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A 30-minute webcast focusing on IRS updates and changes to tax preparation that professionals will need to adhere to during the upcoming tax season.
A 45-minute webcast centered on navigating through Form 1041 – U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts. This will contain who must file and when and what's included as income and recording expenses. Additionally, the instructor will provide an introduction to additional types of business returns the CrossLink Business package provides.
A 45-minute webcast addressing set up of a tax professional's billing and preparer information. By taking advantage of this webcast, an owner can be assured their CrossLink software is properly configured for their specific business – before the tax season starts. Simply put, having billing and preparer information properly entered into the program equates to both better earning potential and improved efficiencies.
A 60-minute webcast focusing on introducing CrossLink's functionality, the flow of tax preparation when using the program, how the 'Tax Estimator' works, and navigating through a basic return with EITC – including appropriately completing obligatory due-diligence.
Este webinario de 45 minutos sirve como introducción al programa CrossLink 1040. El énfasis del webinario serán las funciones primarias del software y la preparación de una declaración de impuestos 1040. En adición, el presentador explicará cómo utilizar el estimador de impuestos (Tax Estimator) para ofrecer una estimación del reembolso basado en la información proporcionada por el cliente. Este webinario será presentado completamente en español.
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Q: @One-to-Many relationship does not working in Spring I have an Entity Recipe with a relationship OneToMany with Ingredients.
@Entity
public class Recipe {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE)
    private Long id;
    private String name;
    @OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL) // se eliminiamo la Recipe eliminiamo anche notes
    private Notes notes;
    @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "recipe")
    private Set<Ingredient> ingredients;
    @ManyToMany(fetch=FetchType.EAGER, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinTable(name = "recipe_category",
        joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "recipe_id"),
        inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "category_id"))
    private Set<Category> categories;
    ...getter and setter...
}

And an Entity Ingredient:
@Entity
public class Ingredient {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;
    private String description;
    private int amount;
    @ManyToOne
    private Recipe recipe;
    ...getter and setter...
}

In order to test it I have used a controller to insert and retrieving all row:
    @GetMapping({"","/"})
    public List<Recipe> allRecipe() {
        return recipeRepository.findAll();
    }

    @GetMapping("/insert")
    public Recipe addRecipe() {
        Set<Ingredient> ingredients = new HashSet<>();
        ingredients.add(new Ingredient("ingredient-"+Math.random(), 10));
        Recipe newRecipe = new Recipe("Recipe-"+Math.random(),
                null, ingredients, null);
        return recipeRepository.save(newRecipe);
    }

The repository is a JPA Repository.
I do not have any errors, but when I try to retrieve an object I get no ingredients even though they are saved on the table (but with recipe_id = null).
How can I solve this problem?

A: Initialize your ingredients as
@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "recipe")
private Set<Ingredient> ingredients = new HashSet<>();

Change your your controller to,
@GetMapping("/insert")
    public Recipe addRecipe() {
        Ingredient ingredient = new Ingredient("ingredient-"+Math.random(), 10));
        Recipe newRecipe = new Recipe("Recipe-"+Math.random(),
                null, null); //constructor without ingredient arg
        newRecipe.getIngredients.add(ingredient);
        ingredient.setRecipe(newRecipe);
        return recipeRepository.save(newRecipe);
    }

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Earlier in the week, it was announced that the TF2 mercs would be riding motorbikes through the world of Joe Danger . Now, Bossa Studios reveal an update for Surgeon Simulator 2013 that puts the Heavy on the operating table. From bike crash to hospital bed: coincidence? Yeah, probably. Although the idea of a continuing storyline told exclusively through crossovers is appealing. And it's not as if we're short on zombie games for the follow-up.
"Inspired by Valve's 'Meet The Medic' video, these characters will now take the roles of Nigel and Bob in the game," Bossa write, before announcing that a ridiculous one million Let's Play videos of SS2013 have been uploaded to YouTube. And that's before it featured the open chest of one of gaming's most lovable Russian contract killers.
The update will launch today at 6pm BST (ie, in less than an hour), and will be free to owners of the game.
Do me a favour: savour this news. Enjoy it. Because the Heavy from TF2 is being put into a comedy surgery simulator. Games are brilliant.


L-3 Communications Inc. has acquired Avisys Inc., a provider of technologies to counter the threat of missile attack against aircraft, for $8 million in cash, the company announced today.
The acquisition of Avisys of Austin, Texas, will enhance L-3's ability to provide products and services to counter the threat of missile attack against military, commercial and civilian aircraft.
The deal enhances the New York-based company's technical offerings in electronic warfare and avionics systems engineering and integration and technologies related to countermeasures, missile warning systems.
Avisys has been working to develop modular, effective and affordable aircraft protection solutions against the threat of shoulder-launched infrared heat-seeking missiles.
The company currently is the infrared countermeasure lead and system architect for the Commercial Airliner Protection System for United Airlines and the program lead for the Homeland Security Department's Phase I system development and demonstration contract to design an air defense systems for U.S. commercial airlines.
L-3 Communications has about 38,000 employees and annual sales of $5.1 billion. L-3 ranked No. 14 on Washington Technology's 2004 Top 100 list, which measures federal contracting revenue.


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Brother in the Land (Als de Bom Barst, 1984) is een jeugdboek van de Britse schrijver Robert Swindells over het overlevingsstreven van een jongen, zijn broertje en zijn vriendin, na een atoomoorlog. Het boek won The Other Award van 1984, tienersciencefiction, boek van het jaar.

Het verhaal

Danny Lodge is een tiener die op een dag de heide op fietst om er even uit te zijn. Hij woont bij zijn ouders, die een winkel hebben in het fictieve plaatsje Skipley nabij de grotere (eveneens fictieve) plaats Branford. Danny schuilt voor een storm in een bunker uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog, wanneer hij een flits ziet. Aanvankelijk denkt hij aan onweer, tot hij de paddenstoelwolk ziet. De Derde Wereldoorlog is begonnen, en er is een kernaanval op Branford geweest.

Danny wacht de hele nacht in de bunker, doodsbang dat hij een dodelijke dosis straling heeft opgelopen en zal sterven. Wanneer dit niet het geval blijkt, waagt hij zich buiten. Onderweg naar huis neemt een soldaat in antistralingspak zijn fiets in beslag. Lopend bereikt hij Skipley dat inmiddels een ruïne is. Danny's moeder is omgekomen bij de instorting van hun winkel, maar zijn vader en zijn broertje Ben leven nog omdat ze in de kelder schuilden.

Levensmiddelen raken al snel schaars, en de mensen beginnen te vechten om eten. De Lodges, die in hun winkel nog wel een redelijke voorraad eten hebben, moeten zich verdedigen tegen hongerige plaatsgenoten. Danny ontmoet in deze eerste weken na de oorlog een meisje van zijn leeftijd, Kim Tyson.

De soldaten in pakken, die zich aanvankelijk vrij afzijdig hadden gehouden, beginnen zich weer met de bewoners van Skipley te bemoeien. Zij blijken te worden geleid door wat rest van het overheidsgezag, geleid door de Commissaris. Ze vaardigen een order van de Commissaris uit dat alle zieken langs de kant van de weg moeten worden gelegd zodat ze door de soldaten kunnen worden opgehaald ter behandeling. Al snel lekt uit dat de zieken allemaal zijn gedood. De volgende maatregel van deze Commissaris is rantsoenering van voedsel en brandstof, alsmede een verbod en zware straffen op hamsteren of achterhouden van deze zaken. Voedsel moet worden ingeleverd, en elke dag dient men zijn of haar rantsoen op een centrale locatie op te halen. Gewonden, ouderen en Zwevers (geestelijk getraumatiseerden) krijgen vergiftigde rantsoenen.

Danny's vader vertrouwde de Commissaris al niet na de 'hospitaalgrap', en weigert dan ook zijn voedsel in te leveren. De soldaten arresteren hem, en als de auto waarin hij door de soldaten wordt weggebracht wordt opgeblazen, zijn Danny en Ben ook direct wees. Ze zoeken contact met een verzetsbeweging genaamd Movement to Arm Skipley Against Dictational Authority (Masada), geleid door de boer Sam Branwell. Ook Kim en Danny's voormalige gymleraar Rhodes zijn lid. Doel van de beweging is het voorkomen dat de Commissaris een feodale samenleving opbouwt, (desnoods) door hem af te zetten.

Na Kerstmis verordonneert de Commissaris alle bewoners hun huizen te verlaten om in een kamp te gaan wonen. Dit kamp is een werkkamp waar de mensen zware lichamelijke arbeid moeten verrichten. Een paar ontsnappen naar Masada, waar ze vertellen dat er in het kamp condities heersen die aan Belsen doen denken. Masada besluit hierop tot een aanval op het kamp, en weet in deze aanval het kamp te veroveren en de soldaten te verslaan. De Commissaris sneuvelt: het blijkt een voormalig gemeenteraadslid te zijn.

Branwell wordt de leider van een nieuwe gemeenschap. Sommigen dringen aan op harde straffen voor de soldaten en een vrouw die vergiftigd eten aan zieken, bejaarden en Zwevers had gegeven. Branwell oefent echter een matigende invloed uit, waardoor de voormalig medewerkers van de Commissaris de keuze krijgen zich aan te sluiten of weg te gaan. Verder probeert Branwell een schoolsysteem op te zetten, zodat basisvaardigheden als lezen, schrijven en rekenen niet verloren gaan. Als het voorjaar aanbreekt worden vol hoop de velden ingezaaid en bloeit een romance op tussen Danny en Kim.

