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Q: Issue on EF relationship in MVC3 I got the following codes:
public class Trip
{
    public int TripId { get; set; }

    public int DriverId { get; set; }

    public string StartingPoint { get; set; }

    public string Destination { get; set; }

    public DateTime TimeDepart { get; set; }

    public int SeatAvailable { get; set; }

    public virtual Carpooler Carpooler { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Passenger> Passengers { get; set; }
}

public class Driver
{
    public int DriverId { get; set; }

    public int TripId { get; set; }

    public virtual Trip Trip { get; set; }
}

public class Passenger
{
    public int PassengerId { get; set; }

    public int TripId { get; set; }

    public virtual Trip Trip { get; set; }
}

A model builder:
    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {

        //one-to-one between Trip and Carpooler
        modelBuilder.Entity<Trip>()
            .HasRequired(x => x.Carpooler)
            .WithRequiredDependent();
        modelBuilder.Entity<Carpooler>()
            .HasRequired(x => x.Trip)
            .WithRequiredPrincipal();
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

        //zero or one-to-many between Trip and Passenger
        modelBuilder.Entity<Trip>()
        .HasOptional(x => x.Passengers);

        modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<IncludeMetadataConvention>();
    }

A initializer:
Database.SetInitializer<LiveGreenContext>(new CarpoolTripInitializer());

And i get the following error:
Multiplicity is not valid in Role 'Trip_Driver_Target' in relationship 'Trip_Driver'. Because the Dependent Role properties are not the key properties, the upper bound of the multiplicity of the Dependent Role must be *.
Any solution for the problem? Thanks!

A: Configure the relationship between Trip and Driver. There is a DriverId property in Trip which is not configured. If you intend to use this as a navigational property you need to configure that too.
Some of the configuration were incomplete in your OnModelCreating method and are corrected.
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
    modelBuilder.Entity<Driver>()
        .HasRequired(x => x.Trip)
        .WithMany()
        .HasForeignKey(x => x.TripId);

    //one-to-one between Trip and Carpooler
    modelBuilder.Entity<Trip>()
        .HasRequired(x => x.Carpooler)
        .WithRequiredDependent();

    modelBuilder.Entity<Carpooler>()
        .HasRequired(x => x.Trip)
        .WithRequiredPrincipal();

    //zero or one-to-many between Trip and Passenger
    modelBuilder.Entity<Trip>()
    .HasMany(x => x.Passengers)
    .WithRequired(x => x.Trip)
    .HasForeignKey(x => x.TripId);

    base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

    modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<IncludeMetadataConvention>();
}

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But you don't have to be an entrepreneur to benefit from this advice.
The "Find a need and fill it" approach will help you write better resumes and cover letters, and it will help you ace your next job interview, too.
First, create a shortlist of companies you want to work for. This is where many job seekers blow it. On the first day of their unemployment, most people open the classified ads or visit their favorite employment Web site and start looking for jobs. Wrong. It's better to look for companies first, and jobs second.
Think about it. If you catch on with the right employer, even if it's in the wrong job, you can find room to move up or sideways into a position that's best for you. You and they will be motivated to find the right fit.
By contrast, if you take what looks like a good job at a company with dysfunctional co-workers, customers or both, you'll likely quit in short order. And you'll be back where you started.
So, start your search by making a list of 10-25 ideal employers and then look for positions within that relatively small universe.
Once you have this list of target companies, research to uncover needs you can fill. What are their biggest problems? Opportunities? Dangers?
Find this information by tapping your network of personal and professional contacts. A good tool for this is Zoominfo. Each of these websites is free.
Google Alerts are good, too. Use this free service to be notified by email any time your target company is in the news (Google.com/alerts).
After you find what employers want, tell them how you'll deliver. This requires you to "know thyself." Specifically, what are your three most valuable skills? Example skills: marketing, customer service and writing.
Then, quantify the value of your skills: How much money have you made or saved for employers? Think long and hard on this one.
Let's say one of your skills is customer service. To quantify its value, think back on your work history until you find a success story. Example: You solved a problem and kept an irate customer from going to a competitor in 2006. That customer brought in $245,000 in annual revenue. By retaining that account, you saved $245,000 for your employer — this is the value of your customer service skills.
The total value of your skills may be higher or lower, but you'll never know until you add up all the numbers. Think and ye shall find.
OK. You know your skills and have found at least one success story with dollars attached.
Now, you need to match your skills to employers' needs. Example: Let's say your research shows that your target employer, Acme Widgets, wants to open new markets and increase revenue.
How will you tell the folks at Acme how your skills match their needs? Usually, you'll get two chances: in the cover letter and the job interview.
Let's start with your cover letter. You will get an employer's attention — and more interviews – when you prove that you know their needs and how to fill them.
If the hiring manager gives you an answer, reply with a match to your skills and value. Example: They want someone to retain key accounts. You reply that you've saved up to $245,000 by doing that very thing last year.
If the hiring manager can't say exactly what they want the new employee to do most, great! Simply walk them through a series of questions to uncover their needs. Is it cost savings? Higher revenue? Fewer mistakes in filling orders? What exactly?
When you agree on their main need, match it with one of your skills and success stories. At this point, you will be leading that hiring manager by the nose … directly to a job offer.
You must uncover specific needs at your target employer. You must know your three most-valuable skills. You must assign a specific value to each skill, based on success stories. Finally, you must think on your feet so you can match your skills to employers' needs in an interview.
It boils down to this. You can either invest a few hours of work this week to discover the needs of employers and communicate how you can fill them, or you can face a frustrating, financially crippling job search that lasts for months.


