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Cooler is a character and main villain in the fifth and sixth movies of the anime Dragon Ball Z. He is the older brother of Frieza, and the eldest son of King Cold. Like the rest of his family, he is also shown to be involved in the World Trade Organization. Much like his brother, he can push his body through transformations to increase his power. Although only two forms are seen (the last two), it is stated in the fifth film that Cooler possesses the same number of forms Frieza does, as well as a fifth and more powerful form, which he uses to combat Goku. Also like his brother, Cooler gains a bio mechanical final form after merging with the Big Gete Star
Cooler was designed by Akira Toriyama, the original manga author, for Toei's theatrical production (and later adapted as needed for future appearances). Toriyama's designs can be seen in Dragon Ball Daizenshuu #6.
Like his brother and father, Cooler's name is a pun on all things relating to the cold. As both Cooler's and Frieza's names end in a short "a" vowel (rather than the long "ā" which usually signifies "er" in kana spellings on English words), Frieza's name is typically spelled with an "a" at the end (as opposed to "Freezer"). Logic would follow that the character's name should in turn be spelled in a similar fashion (as opposed to "Cooler"). Note that Funimation Entertainment, the company responsible for Dragon Ball's production and distribution in North America and Australia, chooses to spell the name as Cooler (and Freeza as Frieza). Most fans choose the spellings Cooler and Frieza as opposed to the other spellings. It might also be a pun on him being more composed and serious than his brother ergo a "cooler" Frieza
The name of Cooler's species is never revealed in the anime, manga, or movies. However, it
should also be noted that there is never any hint given as to whether King Cold was able to transform. If not, then his shown form would be his "true" form (being his only one) which would suggest the transformations are unique to his sons. (The only person who might be able to clear all of this up would be author Akira Toriyama himself).
Cooler's Armored Squadron Edit
Like the mercenary Ginyu Force (right down to the vapid posing) called upon by Frieza on Planet Namek, Cooler's Armored Squadron (クウラ機甲戦隊 Kūra Kikō Sentai) compose the elder brother's own special fighting team. These three warriors serve as Cooler's subordinates throughout the course of the fifth film. Their dress is the customary garb of soldiers in Frieza's military; an extended length of armor juts from their left shoulder, while the uniforms themselves are in Cooler's primary colors of purple and white, they are shown to have a habit of blocking or reflecting Ki Blasts rather than dodging them, this habit causes Dore to be killed when he tried to block a blast more powerful than he could handle. Unlike the Ginyu Force, they appear to be more serious, with their posing being more limited (as Cooler might not be as tolerant of it as his brother Frieza) and less awkward than the Ginyu Force's Special Fighting Poses.
Akin to all Dragon Ball characters, the henchmen's names are derived from puns - in this case, condiments and salad dressings. Nevertheless, all three were killed by Piccolo, who defeated all of them without effort (Though Salza was more of a challenge).
Salza (サウザー Sauzaa; pun on Thousand Island dressing, "Sauzando Airando"): Blue skinned "pretty-boy" alien with blonde hair; Cooler's right-hand man. He is able to slice through objects using a blade of ki formed in his right hand and very similar to Zarbon in appearance.
Neiz (ネイズ Neizu; pun on "mayonnaise"): Tall, brown reptilian creature who can retract the whole of his head into his body. He can fire
*an electrical attack that can immobilize his opponents.
Doore (ドーレ Dōre; derived from saradore (salad dressing): Long-haired and vaguely reminiscent of The Hulk, never seen without his helmet.
It is also worth noting that Akira Toriyama also provided the character designs for these characters, as seen in the sixth Dragon Ball Daizenshuu.
Interestingly, the Armored Squadron's insignia resembles Cooler's head in his fifth form.
Cooler's has two groups of henchmen in movie 6, his Cyclopian Guards and of course his Meta-Cooler clones. It should also be noted that the gete in the Big Gete Star comes from getemono, which roughly means "cobbled together".
DBZ Movie 5: Cooler's Revenge Edit
Main article: Cooler's Revenge In the year 737 Age, while Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta, the home planet of the Saiyans, a newly-born Kakarot (Goku) was being sent to subjugate Earth. Seeing that Goku had escaped the explosion, Cooler's henchmen made plans to shoot the space-pod down. Cooler unexpectedly belayed the order, lamenting that his brother was still far too soft to allow a child's escape and that Frieza's conceit would delay the annihilation of the Saiyan race and jeopardize his family's absolute control over the galaxy (well, that, and also the fact that he had seven planets to conquer/destroy by the end of the day [Depending on the version], thus making him too
busy to carry out the order anyways). Also, as Goku was only an infant at the time, he didn't believe him to be any sort of immediate threat.Roughly Twenty-seven years later, Cooler was given word that his brother had been killed... by a Saiyan. Initially skeptical, he soon comes to believe it, and heads to Earth to avenge Frieza's death; however, he has no compassion for his brother and only desires to do so to restore his family honor. Upon arriving, he had his henchmen encounter a Saiyan, who of course is Goku. He succeeds in mortally wounding him in a shot intended for Gohan, but loses sight of his quarry after Goku is washed down a waterfall. Not content to blow up the planet - being too proud and eager to smite the one who injured his family name - Cooler goes to some lengths to have him tracked down.With all three of his henchmen defeated by Piccolo, He finally enters the battle himself and easily defeats Piccolo before facing Goku. Goku, revived by consuming a Senzu bean, begins his battle with Cooler. Initially, he and Cooler are a fairly even match (too much even for Cooler's tastes), so he honors Goku by showing him his ultimate transformation. He increases dramatically in size, speed, and strength; four horns grow to form a crown atop his head as spikes form on his forearms, and he now sports a face-mask of sorts, hiding all facial features except his eyes, which are now red without pupils.
Cooler is able to easily overpower Goku in this form, until at length he grows tired of the fight and feels Frieza had further shamed his family by dying at Goku's hand. As he makes plans to destroy the planet, Goku's rage transcends, transforming him into a Super Saiyan. Off-guard and arrogant, Cooler is batted around easily, and then he realizes how Frieza lost to Goku. He gathers enough energy to form a large orange sun-like attack (the same attack Frieza used to destroy Planet Vegeta and to try and kill Future Trunks) that he hopes will not
only be enough to obliterate his opponent, but the Earth along with him. But with a powerful Kamehameha, Goku is able to offset his attack and send Cooler hurling into the Sun. It was then that Cooler realized that Goku was the Saiyan child he had allowed to escape nearly three decades ago, and that in scolding his brother and not lifting a finger he had been far too soft himself. After this, Cooler incinerates in the fires of the sun.
Main article: Return of Cooler Cooler's remains float around in space and eventually fuse with the Big Gete Star, a giant machine planet. The Big Gete Star revives Cooler by finally fusing with his brain, eventually allowing Cooler to take control. Cooler set a course for New Namek, intent on draining the planet and using the Namekians as fuel for the star. Dende, learning of this horrible news, calls to Earth's warriors for help; Goku, Gohan, and Piccolo, as well as Krillin, Master Roshi, Oolong, and Yajirobe, travel to New Namek, ready to assist it's people. Upon arriving, they find many robotic beings known later as Cyclopian Guards, as well as the revived Meta-Cooler, now in a wholly metallic and enhanced body. Stronger than ever, he is able to easily repel Goku even as a Super Saiyan, and had it not been for the unlikely appearance of Vegeta, Goku most likely would have been killed. However, even the two Super Saiyans run into difficulty handling Meta-Cooler; the nano-machines that made up his body would instantly detect and repair any defect, and make it so that defect would no longer hinder the "new-and-improved" version. Only by working together in a joint attack would Meta-Cooler finally be destroyed.However, the Big Gete Star housed not one Cooler, but thousands. Goku and Vegeta, battered and beaten, soon realize they have no chance of beating them all, especially as only a single Meta-Cooler gave them so much trouble. Goku and Vegeta are soon attacked and are absorbed by the Star itself, where they find the brains behind it all, the actual Cooler - an obscene and grinning head split with one remaining eye, strung up by wires and sheets of metal. All Meta-Coolers seen previously were under remote control, and the machine itself formed Cooler's true body. He plots to drain Goku and Vegeta of all their energy for his own purposes (in the Original Japanese version, he states he plans to use their energy to create an army of Metal Super Saiyans which he would use to takeover the universe), saying "Oh, the exquisite agony!" and laughing maniacally. But their power is too much and begins to overload the capacity of his systems. The Super Saiyans then flood the Big Gete Star with energy,
causing it to crumble and his remote-controlled robots to self-destruct, while Cooler starts to lose his hold on the planet. Sickened by such "scum" yet again foiling his plans, Cooler fashions a final body from what's left of his organic self, intending to throttle Goku in wires. Even to this end Cooler believes victory is inevitable, and his arrogance costs him his life as Vegeta shears off one of his mechanical arms with a powerful energy blast, giving Goku time to break out and destroy what's left of his body with a deadly energy ball. With the "brain" gone, the Big Gete Star disintegrates over New Namek, with Vegeta crushing the original chip in his hand, ensuring that Cooler will never come back again.
Cooler possesses many of the same techniques as his brother, though often noticeably stronger. Very little of his individual techniques differ from that of Frieza.
It is notable that he possesses an extra transformation. Although Frieza used his transformations to suppress his power, Cooler utilizes a way to actually enhance his power through transformation, developing a powerful, extra form. However, this form was still no match for the power of a Super Saiyan.
Also, Cooler can power up his Supernova attack faster than Frieza can thus making him much more dangerous.
He is able to sense ki (without the aid of a scouter) & appears to be able to suppress his ki signature (as he was able to sneak up on Goku & Piccolo without detection, something he couldn't have done otherwise). He is also one of the few DBZ villains able to use Instant Transmission (the others being Super Perfect Cell & Kid Buu).
He also possesses the ability to survive in the vacuum of space & like Frieza has the ability to survive even the most horrifying injuries & still function, as shown in Movie 6, in which all that remains of him is his disembodied head. Like his brother, he becomes a cyborg after his defeat at the hands of Goku, only to be defeated once and for all.
Cooler later makes cameo appearance in Dragon Ball GT, when all villains escape from Hell. He and with the rest of the villains are sent back to Hell shortly after.
A phantom Cooler, along with what appears to be a resurrected Frieza, Turles, and Lord Slug, attack Goku and his friends in the OVA special (and later Playdia re-make) Gaiden: Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu Keikaku (Side Story: The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans) (an OVA was also released on VHS in August 1993), but these are merely false ghost-warriors meant to harass the heroes. (Interestingly this is the only