Maar de moeilijkheden zijn nog lang niet voorbij. De oogst mislukt door de negatieve effecten van de straling. Kims zus Maureen is in verwachting maar het kindje is afwijkend door de effecten van de straling. Het heeft geen mond en sterft na enkele uren.

Dan wordt een helikopter opgemerkt met Zwitsers kenteken. De bewoners zijn dolblij en eten een groot deel van hun voorraad op, in de veronderstelling dat de Zwitsers hen zullen helpen. De volgende dag landt de helikopter en heeft Branwell een onderhoud met de Zwitserse commandant. Dit onderhoud verloopt niet goed. De commandant keurt het af dat Branwell het 'wettig gezag' omver heeft geworpen, evenals de nieuwe gemeenschap, die hij 'communistisch' noemt. Als Branwell om hulp vraagt, antwoordt de Zwitser botweg dat er in heel Europa gemeenschappen als Skipley zijn, en dat Branwell zijn beurt moet afwachten.

Tijdens de tweede winter slaat de schaarste om in hongersnood, en proberen de mensen overal eten te vinden. De gemeenschap wordt kleiner en kleiner doordat mensen sterven of vertrekken. Anderen, de zogenaamde Purperen, nemen hun toevlucht tot kannibalisme. Danny, Kim en Ben trekken naar Holy Island in de hoop daar veiligheid te vinden. Danny redt Ben van Purperen en van zijn voormalige gymleraar Rhodes, die Ben wil doden voor eten dat hij had gevonden. Onderweg wordt Ben echter ziek en hij blijkt stralingsziekte te hebben. Er is niks aan te doen: Ben is ten dode opgeschreven en overlijdt snel. Danny begraaft hem in een tuin. Hij vindt een grootboek waarin hij zijn verhaal opschrijft als waarschuwing voor toekomstige generaties. Hij dragt zijn verhaal op aan Ben, zijn begraven broer.

Later is aan het boek een extra hoofdstuk met happy end toegevoegd. Danny en Kim bereiken Holy Island, en daar blijkt Kim zwanger.

Kinderboek
Sciencefictionroman
Roman uit 1984

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The Greenhouse Effect is the name given to the natural properties of the atmosphere that allow incoming solar energy to pass through the atmosphere without warming it, while outgoing infrared radiation warms the atmosphere. The natural Greenhouse Effect is essential for life on the Earth and keeps average temperature about 33 0C warmer than if there were no greenhouse gases and clouds in the atmosphere. Under ideal conditions the global energy balance is in equilibrium, i.e. 342 Wm-2 incoming solar radiation is balanced by 235 Wm-2 of outgoing long wave and 107 Wm-2 of reflected solar radiation. Disruption of this system causes global warming or cooling.
Emissions of different greenhouse gases have different effects on climate change due to the difference in the parts of infrared spectrum that they interact with and also due to the duration of their presence in the atmosphere. Some gases persist in the atmosphere for extremely long period of time and continue have effect on it. For example, while bulk of CO2 from fossil fuels will be removed in several centuries, about 25% will continue to affect the atmosphere for many thousand years.
To account for different effects of greenhouse gases in a single measurement, the Kyoto Protocol uses a unit known as "carbon dioxide equivalent" (CO2 –e or CO2-eq). This term is used in two different ways to provide a single metric, both for greenhouse gas emissions (in tonnes of CO2-e) and the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere (in ppm CO2-e). When used in the context of greenhouse gas emissions, it refers to the amount of CO2 that would give the same warming effect as the effect of the greenhouse gas or greenhouse gases being emitted over a given timeframe. Generally, 100 years is the standard time timeframe that is used.
The amount of a greenhouse gas can be converted to carbon dioxide equivalents by multiplying it by its Global Warming Potential. The Global Warming Potential (GWP) of different GHG is different depending upon the chemical and physical properties of the molecules. The intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have set the Global Warming Potential of CO2 as 1. In contrast, GWP of methane (CH4) over 100 years timeframe is 21 and therefore, emission of 1 tonne of methane (CH4) equals to 21 tonnes of CO2-e over 100 years.
In reality, it is very difficult to conceptualize precisely what a "tonne of carbon dioxide" or other greenhouse gas is as many people are not familiar with the nature of greenhouse gases in a technical sense and they are invisible to human years. For example, CO2 is a colourless and odourless gas, which cannot be perceived through direct senses. Furthermore, since the volume occupied by a gas varies with temperature and pressure, at sea level and 25 0C, one tonne (1000 kg) of pure CO2 occupies 556.2 m3 of space, which is equivalent to an invisible cube slightly larger than 8m8mx8m.
In an attempt to turn greenhouse gases into something visual, tangible, and measureable for the public, the Victorian government have used the analogy of 'Black Balloons" escaping into the atmosphere as a visual image for greenhouse gases in major campaign for energy efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The advertisements show electrical appliances producing black balloons, each of which represents 50g of greenhouse gas, floating up from houses into the sky.


When they see the pictures, most people think I spent hundreds of dollars on my bridal bouquet. The truth is, I spent $180 on ALL of my flowers. That included my bouquet, five bridesmaids bouquets, my mom's bouquet, a floral candelabra for the reception, 12 chair hangers for the aisle, and a rose-petal strewn aisle. My sister spent under $300 for her wedding flowers using the same techniques, but didn't have access to the deals I did.
You can do your own wedding flowers if you choose simple arrangements and get help assembling them. In my case, my aunt used to own a flower shop. She isn't experienced enough to do complicated arrangements, but she easily handled the loose arrangements my sister and I wanted. My other aunt helped assemble.
If you plan to do your own flowers, you can't expect a formal wedding arch or ornate bouquets. Three options reign supreme with DIY bouquets: simple rose balls, single-type arrangements, and "wild" arrangements. For wild arrangements, you can simply choose several different flowers in colors that suit your theme, or several different flowers in one color and not worry about exactly how they're arranged in the bundle. You can find videos and instructions online showing you how to arrange them. Single-type arrangements can have several blooms in them, but they should all be the same color and type of flower.
For floral centerpieces, you also have three options: three vases of varying heights with one type of flower in each, loose arrangements, or rose balls. All three can be done by you and your helpers.
As I said, we recruited my aunts to help, but I know of other brides who recruited their bridesmaids to help. In my case, my parents rented a suite with a large table for arranging. I didn't stay at my apartment the night before the wedding, so a dark closet and cranked up A/C served as our "cooler." In my sister's case, my mom found a florist who would let them use her cooler and supplies. We both had our wedding coordinators pick up and deliver the flowers to the event.
This is my number one tip for saving money on wedding flowers. Buy in season flowers, by which I mean flowers grown in the US during that month. While most flowers are available year-round, they're flown in from South America during the US off-season, which drastically raises the price. To find out what was in season, I simply visited my local flower market exactly one year before my wedding. I based my choices around the options I found there. If you don't have a local market, visit a florist to ask what's in season or check out Martha Stewart's list.
Also, don't get married on Valentine's Day or near Mother's Day. Flower prices also drastically increase during this time. Avoid the two weeks surrounding the holiday if possible.
Los Angeles has one of the world's largest wholesale flower markets and they open it to the public, which is another reason we were able to save so much money. I bought bunches of 25 roses for $6-10, depending on the stem-length. We've since learned that most other cities don't have flower markets like mine. For my sister's wedding, my mom ordered the flowers through the florist whose shop she rented.
If you want to go with simple flowers, you can also order bulk flowers from Costco, FreshRoses.com, and FTD.com. They ship to your home or office, and come with instructions for prepping the flowers. If you don't have a local flower market or a florist willing to rent you space, this is the next best option.
Even if you can't access your local flower market, there are usually floral supply stores nearby that will sell to the public. You'll find everything you need at drastically reduced prices. If you can't find a store like that, then check the newspaper for Michael's coupons and buy your vases and other supplies when they go on sale. My friend bought one vase a week each week with her Michael's coupons. You may also be able to find rental items near the flower market. We rented our candelabra for $22 from a store next to the market. One of my bridesmaids returned it the Monday after the wedding.
For my flowers, we needed the following supplies: 5-gallon buckets from the hardware store, flower food, Quick Dip, Finishing Touch (all three are chemicals), stem stripper, floral knife, floral wire, packing tape or floral tape, hot glue and gun, and flower foam.
When I was planning my wedding, I would see some brides say they were planning to spend $7,000 on flowers. That was unfathomable to me even then. If you choose a pretty location and keep it simple, you can easily do your own wedding flowers for just a few hundred dollars, which frees up room in your wedding budget for something else.


