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6 in 10 smokers want to quit so there's never been a better time to take on the Stoptober challenge.
People looking for some face to face information locally can attend Livewell's Stoptober roadshow on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 September at Intu Derby (on the ground floor near H Samuels).
The Livewell team will be on hand to talk about its free 12 month smoking programme, encourage sign-ups as well as engaging friends and family members of smokers to support them through their 28 days smoke free.
They will also be offering free health MOTs which include lung age, blood pressure, body mass index and body fat tests. In addition, people can find out about Livewell's free weight management programmes and NHS Health Checks.


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Substantif masculin
 un paillasse est un clown ou bateleur forain

Substantif féminin
 une paillasse est un plan de travail, surface plane facilement nettoyable dans un laboratoire ou un atelier (voir aussi établi) ;
 une paillasse est une dalle ou une table en construction-aménagement de bâtiment ;
 une partie de l'évier où l'on pose les objets à égoutter ;
 un matelas de lit fait d'un sac de toile contenant de la paille ;
 une personne consommant une grande quantité d'alcool.

Nom propre

 Paillasse,  personnage de la  ;
Paillasse est un opéra italien de Ruggero Leoncavallo mettant en scène une troupe de clowns (i pagliacci) ;
Paillasse est un film muet de Camille de Morlhon sorti en 1911.

Références

Homonymie de titre

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Q: form fields are stacked on top of each other instead of next to each other in twitter bootstrap I am using twitter bootstrap and trying to create one row in which two text boxes are next to each other.  Here is my code:

            Content:
            <textarea class="span3" id="question_content" name="question[content]" style="resize: none;">
            </textarea>

            Conversation:
            <textarea class="span3" id="question_conversation" name="question[conversation]" style="resize: none;">
            </textarea>

However, for some reason the form elements are stacked one on top of the other.  How do I fix this?

A: On Bootstrap 2 (and judging by the code, that's what you're using) one quick fix could be to set display:inline on label in your custom CSS file like this:
label {
    display:inline
}

Here is a demo: http://www.bootply.com/132699
EDITED: The real Bootstrap-way however is to use .form-inline in your <form> element instead:
<form class="form-inline">

                Content:
                <textarea class="span3" id="question_content" name="question[content]" style="resize: none;">
                </textarea>

                Conversation:
                <textarea class="span3" id="question_conversation" name="question[conversation]" style="resize: none;">
                </textarea>

</form>

See the documentation: http://getbootstrap.com/css/#forms-inline
And here is the updated demo: http://www.bootply.com/132701

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yogaAugust 27, 2017 Aspiring more and more comforts is not enough One of the disadvantages of modern culture is, it is expert in concealing or denying the miseries of the material world. We can surely work on decreasing the miseries as much as possible. But modern culture doesn't educate people that this material world is a place of misery. Modern civilization promises that things will be alright here itself. By getting a faster internet connection or quicker airline travel, this world is not going to become a paradise. If one believes that then that person is living with a false hope which will never come true.
Living in the present and also planning for future, is it not a contradiction?


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EW: "We're in this position for one reason, and one reason only ...."
Posted by Scuba | Fri Oct 11, 2013, 05:07 PM (49 replies)
Wisconsin: Why the Capitol Settlement is a Win (ACLU) {cross-post from Wisconsin group}
Cross posted per recommendation of AllyCat ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10849248#post4
http://aclu-wi.org/story/victory-why-capitol-settlement-win
After we announced our settlement yesterday in the Capitol free speech case, the Department of Administration claimed that the ACLU of Wisconsin had agreed that the state's "permit process is constitutional." We're not surprised the state wants to fudge facts and claim the settlement as a victory. But it's important to cut through the spin and get a few things straight:
We've always held that the state's permitting scheme is unconstitutional — and Judge William Conley, the federal judge who presided over the case, clearly found it unconstitutional. Nothing about the settlement changes that. At the most abstract level of generalization, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that narrowly tailored, content-neutral permit schemes can be constitutional. Judge Conley recognized that, as do we.
So, when a certain number of people had gathered inside the Capitol, the state could have required them to submit a full application for a permit, then taken up to 30 days to decide whether to grant the permit, and then arrested people who didn't have one.
This settlement changes that. It's a victory for free speech because now no one has to receive permission from the government to exercise their First Amendment rights inside the Capitol. Instead of being forced to apply for a permit, now groups of 12 or more can give notice instead. Giving notice is much more informal than applying for a permit, can be done in a variety of ways, and doesn't even require providing your name. And, unlike permits, the state has essentially no grounds (other than illegal conduct or someone else obtaining a permit) for refusing to allow people who give notice to use the Capitol. The Capitol Police don't get to decide whether to "grant" the notice. The settlement means they must put it on the schedule.
There's more at the link, including how the decision effects past arrests. Also this quote from Judge Conley's decision:
"The Capitol rotunda is closer to an out-of-doors, traditional public forum in that it is a capacious gathering space with a unique history as a place for government and public discourse, which admits for (indeed was designed for) a certain level of disturbance that would not be proper in a typical state office building or even a typical state capitol."
Posted by Scuba | Fri Oct 11, 2013, 05:03 PM (0 replies)
Wisconsin: Why the Capitol Settlement is a Win (ACLU)
Thinking Like a Conservative (Part Four): Goalpost-Moving
http://www.thenation.com/blog/176585/thinking-conservative-part-four-goalpost-moving?rel=emailNation#
Some thoughts today on the apocalyptic horror that envelops us this week, thanks to our friends on the right. Last week I noted that conservatives are time-biders: "The catacombs were good enough for the Christians," as National Review publisher William Rusher put it in 1960. That's their imperative as they see it: hunker down, for decades if need be, waiting for the opportune moment to strike down the wickedness they spy everywhere—in this case, a smoothly functioning federal government. "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," Grover Norquist said in the first part of the quote, whose more famous second half is "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
Twenty-five years. Given that sedulous long-termism, conservatives are also, it is crucial to understand, inveterate goalpost-movers—fundamentally so. Whenever an exasperated liberal points out that the basic architecture of the Affordable Care Act matches a plan drawn up by the Heritage Foundation in the 1990s, I feel a stab of exasperation myself—with my side. Theirs is not a clinching argument, or even a good argument. It means nothing to point out to conservatives that Heritage once proposed something like Obamacare. The Heritage plan was a tactic of a moment—a moment that required something to fill in the space to the right of President Clinton's healthcare plan, an increment toward the real strategic goal of getting the government out of the healthcare business altogether… someday.
I am never more exasperated than when Barack Obama makes such arguments. He loves them! This week it was his observation, "The bill that is being presented to end the government shutdown reflects Republican priorities." So why can't they see reason?
Never mind the damage such pronouncements do to the president's status as a negotiator, a point we've all discussed to death, though I'll reiterate it anyway: even when Obamaism wins on its own terms, it loses, ratifying Republican negotiating positions as common sense. As that same conservative theorist William Rusher also put it, the greatest power in politics is "the power to define reality." As I wrote last year, "Obama never attempts that. Instead, he ratifies his opponent's reality, by folding it into his original negotiating position. And since the opponent's preferred position is always further out than his own, even a 'successful' compromise ends up with the reality looking more like the one the Republicans prefer. A compromise serves to legitimize."
Everything I know about household budgeting, I learned from the Tea Party.
From Jack to Barack
Can someone get a message to Ginny Thomas? I found the notebook she lost.
What Federal Spending Are We Better Off Without?
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/10/08/what-federal-spending-are-we-better-off-without
What have we learned, seven months into sequestration and one week into a government shutdown?
The Pentagon Needed to Trim the Fat
Lawrence J. Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
The Pentagon's base budget (nonwar spending) nearly doubled in the decade after Sept. 11, 2001, allowing military and civilian leaders to avoid making tough choices or prioritizing capabilities. In the name of national security, they could have it all. This gusher of defense spending led to what Senator John McCain has called an "unaddressed culture of waste and inefficiency." In fact, Senator McCain argues that this perception of inefficiency is one reason that sequestration occurred.
Third, sequestration has forced the Pentagon leadership to recognize that it must reform its acquisitions system, which Senator McCain notes "has been successful, for the most part, in turning taxpayer dollars into weapons systems that are delivered late, flawed, and vastly over budget, if they are delivered at all." A prime example of this would be the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which has doubled in price and is a decade late.
The Benefits of Sequestration
Gretchen Hamel is the executive director of Public Notice.
But is the federal cupboard really bare? Consider a few of the more than 100 wasteful spending examples from a new online database of wasteful spending, Spendopedia:
· $34 million for a 64,000-square-foot building in Afghanistan that the military will not use
· $436 million for upgrading tanks the U.S. Army says it does not need
· $1.7 billion annually for vacant government office buildings
With nearly $17 trillion in debt, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office warned last month that if we continued to run huge deficits and failed to address mandatory spending, our nation would face increased chances of a major fiscal crisis in coming years. Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Office reports that since 2011, only 12 percent of more than 300 efficiency recommendations have been implemented.
More interesting stuff at the link.
This time IS different.
Posted by Scuba | Thu Oct 10, 2013, 12:12 PM (25 replies)
150 coal plants retired. What does it mean for our health?