time in anime that Cooler and Frieza are seen together as allies.)
Video games Edit
Cooler makes several video game appearances. Cooler makes an appearance as a boss character in Dragon Ball Z III: Ressen Jinzō Ningen (Famicom) and DBZ: The Legacy of Goku II. He is also a playable character in several versus fighting games, including Budokai 3, Budokai Tenkaichi, Infinite World, Super Sonic Warriors 2, and Shin Budokai. He is also in Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and Budokai Tenkaichi 3 along with Salza, with his base form, Transformation, and Meta-Cooler.
In the game Super Sonic Warriors 2, Cooler gets his own story mode that can either follow a standard story line, or branch off into a few "what if" scenarios. In one scenario, Cooler and Frieza join forces to take over the Earth, which ultimately ends in Cooler killing his brother for treachery. In another scenario, Cooler revives Zarbon, Dodoria, and The Ginyu Force with the Dragon Balls and enlists them into his army. In this story line, he ultimately defeats a newly Perfected Cell, and (in a somewhat comedic ending) grudgingly agrees to take part in a large group pose with the Ginyu Force.
Cooler also made an appearance as an alternate costume for Frieza in Dragon Ball Z 2 V, a special edition of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 given out in a contest through the Japanese magazine V-Jump.
In movie 5, it was shown he was evenly matched with Goku
in his base form. However, when he transformed into his 5th form, he far outclassed Goku even when he went Kaio-ken x20 (which made him at least equal to Frieza at 50% of his maximum power, and
presumably much stronger, as Goku at this point had already defeated Frieza and become stronger by an unknown degree since then) and lost only when Goku transformed into a Super Saiyan who dominated him and blasted him into the sun. However, Cooler is able to survive at the end of the battle with Goku.
Cooler revealed to Goku before his final transformation that Frieza was always trying to beat him at everything and that he would have killed him sooner had it not been for his father. This implies that Cooler was planning on killing Frieza before his confrontation with Goku.
When he returned in Movie 6, his new form enabled him to not only keep up with Goku in his Super Saiyan form, but to outmatch him overall as well. Even with the appearance of Super Saiyan Vegeta, he still retained the upper hand. It took all the energy of them both to eliminate only one Meta Cooler.
Ki Blast, the most basic form of energy wave.
Flight — Like almost all Dragon Ball Z characters, Cooler is able to fly through use of his ki.
Death Ball — A spark of ki that may grow to the size of a small moon.
This was to be Cooler's trump card versus Goku, but his attack is blocked and he is subsequently pushed by the force of it and Goku's Kamehameha into the Sun.
The PlayStation 2 fighter Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 refers to Cooler's Death Ball as "Super Nova" to differentiate his variation from his brother's.
Transformation — An extra transformation Cooler learned to go beyond Frieza's. Originally, Cooler merely told Goku that he had one more transformation than Frieza.
Eye Laser — A small thin beam shot from both eyes.
Darkness Eye Beam - An attack similar to the Eye Laser but instead of going in a strait line, this attack moves in a horizontal
*direction. Named in the Tenkaichi series.
Telekinesis — Cooler can lift or move large objects through the air with his mind. A Meta-Cooler uses this ability to drive Goku through a mountain on New Namek.
Lock on Buster — An attack used in his metal form. Cooler focuses his energy into one point, then releases it into an invisible beam. It is one of his most powerful attacks.
Instant Transmission — A unique ability to teleport nearly anywhere. In FUNimation's English version Meta-Cooler claims it to be "one of his favorite moves". Originally he was surprised Goku knew the technique.
Cooler, like his brother, Frieza is able to survive even the most horrific injury, even decapitation and incineration. He can also survive in space.
Nano-regeneration - Any injury Meta-Cooler might suffer is instantly detected and repaired, and whatever flaws in his design that allowed the injury are corrected; thus, he cannot be harmed in the same way twice and become extremely stronger than before.
Cooler's final form bears a striking resemblance to The Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Cooler's final form also resembles a Predator just as Frieza's third form resembles a Xenomorph from the Alien series.
Cooler only mentions his father once, when in the English dub he exclaimed "father always spoiled you rotten, you little brat", in which he was showing his dislike for his brother. A year or so prior to his arrival on Earth, King Cold and Frieza are actually killed by Future Trunks not Goku.
In regards to his line of "King Cold always spoiling Frieza rotten.", it's interesting to note that his statement of Cold "spoiling" Frieza is slightly contradictory of his behavior towards him in the Trunks saga (e.g., his criticizing Frieza at any moment he can get in regards to fighting him.), as well as the implied physical abuse that Cold gave him in the Frieza saga (My, my, you're the first person to actually inflict pain on my true form, well, besides my loving parents).
Cooler and Garlic Jr. are the only movie villains who appear in the anime since Garlic Jr. had his own saga and Cooler made a cameo out of Hell in Dragon Ball GT.
Meta-Cooler's expressions and design are comparable to Cell's last transformation.
* In the The Return of Cooler, it's revealed that Cooler knows Instant Transmission, having learned it sometime before his attack on Earth (He uses the technique to escape the Earth's sun, but is reduced to a disembodied head). This means that he could sense ki, unlike his brother or father, as Instant Transmission teleports by homing in on a Ki signature. He may also be able to suppress his large ki-signature, since none of the Z Fighters were alerted to his presence (Both his brother and father were detected by the Z Fighters, even before their ship reached Earth's orbit). His being able to sense ki is supported by his not wearing a Scouter (Though he may not have been able to wear one anyways, like Guldo because he doesn't have any hinges/bumps near his eyes and in the case of Guldo, his having four eyes hinders wearing a scouter.), and it may also explain how he was able to appear whenever his henchmen were in over their heads as well as being able to remain hidden the entire time from Piccolo and able to launch a surprise attack on him (For instance, in their encounter with Piccolo during the events of Cooler's Revenge).
Interestingly, even though Cooler's head in Return of Cooler was that of his 4th form, his voice is that of his final form (This is probably because in movie 5, right before he was about to blow up in the sun, he reverted back to his fourth form).
Cooler is also one of the few Dragon Ball Z movie villains to not actually be finished off by Goku. Notable others are Garlic Jr., Bojack, and Bio-Broly (if one counts Gogeta as an entirely different character, then Janemba also counts as well, and if one says that Goku wasn't actually present in Second Coming, then Broly as well). In fact, he is also the only main movie villain that was finished off by Vegeta (While Goku did disembody Cooler, he was actually finished off by Vegeta because, by destroying the Gete Chip, he also killed Cooler).
Cooler has some similarities with General Rilldo. They are both voiced by Andrew Chandler in the Funimation dub, and they get a power-up through a metallic body (Cooler by becoming Metal Cooler and Rilldo by becoming a Machine Mutant).
He has one more form than his brother (or at least as it is seen), that being his 5th. He is only seen in his 4th, 5th, and metal forms.
Both Cooler and Frieza take similar actions. Both torture Piccolo, Krillin and Gohan while Goku is injured, and were both winning, only to lose when Goku becomes a Super Saiyan. Also, they both end up reappearing with metallic body parts (Mecha Frieza and Meta Cooler).
According to Shonen Jump, Cooler is implied to have control of at least 256 planets, as Doore was stated as hailing from "Planet Coola no. 256."
In the fifth movie, before Cooler transforms, he tells Goku that he should be familiar with the "third transformation" that he is in, as that's as far as Frieza got and that he himself has ascended further, discovering a fourth form. (However, this was in the FUNimation Dub, so it may be a translation error but it probably meant as a way of transformation meaning like a fourth transformation).
Cooler is the only character who survived from the sun unlike Broly and Baby. This may have been due to his knowledge of Instant Transmission.
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Hitting 25 everything gets harder and if you don't have a label (which I hate) you have to fight for everything and Jess is unable to do this on her own! Recently Jess became partially sighted through eye surgery. Very little sight in her right and not perfect in the left, but we cannot register as her partially sighted because her left eye is too good! So we have gone through yet another assessment as the 12 hours care she receives to live on her own is not enough to cover her needs though better than the 2 she was originally awarded, but took legal action to get the 12 hours. But that assessment took place in May and still no news. We have been told she won't lose any as can happen when a re-assessment takes place! Then there is the match funding out of Jess's benefits for her direct payments, the yearly reviews, the change over from DLA to PIPS. I could go on.
Guilt! It is always there and no matter how hard you try to push it to the back of your brain it somehow worms its way back to the front. Was it my fault Jess is disabled, did I do something wrong during pregnancy? I doing the right thing in sending my child to a special school or should they remain in mainstream schooling? People say things that make you think you are a bad parent such as "should you really allow your daughter to do things other children do?" "Should you not live with your daughter?" But the hardest thing is trying to explain why you will go to the end of the earth to protect them and see they are safe, because they are unable to do this for themselves. Both my children are my world and I love them so much but with a child who is so vulnerable you go that extra mile!
But there is another side to all this. Despite all Jess's difficulties I wouldn't change her and I know her dad wouldn't.
Jess has achieved so much in her life and we are so very proud of her. Jess now works 2 days a week in a garden nursery, she volunteers at a day centre helping to teach sign language. She is vice chair of People's Parliament Worcestershire for disabilities. She as joined a signing choir. She does Special Olympics, 3 years ago winning gold and silver medals at the national games.
We also talk to new police officers and GP's about the stresses of independently living in the community not only from Jess's view but mine as well as a parent/carer.
To all parents who have a child that needs that extra bit of help along the way, it's so hard and there will be days when you just sit down a cry and shout at the phone or just want to give up. Don't, keep fighting and if we all do this we can make a better, safer life for our vulnerable young people.
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Q: How to get the number of dates in a month of a range of two years I have to create a procedure which will populte the year its number of days in a month and the name of the month and it will start from  a  given year and will have a end year, i.e for example
YEAR  MONTH DAYS
2015  JAN   31
2015  FEB   28
.
.
2015 DEC    30

