The Coles supermarket group is expecting to have an extra 1.8 million cans of Australian fruit packed under the Coles Brand every year after signing a new supply deal with SPC in northern Victoria.
The two-year partnership with SPC at Shepparton in the Goulburn Valley involves Coles introducing a new $2 range of preserved fruit in 825 gram cans - including 100 per cent Australian peaches, pears and apricots.
Coles brand head, Mark Field, said as part of Coles' Australia-first sourcing policy, the company was always looking for opportunities to work with Australian food growers and manufacturers to deliver great quality local products to customers.
SPC is one of Australia's oldest providers of preserved fruit.
"Coles is proud to work with an iconic Australian company such as SPC and local growers to offer products with Aussie-grown fruit," Mr Field said.
"We know our customers want top quality food, and equally they want to know that they are helping to support Australian farmers and Australian jobs."
The deal follows SPC's parent company Coca-Cola Amatil announcing it was planning to sell the cannery, with a deal expected by mid-year.
CCA has already written off the value of the business, but said it was pleased with the vote of confidence in Goulburn Valley fruit.
Last month CCA pulled out of well-progressed plans to make a joint bid for Lion Dairy and Drinks processing assets in partnership with Freedom Foods, which also backed away from the opportunity.
"The Coles brand volume will improve our factory utilisation and will also provide our growers with an additional outlet for their quality fruit," he said.
"It is great to see Coles continue to support local businesses and growers."
While welcoming the chance to see Coles promote Australian tinned produce rather than imports, some fruit growers are uneasy about their produce being sold cheaply at $2 for almost a kilogram of processed food.
Pressure from private label products has been blamed for SPC's declining sales during the 13 years it has been part of CCA - down 50pc to about $220m last financial year.
However, Shepparton farmer, John Poulos, said the Coles and SPC partnership would allow farmers to sell fruit from more than 36,000 trees.
"Each peach tree represents a seven-year commitment until they're producing fruit, and it's even longer for pears - you plant pears for your heirs," he said.
"To have a commitment from Coles for this fruit makes life so much easier."


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ofDirectory is a class for reading and manipulating directories on the file system through openFrameworks.
Path to a directory. Can be used to query file and directory contents.
Constructs an empty directory object.
Does not refer to a specific directory until you either open or create a directory path.
Constructs a directory object and calls open() on the provided path. The contents of the path are not accessible until listDir() is called.
Create an ofDirectory instance and attempt to open the path.
Adds an allowed extension to the list of filters when listing directories. Use this to set any number of filters before calling listDir().
Allow a file extension when listing the contents the current directory path.
Setting an allowed extension enables a whitelist mode which only lists extensions which have been explicitly allowed.
Returns true if the current directory is executable. An executable directory can be entered into with command such as cd.
Check if the current path is executable.
Returns true if the open directory can be read.
Check if the current path is readable.
Returns true if the open directory can be written to.
Check if the current path is writeable.
Close the currently open path.
Copies the directory into path. If bRelativeToData is set to false then path should be absolute. If overwrite is set to true any existing files with the same name will be overwritten by the copy.
Copy the current file or directory path to a new path.
Copies relative to the data path & does not overwrite by default does not change the current path & assumes the new path is in the data directory.
The recursive boolean flag will indicate if you'd like to create directories all the directories required to reach the given path. In our example, if "/path/to" didn't already exist, the call to create() would also create these. If recursive were set to false, the directory would not be created.
Create a directory at the current path.
Static method to create a directory at a given path.
Create a directory at a given path.
Creates relative to the data path by default.
Returns true if the directory at dirPath exists.
Check if a directory exists at a given path.
Assumes directory path is relative to the data path by default.
Check if a directory exists at the current path.
Get the absolute, full path of the directory, ie. "images" -> "/Users/mickey/of/apps/myApps/Donald/bin/data/images".
Open an ofFile instance using the path a given position in the directory contents list.
Opens as a binary file with readonly access by default.
Warning: Call listDir() before using this function or the directory contents list will be empty. \throw Throws an out of bounds exception if position >= the number of listed directory contents.
Returns a vector of ofFile objects populated by a prior call to listDir(). The files are opened in ofFile::Reference mode.
Get files and directories in the directory contents list.
Directory contents are automatically listed.
Returns the file name,(eg "mypicture.png") with extension but not the enclosing path at a given index. Position must be less than the result of numFiles().
Get the filename at a given position in the directory contents list, ie. "duck.jpg".
Warning: Call listDir() before using this function or the directory contents list will be empty. \throws Throws an out of bounds exception if position >= the number of listed directory contents.
Returns the absolute path,(eg "/path/to/files/mypicture.png"). Position must be less than the result of size().
Get the full path of the file or directory at a given position in the directory contents list.
Returns if hidden files are set to be shown or not.
Check whether hidden files & directories are included when listing files.
Mac & Linux denote hidden directories by prepending a period -> ".hello".
Get a sorted ofDirectory instance using the current path.
Returns true if the given path is actually a directory.
Check if the current path is indeed a directory and not a file.
Returns true if the directory at dirPath is empty.
Check if a directory at a given path is empty.
Returns true if the directory is hidden in the file system.
Check if the current path is hidden.
Works on Mac & Linux which denote hidden directories by prepending a period -> ".hello", however always returns false on Windows.
Populates the directory with files. Call this after opening a directory and setting filters. After this call, size(), getPath(position), and getName(position) can be used to access the contents of the directory.
Open and read the contents of the current directory.
Uses allowed extension whitelist to ignore unwanted file types if allowExt() has been called.
Opens and populates the directory with files. Returns the number of files found.
Open and read the contents of a directory.
Moves the directory into another directory at path. If bRelativeToData is set to false then path should be absolute. If overwrite is set to true any existing files with the same name will be overwritten by the move.
Move the current file or directory path to a new path.
Moves relative to the data path & does not overwrite by default does not change the current path & assumes the new path is in the data directory.
Opens a path. At this point you can see if the directory exists by calling exists() but the contents of the path are not accessible until listDir() is called.
Open a directory path, clears the current file list.
Open a directory path relative to the current working directory without calling ofToDataPath internally, clears the current file list.
Returns true if this directory and another have different paths.
Returns true if the right hand side directory is alphabetically after the left hand side directory.
Returns true if the right hand side directory is alphabetically after or equal to the left hand side directory.
Returns true if this directory and another have the same path.
Returns true if the left hand side directory is alphabetically after the right hand side directory.
Operator for accessing files with array notation syntax. Call is equivalent to ofFile::getFile(position).
Access directory contents via th array operator.
Returns the currently opened path.
Deletes the directory. If recursive is set to false and this directory contains others the remove will fail.
Removes the file or directory at the current path.
Does not remove non-empty directories by default.
Removes a directory. If deleteIfNotEmpty is set to false and the directory contains files the call will fail.
Renames the directory to the path path. If bRelativeToData is set to false then path should be absolute. If overwrite is set to true any existing files with the same name will be overwritten by the rename.
Rename the current file or directory path to a new path.
Renames relative to the data path & does not overwrite by default does not change the current path & assumes the new path is in the data directory.
Resets the current directory. Equivalent to close().
This is for backwards compatibility with ofxDirList.
Enables or disables execution on the current open directory. If the directory is executable then it can be entered through commands such as cd.
Set the executable flag of the current path.
Set the readable flag of the current path.
Sets whether or not the call to listDir() will return hidden files.
Show hidden files & directories when listing files?
Enables or disables writeable on the current open directory.
Set the writable flag of the current path.
Returns the number of files contained within the directory. Set after listDir() is called.
Get the number of paths in the current directory list.
Warning: Call listDir() before using this function or it will return 0 since the directory list will be empty.
Sorts the contents of the directory by filename.
Sort the directory contents list alphabetically.
Warning: Call listDir() before using this function or there will be nothing to sort.
Sort the directory contents list by date.


