The association was open to any Nadar male of any subcaste or religion, and had as its general purpose the upliftment of the community. They also claimed that the Nayak rulers of Tamil Nadu imposed Deshaprashtam ostracism on the ancient Nadars to ensure that they would not rise.
They were also very caste conscious. Traditionally, all the members of a kuttam would assemble at least once a year at the family temple.
The situation got out of hand when Nadar leaders tried to intimidate the climbers, by using tenets of their cult, to give fucidine herpes dating their occupation as toddy tappers. Kamarajwhose opinions had originally been disliked by his own community.
Nadars claim that the original name of the community was Shantror or Shandrar noble one which, in course of time, was corrupted to Shanar. The climbers could ask the Sangam to intervene in inter-community issues, which would cause the Sangam to investigate the situation and determine the validity of any Nadar claims.
The community was mostly Christian and remained an endogamous unit. Eventually, with assistance from the Travancore authorities, British Christian Missionaries and Vaikunta Swamythe depressed Nadar climber women won the right to wear their upper cloth in the manner of their Nadan counterparts.
They claim to be descendants of the Chera kings who settled in the area of the Western Ghats after the fall of their dynasty. The rigid government rules pressurized the depressed climbers.
The Karkuppatayathars, the endogamaous Nelamaikkarars and the Nadar climbers beneath them, are today known as A group or Mara Nadar, and the remaining four subcastes are known as B group. Legendary accounts claim that the Nattathis are descendants born of the Pandyas and Cholas.
At the time of marriage the first invitation is presented to the family deity. The Nattathi overlord was invested with Zamindari rights under the British. Then, if necessary, the Sangam would request police intervention or support a claim in court. Rattinasami Nadarfounder of the Nadar Mahajana Sangam Nadar Mahajana Sangam[ edit ] The separate Nadar associations of the six Ramanad towns were unable to support a community that was becoming more dispersed as many began to migrate to other parts of Madras Presidency.
The support included urging their own community members to allow use of their schools, tanks, temples and wells by other communities. Both the Christian and Hindu Nadar climber women wore the upper jacket in the manner of upper class women and also their Tamil counterparts, in order to improve their social status.
Every Hindu Nadar belongs to a kuttam assemblage through patrilineal descent, and each kuttam has a common family deity. In recent years, sincethese have been referred to as Southern-style Kalaripayattu, although they are distinct from the ancient martial art of Kalaripayattu itself that was historically the style found in Kerala.
As Swami Vivekananda stated, the Keralite hierarchy was a lunatic asylum of castes. They are supposed to have migrated to the Pandyan country from the banks of the Cauvery River in Tanjore to serve the Pandyan kings as their flag bearers.
Of the deities, Murugan has been widely popular among the Nadars. However many Nadar climbers were reluctant to give up their profitable occupation. Over time they became commercially skilled and by the late 19th century were socially aspirant.
Ramasamy 's Self-respect movement. Around 10 percent of the community converted to Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant. Inthe Sangam began to provide scholarship loans to needy students, and by more than such loans were offered. With the birth of a child, the family would traditionally go to the family deity temple, where the hair of the child is shaved for the first time and offered to the deity.
The situation became known as the Upper cloth controversy and became violent. Mel-nattars lived traditionally in the Southern Travancore and Western Tirunelveli districts. There they were traditionally cultivators, traders and money lenders. There were five major divisions among the Nadars.
Goddess Bhadrakali is the tutelary deity of the Nadar community. The properties of the Zamindar were eventually divided among a number of claimants.
These procedures can also only be practiced by climbers who have license.


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Kappelmeier v. Wil-Shar, Inc.
United States District Court, W.D. Arkansas, Fayetteville Division
KENNETH KAPPELMEIER and ADAM KAPPELMEIER PLAINTIFFS
WIL-SHAR, INC. DEFENDANT
P.K. HOLMES, III U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE
Before the Court is a joint motion (Doc. 14) to approve the parties' settlement agreement and dismiss Plaintiffs' Fair Labor Standards Act and Arkansas Minimum Wage Act claims. No. collective action has been certified. In addition to the unsealed motion and exhibits, the parties have filed a proposed settlement agreement under seal (Doc. 15) for the Court's review. The motion will be denied without prejudice to its refiling.
A district court may only approve a settlement agreement and enter a stipulated judgment that includes a waiver of FLSA claims after it determines that the litigation involves a bona fide dispute and that the proposed settlement is fair and equitable to all parties. Lynn's Food Stores, Inc. v. United States, 769 F.3d 1350, 1353 n.8 (11th Cir. 1982). The parties dispute whether any bona fide FLSA wage and overtime violations occurred. Plaintiffs contends that Defendant's unlawful pay practices resulted in Plaintiffs not being paid for overtime work performed. Defendant argues that its pay practices comply with relevant legal requirements as evidenced by a DOL audit which found no back wages owed.
Various issues exist with the parties' sealed settlement agreement that prevent the Court from approving it. The parties have made clear that the current settlement agreement is to remain confidential, the waiver of claims against Defendant extends beyond just wage and hour claims, the agreement lacks an adequate justification for the exclusion of liquidated damages, and Plaintiffs are to bear the costs of litigation. These issues must be addressed before the Court can approve the agreement.
Settlement agreements conditioned on confidentiality run counter to the policy of public access to judicial documents. In order for the Court to approve a confidential settlement agreement, the parties must demonstrate a need for confidentiality that outweighs the strong presumption of public access. Wolinsky v. Scholastic Inc., 900 F.Supp.2d 332, 337 (S.D.N.Y. 2012). The motion fails to make this demonstration. Because the provisions of the FLSA are mandatory, their compromise cannot be made contingent upon confidentiality agreements and the waiver of non-wage-and-hour claims. Briggins v. Elwood TRI, Inc., 3 F.Supp.3d 1277, 1288-89 (N.D. Ala. 2014) (stating that in order to be compensated consistently with the FLSA, an employee cannot be compelled to make "side deals" that do not relate to the bona fide disputes over FLSA coverage or wages due).
Additionally, Plaintiffs waive their right to recover liquidated damages "because of the risk of a failure to recover damages at a trial on the merits." (Doc. 14, p. 4). "Generally, an award of liquidated damages is mandatory if a FLSA violation occurs." Goldsby v. Renosol Seating, LLC, 294 F.R.D. 649, 654 (S.D. Ala. 2013) (rejecting settlement agreement that did not break down the amount of unpaid overtime compensation, unpaid wages, or liquidated damages). However, liquidated damages are not mandatory if "the employer can show good faith and reasonable grounds for believing that it was not in violation of the FLSA." See Jarrett v. ERC Properties, Inc., 211 F.3d 1078, 1083 (8th Cir. 2000) (quoting Braswell v. City of El Dorado, 187 F.3d 954, 957 (8th Cir. 1999)). Risk of a defense verdict is not an adequate basis for waiving liquidated damages-if the parties have agreed that Plaintiffs should be compensated for some hours worked, liquidated damages are also appropriate.
Finally, the settlement agreement provides that Plaintiffs are responsible for their own attorney's fees. Settlements that shift the costs of litigation back to a plaintiff run counter to the statutory scheme of the FLSA. When an FLSA settlement reduces the plaintiffs' recovery to pay the plaintiffs' attorney's fees and costs, "such an outcome undermines the statutory scheme set forth by Congress. FLSA plaintiffs, per the statute, are entitled to gain all of the benefit from successful litigation without paying attorneys' fees and costs. The FLSA shifts the burden of paying fees and costs to the defendant." Williams v. Coventry Health Care of Florida, Inc., No. 6:16-cv-731-Orl-41TBS, 2018 WL 1466395, at *3 (M.D. Fla. Mar. 26, 2018). The proposed agreement improperly shifts the expense of litigation back to Plaintiffs. The proposed settlement is not fair and equitable.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the joint motion (Doc. 14) is DENIED ...