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require 'stations/source'
require 'stations/sink'
require 'stations/joint'

# A station is a wrapper around the block that executes state specific code
# It is unaware of its line-worker
module Fordism
  class Station
    attr_reader :name
    attr_reader :block

    def initialize(name, &block)
      @name   = name.to_sym
      @block  = block
    end

    def to_sym
      @name.to_sym
    end

    def ==(other)
      self.name == other.name
    end

    ### Operational methods

    ## Queue methods

    # Queue a job
    def queue_job(*job)
      @incoming = incoming + [job]
    end

    # Queue a set of jobs
    def queue_batch(*jobs)
      @incoming = incoming + jobs
    end

    ## Dequeue methods

    # Process 1 job; Syntactic sugar for process_batch(1)
    def process_job
      process_batch(size: 1)
    end

    # Process n jobs
    def process_batch(args={})
      args[:size]
      incoming.size
      incoming
      size = batch_size(args[:size])
      run_batch_of_size(size)
    end

    # Process continuously until the queue is empty
    def process_all
      process_batch(size: incoming.size) while !incoming.empty?
    end

    def open?
      incoming.empty?
    end

    def closed?
      not open?
    end

    def completed_jobs
      outgoing
    end

    def review_all
      result = outgoing.dup
      @outgoing = []
      result
    end

    private

    def batch_size(proposed)
      case
      when proposed > incoming.size then incoming.size
      else proposed
      end
    end

    def run_batch_of_size(size)
      size.times do
        run
      end
    end

    def run
      args = incoming.shift
      result = block.call(*args)
      outgoing << result
      result
    end

    def review
      outgoing.shift
    end

    def run_all(*jobs)
      jobs.collect do |job|
        run
      end
    end

    def incoming
      @incoming ||= []
    end

    def outgoing
      @outgoing ||= []
    end
  end
end

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Book Review: Altar of Secrets
Aries C. Rufo, a prize-winning Filipino journalist, was once a devout Catholic who as a youth "loved staying inside the church for it offered refuge from the punishing heat outside. The airy atmosphere and the deafening silence were pure ecstasy," he writes. As a boy he seriously contemplated entering the seminary although the desire to do so eventually waned.
After decades as a journalist, some of it spent covering the Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), he sat down to write this book, Altar of Secrets: Sex, Politics and Money in the Philippine Catholic Church.
"While the Church dips its fingers into every aspect of Filipino life," he writes, "it has resisted outside attempts to poke into its internal affairs. Like a cloistered monastery, it has kept from the public the scandals and irregularities of its members, within its sacrosanct walls."
With Catholics making up 86 percent of the Philippine population and with the bishops holding inordinate sway over the country's leaders, the church seemed almost unassailable. But Rufo's journey through the secrets of the Catholic Church of the Philippines finds an institution in grave disarray. The Conference's last-ditch attempt to stop passage of the landmark Reproductive Health Bill failed and the subsequent attempt earlier this year to drive lawmakers from office for voting for the measure was also a miserable failure. Earlier this year a survey by the church found that more than half of Filipino Catholics have not married under Catholic rites.
What Rufo found went well beyond those problems. As the accompanying excerpt from the book shows, the practice of priests violating their vow of continence and celibacy is so widespread that an orphanage in Metro Manila, run by the church, caters to their children. As the excerpt notes, it wasn't just parish priests. Two ranking bishops headed for stardom within the church were forced out after their sexual dalliances were made public.
Stung by publicity over the priests' violations of their vows, the bishops issued guidelines on sexual abuses and misconduct by the clergy, listing the protocol that bishops should follow and observe in dealing with errant priests, covering violations of continence and abstinence, child abuse and sexual misconduct. But when the document was submitted to Rome for approval, the Vatican turned it down because it was too lenient. So the bishops set up their own "quota system," allowing offending priests to remain in the ministry if they fathered only one child. "It is only when he begets a second child that he will be dismissed from the ministry," the guidelines said.
"Apparently, the bishops took their cue from the Vatican," Rufo writes, "which rejected the "zero tolerance" policy that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sought to adopt in June 2002 against pedophile priests in response to the widespread reports of the abuse of minors and children by men of the cloth. If Rome is averse to a "one strike, you are out policy," how, then, can the CBCP be holier than the Pope?"
It ought to be recognized that the Philippine response to priestly marriage and sex is probably more realistic than Rome's, which makes unreasonable demands of sexual celibacy on ordinary human beings, who are driven by reality to often violate their vows, an astonishing number through homosexuality and a large number through other means. Although Rufo doesn't deal with it, there have long been credible rumors of priests who quietly marry in their communities. But in the matter of money, Rufo found, the Philippine church is responsible for both high crimes and misdemeanors, with parish priests often dipping into the collection box to fund more than just the operation of their parish and financial high-jinks going on in the high councils.
"The case of Reverend Bayani Valenzuela of St. Andrew's Parish in Paraňanque, is one glaring example," Rufo writes. "For years, Valenzuela plundered the parish and parochial school's coffers under the noses of finance council members...Tapping family members and relatives for parish work, Valenzuela siphoned money from Sunday collections, commingled parish and school funds, and used these funds to pamper himself with luxuries such as five-star hotel gym fees and expensive meals."
Nor was Valenzuela alone, Rufo finds. In some dioceses, so much money was being siphoned off that higher officials thought collections were slowing. Those appointed to handle church funds embezzled the money themselves. There were more disturbing cases emanating from the bishops themselves, such as in the sale of excess, extremely valuable church property in a subterfuge to cheat the government out of tax monies. When the fraud was discovered, it nearly led to the cancellation of a visit to the Philippines by Pope John Paul II. There are other, similar issues of financial irregularities all up and down the church, from the priests dipping into the collection baskets all the way up to the top of the institution's hierarchy.
There is a great deal more in this book that unfortunately can't be covered in an abbreviated review, including the high-handed treatment of lay women and nuns by top church figures. But it is enough to say that it is meticulously researched and footnoted, and it gives a troubling picture of a sacred institution that is increasingly out of touch with a flock no longer satisfied with a medieval approach to the world.
The fact, noted above, that so many Filipinos marry outside the church and ignore its teachings, let alone the misconduct that Rufo renders so thoroughly here, ought to put the Council of Catholic Bishops on notice that the church needs thoroughgoing reform. At the very least, they need to read this book.

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Careers & Workplace
Flip-Flops at Work: Millennials Finally Get What They Want
Put on hold during the recession, Millennials' workplace preferences are again front and center. Here's why smart companies are giving in.
By Dan Kadlec Sept. 05, 2013
In a way, Baby Boomers caught a break when the economy fell apart five years ago: Millennials were just starting to assert themselves in the workplace, and then suddenly jobs were scarce and for many young people there was no workplace. So we all went to meetings and logged long hours at the office for another half decade, just the way Boomers like it.
"We were back in Boomer land with Boomer rules," says Haydn Shaw, author of Sticking Points: How to get 4 generations working together in the 12 places they come apart. "The reset worked in their favor. But it's starting to change again."
Shaw is an expert on cultural differences at the office. New generations all experience the same resistance in the same basic pattern, he says. For the first five years at work their style and preferences are ignored. There aren't enough workers this age to matter. The second five years, Shaw says, their numbers increase but older generations have the positions of authority and try to "fix" the the young workers.
After 10 years, a generation's numbers are so big that older workers give in and try to cut a deal. The boss may not like flip-flops at the office but supervisors become willing to tolerate this style of dress if the work gets done–and that's pretty much where we are today.
By Shaw's definition Millennials, who number 80 million and are an even larger generation than the Boomers, are now aged 11 to 31. That means the oldest have been in the workplace for about 10 years. The last five years don't really count because jobs have been so scarce that young people have not been able to assert their style. But with a recovery in hand and boomers starting to retire Millennials are beginning to get their way.
"Millennials are the next pig in the pipeline," Shaw says. "Yet Boomers are in no way ready to surrender the attention they've enjoyed for so long." So at many companies Boomers are still trying to change younger workers. But smart companies have moved on; they are cutting a deal with this generation to retain the best of them. Maybe it doesn't matter if a young worker is in the office all day—as long as the job gets done. Maybe it doesn't matter if they pay attention to everything going on at a meeting—as long as they are up to speed on what they need to perform well.
Compared to during the Woodstock era, more Americans now believe there are major differences in the point of view of younger and older adults, a Pew survey found. Yet today's generation gap doesn't involve nearly the same level of mistrust as the one in the 1960s. It's less of a crisis and more of an annoyance, Shaw says. That means the differences, though vast, are shallow and can be worked out more easily.
The global accounting and consulting firm PwC estimates that by 2016 roughly 80% of its workforce will be Millennials. To better understand this massive segment of its employee base, the firm underwrote an exhaustive study and found that the generations aren't as different as commonly portrayed.
PwC found that "Millennials are equally committed to their work," though "they view work as a 'thing' and not a 'place.'" In other words, yes they'll work hard but won't be slaves to a desk or face time with the boss. The firm also found that Boomers embrace some key aspects of the workplace changes that Millennials seek—most notably, flexible work schedules. From the PwC report:
Millennials want more flexibility, the opportunity to shift hours—to start their workdays later, for example, or put in time at night, if necessary. But so do non-Millennials, in equal numbers. In fact, a significant number of employees from all generations feel so strongly about wanting a flexible work schedule that they would be willing to give up pay and delay promotions in order to get it. The similarities in attitudes across generations are striking.
Beneath it all, then, perhaps we're not really so different. Giving young workers the flexibility to work at 2 a.m. so they can spend three hours in the afternoon playing Grand Theft Auto would also benefit Boomers who overwhelmingly agree they'd like the flexibility to take off an afternoon, say, with the grandkids.
So get used to the idea of flip-flops at the office. It's coming. But as Shaw writes: "Smart organizations don't fight what they can't stop. They figure out how much of another generation's approaches they can embrace without hurting the business, and then they get back to the real work."