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Sarah Chayes
"Why did nearly half of Iraq open itself to Islamic State, a militant group seen as one of the most psychotic on record? Why have Boko Haram militants gained a solid foothold in northern Nigeria? Why aren't the ranks of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula thinning, despite regular drone strikes in Yemen? Do these disparate countries have some trait in common? They do: the rampant corruption of their ruling elites."
Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of award-winning and critically acclaimed Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
Sarah Chayes is an international authority on corruption and its causes. Her work explores how it exacerbates international crises such as terrorism, revolutions and their violent aftermaths, and environmental degradation.
Before joining Carnegie, she served as special assistant to the top U.S. military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. She participated in Cabinet-level decision-making on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Arab Spring, traveling with Mullen frequently to these regions. He tapped Chayes for the job after her work as special advisor to two commanders of the international troops in Afghanistan (ISAF). She contributed her unique knowledge of the Afghan south to the ISAF command.
It was a sense of historic opportunity that prompted Chayes to renounce her journalism career in early 2002, after covering the fall of the Taliban for National Public Radio, and to remain in Afghanistan to help rebuild the country. She chose to settle in the former Taliban heartland, Kandahar.
In 2005, Chayes founded Arghand, a start-up manufacturing cooperative, where men and women working together produce fine skin-care products. (www.arghand.org) The goal was to revive the region's historic role in exporting fruit and its derivatives, to promote sustainable development, and expand alternatives to the opium economy. Running Arghand in downtown Kandahar proved to an extraordinary vantage point for observing the unfolding war.
From 1996-2001, Chayes was NPR Paris correspondent. For her work during the Kosovo crisis, she shared the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards.
Along with Thieves of State, which won the 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize, Chayes is is the author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Penguin, 2006).
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What Lies Beneath?
Exposing corruption, tax evasion, exploitation and modern slavery
With Sarah Chayes, Charles Lewis, Rafael Marques de Morais, James S Henry and Luke Stegemann (Chair)
The Many Faces of Terrorism
With Charles Lewis, Anna Neistat, Raimond Gaita, Sarah Chayes and Scott Stephens (Chair)
Thieves of State
Why corruption threatens global security
Keynote: Sarah Chayes

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La Feria del Libro de Gotemburgo (en sueco Bokmässan o popularmente Bok- och biblioteksmässan) es la mayor feria dedicada a los libros de Escandinavia. Creada en 1985, se celebra todos los años en agosto/septiembre en el Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos de Suecia (Svenska Mässan) en Gotemburgo. Creada inicialmente como una feria comercial para profesores y bibliotecarios, se ha convertido en el mayor festival literario de los países escandinavos, y la segunda mayor de Europa tras la Feria del Libro de Fráncfort.

País invitado de 2009: España
En 2009 el país invitado fue España y la literatura en español el tema central, tomando en cuenta que es una de las lenguas más habladas del planeta, con al menos 400 millones de hablantes.

En la ceremonia de inauguración estuvo sobre el palco la escritora Rosa Montero. Además, participaron otras figuras conocidas de la literatura hispánica: Bernardo Atxaga, Isabel Allende, Ignacio Padilla, Horacio Castellanos Moya y Javier Marías.

Lista de países invitados y de temáticas centrales
 2001: Países escandinavos; Literaturas escandinavas
 2002: Finlandia; Cultura de Finlandia
 2003: Polonia; Divulgación científica
 2004: Países anglófonos; Literatura en lengua inglesa
 2005: Lituania
 2006: Libertad de expresión
 2007: Estonia;
 2008: Letonia;
 2009: España;
 2010: África;
 2011: Alemania, Austria, Suiza; Tres países, un idioma
 2012: Países nórdicos;
 2013: Rumania;
 2014: Brasil;
 2015: Hungría;
 2016: Libertad de expresión
 2017: Finlandia; literatura y cultura finlandesa (100 años de la declaración de independencia como República)

Véase también
 Feria del Libro de Fráncfort
 Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara
 Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires
 Feria del libro de Madrid

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial de la Feria del Libro de Gotemburgo (inglés y sueco)

Festivales literarios
Cultura de Suecia
Eventos en Suecia
Cultura de Gotemburgo
Suecia en 1985
Organizaciones fundadas en 1985

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Community involvement and joint ownership of health research in Tanzania
By Deus Ishengoma
Korogwe site is where we at the National Institute for Medical Research are undertaking one of our Consortial Project 2 studies. In 2003 two neighbouring villages (about 25km apart) located at different altitudes, and therefore with different malaria transmission intensities, agreed to participate in various studies of the epidemiology and immunity of malaria. In all these studies community involvement and joint ownership have been recognised as critical components of the projects. Since 2003 the study has expanded to include more villages.
Providing regular updates to communities
Community participation started at the initial stages of village selection when consent to participate in the study was sought through a series of village meetings. We met with political leaders to get their support for the study and with village leaders who then organised meetings with community members. The communities were updated at least once a year through sensitization meetings. Documents were prepared showing a summary of the results that had been obtained including demographic data, parasite prevalence and bednet coverage. These meetings formed an important platform for the community members to interact with researchers and to seek clarifications. The meetings also helped to assure researchers that the communities were willing to continue to participate in the projects.
Conveying scientific information in local languages
Community members have a very different level of knowledge about health research so it has been a challenge to convey information clearly and simply. Feedback presentations were initially prepared in English and later translated in the local language - Kiswahili. However, some of the scientific concepts were not easy to translate. We worked with political leaders who helped to bridge the communication gap. Concepts were presented to village leaders and members by informing them that malaria parasites, like human beings, are not all indentical. Most of an individual's physical characteristics are due to genetic material inherited from both parents. Analysing genetic material can therefore help to detect acquired disorders such as albinism and help to determine the factors that make some people resistant/susceptible to malaria and other infectious diseases.
Responding promptly to community concerns
Occasionally issues arose in villages which required unscheduled meetings to resolve. For example, political or personal tensions led some people to give confusing messages to their fellow community members. We were able to respond promptly by organising meetings with community members and/or leaders to help resolve the problems and maintain a good relationship with the community.
The process of community participation is useful because it obliges researchers to be confident and knowledgeable about their studies. However, it also requires financial resources and this is not often taken into account during budgeting. Overall, the process of maintaining communication with study communities and the general public is important and should be supported to ensure that genetic studies are implemented with public support.
Categories: Fieldwork
Tags: Africa | Capacity building | Community engagement | Data Fellow experiences | Ethics | Networks | Patients | Resistance to malaria | Sample collection


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Plone je svobodný software fungující jako systém pro správu obsahu. Plone se používá zejména pro vytváření intranetových a extranetových řešení, groupware a webových portálů.

Plone umožňuje běžným uživatelům vytvářet a udržovat informace na veřejných internetových stránkách nebo intranetu pouze pomocí webového prohlížeče. Plone je snadné pochopit, používat a nabízí nepřeberné množství modulů "add-ons" s rozsáhlými možnostmi rozšiřitelnosti do budoucna.

Držitelem práv duševního vlastnictví k Plone je Plone Foundation.

Historie projektu
Plone projekt začal v roce 1999. Původními vývojáři byli Alexander Limi, Alan Runyan a Vidar Andersen.

Technologie
Plone využívá služeb objektové infrastruktury Zope, která je stejně jako Plone napsána v jazyce Python.

Integrace a standardy
Plone se snadno integruje s Active Directory, SalesForce, LDAP, SQL, SOAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL nebo Oracle. Plone dodržuje standardy přístupnosti pro osoby s postižením. Plone splňuje všechny celosvětové normy pro přístupnost k obsahu WCAG v1.0.

Funkce a vlastnosti Plone
 Inline editace
 Podpora pracovní kopie
 Ověřování odkazů a referenční integrity
 Automatické zamykání a odemykání
 Snadná spolupráce a sdílení
 Správa verzí, historie a návrat k dřívějšímu obsahu
 Snadno použitelný, výkonný grafický editor stránek TinyMCE
 Výkonné možnosti pracovních postupů – Workflow
 Flexibilní ověřovací back-end
 Fulltextové indexování dokumentů MS Office a PDF
 Kolekce
 Režim prezentace obsahu
 Podpora protokolu Sitemap vyhledávacího webu
 Podpora více značkovacích formátů
 Podpora formátu wiki
 Automatická navigace na předchozí/následující stránku
 Engine pro pravidla obsahu
 Automaticky generované obsahy
 Portlety
 Profesionální podpora, vývoj, hostování a školení
 Služba LiveSearch
 Správa vícejazyčného obsahu
 Časově určené publikování
 Adresy URL čitelné pro člověka
 Flexibilní navigace a vždy aktualizované mapy webů
 Komprese zdrojů
 Výkonná integrace serveru caching proxy
 Přeskupení obsahu pomocí funkce přetažení Drag and Drop
 Export konfigurace webu pomocí jazyka XML
 Lokalizovaná konfigurace pracovních postupů
 Nastavitelné šablony obsahu
 Výkonné standardní typy obsahu
 Obsah se automaticky formátuje pro tisk
 Shoda se standardy XHTML a CSS
 Přístupnost
 Podpora informačního kanálu RSS
 Automatická změna velikosti obrázků a generování miniatur
 Bohatý "ekosystém" doplňků zdarma
 Víceplatformový systém
 Možnosti komentářů jakéhokoliv obsahu
 Podpora mikroformátů
 Jednoduché instalační balíčky pro více platforem
 Podpora protokolů WebDAV a FTP
 Kontextové úpravy
 Podpora dynamického zálohování (Hot backup)
 Operace Vyjmout/Kopírovat/Vložit pro úpravy obsahu

Plone ve světě
 Oficiální web: plone.org
 IRC: #plone na freenode.irc.net.