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At the rate foreign investors are deserting South African stocks, the country's main index should be in decline. It's not, thanks largely to two shares that draw their strength from Hong Kong and Zurich.
The JSE's benchmark is up 0.6% this year, well short of the 16% advance in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, after foreigners dumped a net R77bn of local shares.
That picture would have been worse if it weren't for Naspers, the largest weighting in the index and biggest shareholder in Tencent, and Zurich-traded luxury retailer Richemont, said Shaun le Roux, a money manager at PSG Asset Management in Cape Town.
Credit-rating downgrades, a moribund economy and political turmoil swirling around the presidency of Jacob Zuma have weighed on South African stocks in 2017.
The foreign sales are larger than the R70bn offloaded a year earlier, figures from the stock exchange show. The selloff compares with inflows of R26bn by this point in 2015, and purchases of R20bn in 2014. Foreigners were net buyers by this stage in each of the five years preceding that.
"Foreign sentiment toward South Africa equities is poor and shareholder registers indicate widespread selling by foreign investors of most JSE-listed stocks over the past few months," said Le Roux.
Naspers, which constitutes 17% of the 166-member index, has gained 28% in 2017 as Tencent, of which it owns a third, surged almost 50% in Hong Kong.
The stake in China's largest Internet company has grown in value to about R1.5 trillion.
Richemont, the second largest index member at 8.5%, has climbed 18%. With its focus on global luxury brands like Baume & Mercier and Montblanc, Richemont is less at risk from the South African economy.
The outflows present an opportunity for domestic investors as valuations drop, Le Roux said. The 14-day RSI on the main Johannesburg index fell below 30, a level that indicates stocks may have fallen too far and be poised for a rebound, on 6 June for the first time since September.