like that .
Please help me how to get this done .I can determine the total number of months and number of days in a year of each year like this
declare @y int;
declare @cnt int = 2015;
set @y = 2012;
while @y<@cnt
begin
SELECT DATEDIFF(MONTH,  cast(@y as char(4)),  cast(@y+1 as char(4)))    Months ,DATEDIFF(DAY,  cast(@y as char(4)),  cast(@y+1 as char(4))) Days ,@y Year
set @y = @y+1;
end;

This will give the year , its number of months and number of days in a year.But i can not populate this please help

A: The only month you really need to worry about is February. Most years that divide equally by 4 are a leap year (there are some exceptions).
This query hard codes the months.  To generate a list of years I've used recursion, as this can be copied/pasted.  However, there are better ways to do this, including tally tables and calendar tables, both of which I highly recommend.
DECLARE @StartYear INT = 2000;
DECLARE @EndYear INT = 2020;

WITH
    Years AS
    (
            SELECT
                @StartYear AS Year

        UNION ALL

            SELECT
                Year + 1
            FROM
                Years
            WHERE
                Year < @EndYear
    )
SELECT
    y.Year,
    DaysInMonth.Month,
    CASE
        -- Feb logic based on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year#Algorithm
        WHEN DaysInMonth.Month = 'Feb' THEN
            CASE
                WHEN y.Year % 4 = 0 AND y.Year % 100 = 0 AND y.Year % 400 = 0 THEN 29
                WHEN y.Year % 4 = 0 AND y.Year % 100 <> 0 THEN 29
                ELSE 28
            END
        ELSE DaysInMonth.Days
    END
FROM
    (
        VALUES
            ('Jan', 31),
            ('Feb', 28),
            ('Mar', 31),
            ('Apr', 30),
            ('May', 31),
            ('Jun', 30),
            ('Jul', 31),
            ('Aug', 31),
            ('Sep', 30),
            ('Oct', 31),
            ('Nov', 30),
            ('Dec', 31)
    ) AS DaysInMonth (Month, Days)