Plone v ČR
 Základní informace v češtině jsou na české verzi oficiálního webu: plone.cz.
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Class Check-in
Pantheon of Chefs
Salvatore Rizzo
Salvatore Rizzo can say with certainty that he has dined with more than 100 of the world's top chefs, including Jacques Pe?pin, Daniel Boulud and Daniel Humm. As owner and director of De Gustibus, the preeminent cooking school in New York City, Rizzo hosts the most lauded food and wine experts as they share their stories and demonstrate their favorite recipes for guests to taste. Every night at De Gustibus, Rizzo exhibits natural ease as the consummate host, drawing on more than 25 years in the culinary community.
The son of immigrants from Italy, Rizzo spent every Sunday helping his mother prepare their weekly family dinner where uncles, aunts, and cousins would gather around the table for a traditional Sicilian supper. His parents believed strongly in making their food from scratch, so every summer Rizzo helped his mother gather tomatoes from their modest garden in Brooklyn and make batches of tomato sauce to bottle and enjoy during the winter months. When October arrived, Rizzo's attention turned to winemaking. Instead of buying their wine, he and his father produced two barrels of red house wine with grapes they bought from a local New York State farmer. This early introduction to food and wine would eventually develop into a life-long pursuit.
As a teenager, Rizzo took a job at a famous Brooklyn restaurant, Circles, where he worked part-time for 15 years, climbing the ranks from busboy to server and then manager. In the meantime, he attended the New York College of Technology and received his degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007 for his tireless support of the school's Department of Hospitality Management. He is also on the board of both Spoons Across America and the Friends of the French Culinary Institute.
Throughout the course of his young adulthood, Rizzo developed a strong magnetism toward hospitality and decided to pursue a career that complemented his natural ability to connect with people with his other passion—food. It led him to the Italian Culinary Institute where Rizzo became the Director of Events in 2000 and remained there for several years, after which he took the position as Director of House Operations and Events at the prestigious James Beard Foundation. He spearheaded the first major renovation of the famed James Beard House kitchen in 2005 and the complete overhaul of the dining room, offices, basement and attic in 2006.
Over nine years ago, Rizzo approached De Gustibus founder and then director Arlene Feltman Sailhac about his interest in the company and began negotiations with her to acquire the business. In April 2008, Rizzo became the new owner and continued the tradition of securing culinary and wine talent for the distinguished series. He relies on his long-standing relationships with a respected roster of chefs, wine producers, and others to continue the De Gustibus legacy of offering the best to New Yorkers and out-of-towners alike. Salvatore Rizzo is also a proud supporter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York, assisting them in putting together culinary wish experiences for children.
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A true master of hospitality, Rizzo fosters an environment where people can come together and share incredible food and wine moments, mirroring his experiences growing up in a Sicilian household that reinforced the inherent beauty and simplicity of food.
Rizzo recently participated as a special guest at the 10th Anniversary of the Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival, Sept. 25-27. Rizzo moderated a conversation between Martha Stewart and Jacques Pepin in which the group explored what's hot and what's not in food and lifestyle trends as well as moderating the chef demonstrations for the 2016 Palm Desert Food & Wine Festival.
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Just run Activescan again and paste the results here. If you do actually have a virus, hopefully Activescan will find and disinfect it.
*double-click on Killbox.exe to start the program.
*In the killbox program, select the Delete on Reboot option.
Press the button that looks like a red circle with a white X in it after each one. When it asks if you would like to delete on reboot, press the YES button, when it asks if you want to reboot now, press the NO button. Do this after each one until you have entered the LAST file path I have listed above. After that LAST file path has been entered press the YES button at both prompts so that your computer restarts.
While it's restarting tap the F8 key continually until a menu appears, use your up arrow key to highlight Safe Mode then hit enter.
3) CWShredder - Download it and save it to your desktop.
Download the Hoster from here http://members.aol.c...bee/hoster.zip. Press "Restore Original Hosts" and press "OK". Exit Program.
If those items are still there after fixing in Safe Mode, run HiJackThis while in normal mode, but please do not connect to the internet and do not have any open windows (specifically Internet Explorer windows since these are browser helper objects) while running HiJackThis.
*Double click the purple Registrar Lite icon on your desktop.
*Right click on each one and go to "Delete" (doublecheck to make sure you're only deleting the entries above!).
Restart your computer, run HiJackThis, and post a new HiJackThis log.
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using NotifyMe.App.Infrastructure;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using NotifyMe.App.Droid.PlatformSpecific;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.MobileServices;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

[assembly: Dependency(typeof(DroidLoginService))]
namespace NotifyMe.App.Droid.PlatformSpecific
{
    public class DroidLoginService : ILoginService
    {
        private MobileServiceClient client;

        public DroidLoginService()
        {
            client = MobileServiceClientWrapper.Instance.Client;
        }

        public async Task<bool> Login()
        {
            var user = await client.LoginAsync(MainActivity.Instance, MobileServiceAuthenticationProvider.Facebook);

            if (user != null)
            {
                await Task.Delay(100);
                return true;
            }

            return false;
        }
    }
}

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I'm A Celebrity 2021: Richard Madeley spent hours consoling Naughty Boy and urging him not to leave
Louise GriffinSaturday 27 Nov 2021 6:18 pm
Richard Madeley spoke out about Naughty Boy's struggles (Picture: Rex)
I'm A Celebrity 2021 star Richard Madeley has opened up about Naughty Boy's struggles in the camp, revealing he spent a full night consoling him.
The music producer, 36, came close to leaving the camp within the first few days of the series returning to ITV.
Richard, who was forced to quit the show early, said Naughty Boy felt 'paranoid' after he was picked for a trial by their fellow campmates.
Describing him as 'inconsolable', the 65-year-old wrote for the Express: 'A dejected Naughty wasn't delivered back to clink until the small hours, and we were up with him until close to dawn trying to comfort him and talk him out of walking off the show.
'See what I mean about bonding? Why not just go to bed and let the stranger stew?
'In the end I gave him a massive hug and told him that the small hours are the worst time to make any kind of decision other than whether you should get up for a pee, and he agreed to sleep on it.'
Naughty Boy – real name Shahid Khan – eventually decided to stay.
However, amid a rocky week for the ITV show, Richard was forced to leave early after he was taken to hospital as a precaution.
In an interview after his exit, he told hosts Ant and Dec: 'I feel as fit as a fiddle and I am fit as a fiddle. And you know if it wasn't for Covid I'd be back there eating rice and beans.
'I had to leave… it's a Covid situation. It's still biting our bums isn't it? What happened was, I had just a funny little turn quite sort of late in the morning.
Richard was forced to exit early (Picture: ITV/REX)
'ITV are so good with duty of care. They were adamant. They said "No, we have to make sure that you're OK." I said, "But I am OK." They said, "We have to make sure."
'So I went to the local hospital – I was only in there for about an hour and a half – I was given really thorough checks and I was given a completely clean bill of health, I'm absolutely fine. No matter what you might have read, I'm absolutely fine.'
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Instead, compilation episodes will be broadcast.
I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here continues tonight at 9pm on ITV.
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Q: Safari and Chrome can't handle newly added element I have a problem, please help.
I have a template like this:

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then I have an action of expand the dad-div by jQuery animation
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on this moment, the son and the dad both 800px width, which is fine for me.
But strange things happened on safari and chrome when I use ajax fetch a new son element from server and replace the old one:
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The expand dad script still work, but here are some differences:
On IE and FireFox, the dad and son was resized simultaneously, so the effect seems smooth
and good. But on the Safari and Chrome this process is divided in two steps, first expand dad to 800px with animation, and then make the son to 800px with a "jump" change, and this "jump" make later process wrong.
I feel IE and FireFox handled this in a right fashion, could any one help me fix the Safari and Chrome?