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Cheryl Sudduth, a longtime resident and activist in the East Bay, announced Aug. 14 that she will be joining a growing field of candidates for the California 15th State Assembly District election in 2018.
Sudduth, a contracts and compliance officer at Goodwill Industries International and an active volunteer, spent the last 15 years engaging with her communities in Albany, Oakland, Pinole, El Cerrito and Richmond. Sudduth said her experience negotiating government contracts for the last two decades will also offer her insight into negotiation and compromising on federal and state issues.
According to her website, Sudduth's work and volunteer experience includes expanding employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities, helping youth acquire skills through her nonprofit ICYSports and participating in school boards and task forces for her local schools.
Sudduth's main platforms include addressing issues such as the empowerment of women and girls, educational reform and environmental justice, according to Sudduth. She advocates for equal pay for equal work and said she believes economic equality creates a foundation for equality in other frontiers.
Sudduth said she wants to increase quality of education, regardless of ZIP code or culture, by holding school teachers and administrators accountable. She added that she wants to prevent environmental injustices in areas that especially impact minority communities.
Sudduth's announcement adds her to the expanding list of contenders for the state assembly office, currently occupied by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond. This includes Berkeley Unified School District board member Judy Appel, former Obama administration adviser Buffy Wicks, Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb, Richmond City Councilmember Jovanka Beckles and East Bay Municipal Utility District Board member Andy Katz.
"They've been chasing endorsements all summer," Sudduth said of her opposition in the race for the CA-15 district race, adding that she hasn't seen other candidates participating in "important functions" such as school board meetings or the election of the new district attorney.
Sudduth said she was bothered by individuals announcing their candidacy when they hadn't been formerly engaged with the greater community.
Thurmond announced his intent in April to run for state superintendent for public instruction in 2018.
Kalb noted that the number of contenders may dwindle in the months leading up to the election and said it would become apparent who is in the subset of candidates. He added that though he isn't taking anything for granted, he feels confident that he is one of the leading candidates.
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Netflix just added the Louis C.K. episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee after initially omitting it
The act serves as a further means to explore how we handle existing content from disgraced celebrities
January 11, 2018 | 2:59pm ET
The question of how filmmakers, producers, and studios reckon with content that features and/or celebrates public figures accused of sexual assault and misconduct remains a thorny one. Just yesterday, we reported on how it was too late in the editing process for Deadpool 2 producers to address their casting of T.J. Miller, who's seen a number of his projects get canceled in the wake of the numerous allegations against him. Now, Netflix is under some scrutiny for their treatment of the Louis C.K. episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the Jerry Seinfeld interview series that just got added to the platform.
Late last year, C.K. owned up to a series of allegations regarding sexual misconduct and an abuse of power. In the wake of it, C.K. was cut loose from HBO and FX, and saw the release of his film, I Love You, Daddy, canceled by its production company. When Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee was uploaded to Netflix on January 5th, his episode was not included in the batch, likely due to the controversy surrounding C.K. Decider reports, however, that it's since been reinserted under the "Late Night Espresso" collection of the series.
The question of "why" remains an intriguing one, and touches on that larger question of how we address this kind of content. Is it helpful to scrub it from existence, or allow it to live on as a means of providing context to the subject in question's career as a whole?
Regardless, it's bound to be looked at in a different manner in the wake of #MeToo, especially considering C.K.'s episode is titled "Comedy, Sex, and the Blue Numbers". Woof.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC is said be preparing a case against former Minister of State for the Niger-Delta Sam Ode a source in the commission has revealed.
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GRACEFUL EXIT – PETE KNEW HIS TIME WAS UP
By Marc Berman
August 26, 2003 | 4:00am
Pete Sampras wore a black sports jacket and a gray dress shirt to his retirement news conference. Only a dark tie would've made Sampras look as if he was at a funeral.
In a couple of hours, there would be an oncourt ceremony on opening night at Arthur Ashe Stadium. But this was not the death of a great career, only a joyous moment Pistol Pete so richly deserved.
The perfect time for the perfect player.
"I know in my heart it's time," Sampras said. "I had nothing left to prove to myself. My heart wasn't where it needed to be. I'm at peace with it."
Last night felt so right. No player had ever won a Grand Slam championship and then let it serve as his last match. Sampras admits he never was the darling of the Open crowd until his last few years "when I started losing."
The 4,500 fans in Long Island one year ago for a U.S. Open tuneup know why last night happened, why last September's Flushing ride became his last – that four-set Open Final spellbinder over Andre Agassi the career capper.
This was before the national TV cameras came rolling into New York.
Sampras had lost to an unknown Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu in the first round of the TD Waterhouse Cup. It was now 32 tournaments without a title and counting. Two years and counting.
As he left the court, head down, feeling miserable one week before the Open, he was given a polite standing ovation by the capacity crowd. The fans were disappointed. They had come to see a legend in this intimate setting and saw instead a washed-up version who couldn't hold his serve late in a match against a nobody.
It's all in the history books now – Sampras' stunning march to his fifth Open title, his record 14th Grand Slam title, his 144 aces. Another Wimbledon title in June would not have topped Sampras' Flushing Meadows run. And that's why he will never lift a racket again for real.
"I've always had challenges ahead of me," Sampras said. "My biggest challenge was last year when I didn't win an event for a year and a half. When I [won the Open], I really climbed a tall mountain."
Sampras won 14 Slam titles but never a Grand Slam or a French Open like Rod Laver. No matter. The Sampras-Laver debate on who's the greatest player ever used to be a valid one, but not after last September.
"I will never sit here and say I'm the greatest ever," Sampras said. "I won a number of majors. That's kind of the answer to everything. I feel my game will match up against anybody. At times I felt I was playing pretty close to perfect tennis."
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Match Record: 290-80, .784
Sets all time: 571-173, .767
Sets in US Open since 2000: 61-7, .897
Games all time: 4,174-3,000, .581
Games in US Open since 2000: 61-20, .753
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Return of the Obra Dinn released to wide praise last year, and Game Informer was among the sources that offered a high recommendation. For players who weren't able to catch the puzzle game on PC or Mac, you can now look forward to playing the game on PS4, Xbox One, and Switch; the game is set to release on October 18.
Return of the Obra Dinn finds the player working as an investigator aboard a ghost ship in the 1800s, and boasts both a unique monochromatic art style, and a fascinating gameplay model, in which you use deduction to figure out the deaths of the ship's crew by witnessing elements of their final living moments.
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Late October 2012: Dan Drezner Accidently Reads Niall Ferguson
Hoisted from Late October 2012: The Half-Month of MittMentum
Late October, 2012: The Half-Month of MittMentum: Fox News and all its friends claiming Romney was way ahead if the polls were properly unskewed, the New York Times, Washington Post, major networks, and all the rest of the MSM claiming it was a toss-up because of "MittMentum". Plus the War on Nate Silver for, you know, actually counting up what people who had been asked how they would vote had said:
The Stupidest Tweet in the History of All Twitter Ever Comes from Jonathan Martin of Politico: @jmartNYT: "Avert your gaze, liberals: Nate Silver admits he's simply averaging public polls and there is no secret sauce" Dylan Byers; "Nate Silver could be a one-term celebrity". The mind boggles when one tries to figure out just what Jonathan Martin, Dylan Byers, and company thought that Nate Silver and Sam Wang and company were doing… Did they never read them? I want suggestions, in comments, for what Byers, Martin, and company thought that Nate Silver was doing--preferably involving wizardry, time machines, and entrails...
Is Mike Allen Really This Ignorant? Assessing Polls Weblogging: "Yesterday, two of the most widely followed polling analysts drew opposite conclusions about who has Big Mo: Nate Silver.... 'What isn't very likely … is for one candidate to lose ground in five of six polls if the race is still moving toward him....' ABC's Gary Langer popped his analysis of the latest ABC-WP tracking poll.... '[T]he momentum on underlying issues and attributes is Romney's. Romney's gains are clear....'" So how did Mike Allen get this pig-ignorant? How does he stay this pig-ignorant?