    CROSS JOIN Years AS y
;

To wrap this inside a procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE YourSchema.YourProcedureName
(
    @StartYear INT,
    @EndYear INT
)
AS
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    WITH
        Years AS
    ...
    CROSS JOIN Years AS y
GO

A: Another option, using master.dbo.spt_values as tally table
declare @start int = 2000
declare @end int = 2015

select
    [year]
    , [month] = choose(n, 'JAN', 'FEB', 'MAR', 'APR', 'MAY', 'JUN'
                        , 'JUL', 'AUG', 'SEP', 'OCT', 'NOV', 'DEC')
    , [days] = choose(n, 31, iif([year] % 400 = 0 or ([year] % 100 <>0 and [year] % 4 = 0), 29, 28)
                        , 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31)
from
    master.dbo.spt_values
    cross apply (values (1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9),(10),(11),(12)) v(n)
    cross apply (select [year] = number + @start) q
where
    type = 'P'
    and number < @end - @start

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3 to 7 Mbps speeds are not okay
posted September 18, 2020 at 12:25 am
by Jenny Ortuoste
"We must not settle for this."
It is unsurprising that our country lags in internet speed and connectivity, given that the head of the Department of Information and Communications Technology thinks that 3 to 7 Mbps (megabits per second) speeds are "hindi na …masama" (not bad).
Speaking in a House hearing on Tuesday (Sep. 15) DICT chief Gringo Honasan said: "Without going into figures, we are not doing too badly. Kaya lang po, naiintindihan natin na napakahirap nito ipaliwanag sa taumbayan."
Why not go into the figures, Mr. Secretary? What are you not telling us? What is it that is so hard to explain to the people – are we dumb or stupid that we can't understand your explanation?
What we regular folk do know is that internet speeds in this country are abysmally slow and the services are expensive, compared to other countries in the region.
DICT Assistant Secretary Emmanual Caintic, at the same hearing, admitted that our ASEAN neighbors are enjoying speeds of "213.18Mbps … fixed broadband [and] 56.43…mobile."
We have had this problem for years, but it took a pandemic of global proportions for many decision-makers to realize how urgently this needs to be addressed.
'New normal' needs fast Wi-Fi
COVID-19, deadly and stealthy, has changed the world's normal into one where those of us who can, work and study from home to avoid contracting and spreading the virus.
President Rodrigo Duterte's policy of suspending face-to-face classes until a vaccine is found is sound, because while we can make up for lost time, we can't do anything at all when we're dead.
But with the shift to online classes and work-from-home, it is imperative that we have the right tools. We need fast broadband if we are to be not only productive but above all competitive.
How much time is wasted and work lost because connectivity keeps dropping or the signal fades in and out? For all our talk of entering the international digital economy, we are still hampered by our lack of competitive-level infrastructure.
According to Ookla/speedtest.net's August figures for average global speeds, the Philippines ranked 119th for mobile, behind Botswana, and 106th for fixed broadband, behind St. Kitts and Nevis. That's embarrassing.
Work-from-home has many benefits, chief among them that it saves money, time, and effort. No longer is there a need for the miserable commute in hellish traffic. WFH also allows us to live where we please—we are no longer forced to live in or near Manila, a situation that only puts money in the pockets of landlords and condominium developers.
The Acronis Cyber Readiness Report 2020, released last week, found that of their respondents, "only 12 percent of global employees chose full office work as an ideal work arrangement," and predicted that "a new normal will likely emerge" in line with this. But the Philippines is inadequately equipped for this.
Congressional inquiry
Alarmed by what she called the "sad state" of internet speed and connectivity in the country, Deputy Majority Leader Rep. Bernadette Herrera also on Tuesday called for a congressional inquiry to discover the reasons for the sluggishness and high cost of internet service.
She rightly said that "fast, efficient, and stable internet access" is important for "managing business operations, exploring novel sources of personal income, and continuity of education."
Herrera cited a December 2019 Daily Guardian report that claimed $20 can buy internet plans of 890 Mbps in Russia and 600 Mbps in China and Lithuania. The same amount will get you a measly 5 Mbps in the Philippines.
This is not the first time a suggestion has been made to hold such a hearing, and not the first time for a lawmaker to become indignant over the sorry state of the country's internet.
Can the third telco help?
What those previous harangues achieved is that the President opened the field to the entry of a third telecommunications company, in an attempt to break the duopoly of PLDT-Smart and Globe Telecom and challenge them with a competitor who might do better.
The winner of the 2018 provider bidding was Dito Telecommunity (formerly Mislatel), which is expected to roll out its commercial services in March 2021. They committed to the government to provide 27 Mbps to 37 percent of the country's population in its first year of operation.
Having said that, the question is—can Dito do better than its competitors and provide faster, more stable Wi-Fi speeds at a lower cost?
We mustn't settle
In its June 2020 Philippine Economic Update, the World Bank found an urgent need for Philippine digital infrastructure to be substantially improved in order for the country to operate successfully in the new normal.
To the DICT officials: 3 to 7 Mbps is awful. We mustn't settle for "hindi na masama." We need to do much better if we—and our children—are to succeed in this new world created by COVID-19.
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OMD opens Kuwait office
By Arjun RKWed, Oct 05 2016
Continuing its regional expansion, OMD has opened its newest office in the Sharq district of the Kuwaiti capital enabling it to better service its regional and local Kuwaiti clients. OMD manages a growing portfolio of Kuwaiti clients, including the recent addition of Al Babtain Group, whose businesses include the Nissan and Infiniti dealerships. The new office provides all of OMD's services; insights, planning, buying, performance marketing, content marketing to advanced analytics, across the full spectrum of brand communications.
The new office is headed by Tro Taslakian, a 15-year veteran of the media industry. A long-term resident in Kuwait, he has progressed from assistant planner in 2001 to acting general manager of Optimedia in Kuwait, working on both local and international brands in a wide range of sectors. These include automotive, confectionery, casual dining and food products. Taslakian reports to Wissam Najjar, OMD's regional managing director for the Lower Gulf, Levant and Emerging Markets.
"Tro has an impeccable track-record that combines technical expertise with local fluency. He is ideally placed to ensure OMD's product blends international best practice and local relevance, two key contributors to performance," says Wissam Najjar in a press statement. "Kuwait is not a new market to us as such and we believe that it does and will continue to offer exciting opportunities, both for local advertisers and beyond. This direct presence ensures that our team in Kuwait is fully empowered to stimulate growth for its clients' brands. After our opening in Qatar a couple of years ago, this is the latest step in a broader expansion plan for the OMD network in the Middle East."


While the stars are busy with their professional commitment, their parents are constantly helping them with their wedding plans.
Koffee with Karan Season 6 started off with Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt.
"The couple will head for a brief honeymoon before Ranveer dives into the promotions of Simmba which opens on December 28", the report said.
The much-awaited wedding is finally happening! Karan revealed one such photo of Ranveer where Deepika had commented "Mine".
"Arjun Kapoor after he came to know that Ranveer Singh is getting married to Deepika Padukone", stated another one.
Ranveer, 33, and Deepika, 32, have shared screen space in films - "Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela", "Bajirao Mastani" and "Padmaavat".
For all the fans who have have been patiently for Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh's wedding date, the wait is officially over.
In the short but sweet card, Ranveer and Deepika thanked everyone for their love and announced that they will be holding the marriage on November 14 and 15 this year.
Ronaldo made history with Saturday's score, becoming the first player to ever score 400 goals in Europe's top five leagues. His team sit second in Group H, behind Juventus , after a disappointed 0-0 draw with Valencia in their last game.
The Boston Red Sox are going to the World Series for the first time since 2013 and one unlikely hero powered them to glory. . After steamrolling the Indians in a sweep in the division series, the Astros went out with little more than whimper.
No individuals were trapped during the collapse and it's unclear if anyone suffered life-threatening injuries, police said. As many as 30 people were injured in the incident and taken to the hospital for various injuries, according to TMZ .


