignorant in the ways of power.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif before a meeting in Geneva January 14, 2015. The deal was finalized in August, 2015. There are currently more than 80 resolutions before the U.S. Congress introduced by AIPAC and different neo-conservative elements to undermine or dissolve the agreement, so it is far from safe, even after the signing formalities have ended.
4. Obama's Positive Middle East Achievements – Few and Fragile.
There were a few, very few positive achievements – among them
• The Iran Nuclear Deal, which threatens to come undone – now more than 80 resolutions before the U.S. Congress to undo the agreement, its future is in doubt.
• Obama's refusal, at the time, to increase U.S. military involvement in Syria in the aftermath of the gassing incident – an incident the source of which remains still not clear. He did not take the neo-con bait (then) to escalate the U.S. military role
• Obama's refusal to support Ben Ali and Mubarak, long time U.S. regional allies, despite being corrupt dictatorships. At the time Obama's Secretar of State at the time, Hillary Clinton urged Obama support for Mubarak and Ben Ali. Again Obama did not take Hillary's suggestion. He supported the wave of change, but what he reasoned was that the Arab Spring could be contained and controlled in such a way as to preserve and protect U.S. regional interests, supporting all the change necessary to maintain the status quo.
Having said that, the overall policy has not changed. What, then, is the overall policy? True for the above points, Obama gets some credit for having done what amounts to damage control.
Ibrahim Kazerooni: If I could ask a more pertinent question Rob, is there a policy? When you examine it more closely, I don't believe that there is a policy. I think the United States is betting on the fact that nobody is going to challenge it and that they can go ahead redefining, reshaping everything. We saw this kind of paralysis that took over as soon as Russia took a strong position. The United States really had no clue what to do. One can say that there is a policy but I don't believe there is a coherent one; we couldn't interpret it. There is just a "day by day" survival approach until somebody stands up.
If I could ask a more pertinent question Rob, is there a policy? When you examine it more closely, I don't believe that there is a policy. I think the United States is betting on the fact that nobody is going to challenge it and that they can go ahead redefining, reshaping everything. We saw this kind of paralysis that took over as soon as Russia took a strong position. The United States really had no clue what to do. One can say that there is a policy but I don't believe there is a coherent one; we couldn't interpret it. There is just a "day by day" survival approach until somebody stands up
Rob Prince: Yes you are right, they are just "flailing around"; the typical ways that they defend their interests I'll explain in a moment. What those interests are, and how they defend them has changed little over the years. When we talk about Iraq and Syria we can get into this in more detail. But the Obama Administration's position on Syria is like a yo-yo: negotiate, war, negotiate, war. They can't make up their minds.
Ibrahim: When I speak of policy there are certain interests in the Middle East that the United States, since World War II has tried to protect and maintain. Their "policy" has the following aspects:
a. Continued control of oil and gas production and distribution…a great deal of what might be called "pipeline" politics to which we will return in our discussions of Syria and Iraq
b. Partial withdrawal of large U.S. troop presence (in Iraq) combined with greater reliance on the military role of regional allies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Israel, Egypt and in N. Africa, Algeria)
c. An attempt to "manage chaos" – ie, to accept that the day was done for old U.S. allies such as Ben Ali of Tunisia and Mubarak of Egypt as they were swept aside. The U.S. attempted however to manage the sociopolitical changes – to limit the region from undergoing deeper going changes in the political economy of the region.
The goals were clarified early on to be:
– limit the changes in places like Tunisia and Egypt to be mostly "cosmetic" in nature – ie, change the players at the top but retain as much of the old economic and political systems as possible, continue to maintain U.S. strategic relations and interests.
– Use the momentum of the Arab Spring to bring down governments that refused to submit to U.S. diktats in what today con clearly be considered nothing less than counter-revolutions in Libya, Syria – with elements in these countries long cultivated, the political coups long and carefully planned for.
– Where democratic upsurges did take place and gained popular support, as in Bahrein and Yemen, they needed to be crushed by force,…misdefining what were legitimate national uprisings of broad-based social forces as Iranian puppets (which they weren't).
– the strategic goal here was to fragment and partition what had become strong centralized states (Iraq, Libya, Syria) into smaller units that could be more easily manipulated by U.S. and other corporate interests.
Jim Nelson: And as you both have maintained, I would say that the policy has been to withdraw as many troops as possible while increasing the mechanized, high-tech warfare to keep U.S. casualty rates as low as possible in the region. The Obama Administration doesn't want "a big footprint" but this has happened with mixed results, it's not really working out, and in this effort the United States finds itself increasingly isolated from its so-called allies.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu with Turkish President Erdogan – two U.S. Middle East thanes
Ibrahim Kazerooni: Jim, we have to be realistic and distinguish between tactics and policy. The overall desire and policy of the United States is to go back to 1992 and to be the sole world power as the neo-cons at the time defined it. The United States dictates to the rest of the world; that is the overall goal.
But the tactic has shifted, as Rob indicated. In the past they relied on so-called regional allies, stooges and so on. But a shift took place. The shift took place by now breaking down these countries into smaller enclaves. Rob indicated Syria, Iraq, Libya and other places to make them, for the United States, "more manageable" than larger centralized entities. If there will be future crises in the different countries of the region, because of their reduced size, they can be more easily managed.
But the tactic has shifted. In the past they relied on so-called regional allies, stooges and so on. But a shift took place. The shift took place by now breaking down these countries into smaller enclaves. Rob indicated Syria, Iraq, Libya and other places to make them, for the United States, "more manageable" than larger centralized entities. If there will be future crises in the different countries of the region, because of their reduced size, they can be more easily managed
This is a tactical shift, but the overall policy is the control of the rest of the world and this is why as soon as a country stands up to Washington and says "no" they just get confused. You should have seen (U.S. Secretary of State, John) Kerry as he talked to (Russian Foreign Minister Sergey) Lavrov. As soon as Lavrov said something that Kerry did not expect, he began to stutter; Kerry couldn't say anything.
Jim Nelson: I just wanted to make a point. There was a caller who just wanted to make a point; he defined himself as a British citizen, a white man married to a Black woman, also from Britain, they wanted to point out that Obama, although he may consider himself Black, is mixed race as well; he is the child of a white woman and a Black man.
Ibrahim Kazerooni: Yes, the classic book for this, is Franz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. It's not the darkness of skin color that tells us much, it's the mind-set and he is right. If we look at the mind-set, the mind-set is white. Skin pigmentation should not be used as criteria to indicate one thing or another.
Rob Prince: Before turning it over to you Ibrahim, and looking in more detail on what is happening in Syria, when I use the term "policy" – and it's fair that you comment on it and question it, but still, there is one: it is to control the energy sources, oil and natural gas, coming from the Middle East. To control the flow of these resources is to give the United States a lever, a powerful lever over those who are dependent upon those sources, be it Europe and East Asia. Despite minor modifications, ie, oil discoveries in Africa and elsewhere, that the theme, the bedrock of U.S. Middle East policy since the end of World War II. The country that controls the oil, the energy sources for most of the world regardless of all the attempts to change that, maintains leverage, another word for "power" over the rest of the world.
That is the policy; the emergence of a social movement like the Arab Spring, threatens those interests. In none of the cases where it appeared that radical social change was in the offing was it clear that the countries involved would nationalize their oil or natural gas industries, but it was the unknown factor, a more generalized fear that they might do so and that the flow of oil and gas was not going to be determined by the United States and its allies that came into play and therefore the social movements involved had to be stopped in their tracks or reversed.
Ibrahim Kazerooni: And by the way to support this, there was a report out a few days ago in which (former U.S. Secretary of Defense) Dick Cheney and a few of his bankers in which they were proposing that the eastern side of Syria which is currently under the control of mercenaries, influenced and controlled by the United States, that U.S. firms should start drilling for oil in that area.
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Georg Desmarées (Gimo, 29 de outubro de 1697 - Munique, 3 de outubro de 1776) foi um pintor da Suécia ativo principalmente na Alemanha, um dos melhores retratistas do Rococó.