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Harrison Phillips to Gov. Cuomo: Is there anything we can do to allow fans in the stadium?
Phillips tweeted, in part, "We need the chance to have y'all in our stadium next home game. Is there anything we can do @NYGovCuomo?"
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — A Buffalo Bills player is pleading with the Governor of New York State to allow fans inside of Bills Stadium for the team's next home game.
Bills' defensive tackle Harrison Phillips took to Twitter Monday morning asking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo what they can do in order for the state to allow fans inside of the stadium for their next home game, which is their Thursday Night Football matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs.
It's crazy Bills Mafia, we are 4-0! We work so damn hard to win for you and this city. We need the chance to have y'all in our stadium next home game. Is there anything we can do @NYGovCuomo? We can get creative, there's gotta be a safe win win solution!
— Harrison Phillips (@horribleharry99) October 5, 2020
At the end of September, it was announced by the team that there would be no fans allowed inside of Bills Stadium for the foreseeable future. The full statement is below:
"We hope you, your family and friends remain healthy and safe, and are enjoying our strong start to the season. At the end of August, we announced we would not be having fans for the first two games of our season based on guidance from the New York State Department of Health for professional sports. As of today, there has been no change to those protocols and fans will not be able to attend home Bills games for the foreseeable future.
And recently during a COVID-19 update press briefing, Governor Cuomo said that he is 100% eager to get Bills fans back into the games, but he's cautious because of WNY's COVID-19 infection rate.
Cuomo also said that he plans to come to Buffalo to tour Bills Stadium and meet team officials to talk about the design of the stadium and how they will get fans in and out of the stadium.
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The Blue Banner's View: #ElectionDay2014 serves as prediction for political spending in 2016
By Grace Raper – [email protected] – Editor-in-Chief | Nov. 12, 2014 |
Election Day resulted in a bruised and battered Democratic Party when the dust cleared and votes tallied, but the Nov. 5 election should serve as a canary in a democratic coal mine for the 2016 presidential elections.
Obama, who continues to put on the facade of making progress despite the opposition in Congress, now faces the very real possibility of becoming a lame duck president.
Many posted to Facebook they voted against Obama, which by extension meant voting for the Republican candidates in most cases.
It seems that voting against the entire Democratic Party simply to give Obama the proverbial middle finger equates to setting yourself on fire to keep warm on a cold night.
Yet the true winner on election night did not come down to Republicans or Democrats, but instead came in the form of big money spending.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled money as speech and with that decision, opened the floodgates for spending to dominate the political arena.
The name Koch is now prevalent in most discussions of the election result and leads to the pressing question: Can the wealthiest minority buy their government? If these election results say anything, it's a resounding yes.
Many political commentators later pointed out the fact of Democratic Party spending being on par with the Republicans, but the total amount isn't necessarily the most important factor.
As The Washington Post put it, "What about the fact that, without the Koch brothers, the GOP would probably have been badly outspent? Just because the GOP didn't have much more money doesn't mean money didn't matter. If nothing else, the Kochs were responsible for a parity, without which Republicans might not have gained as many seats."
The scariest part of this entire ordeal comes with looking ahead into 2016 and the options for presidential candidates.
The time for vague comments neither confirming nor denying candidacy has passed. Now comes the time for those individuals to step into the light and reveal themselves and their interests.
Of course, two big names are Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush in recent days.
Clinton faced a rough blow when Barack Obama scored the Democratic Party's nomination instead of her in the 2008 elections, and Bush has the family name to both boost and hinder his prospects in the next elections.
The 2014 election season came with an enormous price tag attached — costing nearly $3.87 billion.
So, moving forward to the 2016 presidential race, it seems the only chance of becoming president goes to the highest bidder.
Americans should exercise caution when deciding whether to vote for or against an entire party or they'll find themselves living in a gridlock of such wealthy and out-of-touch politicians that being represented by their elected officials will be a thing of the past.
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Barter Kings: Season Three Starts August 6th
by Trevor Kimball, July 27, 2013
A&E has announced that season three of Barter Kings will kick off on Tuesday, August 6th. The cable channel has ordered eight episodes, up from last season's half-dozen order.
Here's the press announcement:
A&E NETWORK TRADES UP TO THE THIRD SEASON OF "BARTER KINGS"
HIT SERIES RETURNS TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 AT 10 PM ET/PT
NEW YORK, NY – July 25, 2013 –The kings of bartering are back with a brand new season, and the trades and the drama are bigger than ever. A&E's hit series 'Barter Kings' returns with eight all-new episodes, premiering on Tuesday, August 6 at 10 PM ET/PT.
"Barter Kings" follows Steve and Antonio, two of the best barterers in the business, as they trade up from low value items to items worth thousands. In the competitive industry of cashless trading, Steve and Antonio have the skills to get what they want without spending a dime. This season, business is booming and Steve and Antonio expand by opening a new store in Utah. With their Apprentice and rising queen Kendall's help back in the High Desert, this tough team is prepped and ready to do whatever it takes to cash out big!
In the season three premiere episode, Steve and Antonio are looking to trade up to a "monstrous" item for their parking lot sale. However, nothing comes easy in the bartering business, and to close this deal, someone may be taking a shot…from a taser.
"Barter Kings" is produced for A&E Network by Brownstone Entertainment. Executive Producers for Brownstone Entertainment are Drew Brown, Bob Gillan and Brian Richardson. Nicco Ardin is Co-Executive Producer. Executive Producers for A&E are Elaine Frontain Bryant and Nicole Reed.
Please visit press.aenetworks.com to screen the season three premiere episode of "Barter Kings."
About A&E Network
A&E is "Real Life. Drama." Now reaching more than 99 million homes, A&E is television that you can't turn away from; where unscripted shows are dramatic and scripted dramas are authentic. A&E offers a diverse mix of high quality entertainment ranging from the network's original scripted series, including "The Glades," "Longmire" and "Bates Motel," to signature non-fiction franchises, including the Emmy-winning "Intervention," "Duck Dynasty," "Beyond Scared Straight" and "Storage Wars," and the most successful justice shows on cable, including "The First 48." The A&E website is located at www.aetv.com. For more press information and photography please visit us on the web at press.aenetworks.com.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Barter Kings? Will you be tuning in?
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Joani
We LOVE The Barter Kings! This is a GREAT show.. I hope your not cancelling this program. These guys are so much fun to watch and can really teach a person something… Please keep them on..
Maggie Nicolas
Fake or not, the show is entertaining. Better than Gypsy weddings or Swamp subhumans
I love this show!
Javier Tapia
It ought to be called how to screw people out of stuff and make them think it's their idea. Typical used car salesmen tactics, half truths and misrepresentations. The whole thrust of the program is "anyway you can make the deal." Typical "a little lie never hurt anybody" attitude…that is until they get stuck…which you'll never see.
Jennry White
There's a sucker born every day!
David Laaker
A&E please bring Bater Kings Back I Don't know why you took them off but please bring them back if you Don't i wont watch A&E any more
Frank lindsey
Great show viewed in Lancaster ,ca bring Antonio and Steve back,They show how to get it done.
We love the show and can't wait for it to come back!!!!
Kevin Tac
What happened?? This was a great show to watch!!! BRING THEM BACK!
I love Barter kings PLEASE put them back on the air. They always take the good shows off.
Are you bringing barter kings back. Loved the show
I am a huge fan of barter kings
Love the show can't wait
I love bater kings i wach it all the time i hope you bring it back
Barbara Fields
Barter Kings are the best.Love watching them more than anything else on Tv.They are fun and good at what they do.Love them both.


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How Much Longer Until Brit's Intervention?
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Maybe Britney Spears' fall from Hollywood grace hasn't been as craptastic or felony-inspired as Lohan's, but make no mistake, girlfriend is in trouble. A year ago, we thought it was because of her ill-advised marriage to Kevin Federline, and the resulting two young-uns she quickly produced. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying those children were a mistake, unlike Ms. Spears herself and Sarah Silverman. But I do think Britney wasn't nearly ready to become a full-time mother, much less to two children within the span of two years.
Sunday night's performance at the VMAs was embarrassing, shocking, shameful, humiliating and cringe-worthy. This is what Brit was supposedly working on for weeks? And with illusionist-publicity whore Criss Angel? After watching her painful "performance", it's obvious that what Brit was working on was Criss Angel. Officially, the word is that the mirrors and illusions that were allegedly going to be used were scrapped the day before by MTV, out of fear of insurance requirements and possible lawsuits. Sound fishy? Probably because it is. MTV isn't likely to wait until the day before an awards show to get the lowdown on the performers' acts. Brit and Angel were using smoke and mirrors in the hope that they would provide a rational explanation for what was really nothing more than some booty calls, plain and simple. Since the disastrous awards show, it's been reported that Brit showed up hours late for her rehearsal prior to the event, and showed up with margarita in hand. Doesn't bode well for her future performance. She allegedly refused to do the more intense dance moves that were already choreographed for her act and insiders claim that the rehearsals without her were great. MTV also allegedly had an outfit picked out for her, a corset that would have been more forgiving on her post-baby body, but Brit nixed it, feeling it wasn't sexy enough. Enter the spangly shorts and bra that really did her no favors. She also supposedly stumbled in her performance because of Sarah Silverman's jokes at her expense, immediately prior to her opening act. Even if you do think that Silverman was a bit harsh, does Brit really have that soft of skin? It's not like Silverman was the first comic to throw Brit under the bus. And being upset over comments made is one thing, but does that explain Brit forgetting the words to her own song? And giving up even lip synching by the end? Or the fact that she seemed more into running her hand through her hair than she was in actually dancing? Hell, Tommy Boy Cruise exhibited better dance moves last year than Brit could squeeze out.
Was Brit the only one who didn't realize how important this act was for her? Is she that home-grown stupid? Or is she really so ill (mentally, drug-induced or otherwise) that she is incapable of realizing it? Remember, this is the same person who continued to go out in public sans panties, wearing shirts as dresses, inducing questionable amounts of alcohol and having diva-inspired temper tantrums at photo shoots while fighting for custody of her children. A genius she surely ain't, but even stupid people don't run into the burning building. This woman seems hellbent on self-destruction at any cost.
We may have seen the final curtain go down on Britney Spears' career on Sunday. It's one thing to forget the words to your song or screw up your lip synching (ask Ashlee Simpson), but it's quite another to appear not to care. Not to care enough to look ashamed and not to care enough to even show up on time and inject at least a bit of energy or personality into your act.
How much longer before the final curtain is threatening to go down on Britney Spears, period?
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Posted by Lori Johnston at Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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La Légende vraie de la Tour Eiffel est une docufiction télévisuel réalisé par Simon Brook, diffusé en 2005.

Synopsis
En 1884, Gustave Eiffel et ses ingénieurs veulent construire une tour de 300 m de haut. Un défi technique réalisé à l'occasion de l'Exposition universelle de Paris en 1889. L'édification de la Dame de fer est assurée par 200 ouvriers qui bravent les intempéries. Barbier, petit reporter au Petit Journal, suit pas à pas cette aventure.

Fiche technique
 Titre original et français : La Légende vraie de la Tour Eiffel
 Titre anglais : The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower (titre DVD)
 Réalisation : Simon Brook
 Scénario : Simon Brook et Pascal Lainé, d'après le roman Le Mystère de la Tour Eiffel de Pascal Lainé
 Production : Jean-Pierre Dusséaux
 Musique : Laurent Petitgirard
 Photographie : Vincent Jeannot
 Montage : Marie-Sophie Dubus
 Costumes : Eric Perron
 Chorégraphie : Corinne Devaux
 Genre : Docu fiction
 Durée : 105 minutes (1h45)
 Pays :
 Budget : 2 millions €
 Format : Couleurs - 1,78:1 - Dolby SR
 Dates de diffusion :  :  sur Canal+, le  sur France 3.