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I have gone there twice, about a year apart. Both times early afternoon after lunch rush, about 2 or 3.
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I went here on 6/7/09 for dinner. After taking a bite of the meal I ordered, I noticed that my plate was smeared with someone else's food. There was a whitish streak under and around my food, and a purple streak in the middle (neither of which matched my meal). I returned the meal, and what I got back was what they already served (with my bite gone) on a new plate. There were apologies from the waiter (all he said was "well, they microwaved it"). The manager offered me a piece of pie which I turned down because I said I was nauseated. She then said "OK" and walked away.


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Q: port forwarding from wireguard interface to another host with iptables I have two servers that I can access one of them via wireguard.
I have a service that listen on 4559 port on the second server.
how can I port forward to second server via iptables.
[laptop]                         [server1]                 [server2]
10.10.0.1 (wireguard) -------> 10.10.0.2:4559 --------> 192.168.1.20:4559

A: To forward TCP port 4559 from your WireGuard interface on server1 to server2, add this to the [Interface] section of server1's WireGuard config:
PreUp = sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
PreUp = iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i %i -p tcp --dport 4559 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.20
PreUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING ! -o %i -j MASQUERADE
PostDown = iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -i %i -p tcp --dport 4559 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.20
PostDown = iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING ! -o %i -j MASQUERADE

Replace -p tcp with -p udp if it's UDP port 4559 you're trying to forward.
That will work just fine to access server2 from the laptop as 10.10.0.2:4559; but your particular scenario sounds a lot like the common "point-to-site" access pattern -- with the laptop being the remote "point", and server1 providing access to a larger "site". With that pattern, you normally would either configure the router at the site to route your WireGuard subnet (like 10.10.0.0/24) directly via server1 (no NAT), or you would set up SNAT on server1 to masquerade packets from WireGuard to the site.
With either of those point-to-site approaches, you would access port 4559 on server2 from the laptop as 192.168.1.20:4559 (just like if the laptop was physically on the site's LAN). Here's a good overview of your WireGuard point-to-site routing options, with links to step-by-step guides if you want to further explore those options.