For the File: Dylan Byers Scared S#$&less by Nate Silver: Dylan Byers, taking on the role of a villain from Moneyball: "Nate Silver: One-term celebrity?... Prediction is the name of Silver's game, the basis for his celebrity. So should Mitt Romney win on Nov. 6, it's difficult to see how people can continue to put faith in the predictions of someone who has never given that candidate anything higher than a 41 percent chance of winning… [and now] gives him a one-in-four chance… as the polls have him almost neck-and-neck with the incumbent…. [T]his may shock the coffee-drinking NPR types of Seattle, San Francisco and Madison, Wis… [but] more than a few political pundits and reporters, including some of his own colleagues, believe Silver is highly overrated..."
Neil Newhouse Tells Romney Supporters They Can Calm Down: It's in the Bag!: TPM: "Romney Pollster Neil Newhouse: 'Obama has a political enviroment problem. He's got an intensity problem. And he's got an image problem. Put those together and they all add up to a challenging Tuesday next week. They are more important than the nearly-irrelevant fact that an extra 2.5% of Ohio's likely electorate favors him...'"
Zeke Miller: Romney Campaign Uses Photoshop to Exaggerate Size Of Nevada Event: http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-campaign-appears-to-exaggerate-size-of-neva
A Message for John "Colin Powell Is Only Voting for Barack Obama Because He Is Black" Sununu...: Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk&ab_channel=donnchac
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?: Brendan Nyhan Muses on Why So Many Reporters Just Don't Do Their Jobs: "Politico beat a retreat in the great momentum debate of 2012.... Glenn Thrush and Jennifer Epstein['s]... dramatic about-face from a story... three days earlier (not ten!)... which... contrasted "a surging Romney" with a president who "is currently on the ugly end of Big Mo." The new Politico story is also more accurate. The presidential race has been essentially static in the second half of October…"
Why Hasn't National Review Apologized to Nate Silver for Josh Jordan, and Withdrawn Jordan's Article Yet?: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331192/nate-silver-s-flawed-model-josh-jordan
Ezra Klein: "the momentum narrative is essentially a conspiracy between the two campaigns, as the Romney campaign sees a margin in making their voters more confident and the Obama campaign sees a margin in making their voters more anxious": http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/25/where-the-2012-presidential-election-is-right-now/
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?: Why Can't Karen Tumulty Do Her Homework Weblogging: If Karen Tumulty did her homework, she would know that a split electoral vote-popular vote decision is not a 50% probability but a 10% probability, and she would know that neither William Galston nor Mark Mackinnon is a reliable authority on this issue--or, indeed, on much of anything. But she doesn't. So she doesn't...
John Podhoretz Badly Needs Some Better Friends than Fred Barnes...: Watch Fred Barnes snooker John Podhoretz in real time--and then watch Podhoretz get angry at those of us who point out to him that Barnes has snookered him https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz
Nobody Has Any Business Voting for These Republicans II: Josh Dorner: "Things moving fast in Indiana: Pence throws Mourdock under the bus and now Pence's opponent accusing Pence of flip-flop on rape exception..."
Good for McCain!: TPM: McCain Helps Push Romney's Mourdock Headaches Into Day Two: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/richard-mourdock-john-mccain.php
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? No, It Does Not Look Right Now as Though the Electoral College Is the Main Obstacle to a Romney Victory: Zeleny and Parker do not have access to any reliable sources of information than the rest of us do not. And the "election is 50-50 in the popular vote but the electoral college is likely to be an insurmountable obstacle for Romney" does not convey an accurate picture of the contest right now. Greg Sargent is grateful that they do not say "Romney has the momentum and is likely to win". Greg Sargent is grasping at straws--the soft bigotry of low expectations applied to New York Times reporters...
Paul Krugman Watches Glenn Hubbard Deny the Macroeconomic Impact of the Financial Crisis Thrice: I share Paul's view: this is very bad indeed: Paul Krugman: "More Financial Crisis Denialism: I managed to avoid reading this Times profile of Glenn Hubbard until now. Wow…. Hubbard repeats what has now become the party line — that all deep recessions are the same, and that we should have had a V-shaped recovery from the crisis of 2008-2009, so that it's all Obama's fault.... Words fail me..."
Sigh. Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?: Atlantic Monthly Edition: In the immortal words of the unforgettable Dan Quayle: How sad it is to lose your brain--or not to have a brain at all! How true this is! Adam Hanft's piece isn't as bad as their publishing Glassman and Hassett's "Dow 36000" and Easterbrook's bizarre claim that the U.S. experiences a catastrophic mega-meteorite impact every 1000 years. But this is bad...
Tommy Thompson: "Who Better than Me to Do Away with Medicare and Medicaid?": TPM Editors say: "So Long, Tommy." The question is: are all these ex-moderate Republicans only now saying what they always wished they could say, or are they simply pandering to the Tea Party because theory are terrified of their party's base? In either case, Americans cannot afford to vote for even moderate Republican senators.
Romney Surrogate Norm Coleman Assures Iowa Voters That Roe v. Wade Will Remain Law Of Land Under Romney: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/norm-coleman-mitt-romney-roe-v-wade.php
Mitt and Ann Romney: President Obama Is "Not a Grown-Up": I Don't Know About You, But Owning a Dancing Horse Speaks Loudly as Far as Arrested Childhood Is Concerned
Mike Allen Looks at One Set of Polls and Says It "Could Be the Death of Mittmentum", But Refuses to Look at All Polls
Dan Drezner: "Your humble blogger was innocently surfing the web yesterday when someone linked to Niall Ferguson's latest Newsweek column. Now even though I've warned everyone -- repeatedly -- not to go to there, I made the mistake of clicking": http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/31/has_the_time_come_for_op_ed_bracketology
And some chasers to fight the stupidity:
Yes. Obama Won the Foreign Policy Debate. Why Do You Ask?: "I can't believe Romney went for that "1916" line. Doesn't he have any competent advisors at all?..."
James Fallows: Obama Won the Last Debate Decisively: As a matter of performance... as one-sided a win for Obama.... As a matter of substance... on... no issue did Romney make an actual criticism, of any sort, of Obama's policy or record. Including topics where he used to disagree..."
Steve Benen: The Death of Romney's Biggest Talking Point: "If I had a nickel for every time Mitt Romney has said the unemployment rate has been above 8% throughout the Obama presidency.... The unemployment rate... [is] 7.8%..."
Martin Wolf: The Obama Administration Did a Good Job--and Stanford's John Taylor Is Doing a Bad One: "[W]e have no reason to regard the performance of the US economy under President Obama as poor, given the conditions he inherited.... The first question is whether Prof Taylor is comparing like with like. Against him is widespread agreement that the aftermaths of systemic financial crises are worse than those of more normal downturns.... The second question is whether speed of recovery is a good measure of success. The answer is: no..."
It Look Like Mitt Romney Lied Under Oath on the Witness Stand About a Material Fact...: Perjury time, anybody? Callum Borchers: "Mitt Romney vouched for low price on Staples stock that traded 10 times higher a year later.... At the time the Stembergs split, Romney suggested, there was little indication that Staples' value would soon skyrocket..."
Fidel Castro: I Was Wrong to Tell Khrushchev to Obliterate the U.S.
Suggested Mottos for Other Law Blogs: noncuratlex.com: "The Volokh Conspiracy: The Constitution May Not Endorse Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, But We Do..."
Jonathan Cohn: A Desperate, Deceptive Gambit for Romney in Ohio: Yes, Romney lies all the time. About everything. Why do you ask?
Chris Blattman: "If you don't become seriously anti-poverty when Jesus tells you, I'm not sure David Frum will make much of a difference": http://chrisblattman.com/2012/10/29/sentence-of-the-day-2/
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2008-2013 Munich University Medical Ctr, Munich, Germany – Professor of Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Research; 2004-2007 Gentium, Sp.A., Villa Guardi (CO), Italy – Senior Vice President and Head of Biological Research; 1998-2004 Regensburg University Medical Ctr, Regensburg, Germany – Head of the Lab for Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT); 1992-1998 Helmholtz Ctr Munich, Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology – Posdoctoral Fellow; Günther Eissner graduated from the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany with a PhD in Human Biology at the the Dept. of Immunology (University of Munich). His work on the prophylactic use of Defibrotide contributed to clinical studies and EMA/FDA approval for the treatment of veno-occlusive disease following SCT. In 2007 he was appointed to the Chair for Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Research at the University of Munich. His major research focus is on endothelial and mesenchymal stem cells in transplant medicine and oncology, i.e. the monitoring and preventing endothelial-specific adverse immunological reactions in transplant settings and the development of new tumour-specific anti-angiogenic strategies in cancer. He has given more than 50 invited lectures, and has authored /co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications.
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Q: Crash when adding a OnClickListener to a Button I'm a total newbie with Android, and I'm trying to switch between two activities ("MainActivity" and "LoginDisplayActivity") and adding the "OnClickListener" seem to make my app crash on startup.
Here is my code :
package info.dremor.kronos;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.Fragment;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.os.Build;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        if(savedInstanceState == null) {
            getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(R.id.container, new MainFragment()).commit();
        }