Distribution
 Jacques Frantz : Gustave Eiffel
 Nicolas Vaude : Édouard Barbier
 Bruno Esposito : Valentin Duval
 Annelise Hesme : Claire Eiffel
 Xavier Berlioz : Maurice Koechlin
 Nicky Marbot : Maximilien Duval
 Alexandre Zloto : Léon Duval
 Emmanuel Avena : Ribot
 Jean-Pierre Becker : Jean Compagnon
 Cyril Lecomte : Émile Nouguier
 Julie Marboeuf : Catherine Duval
 Hervé Petit : Contremaître
 Marc Samuel : le ministre Edouard Lockroy
 Denis Sylvain : Stephen Sauvestre
 Eric Viellard : Capitaine Gustave Ferrié
 Vincent Lecoeur :  Adolphe Salles
 Virginie Lanoué : Jeanne
 Wilfred Benaïche : Propriétaire du journal
 Coralie : Leslie Bevillard

Lieux de tournage
Le téléfilm fut réalisé à Paris et en Région parisienne, notamment à la Tour Eiffel, à l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris, à Guiry-en-Vexin, Wy-dit-Joli-Village, Magny-en-Vexin, à Pontoise, à l'Aérodrome de La Ferté-Alais ainsi qu'au château de Saint-Germain-les-Corbeil.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Lien externe
  La Légende vraie de la Tour Eiffel sur l'Internet Movie Database.

Téléfilm français des années 2000
Docufiction
Adaptation d'un roman français à la télévision
Téléfilm diffusé en 2005
Téléfilm se déroulant au XIXe siècle
Téléfilm en français

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Challenges: Go beyond the typical, static real estate imagery. Evoke a feeling of FUN to attract younger wealthy buyers.
A real estate broker asked me to produce a photoshoot to help advertise the Meridian Condomium Towers to a wealthy clientele from all over the world. Many of the buyers use the Meridian as a second or third home, or as an investment.
Each Meridian condominium has been specifically designed to the buyer's taste. The common areas are decorated in a Hollywood Regency style. Amenities include concierge service, white-gloved doormen, valet parking, an art gallery, and more. The units are very large; some buyers have bought 2 or 3 units and merged them into a single unit. The building has dedicated entrances for pet owners and for servants.
My client, who manages the complex and brokers the sales, wanted to attract younger buyers. There was a recession under way, there was substantial competition in the local condo market; it was very much a buyer's market. She hired me to produce a series of photoshoots that gave a Wow effect, to justify the multi-million dollar condo prices.
I arranged a photoshoot in one of the condo complex's most modern kitchens. The theme was Lingerie in the Kitchen — a little naughty, but fun. To achieve a sensual but classy effect, I staged the kitchen with expensive champagne glasses, bottles of champagne, French desserts, and flowers.
We did other photoshoot series as well.
The effect was so successful, that the client hired me again, to produce a private event to market one of the condo tower's most expensive units to her most selective clientele. She asked me to stage a 900 sq. ft. closet with beautiful evening gowns, furs, lingerie, shoes, exquisite jewelry, millinery, cocktail wear, and gloves.


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1782 Delisle de Sales Map of Greece and the Greek Archipelago
GreeceArchipelago-sales-1782
Carte de l'Archipel pour servir a l'Histoire de la Grece.
1782 (undated) 9 x 13.5 in (22.86 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 3000000
This is a scarce 1782 Jean- Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales Map of Greece and the Greek Archipelago. The map covers southern Greece, the Greek Isles and Crete from the Macedonia and the boot of Italy to Asia Minor and south as far as Crete. It includes the Peloponnese, Rhodes, the Cyclades, the Sporades, the Ionian Islands, the Aegean Islands and several other Greek Islands. Throughout, the map notes several important Greek cities, including Thebes, Delphi, Corinth, Sparta, along with rivers, beautifully rendered mountains and other topography. This map was issued as part of Delisle de Sales' Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Moderne. This volume is exceedingly rare as most of Sales' work was burnt under the censorship of heresy.
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales or Jean-Baptiste Isoard de Lisle (1741–1816) was a French philosopher, historian, and accused heretic active in the late 18th century. Sales is best known for his publication of the multi-volume opus The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature. The work, among other ideas, challenged the Biblical theory that the earth was created in 4004 BC. Instead, Sales put forth the theory based upon astronomical observations, that the earth was 140,000 years old. Sales' revolutionary ideas caused him to be declared a heretic by the Catholic Church. His publications were subsequently censored and, for the most part, destroyed. As a consequence all of his works are today extremely rare. Sales was also, notably, a close friend of Voltaire who in 1777 visited him in prison, gifting him 500 pounds towards his release. Delisle de Sales is unrelated to the more famous De L'Isle family of cartographers. Learn More...
Delisle de Sales, Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Moderne, (Paris) 1782.
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Q: Deploying a Dataflow Pipeline using Python and Apache Beam I am new to using Apache Beam and Dataflow. I would like to use a data-set as an input for a function that will be deployed in parallel using Dataflow. Here is what I have so far:
import os
import apache_beam as beam
from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import SetupOptions
from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import PipelineOptions
from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import StandardOptions
from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import GoogleCloudOptions

os.environ['GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS'] = '[location of json service credentails]'

dataflow_options = ['--project=[PROJECT NAME]',
                    '--job_name=[JOB NAME]',
                    '--temp_location=gs://[BUCKET NAME]/temp',
                    '--staging_location=gs://[BUCKET NAME]/stage']
options = PipelineOptions(dataflow_options)
gcloud_options = options.view_as(GoogleCloudOptions)
options.view_as(StandardOptions).runner = 'dataflow'

with beam.Pipeline(options=options) as p:
     new_p = p | beam.io.ReadFromText(file_pattern='[file location].csv',
                                      skip_header_lines=1)
               | beam.ParDo([Function Name]())

The CSV file will have 4 columns with n rows. Each row represents an instance and each column represents a parameter of that instance. I would like to slip all of the parameters of an instance into a beam.DoFn so I can run it on multiple machines with the help of dataflow.
How do I get a write the function to take multiple arguments from a PCollection? The function below is how I imagine it would go.
class function_name(beam.DoFn):
    def process(self, col_1, col_2, col_3, col_4):
    function = function(col_1) + function(col_2) + function(col_3) + function(col_4)
    return [function]

A: The materialized return from ReadFromText will be a PCollection where the string is still delimited.
Your ParDo should take an element of String and then do a split which you could yield as Dict of col name and value.