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US$3 million casino opens
Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister Ruth Mavhunga Maboyi (second from left) flanked by Sunday Crew Casino director Rose Huang and Lotteries and Gambling Board chair Mrs Euginia Chidhakwa during a demonstration on how the game is played during the official opening of the casino in Chisipite, Harare, yesterday. — Picture: Memory Mangombe)
Kudzaishe Muhamba Herald Reporter
A Chinese investor has opened a casino in Harare's Chisipite suburb with over 200 locals set to secure jobs. Over US$3 million was invested in the casino project dubbed "Sunday Crew" which has been described by stakeholders as a boost for the local tourism industry.
The owner of the Sunday Crew Casino Mrs Huang Rose said they were looking forward to working with Zimbabweans and participating in development.
"We have a Zimbabwean human resource manager as a way of making sure we cater for our employees' needs by all means and also follow the labour laws.
"We are very honoured to participate in the economic development of Zimbabwe and to bring Chinese investment to Zimbabwe. During the construction of the casino, we received a lot of support from the Government and people of Zimbabwe, which made us feel the profound friendship between the people of China and Zimbabwe," she said
Local resident Takudzwa Nyanda said she was grateful to the investors for picking the area which previously did not have such facilities.
"I want to thank the investors for spearheading the development. It has opened opportunities for jobs," she said.
Eunice Goremusandu said: "It's a nice place that can help people unwind after a busy day." A musician, Mwenje Matole, appreciated the government's efforts to create good relations with other nations which were bringing investment into the country
"It is so helpful to be working with other countries as no one can stand on his own. Through these initiatives, the lives of our people are improved." Officially opening the casino, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Ruth Mavhunga said the ministry had approved commercial casino gambling primarily because they saw it as a tool for economic growth.
"The greatest perceived benefits are that it increases employment, greater tax revenue to the State and local governments, and growth in local retail sales.
"It is a testament to the reality that indeed Zimbabwe is open for business. The world over lotteries and gaming are viewed as important contributors to the development of economies. They help Governments to provide for their people," she said
"This event rightly directs into the thinking of President Mnangagwa who is committed to ensuring that we better the lives of our people. There is no better way to do this than to ensure that such a development trajectory is supported."
Acting chairperson of the Lotteries and Gaming Board Dr Eugenia Chidhakwa said it was very important project as it was a recreational activity which the people of Zimbabwe needed to relax after working long hours. "When we are opening an institution of this nature, we are guided by our Lotteries and Gaming Act. We are also guided by the frameworks that we come up with and all inspections would have been done so that we meet the requirements of the law," she said.
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Why Are Millennials Leaving Big Cities?
People and places are changing. Business executives looking for signals of what's to come in the next decade may be intrigued by the perspective of James and Deborah Fallows.
Over the course of five years, the married writing duo explored the United States one small city at a time. They turned their observations into the bestselling book, Our Towns.
The Fallowses recently sat down with WhereNext to share some of what they learned. While both are quick to note that they are not business analysts, the trends they observed are worth noting for business executives.
Contrary to the narrative that all top young minds are flocking to big cities, the couple found talent and passion abundant in the nation's smaller urban areas. Their observations hint at a country whose economic center may become noticeably more diffuse.
Sensing Trends in Location, Talent
WhereNext: You spent time as a speechwriter [for President Jimmy Carter]. If you were making a speech to a business executive about what you learned from your travels, what would you say?
James Fallows: I would say that there's a historic wave they want to get ahead of rather than behind—a wave of young, technically-savvy people wanting to live in, be part of, and help create a real place. Not just to be one more person in the Bay Area scrum, but to be helping to build Fresno or Spokane or Duluth or Greenville or any of these other places.
Not everybody will be interested in doing that, but a lot of people will. The real estate advantage is there. The connections are there. There's a pool of talent looking for places [where] they can be involved and have a different kind of life, and there are all these local opportunities in things like agricultural technology in the middle half of the country, and places with a manufacturing heritage.
The combination of several trends makes this a uniquely advantageous time to look into the rest of the country for locations. Partly, there is a negative force: simply the cost of working in the biggest cities. The cost of real estate in half a dozen cities in the US is crippling and it sort of destroys everything else in your life or business. In the rest of the country, the cost of real estate is much less. It just means you have a head start. You kind of start out going downhill in your business operations.
The Early Stages of the Business Cycle
WhereNext: The business cycle tends to start with an individual and a dream. But as small businesses grow, big businesses take notice and make acquisitions—as with craft breweries, for instance. Did you see the early stages of that cycle in some of the locations you visited?
Deborah Fallows: I was struck in many of these towns where, [for families] opening the craft brewery, the intention was to make a viable business for them and their young family so that they could stay in Duluth or Fresno or Winters, California. Actually, [these business owners] seemed to have a very slow and conservative approach toward their goals. The end of the dream was not to build a giant brewery and be acquired. The end of the dream was perhaps to have a couple breweries in the town, or to expand and grow the one they have.
This was part of their bigger picture: being in a community where they could raise their kids and create a balance between their work and family and civic activities.
With deliberate, slow growth, they could maintain a balanced life and not get into a place where they either risked their business or risked their lifestyle. A small-town, successful enterprise could integrate into the town.
Compared with the days when we were growing up, it seems like there are so many more small businesses starting around local products and themes. Young people are often taking the lead.
Deborah Fallows
The brewery in Duluth is really a good example of that: two young couples, who now have little kids who are elementary school age, starting the Bent Paddle Brewery. They talked a lot about being part of that community and being in a position to have the kind of leadership to make the schools strong, make the recreation fun, make it a nice place for kids and families to grow up. But they didn't talk about, "We're going to make this brewery into a fantastic place and sell out to Pabst Blue Ribbon," or whatever that might be.
Fostering New Business Growth
WhereNext: How does a particular location foster business growth? Where did you see that playing out?
Deborah and James Fallows discuss their travels at a recent conference.
James Fallows: I think you're probably aware, from the Kauffman Foundation report, that all of the net job growth in the US economy is from businesses in their first five years of life. So what matters for having a growing job base is new businesses.
I'm thinking of places where we saw new manufacturing bases—Louisville and Erie and Duluth and Wichita and also Mississippi. There was a deliberate fostering environment. There were community colleges and universities where they had extension programs, and some community financing networks in Duluth.
We saw a lot of cooperative efforts that succeeded. In Duluth, with its furniture manufacturing and kitchen utensil and aircraft-component manufacturing, and then the huge aircraft works, all these were results of deliberate fostering efforts.
WhereNext: Were there other specific efforts that stood out to you?
James Fallows: In Wichita, there was 1 Million Cups. It's a network to get people connected, and get them going. Again, this sounds obvious, but standard economic theory assumes everybody is working just on his or her own, independently. Political rhetoric usually assumes that, too. So, simply the idea that success requires these informal networks was impressive, and every place we saw that succeeded, they had those.
There's this resurgence of locally conscious, walkable, downtown-based enterprises that we saw.
One other point is that in a lot of these [smaller] cities–it's not that they were doing special favors for a business, but they are in the mood to get things done as opposed to not get things done. Of course, there are city governments where that is not the case—for example, if you lived in Washington, DC, or in San Francisco. But Columbus, Ohio, is very notable [for] just saying, "Okay. We are the scale where we can make things happen. If you have a problem, we know how to make it fixed."
Finding the In-Between Places
In planning their journey across the United States, James and Deborah Fallows used a geographic information system (GIS) to map out smaller cities with similar economic challenges.
"GIS was an important part of our understanding where we were going and trying to envision" the economic realities of those locations, says James Fallows. The location intelligence delivered by GIS helped steer the authors toward places outside top-tier cities, where they could observe burgeoning businesses and a set of priorities different from those of people in major cities.
Deborah Fallows: And the network within a small town [is important]. The old cliché is it takes a village to raise a child. [This] seemed to be the case of "It takes a village to start this business here or make sure that it is nurtured," that we saw in towns that were as big as Columbus, Ohio, where the city government has a small business concierge to help all the young entrepreneurs with food trucks, for example, navigate the laws and the rules so that they had a much better chance of succeeding than not.
The Characteristics of Success
WhereNext: A lot of cities have hard-luck stories, and a lot of cities have good, accomplished, smart people trying to turn them into better stories. But they don't all succeed. Did you see anything notable in the people who managed to succeed?
James Fallows: I think this will sound clichéd, but I think it's true: Success was not directly related to academic credentials, or necessarily even being schooled in a certain discipline. It was impressive that the simple will to make something happen seems to be the most important thing.
Deborah Fallows: [In Eastport, Maine, and elsewhere] people have an impulse to say yes to a challenge no matter how weird it sounds. For example:
"Would you like to receive 1,000 pregnant cows to ship to Turkey?"
"Okay. Now what do we do?"
It's seeing an opportunity, whether it's something that comes across the transom like pregnant cows, or if it's a passion, [and saying,] "I'm just going to make this happen," and then having the patience and determination to do it.
To hear the Fallowses' perspective on how location intelligence is helping smaller cities make data-driven decisions, listen to this podcast.
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Chris Chiappinelli is the editor of Esri's WhereNext magazine. Through his writing, he explores the intersection of business strategy and location intelligence—and strategic challenges like sustainability, growth, and risk. Prior to joining Esri, Chris managed internal content for PTC, a pioneer in IoT technology, smart products, and augmented reality. Earlier in his career, Chris spent a decade as a journalist covering business and technology news.
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'The world's first 'slash of life' comic' – that's the best way we could think to describe Samurai Slasher: Late Fees, the new book from The Kill Screen's Mike Garley and Knock Off Wars' Lukasz Kowalczuk. A mix of personal and poignant story-telling, head-chopping Samurai action and 80s video shop nostalgia all rendered in Lukasz's crazy technicolour style. Ahead of a launch event at Orbital Comic on September 8th we caught up with Mike to find out more about this truly unique collaboration!
Your new book Late Fees has a really experimental feel to it compared to previous Samurai Slasher stories, what was the inspiration behind it and how does it fit into the main Samurai Slasher series?
By using 80s horror films as a template for the character, do you think you are able to be a bit more experimental with the types of story you tell as the films often go off in weird and crazy directions after the first couple in the series?
Samurai Slasher part three ends that story and as such is a lot more character/story driven then the rest of them have been. I'll probably do a couple of one-shots though because there's some really stupid ideas that I think are too fun to be forgotten, as well as a few horror clichés that people are continuously asking for.
It has quite a personal feel to it, is it based on personal experience? Did you intend it to be such a personal tale?
MG: Yes, it's based on a personal story – it's obviously a lot 'neater' then the real life events, and features a hell of a lot more death (and Samurai) but it's definitely grounded in realism. I really struggled to finish the story because I was so close to it I couldn't tell if it actually worked. Luckily I had a few good friends who had a look through and assured me it wasn't a mess.
Did you always feels like the character could work in different ways like this? Or did you almost retrofit it to work the story you wanted to tell?
MG: I think the great things about existing characters is that people already have thoughts and feelings about them, which gives you the opportunity to explore these feelings in a different way. In a weird way they're like zombies – people know what to expect if you say there's zombies, which means you can focus on how people react to them instead of wasting time in explaining what a zombie is. People who have read the Samurai Slasher or who have watched any horror will get the character, which means that we can focus on the relationships within the story instead. Late Fees is a character story that's hidden in plain sight. I wanted to create something that would benefit from multiple read throughs, and Lukasz was instrumental for incorporating visual clues throughout the story.
How did you and Lukasz team up? Did you write the story with him in mind? And how much direction did you give him or did you just let him loose?
MG: I've been a fan of Lukasz for a while – I even got him to do a pin up for The Kill Screen a couple of years ago – and I've been looking for an excuse to work with him for a while. When I decided that I wanted to write Late Fees I thought his art could really push the story to the next level. I approached him about it and when he said he liked the sound of it I wrote it. I much prefer writing with an artist in mind, as I like to have a rough idea of how it would look and feel when people are reading it. If this story was with a more …traditional artist it would probably be a little more introverted, compared to the more psychedelic approach that Lukasz took with the book. Lukasz took my script and just ran with it, bringing a lot of his own personal experiences to the story. With it being such a personal story I expected to have a LOT of notes (I normally do anyway) but I think most of my comments were just me praising the choices he made.
We love the Shockbusters rules and the general 80s vibe to it – what would be your 80s video store favourites that you would recommend for Samurai Slasher fans?
Did you have a favourite video store that you used get movies from as a kid (which inspired the Shockbusters page) and do you miss that hands on experience of renting a movie, or do you prefer the simplicity of Netflix/digital?
How's Slasher 3 coming along? When will be seeing that and we can look forward to in it?
MG: Maybe. I'd love to get to play with more licensed properties, but this time I'd like the creative freedom to try and do something new and exciting with them. I think audiences are far more sophisticated and open to more meta/experimental storytelling. I probably won't do it again on any of my comics as I don't have a story that I want to tell with any of them (although that might change), and they already allow me to tell layered stories in their current formats anyway.
Mike and Lukasz will be launching the book at Orbital Comics on Friday 8th September between 4.00 and 7.00. There will be a limited number of 666 copies and after that the remaining copies will be available on Mike's Big Cartel Store.