A: jQuery doesn't have replace method, it seems you want to use  replaceWith method.
$('#son').replaceWith(response);

Note that replaceWith replaces element with another element, if you only want to change the content of an element, you can use html method.
$('#son').html(function(){
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You probably haven't heard of Maroo Audio. The company, after all, is just launching this year. But based on the sound quality of its initial products, you might want to hear more from Maroo Audio.
The XDP-100R is already available in some overseas markets (most notably in Japan, where enthusiasm for hi-res audio is very healthy) but now the player is available for us nephews and nieces of Uncle Sam.
Blue Microphones is well known as a maker of - you guessed it - microphones. It's been in that business for 20 years. It has more recently entered into the headphone market with the Mo-Fi powered headphones and has now debuted the Lola headphone.
Audiophile or sport? MEE Audio has two new headphone offerings that lets you choose one or the other (but not both).
Beyer's T5p was an excellent headphone and gained a certain audiophile following. According to Beyer, the Second Generation version offers improved tuning with slightly more bass, and some different building materials, as well as the ability to operate in a balanced mode.
Sennheiser advises that the new and improved version of its HD 800 is "one step closer to perfection." It's dangerous for marketing people to throw around the "p-word" but in the case of the HD 800, the claim isn't entirely specious. The HD 800 is very highly regarded and the new HD 800 S is said to be even better.
Everyone and their brother (and mother) are making headphones these days, but Audio-Technica has been doing it for far longer than most. They continue to refine their designs, and are showing five new or upgraded headphones in their High Fidelity line.
Shure is showing two very upscale products at CES: the KSE1500 electrostatic earphone system (MSRP $2,999) and SHA900 portable listening amplifier (MSRP $999).
MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) is continuing its march toward sonic superiority. It announced that new partners will provide MQA content, and that HTC is demonstrating a smartphone equipped with a "proof of concept" MQA decoder.
70 years is a long time. Few companies make it that far. Klipsch, one of the survivors, and a storied company at that, is now under the VOXX corporate umbrella, and VOXX is celebrating its 70th anniversary.
A couple of days ago, I was sitting in my home theater listening to some music—a recording of Beethoven's 6th Symphony, actually—and it hit me: The symphony orchestra is the greatest analog audio playback machine ever invented.
The UHD Alliance, a coalition of 30+ companies, is developing the technical standards that define the ecosystem of 4K Ultra HD television comprising displays, content, and distribution. The group has previously published various specifications, but the complete 4K Ultra HD specification has only just been completed, and will be debuted at the upcoming CES in 2016. The spec took forever to hammer out because of a curious disparity in display technologies. Exactly what the hold up? Brightness.
I recently blogged about Millennials, the demographic that is displacing Boomers at the top of the consumer food chain. I described how Millennial purchasing will increasingly define the audio/video markets and their preferences will increasingly define the nature of those products. Predicting the future is a dangerous game, but much like watching a bunny passing through a python, we can observe demographic bulges passing through the consumer market. Let's take a closer look at Millennials.
When you buy a Blu-ray Disc for $25, you expect the very best quality. When you rent a Blu-ray for $2, do you still expect the best? Or would the budget pricing lower your expectations? Do you simply assume that the bits comprising a rental movie are the same as the retail movie? You might be surprised to learn that not all bits are created equal. And therein lies a mystery.
Are TV Sales Hitting the Wall?
Remember when flat-screen TVs first appeared? Whoa! That was the coolest thing ever! They were so flat! And so big! We couldn't get rid of our CRT TVs fast enough. We all bought them. Then when the prices dropped, we upgraded to bigger and better ones. Now we all have really nice TVs. So, are you planning to buy yet another new TV this holiday season?