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Police in Seaford are appealing for information following a spate of incidents of number plates being removed from vehicles.
Overnight, from Wednesday the 3rd of July into Thursday the 4th of July, at least four vehicles in the town centre had their number plates stolen or damaged. The vehicles were parked in the High Street and Place Lane and in two cases the number plates were recovered nearby.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the police on 101 quoting serial 0756 of 4/7.


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10 Benefits of Working Remotely & Why People Are Addicted
Wealthy Gorilla Staff
Remote working is when employees complete their work-related duties outside the office, mainly at their own residence.
However, working remotely is not permanent. Some careers such as sales and call centers allow employees to work indefinitely from home, but some jobs require employees to split up their time between their home and the office.
Why Might Working in an Office Be a Poor Lifestyle Choice?
Believe it or not, working in an office comes with a variety of health risks. Here are some key factors to keep in mind if you are thinking of working in an office:
Working in an office can lead a sedentary lifestyle. While working behind a desk, you may become lazier and lack necessary daily exercise, especially if you work longer than normal shifts. In addition, working behind a desk can lead to neck and back pain, as well as obesity.
Office work can lead to serious eye strain. You may already be feeling it reading this article in your office, but keeping your eyes glued to a computer screen for hours can not only lead to eye strain but also serious eye-related health conditions.
Working long hours in an office can cause a lot of work-related stress and lead to poor work-life balance. Most people who work in an office tend to spend longer than normal hours at work compared to those who work remotely.
Let's see the benefits of working remotely and why people like it:
1. Commuting Isn't The Best
The majority of those who work in offices in the city commute to work.
According to recent statistics, commuters can begin experiencing depression and have much less life satisfaction. If kept unchecked, this could lead to more health hazards such as anxiety and lack of social experiences.
2. Remote Workers Tend To Feel Happier
According to a recent survey from Tiny Pulse, remote workers said they were nearly 20% happier than those who worked in an office. This mainly has to due to more freedom from working in a physical office and better work schedule flexibility.
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3. Remote Workers Feel More Productive
Telecommuting provides a bevy of factors to improve productivity. Recent surveys from remote workers show that they feel 91% more productive than working in an office. A lot of this has to due with less distraction and stress at their own location of work.
4. Remote Workers Are More Focused
Employees who work remotely have shown to be much more productive and nearly exceed the 40 hour work week twice. According to research, remote workers are more than 20% more productive when working remotely compared to in an office.
5. Working Remotely Means Less Stress
Workplace stress nowadays is a bigger problem than ever before. Daryl Wilkinson, head of digital development at Nationwide Building Society, discovered that his staff who work remotely are much less stressed and more confident of themselves in the workplace than office workers.
6. Remote Workers Feel More Valued By Their Employers
Nearly 10% of remote workers said that they felt more valued at work compared to office workers in a recent survey. Although remote workers said that they had fewer relationships with their co-workers, the benefits when working remotely seemed to outweigh social relationships.
7. Communication Is More Effective
Working remotely, you may think that you may never have contact with your direct supervisor, who will likely be located far away from you. This could not be more untrue.
There are so many tools nowadays that make communication across long distances easier than ever. Plus, the messages are more detailed, since it is more crucial to say everything you need to say concisely.
A survey was completed recently that asked the question, "How often do you have contact with your direct supervisor?" More than half of the remote workers surveyed said that they spoke to their supervisor once or more a day.
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8. You Make Your Schedule
A lot of the time these days, remote work can be done on a flexible schedule.
If you prefer to stay up late at night, now you can. You can determine when you are the most focused and build your work schedule around that. In fact, you can still work your eight hours a day without starting your work day at 9 am.
Even if you are required to work specific hours, you can schedule your own breaks. And with this break time, you can do as you please. Take a nap or browse Facebook. There are so many more things you can do with your break time at home than you could at the office.
This flexible schedule also leads to a better work-life balance. You can schedule your work around your obligations and not the other way around. When working remotely, you can spend more time with your family and loved ones.
9. Telecommuting Will Save You Money
You will notice an immediate difference in commuting costs.
You will no longer need to pay for bus fare or gas up your car as often. You will also see savings in other areas as well. You no longer need to spend money on new suits or high heeled shoes, if that is not your regular style.
You won't need two separate wardrobes for work and everyday life. You will also save on foods costs as it will be less tempting to stop for coffee on your way into the office and head out to buy lunch midday.
At home, you can easily make your own coffee and make your own lunch.
10. Your Office Can Be Anywhere And Of Any Type
When you telecommute, you have complete control over where your office is and what it looks like. Most likely, you will be working from home.
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However, this doesn't have to mean shoving a desk in the corner or clearing a spot on the dining table. You can design your office to fit your lifestyle. You can choose whatever desk and decor work for you.
Your office doesn't even have to be at home. Head to your local library, favorite coffee shop, or sit in a park to do your work. There are even office spaces that cater to freelancers called co-working spaces.
Self-employed people and those who work remotely can do their work in this space and be around others in similar working situations. Co-working space can boost people's productivity and fight the isolation some feel when working from home.
Working remotely holds many benefits, social and health wise. With less stress and more independence, hopefully, employers can take the first step forward in helping their employees work more efficiently in their own remote setting.
Let's help change the standard of work life once and for all.
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Yes. Yes. Remote working is so much happier. i got to feel this remote working i meet so many interesting people. Thank you Ria.
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Un poncho (; termine ispanoamericano), in italiano poncio o raramente puncio, è un semplice abito creato per mantenere il corpo caldo o, se formato da un materiale impermeabile, per mantenerlo asciutto sotto la pioggia. È essenzialmente un unico grande pezzo quadrangolare di tessuto con una apertura nel centro per la testa e per le braccia, usato come mantello.
Attualmente i ponci sono visti come accessori, non essendo progettati come abiti contro il freddo e la pioggia.

 I ponci fatti di un materiale impermeabile possono anche essere usati dai ciclisti come protezione dalla pioggia o in campo militare.

Il poncio è divenuto noto in Italia perché indossato abitualmente da Garibaldi.

I film del genere spaghetti western lo hanno reso popolare presso il pubblico occidentale. In commercio si può trovare asimmetrico, a righe e a collo alto.

Tipologia

 Chamanto: tipo di poncio utilizzato nella parte centrale del Cile.
 Gaban: tipico del Messico.
 Poncho Baeta: poncio largo, spesso e ovale, tipico del stato São Paulo, Sud Brasile e Uruguay
 Jorongo: molto largo, utilizzato per occasioni speciali o nell'equitazione.
 Poncho chilote: un poncio di lana molto pesante utilizzato nella penisola Chiloé, in Cile.
 Ruana: diffuso nelle regioni fredde di Venezuela e Colombia.
 Zarape (pronuncia "sarape"): tipo di poncio nato nelle regioni nord-orientali del Messico.