William Thompson, comptroller for the City of New York, has fired off letters to 11 major oil companies urging them to investigate allegations of price gouging.
According to a news release, Thompson sent letters on behalf of the New York City Pension Funds – for which he is the investment advisor – to ExxonMobil, Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips, Hess Corp., Marathon Oil Corp., Murphy Oil Corp., Occidental Petroleum, BP Amoco PLC, Valero, Sonoco and Royal Dutch Shell.
The New York City Pension Funds collectively hold nearly 40 million shares in the oil companies with a market value of more than $2.4 billion, according to the release. The primary investment among those shares is ExxonMobil.
In his letter to ExxonMobil chairman William Howell, Thompson wrote: "I write to express my deep concern about increasing public outrage which is being fueled by allegations that ExxonMobil and other companies are engaging in price gouging by artificially pushing up gasoline prices at the pumps.


I've created a new company file in QuickBooks. Can I copy the invoice template I currently use into the new company file?
Yes, you can copy your invoice template from one company file to a new company file.
1. Open the company file that contains the template you would like to copy.
2. From the menu bar click on Lists – Templates.
3. Single click on the template you want to copy.
4. Click on the Template button located at the bottom left of the template box.
6. Select folder, enter file name and click Save.
1. Open the new company file to import template.
6. Select the Template file to import.
8. This opens the Template customization screen. If needed make changes and click OK.
9. Template now imported into your new company file.
Make Sure the Training Suits You. Before you even sign up, make sure that the skills training being offered is something that you are ready to learn. You will get more out of it if it is something you will be able to implement immediately on the job.
Be On Time! Is your training session on location? No one wants to be the person who arrives late and then has to take that last seat in the very front row, disrupting everyone as they go. Leave yourself plenty of time to get to your session, pick your seat and settle in. You won't feel rushed and you will be ready to focus on the material when the session begins.
Be Prepared. Make sure you are clear about the session topic and about what you need to bring. Get in touch with the instructor ahead of time with any questions or concerns. If the course you are attending requires you to bring your own computer, make sure you have the required program already installed. I repeat! DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE CLASS STARTS TO INSTALL THE PROGRAM! It can grind the entire session to a halt if you start having download issues and you will miss valuable information. Installing early gives you the time to test the program, to make sure everything's running smoothly and to come up with a prepared list of questions or comments.
Ditch the Distractions! If you are checking your phone every five minutes, what are you learning? Nothing! Time to turn it off. Yes, off. If you truly want to absorb what is being taught, you need to be able to devote all of your focus to the instructor. Muted phones still have distracting notifications popping up. If you want to power up, you need to power off. Choose to sit away from people who are too chatty or who are constantly checking their phones.
Be Focused! Be positive and interested. Come with a goal of what you would like to get out of the session and work towards it. Ask questions … participate. Asking questions will help increase your ability to retain the information.
Involve Others. Get actively involved. Share your own experiences with the class. By involving the other participants you might find out that they have run into the same issues you have. Listen to what others have to say about their own experiences.
Relate to Your Work. During the training, think of ways in which you can relate what you are learning to your own work – this is the main reason why you are taking the course. Take notes that can help you come up with an action plan that is specific to your job.
Implement. Make sure to implement what you have learned within the next few days otherwise the training was for nothing and you will forget the content. This is why number 1 on this list is so important! Be ready for training and make sure it is ready for you too!
Have Fun! The more you enjoy the training…the more you will learn… have fun!
Follow Up! Just because the session is over, doesn't mean the learning has to end. Get in touch with the trainer and let them know if you have any questions. Let them know if you met the goal the you wanted to achieve with the training. Talk to colleagues who attended the same session and share your new knowledge!
Can I Share My Customized Reports In QuickBooks Online?
Can I share reports in QuickBooks Online?
Yes, you can share your custom reports. You can share when you first save your customized report or share an already saved customized report.
1. Click Reports on the left side of your screen.
2. Select the report you'd like to work with.
3. Once you have customized your report – click Run Report.
5. Select Share with – All.
2. Click on My Custom Reports.
3. To share the report – you need to click on Edit first.
4. Clicking on Edit opens up the Custom Report screen, displaying the Share with feature.


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Q: Bad characters in output from rss feed I am using the following method to connect to an rss feed.
var url = "http://blogs.mysite.com/feed/";
var sourceXmlFeed = "";

using (var wc = new WebClient())
{
    wc.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4");
    sourceXmlFeed = wc.DownloadString(url);
}

var xrs = new XmlReaderSettings();
xrs.CheckCharacters = false;

var xtr = new XmlTextReader(new System.IO.StringReader(sourceXmlFeed));

var xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(xtr, xrs);

SyndicationFeed feed = SyndicationFeed.Load(xmlReader);

However I am getting bad characters (as below) in the output and I assume it is something to do with the encoding.
eg. for 2015 we are â?ogoing for goldâ?
Anyone know how to fix this?
By the way, I am doing things this way because I have been unable to use a more direct approach (as below) without causing The remote server returned an error: (443).
var xmlReader = XmlReader.Create("http://blogs.mysite.com/feed);
SyndicationFeed feed = SyndicationFeed.Load(xmlReader);

A: Problem with encoding is caused by reading xml as string because encoding detection in XML differs from encoding detection in strings.
WebClient webClient = null;
XmlReader xmlReader = null;

try
{
   webClient = new WebClient();
   webClient.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4");

   xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(webClient.OpenRead(url));

   // Read XML here because in a finaly block the response stream and the reader will be closed.
}
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}