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The Wilkomirski Affair: How a Holocaust Hoaxer Was Rewarded for His Lies
Bradford Hanson · 14 May, 2016
by Professor Arthur R. Butz, acclaimed author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
THE STORY of the impostor "Binjamin Wilkomirski" has been generally well known for almost two years, but new revelations were coming out as late as last fall. I think there are some aspects of it that deserve added stress and contemplation. There is more here than the tale of a con man being nabbed. (ILLUSTRATION: Holocaust Hoaxer Binjamin Wilkomirski, richly rewarded by the Jews with money and fame — even after he had been outed as a hoaxer.)
In 1996 a book appeared, authored by Binjamin Wilkomirski, entitled Fragments: Memories of a Childhood 1939-1948. It had been published the previous year, in its original German. In this book the author related that he was born a Jew in Latvia and was separated from his parents at age three, was sent to German concentration camps, to Majdanek, then Auschwitz, where he endured a living hell. Liberated at the end of the war, he was adopted by a Swiss family named Dössekker, from which he took the name Bruno Dössekker.
His memoirs, which immediately won wide acclaim, were promoted by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and won the National Jewish Book Award for 1996. In France his book won the Prix Mémoirs de la Shoah, and in Britain the Jewish Quarterly literary prize.
Eventually his tale was supported by a woman named Laura Grabowski, who said she was also a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz and remembered Wilkomirski: "He's my Binji, that's all I know" she said.(33) She had her own tale of suffering at Auschwitz at the hands of Josef Mengele and other Germans, and the scars to prove it. Wilkomirski and Grabowski went on lecture and concert tours individually and together.
Raul Hilberg appears to have been an early skeptic. Swiss Jewish journalist Daniel Ganzfried heard rumors that Wilkomirski's story was not true. He investigated and determined that the Latvian Jew "Binjamin Wilkomirski" was actually a Swiss gentile, born on February 12, 1941, to an unwed Swiss mother named Yvonne Berthe Grosjean, and later adopted by the Dössekker family. He was never incarcerated at Auschwitz. Ganzfried's expose was published in the Swiss weekly Weltwoche during August and September 1998. Wilkomirski subsequently refused to submit to a DNA comparison with Max Grosjean, Yvonne's brother.(34)
Laura Grabowski was exposed as a fraud in October 1999 by the Christian magazine Cornerstone. Her real name was Laurel Rose Willson, born to Christian parents on August 14, 1941, in Washington state, and of course she was never incarcerated at Auschwitz. She had earlier written books under the name Lauren Stratford, claiming she had suffered ritual satanic abuse, citing the same scars which she later claimed were inflicted by Mengele. (The scars were apparently self-inflicted.) As such she appeared on talk shows such as Oprah to relate her ordeals. When she decided that she would also be Laura Grabowski, she transposed the stories of ritual satanic abuse to the new setting Auschwitz.(35)
An important observation is that the downfalls of Dössekker and Willson did not come about because their claimed experiences were determined to be phony. Though Ganzfried and others thought there was something fishy about Wilkomirski's story in itself, for example, his claim that as a lone Jewish child, four years old, he was able to survive the "Holocaust," they were nailed on the issue of identity. They are gentiles who were not in a German concentration camp during World War II; they only visited them years later.
They are contrasted for example to Elie Wiesel, who cannot be discredited on the basis of identity, since he is a Jew who was actually interned at Auschwitz. Against Wiesel's concoctions society has yet to develop an effective defense, by listening to revisionists instead of its current leaders.
Wilkomirski's Fragments is no more or less plausible, in itself, than Wiesel's Night. For example, Wiesel admitted in Chapter 5 that, when the Germans evacuated Auschwitz, he had the option of staying at the hospital, with his father registered as a patient, to await the Soviets. He chose rather to join the evacuation, taking his father with him, on a predictably difficult journey to another German concentration camp. That is as implausible as anything in Wilkomirski's book if one is to believe Wiesel's tale of the horrors inflicted by the Germans at Auschwitz.
His story also has the claim, common among the "eye witnesses," that the crematories at Auschwitz belched fumes from the chimneys (Ch. 3). Crematories do not operate that way, and such flames are not seen on any of the aerial photos of the camp. His claim to have seen piles of children being burned by the Germans at Auschwitz is lifted from the Talmud, with the Romans replaced by the Germans.(36)
I could go on and on about Wiesel's absurdities, but I won't. I recommend reading Faurisson's 1993 leaflet about him.(37) My point right now is that Wilkomirski was discredited only on the basis of identity. We can also observe that the Wilkomirski book shows that the filthy imagination that was required to create Elie Wiesel's Night is not unique to Jews.
What I now want to focus on is the amazing obstinacy of many people in supporting these two, especially Wilkomirski, long after they had been exposed.
After Ganzfried published his expose "he received several complaints from Jews who said that, even if Mr. Wilkomirski turns out not to be a survivor, Mr. Ganzfried is feeding the fires of those who deny the Holocaust."
Deborah Lipstadt (pictured), who used Wilkomirski's book in her course at Emory University, said that if Wilkomirski is a phony it "might complicate matters somewhat. But [the book] is still powerful" as a novel.(38)
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Lipstadt continued to recommend Wilkomirski's phony book to her students at Emory University without mentioning the fact that the book had been discredited as a hoax.
I was myself shocked to see this book in the Modern History section of my local library instead of in the Fiction shelves where it belonged. At the very least, the book ought to have carried a library sticker, alerting readers to the fact that the book was a literary hoax.
When I pointed this out politely to the Chief Librarian, in front of a contingent of schoolchildren who happened to be checking out with their books at the time, she ticked me off for making a scene in public. When I persisted with my complaint in a lowered voice, making every attempt to sound supercool, I was threatened with eviction from the library for creating a disturbance and "upsetting the children."
When I returned to the library a few months later, I discovered to my annoyance that the book was still there in the WWII History Section. Not the slightest attempt had been made to play fair with the public and tell them that the book was a literary hoax.
Seething with indignation, I then did something slightly illegal that would have got me into hot water if I'd been caught. I wrote these words in huge block capitals on the flyleaf of the book with my ballpoint pen: "THIS BOOK IS A FAKE! DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF IT!"
Before returning the book to the shelves, I was tempted to add this infamous Elie Wiesel quote, but I couldn't remember the exact words, so I left it out:"Some events do take place but are not true; others are [true], although they never occurred."
Professor Butz Continues
There was no attempt to rescind Wilkomirski's National Jewish Book Award.
Norman Finkelstein has discussed this phenomenon recently, recalling Elie Wiesel's earlier obstinate loyalty to Jerzy Kosinsky long after his 1965 "basic Holocaust text," The Painted Bird, was exposed as a fraud. (Kosinsky committed suicide in 1991, perhaps because his fraud had been exposed a few years before by Polish journalist Johanna Siedlecka.)
Finkelstein noted that Yisrael Gutman, a director of the Yad Vashem center in Jerusalem, has said it isn't important that the Wilkomirski yarn is a fraud: "Wilkomirski has written a story which he has experienced deeply; that's for sure… he is not a fake. He is someone who lives this story very deeply in his soul. The pain is authentic.(39) Another Yad Vashem official who defended the Wilkomirski book when the controversy erupted was Lea Balint.(40) Bear in mind that Yad Vashem holds itself to be the central and official repository of "survivor" accounts.
Willson had her devoted friend and supporter in Jennifer Rosenberg, who ran the Holocaust web site www.holocaust.about.com as a counterweight to revisionist web sites. Grabowski-Willson befriended Rosenberg and helped her run the site. On her site Rosenberg related that, before she visited Auschwitz, Laura Grabowski gave her a pair of pink sandals to leave at the crematorium in memory of her childhood friend, Anna, who Laura said died there.
Rosenberg maintained her friendship with Laura for at least five months after Laura was exposed as a fraud, claiming that the imposture was unimportant and not being sure what to do about the posted story of the pink shoes.(41)
"Whether I can say this is true or not true, I would have to do my own research" Ms. Rosenberg says, and adds that she is too busy to do so. Of Laura, whom she still considers a friend, she says, "She's a very sincere and sweet person."
"If it isn't real, and if Anna isn't real, there are so many young children and babies who went through that… It really was a metaphor for the children. For Laura, it was for Anna. I did it for the children. When I did it I was obviously doing it for Anna, but seeing it there, it was also for all the children, the loss of life, what they should have had, could have had."
"I don't want to be involved in this… My main goal is to educate people on the Holocaust." Ms. Rosenberg says she expends significant energy deleting messages with links to the sites of Holocaust deniers such as Mr. Irving and otherwise blocking correspondents who undermine the historical record. Postings to the bulletin board are not pre-screened, so sometimes a denier's comments show up before she can remove them. To keep them away entirely, Ms. Rosenberg says, "I would have to have a 24-hour shift."
Laura Grabowski knew that censoring the discussion would amount to more than a full time job (so) she said she volunteered to help Ms. Rosenberg monitor the discussion late at night, since she had insomnia. Ms. Rosenberg taught her how.
I think Rosenberg's position is that "to educate people on the Holocaust" consists in suppressing revisionist views, and not being concerned about those views and stories that sound more or less like the usual yarns. Impostors and con-artists such as Wilkomirski and Grabowski are thus not seen as people "who undermine the historical record," even after exposure. As for the web site, its URL has been changed to http://history1900s.about.com. On 21 April I took the "Holocaust" link there and used the site's search function to try to find mention of the pink shoes or Laura Grabowski but I couldn't. I assume that mention of them has been deleted, and Rosenberg has finally lost her friend.
The most significant of all these obstinate friends is, I believe, the American Orthopsychiatric Association (the "Ortho"), an organization of psychiatrists who specialize in various forms of abuse and persecution, especially of children. In March 1999, about six months after Ganzfried's expose, the Ortho announced that at its April 10 meeting it would honor Binjamin Wilkomirski with its Max A. Hayman award "to celebrate work done to increase our understanding of genocide and the Holocaust."
Naturally there was great controversy on the appropriateness of this award, both inside and outside the Ortho. Wilkomirski had the support of psychiatry professor Dori Laub, a scholar long associated with Yale's Holocaust-testimony video archive. Laub argued that the award "re-establishes the priority of human experience and memory" over the written documentation preferred by historians, though the award leaves open the question of the authenticity of Wilkomirski's account. There is no doubt that Wilkomirski's work was "being taken seriously among therapists who treat Holocaust survivors," and in fact Wilkomirski has worked "with Israeli psychiatrist Elitsur Bernstein in developing 'an interdisciplinary therapy' to treat such child survivors"; a paper by Wilkomirski and Bernstein was well received at a 1998 Holocaust conference at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
Ortho member Harvey Peskin, identified as "a Holocaust scholar and psychotherapist," argued that Wilkomirski's account can be accepted as true because it is "consistent with the memories of other child survivors and with the historical record."
Though Peskin conceded that Wilkomirski could be a phony he argued, and I think I am summarizing him right on this, that denunciation or rejection of Wilkomirski could discourage real Holocaust survivors from coming forward, and would be hurtful to them in any case. He wrote "such disparagement of witness gives comfort to a new revisionism that no longer attacks the truth of the Holocaust itself but only individual claims of survival" and Wilkomirski [is] then not only disbelieved, but [his] cause cannot be left standing:… to urge the child survivor's recovery of forfeited personal identity through raveling a daunting trail of unforfeited Holocaust memory.(42)
Wilkomirski accepted the award at the April 10 meeting, to the standing applause of the attendees, the gist of whose reactions being that his memoirs are essentially true.
Lea Balint of the Yad Vashem, an enthusiastic supporter from the beginning and faithful to the end, e-mailed Wilkomirski that "You deserve this award."(43) I apologize for repeating that Yad Vashem holds itself to be the central and official repository of "survivor" accounts, but the point is important, in view of the crucial role such testimonies play in supporting the legend. This was not the first time Yad Vashem got mud in its eye for publicly backing a phony, as it vouched for the witnesses who in 1987 testified in Israel to John Demjanjuk operating a gas chamber at Treblinka. Demjanjuk was later proved to have not been at Treblinka, and released in 1993.(44)
Cynthia Ozick, a New York writer who has authored an anti-revisionist Holocaust play, The Shawl, which was not well received by critics,(45) reacted to the award by declaring "If Mr. Wilkomirski is indeed a fabricator then to laud him is to take a stand — politically — on the side of those who insist that the Holocaust is a fabrication."(46) There is a partial truth in this. I accept the core of the analysis of the psychiatrists who supported the award, in the sense of agreeing that Wilkomirski's account does indeed sound a lot like those of the "survivors" who have testified to atrocious German cruelties in the camps, though I would prefer to turn that around: the accounts of those survivors sound a lot like Wilkomirski's. Because of the Ortho award, you now have that evaluation from a group of professional psychiatrists. Where that leaves the Holocaust peddlers, whose foundation is the accounts of "eye witnesses," is obvious.
That is the first lesson to draw from the Wilkomirski episode that goes beyond a "tale of a con man being nabbed." The second lesson relates to a question that I raised at the Adelaide conference in 1998. The immediate occasion was some remarks about Deborah Lipstadt that had been made earlier.(47)
Earlier today we heard of a concern from their camp that I have heard many times before.
This time it was expressed by Deborah Lipstadt: the "survivors" are now dying off at such an alarming rate that it will soon be difficult to confound the revisionists.