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2019: Many farewells in the music world
Remembering some of the fabulous musicians we have lost
By Peter Alexander Dec. 28 at 3:20 p.m.
Below are listed some of the musicians we lost in the past 12 months. There is kind of melancholy symmetry to the fact that Carol Channing, famous for the role of Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly, is the first person in the list, and Jerry Herman, that evergreen show's composer and lyricist, is the last.
These are just the names that caught my eye. Feel free to add any names that have been overlooked.
Who else? Carol Channing
Jan. 15: Carol Channing, the instantly recognizable Tony-winning platinum blond who became permanently associated with the role of Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello Dolly, a role she revived at the age of 74, 97
Jan. 17: Theo Adam, German bass-baritone known for Wagnerian roles including Hans Sachs and Wotan, which he sang at Bayreuth, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Metropolitan Opera, 92
Jan. 26: Michel Legrand, arranger and composer of hundreds of film scores, known especially for the music for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and "The Windmills of your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair, 86
Sanford Sylvan as Chou En-lai
Jan. 26: Sanford Sylvan, American baritone who was particularly memorable in operas by John Adams, including as Chou En-lai in Nixon in China and Leon Klinghoffer in Death of Klinghoffer, 65
Feb. 20: Dominick Argento, celebrated composer of songs, choral music, and 14 operas including Postcard from Morocco and Casanova's Homecoming, 91
Hilde Zadek
Feb. 21: Hilde Zadek, Austrian soprano who sang at the Wiener Staatsoper from her remarkable debut as Aida—without ever having previously studied the role or even sung onstage—in 1947 until her retirement in 1971, and at other major houses world-wide, 101
Feb. 28: Andre Previn, pianist/composer/conductor whose career spanned jazz, pop and classical music, and who once received three Academy Award nominations in a single year (1961), 89
March 1: Joseph Flummerfelt, American choral conductor known for collaborations with the New York Philharmonic and other orchestras, who also trained younger choral conductors at the Westminster Choir College, 82
March 3: Peter Hurford, British organist, composer and choir director known for his performances of J.S. Bach and a complete recording of Bach's organ works, 88
J.H. Kwabena Nketia
March 13: J.H. Kwabena Nketia, Ghanaian scholar and composer who was recognized as the leading scholar of African music, well known to anyone who studied ethnomusicology in the past several generations, 97
March 15: Michael Gielen, German conductor known for his performances of contemporary music and radical productions he led at the Frankfurt Opera, 9
March 16: Dick Dale, guitarist whose left-handed, upside-down playing technique and Lebanese ancestry contributed to his famed "Surf Guitar" style, featured in in the hit song "Misirlou," 81
Marilyn Mason
April 4: Marilyn Mason, concert organist and teacher at the University of Michigan for a remarkable 67 years, and a champion of music by living composers, 93
April 5: Sam Pilafian, virtuoso tubist who played everything from classical to jazz, helped found The Empire Brass, taught with exuberance and earned ecstatic reviews everywhere he worked, including Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, 69
April 16: Jörg Demus, Austrian pianist who made more than 350 recordings; accompanied Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elly Ameling, and other major vocalists; and performed classical-era four-hand works with Paul Badura-Skoda, 90
Doris Day singing 'Que será, será" in The Man Who Knew Too Much
April 22: Heather Harper, Northern Irish-born soprano known for her performances of Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes and other roles in Benjamin Britten's operas, as well as repertory from the Baroque to the 20th century, 88
May 13: Doris Day, born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, a singer who was compared to Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra before she became the perpetually chaste star of films including Pillow Talk and That Touch of Mink, 97
June 6: Dr. John, the six-time Grammy winning New Orleans pianist, singer and songwriter whose musical gumbo blended everything from Mardi Gras flamboyance to voodoo mystery, and whose real name was Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr., 77
Franco Zeffirelli's Turandot
June 15: Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director who brought lavish, extravagant productions to the Metropolitan Opera and other houses around the world, including popular versions of Carmen, La Bohéme and Turandot (1987) at the Met, 96
June 15: Michael Jaffee, co-founder with his wife Kay of the Waverly Consort, which got its start preparing music for a graduate musicology class at New York University and went on to become one of great popularizers of early music, 81
June 23: Spiro Malas, a bass with a long career in supporting roles at the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, who found fame as Tony Esposito in the 1992 Broadway revival of The Most Happy Fella, 86
Vivian Perlis
July 1: Sid Ramin, a lifelong friend of Leonard Bernstein who won both an Oscar and a Grammy for his work orchestrating West Side Story, 100
July 4: Vivian Perlis, founder of Yale University's Oral History of American music, an archive of 3,000 recordings collected over more than 40 years with interviews of composers and other important musicians including Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, Duke Ellington and John Adams, 91
July 6: João Gilberto, the recording artist and songwriter credited as the creator of the complex Brazilian song style known as bossa nova ("the new thing"), 88
July 9: Aaron Rosand, violinist who performed worldwide and whose students won many major violin prizes, and who sold his Guarneri del Gesù violin for $10.1 million, of which he gave $1.5 million to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, 92
July 12: Robert Orth, an American baritone known for creating roles in new operas, having sung the premieres of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, Ricky Ian Gordon's Grapes of Wrath, and Heggie and Gene Scheer's Moby-Dick, among many others, 72
July 21: Ben Johnston, American composer, an advocate of just intonation, a longtime faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, whose best known work, string quartet/variations "Amazing Grace," was performed by several groups including Kronos, 93
July 25: Anner Bylsma, Dutch cellist who won the Pablo Casals International Competition, served as principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and became known for his historical performances of Baroque music, 85
Hal Prince
July 31: Hal Prince, the legendary Broadway producer and multiple-Tony winner who collaborated with Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and others, and produced and/or directed shows including West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Sweeney Todd and Phantom of the Opera, 91
Aug. 17: Rosemary Kuhlman, mezzo soprano who sang the role of Amahl's mother in the 1951 world premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors on NBC, a role she sang for many years and that led to a career at New York City Opera, 97
Aug. 23: Mario Davidovsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning Argentine-American composer known for combining live performance with electronics, former head of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 85
Sept. 17: Harold Mabern, a Blues and jazz pianist, composer, recording artist and teacher who worked with "Cannonball" Adderley, Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton and others over a long career as a self-described ""Blues player with chops," 83
Christopher Rouse
Sept. 22: Christopher Rouse, Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning composer of vivid, energetic and often loud orchestral works that grew out of his enjoyment of rock music and his studies with George Crumb, 70
Sept. 23: Myron Bloom, principal horn of the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell, later principal of the Orchestre de Paris and faculty member of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 93
Sept. 25: Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist who was known for his elegant and refined performances, who overcame an early prejudice against period keyboard instruments to record the complete sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on both modern and historical instruments, 91
Sept. 29: Martin Bernheimer, the ruthless and feared, but also widely respected music critic of the Los Angeles Times, where he won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for criticism and twice won the ASCAP Deems Tayler Award, as well as the Financial Times and other outlets, 83
Jessye Norman
Sept. 30: Jessye Norman, exceptional dramatic soprano who performed leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala and other major houses, became the youngest winner of Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, received the National Medal of the Arts and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was a Commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters, 74
Oct. 4: Diahann Carroll, tony-winning singer and actress, for whom Richard Rodgers wrote a part in No Strings after he saw her in Harold Arlen's House of Flowers, and who then went on from success in musicals, to her first move role in Carmen Jones, and finally became the first black woman to have her own TV show, Julia, 84
Oct. 22: Raymond Leppard, English conductor who made a reputation reviving early Baroque operas, tailoring them to what he considered modern tastes rather than recreating original performances (which he called a "faddish pursuit"), then went on to conduct orchestras in St. Louis, Manchester and Indianapolis, 92
Chou Wen-Chung
Oct. 25: Chou Wen-Chung, Chinese-born composer who taught for many years at Columbia University, one of the first composers to blend Asian and Western sounds in his scores and was called "the godfather of Chinese contemporary music" by his student, composer Tan Dun, 96
Nov. 24: Juan Orrego-Salas, distinguished Chilean-American composer who taught composition for 26 years and co-founded the Latin-American Music Center at Indiana University, 100
Nov. 30: Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor who led the Bavarian Radio Symphony and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and whose touring appearances around the world were widely anticipated, 76
Dec. 12: Dalton Baldwin, American pianist who was known and widely admired as a recital accompanist to some of the greatest singers of his time, including Elly Ameling, Frederica von Stade, Jessye Norman, Nicolai Gedda and Gérard Souzay, 87
Cover of Christmas album by Peter Schreier
Dec. 25: Peter Schreier, German lyric tenor and conductor who trained in East Germany and performed more than 60 opera roles in major opera houses world wide, and whose final performance in 2005 was Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Prague, in which he both conducted and sang the role of the Evangelist, 84
Dec. 26: Jerry Herman, composer of notable Broadway musicals about vibrant women—Hello, Dolly and Mame—and notably the first musical featuring gay lovers, La Cage aux Folles, winner of many awards including Tonys for Dolly and La Cage, which also won the Tony for best revival in both 2004 and 2010, 88
NOTE: Edited to correct typos, 12/28 and 12/29
Bahman Saless takes the night off
Italian guests bring their own Christmas music to the Boulder Chamber Orchestra
By Peter Alexander Dec. 19 at 11:20 p.m.
Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) has some holiday surprises planned for a concert Saturday (Dec. 21) that opens with music by Mozart. And one of the surprises is that the group's music director, Bahman Saless, will not lead the performance — which is fine with him.
Arturo Armellino will conductors the BCO
"Tell people that Bahman is not conducting this," he says, laughing. "It will sell out!"
The concert, titled "Un dono di musica" (a gift of music), will be led by a guest artist from Italy, conductor Arturo Armellino. Appearing with him as a guest artist will be bassoonist Luciano Corona, who will play Mozart's Bassoon Concerto on the Mozart half of the program. The concert will be Corona's U.S. debut appearance.
Hopefully, it will not come as a surprise to the audience that the concert time has been changed. Originally announced at 7:30 p.m., the concert will start an hour earlier, at 6:30 p.m., in the Boulder Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Luciano Corona will play the Mozart Bassoon Concerto
The first half of the concert will be all Mozart: Symphony No. 33 in B-flat major, and Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major. Both are first performances for the BCO.
For the second half of the concert, they will perform Corelli's Concerto Grosso in G minor for strings, subtitled "fatto per la notte di Natale" (made for the night of Christmas) and popularly known as the "Christmas Concerto." The rest of the performance will comprise music for Christmas to be announced from the stage.
Read more in Boulder Weekly.
"Gift of Music/Un dono di musica"
Boulder Chamber Orchestra
Arturo Armellino, conductor, with Luciano Corona, bassoon
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto
Mozart: Symphony No. 33
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Gross in G minor, op. 6 no. 8 ("Christmas Concerto")
Christmas selections to be announced from the stage
6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21
Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton, Boulder