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Kevin Trudeau: My Wish is Judge Ronald Guzman's Command
The Fortune Teller by George de la Tour
Apparently Kevin Trudeau, creator of "Your Wish Is Your Command", has been thinking magnetic thoughts about prisons and orange zip jumpsuits. Just this week, Trudeau's vibrational brain frequencies delivered what he really wanted deep down inside his inner wisher: ten years in jail.
Now some folks say Judge Guzman's sentence is unfair; but holy hell people, this is quantum physics and you can't argue with the law (of attraction). This just in from ABC News:
"Addressing the judge earlier in a 10-minute statement, Trudeau apologized and said he's become a changed man. He said he's meditated, prayed and read self-help books while locked up at Chicago's Correctional Center. "I have truly had a significant reawakening," said Trudeau, who was dressed in orange jail clothes. "If I ever do an infomercial again, I promise: No embellishments, no puffery, no lies."
Kevin's spiritual transformation and self-helped-mindfulness didn't mesmerize nor persuade Judge Guzman who, disbelieving Trudeau's bullshit-humility stated,
"Since his 20s, [Trudeau] has steadfastly attempted to cheat others for his own gain. Trudeau is deceitful to the very core." ~Judge Guzman
I considered posting Trudeau's picture on this blog and then decided to treat myself with loving-kindness. The pocket-picking painting titled Fortune Teller will have to capture Trudeau's conscience instead. There's a 20/20 John Stossel video about Trudeau at the bottom of my post and a link to Trudeau's impudent reaction. For people who've dealt with narcissists and anti-social personalities, Trudeau will keep you in stitches during his "word salad" dialog (you might throw shoes at John Stossel---depending where you peg him on the celebrity narcissism continuum).
I know people love love LOVE Kevin Trudeau and praise him as a savior of American truth and liberty, fighting the good fight against the FDA and pharmaceutical industry. They adore him so much in fact, that they'd sell their souls to save his, or embarrass themselves in court. (see embedded quote below) That's how pathological people affect other people. We love 'em or hate them, depending on where we are in the process of being scammed.
"An elderly supporter suddenly stood in the front row of the audience and bellowed, "Judge, I am a former U.S. congressman!" before being ordered to sit down. Ed Foreman, 80, of Dallas, was ordered to leave the courtroom. He refused, and when security officers tried to stand Foreman up, he went limp and was eventually carried out as other spectators shouted in protest.
"You are not entitled to disrupt the proceedings," Guzman told the remaining audience members, some of whom sobbed loudly. "I urge you to simply keep quiet and listen." ~Chicago Tribune
Trudeau recently posted on his Facebook page:
"[I] Had a great nights sleep after the sentencing! Mandela got 28 years, I was blessed to get only 10." ~Kevin Trudella Trudeau
When it comes to loving or hating these folks, don't overlook the impact of cognitive dissonance when people invest money in his books, newsletters and expensive club membership. The more money they invested, the more defensive they'll be, insisting their money was well spent. That is why the costs of Inner Sanctum memberships are high. Nobody wants to admit being conned 'cuz then they'd be a loser. Sometimes your ego just can't take another hit.
I have waited years for just one Law of Attraction huckster to reap the rewards of their moral banktruptcy, hoping legal repercussions would reign back wannabee predation, rather than ending up in the slammer, too. I think justice for Trudeau will best be served if in addition to his ten-year sentence, he's fed a 500 calorie a day diet accompanied by daily injections of pig urine. If he complains about feeling sick after a month of lettuce and pig pee, he could have some herbal tea made from dandelion weeds picked fresh from the prison courtyard. Dandelions cure whatever ails you which is an amazing secret medical doctors don't want you to know. (Ssshhh...remember you heard it from me first. The added bonus to reading my blog is that it won't cost you $39.95 with an additional $39.95 for shipping and handling . It won't cost your self-respect either.)
You might wonder why I dislike this man so much, too. I'll tell you. About ten years ago, my relatively stable American life fell apart, as in a nuclear family explosion. The anxiety and fear of losing status and stability fosters an atypical desperation for miracles and saviors. When gurus make promises that seem a little too good to be true, our reasoning ain't as sharp as it used to be. It's not stupidity that makes us "marks". It's fear. In a state of panic we react instead of thinking clearly. I know what it means to be vulnerable and that is why it's important for society to protect one another from people who have no limits (i.e.: no limits on what they can justify doing to and taking from others).
The majority of the time we don't fall for schemes selling false hope. We reason carefully before signing our names to $150 dollar monthly newsletters. But if there's one chance in a bazillion we can cure our anxiety and stop the slip-slide into homelessness, we might be desperate enough to "suspend disbelief" and listen to (or read) their words enough times to charm ourselves. I had a difficult time grounding myself in a terrifying reality and thinking critically (some might question that even today). That is why hucksters like Trudeau are concerning. It's important to advocate for those who might be in the same place I was ten years ago rather than spouting arrogant cliches such as, "A sucker is born every minute."
Several years ago, my family installed a new television in our kitchen cuz you know how fun it is to cook while watching the History channel---aliens, Nostradamus and apocalyptic stuff. Well, one afternoon during the recession when people were losing homes and jobs, I watched a program called "Your Wish Is Your Command." In the middle of chopping portabellas I had to stop cooking (you know it's serious when that happens) and sat myself at the table with a pen and notepad. I scribbled notes throughout Trudeau's infomercial lasting half an hour as I recall---long enough for people to "suspend their disbelief". With a straight face, Trudeau told people they'd be LOSERS if they didn't buy his products. "Do you want to be a loser?" he'd ask, "because anyone who loses out on this amazing deal IS a loser!" And I'm thinking---hummm, who's the target audience here? People who are sitting at home watching afternoon TV and worrying about how long that home will be theirs to sit in? There wasn't a trace of duplicity in his words or his body movements which seemed to me, intentionally coordinated to reinforce his unquestionable integrity. There wasn't even a second of hesitation or guilt calling people "losers." He was as believable as the guy who convinced me to marry him. ;-P
Although I really hate prosperity being defined as materialistic gains, it's not against the law. On their own, most people choose friends over money, honesty over financial gain. But creating a community of wealth winners keeps people focused on "the sell", lessening community values and personal conscience. Maybe my opinion will offend people but it seems to me that people who get rich like Trudeau, make choices morally responsible people won't. Unless of course, they outsourced their conscience to a circle of winners.
What we do not need in an increasingly disconnected society, is more focus on individual rewards at the expense of community trust. Sure, people didn't lose as much money buying Trudeau's pie-in-sky products as they did losing retirement savings to white-collar-psychopaths. The thing that is worrisome about people like Trudeau (and there's an army of 'em marching towards prosperity) is that they view other human beings as "stepping stones" on the path to their unlimited success. If they can't see any limits in their futures, our legal system will have to show them.
It's true that far more serious financial crimes have been committed against the American people which might turn Trudeau into an easy scapegoat. He'll play the card of "the victim" because it attracts rescuers to come to his defense. Trudeau isn't a descendant of a wealthy political family shielding him from punitive legal action but to me, that makes hucksters like Trudeau even more problematic. People can't identify with our royal 1%. They can identify with someone like Trudeau who uses his high school diploma to insist he's "one of us". He's not. The VAST majority of people would never make the choices Trudeau has made and continues to make.
I've edited this post to add an excerpt from James Randi's Educational website. A woman named Cherry Theresa wrote an article about being "conned" by Trudeau when she was struggling with health issues:
"[Trudeau] emotionally sets up his readers that he's on their side and is just as angry as they are about being mistreated. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore"... It makes him seem like he is this fearless advocate who is willing to go to jail to spread the truth to the public. And I bought that hogwash completely. I equated him to civil rights leaders who technically broke laws and went to jail, but were doing the moral thing and history has shown what they did was right and very brave. Boy, do I feel stupid now. The things many of the civil rights leaders did were valid and the law was wrong. In Trudeau's case, the laws are actually out there for good reason and for our protection, not to harm us. But I didn't realize that then." ~Cherry Theresa
If you can stand watching another video, Kevin Trudeau responds to John Stossel HERE. As is to be expected with personality disorders, Trudeau attacks John Stossel for being evil, accusing Stossel of only doing the interview for the money. He says Stossel's investigation was A Scam because Stossel is in bed with pharmaceutical companies (and the dreadful FDA).
The video below is a sure-pick-you-up on a lonely afternoon in the kitchen when you need a good laugh about the Law of Attraction, Quantum Physics and "scientists" like Trudeau:
And when you've finished with your science class for the day, reflect on Trudeau's admonition. "Money" he says, "is not a four-letter word." He counsels Christians to feel good about equating prosperity with $$$ cuz God wants prosperous Christians. Broke, poor Christians can't help anybody.
"Jesus wasn't broke." Trudeau says in the video. "He never wanted for anything. Jesus had a ministry and one of those guys was a treasurer. Remember---Judas was "the treasurer." Poor people don't need treasurers. [Jesus and his disciples] never wanted or had a lack of anything. Now Jesus didn't develop a net worth but in terms of his surroundings, if you look at scripture scripturally, he rode in on Palm Sunday on a donkey.
Trudeau continues, "Now, to put it in perspective, most people think about donkeys as a lowly form of transportation, "Ohhh, he was on a d-o-n-k-e-y." What you don't know is that a donkey was the Rolls Royce of transportation at the time. It's like the Pope-Mobile. He wasn't riding in like a pauper; he was riding in like a KING. You'll also notice when he was crucified, it's said that they couldn't share his robe. Remember he had a cloak? It's said that the Roman soldiers cast lots to see who would get the cloak. The word cloak refers to a one-piece garment. This is a mink coat at the time. A one-piece garment, a cloak, Nobody had that! It was too expensive! Here our poor Jesus, our p-a-u-p-e-r, was riding in on Palm Sunday in a Rolls Royce and wearing the most expensive piece of clothing at the time, a one-piece cloak which couldn't be SHARED."
And now, I am truly speechless.
Hugs all,
Whirled Musings A fantastic blog writing about New Wage Gurus. You'll love Cosmic Connie whether you subscribe to "woo" or not.
Kevin Trudeau on Wikipedia This page has an excellent synopsis of Trudeau's "legal troubles", a sign of anti-social personality disorder. He is not being prosecuted for writing misleading books which is protected by First Amendment Rights. He's being prosecuted for "thumbing his nose" at the court orders.
Cognitive Dissonance on Wikipedia "Dissonance is aroused when people are confronted with information that is inconsistent with their beliefs. If the dissonance is not reduced by changing one's belief, the dissonance can result in restoring consonance through misperception, rejection or refutation of the information, seeking support from others who share the beliefs, and attempting to persuade others."
Cherry Theresa's article, "How I was scammed by Kevin Trudeau"
Posted by CZBZ at 12:44 PM
Calibans Sister March 21, 2014 at 1:08 PM
OK, he makes me want to hurl. But think of all the Wall Street Hedge Fund managers who bilked people of billions over the last decade, and bankers who sold sub-prime mortgage loans, who have never even been charged with any crimes. Sigh.Of course I'm glad this guy is heading to slammer, which is where he belongs. He's an obvious Sociopath. But our justice system is so broken.
CZBZ March 21, 2014 at 3:11 PM
Agreed, CS. When public faith breaks down, people like Trudeau step in. That people compare him to civil rights leaders has been head-spinning but that's what happens when people lose faith in public institutions and distrust authority figures.
People argue about Trudeau's sentencing and ten years seems harsh although he could have served 20-25 if I'm remembering correctly.
Oh, and yeah, Judas was a greeeeaaaatttt Treasurer, wasn't he? :-)
That video was "over the top." Especially the baseball cap and his Limbaugh-mouth-movements (tongue pressed against his cheek). He must have studied media scumbags to mirror their success. If people saw him on the streets of Switzerland in his dapper dos and woolen ascot, they wouldn't identify with him the same way. Trudeau didn't go for the single big fish to fund his "empire." He went for the minnows and boy did he cast his nets on the right side of the ship. ;-P