Com a morte dos pais mudou-se para Estocolmo, onde estudou com Peter Martin van Mytens. Em torno de 1720 já era um pintor independente. Em 1724 iniciou um périplo pela Europa, visitando Amsterdam, Nuremberg e Veneza, onde se tornou aluno de Piazetta. Em 1730 foi indicado pintor da corte bávara de Carlos, futuro imperador. Recebeu várias encomendas da nobreza alemã.

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 Pintura do Rococó
 Pintura da Suécia
 Pintura da Alemanha

Pintores da Suécia
Pintores da Alemanha
Pintores do rococó
Pintores da corte

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Q: JS code not working on all data retrieved from Django Model I'm retrieving an endDate field from Django model using forloop on HTML page.
I want to check whether all the endDate coming are less that today's date or not. For that I'm using JS code.
My code is able to perform checking only on first date retrieved but it's not working on other dates.
Here's my HTML code for retrieving data:
{% for p in object_list %}

{{ p.jobName }}

Expires On: {{ p.endDate }}

    View info

    <input type="hidden" id="endDate" name="variable" value="{{ p.endDate }}">

{% endfor %}

JavaScript code to check date:

I have 2 {{ p.jobName }} right now. First one should show Expired while second should show Active.
My code is working only for first date i.e., for Computer Admin only.
Here's what I'm getting the output:

Can anybody tell me what's the issue?
Thanks

A: To expand on what I've already said in the comments:
The essence of your problem is here:
{% for p in object_list %}
...
    <input type="hidden" id="endDate" name="variable" value="{{ p.endDate }}">

...
{% endfor %}

An HTML document can only ever have one element of a particular ID (otherwise it doesn't "ID" the element very well - this is part of the HTML spec). In your case, whenever the loop has more than one element, you will end up with multiple elements, all with the endDate ID, as well as multiples with the check ID.
Repeating an ID like this, as well as being wrong in itself, can have a major functional impact - as you're seeing in your code. Namely that since there is only ever supposed to be (at most) one element of a given ID, any Javascript code that runs on the page is entitled to assume that this is the case. And in particular, document.getElementById returns an object representing a single HTML element, as opposed to similar methods such as document.getElementsByClassName which return a "collection" of DOM nodes. (Because a class, unlike an ID, can be applied to multiple elements in the same document.)
So that, in a nutshell, is how to solve the problem you're having. Simply replace the id="endDate" in the above to class="endDate", similarly with check, and alter your javascript to take this into account. Not only do you have to change the getElementById method to getElementsByClassName, you also have to take into account that this returns a collection (which you can loop over with .forEach), and that you need to target the neighbouring .check span rather than the first, or any old random one. The following code is one way to make it work (note the use of ES6 Array.from to convert the collection to a genuine Array so you can use .forEach):
var endDateElts = Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("endDate"));
var ToDate = new Date();

endDateElts.forEach(function(dateElt) {
    var endDate = dateElt.value;
    var check = dateElt.nextSibling;
    if(new Date(endDate).getTime()<=ToDate.getTime()){
        check.innerHTML = "Expired";
        check.className = "label danger";
    }
    else{
        check.innerHTML = "Active";
        check.className = "label success";
    }
});

A: Based on
{% for p in object_list %}

{{ p.jobName }}

Expires On: {{ p.endDate }}

    View info

    <input type="hidden" id="endDate" name="variable" value="{{ p.endDate }}">

{% endfor %}

I would assume that you have multiple objects with the same ID hence the reason why the JS is only working on the first endDate and check object.
<input type="hidden" id="endDate" name="variable" value="{{ p.endDate }}">

What you should do:

*

*Use document.querySelectorAll() to get multiple DOM elements
with the same class name.

*Iterate through the NodeList and perform the operations that you wish to perform.

const endDates = document.querySelectorAll('.endDate');
const checks = document.querySelectorAll('.check');
let ToDate = new Date();
let i = 0;
for (const endDate of endDates){
    if(new Date(endDate.value).getTime()<=ToDate){
      checks[i].innerHTML = "Expired";
      checks[i].className = "label danger";
    }
    else{
      checks[i].innerHTML = "Active";
      checks[i].className = "label";
    }
    i++;
}

<input type="text" class="endDate" name="variable" value="2019-11-29">

<input type="text" class="endDate" name="variable" value="2019-11-24">

<input type="text" class="endDate" name="variable" value="2019-11-27">

Notes
Not very sure why you would want to do the validation in the front-end if you can do it on your views.py. @Robin Zigmond gave a very good suggestion of just doing it on the backend and populate the template with the result.