The sensitivity of glacier mass balance (MB) in response to climatic perturbations has made it an important parameter of study from hydrological, climatological and glaciological point of view. To monitor the health of any glacier system, long-term MB observations are required. These observations among Himalayan glaciers are not available consistently and large glaciers are not often monitored for mass balance due to logistical challenges. One such glacier is the Gangotri, situated in the western Himalaya. In the present study an attempt is made to model the MB over the Gangotri glacier, the biggest glacier in the Ganga basin and also the point of origin of the River Ganges. The mass balance of the Gangotri glacier is estimated during the time period 1985–2014 using two different methods: ice-flow velocity; and energy balance modelling using regional model (REMO) outputs and in situ automatic weather station (AWS) data. The geodetic method is used for the nearby Dokriani glacier, where field-based MB measurements are available. MB of Gangotri glacier estimated for 2001–14 using the ice-flow velocity method is −0.92 ± 0.36 m w.e. a−1; for 2006–07, MB using AWS and Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission (TRMM) data with the energy balance modelling approach is −0.82 m w.e. a−1; and for 1985–2005, MB using REMO data with the energy balance modelling approach is −0.98 ± 0.23 m w.e. a−1. Using the surface velocity method, it is estimated that the glacier lost 9% of its volume during the period 2001–14. The glacier vacated an area of 0.152 km2 from the snout region, and retreated by 200 m in the last 14 years. MB values estimated for the Gangotri glacier from different methodologies are remarkably close, suggesting them to be suitable methods of MB estimation. TRMM, High Asia Refined (HAR-10) and Asian Precipitation Highly Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation of water resources (APHRODITE) data are used to estimate the precipitation over the glacier. The study suggests that the glacier-wide estimation of weather parameters needs to be improved for more accurate estimation of glacier mass balance.
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Q: Why does commenting out the alert() line of this code make it fail? I have a very odd problem with javascript. If you take the following code and run it, it will run fine without any error, but if you comment the first alert, it will throw an error at line 5 (var _board = Bomber.BoardFactory.getBoard();) saying BoardFactory doesn't exist (remember that with the first alert everything was running without error).  I have been able to reproduce this exact behavior with Firefox and Chrome.
Bomber = {};

Bomber.Game = function () {
    var self = {};
    var _board = Bomber.BoardFactory.getBoard();

    self.init = function () {};
    self.start = function () {};

    return self;
}

alert("2");

(function () {
    var instance;

    Bomber.BoardFactory = {};
    Bomber.BoardFactory.getBoard = function () {
        if (!instance)
            instance = new Bomber.Board();
        return instance;
    };
})();

alert("3");

Bomber.Board = function () {
    var self = {};
    return self;
}

$(document).ready(function () {
    var game = Bomber.Game();
    game.init();
    game.start();
});

My question, is what can possibly cause this odd behavior ? How on earth is it possible that an alert call makes it recognize the Bomber.BoardFactory ?

A: I ran it through jslint, fixed the errors (2 missing semicolons and missing {} on your if)
Now it seems to work
Bomber = {};

Bomber.Game = function () {
    var self = {};
    var _board = Bomber.BoardFactory.getBoard();

    self.init = function () {};
    self.start = function () {};

    return self;
};

//alert("2");

(function () {
    var instance;

    Bomber.BoardFactory = {};
    Bomber.BoardFactory.getBoard = function () {
        if (!instance){
            instance = new Bomber.Board();
        }
        return instance;
    };
})();

//alert("3");

Bomber.Board = function () {
    var self = {};
    return self;
};

$(document).ready(function () {
    var game = Bomber.Game();
    game.init();
    game.start();
});

What's happening is you're missing the final semicolon after you define Bomber.Game, so the next thing is (function()....etc, so it thinks you're calling the function.
If you have the alert there you are saved by automatic semicolon insertion.

A: it is hard to predict which one will execute first: (function () { or the $(document).ready(function () { try to combine those and declare all your functions before anything else


Long before I had the words to explain my beliefs I had always felt that Nature was enough. Nature, for me, was the object of my moral impulse and religious feelings. When I discovered that I was in fact a Pantheist in every fundamental sense, it brought a feeling of peace, an affirmation of my identity and framework for meaningful pursuits. My Pantheism is scientific rather than traditional. Philosophically, it my conviction that any effort toward personal growth as an individual or positive evolution as a society is only justified by the responsibility and need to have as clear, healthy, and fruitful a relationship as we can with reality as it is.


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#if ENABLE(SVG)
#include "SVGPolyElement.h"

namespace WebCore {

class SVGPolylineElement : public SVGPolyElement {
public:
    static PassRefPtr<SVGPolylineElement> create(const QualifiedName&, Document*);

private:
    SVGPolylineElement(const QualifiedName&, Document*);
};

} // namespace WebCore

#endif // ENABLE(SVG)
#endif

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Walker recounts these events in "Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge" (co-authored by Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen). Most books by incumbent politicians are not worth the paper they never should have been written on. If, however, enough voters read Walker's nonfiction thriller, it will make him a — perhaps the — leading candidate for his party's 2016 presidential nomination.
Act 10 required government workers to contribute 5.8 percent of their salaries to their pensions (hitherto, most paid nothing) and to pay 12.6 percent of their health-care premiums (up from 6 percent but still just half of what the average federal worker pays). Both percentages are well below the private-sector average. By limiting collective bargaining to base wages, Act 10 freed school districts to hire and fire teachers based on merit, and to save many millions of dollars by buying teachers' health insurance in the competitive market rather than from an entity run by the teachers' union. Restricting collective bargaining to wages ended the sort of absurd rules for overtime compensation that made a bus driver Madison's highest paid public employee.
Act 10's dynamite, however, was the provision ending the state's compulsory collection of union dues — sometimes as high as $1,400 per year — that fund union contributions to Democrats. Barack Obama and his national labor allies made Wisconsin a battleground because they knew that when Indiana made paying union dues optional, 90 percent of state employees quit paying, and similar measures produced similar results in Washington, Colorado and Utah.
Walker has long experience in the furnace of resistance to the looting of public funds by the public's employees. He was elected chief executive of heavily Democratic Milwaukee County after his predecessor collaborated with other officials in rewriting pension rules in a way that, if he had been reelected instead of resigning, would have given him a lump-sum payment of $2.3 million and $136,000 a year for life.
To fight the recall — during which opponents disrupted Walker's appearance at a Special Olympics event and squeezed Super Glue into the locks of a school he was to visit — Walker raised more than $30 million, assembling a nationwide network of conservative donors that could come in handy if he is reelected next year. Having become the first U.S. governor to survive a recall election, he is today serene as America's first governor to be, in effect, elected twice to a first term. When he seeks a second term, his opponent will probably be a wealthy rival who says her only promise is to not make promises. This is her attempt to cope with an awkward fact: She will either infuriate her party's liberal base or alarm a majority of voters by promising either to preserve or repeal Act 10.
"Outside the Washington beltway," he says pointedly, "big-government liberals are on the ropes." No incumbent Republican governor has lost a general election since 2007. Since 2008, the number of Republican governors has increased from 21 to 30, just four short of the party's all-time high reached in the 1920s. He thinks Republican governors are in tune with the nation. If reelected, he probably will test that theory.


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Kostelec  est une commune du district de Tachov, dans la région de Plzeň, en Tchéquie. Sa population s'élevait à  en 2022.

Géographie
Kostelec se trouve à  au sud de Stříbro, à  à l'ouest-sud-ouest de Plzeň, à  au sud-est de Tachov et à  à l'ouest-sud-ouest de Prague.

La commune est limitée par Kladruby au nord-ouest, par Stříbro au nord, par Heřmanova Huť au nord-est, par Přehýšov et Lochousice à l'est, par Honezovice au sud et par Skapce au sud-ouest.

Histoire
La première mention écrite de la localité date de 1352.

Administration
La commune se compose de six sections :

 Kostelec ;
 Lšelín ;
 Nedražice ;
 Ostrov u Stříbra ;
 Popov ;
 Vrhaveč.

Galerie

Transports
Par la route, Kostelec se trouve à  du centre de Stříbro, à  de Plzeň , à  du centre de Tachov et à  de Prague.

Kostelec se trouve à  d'un accès ( Mlýnec) de l'autoroute D5, qui relie Prague à la frontière allemande par Plzeň.

Notes et références

Commune dans le district de Tachov

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