I must say Trudeau's interpretation of Jesus the king, wearing a mink coat and driving a Rolls Royce, was a first for me. And Judas cooking the books for Jesus's Swiss bank account? That was the best laugh of the day! That people take this guy so seriously kinda worries me about the human race.
You know, these hucksters (and I've seen them in action near and dear too, the snake oil shit), all have that wide-eyed, uber intense I"m-so-sincere" intensity. The way he talks, they all sound like that, from televangicals to Cindy Crawford's beauty secrets. It's always the raised eyebrows, intense unwavering eye contact, bulging eyeballs. It's like they're trying to hypnotize people.
ha! You have seen that wide-eyed uber intense gaze, staring at your face to see if you're buying their story. Even the mere flicker of an eyebrow ratchets up the "sell."
I've lived a fairly average life as far as trusting people to be 'who' they proclaim to be---trusting institutions to be honest. So when I'm feeling repulsed by the hard sell and questioning people's motives, you know most people are right there with me.
The trick is empowering ourselves to think critically rather than distrusting everyone and everything. The trick is learning how we're manipulated and conned and paying attention to our 'feelings' about someone. As mentioned in my PuppyGate post, people defend indefensible behavior if they LIKE someone. Kevin Trudeau (and others of his ilk) are enormously likable. Similar to my PuppyGate 'friend' who made $$ selling shark oil in a MLM. Watching Trudeau make his sales pitches and then seeing him claim victimhood is a great example of pathology-in-action. I think most of us writing about NPD can learn a lot about our involvement with narcissists by watching Trudeau. The longer he talks, the more you WANT to believe him. He can certainly cry a good sob story!
I WANTED to identify with a "down home" average guy who struck it rich and now the fat-powers-that-be are "taking him down" so we should all defend him and send money in his fight for truth-and-justice. Luckily, I didn't invest in Trudeau's "stuff" so it was easier for me to see him as a con-artist. It's hard to admit someone you like (or has benefited you in some way) is taking advantage of your trust.
Oh crap. I just lost my entire comment. Well, I had some dealings with Trudeau many years ago. My sweet working class husband bought a few books and some 'investment material' all for the price of $139.00....and we were raising a young child at the time. I hit the roof. He never opened the boxes and I threw out everything a few years later.
Kevin Trudeau is worse in my estimation than the Bernie Madoff's of the world. He spreds his net over the hopeful, desperate, working class and middle class who are waiting with open mouths for some 'get rich quick' scheme. I remember working in a factory where Reverend Ike held sway on the radio (this was in the 70's) and people were encouraged strongly to send in their rent money to Rev. Ike, and he would send them a prayer cloth. "Just rub your bills with this cloth and your bills will get paid!". I heard the groans and the anger when they weren't.
There is a video or article, I can't remember which but I saw it a couple of weeks ago. It was the selling of Trudeau's mansion in California. "You too, can have a piece of the Magic of Kevin if you buy a piece of his estate" or so went the advertisment. His "European antiques' were not...they were reproductions from the Toscano company in California that make resin reproductions, many trolls, gargoyles, and baaaaaad tapestries. Fraud here, too.
Well, I'll leave the donkey/cloak story to those who know better. But! That is very, very interesting...an interseting twist of a story. And sooooo damn self-serving.
Ten years ain't enough for this guy.
Lady Nyo
CZBZ March 25, 2014 at 11:20 AM
I saw the same article about Trudeau's mansion but hey, don't be too cruel about Toscano. I love their stuff and have sculpted a few gargoyles myself (that was twenty years ago back when my art professor deemed me "a bit eccentric for a Doris Day lookalike." haha...I don't really look like Doris Day but there's something about my demeanor that's unmistakably "gender appropriate." Guess that's why narcissistic men were attracted to me. Little did they know that underneath those dainty freckles and white gloves was a feminist in the making. Am I off-topic? ;-P
I sincerely appreciate your comment, LadyNyo because you had direct experience with Trudeau. And I've never heard of Reverend Ike so I'll spend an afternoon reading about his version of "prosperity." Ever notice how prosperity gurus are the ones who get rich and the rest of us lose a bit of our souls in the bargain?
I considered posting about my experience with a multi-level marketing scheme way back when Amway was first introduced to "religious people." We were a gold-mine market because each person in the congregation knew at least a few hundred people. Snagging that ONE person who'd sell to all their friends and family would make a fortune. The lower-level "new" recruit would lose a goldmine of friends I can tell you because I never contacted my long-lost friend after she started drawing circles on a piece of paper. I assumed she was interested in rejuvenating our high school friendship and felt immediately conned by her pretense when what she actually wanted was $1500: Me working for Her. It got to the point I'd ask people when they wanted to visit, "Are you selling Amway because if you are, I ain't interested." I never invested in Amway if you're wondering so even twenty-five years ago, my con-artist antennae were good enough to protect me from the next person leveraging our friendship for the MLM she bought into: Primerica.
Trudeau's story about Christ riding in like a KING was a fine example of his inability to understand symbols, metaphors, parables. He (as many narcissists do) interpreted everything literally; "riding in like a KING" meant mink coats and a RollsRoyce. For something to be of value, it must be measurable and quantifiable. Something as meaningful to human beings as becoming "rich in spirit" would be a preposterous and incomprehensible notion. Thus the interpretation of KING as being wealthy. Prosperity as having money.
Oh! Narcissistic behavior abounds all over. In my neighborhood, there is a 32 year old woman (who says her mother bought her a contract for Elite modelling when she was 16) who has 5 daughters and not a husband to be found. This woman heard I was an author, contacted me and told me that she bought a contract for a book from Authorhouse....for $1000.00. She still owed $200.00 on it, but she wanted to write a book. However, she hasn't written a word. And she says 'she needs a curator". What? I bet her children could have used that $1000.00 for better reasons.
There are scam merchants all over, but there are also narcissistic people who buy into these things and then defend them to the end. And laziness and narcissitic behavior at times goes hand in hand. As does opportunism.
Still shaking my head over Trudeau but there is a blight on this nation and it's called by many names.
I agree that narcissists would be sitting ducks for Get Rich Quick Schemes. They also lack empathy which means they wouldn't hesitate leveraging their friendships to make a few bucks. But I also think people who are 'not' narcissistic can be manipulated when they are desperate. Some people (like your neighbor), are looking for a shortcut, for someone to recognize their hidden talents and bring them the fame they believe they deserve. It seems to me that these people are hoping to bypass the hard work of refining one's talents, facing failures and tolerating inevitable rejections. They can "buy" a contract and sit back in their daydreams expecting success to come to them. Hey, they have a contract, right?
I wonder if it's "Narcissism" that prevents people from admitting they made a mistake? I can say for sure that when we're taken advantage of, it's incredibly shaming. Most people are more than ready to point snarky fingers and call us suckers. If someone has unstable self-esteem, Defense and Pretense may be a better option than total disintegration. I try to put myself in Trudeau's 'true believers' shoes and imagine why I would continue to defend a man with one of the longest rap sheets I've ever seen on Wikipedia.
Our culture breeds magical thinking by ignoring the reality of our inequality. To say any of us could be Presidents is a "blight on this nation" because it requires a certain degree of callousness towards the disenfranchised. It also sets people up to blame themselves or consider themselves failures if they aren't rich or famous celebrities. Whenever someone is promoted as having achieved success, it's measured by their net worth. The other values that bind a society together and make it safe for our children to grow up in, become "optional."
Thanks for your comments, LadyNo. I so appreciate people's willingness to talk about their personal experiences with con-artists like Trudeau.
Nah ...she was one of that website, Smart Asses. She saw a woman that she hadn't yet 'used'...and with 5 daughters all under the age of 16 (and the last one only a few months old) she emailed me saying that 'her daughters needed a 'mentor' and it looked like I would be a good one. hah! since I already knew a bit from the local gossips there about her manipulations of other people in the neighborhood...i saw it coming. Talent? All of us are given talents. But actualizing them is through our encounter with opposition and Hard Work. Something she was not interested in doing. Of course, any woman with 5 children should be attending to them, and not spending money on a contract to someday write a book. This was outrageous. She still thought she could be a model, but this (after 5 children) is more magical thinking.
I saw narcissistic tendencies in the emails and conversation I had with her, but I think she is more a straightout sociopath. There were some warning signs from the very beginning. And I see a lot of these people in Atlanta because life here drives people crazy. The false values and the incredible violence takes its toll.
Actually, since I was a subsitute teacher way back when in the local elementary school....so many black children were told that 'they could be anything they wanted." The problem was this was empty. The issue of hard work and attending school...not dropping out at 13 was not actually mentioned. People thought that these children labored under racism and therefore had to be 'built up.' Yes, but the values of education were not pushed. Many of their parents could care less. They were drug addicted, etc..and had little hope for any decent sort of life. They themselves were on a treadmill and couldn't get off. They didn't know any way of doing so.
It's hard work and the graduation percentage was very low. Now, I think Georgia is ahead of Mississippi, but not by much and that is the bottom of the pile in graduation rates.
I only write this because the values in our society, as we see nationally and locally, stink. The emphasis for black children to 'make it big' is sports....basketball, mostly. The sciences and literature are still orphans here in Georgia. I just write from my experience of 45 years in the South and generations of my neighbor's kids. And working class white kids have it no better. My son, regardless of the advantages we threw at him, also is part of this syndrome. He has squandered his life so far on crap. his future looks bleak from here.
We are a nation that is fueled on myths. And making it big through the Lottery or criminal acts seem to be the standard.
At least from where I sit.
I wish you would write about Amway. Part of the Great American Con. Like a Ponzi scheme I would suppose.
Those with the least amount of education, hope and future fall prey to these schemes. I live in a part of Atlanta where my neighbors across the street lost their house because they gambled what little money they had on the Lottery. And of course they could never put the links together that these things aren't something that get you rich and comfortable for the future: they just impoverish you further. They lead to craziness and more govt. welfare.
Rev. Ike: Somewhere recently I came across an article stating that he "wasn't the worse of the worst.:" That he instilled something called the "benefits of the Black Community" in Blacks as a people. Yeah, right. Rev. Ike with his 4 x 4 inch prayer cloths, cut with those scissors that make a vvvvvv around the outside of the cloth? I heard the cries of people who lost whole paychecks hoping to lessen their personal burden.
And our paychecks were the hand to mouth version.
I blame this crap on a society that lauds bling and wealth above morals and hard work. The fantasy lands people see on TV (and in the Trudeau's world of scam sell....boy do I want to smack him a good one!)
drive black teens here in Atlanta to kill a 'brother' and steal his collection of designer sport shoes....drive a man just this last week to kill his wife, because she was getting her PhD. and 'he figured she would leave him as soon as she did."
I was shocked (and shouldn't be, but I have my own vein of Doris Day somewhere deep inside...) when people at Trudeau's "Everything must go!" sale said that they wished they could buy his mansion and everything in it and keep it for when he would get out of prison."
And I believed he lived in Switzerland or somepart of France? and played the European gentleman. I bet his neighbors had little idea how he made his millions.
I'm not religious, but I believe that Christ rode in on a humble ass. A donkey was no chariot. Nore was it a white stallion. I don't believe in Heaven or Hell, but if their was a Hell, I hope that Trudeau and Rev. Ike are changed to a bench to talk about their lives above for eternity. They deserve each other.


