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Experience a Dazzling Celebration of Sustainability, Innovation and Culture at Delta's 50 Year Anniversary in Thailand
By David Nakayama, DET Corp Comms
Bangkok, Thailand April 5-9, 2021-Delta Thailand brought the Delta Group's 50 Year Anniversary Celebration to the Kingdom in style with a unique localized showcase of five decades on Delta heritage and commitment to innovation and sustainability for another 50 years and beyond.
Our week-long gathering at Bangkok's iconic mall Siam Paragon brought together distinguished guests from Thailand's government agencies, leading companies, industry and institutions to explore our local displays and performances that featured a distinct Thai artistic and cultural flair.
Here we look at the key highlights of the successful Delta Group 50 Year Anniversary Celebration held from April 5-9 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand.
"Influencing 50, Embracing 50"-with a Thai Twist
Under the global event theme "Influencing 50, Embracing 50", Delta used this momentous occasion to express our gratitude to stakeholders worldwide and our appreciation for our local supporters who have made Delta a success in Thailand for over three decades.
On opening day, guests arrived at our Paragon Cineplex venue on the fifth floor of Bangkok's landmark Siam Paragon mall. Our teams greeted them at the reception to receive their guest name tags and led them to a lounge area for refreshments.
After refreshments, guests were free to take photos at the event backdrop and explore the Delta showcase. Our Thai-based event organizer explained that the design is a subtle fusion of organic and technological elements. The gentle curved roof takes inspiration from leaf or wave shapes, while the futuristic white geodesic protrusions and triangle steel frame walls with blue LED highlights represent an explosion or the disruptive force of technology.
Guests could start their tour of the showcase from the reception desk entrance to see Delta's 4K projector and a Delta 50 Year Milestones wall display of five decades of Delta achievements spanning the company's expansion from Taiwan to global success.
At the center of the showcase, a stand offered guests the opportunity to make a donation and get an organic tree-planting kit. As part of the event activity, Delta pledges to match each donation and donate the combined sum to two local hospitals specifically chosen for their need.
Guest also could have their portraits drawn on the Delta 86" Novotouch interactive screen by a local digital artist. The artist worked during the event to make beautiful portraits from both live subjects and photos. Visitors who receive their original portraits can share them on social media with the #Delta50 hashtag as a fun way to keep their memories online and connect with new friends from the event.
At the end of the showcase, we displayed the Delta AC Max EV charger, which is our latest AC model for the Thailand market and demonstrates our exciting world-class innovation that satisfies local customers in the booming EV sector.
Launching Delta's INSIGHT Laser 8K projector in Thailand
A highlight of the event was the launch of Delta's elite class INSIGHT Laser 8K projector for the Thailand market. With 25,000 ANSI lumens (available up to 37,000) and 7680 X 4320 resolution, the INSIGHT Laser 8K projector is the ultimate solution for the most elaborate, medical, scientific, immersive visualization and large-venue applications.
Our guests could witness the power of the new 8K projector themselves in two viewing sessions each day inside the Paragon Cineplex Ultimate Screen VIP cinema rooms. Before the show, Delta Thailand's president, Jackie Chang, welcomed everyone and thanked them for their support while highlighting our successes and commitment to conservation and sustainable growth. Delta Group founder and honorary chairman, Bruce Cheng, also gave a video message to share the story of Delta and our commitment to nurturing sustainability worldwide.
Next, a local Thai dance troupe performed a mesmerizing dance interpretation of the journey of water that set the environmental and cultural theme for the 8K films. The audience was among the first in Thailand to experience the power of Delta's 8K projector with our special cultural and environment-themed films.
Our first feature 8K film was specifically made for this event by a local film production company. We commissioned the original film "Unshakeable Bangkok"- as a tribute to the resilience of Thais. In the film, a young man and woman go on a day trip to explore ancient temples, nature reserves, gourmet and shopping, local communities, urban hangouts, nightlife and street food spots. We see the amazing creativity of Thais and the evolution of the thriving capital despite COVID-19.
Our second feature film is the world's first 8K environmental documentary produced-Water with Life in Taiwan. This is an award-winning 8K environmental film produced by NHK Enterprises for the Delta Electronics Foundation, to underscore the importance of water conservation.
Media and Audience Reception
Our event attracted Thailand's top-tier and tech media. Delta Thailand's president Jackie Chang gave a group interview with around 20 journalists followed by an intimate media round table with four select journalists from major or business media firms. Thai media were especially interested in Delta's new 8K laser projector, EV charging and Delta's business strategy and plans in the new normal.
Delta's showcases and bold ideas for driving growth despite the pandemic also attracted strong interest from visitors from both the public and private sector. Visitors were impressed with Delta's ability to keep innovating and even bring fresh surprises to Thailand while maintaining our strong brand reputation for reliable and sustainable business. Our corporate communications team and invited digital media interviewed VIP guests on-site to get their fresh impressions of Delta's event and latest developments.
Former actor and founder of popular tech-focused new media Beartai "Nui" Pongsuk Hiranprueck joined our event as an influencer. After learning and introducing Delta's innovations for a day, Khun Nui was a fanatical "Delta believer" who could hardly contain his excitement to introduce Delta to Thailand in his characteristic over-the-top but energetic way.
Delta wants to thank everyone who attended our Delta Group 50 Year Anniversary Celebration in Bangkok and for making this a truly unique event for Thais to enjoy. We hope to see you soon and continue our exciting conversations and fruitful collaborations.
Please remember to check Delta's Facebook and LinkedIn pages for event news, photos and campaigns. Visit our YouTube channel for a recording of the event.
Of course, this landmark Delta event would not have been possible without the excellent support of everyone involved in planning, preparing and setting up the showcase and new 8K laser projector.
Special thanks to all our business group and business unit representatives and our government relations team who helped to invite our friends and our event marketing and corp comms team who worked on-site with our third-party event vendors to make this a memorable occasion for all.
Thank you and see you all again soon!
If content is king, there must be a kingmaker. And the universal theme in my favorite stories is our innate human desire for freedom. I have a master's degree in Chinese education and experience spanning industries and countries. As the Comms guy at DET, I'm obsessed with the stories behind our products and people. Share your stories with me@ https://www.linkedin.com/in/yushi-david-nakayama/
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President Obama pardons two turkeys this Thanksgiving morning -- and neither one was named "Tom DeLay"!
Mwahahahaha! Happy T-day, everybody!
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TGIC!
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Merry Christmas from the GOP!
They're all about extending tax cuts for millionaires who don't need them, but House repukes Thursday blocked the bill that would have extended benefits for the unemployed beyond the holiday season.
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Headline in the WaComPo: "GOP may be less eager than Obama for bipartisanship"
Gee, ya think??
After bitching and moaning these past two years that the White House has not been bipartisan (wrongly, as it were), the "newly emboldened" Party of No "have shown little enthusiasm for compromise."
Snort. Really. Wow, who could have seen that coming? Party over country, that's the gpukes in a nutshell. Asshats.
Fux: Obama hates our centuries-dead troops
Faux draws criticism for nooze anchors headlining repug fundraisers... uhh, donating millions to the GOP... damn ... their trollish headline of Prez Obama's new book:
Obama's decision to include Native American leader Sitting Bull didn't go over well with the headline writers at Fox Nation, a Fox News website. Their initial take: "Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Killed U.S. General." (At the time of this writing, the headline has been changed to read: "Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Defeated U.S. General.")
Several bloggers and Fox critics quickly jumped on the site's overheated reaction to the children's book.
"Fox News Turns Obama's Kid Book Into Anti-American War Epic," wrote Gawker's Maureen O'Connor.
The New Republic's Jonathan Chait also poked fun at the network's coverage of the book: "Fox News Exposes Obama As Indian, Not Kenyan, Anti-Colonialist."
"Our Indonesian-Kenyan-socialist president is at it again!" wrote Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank.
Fox News chief Roger Ailes claimed in a recent interview that his network doesn't take unfair shots at the Obama administration. But headlines like this one only give ammunition to the many Fox critics who contend that the network—and sites affiliated with it—will take every opportunity to criticize the Democratic president.
Fox News did not respond to requests for comment.
Of course they didn't.
Oopsies!
Not news: Lamestream media pundits caught on tape trashing Sarah Palin during commercial break.
News: It was her Faux Nooze colleagues. Watch the video here.
Alies' fat cells continue to usurp what's left of his brain
In a fawning interview with world-class repuke bootlicker Howard Kurtz, Faux chairman Roger Ailes called NPR executives "Nazis" for firing xenophobic bigot Juan Williams, Prez Obama too "socialist" for our socialist international allies, and Jon Stewart "crazy" for -- get this -- his "polarizing views":
"If it wasn't polarized, he couldn't make a living. He makes a living by attacking conservatives and stirring up a liberal base against it."
Uh, it takes one to know one, I guess. You fucking pig. Honestly.
Fux boob gets one right
Usually vapid ditz Gretchen Carlson sez Palin is "self-defecating" --
Rare sighting: Dems with spines
From our buddy Mahablog:
Four House Dems — Joseph Crowley of New York, Linda Sanchez of California, Donna Edwards of Maryland and Tim Ryan of Ohio — sent an open letter to Republicans in Congress asking which of them would forgo their congressional health benefits:
"If your conference wants to deny millions of Americans affordable health care, your members should walk that walk," the Democrats wrote to pudfaced dipshit Mitch McConnell and orange-hued weeper John Boehner. "You cannot enroll in the very kind of coverage that you want for yourselves, and then turn around and deny it to Americans who don't happen to be Members of Congress."
"We also find it interesting that members of the Republican conference would have no problem taking away health coverage from hard-working Americans, but expect expanded coverage for themselves and their families," they add, writing that the health care reform bill gives Americans the option of selecting a plan in a manner similar to members of Congress.
More of this please, indeed.
Teabagging twittertwat of the tundra: "I can beat Obama"
Dubbed one of the year's "most fascinating people" by an increasingly senile Barbara Walters, Sarah Palin averred she could whomp the President if she ran in 2012 - though she admitted the biggest challenge would be proving her "record."
"That's the most frustrating thing for me -- the warped and perverted description of my record and what I've accomplished over the last two decades," the serial quitter whined cluelessly.
The reality-show attention-whore then went on to pule over the "lamestream media" for their attention on her personal life, something they have never, ever done to any other political figure evar.
A free hour today! Yays!
Gpukes put party before country
Rethugs actively worked toward ensuring the country failed in order to win the 2010 election.
All but wiped out in 2008, republicans groping for a comeback strategy determined there would be no swift return to economic health under incoming President Barack Obama -- they agreed privately to oppose his major legislation.
Over the next two years, they criticized, attacked, voted against and then attacked some more as Democrats struggled to pass an economic stimulus measure, health care legislation and a bill to rein in Wall Street. Unemployment, 7.4 percent when Obama took office, soared to 10.1 percent, then barely budged for months.
"By sticking together in principled opposition to policies we viewed as harmful, we made it perfectly clear to the American people where we stood. And we gave voters a real choice," said pudfaced jerkwad Mitch McConnell, deserving of a hard kick in his shrivelled nuts.
"Harmful"? "Principled"?? You fuckhats voted nearly unanimously against every effort the Democrats made to help the economy.