Note

Voci correlate
 Ponchos rojos

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Abbigliamento peruviano
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FACT CHECK: Trump's State Of The Union Address
By NPR Staff
Published February 5, 2019 at 8:02 PM CST
1 of 12 — President Trump delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., watch.
President Trump delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., watch.
2 of 12 — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., right, high fives Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., as Democratic members celebrate in the House Chamber.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., right, high fives Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., as Democratic members celebrate in the House Chamber.
3 of 12 — President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
4 of 12 — Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch attend the State of the Union address.
Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch attend the State of the Union address.
5 of 12 — Special guest Grace Eline, left, and sixth grade student Joshua Trump, right, attends the State of the Union address.
Special guest Grace Eline, left, and sixth grade student Joshua Trump, right, attends the State of the Union address.
6 of 12 — Senator from New Jersey Cory Booker greets other lawmakers ahead of the State of the Union address.
Senator from New Jersey Cory Booker greets other lawmakers ahead of the State of the Union address.
7 of 12 — Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes as he is recognized by President Trump during the State of the Union.
Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes as he is recognized by President Trump during the State of the Union.
8 of 12 — President Trump arrives before delivering the State of the Union address.
President Trump arrives before delivering the State of the Union address.
9 of 12 — President Trump shakes hands with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi while joined by Vice President Mike Pence.
President Trump shakes hands with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi while joined by Vice President Mike Pence.
10 of 12 — First Lady Melania Trump, center, is greeted, surrounded by special guests of the President.
First Lady Melania Trump, center, is greeted, surrounded by special guests of the President.
11 of 12 — Rep. Louie Gohmert (Tx-R), arrives for the State of the Union address.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (Tx-R), arrives for the State of the Union address.
12 of 12 — President Trump arrives to deliver the State of the Union address.
President Trump arrives to deliver the State of the Union address.
President Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a speech that had been delayed during the government shutdown.
The annual remarks came as a bipartisan group of lawmakers continue to negotiate border security funding and Trump's wall proposal — the central issue that led to the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
NPR reporters annotated Trump's remarks live, adding context and analysis. Read a fact check of the Democratic response, given by Stacey Abrams, here.
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New Biographical Dictionary of Film Expanded & Updated
by David Thomson
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For almost thirty years, David Thomsons Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely "the finest reference book ever written about movies" (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the "desert island book" of art critic David Sylvester, not merely "a great, crazy masterpiece" (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian), but also "fiendishly seductive" (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone).
This new edition updates the older entries and adds 30 new ones: Darren Aronofsky, Emmanuelle Beart, Jerry Bruckheimer, Larry Clark, Jennifer Connelly, Chris Cooper, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard Curtis, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Michael Gambon, Christopher Guest, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Spike Jonze, Wong Kar-Wai, Laura Linney, Tobey Maguire, Michael Moore, Samantha Morton, Mike Myers, Christopher Nolan, Dennis Price, Adam Sandler, Kevin Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlize Theron, Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski, Lew Wasserman, Naomi Watts, and Ray Winstone.
In all, the book includes more than 1300 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long. In addition to the new "musts," Thomson has added key figures from film history-lively anatomies of Graham Greene, Eddie Cantor, Pauline Kael, Abbott and Costello, Noël Coward, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Gish, Rin Tin Tin, and more.
Here is a great, rare book, one that encompasses the chaos of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, and nonsense that we call the movies. Personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative, and passionate, it is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff must own. Time Out named it one of the ten best books of the 1990s. Gavin Lambert recognized it as "a work of imagination in its own right." Now better than ever-a masterwork by the man playwright David Hare called "the most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing."
"[O]ne still turns to Thomson for witty writing and potent, razor-sharp insights. With immense passion for pictures, he plunges past the IMDb into the very soul of film." Publishers Weekly
"[A] deservedly treasured reference work...Thomson proves anew that he is irreplaceable....One of the most probing accounts ever written of a human being's engagement with the movies." Sarah Kerr, The New York Times Book Review
"Thomson's love for the medium is proprietary, possessive, suffused with an academic's breadth of knowledge and a fan's mad crushes....[H]is book deserves a home on whatever flat surface is available between you and your DVD player. (Grade: B+)" Entertainment Weekly
"[Thomson is] an awfully good writer....Earlier editions have been my constant companions for decades, consulted almost weekly....I happily welcome this latest revision....May our quarrels never end." Richard Schickel, The Los Angeles Times
"[T]renchant, sometimes witty, prose and...up-to-date coverage." Library Journal
"Even more seductive than the last edition....One of the most influential books on cinema ever written." Henry Cabot Beck, New York Daily News
"Mr. Thomson is, I think, the last of the great film writers....[T]his book is the most beautiful of torch songs, and more than bright enough to light up the gloom." Tom Shone, The New York Observer
"Anyone who cares about the movies will find more than enough here to learn from, delight in, and argue with....Thomson's marvelously entertaining book offers a reliable source of pleasure and provocation." Boston Globe
"[C]apable of producing and sustaining a comprehensive saga of the art and business...Thomson has labored at including producers, writers, moguls, and even agents, but his snarkiest writing is reserved for actors." Village Voice
"The single most stunningly informative, learned and provocative book I've encountered about the movies....The breadth of Thomson's research and his skill in writing about that knowledge will take your breath away, whether you are a scholarly aficionado or a weekend filmgoer." The State (Columbia, SC)
"An intellectual Filmgoer's Companion...an invaluable standard text for students, fans, and serious enthusiasts." Peter Bogdanovich, director of The Last Picture Show
"A treasure....Unique, fascinating and more than a little addictive....A great critic's great work." Laura Miller, San Francisco Examiner
"Delicious, one of the best and most useful books written about the movies." Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
"A reference book of extraordinary literary merit, this eccentric, audacious, sparkling work returns — revised, updated, and bulging with 300 new entries (including Rin Tin Tin and Graham Greene), which helps to account for its nearly 1,000 closely printed double-column pages. Probably the greatest living film critic and historian, Thomson, an Englishman who lives in San Francisco, writes the most fun and enthralling prose about the movies since Pauline Kael....The book is a marvel." Benjamin Schwartz, Atlantic Monthly (read the entire Atlantic review)
For twenty-five years, David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely "the finest reference book ever written about movies" (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the "desert island book" of art critic David Sylvester, not merely "a great, crazy masterpiece" (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian), but also "fiendishly seductive" (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone).
Now it returns, with its old entries updated and 300 new ones — from Luc Besson to Reese Witherspoon — making more than 1,300 in all, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long. In addition to the new "musts," Thomson has added key figures from film history — lively anatomies of Graham Greene, Eddie Cantor, Pauline Kael, Abbott and Costello, Noël Coward, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Gish, Rin Tin Tin, and more.
Here is a great, rare book, one that encompasses the chaos of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, and nonsense that we call the movies. Personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative, and passionate, it is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff must own. Time Out named it one of the ten best books of the 1990s. Gavin Lambert recognized it as "a work of imagination in its own right." Now better than ever — a masterwork by the man playwright David Hare called "the most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing."
David Thomson was born in London. He has taught film studies at Dartmouth College, has served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival, and has been the editor of the Journal of Gastronomy. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic, Salon, and The Independent (London). He was the screenwriter on the award-winning documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind. His other books include Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick, Rosebud, and three works of fiction: Suspects, Silver Light, and Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes. David Thomson lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two sons.