One recent trade estimate is pointing to a significant year-over-year jump in grain stocks given this winter's poor railway performance and challenges faced in the export of pulses tied to India's import tariffs. Quorum Corporation, a company tasked by government to track grain handling and transportation, has recently revealed to the media an estimate of 12.6 million metric tons for all western grains to be carried out of the 2017/18 crop year at the end of July, above the five-year average of 8.3 mmt. To put this volume into context, Wade Sobkowich of the Western Grain Elevator Association indicates his rule of thumb pegs anticipated carryout at roughly 10% of the size of the crop, or 7.2 mmt based on the estimated 72-mmt crop size in Western Canada. Using this logic, the Quorum estimate points to July 31 stocks that could be 75% higher than once expected.
Despite this forecast, producers have perhaps shown they will not deliver at any cost, with continued dryness seen over many areas of the Prairies along with falling prices keeping grain in the bin. As seen on the attached chart, weekly producer deliveries of all grains into licensed handling facilities on the Prairies has fallen in each of the past four weeks to 715,100 mt in week 49, down 403,000 mt from the previous week and the smallest weekly volume delivered in seven weeks.
Given historical data, this is the smallest weekly volume shipped in this particular week in five years, while 220,860 metric tons or 23.6% below the five-year average for this week.


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Archives|Different Name, Same Architecture
Different Name, Same Architecture
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY JULY 24, 2005
AMID the retail jangle of Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn, a community group is calling for landmark designation for the Macy's department store complex. Built over nearly 60 years on the block bounded by Fulton, Hoyt and Livingston Streets and Gallatin Place, it is better known under a previous name, Abraham & Straus. The complex has some of New York's most compelling retail architecture, but it is distinctive not so much for any single section as for the rich tapestry of its parts.
The department store that became known as Abraham & Straus was founded in downtown Brooklyn by Joseph Wechsler and Abraham Abraham in 1865. The Wechsler & Abraham store settled on Fulton Street near Tillary Street, a major retail area a few blocks from what was then Brooklyn's City Hall.
But in the early 1880's, the store bought and renovated an ornate 1873 cast-iron-front building on Fulton between Hoyt Street and Gallatin Place, away from the existing retail center. Wechsler & Abraham moved into the old building in 1885, in what The Brooklyn Eagle called a "remarkable instance of foresight and boldness."
Patrons entered through a three-story arch (filled in long ago) and found themselves in a great central five-story-high skylight courtyard. The store's interior fittings were of black walnut, ash and quartered oak, with iron columns in a bronze finish. Clothing, furniture, silk and other dry goods were presented in the "best discipline," The Eagle said, so that "women of delicate nerves will find solid comfort in its quiet and orderly limits."
Mr. Abraham was quoted as saying that he did not fear his Manhattan competitors, even though the two cities had recently been connected by a great new bridge: "Brooklyn merchants are enterprising beyond those of other cities because of the great rival near us." The main show window on Fulton carried a 20-foot-long velvet version of Cleopatra's barge perched on a sea of silk.
Also in 1885, the architect George L. Morse designed a Romanesque-style extension back to Gallatin Place and Livingston Street that connected with the older building on Fulton Street. It had a robust series of brownstone arches set against fields of orange iron-spot brick. Andrew Scott Dolkart, the James Marston Fitch associate professor of historic preservation at Columbia University, has done extensive research on the complex and says this is the best building of the group.
Perhaps attracted by the new store, other businesses arrived, including the Vosburgh Manufacturing Company, one of the great gas-lighting-fixture concerns of the period. Vosburgh built the exquisite little Northern European Renaissance-style structure to the west on Fulton in 1888, designed by the Parfitt Brothers, Professor Dolkart said.
Wechsler & Abraham became Abraham & Straus in 1893, when new partners came in -- the brothers Isidor and Nathan Straus, who already controlled the big R.H. Macy & Company store in Manhattan. Abraham & Straus later took over the old Vosburgh building, and built or bought other outlying structures.
In the late 1920's, the company merged with Filene's and others to form Federated Department Stores, and from 1928 to 1930 it had the architects Starrett & Van Vleck design a big new Art Deco addition facing Fulton, Hoyt and Livingston Streets. The New York Times reported that the addition had been designed after the architectural firm examined new stores in America and Europe. But, The Times said, it was "thoroughly modern without the inclusion of bizarre effects."
The design is almost completely intact -- a boxy crown of streamlined, vertical brick set over a plain, horizontal band of tooled limestone at the ground floor, with store window accents of polished gray stone.
Perhaps the Spartan ground floor was meant to set the store apart from the growing strip of smaller retailers along Fulton. But the upper section of brick, generally nine to 10 floors, with some setbacks, remains particularly unusual in New York, closely following expressionist designs in the Netherlands and northern Europe around World War I.
Most of the facade is dominated by columnlike piers of rounded brick that rise continuously past the bays of windows and metal spandrels set back from the surface. The brick is of differing hues -- brown, rust, orange and other colors -- and the rounded forms sometimes present a hypnotic shimmer, as if the whole surface of the building were vibrating.
Retail stores often leave only a scorched earth of their historic interiors, but the Art Deco Abraham & Straus interior is fairly intact and offers several pleasurable surprises. Inside the Fulton Street entryway, some gray, lightly veined marble above the doors carries carving so subtle it is practically invisible -- lightly chiseled Art Deco reliefs of wheels, fruit, flowers, chains and other details.
At the center of the store, Starrett & Van Vleck put a great, elliptically shaped hall for elevators, which still have most of their original nickel and bronze hardware of zigzag design. Each elevator is flanked by delicate little frosted glass boxes with figuring in the style of Rene Lalique. These held the original elevator light indicators -- although the indicators have long been dark, all 24 are intact.
Fulton Street has fallen far below the original aspirations of the 1880's, and now has raucously cheap, off-price stores. So Macy's, which took over Abraham & Straus operations in the 1990's, sets a high tone for the area, and its retail frontage is dignity incarnate in the midway of flashy chrome, bright plastic and comparable materials.
Two years ago, the Brooklyn Heights Association and the preservation committee of the Municipal Art Society developed a list of 28 historic buildings in downtown Brooklyn to be considered for landmark designation, including the old Abraham & Straus complex, which Otis Pearsall, a longtime preservation advocate, says "is central to the character of the street."
But Elina Kazan, a spokeswoman for Macy's, said that although the company considers the possibility of landmark designation "an honor," being designated "would restrict additional future upgrades that would enable us to better serve our customers."
The landmarks commission is reviewing the list of 28 buildings, and Diane Jackier, a spokeswoman for the agency, said that "the commission will be meeting with the owner soon to discuss the benefits of designation."
Any visitor to the old Abraham & Straus building should not miss an unusual, perhaps unique experience of passage at the Fulton Street entrance. Two revolving doors are fairly recent replacements, with a conventional flat-paneled design. But at the extreme left, one of the original nickel and bronze units still survives. Its panels are curved, so the visitor pushes into a concave shape -- a particularly elegant experience.
But this cultured fragment of the Fulton Street of another time is partly twisted on one side, putting its mechanism at risk, and may not last much longer.
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Henry is different. He always has been. Convinced that there must be something wrong with him for not being like the others he started on a journey to find himself. What he found showed up totally different than he thought.
Susanna Mittermaier was born in Austria. She loves traveling so much that it became her job. She is also a psychologist, someone who helps people who think they are unhappy. She tickles them for as long as they need until they can remember how happy they truly are. Susanna, like Henry, knows what it is like to be different. She knows that being different can be challenging. It can also bring a lot of joy into your life. This is her rst book for children. She hopes you like it.