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Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Ciaran Hinds, Gong Li, Barry Shabaka Henley, Justin Theroux, Naomie Harris, Luis Tosar, John Ortiz, Eddie Marsan, Isaach De Bankole, John Hawkes, Oleg Taktarov, Tom Towles, Tony Curran, Kristen Stewart.
Director Michael Mann does a retread and modern film version of his highly successful 1980's television series and despite his calibre, this turns out to be just like all the other poor makeovers of hit TV shows.
Detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) work undercover investigating narcotics-smuggling in Florida. But when Crockett falls for the beautiful wife (Gong Li) of a powerful arms and drugs trafficker, and Tubbs' loved ones come under threat, their personal and professional lives start to mesh together.
Much like "Heat" and "The Insider", with similiar wonderful cinematography (complete with intense close-ups and methodical pace), giving the impression that we're involved in the action. Problem is though, the action is not exciting enough. It's too slow. Far too slow. This had real potential and from the beginning it looks like we're going to be treated to another classic like the previous films mentioned but the normally reliable Michael Mann (especially in this genre) delivers a damp squib. Foxx and Farrell make a great Tubbs and Crocket, full of style and intensity but they're left to basically wander around for over two hours, looking mean, tanned and brooding. The editing and camerawork are excellent in capturing the urban landscape of Miami but it's not enough. It is without doubt, all style and no substance. All buck and no bang and definitely no bark OR bite. It took me three attempts to get through it, without falling asleep and that's just not what you expect with the style and excitement of a usually on-form Michael Mann.
A massive let down. Mann can do much better than this, with the most impressive thing about it being how Farrell managed to get away with successfully sporting a mullet and handlebar 'tashe. Not an easy combination and more impressive than the film itself.
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I wanted to like this movie so much being a huge fan of one of the coolest TV shows ever (in my limited view), but it is as you say "a poor makeover." Dead on accurate review Mark. 😉 A better choice for Mann modern film I guess would be Collateral (2004) which I enjoyed.
Thanks I always appreciate it when someone drops in on an old review. My writing has changed quite a bit since then but my opinion on the film still stands. A real disappointment from the usually reliable Mann.


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Q: Can't validate phone number I'm trying to validate a phone number without success. When I submit the form for the following model, it always accepts the phone number I put in, whether it's valid or not. Why is this happening?
class Client < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :salon
  belongs_to :address
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :address
  attr_accessible :address_attributes, :name, :phone, :email
  validates_presence_of :name
  validates_presence_of :email
  validates_presence_of :phone,
    :unless => Proc.new { |c| c.phone.gsub(/[^0-9]/, "").length != 10 }
end

-
<%= form_for(@client) do |f| %>
  <% if @client.errors.any? %>

<%= pluralize(@client.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this client from being saved:

      <% @client.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>

<%= msg %>

      <% end %>

  <% end %>

  <%= f.hidden_field :salon_id, :value => Salon.logged_in_salon.id %>

    <%= f.label :name %>

    <%= f.text_field :name %>

    <%= f.label :phone %>

    <%= f.text_field :phone %>

    <%= f.label :email %>

    <%= f.text_field :email %>

  <%= f.fields_for :address do |address_form| %>

      <%= address_form.label :line1 %>

      <%= address_form.text_field :line1 %>

      <%= address_form.label :line2 %>

      <%= address_form.text_field :line2 %>

      <%= address_form.label :city %>

      <%= address_form.text_field :city %>

      <%= address_form.label :state_id %>

      <%= select("client[address]", "state_id", State.all.collect {|s| [ s.name, s.id ] }) %>

      <%= address_form.label :zip %>

      <%= address_form.text_field :zip %>

  <% end %>

    <%= f.submit %>

<% end %>

A: You should be using validates_format_of instead of validates_presence_of. Something like:
validates_format_of :phone,
                    :with => /\A[0-9]{10}\Z/,
                    :allow_blank => true,
                    :allow_nil => true