David Thomson
THE NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
OF FILM
Q: In an earlier edition you said you hoped people would see this book not as a freight train of facts, but more the "sort of train in which Cary Grant might wander until being taken in by Eva Marie Saint—with corridors and compartments, a vehicle on the move with its own inner life." Do you still feel that way about the book?
A: That still puts it as well as I can—I hope it's a seductive book: once you're in, it's hard to get out. I wanted it to be a book to read—not just somewhere where you look stuff up. One thing leads to another. And I hope that the style takes you over, leads you on. A bedside book. A browsing book. A book that works like a conversation, egging you on, drawing you into your own opinions.
Q: Has anyone ever taken you to task for one of your "personal, opinionated and obsessive" views of some film icon?
A: Yes, sometimes, and valuably so by people who've argued their case.
Q: Do you have a favorite line from a film, or line and comeback?
A: A lot of Hawks' lines run through my head—all the talk between Bogart and Bacall. Charlie Kane remaking the front page one more time. Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, offered a leg or a breast (by Grace Kelly): "You decide."
Q: What made you decide to become a film critic?
A: I have never "decided" to become a film critic. In fact, I have only been "a film critic" (i.e. a regular reviewer of new films) for short times in my life—at the Boston Real Paper in the '70s, at California magazine in the '80s. I don't really like reviewing, and I don't think I'm suited to it. Although I don't feel the decision was ever made, I think I'm a writer whose natural subject is film and all the ways it affects us. Thus I like looking at careers, at the history of film, the sociology, what it has done to the world—questions like that. And I love all the ways—and all the new ways—that come along for writing about film. So I did a novel, Suspects, that is also a kind of commentary on film noir, and a star biography, Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes, that is probably more a novel. The Dictionary, for me, is a new genre of book—the fusion of a work of reference with a kind of odd autobiography on my years at the movies.
Q: Having grown up in England, how did you come to live in the US?
A: Because I was asked to teach film—first at New England College, in Henniker, New Hampshire, and then at Dartmouth, in Hanover, New Hampshire. That made the bridge. But, more important, I found a country where I wanted to live, a place that had always excited my imagination and which has never really disappointed me in practice. Comments that refer just as accurately to my wife, Lucy—an American.
Q: The task of writing a biographical dictionary of film is monumental. When this was still just an idea, were you daunted by the number of films and careers you'd have to take on? And where did you decide to draw the line?
A: The book just grew. On the first edition, done in the early '70s, I never really knew where I was going until I had got there—and also I was younger and more innocent. The updates, especially those to make the 3rd and 4th editions, were actually more daunting. Because now I know how crazy and demanding the venture is. Also, being older, my memory is not as good, so it's slower going. As to where I draw the line, I do an instinctive interest test: does this person really grab me? If so, they're in. If not. . . .
Q: How long did it take to create each edition?
A: The first edition took four years—of course I was doing some other things at the same time. Nowadays I find that there's a year's hard work in the update and new entries.
Q: Do you still feel that Cary Grant (Archie Leach) was "the best and most important actor in the history of the cinema"?
A: Yes, I still love and revere Cary Grant. But I think the underlying point has always been to say that there are actors who work in film because of their presence, not their theatre skills. So I have tried to stress the value of a few fascinating but hardly changing personalities—Mitchum, Stewart, Wayne, Bogart, Cagney, William Holden are of the same type, and today I like Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, and Morgan Freeman in the same way.
Q: In your entry for Bette Davis, you call All About Eve "the grandest cinematic expression of high theatre" ever and Bette herself (as Margo Channing), "a curdled cocktail." Can you expand on this a little?
A: I mean that All About Eve is dealing with a wonderful love of theatre that is itself theatrical. The tone is hard-boiled and cynical, but these people really love what they do. As for Bette Davis, this is the point where the true beauty and sexpot of the '30s begins to go sour and crazy. You can feel the later Bette coming, but still see the kid.
Q: In your Acknowledgments, you play a wonderful game of asking old friends and new their three favorite films, and The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday pop up most often. What about those films, do you think, makes them so popular?
A: Well, I think The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday now look like highpoints of a very American genre—the high-paced, romantic screwball comedy—where people may behave like children and idiots, but reveal profound truths about adult human nature. Along the way those films are just so funny, so skilled, and so entertaining. And I think people respond to them because we've lost the art of grown-up comedy.
Q: This edition has 300 new entries, including several silent film stars and even Rin Tin Tin. But there's also a great deal of updating done for those whose careers have grown in the last decade, such as Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Did the work of these people in the last decade cause you to reassess your previous evaluation of them or did you find you were still on the mark?
A: Careers are very hard to follow these days—the business is so unstable. People can rise and fall fast. Thus, there's a good deal of re-thinking with people like Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman, say. Since the last issue, Roberts has become a true star—yet I'm not sure how long she'll last. Whereas Kidman, it seems to me, is growing all the time. Even Steven Spielberg bears constant attention. Whatever you feel about him, he's always experimenting, trying something new. Whereas George Lucas, I think, has grown older, sadder, and duller.
Q: Among your other books, you wrote a wonderful biography, Rosebud: The Life of Orson Welles. Is he one of your favorite directors?
A: Welles is one of my favorite people—not just directors. I don't think I've ever worked on a more fascinating life: such talent, such charm, such potential—and yet so self-destructive, such a ruin, such a fall. Not that I get depressed with Welles. He was unconquerable—no matter how hard he tried. Yes, he is still the most important director in American film, still the most advanced and courageous. Still the greatest warning about Hollywood and what it can do to talent. He has had a profound influence on me in every way I can think of.
Q: Of the new filmmakers today, several in their early 30s, such as Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), Chris Nolan (Memento), Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums), M. Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense, Signs), the Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society, From Hell), Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), and Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition), who are those whose work you admire or who intrigue you with what they might do next?
A: We need and have a lot of promise—because we chew it up. I'd pick Paul Thomas Anderson as the real talent. But there are many others, including those you mention and Alexander Payne—a few of them not even in this book. Next time?
Q: The jacket of your book is of a scene from To Have and Have Not showing Lauren Bacall leaning on a piano, while Hoagy Carmichael plays it and people look on. Why that particular image for the book?
A: With the 4th edition, my editor Bob Gottlieb and I thought why not a picture on the jacket? (We're getting up-to-date.) I then wanted one image that somehow captured all the fun, the romance, and the atmosphere of movies. I looked at a lot of stills and this one really caught my eye—it was mid-century, golden age, it is a totally fabricated place (a Caribbean island filmed on the Warners lot), it is Bacall in her great debut, with an extraordinary exchanged glance with Hoagy Carmichael. It is also Howard Hawks, my favorite director. Once I had that picture, I had to write a Carmichael entry—and that entry really is the caption to the picture.
Q: In your opinion, were there advantages to the old studio system that MGM had, compared with the system today? And what do you think of the Indie film scene as it relates to Hollywood? Would you say that the two grow more similar?
A: The more time goes by, the more a lot of us admire the old studio system (despite its faults). People worked hard and steadily. There was an incredible level of craft skill, but the studios had the world as their audience and that gave them great confidence. Today, the huge audience has retreated and movie-making has lost its confidence. So everyone is struggling to find a new way to that old glory. We'll never get back to the golden age, but that doesn't mean we can't make amazing pictures still. And I suspect that the medium is about to go through huge technological and business changes that will alter the potential of the art.
Q: Do you think the use of digital cameras, as seen recently in Full Frontal, will play a role in those changes, as basically anyone now can be their own filmmaker?
A: The change are so many, but one of them is that people are going to have a movie- making capacity of their own, and that changes the role of "professional" movies. Of course, in the end, the aim of digital is to look better than film (not the case in Full Frontal), and another fascinating tendency is towards perfect but un-lifelike imagery, imagery that uses electricity instead of light.
A: I'd love to write a novel, a book about the England I grew up in, and a book about the wonderful, rich, comic clash between art and money in the mind of Hollywood.
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This would be best to go to someone in Durham Region as I cannot deliver.
Desk is maple and has a few stickers on it.