And the fucking sheeple bought into it. Sigh.
All of you.
Getting the hell out of DC would be a good start
Republican Whip Eric Cantor wants you to tell him exactly how the GOP should work to reduce wasteful spending.
Bunnypants: McCain was a big ol' poopiehead
In his new book, clearly ghost-written by Millie, the former resident makes Senor Senile McFusebutt out to be what we all saw him as: a cantankerous, stubborn old fool with a huge bug up his ass.
"I was puzzled," Bush wrote. "He had called for this meeting. I assumed he would come prepared to outline a way to get the bill passed."
Toward the end of the meeting, McCain finally spoke. Bush complains that he spoke only "in general terms" about how hard it would be for Republicans to back the TARP bill.
"What had started as a drama quickly descended into a farce," he concludes. "I was watching a verbal food fight, which would have been comical except that the stakes were so high…After everyone had their chance to vent, I decided there was nothing more we could accomplish."*
*Translated from the original faux-cowpoke gibberish.
Happy Caturday!
Our SCLM
Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay.
Earlier [Friday], MSNBC declared that it would be suspending progressive host Keith Olbermann because he violated NBC's ethics rules by donating to three Democratic candidates for Congress. As many bloggers have noted, conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has donated to Republican candidates for Congress while promoting the same candidate on air, but has never been disciplined.
Media Matter's Eric Hananoki notes that Scarborough gave a local Alabama Republican candidate $5,000 as recently as this year, and CNBC host Larry Kudlow donated $1,000 to Republican Chris Shays in May of 2009. Indeed, Kudlow also serves on the Leadership Council to the Club for Growth, a group that has donated over $2 million to Republican candidates this year. Do NBC ethics rules apply to Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, Kudlow, or other conservatives working for the media company?
Everyone: "IOKIYAR!"
What fun. Spent the past few days driving around to employment office, unemployment office, doctors and rehab. Now, a break! Uh oh... the finches are all lined up staring at me. Yep, they're out of bath water. Hold on...
MSNBC's election night lineup draws criticism from Faux
Oh please.
"We made the decision to give the viewers what they come to MSNBC night in and night out for -- Keith, Chris, Rachel, Ed, Lawrence and Gene, who's joined us for election nights for the past several years," an MSNBC spokesman said.
Fox News, rather than having top-rated dipshits like Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck anchor election coverage, went instead with Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly. But the network still gave ample airtime to its stable of conservative commentators, including Karl Rove, Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin.
Fox News drew its own share of criticism from liberals for its 2010 election night coverage. Some pointed out the sheer number of potential Republican presidential candidates on Fox News' payroll, the network's positive coverage of the tea party movement since last year, and owner Rupert Murdoch's large donations to Republican candidates and causes this year.
So fuck you. Honestly.
Fair 'n' balanced
Seen on fark.com: Keith Olbermann may have violated ethics policy when he donated thousands to Democrats. In other news, the owner of Fox "News" donated $1 million to republicans and told everyone to suck it.
Brainless asshole gives grizzlies, sphincters a bad name
Oh, for the love of crap --
Sarah Palin Complains About Invasion Of Her Privacy On First Episode Of Her Reality Show
Oh good
Prez Obama acknowledges his message didn't get through, so he's embracing the Bush tax cuts compromise. In a related story, Norway was voted the best place to live in a new poll.
That's just gay
More gay voters chose the marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman party in the midterm elections than previously, according to a CNN poll.
Thirty-one percent of self-identified gay voters cast their ballots for Republicans on Tuesday, 4 percentage points more than in 2008.
I'm sorry, but what thave the repukes ever done for you??
No, really, wtf?
When will we address THIS reason why the Democrats lost the midterms?
A must-read to the SCLM from Pam's House Blend:
Per usual, Rachel Maddow destroys conservative lies. It bothers me just a bit that while all these reasons why the Democrats got swamped in the mid terms are floating around, very few are calling attention to the right-wing echo chamber which ratcheted up the lies against Obama and the Democrats, thereby scaring Americans and exploiting covert prejudices against Obama...
And don't even get me started on Fox News. The fact that for the first time in history, a political party has an entire "news" network - the number one news network at that - in its back pocket and pushing its agenda seems to escape everyone. This is a shame because it's significant. And ironic. The clarion call against Obama seems to be that he is a dictator and runs a regime.
Who's more of a product of a "regime?" President Obama or a network fueling a political party?
Faux Nooze talking asshole talks out of his prissy mouth for once
And just like that, Mort Kondracke is labelled a 'liberal' by teabaggers --
"The people who got slapped the hardest in this election — besides Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama {blah blah, dipshit. -Ed.} — are Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin," he said. "Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin are responsible for the fact that the Senate did not go Republican. They're the ones who are responsible for Christine O'Donnell. They're the ones who are responsible for Joe Miller in Alaska. They're the ones who are responsible for Ken Buck in Colorado. They're the ones who are responsible for Sharron Angle in Nevada."
Then Kondracke discussed whether Palin could be the 2012 nominee: "She's a joke even within her own party," Kondracke said. "The idea that she would be the presidential nominee is unthinkable."
But its the Dems that are 'afraid of her.' Right.
OK, we had a frost last night -- but the nasturtiums are still blooming! Up yours, weather! Mwahahahahaha.
A bone to pick with Boner
Rosanne Cash has a few words for John Boehner.
Senile-American can't remember shit
The mavericky ol' bootstrapper must have put his nine or ten well-appointed homes on the market, I guess...
Campaigning in Nevada for Senate nominee Sharron Angle, John McCain -- who himself lives in a Washington-area condo -- attacked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's D.C. residence:
McCain told the crowd: "We are going to kick Harry Reid out of his penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton and send him back to [his hometown of] Searchlight!"
As Andrew Sullivan pointed out, this is the same John McCain who lost track of how many houses he owns during the 2008 presidential campaign.
ABC News dumps lying sack of shit Andrew Breitbart
For lying about his role in covering the election for the network, NOT because he's a serial liar and trouble-maker in general. Here's the letter they sent him:
We have spent the past several days trying to make clear to you your limited role as a participant in our digital town hall to be streamed on ABCNews.com and Facebook. The post on your blog last Friday created a widespread impression that you would be analyzing the election on ABC News. We made it as clear as possible as quickly as possible that you had been invited along with numerous others to participate in our digital town hall. Instead of clarifying your role, you posted a blog on Sunday evening in which you continued to claim a bigger role in our coverage. As we are still unable to agree on your role, we feel it best for you not to participate.
Shit. Why the fuck did they even think it was a good idea to invite him to do anything in the first place???
Biggest stupe on earth driven by 'fierce stupidity'
Richard Cohen lays into the Bimbo of the Icebergs:
Palin's Sunday performance was instructive. This was the show in which she said that the CBS affiliate in Anchorage, KTVA, is staffed by "corrupt bastards." This demure protest from the Evita of the North was a response to a tape in which the station's staffers were overheard saying they would look for a child molester at a campaign stop for senatorial candidate Joe Miller, whom Palin endorsed. "You know that of all the people that will show up tonight, at least one of them will be a registered sex offender," one of the staffers said. Case closed.
But hold on. How do you find a sex offender in a crowd? Do you go from person to person asking, "S'cuse me, but are you a sex offender?" Because if that is not done, then I can't see how you can ever find one. Do sex offenders wear special uniforms? No. It's obvious then that these staffers were joking - playing into the Palin stereotype of them as liberal hacks who would do anything to destroy her. This is what she believes and she recited the story with such obvious conviction that when she ended with the "corrupt bastards" tag, it seemed downright appropriate.
The fierce stupidity of this woman is hard to comprehend. It is the well from which she draws her political sustenance. It explains why she did not pause to wonder about the tape and the sheer impracticality of finding a sex offender in a crowd. This sincerity, uncomplicated by any sophistication whatsoever, is what fuels her considerable charisma. The fact that KTVA is only a CBS affiliate and the staffers not CBS employees did not give Palin pause. To her, this was Katie Couric's CBS, the network she thinks so unfairly skewered her by asking, for instance, what newspapers she reads. It's all a seamless conspiracy of them - they and them and those and them and all those elites who . . . she'll show 'em.
Godfuckingdammit
Keith Olbermann suspends his 'Worst Persons' segment after Jon Stewart's comments at the rally over the weekend --
In his "Countdown" intro Monday night, the MSNBC host again slammed Stewart's "false equivalence" between his own network and Fox, but he acknowledged that "the overall message that the tone needs to change, that the volume needs to change, was not lost on any of us."
Son of a bitch. Faux Nooze isn't going to turn all mamby-pamby and reasonable over what Jon Stewart said -- or lay off being lying, partisan asswipes just because Olbermann won't be going all apeshit on their asses. Come on. Arrrggghhhhh.
Who's hating our freedoms again?
Thanks to our buds at Alternate Brain!
OMG, its November already! Its not time for snow pictures yet, thank God. We still haven't had a frost here. The 4 o'clocks and nasturtiums are still blooming, which is pretty cool, and the catnip is thriving -- all the kittehs line up in anticipation whenever I open the back door. : )
I know, I know, I only post once a month now (heh), but the family situation just drains me. When I do get a break I spend it laying on the couch in a stupor. Plus the times I've had the news on its been so infuriating, the smug levels through the roof, that I'm really loathe to watch it again.
Well, enough of this blathering. Let's see what's going on in the internets!
You're damn right I remember
Oh, go hibernate already
Noted stupe Sarah Palin says Prez Obama "blew it" by not fixing in two years what it took GW Bush and the repukes eight years to utterly destroy.
"They're going to say we gave you two years to get the economy rolling in the right direction," Palin said on Fux, adding that she believed the situation in the nation was "getting worse."
Um, we gave him FOUR years. You brainless twat. And it hasn't gotten worse, you stupid fucking piece of shit. And so, what's your plan for fixing it, you fucking quitter? Christ.
Rally to Restore Sanity turns crossfire on media
The Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally draws 250,000 -- according to Comedy Central -- or just a few thousand, according to Faux.
"God Hates Rallies," declared one missive. "God Hates Snuggies," went another. Still a third: "I am pretty sure God Hates Us All Equally." There was a yellow Gadsden flag - the ubiquitous Tea Party emblem - but instead of "Don't Tread on Me," it read, "OMG, Snakes!"
Among the most devastating sections of the rally were a series of "fear montages" Colbert played during a mock-debate with Stewart, showing the role of cable news in particular in whipping up the state of alarm and antagonism that the rally was reacting against.
Again, the major target here was the media, or "the politico-pundit perpetual panic conflictinator," which, Stewart said, instead of using its magnifying glass to bring problems into focus, was using it "to set ants on fire."
Gabriel Snyder, formerly of Newsweek and Gawker, said on Twitter, "the Rally to Restore Sanity turns out to be history's largest act of press criticism."
And well-deserved, I must say.
Update: our bud Jon Ponder reports that the rally was 2.5 times larger than Glenn Beck's 'Sermon on the Mall' in August.
Next for the Demoncraps: Stop that f*cking idiot!
Leading Democrats, frightened -- hell, utterly petrified -- of the popularity of Caribou Barbie, will be pulling out all the stops to derail ... wait, what?
Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.
There is rising expectation among GOP elites that Palin will probably run for president in 2012 and could win the Republican nomination, a prospect many of them regard as a disaster in waiting.
In what respect, Charlie? Well, in that everyone may finally realize what a total fucking brainless nimrod she is and just hand the election over to Prez Obama on a fur-lined tray. Sweet.