Such a view can only be advanced in hysteria, because of what it tacitly admits. No sane person would fear that, because all those alive at the time of the US Civil War are now dead, it will be difficult to confound those who might deny it happened. The defenders of the hoax have quite lost their grip on historical reality, and on what it means for something to happen in real time and real space.
Lipstadt has many times expressed the view of which I spoke.(48)As there have been others, an example being Deborah Dwork, co-author with Van Pelt of a book on the history of Auschwitz and head of the Holocaust studies program at Clark University in Massachusetts.(49) A related view was expressed by Berenbaum; his argument, that the Holocaust obviously happened, appeals only to well known events of the 90s. I classify these as related views because they imagine the "Holocaust" as something that exists more substantially in the present rather than the past. The Wilkomirski episode forces my thoughts to return to this point. Does our dispute with the defenders of the entrenched legend arise not over what happened, but over what it means for something to "happen"? Is the dispute metaphysical rather than historical? Or is it neither?
My question is urgently practical. If I must try to express in comprehensible terms the metaphysical principle suggested by Lipstadt and many of the defenders of Wilkomirski and Grabowski, I would say it is the idea that "happen" means something like "said, with emotion and apparent conviction, to happen," or perhaps "believed fervently to have happened," though both of these descriptions necessarily fall short, as I cannot empathize with the mentality involved. This interpretation is reinforced by the religious function played by the "Holocaust," which many have observed. Religious faith is self-validating, impervious to reason, and regards proposals to scientifically validate its claims as profane in all senses of the word.
In the recent film about Fred Leuchter, the Jew Van Pelt expresses offense that, by entering the ruins of a crematorium at Auschwitz, Leuchter had transgressed on "the holy of holies." That expression has a specific historical and liturgical meaning in Judaism as the "Kodesh Kadashim," being the most sacred chamber housing the Ark of the Covenant in, while the Jews were wandering, the Tabernacle, and later in the Temple, and which only the high priest could enter.(50)
It is in that sense that one must interpret Elie Wiesel's remark "Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to imagination."(51) The Temple and the Ark no longer exist; some act as though the ruins at Auschwitz can substitute. In any case, no revisionist would qualify as the high priest.
That might be considered a neat explanation of our differences with the promoters of the legend, but after some consideration I can't accept it, at least not in its simplicity. For one thing, it is not simple. That I have given an interpretation in terms of religious myth may only seem to make the matter more familiar, but I think it has really made it more elusive. It is understood, of course, that I am not speaking here of the historical problems; I am only trying to understand our adversaries.
The complication is that we think of religion as universal and other worldly. Judaism, by contrast, is a tribal religion of this world, in which contention with gentiles is a major ingredient, both in practice and in myth (for example, their "cheerfully reported genocidal wars", as Wilson puts it(52) ). As Kevin MacDonald writes, Judaism is among other things "a group evolutionary (and) reproductive strategy that facilitates resource competition by Jews with the gentile host society."(53) We have nothing in our religious experiences that begins to resemble those of a Jew in relation to Judaism. I believe that, excluding from consideration some idiots, their idea of what it means for something to happen is about the same as ours, but there is a paucity of evidence for what they want to claim happened. As shown by the Laqueur book, the facts of the past do not support them, and they will avoid Laqueur's path henceforth. However they do possess the present, politically. That is emphatically expressed in the Berenbaum outburst that opened this paper ["A Holocaust museum is built…"].
A cold calculation shows that a strong weapon in promoting the legend is bawling "survivors" who will not be challenged because to do so would only increase the hurt to them.(54) Kosinsky and Wilkomirski may be frauds but, hey, we don't want people to develop a habit of reading such writings critically. That concern simmered, not very well hidden, in the defense of the Ortho award to Wilkomirski. People may even start wondering about Elie Wiesel, as did Alfred Kazin, who accused Wiesel, Primo Levi and Jerzy Kosinsky "of 'making a fortune off the Holocaust' and inventing atrocities."(55) They may even start wondering about those Auschwitz alleged eye witness testimonies, and the Auschwitz legend doesn't have much else.
A variation on the "survivor" is the person who claims to have lost relatives. Usually the right answer to their challenge "What happened to them?" is "I don't know." That should end the exchange. In rare cases it may be possible, over time, to nail a liar. The case of Leo Loafer in Dallas comes to mind, but even in that case the nailing could not have been accomplished in a verbal exchange between strangers.(56)
In many circumstances it is better to possess the present than the past, but the whole point of history is the past. That is what revisionists talk about.
Now I will close by rendering my simple opinion on the Wilkomirski controversy: both sides were right, and the revisionists are right as well. To see how this can be possible, consider in analogy the revisionist assessment of a not very hypothetical debate on whether or not Hitler knew of an extermination program, a controversy that David Irving started in 1977 with his Hitler's War. One side says the evidence shows that Hitler did not know. The other side argues that events on the scale of the "Holocaust" would have to have become known by Hitler. The two sides can't possibly agree because they are both right and know it. Only the revisionist can explain why there is no contradiction in saying both are right, but only provided it is understood that the revisionist is right.
If I may return to Laqueur, a similar seeming contradiction arose as a paradox, because the same man held what appeared to him to be two contradictory opinions: mass exterminations at Auschwitz were a "terrible secret," and mass exterminations at Auschwitz could not have been kept secret. Only the revisionist sees that there is no contradiction. Laqueur is right on both counts, but of course given his preconceptions he was unable to resolve the contradiction and left the subject. Again, the revisionist resolves the seeming contradiction.
Consider the dispute over the wartime role of Pope Pius XII.
One side says he did nothing against the "Holocaust." The other side says he gave as much help as reasonably possible to the Jews. The dispute is illusory. Both sides are right, as is the revisionist, but only the revisionist has the key.
There was no Holocaust for the Pope to act against.
"Holocaust… What Holocaust?"
Holocaust revisionism hovered constantly, usually in the background but there nevertheless, in the Wilkomirski controversy. Both sides were right, and of course the revisionists are right, with the new twist that the accusations hurled by the two sides explicitly accuse the other of helping the revisionists. One side says Wilkomirski is a phony; the other says his account emphatically sounds like those that have been accepted as authentic.
The dispute is illusory. Both sides are right and so is the revisionist. All accounts comparable to Wilkomirski's are phony.
One side says Wilkomirski is an impostor, and defense of him helps the revisionists. The other side says that, even if Wilkomirski is an impostor, rejection of him stains and discourages survivor testimony generally, giving rise "to a new revisionism"; for reasons I have explained that also helps the old revisionism. Both sides are right; the revisionist case is advanced however one reacts to Wilkomirski's fall after his brief dance in the ghoulish spotlight of Holocaustomania adulation.
33. The New York Times, Dec. 29, 1999, p. E5. [See also: "Holocaust Survivor Memoir Exposed as Fraud," The Journal of Historical Review, Sept.-Oct. 1998, pp. 15-16.]
34. E. Lappin, "The Man With Two Heads," Granta, no. 66, Summer 1999, pp. 7-65.
35. See the Christian magazine Cornerstone (ISSN 0275-2743), vol. 28, no. 117 (1999), pp. 12-16, 18. It was posted at Cornerstone Magazine Online ( www.cornerstonemag.com/home.htm) on Oct. 13, 1999, and reported in the Jewish weekly Forward, Oct. 15, 1999, p. 1.
36. I discussed the Talmudic features of the Holocaust yarns in The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, pp. 246f. Wiesel has been immersed in Talmud, as discussed in The New York Times, Nov. 10, 1989, in a review of a PBS — TV interview of Wiesel, and as discussed in the Chicago Tribune, Dec. 31, 1995, book review section, pp. 1f.
37. Robert Faurisson, "A Prominent False Witness: Elie Wiesel," Oct. 1993
38. Forward (New York), Sept. 18, 1998, p. 1.
39. N. Finkelstein, "The Holocaust Industry," Index on Censorship (London), April 2000, Issue 2/2000, pp. 120+. See also his recent book, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London and New York: Verso, 2000), esp. pp. 55-58.
40. Forward, Sept. 18, 1998, p 1.
41. The quoted material about Rosenberg was in Forward, March 17, 2000, p. 1.
42. Forward, March 19, 1999, p. 1; April 9, 1999, p. 2; The Nation, April 19, 1999, pp. 34-38. Peskin's article enticed "Memory and Media," in Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health (a publication of the Ortho), Dec. 1999, pp. 18-23, is remarkable in attempting to discredit the motives of Wilkomirski's detractors, and the effects of their actions. This article places him unambiguously in the camp of those who say that Wilkomirski's real identity is unimportant, because he has contributed greatly to increase awareness where it is needed.
43. Forward, April 16, 1999, p. 20.
44. I discuss this at http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~abutz/di/dj/jpwar.html and jkrak.html.
45. The New York Times, June 16, 1996, sec. 2, p. 6; June 21, 1996, p. C1; July 5, 1997, p. 11. I have not seen this play but I can't resist passing along some information from the review of June 21, 1996. The revisionist in the play is a certain Garner Globalis who "belongs to a Midwestern think tank that exists to disprove that the Holocaust ever took place." In one scene Globalis, confronting camp survivor Stella, "kisses the number tattooed on Stella's arm, promising a sensual erasure of all that number signifies."
46. Commentary, June 1999, p. 7.
47. Adelaide Institute (newsletter, ISSN 1440-9828), no. 82, Nov. 1998, p. 1. Reproduced in The Journal of Historical Review, Nov.-Dec. 1998 (vol. 17, no. 6), pp. 2f.
48. She expressed the view in a January 16, 2000, CNN program on the Irving trial. Tom Segev, in an article in the English edition of Ha'aretz, February 4, 2000, reported her belief that when "there will be no more survivors left… the influence of the Holocaust deniers is liable to increase." The same view was attributed to her in an article by Elli Wohlgelernter in the Jerusalem Post, Sept. 24, 1999, "Friday" section, p. B5; my book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century is described as "the turning point" in the development of Holocaust revisionism ("Holocaust denial" to Lipstadt).
49. Newsday (Long Island), Dec. 6, 1999, p. A13. Dwork's argument is self-promoting. She thinks that academic programs such as hers must get more support to compensate for gradually disappearing survivors: "the actuarial tables are an extra strong argument for the establishment of serious scholarship in academia."
50. Dagobert D. Runes, Concise Dictionary of Judaism (New York: Philosophical Library, 1966), pp. 65, 114.
51. Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea. Memoirs (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 74.
52. E. O. Wilson, Consilience (1998), cited above, p. 6.
53. Kevin MacDonald, A People That Shall Dwell Alone.: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994), pp. ix-x. Related books by MacDonald are The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth Century Intellectual and Political Movements (Praeger, 1998), and Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (Praeger, 1998) [Reviewed in the May-June 1998 Journal of Historical Review, pp. 28-27.]
54. I once used this strategy myself. Among the many lies I told when I was a child, there was one I told a teacher once. I don't remember the specific circumstances or the teacher but my problem had to do with a failure to do something. My excuse was "death in the family." I got away with it, as the teacher did not want to risk increasing my hurt. I had probably picked up the tactic from a radio program or movie. I plead that I am sure I used the trick only once, and was ashamed of it. Our enemies use it over and over in promoting their extermination legend. The existence of such protestations of hurt is also used to argue that revisionists should not be heard or published. For example Northwestern University history professor Peter Hayes assumed a gutter posture when he told a meeting of students that "he sympathizes with students who might show up to heckle" me if I were to give a lecture on Holocaust revisionism, since "We're talking about something that people who live around here have relatives and loved ones involved in." Daily Northwestern, May 1, 1991, p. 5.
55. Chicago Tribune, Dec. 31, 1995, book review section, pp. 1f.
56. Leo Laufer, a Dallas man, read a column in 1977 about my book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century and wrote a letter to the editor (Dallas Times-Herald, Feb. 10, 1977, p. B3; this newspaper is now defunct). He said he spent two years as an inmate at Auschwitz, and repeated the long discredited yarn that the Germans made soap out of Jews, claiming even that he was still in possession of samples of this soap. He also made a claim that would normally be impossible to discredit. He said he "lost (his) entire family of two brothers, three sisters, (his) father and mother, and aunts and uncles." Such a claim can carry some weight in public controversy, because of course nobody wants to contradict a stranger about the history of his own family. However that was not the end of the matter. In 1994 Loafer wrote another letter (Dallas Morning News, April 20, 1994, p. 18A). There he described himself as "a Holocaust survivor who lost the entire family — father mother, three brothers, four sisters and not counting hundreds of family members." His story gained two dead siblings in the interim.
Part of an address delivered on May 27, 2000 at the 13th IHR Conference in Irvine, California. Reproduced from The Journal of Historical Review, 19/6, November/December 2000.
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Q: Mail sending from a website using php Iam a begniner in php. I got a task that is sending mail from website, Please help me. iam attaching html and php code that i tried. That is not working exactly.
The problem iam facing is it never showing from where the mail is coming. instead of it it showing the host name.
Requirement:
Sub :
email id:
message
HTML CODE
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                Name
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                Email
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                Telephone
                    <input type="email" class="form-control" id="telephone">