An exceptional location for your wedding!
when the area was frequented by the high bourgeoisie and nobility of Lombardy. In the shade of the magnolia you can celebrate the civil wedding ceremony or enjoy the aperitif before going to the banqueting rooms.
The light, the breeze and the view of the lake pass through the large windows of the rooms.
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Surprise! Department Stores Aren't Dead Yet
By Adam Levine-WeinbergFool.com
Throughout much of 2015 and early 2016, department stores struggled with a sharp slowdown in demand. A variety of factors were to blame, including the strong dollar (driving down sales to tourists) and unfavorable weather.
Yet most investors zeroed in on just one cause of department stores' woes: the rise of Amazon.com and e-commerce more broadly. The result was a widespread panic that has left most department store stocks in bargain-basement territory.
However, department stores aren't dead yet. That was made very clear on Thursday, when three of the biggest department store companies -- Macy's (NYSE: M), Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) -- all reported big earnings beats.
Macy's blew by analysts' EPS estimates for Q2. Image source: The Motley Fool.
Macy's stops the bleeding
On Thursday morning, Macy's reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.54 for Q2. While that was down from $0.64 a year earlier, it was still 20% ahead of the average analyst estimate.
Comparable store sales continued to decline during the quarter, falling 2% year over year (including licensed departments). Still, this represented a huge improvement compared to the first quarter, when comp sales plunged 5.6% on that basis.
Macy's sales trend strengthened sequentially as the quarter progressed. That bodes well for the company's performance in the second half of the year. For now, Macy's is holding its guidance range steady at $3.15-$3.40. However, that now includes a lower estimate for asset sale gains to be recognized this year, due to a shift in the timing of a store redevelopment project in Brooklyn. Excluding that change, Macy's full-year EPS guidance would have increased by $0.10.
Finally, Macy's announced an aggressive store closure plan. It intends to close about 100 full-line Macy's stores, mainly in early 2017. This will free up capital for Macy's to reinvest in better-performing stores while also returning cash to shareholders and/or paying down debt.
Kohl's posts surprise profit growth
Also on Thursday morning, Kohl's reported a 1.8% decrease in comp sales for Q2. While the company had hoped for a better sales result, it still posted solid improvement relative to its 3.9% Q1 comp sales decline.
Moreover, better inventory management and tight cost control enabled Kohl's to improve its profit margin relative to the prior-year quarter. As a result, adjusted net income rose 5% year over year and adjusted EPS surged 14% to $1.22, blowing by the average analyst estimate of $1.03.
Surprisingly, Kohl's EPS rose 14% year over year last quarter. Image source: The Motley Fool.
Despite the strong earnings performance, Kohl's reduced its full-year adjusted EPS guidance range from $4.05-$4.25 to $3.80-$4.00due to its ongoing revenue declines. That didn't faze investors, though, as hardly anyone had still expected Kohl's to achieve its original full-year guidance.
Nordstrom surges past estimates
Lastly, on Thursday afternoon, Nordstrom reported EPS of $0.67 for the second quarter. That was down substantially from its adjusted EPS of $0.93 a year earlier, but it still easily beat the average analyst estimate of $0.56.
Nordstrom's higher-than-expected profit was driven by improving sales trends in both its full-price and off-price segments. However, the biggest improvement came on the full-price side, where comparable store sales declined 2.8% in Q2, following a 5.4% drop in Q1.
In fact, the underlying improvement in Nordstrom's sales trend was even better than it seemed. Most of the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale -- a key sales driver each summer -- moved into Q3 this year. Excluding this shift, full-price comp sales would have increased last quarter. That's especially impressive because Nordstrom faced its toughest comparison of the year in Q2.
Nordstrom did have a very strong Anniversary Sale, which will mostly be reflected in the company's Q3 results. As a result of its strong Q2 performance and the improving outlook, Nordstrom raised its full-year EPS guidance range from $2.50-$2.70 to $2.60-$2.75.
Retail shares fly higher
Following their big earnings beats on Thursday morning, shares of Macy's skyrocketed 17.1% while Kohl's stock jumped 16.2%. Nordstrom shares also rose 7.5% in sympathy. Following its own earnings beat after the market closed, Nordstrom stock surged another 10.6%.
Despite these big gains, shares of Macy's and Kohl's remain quite cheap. Furthermore, while Nordstrom stock now trades for about 20 times its projected 2016 earnings, that's quite inexpensive given its substantial earnings growth potential. With a little luck and continued solid execution, shares of all three department stores could continue to rise.
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John R. Grala, center, of the Oswego Masons, meets with Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow, left, and Council Vice President John Gosek to discuss the upcoming fundraiser.
OSWEGO, NY – On Sunday, May 21, a pancake breakfast to support the Erie Canal Bicentennial Theater Play will be held at Lake City Lodge 127.
The breakfast buffet will feature the lodge's famous French toast.
The lodge, 765 E. Seneca St., holds a breakfast event every third Sunday of every month.
Serving will be from 8 a.m. until noon.
Adults $8, kids 6-11 $6, 5 and younger free.
All you can eat from the huge selection.
The menu includes pancakes, French toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, home fries, coffee, tea, milk, orange juice and all the fixin's – even real butter.
A book sale will be held at the breakfast.
Bring friends, relatives, spouses, kids – everyone welcome. Funds raised support community groups, Masonic Charities and lodge benevolent efforts.
Recently, the city approved the "Erie Canal Bicentennial Theater Play" to take place in Oswego on the canal.
The Masons of Oswego are major sponsors funding this public performance along with Canal Corp, Pathfinder and the city of Oswego.
The Masons of Oswego County also celebrate their bicentennial in Oswego County.
Members of the Masonic organization were behind the largest contributions to our country (George Washington, Ben Franklin, etc) and Oswego is no exception. The first bridge, City Hall, Kingsford Starch, many other – all Masons and mostly unknown history.
He was also mayor of NYC, Governor of NYS and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York.
The Bicentennial Canal Theatre Project to be held August 18. The venue for the performance will be the Derrick Boat 8 that's docked at the museum. The vessel was used in the maintenance and operation of the NYS Barge Canal.
The production will be directed by Steven York, and is an original dramatic play written by Oswego native Rick Sivers.
The project has already received some outside financial support. The city's share will be $4,000 or less depending on the amount the organizers fundraise between now and the event.


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What is Church? – Repentance is yours – Acts 11: 1-18
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1The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3and said, "You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with
4Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it had happened: 5"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7Then I heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'
8"I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
9"The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.' 10This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.
11"Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. 12The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house. 13He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, 'Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. 14He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.'
15"As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. 16Then I remembered what the Lord had said: 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' 17So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could oppose God?"
18When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, "So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life."
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Mythos Palace Resort & Spa in Georgioupolis, Crete, received the Sunny Heart Silver Award 2018 in the category "Griechenland & Zypern" (Greece & Cyprus), from Thomas Cook.
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The winners of the Sunny Heart Awards are determined through a process that takes into consideration customer feedback, through the Thomas Cook Customer Satisfaction Survey, and eventually the vote of travel agencies throughout Germany, that choose their favorite hotels within the different categories.
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A: Using jQuery Attribute Contains Selector
$("a[href*='tracklist']").hide();

A: Your

href="/track.php?id=icmo"

doesn't match any of the elements you describe you wan't to remove, i'll assumme is a typo, but since i'm not sure if you know before hand which url and id combination you want to hide i'll give you an option with the exact string match using indexOf and a regex version using a pattern, this might not be the exact pattern that you need but might point you on the right direction.
Only the if clause changes and the filter var used
indexOf Version
var links, i, href, filter
filter = 'track.php?id=';
links = document.querySelectorAll('a');
for (i = 0, len = links.length; i < len; i++) {
  href = links[i].href;
  if(href.indexOf(filter) !== -1){
        links[i].style.display = 'none'
  }
}

Regex Version
var links, i, href, regexFilter
regexFilter = /track.php\?id=+(k|m)/;
links = document.querySelectorAll('a');
for (i = 0, len = links.length; i < len; i++) {
  href = links[i].href;
  if( href.match(regexFilter) ){
        links[i].style.display = 'none'
   }
}

Here is a jsfiddle Demo

A: You can actually use simple CSS for this.
a[href="/track.php?id=icmo"]
{
    property: value;
}

As for the property and value, you can use display: none;for the browser to render it as if it wasn't there or you can use visibility: hidden; so that the anchors will be hidden but space will still be allocated for them.
For my source and for more examples, you can visit w3schools.com which is where I read about various web languages (incl. CSS).