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Junie Donlavey with one of his earlier coupes, a '36 Chevy.
While the #90 Modifieds were owned and run by Junie Dunlavey, the sister #91 Modifieds were owned and run by Junie's good friend Jack Billmyer.
Car owned by Junie Donlavey, owner of the #90 Modifieds. Junie kindly allowed Ed and the other Eastern Bandits to work on their racing cars at his Richmond shop on many occasions.
Photo by Joe Cryan, from 3Widespicturevault.com.
1965 – Car owned by Junie Donlavey, often driven by Sonny Hutchins. Photo from Bill Little Collection/raceplace.zoomshare.com.
Photo by Kenny Niece, from 3Widespicturevault.com.
I believe that, when this picture was taken, Junie Donlavey's 90 was being campaigned by Mel Bradley.
I believe that, when this picture was taken, Junie Donlavey's 90 was being campaigned by Runt Harris.
1968 – Trenton. I believe that the driver is LeeRoy Yarbrough.
Martinsville. Photo by Walt Wimer.
Photo by Bill Young, from 3Widespicturevault.com.
Moyock – Sonny Hutchins in Junie Donlavey's car.
The Jack Billmyer #91. Photo by Kenny Niece, from 3Widespicturevault.com.
I believe that this photo was taken at Trenton.
1966 – Trenton. LeeRoy is pushing the Billmyer #91.
1967 – Trenton. Photo by Rich Young.
A Junie Donlavey/Jack Billmyer Ford.
This picture, taken by Gene Steele, is said to have been taken at Middletown in 1973-74.