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The Art Cars and Mutant Vehicles of Burning Man 2019
50 of our favorite Burning Man art cars
John RettieWords and Photos
Imagine you're in a dusty city with a population of almost 80,000 people that covers a land mass pretty close to the size of downtown San Francisco. You know there are more than 600 unique and interesting vehicles worth seeking out but they are hard to find at any given moment.
That was the task we set ourselves as we hunted down some of the best Mutant Vehicles (formerly known as Art Cars) at this year's Burning Man that took place during the last week of August. The annual extravaganza—don't call it a festival—takes place on the Playa at Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada that has coincidentally also been the venue for several land speed record attempts over the years.
The temporary city, naturally named Black Rock City, is built from scratch each year and is called home by Burners—the majority of whom return each year to enjoy the magic and reconnect with friends made over the years.
The popularity of Mutant Vehicles (MVs) continues to blossom each year, and this year was no exception with over 1,000 applications for just over 600 vehicles that would be allowed on the Playa. MV owners have to submit their plans to the Department of Mutant Vehicles (DMV) several months ahead of time. Several groups of DMV volunteers check the applications and decide who will be invited to bring their MVs.
The standards for what is accepted rises each year as builders continually improve their MVs. Even those who have brought them for several years have to reapply each year and are expected to modify their MV in one way or another to give them a fresh look. The main requirement is that the base vehicle should not be visible or identifiable. Ahead of this year's festivities, we got to see what goes into building a Burning Man art car.
Some vehicles are obviously very expensive to build while others are "home-built" on a shoe string budget. Creativity is the key, and to be fair the DMV invites small golf cart-based MVs all the way up to ones built on a bus chassis.
Mutant Vehicle owners are expected to share the experience with all Burners and to that end they give free rides to anyone who wants to take one, if space permits. Many of them have on-board bars and even dance floors while others can only accommodate one or two guests. We got to ride on a couple of MVs this year including Henry Chang's giant Flux Capacitor which is always a big favorite as well as David Cox's fire-breathing dragon, named Torch, which is built on a Chevy Astro and a more simple two-story MV based on a Chevy Suburban.
Most MVs are trailered to Burning Man since they are not street-legal. Yet some such as the Monaco sailboat, albeit with masts lowered, are driven to the Playa. Others like Walter the giant VW Bus and Big Willy are street-legal but can only be driven short distances due to their low gearing.
Without further ado, here are 50 Mutant Vehicles from Burning Man 2019 for you to feast your eyes on.
Before any Mutant Vehicle (MV) is allowed to roam Black Rock City it has to be approved by the Department of Mutant Vehicles (DMV). The lines during the first few days were as long as those at the DMVs of the real world. But Burners didn't seem to care as they happily renewed acquaintances, compared experiences, and shared tribulations.
Greg Barron, captain of the Monaco sail boat, organized show 'n tell sessions when groups of Mutant Vehicle owners described their endeavors. Believe it or not, Walter the airport firetruck-based VW and Monaco, which is built on a 35-foot long '83 GM Monaco camper, are street legal. Monaco can even sail on the open Playa as it is fully rigged.
For much of the year Dave Cox's Torch dragon graces a suburban street in Orange County, CA. But it comes alive as the sun sets on the Playa as the flame throwers are lit. Torch is built on a GMC Safari van with the controls extended up through the roof to the upper deck for the dragon's pilot.
This brilliant fire-breathing octopus is always a crowd favorite—named El Pulpo Mecanico—it was designed and built by Duane Flatmo and is based on a '73 Ford-250 4x4 chassis.
The Ohm Kar is street-legal once the rear ornaments are retracted. It's built on a Ford F-250 chassis and powered by a Chevy Astro engine! Butch McIntosh, the builder extended the controls from the front to the rear end.
ShutterBuggy from Vancouver, Canada, is a working studio and has been seen at festivals in the Pacific Northwest. It uses a custom welded aluminum frame built on an electric cart.
Rumble Bee is built on a scissor lift bolted onto the bed of an Isuzu lift truck.
You'd never guess it but underneath this MV is a Ford E-250 Econoline van. Change the hubs and you too could put tractor tires on your own mutant van.
We like the look of this Geo Prism more than the original car!
You'd never guess but this was once a golf cart—in Mutant form it has a Ford F-350 grafted on its rear end.
It's amazing how creative artists can turn a Hyundai Elantra into a sleek boat with flame throwers to light up the night sky.
When we asked the shark driver about the base vehicle, he said, "Can't you tell? Take a look at the wheels." We did—inside its belly lies the heart of a Cadillac sedan!
Take the body off a Suzuki Samurai, then spend countless hours fabricating some unique art and you have yourself a Burning Man-worthy Mutant Vehicle.
Paul Chaklos' GMC Yukon is his daily driver, but once year he takes it to Burning Man and mutates it into Boogie Bug—a cheerful, inflatable MV—using PVC tubing as a frame. His regular gig: supplying those inflatable attractions to draw your kids into car dealerships!
You'll find a Mercedes-Benz E300 underneath this roaming mattress and LED-flashing brain. Kevin Marion constructed this MV using a wooden frame in the garage at his condo.
Each year, Dan Chase subtly modifies Tikivision, which is based on an old Chevy Beauville with a diesel engine.
Another of David Shields' many MVs he builds for himself and others at his workshop where he normally creates props for Hollywood.
Yes, Manta Ray—a sister MV to the Ohm Kar—does have operating caterpillar tracks that allow it to crawl around Black Rock City.
Sadly Scott Miller's small radio-controlled 6WD Electric Toadstool, which he built from scratch didn't have much chance to display its myriad of LED lights this year as gremlins kept it sidelined in Scott's camp much of the week.
At the upper end of the scale, Stone Larkin's giant RV-based Savage Kingdom MV with its fold-down side dance platforms was a favorite even though it remained stationary for much of the time due to its size.
David Shields took a Ford Crown Victoria, stripped all but part of the roof and C-pillar off the car, and crafted a new steel body along with a giant air intake. Sadly, we did not get to see it in action either during the day or at night.
Benny Parkes masterly welded together a frame for his Radiolarian Mutant Vehicle that's based on an electric cart.
This year Bill Real, owner of Art Car Garage in Pasadena, CA, added wings and some copper panels to his Bumble Bee MV, based on an electric golf cart.
Huggzilla is a bright cat with geometric Plexiglas panels that illuminate for light shows at night. Not sure what's underneath but it looks like it's a bus chassis judging by its size.
Merrilee Proffitt and Keith Johnson used to ride around the Playa in a couple of electric cupcakes. But once Merrilee had a child they needed something bigger. Between them they created this whimsical electric-powered Cinderella carriage from scratch. Yes, there are some auto parts—namely the race-proven Wilwood brake system and a VW Jetta rear axle beam.