Democracy is one of the underlying and fundamental principles of the union. Conventions are gatherings of delegates who represent the interest of the members of the union. At Conventions, delegates make decisions on a variety of issues and set the path for the union's future actions.
Conventions are an opportunity for members from across the country to meet and reflect on the union's accomplishments, decide on changes that may be needed and continue the work of building a strong national union.
The budget is reviewed and approved and the dues rate set.
Amendments to the Constitution are made.
Policy papers (reports on issues facing the union and the union's plan for addressing those issues) are discussed, possibly amended and approved.
Resolutions (written recommendations submitted by Locals, Components, regional convention and national conferences) are debated and voted on.
The Prairie Voice Awards was created to recognize and salute the tireless work our members do every day in their locals, their committees or area councils, and their communities. It's a way for us to say thank you to members for their commitment to the labour movement and their efforts to make our union stronger. The awards were handed out on April 22, 2017 as part of the PSAC Prairie Region Triennial Convention's banquet dinner held at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
The day began with the election of the Regional Executive Vice-President (REVP), Alternate REVP, and 2nd Alternate REVP. UNE National President Doug Marshall chaired the elections and voting was done using electronic voting devices. Delegates recommitted their support to Marianne Hladun for a second elected term as REVP. She ran on her "proven past," which includes experience on the regional council, as a bargaining team member, as a national officer and a Vice President to a Federation of Labour.
Day two opened with an address from Kevin Rebeck, Manitoba Federation of Labour President, who brought greetings to delegates on behalf of the more than 100,000 working women and men across the province that the Manitoba Federation of Labour's affiliates represent. The duration of the morning was spent on resolutions debate. Convention took recess at lunch because PRC elections were scheduled all afternoon.
Marianne Hladun opened Convention with an energizing address to delegates about the past three years of activism, activities and successes. Reflecting on the 50th Anniversary of PSAC, Hladun said "We've come a long way from our humble beginnings in 1966 and I wouldn't think twice about saying PSAC is among the strongest unions in Canada. And it's because of our members."
CARRIED The following resolutions were passed at the 2017 PSAC Prairie Region Triennial Convention in Winnipeg and will be forwarded to the PSAC National Triennial Convention, scheduled to be held from April 29 to May 4, 2018 in Toronto, for consideration. See the full resolutions package.
Elections were held throughout the weekend at the PSAC Prairie Region Triennial Convention. Delegates elected 14 representatives in their respective caucuses that will serve on the Prairie Region Council, as well as Regional Executive Vice-President and Alternate REVP.
Marianne Hladun was re-elected as Prairies Regional Executive Vice-President (REVP) at the PSAC Prairie Region Triennial Convention in Winnipeg. Delegates recommitted their support to Hladun for a second elected term. She was previously elected in 2014, and she served for two years as REVP prior to that, after Robyn Benson was elected PSAC National President in 2012.
Report of the Prairies Regional Executive Vice-President to the Prairie Region Triennial Convention, April 21-23, 2017. This report covers the 2014-17 PRC term.
The attached documents will be provided in Convention kits upon registration to all pre-registered delegates, observers, guests and staff. Resolutions packages will not be mailed out in advance Registration will begin Thursday, April 20 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the Mezzanine Level of the Fairmont Winnipeg. Registration will continue in the same place on Friday, April 21 from 7:15 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
With under three weeks to go until the Prairie Region Triennial Convention, delegates and observers are reminded to review the resolutions before arriving at Convention to ensure they are prepared for component caucus meetings and to better equip themselves for Convention debate. All resolutions, including Convention committee recommendations and rationale, have been posted on the PSAC Prairie Region website. Convention delegates and observers will also receive printed copies in their kits upon registration at Convention.


The Government of Israel: Our Protectors or Our Slavemasters?
It is said that the worst kind of slavery is mental slavery, when the slave actually believes he is free. The Black slave in the American south who is given an extra portion of pig slop and allowed to be unchained for one night as a reward for good behavior might have the tendency to run around the plantation and proclaim his great freedom, shouting out to everybody what a kind master he has. This is only because he has never known true freedom, so in comparison to his usual situation he believes he has finally achieved nirvana.
One of the tricks that individuals, organizations and governments use to oppress people is to convince them that they are actually free under their reign, and that their reign is necessary for the people's own safety and protection. Like a mafia running a protection racket, governments do this by brainwashing their enslaved populations into believing that they are actually their protectors and benefactors — that without the current government, their situation would be much worse, that they would either die or live a life of poverty and constant danger.
The current State of Israel constantly tries to convince us, the people of Israel, that they are the protectors and benefactors of the Jewish people, that they have only our best interests in mind. They constantly praise themselves and pat themselves on the back, calling themselves a great Democracy, the protector of human rights, liberal, etc. On the other hand, they present the Torah as oppressive and primitive. In addition, they pretend to love the Arabs, but in fact they despise the Arabs and their culture, and wish to "educate" the "poor savages" in their "enlightened" Western ways. (Thank God, the Arabs are too smart to fall for this.) They also wish to educate us, the people of Israel, in these "enlightened" ways, and to wean us off our "primitive" and "barbaric" Torah. In short, the current State of Israel is run essentially by a bunch of modern-day Hellenists who have adopted American and Western culture as their gods, in place of the God of Israel.
By comparison, under the current government of Israel, who owns the land? Is it "We the People" of Israel? No. The government of Israel does. In fact, the government of Israel owns approximately 97% of all the land in the State of Israel. Aside from a very small percentage of land, we are not allowed to own land – in our own country! (So much for Democracy.) The closest we can come is to lease long-term from the government – for 50 or 99 years – but at the end of that period, the land reverts back to the State of Israel. In other words, this is just the opposite of what the Torah envisions. Whereas, in the Torah, We the People are the eternal land owners and we rent out our land to whomever we please, including to the government; in the current reality, under the so-called "liberal" state of Israel, it is the government which is the eternal land owner, and they rent our own land back to us, and we pay them rent for it! This makes us, essentially, landless serfs living on the land owned by our masters, exactly the opposite of what YHWH and the Torah intended. Make no mistake about what I am saying: the State of Israel has stolen every inch of the land of Israel from us, the People of Israel.
So ask yourself, "Is this true freedom?" The government of Israel wishes to convince you and me that you we free under them, that they are our benefactor and protector. Further, they wish to convince us that if we were to ever have a Torah government instead of them, then we would return to primitive days of oppression. We must ask ourselves if this is true, or a lie perpetuated by the Hellenized, Westernized, leftist, apostate State of Israel for the benefit of its ruling elite.
Do you feel free? If you are free, then why do you run around and work like a dog just to pay rent at the end of the month? (Is this what you dreamed of when you first made aliyah?) Why do you pay such a high percentage of your hard-earned money in taxes to this government? Why do you pay a quarter or half a million dollars to live in the dirt and noise of the city in some concrete box known as a "dirah", rather than pay one-tenth the price to build your own house or even mansion out on your own portion of the land of Israel which is given to you for free and can never be taken away? Are you really free under the government of Israel, or are you just a slave who has never known real freedom and therefore thinks he is free?
If Zeev Jabotinsky and the Revisionists had taken over the state of Israel back in the 1940's instead of the current West-worshiping ilk, think about where we might be right now. Would we be getting killed in the streets every day, having our blood spilled by another nation which lives in our land and hates us? Would we be crammed into large, dirty cities in run-down apartment blocks, barely able to pay for rent, food and electricity? No. We would have been sitting on a large, wealthy, prosperous State of Israel, which extends across both sides of the Jordan River, and perhaps way beyond. We would be sitting on a great wealth of natural resources which would have made all of our people wealthy, not just the government and a few privileged elites. We would be living, each of us, on our own plot of land, in our own houses, with our own wives and children. We would have been a prosperous, proud and free people. I would probably be writing this editorial right now while barbecuing hot dogs on the banks of the Euphrates River.
This is the Kafkaesque reality we live in the land of Israel, and therefore, each and every one of us must ask ourselves, "Who exactly are the people who run this country? What is their belief system? What is their goal?" Is it to protect the people of Israel and to help us prosper; or is it to control us and enslave us for their masters in America and Europe – and in return for enslaving their own people, to receive money, awards, accolades, fame, appearances on television, high salaries, and invitations to travel around the world and meet all kinds of VIPs?
Think. If you can't become physically free at this moment, then at least become mentally free. Don't be so enslaved that you don't even know you are a slave. Don't be so enslaved as to think that your oppressors and abusers are actually your benefactors and protectors, just because they throw you enough crumbs and pig slop for you to live a sustenance existence. Did we leave our countries of origin and come to the land of Israel to live a sustenance existence? No, we came here to fulfill our dreams.
It's time for us, as a nation, to wake up to the pathetic current reality, and only then will we find the path to freedom. Let's hope and pray that this can be done with a political solution, because if it cannot, then – mark my words – there will come a time when the people can stand it no longer and will take matters into their own hands. This will include not just the religious right, but a large swath of the population who will come to realize the level of oppression they currently live under in this country.
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package com.zeus.service.spring;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanPostProcessor;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.zeus.common.util.TypeUtil;
import com.zeus.service.AbstractBootstrap;
import com.zeus.service.annotation.API;
import com.zeus.service.annotation.Token;
import com.zeus.service.proxy.BeanProxyFactory;
import com.zeus.service.proxy.RPCInvocationHandler;
import com.zeus.service.rpc.RpcConfig;