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// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "chrome/browser/translate/translate_service.h"

#include "base/bind.h"
#include "base/command_line.h"
#include "base/metrics/field_trial.h"
#include "base/notreached.h"
#include "base/strings/string_split.h"
#include "base/strings/string_util.h"
#include "build/build_config.h"
#include "chrome/browser/browser_process.h"
#include "chrome/browser/net/system_network_context_manager.h"
#include "chrome/browser/translate/chrome_translate_client.h"
#include "chrome/common/chrome_switches.h"
#include "chrome/common/pref_names.h"
#include "components/language/core/browser/language_model.h"
#include "components/prefs/pref_service.h"
#include "components/translate/core/browser/translate_download_manager.h"
#include "components/translate/core/browser/translate_manager.h"
#include "content/public/browser/network_service_instance.h"
#include "content/public/common/url_constants.h"
#include "url/gurl.h"

#if defined(OS_CHROMEOS)
#include "chrome/browser/chromeos/file_manager/app_id.h"
#include "extensions/common/constants.h"
#endif

namespace {
// The singleton instance of TranslateService.
TranslateService* g_translate_service = nullptr;
}

TranslateService::TranslateService()
    : resource_request_allowed_notifier_(
          g_browser_process->local_state(),
          switches::kDisableBackgroundNetworking,
          base::BindOnce(&content::GetNetworkConnectionTracker)) {
  resource_request_allowed_notifier_.Init(this, true /* leaky */);
}

TranslateService::~TranslateService() {}

// static
void TranslateService::Initialize() {
  if (g_translate_service)
    return;

  g_translate_service = new TranslateService;
  // Initialize the allowed state for resource requests.
  g_translate_service->OnResourceRequestsAllowed();
  translate::TranslateDownloadManager* download_manager =
      translate::TranslateDownloadManager::GetInstance();
  SystemNetworkContextManager* system_network_context_manager =
      g_browser_process->system_network_context_manager();
  // Manager will be null if called from InitializeForTesting.
  if (system_network_context_manager) {
    download_manager->set_url_loader_factory(
        system_network_context_manager->GetSharedURLLoaderFactory());
  }
  download_manager->set_application_locale(
      g_browser_process->GetApplicationLocale());
}

// static
void TranslateService::Shutdown(bool cleanup_pending_fetcher) {
  translate::TranslateDownloadManager* download_manager =
      translate::TranslateDownloadManager::GetInstance();
  if (cleanup_pending_fetcher) {
    download_manager->Shutdown();
  } else {
    // This path is only used by browser tests.
    download_manager->set_url_loader_factory(nullptr);
  }
}

// static
void TranslateService::InitializeForTesting(
    network::mojom::ConnectionType type) {
  if (!g_translate_service) {
    TranslateService::Initialize();
    translate::TranslateManager::SetIgnoreMissingKeyForTesting(true);
  } else {
    translate::TranslateDownloadManager::GetInstance()->ResetForTesting();
  }

  g_translate_service->resource_request_allowed_notifier_
      .SetConnectionTypeForTesting(type);
  g_translate_service->OnResourceRequestsAllowed();
}