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George Hunka
Americana, mostly
Drunk, stoned, brilliant, and still dead
Last night my daughters (nine- and ten-years-old) did their father's heart good by suddenly launching into the creation of some of the most nihilistic, in-bad-taste, NSFW comics I've ever had the pleasure to enjoy. At first I thought that the girls had gotten into my R. Crumb collections, but a quick reconnoiter of the bookshelves revealed that they'd been untouched. Larded with references to popular culture (even Dr. Phil and Juul), their comics exhibited the frenzied, id-driven coarseness and humor that I've enjoyed since I was their age, poring over the pages of Mad magazine. Truly, they are their father's children. Their mother viewed the comics with some dismay, but unfortunately my genes seem to have ranked supreme in the sense-of-humor department.
Interesting that these traits should appear now, as they're just on the cusp of puberty and adolescence, but there is a time for everything. It reminded me of the below essay that first appeared here in 2017; I will follow up with additional notes, inspired by the work of my own darling satirists, in the next few days.
It appears that outrage-fatigue is beginning to affect American comedians as well as everybody else. After a few months of the Trump administration, SNL, after a promising start, is recycling rapidly aging caricatures of Trump and figures in his administration as they used to recycle sketches like "The Coneheads" and "The Bees," each iteration becoming more tired; even John Oliver, in the first episode of the latest season of his otherwise laudable investigative-satire program Last Week Tonight, seems a little lost.
Earlier this week Marilyn and I turned to Netflix to watch Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, Douglas Tirola's 2015 documentary about the late National Lampoon magazine, which flourished in the 1970s before declining to a state at which, currently, it's the clearing house for a brand name that can be rented then attached to pretty much anything or anyone that has the money to purchase it. During its glory years — 1970 to 1975, more or less — it was one of the best-selling magazines in the nation. Deliberately positioned as a humor magazine to bridge the MAD Magazine-New Yorker age gap, it was always a commercial endeavor, but the stars so aligned that it also proved an outlet for some of the best, most outrageous literary parodists and satirists of post-Kennedy America. Its quick demise begs the question: What happened in the first place?
Some satire, like Gulliver's Travels, Candide, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, lasts, and some doesn't. "Satire is what closes on Saturday night," as the decidedly non-satiric American comic playwright George S. Kaufman once put it. Well, the bad sort closes, but obviously there are exceptions, and that's because although most satire is directed at corrupt contemporary targets that are rapidly lost in the midst of time, those targets stand in as metonyms for the deeper corruptions of the human heart. The British/French military and political conflict that Swift parodies in the first book of Gulliver stands in for the arrogance and foolishness of nation-states; the attack on Leibniz's philosophy which sparked Candide is also an attack on sentimental optimism itself; and Twain's satire of race relations and clannish feuding in the pre-Civil War America of Huckleberry Finn is now read as a satiric exploration of the American ideals of democracy and community themselves. Eighteenth-century European politics, a philosophical dispute from the same century, and the socioeconomic situation of the American South in the 1830s have all become somewhat academic, but not the observations about the human condition that these satirists drew from these local circumstances.
The triumvirate of satirists who steered National Lampoon through its first five years — Douglas Kenney, Henry Beard, and Michael O'Donoghue — were, first and foremost, literary satirists. Kenney's influences included Evelyn Waugh, James Thurber, and Ronald Firbank (the last also a major influence on British playwright Joe Orton); Beard decided to devote his career to literary humor after his exposure to Joseph Heller's Catch-22, perhaps the greatest of post-war American Menippean satires; O'Donoghue's background was extraordinarily wide-ranging as a habitue of Greenwich Village in the 1960s, though he seems to have been most inspired by the novels of Terry Southern and William S. Burroughs. The best of the short prose essays and other material that appeared in National Lampoon from those years, and the level of baroque style and parody, easily rank with and outshine those of Thurber, Robert Benchley, and S.J. Perelman in their heyday, and unlike the pieces by Woody Allen and others in the New Yorker (however accomplished and of permanent value as some of these are), their work was tinged with the fire of outrage and a keen anarchic sense of the fraudulence of the time and the heart. Even more than Twain, their immediate satiric ancestor was Nathanael West, whose apocalyptic vision of an urbanized, trivia-besodden America in the 1930s, especially in the revelatory riot that closes The Day of the Locust, offered no hope or respite from the corruptions of the spirit.
The Lampoon's best work exemplifies all this. Kenney's spot-on parody of Che Guevara's diaries reveals the blind, insipid, delusional idealism at the heart of political revolution (especially in an age of celebrity); O'Donoghue's "Vietnamese Baby Book" is a masterful deconstruction of the savagery and sentimentality that exist simultaneously at the heart of American culture; and Henry Beard's "Law of the Jungle" is a genuinely astonishing satire not only of the law but also of the human race's relationship to the natural world. Later, the best movies under the Lampoon banner also transcended their initial subjects. Animal House (co-written by Kenney) explored the disasters that occur when naivete meets reality, Vacation laid bare the anxieties that the commodification of leisure time produces. (I apologize for all this, and thoroughly deserve some lampooning of my own for these interpretations for what are, after all, just barely grown-up versions of the funny pages.)
In 1975 or so, O'Donoghue left the National Lampoon for what he thought were the greener pastures of NBC's Saturday Night Live, which debuted in that year. Kenney and Beard were, in a way, luckier. Their friend Rob Hoffman in negotiating their contacts in 1970 schemed to include a clause in which publisher Matty Simmons could buy out their contacts based on a multiple of the percentage of the magazine's value. Kenney and Beard opted to take the buyout, which made them multi-millionaires before they were 30. Kenney went Hollywood and, unable to negotiate the demands and successes of fame, died in a fall from a Hawaiian lookout (whether he jumped, slipped, or was pushed remains a matter of conjecture) in 1980; Beard retired into private life, still writing, and refused to discuss his career with the magazine until he resurfaced in Tirola's documentary four decades later; the magazine itself had a few more good if not great years under the supervision of Tony Hendra, P.J. O'Rourke and others before its precipitous decline.
Ironically, the reasons for its decline are more numerous than the reasons for its success. By 1975 the political scene in America was becoming more fractured and polarized, and students were increasingly irritated to be told by a bunch of white, upper-middle-class Ivy League elitists that their ideals were illusory at best (while several women were regular contributors to the magazine, including Anne Beatts, Emily Prager, and Shary Flenniken, the skin color in staff photographs of the time is as white as the driven snow); the sophomoric-tastelessness-for-the-sake-of-sophomoric-tastelessness that was always a feature of the magazine began to overtake the more ambitious satires as publisher Simmons strove to drive profits higher and higher; magazine circulations themselves became locked in a struggle against the growth of electronic media. And perhaps the most influential of early Lampoon staffers, Michael O'Donoghue, found that he was unable to tailor his own dark apocalyptic vision to the requirements of the entertainment industry — and O'Donoghue desperately sought commercial success — before his own early death from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 54.
So what of literary satire in the Trump age, given the great achievements of American satire in the half-century before it? Are irony and satire dead — has the future become so dark that we can't joke about it any more? The same things were said after the Nixon administration, after 9/11, and we're no closer to a response now than we were then. I doubt there's an answer in the small shelf of books (and a documentary) now devoted to the history of the Lampoon, its influence, and its offshoots. (These include Tony Hendra's still-indispensable Going Too Far, Ellin Stein's That's Not Funny, That's Sick, and Josh Karp's biography of Kenney, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, which is now being adapted into a film for Netflix.) But inspiration can still be sought in the best of its achievements, even if where we go from here is still something of a mystery.
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En matemáticas, un número semiprimo, también llamado biprimo, es un número natural que es producto de dos números primos no necesariamente distintos. Los semiprimos menores que 100 son 4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 26, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 46, 49, 51, 55, 57, 58, 62, 65, 69, 74, 77, 82, 85, 86, 87, 91, 93, 94, y 95. . Los semiprimos que no son cuadrados perfectos se denominan discretos, o directamente semiprimos.