Henry Chang's "Flux Capacitor" has to still be one of the most amazing tubular creations ever made—it inspires even the best pro fabricators.
We were lucky enough to spend some time with Henry Chang cruising around the Playa going as far as the edge of the deep Playa, which is two miles from the center of Black Rock City.
Although Mutant Vehicles are essentially not allowed to show any of the vehicle on which they are based, art cars and those registered to Burners with disabilities have more relaxed rules. Nonetheless, many owners still get pretty creative.
In our opinion, Mike Cee's '87 Chevy R30-based Xuza MV is one of the most colorful Mutant Vehicles at night. Every year he improves it while it's parked in his backyard in Las Vegas. The eyes are actually a couple of LED TV screens and they move in mysterious ways.
The dusty air on the windy Playa makes the Golden Gate Bridge, mounted atop an old bus, look all the more realistic.
This colorful MV, the Bioluminescent Slug, cruised by us while we were checking out the Golden Gate Bridge. Since it's covered to the ground there's no way to see the Ford F-350 flatbed under its clothing.
Zulai is a Mutant Vehicle created by the Mazu art crew from Taiwan. Originally debuting in 2016, this Buddha with a giant, outstretched hand appears to be based on an Isuzu NPR box truck.
The owner of Big Tow, which is built on a Yamaha Golf Cart, changes the design every three years. Despite its diminutive size it can and does haul broken MVs.
This mobile bar cruised by us and we did not get a tip off as to what keeps it going. Perhaps it's powered by alcohol?
MVs are encouraged to drive on Black Rock City streets and give rides to anyone who wants one.
Big Willy, built last year by Ian Liljeblad, has now been painted green and has a few new tweaks. It's parked here at Catworld Camp alongside Movement of Jah People, another of Ian's creations that also appears every year at Burning Man.
Sasha's Love Bunny is built on a '46 Chrysler. Its engine went kaput last year and David Shields replaced it with a Toyota Tacoma engine this year so she could cruise the Playa reliably all week long.
Scrubby is the name given this MV. It's built around an old '53 Chrysler firetruck that used to do duty at the GMC Truck and Coach facility in Pontiac, Michigan.
The Enterguise EV MV built by Chris Germano in his townhouse garage is one of the most impressive EV builds. The external panels and battery holders were printed on a couple of small 3D printers. The suspension and steering are from a Mazda Miata. Otherwise, everything has been designed and built from scratch with aluminum extrusions bolted and glued together.
How'd you like to lounge on an MV based on a backward-facing Toyota Tercel?
Soul Train is based on an '83 Dodge Ram pickup
Yet another cat MV cruises by with The Man in the distance at its rear and Joy Cat a static cat statue near its front.
One of two double-decker buses we saw on the Playa; this one is now a quad-decker that could probably carry over a hundred revelers.
Two ladies from Colorado built this unusual MV. If you look carefully, you might get an inkling of the base vehicle—a PT Cruiser.
This Mutant Vehicle was built on a Mitsubishi pickup truck.
Little Peanut is the name of this vessel created around a GMC 2500 4x4 pickup.
Grasshopper is another electric cart-based MV. Although the Playa is not its natural habitat, it seems quite at home.
Grasshopper survived when it was parked near El Pulpo Mecanico as it performed one of its magical pyro displays.
Dusty Rhino is an MV built by Peter Sheridan on a Ford F-350 pickup truck.
Pyrobar is built on a '56 Ford C600 cabover flatbed pickup. It suffered from some engine problems this year and owner Mark Goerner is now looking to install a more modern engine—maybe a 2.8-liter Cummins diesel.
This somewhat jumbled up MV is not exactly what one might see in default world suburbia. It looks like there's an overloaded van underneath.
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Argent, a smart crypto wallet app with a banking look, raises $4M from Euro VCs
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One of the biggest problems for the mainstream adoption of crypto is the need for memorizing seed phrases, the inability to get your cryptocurrency back if something goes wrong, the list goes on. Until major issue like this are solved, crypto is going to remain a pretty elite game.
Argent is a project which recently won the prestigious inaugural user experience prize at Devcon4 by addressing many of these issues.
It's a crypto wallet that lets you also port your ID around (much like a Google or Facebook Login) and solves the UX problem through clever smart contract architecture.. So you have a good old-fashioned and familiar Web 2.0 / centralized experience in a decentralized environment.
Argent has now raised a $4 million seed round from some of Europe's leading investors, including Index Ventures, Creandum, firstminute, Hummingbird and Atomico Partner Mattias Ljungman.
As a native app on the Apple App and Google Play Stores, describes itself as the first smart wallet. The presentation and security is that of a modern banking apps, but Argent doesn't hold or access a user's funds. The smart wallet also provides access to decentralized applications, with the user staying in control of their data, identity and assets.
Argent CEO and co-founder, Itamar Lesuisse, commented: "The web is dominated by monopolies and middlemen. Cambridge Analytica and Equifax highlighted the damage this was doing to people. The emerging decentralized web offers a better way – with people controlling their data, assets, and identity. But it is still way too hard for most people to use, so adoption is slow. We founded Argent to fix this".
Dr. Julien Niset, Chief Science Officer and co-founder, Argent, says, "The challenge we set ourselves was to offer the usability and security of great banking apps, but without the bank. We wanted the user, not us, to be in control. We've achieved this by building Argent on smart contracts, code embedded in the blockchain that cannot be tampered with. Our smart contracts let users, for the first time, recover their wallets without a paper backup, set daily transaction limits and block fraudulent transactions. This makes Argent safer and easier to use than other wallets".
Consumers can use the smart wallet to access decentralized applications and no technical knowledge is required. To generate more adoption, Argent plans to make a developer kit available to third parties. It already has an integrated exchange and Argent says it is currently exploring more partnerships in finance, as well as gaming.
Two of Argent's co-founders, Itamar Lesuisse (ex-Amazon, Visa and BCG) and Gerald Goldstein (PhD, nuclear physics), previously founded Peak, the world's largest brain training app (50m downloads), and an Apple and Android App of the Year. The third co-founder, Julien Niset, has a PhD in quantum information, founded a quantum security startup and successfully sold the IP to the world's leading quantum security company.
Bjarke Staun-Olsen, Creandum, says, "Having backed Itamar and Gerald's previous startup, Peak, which successfully exited in 2016, we knew how strong their ability to execute in consumer mobile was. And as they were combining with Julien's expertise in cryptography, we knew this was the right team to drive consumer adoption at scale".
Ari Helgason, Index Ventures, says, "Argent has developed a critical piece of infrastructure that paves the way for mainstream adoption of blockchain applications. The team's technology breakthrough allows users to overcome the tradeoff between security and ease of use that has characterized wallets until now."