// static
void TranslateService::ShutdownForTesting() {
  translate::TranslateDownloadManager::GetInstance()->Shutdown();
}

void TranslateService::OnResourceRequestsAllowed() {
  translate::TranslateLanguageList* language_list =
      translate::TranslateDownloadManager::GetInstance()->language_list();
  if (!language_list) {
    NOTREACHED();
    return;
  }

  language_list->SetResourceRequestsAllowed(
      resource_request_allowed_notifier_.ResourceRequestsAllowed());
}

// static
bool TranslateService::IsTranslateBubbleEnabled() {
#if defined(USE_AURA) || defined(OS_MACOSX)
  return true;
#else
  // The bubble UX is not implemented on other platforms.
  return false;
#endif
}

// static
std::string TranslateService::GetTargetLanguage(
    PrefService* prefs,
    language::LanguageModel* language_model) {
  return translate::TranslateManager::GetTargetLanguage(
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Bedford High School's Grant Lavigne and Souhegan High School's Bryce Reagan continue to prove they're two of the best baseball players New Hampshire has seen in recent years.
Reagan and Lavigne, was named to the prestigious East Coast Pro Rangers and Area Code Yankees teams.
The Souhegan shortstop, this season's Telegraph Player of the Year, along with Lavigne are the first New Hampshire Area Code Games players in two years. Both Reagan and Lavigne, who will both be seniors at their respective schools this fall, were on the Rangers team last year as rising juniors for the Area Code Underclass Games. They are the only New Hampshire players named to each squad.
Lavigne, a Wake Forest recruit, batted .433 for the Division I runner-up Bulldogs this spring with an on-base percentage of .532, finishing with 26 hits, 21 runs and 18 RBIs.
Reagan already has a baseball scholarship to the University of Texas for after next year. This past spring for the Sabers he hit .463 with seven doubles, three triples, three homers and 15 RBIs with 20 runs scored. He had an on-base percentage of .492 and OPS of 1.362 while slugging .870.
The tryout process is a difficult one. Players have to be referred by a Major League Baseball scout to participate in the tryout process, which was held in its early stages for this locale in Northborough, Mass. One hundred players each tried out at three locations (the others in New Jersey and Pennsylvania), making 300 in total. The Northeast Region included the six New England states as well as New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
At the end of each tryout day, players were selected for a "call back" session that night. From each "call back" session, 50 players were chosen to attend the final full-day tryout at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I.back on June 22.
The tryout evaluations are done by MLB scouts, and MLB scouts also coach the teams. This year Takeshi Sakurayama (Rangers northeast regional scout) coaches the Rangers squad and Matt Hyde (Yankees northeast regional scout) coaches the Area Code team.
As an example of how prestigious this is, Angels star and reigning AL MVP Mike Trout played for the 2008 Yankees Area Code Team.
The Rangers will participate in a six-team spring training like format in Tampa, Fla. at the Yankees spring training facility from July 31 to Aug. 4 with daily workouts and games.
Then, the Yankees team will participate in the Area Code tournament in Long Beach, Calif., from Aug. 5-10.
In preparation for the two weeklong events, the Area Code team will play exhibition games against the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Code League at Fenway Park and against the Futures Collegiate League's Seacoast Mavericks at Leary Field in Portsmouth.


You have a Windows 8 application but you need to add printing and setting functionality. This course will help to fill that need. In this course you will investigate the printing user interface in Windows 8, using the Devices charm. You will learn to register for the Print contract, using the PrintManager object. Then you will see how to work with the RichTextBlock and RichTextBlockOverflow controls to add support for visual text flow layout. Next you'll see how to examine events of the PrintDocument object, which make it possible to display print preview information and to print content. Then you will see hwo to Print using an in-app button, change options in the standard printing user interface and add custom settings to the printing user interface. Then you will learn about the Settings charm, and the corresponding Settings pane. You will examine settings options for a Weather app. Then install and work with the Callisto library of user interface tools to examine the Permissions Flyout and create a simple About command and Flyout. Then you will learn to add an Options Flyout that supports changing the main page's background color and preserve settings using the RoamingSettings dictionary.


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Q: Jquery: How multiplication of two fields by closest classname? I have dynamic table where button on click add a new table row. On each row there is price, qty and total price input field. I want that when user put value on qty field, it will multiply price and qty and show on total price input.
My Code:
$(document).ready(function(){
var product = '

      <select name="product_id" class="form-control" id="product-name">
         <option value="" selected disabled>Select Product</option>
         @foreach($product as $row)
         <option value="{{$row->id}}">{{$row->product_name}}</option>
         @endforeach
      </select>

   <input type="number" name="p_price[]" class="form-control p_price">
   <input type="number" name="p_qty[]" class="form-control qty" >
   <input type="number" name="p_total" class="form-control t_price" >
   <button class="btn btn-danger delete theme-danger btn-xs"></button>

';
   $("#productAdd").click(function(){
      $('#product-table tbody').append(product);
   });
   $(document).on('click','.delete',function(){
      $(this).parents('tr').remove();
   });

   $(function() {
      $(document)
          .on('input', '.qty');
         $('.t_price').val($('.p_price').val() * $('.qty').val());
   });

});

How can I calculate each row value?

A: You had the right idea
Note:
Removed the ID
Delegate from tbody instead of document
Hide the first delete

$(function() {
  const $tb = $('#product-table tbody');
  $(".delete").eq(0).hide()
  $("#productAdd").on("click",function() {
    const $row = $tb.find("tr").eq(0).clone();
    $(".delete",$row).show(); // show the hidden delete on this row
    $row.find("select").val(""); // reset the select
    $row.find("[type=number]").val(0); // reset the numbers
    $tb.append($row);
  });
  $tb.on('click', '.delete', function() {
    $(this).parents('tr').remove();
  });
  $tb.on('input', '.qty', function() {
    const $row = $(this).closest("tr");
    $('.t_price',$row).val($('.p_price',$row).val() * $('.qty',$row).val());
  });
});

<button id="productAdd">ADD</button>

        <select name="product_id" class="form-control">
          <option value="" selected disabled>Select Product</option>
          <option value="1">Product 1</option>
          <option value="2">Product 2</option>
          <option value="3">Product 3</option>
        </select>

      <input type="number" name="p_price[]" class="form-control p_price">
      <input type="number" name="p_qty[]" class="form-control qty">
      <input type="number" name="p_total" class="form-control t_price">
      <button class="btn btn-danger delete theme-danger btn-xs"></button>

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Q: Why is the integral expression for the length of a curve more complicated than the expression for area or volume of a figure rotated? There are quite simple, intuitive and straightforward expressions for evaluating the area or volume of a figure. But why is the expression for the length of a curve so complicated?