Propiedades

El número total de factores primos Ω(n) para un semiprimo n es dos, por definición. Un semiprimo, o es un cuadrado de un primo o un entero libre de cuadrados. Un número compuesto  no divisible por los primos  es semiprimo. Puesto que el cuadrado de cualquier número primo es semiprimo, el mayor semiprimo conocido será siempre el cuadrado del mayor primo conocido, a menos que los factores del semiprimo no se sepan.

En 1966, el matemático chino Chen Jingrun demostró que todo número par suficientemente grande puede expresarse como suma de dos primos o como la suma de un primo y de un número que es la multiplicación de dos primos. ("semi-primo").

El valor de la función φ de Euler para un semiprimo n = pq es particularmente simple cuando p y q son distintos:
φ(n) = n + 1 − (p + q).

Utilidades
Los semiprimos son altamente útiles en el área de la criptografía y de la teoría de números, notablemente en la criptografía asimétrica donde son utilizados por el RSA y en las secuencias pseudoaleatorias tales como Blum Blum Shub. Estos métodos se basan en el hecho de que encontrar dos números primos grandes y multiplicarlos luego es computacionalmente sencillo, mientras que encontrar los factores originales es más difícil. En la competición de factorización RSA, RSA Security ofreció premios por la factorización de semiprimos grandes específicos. El desafío se cerró en 2007.

En criptografía práctica, no es suficiente con elegir un semiprimo; un buen número semiprimo debe evadir un grupo bien conocido de algoritmos de propósito específico que puedan identificar números de cierta forma. Los factores p y q de n deben ser muy grandes, alrededor del mismo orden de magnitud que la raíz cuadrada; esto hace la división por tentativa y el Algoritmo rho de Pollard impracticable. Al mismo tiempo no pueden estar demasiado juntos, o si no el número puede ser rápidamente factorizado por el método de factorización de Fermat. El número se debe elegir también  de modo que ninguno de p−1, p+1, q−1, o q+1 sean números lisos, protegiéndolo contra el algoritmo p-1 de Pollard o el algoritmo p+1 de Williams. Estas comprobaciones no se pueden tomar en cuenta para algoritmos futuros o algoritmos secretos, introduciendo la posibilidad de que los números que se usan hoy puedan ser descifrados por algoritmos de propósito específico más adelante.

En 1974 el mensaje de Arecibo fue enviado con una señal de radio que tuvo como objetivo un cúmulo estelar. Consistió en 1679 dígitos binarios previstos para ser interpretado como imagen bitmap. El número 1679 = 23×73 fue elegido porque es un semiprimo y por lo tanto puede ser analizado solamente en 23 filas y 73 columnas, o 73 filas y 23 columnas.

Véase también
 Criptografía
 Número primo

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Numero semiprimo
Criptografía
Semiprimo, numero


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The style of music found in the Persian Gulf off the Iranian coastline is known as "bandari", which in Persian or Farci, the spoken language of the region, means "music of the South". These two goblature drums are placed one on top of the other (tombak on top), rest in your lap off to one side, and are played with the hands and fingers. In Persia, the dumbek, or tablah, is referred to as a " tempo," and has received this connotation because of its' association with something that "strikes" or "beats" "rhythm" or "time".


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Election Commission lifts Model code of conduct
The model code of conduct had come into force on March 10 with the announcement of the schedule for the Lok Sabha and various state assembly polls.
Published: 26 May 2019, 7:49 PM
The model code of conduct (MCC) for the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls was lifted on Sunday following the declaration of election results, the Election Commission said.
"The Model Code of Conduct has ceased to be in operation with immediate effect," said a release from the EC.
The MCC for the general election and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim besides by-elections at some places had come into force on March 10 with the announcement of the schedule for the polls.
Several complaints were lodged during election campaigning over violation of the MCC by several political leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The poll panel used its constitutional powers to ban some politicians from campaigning for a few days. It cited the disruption of level-playing field to ban biopics on politicians, including one on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, till the election process was over.
2019 Lok Sabha elections
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Statutes > North-carolina > Chapter_143B > GS_143B-313_2
§ 143B‑313.2. NorthCarolina Parks and Recreation Authority; members; selection; compensation;meetings.
(a) Membership. – TheNorth Carolina Parks and Recreation Authority shall consist of 15 members. Themembers shall include persons who are knowledgeable about park and recreationissues in North Carolina or with expertise in finance. In making appointments,each appointing authority shall specify under which subdivision of thissubsection the person is appointed. Members shall be appointed as follows:
(1) One member appointedby the Governor.
(3a) One member appointedby the Governor.
(3b) One member appointedby the Governor.
(4) One member appointedby the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House ofRepresentatives, as provided in G.S. 120‑121.
(7a) One member appointedby the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House ofRepresentatives, as provided in G.S. 120‑121.
(8) One member appointedby the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tempore ofthe Senate, as provided in G.S. 120‑121.
(10) One member appointed bythe General Assembly upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tempore ofthe Senate, as provided in G.S. 120‑121.
(11) One member appointedby the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tempore ofthe Senate, as provided in G.S. 120‑121.
(b) Terms. – Membersshall serve staggered terms of office of three years. Members shall serve nomore than two consecutive three‑year terms. After serving two consecutivethree‑year terms, a member is not eligible for appointment to theAuthority for at least one year after the expiration date of that member's mostrecent term. Upon the expiration of a three‑year term, a member maycontinue to serve until a successor is appointed and duly qualified as providedby G.S. 128‑7. The terms of members appointed under subdivision (1),(3a), (5), (7), or (9) of subsection (a) of this section shall expire on July 1of years that are evenly divisible by three. The terms of members appointedunder subdivision (2), (3b), (4), (8), or (11) of subsection (a) of thissection shall expire on July 1 of years that follow by one year those yearsthat are evenly divisible by three. The terms of members appointed undersubdivision (3), (6), (7a), (10), or (12) of subsection (a) of this sectionshall expire on July 1 of years that precede by one year those years that areevenly divisible by three.
(c) Chair. – TheGovernor shall appoint one member of the North Carolina Parks and RecreationAuthority to serve as Chair.
(d) Vacancies. – Avacancy on the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Authority shall be filled bythe appointing authority responsible for making the appointment to thatposition as provided in subsection (a) of this section. An appointment to filla vacancy shall be for the unexpired balance of the term.
(e) Removal. – TheGovernor may remove, as provided in Article 10 of Chapter 143C of the GeneralStatutes any member of the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Authorityappointed by the Governor for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance. TheGeneral Assembly may remove any member of the North Carolina Parks andRecreation Authority appointed by the General Assembly for misfeasance,malfeasance, or nonfeasance.
(f) Compensation. – Themembers of the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Authority shall receive perdiem and necessary travel and subsistence expenses according to the provisionsof G.S. 138‑5.
(g) Meetings. – TheNorth Carolina Parks and Recreation Authority shall meet at least quarterly ata time and place designated by the Chair.
(h) Quorum. – Amajority of the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Authority shall constitutea quorum for the transaction of business.
(i) Staff. – Allclerical and other services required by the North Carolina Parks and RecreationAuthority shall be provided by the Secretary of Environment and NaturalResources. (1995,c. 456, s. 1; 1996, 2nd Ex. Sess., c. 15, s. 16.1; 1997‑443, s.11A.119(a); 1997‑496, s. 10; 2001‑424, s. 19.3(a); 2006‑203,s. 105; 2007‑437, s. 2.)


With the Breeders' Cup meeting off the agenda, the Mark Johnston-trained three-year-old Lumiere may be aimed at Hong Kong Mile at the International meeting at Sha tin.
In what has so far been a campaign of mixed fortunes, Lumiere turned in one of her better efforts on her latest start when second in a Group Two race at Newmarket.
Charlie Johnston, assistant to his trainer father Mark, said the Hong Kong meeting in December was a serious consideration.
"Lumiere is not going to America, but we have entered her in the Hong Kong Mile and that is in the back of our minds at the moment," Johnston said.
"America would come a bit too soon for her. We will just see how she is as that meeting is not until December.
"A mile on quick ground on a fairly sharp track should suit her perfectly."