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Home U.K £5,000 heat pumps grant 'a fraction of what is needed'
£5,000 heat pumps grant 'a fraction of what is needed'
The Prime Minister promised to make the new technology cheaper than gas boilers by offering the subsidy from April. But the £450million fund will cover just 90,000 heat pump installations over three years while the Government's own goal is 600,000 a year by 2028. And people will still need to make up the rest of the £10,000 total bill to help decarbonise their home.
Mike Childs, head of science at Friends of the Earth, said: "It doesn't matter if you rent or are mortgaged, we all deserve a healthy, warm home that doesn't break the bank.
"The Government has said all homes should be energy-efficient by 2035, and no new gas boilers should be fitted after that date.
"But this doesn't match up with the financial support on offer so that people can make the switch, or upgrade their home insulation." David Cowdrey, of MCS Charitable Found-
ation, which aims to protect the environment, said the Government must introduce a long-term grant scheme over the next decade.
He added: "Though the £5,000 grant is welcome, it is a fraction of what is needed to decarbonise homes in England and Wales and does not cover insulation or energy efficiency measures. The Treasury needs to find substantially more money to kickstart the Retrofit Revolution and help us make our homes truly fit for the future.
"If we fail to act and invest now, we risk the spectre of dangerous climate change which will cost the Treasury far more in the long-term."
Mr Cowdrey wants the Government to introduce new zero per cent eco loans to help refurbish homes, plus positive tax incentives to further cut costs. He added that would ensure heat pumps are the same price as gas boilers for everyone instead of "a limited number of people".
Mr Childs agreed, saying of Mr Johnson's announcement: "These grants will only incentivise the best-off households."
MP Philip Dunne, who chairs the environmental audit committee, said the heat and building strategy is an early signal the industry has been waiting for "as we move to stem the colossal emissions from our homes".
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It's hard to describe any one research interest, because I have quite a few and they are rather eclectic. Variety not only keeps my mind alive, but also provides me with better insights into any one particular topic. However, there is something of a theme - the rules and institutions of government and the limits of their reach. As constitutions limit as much as define the power of the state, I have been intrigued by what those limits might be and who sets them.
I have a range of interests related to the Canadian constitution which include: constitutional conventions, the Charter of Rights, military law, parliamentary privilege, senate reform, federalism, intergovernmental relations, and even good old-fashioned division-of-powers case law. With this emphasis on constitutional issues, came an interest in the judges who play such a key role in shaping our political system. I'm just as interested in how our elected officials reach office, and I have developed a continuing interest in the way the Canadian electoral system distorts the choices made by the electorate in the voting booth.
Finally, I have been wrestling with a long-term project that is more in the field of political theory. Many years of teaching classes on human rights have left me still asking what they really are. Legislated rights are one thing, but universal human rights are quite another. I'm interested in the basic debate about whether human rights are the inherent or natural rights of all humankind, or whether they are really just a product of fundamental moral choices that describe a particular view of the ideal society. However, I must confess that this project will carry on over some years to come!


Eventhough I've been an iPhone user for a very long time, I still can't believe how good iPhone4S camera is. Can you believe these 2 pictures were taken + edited with iPhone (edited with Camera+ app)? Anyways, I can't believe that BIGBANG has ended their ALIVE promotion. Thank you so much BIGBANG^^ 빅뱅 오빠 고마워요^^ 정말 고마워요~ 잘지내요, 빅뱅 짱!! 화이팅!! BIGBANG made their last / goodbye stage so special. I'm a very proud and thankful VIP /sobs. Going to post videos later! Anyways.. How excited I am to wait for their comeback and for YG to release their World Tour Dates. I know they're going to Jakarta in October, but I need the DATES!
What a blue Monday. That's all I can say for today. One of my colleagues' husband passed away yesterday. I really don't know what to do if I were her, I couldn't imagine the painful things that she must have felt during this time. All I just can do is pray for her and wish that she can be tough.
Sneak peek for the next outfit post :D Don't you think this pic reminds you a lot of BIGBANG Bad Boy's video? I took this pic because it really gives me that Brooklyn feels (well mainly because of BIGBANG's video). Do you know that certain part of Brooklyn that always comes up in most movies, music videos, and even video games? Yeap.. That dodgy under the bridge green/blue-ish part of Brooklyn. Anyways, hopefully all of you can come to DEBENHAMS FASHION NIGHT OUT tomorrow :) Get free vouchers (yes, we're distributing free vouchers for FREE) at Debenhams Senayan City Customer Service at level GF. Anyways, back to BIGBANG, Bad Boy probably my favorite song from the Alive album, moreover my theory was proven to be true, the song BAD BOY was made for VIPs (a name for BIGBANG fans) Enjoy the song!
I decided to make a regular "food post" on my blog, since lately I've been trying a lot of new food, I think it would be fun to post them on my blog! I'm gonna make you drools. So anyways, I got to tried this place called Chez Dré in Melbourne. To be precise, the place is located at 287 Coventry St (rear)South Melbourne, VIC 3205. The place is really cozy, they have both indoor and outdoor seats, they served you with fresh pastries and coffee! You have to try their croissant (I LOVE croissant), their brunch set menus, I think the food is really good, and don't forget to try their desserts. They have a LOT of dessert options, but my heart fell for the Salted Caramel Éclair, which was perfect. The place is closed around 3-4pm, since they only serve breakfast and brunch menus. What's even more perfect? They have wi-fi!
Yeay!! Chukaee~ First outfit post in months! I'm so excited, eventhough I didn't get to shoot decent outfit post, but still.. Lately I've realized that I have this kind of obsession towards blazers. I just love them, and when I spotted this particular white blazer with black collar at ZARA, I just have to make it mine. Anyways, how are you guys? I hope all of you are doing well! Yesterday I got to pick clothes for DEBENHAMS Fashion Show for Senayan City's FASHION NATION. I really hope that I did a good job ;) I've never experience such stress at work until yesterday, it was a fun and exciting experience though~ I was really happy that I got to do it.
This is probably one of the best dessert that I've tasted in my life. Since I'm not a really big fan of chocolate -except Reese's Peanut Butter, I'm more into ice creams and jellies. I also don't really like pearls or bubbles, but this particular dessert is just heavenly delicious. Managed to eat it twice when I was in Melbourne. The lilac/yellow thingy are taro balls, they supposed to be like this chewy food like mochi, but even better. The grass jelly was just.. heaven. I would love to eat this again!
5 April 2012. Chapel St. Melbourne, Victoria.


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Q: Replace custom tags with  tags In my ASP.NET application I have a plain text field.  I want to allow the user to be able to enter URL's in the following format:
[url="http://www.google.com"]Google[/url]

These would be saved to a database directly as they were entered.  On retrieveal however, I'd like to convert the above into the following HTML format to make it active on-screen:
Google

The reason for this approach is to avoid tampering with the built-in ASP.NET validation routines, which trigger an error when it sees <a in a form input string.
I've seen other examples on StackOverflow where RegEx is used to parse the string, however, I cannot find anything that I can follow where multiple occurrences of [url...] may exist in a single string.
Can anyone please offer me an example of how to parse such a string, say...

Try this funky new search engine:
  [url="http://www.google.com"]Google[/url] Or this older one from back
  in the day: [url="http://uk.altavista.com"]AltaVista[/url]

...to convert each occurrence into the desired format?  RegEx isn't my strong-point sadly.
Thanks.

A: Following HamZa DzCyberDeV's comments I used the RegEx pattern within RegexHero and found RegExHero even generated the ASP.NET. Therefore the simple code below exactly achieves the outcome I needed:
Dim s As String = txt_input.Text.Trim
Dim strRegex As String = "\[url\s?=\s?""?(.*?)""?\](.*?)\[\/url\]"
Dim myRegex As New Regex(strRegex)
Dim strReplace As String = "$2"
ltl_output.Text = myRegex.Replace(s, strReplace)

A: As I understood, you need a BBCode converter for ASP.NET, which you can find here.
Example from given link:
string BBCodeSyntax = "[url={webaddress}]{display}[/url]";
string HtmlSyntax = "{display}";
string Fields = "{webaddress};{display}";

string input = "For those who code - [url=http://www.codeproject.com]The CodeProject[/url]. This website contains lots of articles about programming. For open source project hosting from Microsoft, you may have a look at [url=http://www.codeplex.com]Codeplex.com[/url].";

string output = BBCode.ConvertToHtml(input, BBCodeSyntax, HtmlSyntax, Fields);
return output;