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Eastchester, NY is a small town in New York which had its first settlement in 1964 with just two families which later grew to over 8, 000 families and covers an area of approximately five square miles. The first 10 families to occupy Eastchester, NY had moved from Fairfield, Connecticut. The two is made up of three communities which includes Bronxville, Tuckahoe and Eastchester, NY. The town is very rich in culture and art is a favorite destination and home to many as there are a lot of things that one can do for vacation and fun here. Due to the Eastchester, NY covenant the town of Eastchester, NY is commonly referred to as the home of the bill of rights. At the beginning the residents of the town were farmers but have evolved to other activities at the present time. Some of the elite families included Carmela Vaccaro, Thomas Pell and Anne Hutchinson.
The first laws came to pass in 1664 and were confirmed by a patent called the Eastchester, NY covenant that was approved by Governor Richard Nicolls in 1666 after the British occupied the area. It was founded on Christian principles and signing it meant promising God that it would be followed. Eastchester, NY was made up of the cowboys and skinners who were constantly in a fight. Eastchester, NY was never affected or involved in the revolutionary war in a direct manner. When the railroad was constructed the composition of Eastchester, NY began to change and a group of businessmen from New York owned over three hundred acres of Land. The case was ruled in favor of Eastchester, NY and a second patent was granted by Anne Hutchinson. However, there was a land struggle that made the history of Eastchester, NY one to remember. The town finally gave in to the African-American slave trade and many other problems emerged resulting in the reduction of Eastchester, NY to half its original size.
One of the famous contributions in the history of Eastchester, NY is children's national Treeture program based on environmental education. Judith Hope Blau started this program when she created a family of unusual characters as a way of educating children the important role that the trees play in the environment. This has led to the emergence of other similar programs across the country. As a result, celebrating the Arbor Day each April has become a tradition in Eastchester, NY ever since the beginning of the treeture program. Apart from benefitting the kids, the program protects the environment. This is essential because the environment can get polluted if it were not for such programs. The programs entail various activities from planting trees to pushing for protection of parks, forests and the wild environments. There are other activities that are organized such as volunteers cleaning already polluted environments. Most of the participants in these events are the kids and that helps them to appreciate the cause behind environmental protection and they become more responsible. Also, such efforts on environmental conservation have resulted in a clean town that serves as an example to others. Besides, they get to appreciate the history of Eastchester, NY in a special way.
Anna Hutchinson was one of the popular people in Eastchester, NY because she advocated for religious freedom making her the most controversial woman in the history of Eastchester, NY. She was originally from New England where she was banished due to her religious advocacy. She became a pillar that many can look up to and gave many women the courage to stand up for what they believe. Also, she gave many believers a chance to express their freedom of religion or worship. That way, people in the town came to embrace each other's beliefs breaking the stereotype. Due to her struggles and determination, the town is a home for people of all religions to date. President John Adams had a white house in Eastchester, NY for a while at his daughter's home during a time when there was a yellow fever break out in Philadelphia. Aaron Burr was also popular in Eastchester, NY because he tried a number of cases associated with the St. Paul's church saga.
Stephen Ward played a major role in the history of Eastchester, NY when he was the town supervisor. Later, Stephen became a member of the provisional congress and a member of the New York County assembly. Stephen also rose to the position of a county judge, state senator and a member of congress. Thus, it is evident that the town is one that values law and order in honor of this great judge. People who live or visit the town are expected to be in line with the law as there are strict rules. Anyone that breaks the law must be ready to face the law as the town aims at maintaining integrity and lawfulness. In this line, the town is peaceful and crime-free.
Another important figure in the history of Eastchester, NY was John Zenger. He was a renowned reporter and printer of the New York Journal in the 1730s that birthed the origin of press freedom. He covered the story of the election held at the time and was later arrested and accused of publishing seditious content. He was found not guilty and was made the legal precedent for press freedom. This right was included in the bill of rights and is still being exercised up to date. John played a great role in forming the constitution that works to ensure that all citizens have equal rights and liberties.
Education history began with the establishment of the Eastchester, NY covenant which state the "the provision be made for the education of the children". The first school according to the history of Eastchester, NY was the Wilmot School which was used as a center of K-8 education in the early 1900 for the people living in the north end part of the town and was located near the corner of the White Plains road and the Wilmot road. After the construction of the Greenvale elementary school, the Wilmot school was converted to Eastchester, NY's Town Hall. During the Eastchester, NY covenant, the town hall was shifted to clubhouse of the Oak Ridge Country Club and the Wilmot school was demolished. The history of Eastchester, NY's education has evolved greatly to the level that they have established district schools in the town. As a remembrance of the struggles that Eastchester, NY has had with establishment of proper education system, a historical library was established behind the schoolhouse. Also, the town hall is the main town area with an array of town apartments and civic functionalities. The Vernon hills center is the major shopping area in Eastchester, NY. Here, there are shops, supermarkets, hospitals, banks and other amenities that make it ideal for people to run their errands accordingly.
The history of Eastchester, NY has been of great interest to many, leading to writing of great texts by different authors. These books include 'Historically speaking' by Richard Foliano, Tuckahoe Marble: The rise and fall of an industry, 1822 – 1920 by Louis Torres and The story of a town written by Robert Creamer. Other texts that are written in context with the Eastchester, NY's history include "our town" and "the hero next door" by Vincent Bellow and Michael Fix respectively. The town still has a database of all the works written about its history. The authors played a significant role in growing the writing industry because of their unique style and rich content. In the books, the authors share about the riches of the town and the many events that took place to make Eastchester, NY what it is today. You can still find these books in various libraries with different stories about the history of Eastchester, NY. If you are not fortunate enough to visit the library, you can access the books online. You can also find many other books or records written by other authors from Eastchester, NY online.
Eastchester, NY has several famous places that are its major attractions due to their historic significance. The St. Paul's church for instance was used as a hospital, before it was designated as a national shrine, during the time of revolution and over 100 British soldiers were buried in the churchyard. To this day, the cemetery is marked as a major site in the history of Eastchester, NY. The church was also at the edge of the great election which raised awareness on the importance of religious freedom and freedom of the press. The town hall is also a great part of the Eastchester, NY history. It was started as a farm then converted into a county club and golf club and finally into the town hall. It structural appearance is still historic with Pennsylvania style and slate roof.
It is due to its unique features that the church has become a great attraction. Other significant sites in the history of Eastchester, NY include the marble schoolhouse which is made up of a single room later well known as Tuckahoe schoolhouse and the Hotel Gramatan which was the main accommodation for artists celebrating the Eastchester, NY culture. There are countless benefits that these sites have brought not only to the town but the entire country. For instance, they lead to the earning of foreign exchange as tourists visit from various parts of the world. At the same time, the locals get to appreciate their history and embrace their culture.
There is also a reservoir that was constructed in 1894 now referred to as Lake Innisfree. It was the main water source in the West of Eastchester, NY. However, it is no longer considered active and is mainly used for recreation for those people that live around its perimeter. People can swim and ride boats in the reservoir. In 1988, the parkway of the Hutchinson river was reconstructed and two bridges and a horse trail were built. Today people can ride horses there. Another site in the history of Eastchester, NY is the Twin Lakes county park that has within its boundaries wildlife, trails, horse stables and a lake.
In 1821 the first marble quarry in Eastchester, NY was opened and was the largest producer of a high-quality marble known as Tuckahoe marble that was in a very high demand during the time. These were a major architectural achievement in the history of Eastchester, NY that made the city famous. Also, the mining sparked a great revolution in the area that gave the town a great reputation in mining up to date. In fact, this is a major economic activity in the town up to date. Through this, the town has benefitted from improved infrastructure and major contribution to the economic state of the entire country.
The history of Eastchester, NY is also associated with golf. Golf in Eastchester, NY was first played in 1898 by a group of 18 players from Mount Vernon. The most popular type of golf at the time was the nine-hole golf. The golfers named their club new club siwanoy and later build an 18-hole golf course in Mount Vernon. This marked the beginning of golf in Eastchester, NY. The first PGA golf championship was played at the Siwanoy golf course. The last of the 18-hole golf course to be built in Eastchester, NY was at the Lakeview country club which is the present-day Lake Isle. The town of Eastchester, NY won the cradle of American golf in 1928. The legendries of the golf in the history of Eastchester, NY are Will MacFarlane who won the U.S. Open in 1925 beating the previous champion Bobby Jones, Jess Sweetser who won the British Amateur Championship in 1926 while Tom Creavy won against Denny Shute in the P.G.A.
In 1931, Bobby Jones was defeated in the U.S open golf championships by another one of the champions from Eastchester, NY known as Johnny Farrell. Each year to celebrate the history of Eastchester, NY, a gala is held at the Siwanoy golf club. The town is a common venue for golf tours for many local and international golfers. That has contributed greatly to the fame of the town. If you are planning to go on a golf tour to Eastchester, NY, then get ready to experience great competition from the locals because they take golf seriously. They have a history and reputation to keep and thus do whatever it takes to fly the Eastchester, NY flag high. Besides, it is a way of honoring their great heroes. During such events, many players from different areas come into town not only to play but also share in the historical heritage of the town.
The history of Eastchester, NY is rich and you can continue sharing in the town's history. You might not be sure of how to do so. Apart from reading about the town's past and visiting the museums and historical sites, you can join Eastchester, NY historical society. The organization invests in discovering more history and preserving it to make sure that the town's origin and past are never forgotten. Similarly, you can become a friend of Eastchester, NY's library. By so doing, you will always be updated about any new developments in the unexplored history. You will always get notifications and newsletters or get any other relevant information by other means when need be. Similarly, you get to support the preservation of the history of Eastchester, NY. Perhaps, you can subscribe to monthly donations or even become a volunteer in the library and other historic sites. By encouraging the protection of the history, even your kids will get to understand their roots.
The history of Eastchester, NY shows that the town is indeed a good place to settle. Eastchester, NY is a great place for small families as well as those with kids as it as many sports and recreational facilities. The town also has a three-day camp each summer for children above five years. The town also has a number of events taking place at different times of the year at various places to celebrate the history of the Eastchester, NY town and its villages. For instance, it is common for people to organize galas where the town's heritage is shared. People come to showcase photos and artwork that depict the culture of the early days in the town. Common pictures of the history of Eastchester, NY are those of the unique architecture, the locals, native Americans, mode of transportation and the activities that people undertook like fishing.
It is also common to find people narrating the stories of the town heroes in detail making it easier for listeners to empathize and appreciate their efforts. Most importantly, the events get more creative and interesting when poems, plays and dramatizations are involved in narrating the history of Eastchester, NY. The characters play the roles of the heroes and take the audience through their experiences. In the end, they show how the heroes overcome their challenges and pronounce their achievements. Plays are indeed a great way of understanding the famous names in Eastchester, NY. Besides, there are many untold secrets that were never told that are revealed in the dramatization. There are also unsung heroes of the town.
The events help bring their stories in the open and they too are recognized by the people. Lastly, people are encouraged to live as per the town's expectations and culture and earn rewards. There are specific programs that focus on rewarding patriotic citizens that honor the history of Eastchester, NY. That is a great way of motivating people to live with their culture and history at heart all the time. Besides, locals are challenged to achieve even greater milestones in the 21st century.
One way of appreciating the heritage of Eastchester, NY is to plan a visit to the town. There are many things that you can do to have an experience of what the area has to offer. For instance, you can visit St. Pauli church and other buildings to have a glimpse of the architecture. Besides, you get to appreciate religion and want to live in such a town where religion and law are followed with integrity. In addition, you can enjoy the awe of the town's landscape by enjoying outdoor activities like hiking and boating in the lakes. If you are not sure about the locations, you should call the people on the site to guide you. They will give you any information you need and advice you on the best days to visit.
Ask about the entry charges as well. Some sites are free to view while others are charged. The money comes in handy in maintaining the sites. Upon arrival, you are given a guide that takes you through the history of the site and you can seek clarification on various matters. They also know where to find even the smallest of sites making sure that you do not miss to view some sites that were a major mark in the history of Eastchester, NY.
To get the best experience, you should do proper planning so that you make the best out of your trip. Things can more hectic if you have kids with you especially if you have never visited the town before. With a good schedule, you will be surprised about how much you will cover and see. There are many historical sites and stories you need to hear before leaving Eastchester, NY. Thus, creating a timetable is essential. That enables you to allocate time for each visit or activity making it possible to visit most if not all the sites. If you do not manage all, then only a few remain and you can plan another visit to explore the entire town. It is vital to liaise with locals as they can help you plan well depending on how long you want to stay. Additionally, there are special days when the people celebrate the history of Eastchester, NY or remember the historic figures. It is during such days that you should plan so as to understand their contribution to the town and how they are honored. If possible, participate in the event for a better experience.