A: The length of a curve doesn't transform in a nice way under scaling of one of the variables the same way that the area of a 2d figure or the volume of a 3d figure does.  That puts a hard lower bound on how complicated it has to be.

A: Obviously this depends on the shape, as you implied. I would say for a circle the circumference formula is simpler.
Also the length of the curve is a volume in some sense, its just 1 dimensional.
Usually in calculus we are calculating the area relative to the the x-axis, and your formula is in terms of $x$, so that makes things simpler. I imagine that if the curve was parameterized in terms of its arc length finding its length would be quite trivial, and finding the area between the curve and the x-axis would seem very complicated.


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Do placement exams bar students from higher ed? McFarlin says no. Read Education Week story
Education Week highlights Isaac McFarlin Jr.'s latest study in "Failing a Placement Exam Does Not Discourage College Enrollment," posted by Caralee Adams on January 15.
"State test cited in lower college enrollments," a 1995 Dallas Morning News article, argued that the Texas Academic Skills Program – a placement exam administered to determine if high-school students were academically prepared for college – "acts as a higher education barrier, especially to some minorities who traditionally have a higher failure rate than their white counterparts." Today, according to Adams, "nearly 1 in 3 students are required to take remedial courses … their freshman year to catch up."
But does the prospect of remedial courses dissuade high-schoolers from attending college? "Does Failing a Placement Exam Discourage Unprepared Students from Going to College?," co-authored by McFarlin Jr., Paco Martorell of the University of California, Davis and Yu Xue of the University of Texas at Dallas, contends that it does not. "We find that students whose placement exam scores would require them to be in remediation are no less likely to enroll in college than are students who score just above the remediation placement cutoff," write the co-authors.
The study can be found in the most recent issue of Education and Finance Policy, the official journal of the Association for Education and Finance.
Isaac McFarlin Jr. is an assistant research scientist of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. His work examines the efficacy of college remediation - also known as developmental education - in promoting academic performance and educational attainment.
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Q: How can I find an replace an array value based on another value in the same multidimensional array So I have a multidimensional array like the one below:
[0]=>
  array(4) {
    ["id"] => 110
    ["list"] => {}
    ["MainProduct"] => 2         <- Step2: Replace the 2 with a 5 where productName is Oranges
    ["productName"] => Oranges   <- Step1: Find where we have "Oranges"
  }
[1]=>
  array(4) {
    ["id"] => 111
    ["list"] => {}
    ["MainProduct"] => 110
    ["productName"] => Apples
  }

Ultimately, what I need to achieve is to find were the value for key productName equals Oranges and based on that to replace the value for key MainProduct in the same sub array.
I thought I should first find the index for the array containing Oranges and then replace the value for key mainProduct but can't seem to do it properly.
They key names are always the same, while the value names are different.
Also, the array is dynamic so the array with Oranges won't always have the same index.
This is the desired result:
[0]=>
  array(4) {
    ["id"] => 110
    ["list"] => {}
    ["MainProduct"] => 5         <- This is changed to 5 where productName is "Oranges"
    ["productName"] => Oranges
  }
[1]=>
  array(4) {
    ["id"] => 111
    ["list"] => {}
    ["MainProduct"] => 110
    ["productName"] => Apples
  }

A: A slight variant of the strategy you proposed:
<?php
$data = [
  [
    "id" => 110,
    "MainProduct" => 2,
    "productName" => "Oranges",
  ],
  [
    "id" => 111,
    "MainProduct" => 110,
    "productName" => "Apples",
  ]
];

$output = [];
array_walk($data, function(&$entry) use($data)  {
  $mainProduct = array_search($entry['MainProduct'], $data);
  $entry['productName'] = $data[$mainProduct]['productName'];
});

print_r($data);

The output is:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [id] => 110
            [MainProduct] => 2
            [productName] => Oranges
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [id] => 111
            [MainProduct] => 110
            [productName] => Oranges
        )
)

A: If you get the keys and combine with the productName values, then you can search it and get the key.  Then use the key to update MainProduct:
$array[array_search('Oranges', array_combine(array_keys($array), array_column($array, 'productName')))]['MainProduct'] = 5;

If productName is unique, then I would just modify the array to index on that:
$array = array_column($array, null, 'productName');
$array['Orange']['MainProduct'] = 5;


Google Belgium and the University of Mons asked us to design the visual communication for their Crazy Machine Challenge. We developed a visual identity adapted to all their communication supports.
Intended for print but also for the web, the poster we created had to be easily recognizable and as quirky as the contest. That's why we opted for a vector-style design. The audience is very young, so the poster had to be fun and colourful.
The Crazy Machine Challenge is a contest that rewards the creation of machines using intentionally complex chain reactions to carry out a very simple task.
In line with the folkloric tradition of the "Doudou", the participants were tasked with creating a machine to grab some horsehair from the tail of the Doudou. We imagined a complex mechanism to do exactly that.
For 2017, the theme was the statue of Manneken-Pis, and the objective was to animate it by starting a water stream.


Hopfenstopfen is a very special release of Blondine.
We dry-hopped our farmhouse hefeweizen with Mosaic hops and bitter orange peel for 14 days. The aroma is all tropical fruit that's crisp and enticing. A light body and a dry, funky mouthfeel give the hops and orange peel center stage. The finish is crisp and clean and leaves you reaching for another sip.
Only 25 cases and 10 kegs were produced. We will be releasing it in our local tap room on September 3rd at 1pm in both 750 ml bottles and on draft in 12 oz snifters.


Since the beginning of CompStat in New York City in 1987 and CitiStat in Baltimore in 1997, municipal officials across the country are continuously asked to develop metrics. Municipal metrics help develop systems of transparency and accountability. Whether as part of a strategic planning process, outcome based budgeting initiative or "stat" meeting, officials are often skeptical of metrics for two key reasons.
First, they view the metrics are numbers or percentages that simply "count widgets," or second, they see them as "pie in the sky," impossibly unachievable lofty goals. Outputs focus on numbers or percentages related to core services provided by a municipality, such as the number of people who participate in a community concert program, the number of tweets by a department, or the percentage of senior citizens who attend events at the senior center. Outcomes focus on the achievement of an ideal state, such as the eradication of homelessness, improving customer service or making streets safer. The reality is these two types of measures are linked to one another, as outputs often influence the achievement of an outcome.
Municipalities need to keep track of multiple data sets for various reasons. The number of library books checked out, the number of children signed up for a youth soccer program and the number of permit applications filed all serve various purposes. However, just because these data sets are collected does not mean that this information should be used in performance management approaches to "move the needle" on an outcome.
Metrics play a key role in any performance management program, but they must not be the first step. To determine what to measure, an entity must first decide what they are trying to accomplish. The first step in this process, whether it occurs through a detailed strategic planning session or a truncated goal setting meeting, is setting clearly defined goals. Common municipal examples range from "increased use of parks" to "improved customer service." Often, these goals contain targets related to the outcome a municipality is striving to achieve. After goals are established, a municipality must then decide the steps necessary to achieve the goal, typically referred to as "action items" or "activities." Finally, you must develop metrics, which are connected to action items but tie back to the achievement of the goal.
Looking at numbers or percentages certainly tells part of the story about the performance of a municipality. However, data should always be released with a narrative that places the data into the appropriate context, including the history of the issue, trends, key achievements, major challenges and future goals and targets. A comprehensive approach to setting goals, followed by metrics, ensures municipalities develop metrics which effectively connect to the achievement of the organization's goals.