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Neste RE enables a future where all plastic products can be made of renewable and recycled materials – and the future starts today
Neste RE is a 100% renewable and recycled raw material that helps replace virgin fossil feedstock in the production of plastics and chemicals for a wide range of applications from toys to healthcare. Photo: Neste.
Neste is launching a new product, Neste RE, a 100% renewable and recycled raw material for plastics and chemicals production. It is a product for tackling climate change through reducing the need to use virgin fossil resources, while it also provides a new solution to the end-of-life related challenges the polymers and chemicals industries are facing today. Neste RE can be used in a wide range of plastics applications, from sports gear to toys, even in sensitive applications such as high-performing medical equipment. Neste RE makes it possible to use bio-based waste and residues and waste plastic in the manufacture of high-quality products.
World's economy is only 8.6% circular today (source: Circular bioeconomy study, 2020, WBCSD & BCG). The urgency to move towards a truly circular economy is high (source: IPCC Global warming report) and will deserve a variety of different technologies. Neste has a decade-long experience in developing and producing renewable and circular solutions for transportation, and is now extending its offering to the polymers and chemicals sectors. With this, Neste supports the reduction of crude oil dependency by providing more sustainable alternatives to the currently used virgin fossil-based feedstock in plastics and chemicals production.
"We need to take drastic action to achieve the necessary change towards a circular economy in materials. With Neste RE, we combine the best of renewable and recycled materials, to serve as a sustainable feedstock alternative for the polymers and chemicals sectors. This new product provides a new solution for the industry to close the circle of material flows. Neste RE is available globally, and together with like-minded partners, we can use Neste RE as a tool to change and revolutionize plastics," says Lars Börger, Vice President of Renewable Polymers & Chemicals at Neste.
A fresh start for plastics
Neste RE is both renewable and recycled: the product's renewable components can be produced from waste and residue oils and fats and sustainably-produced vegetable oils. The recycled component is produced from chemically-recycled plastic waste that cannot be recycled mechanically, such as colored, multilayer or multi material packaging.
The more fossil resource based content is replaced with content from renewable or recycled origins, the better for our planet. In 2018, over 29 million tons of post-consumer plastic waste was collected, and of this, only 9.4 million tons was directed to recycling (source: Plastics Europe) - even less actually recycled. Furthermore, the share of global oil production used to produce plastics, which is currently 6%, may reach 20% by 2050 (source: New Plastics Economy, Ellen MacArthur Foundation). To tackle these numbers by accelerating the plastics industry's transformation towards a circular bioeconomy, urgent action is required, collaboration among some of the industry forerunners playing a key role.
Neste's collaborations are already bearing fruit: In 2019, Neste collaborated with LyondellBasell to produce the world's first commercial-scale volumes of renewable, bio-based polypropylene. And in March 2020, Neste collaborated with Borealis to produce renewable polypropylene with renewable propane at a propane dehydrogenation facility for the first time in history. Clariant added an entire range of additives based on Neste RE. Together with Recycling Technologies and Unilever, Neste combines expertise to test and validate systems to chemically recycle waste plastics. In a strategic cooperation with Covestro, Neste is promoting the use of sustainable raw materials in plastics production, particularly in the production of polycarbonates. And, together with Jockey, Neste has a collaboration with a target to develop the market for rigid packaging from sustainable renewable and recycled materials for food and non-food applications.
Neste RE is available worldwide to the polymers and chemicals value chain including brands wishing to add bio-based and recycled content to their offering. Neste RE is a drop-in solution compatible with existing polymers and chemicals production infrastructures. Materials produced with Neste RE are of high quality - identical to plastic products made out of virgin fossil feedstock, e.g. recyclable similarly to their virgin fossil counterparts.
Further information: Lars Börger, Vice President, Renewable Polymers & Chemicals, Neste. Please contact Neste's media service, tel. +358 50 458 5076 / [email protected] (weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EET)).
Neste in brief
Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. We refine waste, residues and innovative raw materials into renewable fuels and sustainable feedstock for plastics and other materials. We are the world's leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge. We aim at helping customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with our renewable and circular solutions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030. As a technologically advanced refiner of high-quality oil products with a commitment to reach carbon-neutral production by 2035, we are also introducing renewable and recycled raw materials such as waste plastic as refinery raw materials. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world's most sustainable companies. In 2019, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 15.8 billion, with 82% of the company's comparable operating profit coming from renewable products. Read more: neste.com & www.neste.com/companies/products/plastics
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package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.exceptions;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Public;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability.Evolving;

/**
 * This exception is thrown on unrecoverable configuration errors.
 * An example is container launch error due to configuration.
 */
@Public
@Evolving
public class ConfigurationException extends YarnException {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 0x9801a7a0f8e3L;

  public ConfigurationException(Throwable cause) {
    super(cause);
  }

  public ConfigurationException(String message) {
    super(message);
  }

  public ConfigurationException(String message, Throwable cause) {
    super(message, cause);
  }
}


NICE is to publish details of individual PCTs' uptake of clinical guidance.
In November NICE will, for the first time, publish the details of the level of uptake of NICE-approved drugs by all PCTs, SHAs and cancer networks.
NICE's report will compare the level of uptake of medicines with the institute's estimate of what level of uptake it would expect for each organisation.
The report will be published as part of the government's drug pricing agreement with the pharmaceutical industry.
As part of the drug pricing scheme, the government agreed to publish a review of uptake of NICE-appraised medicines.


Tonite's final score Hughes Springs Mustangs 24 Tigers 0. The Tigers are away next week and travel next Friday night to Atlanta. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30pm. Go Tigers!
Tonite's game will be aired lived on Star Country 96.9. If you want to listen online, go to http://easttexasradio.com/stations/star-country-96-9/ and click on "Click here to Listen Live" link. Thanks to all of our sponsors and Star Country 96.9 for making this possible. GO TIGERS!
The Tiger junior varsity football team traveled this afternoon to Hughes Springs where they took on the Mustang JV. The game ended in a 0-0 tie. The JV's will be in action next week at Mickey Mayne Tiger Stadium against the Atlanta Rabbits. Kickoff is scheduled for 4pm. Check the webpage for any time change.
The Lady Tiger varsity volleyballers traveled to Clarksville this evening where they won three games to one. Congrats to the Lady Tigers on their first victory of the season!
This week's Tiger junior varsity football game versus Hughes Springs is scheduled for Wednesday at Mustang Stadium in Hughes Springs. Kickoff has been moved from 4:30pm to 5pm. Go Tigers!
Reserve seats for all 2016 Tiger home football games are now on sale to the public. To see what seats are available, go by the Richard Woods Fieldhouse between 8am and 3pm, Monday-Friday and ask to see the seating chart. GO TIGERS!


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Q: How do I take the output of one program and use it as the input of another? I've looked at this and it wasn't much help.
I have a Ruby program that puts a question to the cmd line and I would like to write a Python program that can return an answer.  Does anyone know of any links or in general how I might go about doing this?
Thanks for your help.
EDIT
Thanks to the guys that mentioned piping.  I haven't used it too much and was glad it was brought up since it forced me too look in to it more.

A: If you're on unix / linux you can use piping:
question.rb | answer.py

Then the output of question.rb becomes the input of answer.py
I've not tried it recently, but I have a feeling the same syntax might work on Windows as well.

A: Pexpect
http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect

Pexpect is a pure Python expect-like
  module. Pexpect makes Python a better
  tool for controlling other
  applications.
Pexpect is a pure Python module for
  spawning child applications;
  controlling them; and responding to
  expected patterns in their output.
  Pexpect works like Don Libes' Expect.
  Pexpect allows your script to spawn a
  child application and control it as if
  a human were typing commands.

A: First of all check this out:
[Unix piping][1]
It works on windows or unix but it's slighly dufferent, first the programs:
question.rb:
puts "This is the question"

answer.rb:
question = gets
#calculate answer
puts "This is the answer"

Then the command line:
In unix:
question.rb | answer.rb

In windows:
ruby question.rb | ruby answer.rb

Output:
This is the question
This is the answer

A: p = subprocess.Popen(['ruby', 'ruby_program.rb'], stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                                          stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
ruby_question = p.stdout.readline()
answer = calculate_answer(ruby_question)
p.stdin.write(answer)
print p.communicate()[0]  # prints further info ruby may show.

The last 2 lines could be made into one:
print p.communicate(answer)[0]

A: There are two ways (off the top of my head) to do this.  The simplest if you're in a Unix environment is to use piping.  Simple example:
cat .profile .shrc | more

This will send the output of the first command (cat .profile .shrc) to the more command using the pipe character |.
The second way is to call one program from the other in your source code.  I'm don't know how Ruby handles this, but in Python you can run a program and get it's output by using the popen function.  See this example chapter from Learning Python, then Ctrl-F for "popen" for some example code.