        final Button loginButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.connect);
        loginButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, LoginDisplayActivity.class);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    /**
     * A placeholder fragment containing a simple view.
     */
    public static class MainFragment extends Fragment {

        public MainFragment() {
        }

        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container, false);
            return rootView;
        }
    }
}

trace :
05-26 15:48:11.286: D/AndroidRuntime(947): Shutting down VM
05-26 15:48:11.286: W/dalvikvm(947): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a13300)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{info.dremor.kronos/info.dremor.kronos.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2059)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at info.dremor.kronos.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:31)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1079)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2023)
05-26 15:48:11.296: E/AndroidRuntime(947):  ... 11 more

activity_main.xml :
<FrameLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/container"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="info.dremor.kronos.MainActivity"
    tools:ignore="MergeRootFrame" />

fragment_main.xml :
<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="info.dremor.kronos.MainActivity$PlaceholderFragment" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/connect"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="35dp"
        android:text="@string/connect" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:text="@string/login_greeting" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:text="@string/login" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView3"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:ems="10" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:text="@string/password" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:inputType="textPassword" />

</RelativeLayout>

Can someone help me?

A: In your activity, you set the layout file like this:
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

This means, when you write findViewById, it will look within the activity_main.xml file.
Your button on the other hand is within another layout file.
Just move the click event into your fragment, and access the context using getActivity like so:
final Button loginButton = (Button) rootView.findViewById(R.id.connect);
loginButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), LoginDisplayActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
});

A: Remove the button and code from onCreate and shift the button and clicklistener code to onCreateView like this:
View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container,
                    false);
     final Button loginButton = (Button) rootView.findViewById(R.id.connect);
              loginButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

              @Override
              public void onClick(View v) {
                  Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, LoginDisplayActivity.class);
                  startActivity(intent);
                }
            });
return rootView;

As your button is in fragment_main, not activity_main. The button is not found.

A: your button is in the fragment layout, you're "finding" it from the activity layout. Setup button onclick in the fragment onCreateView
 @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container,
                    false);
            final Button loginButton = (Button) rootView.findViewById(R.id.connect);
            loginButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){...})
            return rootView;
        }

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And the woman said: "I know how this goes. I throw the jar out the window. The jar breaks. Smashing. Crashing. The ocean is released into the wasteland which becomes its seabed. Sea creatures happy. Sea creatures free."
CHORUS: Woman. Ocean. Big glass jar.
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DAVE: Woman. Plankton. Big glass jar.


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Q: Creating a transition when changing properties in angular 2/4 I want to create a transition effect whenever I change the value of a property.
I tried doing the following
    @Component({
    selector: 'image-holder',
    template: `

            {{ text }}

    `,
    styleUrls: ['../greenscreen.scss'],
    animations: [
        trigger(
            'slideInRight',
            [
                transition(
                ':enter', [
                style({transform: 'translateX(100%)', opacity: 0}),
                animate('500ms', style({transform: 'translateX(0)', opacity: 1}))
                ]
            ),
            transition(
                ':leave', [
                style({transform: 'translateX(0)', 'opacity': 1}),
                animate('500ms', style({transform: 'translateX(100%)',opacity: 0}))
                ]
            )
            ])
    ]
})
export class ImageHolderComponent implements OnChanges {
    @Input()
        image: string;
    @Input()
        text: string;

    public slide: boolean = true;

    public ngOnChanges(changes: { [propKey: string]: SimpleChange }){
        this.slide = !this.slide;
    }
}

What I assumed was changing the property would trigger the component to start the animation effect again but that doesn't work as expected

A: You can use *ngFor for those use cases, even if it's just a single object.
@Component({
  selector: 'image-holder',
  template: `

      {{ text }}

  `,
  styleUrls: ['../greenscreen.scss'],
  animations: [
    trigger(
      'slideInRight',
      [
        transition(
          ':enter', [
            style({transform: 'translateX(100%)', opacity: 0}),
            animate('500ms', style({transform: 'translateX(0)', opacity: 1}))
          ]
        ),
        transition(
          ':leave', [
            style({transform: 'translateX(0)', 'opacity': 1}),
            animate('500ms', style({transform: 'translateX(-100%)', opacity: 0}))
          ]
        )
      ])
  ]
})
export class ImageHolderComponent {
  @Input()
  image: string;
  @Input()
  text: string;

}

A: this.slide = !this.slide  would be true and false
but when I look at your trigger you are saying
[@slideInRight]="slide"
so basically, true or false.
but when I look in your animations I see :enter and :leave
what if instead you did 'true' and 'false'   or try 1 and 0
then your animations would work when slideInRight is true or false and it would trigger the corresponding animation for true and false.
    trigger('work', [
  state('*', style({transform: 'translateX(0)', opacity: 1})),
  state('true', style({'border-right': '50px solid #72BF44', opacity: 1})),
  state('false', style({'border-right': '20px solid #72BF44', opacity: 1})),
  transition('1 => 0', animate('.125s .1s cubic-bezier(0.29, 0.06, 0.43, 0.92)')),
  transition('0 => 1', animate('.125s 0s cubic-bezier(0.29, 0.06, 0.43, 0.92)')),
  transition('void => *', [
    style({transform: 'translateX(-100%)', opacity: 0}),
    animate('1s 1.1s cubic-bezier(0.29, 0.06, 0.43, 0.92)')
  ])
])

I've included a sample trigger that I have used in a application.
you need to setup your states for on and off / true and false or whatever variable values you want (string, etc).
then you have a transition that goes from... true to false, or false to true, or void to true, whatever your previous state and current state are, that transition will trigger.