                Mobile
                <input type="email" class="form-control" id="mobile">

                Message
                <textarea class="form-control" rows="4" id="message" name="message" placeholder="MESSAGE..."></textarea>

   <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default sub">Send</button>
</form>

PHP CODE
<?php
if(!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
    //This page should not be accessed directly. Need to submit the form.
    echo "error; you need to submit the form!";
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$visitor_email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$telephone = $_POST['telephone'];
$mobile =  $_POST['mobile'];
$subject =  $_POST['subject'];

//Validate first
if(empty($name)||empty($visitor_email)||empty($message))
    {
        echo "Name,email  and message are mandatory!";
        exit;
    }

if(IsInjected($visitor_email))
{
    echo "Bad email value!";
    exit;
}

$email_from = $visitor_email;//<== update the email address
$email_body = "Name:\t $name.\n".
              "Email:\t $vi\nsitor_email.\n".
              "Telephone:\t $telephone.\n".
              "Mobile:\t $mobile.\n".
              "Message:\t $message.\n".

$to = "vandanak2012@gmail.com";//<== update the email address
//Send the email!
mail($to,$subject,$email_body);
//done. redirect to thank-you page.
header('Location: thank-you.html');

// Function to validate against any email injection attempts
function IsInjected($str)
{
    $injections = array('(\n+)',
          '(\r+)',
          '(\t+)',
          '(%0A+)',
          '(%0D+)',
          '(%08+)',
          '(%09+)'
          );
    $inject = join('|', $injections);
    $inject = "/$inject/i";
    if(preg_match($inject,$str))
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

?>

A: You have to set the "from" address as additional headers in mail. See http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

A: Use custom header in mail function.Check below mail function code:
<?php
$to = "somebody@example.com, somebodyelse@example.com";
$subject = "HTML email";

$message = "

<title>HTML email</title>

This email contains HTML Tags!