This is extremely well written. I hope that others take the time to really read it!
One shouldn't ignore the fact also that the Church is a "mouthhouse" (Luther). Catechesis is always of primary importance in all this. Policies and self reflection only go so far. The big challenge with catechesis is reflected in the article: We Christians tend to think that once we've been confirmed, we don't need to be taught anymore. This is simply not true and another great contributor to unhealth.


We've been talking about the issue for years. As Millennials become an increasingly larger portion of the market, they are becoming increasingly important to the mortgage industry. We do see more Millennials entering into the market than we saw years ago, but we still do not see as many Millennials entering into the market as we would like.
On the November 14 episode of my Lykken on Lending podcast, we had the opportunity to interview Leslie Gibin of Arch MI on why the Millennial market is growing so slowly. The answers aren't anything we haven't heard before: slow job growth, lack of job security, income, student debt, etc. What really fascinated me, though, was the discussion on some of the things Arch MI is doing to address the problem.
Listening to Leslie, it got me thinking about our roles as leaders in the mortgage industry. It is often so easy to lay the blame elsewhere. We can blame the economy, the current presidential administration, excessive regulations, poor education, or whatever else we think may be the cause of our problems.
When it comes to the problems we encounter with Millennial consumers, we often look for explanations as to why they aren't adopting home ownership at the rate of previous generations. That's all fine and good but, in addition to looking for explanations, we should also be looking for solutions. As leaders in the mortgage industry, it's our responsibility to solve problems for our customers – including Millennials. Just something to keep in mind as we continue to deal with this issue: we have more power than we often give ourselves credit for.


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Gareth Evans on Cambodia: "For fuck's sake"
December 6, 2015 asianwhitetrashCambodia, Gareth Evans, Khmer Rouge, Robert Hill Leave a comment
Evans channels Clay Davis
On this day in 1990, not unlike many days before and since, Gareth Evans dropped an f-bomb. While hardly out of character for the notoriously potty-mouthed former foreign minister, this particular utterance of every Australian's second-favourite four-letter word bears the laudable distinction of being the first time its use was recorded in the Hansard of the Australian Senate.¹
Evans had risen half an hour earlier to discuss ceasefire negotiations in the Cambodian civil war—an interminable, four-faction conflict which had been raging since the Khmer Rouge were expelled from Phnom Penh in 1979. The Vietnamese troops garrisoned in the country for a decade had been withdrawn the previous year, and with the sudden dissolution of the eastern bloc, foreign aid to Hun Sen's nominally socialist government had quickly dried up. Khmer Rouge troops had advanced into the provinces to the north and west of Phnom Penh, and another invasion of the capital now appeared to be on the cards.
Well-credentialed on matters of international diplomacy, Liberal Senator Robert Hill was one of the leading members of his party's moderate faction, at a time when there was such a thing. With the Labor Party barely scraping back into government earlier in the year with less than 50 percent of the two-party preferred vote, he could have reasonably expected to be foreign minister after the next election, which even by then was shaping up as an inevitable Labor rout.
Evans had been deferring questions on Cambodia for weeks, assuring the Senate that the government's position would be put to the parliament on this date. Now that Evans had spoken, Hill was unimpressed. When he rose shortly after 5pm he began to excoriate the minister, accusing the government of failing to account for the strategic advantages of the Khmer Rouge and not doing enough to prevent the rehabilitation of Pol Pot.² Now, in Hill's eyes, Evans was softening up the public for a policy change, after spending the year insisting that a ceasefire agreement would be concluded by the end of December.
A clearly exasperated Evans began interjecting more frequently from the other side of the chamber, denying that his policy had rested on the assumption that the Khmer Rouge would genuinely participate in a ceasefire agreement and an eventual election. When Hill began reeling off accusations that the Chinese government was continuing to provide military hardware, Evans finally blew his stack:
We have been disturbed by the allegations that they have now been provided with tanks by China. I see that the Minister in his statement today refutes the fact, indicating that Australian intelligence sources now doubt whether tanks have been supplied. That is interesting—it is the first I have heard of it—because it was reported not in any rag but in Jane's Defence Weekly—
For fuck's sake.
Senator Terry AULICH (Acting Deputy President)
Minister!
AULICH
Order! I ask the Minister to withdraw that.
I ask the Minister to withdraw that comment.
It is not on the record.
I am afraid it is, and I ask the Minister to withdraw it. The speaker responded, it was most disorderly, and I ask you to withdraw any intemperate statement.
Of course I withdraw it.
I think it is probably unprecedented in the history of this place.
Well, what a monstrous piece of nonsense—
In Evans's defence, the allegation that post-Tiananmen China was supplying tanks to the Khmer Rouge was total bullshit, the estimable reputation of Jane's notwithstanding. Evans and Hill were still sniping at each other from across the chamber after the latter resumed his seat at quarter to six, with Aulich cutting off the next speaker to admonish them both at length.
It wasn't until 1992 that a ceasefire was agreed upon and peacekeepers were sent in to oversee the following year's elections, which the Khmer Rouge ultimately boycotted as expected. All in all, the blue helmets did a reasonable job in Cambodia—at least when compared to their other unfortunate forays into conflict resolution that decade³—even if we concede that Cambodia's HIV infection rates went from zero to the highest in Southeast Asia when the arrival of UN soldiers prompted a boom in the sex trade.
The Khmer Rouge were still at it after the UN packed up in 1995, at one point taking Siem Reap, Battambang, the area around Kampot and the highway to the country's only port in Sihanoukville. Soon the competing factions of the doomed CPP-Funcinpec governing coalition started buying off rival cadre leaders, prompting a coup that obliterated the royalist party and dispatched their supporters in the senior ranks of the military to mass graves. The extrajudicial killings from this time have never been properly investigated. Reduced to a few malnourished true believers on the Thai border, Pol Pot was drumhead court-martialled and maybe-probably murdered in 1999, and the jape was up.
Hill never did rise to the foreign ministry. The portfolio instead became the consolation prize of Adelaide's most ridiculous bunyip aristocrat, in exchange for graciously stepping down from the Liberal leadership and clearing John Howard's run to the 1996 election. Back in government, Hill was presented with the same choice put to what was by then the leftover rump of the Liberal Party's moderate wing: renunciation or the backbenches. His time as defence minister during Dick Cheney's resource war was rewarded with a posting to the United Nations, where one of his last acts as Australian representative was to fall asleep during a General Assembly speech by Kevin Rudd.
1. Technically, there were earlier recorded instances, but these were all clinical uses in relation to discussion of censorship laws. It only counts if you drop one off the cuff, says I.
2. This is a little cute. The last Coalition government, of which Hill was a member, continued to recognise the Khmer Rouge as the legitimate government of Cambodia until the beginning of 1981, well after the atrocities of the previous decade had come to light. It was Andrew Peacock as foreign minister who brought about a policy change by threatening to resign from cabinet—ostensibly a human rights crusade, in reality part of a wider effort to position himself as the next Liberal leader.
3. Srebrenica isn't a byword for classic Balkan architecture, after all.