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On January 22, 2019, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) published its 2019 Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter. Included in its discussion of operational risks, the Letter states that FINRA will be supervising firms' business related to digital assets. The Letter encourages firms to notify FINRA if they plan to engage in activities related to digital assets, even where a membership application is not required. The Letter also states that it will be reviewing firms' digital assets activities for compliance with securities laws, as well as firms' compliance and operational controls designed to mitigate risks associate with digital assets activities. During its review, FINRA intends to coordinate closely with the SEC and will be considering how firms make a determination about whether a particular digital asset is a security. Additionally, FINRA will consider whether firms have implemented adequate controls and supervision related to rules governing the marketing, sale, execution, control, clearance, recordkeeping, and valuation of digital assets. Finally, FINRA will review firms' compliance with anti-money laundering/Bank Secrecy Act rules related to digital assets business. FINRA previously provided more detailed guidance to firms related to digital assets business in its July 2018 Regulatory Notice.
Please click here to read FINRA's examination priorities letter.
Last week, we covered many virtual currency bills introduced or passed in four different states. Since that installment, a bipartisan group of state legislators in Wyoming proposed another bill (SF0125) that would, among other things, classify digital assets as property under Wyoming law, authorize security interests in digital assets, and establish an opt-in framework for banks to provide custody for digital assets. The bill passed the Wyoming Senate on January 31, 2019.
The bill addresses three broad types of digital assets—digital consumer assets, digital securities, and virtual currency. Each type of digital asset would be classified as intangible personal property. Additionally, the bill would classify digital consumer assets as general intangibles for purposes of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), digital securities as securities and investment property for purposes of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC, and virtual currency as money for purposes of Article 9 of the UCC.
The bill provides that the control of the asset is sufficient for perfection of a security interest in a digital asset. Control does not require physical possession of the asset, but can be attained by (a) a party having exclusive authority to conduct a transaction relating to the digital asset, including by means of a private key or use of a multi-signature arrangement, or (b) a smart contract created by the secured party that has exclusive authority to conduct a transaction relating to the digital asset.
The bill also creates a framework for banks to provide custody services for digital assets. To do so, a bank must provide written notice to the banking commissioner 60 days before engaging in the provision of custody services. Under the framework, a bank would serve as a qualified custodian as specified by the SEC. In providing custody services, the bank must meet certain requirements, including implementing standards specified by state and federal law for custodial services; maintaining information technology best practices as specified by rule; complying with federal anti-money laundering, customer identification, and beneficial ownership requirements; and taking any other action necessary to fulfill Wyoming law, including exercising fiduciary powers similar to national banks and complying with federal law governing digital assets classified as commodities.
The bill provides additional rules for a bank's digital asset custody services. Digital assets held in custody are not depository liabilities or assets of the bank. The bank must maintain control over the digital asset while it is in custody. Finally, the customer elects the type of relationship for each digital asset in custody, either as a bailment as a nonfungible or fungible asset, or a bailment that permits a bank to undertake transactions with the digital asset so long as the bank maintains control and enters into an agreement with the counterparty to a transaction containing a time for return of the asset.
Please click here to read the bill.
On January 23, 2019, the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities (DoBS) published guidance clarifying its position on virtual currency. The DoBS's guidance begins by explaining that the Pennsylvania Money Transmitter Act (the Act) defines "money" as "currency or legal tender or any other product that is generally recognized as a medium of exchange," "[l]awful money of the United States," and "[a] medium of exchange currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government." Based on that definition, the DoBS only considers fiat currency to be "money" under the Act. The DoBS also considers the act of transmitting money to be limited to the transmission of fiat currency with or on behalf of an individual to a third party for a fee.
The DoBS's guidance concludes that web-based virtual currency exchange platforms are not money transmitters. The guidance states that these platforms typically facilitate the purchase or sale of virtual currencies in exchange for fiat or other virtual currency, including the purchase and sale of virtual currencies from other users of the platform. The guidance also states that the platforms do not directly handle fiat currency, and instead hold fiat currencies in the platforms' bank accounts. Thus, the platforms are not money transmitters because the platforms only facilitate the change of ownership of virtual currency, do not directly handle fiat currency, and do not transfer money from one user to another user or a third party.
Finally, the DoBS guidance concludes that virtual currency kiosks, ATMs, and vending machines are not money transmitters because these entities merely exchange fiat currency for virtual currency or virtual currency for fiat currency, and do not engage in money transmission.
Please click here to read the DoBS's guidance.
The United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently published a consultation paper (CP19/3) providing guidance on various aspects of "cryptoassets." The FCA is seeking public comment on its guidance. The consultation closes May 4, 2019, and the FCA anticipates issuing a policy statement in Summer 2019. The consultation paper also notes that Her Majesty's Treasury will be publishing a consultation paper in early 2019 to explore legislative changes to potentially broaden the FCA's regulatory authority to include additional types of cryptoassets. The consultation paper sets out to provide clarity to firms about where current cryptoasset activities are regulated, which was one of the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce's stated goals when it was created in October 2018. To this end, the consultation paper provides guidance on how cryptoassets are subject to FCA regulation.
The guidance divides cryptoassets into three categories—exchange tokens, security tokens, and utility tokens. Exchange tokens are tokens not issued by any central authority and designed as a means of exchange. The guidance states that exchange tokens are generally outside the FCA's regulatory authority. Security tokens are tokens with characteristics that mean they meet the definition of a Specified Investment (as in a share or a debt instrument) as described in the UK's Regulated Activities Order. Therefore, security tokens are likely within the FCA's authority. The FCA may also regulate security tokens as financial instruments under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Utility tokens are tokens that grant holders access to a current or prospective product or service, but do not grant the same rights as Specified Instruments. Utility tokens typically do not have features that would make them similar to securities, and so would not be regulated by the FCA unless the utility tokens meet the definition of e-money. Additionally, the guidance cautions that a utility token could become a security token during the utility token's lifecycle if its characteristics confer with those of a security by, for example, offering a reward if the reward has the same or equivalent characteristics as Specified Investments.
The guidance provides further detail on the FCA's considerations regarding classifying cryptoassets as e-money. In particular, the guidance notes that bitcoin, Ether, and other equivalents are unlikely to represent e-money because they are not centrally issued or represent a claim against an issuer. However, the guidance cautions that any category of cryptoasset has the potential to be e-money based on how it is structured, including whether it is accepted for transactions by parties that are not the issuer. Stablecoin backed by a fiat currency could meet the definition of e-money as it is pegged to a fiat currency and used for payment of goods or services.
Please click here to read the FCA's consultation paper.
On January 23, 2019, in what would become Italy's first law related to blockchain technology, the Italian Senate committees of Constitutional Affairs and Public Works approved an amendment to statute, known as the "Decreto semplificazioni." The amendment would define distributed ledger technology–based technologies and smart contracts. The amendment also would give legal effect to blockchain-based registers of the memorialization of documents. The Italian Parliament must still approve the amendment before it becomes law.
Please click here to read the text of the statute (in Italian).