Firstname
Lastname

John
Doe

";

// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";

$headers .= 'From: <webmaster@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: myboss@example.com' . "\r\n";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_mail_mail.asp


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Willow Glen/Rose Garden sports briefs
By Phil Jensen | Bay Area News Group
October 24, 2017 at 10:45 a.m.
The Willow Glen High School varsity girls volleyball team remained in first place in the Blossom Valley Athletic League Mt. Hamilton Division last week with two victories.
On Oct. 17, the Rams beat Del Mar 25-14, 25-14, 25-15. Whitley Moody, a sophomore outside hitter, slammed 12 kills and seniors outside hitters Kamryn Oxenford and Jada Sealy had five kills apiece. Oxenford also had nine aces, and freshman setter Charli Martin passed for 22 assists.
Then Willow Glen edged past host Leigh 24-26, 25-19, 20-25, 25-22, 15-10 on Oct. 19 to improve to 11-0 in division play. Moody produced double-digit kills again with 14. Oxenford and Sealy added seven and six kills respectively. Martin had 19 assists and five aces, and junior setter Katrina Boyd had 14 assists.
There were many fine performances by local runners at the Santa Clara County Middle School Championships on Oct. 17 at Montgomery Hill Park's 2.1-mile course.
Willow Glen's Clare Robke was third in the 8th Grade Girls race (14 minutes, 47.1 seconds). Teammate Sahithi Anne was sixth in 15:21.0.
In the 7th Grade Boys race, Willow Glen's Casey Nuti was second in 13:25.5. Paige Unger of Willow Glen was eighth in the 7th Grade Girls race (15:55.6).
Willow Glen won the team title in the 6th Grade Boys race with a score of 40. Its scorers were Dominic Vaughn-Luma (ninth, 14:13.7), Nikos Dal Canto (10th, 14:31.9), Juan Carlos Barrio Avalos (13th, 14:51.4), Jordan Jensen (19th, 15:37.8) and Cameron McCarty (22nd, 15:49.1) in the 73-person race.
Quicksilver Running Club placed three runners in the top seven in the 6th Grade Boys race – Matthew Eisenman (third, 13:57.5), Logan Buckman (sixth, 14:05.6) and Andrew Hamamoto (seventh, 14:10.1).
In the 6th Grade Girls race, Hacienda's Lola Herning set a meet record for fifth grade girls with a time of 14:01.3, good for second place. Hoover's Savannah Stambaugh was third in 16:17.9.
The City of Sunnyvale is looking for volunteer basketball coaches for the Sunnyvale Youth Basketball League 2018 season which starts in January. The league is a recreational, non-competitive league for kindergarteners through eighth graders. Volunteer coaches should have some knowledge of basketball and can commit to two hours per week over the eight-week duration of the season and be over 18 years old. They must be able to run a one-hour practice each week on weekday evenings and coach a one-hour game on Saturdays. The season runs from January through mid-March. For more information, contact Jesus Raygoza at 408-730-7398 or jraygoza@sunnyvale.ca.gov
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PC 851.8 – How to Seek a "Certificate of Factual Innocence" in California
Shouse Law Group › Criminal Defense › Penal Code › PC 851.8 - Petition for Factual Innocence
Under California Penal Code 851.8 PC, a petition for a certificate of factual innocence is where a person asks the court to make a finding that he or she did not commit a crime for which he or she was detained, arrested or charged, but never convicted.
Specifically, a person can seek a petition for factual innocence where he or she:
has been detained by police, but not officially arrested for a crime,
has been arrested for an offense, but not formally charged,
was formally charged for a crime, but the charges were later dismissed, or
was formally charged for a crime and tried for that crime, but there was no criminal conviction.
The person bringing the petition has the burden to show he or she is factually innocent of the crime. If the petition is granted, the police agencies must seal and destroy all records of the arrest.
In this article, our California criminal defense attorneys will discuss
1. What is a petition for factual innocence?
2. How do I apply?
3. What happens if I'm found to be factually innocent?
4. When am I eligible to apply?
5. What are the benefits?
6. What does it mean to seal an arrest record?
Penal Code 851.8 PC is the California statute that directs how a party may file a petition for factual innocence ("PFFI").
"Factual innocence" legally means that a person is innocent of any criminal act. A party files a petition for factual innocence (PFFI) following an arrest in order to have the arrest record destroyed.
A successful petition for factual innocence shows that there was no reasonable cause to believe a person committed an offense for which he was arrested.
California Penal Code 851.8 PC sets forth the procedures for filing the petition. If a petition is granted, the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the offense must seal a party's arrest records for three years (from the date of the arrest).1 After this time, the records and the petition get destroyed.2
After an arrest has been made, a party files a PFFI with the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the offense.3
In the petition, the arrested party must prove that his arrest was made without legal cause.4 A party can attempt to satisfy this burden of proof by submitting any of the following pieces of evidence:
witness testimony,
photos,
surveillance video,
receipts,
cell phone records, and
DNA.
If a party shows that there was no reasonable cause for an arrest, it is then up to a prosecutor to show that there was reasonable cause for the arrest.
Upon hearing from both sides, a judge then determines:
whether or not the arrest was warranted, and
if the petition should be granted.5
Please note that a party must file a petition for factual innocence within two years from the date of the arrest.
If a judge is convinced that there was no reasonable cause for a party's arrest, then he/she will grant the PFFI.
Once this occurs, the police department and the Department of Justice must seal and destroy all records of the person's arrest. This includes any subsequent criminal proceedings.6
Moreover, the above entities must also destroy the following (that are associated with the arrest):
arrest reports,
booking information,
mugshots,
court records, and
any evidence collected or gathered.
A party can file a PFFI post-arrest. But there are actually four distinct scenarios under when a person can file a petition. These are when a person:
was formally charged for a crime, but the charges were later dropped, and,
The reality is that arrest records can make it difficult for persons to accomplish basic life goals. Thus, a petition for factual innocence removes barriers to these goals.
A background check these days may now be run for any of the following:
a job application,
a request for a mortgage loan,
an apartment application, or
a school application.
If this background check shows a past arrest, the applications or loans could get denied.
An arrest record could cause further complications as well. For example, if a party is arrested for violating one of California's domestic violence laws, then the party could lose his gun rights. A PFFI is helpful in making sure these rights are protected.
"Sealing" an arrest means the record will not show up on most criminal background checks in California.
Penal Code 851.87 is the California statute that pertains to the sealing arrest records as a matter of right.
"Sealing" an arrest means the record will not show up on most criminal background checks.
Under PC 851.87, a person can have his arrest record sealed as a matter of right when:
criminal charges were filed but later dismissed,
the defendant was found "not guilty" (acquitted) in a jury trial,
the defendant's conviction was vacated or overturned on appeal, or
the defendant successfully completed a pretrial diversion or pre-sentencing program, such as Penal Code 1000 deferred entry of judgment.7
An exception to sealing an arrest record as a matter of right is when the person arrested has a history of arrests and/or convictions for:
domestic violence,
child abuse, and/or
elder abuse.8
It typically takes about ninety days after filing a petition to get a court order to seal an arrest record in California.
Arrest records, police reports, and court records that are sealed under this section shall not be disclosed to any person or entity except:
the person whose arrest was sealed, or
a criminal justice agency (which may use the information to the same extent as if the arrest had not been sealed).9
Improper release of a sealed arrest can be punished by a civil penalty of between $500 and $2,500 per violation. The penalty may be enforced by a city attorney, district attorney, or the Attorney General.
The person affected may also have the right to bring a lawsuit for compensatory damages or possibly even punitive damages (if the release was reckless or intentional).
California Penal Code 851.8 PC. PC 851.8(a)
California Penal Code 851.87 PC.
Penal Code 851.92(b)(2)(B)(6) PC.
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Łzawnica (Coix L.) – rodzaj roślin należący do rodziny wiechlinowatych. Należą do niego trzy lub cztery gatunki. Występują one w tropikalnej Azji.

Systematyka

 Pozycja systematyczna
Rodzaj należący do rodziny wiechlinowatych (Poaceae). W obrębie rodziny należy do podrodziny wiechlinowych (Pooideae), plemienia Poeae, podplemienia Phalaridinae.

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Przypisy

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There are growing concern about the dangers of head injuries in many sports, including American football.
Figures suggest that at least one in four retired NFL players in the US will suffer from some form of dementia. That is twice the expected rate.
Alex South looks at the risks.