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Judge OKs $2.4 Million Settlement for Stephon Clark's Children
October 9, 2019 October 9, 2019 NICK CAHILL
Police Killing, Sacramento, Wrongful Death
In this Thursday, March 22, 2018, photo, a young man joins others at a demonstration outside the Sacramento City Hall to protest the shooting of Stephon Alonzo Clark, by a pair of Sacramento Police officers. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – The city of Sacramento will pay $2.4 million to the children of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in 2018, under a settlement signed Wednesday by a federal judge.
The agreement settles the minors' end of the $20 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Clark family this past January. Claims brought by Clark's parents and grandparents remain and the parties are scheduled to appear in Sacramento federal court for a status conference on Oct. 24.
Clark was fatally shot in his grandparents' backyard in 2018 after Sacramento police officers mistook his cellphone for a gun. The shooting was captured on body and police helicopter cameras, and it sparked widespread protests in the city and across the Golden State.
Local, state and federal prosecutors all found "insufficient evidence" and declined to bring charges against officers Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, who fired a combined 20 times and killed the 22-year-old Clark. No firearms were found near Clark, who was hit several times in the back with his family just feet away in their living room.
Clark's death helped inspire a landmark police use-of-force statute signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom in September that requires officers to avoid deadly force and only shoot when "necessary." California law enforcement officers have shot and killed more than 120 people in each of the last three years.
Clark's two children will receive $1.2 million each per the settlement. The city has 21 days to deliver the funds to trust accounts and the family's lawyers.
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Florida Panthers Top 25 Under 25: #6 MacKenzie Weegar
Three years of seasoning paying off for Weegar
By Todd Little@toddlittle827 Sep 7, 2018, 7:37am EDT
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Our Florida Panthers T25U25 countdown rolls on with the Cats final choice at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.
#6: MacKenzie Weegar
Drafted in 2013, 7th Round (206th Overall)
The Panthers drafted Mackenzie Weegar with its final pick of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in Newark after the offensive blueliner put up a gaudy 59 points in 61 regular season games with the Halifax Moosheads of the QMJHL.
Weegar marinated in the minors for three seasons, with his best AHL campaign coming in 2016-17, when he set career-highs with 14 goals, 22 assists and 36 points for the San Antonio Rampage. The Ontario native also played his first three NHL games during that season.
This past season saw Weegar make the Panthers rroster out of training camp and appear in a total of 60 games. He scored his first NHL goal (and point) against the Pittsburgh Penguins on October 20 in his first game of the 2017-18 campaign. Weegar finished the year with 2 goals, 6 assists, 32 PIM and a +5 rating.
With the signing of former KHLer Bogdan Kiselevich, Weegar will be in a battle with the Russian and fellow 2013 draftee Ian McCoshen to keep his spot in Florida's bottom pairing. In addition to his good wheels and offensive ability, one thing working in Weegar's favor is that he is no longer exempt from waivers, which should earn him the seventh-man spot, at worst.
Weegar will become a restricted free agent at the end of this season, so it is important he keeps improving. If he does so, with Alex Petrovic and Kiselevich set for unrestricted free agency, he could find himself a part of the club for the long term.
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Q: Is there any standard format for config comment of file with code? I need to pass some informations to files and parse it later.
WordPress (php) does it like:
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However I need to pass a little more complex data like:
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     * @param name : "Another name" | type : "int" | default : 3 | Description goes here
     * @param name : "Bla name" | type : "int" | default : 3 | Description goes here
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Target is it must be readable and easly modified by no-technical people
I was looking for some standard here but I didnt find any. I was checking some function documentation standard like
/**
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But it's missing some additional fields that I need to be passed to every @param for example (like read name or default value)