In 1893, Caleb Bradham created a drink in his home spicing it with kola nuts and the enzyme pepsin. At first, he called it "Brad's Drink" and this was the first name of Pepsi Cola. It was so delicious that he soon started selling it in his neighborhood. Later, in 1998, this tasty beverage was renamed to Pepsi Cola and this was when the start of this world brand was put.
The first years Bradham prepared Pepsi in his drugstore, but soon he was not able to supply the increased quantity that people wanted to buy. In 1903 he rented a building where the bottling of the drink was moved. The sales in that year reached almost 8000 gallons. Seeing a big potential in his drink, Caleb started building a brand and actively marketing his product. He developed a new handy bottle, which could be sold almost anywhere. This simple move more than doubled the sales, which reached nearly 20 000 gallons in 1904. The next year the first logo of Pepsi was created. A few years later, Bradham hired the racer Barney Oldfield, who became the first face of Pepsi Cola, advertising it as a nice refreshing drink, a nice bracer before a race. Everything went well, Bradham enjoyed increasing sales and people enjoyed more and more his drink. It was initially branded as delicious, healthy and refreshing, and that had continued for the next two decades.
The "Roaring Twenties" helped with the fast growth of the company. These years were times of wealth and excess. But when the crash of 1929 hit the society, things changed dramatically. At the climax of the Great Depression, "Pepsi Cola Co". filed for bankruptcy. Its creditors liquidated all of the assets of the business to collect their money. A guy named Roy Megargel bought the trademark "Pepsi Cola" and created a new company, but not for long. A few years later the business defaulted on its debts once again. This time Charles Guth, a candy manufacturer, and businessman, bought the assets. He had been recently refused a discount on the syrup of Coca-Cola, which he wanted to sell at his retail stores. Now he would sell Pepsi there.
In 1936, Pepsi was sold in a 12-ounce bottle for 10 cents, but the sales at that price were not going well. At that time Coca-Cola was sold at a higher price, but in smaller bottles of six once, 6 cents each. Pepsi decided to reduce the price 50% in order to increase the revenue and fight against the strong brand of its main competitor. They combined this with some radio advertisements featuring "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot, Twelve full ounces, that's a lot, Twice as much for a nickel, too, Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you", and in fact, the goal was achieved. The sales skyrocketed and the profits doubled in 1938. But the real benefit was that Pepsi became stronger and far more established brand.
In 1940, a new smart move was made by Pepsi's new president – Walter Mack. He noticed that African Americans were ignored in the marketing campaigns of the company. This was a real gold mine because nobody was directly targeting towards them. This was a great way of increasing the market share. A "black sales" team was formed, but World War II stopped these plans. The campaign was resumed in 1947, by Edward Boyd, who was hired for only for this purpose. A sales team only of blacks was formed to promote the drink across America. The team faced great resistance caused by racism, but this helped, because they were able to use discrimination as a weapon against Coca-Cola – they didn't want to hire African Americans. That's why they wouldn't buy Coke. Pepsi's market share increased significantly and for the first time, the sales of the company surpassed the sales of Cola in some areas (Chicago for example). But the focus on African Americans caused some problems in the company and its bottlers. There was a fear, that Pepsi would become the "the black drink", which would hurt the sales to whites. That's why in 1950, the "black team" was dismissed.
For the next years, Pepsi didn't stop its expansion. The company focused on its marketing efforts and on building a strong brand. With the spread of radio, it was used heavily for advertising purposes. Later Pepsi switched on to television. Many famous and well-known faces were attracted to participate in the company's campaigns.
During the next years, Pepsi launched some very successful marketing campaigns under different slogans, which you can see at the bottom of this article. After World War II, the company started its expansion around the world. During these years in America, new social phenomena appeared – the baby boomers – the postwar generation. This was the new Pepsi generation – "Come alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation". In 1964 a brand new type of the drink was released – the Diet Pepsi because more and more Americans were paying more and more attention to their weight. The product happened to be successful and two years later a new marketing campaign was started only for "Diet Pepsi" – "Girlwatchers,".
Pepsi started an innovative marketing campaign in 1975 – a blind tasting of Coca-Cola and Pepsi drinks. The people who tried the drinks had to tell which one was better, without knowing what she/he drunk. Amazingly, most of the people chose Pepsi as the better drink. Later the results of these tests were shown on TV and other media, making a lot of noise and attracting a lot of attention. On the next year, the first woman was employed by the company.
In 1984 Pepsi's new generation had become 20 years old. This was the time for the "The Choice of a New Generation" campaign to be launched. This once again puts Pepsi on the leading edge of contemporary culture. In its early stages, the New Generation campaign featured the greatest pop star of that time – Michael Jackson. He and his famous "Billie Jean" starred in a series of Pepsi-Cola commercials. This was the time of fierce fighting between Pepsi and its main rival – Coca-Cola which, was really annoyed because of the fast rise of Pepsi. They even changed the secret recipe of the Coke, but the change was rejected by the customers and these who liked Coke, quickly switched to Pepsi. Coca-Cola had no choice and returned to the old recipe of their drink. Pepsi President Roger Enrico declared victory in the so-called cola wars and awarded Pepsi's workers on a holiday to celebrate.
In the 80s many other stars were attracted for the advertising campaigns of Pepsi. Some of them were Tina Turner, David Bowie, Lionel Richie, Gloria Estefan, Glen Frey and many other. Even Geraldine Ferraro – the first woman vice-presidential candidate in the U.S participated in a campaign dedicated to "Diet Pepsi". 1987, the logo was changed slightly to a more rounded one, which was used to 1991.
During the 90s, Pepsi Co signed a huge trade agreement with The Soviet Union. The company signed a $3-billion deal to more than double production and sales of soft drinks in the Soviet Union in exchange for ships and the rights to sell more Soviet vodka in the United States. Pepsi also increased its investment activities in hot markets as Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Argentina and some other countries. A new great historical advertising campaign was started – "You Got the Right One Baby, Uh-Huh!" focused on Diet Pepsi, with Ray Charles and "Uh-Huh Girls". Cindy Crawford and Shaquille O'Neal also were hired for some great advertisements like "Be Young, Have Fun, Drink Pepsi". In these years the company introduced many new products. A partnership established with "Starbucks" gave birth to the brand new drink – "Frappucchino" – a refreshing drink based on coffee and Pepsi Cola. Frappucchino soon became the most preferred cold coffee beverage in the US. Pepsi also entered the bottled water market introducing the "Aquafina" water. In the late 90s (1997) Pepsi started the campaign "GeneratioNext" returning to the very successful generation theme.
PepsiCo today is a world leader in convenient snacks, foods, and beverages, with more than 280 000 employees and revenue reaching $60 billion of dollars. The company is the owner of some of the greatest world brands Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Lay's, Doritos, Tropicana, Gatorade, and Quaker. These are well-known all over the world.
1976 – "Have A Pepsi Day" – a meeting between a little boy and some even smaller dogs, became a commercial classic.
1979 – The "Catch that Pepsi Spirit" campaign was launched.
1883 – The drink was advertised under the slogans – "Pepsi Now" and "Its cheaper than Coke!".
In 1984 – Was the time when a new generation had emerged around the world. It was time for "Pepsi, the Choice of a New Generation" – a great commercial with Michael Jackson.
If you liked the story of Coca-Cola, please use one of our nice social buttons to share it with a friend. Help us write many more cool stories this way!


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from wintellect_demo.data.cms_page import CmsPage
from wintellect_demo.data.dbsession import DbSessionFactory

class CmsService:
    @classmethod
    def get_page_by_url(cls, url):
        if not url:
            return None

        url = url.lower().strip()
        session = DbSessionFactory.create_session()

        query = session.query(CmsPage) \
            .filter(CmsPage.url == url) \
            .order_by(CmsPage.created_date.desc())

        page = query.first()

        return page

    @classmethod
    def add_page(cls, url, html, is_redirect=False, redirect_url=None):
        if not url or not url.strip():
            raise ValueError('url cannot be empty')

        url = url.lower().strip()
        session = DbSessionFactory.create_session()

        page = CmsPage()
        page.url = url
        page.html = html
        page.is_redirect = is_redirect
        page.redirect_url = redirect_url

        session.add(page)
        session.commit()

        return page

    @classmethod
    def init_test_data(cls):
        url = '/landing_pages/a_dynamic_cms_page'

        if cls.get_page_by_url(url) is not None:
            return

        cls.add_page(
            url,
            '
This is a CMS page
\n' +
            '\n' +
            '
\n' +
            'You can create them in the DB and any URL can be mapped.
\n' +
            'See CmsController / CmsService for more info.\n' +
            '
\n'
        )


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> News & Events
> Latest News
> Article
RARE IRISH PROOF COIN TO BE SOLD AT DIX NOONAN WEBB
An extremely rare Irish Proof or Pattern Halfpenny that was bought for the equivalent of $2 many years ago will be offered in a live/online auction of Coins and Historical Medals on Tuesday February 2, 2021 by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb via their website www.dnw.co.uk
From the collection of the late Eric Newman – an important numatist from the USA - the extremely fine copper coin dates from 1774 and portrays George III with long hair, with a harp on the reverse. It is estimated at £2,400-3,000.
The sale will also include the second and final part of Indian Historical Medals formed by Californian collector Michael Shaw. Comprising 42 lots, the subject matter relates to exhibitions; colleges; individuals through to visits to India by the Prince of Wales in 1875, 1889 and 1921 and the Government of India Cattle Show. Interesting examples include an ornate gold shield, engraved Awarded by H.H. Shriman Goswami Chiranjiv Shri Damodarlalji of Nathdwara and an ornate silver shield dating from 1931 from All India Swadeshi Exhibition, Delhi, engraved Presented to Mr Jake Cox by P. Jawaharlal Nehru. These carry a combined estimate of £300-400.
Also of note is a small collection of Agricultural Medals. Many of the medals are Scottish, but not all are. Notable pieces include an extremely fine gold award medal for the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, engraved The Right Hon. the Earl of Haddington, for Sow, Dumfries Show, which is estimated at £650-750, while an elaborate oval silver engraved award medal engraved Presented by Sir William Drummond Stewart of Grandtully and Logiealmond, Bart. to Donald Stewart, Tenant of the Lagg, Grandtully, as First Prize at a Competition of 93 Ploughs which took place at his Estate near Murthly Castle, 5th December 1838 is expected to fetch £300-400.
Due to the current COVID 19 situation, this auction will be online only and there will be no room bidding available. Customers are able to bid live online (DNW make no additional charge for this service) or leave commission bids prior to the auction.
FORTHCOMING SALES AT DNW
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 – ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND MILITARIA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 - COINS AND HISTORICAL MEDALS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 - ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND MILITARIA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 – BRITISH, IRISH AND WORLD BANKNOTES
TUESDAY, MARCH 2 - COINS, TOKENS AND HISTORICAL MEDALS
TUESDAY, MARCH 16 - JEWELLERY, WATCHES, ANTIQUITIES & OBJECTS OF VERTU
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 - ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND MILITARIA
Free online bidding is available is www.dnw.co.uk
For more information, please call 020 7016 1700
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Dix Noonan Webb – a brief history
In 1991, its first year of trading, the company held three medal auctions and sold 1,200 lots for a total hammer price of £553,000. Two years later it opened a coin department which also auctions commemorative medals and tokens and in 2015 DNW added jewellery to its sales calendar. In 2018, it set up a standalone banknotes department and expanded into premises next door. In the same year, DNW achieved a total hammer price of £11,676,580 and the total number of lots across all departments was 20,273. To date the company has sold in excess of 300,000 lots totalling £155 million.
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