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Han Solo - TAC - Basic (30 11)
Name: Han Solo
Collection: 30 (77-07)
Number: 30 11
Source: A New Hope
Availability: April 2007
License: Hasbro
Human, born on the world of Corellia
Smuggler, member of the Rebel Alliance
Heavy blaster pistol
Very stubborn, fiercely independent, uncomfortable with authority
A scoundrel through and through, Han Solo nonetheless adheres to a deep sense of right and wrong. He couldn't leave his new friends behind to what he felt was certain death. Though some might call his arrival at the Battle of Yavin late, he prefers to say that he was "just in time."
When Hasbro creates a definitive base mold for a Star Wars character, they likely are going to capitalize on that mold to amortize tooling costs to bring new and refreshed versions of those characters into the basic figure line. 2004's VOTC Han Solo figure was exceptional and thankfully Hasbro has decided to recycle its parts multiple times to bring new versions of Han Solo action figures to us. And since Han Solo doesn't change outfits that much in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, creating scene-specific versions of him is certainly the way to go. One unique look of Han Solo can be found in the Millennium Falcon versus Imperial TIE Fighters scene as they escape the clutches of the Death Star. Han Solo can be found wearing "gunner gloves" as well as a communications headset so that he could interact with Luke as they tried to defeat the Empire in this capacity. Surprisingly, this version of Han Solo is anything but a straight repack of the 2004 VOTC Han Solo figure and there are enough new parts that should persuade anyone to see this version of Han Solo as a "new enough" figure.
Han Solo's head, arms and lower legs are all-new, but the rest of him has been recycled from the 2004 VOTC Han Solo sculpt. And his belt has been slightly modified to hold the communications pack. The headset can not be removed from his head without breakage. This is a good thing actually. We prefer not having to worry about losing a small accessory like this and we think Hasbro can design small accessories like this closer to scale if they can make it part of the action figure and not a separate piece. His outfit appears to be painted a little bit cleaner and brighter than the 2004 figure and we think overall has a slightly better paint job. What may be hard for some to swallow is the inclusion of swivel elbows, especially since we got ball-jointed elbows on the VOTC figure. We have to side with those that are disappointed by Hasbro's move here. Why head in a backwards direction? Ball-jointed elbows should have definitely been included here for sure. And despite our preference for ball-jointed elbows, Hasbro did a fair job at ensuring that the swivel joints weren't cut at too sharp of an angle and gives Han Solo and overall more natural look. (Thank the Maker!)
Han Solo (as seen in Episode IV) will likely be a consistent release in the basic figure line. And if that's the case then Hasbro needs to find new ways to make him fresh for the line. Little scene-specific details like the headset (on this figure) or other incarnations and variances of this character in the film are going to have to be necessary inclusions for basic figures. When Hasbro changes things up it's always a good thing. And as an action figure, Han Solo functions beautifully. He can be seated, he can stand very well and he has the option of being posed in a variety of ways. Flexibility, functionality and diversity are all characteristics we want in our action figures, especially for repeat characters (wearing similar outfits). Han Solo was a wonderful addition to the 30 (77-07) line and part of a great celebratory collection of figures commemorating 30 years of Star Wars. While not perfect, he is gladly welcomed nonetheless and it makes us eager for more action figures that brings main characters with a twist to our collections. Han Solo definitely is a twist on a "regular" take of Han Solo, but that's what we love about him!
Status: Han Solo is a significant retool of 2004's VOTC Han Solo figure. This time he comes with an all-new head sculpt, arms and lower legs. The figure has also been repainted. The communications head set is not removable.
Articulation Count: 16 points (12 areas of articulation)
Articulation Details: ball-socket head (1), ball-jointed left shoulder (2), ball-jointed right shoulder (2), swivel left elbow (1), swivel right elbow (1), swivel left glove (1), swivel right glove (1), swivel waist (1), swivel left hip (1), swivel right hip (1), ball-jointed left knee (2), ball-jointed right knee (2)
Accessory Count: 1
Accessory Details: blaster
Date Stamp: 2007
Assortment Number: 87207/87500
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When I was working as an environmental educator in Syracuse, one of my all-time favorite programs to teach was all about a man named Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley. During our program we would teach first graders how as a boy little Willie Bentley loved snowflakes more than anything else in the entire world. His love and curiosity inspired him to spend most of his life observing and admiring the tiny ice crystals under a microscope.
"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others," he wrote. The problem of course was that snowflakes, which are really just tiny ice crystals, melt when they get warm. "Every crystal was a masterpiece of design…" he explained. "When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record." After four years of experimenting with photomicrography, the photography of tiny objects, Bentley become the first person to successfully capture the beauty of a single snowflake on film. To this day he is known as one of the pioneers of photomicrography.
Over the next forty-six years Bentley took over five thousand pictures of individual snowflakes, most of which you can find in the Smithsonian Institution Archives or in Snow Crystals, a book featuring 2,300 of Bentley's photographs. While these photographs have been and continue to be admired for their beauty and intricacy, these photos were important for another reason. They taught us all about the structure of snowflakes.
Based on his observations, Bentley noticed that almost all snowflakes have six sides. While some snowflakes are simple hexagons, others grow six branching arms. These arms, while similar and mostly symmetrical, can vary. These variations led Bentley to form another famous idea—the idea that no two snowflakes are the same.
I don't know about you, but the idea that every single snowflake is completely different is mind-blowing, especially when you stop to think just how many snowflakes fall in one day. According to Hans Verlinde, a cloud physicist from Barrow, Alaska, if all of Chautauqua County was covered by at five inches of snow, that snow would be made up of approximately 5.2 quintillion snowflakes. That's a five followed by 18 zeros. That's a lot of snowflakes. And that's just Chautauqua County. Is it even possible that every single one of those 5.2 quintillion snowflakes can be different?
All snowflakes, no matter where they fall or what they look like when they hit the ground, start out the exact same way, a tiny speck of dust floating around the atmosphere. After a while, once that speck of dust is cold enough, water vapor trapped in the clouds starts to stick to it, forming a water droplet that freezes into a ball of ice and eventually turns into a hexagon-shaped ice crystal. That's where the similarities end.
From that moment on the shape of the snowflake depends on the temperature and the humidity of the atmosphere. If the clouds are cold and dry the ice crystals will from six-sided plates. That changes, however, if the clouds are filled with moisture. Cold air and high humidity are the perfect ingredients for to create dendrites, star-shaped snowflakes with long, branched arms. The final shapes depend entirely on these random conditions, which might change as the snowflake falls through the layers of the atmosphere.
So yes, no two snowflakes are exactly the same and the reason why is because no two snowflakes fall the exact same way or run into the same conditions. "Snowflakes are symmetrical, but they're not perfect," Joe Hanson, the creator, writer, and host of PBS' It's Okay to Be Smart, explains. "They're ordered, but they're created in disorder. Every random branch retells their history, that singular journey that they took to get here. And most of all, they're fleeting and temporary." To experience snowflakes firsthand, come to the Snowflake Local Living Festival at Audubon on February 2 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
While it's easy to take snowflakes for granted every time we have a snowstorm, every snowflake has a story to tell, and every single one is one of a kind. How could we not think that's amazing? What's even more amazing? That most of what we know about snowflakes is all because of the curiosity of a little boy who loved snowflakes more than anything else.
Margaret Foley is a naturalist at Audubon Community Nature Center.