In 2017, global production increased to more than 109.8 million metric tons, an increase of 5.3% when compared to the previous year, according to this year's Modern Casting Census of World Casting Production. The nearly 110 million metric tons of metal castings produced in 2017 represent an increase of 5.5 million tons. This rate of growth comes after two years of less than a half-percent growth.
Of the 33 countries that provided data for the past two years, 25 reported an expansion in annual volumes when comparing 2017 to 2016. Among the top 10 countries in total output, Russia had the highest growth in 2017 with an increase of 8.3% in production.
China increased its total production by two million metric tons to a total of 49.4 million. Meanwhile, the U.S. saw its tonnage increase by 4%, and the gray-iron heavy India saw an increase of 6.2%.
Total production of iron increased, with gray iron growing 6% and ductile iron expanding by 3.8%. Steel output grew by 6%, while aluminum production jumped by 6.7%.
The data reported in the Census of World Casting Production is supplied by each nation's metalcasting association or similar representatives, as well as the World Foundry Organization and CAEF-The European Foundry Association.


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Professor Frank Pantridge
Eleanor Henrietta Hull (1860 - 1935):
Eleanor Hull was born in England of a County Down family and was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin. She was a student of Irish Studies under Kuno Meyer and Standish Hayes O'Grady. She was a journalist and scholar of Old Irish and in 1899 was co-founder of the Irish Texts Society for the publication of early manuscripts, remaining its honorary secretary for nearly thirty years. Her published works include The Cuchulain Saga in Irish Literature (1898); Pagan Ireland; Early Christian Ireland; A Textbook of Irish Literature, in 2 vols.; The Poem-Book of the Gael; The Northmen in Britain, Folklore of the British Isles and A History of Ireland in 2 vols. She was president of the Irish Literary Society. She died in Wimbeldon.


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For his innovation in the production and application of medical isotopes; for advancing the separation and purification of actinides and heavy elements; and for his leadership in the use of alpha emitters to save the lives of cancer patients.
David J Wesolowski
For his broad scientific contributions and international reputation in aqueous chemistry and geochemistry; for his research into the structure, dynamics, and reactions at fluid–solid interfaces; and for his leadership and service to ORNL and the international scientific community.
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For his pioneering research in atom probe field-ion microscopy and atom probe tomography, most recently to understand the unprecedented properties and behaviors of nanostructured ferritic steels.
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For outstanding scientific, programmatic, and institutional contributions to ORNL in advanced computational structural mechanics and nuclear safety technologies.
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The video review still needs to be embedded into the product, and I still need to do the "future of" something something.
tutorial. Parts for my phone came in the post since I smashed it, and it happened to be the phone I reviewed for Criteria 1.
video is accompanied by a detailed paragraph on the actions performed.


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