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Q: Using the Range input parameter in QGIS Processing Model I have built a model which requires a range of integers between 0 - 13 as an input. I am using two different Number parameter inputs, Minimum and Maximum, which works, but is somewhat awkward because the Number input is not an integer.
I have seen that there is a Range input available, which looks like a better fit, but I do not seem to be able to access the values of the input from algorithms.
Examples below, showing behaviour of Number vs Range parameter inputs

Input GUI of Number parameters vs Range parameter

Model builder - can't choose a Range value as input, only the Minimum and Maximum Number inputs


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For Nuru, Energy Applies to Products and Microfranchises
(Above: Esperance Yanfashije who along with her husband Martin Uwayezu, run a Nuru business together. They live and work in Ruhuha Sector, Bugesera District, Eastern Province, Rwanda. Image credit: John Briggs)
Nuru Energy faces the same problems that many alternative energy initiatives in the developing world face: kerosene is a dangerous, polluting, expensive, and non-renewable source of energy that leaves many families in poverty, some injured, and others in the dark. Nuru Energy, however, approaches this familiar problem in its own unique way with the Nuru Light and the Power Cycle.
The Nuru Light, seed funded by the World Bank in 2008 and serving East Africa and India, is innovative in its design; each battery re-charge affords a consumer 26 hours of light, which translates into five to seven days of use. Another of Nuru's assets is that it's designed to be incredibly versatile. Because energy is needed for all sorts of circumstances and occasions, Nuru's designers created the product so it can be work on one's forehead, perched on a flat surface, mounted on a wall or channelled though a plastic or glass bottle.
But what is an energy providing product without a dependable and continuous source of energy? The founders of Nuru Energy created the PowerCycle to address this necessity. The PowerCycle is a generator that recharges Nuru's products as the pedals are pumped. In 20 minutes, one peddler can recharge 5 lights, and with new functionality, it can re-charge cell phones as well. The PowerCycle's manual energy generation avoids the various pitfalls of weather dependant sources of energy such as sunlight and wind power.
Of course, one of the reasons that Nuru Energy is widely admired is its multi-tiered bottom line. The PowerCycle does much more than merely recharge the company's products; it additionally benefits the community by providing jobs with its franchise model. As COO Julio De Souza put it: "We find and train these entrepreneurs ourselves. They are selected based on their business acumen, distance from the grid and roads, the population density of their immediate market and the kerosene price in their area. Through trial and error, we have also developed a 4-day entrepreneur training course that includes region-specific training in grassroots sales and marketing. As far as we know, no other player in the market has gone to the extent we have to redesign BOTH the product and the distribution channel. This really set us apart from any other player in the market today."
(Above: Martin Uwayezu and his wife Esperance Yanfashije began operations in December, 2010 and have already taken three loans of 50 lights; they also were given 25 free lights as a reward for being one of the entrepreneurs of the year. In total, they have sold 175 lights in just eight months and are looking to take a new loan of 50 lights. Many of their customers are fishermen who use the lights to fish at night. Image credit: John Briggs).
The Nuru Energy team equips local entrepreneurs with a six-month products loan, including a PowerCycle, which enables them to hit the streets and sell Nuru products. By partnering with Urwego Opportunity Bank in Rwanda, Nuru Energy has been able to procure microfinance loans that enable entrepreneurs to obtain the lights and PowerCycle without putting down a personal investment upfront. There's no doubt this job creation and accessibility have won the company multiple rewards from International Chamber of Commerce, United National Environmental Programm and the World Bank (to name a few) along with recent funding from Meryll Lynch. In September, Nuru Energy will open offices in Uganda and Kenya and plans to close the year with 170 microfranchises in Rwanda alone.
The other element of importance is of course the price of the products: each light costs $6.25, and 17 cents to recharge (for 5 days). Compared to the annual cost of kerosene, this is obvious savings even prior to factoring in the safety and environmental gains.
Be sure to check back in with Nuru's website next month for exciting updates; I think most readers would agree that there is much good news ahead for any team that includes an Acumen Fund Fellow.
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Posted on July 30, 2018 by Josh B
Rainway Raises $1.5 Million in Seed Money
Growth is important in most industries. It's especially important when it comes to emerging technologies like Game Streaming. Without funding, most Game Streaming products will ultimately fail. That's why it's a big deal when a company like Rainway receives substantial Seed Money. So what does this mean for their future?
Resources make a difference
Rainway has been working hard to raise money to expand their business. They have lofty goals, and it will take a substantial amount of funding to make them happen.
They were able to raise $1,500,000 through strategic partnerships with companies like GoAhead Ventures. GoAhead Ventures provides experience and an understanding of Asian markets. Resources like this are a valuable asset to Rainway as they continue to grow.
"We partnered with GoAhead Ventures in this endeavor as their close ties and understanding of markets in Asia like Japan and excitement for what we're building is the perfect pairing for our continued expansion." -Andrew Sampson
Rainway's Andrew Sampson was also recently awarded a Thiel Fellowship which brings $100,000 of funding to Rainway. It appears that they should have what they need to continue development for the foreseeable future.
Now that Rainway has sufficient Funding, they are ready to ramp up their development. For them, the next step is expanding their team. Right now Rainway has been maintained by a small team of nine people. They've accomplished a lot for such a small group, but expansion demands more.
With a larger team, Rainway will be able to finish their PC beta more quickly. They initially had hoped to have Rainway out of beta by the end of 2018. With new resources and a larger team, they may be able to do it sooner.
"Next, we're leaving beta as soon as possible. We don't believe in perpetual beta and over the last few months, we've gathered enough information to build a better product moving forward. That means greater compatibility for systems, more stable networking, and more user-friendly software. Our target date for leaving beta will be announced as soon as the brand new Rainway design is live." -Andrew Sampson
Once Rainway is officially launched on PC, they will transition to supporting additional platforms. Android is next, with Xbox support planned by the end of the year. Additionally they have committed to supporting iOS, Playstation, and hopefully Nintendo Switch. They are still waiting on approval from Nintendo before committing to a Switch version of Rainway.
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Long-term disability insurance is a valuable fringe benefit offered by many employers. If an employee becomes unable to work due to injury or sickness, disability payments can replace a large portion of lost earnings. Workers who file a disability insurance claim may build a stronger case by presenting all medical evidence to the plan administrator, rather than to a court.
Disability insurance provided by an employer is subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, also known as ERISA. A specific timetable for the processing of disability claims is included in ERISA. If an initial claim is denied, it can be appealed to the plan administrator. A second administrative denial can be appealed in federal court, but the court will only consider evidence introduced at the administrative level.
Once you file an initial claim, the insurance plan administrator generally has 45 days to approve or deny the claim. The administrator may further delay the decision for 30 days under extenuating circumstances beyond their control. If the administrator requests more information, you then have at least 45 days to provide the information. Unless you are notified differently, your claim is then decided within 30 days after submitting the information.
If your initial claim is denied, it may be an indication that there is insufficient supporting evidence. You are allowed at least 180 days to file an administrative appeal with your plan. After the appeal is filed, the plan generally must reach a decision within 45 days. If there are extenuating circumstances, the plan is allowed an additional 45 days to approve or deny your claim.
If the administrative appeal is denied, your next option is to appeal the decision to federal court. Because of ERISA regulations, the federal court cannot consider new medical evidence. Only evidence generated during the administrative process is considered. For that reason, your case must be built as strongly as possible during the administrative appeal.
Submitted evidence should substantiate your specific claim. Instead of relying solely on standard forms from the insurance company, obtain reports and records from licensed medical professionals. The opinion of a medical specialist is likely to be more credible than that of a general practitioner. Submit any x-rays or other medical images to support your claim.
ERISA requires your plan administrator to provide you with copies of documents they have regarding your claim. By knowing what information is in your file, you are able to determine what additional information is needed. Contact an ERISA disability claims attorney like Iler and Iler for further assistance in filing or appealing your case.


At Manufacturas Polisac, we perform the complete transformation process, from polyethylene pellets to the final product.
At Manufacturas Polisac, we perform the complete transformation process, from polyethylene pellets to the final product. This means we can control quality and coordinate all the processes involved in producing the final product, without having to depend on external companies. That is how we can ensure consistent quality across all our products.
Manufacturas Polisac has a traceability system that enables us to detect manufacturing irregularities in each process, so we can correct them on site. This also means we can identify the cause or origin of problems through internal non-conformities, which favours the evolution of our processes.
This is the first phase of production. It is where the polyethylene pellet, sourced from a leading petrochemical company, is transformed into a plastic film with the measurements (width and thickness) and colour the client requires.
We have 15 extrusion lines that work continually, 24 hours a day, to create single layers and for co-extrusion, where different grades of polyethylene are transformed to produce materials with state-of-the-art mechanical and optical properties.
We have machinery that can manufacture products using recycled materials, available on request.
We offer innovative solutions in environmental technology and integrate highly advanced solvent-recycling systems. The waste wash produced in the wash process is vaporised in distillation equipment using a modern heating technique. The vapours are then condensed in the condenser, and the distillate is channelled into a separate container. Solid substances from the distillation boiler are collected. They are removed at the end of the process and transported for waste disposal in accordance with the law.
POLISAC has won first prize for the last five years running in the ATEF (Spanish Flexography Technical Group) awards, for the high quality of the print on our products.
We have state-of-the-art, top-speed machinery and coding equipment for all our products, including all barcodes on the market and numbering for traceability.
We have facilities for storing securely manufactured stock for our clients, automatically integrated with our industrial systems.