@Component
public class RpcBeanPostProcessor implements BeanPostProcessor{

	private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(RpcBeanPostProcessor.class);

	@Override
	public Object postProcessBeforeInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException {
		return bean;
	}

	@Override
	public Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException {
		Class<?> clazz = bean.getClass();
		if(RpcConfig.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)){
			Token token = clazz.getAnnotation(Token.class);
			if(token!=null){
				AbstractBootstrap.configs.put(token.value(), (RpcConfig) bean);
				logger.info(" mapped token " + token.value() + " with " + bean);
			}else{
				logger.warn(" cann't find token for " + bean + ", discard it!");
			}
			return bean;
		}

		logger.info("begin dependency injection for bean " + beanName);
		Field[] fields = clazz.getDeclaredFields();
		for(Field field:fields){
			logger.debug("inject property "+field.getName() + " in " + beanName );
			Class<?> fieldClass = field.getType();
			API api = fieldClass.getAnnotation(API.class);
			Token token = fieldClass.getAnnotation(Token.class);
			if(api!=null&&token!=null){
				RpcConfig config = AbstractBootstrap.configs.get(token.value());
				if(config==null){
					logger.warn(" cann't find token for " + token.value() + "!");
				}
				Object proxy = BeanProxyFactory.create(fieldClass, RPCInvocationHandler.createHandler(config));
				try {
					field.set(bean, proxy);
				} catch (IllegalArgumentException e){
					logger.error("",e);
				} catch (IllegalAccessException e){
					logger.debug("Illegal Access for "+ beanName +"'s property "+field.getName()+",try it's setter");
					try {
						Method method = clazz.getMethod(TypeUtil.attributeToSetter(field.getName()), fieldClass);
						method.invoke(bean, proxy);
					} catch (NoSuchMethodException | SecurityException | IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException e1) {
						logger.error("cann't inject property " + field.getName() + " in " + beanName ,e1);
					}
				}
			}
		}
		return bean;
	}

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


There's nothing like wandering around a farmers' market on a Saturday morning, perusing lovely heaps of product, chatting with farmers, vendors and neighbors, and soaking up the community vibes. It's a pleasure enjoyed by lots of people, and yet remains inaccessible to so many. Access to farm-fresh food is at the heart of Chester County Food Bank's mission, and is why we're committed to our Fresh2You Mobile Market that brings produce to the people. It's also why we've partnered with the Downingtown Farmers Market to offer an exciting new way to help lower-income neighbors combat food insecurity while gaining access to the wonderful world of farmers' markets.
This year, Downingtown Farmers Market is the first and only farmers' market in Chester County to accept EBT/SNAP (food stamps). That means that many of our community's lower-income families are now able to shop directly from farmers for fruits and veggies, bread, dairy and more. We're helping stretch those funds even further by offering an incentive program for EBT/SNAP shoppers. Every time an EBT/SNAP customer uses the card to make a SNAP approved purchase, he or she will be given Fresh2You Veggie Bucks, dollar for dollar, up to $10. Veggie Bucks can be used just like cash for future purchases of vegetables and fruit at the Downingtown Farmers Market. That means more gorgeous August corn and tomatoes, more September squashes and more October apples.
Lisa ONeill, the owner of Growing Roots Partners, the company that runs the Downingtown, Malvern and Eagleview Farmers' Markets, says she's been working for a year and a half to get the Downingtown Farmers Market approved for the EBT/SNAP program. The process required cutting through federal government red tape and applying for different grants for the equipment (iPads, card swipers and the apps). Finally, in June, thanks to the help of Lisa's assistant Juliana Pash, the first few vendors began accepting the EBT/SNAP payments. Currently, produce, meat, dairy and bread vendors are set up with the payment system, and that list will expand in the coming months.
Lisa explains that this relationship between Growing Roots Partner and the Chester County Food Bank has been strengthening for years. For the last four years, we've allowed the Eagleview Farmers Market to winter indoors in our warehouse from December through March.
To return the favor, Growing Roots Partners has given back to us: One year they did a one-ton spaghetti collection drive (they ended up collecting almost two tons!), and it's now a tradition that they've brought a farmers' market into our yearly open house events. Most recently, they held a fun family film screening at the Eagleview Farmers Market, the Ratatouille Hullabalooie, with proceeds donated to CCFB.
We agree! The Downingtown Farmers Market, now in its sixth year, is such a great example of how farmers markets become an inextricable part of a community's fabric. It's a yearlong market that is held every Saturday morning in Kerr Park from 9 a.m.–1 p.m. and boasts dozens of vendors. Produce is on offer, of course, from locals like Frecon Farms and Old Homestead Farm, but there is so much more, too! Meat, dairy and eggs, sweets, treats, artisan pickles and vinegars and even dog treats are all available from local, independent vendors.
Among the many weekly shoppers at the Downingtown Farmers Market is the town's mayor, Josh Maxwell. "The Farmers Market has been a welcomed addition to the Downingtown community. Their partnership with the Chester County Food Bank further extenuates the Good Neighbor reputation we cherish," he said.
Visit the Downingtown Farmers Market to enjoy all it has to offer, and be sure to help spread the word about the new EBT/SNAP program. We can't wait to see even more of our neighbors there on Saturday mornings!
Want to learn more? Sign up for our newsletter and stay connected. You can also donate food, funds and time to help us achieve our mission. Call (610) 873-6000 to speak to someone about getting involved or request a tour. Check out our full Fresh2Market schedule here. Thanks to you, we're growing a healthier community.
The Chester County Food Bank is the central hunger relief organization serving more than 120 food cupboards, meal sites and social service organizations throughout Chester County. We mobilize our community to ensure access to real, healthful food.