Have you checked your peak flow? I was having breathing problems and my reliever wasnt working as normal, when I checked my peak flow it was barely different from normal. I was having trouble getting air into my lungs, the GP was sure it wasnt asthma causing my problems.
I have had this recently and it turned out it was anxiety, not my asthma. Does your reliver make you feel much better? Mine wasn't making much difference which was making me panic more.
It had stemmed from a string of chest infections making my asthma worse and making me feel really low, then I just kept getting tight chested and breathless and a burning sensation in my chest. The more I thought about it, the worse I felt, I was getting myself worked up when I was alone with my toddler thinking I might have an asthma attack and pass out and she would be on her own.
Could be completely different but thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't thought of it and anything was similar for you.
Idea to check your iron blood panel maybe ?
Low iron = low oxygen = breathlessness. Hubby said his breathlessness felt different to his asthma, we eventually did our own at home blood tests and found his iron bloods were under range.
but I am still getting a loud wheeze, is this normal.
To wheeze or not to wheeze that is the question.


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Zara Comes Clean Over Toxins
It's been a little over a week since Zara were explicitly tagged by Greenpeace in their Toxic Threads campaign as a company with serious issues over toxins in their clothing. They scored poorly in a list of manufacturers whose apparal contained dangerous amounts of pollutants, including some that were known carcinogens. How on earth could the multinational pull itself out of this huge ethical hole?
Turns out it's pretty simple, really. All you have to do is say you're sorry, sign up to Greenpeace's pledge, and agree to fundamentally restructure your entire supply chain to cut all toxins out of the system by 2020. There. Was that so hard?
This is a pretty major landmark for everyone involved. Zara's parent company, Inditex, initially responded to Greenpeace's accusations with a standard boilerplate assertion about their best practices--the sort of thing that fools no-one, especially when documentation as to what those best practices might be is never forthcoming.
What surprised everyone was the abruptness of Zara's volte-face. In less than a week, faced with little more than a few protests in shop windows and outside stores, one of the biggest multinationals on the planet has pledged to completely rejig its manufacturing processes. I'm more than a little gob-smacked. It's interesting to see how the threat of protest and the damage that can cause to a carefully-crafted corporate image can now change the direction in which that company is heading. Outside the remit of this blog, Starbucks has recently pledged to pay a fair amount of corporation tax, based mostly on boycotts and the smackdown taken to their caring, sharing image (not helped by recent revelations that the tax increase would be paid for in part with cuts to staff perks. Note to Starbucks: stop screwing up. I miss my Pike Place, but I'm not going back until you sort yourselves out).
Are we seeing a sea change in the way corporations do business? Has ethical and eco-friendly behaviour become a factor to be dialed into the mission statement? More to the point, does transparency about company practices need to become a part of that structure? Clearly, no-one's buying the sort of pablum that Zara initially put out in response to the Greenpeace report anymore. If you have to respond, it's better to do it quickly and without recourse to bullshot.
I have no doubt that what we've seen from Zara is a hard-nosed business decision. It'll cost them plenty to retool their supply chain, but bad PR will cost them a heck of a lot more in lost business. Their sudden turn-around has suddenly bought them an awful lot of brownie points, and made them look like heroes. We won't know until 2020 whether this pledge is worth more than the iPad it was quickly drafted on, but I would imagine that a lot of companies are looking nervously at their own piles of dirty linen and wondering how soon it'll be before the stink coming off it becomes obvious.
It's a little early to call the Zara decision a tipping point in the way clothing manufacturers do business, tilting towards a more ethical model. But the signs look a little more hopeful than they did this time last week.
Posted by Rob at 09:05
Labels: ethical issues, fast fashion, high street
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Charles, the Maiden and the Ogre: A Modern-Day Fairy Tale
posted 8 Mar 2012, 14:34 by Oscar Duggan [ updated 5 Jul 2013, 05:38 ]
Charles, the Maiden and the Ogre is the title of what can only be described as a modern-day fairy tale. It is a story that is truly original in every sense of the word. It is well worth the read, if only for the fact that it is unlike any book you will have read before.
Written and illustrated by Sorcha Duggan, it tells the story of Charles, the titular character whose pre-occupations include girls, music and books in that order. Only his closest friend, the writer and philosopher knows the true source of his unrest. She contrives a way to bring his dreams to life. What follows is a fast-paced, quirky tale of honour, chivalry, romance with humour aplenty all packed into just 20 pages, including illustrations.
The story of Charles, the Maiden and the Ogre was first aired when it was entered in a short story competition organised by Company Magazine. It finished one of two runners-up and was lavishly praised by the judges. Company Magazine editor Sam Baker said: "I can honestly say there is no other story quite like it." It was published in a limited edition paperback in 2011 but is now available in unlimited format as a Kindle e-book.
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Q: Starting semantic image recognition How to recognize (in)appropriate images?
To facilitate, enable and easify photo and image moderation and administration targeting gae, I try get started with basic python image recognition ie basic semantic information what the image looks like to hold back doubtful material until human can judge it, and to approve the most that are good. A test batch > 10 000 images had one or just a very few so avoiding false positives naturally is good. I found the following links to follow and thank you all in advance for all advice, suggestions and recommendations. Very basically moderation will display a number of images and just a button "ok" or viceversa default "ok" and a button "Disapprove" depending on default decision (default probably publish everything and ad hoc (human) disapproval if some unsuitable since the absolute major part > 99 % material is suitably good)
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A: In python you could always:
import supreme_court

Because when it comes to pornography, they know it when they see it.
Mediocre jokes aside, I would develop a bunch of fuzzy image recognizers that match easy things (like how much of the image is made up of a skin color tone?). You could probably come up with a good amount of suspicious variables at this point - this is the hard(ish) part. Then use Classification and Regression Trees to implement the actual decision engine. Train it with your training sample, then do cross-sample validation to get a sense of the false positives/negatives.

A: I believe you will want to start here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_detection_%28computer_vision%29
and then brush up on your statistical theory, reading any papers on the topic.