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Progressive Prosecutor Project Strikes Again | National Review
Posted By: Tony Beasley November 23, 2021
Chairs are left folded on Main Street after a car plowed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wis., November 22, 2021. (Cheney Orr/Reuters)
Progressive prosecutors always have the courage of their convictions as long as they're just gasbagging about their lofty aspirations for society . . . which is to say, right up until their abstractions about "equity," "systemic racism," and the need to "reform" our "broken system" crash into the reality of violent, recidivist crime that destroys the lives of flesh-and-blood Americans.
At that point, it's always some underling's fault — some nameless bureaucrat who didn't get the subtle, oh-so-thoughtful nuances of the boss's position.
I mean, how could subordinate prosecutors in the office of Milwaukee district attorney John Chisolm have possibly thought that when, for years, he donned the mantle of self-styled progressive crusader against cash bail and in favor of diverting criminals away from incarceration, he meant that criminals should be given low bail to keep them out of jail?
Maybe it was because Chisolm proudly said so himself?
In 2007, when he was elected DA, Chisolm told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that it was inevitable — "guaranteed" — that some criminal who had avoided being detained due to Chisolm's, er, enforcement philosophy would use that opportunity to go out and commit murder, but that even such a horrific crime would not make him reconsider his approach. As he put it:
Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.
So thoughtful! So compassionate! So . . . recklessly irresponsible.
Naturally, now that the policies he's spent his career championing have apparently enabled a violent career criminal, Darrell Brooks Jr., to murder five people and injure dozens of others in an unspeakably horrific mass-casualty attack on Sunday in Waukesha, Chisolm is singing a different tune.
Suddenly, he has decided that the paltry $1,000 bail to which his office agreed three weeks ago when Brooks allegedly assaulted the mother of one of his children — including running a car over her leg in a gas-station parking lot — was too low, after all.
Chisolm can't imagine how that happened, especially given that Brooks had a long criminal record of violent offenses, was already on bail in Milwaukee in connection with violent crime and firearms offenses (on which Chisolm's office had agreed to drastically reduced bail when it failed to timely bring the case to trial), and was also the subject of a pending Nevada warrant arising out of his failure to comply with sex-offender provisions. (Yup, Brooks is a sex-offender, too — and the warrant was pending on both occasions when Chisolm's office recently released him on low bail.)
So now Chisolm says Brooks's latest bail was "inappropriately low," and he'll be conducting an internal investigation into why his office would agree to such a thing. Don't you feel better now?
I wonder what the internal investigation will find. It couldn't possibly be that agreeing to low-bail or no-bail arrangements is exactly what junior prosecutors understood the boss expected, right? The boss who has argued that cash bail "criminalizes poverty." The boss who brags that, when other progressive prosecutors across the country implement non-enforcement policies, they are following the trail he blazed.
This is how it always goes. When it's the political season for progressives, there are no criminals. There is just a "system" that is inherently racist — notwithstanding the prominence of progressives at the helm of that system for a century. Since it is society, not the offender, who is to blame, then obviously we must reject such measures as requiring bail to be posted (to protect the society and encourage compliance with its court procedures) and mandating that convicted criminals be incarcerated (again, to protect the society).
Then, we're supposed to look the other way when, as predictably as the morning sun, something like the Waukesha massacre is carried out by a violent career criminal who is at liberty to prey on the community solely because of a preening progressive prosecutor.
At that point, the fearless, truth-telling reformer tells you that five innocent people were murdered in cold blood at a holiday celebration because of an unfortunate bureaucratic snafu. "It does not invalidate the overall approach."
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More rotten news about wood: Largely as the result of the tariffs imposed by the U.S. Commerce Department — and related negotiations among the U.S., Canada and Mexico grinding to a halt — prices for softwood lumber imports have skyrocketed 30% since Hurricane Harvey hit last summer.
Unlike lumber, OSB prices had been steadily declining in recent months. However, those declines came to an end last week when prices jumped 6%. The good news is that those increases are expected to be short-lived.
The near-term outlook appears uncertain, as softwood lumber negotiations seem to be at a stalemate. Canada has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization as well as the NAFTA arbitration panel, accusing the U.S. of violating international trade rules.
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At 135 metres, the London Eye has a spectacular view the entire family is sure to love. It is the world's largest observation wheel with 40 kilometre panoramic views, making it easy to spot almost all landmarks in Central London. You will also have the opportunity to capture your family's moment with a souvenir photograph. Be sure to check for clear skies prior to visiting!
One of the London's top 10 attractions, the Natural History Museum promises to make your family's visit a great learning experience. From exploring fossils to browsing Britain's lowland forests, there is something to tickle everyone's fancy.
Hounslow Urban Farm is one of London's largest community farms, containing alpacas, sheep, goats, pigs, ponies, donkeys, rabbits, chipmunks and cattle to name a few.
Golf, anyone? Paradise Island Adventure Golf is based in Manchester and provides an opportunity to brush up on your family's gold skills. The concourse contains two 18-hole courses- great for all of the family.
This public awareness campaign for endangered Asian elephants features 250 fibreglass elephants painted by artists, designers and celebrities including Lulu Guinness and Diane von Furstenberg. Try and spot them all now!
Rain, sun or snow, Woodlands Leisure Park is guaranteed fun time for the family. Go through five floors of indoor tower climbs, slide and rides or hold tight to the Trauma Tower that rises up and drops 50 ft. The Reptile House provides a viewing of crocodiles and a poisonous python or you could go to the Falconry House which has a wide range of birds of prey. Either way, Woodlands Leisure Park demands an entire day!
Eureka! is a charity that takes pride in inspiring children to learn more about themselves and the planet. The museum carries 100s of hand-on exhibits in six different galleries.
If you'd like a taste of African wildlife in Britain, this is an opportunity to brush up on your experience! Daily feedings and animal encounter sessions make it very easy to get friendly with the animals. Lions, monkeys, rhinos, cheetahs, giraffes, the African Barn Owl, Vasa Parrot and the Royal Python are just a few of the creatures that inhabit the park. Go on, dare to be adventurous and get wild!
Summer's a time to get wet, and Waterwold provides the perfect opportunity. Whether you're slipping down the slides with your kids or taking a breather in the steam room, the whole family will be soaked!
These gold mines are set beautifully amidst hillsides overlooking Cothi Valley. These mines can be traced back to the Roman era, and demonstrate the methods that were used to extract gold. The entire family can attend a guided underground tour, during which you can sift the panning troughs and keep what you can find!
Summer's a time for picnics, and Pembroke Castle offers a beautiful and historic location for one. The castle is well intact and filled with passages, tunnels and stairways that make it easy for the whole family to explore. Imagine life in Tudor England when King Henry VII reigned. Walk through the surrounding greenery, visit the medieval town centre and soak up the sun. Either way, this location is sure to offer some intense relaxation.
The Sea Life London Aquarium is home to one of Europe's largest collections of global marine life and is the jewel in the crown of the 28 SEA LIFE attractions in the UK and Europe.
If you are still struggling with ideas, click here to check out our feature from issue 58 last year where we offered some fantastic tips to ensure your kids get into the holiday spirit. The results are shiny, happy little people.
Last year, we also explored four idyllic destinations within the UK, if you want to holiday the ethical way. You can check them out here.
Or if you are determined to make the most of this warm weather, check out our travel feature here on a range of water sports you can take part in.