text:
Justia Forms Business Contracts Digital Brands Group, Inc. Joinder and Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement, dated
Joinder and Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 1, 2021, by and among Digital Brands Group, Inc., Oasis Capital, LLC and FirstFire Global Opportunities Fund, LLC
Contract Categories: Business Finance - Registration Rights Agreements
EX-4.2 2 tm2129419d1_ex4-2.htm EXHIBIT 4.2
JOINDER AGREEMENT AND AMENDMENT TO
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
This Joinder Agreement and Amendment to Registration Rights Agreement (this "Joinder Agreement") is made effective as of October 1, 2021, by and among Digital Brands Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), FirstFire Global Opportunities Fund, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("FirstFire"), and Oasis Capital, LLC, a Puerto Rico limited liability company ("Oasis") (each of the undersigned, a "Party" and collectively, the "Parties").
WHEREAS, the Company and Oasis previously entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of August 27, 2021 (the "Original Purchase Agreement") pursuant to which the Company issued to Oasis a secured convertible note dated August 27, 2021 (the "Note");
WHEREAS, in connection with the Original Purchase Agreement and the Note, the Company entered into that certain Registration Rights Agreement dated as of August 27, 2021 (the "RRA") pursuant to which the Company granted to Oasis certain registration rights in connection with the Note and the securities issued thereunder;
WHEREAS, the Company, Oasis and FirstFire will enter into an Amended and Restated Securities Purchase Agreement (the "Amended Purchase Agreement"), which shall amend and restate the Original Purchase Agreement in its entirety and provide for the issuance of an additional secured convertible note to FirstFire on the terms and conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS, the Parties desire to amend the RRA to provide for the joinder of FirstFire as an "Investor" thereunder; and
WHEREAS, Section 10 of the Security Agreement requires the consent of Oasis to amend the RRA.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties hereby agree as follows:
1. Capitalized Terms. Except as specifically set forth herein, capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the RRA.
2. Effect of this Joinder Agreement. The RRA will remain in full force and effect except as expressly modified by this Joinder Agreement.
3. Joinder and Amendment.
3.1 FirstFire hereby becomes a party to and will be bound by and subject to the terms of the Security Agreement as an Investor.
3.2 The definition of "Investor" in the preamble of the RRA and all references to Secured Party in the RRA are hereby amended and restated in their entirety to refer to, individually and collectively, Oasis Capital, LLC, a Puerto Rico limited liability company, and FirstFire Global Opportunities Fund, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
3.3 The references to "Purchase Agreement" in the RRA shall refer to the Amended Purchase Agreement as defined herein.
4. Counterparts and Signatures. This Joinder Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and each of such counterparts shall be deemed to be an original for all purposes, and all of such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. It is agreed that an original, photocopy, PDF or facsimile copy of a signature may serve as an original. No objection shall be raised as to the authenticity of any signature due solely to the fact that said signature is represented in a photocopy, PDF or facsimile copy.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have executed this Joinder Agreement and Amendment effective as of the date first above written.
DIGITAL BRANDS GROUP, INC.
By: /s/ John Hilburn Davis IV
Name: John Hilburn Davis IV
OASIS CAPITAL, LLC
By: /s/ Adam Long
Name: Adam Long
Title: Manager
FIRSTFIRE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND, LLC
By: FirstFire Capital Management, LLC
By: /s/ Eli Fireman
Name: Eli Fireman


After a week of complete darkness, the power outage that took electricity from most of Venezuela is finally over according to Jorge Rodriguez, the country's information minister, on Wednesday.
While most work activities resumed around the country, school activities remained suspended for an additional 24 hours. Citizens were urged to unplug appliances and turn out lights by Rodriguez.
During the blackout, restaurants and supermarkets closed down as food began to rot. Police have had to intervene in looting attempts at food markets. Mismanagement and corruption has caused Venezuela's power grid to decay over the past decade. This has led to the collapse of telecommunication networks.
Netblocks, a non-government group based in Europe that monitors Internet censorship, said online connectivity data indicates the outage is the largest in recent record in Latin America.
19 of the 23 states in Venezuela were affected by the power outage, causing chaos in hospitals, work places and schools, and leaving many without running water. The country's capital is home to two million people who went without water for four days.
Now, according to the minister, 80 percent of the country and 70 percent of Caracas now has drinking water.
According to Guiado, the private sector lost at least $400 million from the blackout. The United States attributes to the outages to the incompetence of Maduro's regime.
Guaido blames poor maintenance from the failure to trim vegetation near major power lines, which caught fire. Even in some places where power was restored, it failed again hours later. Public transportation throughout the nation was halted and the Caracas metro was shutdown, while hospitals have had to rely on generators where available.
Last year, controversy surrounded Maduro's reelection, which Guaido and the National Assembly party found illegitimate due to fraud.
Power outages have been nothing new to the nation in recent years. A nationwide power outage hit the country last October, affecting 16 of Venezuela's 24 states. The country experienced 18,000 power outages in 2017 alone.


For investors to assess the potential impact of the next economic recession on real estate portfolios, it is prudent to ask how well individual markets will weather it. In a recent study we tried to address this by reviewing the past three recessions and their respective impacts on U.S. commercial real estate (CRE).
A market-wide mispricing of assets (an asset bubble) that subsequently deflates, adversely affecting output and employment.
Overly tight monetary policy that reduces investment and lowers liquidity.
A market-wide mispricing of risk, followed by widespread default and the failure of financial institutions.
These three recession scenarios have unique impacts on individual markets and property types.
Because the risk profiles of investors differ, it's nearly impossible to address the question of which markets will be "safe" during the next recession. So we looked at a narrower set of questions: If the next recession is characterized by an increase in market leverage and debt, which markets will be most at risk? What does the list of vulnerable markets look like under the other two recession scenarios?
Nationally, rent declines were greatest in the office and industrial markets during the three most recent recessions, while the impact on multifamily was relatively limited. Retail experienced rent declines during the recession of the early 1990s and during the Great Recession. The 2001 recession affected office rents the most, and had a very mild impact on retail rents. One way to reduce risk exposure during economic downturns, then, is to diversify portfolios across property types as well as across markets. That is something we plan to explore more in the future. For now, we've focused on market variation in the office sector.
1990 Recession: A considerable increase in office stock preceded this recession, resulting in an abundance of vacant space when the recession hit. It took 6 to 7 years for markets to recover. Meanwhile, the S&L crisis hurt the CRE market by tightening liquidity. This had negative effects on rents in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Dallas—markets that are vulnerable to credit risk.
2001 Recession: The 2001 recession was triggered by the dot-com bust, after a significant run-up in stock prices. Since this recession was not preceded by the kind of overbuilding we saw a decade earlier, the real estate market was relatively stable; in 14 of our 20 largest markets, rent declines were smaller than in the earlier recession. Several markets were shown to be highly sensitive to this mispricing of assets, however, including San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York and Denver.
Great Recession: The fundamentals of the global financial crisis were much different from the previous two recessions. When the U.S. financial system started to collapse under the subprime mortgage crisis, it became nearly impossible to refinancing debt. As companies failed in increasing numbers, employment declined sharply, making more space vacant and available. Although the Great Recession had a profound and long-lasting impact on the U.S. economy, the percentage drop in office real rents was smaller than that of the dot-com bust—largely because most markets had yet to recover from their previous low rent levels.
For a given local economy and real estate market, each of these macroeconomic scenarios will mean something different. Understanding the three recession scenarios and being able to estimate individual markets' vulnerability to each offers investors another way to potentially reduce risk in their portfolios. Read our full article here.


Hodoman Timer is a complete and fully customizable Internet Cafe Software, Cyber Cafe Software, based on a client-server architecture.The client application resides on each computer station in your network. It provides your customers access to the groups of applications you define and to those applications you specify for each group. The server will run in background on the computer you install it on and can be controlled through a web interface.